the next day.The 1st floor of the base, Area 4.

"Am I not mistaken? The boss is designing a... woman?"

An Li poked his head out, stared at the girl on Xu Chaomu's screen, and let out an exaggerated cry.The voice was so loud that it spread over half of District 4.

Everyone's gazes gathered here curiously.

Xu Chaomu raised his eyebrows a little impatiently, looked around, suppressed those gazes one by one, then looked at Anli, and twitched the corners of his lips expressionlessly: "Anli, you know I'm gay. What you should care about is you Your own personal safety, not this woman."

Anli was caught off guard by his words, and shrugged embarrassingly: "Forgive me, the boss still loves your job..." He didn't dare to admit it, and he was mildly homophobic.

Xu Chaomu obviously already knew this.

He shook his head knowingly, and continued to concentrate on the matter at hand.

As the designer and person in charge of the entire large system, Xu Chaomu hasn't specially made a certain person's image for a long time. The reason why he took the time to make "Ye Xiaorou" is because of Ye Wenxuan's last wish in the email.

He has always wanted to have a close sister.

Well, he makes it happen for him.

A week ago, Ye Wenxuan's No. 1 Earth Core Ark, carrying more than 6000 people, sank from the crater in the east of the base, hoping to stay in the warm underground and temporarily avoid the heavy snow of the doomsday.Unfortunately, they miscalculated the depth of the liquid layer. After the ark entered the formation, it failed to reach the next energy intake point, and was completely destroyed by the underground pressure due to the exhaustion of fuel.

Of the more than [-] people, none of them survived.

A light in the hearts of the rest of the people also went out.

Xu Chaomu took a deep breath, and carefully adjusted the character parameters of "Ye Xiaorou" according to Ye Wenxuan's description in his suicide letter.

Z was silent in the earphones for a long time, and suddenly asked in a magnetic voice:

"I checked the meaning of gay, it means homosexuality, do you only like human beings?"

Since people have been speaking to Z as if it were a human being, its perception of gender seems to be bizarrely skewed at times.

Xu Chaomu hooked his lips and corrected: "No, human beings are not of one gender... Gender only exists between living things. Normally, it is divided into male and female."

"...Okay. So, I don't have a gender."

Z dragged out his tone in disappointment.Of course it knows that it does not belong to the category of "biological".

Xu Chaomu couldn't help smiling.

After a while.

"Xu Chaomu." Z called his name, and whispered a message: "The leader has something to ask for you."

"Okay, I see." He paused, saved the current work progress, stood up, and walked out the door.

There are twelve elevators on the first floor of the base, and each elevator can go directly to the underground.

Xu Zhaomu nodded to several colleagues walking out of the elevator, then entered the elevator and went down.

Z has automatically adjusted his destination.

Soon to see the great leader, even he unconsciously became a little more solemn.

When the elevator door slid open, Xu Zhaomu looked at the mirror in the elevator, smoothed his cuffs and collar, and straightened the thin blue ribbon tied around his right wrist.

"Your appearance is already perfect." Z said.

Xu Chaomu paused, raised his head slightly, and squinted at the flashing red camera above the elevator: "Don't allocate too much memory to run such trivial things."

Z replied innocently: "Okay."

Xu Chaomu took a deep breath through the tip of his nose, got out of the elevator, walked outside, past the neat and clean red slogans in the corridor, and walked towards the leader's office.

The great leader, formerly known as Xie Jingming, is the supreme commander of the base.He has decision-making power over everyone and is responsible for deciding any matter in the base.

In fact, his decision is related to the survival of the entire human group.

He seldom appears in front of people, except for important things that will be announced in the central square, he communicates with other people through video conferences.

Xu Chaomu had just arrived at the base not long ago when he met the great leader for the first time.

At that time, the heavy snow had not yet reached the equator, but there were very few human beings left.When the base was built, there were already dead bodies all over the snow field.The leader urgently summoned Xu Chaomu and ordered him to run a simulation of [-] human survival paths in the large system "Homeland".

It is a pity that when the final result was presented, people knew the black future that was about to come to them——

The vast majority of these [-] roads are dead ends.

Only in twelve of these ways did people have a slightly greater chance of survival than zero.

Twelve out of [-] is better than zero.

At this point, the great leader decided to concentrate his manpower to attack the twelve roads.

He will always remember that day——

In the wide central square of the doomsday base, the great leader stood on the high platform, frowning, with a resolute expression, a straight spine, and a deep voice spread to every corner:

"...Everyone, obey the order and don't resist."

"Yes!" Everyone responded in unison.

The great leader's gaze was like a torch, and he read out every name on the roster aloud:

"Ye Wenxuan, Liu Luojun, Lin Xingnan...the Earth Core Ark."

"Qi Xiaofeng, Qi Xiaoyu, Ning Dechang... Gene Ark."

"Wu Yu, Li Nanfei...---Deep Sea Ark."

"Xiao Yi, Gu Xingyu, Zhang Chong... Starship Ark."

……

As the voice fell, the core members of each ark stepped onto the high platform one after another.

The great leader took out thin blue ribbons from his arms, and tied them on everyone's right wrists with his own hands.

Then, he was also called by name.

"Xu Chaomu, Lin Xu, Anli, Jarvis...——Black Box Ark."

Xu Chaomu took a deep breath, and stood on the small high platform with Lin Xu and the others.At that time, he was very close to the great leader, so close that he could see the deep lines of Sichuan characters between his eyebrows just by raising his eyes a little.

In all the portraits and digital images, the Great Leader is always frowning.

Xu Chaomu lowered his head and stretched out his right fist towards him, with the palm facing up.

The great leader gently wrapped an ordinary blue ribbon around his right wrist, and then tightly tied a knot that could not be untied.

This is a ritual unique to the end.

The great leader said in a deep voice: "I entrust you with the heavy responsibility of the rise and fall of mankind. Please remember that from now on, you are the hope of all mankind and hold the key to the continuation of human life.

"—we may be running to another grave, but we will never surrender."

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"...we may be running to another grave, but we will never surrender."

Xu Chaomu caressed the blue ribbon on his right wrist and recited these words silently.

Then, he pursed his lips and closed the door in his memory.

Yes, the ship bound for the doomsday that he finally boarded was called the Black Box Ark.

"Maybe, I will be able to touch you soon." Z said.

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