abyss rose

The elevator went up to the seventeenth floor, Lu Qi naturally skipped Chai Yuening, and distributed the four room cards in his hand to everyone except Chu Ci.

Everyone who slept and woke up on the plane for more than ten hours, although they were basically not sleepy at the moment, they still said good night to each other energetically, and went back to their houses with their room cards.

Watching the four doors close one after another, but no one seemed to care which room her captain lived in, Chai Yuening couldn't help wondering if she had become a transparent person.

"Hey, are you ignoring me like this?"

Chai Yuening knocked on Lu Qi's door angrily and amusedly.

"Sister Chu Ci is the host, Captain, do you still have no place to sleep?"

Lu Qi's voice came from the room.

The reason is that it is true, but let me ask anyway, what if there are really only these four rooms, and everyone needs to discuss and allocate them?

Chai Yuening opened her mouth, and just about to say something, she saw Chu Ci lightly tug on her cuff.

"I live there." Chu Ci pointed to a room at the end of the corridor.

"Oh!" Chai Yuening responded, somewhat cautiously following behind her.

The houses in the main city of the floating city are obviously larger than those in the main city of the dungeon. Although they have one bedroom, one living room, one kitchen and one bathroom, the size and decoration grades are obviously different.

Swipe the card here to enter the door, and you can look up to a large living room. In the living room, there is a sofa and coffee table that take up quite a lot of space. On the wall opposite the sofa, there is a dark square sheet that can be used as a blurred mirror.

This thing is called a TV in the old world, and it is used to play images. She has seen it in books, and adults have also mentioned it.

I heard that the dungeon base produced a lot of TVs when it was established, but later the base experts agreed that such things were useless and energy-consuming. With the shutdown of the base, the existing TV signals were cut off, and the All of them became pieces of scrap iron one after another.

"This thing was discontinued more than ten years ago when I was born. I didn't expect you to still have it here."

With emotion, Chai Yuening turned and walked into the bedroom beside her.

In addition to the bed, this bedroom also has a separate wardrobe and a writing desk with a small bookshelf.

The chandelier above the head is in the shape of a flower, and the light purple curtains on the side of the floor also cover the small curved balcony surrounded by guardrails outside the glass door.

Chai Yuening pushed open the glass door to both sides, stepped forward a few steps, supported the wooden guardrail with both hands, and looked up at the starry night sky.

Perhaps Xingyue is too close, so close that she can touch it. She always feels that even the air here is free.

Chu Ci slowly followed Chai Yuening, and looked up at the sky with him.

Chai Yuening: "Isn't this a good place to live in Floating Void City?"

Chu Ci: "Yes."

Chai Yuening: "Do you usually live here?"

Chu Ci: "Yes."

Chai Yuening: "If the base needs it, someone will take you to the research institute?"

Chu Ci: "Yes."

Chai Yuening: "Is someone taking care of what you eat every day?"

Chu Ci: "Yes, but I told the doctor that they don't come here recently."

Chai Yuening "Then you..."

"How many days are you going to stay here?" Chu Ci suddenly interrupted Chai Yuening's question.

"Two or three days..." Chai Yuening responded casually.

In the past, she was the one who took Chu Ci to every place, but in the past few days, she was suddenly going to eat and drink with Chu Ci.

Thinking about it feels weird and embarrassing.

She turned to look at Chu Ci, and Chu Ci just looked away from the night sky and turned to look at her.

Their eyes met, and she seemed to see a fleeting loss in Chu Ci's eyes.

"Four or five days is fine." Chai Yuening corrected, "Actually, this place is pretty good, and I can live there for ten days and half a month. If there is a chance in the future, I will come to look for it..."

"Just five days." Chu Ci frowned, turned his head to look at the sky again, "The doctor wants me to show you around, but I don't know where I can take you."

"Don't be so troublesome, I'm not here to play anyway, I'm just here..." Chai Yuening paused for a moment, and then smiled indifferently, "You just let them play by themselves, I also Don't like running around, you know..."

"Yeah." Chu Ci nodded.

She looked up at the starry sky, and the warm yellow bedroom lamp cast behind her, shining on the fair half of her cheek through the wisps of wisps lifted by the wind from her temples.

Chai Yuening saw that the corners of her mouth were slightly raised, and her eyes seemed to reflect the stars in the night sky.

Chu Ci seemed very happy.

Chai Yuening thought, if she read correctly, Chu Ci should be happy at this moment.

After blowing the wind on the balcony for a while, Chai Yuening still didn't feel sleepy.

She went back to the house, and with the help of Chu Ci, she turned on the TV in the living room.

It was still broad daylight on the TV, and a female reporter with shoulder-length short hair was walking briskly in a large breeding farm, constantly talking about the recent breeding status of various species, and the production of hair, milk, and meat. What a great progress.

As we talked, we randomly pulled a breeder dressed in plain clothes to be interviewed.

The reporter smiled brightly, and the breeder smiled honestly. The conversations that came and went were full of words: "Life is getting better, and tomorrow will be better."

"Your base also does this?" Chai Yuening couldn't help laughing.

"Isn't it all the truth?" Chu Ci looked at Chai Yuening with a little puzzlement in his eyes.

"Well, it's indeed the truth." Chai Yuening said, leaning lazily on the sofa and sighing softly, "But these are the truths that the base wants everyone to hear, and other things that you don't want to be heard, basically there will be no chance of showing up .”

She knows that humanity needs hope.

The more hopeless days are, the more human beings need hope.

She still remembered the day when the old doctor in the research institute of the base was cut off from the interview the day she first entered the main city of the dungeon base.

She still remembers the days when the main city decided to blow up the outer city, and the base radio could only be filled with human's imagination of a better future.

But what about the fact?

Whether it was the military in the main city at that time or the researchers of the research institute, they were almost forced to collapse by the despair brought about by the disaster.

In fact, the floating city is not much better, right?

Chai Yuening couldn't help thinking this way.

The driver named Ye Qing, and Dr. Yi Shuyun, when they mentioned the ground ecology, they both had a faint helplessness and anxiety in their tone, and it could even be said to be panic.

Chai Yuening didn't quite understand the words about infection, mutation, and fusion, but from the mouths of those researchers, she could faintly sense the truth that a human base has been reluctant to tell people.

For humans, the world may indeed be slowly collapsing.

Or, it used to be slowly.

Today, such a collapse has begun to accelerate.

"Do you think this is wrong?"

A soft inquiry brought Chai Yuening, who was in deep thought, back to his senses.

She thought for a while, raised her arms high, stretched her waist, then slid her hands down and supported the back of her head: "I'm just an ordinary person, I live every day to earn a living, what right do I have to feel here and there?" ?”

People who are qualified to "feel" and make certain choices for human beings must have corresponding thoughts and responsibilities that must be borne.

"I, I just hope that I and the people around me can live longer... Let them say whatever the boss likes to say, listen to it when you have nothing to do, it's all for entertainment."

Chu Ci pursed his lips, and took a deep look at Chai Yuening, with some scrutiny in his eyes.

She said: "I thought that a person like you must be very concerned about the future of mankind."

Chai Yuening: "Why do you think so?"

Chu Ci: "You were not happy when the outer city fell."

Chai Yuening: "Such a scene, no one will be happy when they see it."

Chu Ci: "You are different."

Chai Yuening sat up straight in a daze.

"Why?" She looked at Chu Ci and asked curiously, "What's different?"

She couldn't understand why Chu Ci always thought she was different.

She is just an ordinary person, she can only run to a safe place when she encounters danger, and she has no way to save the person she wants to save.

"From the beginning to the end, I have been running and hiding. Even if I wanted to help, I didn't seem to be able to help. In the end, I depended on you..." Chai Yuening said.

She didn't understand that there were tens of thousands of great people worthy of admiration in this world, but she was just a mercenary who sold her life for money and had more experience in going to land than ordinary people, and she really couldn't even touch the hem of those people's clothes.

Why does Chu Ci always regard her so special?

"What are you talking about?" Chu Ci asked. "What I think is my business. What are you talking about? Are you trying to change my opinion?"

"I..." Chai Yuening opened her mouth, but found that she couldn't answer.

"You are so strange." Chu Ci muttered in a low voice, turning his head away.

For a moment, Chai Yuening could only laugh and cry.

This was the first time someone said she was weird, and she was a guy who had been weird since the first day she appeared.

In this way, the topic between Chai Yuening and Chu Ci stopped here.

She was stunned for a while before she realized that she seemed to have chatted to death again.

For a moment, she felt that she was wronged. It was not a good day to talk, so it must not be her problem alone.

She thought it was necessary for her to find a topic and turn the previous page.

So with a bewildered hand, he subconsciously pressed the remote control that was tilted on the sofa.

The picture on the TV suddenly became much brighter.

In the picture, two gray-haired old men embrace and kiss each other standing in front of a viewing platform in the floating city.

Many teenagers and middle-aged people, like children, scattered flowers, booed, and childishly blowing white bubbles with soapy water.

"Ms. Zhang, who is full of peaches and plums, is 78 years old today, and his wife is also 75 years old."

"When the old world was destroyed, their wedding was interrupted by the evacuation alarm. Not being able to give their lover a beautiful wedding is the greatest regret in Teacher Zhang's life."

"Today, with the help of the students, the old couple finally put on their wedding dress again, making up for the regrets of more than 50 years."

"They met each other in university, from the old world to the present, from the beginning of love to the old age together, and wrote the most beautiful love poem..."

"That's great." Chai Yuening couldn't help but sigh with emotion.

How many people are unable to spend their whole life with the one they love in such a healthy and peaceful way.

Chu Ci: "Is this a kiss?"

Chai Yuening: "Yes."

Chu Ci: "Wouldn't it be disgusting to do this?"

Chai Yuening: "Ah..."

"I don't know, I feel that if it's someone I like, it should be..." Chai Yuening replied uncertainly, "No way?"

"Have you tried it?" Chu Ci asked.

"I..." Chai Yuening said, "Hey, how can I have a chance to try?"

The ghost knows how many years she has been single, and she has never met... someone who looks at each other in this life?

For some reason, her mind froze for a moment.

After being dazed for a while, Chai Yuening unconsciously looked at Chu Ci.

Coincidentally, Chu Ci also looked at her quietly, his eyes were like torches, as if he was measuring something,

Seeing this kind of gaze made Chai Yuening feel a little guilty, and for a moment she didn't know where to hide her gaze.

After a while, she turned her head and looked back at the TV.

There was a faint "oh".

The corners of Chai Yuening's eyes twitched involuntarily.

baffling.

She thought so in her heart.

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