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The sun seemed to be struggling to penetrate the sand and dust in the air. The man without feet was sweating profusely. He put the shovel next to his hand and stood to rest.

The woman stepped on the mechanical legs and walked sideways step by step, as if she was very unskilled, but she always kept the balance of the iron cup in her hand.

But when she walked in front of the man, she still staggered towards her. The man immediately supported her and scolded her in a low voice: "Be careful! This is water resource! Come here quickly, if someone sees you spilling the water, you will definitely die!" "

"Sorry, I didn't mean it." The woman looked guilty, "But if you do strenuous work, you must replenish water. This is what the first generation said personally."

"The first generation is such a good person." The man sighed, took the iron cup, and drank the remaining water in one gulp. "She can definitely occupy the paradise. If she is alone, the remaining resources will be enough for her to enjoy herself. A lifetime.”

"I don't quite understand. Will the well in the paradise really dry up?" the woman whispered, "I feel like there is still a lot in it... I really want to taste what the water tastes like..."

“It’s not like you’ve never drank in the virtual world.

I kid you not, drinking water here is addictive. The man continued digging the hole with the shovel, "Fortunately, after finishing this project, I can go back to the virtual world. Otherwise, every time I drink a sip of water, I would feel guilty inside."

That well...

Of course you feel a lot by yourself, but if you think about it carefully, if someone takes a sip of water out of curiosity, others will definitely drink too.

If people all return to the real world from the virtual world, the well may not be able to sustain it for even one day..."

"Is it really meaningful to do these things?" The woman looked at the corpses next to the deep pit on the ground and sighed, "When everyone goes to the space station, no one will return to this world, and no one will come here to pay homage to anyone. .”

"Shhh - don't question the decision of the first generation. You just need to remember one thing. Without her, there would be no re-operation of the virtual world, and there would be no mechanical legs like yours obtained by drawing lots!" The man pushed the body into the pit with a shovel. Then he buried it with soil, "The first generation was right. We are human beings. No matter what the world becomes, we should not lose our humanity."

The woman raised her head thoughtfully, looking at the men digging holes every few meters, and then at the strong men transporting corpses back and forth, as if talking to the air.

"Lao Deng, I'm going back this afternoon."

"Afternoon?" The man stopped what he was doing, straightened up and said, "Didn't we agree to go together? You..."

"It makes no sense." The woman said half-jokingly, "Maybe we don't know each other in the virtual world, and I want to go back early.

I always feel like my family has already gone back and waited for me. "

"That's right." The man smiled awkwardly. He looked at the woman's mechanical legs and said solemnly, "I haven't formally congratulated you on getting the legs yet. Also, thank you for the water."

The woman nodded politely to him, turned around and walked away in the wind and sand.

The man looked at her back, feeling a little lost in thought. When the woman walked away and completely disappeared, only the hazy dust in the air was left.

Suddenly, the light of a searchlight lit up in the dust, and the voice of the first generation came from the loudspeaker:
"Thank you for your hard work, please speed up the progress and complete this work within a week. This is my personal request, because I have promised my family members in the virtual world that I will go home within a week!

If one day in the future, someone here accidentally wakes up from the virtual world, I hope you can still remember what I say now.

We are the same kind, we are human beings!
We must remember the tragedy that paradise has brought us, and never kill others again! The reason why I asked you to bury your bodies in [New Home] is to tell those who have worked here that what you have done and the hope you have left here are not meaningless.

We bury the corpses of our kind to inform this land and the vast universe:

Humanity has not lost and will always be united!
We would rather let the well of paradise dry up naturally than shed a drop of blood in a fight for it! "

"Humanity has not lost!" The man raised the shovel above his head and shouted loudly.

People shouted together: "Humanity has not lost! We will always be united!"

Roland turned off the phone and let out a long sigh.

"What's wrong? You said it very well." Athena took the phone and turned off the searchlight next to her. "Humanity has not lost..." Roland looked at the direction of the shouts and murmured somewhat self-deprecatingly, "If they know, I am just delaying time, because the data of many worlds in the background has not been fully restored, I am afraid that they are here For a period of time, they compete for the resources of the paradise and then kill each other.

If they knew all this.

I don’t know what I will feel. "

"You are also doing it for their own good." Athena said calmly, "In three to five days, the data on the backend will be restored.

What's more, I think this matter is meaningful. "

"Does it make sense?" Roland raised an eyebrow, "What was once [New Home] is now a cemetery?"

Athena looked at the gate where the railroad tracks extended not far away. There was a "New Home" sign on the gate.

She sat on the rectangular loudspeaker and said: "Actually, when [New Home] was first established, it was really not to tease people in the Wanjie World.

My father placed his hope here and sent many scientists from [Paradise] to help develop the most durable crop seeds in history.

The virtual world was originally just a backup plan, but as time went by, the idea of ​​a [new home] seemed increasingly unreliable. "

Roland looked at Athena's wavy golden hair and asked, "Athena, in your heart, what kind of person is your father?"

Athena was silent for a long time, then suddenly laughed, picked up the loudspeaker, turned around and said, "Roland, I will never take revenge on you."

"What if you could do it?"

Athena stood still, turned her back to Roland, took a deep breath and said, "Yes!"

Roland raised the corner of his mouth. She almost killed all of Athena's family members. If the other party said no, she might reveal the short knife hidden in her sleeves.

But now, she just looked at Athena's retreating back, bent down to pick up the searchlight and microphone on the ground, quickly caught up with her, and joked: "Wait for me for a while, the original legs can walk faster, right?"

"Can I think this is suppression and ridicule after the enemy's victory?"

"Of course, you are free to think whatever you want."

"Why did you ask me that question just now?"

"So what's the answer? You obviously want to tell it, right?"

"Stubborn, violent, selfish, good at manipulating people's hearts, full of lies, scheming, and inhumane." Athena walked quickly.

"Then you still want revenge? Is it worth it for that kind of person?"

"I'm talking about you." Athena suddenly stopped and looked at Roland and said, "Actually, you and my father are the same kind of people, it's just that the team is not in the paradise position.

If you were ultimately asked to choose between the squad and those civilians from the Ten Thousand Orbits Realm, you would also choose the squad. "

"No, I would choose civilians."

"Full of lies."

"It's true, you believe me." Roland said seriously, "Athena, I plan to let you become a princess of a certain noble in the virtual world, and you will be carefree for the rest of your life. What do you think?"

"Good at manipulating people's hearts..."