When Kasara Hasei stepped into the sheriff's office, he saw only one person, a handsome young man who was very drunk.

"Fafachipu has left his post. ”

The young man opened his hazy eyes, raised his glass as usual, and laughed.

On the side, there is a video message of a young girl, in which she looks haggard but still smiles reluctantly.

"I'm sorry, I think...... I really can't bear it now, I really can't work for these few days, and now I just want to go home and spend the last three days quietly with my sister. ”

"Jerome, Garrow, I hope you can have a happy last three days......"

In a low voice, the video message disappeared, and finally, there were only two people left in the entire Sheriff's Office.

Jerome held the bottle and drank it with his head up.

His cheeks were slightly red, and God knows how much alcohol he had to drink to make an interstellar human drunk.

Frustration, despair, numbness, this is a mood that pervades the whole world. Needless to say, this kind of emotion is not even to be said, in the ring world where everyone has spiritual energy, this negative emotion itself will be felt by other human beings, and the despair of the entire ring world of 20 billion trillion human beings has reached the point where the spiritual energy soothing fog cannot be suppressed day and night.

Suicide, violence, indulgence......

These behaviors are happening all the time in the world, and there are trillions of human beings in an entire administrative region, but there are only two people left in the Sheriff's Office, which seems to be miserable, but some administrative districts have completely collapsed order and fallen into the apocalyptic scene a few months ago.

Now that the empire is struggling to maintain order, the entire galaxy can see the decline of the empire, and the empire can rely on those self-discipline machines.

Gagara Hase's calm remained calm, but Jerome looked at the bottle in his hand in a daze, was silent for a long time, and then glanced at Gaara Hase.

"Do you want to go out with me? ”

......

In the huge city, the tracks and roadways above the earth extend in all directions, like dragons and snakes, and above the city, the huge gravity-defying city casts artificial light, making the city below seem to be in the daylight.

The towering above-ground buildings, upside-down aerial buildings, and opposing spears and halberds form a strange and spectacular scene.

From here, you can't walk beyond the city boundaries because it's so big, with more than a trillion humans living in this massive urban agglomeration of 400,000 square kilometers.

But this once prosperous administrative district is now empty.

Aside from the two sheriffs who had just arrived, there were only a few working autonomic machines in the sprawling city, and nothing else.

The air was filled with psionic spray, trying to suppress the almost boiling tide of psionic energy, but even so, the two of them could still feel the despair that seemed to be there. Despair permeates the entire world.

"Sir, please go back to your own presence, this will be your last moments with your family and friends......"

At this moment, an autonomic machine resembling a round wheel flew in front of the two of them, and issued a series of propaganda statements in a mechanical voice.

The stay-at-home order had been enforced two days ago, and the vast majority of humanity would no longer be allowed to go out of their homes, except for a few people who had gone out for some special reasons.

Although the self-discipline machinery is still polite at the moment, once someone violently resists, it will be immediately taken emergency measures and forcibly repatriated to self-proclaimed, and in the surroundings, those self-discipline machines that were originally cleaning have also faintly surrounded them.

Faced with this scene, Jerome just raised his hand.

An invisible wave of psionic energy emanated, triggering a special psionic key, and the command light of the autonomic machine flashed a few times, and the mechanical sound was emitted again.

"Hello Sheriff Jerome, you have been granted special attendance privileges, and you will be free to move around for up to an hour after the key is triggered...... Thank you for your cooperation. ”

After identifying the two of them, the wheel-shaped autonomic machine left automatically, and the other autonomic machines resumed their previous actions.

On the empty street, there were only two people left again.

"Is there anything you want to say. ”

Kasara Hasei asked.

He realized that Jerome was not quite natural today and seemed to have something to say.

Looking at the empty city in front of him over and over again with complicated eyes, Jerome shook his head.

"A month ago, you asked me what my story was like, I didn't say, now are you interested in hearing it. ”

"I'm interested in listening. ”

Jerome glanced at Garo Hase, who was behind him.

"Then keep following me. ”

The ion engine under the feet of the two men spewed out a pale blue light, and then flew towards the target at a hundred times the speed of sound......

The shallow energy layer on his body shielded him from the impact of the outside world, and beneath him, the urban agglomeration formed a vague afterimage, and the earth was rapidly elongated and tainted in the line of sight, turning into a series of floating phantoms.

10 km, 20 km, 30 km...... 50 km ...... 100 km ......

After flying for several minutes, thousands of kilometers, the two stopped.

At the foot is a huge urban agglomeration, one that is not inferior to the administrative district of TVIK-6395465.

Dense high-rise buildings, dense road network...... All of them prove the prosperity of the past, but that is the past.

Today, there are only urban ruins as far as the eye can see.

Strange and huge plants are entwined around the city, unknown beasts roam the city, those huge floating cities have long since crashed due to lack of maintenance, and not far away, there is a huge floating city crashing in the sky above the city.

Civilization, wilderness, at this moment merge into one.

The administrative district of TVIK-6395056, a similarly numbered administrative district that was abandoned many years ago, and all its inhabitants have long since left.

The ruins of this urban agglomeration are so large that it is impossible to walk from the center of the ruins for a year, yet the ruins of such a large city have never been repaired, because there are so many such ruins in the world.

When a city is in ruins, humans don't repair it, they just want to change it.

Even though most of the area around the world has been reduced to wasteland, urban ruins, jungles, and no man's land, this small half of the world can easily accommodate 20 billion trillion human beings. Even in the past thousand years, the entire world has been squandering the legacy of its ancestors, almost never building a new one, and simply squandering the great wealth left behind by the [Golden Age].

In that early [Golden Age] around the world, human beings created so much glory that even if the order continued to collapse, it would be enough to leave a legacy for future generations for an infinite number of years.

"What magnificent ruins...... But it's still ruins, isn't it. ”

Looking at the ruins, the corners of Jerome's mouth twitched, revealing a mocking smile.

If this circumferential world full of ruins is a great ruin, then the human beings who live above the circumferential world are undoubtedly people living in the great ruins.

Garo Hase's eyes closed, as if feeling something.

In the ruins, sporadic autonomous machinery is monotonously repeating words such as "abandoned area, please do not live in it". These autonomous machines have been preaching here for years, and it looks like they will continue to preach, even if the end is three days later.

"About 20,000 galactic years ago, one of my ancestors came to the Sumor system and participated in the construction of the first world ring......

Jerome took a cigarette in his mouth, lit it with a blank face, took a deep breath, and then exhaled a circle of smoke.

He didn't speak with psionic fluctuations, but with a rare open mouth. Unlike his handsome appearance, his voice was hoarse and tired.

"At that time...... There were no empires or republics, but a supreme scientific council of scholars, one of whom came up with an idea to create a circular world. And then the loose human regimes of the time were involved, sending a lot of humans and machines to build it, and my ancestors seemed to be workers from one of these small regimes? ”

"Building the Rim is a very, very long process, and no one has ever built such a huge project before, or since. So, my ancestor asked his friend, 'How long do you think we're going to stay here?' and his friend shook his head. Then the ancestors understood and said to their friends, 'I think we should make a home here.'" ”

"This is one of the few records left by my ancestors. ”

Jerome looked at the cigarette butt in his hand in a complicated manner, snuffed it out, and then lit another one.

"And so, a family was built ......"

"After this, many, many years later, the Supreme Scientific Council disappeared, the First Empire disappeared, and I came to the Second Republic, and my family was on the verge of destruction many times due to turmoil, and once the only descendant was also reduced to a savage planet, and almost became a barbarian, barely escaping. It wasn't until 18741 in the galactic calendar that the ring was finally built. ”

"That year, 15,000 galactic years had passed since my ancestors came to the Sumor system. ”

As he spoke, he pointed down with his hand and said calmly.

"This area, and even this part of the world, has been built by our family for generations. ”

"2,787 generations, counting me, from my unknown ancestor to the present, it has been a full 2,787 generations. My family has been living here ever since the Ring of the World was repaired. ”

He looked up, closed his eyes, and muttered as he lost himself in the memory.

"Sometimes, I really feel like our family is made up of dead people. My 2,000 generations of ancestors have always lived with us, they never spoke, but we know, they have always been, they have been quietly watching us, quietly watching us build the world, watching us build this TVIK-6395056 administrative district......"

The closed eyes were opened again.

In a trance, he seemed to be able to see countless phantoms right in front of him, including men and women, old and young, but none of them could see clearly.

He knew that those were just illusions, just illusions that he was overwhelmed by his family's long history, but he couldn't keep himself from looking, because he could see, he could see the silent gaze of those figures.

Is it mercy, is it love, is it concern, is it harsh?

He didn't know, he only knew that the eyes of those more than two thousand generations of ancestors were looking at him, they didn't speak, but they were looking at him.

"They're there, they're always there. ”

In front of those eyes, the 2787th generation of the family lowered his head weakly and said softly.

"Then, just 400 years ago, the TVIK-6395056 administrative district was abandoned......"

At his feet, a few small grasses swayed gently on the sturdy pavement of the past.

The green grass swayed like this, and they were carefree, as if it were a great mockery, mocking him, mocking this ancient family.

I don't know why, these few grasses make him look more and more unpleasant. Gritting his teeth, nameless anger welled up in his heart.

stepped on it suddenly, stepped on it angrily, and scolded over and over again.

"Fucking garbage! Garbage! Garbage! Fucking garbage! This borough is a joke! This world is a joke! Humans are a joke! What the fuck are we here for? What the fuck are we here for? It's all garbage! We can't do anything! We can't do anything!"

“......”

He stalked and cursed over and over again, whimpering.

After a long time, he fell to the ground exhausted, lying on the ground in big characters.

"Karo Hase, my story is over now, if you want me to return to my post, give me the order. ”

As he spoke, he closed his eyes.

But after a long time, he still couldn't hear the words from Kasara Hase.

Puzzled, he opened his eyes and saw that Garo Hase, who was operating something in the watch in his hand.

"What are you doing?"

"Apply for TVIK-6395465 Sheriff Jerome to take a day off, and after one day, return to work. ”

The cold voice was still there.

Then, Karo Hasei looked at him.

"Tomorrow...... I hope to see you again at the Sheriff's Office. ”

With that, the man turned and left.

Looking at the departing back, Jerome's eyes were complicated.

"Hope...... See me again. ”

......

"The Patriarch asked his friend, 'Are we going to create the world?' and the friend replied, 'No, we are already in the creation of the world.'" ”

- "The Story of the Ancestors"

"Haha, so it seems that I can also be a creator god?"

In space, the young worker raised the bottle in his hand and laughed at his friend's answer.

In the distance, next to the blue giant, countless machines are creating miracles.

......

TVIK-6395465 administrative district, nothing to do today.

There are 2 days left until the end of the world.