Volume V, Chapter 35, The Sorrow of the Ants, December 2119

(Tran is dead!?) If it ever had a life. Sima Aya thought, but she didn't feel too much sadness about the death of this planet 5,000 years, 50 centuries later, I would have been a handful of loess for a long time, what does it have to do with me?

"The planet itself, strictly speaking, is just lifeless. It was meant to be dead. Sima Aya said, trying her best to look away from the planet outside the window.

B glanced at her, "When did you become so unconscionable!?"

"Isn't it!? When I was alive, I was a slave to money, I was busy with life, and when I died, I was burned to ashes, where did I have the energy and time to sigh about the life and death of the planet, I was not a poet, and I couldn't do that idleness. Sima Aya sighed.

"Oh," B looked at Sima Aya and thought for a moment, "I think, I know what the problem is." ”

"Questions?" Sima Aya was puzzled, "What's the problem?" ”

B looked up and down around Sima Aya: "Look at yourself, what a cute little girl," B didn't know when a small mirror appeared in B's hand, she handed the small mirror to Sima Aya, "In this dream world you are a cute little girl, petite and cute, I am in the world outside the dream mirror You are a mature big girl, mature and daring." ”

Sima Aya didn't pick up the mirror in B's hand.

"But the good youth will disappear one day, and that is the fate of all human beings." B threw the small makeup mirror in his hand behind his head, and with a crisp sound, the mirror shattered.

"You are no different from ants, and on a cosmic scale, your life is as short as an ant, the shortest 100 years of those billions." B went on to say, "So like ants, you can't change the fate of this planet. ”

Hearing that B compared himself to an ant, Sima Aya naturally felt a trace of indignation in her heart, but she couldn't refute it for a while, so she could only blush and stare at B.

"Some people think it's polite to compare humans to ants, but in fact, humans should be the virus of this planet, the cancer of this planet." B said angrily, "Not for you, but for everyone." You are breeding like crazy, depleting the resources of the Trans, causing global warming, and destroying the ecological environment...... Eventually, the host of the Telanstar died, and your life ended. ”

"Historically, this process has been called the tragedy of the commons, but I'm just an ordinary person and can't do anything about it." Sima Aya said that she wanted to change the topic, but she didn't know what to change.

"It's a pity," B sneered, "you're not an ordinary person. ”

(Not, ordinary people!?) So I'm Superman? Sima Aya thought, at this time, she saw that on the floor, there were some robots the size of ants, moving the broken mirror.

"If you could live for 10,000 years, would you still think this way!?" B said, touching the interior wall of the ship's cabin as he spoke. The inner walls of the metal are cold and heavy, and 10,000 years may not be a big deal for this spaceship.

"If I could live for 10,000 years?" "I think I said it, I don't want to live that long," she thought for a moment, "I don't want to face that apocalypse 5,000 years from now." ”

"I mean, assuming your face doesn't age over time," B makes a tempting hypothesis, not believing that Sima Aya will be indifferent, "Immortal!" You really don't care? ”

"Who knows what you're playing on Miss Ben?" Sima Aya glared at B angrily, "Could it be that you are leaving me to save the world?" ”

B smiled: "Think about it again, don't be so quick to reject this idea." During this time, you have also collected a lot of information in country A, could it be that among the technologies brought by aliens, there are any technologies that include immortality, and you should think about it again!?"

Sima Aya was silent. After a while, she finally decided to ask B a question.

"I'm not going to be the only one, am I!?"

"There is no doubt about it." B smiled, "Who wants to be the only one!?"

(The only one...) Even if the kingdom is eternal, who wants to rule a kingdom without subjects!? ）

There was an inexplicable sadness in B's tone, but Sima Aya didn't notice it.

"Which side will you choose!? Old World or New World!?" B asked suddenly.

Sima Aya did not answer.

"Actually, the choice has been made, and the Eternals will clean up the old world and remove the planet from cancer and cancer to ensure their future benefits. And you ....."

B looked at Sima Aya again.

"From the moment you set foot on the soil of country A, your choice has been made."

Sima Aya recalled the first time she came to Country A, and at that time, she didn't realize that things would turn out like this. In order to avenge her brother, she joined the National Security Bureau by magic, and then came to country A again.

In fact, the intelligence collected by Sima Aya does contain a lot of information, proving that the research institutions of country A are cracking human genes at a deep level, and the bottom-level use of human genome sequencing has long been a thing of the past.

She believes that immortality will soon be achieved.

At this moment, B suddenly said, I'll take you somewhere.

"Where?" Sima Aya asked, she had just adapted to the environment in the spaceship, where he felt safe, like a baby in its mother's womb, the spaceship was this womb, the only place to survive in the cold silence of space - and Tran was dead.

People who were in spaceships before must have been very eager to return to the planet. Sima Aya thought, but at this moment, she knew that the surface of the planet had become hell.

She quietly looked out the window at the dead home planet, and for a long time, she said to B, "Let's go." ”

"Oh," B teased, a little surprised, "don't you care where we're going!?"

"I don't care, anyway, I don't want to stay here anymore," Sima Aya said with some annoyance.

"Looks like you've come to trust me." B said with some smugness, "Let's go." ”

Sima Aya and B walked in the corridor of the spaceship, silently, like two lonely ghosts without a home. Sima Aya suddenly felt very funny, and unconsciously sneered as she walked.

B asks her what's funny.

"I think of the Karak Desert," she said. ”

"You mean the well-known GAME, right? "Home" and "Karak Desert," B asked.

"Yes."

"What's so funny? You shouldn't be laughing at the cangsang feeling of the two great books? As far as I know, these are the few masterpieces of electronic art in history. B said very seriously.

"yes。。。。。" Sima Aya sighed, "The home planet of the exiles, the surface of the planet is full of desert ......"

"And then?"

"Where's the oxygen? How did they survive? Let's not talk about the development of space technology...... I'm wondering how they survived. Sima Aya smiled bitterly.

"Well, works of art," B said, "there's no need to dig deeper. ”

Whether it's discovering a hyperspace core in a desolate desert or wandering with a planet......

"Maybe there will be oxygen factories instead of greenery and seaweed." B comforted. B's tone is more of a self-soothing one, though.

Sima Aya suddenly stopped, turned her head to B, and asked, "Do we have it?" ”

"What's there?" B was caught off guard.

"Oxygen plant." Sima Aya said, and B heard the answer she wanted from her tone. The answer she wanted was "Yes." ”

B sensed that she had changed. It was a certain belief in her heart that awakened: an ant began to realize that he was no longer an ant.

Both she and B saw a swarm of ant robots crawling over the wall, busily repairing a broken ship gallery wall.

"Oxygen plants exist, but they can only support a small number of people, less than 3 million."

"The whole planet?"

"Yes, the whole planet."

One can imagine how much productivity will degrade with 3 million people. If there are no robots. The exclamation was written on Sima Aya's face.

People are hiding in underground cities and have become ants. Didn't man once laugh at the insignificance of ants?

"I know why you're laughing." B said, "But ......" B motioned for Sima Aya to continue walking, "However, I think, maybe ants have their own thoughts, think about it, one early morning, an ant in the forest stood on a big rock, looking at the morning sun, it suddenly fell in love with this world, hoping that this world will never die." ”

An ant in the forest stands on a large rock and looks out at the morning sun...... Sima Aya sighed.

She was a little amazed at B's omniscience: perhaps there was an ant that once stood on the deck of a huge ship, breathing deeply in the morning air and looking at the rising sun. It suddenly feels that life is beautiful, and it wants to live forever and let the world live forever.

She remembered the ship's name: the Clarke.

So, from then on, an ant had a dream.

So, from then on, an ant had a dream.

(End of chapter)