"Last night a mother cried and said that she had killed her lame neighbor in order to snatch bread for her child. I don't know, can the new world forgive the soul stained with bread crumbs? Or will it trace her sins in the old world and make her pay with her life?" Abraham's eyes were fixed on Su Mingan's toes, without moving up:
"My wish is, Lord, when you build the towering tower that reaches the sky, please remember to leave a door of the confessional for mortals."
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[No.5 Answerer Ivan Petrov (Painter from Rovasha)]
A: “I long for an art museum there that won’t collapse.”
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When Su Mingan saw him, the painter who had lost his right hand was using his broken arm to hold the paintbrush and painting the twelve-meter-high "The Last Hometown" on the wall, depicting the scene of the red sun setting.
When Su Mingan asked, the artist was painting sunflowers with burnt charcoal, the paint dripping down his empty sleeves, creating star-like spots on the ground.
"Look at this flower. It was painted by a girl who was engulfed by the heat of the red sun." The artist smiled at the wall:
“I long for an art museum in the future that will never collapse. No matter how the world changes or how long the war lasts, it will always stand tall. It does not exist on the devastated land, but in the heart of each of us.”
"Mr. Su, will there be an art gallery in the new world? It doesn't need to be fancy, as long as the children can still look up at the stars and point at the paintings and say,
"'Mother, this is the starry sky we've been through'."
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No.6 Answerer Sofia Petrenko (war correspondent)
A: "I'm eager to take more pictures of sunflowers."
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When walking into the sunflower garden, the woman who had lost her left arm bit open the camera film with her teeth and showed Su Ming'an the 9,000 photos she had taken during the bloody wars of the last century, recording moments such as mothers feeding soldiers with breast milk and blind children playing the violin in trenches.
Sofia is a well-known war correspondent who has traveled to the most chaotic and difficult battlefields and photographed as many as 16 countries and 87 wars. She is also a member of the United Peace Dove Association and has appeared in international newspapers many times to denounce war and call for peace. She was even assassinated for this and lost her left arm, which could not be healed during the World Games.
"Mr. Su, does the new world need a recorder who can't hold a gun?" She pressed her broken right hand against her chest: "My lens has swallowed too much blood, it's time to take some pictures of sunflowers."
Once, when a firebomb burned down her darkroom, this Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist did not flee immediately, but risked her life to save civilian images. When Su Mingan asked her about her wish, she smiled and asked him if he was tired, and stubbornly pointed the camera at Su Mingan:
"Smile, Mr. Savior. You look so pretty smiling in the Sunflower Garden. This photo will be included in the first edition of the textbook of the new era."
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【No.7 Answerer·Chen Tiantian (student)】
A: “I long for my mother who stayed in the old world to receive gifts from the new world.”
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The girl with a crooked ponytail always holds half of the amulet in her hand. It is the last gift she received when she said goodbye to her mother in the Ninth World. Her mother died in the invasion of Hewei.
When asked about his wish, Chen Tiantian hid his hands behind his back and said timidly but firmly: "My mother didn't leave behind a body. Can we engrave the address of our new home on her tombstone? Before she died, she said... that Tiantian wanted to see her future hometown for her."
"She left me a hundred emails, one for each birthday. I opened the first one yesterday and it said her words were going to my hometown with me."
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[No.8 Answerer Alyosha Ivanovich (educator)]
A: "I long for them to still be singing the same songs."
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A Siberian man walked in, tall and with a determined look.
Before the World Games, this man had taught on the ice field for 38 years. In a blizzard at minus 30 degrees Celsius, in order to enable children in poor areas to read, Alyosha dragged a sled to deliver textbooks until his left leg was frostbitten and ulcerated. He had taught thousands of children, and they all successfully walked out of the cold wilderness.
What is valuable is that many of the students he taught had excellent qualities and became powerful players.
When the god in the sunflower garden asked, "What else do you desire?", Alyosha's lips trembled, he slowly took out a moldy birch bark notebook, and mustered up the courage to say:
"This is the sheet music my grandfather brought back from Berlin in 1945... Ever since the World Games began, I no longer have the energy to sing. Mr. Su, I hope... I hope that the music classes in the New World can still teach children to sing songs like Katyusha."
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【No.9 Answerer·Zhou Guangfu (farmer)】
A: "Leader Su, I have been farming all my life, so when the game started, I took my fellow villagers to study how to farm in the Lord's World."
"Look, this is a mutant seed. It can be planted in any poor or strange land. Can an old man like me continue to plant the land in the new world? However, these wheat seeds remember how to grow in acid rain. They are much more useful than an old man like me."
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【No.10 Answerer Abdul (Boatman)】
A: "Mr. Su, I have been sailing for my whole life. Every rivet of my ship is engraved with the lyrics of the ocean current. Even if there is no sea in the new world, at least let our children dance on the deck, right?"
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