Knights of the Wasteland Fortress

Chapter 149 The End
At the end of "Factory" is an ocean.

A deep red light seeps out of the dark sea water.

A golden sky can be seen on the other side of the sea.

The members of the expedition team didn't notice the strangeness on the coast. They moved materials from the factory in full swing. Only Wu Yao, the captain, stood by the broken embankment and stared at the coast in the distance.

When Jiatu was taking a break from his shift, he noticed something strange on the coast, so he couldn't help walking over quietly, intending to see what was in the sea.

However, before he could bend down, he heard Wu Yao call his name——

"Can you see the world across the coast?"

It was only then that Jiatu suddenly remembered that Wu Yao's "Magic Eye" was exactly the famous "Magic Eye".

In terms of eyesight, no one in the entire shelter can match him.

So Jiatu shook his head and said "no".

The tall brown-haired man turned his head and glanced at him, then nodded slightly——

"Across the sea is the 'New World'."

"Does the 'New World' really exist?"

Cato asked back with some confusion.

During his time in the Expedition Team, he had already heard the proposition of the Third Corps——

They believe that at the end of the Skynet blockade, there is a human settlement called the "New World".

The news from the empire and the world inside the door also proves this point——

In other colonies of the Far Empire, there are strongholds occupied by other Openers.

Just like the human beings in the refuge, they survived with difficulty under the threat of artificial intelligence.

It's just that they are larger than shelters, with more population and more prosperous technology.

Most people in the refuge do not believe this kind of "Eden"-like rumors.

They would rather let the time of the sanctuary flow forever, the "Goddess of Silver".

However, only within the third corps, there are still a large number of explorers, still obsessed with the rumors of the "new world".

Because their captain, Captain Wu Yao, has a pair of "magic eyes" that can see through distance and sea fog.

"What did you see across the sea?"

Jiatu couldn't help asking Wu Yaodao.

"Cities—cities on the move."

Wu Yao answered a completely impossible answer.

Jiatu couldn't help being stunned.

Jiatu looked back subconsciously.

Behind him is a dark and broken wasteland city, covering a huge area of ​​tens of thousands of square kilometers.

But Wu Yao told him that he could see a mobile fortress that could be called a "city" across the sea?

This is much more sensational than "seeing man-made structures or mobile devices".

Perhaps it was also because the news was too frightening that it was not widely spread within the expedition team.

But Jiatu thought about it, but felt that there was no need to refute his own captain at this time.

So he said as he said:
"Then do you think it is a city of humans, or a city of artificial intelligence?"

"AI doesn't need cities - they have 'Skynet'."

Wu Yao glanced at Jiatu and said lightly:
"They're connected wherever they are, so they don't need cities -- just factories and energy centers."

"...So Captain Wu Yao, do you think there is a city of human civilization on the other side of the sea?"

Jiatu couldn't help asking.

"Sounds like a fantasy, doesn't it? But that's what my eye sees."

Wu Yao pointed to his right eye and said slowly:
"Even with my right eye, I can't see the humans across the sea."

"So I can only see moving fortresses and castles, and I can't be sure that these must be human structures."

"But these idiots of the Third Corps believed my judgment, thinking that I must be a human being who saw the 'New World', and planned to break through Skynet's block with me and go to the other side of the sea to have a look—"

"Don't you think it's ridiculous?"

Jiatu was silent for half a second, and said noncommittally:
"How do you think it takes to reach the other side of the sea?"

"There is a bridge across the sea."

Wu Yao pointed to the shadow in front of the right without hesitation: "In the north of the city, there is an artificial intelligence transportation channel. As long as we break through the blockade of 'Skynet', we can send a small number of people out—as for sending We have no idea what these people can do after they are sent out."

"... hope?"

Jiatu murmured, seeing Wu Yao's somewhat surprised gaze, he nodded affirmatively and said:
"What is being sent out is the 'seed of hope', and it doesn't matter whether it can 'germinate' or not."

"Yeah... Both we and the shelter need seeds."

Wu Yao said with a little emotion: "Although 'eternity' can be regarded as a statement, but for us explorers who have seen the pre-civilized era, this world is still too cruel."

Cato understood what he meant—

If it hadn't been known that human beings can generally live to "seven to eighty years old", the human beings in the refuge would not need to suffer as much as they do now.

Just like Anjie, the relationship with Jiatu is her entire happiness.

She doesn't care about others at all, and she doesn't care whether she will still exist a few years later.

This life, at this moment, is all her happiness.

Only people like Jiatu who know the past and history will be caught in the despair between ideal and reality.

Except for An Jie, most of the explorers are the same people as Wu Yao and Jia Tu.

They have learned the history of human beings and know the unwillingness of human beings. They understand the beauty of the past and yearn for the beauty of the future.

"do you know."

Wu Yao's faint voice suddenly interrupted Jiatu's train of thought:

"If you haven't awakened the Mother of Skyfire, the next Great Crusade will be the last 'Great Crusade' in the Sanctuary."

Jiatu was stunned for a moment, and then suddenly realized:

"Could it be that the upper echelons of the shelter..."

"Yes." Wu Yao nodded: "The learning materials of the training school have been sealed up. Future explorers can only access the historical textbooks revised by the first corps and the training level. According to the official statement of the shelter , human civilization and glory, as well as the struggle against artificial intelligence, will be completely wiped out—and replaced by the belief system of the 'Goddess of Silver'..."

"Can this also be called 'for survival'?"

Cato listened dumbfounded to all this.

I feel like I have been abandoned by the times.

"We've tried."

Wu Yao summed up the efforts of the Third Corps and the Second Corps with a short answer: "Noah doesn't want to completely erase the traces of human history - because if there is no understanding and pride in the past of human civilization, it will be difficult to exchange blood. The plan also cannot guarantee the loyalty of the relevant explorers..."

"Are you planning to 'close the country'? The First Corps..."

Jiatu murmured.

"It's all about 'sanctuary'."

Wu Yao nodded and said a motto of the First Corps.

The three corps have their own course of action.

But Jiatu didn't expect that such a small difference would cause such a big difference.

Once again proving that human position precedes thinking.

"So tomorrow is our last chance?"

Jiatu raised his head and looked at the captain of the third team.

And Wu Yao patted his shoulder and said:

"It's 'us' last chance, you're still young enough to accept change—"

"Perhaps the 'First Corps' plan is a good thing, after all, it can greatly increase the average lifespan of explorers."

Under Wu Yao's prompt, Jiatu dug out the First Team's "Sky Change Plan" and took a look——

According to the open agreement within the expedition team, the plans of each expedition team are available for public inspection.

This is to prevent a certain expedition team from acting privately and causing irreparable mistakes.

The "Sky Changing Plan" of the First Corps is expected to double the total population and average life expectancy of the upper-level areas and explorers from the current level.

As a price, the population of the lower and middle districts will be reduced to about one-third of what it is now.

In short, it is the refuge of the future, which will enter a thorough elitist route.

All space and resources will serve for prenatal and postnatal care.

And explorers like Jiatu and the others, as people who have already obtained the "ship ticket", are all vested interests in this plan.

But Hera and Heda are not.

According to this plan, all personnel who are not explorers will be assigned extremely cruel work, and the population will be quickly reduced to about one-fifth of the original number. The mulattos are filled.

Compared with the second corps turning the world inside the gate into the territory of the human world, the plan of the first corps is to clear out the refuge and use it as a breeding ground for new humans.

Once the agreement is passed, all the residents of the upper area, as well as members of the exploration team like Jiatu, will become accomplices of the higher-ups of the shelter.

Both Wu Yao and Noah voted against the relevant voting decisions.

However, including the elders of the fifth, seventh, and eighth floors of the refuge, most of the members of the Presbyterian Church chose to agree——

Because they are all "ticket owners".

Nothing could be more naked than this voting resolution.

Influenced by the environment of the previous life, Jiatu's first reaction was to pull up the members of the expedition team, and all the members rose up to rebel.

But after carefully calculating the strength comparison between the two sides, he suddenly realized that the third team was the minority.

Because Noah and the second corps, although opposed to the plan of the first corps, but under the premise of the failure of the "exchange plan", they are more inclined to the plan of the first corps——

Because compared with "closing the country", the "new world" is a more illusory thing.

However, the Presbyterian Church and the First Corps did not drive out all dissidents——

They assigned all the people who believed in the "New World" in the Second Corps to the "Third Corps".

Although they didn't say it clearly, what they meant should be——

"It's okay to have different opinions. I will give you all my support. If you die on the way to find the 'new world', don't blame us."

It is simply a conspiracy.

There is no large-scale publicity and publicity about the "Sky Changing Plan".

It is only to the extent that if you know the plan and actively search, you can know most of the details of the plan and some historical meeting records.

Even with the help of "Major Pretending to Be a Brain", not many people are interested in reading it in one sitting.

But Jiatu not only finished reading it, but also felt that he had reached the "end" in another sense.

If there was only An Jie by his side, he would definitely choose the "Change Plan" without hesitation.

After all, people live for a lifetime not for some illusory ideal, but the life around them is the most important.

But Hena certainly didn't think like him.

Among the group of five who came out of the lower area, only Hera and Heda did not get tickets to the "New Sanctuary".

And Hena and Jiatu are not star explorers, so naturally they don't have the corresponding family immunity.

Even if she was alone, she would choose the route of the third corps without hesitation, trying to open the passage between the refuge and the "new world".

Facing Hena like this, the two idealists, Hua Lun and Zhi Ti, would definitely follow her without hesitation.

Then it was me and Wei Wei...

Jiatu looked at the black-haired girl beside him.

Realizing that Anjie would follow him—

The girl has no objection at all, because to her, the first and third teams are things she can't understand.

It was enough for her to be by Jiatu's side.

Jiatu originally thought so too.

He's ready--

Whether it's An Jie or He Na, he doesn't intend to separate.

Both girls are the most important people in his life.

He would go anywhere with them—

Even if the convenience is hell.

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However, half a year after returning to the shelter after the expedition, Anjie became pregnant.

Pregnant, she leaves the Sanctuary's battle sequence to wait to give birth in Hera's care.

And this put Jiatu in a dilemma.

On the one hand is the newly pregnant wife, and on the other hand is the adoptive mother and sister who love each other.

Even the number of people is 2vs3, he doesn't know how to make a decision at all.

But An Jie was the same as before, although she hoped Jiatu would stay from the bottom of her heart, she also believed in his judgment unconditionally.

Jiatu knew that this kind of trust was not a kind of bondage and moral kidnapping.

It's a trust that he can make the "right choice."

So neither Hualu nor Hena bothered him.

It's just that Zhiti came over to look at him and An Jie, touched the child in her belly through the clothes, and left without saying anything.

Jiatu knew that the instinct towards Anjie's mother and child was calling for him to stay.

But for the future of her and Sanctuary, only moving forward is his only correct choice.

"If I had to choose between family and love..."

"I choose hope!"

Looking at the slowly opening door of the refuge, Jiatu took a deep breath.

He looked at the 150 explorers behind him.

Everyone has an inexplicable sadness and hope on their faces——

Because they are all explorers who choose to abandon their "tickets" and choose a future path with an unknown future for various reasons.

And they are the last "sparks" in the shelter——

"The Great Expedition"!
　After writing this month, it should be over.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)