"There may be some truth to what she said." Zoya said.

I didn't want to be distracted, I couldn't be distracted any longer, and after finally waving my hand to Joyna, I slowly turned around, ready to move on.

"Mr. Long, if I die, you will come back, is it okay? Trade my death for your life—" Joyna snapped.

Her cry was so terrible, like the voice of a lonely ghost from hell.

I didn't feel good, but it was too late to turn back.

Joyna stepped around the corner and leaped towards it. She didn't stay in the void like me, but fell straight down, all the way to the abyss out of reach.

There were many stairs, but none of them could stop her body.

She kept falling, and finally turned into a faintly visible black dot.

I watched Joyna disappear and couldn't say a word.

"She chose fate, and fate chose her, that's all." Zoya said.

I don't blame Zoya, nor do I blame the Wandering Ghost Country. Human life is only once, and you can't choose when you're born, but you can choose whatever you want when you die. Choosing how to end one's life is the most primitive freedom of human beings.

Joyna wanted to use her death to turn me back, but she was wrong from the start—I didn't enter the Infinity Corridor because of Zoya's coercion or temptation.

As a soldier, the most glorious ending is to die on the battlefield. In that way, she will earn the respect of her peers, her people, and even her enemies.

"She's really a great person, and she's also very infatuated, and she's willing to die to make you turn back. Human emotions are complex, and there are so many different choices to make for them, including — you know, the tsar's robe. Zoya said.

I hung my head deeply and observed three minutes of silence for Joyna.

She had the opportunity to leave, but she still chose to come back. This choice is awe-inspiring and affectionate.

There is always an unbearable weight and unbearable lightness in a person's life, and I can't compensate her for anything at the moment, so I can only hide this affection in my heart forever.

"Let's go." I turned around and motioned for Zoya to lead the way.

It was an unexpected variable, and Joyna's appearance and disappearance had nothing to do with the political picture, but it planted a thorn in my heart. What makes me even more sad is that she could have returned to the barracks after the first wave of escape, but she stayed for me again and fell into the abyss forever.

"He who knows me says I'm worried, and he who doesn't know me says what I want? Who is he? This sentence welled up in my heart.

Someone who really understands me will wholeheartedly support the cause I pursue, instead of forcing me to conform with what I think is "good-will".

"Gu Tingcheng may understand me, right?" I couldn't help but think uneasily.

If there is one person left in the world who can understand me, it must be Gu Qingcheng. I believe that only a unique girl like her, who has been through the ups and downs for a long time and is accustomed to treacherous changes, is the person I have to wait for in this life. The other women are all passers-by.

We walked up and down the stairs, left and right, turning at least a hundred times before we reached a narrow crescent-shaped platform.

The shape of the platform reminds me of the crescent moon spring in Dunhuang, but the future of the crescent moon spring must dry up and disappear, while the crescent moon of the ghost country can live forever.

There was no one on the platform, but Zoya stopped and stopped moving forward.

"This is it?" I asked.

"There's still a long way to go, but let's stop here, and the crescent will take us there." Zoya said.

As I understand it, the crescent moon is a moving lift that can take us to other places.

From here, looking in all directions, the stairs seem to have increased again, dense and uncountable.

"A long time ago, the king built a hanging garden for the queen to walk, rest, raise birds, and make flowers. He loves her so much, he will do everything possible to meet any of her requests, and the moon in the sky will never dare to give the stars. After the hanging garden was repaired, the queen moved in. As a result, something terrible happened on the first night, the emperor was stabbed, and the queen did not know where to go. As a result, the minister was angry and demanded the demolition of the hanging gardens. For the sake of the empress, the infatuated emperor moved into the hanging garden alone, washing his face with tears every day, heartbroken. Then one day, the emperor disappeared along with the huge hanging garden, supposedly moving to the moon. Later, it was discovered that the emperor and empress had been living in the moon, and every full moon night, the queen could be seen dancing and the emperor playing the flute. Zoya explained to me.

This story is almost the same as the Chinese folk tale "Hou Yi shoots the sun, Chang'e runs to the moon".

As the No. 1 marksman in China at that time, Hou Yi volunteered to shoot for nine days, becoming a hero who saved the world and won the heart of the beautiful Chang'e. After marrying Chang'e, the two are in love and are a model of husband and wife that everyone on the earth envies. In order to keep Chang'e young forever, Hou Yi went to the palace of the Queen Mother of the West to ask for two immortal pills, wanting to be with Chang'e forever. Unexpectedly, Chang'e swallowed all the two immortal pills, immediately soared, and finally became the Guanghan fairy who lived in the moon.

"We in China also have the same story, human life and history have the same end, fame and fortune, love and righteousness...... As long as human beings have feelings, these stories will always exist. I said.

"If I say the Hanging Gardens are still there, would you believe it? Do you dare to go? Zoya asked.

"Why not? The kind of magical architecture that has never been seen before or after is worthy of everyone's admiration, and I will never refuse such an opportunity. I said.

When foreigners come to China, the first thing they should see is the Great Wall. If ancient Babylon is still there, then the first thing that humans want to see when they travel there is, of course, the Hanging Gardens.

The Great Wall is a testimony of the relationship between the husband and wife of Meng Jiangnu and Wan Xiliang, and the Hanging Garden is a relic of the love of the emperor and empress of Babylon.

"Go up from here, and you'll be there." Zoya said.

I couldn't feel the crescent moon moving or shaking, but when the scenery changed, I could tell that we were going up.

Eventually, the crescent stopped. Led by Zoya, we stepped into a huge study.

The study was more than five meters high, and was surrounded by bookshelves filled with golden hardcover books.

I took two steps closer and looked at the book, only to find that the cover language was all indecipherable letters.

"Distinguished guests, please be seated." A tall, thin woman came out from behind the bookshelf in a white dress, wearing a diamond-encrusted lace hat on her head, with delicate makeup and a beautiful face, but she did not know her age.

We sat down at a long table under the bookshelf, and someone offered tea, which tasted very good.

"I've always admired Central Plains visitors, and this time my people have sponsored you in front of me more than once, so I wanted to see for myself what kind of person is that can make my girls crazy. Now, I've seen it, and it's good. The woman said.

"It's over, please tell me, can the person who fell into the abyss still be able to catch it?" I asked.

If possible, I want them to help find Joyna, to see people in life and corpses in death.

The woman shook her head: "No way, it seems to you that it is the bottomless abyss in this small building - but this is not entirely true, it is a loophole in time and space, and the vanished one is probably a few light years away at this moment." ”

I can't help but feel sad about the end of Joyna, who was a victim of war, like countless soldiers who died on battlefields around the world, nominally for the sake of her country, but in reality, all innocent lives were died for the personal will of the ruler.

The words she said before jumping off were a dead word to me, and it was enough to prove that she really hoped that I would turn back and not go all the way to the end of the road.

I feel guilty for her, because what I am doing now is contrary to her last wishes.

"She's my friend." I say.

"Perhaps, but I think she entered the Cheka with a not-so-rosy purpose - you don't know, she carries a powerful nuclear miniature* that is the brainchild of five years of wisdom from the munitions laboratories of the great powers of the North, enough to blow a hundred Cheka towns into powder, and the mushroom cloud created by the explosion will be higher than the Caucasus Mountains. Even now, when she fell into the abyss of time and space, she did not stop carrying out this mission. If you don't hide here, you're bound to witness something comparable to the Tunguska explosion. When the big bang happened, no one was spared. When you get back, you'll be sure to hear that the Cheka and the towns within a 100-kilometer radius have been wiped off the map. This is what we call the 'Great Purge,' which is brutal and shocking, but it is not something we did, it is just that we foresaw this outcome. The woman's words sent my heart to ice.

"If that's the case, I'd have to admire Joyna. She is a good spy and a true warrior of the great northern powers. I said.

Different positions naturally lead to different approaches.

If this woman had told the truth, I would have felt less burdened on my conscience.

"That's true, there's no need to assume. The nuclear weapons of the great powers of the North are very advanced, and it is effortless to destroy the planet hundreds of times on their own. The purpose of their all-out efforts to defend the Arctic Circle is because the permafrost there is a natural training ground for safe nuclear weapons test explosions, so there is no need to worry about contamination and nuclear radiological spread. Generally speaking, the war power of the northern powers has long surpassed that of the Pentagon, but its rulers do not bother to confront the Pentagon at all, but have other plans. Since Alexander the Great, the goal of the great powers of the north has always been our ghost country, because we truly control the Arctic Circle and are the real owners of the north. Suicide nuclear weapons attacks like Joyna's have happened countless times before, and they can't shake the foundation of the Wandering Ghost Country. As a result, this generation of rulers decided to blow up the Caucasus Mountains, unleash monsters to ambush them, imitate the feat of the ancient Chinese mythology of the water gods working together to break the Buzhou Mountain, destroy the connection point between the hanging gardens of the Wandering Ghost Country and the real world, and turn us into rootless trees and sourceless water. I have to say that the ruler's wisdom surpassed that of his predecessors, and he finally found the ultimate way to destroy the four-dimensional world from the three-dimensional world—"The woman spoke faster and faster, and her calm expression changed.

I understand that if you are courteous to others, you will ask for something. If I wasn't of any use to her, she wouldn't have revealed the secrets of the Wandering Ghost Country.

"If there's anything I can do to get rid of it, just say it." I automatically ask for help.

It is no big secret that the nuclear weapons tests carried out by the northern powers in the permafrost zone are well known to the whole world.

The International Committee of Environmental Experts has assessed that these nuclear tests have caused severe damage to permafrost areas, increasingly exacerbating the phenomenon of "thawing permafrost and collapse of the Arctic Ocean coast".

The permafrost zone is an important part of the stability of the Earth's body, and the balance between rotation and revolution, like the ballast stone on a large ship. The collapse of permafrost will inevitably cause a gravitational imbalance on the earth, which is a major event related to the fate of the planet. In this sense, what the great powers of the North have done is immense, more than the world* harms combined.

Moreover, the Wandering Ghost Country is the native of the Arctic Circle, and may even be the "second type of people on earth". If they can't stop the actions of the northern powers, there will be no place for the Wandering Ghost Country.

"After the big explosion, the Fuda will break free from the suppression of the Caucasus Mountains and reappear in the world." The woman said.

"How can this vicious incident be stopped?" I asked.

"Go tell your companion Joyna to stop your mission." The woman said.

Earlier, she said that Joyna had fallen into the abyss of time and space, and it must have been just a pretext, in order to buy enough time to show me the benefits and make me understand the greatest significance of preventing Joyna from causing an explosion.

"Send me to Joyna." I said without hesitation.