Bulwark of Light

Chapter 267
The mountain road of the small barren mountain.

The wheelchair rolled over the dead leaves slowly.

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..."

Sitting in a wheelchair, the old man looked at the dry and withered scene on both sides of the forest, and murmured softly: "Actually, it's not that I don't have time."

As the member of parliament with the most authority in the metropolitan area, he is full of various agendas for 24 hours. Every day when he closes his eyes and opens them again, there are countless trivial matters waiting in line for him to deal with... But no The real reason for setting off to this small barren mountain is not because of busy affairs.

But because of the shame in my heart.

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

He watched the trees on both sides receding slowly. This is the barren mountain tomb of an old friend from the past. Many years ago, the two met and wanted to let Huaqi stand on top of the world together.

After many years, we meet again.

He has white hair all over his head, while Lu Cheng is already a pile of loess.

This is always the case.

Most of the things in this world cannot be fulfilled as promised or as expected.

We are happy when we meet, but we are not happy when we meet again.

After the Lion Lane massacre, the Zhao family took over Huazhi Mansion... There are many mysteries and different opinions about Lu Cheng's death, but in fact, there are only a few people who can probably guess the real reason.

Zhao Xilai is one of them.

"Qin Ye is dead."

"Intercontinental ruling cancelled."

"The Tower of Origin has no knowledge of the contents of the old file."

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

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

But the mystery hidden in it has not yet been answered.

While escaping from pursuit... the bronze box left by Lao Lu was destroyed. It was a good thing at the time, but looking at it now, after the bronze box was destroyed, all the technical information on Lion Lane was lost.

This is a major loss.

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

"I won't go around in circles." Madam looked at the ray of twilight hidden on the top of the mountain, and asked earnestly: "You should know what the Lion Awakening Technology is... Is the 'Awakening Act' that the federal government will implement soon born out of this? "

"..."

The old man was silent for a while.

"The ninth floor of Huaqi has been carrying out related experiments... After today, your authority is enough to go in and check for yourself."

Madam was startled.

What does it mean?
Is this to hand over Huaqi's authority to himself?
Zhao Xilai just smiled, and continued: "Believe it or not, in fact, I only know nothing about Lao Lu's lion awakening technique. I only know that this is a genius' life-long painstaking effort, and it is also Dongzhou's biggest regret. Dead belly. It has been several years since Huazhi received the awakening technology handed over by the federal government... After this project is handed over to Tsukashi and the professional research team, what we can do is to invest money, and Waiting for the results."

Now he had nothing to lie and hide.

This is also the reason why Huazhi fought with his back and tried his best to implement the Awakening Act in the Dongzhou region.

"Huaqi 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 the collapse of the five continents, and it is also a gamble that weighs on the future fate 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, which is due to the proliferation of a large number of free extraordinary source quality."

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

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

The old man shrugged and said: "If the bill passes the review of the parliament, before it is officially promulgated, it will be put in a controllable experiment. We will build a fault-tolerant closed-loop ecosystem... and then in this ecological environment In order to control the survivors to gradually awaken, [Deep Sea] needs further data to calculate and speculate on what level of awakening the entire human society needs to be able to cope with the danger of order collapse.”

Lu Nanzhi was completely silent.

"Unreasonable...it's crazy, right?" the old man smiled hoarsely, "this is an answer we can't think of... maybe this is the difference between super brain and human beings. It only considers the result, if in order to save a larger Part of the group, sacrificing a small part is acceptable."

Don't look back.

He also knew the look on Lu Nanzhi's face at the 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 so-called 'trolley problem', the real difficulty is that the number of two sides of the track is not fixed, human beings have to go through countless choices, and the two ends of the balance always have heavy and light."

"So...sometimes, we have no choice, just another word."

"Sacrificing you, what does it have to do with you?"

This is where the Awakening Act is brutal.

"The word 'sacrifice' is not accurate, maybe it would be better to change it to 'change'." Zhao Xilai smiled softly, "I remember what I saw in the library a long time ago... before the birth of human beings, this vast land There were very strong reptiles living on the ground, with strong limbs, long tails, and huge bodies, and for some reason, they all perished."

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, nor can they refuse the arrival of that stone."

"Of course, these may all be just stories and not be taken as true, but the same thing is happening today, except that we are stronger and more intelligent than those things."

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

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

Speaking of which.

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

"Yes."

Lu Nanzhi didn't hesitate at all.

She uttered the sentence at the election 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 merciful when faced with the choice of the fate of the community. Didn't he want someone to sacrifice?
"It's simple."

Lu Nanzhi said calmly: "I think that stone hanging over the fate of mankind... is a lie of [Deep Sea]."

(End of this chapter)