Hua Mingshu, dressed in a simple and tattered white robe, smiled and reached out to take the broth that people enthusiastically handed over, and drank the mutton soup that had not been spiced and boiled only with thin salt and green onion and ginger.

"It's delicious."

The white-clothed and white-haired angel gave praise from the heart.

That's not just politeness.

The pure golden lamb soup made from lamb stewed under a year old looks like liquid gold under the reflection of midday.

Whether it's lamb or ginger, it's the highest level of praise that these war remnants can give on this barren land—grazing sheep requires a lot of grass and the possibility of being eaten by radiation beasts; Planting ginger will deplete the fertility of the land a lot, and the yield of ginger will plummet when the soil is not fertile enough.

It was the most precious thing they could come up with. More precious than the blood that comes out after cutting yourself.

Since the food has already been made, it would be rude to excuse it. This is tantamount to saying that their careful preparation and the price they paid are meaningless, and they have caused losses to the other party out of thin air. This kind of politeness will hurt the other person's heart.

Therefore, Hua Mingshu chose to eat it with gratitude and give praise.

And share it with the child who is looking at the soup bowl in his hand.

"Come, kid."

He said gently, "Come here." ”

It was the son of a herdsman who brought him sheep soup.

He had tuberculosis and could not find anti-tuberculosis drugs. It's almost gone.

In this land, it is very normal to get sick and not be healed. Because Ampoule Biomedical will not sell them drugs openly, the few drugs smuggled in are completely insufficient and scarce. If ordinary people want to get medicine, they have to withstand radiation and curses to dig up the relics of hundreds of years ago, or even thousands of years ago.

That's tantamount to trading lives for lives.

His father heard the legend of the "angel", took the child on his back, carried his luggage, and drove the sheep all the way.

All the way, I relied on other villagers to inquire about the direction in which the "Angel Lord" left, and it was largely because of luck that I was able to find Hua Mingshu alive. Now that it's autumn hunting season, the Radiant Beasts have fallen into a frenzy. Running outside with so much fresh meat is self-evidently dangerous.

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"It's really my luck to meet you."

The herdsman knelt on his knees almost reverently and watched his son, who had recovered his health, drink the sheep soup handed by the angel: "Luckily, I was able to meet you before David died...... I had a vague feeling a few days ago that David was probably running out of time...... It's up to you to save our family! Sure enough, the legend is correct, there will be angels returning from ancient times to save the world......"

"How can there be such a reason."

Hua Mingshu smiled helplessly and said gently: "I am not an all-knowing and all-powerful god. I'm just a mortal, and the only people I can save can do. I'll never be able to save everyone.

"What really saved David was the love and hope you had, and it was your determination and courage to give everything to save David - it was you who saved your son from illness."

"Maybe it is."

The man said firmly: "But without a miracle, no amount of determination and courage is meaningless. Only in fairy tales can there be miracles where hard work pays off. And you are the miracle I have encountered! ”

Hearing this, Hua Mingshu paused slightly.

He nodded, "I remember that." ”

"You're really amazing."

The man repeated.

Russell just smiled self-deprecatingly: "Probably." The only people I can save are those people who are within reach.

“…… Other than that, I can't do anything. ”

During these months, Russell walked on the earth in confusion.

The more he absorbed the pain of the earthly people, the more confused he became. It's like coming to the realm of seeing mountains or mountains, but after knowing too much, there is nowhere to start.

In a matter of months, he had come into contact with more people than before; He was touched by the "other kind of suffering" he encountered, the kind of suffering that ran counter to the seven cyber societies on the Sky Island.

No matter how bad the order is, it is better than a wilderness without order; No matter how bad a civilization is, it is better than a forgotten civilization.

Russell's plan was to get himself out of Happiness Island for a while...... Let people see what the world would be like without themselves. So as to improve the status and discourse power of "ultramarine".

But now, he suddenly began to wonder - was everything he had done too naïve and arrogant?

It is true that he has memories from another world, another civilization. He was wiser than any of his peers in this world, or even of any short-lived species. It was the spark that erupted when two civilizations collided.

- But will those name-raiding elves be worse than themselves?

They also have the memories of two or even three civilizations, and even lived for more than a thousand years. It has experienced the two destruction and rebirth of the world, and witnessed the passage of thousands of years. According to the well-informed theory, then each of these eighty-four sages should be wiser and greater than Russell.

But now, the world has become like this...... It was because of those eighty-four people.

It is not that if there is more wisdom, there will be no degeneration and corruption; Nor does there exist an eternal divine emperor. Time changes everything, and the easiest of them all...... It is the original intention.

- and he has stepped on the brink of danger.

How can he be sure that he will always be right? Why did he acquiesce that the world needed him to save it?

Why did he naturally consider himself the eternal "protagonist" of this story, the savior of Destiny? Why do you take it for granted that you will always be with the world—as the god of this world?

Because of his peculiarity? Is it because he is a "man of another world"? Because he bears the name of twilight?

But he has rejected the fate of becoming a dusk species, so why does he calmly accept this peculiarity based on the existence of "dusk"?

So, Russell suddenly woke up at this time......

It turned out that he had already fallen into the abyss of arrogance and arrogance, and he didn't know it yet. He allowed the island to fall into chaos and waited for the people to feel the pain before returning—an act that was directly aimed at gaining leadership; And the fundamental purpose is to lead people to save the world.

Other words......

Russell's own behavior is "sacrificing the few to save the many."

In that respect, he was no different from the elven directors.

[I, 'Marriage of Opposites' Kamalse.] Swear in the name of the forerunners, caretakers, and guardians of humanity......]

The oath that Kamalser had made before his death suddenly echoed in Russell's mind.

Presumably a thousand years ago...... The eighty-four remaining survivors of the previous civilization made this oath under the gaze of the dragons...... The heart is also passionate and surging.

And now, what have become of them?

This world does not belong to dragons, nor does it belong to elves. Nor should it belong to Russell, who has rejected his twilight nature—this is a world that belongs to ordinary people, and it should not have a transcendent god-emperor to give eternal guidance.

Otherwise, Russell is essentially no different from the Pope, from the dragon, from the eighty-four.

The world is still circulating.

It's just that new gods, new dragons, and new name raiders are born.

Humanity has the power to revise history. But if there is an irresistible force in this world, it is possible to eliminate the corrective force in a certain direction, and through the accumulation of time, it will eventually deviate from the right track - enter the world of "punk".

…… That being said. But what should Russell do?

If the dragon is destroyed, a new god will be born; If the elven directors are eliminated, there will only be human directors; If the directors are eliminated, there will be something new. After what is done there will be again, and after what has been done will be done again. Nothing new under the sun.

Russell's thinking is stuck here.

If the world truly belongs to everyone, then everyone should work together to solve the world's catastrophe. But even such a call cannot be fulfilled, because not everyone wants to save the world...... Not everyone is hopeful about the future, and even some are not on the side of humanity.

If we just let it go, I am afraid that the world will only be destroyed. It will only be humanity itself that will destroy humanity.

But if someone stands up and guides—can he always be right? But if he can't always be right, when will he know he's no longer right? Is what was right for a while, and still true after thousands of years of time?

No matter how you think about it, how you deduce it.

Russell could only despair.

If the world would have destroyed itself without him alone, wouldn't it have come to the time for it to perish and change?

The edifice will fall.

He should have a sword in his hand and personally led the people to destroy everything that brought despair; or to impart wisdom to the people and establish a perfect system to enable them to overcome disasters on their own; Or is it guarding the world for generations, turning itself into the guardian of civilization?

"—huh."

The Pope, who single-handedly unites the world and transforms the world with his own ideas; The eighty-four sages who led the direction of the world and sacrificed themselves in the face of invincible disasters to cause miracles; An absolutely objective immortal dragon, an intellectual AI with the core command of guarding civilization.

Of course, the ancestors had wisdom. Smart people aren't just themselves.

Just like the humans on the empty island, they are not all of the "group subconscious". Those who are left behind on the ground are also human beings—no different, living of the same kind.

After gradually entering the sea of the real group subconscious and gradually waking up from the fanatical fate of the savior, Russell truly realized that he was not walking the avenue of stars opened up by heaven and earth.

In front of this path, too, lay the remains of the Precursors. This is a proven path to failure.

Maybe in other worlds, it works – but not here.

Because the planet itself is a cage.

"It's not that we can't finish the faster-than-light engine, it's not that we're missing some kind of necessary material."

Zhu Rong once said frankly to Russell: "According to our research, it is because the bubbles of the local galaxy where the solar system is located are locked. It is a void that is 300 light-years long, and space-time cannot be distorted within this area. This is supposed to be the work of the civilization that sealed the 'dream' into the interior of the earth.

"If a civilization is infected by a dream, they will not be able to escape for the rest of their lives. But there must be civilization here, because dreams can only be kept asleep in the dreams of intelligent beings who form society. ”

"And what if humanity goes extinct?"

Russell asked a somewhat extreme question at the time.

And Zhu Rong gave a detailed answer, obviously the dragons had already discussed this issue: "According to our research, even if you humans die cleanly, I am afraid that the illusion will give birth to a new intelligent civilization." Just as it grants you differences between individuals, and gives us the cognitive gap between 'self' and 'group'. From this point of view, the dream is the creator god of this world - it did not create the earth or humans, but it created the foundation of 'society' and 'civilization'.

"And this planetary belt is set up so that human beings can't escape. And those who can escape are no longer human. In the forest, in order not to spread the whole mountain in order not to have a fire. Some trees will be cut down and vacated to create a firebreak. And the earth is in this firebreak. ”

The world is not fair. It is absolutely unfair not only between people, nations, races and races, but even between civilizations and planets.

The dream is now waking up.

Everyone is part of the dream...... Even the Pope, as well as Russell, were infected by the dream, and became radical and arrogant. This change started from the dream, but even if Russell sealed the dream, the world would not change for the better immediately.

Just as illness causes damage to the body, the damage persists after the disease has dissipated. The body does not recover synchronously as the disease heals.

Under what circumstances can humanity come together?

"Hey......"

Russell looked up and looked at the sky a little confused.

But at this moment, he suddenly noticed that in a certain direction, a huge ship raised its head and crashed into the dome at a high speed!

Russell's eyes widened suddenly, stunned.

At first glance, he could only recognize that it was not Zhu Rong - then he realized that it should be Kubler.

She's ...... What to do?

Russell didn't understand her motives, but he did understand her actions.

I saw that "Kübler" poked out a red laser probe and embedded it in the sky.

At that moment, the "gray dome" briefly revealed its true nature.

The sun and gray clouds in the sky turned out to be just textures!

As the layers of the sun and clouds briefly dissipate, dense electronic units are revealed. They are encased in a transparent, sturdy shell that gradually brightens with the infusion of red light.

The sky was clouding at a speed visible to the naked eye.

A dark red streamer crackled like lightning above the dome. It was as if in the blink of an eye, time had been reversed - in a few minutes, noon turned into night.

The next moment, the crimson streamer spread across the entire night sky, and then disappeared completely.

The sky turned into complete darkness.

"—Warning."

The sound of the sky and the earth came, and it was probably the first time that all mankind had heard the "sky" speak.

It emitted an "elven language", but Russell happened to understand: "Warning, virus injection detected."

"—The imaging unit is limited. The illumination unit is limited.

"Warning, the Gray Dome system has encountered a fatal error that prevents it from continuing to operate!

"Warning, after the closure of the Ash Dome system, the surface temperature will drop to zero degrees within forty-eight days. Please contact Grey Dome System Administrator Kübler for timely repairs! ”

"Warning, the Gray Dome system has encountered a fatal error that prevents it from continuing to operate......"

The "Gray Dome" was constantly making noises.

The projection inside it was completely extinguished, like a display turned off.

But it doesn't reveal the starry sky outside...... Instead, it became pitch black.

- The whole world is plunged into eternal night.

Russell looked at the picture very familiarly. It was just when the Paradise Bird awakened the Holy Rank, and the wings of data light that poked out from behind her and disappeared in the void.

That's the power of the Holy Rank!

The power of the Holy Order, which is exactly what the Pope and the Sheath are studying!

It was Andrew who drove the "Kübler" and with his authority directly closed the Grey Dome!

Russell suddenly realized what the Pope was going to do.

He became impatient and aggressive, and when the contradictions on the various empty islands began to intensify, he chose to kidnap all mankind!

- Or, accept the incomplete Cyber Ascension technology and immediately upload your consciousness.

- Or, under the eternal night, accept the predestined slow death!