Barrier of Light

The mountain road of Xiaohuang Mountain.

The wheelchair slowly rolled over the dead leaves.

Time slowed down, and the glow of the setting sun stretched the shadows.

"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 when he closes his eyes and opens them again, there are countless trivial matters lined up waiting for him to deal with... But the real reason why he didn't come to this small barren mountain was not because he was busy with business.

But 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 Hua Zhi stand on top of the world together.

Fast forward many years, and we meet again.

He had white hair, while Lu Cheng was already a handful of dirt.

This is always the case.

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 in the outside world, and there are different opinions, 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 within it has not yet been answered.

While escaping from pursuit... the bronze box that Lao Lu left behind was destroyed. It seemed like a good thing at the time, 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 it 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 it is also Dongzhou's biggest regret. 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, it will be tested within a controllable range before it is officially promulgated. We will establish 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 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 smiled hoarsely, "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 the look on Lu Nanzhi's face at this moment.

"For Wuzhou, Dongzhou is a small expendable part."

"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 to use 'change'." Zhao Xilai smiled softly, "I remember what I saw in the library a long time ago... Before the birth of mankind, 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 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 power to control their own destiny, and they cannot refuse the arrival of the stone."

"Of course, these may be just a story and not true, 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 uttered the words from the Alternate 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."

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