Earth Era

The monkey was still chirping there. After attracting Xiao Yun's attention, it finally stopped chirping, and then threw a round object, about the size of a small orange, at Xiao Yun's feet. Xiao Yun squatted down and observed it, and found that it was probably a wild fruit.

Xiao Yun picked up the thing, wiped it casually and put it in his mouth. It tastes sour and sweet in the mouth. Although the taste is much worse than those fruits specially cultivated by humans, it has an original and fresh taste.

"Are you here to deliver fruit to me?" Xiao Yun said with a smile. The monkey scurried around on the ground a few times, tentatively came to Xiao Yun's feet, then grabbed Xiao Yun's trouser leg with one paw, raised his head and looked at Xiao Yun with a pair of clear eyes, full of prayer.

Xiao Yun sighed and walked towards the courtyard. The monkey squatted on the railing and waited quietly. After a while, Xiao Yun took out the biscuits, and the monkey screamed with joy.

"Eat it." Xiao Yun handed the biscuit to the monkey, and the monkey squatted on the railing and started eating. Xiao Yun stood behind the railing, staring at the boundless darkness in front of him.

Although there are still various emotions tumbling in his heart, the desire to die has faded.

Xiao Yun has been standing here, staring into the distance in a daze. The monkey started to play after eating the biscuits. It kept jumping around Xiao Yun, and sometimes swept Xiao Yun's hair with its soft tail. Xiao Yun's mood gradually relaxed amidst the constant silence.

I don’t know how long I stood here, but the boundless and thick darkness in front of me suddenly changed a little. Suddenly a soft light appeared on the horizon, giving this dark world a little more brilliance. It is like a magic sword, splitting this dark world with just one sword.

The world in front of me suddenly began to change. It seemed that at this moment, everything was different. Xiao Yun smelled the unique fragrance of the grass and trees in the summer morning, felt the gentle touch brought by the warm and moist air, and saw the somewhat thrilling and beautiful scenery of this world.

A red sun has passed over the continuous mountain peaks in the east, casting its light onto Xiao Yun's face. Xiao Yun raised his head and looked at the soft sun, his eyes full of confusion. But after a while, Xiao Yun's vision became clear. Xiao Yun exhaled heavily, then turned around, looked at the monkey and said, "Monkey, thank you."

The monkey was still playing alone, ignoring Xiao Yun. Xiao Yun smiled and turned back to the courtyard.

Time goes on, life... also goes on.

Xiao Yun simply ate some breakfast and then fell asleep. He slept until night. When it got dark, Xiao Yun moved a chair to the open space in front of the courtyard. He sat there leisurely and comfortably like an old man enjoying the cool air. The monkey was still surrounding him. Beside Xiao Yun. Sometimes it will disappear, but it will always appear again, and every time it appears, it will bring something to Xiao Yun, either wild fruits, roots of certain plants with soil, or some fundamental roots. Just unrecognizable stuff. Xiao Yun would always accept these things, and then generously take out biscuits and give them to it.

In this way, Xiao Yun lived a life of sleeping day and night, resting during the day, and sitting here at night facing the darkness and meditating quietly. Time passes day by day. In the mountain forest, the leaves of the trees turn from green to yellow, and then fall from the trees. The weeds under the feet also wither and die. The weather becomes colder day by day, but because of the micro-ecological maintenance system Because of its existence, Xiao Yun's place is still as warm as spring.

As the weather got colder, the monkey brought fewer and fewer things to Xiao Yun, and eventually there was nothing left. In the end, the monkey just stayed with Xiao Yun and never left. Xiao Yun has an extra pet in his lunch box, and he gives it a little bit when he eats. The rest of the time, Xiao Yun sits there thinking, and the monkey plays next to Xiao Yun.

These past few months have been peaceful. Except for a few visits by aircraft delivering supplies, Xiao Yun has not had any contact with anyone from the outside world, and no one from the outside world has contacted Xiao Yun. It seems that the world has forgotten Xiao Yun, and Xiao Yun seems to have forgotten the whole world.

Xiao Yun had seen General Emerk on TV and the Internet. Since that speech, the self-government has been functioning as General Emerk said, and people have been living as General Emerk said - people have each chosen a different life to spend this last moment. For a period of time, some people went crazy and were in a state of intoxication every day. Some people began to travel around the world, alone or in small groups, driving autonomous aircraft to and from various beautiful places on the earth all day long. In the past, At that time, due to the implementation of extremely strict ecological protection policies, many places on the earth were restricted areas and ordinary people could not go there at all. But now, they can enjoy them and enjoy them. Some people believe in religion and place all their hearts on gods in order to seek peace of mind. Some people form various societies and indulge in various hobbies such as calligraphy, painting, and literature all day long. among.

The autonomous government has also kept its promise. Here, people have maximum freedom. Except for a few restrictions, the autonomous government will not interfere with any of people's choices.

The Civilized Guard was also formed while General Emerk was busy. To Xiao Yun's expectation, the number of applicants for the Civilized Guard exceeded 500,000. However, due to certain restrictions, General Emerk went through many screenings and finally selected 200,000 people to enter the Civilized Guard. Among the guards. As a result, these two hundred thousand people embarked on a completely different path from others and lived a completely different life.

Things about the Civilized Guard are often reported in the news, so Xiao Yun can also understand the dynamics of the Civilized Guard in real time. Xiao Yun heard General Emerk's passionate speech at the founding meeting of the Guard, saw the daily training of the Guard, and sometimes saw Guard soldiers driving spaceships to simulate combat around the earth.

This is an army that has never appeared in the history of human civilization. The average age of soldiers in this army is 190 years old, and the average education level is college, but the majors are very miscellaneous and there are basically no military-related subjects. This makes General Emmerk’s training very difficult - because These people had no concept of modern interstellar warfare before. General Emerk had to teach them from the most basic level, patiently teaching them how to control the spacecraft, how to respond to various situations, how to cooperate, how to coordinate, how to allocate firepower and energy, etc. In fact, if the military experts of the fugitive government had not drawn up a detailed training outline for the Civilized Guard and conducted regular remote training, the Civilized Guard would not even be able to fly spaceships by now - although these remain on the earth. The spaceships are all old models that have been eliminated long ago, and their operation is far simpler than modern advanced spaceships.

War is a highly professional matter. In the past human civilization, if you wanted to become a soldier, you had to undergo at least fifteen years of professional training, and this was just an ordinary soldier on a spaceship. Only after you have experienced actual spaceship battles and learned enough strategic and tactical skills can you become the captain of a small spaceship. For General Emerk, this system is obviously impossible to achieve.

General Emerk only hoped that when the enemy arrived, the soldiers of the Civilized Guard could fly the spaceship, strictly carry out their orders without panicking and fleeing, and launch an attack on the enemy. This was enough.

In the early days of the formation of the army, there were the most things and the most difficult progress, so General Emerk's hair became grayer day by day, but General Emerk's spirit remained strong. Xiao Yun felt that General Emerk's spirit was abnormally high. It felt like... he was burning his own life.

Xiao Yun originally wanted to persuade General Emerk, but after thinking about it, Xiao Yun gave up this plan. Burn as much as you can while you still have life. Don't wait until your life is taken away by the enemy, and you won't be able to burn even if you want to.

In fact, he is not just General Emerk, but also himself?

When I get up every evening, I see myself in the mirror with a wisp of gray hair. The wrinkles on my face are getting more and more deep, my eyes are getting haggard, and my body is far worse than before. But his daily thinking never stopped, Xiao Yun... was also burning his own vitality.

At this moment, several months have passed since the escape from the government car to the earth, and the communication delay between the two parties is getting higher and higher. Now it is becoming more and more difficult to browse the communities whose server architecture is in the escape fleet. Therefore, Xiao Yun has gone less often recently, but he still maintains the frequency of going every three to five days. Because Xiao Yun wants to know more about the dynamics of human civilization.

Xiao Yun received a very bad news when he logged into the community today. This news made Xiao Yun feel heavy.

"There was a defection on the space island 3178. A gang of five people was stopped by the police while robbing the supply team. The gang immediately escaped. In desperation, the gang stole a civilian spacecraft. He left the fleet without authorization and fled into the vast space... At present, the military has dispatched warships to conduct a search. For more information, please see our follow-up report..." (To be continued~^~)