Getting up early in the morning, Qiao Hongyu felt that Gu Shun's spirit was surprisingly good today.

After breakfast, Gu Shun said to Qiao Hongyu: "You call everyone here, let's go to the grave of grandma together, I haven't been to see her for many years." ”

Many of the subordinates who started from Xiacheng with Gu Shun at the beginning have passed away.

Although everyone's legs and feet were weak, and their health was not as good as before, they still staggered to him when they heard Gu Shun's summons.

Xiaopeng was paralyzed in the lower half of his body due to illness a few years ago and couldn't stand up at all, so Gu Shun told him to recuperate at home and not have to come to the event.

But Xiaopeng still insisted on coming, he felt that his health was getting worse day by day, and there were not many opportunities to see Gu Shun.

"Your Majesty"

"Your Majesty"

Gu Shun waved his hand, "That's it, it's okay, it's been called for so many years, it's time to change your words." Today, there is no distinction between monarchs and ministers, everyone is a family, let's go see grandma together. ”

"Hmm" Everyone nodded in agreement, tears shining in their eyes.

A group of old men dressed in plain clothes, walking on crutches or being supported by others, stumbled to the cemetery of Meta City.

The cemetery has been expanded many times, and the scale is no longer the same as before.

Coincidentally, this cemetery was once a landfill in the lower city, where Gu Shun was born more than 70 years ago.

At the entrance of the cemetery, several children holding models of spaceships frolicked and chased past them.

The children don't know what kind of prominent status these old people pass by in the empire.

At their age, these old people had already followed Gu Shun to work in Xiacheng.

Qiao Hongyu supported Gu Shun, and the two walked hand in hand through half a century of ups and downs, and their love was the same as back then.

When they arrived at the grave of their grandmother, after everyone worshipped, Gu Shunping withdrew from everyone, sat alone in front of his grandmother's grave, and folded a paper flower for his grandmother with his brown hand and hung it in front of the tombstone.

Before his eyes, the Sims' hint reappeared:

[At the age of 77, your body has run out of oil due to overwork. Your life is coming to an end, and the simulation is coming to an end]

[Please say goodbye to your cherished humanity, there is not much time left for you]

"It seems that this time it really can't last." Gu Shun muttered quietly, as if he was talking to himself, or to his grandmother.

"Grandma, this may be the last time your grandson will come to see you, if you want to be a grandson, just look at this paper flower."

In the distance, Qiao Hongyu looked at Gu Shun, who was sitting in front of the tomb with white hair, and unconsciously recalled in her mind that many years ago, the boy who cried alone on a rainy night.

That time, Qiao Hongyu felt that Gu Shun was really a child.

And this time, she realized that before she knew it, the omnipotent husband was really old.

She quietly wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes with her wrinkled hands, she was going to be strong for a lifetime, but seeing this situation, she was still bitter, and her tears couldn't help falling.

Coming out of the cemetery, Gu Shun asked Qiao Hongyu to support him and strolled around the downside down city, which had been turned upside down.

They came to a park on a street corner, and Gu Shun pointed to a sculpture of him and recalled:

"This place used to be full of houses built of containers, and my grandmother and I lived here for the first time, although the days at that time were miserable, but when I think about it, I am still full of emotion."

Xiaopeng sat in a wheelchair and recalled: "Yes, I still remember that I once accompanied Your Majesty to come here, and my grandmother pointed everywhere and told Your Majesty and us about ......the past."

As he spoke, Xiaopeng couldn't speak anymore, leaving only more cries.

The twilight of the hero, I still remember the year, probably this is the feeling.

Gu Shun suddenly lowered his head, and saw that in the grass in front of the statue, a small green seedling shook its leaves, as if it was calling the old man.

[Potatoes, unimproved variety, very low yield, identified as garbage]

The Scavenger talent is activated again, giving the plant its name and attributes.

Gu Xuan

Potatoes have been improved by imperial agronomists for countless generations, and the varieties grown by Gu Shun back then are no longer what they used to be.

However, this strain in front of Gu Shun is a primitive variety.

In the hearts of the inhabitants of the Meta Empire, potatoes were closely associated with the rise of the country.

The boy who went down to the city rose from the end of the day and created one legend after another, and in these stories that every imperial person is familiar with, the figure of potatoes can always be seen.

Qiao Hongyu saw Gu Shun staring at this potato for a long time, so she also leaned over, "Why don't you take it back and plant it at home." ”

"No need, just let it grow here, I didn't expect to see potatoes here, which can be regarded as a kind of fulfillment." Gu Shun straightened up, as if saying goodbye to the old man.

The group walked around the lower and upper towns again before returning to the villa by car.

On the way back to the villa, Gu Shun leaned on Qiao Hongyu's arms and said as if exhausted:

"When I die, send my ashes into space, and I will turn into stardust, watching over the figure of the Meta Empire and countless brave explorers."

Qiao Hongyu gently patted Gu Shun's back with her hand, "Then I will also go to space after I die, and we will definitely be able to reunite in the universe in the future." ”

Gu Shun grabbed Qiao Hongyu's hand, "Hongyu, I've worked hard for you all these years, it's good to have you by my side."

After I die, you must guard the Meta Empire, and I can't go down with you, I'm sorry. ”

"What nonsense, you are only in your seventies this year, you will definitely live a long life, we still have a lot of days." Qiao Hongyu hurriedly said.

But she waited for a long time and didn't wait for Gu Shun's reply, Gu Shun seemed to be lying in her arms and falling asleep.

Qiao Hongyu faintly felt that something was wrong, she hurriedly used her other hand to test Gu Shun's snort, and Gu Shun had already stopped breathing.

Qiao Hongyu couldn't believe that this was true, "Gu Shun, Gu Shun, wake up, don't scare me, I know it's not true, you must be lying to me, right, you won't die, you can't die after so many assassinations, how can you die......"

Her voice gradually changed from pleading to heart-rending crying, how she wished Gu Shun could open her eyes and tell her that it was just his pretending, just his plan, just tired, just ......

Gu Shun, who has dedicated his life to the Meta Empire, closed his eyes forever.

When the news reached the Prime Minister's Office of the Meta Empire, all the imperial officials were stunned on the spot in disbelief, and many of them even broke down and cried bitterly.

In the end, the imperial prime minister announced the obituary of Gu Shun's death with an extremely heavy heart.

When the people of the entire Meta Empire and countless space bases in the universe heard the bad news, they instantly felt that the sky had fallen.

One of the largest state funerals ever held in the city of Meta, the capital of the Meta Empire.

In this place where history is often made, tens of millions of people have come from all over the empire just to be able to lay a wreath of mourning and white chrysanthemums to their monarch and see him for the last time.

Wreaths and couplets of various colors are stacked on top of each other, filling the entire mourning square.

Among the people who offered flowers, there were gray-haired old people, young people who aspired to work for nine days, and young children who babbled.

People of different ages and backgrounds are here at this moment just to remember and mourn their emperor.

Heart-rending cries resounded from the square to the north and south of the empire, and countless flowers and elegiac couplets were placed next to Gu Shun's statues throughout the empire.

Today's sky is spotless, the sun is exceptionally bright, Gu Shun's huge legacy shines in the sun, this person who seems to come from the sun, after all, goes with the sun.

All the astronauts of the Infinite Exploration and Natural Selection who sailed to the boundless universe saluted in the direction they came from with tears in their eyes, expressing their highest respect and remembrance for Gu Shun with the highest courtesy.

In front of grandma's grave, the paper flowers swayed with the wind, and the wind seemed to turn into grandma's hands, playing with the paper flowers, and Gu Shun's immature giggles were faintly heard.

Ten days later, according to Gu Shun's will, Qiao Hongyu and Gu Shun's three children, under the gaze of countless red and swollen eyes, placed the container containing Gu Shun's ashes on a spaceship that would never return.

Xiaopeng's ashes were also put on the table, he fulfilled his original promise and stayed by Gu Shun's side forever.

With the light of the fire, the spaceship took off, carrying Gu Shun's expectations for space exploration and encouragement to all the brave, never to return.

Gu Shun opened the Age of Interstellar Discovery, and behind him, countless latecomers will also follow his footsteps and keep moving forward.

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