"R5, are you really going back to Earth?"

"We're already on our way back. Don't worry, the shuttle has now been transformed by me into the shape of your favorite flying saucer, and it will follow the local customs. Don't you want to go back to Earth? ”

"Yes."

"Obviously you're the only earthling on this shuttle?"

"I'm afraid it's a trap."

"I don't mind."

"I mind! Maybe the first team will be waiting on Earth right now, using the direction of the shuttle landing to find the location of the underground research institute. ”

"The question is, why should I land?"

As soon as the shuttle passed through the atmosphere, it stopped directly in mid-air. Looking down through the window of the "UFO", all I could see was clouds of various shapes, but R5 and M6 had already taken an observation pose, and it seemed that the sight of the Van Xi was more penetrating than I had imagined.

I hate the frustration of thinking that I have found the core of the problem and enthusiastically stepping forward to warn it, only to find that this little trouble has no point in thinking about the so-called "high-intellectual beings".

"He didn't lie to us, it's true." M6 seemed to want to tell me the situation, but he didn't dare to talk to me, so his voice was as soft as a mosquito.

"The lab is surrounded by robots." R5 supplement. He was probably referring to bionails.

"So R5, can you go back to the previous point in time now? Let's go later, or take care of the first squad first......"

"If I could, I'd already do it." The Van Xi starman looked at me with a blank expression, probably wondering why a creature of low intelligence could keep pointing fingers at him along the way, but I still chased after me without hesitation. "Why can't you do that?"

"Because my function has not fully recovered, if I want to jump as freely as before, I need to go back to Van Xi Star for final repairs, but the way the Van Xi Star people return to Van Xi Star is also a jump, so I can't even go back to my home planet now. In response to this special situation, every once in a while, Van Xi will open a passage for Van Xi people who have lost the ability to jump back to the planet, and the closest passage to the present will be opened in five hours, which means that everything I have witnessed in these five hours will be 'determined' by me as a given matter. The reason I'm able to send you back is because I'm in regular contact with the R5 of the other timelines after two hours, and I can call for help from the R5 of your timeline and ask him to get you back to the correct route. ”

Since the point of R5's remarks is nothing more than that he can't do anything to change the status quo, then there is no reason to stop here.

"We ......"

"Don't worry," R5 had already anticipated what I was going to say, "we need to find a good time." ”

"I can't see anything."

"Oh, yes, I'll make you a live window."

The scenery outside the window changed from clusters of marshmallow-like clouds to a bird's-eye view of the Institute, and in the smoke of gunpowder, the Institute, which was supposed to be invisible, now revealed its flat metal roof, and the first team was bombarding it with all kinds of weapons, from small bombs to cannons that had never been seen before. The institute was stronger than I had imagined, and it was not damaged at all under such an attack, of course, it is also possible that the first team was worried about their own body in it and did not dare to make a heavy hand.

In the middle of the crowd surrounding the institute, I saw Xiao 339, who was in good spirits and was tiptoeing back and forth.

"Alright, pretty girl, come out, what's the point of a protracted war like ours?"

"Don't call me a pretty girl."

I don't know where Ritsuki's voice came from, but I did hear him.

"What? Don't want to be a woman again? ”

"Liking women's clothes and wanting to be a woman are two different things, okay?"

Ning 08's voice suddenly came out.

"Thank you for speaking for me, but you don't have to announce my interest in women's clothing in front of the public."

“…… I was wrong. ”

Hearing Ning 08 appear there didn't make Xiao 339 show a surprised expression, he just slurred his lips.

"Ning 08, why do you give up on yourself so much? When I was doing the second batch of immigration assessments, I did a survey of your family, and your parents are very traditional and would never agree that you would be with such a man or a woman. ”

"We're not together." Ning 08 replied immediately.

"Even if his parents don't agree, we can solve this problem in other ways," Liyue said unhurriedly, as if she was catching up with an old friend, rather than being bombarded at the front door, "For example, homosexuals can appease their parents by finding a homosexual of the other gender in a formal marriage, and we can do the same." ”

"Okay, you're thinking a little too much." Ning 08 interrupted him.

"I'm sorry."

In the end, even Xiao 339 found it boring, and he shook his head and stepped back, signaling the others to increase their firepower.

"Liyue, what are they doing?" At this moment, I feel that I need an introduction and a review from the people of Van Xixing.

"They're stalling for time, shifting the cocoon, there should be another secret exit under the institute, but this exit, I see that the people of Xiao 339 are also looking for it."

It's almost like the gods watching humans fight in the sky.

"Will the underground research institute really be cracked?"

"It's a matter of time."

"And when are we going down?"

"Wait for them to come out, oh, come out."

As soon as R5 finished speaking, the flying saucer-shaped shuttle had already swooped down at an alarming speed, and I fell to the ground so hard that my face hit the floor, and my whole body fell apart as if I couldn't move.

The saucer crushed a group of members of Team 1 sideways like a boomerang, and flew towards the end of the riverbed behind the Institute, where a small flying saucer with a very similar appearance to the shuttle was rising.

"This is what I left on Earth as well." R5 introduced, lifting the shuttle directly above the small saucer and "sucking" it entirely.

Suddenly transferred to another means of transportation, Li Yue and Yu Baiyuan quickly regained their composure, only Ning 08 was still immersed in shock, she hugged her cocoon tightly, as if someone would snatch it.

"Why are you back again?"

"Because ......" I was about to explain, but the M6 unexpectedly interrupted me.

"Telecommunication request, from Pumaxing."

Xiao Ming's stereoscopic projection appeared in the center of the spaceship, it was still the appearance of a pudding, but it had never been so sad.

"Oh yes, thank goodness, yes, I got to the transit station and I heard you bought the ship from here and ......"

"What the hell happened, and why did all the people in the sub-chasm come to Earth?" I asked before it could start a tirade.

"Bad news, very bad news, we're leaving."

"Let's go?"

"You know, the Purma people really want to trust the humans, but the humans do one thing after another that the Palma people can't trust—you—the whistleblower—you deceive us—the Qing Shao has already judged—Earth—the experiment failed—we don't want to—monitor the data—soon—go—"

The radio waves suddenly became very unstable, and Xiao Ming Xiaohong's image began to be intermittent.

"The cocoon—the cocoon is about to open."

"You're saying that the Puma people are going to remove the cocoon mode?" M6 asked.

"But there are so many alien creatures on Earth now!"

"It's a pity that I'm - I like human beings - I've tried to persuade - but to no avail - and now I'm risking to tell you this—you—you shouldn't know—you—will—self—fend for themselves—"

Xiao Ming's voice gradually turned into a busy voice, and outside the window, the location of the original underground cave group rumbled like a volcanic eruption, and countless red and black "creatures" began to fly out of the bottomless abyss in a steady stream.

Earth, the failed experiment, is now in the garbage destroyer.

The place where the underground research institute used to exchange fire now fell a large piece of bioarmor, and Ning 08's biological armor also fell to the ground with a "bang" and became inorganic. The cocoon next to her mechanical body is slowly cracking from the outside, and Ning 08, who has returned to her physical body, will wake up at any moment.

The same is true of humans elsewhere on the planet.

"Did you suck up the cocoons of the first team as well?" Yu Baiyuan asked.

"There's a warehouse-like location, do you need it?"

"Liyue, what are you going to do?"

"If they wake up and don't know what to expect, can they be locked there?"

"Yes, if you want to throw them down, you can. Oh...... It's been a lively day, and another door has been opened. ”

Following R5's gaze, I saw a large crack near the location of the underground cavern group, and four huge pillars burst out of the ground from the inside, they slowly rose and then suddenly bent to the ground, and then a shocking roar came from the ground, and the crack was stretched a little bigger, and I realized that it was not the pillars sticking out of the crack, but the fingers.

Is this the last "main course" given by the Puma Star people?

"What will happen if this continues?"

"The second portal will destroy the first portal, and a group of more powerful alien creatures will land and rule the earth, and humanity will be wiped out, and the earth will be restored to its original appearance, or, destroyed."

"Why have the Purma people been in contact with humans for so long, and now they suddenly turn against each other?"

"The Puma people are arrogant to humans, they can control and monitor everything about you, but they don't care to do such trivial things, so there is a management team like the first team. What would you do if it were you, they thought they were in control, they thought humans couldn't play tricks, and then they found out that they had been tricked for so long? It's not just anger, it's shame. ”

"Is there no other way?"

"The essence of the abyss is a node that connects to another dimension, and it takes a huge amount of information and energy to open it or close it. Humans can accomplish a simple amount of information or a huge amount of energy, but it is impossible to combine the two. And the stalks that make up our Van Xi Xing people are a lot of energy and information. The so-called 'opening the door' is similar to your human rejection reaction, I enter as a 'foreign body', and the things in the 'door' are in order to 'discharge' me, so the 'door' will open. In order to open the abyss, Swenson betrayed me and pushed me in. I, as the key, was dissolved by the substance of the abyss, and only recently was it expelled with the wriggling of the abyss. Now for the abyss, the skulls are no longer 'foreign objects', so if you want to close the abyss......"

"—to close the abyss, as long as I jump." Yu Baiyuan walked to the window, staring at the abyss, his eyes were full of calm, "The method of closing and opening the abyss is the same, as long as such a huge anomaly data like mine enters, it can cause a reverse current, and all the creatures that have come out can be sucked back." ”

"Then you'll be locked in that world forever and won't be able to come back."

"I know." She nodded, "As a betrayer, this is also the end of the win. “

"So, you didn't dispose of the positioning device on Ning 08's cocoon?" M6 asked.

Yu Baiyuan nodded, "I'm sorry to live up to everyone's trust in me, I took off the positioning device and hid it in other parts of the research institute, so Li Yue couldn't find it." The reason I did this was that I wouldn't have been able to know how to 'close the door' without agreeing to the first team to be the guilty. Whether it's Swenson or the first squad's plan, it's the result of extreme idealism, and once they fall into extreme madness and don't think about the consequences, someone has to prepare for the 'closure', but I didn't expect this day to come so quickly. I'm sorry, but whether or not you are willing to forgive me, I'm willing to fulfill my responsibility to 'close the door'. ”

I felt my brain buzzing.

"Don't be kidding, you've just ......"

The voice jumped out of her mouth before her brain worked, and this was the first thing I said to her after Yu Baiyuan returned to Earth, but it was like this.

"It's okay, I don't have anything to regret. From the time I was born as an experiment, I didn't really have a purpose for myself, I just made the goals that Swenson had instilled in me my aspirations, and everything was divided into what I could do, what I had to do, what I had to do in relation to the goal, but I never wanted to do. Such a holy glass is a program, not a life. Then I met you, the countless you who left me in the psionic passages, the you who took me in the sub-chasm, and the way my program worked began to deteriorate, but I still found the most reasonable solution for it, even if it would hurt you. ”

"......"

She hugged me softly, the shortest dream I've ever had, and I couldn't restrain the tremors of my muscles.

"Now, I have finally found a 'purpose' that is truly and completely controlled by my consciousness, even if it comes with sacrifice, which is the destiny I have decided for myself, and I hope you can bless me."

The giant hand on the ground on the other side had already exposed the entire wrist, but I didn't want to let go.

A crazy thought popped into my mind, and it made my heart beat wildly, but not because of fear. The idea seems to have taken root there a long time ago, and now its appearance is just a natural result.

"What if...... I mean, what if ......"

Beyond her long hair, M6 looked at me without blinking, and she kept shaking her head at me, tears like they had frozen on her face.

She knew what I wanted to say, and she didn't want to hear it.

“M6……”

"Don't ask, please, don't ask me......"

"If I jumped after her, where would I go back?"

"And Ayarei, you ......" Yu Baiyuan struggled to break free, but I still didn't let go.

"I don't know!" M6 covered his ears and turned his back to me.

"You may simply disappear and be forcibly sent back to your own timeline, or you may stay there, there is no precedent, I have no control over the world in the abyss." R5 replied on his behalf.

"Well, it's worth a try." At this moment, there is a strange impatience that spreads in my chest, "M6, I'm sorry, you don't have to take me around anymore, I believe that in this future, there will be another Wa Ayari born, a less jerky Wa Ayare." ”

"Calm down." "You still have your own time, your own future, your own meaning in life, such impulses are meaningless." ”

"The meaning of life? And Ayarei's life has no meaning. Hiding in my comfort zone and living a life of aimlessness every day, moaning and self-absorbed without illness can help me find security. I hated this kind of life, but I didn't dare to try it because I was afraid of the unknown, so I continued to sink into the ordinary life that I hated. It's easy to achieve inner peace, just avoid choices, just like inter-chastic humans, forever frozen in a state where they don't need to make choices. When I could change my life through choice, I gave up on the choice, thinking that giving up the choice itself was a choice, and that was just letting someone else make the choice for me. So M6 appeared, and she pushed me to this path of destiny, and I still wanted her to push me forward, even though it was at stake in my life. Even when my fate was uncertain, I was still escaping the fear of the unknown. I can feel that it's not right, that I want to do that, but I still habitually give in and do what others think, while at the same time accusing others of giving me too much restraint. But the answer, I've always understood. Even though I don't know right or wrong, I don't know the outcome, but now that's what I clearly want to do, and I'm willing to bet for it. You want me to bless the decisions you make for yourself, and I want you to bless the meaning of life I have found for myself. ”

There was silence in the shuttle, save for the sound of M6 sobbing secretly. After a moment of silence, he let go of the finger that was tugging at my clothes.

"I see."

I took her hand, and I had never felt so calm in my mood since that disrupted summer day.

Finally, I glanced back at Ning 08 in the cocoon, she was still asleep, and when she woke up, she knew what my decision would be? Not being able to see her react may be my only regret.

"So, let's go."

The hatch opened slowly, and a gust of wind rushed in with the smell and stench of burning sulfur underground.

Not everyone understood us, but no one tried to keep us anymore.

There is no goodbye, no goodbye, no need to say a second time.

We hugged each other and jumped into the whirlpool below, and there was no fear in my heart.

For no reason, I remembered a face I hadn't seen in a long time. I'm afraid we'll never see each other again, but that's not important anymore.

I finally found my meaning in life, which was very boring, braving a rustic atmosphere that was hotter than the 12 noon sun in August. I knew he would laugh at it, but I had to tell him that the purpose of my life was to find a peerless girl and fall into hell with her.

Then, live.