It was already near sunset when the iris came. She didn't enter the door, but sat in front of the store a little tiredly, and a few neighbors passing by came to ask her about it, and she all shook her head and passed perfunctorily.

The afterglow of the sun was sprinkled on her face, and for a moment her tearless eyes were reflected in a little water.

Lan Zhi was the first to notice, and when she pushed the door, she found Iris sitting on the steps. When he turned around, he just wanted to call Luo Sheng and them, but was stopped by Iris.

"I'm fine. Just sit by yourself for a while. Iris gently lowered her raised hand.

Lan Zhi behind her didn't say much, turned around and closed the door of the store and sat next to her.

“……”

Lan Zhi squinted, the sun was a little too big. She reached into her trouser pocket, pulled out a box of cigarettes, and handed it to Iris.

"Smoked?"

"No, I don't smoke. Didn't install that system. ”

"Then pretend to be it, suck it up and spit it out."

"......," Iris looked at her, then took the cigarette case and took out one. Lan Zhi took out a lighter and lit a cigarette for her.

"How do you creatures paralyze yourself?"

Lan Zhi moved.

"Maybe." She smiled helplessly, the sun so strong that her dark blue pupils shrank into a straight line.

"But we prefer to find a place where no one is around and cry. It's not like you guys who can't howl dry. In fact...... You're pathetic, too. ”

Iris Rou looked at Lan Zhi and smiled bitterly: "You life forms always like to say these things. Pretend to be posturing, pretend to be kind, in fact, where is it nobler than us? I don't need your pity. ”

"Hey, who has pitied you? And don't generalize, bastard, I'm not the same as those guys. Lifeforms are also divided into good and bad! ”

"I don't see it." Iris shook her head, in her eyes, these guys were really the same, except for the villagers of Spirit Snake Village, of course.

"Tsk, you've been oppressed for a long time, and no one thinks it's like a good thing." Lan Zhi glanced at her: "Most ordinary people in the outside world are not so hostile to you, don't be presumptuous. ”

"If it doesn't involve your interests, you won't care about us. But what if we have the same rights as you? What does this mean? Have you thought about it? She took a drag on her cigarette, then brushed up a strand of hair from her forehead:

"Can you accept that there is a guy in your world who has equal rights and has more vitality than you?"

Lan Zhi was asked, and she began to think about the question and tried to give an answer. Unfortunately, it failed. She couldn't come up with a reason.

"Actually, I also understand that everyone is doing things for the benefit of their race. But, I'm really tired. At least, I'm really tired. ”

Iris's neck was tilted back, her hands were propped up behind her back, and a large amount of sunlight was shining all over her body.

Lan Zhi tilted her head to look at her, and couldn't say anything comforting for a while.

Touching her face, Iris suddenly looked into the distance again. She looked at it for a while and asked, "Lan Zhi, you said, this is the desert, and at the end of the desert is the forest, but what about the outside of the forest?" Where is it? ”

"It's home......"

"Do you think people like us will have a home?"

"Yes. Definitely. ”

This is a lie, Lan Zhi knows.

On the other side of the forest are the Terrans, and the Terrans are the place where the discrimination against machines is the greatest. There's no room for a machine like her.

But, Lan Zhi had to say so. Reality is always cruel and lengthy, and there is no need to force her to face it at this time.

After a long time, Iris was silent again, and then after some time, she sat up straight again.

"I've been in Spirit Snake Village for a full ten years. Fifty-seven Awakened were sent away. ”

"I used to think I was right, and that sticking to it would lead them to happiness. But, quite the opposite......" she looked at her hand, her voice gradually lowering.

"I sent them into the tiger's mouth......"

At this time, the door of the store suddenly opened.

I turned my head and saw that it was Luo Sheng.

"You've done a great job. No one is a saint, no one can predict everything. Luo Sheng turned around and closed the door.

"If you have the heart to do good deeds, you are already a great hero."

Stunned for a moment, Iris said, "Why are you ......?"

"The rat just noticed that you came out, and this kid is still squatting on the side and listening to the corner."

Luo Sheng glanced at the window frame over there. As soon as they looked up, they just saw a handful of gray hair accidentally peeking out on the top of the mouse's head.

"! Ra, you are a traitor. The rat came out of it and complained.

"I didn't call you yet!"

"I don't care, I'm going to point out your lewd behavior anyway." Luo Sheng spread his hands, but his expression quickly returned to seriousness.

"Iris, back to business, everyone understands your feelings, but after all, people can't be resurrected after death, and now we should consider the problem of the living. We have to save the demon, this is the only way to dismantle the predicament at the moment. ”