【Shining】Fallen

Enkidu walked forward slowly, with peaceful steps, wearing a well-washed white shirt and black cloak, the colors were cold and contrasted sharply.His long hair is light green, his pupils are like the most exquisite glass, and he always walks in such a leisurely manner, even with a smile on his lips, it makes people feel unapproachable, with a look that is incompatible with the whole narrow room. A sense of alienation.

The riot/chaos of the previous night was quickly suppressed, and there are broken windows and debris all around. The dark blood will soon disappear under the cleaning machine. The scavengers are busy working, and no one will care about them burying the corpse or sent directly to protein feed processing plants.After a while, the place will return to silence and tranquility.In fact, none of the rebellions in the narrow space lasted more than an hour. The violence is not worth mentioning under the absolute power of the state apparatus.

His hearing was very good, and from a distance, he heard the priest's loud voice of chanting.

There was a wide square there, but most of the buildings had been torn apart in the brutality of last night, and a large crowd had gathered in the square, with two people standing in the center of the crowd.They surrounded the cleared space, and the atmosphere was quiet and peaceful.

He heard the preacher drawling.

"May God bless you—

"Today, gathered in the presence of God, in the holy square for your public solemn wedding—"

Enkidu approached them and smelled the fragrance of flowers—they must have been sold by Ida's family. Her house was the only one in the Strelitzia district that sold flowers.

He stopped, found a place anywhere and sat down.

"I would like to ask you here before the most high, most holy, most loving and most pure God: Are you willing to marry the bride sincerely, obey God's commandments in the Bible, and live a godly life with her for the rest of your life?"

Among the ruins, the groom nodded.He is a middle-aged man with ragged clothes, an ugly scar on his neck, and an abnormal curvature of his spine. He must be used to hunching his back on weekdays, and he is trying his best to stand upright at this moment.

The pastor asked again: "Bride, are you willing to marry the groom sincerely, obey God's commandments in the Bible, and live godly with him for the rest of your life?"

The bride has an ordinary appearance and a strong body, about half a head taller than the groom next to her.Hearing the pastor's question, she nodded and showed a candid smile.

"Then," the pastor announced loudly, "May God bless you, and the witnesses of all may become the evidence of your eternal vows. May you love each other from now on and never be apart!"

The crowd held the venue and began to applaud, whistles and songs sang for the new couple at the same time. Someone dragged out an old pyrotechnic launcher from nowhere, covered their ears and wiped the fire, and it exploded loudly. The sky rang, they laughed and shouted wantonly, and the white pigeons were frightened by the crowd, fluttering in the air, hiding in the leaves and watching the lively crowd.

"God bless you!" they shouted with laughter.

Even the world is about to be destroyed, yet they still believe in God.

The gunshots exploded the night before, and all the bloodshed seemed to have disappeared. More and more people joined the celebration of the crowd. A white dove ran into Enkidu's chest in a panic, hiding in his arms and shivering. , he bent his arm and gently stroked the white dove, and couldn't help smiling.

Is there a god on this day?Is this god watching the world?

He wondered with detached indifference, if he had, even now, in the face of the situation, would he have shown mercy to the impending destruction, lowered the ark, and let millions of Life saved from annihilation?Or sighing and sympathizing, watching their deaths indifferently, labeling "the dead have received God's punishment because they didn't believe in me devoutly enough", and continue to water His living believers?

The hilarity exploded beside him one after another. He hugged the white pigeon and sat quietly among the crowd.

Many light and urgent rolling sounds sounded muffled.

Enkidu blinked, and the pigeon in his arms shook its wings vigilantly.

He heard the slight impact of metal hidden in the deafening singing, like a muzzle collision, and the mechanical rollers gurgled across the ground, scattered and surrounded the entire square.

Soon, several neat rows of automatic beam gun racks were erected beside the square. The muzzles of the guns were aligned inward, and the black pressure reflected cold light in the sun.

The amplified voice of the manager of No. 302 sounded from the broadcast loudspeaker, shaking every corner of the square.

"According to the "α-162 Planet Law", during a special period, illegal and unreasonable gatherings in each area shall not exceed 150 people. At present, the number of life signs in Strelitzia Square has exceeded [-]. Please disperse yourself, otherwise the government will take coercive measures .to repeat, according to..."

The crowd was quiet for a while, and under the majestic almost mechanical voice, some indiscernible emotions spread.

Some people stopped beating the drums and retreated quietly, some looked around and wavered, and some got closer.The bride pushed aside the crowd, holding flowers in her hands.

"Today is my wedding," she said, "I don't think there is anything wrong with it. Is it illegal to hold a wedding before death? Besides, if I obey the law today, the government is willing to put us in the escape ark ?”

The groom timidly stood up, beside his ordinary-looking wife, he held his breath and straightened up for her.

"No, that's right..." he stammered, "We... had a wedding, surrounded by our friends... there's nothing wrong with that, it's not an illegal unreasonable crowd... I, we won't Scatter..."

"If the executives and managers still feel that our behavior is illegal," the bride said calmly to the broadcaster, protecting the groom behind her strong body, "then please arrest us according to the law—when everyone When they are all in prison, the big shots in the Tianji District can take the ark with peace of mind—they still have as many planets as the entire universe to choose from."

The crowd laughed unceremoniously.

The laughter grew louder, and even the rocky face of the bride, in her ill-fitting borrowed wedding dress, relaxed a little, scorning the heretics like a cassock.

The administrator of No. 302 nestled comfortably in the chair of the jurisdiction, manipulating the small automatic shooting machines to set up the guns in unison.

"It's a pity." He sighed feignedly, and the radio broadcast his regrets at the right time, "I don't want special times, special regulations, but who made you born in a narrow space, who made you give up your citizenship rights Woolen cloth?"

What does it mean to have no citizenship?The most basic point is that all normally born babies will be implanted with chips, through genetic modification to avoid certain annoying genetic diseases and infectious diseases, and even receive important government notifications directly in the brain.However, the number of non-citizens in the narrow space is too large, and the ancient broadcasting technology has to be used to make announcements.

Now that the responsibility of broadcasting has been fulfilled, citizenship is not so important.

The manager shrugged his shoulders and pressed the light screen.

"—that can only begin."

"call out--!"

Dozens of automatic beam machines make the first attack at the same time. Unlike traditional metal heat weapons, beam guns are very quiet and only make a small "swoosh" sound at the moment of firing. The automatic beam machines are more intelligent. Through remote control, chase and remove all identified creatures, so that the person who gave the command to shoot does not even need to see blood.

It was very quiet, except for the screams of the corpse and the sound of falling heavily, there was not even any uncomfortable sound of flesh and blood being broken during the whole murder process.

The first one to fall was the bride. She was holding a bouquet and fell straight on the hard stone brick, her forehead was pierced.

Then came the groom, the pastor, the man who laughed, the child who stole the candy, the old man who had no time to escape...

All, all creatures, under the methodical shooting of the automatic beam machine, run away, scream, grab a flower basket and attack... a slight "咻", like a child blowing an unskilled whistle, continuously and accurately shoot Kill the crowd.

Enkidu sat on the stone steps, and the white dove flew away in a hurry the moment the beam gun was erected. He turned his head slightly, and a beam of light passed dangerously across his cheek.

Man and machine were fighting, swearing, screaming, and staged a farce of throwing pebbles at stones beyond their limits, but he was still sitting calmly, his glass-like pupils reflecting the battle in front of him.

As if, to him, a wedding was the same as a scuffle.

For some reason, not a single human being, not a single machine, attacked him, and neither side would consider him an enemy, even in the most dangerous struggles.What an abnormal scene, in the chaos, he was the only one, leaving everyone behind as if the space had been cut.

This had no effect on Enkidu. He looked at the tragedy in front of him, and he didn't care why the people who should be detained according to the law were slaughtered, and he didn't care whether the fleeing people could survive. He only noticed that the fragrance of flowers disappeared. Suddenly, the pungent smell of rust covered the entire square, and the scene became one-sided.

There were not even pigeons in the gray sky.

He began to feel a faint emptiness, stood up and prepared to leave.

At this moment, he glanced casually, just a glance—this glance made him stand still on the spot—

Is there a god on this day?If there is, it must be watching him at this time——

He saw the blond man again, looking at the square with his lips pursed slightly, his hands crossed and his head held high, his eyes mixed with a slight haughty pity.

He faced him from a distance across the chaotic crowd, gunshots mixed with screams, roses were crushed with blood, and the huge sunset half-sinked into the horizon.

Enkidu held his breath.

They met in the square where the Holy Marriage was held.