"Thank you......" returns the magical device to the mysterious man in front of him.

However, the other man raised his hand and returned the object, and motioned for Mannie to leave it behind.

Mannie was not pretentious, and said in her heart, "Since this thing can repair the damage caused by the factor, it is better to keep it...... Just ......'

"My name is Mannie, what about you?"

The other party didn't speak, and pointed to the sign on his chest.

Mannie looked closely, and there was a set of numbers written on it.

“LD73310…… emmmm…… Don't you have a specific name? ”

He nodded, then motioned for Manny to wait, then raised his left arm and placed it horizontally in front of him, and after a while, a holographic projection screen appeared in front of Mannie.

I saw a line of text appear on it.

————I'm an exiled wanderer who has been living here alone for over thirty years, so I've long forgotten how to make a sound, so, I'm sorry, that's all I can do to communicate with you. ————

Lived alone for more than thirty years...... Mannie was stunned, what kind of life was that.

"It's okay, you don't have to say I'm sorry, but I'm curious, where the hell is this? Is it Earth? ”

LD73310 [hereafter referred to as 3310] nodded, and then another line of text appeared on the holographic screen on his arm.

————Yes, this is the Earth, the very center of the Impact Plain————

"Storm the Plains? Are you saying that the Earth has been attacked in some way? ”

3310 shook his head.

————I didn't know that the world had become like this since I was born, so ...... I'm not quite sure what you mean by some kind of attack? ————

From birth...... Thirty years......

Putting this information together, Mannie immediately realized that she should have left the time node where Guan Lingxu was at the beginning, and it should be in the future after 2030, and at least more than thirty years from 2030.

Thinking of this, Mannie asked directly, "What year is it now?" ”

3310 looked at Manny with a strange look after hearing this, and instead of answering directly, he asked rhetorically.

————You've asked a lot of weird questions, unlike any other explorer I've met...... You...... Who exactly? Why did you come to such a dangerous place? ————

Mannie was speechless for a moment, because she also wanted to know why she was here, but combined with what she knew so far, Mannie felt that after being "killed", her consciousness was like falling into the long river of time, and now, she was just unintentionally washed ashore.

So Mannie replied truthfully: "My name is Mannie, I am an engineer, I come from a world that is very foreign to you, and in the world I live in, some disasters are swallowing everything, and I was asked to study the origin of these disasters, and I ended up in this world by mistake...... I woke up in a small town with no people, there were a lot of strange phenomena, and I chose to flee out of self-preservation, and I wanted to find a way out of here, so I came here. ”

3310 stared at Manny for a moment and didn't speak, he looked around, then stepped forward.

Mannie was stunned for a moment, and hurriedly chased after her and asked, "Hey, where are you going?" ”

3310 didn't look back, he raised his left arm, and there were only three words on it.

———— come with me————

Mannie frowned, instinctively the lone wanderer wasn't a bad person, but somehow, she felt like the road ahead was full of danger.

Or, after hearing that this was the center of the impact, she couldn't help but think of the center curtain, the red sea, the land where food could no longer be grown......

But she was curious, what was hidden behind this mountain, what happened to the earth? Mankind...... What's wrong with it?

After hesitating for a moment, curiosity overcame the uneasiness, and Mannie followed in the footsteps of 3310, and the two of them made their way to the top of the mountain.

……

Fifty-first day

I thought that when I met 3310, I would be much happier than before, but 3310 didn't seem to like "talking" very much, even if I was willing to talk to Mannie, I simply answered with a nod or shake my head, and there was no clear answer.

This makes Mannie wonder if 3310 has become wary of herself, or if Mannie's presence reminds 3310 of some unhappy past.

But these are all conjectures, and it's good to have people around you now.

Otherwise, Mannie would have been schizophrenic on the way on.

At noon that day, Mannie finally reached the top of the mountain under the leadership of 3310, but the world in front of her was still covered in thick fog, and she couldn't see anything as far as the eye could see.

But 3310 told Mannie.

Ahead of ———— is the point of impact, and the only way you want to get out of here is to go to the Gate of Sorrows, which is located at the central point————

"The Gate of Sorrow? What is that? Mannie asked.

3310 sat down at the top of the hill and was silent for a long time before replying.

———— I don't know very much, but my father told me that at first the Gate of Sorrow was just a spectacle that appeared out of nowhere, and it didn't even have the outline of a door, but then scientists came here, and they opened it in various ways, and took out a black box and a book from it, but what was in the box, what was recorded in the book, it was impossible for ordinary people to know, but...... When the box and the book were taken away, there was a sad sound from the door, and it became more and more desolate, like a family losing a child, so there were voices of doubt and condemnation all over the world, and they began to worry that the actions of the scientists would bring disaster to mankind, but since the box and the book were taken away, no one has seen them again, and the door of grief has been blocked as a forbidden area————

Mannie was fascinated by it, but apparently this text was not the whole story, so she asked a little eagerly, "What about later?" What happened next? ”

3310 was silent for a moment before switching to a new text.

———— for a long time, although the world was full of unrest, there was no real disaster, so gradually people stopped believing that disaster would really come, and those who associated grief with disaster gradually lost supporters, and my father was the mother who knew me at this time————

At this point in the story, 3310's mood is obviously much lower.

And Mannie was vaguely aware of something, she looked at the side of 3310's face, the tall man hid the most important part of his face under the helmet, Mannie couldn't see what he looked like, but he always felt a little familiar.

"I'm sorry ......"

3310 was stunned, and he looked at Mannie, a little confused.

Mannie smiled wryly, "I seem to have brought back a past that you don't want to look back on......"

3310 smiled when he heard this, he waved his hand, and another new text appeared.

————It's been a long time since I don't remember my mother and father very well, but these stories are still so clearly imprinted in my brain that it's nice to be able to tell them now." ————

The core of the brain? Really...... Isn't this helmet a simple tactical piece of equipment? Mannie looked at 3310's head in shock.

3310 was also generous, he pointed to his helmet.

————Oh, I forgot to mention, I'm a modified special soldier, so I have a brain core in my brain that coordinates the left and right brains, and thanks to it, I can remember a lot of things, but it's more difficult to forget————

Mannie smiled awkwardly, not knowing how to respond to 3310.

And 3310 didn't care, he continued the previous story.

————My father was also an engineer, but it may not be the same as the engineer you mentioned, he was just an engineer in charge of maintaining the equipment in the exploration area near the Gate of Sorrows, and my mother was his bodyguard at first, and the two of them were together for ten years before they secretly married, but unexpectedly, before I was born, the shock happened————

At this point in the story, 3310 slowly stood up, and Mannie followed suit, following 3310's gaze into the distance.

The afternoon fog was quietly lifting, and although it was still a few hours away from completely dissipating, Mannie seemed to be able to see the "Gate of Sorrows" standing in the depths of the fog.

Before its silhouette could be cleaned, the heaviness was imprinted on Mannie's heart.

———— impact happened very suddenly, in my father's words, the whole world did not realize that the disaster could come suddenly, including him, and he was out of town at the time, after the impact broke out, he kept trying to return to the impact area to find my mother's whereabouts, but all failed, until one day, he saw on the news that the army claiming to regain the lost land was assembled, and only then did he get into the impact area with the help of his friends, but ......————

3310 lowered his arm.

Mannie didn't ask 3310 for any more details, and she could probably imagine what happened next.

Because 3310 is still here, it proves that this story did not end with a happy ending.

And as for how the impact happened, and what was the end of the army that paid for the lost land...... There's no need for Manny to ask about these things.

Because she knew that 3310 had no answer, he was just a wanderer born in the center of the disaster, and she still needed to find the rest.

……

After waiting for more than five hours at the top of the mountain, the fog finally cleared as the sun set.

Mannie, who was dozing off, was woken up by 3310, and she opened her eyes and looked at 3310 in a bit of confusion.

3310 pointed to his wrist and then to the distance, as if to say, "It's getting late, we're on our way." ”

Mannie rubbed her eyes and stood up, it was the first time in a long time that she had rested so peacefully on the side of the road, so she felt comfortable all over.

But when she saw the world in the distance clearly, that bit of comfort disappeared in an instant.

……

"This ...... It's ......"

3310 raises his left arm.

———— this is the Dead Sea of the end of life and the graveyard of millions of human soldiers————

Mannie looked at the description, then into the distance, her heart trembling, her throat feeling like a clotted cloud of ungelated air that was so stagnant that it was hard to breathe.