"I have never felt so deeply that the distance between my soul and me is so far away, and my existence is so dependent on this world." When she read this sentence, Su Wanxia put down the book.

Shen Yinuo, sitting opposite him, didn't know when he learned to smoke.

Times like this used to be rare, but now they are commonplace.

"Abel Camus's "The Outsider"? Are you reading this book?" Shen Yinuo looks very disharmonious with heavy makeup. She is the kind of girl with a southern temperament. Although she is tall and gaunt, she It is not suitable to express your emotions on makeup.

"Yes, loneliness, unprecedented loneliness." Su Wanxia poured Shen Yinuo a glass of wine, and he took a deep breath and asked, "Are you still unwilling to sit down and talk with Xiaoming?"

"Talk? Of course we have to talk, but not now." Shen Yinuo took the book, opened the title page, glanced at it a few times and said: "We have been trapped here for seven years, it's really fast."

yes……

Su Wanxia felt that she had gained a lot of weight.

The five of them have been trapped in the camp for seven years.

At the beginning, everyone was full of hope for the future.

But as time went by, they gradually began to no longer expect to return to Earth.

Yan Sichen gave up the unrealistic idea of ​​building a spaceship because it was really stupid... Even if he was given a hundred or a thousand years, he would be unable to do anything without the support of the entire industrial civilization.

But after giving up building spacecraft, he found a new life, which was to spend twelve hours a day in the launch core trying to reconstruct the earth model.

This is a quite huge project, but Yan Sichen enjoys it.

Xian Qianhua supported him at first, but when she discovered that Yan Sichen no longer cared about their feelings for each other, Xian Qianhua chose to quit and quietly aborted their child one night.

After Yan Sichen learned about this, Su Wanxia and others thought he would go crazy.

Unexpectedly, Yan Sichen acted very calmly. He said: "If the child is going to be trapped here like me, then he really shouldn't be born."

This sentence completely severed the emotional bond between Xian Qian Hua and Yan Sichen.

From then on, Xian Qianhua chose not to wake up, and she has been lying in the hibernation cabin for five full years.

In the past five years, there have been problems in the relationship between Shen Yinuo and Chu Xiaoming.

At first, Su Wanxia just thought that they were also arguing about the child, but when he learned the truth, he realized that the matter was far from as simple as he thought.

Moreover, the emotional problems between Shen Yinuo and Chu Xiaoming are actually related to Su Wanxia...

As for what exactly it is.

Su Wanxia still thinks it's ridiculous when she thinks about it, so she might as well not mention it.

…

"I had a dream recently, do you want to hear it?" Chatting like this happens almost every day for several hours.

Shen Yinuo and Su Wanxia seemed to have made an agreement. They started talking when they met at breakfast, and sometimes continued until the evening.

Su Wanxia, ​​who had almost given up studying "Ancient Theology", pinched her brows and decided to relax a little. He took a deep breath and said, "Yeah."

"In the dream... I seemed to be back on earth, but not before the sun 'disappeared', but... some time after the sun 'disappeared'."

Shen Yinuo spoke calmly, while Su Wanxia, ​​the audience member, listened silently.

…

Shen Yinuo's story is not complicated.

In the dream she was a lone survivor.

In the dark underground, hot and humid environment, you can see strange flowers, plants and trees everywhere. If they weren't growing among the dark steel jungle, it would be easy for people to think that they are in the forest.

…

"Mom! I'm back." Hanako opened the door and placed the gun in the entrance hall.

The room was empty and no one responded to her.

Taking off her boots and camouflage robe, Hanako first checked the wound on her right shoulder in front of the bathroom mirror.

The hunt the night before was a failure. Not only was she injured, but there were only five hunters left.

"Hiss..." After lightly touching the wound, Hanako frowned and began to disinfect the wound, and then made a simple bandage.

The harvest tonight was very little, only the liver of a deer and some fungi that were not sure whether they were edible.

In the process of putting away ingredients in the kitchen, from time to time there would be a roar above her head, like a train passing by. Every time at this time, Hanako would stop moving and even stop breathing.

The scissors in her hand were stuck on the chopping board, and she would not continue to put away the ingredients until there was a roar above her head.

At dinner time, as in the past, Hanako first filled a bowl of soup and placed it in front of the portrait of her mother Liang Qiuru, and then started to prepare for dinner.

During this process, except for the sounds of clinking bowls and chopsticks and chewing food, the room was silent.

Maybe she was too tired, or...because she had lost another companion during the day, Hanako didn't wash the dishes as obediently as usual.

She locked the door, activated the active defense system, and then carried the gun to the narrow underground bedroom.

When I was lying on the bed, the starry sky made of five crystal panels on the ceiling was still as peaceful as ever.

External communication was still interrupted. When Hanako lay down, she thought for a moment...could the sun have already come out? Natsume...and Masato...did they all think I was dead?

Will not.

Hanako smiled bitterly and lay down on her side.

On the cold wall, those red marks were even clearer than they had been in the past few days.

This is a cursed land...a cursed land that should have been permanently banished...it was they who inadvertently disturbed these banished sins that led to today's situation.

At first Hanako was full of anger.

Especially when she saw her mother being dragged into the thick fog by those monsters without eyes and noses, she wanted to burn the place to the ground!

But she finally calmed down.

The old hunter told her...

You have to live!

This is your mission.

mission?

Hanako never felt that she was related to the word mission.

She might have thought about joining the army and becoming a member of the Zhengxing Self-Defense Force, but that was all.

Early the next morning.

When Hanako was ready to go out after finishing her equipment, there was a knock on the door first.

After taking a look at the surveillance system, Hanako stood up and opened the door.

A guy wrapped in various camouflage materials like a mop walked in.

After he put down his sniper rifle, he took off his hat to reveal a face that was full of ruthlessness, but it had to be said that he was somewhat handsome.

This man with dangerous eyes asked as soon as he entered the room: "External communication is still disconnected?"

"Yeah." After seeing the man, Hanako was no longer in a hurry to go out. She sat in the entrance and wiped the gun quietly.

"Oh, I thought that stupid big guy could really create miracles..." The words were mocking, but the tone was really sad. The man sat down next to Hanako and said: "If this continues, within a month, we will all die.

.”

Hear death.

Hanako's movements paused for a moment, but it was only a pause. She no longer cared so much.

"Um……"

"Tsk? When did you become like an old hunter? Do you look like you have no hope at all?" The man frowned and looked at Hanako.

Hanako unloaded the magazines one by one and continued to wipe the weapon. At the same time, he said: "I suggested to go deeper and take a look, but you all don't agree. Then you are just waiting to die."

"Hey! You little girl! Do you think Brother Ping and I shouldn't stop you?"

After hearing this, Hanako rolled her eyes and looked at the man in front of her and said: "Brother Liu Ping, I know you are doing it for my own good, but the problems here are getting worse. Even if we do nothing, we may not survive.

In this case, why can't we use the courage to reveal the truth like my mother and others?"

Liu Ping.

Yes, the handsome man sitting in front of Hanako at this time is Liu Ping, who fled to Neo-Tokyo City Vault No. 03 to avoid being cleaned up by the Warriors of the Nation.

It's ironic.

Liu Ping, who was forced to escape into Shelter 03 like a lost dog, unexpectedly rescued Hanako in the deepest part of the shelter by some strange combination of circumstances.

This man who blew up three important units of the Pacific Rim Nuclear Power System, and indirectly caused millions of people to freeze to death in shelters, not only did not receive the punishment he deserved, but he was regarded as a hero by the camp because he saved Hanako.

Accepted it.

But Liu Ping himself is like the god of plague. Although he has decided to conceal his identity and hide in the camp with peace of mind, one after another accidents still drag him into danger.

A failed exploration operation more than two months ago directly led to the destruction of the camp and the death of a large number of survivors.

Hanako's mother was also dragged deep into the thick fog by the monsters during the evacuation.
To be continued...