After Dawn Chapter 47: For Humanity (1)
The background on the painting paper is the coffee shop she remembers on the coast of the Middle East, but the woman in the painting is not the Wang Qingran she saw in the window.
Wang Qingran has waist-length hair. Because of her work, she had her long hair wrapped around her head, neat and clean. When she went to an appointment that day, Qingran was in a hurry and naturally had no time to take care of it. long hair.
However, the woman in the painting, with three thousand blue silks hanging down to her ankles, has a very beautiful face and a very indifferent expression. When looking into the distance, people feel as if she will go home at any time.
Qing Ran couldn't help reaching out and wanted to touch the drawing paper in the picture, but the screen in front of her turned into black and white as usual. When her fingertips were about to touch it, it turned into powder and dissipated in the air.
Her fingertips slowly retracted, her arms drooped weakly, the corners of her lips pursed slightly, her eyes seemed to be trying to suppress something, but it was hard to see.
"Host, do I need to get out of my emotions?"
"No need." After a long time, Qing Ran's answer came.
She stood there, her back straight, her eyelashes slightly drooping, and she stared blankly at the ground.
The system stood not far behind her and stared at her back. He looked down at his palm, clenched his fist, and looked a little stunned.
He doesn't understand human emotions very well. Although he has communicated with several systems, he still cannot personally experience the complex emotions of human beings, and most of the systems are only on paper, with rich theoretical experience. Maybe they did experience a lot of the world, but they just watched it all as bystanders, and didn't really feel the so-called human emotions.
But at the moment when the screen dimmed, the emotions that erupted from Qingran seemed to be able to be transmitted to his body, making him want to reach out and hug her tightly.
But he knows that the best thing to do at this time is to wait quietly, waiting for Qing Ran to adjust herself, just like every time before.
It's just that this time is extraordinarily long.
Qingran didn't finish a mission and was able to rest for three days. In the past, Qingran rarely used these three days, but this time, it was the first time that Qingran did not proceed to the next mission immediately after completing the mission.
"I'm going out for a walk," she said, pushing open the door of the mission space in front of the system for the first time.
Outside the door is a long white corridor with no end in sight.
Newly arrived missionaries generally cannot open the door of the mission space, and even if they do, they will not have the courage to set foot on this white corridor.
What people fear most is neither darkness nor light, but boundlessness and no end.
Mortals tirelessly pursue longevity because their lives are limited, and they lament that too many beautiful things are powerless to possess, while vampires often choose to consume their long lives by sleeping, because when everything is inexhaustible, All colors will be consumed in time.
A life without color, no matter how long it is, is nothing but pale and unable to find the slightest happiness.
Actually, it only takes seven steps to actually go outside from the mission space, but because of the evil taste of 123 romances, these seven steps have been magnified to an incomparably long time. a feeling of.
……
In the lively square, people in different clothes come and go. There is a man in rags like a beggar squatting on the side of the road, with a pile of strange things in front of him, and a warrior with a golden armor on the back. The heavy sword hurriedly passed through the crowd.
When the fountain in the center of the square lit up, everyone stopped their movements and turned to stare at the location of the fountain.
The figure of a woman is looming in the upward gushing spring, and whispering voices begin to emerge from the crowd.
"Lord Mayfly."
"It's Lord Mayfly."
"My God, I thought Lord Mayfly was dead."
……
A foot in an embroidered shoe stretched out from the spring and stepped on the ground without dripping water. Someone held their breath, waiting for the woman to reveal her true face from the fountain.
Qing Ran didn't expect to see such a big battle when she came out.
She glanced at the crowd, and the whispers that had been very low in the crowd were instantly quiet, as if a needle could be heard in the crowd.
The next second, her figure disappeared, leaving only an ordinary fountain in place, and the crowd gradually became noisy.
"Ah! It's really the legendary Mayfly!"
"Beautiful, she deserves to be the number one goddess!"
“Ow ooh…”
Excited voices from the crowd sounded one after another, and the newcomers who had just entered the main **** space did not know the truth and pulled the people around them to ask about the situation.
Someone pointed to a suspended stone tablet above the fountain and said, "Did you see it?"
"What did you see?" someone asked suspiciously.
As soon as he looked up, his mouth widened.
On the stele, there are hundreds of names lined up from top to bottom. The word mayfly is neither at the top nor at the bottom, but in the middle, but it is the most conspicuous.
Because of all the names, the word mayfly is obviously more than one size larger than other names, and the color is also a distinctive red, so conspicuous that it is almost impossible to ignore it.
The name Mayfly is not always so special at the beginning. No one in the main **** space knows the specific reason for the change, but all the missionaries who entered the main **** space before this change know that on the day this change happened, Unprecedented turmoil occurred in the main **** space, and all the taskers who were doing the task were forced to cut off contact with the system for ten days.
What happened later was very simple. The mayfly, which had been hovering around a hundred all year round, seemed to have suddenly been beaten by chicken blood. It has steadily risen at a rate of several numbers a day, and now it has risen to the top ten.
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"Mayfly, long time no see." The beautiful woman slowly poured the tea into the cup, and the white smoke curled up in the tea room. The face of the woman sitting opposite her was blurred in the mist, but her eyebrows were even more visible. It's cold, as if it doesn't belong to this world.
"Long time no see." Qing Ran said lightly.
"You haven't come to see me for a long time." The woman pouring tea sat on her knees opposite Qingran. She was wearing a yellow cheongsam. Although her appearance was not top-notch, her aura was extremely comfortable. In front of Qingran, she wouldn't make people feel inferior to Qingran.
"You think of him again?" the woman asked.
Qing Ran cast her eyes out of the window, her face was always light, but a woman who was familiar with her could see her emotions from the subtle fluctuations in her eyes.
"I met him," she said, the depression in her voice only heard by the woman sitting in front of her.
"He is already dead." The woman in yellow said calmly, with a slight smile on her face.
An extremely subtle struggle appeared on Qing Ran's face. The woman in yellow knew that it wasn't that she didn't know this fact, she just didn't want to believe it.
It took a long time before she said, "I know."
She drank the tea from the cup like a cow chewing peony, turned and walked out.
The woman in yellow watched her go away. Behind her, a sign became clear.
"Forget your worries."
Forgetting sorrow is not to make people forget their sorrows, but to overwhelm them in their hearts, so that they will never ask again if they are dissatisfied with the dust.
……
When Qingran returned to the mission space, the system found that her mood was much more stable.
"Next task..."
The icy electronic sound was interrupted halfway through, the system recovered and looked at her in confusion.
"Don't panic," said Qing Ran, "there is still something to do."
"What's the matter?" The system asked suspiciously.
"Your name has not been taken yet." Qing Ran said.
"You said..." The system's little face suddenly flushed, "You said you wanted to name me?"
His eyes widened, disbelief and surprise on his face.
"Have you thought of a name for yourself?" Qing Ran asked.
The system stammered, "No, no."
He looked at her expectantly: "Can the host get me one?"
"It's called..." Qing Ran pondered, she suddenly reached out and rubbed the system's head, "It's called Wuque."
"All my life, I have nothing to lose."
Don't be like me, if you're missing a piece, you can't make it up.
……
Qing Ran opened her eyes in a liquid. With the memory in her mind, she pressed the switch beside her, the silver liquid slowly receded in front of her eyes, and a glass cover was lifted.
"Gu Qingran, are you awake?" a cold voice asked, Qingran sat up, turned her stiff neck, and looked at the man with glasses sitting next to the experimental bench. Ask, "How do you feel?"
"Very good." Qing Ran nodded.
This body is completely different from the dilapidated body of Wang Qingran in the previous mission. This body is surging with surging vitality, and every cell is strong and powerful. She tried to clench her fist. The feeling of conquering the world comes from the hand.
While obediently following the glasses man's instructions to test her physical fitness on various instruments, she recalled in her mind the plot passed to her by the system.
This is a world in the interstellar age, but people's survival is greatly threatened by the existence of the Zerg. Mechas produced by existing technology do not have any advantages in the face of Zerg, and although the new type of mecha is almost hundreds of times more powerful than traditional mechas, it will drain people's mental power at the moment when it comes into play. Until the moment of last resort, human beings will not easily use the new mecha to ruin the lives of the few people who can control the mecha.
In order to successfully control the new mecha, the human beings who were cornered came up with a plan to modify human genes, and Gu Qingran was one of the people who participated in this plan.
She was originally the eldest young lady of an ancient martial arts family, with a dream of saving mankind, so she secretly participated in this plan without telling her family, and volunteered to be a guinea pig for the experiment.
The genetic modification of human beings has been very successful. It stands to reason that human beings should embark on the road of rise from now on. However, because of a troop fighting outside, they jumped to the vicinity of the base with a large number of Zerg when they jumped, and directly destroyed the base. , leading to the destruction of precious genetically modified materials in this battle.
"Li Wanru, with the help of Song Qingyan, successfully restored the data of the genetic modification program, allowing humans to re-implement the genetic modification program. The modified humans are more adaptable to the new type of mecha, and officially launched a counterattack against the Zerg..."
"However, due to the delay in the implementation of the genetic project for almost ten years, the number of human beings is already in jeopardy, and the Zerg finally devoured the human race by the number..."
"Your mission is to prevent the base from being destroyed."