abyss rose

They hugged, they kissed, they confessed in the deserted ruins, and fell in love in the end of no one witnessing.

They were not able to live in a stable age, and it was too late to meet each other before the world was destroyed.

The old doctor in the dungeon is right. Before human beings are truly free, everyone is in a cage.

If you can't escape, then you won't escape.

The black vine flowers along the way are guiding them, and the shimmering light is dyed in the color of fog, and they are heading into the distance.

Cities in the old world are huge, and this road is destined to be very long, but Chai Yuening hopes that it will be longer and endless.

On both sides covered with dust, the writing on the signboard of the old world street shop is still faintly visible.

They walked in this dilapidated area, but it seemed that they had traveled through more than 50 years, traveling together in the brightly lit streets of the old world.

If it hadn't been covered by black vines or invaded by alien beasts, it would definitely be a beautiful city.

However, Chai Yuening could feel countless pairs of eyes watching them in the thick fog.

These eyes hidden in the dark made this city that no longer belonged to humans look even more desolate.

After all, it has become a piece of the past, a relic of history.

Young people who grew up in this cruel era can only hear the beauty of this world from the mouths of the older generation, and when those old people die, these beauty will disappear forever with their memories.

People will only be able to read the distant past left by this world in some fragmented chapters and fragments.

Such a dilapidated world always makes people feel extremely lonely.

But such loneliness gradually calmed down Chai Yuening's heart.

People always have concerns, and she has a lot of concerns in this world, but she gradually understands one thing, the coming of the end is like a pair of invisible hands, it pushes everyone forward, and some people will fall On the way, some people will chase despair to the end.

Everyone she cares about has their own destiny, and they have to walk the road under their feet by themselves.

She is not a savior. In the face of life and death, she may not even be able to save herself.

But she thought, at least she could accompany Chu Ci.

In this last journey, the surviving humans will support each other, and the scholars at the base have the truth they are seeking to support their beliefs, but Chu Ci is alone in her life, and no one cares about her likes and sorrows.

She couldn't let Chu Ci sink into the fog alone, like a drowning person sinking into the deep sea, with no one to rescue him.

What will be the fate of mankind?What about their fate?

No one can tell them the answer, but if this is the end, at least they can face it together.

After that, life and death are up to God, she doesn't care anymore.

She left a bullet for herself anyway.

In the worst case, she could also die as a human.

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"The thirteen mercenary team, I took it from my father."

"Uncle Xiang is the old Xiang in the team. He was my father's teammate during his lifetime. After my father died, all the members of the team dispersed, and only he remained. He taught me how to practice guns and how to fight. I went to the ground... Do you know why? He said he was ashamed of my father. Didn’t my parents all die at the hands of the mutated brothers in the team? Lao Xiang is a very sensitive person, in fact, he is somewhat aware of that person Something was wrong, but he lied to himself that he had just been quarantined and was emotionally unstable, so he didn’t need to take it too seriously. He always felt that if he had been more careful back then, my parents would not have died at the hands of mutants , he felt that he owed me a lot..."

"But I never blamed him. On the contrary, I have always regarded him as my relative for so many years."

"Everyone in this world has joys, sorrows and sorrows. How can a person pay attention to other people's emotions at any time when he is alive, and read danger signals in them? He is a survivor syndrome, just like everyone fleeing from Districts [-], [-], and [-]." District, when I finally went to the main city, I obviously didn’t hurt anyone, but I couldn’t help but blame myself in my heart, thinking that if I was strong enough, all this would not have happened.”

"He actually blamed himself for that year, like an old father, took care of me for more than ten years, and continued my father's mercenary team with me. Ken lets himself rest, and every time there is danger, he insists on following with his old bones..."

At this point, Chai Yuening couldn't help sighing: "Sometimes I really think, when I have money, I must find a good place to live for the rest of his life, don't take risks with me anymore, mercenaries are risking their lives Yes, it is a blessing to live to this age, a good person with such a great blessing, don't die in the mouth of the strange beast."

Chu Ci said seriously: "He will be fine."

Chai Yuening nodded and continued the conversation.

"Du Xia doesn't talk much on weekdays, and Lian Dong's temperament is also quiet. As for me, when I'm not doing anything, I want to lie flat. Before Lu Qi came to the team, I was always the team's favorite. A person who chatters about things. Later when Lu Qi came, that little brat was very noisy. Since the day he came to the team, he always quarreled with the old man. The old and the young, one doesn’t love the young, the other doesn’t respect the old, and no one will let him go Who, it made the team a lot more lively."

"We have all heard about his sister, and we want to persuade him, but when he mentions it occasionally, he always has a dark face and can't listen to anything. He is in his 20s and has always been a child at heart. , can’t understand the difficulties of others, and also doesn’t understand that some people will have inescapable responsibilities when they live, and they are destined to do things they can’t help themselves. Fortunately, he finally understood that the stable life of most people is the sacrifice of a small number of people What I got in exchange for my own safety is just the price of growth, which is often accompanied by loss."

"Many times fate is like this. Some people don't know how to cherish when they are there, and they regret it when they are gone."

Chai Yuening: "It's like... just like the day I left Floating Void City for the first time, I was in the car, through the window, watching you disappear from my sight bit by bit... Fortunately, I found back to you."

Chu Ci replied in a low voice: "I thought you would come back, but I didn't expect it to be so soon."

Chai Yuening pursed her lips: "I'm afraid that if I slow down, I will miss you forever."

She said, smiled, and changed the subject again.

"Later, there was a Boss You in the Seventh District. I had a bad temper with her, and we couldn't talk together, but we couldn't always avoid things related to money. Every time, Lian Dong went to discuss business with her. " Chai Yuening said, "The time I took you to District [-] was the first time I had a private conversation with her. I thought she was a mercenary, but I still made a little extra request with unrealistic thoughts. , I didn’t expect that she would really satisfy me.”

"After that, everyone's relationship seemed to be different... Before I got to know her, I never thought that Boss You, whom no one dared to mess with in District [-], would be such a lively person."

As Chai Yuening spoke, she couldn't help but sigh with emotion: "The fate between people is really amazing, I don't think... I told you how Du Xia and Liandong met, did I?"

Chu Ci nodded: "I never said that."

"They were originally members of two different mercenary teams. During a cooperative mission, they were attacked by a small herd of beasts. After a hard fight, they were the only ones among the twenty or so who survived."

"When Lao Xiang and I met them, Lonicera's legs were bloody. We only did a simple bandage to stop the bleeding, but the blood couldn't stop at all. Du Xia, who was also covered in blood, carried her on his back. In the fog, the sky was dark Liang, one step at a time, bloody footprints, she walked all night, her strength is not strong, every step is very slow, but she just didn't let go of the burden on her back."

"Later I asked her, if she carries someone on her back like this, she will escape very slowly, so is she not afraid of death?"

"Guess how Du Xia replied to me?"

Chu Ci shook his head, Chai Yuening took a deep breath, and said: "She said, she didn't think about it so much, it's not terrible to escape slowly, what's terrible is that she left the last of her kind and conscience, but still If she will die in that night mist, then she may not even be a person when she dies."

Chu Ci: "Like Luo Kun?"

"Maybe, but I think there's nothing wrong with being selfish in that situation. It's an instinct to want to live. It's a foolish act to want to protect others even if you can't protect yourself." Chai Yuening said, "But you have to admit, Sometimes God favors stupid children, stupid people are stupid luck, they all survived, two people who lost almost everything because of a disaster, became each other's best friends and deepest reliance."

As Chai Yuening spoke, she couldn't help laughing and said, "Actually, we are very similar to them. The night I met you, I was also a fool... But if I were smarter on that day, I would climb up with Luo Kun and be about to leave Our cockpit, I died in that fog."

She stared at Chu Ci, who tilted his head with a smile in his eyes.

"If there is no if, you are such a person. No matter how many times you are asked to re-elect, you will make the same choice."

There is such a person in this world, no matter how the world treats her, no matter how clearly she sees the selfishness and ugliness of human nature, she has the greatest tolerance and understanding for human beings, and always believes that this world is as good as herself. There are still many people with kind thoughts.

Because of this, Chai Yuening never gave up on her in any crisis.

It is precisely because of this that they have come together to this day, walking together in the vast fog that cannot be seen far away.

Chai Yuening kept talking about some past memories like when she first met Chu Ci, but she was not afraid of the embarrassment of the atmosphere, nor was she afraid that all this was a nightmare from which she could not wake up.

She just wanted to say more of what she hadn't had time to say during this journey, so that Chu Ci could understand her better and the world better.

After all, this may be the last long road they will walk together.

It's a pity that her life is not long, and it is impossible for her to say everything in the limited time like this.

In this seemingly endless fog, there are flowers that have changed the whole world.

Chai Yuening saw it from afar, but didn't know how to describe its appearance.

This is the mother flower that breeds the ecology of the black vine, and it is different from all the black vine flowers that humans have seen.

Closer, closer again.

They were able to get a glimpse of it, and it seemed to be alive. The giant vines that could not be blown by the wind bent slowly, and the petals swayed as if they wanted to push through the thick fog, looking at the person beside her.

It was born strangely and coquettishly, with purple halos in the stamens, and fleshy petals blooming outwards, each of which looked like the long dark red tongue of a giant beast, with dense fine hairs.

It was so huge that even the biggest giant beast she had ever seen seemed insignificant in front of it, and the slowly flowing red light energy smudged the surrounding mist.

I don't know where its rhizome spread, but it must be vast and fertile.

To it, human beings are as insignificant as ants, and the closer they get, the more they can feel the oppression coming from their faces.

This flower that bloomed from the abyss of [-] meters is in full bloom in the ruins of the old world that no one cares about, carrying the most powerful vitality in the world.

It is as tall as a skyscraper, with a huge flower body, and the unusually thick vines even knocked down the buildings next to it. The main vine is like a entrenched python, with countless branches extending in all directions, hooking all the places that can be attached, like Like a radioactive virus, disaster blooms in this desolate land.

If you can go under it, it must be enough to cover the sky and block out the sun.

Chai Yuening stared at it blankly, and unconsciously clenched Chu Ci's palm.

Until this moment, she was still very reluctant, and still selfishly felt worthless for Chu Ci.

Even if the base of mankind is falling, the last pure land is about to be destroyed, and the fate of mankind is coming to an end, she still feels that all this is not worth it to Chu Ci.

But Chu Ci's eyes were extremely firm.

Chu Ci is such a person, he will not hesitate to do what he decides.

"I'm going back." Chu Ci said softly, it was a farewell, without tears, but full of reluctance, "The rest of the road, I really have to go by myself."

Chu Ci was right, there was no way ahead.

Where the ecological mother flower grows, the earth collapses into a cliff, and looking down, there is only a boundless dark abyss, which is a gap that human beings cannot cross.

Chai Yuening sent Chu Ci here, and the road she can walk has come to an end.

She clenched Chu Ci's hands tightly, and then slowly, slowly let her go.

Under Chai Yuening's gaze, Chu Ci walked towards the abyss step by step.

She has something to say, but she feels that today, there is no difference between saying a lot and not saying it.

She thought that Chai Yuening should understand that she didn't hate this world.

For the last time, she turned around for the last time, looked back at where Chai Yuening was standing, bent her eyebrows, and smiled slightly at Chai Yuening. The huge female flower was behind her, as if a god was overlooking the world.

She slowly closed her eyes, leaned back, and drifted downward like fallen leaves.

The sky has been covered by thick fog for too long.

In the last dusk, she could not see the sunset glow.

A wind blows away the fog in the distance, and a tiny inch of skylight shines into this barren city ruins.

Like the moment when the night is ending—

All the joys and sorrows in the world rang heavily the morning bell that had been silent for more than half a century.

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It ends tomorrow, love you guys.