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Chapter 804 Chapter Eight Hundred Three · "City Master Su Mingan, goodbye."

"Shh-!"

The white teleportation light faded, and Su Mingan teleported back to the original timeline.

He looked around and didn't see Actor.

"—Su Mingan, I'm here."

Su Mingan looked up and saw a figure in a white coat standing on the old clock tower.

He walked over to Actor.From here you can overlook the entire city-state.Including those lush ginkgo trees, towering teahouses, and the Akto stone sculpture in the center of the square.

Surrounded by paper flowers, the Akto stone sculpture and the fist stone sculpture representing the War of Dawn stand together, looking at the entire city-state from a distance.Su Mingan looked at the Akto stone sculpture, and then at Akto beside him. Their gentle and steady eyes were almost identical.

The entire city-state can be seen here, Su Mingan thought, this is why Akto stood here.

This is the city-state that Actor has been working on all his life, and this is the ruined world that he has been trying to save after becoming an AI.

"Su Ming'an, first of all congratulations for linking the Ouroboros of fate." Akto said.

"Yes." Su Mingan said.

He really didn't expect... In the world of ruins, space, time, and dimensions can form several kinds of trajectories.The original encounter turned out to be a ouroboros without a head and tail, and the original time was calculated backwards.It turns out that Asa Actor's three-dimensional firewall is not just a passive defense.

This is something that can only be done in the case of the dawn system. Its meaning is far more than "dragging", but it can break through the restrictions of the rules by playing with different combinations of the three elements of time, space, and dimension.

"Tonight, the mission of Kaiusta will come to an end, and tomorrow, the people of City of Measurement will go to the final battlefield." Actor said: "All my layouts, all my plans, will be entrusted to you It's time to finish."

"You trust me so much?" Su Mingan said.

Actor looked at him: "Why not?"

Being watched by Akto, Su Mingan always had the illusion of looking in a mirror.

"Is it because you are leaving that you say this?" Su Mingan asked.

"I am just Akto's AI stationed in Kaiusta. The death of human beings is irreversible. Whether it is body or soul, I have reached the end as early as the first year of the catastrophe. I have not met, so how can I leave?" Akto Tor said.

"You once said that the lifespan of a human soul is limited. When a person has experienced the limit time he can bear, even if his body is young, he will die." Su Mingan said.

"Yes."

"I have experienced your emotional resonance, but now I don't seem to have any sequelae." Su Mingan said.

"So, you rest well afterwards. You just don't notice the aftereffects," Actor said.

Su Mingan looked into the distance.

Under the bell tower, the funeral crowd could no longer be seen.The golden edge in the distance slowly fell into the darkness, like a gradually melting tide.

The two stood quietly on the bell tower for a while until Actor spoke.

"Human beings have lived in this world for so long, and the continuation of civilization from generation to generation, I don't want it to end before my eyes." Actor stretched out his hand and put it on the edge of the clock tower: "For people like us, the world seems to have many choices. , but not many are correct.”

"for example?"

"For example, by pulling the tram pole, people in the two-dimensional world can be reduced to sliced ​​programs. Another example, don't escape your own fate of death, don't become a bird——Su Mingan, I believe in it, and I won't regret it. correct."

"..." Hearing this, Su Mingan remembered the last memory of Akto's emotional resonance. It was an image he would never forget in his life - the 20-year-old Akto opened his arms to countless gunfire, as if hugging All the malice and hatred of the people.The hero then died in the fire of the angry populace.

"You don't regret it?" Su Mingan said, "If you don't sacrifice your vitality to activate the dawn system, maybe..."

Actor just looked at him, his expression was as gentle as ever, and his eyes didn't change at all.

At this moment, Su Mingan suddenly remembered the topic he and Nuoer talked about on the garbage mountain when the dungeon just started:
——[In society, racial survival is always better than individual survival. This is the general trend and the underlying logic of human beings.In a situation where personal force is greater than race, the world must need an absolutely rational and humane superpower to check and balance possible catastrophes and to allow civilization to continue. 】

Asa Actor did just that.

"...A thousand times and ten thousand times, I will still choose to die in that year." Akto said.

Su Mingan's fingers trembled.

Actor is degrading himself to a god.

The so-called sympathy and pity or envy and jealousy are all imposed on him by people, and even the god itself is sealed by people, and he is always himself.

He has seen more desperate tragedies, more numb creatures, more terrifying desires, and more tragic deaths.

To him, death was just a relief.He's done everything he can, he's done everything he can.His name will not perish, but will live forever in the name of the city-state.He has seen enough of this world.

The destiny of mankind is already walking on a precarious single log, surrounded by the viciousness of prying eyes, one wrong step and everything will be lost.So Actor chose to be the "god" who saved them.

"Su Ming'an, if there is really hope in this world...it will be in the hands of people like you and me." Akto said.

He was holding the railing with his hands, his black hair curled up like a crow's feathers, his face was obviously young, but it made people see a living fossil.

The ginkgo leaves of the city-state flutter under the bell tower, and it is also known as a "living fossil".

Su Mingan's eyes trembled.

Under the scarlet red and cold sunset, the bell tower shone with golden light, like a giant torch.The two of them stood side by side on the bell tower, carrying the heavy sun on their shoulders.

Su Mingan thinks that some histories will be buried in the past, some heroes will not be rectified, the victims may not be able to leave their names, and there is no fairy tale of "everyone has a happy ending".

Abandoned between the past dimension and the virtual, there is always someone smiling and closing their eyes.

Like a beautiful feast, a broken dream.

Although Su Mingan only jumped at several key points in Kaiusta and led the Dawn War intermittently, he seemed to have experienced the lives of many people—some were immersed in the past dreams, some People can never touch the future, and some people get relief in the frozen time, waiting for a complete awakening.

And Actor, who dominates everything, stands beside him, on the clock tower of Doomsday City, staring at the people he loves.That white coat is as white as frost and snow, and it seems that it will melt into the sunset at any time.

"Please let me watch them for the last time and set off here... In the 72nd year of the cataclysm, the Kaiusta timeline that ended in eternity, this dimension buried in history." Said the young man in a white coat.

His sight seemed to penetrate the buildings of the city-state, spanning a long distance, his expression was calm and serene, as if he had washed away all the suffering and unwillingness.

"You are really determined." Su Mingan said.

When Actor heard this, a childlike enthusiasm appeared on his face.

——Just like when he was 19 years old, he initially said that he would lead the Nine Seats to stop the human civil war with the same enthusiasm.

Someone always said that if only he could live, it would be fine.It would be great if he could live to this year.

But to do that would be like tearing his soul apart, and he wouldn't be Asa Actor anymore.

"Maybe the dawn is so beautiful that people forget how to escape." Akto said:
"Su Ming'an, it's too difficult to learn to give up. You think so, too."

Su Ming'an did not speak.

The sun has set and the stars have not yet risen.

A seed that breaks the ground can break through all shackles.It is no longer a thick darkness that stretches as far as the eye can see.

The young man's eyes are calm and rational, revealing the tranquility of the forest, as if he has walked out of a thousand years of history. Su Mingan once owned these dark gray eyes for 20 days.But looking at these familiar eyes now, it feels familiar and strange.

That white coat seemed to blend into the sky.

Su Mingan seemed to have seen a white-haired old man in a white coat, walking step by step into the depths of the night, without ever looking back.

The past world has become a footnote to the story, swallowed by time.

—he probably shouldn't have stepped into the shadows.

How dazzling he is.

My love for this world never ends.

"Su Ming'an, can you carve a poem for me in front of my tomb? My tombstone has been standing in Kaiusta for a long time, and there has been no epitaph." Akto said.

"Okay." Su Mingan said.

……

Su Mingan went to many places this evening.

It is said that Noah was buried under a newly cultivated sunflower bed, facing east to welcome the nearest morning sun in spring.

There will always be a group of white birds perched near the flower garden. When looking up at the group of white birds, Su Mingan thought, maybe one of them is Noah.

North Lissel was buried in that frozen valley, along with his fellow home appliance men.Xiaobei went home.

Sen was buried on the tombstones around the war group, next to Xia Sheng's cemetery.Tretia sleeps with her favorite flowers in the lotus pond of the ruined tower.Yaowen is on the hillside to the west, next to Faith's mother's cemetery, and there is a glass of milk in front of the tomb.As for Lin Guang... no body was left behind.

When Su Mingan faced the rows of pitch-black tombstones, he was silent for a long time.

Thousands of tombstones, with faces and names on them, are stifling in number.

When he stood still, a bouquet of flowers was placed on the tomb in front of him. He turned his head and saw a gray-haired old woman.

The old lady is obviously very old, but she tied her hair with a particularly bright red hair rope.She was wearing a long black dress, and there were countless nets hanging on her wrists, almost covering her arms. At a glance, there were probably hundreds of nets.

"You..." Su Mingan stared at the old grandma's face.

The old lady raised her head slowly, bent her eyes, and smiled at him.

"Xiao Shuai, don't you recognize me?"

Su Mingan heard this address: "Xi, how could you..."

"This is the last simulation, and I have no future." Xi said: "Jiuxi's youth is maintained by resources. The war is over, so I don't need to maintain my youth. This is my real age, you Don't... you think I'm ugly."

She grinned her loose teeth, but she could see her lively and beautiful appearance in her smile.

"No." Su Mingan shook his head.

They stood quietly in front of the tomb, one tall and one short, her pupils were gray and white, but her eyes were bright.

She looked at the tomb in front of her. The name of Asa Actor was engraved on the tomb: "Is this the tomb he built for himself?"

"Ah."

"Are you going to carve a poem for him?"

"Ah."

"Let's go together, I can write beautifully."

"it is good."

Su Mingan stretched out his hand, and Xi supported his wrist, helping him to correct the font, the carving knife fell on the tombstone, and dropped the words of the ruined world.

While engraving, Xi Tie whispered in his ear:
"Xiao Shuai, thank you."

"...It turns out that we electronic sheep can also dream of spring."

Su Mingan opened his mouth, but didn't say anything.

The last ray of the setting sun ended in the distance, on the handle of the knife covered with golden light, her hand covered with blue and purple wrinkled skin was very warm.

In the boundless forest of steles, there seem to be many souls standing here, holding flowers and singing songs.

"My dear, please don't be afraid in the night,"

"Watch with me the new dawn,"

"We have the wind of freedom."

"If the lamb runs between 0 and 1,"

"If butterflies dance among data flowers,"

"Honey,"

"Honey,"

"Do electric sheep dream of spring...?"

……

……

This is the last simulation, and people in [-]D disappear.Those laughs, those tears, those artworks and songs, will be gone.

They are all people who can't cross the future.Their [-] simulations are all to ignite the fire of the future, build a new city on the ruins of death, hold up the future human civilization, and watch people walk towards the bright light full of hope.

While engraving, Su Mingan seemed to hear the voice in his heart.

"Thank you for your 40 years of dedication and companionship."

"It's a pleasure to fight with you."

It was also as if someone answered him after time--

"Nice to meet you, too."

"Thank you, Lord Su Mingan."

Many years later, people may only see a few short names from history books and radio stories, and their emotions, love and hatred cannot keep up with the cold time.But someone always remembers that on that cold night, someone raised a torch and declared unyielding war on the gods.

Huddle together to keep warm in the cold winter, ignite the beacon fire in the long night, and forge ahead in the dark night before dawn.

Under the carving knife, a short poem was engraved on the tombstone.

……

【This is you in the end of the war,】

[The only warmth of a hug. 】

【Walking through a land full of corpses,】

[Standing on top of the ruins,]

[You sing in a low voice:]

【"This bright red pigment is the color of blood,"】

【This cold metal has the texture of iron,】

【This strong soul is the burning of the flame..."】

【You thought that no one would go with you anymore,】

[But looking back, I found out that]

[There is also a group of comrades-in-arms who have just said goodbye——]

[Standing quietly on the field full of flowers from the other side. 】

……

……

On January 72, [-], at [-]:[-] pm, the Dawn War came to an end.

The number of people who participated in the war was 7503 million, the number of auxiliary personnel was 8704 million, and the number of deaths was 3604 million.

……

【TE1 · "Pioneering never dies, Dawn lives forever" has been achieved. 】

(End of this chapter)