Little Mushroom

"Don't go gentle into that good night—"

An Zhe and Ke Lin were walking in a long and narrow white corridor, and there was the sound of reading aloud in unison, a very immature voice, and when they gathered together, there was a vague echo around them.

This is the sixth floor of the Garden of Eden. A man in his 30s, named Lin Zuo, led them in. He was wearing a white shirt and a pair of thin gold-rimmed glasses. He looked gentle and elegant.

The two of them were brought to the office, Lin Zuo said, "Is it okay here?"

Colin said: "Very good."

Lin Zuo said, "The conditions in the main city are better than those in the outer city."

An Zhe realized it.At least when he was in the outer city, he never thought that there are such huge buildings as the Garden of Eden in the world.

In this corridor, excluding the office, there are a total of ten rooms, five of which are classrooms, and the other five are dormitories for children. The dormitories are full of small low beds, and each room can accommodate 100 people.According to Lin Zuo, this floor of the Garden of Eden is composed of ten such corridors, and the children on each floor are of the same age.In other words, there are four thousand human cubs who are close to six years old.

"Originally, most of the children would be sent to the outer city to wait for adoption after they reach the age of six. But now that the outer city has fallen, the main city has to take care of their education after the age of six. There are not enough manpower. Fortunately, you are here," Lin Zuo said. : "Babies under the age of six dare not be handed over to newcomers, so this batch of children will be assigned to you after they reach the age of six."

An Zhe said, "Okay."

"The further education arrangement has not yet come out, the two of you will follow me to familiarize yourself with the process first, can you?"

Colin replied, "Yeah."

Lin Zuo smiled slightly, and took down a few manuals from the bookshelf: "Here are the textbooks and the rotation arrangement, please read them first, and ask me if you have any questions."

An Zhe took his share.

There are two education courses here, one is language and literature, and the other is mathematics and logic. What he got is a language and literature textbook.Six-year-old children have mastered basic pinyin and grammar, and the textbooks contain some short fables or poems.Anze learned these things very well, so Anze didn't have any unfamiliar syllables or words.

After flipping through the textbook, it's time for class.An Zhe moved a set of desks and chairs and sat in the back corner of the classroom. He was holding a children's seating chart. The task Lin Zuo gave him was not only to attend the class, but also to record the children's class attendance.If a child takes the initiative to answer questions or ask questions, points will be added, and points will be deducted for whispering or doing some irrelevant actions.

When he sat in, all the cubs turned their heads to look at him.The skin of the cubs is very soft, and their eyes are pure and clean. They wear uniform white clothes, black shorts, and similar short hair styles. It is impossible to distinguish between male and female for a while.They whispered a few times and continued to look at An Zhe, who smiled back at them.

——So some of the cubs also smiled at him, and one of them blinked, eyelashes fluttered a few times, and asked, "Are you the new teacher?"

An Zhe said, "Yes."

"Wow." Another cub whispered, "You are so beautiful."

An Zhe said, "Thank you."

The cub said, "You're welcome."

Another cub asked, "What's your name?"

An Zhe said his name.

The cubs chirped: "My name is Bai Nan."

"My name is Jisha."

"My name is Du Cheng."

Of course, there are also some indifferent cubs, such as the one in the corner, who turned his head after glancing at him.

But the excitement around An Zhe didn't last long, because Lin Zuo came in.

The cubs dispersed away from An Zhe in an instant and returned to their seats. Lin Zuo looked around and confirmed that no one was absent, and then began to give lectures.

What he was talking about was the poem that An Zhe had heard in the corridor earlier, and it was also the last one in the textbook—more complicated than anything else, it was the poem he heard in a certain classroom when he was walking in the corridor. The children are reading aloud.

The cubs first read the poem from beginning to end.

"Do not go gentle into that good night.

We shall burn at the end of the day.

Rage, rage against the passing of time. "

"Though the wise know that darkness will come.

Although their words can no longer burst into lightning.

Do not go gentle into that good night. "

……

After reading it once, Lin Zuo stood in front of the podium and asked, "Is there anything you don't understand?"

A cub raised his hand, and An Zhe compared the seating chart. This was the cub named Bai Nan.

Bai Nan cub said: "I don't understand anything."

The other cubs all laughed.

Lin Zuo: "Narrow down the scope of the question."

"Then..." Bai Nan scratched the back of her head, her tone hesitant: "Why can't you walk into the night gently?"

An Zhe added a point to Bai Nan on the form, then looked at Lin Zuo, waiting for his answer.

He didn't know the answer to the question Bai Nan asked.In the abyss, in the human base, he has seen too many times that the twilight gradually replaced the day, and every night landed on the ground so gently that he couldn't resist it.

Lin Zuo glanced at them, his lips were slightly tightened, with a slightly serious arc.

"This is the last text of your class this year," he said, "it has a different meaning from all the previous texts, although it may be a bit difficult for you."

He turned around, wrote "Don't go gentle into that good night" on the whiteboard, and turned back to the cubs in the audience.

"This is a poem composed of metaphors and symbols," Lin Zuo said: "Don't go into that good night gently, its meaning is: don't accept death meekly."

An Zhe opened his eyes slightly, and he wrote down this sentence in his notebook.

Afterwards, Lin Zuo began to speak from the first sentence, and An Zhe took notes carefully.

After the speech, the cubs read the verse again from beginning to end.

"On this sad hilltop.

Please curse me and bless me with your tears.

Do not go gentle into that good night. "

The nib of An Zhe's notes paused, and he looked up at the bright window. Not far away, the Twin Towers were shining brightly in the sunlight, the city slowly unfolded, and the edge disappeared into the blue sky.He knew the city hadn't had a good night and was trying not to.

After the day's class was over, Lin Zuo got off work and handed the children over to him and Ke Lin.They will bring the cubs to eat with the life teacher, and then gather in the dormitory to watch today's news. In order to enhance the relationship with the cubs, An Zhe will answer their confusion about the news at any time, and they can only leave work after the news is over. .

The well-fed cubs were very active, playing and talking in the corridor.An Zhe felt that there were ten thousand mosquitoes screaming in his ears, but he tolerated these human cubs. Even in the abyss, monsters would treat their cubs gently—but only to their own.

When the news time came, the life teacher took out the score sheet, and the cubs became quiet when they saw the sheet, and spontaneously formed a circle around the large projection screen, with An Zhe sitting in the middle.

He looked at the screen, and suddenly felt something touching his finger, looked down, and saw that the cub named Bai Nan was sitting beside him, and hooked his finger with his finger.

An Zhe didn't have much physical contact with humans. He bumped into Lu Feng's body once in his memory, and his head was hurt by the badge on Lu Feng's chest-but the cub's body was different from Lu Feng's. soft.

——Like spores, the human cub stayed quietly beside him, just like the spores stayed quietly in his body, An Zhe obtained a false peace through this fantasy, and patted Bai Nan's head again.

So Bai Nan leaned closer to this side, leaning against him tightly, wrapping his arms around his.At the same time, another cub named Ji Sha also approached. This cub looked vaguely like a girl.Immediately afterwards, the group of cubs squirmed towards him, and Colin on the side also got the love of several cubs. It seems that it is the nature of all biological cubs to get close to adults.

But there was another lonely cub who still sat cross-legged in his position, unmoved. An Zhe remembered his name, Si Nan, and Si Nan never asked questions in class.He and Sinan looked at each other and smiled at him. Sinan averted his eyes and turned his gaze back to the big screen.

The news begins.

"After the bombing of District 6, the number of monsters in the outer city has decreased significantly. The military's second air formation took off at 1 o'clock this morning and landed in District [-] to support the outer city. Colonel Lu Feng of the trial court will command the existing team to recover the dispersal center... "

An Zhe suddenly heard a familiar name. He hadn't seen Lu Feng since he came to the main city. It turned out that this person had gone to the outer city again.

Bai Nan suddenly whispered: "It's the judge."

Ji Sha said, "I'm so scared."

An Zhe asked them, "What's wrong?"

Bai Nan said: "The news often says how many more people were executed by the judges."

Ji Sha: "He often goes to the abyss, the abyss is so scary."

An Zhe touched her head: "Don't be afraid."

Ji Sha wrinkled her nose.

"You are human, and the Judge will protect you."

Ji Sha continued to wrinkle her nose.

Bai Nan asked, "Have you seen the judge, teacher?"

At the same time, the news said: "The following is a war reporter."

The camera flashed, and the reporter was interviewing an officer in black uniform. The first moment that figure appeared, An Zhe thought it was Lu Feng, but the next moment he realized that it was not, that person was the young judge next to Lu Feng. His name was displayed on the screen, Seran.

He softly answered Bai Nan's question: "Yes."

"Then what does he look like? He hasn't shown his face in the news." Bai Nan asked.

Ji Sha also interjected: "Is he very aggressive?"

The cubs all looked this way, as if they were very interested in this question.

"He..." An Zhe recalled Lu Feng's appearance, and tried to use human aesthetics to make a judgment: "He is a bit fierce, but he looks good."

"What does he look like?"

The problems of the cubs became more and more difficult one by one, and An Zhe didn't know how to describe it.While thinking hard, he suddenly remembered the color of Lu Feng's eyes.That kind of cold dark green - like the place where the aurora grows in the sky.

He said, "Like... Aurora."

Doubt appeared in the eyes of the cubs.

At this time, An Zhe saw the life teacher at the side giving him a thumbs up.

"You are worthy of being a teacher of language and literature." The life teacher said.

An Zhe didn't know whether Teacher Life was a compliment or a criticism, he just pursed his lips and smiled.

The days in the main city passed day by day, and before he knew it, he had lived here for almost a month.

Eden's life was very peaceful, at most there were disputes between the cubs fighting and fighting. There were a few times when An Zhe walked under the Twin Towers, but both towers needed to swipe a card to enter, and he did not have the authority to enter the door.To see the spore, he first needs to know exactly where it is in the lighthouse and be able to enter the lighthouse, both of which are now out of reach.

However, at the same time, the news on the news has become more and more exciting for mankind. Just ten days ago, the team led by the land school went deep into the core of the dispersal center and worked out a detailed action plan—the news especially emphasized that due to The Inquisition regularly goes deep into the abyss for training, and their experience in dealing with monsters is extremely rich.

Five days ago, the army officially took back the dispersal center, cleaned up the remaining monsters inside, and carried out a large-scale cleaning and disinfection. The team sent by the lighthouse then entered to start the repair work of the equipment.

Today, An Zhe originally planned to continue listening to the news, but this day Lin Zuo had to work the night shift, so he had to leave work early.

At six o'clock in summer, the sky is still very bright, but the western sky is slowly covered with a thin layer of gray blue.An Zhe swiped his card, and the glass door of the "Garden of Eden" building slowly slid open. He walked out, and Ke Lin also left work early and walked out.

It is not a regular off-duty time, and there are few pedestrians on the road. He walked through the streets and alleys, taking a shortcut to the ferry station.He and Colin hated each other, so even if they had to go the same way, they would be separated by a long distance.

The world was originally very quiet, but just as he was about to cross this small street and step onto the wide road, there was a sudden rush of footsteps behind him, and then, a white shadow passed him in the corner of his vision—a short man An Zhe frowned at the white figure - it was a little girl, he was sure.

The children in his class, boys and girls are very similar in appearance and appearance, but they are also five or six years old. A small white gauze skirt.

There is a road ahead, and there is a car driving on it, An Zhe said: "Be careful!"

Just as a car whizzed across the road, the girl seemed to be frightened and stopped suddenly. She gasped for breath and looked back at An Zhe with frightened and panicked eyes.

An Zhe said: "Do you need my help? Are you from the Garden of Eden?"

Unexpectedly, as soon as his words fell to the ground, the girl's tense state intensified. She shook her head suddenly and rushed straight towards the road!

An Zhe quickly followed.

——At this moment, a black figure appeared at the corner of the street. He moved swiftly and stopped in front of the girl. The girl paused. The man bent down and picked her up. After taking a few steps back, the girl struggled violently A few times, but couldn't break free at all.

And An Zhe who just arrived here: "..."

Four eyes facing each other.

An Zhe: "... Hello."

Lu Feng: "Hello."

An Zhe wanted to ask him if the dispersal center had been recovered, but at this moment he had something more important to say, and it had been brewing for a month.

On the train that day, Lu Feng was in a bad mood—in fact, he was not in a good mood, and An Zhe speculated the reason—few people in this world can look at the colonel rationally.

Combined with what the colonel did to save the little girl on the dangerous road just now, that sentence is even more justified.

"Colonel," he said.

Lu Feng seemed to raise his eyebrows slightly: "What's wrong?"

The girl was still struggling, her eyes were dull, her hair was disheveled, and she looked a little wrong. Lu Feng patted her on the back indiscriminately, but at least he had good intentions.

So that sentence was confirmed again, An Zhe looked at the little girl, then looked back at Lu Feng, and said sincerely: "You are a good person."

The colonel really raised his eyebrows this time, and there was a slight smile on the corner of his lips. It was not a sincere smile, but rather an obvious lie that An Zhe had heard.

In the next second, he restrained the little girl with one hand, and picked up the communicator with the other: "Intersection No. [-], the target has been captured."

— After all, he glanced at An Zhe lightly.

An Zhe: "...?"

The author has something to say: After all, it was the wrong payment to Liao!

The opening poem is "Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night" by Dylan Thomas, with changes.

Not spores.