abyss rose

The afternoon sun pierced through the clouds and shone on the ruins where the final battle broke out.

No one has come here for a long time. This human base that used to float high in the sky has already been covered with the dust of the years in countless days and nights of deathly silence.

A cargo plane landed near the research institute, and a dozen researchers sorted out the materials and objects worth taking away in the dilapidated building.

The power system, which had been shut down for a long time, started up again, and Yi Shuyun stood in front of the gray operating table, exporting the wrong research data one by one.

"Are these still useful?" Ye Qing walked to Yi Shuyun, deliberately lowering his voice, "The past is gone, the energy of the black vines cannot be extracted, and the floating city will not be taken back. These things can be compared with death." Like the people who are here, they will sleep here forever... The mistakes made by the research institute can no longer be mentioned..."

"Tens of thousands of human experiments are true. During these 50 years of experiments, it is also true that the institute has killed people like hemp. Things should not be changed with the passage of an era. Future generations are entitled to know that this place once Everything that happened." Yi Shuyun said softly, "The crimes we have committed are a kind of wake-up call for them, and everything is worth remembering... Only by remembering clearly enough can we avoid repeating the same mistakes."

"No matter what future generations think of us, each of us should admit the mistakes we have made." She said, and couldn't help sighing, "If the staff of the secret research institute were willing to admit their mistakes, maybe human beings would not It's where it is today."

Ye Qing lowered his eyebrows for a moment and stopped talking.

The smell here is not good, filled with the sadness of an era gone.

The light shines into this dilapidated reference room through the broken glass windows. It illuminates the darkness and dampness here, and the light dust flies in the light, which is silent and extremely flamboyant.

She knew that Yi Shuyun never stopped blaming herself from the moment she came into contact with the human experiment.

In fact, not only Yi Shuyun, but other related researchers, as well as the military that has been guarding the human base, were tortured repeatedly by similar self-blame.

Many times, they can't tell whether they are saving people or killing people.

Research has proved that infection does not necessarily mutate. Those who are infected want to survive, but in the end they die under the cold iron law.

Everyone knew that human experiments at the base were no different from killing people, and none of those who signed the agreement who entered the laboratory's experimental operating room could come out alive.

The so-called voluntary devotion is more like selling one's own life, which is not much left, in exchange for better living conditions for the family in the future.

Because of this, there are quite a few people who have been "sold" directly to the research institute to sign the agreement after being given up by their family members over the years. As long as the family members force them to sign the agreement, these people are "voluntary".

They will cry, feel pain and be afraid, and when their bodies change, they will have emotional breakdowns.All this is like a small thorn after another, challenging the upper limit of every witness.

But Yi Shuyun gradually became numb in her eyes, his emotions and anger seemed to be sealed away, and he would never return to the night when he hugged his knees and cried bitterly in front of her.

How many people with a soft heart have used self-blame to build an iron wall called "atonement"—to imprison themselves and protect their hearts.

Everything is over, can people who are trapped by self-blame still live for themselves?

"Doctor..." Ye Qing whispered.

"Huh?" Yi Shuyun turned around and took a look.

The dust was too heavy under the light, she squinted her eyes and waved her hands, but couldn't see the tears flickering in Ye Qing's eyes.

Yi Shuyun: "Don't just stand there and do nothing, go to the next door to see what's not broken, you can bring it back to the dungeon."

Ye Qing nodded in response, turned around and ran out of the dilapidated reference room.

The returning cargo plane was flying in the clouds, the sky that people who grew up in the Floating Void City were most familiar with, but they could never go back to.

But the survivors don't feel sad because they know too well that the sky doesn't belong to them.

Maybe it's too cold at high places, and people's hearts will be colder.

The ground is pretty good. People in the old world live on the ground. Even though the world is vast, there are still human homes everywhere.

Unlike them, some of them hid in the sky, and some of them hid underground. Many of them never really returned to the ground until they died.

The world after the boundless thick fog dissipates is strange to human beings but full of infinite hope.

The era of chaos and disorder has passed, and an era of order has come.

The past laws no longer exist, all research has been restarted, and every new discovery makes the human being as a whole feel extremely happy.

Time moves forward unhurriedly. People who were expelled by ecology finally returned to the ground and built a brand new home on a piece of wasteland.

A venerable old man passed away, and the first tombstone was erected on the unfinished ground base, and countless people presented freshly planted flowers to it.

Yi Shuyun took over the "New World Species Overview" that he could not finish compiling before he left.

She no longer conducts any human-related experiments and research, and concentrates on the characteristics and habits of species in the New World.

The world is so big, and it will be an extremely long process to study so many brand-new species, but the exploration of the unknown is endless.

"People in the old world believe that one day human beings will fly away from the earth, fly out of the galaxy, and sail into the vast universe." Yi Shuyun said, "I used to think that all this was a joke, that human civilization would be filtered through the Great But now I kind of believe that we have survived the darkest hour and have a future with infinite possibilities... Although I will never see that day, I can do something for That day comes and lays the foundation stone."

Re-understanding this world that has become strange is the cornerstone of human sailing towards a bright future.

As Yi Shuyun said, he turned and looked at Ye Qing.

This girl has been following her since she was an adult, and more than ten years have passed in a blink of an eye. She is in her thirties, and she has always followed her by her side as before.

"Life is much more stable now than before, haven't you ever thought about starting a family?" Yi Shuyun asked casually, and as soon as he finished speaking, a kind of unreasonable embarrassment swept over his whole body.

Ye Qing tilted his head, and asked back: "Isn't the doctor always alone?"

"I'm getting old, what do I think about those..."

"I'm not old, the doctor has always been the doctor in my heart." Ye Qing smiled, "I don't have a family, the doctor is my home... As I said at the beginning, I will follow the doctor all my life."

There was an indescribable stubbornness in her tone: "If you say a lifetime, it's a lifetime."

Yi Shuyun's eyes froze for a moment, and a smile couldn't help but rise in his eyes.

At that time, the sun was shining brightly, and it seemed to be able to dispel all the haze.

Ye Qing once again saw the smile that had long since dissipated in the years, memory and reality overlapped in tears at that moment.

She waited until the recovery of all things.