abyss rose

The night was very quiet, and the night wind poured into the side-opening hatch.

The human officer in the depths of the fog stared at the map in his hand, frowning, thinking about something.

The notes are old, and neither the paper nor the handwriting seem to be able to be forged.

The map of the old world can only be retrieved from the base database, and there are indeed not many people in the base who can retrieve these materials at any time.

If the notes are true, the map is given by the base, and the mark is from Yishu Yunquan, then the real mission of Chai Yuening and Chu Ci's trip is not to help Floating City locate the base in the fog area—they are going to find the ecological mother that Zhang Hanqing said flower.

"That's just the crazy talk of a madman." His reason would not allow him to believe these words.

But in fact, it is almost impossible for human beings to maintain sanity in such a world.

It was windy outside, Chai Yuening returned to the cockpit along the ladder, sat down and asked, "If we don't believe this, what else can we believe?"

"Do you want to believe that our weapons can resist the escalating beast tides again and again in the future?" Chai Yuening said, and unconsciously sighed, "After the destruction of the old world, people hid in In the desert, they hid in the sea. In order to escape danger, they even went to heaven and earth, but in the end? The desert and the ocean fell one after another. How long can you last?"

"If there is no hope, and if nothing can be changed by risking one's life, then..." Chai Yuening murmured to herself, "Why don't you go crazy for a while and believe that miracles will really happen?"

When she said these words, she couldn't believe it, and she didn't even know how to persuade the person in front of her.

"The world is so big, even if everything in the notes is true." Liu An asked, "With us alone, can we really find it?"

Chai Yuening froze for a moment, then looked at Chu Ci.

She saw Chu Ci looking at her quietly, with a glimmer of light in his eyes.

At that moment, Chai Yuening suddenly felt that the bewilderment and helplessness in his heart had faded a lot.

"In the early spring, the floating city lost contact with the dungeon. The floating city sent an exploration team across the foggy area to try to locate the location of the dungeon. As a result, the whole team lost contact completely." Chai Yuening paused for a while, and then encouraged Gathering up the courage, he continued: "And then I met her, on a day when I shouldn't have been on the ground, in a dangerous place I shouldn't have been—I met her."

At that time, she didn't know that the world was collapsing. She thought that after a growing season, everything would return to normal. She thought that as long as she worked hard to make money and contribute to the base, she would be eligible to live in the main city and live a good life. Better days than ever.

She should have been an ordinary person.

If she hadn't met Chu Ci, who was as ordinary as her, she might have died long ago.

Died in the night when they should have walked together until dawn, or died in the operating room of the six-zone ventilation system.

If you are lucky and live longer, you will probably die in a daze on the day the main city of the dungeon base falls.

She will never fly into the sky until she dies, she won't see the islands fall, she can't know how desperate changes are happening in this world, and she won't be struggling in despair, refusing to give up and move forward no matter what happens the sticklers.

But the fact is, the world is so big, she met her.

Just like every miracle she had ever seen, it was so accidental, yet it seemed inevitable, a meeting that was preordained in the dark.

"She was originally free, but she returned to the cage for me. I waited for a long time, as if for centuries, and finally I could take her to wander far away..." Chai Yuening frowned, feeling more and more relieved, "The world is so big It is so big that if human beings only use their legs, they will not be able to travel all over it in a lifetime, but two exiles can meet the foggy base, and a flying alien happens to carry them to the foggy base. The research results have been brought back to the Floating Void City."

Chai Yuening said: "The world is very big, but don't we meet all these seemingly impossible things?"

So what if the world is bigger?

Before the world destroys human beings, she is willing to believe in "there is no end to the sky" one last time.

In the cockpit of the fighter plane, there was a brief silence.

Chai Yuening was a little apprehensive, but did not urge her.

After an unknown amount of time, the person in the driver's seat sighed.

He said, then take a gamble, there is nothing to lose anyway.

The hatch of the cockpit was slowly raised and closed. Liu An turned around and said, "Then let's explore around here first, and then decide on the next destination."

The fighter plane flew into the air, and the fog lights illuminated the dark night.

They passed by the big black vine flower on the tall building.

Liu An joked with a smile: "You said, what kind of ecological mother flower that grows in the ten thousand-meter abyss, can run around with long legs? This big guy is not what we are looking for, right?"

Chu Ci looked back for a long time, until the black vine flower blooming in the night sky gradually faded out of his sight in the thick fog, and then quietly said: "No."

Chai Yuening always felt that she might have sensed something.

She brought the map to Chu Ci again, and tentatively said, "Will you choose the next target point?"

Chu Ci's outstretched fingers were hanging in the air, he hesitated for a long time, and finally tapped on one of them.

"Is it here?"

"do not know."

"You'll know when you go." Chai Yuening comforted softly, "It's okay to make mistakes, we still have a chance."

Chu Ci nodded, leaning on Chai Yuening's shoulder, and gently closed his eyes.

Human warplanes fly low in the city at a safe speed.

Time passed slowly, and they did not find a place that looked like a drilling project. The sky was still dark, and the fighter plane flew high into the sky again, heading towards another direction chosen by Chu Ci.

Flying at high altitude and at full speed, it only takes an hour or two to go from one city to another.

After reaching a new place, the plane flew low again, surveying the four sides of the city.

When the sky was getting brighter, the fighter plane flew to the third mark point with nothing.

After a sleepless night, fatigue welled up in his eyes, Liu An dropped the plane back to the ground, closed his eyes and fell asleep as if racing against time.

Chai Yuening saw that there was not much oil left on the oil gauge, and the remaining oil was enough to return to the floating city from here, but if they continued to search like this, they probably would not be able to return.

But the person who was sleeping deeply didn't mention half a word of worry before closing his eyes.

He really didn't seem to plan to go back, just like them, he had already made up his mind before he came out, if he couldn't find the ecological female flower, he would die in the fog zone together.

Chai Yuening couldn't help thinking, is the determination of human beings to die like this calm and turbulent?

Because at that moment, her heart was suddenly very confused.

She thought of the Chief Sheriff at the train station in District [-] whose name she had forgotten, the military/police officers who were still standing behind the wall in District [-] when it was slowly rising, and thought of a man who died and left only one for his relatives. man with a gun.

She thought, there are too many people in this world who stick to this world with their own flesh and blood, but will not leave their names.

She was suddenly curious, what happened to the dungeon base?

Has Youlan returned to District [-] to be her little boss?What kind of life are the teammates who haven't seen for a long time living now?Was the old doctor in the research institute in the main city overjoyed at the discovery of the inhibitor?

What happened to the floating city base?

Did the giant city land successfully?Is their firepower enough to survive the beast tide?How many will live and how many will die?

What about the fog zone base?

Is the degree of mutation of everyone there still stable?Has Mr. Shi's research made new benign progress along with the deterioration of the ecology, but it can't completely change the status quo?

Human beings are engaged in a battle with this world. I don't know where the power comes from. The more desperate we are, the more we have to roar out the unwillingness in our hearts.

Humans are really trying really hard to find their own way of life.

Perhaps it is also because of this that human civilization is so unique, irreplaceable, and even less replicable.

But where is the way out?

She closed her eyes and couldn't fall asleep no matter what, the more she tried to tell herself not to think about it, the more awake she was and it was difficult to fall asleep.

I don't know how long this deadly silence lasted, when she suddenly heard a very light movement beside her.

The hatch seemed to have been opened, but only by a tiny slit.

Something, like a long snake, slipped away quietly through the gap.

Chai Yuening opened her eyes, and there was an extra line of words on the map in hand.

——I can feel its existence now, thank you for sending me here, I will just walk the rest of the way by myself, you guys go back.

always like this……

I want to resist everything by myself.