The mountain trail of Xiaohuang Mountain.

The wheelchair slowly rolled over the dead leaves.

Time became very slow, and the glow of the setting sun stretched the shadows very long.

"I've always wanted to come here to see..."

The old man was sitting in a wheelchair, looking at the dry and withered scenes on both sides of the mountains and forests, and murmured softly: "Actually, it's not that I don't have time."

As the most powerful councilor in the metropolitan area, he is filled with various agendas 24 hours a day. Every day he closes his eyes and opens them again, there are countless trivial matters waiting for him to deal with...

But the real reason why I didn't set out to come to this small barren mountain was not because I was busy with business.

It's because of the shame in my heart.

No one in this world can understand Zhao Xilai's mood at this moment.

He looked at the trees on both sides slowly receding. This was the barren mountain tomb of his old friend. Many years ago, the two had made an appointment to make Huazhi stand on top of the world together.

Many years passed by and we met again.

His hair was all white, while Lu Cheng was already a handful of dirt.

This is always the case in the world.

Most things in this world cannot go as planned or as expected.

We are happy when we meet, but it is hard to be happy when we meet again.

After the massacre in Lion Lane, the Zhao family took over the Huazhi Building... Regarding Lu Cheng's death, there are many mysteries and different opinions from the outside world, but in fact, only a few people can probably guess the real cause.

Zhao Xilai is one of them.

"Qin Ye is dead."

“The transcontinental ruling is cancelled.”

"The Tower of Source expressed no knowledge of the contents of the old case file."

Lu Nanzhi pushed the old man and slowly walked towards the top of the mountain. She asked softly: "Everything seems to be over...but in fact, is it really like this?"

The murder case in Lion Lane seems to have come to light.

But the mystery hidden inside it has not been solved yet.

While escaping from pursuit... the bronze box that Lao Lu left behind was destroyed. At the time, it seemed like a good thing, but looking back now, after the bronze box was destroyed, all the technical information of Lion Alley was lost.

This is a significant loss.

It also made it impossible to trace the secret that Lu Nanzhi wanted to explore most.

"I won't beat around the bush." ​​The lady looked at the ray of light hidden on the top of the mountain and asked seriously: "You should know what the lion awakening technology is... Is the 'Awakening Act' that the federal government is about to implement derived from this?

"

"..."

The old man was silent for a while.

"Relevant experiments have been ongoing on the ninth floor of Huazhi... After today, your authority will be enough to go in and check it out for yourself."

The lady was startled.

What does this mean?

Do you want to give Huazhi's authority to yourself?

Zhao Xilai just smiled and continued: "Whether you believe it or not, I actually don't know much about Lao Lu's lion awakening technology. I only know that it is the life-long effort of a genius and the biggest regret of Dongzhou. It has not been born yet.

It was several years before Huazhi received the awakening technology handed over by the federal government... After this project was handed over to Tsukauki and the professional research team, all we can do is invest money, and

Waiting for the results.”

Now, he has nothing to lie or hide.

This is also the reason why Huazhi fought against the odds and fought tooth and nail to implement the Awakening Act in the Dongzhou region.

"Huazhi has invested too much financial resources in the implementation and preparation of the bill... This is the guidance and warning given by [Deep Sea] to the crisis of destroying the five continents, and it is also a huge gamble on the future destiny of all mankind, as you can see

, the number of black spots appearing in the Five Continents is increasing and the speed is getting faster and faster. This is due to the proliferation of a large amount of free extraordinary source matter."

With a low cough, Zhao Xilai said: "If the awakening can be controlled, it means... that the extraordinary source of matter will be absorbed in large quantities."

"Then... human social civilization will be pushed into an unpredictable situation." Lu Nanzhi retorted calmly: "Once it starts, there is no turning back."

The old man shrugged and said: "If the bill passes the review of parliament, before it is officially promulgated, it will be tested within a controllable range. We will establish a fault-tolerant closed-loop ecosystem... and then in this ecological environment

In order to control the gradual awakening of the survivors, [Deep Sea] needs further data to calculate and speculate on what level the entire human society needs to awaken to in order to cope with the danger of order collapse."

Lu Nanzhi was completely silent.

"It's unreasonable... It's simply crazy, right?" The old man's voice was hoarse and he smiled, "This is an answer we can't think of... Maybe this is the difference between super brains and humans. It only considers the results. If it is to save greater

It is acceptable for a part of the group to sacrifice a small part."

No need to look back.

He also knew what the look on Lu Nanzhi's face was at this moment.

"For Wuzhou, Dongzhou is a small part that can be sacrificed."

"For Dongzhou... there is also a small part that can be cut off."

"The real difficulty of the so-called 'trolley problem' is that the number on both sides of the track is not fixed. Human beings have to go through countless choices, and there are always heavy and light ends at both ends of the scale."

"So... sometimes, we have no choice. Let's put it another way."

"What does it have to do with sacrificing you?"

This is where the Awakening Act is cruel.

"The word 'sacrifice' is not accurate. Maybe it would sound better if I replaced it with 'change'." Zhao Xilai smiled softly, "I remember seeing it in the library a long time ago... Before the birth of human beings, this land

There were very strong reptiles living on the earth, with strong limbs, long tails, and huge bodies. For some reason, they were all destroyed."

Lu Nanzhi frowned.

"What changed them... is said to be a stone that fell from the sky."

"The sad thing is that they have no right to control their own destiny, and they cannot refuse the arrival of the stone."

"Of course, these may be just a story and should not be taken seriously, but the same thing happened today, but we are stronger and more intelligent than those things."

"That stone... we have the power to decide when it will fall and where it will fall. Part of it will fall first, and then part of it will fall..."

Zhao Xilai murmured softly: "Although it will be ugly when this stone falls, at least we can escape the fate of 'genocide'."

Speaking of which.

He asked seriously: "So... after listening to this, are you still firmly opposed to the Awakening Act?"

"Yes."

Lu Nanzhi didn't hesitate at all.

She said the words at the candidate ceremony.

"I...object."

"Why?" The old man sighed softly.

He couldn't understand that the young man he admired the most was so hesitant and pitiful when faced with this choice of the fate of the community. Did he not want someone to sacrifice?

"It's very simple."
Chapter completed!