Chapter 169: If you want to progress, you have to pay a price

"Woo?!" Brother Hao saw that his master's condition was improving, his two front legs grabbed the edge of the bed, shook his ass excitedly, and his pink tongue almost licked Lao Zhang's face.

"Oh, oh! You've always been taking care of me, thank you. Zhang Ming patted its fluffy head and laughed.

Brother Hao did show his loyal side from the dog, and under its care, Zhang Ming was almost dying of thirst!

Well, there is no merit and hard work.

"Did that turtle play with the computer?"

"If you keep playing all day long, see if you don't kill it!" Lao Zhang had a malicious smile on his face.

Turn on the computer, as a programmer ape, he naturally did some tricks and feet in the computer, and at least a few hours a day he could still record.

Unexpectedly, Xiaobai only played with the computer for a while on the weekend, and it was the same as the content in the agreement!

"Could it be that the ancestor of Shi Mama is disciplining it?"

After a walk on the deck and some fresh air, Xiaobai and Pelican flew out to hunt, only Shi Mama stuck to the mast, basking in the sun as always.

"Hello,, Shi Mama!"

"Cheap maid Zhang Ming, how are you!" Shi Ma Ma said, "What's hunting time next?" ”

"I'll have to wait, I'm a little weak now, and I'll have to study the soul clone again, and I'll finish some things along the way." Zhang Ming looked at the clear blue sky and the endless sea.

"What's going on?"

"You don't think that the Ant Mutu Titan is a risk-free thing, right?" Zhang Ming sighed.

Since Xiaobai has a soul fixing gun, he has become more and more fancy, riding a pelican to fly far away every day to shoot big fish.

He also let it go and didn't restrain too much.

"Xiaobai, Brother Hao, you should follow the pelican to escape to a distant place, otherwise even if there is a source of the world, it may not be able to shelter."

Suddenly, a telepathy arose in my mind.

[Your letter. 】

It turned out that the drifting bottle had arrived.

I've been stranded in this sea for 14 months......

A subtle sense of urgency rose in Zhang Ming's heart.

After scooping up the drifting bottle, a customary USB flash drive, and some letters from relatives.

In 14 months, there has not been much change for the earth, except that the scale of some cities has expanded, some officials have changed, and relatives and friends have aged a year old......

My 31-year-old sister is pregnant again, I don't know if it's a son or a daughter, and a new life is being conceived......

Giving birth to two children can be regarded as a major life event, whether it is the elders or the country and society, it is impossible to find any fault.

Zhang Ming was in a complicated mood, thinking that he was about to face the terrifying fact that he was about to be 36 years old, his heart was cold, and he couldn't help but sigh in a low voice: "I'm going to run for four soon!" ”

There was a voice in the dark, saying in my head: Don't worry, in a few years, you will soon be a little old man in Benwu!

There was another whisper in the dark, bewitching: Don't worry, round up, you have already run a hundred.

Lao Zhang Ming knew that these voices were stating the facts.

But I always feel that they are very noisy, so won't I say some nice comfort?

As for the earth, there have also been several disasters that are not big or small, but they are too gentle compared to the "Soul Breaker", even if humans do not use nuclear bombs, they can be successfully solved.

Wang Fumin wrote in his letter: "Lao Zhang, how is your living situation recently? Another year has passed, a year of no achievements, but another year full of achievements. ”

"Comrade Li Xianfeng should have broadcast on the radio that several serious supernatural disasters have occurred on the earth, killing and injuring hundreds of thousands of people, which directly confirms the importance of the paranormal investigation department."

"Without a global cooperation mechanism, some of the inconsequential disasters will be magnified and severed. Therefore, after these serious disasters, the constraints of all parties have been much smaller, and the cooperation between countries has become much smoother. ”

"The team members are starting to become obedient, and there are a lot fewer delays in funding."

"Oh?" Lao Zhang sighed suspiciously, is it so smooth?

Lao Wang's handwriting is strong and powerful, with a sense of Yan Zhenqing's rich roundness.

The pen print of the fountain pen remains in this paper, which means that Lao Wang wrote the letter with a trace of subtle emotion.

Wang Fumin continued: "But in fact, we used some political . Treating the wrist has achieved this goal. ”

"Some of the signs of disaster, we detected it early on, and we can stop it immediately."

"But we deliberately didn't deal with it, and let it go. Some people don't actually have to die, but they just die. ”

"I say that, I don't know if you can understand."

"It's not a natural disaster, it's a ......"

"For the first time, I saw the dark side, and I would do whatever it took to achieve my goals. In many cases, this behavior is even more painful than the time when he lost his wife. As a result, my [Heavenly Scar] ability has exploded, and I may have become a little stronger...... But so many people have died because of it, and I wonder, what's the point of doing this job? ”

"My boss, Qin Yiwei, told me that when we choose to embark on this path, there must be a price."

"I asked him, why don't we pay the price ourselves, but let ordinary people pay with their lives?"

He said that when the price is his turn, he will bear it, but this time it has not been his turn.

"Keeping in mind what our ultimate goal is, we need to achieve the unification of the entire Pangea continent, this is a difficult but ambitious goal, the integration of the paranormal investigation department is only a small first step, not even a prelude, the whole process, it will inevitably require cruel wrists and iron will."

"I admit that I don't have this kind of skill and no will, I am discouraged, but I have no choice."

"Wang Fumin, leave a word."

Zhang Ming understood what Wang Fumin was writing. The grand goal they want to achieve is too difficult and full of obstacles, and they must go through some means and paths that contradict their faith.

How should you choose at this time?

Since Lao Wang awakened the [Heavenly Evil Lone Star], his combat power has improved by leaps and bounds, and he can be regarded as the top level of the human race.

But this quality of life is not as good as day by day, with a worry in the east and a worry in the west.

Originally, it was just the pain of the death of a loved one, but it was relieved after a while, and there is no feast in the world, and life and death are what everyone must endure.

But now, that pain swells directly into the struggle between change and faith in the human age!

It's really wave after wave, and it's endless.

Unless you voluntarily exit this vortex, the pain will never stop.

Still, this kind of thing...... Zhang Ming really didn't know how to reply.

Because in his opinion, especially after seeing the wonders of the world built by the Blue Crystal people, he deeply felt that the rise of civilization needs to pay a price.

Even if you pay the price, it may not be useful...... That's the saddest thing.

"Earthlings are paying the price for past disunity!" Zhang Ming sighed with his forehead, and there was nothing he could do, after all, this piece of shit was his hometown.

He picked up his pen and wrote: "Hello Wang, I really can't answer the question you asked. ”

"But I can share with you a story of an alien civilization and analyze some things from my personal point of view. (Some things to know about the Azurite civilization)"

"From a pragmatist's point of view, if there is a great price to pay for something to achieve, but there is only one path, you can only go down that path and then go on with it."

"Because you have to have a road first, and then you can consider whether the road is easy to walk, otherwise, the opportunity will just slowly slip away."

"The unity of mankind is indeed a grand goal. And this goal is extremely important, related to the well-being of the next hundred and thousand years, and related to the existence of human beings in the Sea of Demon God. ”

"From the grand narrative, from the scale of civilization, sacrificing some people is nothing more than cold numbers."

"As I described in my letter, the Azurite people built the Pillar of Heaven and hunted the Demon God."

"Countless civilians have died of premature decay and turned into cold wishes, and you say that their lives have no freedom or have been brainwashed, I admit all of this."

"But the race did go down the ground for a grand goal, and paid a heavy price. They even failed at the last moment, and the long-term plan and the efforts of a billion people came to naught. ”

"But instead of criticizing and ridiculing them, I think they are a strong and strong race."

"Even if the final hunting plan goes wrong, they will not perish because of it, because in the process of achieving their grand goals, they have gained some hidden spiritual wealth. The value of this wealth is immeasurable, and as long as they come out of the shadows, it is difficult to be crushed by the difficulties of the outside world. ”

Of course, there will always be a contradiction between the grand narrative and the small things of the individual. Striking the right balance is a key ......"

Lao Zhang paused, he really didn't know what to write, the torrent of the times on the earth could not affect him, and it was impossible for him to sacrifice.

Since I couldn't give any advice, I had to write a sentence in the end.

"If you don't want to participate, you can actually stay away from this whirlpool, no one should be able to force you, right? It's a big deal to retreat to the countryside, outside the Pangea continent, find an island to squat. ”

"Zhang Ming, leave a word."

As for the other letters in the USB flash drive, they are still the same as before: scientific research papers, emails from political dignitaries, videos of relatives, and so on.

The paper was too complicated, and Zhang Ming didn't bother to read it for a while, because he had to do a very dangerous and important job, hunting the demon god "Time and Space Worm".

Whether they will be alive or not is still a question......

has been lonely and adrift for so many years, and many things, even life and death, Zhang Ming has slowly looked down on it.

Maybe he didn't feel the joys and sorrows of ordinary people at all, or maybe he was already close to madness......

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