Buzz –

The furious locomotive through the tunnels, the blizzard and dust saluting her, the darkness blurring the horizon, the cold wind tearing at her cheeks, and the red-black clouds hanging overhead, it all seemed like hell.

But if you think about it, according to the teachings of the scriptures, hell may be much warmer than the outside world.

Perhaps influenced by Leoz's words, she raised her head from time to time to look at the red-black sky.

"I could have endured the darkness if I hadn't seen the light...... Is it?"

Sasama whispered.

"What arrogance."

She drove very fast, as a Garma class, she disdained to wear any armor other than a helmet, the surging energy attached to the body surface could easily resist the wind, sand, frost and snow, and the undisguised release of the Gama class biological band signal throughout the whole process also made those distorted monsters dare not approach at all.

Soon, Sasama Kagami arrived at his destination, the Cold Iron Settlement.

If you have never been out of the city in your life, then the people of Shikoku have a very narrow understanding of the outside world and Shikoku.

In fact, the outside world is not a region, but a state.

As long as it is, any place that is not protected by particle barrier emitters, and does not have a unified national identity and administrative division, will be contemptuously referred to by civilized people as an outside land. Some of them are declining countries, and some are refugees who are independent but abandoned by the four countries after the occupation of the resource deposits.

Therefore, the Azure Star has never lacked a population, and after the Shadow Heavy Industry improved the new chemical fertilizer, many settlements in the outside world were scattered, which could form an extremely large number of people.

However, surviving and living are two different things.

The locomotive is parked next to the freighter of an old shipwreck, through the cold semi-open container hold, and into the underground - the environment here is not as simple and sparsely populated as people think, on the contrary, after dozens of generations of continuous excavation and development, even if the frozen ground under the wreck has been chiseled a lot, the space is still narrow and lacks housing.

How ironic that even in this near-apocalyptic wilderness, people lack shelter.

The arrival of the narrow mirror is no stranger to the residents of the settlement, who are huddled in their belongings and corners, and they don't even have the courage to raise their eyes to look at the narrow mirror.

"Miss Mirror......

"She's back, why didn't she see the night song?"

"Shhhh

For the whispers of these outsiders, Sasama doesn't care.

Some fortunate settlements happened to find the nuclear power equipment of the giant ships of the old era, and then survived on it, due to the lack of organization and civilization, the natural population grew disorderly, resulting in poverty, hunger and cold for a long time.

There is no way to solve this problem, she has always thought that no one on this planet can do it.

Even the mentor she held in great esteem.

Smack.

Standing in front of the door of a sailor's dormitory, she raised her hand, knocked on the door, and explained:

"It's me, Alkhanu."

The next moment the door opened automatically, and inside sat a man like a crow—about forty or fifty years old, tall and strong, with black hair blown up into a ponytail and pinned with a black feather.

The middle-aged man wears a yellow-black trench coat, wears an old-time radiator pendant around his neck, and has an armband of skulls and wrenches on his arms, revealing his identity: a veteran garbage elder.

Facing the arrival of the narrow mirror, the man sat in front of the bed, raised his head slightly, and said casually:

"There's a fire burning in your heart, Mirror."

"I want to ask you a question, Bedia Alcanu-sensei."

Kagami slowly walked into the room, closed the door, and came to Arcanu, staring into the other's eyes, and said bluntly:

"Teacher, you know

Do the sun and the stars exist?"

"What's this *** problem?!" Alcanu scoffed, "Anyone with a little common sense would not ask such a thing."

"I want to know your point of view." Kagami said insistingly, staring into Alcanu's eyes, his silver eyes like some extremely pure substance, nobler than silver, holier than snowflakes.

"Believe it or not, the sun is there, and the Azure Star revolves around it, and it rotates itself. The universe, nature, also exists. Even the sun is no different from sand to the universe." Alcanu explained calmly, "Is that all? My good apprentice, you came all the way out to Tianhuan to find me, to promote your attacks and protests, or to ask me such a *** question as a dying old madman - you went to school, don't be stupid."

After saying that, he sneered and shook his head, full of disdain and disdain.

"Teacher." Kagami said, "Do you want to go to space?"

Alcanu's laughter stopped abruptly, and he turned his head sideways, staring formally into the mirror, as if today was the first time he had seen the imp.

"Tell me, you're not crazy yet, though sooner or later you'll become a half-madman like me."

"At least not yet." The mirror rolled up its sleeves and swept its gaze over the cracks on his arms, which were slightly cracked and reflected a faint light that was by no means the same as a human arm could reflect.

"This thing, it gave me the capital to step into the Garma Tier." "But at the same time, it's eating away at me," the mirror said.

"Dosha has the effect of catalyzing human evolution—or rather, accelerating human time." Alcanu touched his chin, "You're lucky, Osa didn't directly transform you into a monster, but instead gave you superpowers. Anaerobic people don't have the same luck as you - when we found him, he had been turned into a block covered in branches and tentacles, floating eerily in mid-air...... We used the antimatter bombs of the old days to destroy him, and you should be glad to have done so."

"Answer my question, teacher."

The mirror looked up at the other party:

"Do you want to go to space?"

"Nope." Alcanu shook his head, "I don't want to, I don't want to, I was born in the outside world, I will die here, my ancestors have borne enough burdens, now, I just want to stay here and walk quietly to the end of my life - but I know that you will not be so content with the status quo."

"You're right, Teacher."

"You're going to space?"

"No, I'm going to save Grettward, and then, send a Red Arrow Man into space."

"Give me the aether mixture."

Mirror held out his hand towards him:

"I need strength, I want to get it, the power to save this world, I'm not strong enough now, if I can do this, maybe the entire Azure Star will have a chance to see the sun."

"Mirror, you've grown up."

Looking at the firm eyes in the mirror, Alcanu was greatly moved, he showed a pleased gaze, nodded at the same time, and said with a smile:

"That's good, but I'm not going to give it to you."

Mirror was stunned: "Teacher-"

"You don't understand, Mirror." Alcanu looked at each other with a complicated look: "Aether, more dangerous and terrible than Dosha, if you don't want to betray humanity, then never touch her. That's what my ancestors said to me."

「…… Do you really believe in that ethereal legend?" Jing spread out his hands and frowned: "Society...... Professionals...... Citizen...... Jury...... Parliamentarians and Speakers...... You don't really, believe that there is a "living civilization", do you?"

"Mirror, since you believe in the existence of the sun and the universe, you should understand that if the universe really exists, anything can appear in that huge cardinal number. Whether it is the Azure Star that will give birth to life, or whether it has a living civilization that is rampant in the universe like a monster."

Alcanu took the graphics card cooler off his neck and slapped it on the bed, he shook his head and said:

"Nightsong's ancestor is a great one

Man, he knew the reason for all this, but before he could leave any information, the existence called "society" destroyed him, and after the evil swept the heavens and the earth, we don't even remember our own civilization, let alone that part of the secret news—I only know that ether is the source of that society."

"Gray's ancestor—did he boast to me about the amazing Gandok Nightsong when he was a kid?" Jing pouted: "People from 500 years ago don't know if they existed or not. His parents coaxed him to forget it, why would you believe this rumor, teacher?"

"I don't know, Kagami, but I just believe it." Arcanu smiled bitterly, "The Aether is an extremely precious being, but the pure Aether Mixture is highly poisonous to humans. You may be able to survive the aether's toxins and fill your blood with powerful and mysterious energy, but I don't want you to die."

As he spoke, he took out a finger-thick potion tube from his bosom, in which the clear silvery-white liquid was quietly suspended, not escaping and decomposing due to shaking, and always maintaining a steadiness like mercury.

"This is the aether mixture." "If I open it here, it will poison the whole ship, I'm not kidding, I'm also the poisoner of it, I didn't die by luck, but at the cost of 97% of my body's tissues, all of which were replaced with prosthetics," Alcanu said. If you don't qualify, then not only will you die, but you may die an extremely ugly death."

The mirror said, "I know."

He stared at each other and said:

"Nothing is terrifying with aether, and society can enslave your soul through it. You may become a puppet and some kind of resource for the high-ranking speakers and councillors of their society to mobilize and use at will—it is more humiliating and painful than destruction."

Kagami nodded, "I know."

"You don't know! Even if you die and pay a heavy price, you will have more problems - and you will not be human, you will no longer be an assassin - but a monster known as a "professional". If you have poisonous blood flowing in your body, you will become a member of society, your mind will be distorted, and you will think that society is your mother, your creator, and your soul and conscience will be distorted and polluted! You won't be who you are anymore, just a tool!"

Kagami stepped forward, "I know."

"Did you listen to me?!" Alcanu was indignant: "You will die worthless, and when you die, mortals will no longer remember you, understand? Grettward, I and your friends, they will forget you completely! Your presence is erased like an eraser erasing pencil handwriting!"

"I'm going to die sooner or later, teacher."

Even after hearing such a heavy price, Sasama's gaze remained firm:

"I'm willing to become a professional."

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Li Oz returned to Nuliang City and deliberately walked on the streets, swaggering through the market, letting people know that they were haunting a conspicuous place in Nuliang City.

For the appearance of Li Aozi, the Tianhuan people quickly caused onlookers and a sensation, and the closed beta players who were already looking for Li Aozi immediately noticed the movement of the crowd gathering and rushed to come.

Although the beta players do not have the same internal information and training as military players, they are better than having a professional team to guide and train, and it is easy to get started with the game.

Li Aozi's charm was too strong, he stayed in a square for a while, boring to brush up on the forum, and soon attracted countless onlookers from the people of Tianhuan.

"Please sign me!"

"You're so beautiful, please let me be your dog."

"Are you, the superhuman Li Oz of the Great Frost-Plated Air Force? It's me! When we meet for the first time, please accept a little bit of my heart."

After a while, the gifts around Li Oz had been built into a high wall. He also enthusiastically interacted with these ordinary people and passers-by, and fiercely brushed a wave of public favorability.

"What?" Some people couldn't help but grunt when they saw Li Aozi being so close to the people

Come: "Frost's propaganda is really bad, how could such a beautiful and gentle person be able to cause a massacre?"

"I don't believe that Li Oz would do that kind of thing, a slap doesn't make a sound, it's clear that the humanitarian organization itself is not clean - the frost plating people should reflect on what they did wrong, so they pushed such a good person as Li Oz to the opposite side, it must be the frost plating's fault!"

"Beauty is a rare resource, even if he does slaughter it? It is their honor to die at the hands of beauties."

"Oh my God, he's just a god of beauty, I've forgotten that I'm a man, and for Leoz, he's the only goal I'll strive for for the rest of my life."

Just when Li Oz showed his charm and increased the public's favor, the vision of [True Eye] also captured the figure of a player with the ID of "Day and Night Wanderer".

Li Oz was overjoyed:

"Oh, it's not in vain that I've been standing here for so long—the Grand Guild has come to the door."

The White Sun Guild is a very famous guild and studio in the hot summer, with thousands of thugs, small generations, and salesmen under its hands, and it is a ready-made pig farm.

"Now, there's a lot to be made."