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The rain that lasted for several days stopped at two o'clock in the morning. Whenever the rainstorm first stopped, the smog was temporarily knocked to the ground, and the visibility over the city made people feel that time was going backwards, just like going back to before the explosion of those atomic bombs—— Not to mention the stars, the air is still not fresh, but at least, there is a moon hanging high above the sharp corner of the building, and you can see the outline of the cool color.

Lu Ting was not asleep yet.He returned to Aldebaran, and together with Dun Mochi, pulled his mothership back to its fixed orbit over the prison, and resumed its six-hour parade around the Central District.Compared with the arrests of the previous days, the actions of the two suddenly became much more free - the police force is no longer enough, everything is in chaos, the president is dead but the government is still there, no matter whether it is the upper class or the lower class, people are pouring into the street from their homes , Those who protested and marched all the way, and those who besieged government office buildings needed manpower to maintain order.

At the same time, the parliament also held an emergency meeting in the middle of the night. Whether it was the transit of Venus or the prophecy of doomsday, countless versions of interpretations spread among the people within a few hours. "alarmist" argument, but after all, it is difficult to act as if nothing happened. The Bureau of Immigration - now renamed the "Space Affairs Security Agency" - organized a team of experts to calculate intensively, taking into account the expansion of the sun and the deformation of the orbit of Venus due to wormholes. Inside, it is confirmed that the time of the initial Lingshi outer cut is about 13:13 capital time, and the Lingzhong outer cut will end around 19:20.

This conclusion was announced at 02:30 in the morning, that is to say, if the prophecy is true, the time left for all mankind is less than twelve hours.

Lu Ting and Deng Mochi lay on the big round sponge bed and read the news together.

"Are you sure?" Lu Ting lightly clasped Deng Mochi's wrist, "They are coming after such a long time."

Deng Mochi's bangs that had just been blown dry slightly curled up, he nodded, and there was no emotion in his sleepy eyes, as if all he saw was the weather forecast for this day.

"We can't sit still like this." Lu Ting sat up straight and looked sideways. "Now the logic is complete. The correctors assigned tasks, but humans did not complete them according to their requirements. Think about Maya, they waved their hands, The entire civilization just disappeared. I don't think the correctors came all the way just to drop by."

"They can come whenever they want." Dun Mochi said, "Our door is open, but theirs is not."

"That is to say, they can come to us without going through wormholes? But we can't enter their world."

"Correct."

Lu Ting rubbed the corners of his eyes, he didn't want to look discouraged, but now it seems that the fact is that the way to destroy the wormhole is also blocked.When this idea popped up, he should have thought that it would be too simple for him to confront a character like the "creator". ?Ignoring factors such as transportation time and technological limitations, even if all human beings work together to send the firepower of the whole world to the edge of the orbit of Venus to meet the wormhole, can it be destroyed like a continent?

Deng Mochi stayed with him for a while, then suddenly said: "After dawn, accompany me to Xingu Hospital."

"R179... It's time for us to see him," Lu Ting was still in a daze. "He's recovering well. Last time I was arrested and brought home, my sister showed me his treatment log. The video he recorded."

"En." Deng Mochi pulled him back to the bed.

"Boss, I—" Lu Ting's head was dizzy.He still wanted to do something, but it seemed like there was nothing he could do.The enemy is powerful and unknown, but the earth seems to have been stripped of the atmosphere, exposing every inch of the land to the malicious rays from the universe.

Deng Mochi covered his mouth, "I want to sleep," he pressed Lu Ting into his arms, and said, "You stay with me."

Lu Ting took a deep breath, and his breath touched the warmth of Deng Mochi's palm.Dun Mochi was thinking about something, but he didn't want to say it, he understood.Deng Mochi needed his company, he said twice and hugged him so tightly, he also understood, so he relaxed his muscles and bones docilely, and sank himself into Deng Mochi's arms.

Soon Lu Ting felt calm, even relieved.Aldebaran has cut off all communication channels, because Deng Mochi was unwilling, and Lucy intercepted all invitations from the government, media, and research institutions.No one can rush in and have a chat with the so-called "weird" or "son of God" in every mouth, and the two of them can enjoy this peace to themselves.

There are more than ten hours left, which is very long. Lu Ting soaked in this strange tenderness, and it seems that he no longer needs to count down nervously - even if everything disappears after waking up, including life and structure in front of his eyes In this world, he doesn't care about it anymore.He also had a doomsday night, spending every second in his arms with his lover.

However, when he really greeted his sobriety after dawn, the situation was not as optimistic as Lu Ting thought.In the early ten o'clock in the morning, the two arrived at the entrance of Xingu Hospital.This luxury sanatorium suspended above the volcanic lake has been open to the public for nearly a day, and the halls and corridors are crowded with citizens queuing up for registration. There were too many riots in the city last night, and they are still going on now, with countless injuries. patient awaiting treatment.Lu Ting passed through the bleeding crowd, and also saw a person lying on the emergency bed with burns all over his body, being hurriedly pushed into the emergency elevator.

Almost every pair of eyes was chasing them, to be exact, the focus was Deng Mochi.No one in this world seems to be able to forget his face, "Is your kind finally coming to pick you up?" "Please disappear from our planet!" "Shouldn't you do something!" The more angry you shout, the more debris you throw at you, medicine bottles, disposable plastic cups filled with hot tea, tangled gauze... When people are in despair, they tend to feel wronged, and once they feel wronged, they like to smash order something.

Deng Mochi didn't respond, and he didn't hide, as if he was tired of using his abilities, so the miracle of the previous day didn't reappear.And what Lu Ting can do is to protect him in front of him and rush forward, even though there are not a lot of rags and curses thrown at him.In the eyes of everyone, he and Dun Mochi were almost one, and he had also inherited his father's mistakes, so he could not escape the guilt long ago.

The remaining private wards in the hospital are still a little clean, and Lu Zhi is waiting at the elevator entrance.It was a long way to go to the ward of R179, but the three of them didn't speak. When they reached the door of the ward, Deng Mochi knocked on the door, and was about to step in, but turned his head at the door.

He saw Lu Ting was hesitating.

"I won't go in," Lu Ting said, "I'm not in a good condition right now, I don't know what I'm going to say, don't scare the child."

He laughed again: "You two haven't seen each other for a long time, it's good to talk alone."

Deng Mochi didn't pull him any more, went into the room by mistake, and closed the door gently.

"Lu An is also on this floor, do you want to take a look?" Lu Zhi asked softly.

"are you awake?"

"Can't speak, but is very conscious."

"I'm not going." Lu Ting didn't hesitate.

"You still think it's your fault." Lu Zhi stuffed it into the pocket of her white coat and leaned against the white wall by the door.

"What?" Lu Ting frowned, "I don't know how to deal with it. I don't know about this kid or Lu An. They probably don't want to see me, so just hide. Cowardly Just hide, haven't I always been like this?"

"The kid didn't blame you, nor did he blame his brother. We didn't show him the news yesterday, so he is very simple now, just happy." Lu Zhi leaned her face on the edge of the door glass and looked in lightly. Look, "It's good to meet for the last time and talk."

Lu Ting looked over the broken hair on top of her head and landed on Deng Mochi. R179 is in good spirits. Although one leg is empty, both hands are waving in the air, and his lips are opened and closed enthusiastically. He must have a stomach full of words to say. Deng Mochi sat on the edge of the bed, quietly Listen, your eyes are much softer than when you are in the corridor.

The haze layer in the air had not yet gathered again, and the sun fell on their shoulders. For a few moments, Deng Mochi was almost smiling.

But no matter how infatuated Lu Ting was, no matter how engrossed he was, he failed to take that step after all.He brushed off the shreds of gauze from the smash just now from his shoulders, and leaned against the other side of the door just like Lu Zhi.

"Do you blame me, sister," he said.

"I just hope you live well, Lulu, from the time you couldn't stand still and asked me to walk, until now, all I hope is this one thing. Now you are with him, no matter what happens next What, I know that your regrets will be less than that of being separated from him, so I will be happy for you, you are very brave, and did not let my mistakes ferment," Lu Zhi seemed to have been waiting for him to ask, and also I just thought about the answer, and when I got to this point, I suddenly smiled, "So why would I blame you, it would be fine if you didn't blame my sister."

Lu Ting was stunned for a short moment, and went to hug her. He was no longer a child, and hugged his sister tightly like a man, "I don't blame, I really don't." He held back his tears, Hearing Lu Zhi crying again, he patted her on the back one after another.

This has not happened for a long time, and whether it will be the last time, they are all thinking.

Deng Mochi stayed in the ward for more than 40 minutes. When he came out, R179 was lying on the bed safely, tucked into the quilt, and fell asleep.Deng Mochi didn't explain this, and he didn't have any requirements for what he was going to do next. He just silently stood beside Lu Ting and followed Lu Zhi, neither fast nor slow, and kept side by side with him.

Lu Zhi invited the two of them to have a meal in the staff restaurant of the hospital. It was a buffet. The dishes that day seemed like they were going to die. Not only were there beef and fish, lobsters that are rare in the market, but there were also colorful vegetables and an assortment of fruits. If you can't open a meal, then simply use up all the good stocks.Human beings are surprisingly quick to come to terms with their own demise—when they are truly at a loss.The intellectuals in the hospital are all reserved and polite, and so is their despair. They will not go out to the streets to make a scene, crying and crying for themselves, but no one will rush out to challenge the "God", run Go into space and push Venus away from its transit.In the silent countdown of the countdown, everyone in the hall was eating, took a lot, and chewed a lot, and exchanged the previous savings for this last gluttony, but they all said very little.

Of course, it’s not that there are no jokes at all. A few people are making fun of the ex-president’s astonishing quotations, saying that this time they are also scaring people before they die. self comfort.Lu Zhi smiled wryly when he heard it, while Lu Ting peeled his head and pretended not to hear. Only Deng Mochi remained unmoved, he was still quiet, and he dealt with every plate of food that Lu Ting chose for him very cooperatively, and took it by himself. Only one peach came back.

He put it last, with its pink and fluffy skin, and ate it bite by bite. He wiped the peach pit clean and stuffed it into Lu Ting's hand.

"I lost the previous one." He looked at Lu Ting's red eyes.

"So shouldn't you put this one away?" Lu Ting smiled and pushed his finger.

Deng Mochi refused to pick it up, and insisted: "You help me put it away."

He was as confident as if he had something big to do right now.

When we left Xingu Hospital, many people were already waiting outside.There was less than an hour left in that heavy moment, and the ground below and the top of the buildings in the special zone were crowded with people looking up. LastShadow is driving slowly, the shadows pass by the crowds of people in the city, and go around various areas of the capital, from the garbage dump in the fourth district to the "Chorus" dance hall where they used to dance, every time they pass by, Lu Ting is inextricably aroused Of course, Deng Mochi had the same state of mind as him, but in the end he didn't go back in the direction of Aldebaran.

He parked the spaceship at Lu's house, the center of the capital, the brightest and busiest mansion in the past, but now it is empty, and the big glass ball on the top has not been repaired in time.

Then, instead of turning off the engine of the spaceship, he opened the hatch on the left side and let Lu Ting go down.

It was 13:09, less than three hundred seconds left before "that moment".

Lu Ting did as he did, but he seemed to be holding his breath tightly, and when Deng Mochi jumped out of the spaceship behind him and stood on the plastic ground of the airport, he suddenly grabbed Deng Mochi's hand tightly. hand.

"Is there anything you want to tell me?" Clenching every finger, he raised his face and stared at Dun Mochi and asked.

"We can't see Venus transiting the sun." Dun Mo didn't break free, and led him to the edge of the airport, and sat with him on the edge of the hollowed-out floor, overlooking the city in full swing.

You can also look up at the sky, the sun is hanging there, and there is no abnormality yet.

It's 13:12.

"Boss, don't tell me riddles." Lu Ting murmured, before the words fell, he had answers to what he didn't understand. The sky darkened in an instant, but it was completely different from night. It is the dense fog floating high in the sky, gray and yellow, with shadows flowing in it. It has the color of a sandstorm, heavier than the texture of a sandstorm, and it seems to grow out of thin air. In a very short time, it fills the blue and white sky. .

However, the city that was plunged into darkness didn't even have time to light up the lights, shouting from far and near, just like the cry from the land itself, Lu Ting's vision became blurred in the gloom, "Is this 'they'? Are they coming? "

Dun Mochi nodded, and went back to the cabin to take out his laptop, and the news that would not be broadcast on the news soon came in one after another.The government reacted quickly and sent a large number of detectors up. The ascent process has been normal, but as long as it comes into contact with the height of the dense fog—about the top of the troposphere, 17-18 kilometers above the ground, it will never return. No signal can be transmitted to the ground.

At the same time, most of the satellites have also lost contact, and some radio stations and networks have problems at the same time. The cloud images of the very few satellites that have been successfully sent back show that dense fog is invading the atmosphere in an all-round way, and the gap is gradually narrowing. Occupy, those gray-yellow colors are growing crazily and spreading, and there will always be a certain moment when it will surround the earth and completely wrap it inside.

The agreed spectacle happened outside, but no one could see it.On the other hand, the earth is soaked in a cloud of fog. Whether it disappears or not, will it remain unknown?

"The oxygen content in the air is decreasing," Deng Mochi recalled another set of data, "They don't need to come down to kill people."

Lu Ting stared at the percentage, the black screen, the red words, the numbers after the decimal point were decreasing at a constant speed, and with the value before the decimal point falling, it was about to fall below 16%.

"Are they... just trying to drain the atmosphere?" he asked.

"It can be understood that those unknown substances have the ability to absorb oxygen." Deng Mochi raised his head and looked at the sky with such a cold gaze, "Don't worry about what kind of substance it is, what its structure is, and what its nature is. It's nothing. It's just what they defined Function."

"The earth is also a disk. This is the custom program they... inserted for us, isn't it?" Lu Ting hugged Deng Mochi's computer, the equation had already been written, and he made a calculation based on the existing data , After about three hours, the oxygen content in the air will drop to 8%.

This is the oxygen content in the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau area, and it is also the limit that humans can bear.

Deng Mochi looked at the calculation result and nodded.In less than two hours, the oxygen content drops below the 3% mark, and even acetylene, one of the gases that requires the least amount of oxygen to burn, will no longer be able to produce violent oxidation reactions.

In other words, by that time, the earth will no longer be able to ignite a fire.No one can escape, all things return to rest, and human beings are just one of all things.

The corrector originally wanted to destroy everything on this planet, reshuffle the cards, and start from scratch.So, human beings have been classified as abandoned people?God's hands are really efficient, rigorous, and silent.

Lu Ting stared straight at the chaos of the world in front of him, the alarm bells were ringing, crying everywhere, and people were moving chaotically under the futile artificial lights, as if they were going through a fire drill all over the world.And he was watching, no, of course he wasn't a bystander.He is also in this world that is about to be strangled.Before he knew it, one-tenth of the six hours had passed, and he really couldn't say that what he saw didn't look like hell.

Deng Mochi was still like a gust of wind, wrapping around him with a cool and clean temperature.

"This is the end of the world." Deng Mochi said.

"You already knew, didn't you?" Lu Ting put down the computer and looked at him with wide eyes, "Since last night, all you have done is say goodbye!"

"Don't you know?" Deng Mochi asked back.

"...I know," Lu Ting was stunned, "I just don't have anything to ask. On the last day, I will die with you, that's enough for me."

"You'll be fine. This is the strongest building in the capital." Deng Mochi took the hand he was holding on his wrist, stood up, and looked down at him intently: "I'm leaving too."

"Where are you going? Are you going up?" Lu Ting jumped up and shouted instinctively.

"Yes. Drive them away." Deng Mochi said it as it should be.

Lu Ting was dumbfounded for a moment, that's right, that's the word, "You think you can beat them."

"Maybe it's persuasion. Always try." Fortunately, Deng Mochi was still standing where he was, as if to explain patiently.

"It's useless to send more people and weapons. The propaganda plan proposed by the Security Bureau is also completely nonsense," he continued, "I am the only one who can have contact with them."

"So you're going to save people."

"I'm not obliged to save anyone," Deng Mochi was still concentrating, trying to remember, looking at every trace of pain on Lu Ting's face, "but I like this place. I need it to continue to exist."

Lu Ting felt dizzy, he propped himself up, and met Deng Mochi's gaze, the faint green color made his spine chill, but it was indeed, so beautiful.

Gems in the desert appeared in his mind.

"I'll go up with you." He threw his embrace into it.At this moment, he wishes he was a net.

But Deng Mochi was not the fish he caught in his net, "That's asking for death."

"Then you can be sure that if you go up by yourself, you won't die. You promise me."

"I'm sure if I don't go, everyone will die."

Lu Ting suddenly lost his strength, his arms were drawn away, and the fishing net turned into a mess of clueless threads. He gasped for suffocating air, and took out the cigarette case from his trouser pocket. He hadn't smoked for a long time, and the cigarette was damp. He didn't even know, but fortunately, he could barely ignite it, so Lu Ting bit one of them fiercely, and smoked messily.He felt that Dun Mochi was too cruel, and now he seemed to be an enemy of everything, because he wanted Dun Mochi to live, even if he had to go to the end, he would be with him.This is an extravagant request now, everyone, all life, even this planet that can be called the mother, is letting Deng Mochi take risks and die alone.

But Deng Mochi accepted it happily, and even put him and such a heavy thing on both sides of the balance.He actually asked him to compare like this.

How can he compare to it?

"You know what I'm thinking now," Lu Ting choked up, holding back the sour tears in his eyes, "You can feel it!"

"I can feel it all over the world." Deng Mochi took Lu Ting's cigarette and smoked deeply, "Everyone is crying."

"Is it necessary to go?"

Deng Mochi nodded and handed the cigarette back to him.

Lu Ting trembled with his fingers, almost crushing the tobacco rod. The oxygen content was still dropping, and it only knew how to drop, as if it couldn't resist at all, but it was a bully, forcing Lu Ting to suffocate.Just at the edge of the airport, there is an abyss made of reinforced concrete under your feet. It is too easy to take a step back, and the fall will be over once, but Lu Ting stood up straight: "You said, you will never lie to me."

"It still holds true now."

Lu Ting waved away the smoke that blocked his eyes, and looked at Deng Mochi with all his strength: "Then let me ask you, if you leave, will you come back?"

"No guarantee." Really honest.

But Lu Ting could no longer speak. Deng Mochi looked at him sadly, closed his eyes again, and when he opened them again, he said in an extremely objective but also extremely gentle tone: "I have come a long way today. , It is the result of many people's calculations. There are many mutations, and few of them are my own decisions. Today's decision is completely made by myself." When you are too gentle, people can't tell what it is. It's not sad, "Lu Ting, I want you to understand that I used to think that I didn't belong anywhere and had nothing to do with anyone. I just watched them die, but you are here, I have nothing to do with this world. It doesn't matter."

"It's beautiful and worthy of my sacrifice." He slowly raised his hand and touched Lu Ting's face with his fingertips, cherishing it as if touching a piece of snow that was about to melt. "I've got a lot."

"So you want to say that you have no regrets?" Lu Ting was clearly about to cry, but suddenly broke into a smile.

He threw up his hands, as if admitting defeat.

"But I have regrets." Immediately afterwards, he rushed ahead of Dun Mochi, and said with a smile, "I always wanted to finish smoking the same cigarette with you, you take a sip, then I take a sip, and see who ends up smoking it in the end Lie. We're going to kiss after smoking, stinky, dry mouth, until we can't breathe."

As he said that, he threw the half-remained cigarette in his hand down the cliff of the high-rise building: "Sorry, there is no chance for this one. Let's open another one when you come back?"

Deng Mochi narrowed his eyes: "You still have a lot of regrets."

"Yeah, many, many, most of them are also about you, only you can make up for it," Lu Ting patted him on the shoulder, and brushed along the collar of his jacket, just like in old movies, the wife gives the husband the expedition, "I only said the lightest one. Isn't that enough?"

"enough."

"So you have to come back." Lu Ting pulled out the dagger from the back of his waist, grabbed the end of the hair on the back of his neck, and cut off a handful, "Take it. If you don't come back, it will accompany you, count it as my little one." Partly. If I stay here, I must die, but I am not with you, it is different. So even if you are about to fail and you are at the end, you have to use all you can do and abandon any responsibility , selfish and desperate to come back to me. I will always wait for you. But I believe you will succeed."

Deng Mochi carefully put the tuft of soft hair into the inner pocket of the jacket, and pulled the zipper to death.

Then he hugged Lu Ting.

Lu Ting didn't respond to Lu Ting's anxious and rapid breathing, "I won't kiss you until I come back to you." He held Lu Ting's waist tightly and said softly.

This sentence is like a thorny vine entangled in the heart, so cruel and lingering - Lu Ting couldn't believe it was Deng Mochi who said it.Just like when he watched LastShadow fade away from his sight, he still couldn't believe that Deng Mochi really left.What the hell is he doing?The signs had already existed. Deng Mochi's decision was not impulsive. Every word, every look, every inch of body temperature in a hug was saying goodbye to him.And he can't do anything, he is too ordinary, in the face of the disaster from the sky, he is no different from the people running around on the ground, he can only watch the parting happen.The forced composure is all fake, and the glass that was forced to stand shattered in his own hands, piercing every inch of his skin with blood. Deng Mochi and him are getting farther and farther away, and what they are going to is the inhuman who can swallow everything The land... Lu Ting felt that he could not be weak, he was the one who shrank back and was protected by his favorite person with his life, what right did he have to cry?He wanted to shout, saying that he was willing to put his own life on the line, so that God could hear him, but God didn't want it!

When he watched the spaceship disappear into the dense fog, and even with the far-sighted goggles on, his poor eyesight could no longer catch the last phantom, Lu Ting's tears finally fell, and the first-rate flowed all over his face.