Overturned Tower

But the final result surprised even himself.

"...If possible, I hope to let the elder brother's son go. If not, it doesn't matter...As for myself, let's forget it."

Henryk smiled frankly: "I have to take care of my family.

"If I were younger and more than 20 years old, maybe I would be tempted. But now...forget it. I don't know anything, and I'm a waste if I go up—there won't be so many trees on the empty island. Or else Those slaves will no longer be chopping trees with chainsaws and giant axes every day."

"really……"

"Have you asked anyone else?"

Hearing Hua Mingshu's words, Henrik couldn't help laughing: "It's the same if you ask other people. I know that there must be some people who can abandon their wives and children and go to the empty island... There are also people who are free and willing to go out and venture ; There are also young people who still have their future, unwilling to live on the ground.

"But us old things, we just want to get through this life in peace. It's like the sun has started to set, and all we think about is when the moon will rise instead of letting the sun hang in the sky."

"...That's it."

Hua Mingshu said in a low voice.

He raised his head and looked at the unglamorous sun.

That is the sun that is much farther and cooler than that on the island.

Looking out from the empty island, you can only see tall buildings and the sea of ​​people; looking out from the lower city, you can only see the deep sea of ​​sky.

Looking out from the "Tower of Babel" and the airship, it is the endless gray dome and the ultramarine sea.

When he was on the empty island, Russell would occasionally think...if he looked up, it would be great to see egrets and seagulls; if it was hanging in the sky, it would not be a gray sky...but azure blue, even Even better with an ultramarine sky.

Now, as "White Feather" Hua Mingshu—that is, "Detective" Holmes, he has been walking alone on the ground for several months.He also gradually understood why Zhu Rong let him walk alone on the ground.

On this forgotten continent, there are still good things left.

He had seen a poet in a certain village who still had a pipe organ that sounded fine.There is also a suona player in that village, who used to be an adventurer.While exploring the ruins, he was attacked by a radiation beast and lost his legs, but managed to survive.He crawled into the village, and was moved to tears when he heard the sound of the pipe organ.

They have long since lost the technical ability to manufacture and repair musical instruments.In this era, there are very few people who still have musical instruments, and those who still understand music theory are even rarer.The two worked together to play the tunes that belonged only to them, and sang their songs in the midst of suffering.After meeting Hua Mingshu, they sang cheerful songs to him, just like they lived under the sun.

He once saw that there were dogs from the old era in a certain village—it was said that two pureblood hounds were found when they escaped at first, but people did not eat them even in the most difficult time.As a result, these hounds helped more people survive by hunting down small radiated beasts.Until the hounds died of old age, the people in that village did not eat their meat, but set up simple stone monuments for them.

As a result, over the years, although many of the pureblood hounds in this village starved to death, froze to death, and were killed by radiation beasts... But in the end they multiplied, and almost every family raised a lot of hounds.Now it has been closely symbiotic with them.After Hua Mingshu refused the accompanying and guards, they wanted to give Hua Mingshu a puppy to travel with him.After Hua Mingshu refused again and left, a puppy ran out of the village by itself and followed him from noon to sunset, but still did not leave.

He had no choice but to find Hua Touch and hand over the dog to her.After all, following him is not enough to eat.

Today's Hua Mingshu can be called ascetic—compared to the sacred, solemn and spotless posture at the beginning.Now he looks like an ascetic parading among the mortal world.

He has seen a strong peasant woman, standing on the farmland, greeted him enthusiastically, and gave him food; he has seen a tired lumberjack cheer up after seeing him, telling the story of his family; he has seen immature Lovers give wild flowers to each other as tokens of love, bundle wild grasses into grass rings and make a personal appointment for life...

He has also seen the old man die peacefully by the warm fire, with unfinished manuscripts in his hand; he has seen an old tree that is at least hundreds of years old, has survived the Islamic war, and is now corrupted by the curse to the point of death. Hollow, yet still standing, throwing heavy shade; he has seen men weeping before the casks of failed brew; he has seen the fawns and crows who are not afraid of man by the crystal ponds - the hunters They no longer hunt and kill these animals with the same intelligent eyes as them, but stand with them to destroy the radiation beasts created by the war.

Perhaps in the future, all this will change.

Perhaps in the future, everything will return to the beginning.

But at least for now, what Hua Mingshu—or what Russell saw was not despair and ignorance.But hope and rebirth.

——When he looked up from the ground, he couldn't see the empty and empty gray dome at all.

Russell could only see the endless forest and fields.

Occasionally, he could actually see geese flying across the sky.Rare than the shooting stars that slide down in the night on Happy Island.

Those creatures that disappeared from this world in the past have gradually returned.

At this time, Russell would fall into deep thought.

Is this vibrant world really a world that is about to enter destruction and reach the doomsday?

"—And what can I do?"

Russell was extremely serious, and asked in a low voice to himself.

Chapter 32 Inky Proliferation

"--what did you just say?"

The delphinium turned around suddenly, looked behind her in astonishment, and her pupils shrank suddenly.

"The reengineering mechanism has been attacked."

Paradise Bird pursed its lips and repeated: "Their purpose should be to release those demons."

"Are they crazy?!"

An angry look appeared on Delphinium's face: "Do they really know what they are doing?!"

"—they obviously don't know."

The expression of the horn on the side also sank.

The khaki-yellow halo on his head exudes more and more brilliance, and his always smiling face has long since lost the smile.

There is a shallow scar on his face, carved obliquely on his left cheek.

It was the wound he was scratched by a little girl with a pen when he was stopping the chaos not long ago.

For Angel, it can be said that it is easy to heal this kind of wound.But compared to physical injuries, what really hurt was his heart, his ideals and tenderness.

More and more people on Happy Island are going crazy.The entire Happy Island is gradually falling into chaos.

People become extreme, radical, and full of hatred—if there is a button, as long as you press it, you will instantly fall to the island of happiness and everyone will die together. I am afraid that at least [-] to [-]% of people will press it.

The efforts of the Relief Society are meaningful.

Because there are more and more people waking up these days...they are even scared of their crazy selves and are doing everything they can to try and fix the mess.But there are more people who were originally neutral or able to keep calm are now caught in chaos and madness.

However, as the number of sober people increased and their influence gradually equaled that of those lunatics, those lunatics became more and more hysterical, wanting to "make a louder voice" at all costs.

Obviously at the beginning, they just wanted to find a peace of mind - they wanted to know what to do in the future for themselves and their families when resources were scarce.They rob resources and hoard supplies.Aggressively attack others verbally, build a fortress, and even give up studies and jobs.So far, it's pretty normal.

But soon, frenzy, fear, jealousy, and hatred confused their minds.

Because not everyone is like them.

Many people believe that even if the end comes, it should be a long time away.So after the initial chaos, they quickly returned to normal.The efforts of the Fuji Society, the return of the ice water, and the mediation of the Delphinium also played a large role in it.

But those who have given up a lot of things, it is not so easy to go back.The abandonment of studies, dismissal of jobs, and even the teachers and bosses attacked by them have made them have no turning back.

If the rules of the past were followed, all of them would enter the lower city and become uncoded.Or find a job that is much worse than before, or pay more money to take tutoring classes.In short, it is impossible to return to the previous life-because as the initiators and main maintainers of the chaos, they must pay a painful enough price before people will forgive those other people who are coerced.

There are no companions around them.Instead, they have become a minority, and no one will obey their orders.

However, they did not admit defeat.

Extremely abnormal... They seemed to have gone crazy, and they all chose more dangerous and radical strategies.

—to destroy other people's lives along with it, and make them lose everything too.

It's like a green grasshopper turning into a yellow locust.

That is a choice that no matter what the final result is, they will not get any benefits, and they will definitely not end well.

And the scary thing is that they began to become unprecedented "unity".They are like zombies whose brains have been mothed out, with only hatred and jealousy in their minds, trying to drag people down like water ghosts.

They started smashing down the factories in the Lower Town, creating a shortage of supplies in the Upper Town.

That was something that the uncoded people would try to avoid when they were fighting each other.Even when the angels slaughtered the uncoded, they carefully avoided those factories.

The sky above the island is already crowded, and these fully automated unmanned chemical factories piled up in the lower city are the key to maintaining the normal operation of the entire Happy Island.And they destroyed these factories, not for any appeal, nor for threats—just for destruction.

By the time the executive realized what they were doing, they had destroyed close to a third of the factory.

With the support of Delphinium and Xia, the new head of the executive department "Zhan" ordered the lifting of all fire restrictions, and signed his first "permit to kill"-a total of 500 killing certificates.All of them were deprived of their citizenship, and although the chip was not removed, they became "uncoded".

All the genuine prosthetic bodies they used were remote-restricted and unusable; everyone's location was accurately marked on the tactical map of the executive department.

However, after the executive department arrived in the lower city, they did not flee the scene and fight guerrillas with the executive department.Instead, they continued to destroy the factory with all their strength... as if they were not crazy civilians, but agents with special missions.

As if they were infected with some virus, the pupils of these people turned an almost dark golden color.In the middle of the night exudes a sense of threat like a wolf.

However, the executive department still had to worry about the factory, and did not change its thinking immediately.This prevented them from launching a coverage attack on those "lunatics" at the first contact.

Nor did they turn back to attack the Executive at all.

Instead, after they dispersed, they continued to destroy the factory.Until they died, they just hoped to drag more people down.

It is like the people who killed red-eyed people at the end of the Shariah War - they refused to accept the order "the war is over", but continued to launch attacks to completely destroy themselves.

In the end, when the 510 people were all killed, not a single person in the executive department died.

But the extent of the factory being destroyed has expanded from one-third to more than half.

Half of the factories were paralyzed and almost completely destroyed—this directly led to a serious shortage of supplies in all areas except Tianen District.Even in Tianen District, a large number of shops have been forced to close... because they can no longer obtain intermediate processed products and finished products from aboveground enterprises in other regions.

Even the inexhaustible "food" is in short supply for the first time.

A large number of factories that synthesized food were destroyed, and the price of pork and chicken in the market was even twenty times that of beef.Eggs, milk, wheat, fruit and most vegetables are all out of stock.

The only vegetables that can be bought normally are potatoes and carrots, and the only meat that can be bought at normal prices is beef and duck.Condiments such as onions, garlic, parsley, and basil leaves are completely out of stock, and beverages such as cola are also out of stock.Flour was five times more expensive, and bread three times more expensive than an equal weight of beef.

And this directly led to the shutdown of a large number of factories producing intermediate products because they could not get raw materials.This directly led to the idling of the assembly line of the factory that took these intermediate products for finishing, so it could only be forced to stop.

One after another, restaurants and convenience stores closed because they could not buy materials, and one company after another announced an indefinite shutdown.People wandered in the streets in confusion, not knowing where they were going.

Hate and anger, fear and confusion—

Those black things have begun to proliferate unstoppably.

Chapter 33 What the Delphinium Cares About

After that, people who were able to look at everything calmly gradually began to go crazy.

Although they were able to examine all this objectively before and understand that it was all just rumors, conspiracies, and carnivals of people with ulterior motives, when those real destructions covered his life, he couldn't continue to maintain rationality.

No one can stay sane when they are actually victims themselves.

Although those people were wiped out, the plague of hatred has begun to spread.

The culprit is dead, and it is impossible to pull it out and kill it again.So people looked back at the company—not just Tianen Group, but all companies.

Even relief societies, including mercenary organizations.It also includes everyone's former enemies, those who they dislike or feel jealous of - when they are idle, they start to "revenge".

Sky Island is becoming more and more chaotic day by day, and order is collapsing day by day.From a certain day on, murders on the street could no longer be news on Tianen Daily, and the company's executive department became more and more ruthless.Now, even if they don't have a "permission to kill" and they haven't received a notice of extermination at all, they have begun to kill without hesitation.

The church stepped in at this time.

Their angle is tricky - when people attack the company, they are silent; but when the executive department comes to kill, they start to stop.And at the same time, as the executive department, the ignorance and the horns who belong to the church are caught in the middle... They can only try their best to mediate this meaningless "war" that everyone will regret for it.

But in an evacuation not long ago, the horn was attacked and scratched on the face by a girl who was only five or six years old.

She was hugged by her mom, and both had hate on their faces.And her father rushed to the front of the crowd, yelling at the executive department with his neck stuck.

Then, the gunshots rang out.

People fled amid screams, and some people mixed in with them killed several executive departments.And the man who rushed to the front was directly torn apart by bullets.

That shrill "Dad—"

It became a nightmare of horns.

Because of this, he never healed the scar.Instead, let it grow into a scar.

But now, those lunatics are acting even crazier.

They began to attack the rebuilding mechanism-you must know that if those demons get out of trouble, they will be the first to die.

"So stupid...and so crazy."

Delphinium murmured softly.

She was rarely angry.

It's not that she has a good temper and is gentle—in fact, Delphinium has a cold personality.Unless it is needed for performance, she will calmly show a business smile.Otherwise, she usually only shows a gentle and harmless appearance in front of relatives and friends.

The reason Delphinium doesn't get angry is because she's rational enough.

She knew that getting angry would have no meaning other than hurting her body, and it would not have any positive effect on changing the situation.

So the usual things that make her unhappy, at most, will only make her face... Solve the problem in a more rational way, with a more ruthless result, and a more thorough way.

She used to think that she would never get angry.

But now Delphinium fully realizes that she wasn't angry before, just because those trivial things haven't really touched what she cares about.

The rebuilding mechanism is one of the most important things for Delphinium.It is basically second only to the parents and Russell, about the same level as the Help Society, and a little higher than the Tower of Babel.