On the occasion of collapse

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"Phew, the exit should be right ahead, I'm exhausted..." Bai Zhi, who finally returned to the right road after trekking through mountains and rivers for a long time, wiped the non-existent sweat from her forehead and looked at the entrance to the Paradise not far ahead.

"Oh my god, I'm so exhausted. Why is this road so long..." Looking back at the trail behind her with no end in sight, Bai Zhi let out a long breath.

"Does everyone who comes here have to walk this way? Or is it just me?" Bai Zhi muttered to herself. Bai Zhi was very dissatisfied that she actually had to walk such a long distance, but she was exhausted.

In fact, I'm not tired at all. With Bai Zhi's physique, I won't feel tired at all.

But maybe thinking so will make Bai Zhi feel better?

"Forget it, let's go out first. I hope Sister Ai Li knows where she is..." Grabbing the frame of the paradise exit, Bai Zhi put her hand into the frame and walked in slowly.

"Om."

"Ah~ It's out, it's out..." Seeing the scene she hadn't seen in a long time, Bai Zhi took a deep breath in an exaggerated manner, as if she was surviving a disaster.

"Oh, I didn't expect Miss Bai Zhi to know how to come out of the Paradise. I thought you would stay in it for the rest of your life." As soon as she walked out of the exit, Bai Zhi heard a familiar voice. She turned around and saw the girl at a glance. Poria raised an eyebrow at her by the pillar.

"Sister!?!? Why are you here?!" Bai Zhi's expression of seeing a ghost almost made Fuling lose control of her expression and wanted to yell.

"Come on, come on, tell me why I can't be here." Taking a deep breath, Fu Ling calmly said to Bai Zhi, she seemed reasonable?

"Uh, um, that's not what I meant..." Seeing the change in expression on Poria's face, Bai Zhi tactfully shut her mouth to avoid getting angry.

"Then what do you mean? Why, you feel annoyed when you see me?" Enduring the pain in her legs, Poria walked slowly to Bai Zhi and said with a smile.

"I, I, I, I didn't! Absolutely not!" Being frightened by Poria, Bai Zhi felt that her heart was not good.

Let me ask, who can withstand being so scared by Poria cocos? ! !

Anyway, she, Bai Xiaozhi, is really not good at it!

"...Forget it, I'm sorry you don't dare." Seeing Bai Zhi's cowardly look, Poria turned around and walked back to Alicia, as if nothing happened.

"Alicia, I suddenly remembered that there is something at home that I need to get. How about you help me get it?" She said sweetly to Alicia. Although he looks fierce, he is actually very gentle.

"Okay, I'll come back then." Alicia didn't think much about it. Considering the injury on Fu Ling's leg, she agreed directly and turned around to enter the paradise.

"..." When Alicia left, Fu Ling turned around and sat on the sofa, looking at Bai Zhi.

"I don't want to take photos."

Chapter 881 After all, Kevin, you are still a big boy.

"Why?" After hearing what Fuling said, Bai Zhi looked at her very puzzled, as if she didn't understand why Fuling refused. After all, this was just a photo.

"There aren't many reasons. I just don't want to take pictures. Aren't I still alive outside? Why don't you just go and take pictures of her? You have to remember what I look like as an old antique." She waved her hand impatiently, but Fuling didn't want to at all. Of course, the reason for taking some photos with Bai Zhi cannot be just what she said, there is no need.

"But..." Bai Zhi wanted to say something more, but was rudely interrupted by Fuling.

"No, but, I don't want to take pictures. If you want to take pictures, you can keep it and take pictures of her hard after you go out." Fu Ling said impatiently, always paying attention to the movement at the entrance to the paradise to prevent Alicia from coming back suddenly.

"I know what you are thinking, it is nothing more than leaving a souvenir in the paradise. But Bai Zhi, let me tell you clearly now, I do not want to leave anything behind, and I have no interest in letting future generations pay tribute. I am not what you think I am the data, the object, and the relic left by Fu Ling. As a relic, I don’t need to leave anything behind, because I myself am already something left by others." At this point, Fu Ling looked at Xiang Bai Zhi's eyes were serious and persistent.

"So, do you understand?" Noticing the movement coming from the entrance to the paradise, Fu Ling relaxed her sitting posture and the expression on her face changed back to a smile.

Faced with Poria's sudden change of expression, before Bai Zhi could react, she heard Alicia's voice coming from behind her.

"Xiaoling, is this it?" Holding a small green snake neck pillow in her hand, Alicia walked out of the paradise and shook the neck pillow in her hand at Fu Ling.

"Yeah, that's it." She said with a smile, and now it was impossible to tell from Poria's appearance that she had just sternly refused Bai Zhi's request to take a photo.

"That's good, but Xiaoling, have you finished taking the photo? Why is Xiaozhi standing there motionless?" Alicia said with some confusion when she noticed Bai Zhi standing blankly beside her.

"It's done. It's been taken a long time ago." She said naturally. If Bai Zhi hadn't known that she didn't take any pictures at all, maybe she would have subconsciously believed what Fuling said.

"Really? Then come on, let me see if Xiaozhi has taken a beautiful photo of my Xiaoling~" Alicia didn't seem to have doubts about Fu Ling's words, she was smiling as usual. As he said that, he pretended to take the camera in Bai Zhi's hand.

"Well, of course she is pretty. When has your Xiaoling ever been ugly?" Fu Ling was not worried at all about Alicia's actions, but continued to whisper.

"Ah, that seems to disappoint me. I thought Xiaozhi could take ugly photos of Xiaoling." After listening to Fuling's words, Alicia stopped her movements and sat back. sofa.

Bai Zhi, who was startled by Alicia's actions before, saw Alicia sitting back like this and blinked in shock.

It turns out that I even guessed that Ellie can look at the camera, so did you say that on purpose?

"Humph, of course I'm going to disappoint you. How could the beautiful Xiaoling have ugly photos?" She said triumphantly, the smile on Poria's lips never fell, and Bai Zhi obviously couldn't see any flaw in that smile. , but can...

Feel the fakeness behind that smile...

Looking down at the camera in his hand, the last photo taken by the camera was indeed Poria cocos, but...

"sister....."

In the photo, Poria is sitting on a balcony seat, looking gently in the direction of the camera.

........

"Bang!" The long sword collided with the big sword hard. Bai Zhi felt the hot feeling coming from the big sword and bit her lower lip.

"..." Kevin looked at the strange Bai Zhi in front of him and said nothing, but something appeared in his eyes.

"Dang!" Vibrating the Sky Fire in his hand, Kevin knocked Bai Zhi holding the long sword away and inserted the Sky Fire upside down on the ground.

"That's it, you've reached your limit." Looking at Bai Zhi, whose arms and legs were trembling slightly, Kevin said in a deep voice.

"No, not yet, I haven't reached my limit yet." Wiping the blood from the corner of her mouth, Bai Zhi gritted her teeth to prevent her body from falling.

"...You don't need to mutilate your body like this." But Kevin did not respond to Bai Zhi. Instead, he put away the sky fire, as if he did not intend to continue fighting Bai Zhi.

"...I..." Seeing Kevin's refusal to continue fighting, Bai Zhi's tense spirit slowly relaxed, and her body naturally fell backwards and fell on the hard ground.

"Huh...huh...huh..." Breathing heavily, Bai Zhi looked at the blue sky and remembered what Fuling said a few days ago when she refused to let her take a picture.

'I am data, an object, a relic left behind by Poria cocos. As a relic, I don't need to leave anything behind, because I myself am already something left by others. '

"Relic...?" When thinking of this title, Bai Zhi felt her heart hurt inexplicably.

She didn't understand, didn't understand why Poria called herself that.

Obviously they also have emotions and joys and sorrows.

To say they are objects or something is too cruel.

Is it true that only flesh and blood, flesh and blood that is exactly the same as the human species, can be considered a human being?

But if this is the case, what do they count if they have feelings and memories?

It's unfair. The definition of human beings should not be just a flesh and blood body composed of meat and blood.

And it shouldn't be, just flesh and blood.

If you lose your soul, your emotions, your memory, then the rest of your body will remain.

Can it really still be called a human being?

Similarly, if you don’t have a body but have a soul and emotions, can’t you be called a human?

What exactly is a human? On a biological level, a mammal that evolved from apes, or...

Something that has a heart and a soul can be called...

What about people?

Bai Zhi doesn't understand, but she knows that if everyone in the paradise cannot be called a human being, then she is not a human being either...

"Here." A familiar hand handed him over, holding a bucket of soaked instant noodles.

"Kevin?" Bai Zhi sat up and was a little surprised to see Kevin sitting down next to her.

"Yeah." Kevin responded casually and handed the instant noodles to Bai Zhi's hand.

"Although I don't know what you're worried about, and I don't intend to find out." At this point, Kevin looked at the instant noodles in Bai Zhi's hand.

"But someone once told me that if you eat something when you are in a bad mood, you will feel better." 0

"However, I don't have sweets here, only instant noodles." Kevin said slowly, putting a hand on his bent knee and looking at the grass and forest in the distance.

"It's hard to imagine that such words would come out of your mouth, Kevin." Looking at the steaming instant noodles in her hand, Bai Zhi's mood improved inexplicably.

"Well, that's right. After all, Kevin, you are still a big boy."

"I'm starting!" Picking up the fork, Bai Zhi looked at the steaming instant noodles, took a big mouthful and stuffed it into her mouth.

"..." Looking at Bai Zhi, Kevin couldn't calm down his mood for a long time.

'After all, Kevin, you are still a big boy. '

"...Maybe so." Looking at the sky in the distance, Kevin's mouth curved in an imperceptible arc.

Perhaps, he is still the big boy he used to be...

Chapter 882 is 'the most suitable leader', not 'the best leader'

"Oh~ So Kevin, you also have a girlfriend?" Sitting cross-legged on the grass, Bai Zhi leaned her chin and listened to Kevin's story, saying in great surprise.

It’s amazing, how can someone like Kevin, a stupid idiot?

"Well, her name is Mei." Kevin's voice was very slow, different from what Bai Zhi had heard before.

Bai Zhi heard tenderness in Kevin's tone.

It was something she had never heard in Kevin's words.

It seems that Mei is really important to Kevin, very important.

"That Dr. Mei?" After blinking, Bai Zhi immediately thought of Dr. Mei, the leader of the Fire Chasing Moth.

"Yeah." Kevin's answer made Bai Zhi confirm her answer.

"Then, why didn't she enter the Paradise?" After asking her doubts, Bai Zhi felt that if it was really important to Kevin, and if she understood correctly, Mei was the Dr. Mei, she should be allowed to enter the Paradise. It's not a difficult thing, right?

"She refused." After a moment of silence, Kevin still said the answer.

"Rejected? Why?" Bai Zhi was also shocked when she heard this answer. She didn't understand why Mei would choose to refuse.

"The explanation she gave is that the Paradise does not need her existence. Everything she can do has been done, and the rest can only be entrusted to us." Kevin said slowly, his expression changed. What a change, but Bai Zhi could hear the smell of sadness.

"The explanation she gave?" Bai Zhi also heard what Kevin didn't say and asked proactively.

"Well, but actually, this is only one of the reasons. We are also very aware of the other reason." Kevin's tone was a little sad. Obviously, the other reason was not very good.

"Another reason?" Bai Zhi blinked and didn't understand what Kevin meant by the other reason.

"Yes, in fact, among the Thirteen Heroes, most people have great prejudices against Mei, and even...hate." Kevin spoke very slowly, and when it came to the last word, he even There was a pause.

"..." After receiving the answer, Bai Zhi was silent for a moment.

She can understand the prejudices. After all, everyone in the Thirteen Heroes also has some prejudices and opinions about each other.But, hate...

Isn't Mei the leader of the Fire Chaser?Why is he hated by the Thirteen Heroes?

"Although I don't want to admit it, many people within the Fire Chaser Moth do have hatred or negative emotions towards Mei." Slowly speaking, Kevin admitted that the Fire Chaser Moth is not as united as it appears on the surface. One heart.

This organization is just a group of people who came together because of the crisis of destruction.

It's not that they share the same ideals, but because they have no choice.

"But, I can understand. I understand their hatred of Mei and their doubts about Mei." Taking a deep breath, Kevin understood that what Mei did could never be understood by most people.

Whether it is abandoning the entire branch to delay the Seventh Herrscher, or sending a divine machine to fight against the Ninth Herrscher at the expense of the pilot.

Or maybe it's because of the crisis of the Tenth Herrscher that there is a general purge within the Fire Chaser Moth.

Or the No. 11 Herrscher who spent countless lives to death.

What May did may not be the best choice, but it was definitely the best choice that could be made at the time.

However, even so, she could not gain the understanding of most people in the base.

Before No. 11 Herrscher, the vast majority of people in the base did not approve of Mei's actions.

But after Herrscher No. 11, most of the older generation members of the Fire Chaser Moth in the organization have died, and the remaining ones are all members headed by Mei.

It was also from that time that Fire Chaser's base lost its popularity.

Become lifeless.

Everyone knows that there is no hope, everyone knows that death will eventually come, everyone knows that there is no point in struggling.

However, under May's speech, everyone was willing to risk their lives to create a new path for the next generation.

Therefore, from beginning to end, Mei has not been recognized and understood by everyone.