Time passed quietly in waiting. During this period, He Wei left the base in the desert and under military martial law, and went to the center to coordinate the monitoring and protection of those who could not come to participate in this "sociological experiment", but also had the Hag.1 gene, and were temporarily used as "bait".

Lu Qingliang also returned to the headquarters, leading the data protection work of the human gene bank, while continuing to deal with some other daily matters.

Only Zhang Dingshan is still waiting here, dealing with the affairs of the sociological experimental base, and waiting for some changes that may come.

These three people at least have some things to do, and compared to these three people, Lu Ming is completely idle. In other words, it is his job to live safely under heavy protection.

Waiting is always painful. Especially if you don't know how long you'll have to wait. Even, Lu Ming sometimes thinks that maybe he will not be able to return to the normal social environment in this life, and he will never be able to see his parents and relatives again in this life.

At this point, the hatred for Organization X, which has now been named, referred to as an unknown "X", grows even greater.

It's early in the morning again. On this day, Lu Ming still got up early, and after eating breakfast casually, he came to the open space in front of the field hospital, sat on the ground casually, and looked at the long yellow sand in the distance in a daze.

In the desert in the early morning, the sun is not too dazzling, and the temperature is not too high. He sat like this, not knowing what he was thinking.

There was a sound of footsteps behind him, but he didn't look back. He didn't bother to see who it was.

The man ended up sitting down next to him.

It's Zhang Dingshan.

"Homesick?"

Lu Ming didn't speak.

"The world we live in is like that, there's a lot of frustration. I know you're innocent, you could have had a normal and happy life, but ...... That's how the world is. Don't be too pessimistic, don't stress too much, there will always be hope. ”

Zhang Dingshan seemed to be comforting himself.

Although this comfort did not help, Lu Ming still said thank you.

"Don't crush yourself on your own. Think more about the good things. At least you're alive, don't ......"

Zhang Dingshan suddenly closed his mouth.

Lu Ming was a little surprised, so he turned his head and looked at him. So he saw that under the reflection of the newborn morning sun, Zhang Dingshan's expression was full of solemnity. He looked straight ahead, and seemed to see something.

"You ......"

"Look over there."

Zhang Dingshan said in a low voice. Lu Ming subconsciously looked in the direction he was looking at, and he was instantly stunned.

"Why?"

He saw three large, blood-red letters. The three blood-red characters were printed on the horizon, blending in with the blue sky. It seemed that at this moment, the gods above the nine heavens were silently questioning them.

Lu Ming's heart thumped, and his body couldn't help but tremble slightly.

Blue sky, morning sun, yellow sand, everything is so normal. If it weren't for these three big blood-red letters.

But with these three words, there was suddenly a strange and gloomy atmosphere between heaven and earth.

I don't know how long it took, I don't know if it was a moment or an hour, the three blood-red characters slowly faded, and a new line of blood-red characters appeared against the background of the sky.

"We were fine."

"We guarantee that the explosion was an accident and will never happen again."

"More than 100,000 people die every day in the human world."

"Drug abuse, murder, disappearances, disease, hunger, vendettas, wars, car accidents, accidents and other causes account for the vast majority of deaths."

"On average, we take no more than 100 people a year. It's nothing compared to the number of deaths you have. ”

"Your sociological experiments and large-scale investigations cost a lot of money."

"Putting that money into the rest could save well over 100 lives a year."

"Why not?"

"Let's go back to the past, and continue to live together."

"Lu Ming is no longer our target."

The last line of blood-colored characters slowly disappeared, and no new words appeared.

When the line "Lu Ming is no longer our target" appeared, Lu Ming began to tremble. In that moment, he remembered many, many things. He remembered his mother's hand-rolled noodles, his father's treasured wine, his sister who grew up together, playgrounds, schools, movie theaters, restaurants, and many other things.

All of these things have one thing in common, and that is that they are all under the sun, and they can enjoy and live without fear of any threats, whether bright or dark.

At this moment, Lu Ming felt that these words, presented in blood-red characters, were very reasonable.

Oh, yes...... Why not?

Instead of worrying about no more than 100 people going missing every year, why not put your energy and resources into more people?

Why not?

Aren't there a lot of unsolved cases in the Thirteen Divisions of the Planetary Security Agency? Aren't there many cases that can't be investigated at all? Zhang Dingshan: Didn't they also say that it is normal for a case to become an unsolved case, and even, before they put forward the idea of "gene", when they were helpless and the case never progressed, didn't they themselves think about giving up?

So...... Why not give up?

I don't care how many people go missing every year, I don't care about the rest, I just know that they don't target me anymore, I can live a normal life, I can see my parents and relatives again, I can walk in the sun again, and I can go to the things that I used to feel annoyed about......

"He, he's right, he makes sense, yes, isn't it?"

Lu Ming trembled and asked Zhang Dingshan this question.

Zhang Dingshan looked at Lu Ming calmly, without any emotion in his expression.

"Do you think he's right?"

Lu Ming trembled and nodded vigorously.

Zhang Dingshan shook his head, his tone was as calm as ever, but behind the calm was unshakable firmness.

"He's not right. This case will continue to be investigated, and unless it is really unthinkable, it will not become an unsolved case. ”

"Why!"

Lu Ming stood up suddenly, his face even a little distorted: "You have spent so many resources!" So much money spent! This money can save a thousand, ten thousand! Tens of millions of people die every year in the world, and a hundred missing people are nothing! ”

Zhang Dingshan sighed: "It's different." ”

"What's the difference!"

"If a powerful alien civilization descends on our earth, it declares that if humanity sacrifices an innocent person to kill them, they will spare all mankind, or else they will perish. What do you think our civilization should do in this situation? ”

"Of course it'......"

Lu Ming blurted out subconsciously, but after only saying three words, he suddenly closed his mouth.

"The right thing to do is to resist with all your might. Every missile is used, every nuclear bomb is launched, and every soldier should be in the midst of resistance, and every bullet in his hands should be exhausted. Even if humans fight to the last man, they must never give in. ”

Lu Ming was silent.

"Because they are trampling on our rules......" Zhang Dingshan sighed silently: "We don't talk about morality, only about interests." From the perspective of interests, such behavior of extraterrestrial civilizations itself proves that they are not credible. Since they flout our rules, how can you guarantee that they will keep their promises after we give in? The most likely scenario is that after giving an innocent person, the alien civilization will instead ask for the sacrifice of ten thousand, ten hundred million. At that time, should we continue to make concessions without a bottom line, or will we fight hard? ”

"Will you fight again at that time? But let's not forget that from the very beginning, when the human world first gave in, it lost forever the possibility of fighting in the subsequent process. Therefore, even from the perspective of interests, the most correct choice is always to never give in and rise up to resist. ”

Lu Ming muttered: "But many times, even we ourselves are trampling on our own rules. ”

Zhang Dingshan smiled slightly: "That's true." However, Lu Ming, you have to understand that working hard to do it, but not being able to do it for the time being, and not doing it at all, these two are different. ”

He gently patted Lu Ming's shoulder: "A hundred, ten thousand?" That's not how the accounts are calculated. ”

Lu Ming suddenly remembered a certain period of time when he had many fans.

The development of aerospace is not beneficial, it is better to use the money to improve people's livelihood.

At the time, he also scoffed at this view, and even didn't bother to refute it. But now, he found himself caught up in that view when things involved him.

"I'm sorry, I was wrong. I...... We really shouldn't compromise with X. ”

Zhang Dingshan continued with a smile on his face: "I'm very happy that you can think clearly." So, now you might as well think about it, what is the purpose of Organization X doing this? ”

"To warn us, of course...... Not good! Captain, let's get out of here! Since Organization X can warn us in such a miraculous way, it means that they have the ability to kill us here! It's not safe here! ”

Lu Ming's heart beat violently, full of nervousness.

This is both a threat and a warning. The purpose is to bring oneself to its knees.

"Don't worry, it's fine."

Zhang Dingshan shook his head and signaled Lu Ming to calm down: "Some little tricks are nothing more than using a special directional laser to hit the light signal directly on our eyeballs, creating words in the sky, although we humans don't have this technology yet, but I have seen it in other places before." If you don't believe me, ask someone, no one but us must be able to see these words. ”

Lu Ming turned his head suddenly, and saw that the rest of the staff were still doing their own thing, and they didn't seem to be aware of the previous change at all.