Little Mushroom

"We are the ones most closely connected with the destiny of humanity."

When Mrs. Lu was a little girl, her mother told her this. At that time, her mother's lower abdomen was slightly swollen, and a new life was conceived inside.

"We are the ones most closely connected with the destiny of humanity."

When she grew up, she also told other girls this sentence.At that time, while taking on the responsibility of multiplying offspring for the base, she also devoted herself to the research of three-dimensional embryo culture technology. This research was extremely valuable, so she was the only fertile woman who could freely enter and exit the Garden of Eden and People at the lighthouse.One day, on the corridor of the Petronas Twin Towers, she met a handsome green-eyed officer.

Later she had a child whose birth had nothing to do with her duties.

Because of each other's work, she can't often meet with the child's father, and only occasionally communicates through the communicator.

"I sometimes feel... that I've betrayed the Rosette Manifesto," she said.

"Why do you think so?" There was a steady voice on the other end of the communicator: "Aren't you cultivating a life?"

"Having a child with one's lover is a right that only women had before the manifesto," she lightly rested her fingers on her lower abdomen: "I have the right under the premise of not violating the regulations or causing damage to the base's resources." I feel very .

The memory is intermittent, with only a few key nodes.

"He's going to the military." Mrs. Lu said, "I suggested that he go to the United Front Work Center, but now the assignment has been completed. When you return to the base, you will meet him."

"Does he look like me?"

"One thing, it's not very similar, and his personality is not like yours. The base does not allow everyone to know their kinship, but as long as you meet, you can know who the other party is."

"I'm looking forward to meeting him."

"You'll see." Mrs. Lu said, "Be careful in the wild."

"I will." The man said: "This time we have recovered very important scientific research materials, some of which are related to your direction."

She smiled and said, "Thanks for your hard work. My research has been going well recently."

"I miss you." The man on the opposite side suddenly lowered his voice: "Last night I dreamed that the day when human beings completely survived the disaster, we were all still alive, and our children, we were just like all ordinary people forever happy."

Her voice was equally gentle: "Come back soon."

All was hopeful, but the limited, joyous memory of his and her life was so much.

Ten days later, she could no longer call her lover, nor could she get any news related to him. She had already prepared for the worst.

On the day she made up her mind to go to the United Front Center to inquire about her lover's whereabouts, she met her child on the corridor.

She didn't see him very often, as if in the blink of an eye, the child who would sneak up from the 6th floor to the 22nd floor to see her grew into an independent adult, a handsome young officer.

Although her heart was full of worries, she was relieved to see him: "You are here too."

Lu Feng whispered, "Mother."

Then she saw the crest of his black uniform, and the silver badge pinned to his chest.

"Didn't the base assign you to the United Front Center?" She was slightly puzzled.

"I'm in the Inquisition," he said.

"Why did you go to that place?" She looked at him worriedly and asked.Few would join the Inquisition if they had no choice.

"I voluntarily." There seemed to be complex emotions in the cold green pupils of the young officer, but in the end it was calm and rational: "I can play a greater role in the trial court than in the United Front Center."

She wanted to say something, but in the end she shook her head helplessly. Everyone knew how crazy the Tribunal was, where no one could die well.

When they parted, Lu Feng called her from behind: "Mother."

Mrs. Lu looked back at him, and Lu Feng looked at her, her voice seemed slightly hoarse, and asked, "What are you going to do?"

"It's nothing." She didn't intend to let the child know that, she just smiled and said, "Take care of yourself."

——So she went and knocked on the office door of the Information Management Office of the United Front Center.

"Information Management Office. What do you want to inquire about?"

"The united front center is directly under the commander of the first combat order, Lieutenant General Gao Tang, is he still in the wild?" she asked.

There were several keyboard tapping sounds from the opposite side.

"Sorry," the staff said, "The lieutenant general has been confirmed dead."

Her fingers are cold, but she can still maintain calm. It is the fate of every soldier to dedicate herself to the base.

"In...the wild?"

"At the entrance to the city," the staff said, "the records of the trial court show that General Gao Tang was judged to be infected."

Her eyes were in a trance, and she could hardly stand still.

"Ma'am?" the staff called to her.

"The Tribunal..." she murmured and repeated the noun, "Is their judgment accurate?"

"There is a high probability that it is accurate. The correct rate of each class of the Tribunal can be controlled at 80.00%. The average correct rate of the students who officially joined the Trial Court this year is 90.00%. Ma'am, do you need help? Ma'am?"

The memory is like a blank tide, her face is blurred, she lost her lover, and, from that day on, she and Lu Feng gradually became estranged, and she also lost him similarly.

— In fact, she is losing her own children every day.

On the day when the outer city was bombed, Lily slipped into her arms when she heard the shock from afar.

"Why did they blow up their own city?"

"To make humanity safer."

"But the people there are also children of the Garden of Eden." Lily said, "If the children are not important, why are we locked up here?"

"They have their own reasons, and they have to make some choices for a higher goal," she hugged Lily, and said softly: "The main city and the outer city are our children, children are sometimes willful, sometimes It will in turn hurt his mother and his compatriots, and we will not feel pain until we understand them."

When she said this, the blood oozing from the crack of the door when she was a child, the badge of the court of justice on Lu Feng's chest, and the mushroom cloud rising in the distance overlapped in front of her eyes.

Lily also asked the same question: "Does the lady understand?"

She didn't answer, she pressed her forehead against Lily's and closed her eyes: "I really hope that you will never experience this pain again."

Like a sad music coming to an end, An Zhe slowly opened his eyes.

He found himself collapsed beside the rose flower bed, looking up, the crimson and green leaves were swaying, and the glass shards were dotted with stars.A black shadow passed before his eyes, so he looked up again, and the hole on the dome that could only accommodate the queen bee became bigger, and the hole occupied three quarters of the dome, and its broken edge shone with light. Bees as long as a man's arm are flying outside through it.

The fluctuations have disappeared, and there is no trace of the queen bee on the dome, but the glass has been shattered, and in the night sky outside, artillery fire exploded like fireworks—it was the human army that started the battle, I don’t know if they have The queen bee was not killed.But it was very difficult to hit a bee in the vast space at night. An Zhe saw the small bee flying higher and higher, and disappeared under the silver light of the moon.

Immediately there were a few black shadows again, and with the buzzing of wings vibrating, five, ten, countless bees rushed over from all directions, some of which still had white fabric fragments on their bodies, An Zhe looked at them On the 22nd floor, the [-]nd floor was empty, no one was seen, and everyone turned into bees, and they flew outwards overwhelmingly.

bee--

Another erratic picture appeared in An Zhe's mind,

It is a bee, an ordinary bee that does not eat people and only gathers flowers.

It was summer, the bee breeding season, but it flew into a human city by mistake. The city was invulnerable, and people's doors and windows were closed. It just wanted to find edible pollen, but it couldn't do it.

Finally, it saw—behind the glass, a bright red rose in full bloom.

A woman is taking care of this flower. She is standing by the window sill, looking at the rose with a smile. After a long time, she looks at the sky outside with a sense of wistfulness. She seems to want to open the window and touch the sky outside. .

So the bee waited for a long time, until the woman left and came back, and when she looked outside, she shed a tear.

She seemed to have finally made a decision, and pushed open the window—the outside wind, the free wind poured in, and she closed her eyes, as if she could fly with the wind.

The bee has been hungry for a long time. It attaches the stamen of the rose, the pollen covers its fluffy hind legs, and it sticks its slender mouthparts into the center of the flower.

— but it was soon discovered.

The woman stretched out her hand towards it, her fingers trembled slightly, her eyes trembled slightly, and she was even a little crazy, as if this was the first time she saw such a life in her life, her speed was very slow, and she didn't seem to want to brush it away, But the bee's instinct predestined what happened next.

When her finger was within millimeters of touching it, the bee stung her unconsciously.

The bee died, and when its body left the woman's finger, part of its internal organs were torn out and hung on the end of the stinger. A bee can only use its stinger once in its life.

But it didn't seem to be dead, its body fell into the rose bushes, its consciousness seemed to become a part of this woman's consciousness, and it lay dormant for a long time, no one knew its existence, even the woman herself thought She was only stung, not infected.

——Until that part of its consciousness was gradually activated by the strange fluctuations in the distance.

Bee's memory is very simple, and even after removing this experience, it is even lackluster.When An Zhe opened his eyes again, those things gradually faded from his mind, and the roses in front of him were still bright.And who gave that flower to Mrs. Lu back then?

Only two people would give her flower seeds, her ex-lover, or Lu Feng, the reason they gave flowers was to make her happy.

So when the roses were in full bloom, this beautiful scene touched her heart, and she wanted to bathe in the sunshine and air outside, and also met the bee chasing the flowers.

The wind from outside came in, and An Zhe gradually became sober. He sat up from the ground - the surrounding was empty.Broken clothes, communicators and sundries that people carried with them fell to the ground.He could imagine that when he was affected by the strong fluctuation and fell into the picture in the memory of Mrs. and Feng, everyone present was also infected by the fluctuation.Hundreds of people turned into hundreds of bees, and flew to the sky through the hole in the dome.

He was an exception, he still maintained a human body, just like when he was bitten by an insect, he didn't mutate.

At this moment, a dangerous intuition rose from An Zhe's heart. He looked up and saw three small military helicopters hovering above the dome. This was where the people who had just fired at the swarm were. An Zhe squinted there. He went there, only to find a black muzzle sticking out of the window of the helicopter at this moment, facing him.

At the same time, the sound of chaotic footsteps came from the door, the alarm sounded, the emergency light and the red alarm light flickered frantically, the floor was shaking, and the heavily armed soldiers of the emergency response department poured into the door, and An Zhe was locked up by them. Surrounded—everyone with a heavy weapon, every gun pointed at him.