The world-devouring dragon

When Hase Kara stepped into the Public Security Bureau, he saw only one person, a handsome young man who was extremely drunk.

"Fafa Chipu resigned."

The young man opened his hazy eyes, raised his glass as usual, and laughed.

On the side, there is a video message of a young girl. In the video, she looks very haggard, but she still manages to smile.

"I'm sorry, I think... I really can't bear it anymore. I really can't work in the past few days. Now I just want to go home to be with my sister and spend these last three days quietly."

"Jerome, Gallo, I hope you can spend the last three days happily..."

In the low voice, the video message disappeared, and finally, only two people were left in the entire Public Security Department.

Jerome held the bottle and drank.

His cheeks were slightly red. God knows how much wine he drank to make an interstellar human drunk.

Frustration, despair, and numbness are emotions that permeate the entire ring world. Needless to say, this kind of emotion will be felt by other humans in the ring world where everyone has spiritual energy. The despair of the 20 billion human beings in the entire ring world has reached the point where spiritual energy can comfort it. The fog continued to fall day and night to the point where it could not be suppressed.

Suicide, violence, indulgence...

Thousands of these behaviors occur all over the world all the time. There are trillions of people in an entire administrative district, but there are only two people left in the Public Security Department. It seems miserable, but in some administrative areas, as early as a few months Before that, the order had completely collapsed and fell into a doomsday scene.

Now it is difficult for the empire to maintain order, and the decline of the empire can be seen throughout the galaxy. Instead, what the empire can rely on are those self-disciplined machines.

Hasegaro remained calm, but Jerome stared blankly at the bottle in his hand, silent for a long time, then glanced at Hasegaro and said.

"Would you like to go out with me for a walk?"

…

In the huge city, tracks and roads on the ground extend in all directions, like dragons and snakes swimming around; and above the city, the huge anti-gravity city projects artificial light, making the city below seem to be in daylight.

Towering buildings on the ground and inverted buildings in the sky are like arrays of spears and halberds facing each other, forming a strange and spectacular scene.

From here, it is impossible to walk beyond the city limits because it is so big. More than a trillion humans live in this huge urban agglomeration covering an area of ​​400,000 square kilometers.

But this administrative district, which used to be extremely prosperous, is now empty.

Except for the two police officers who had just arrived, as far as the eye could see, there were only some self-disciplined machines that were still working in this huge city, and there were no other living things.

The air was filled with spiritual energy spray, trying to suppress the almost boiling spiritual energy tide, but even so, the two of them could still feel the vague aura of despair. Despair permeated the entire ring world.

"Sir, please return to your home. This will be your last moment with your relatives and friends..."

At this time, a wheel-shaped autonomous machine flew in front of the two of them and issued a series of promotional sentences with a mechanical sound.

The stay-at-home order was enforced two days ago. Except for a few people who go out for special reasons, the vast majority of humans will no longer be allowed to go out.

Although the self-disciplined machines are still polite at the moment, once someone violently resists, emergency measures will be taken immediately and they will be forcibly deported to their own homes. In the surroundings, the self-disciplined machines that were cleaning have also vaguely surrounded them.

Faced with this scene, Jerome just raised his hands.

A burst of invisible psychic energy waves spread out, triggering a special psychic energy key. The command light of the autonomous machine flashed a few times and then made a mechanical sound again.

"Hello Sheriff Jerome, you have been granted special attendance permissions. You will be able to move around freely within one hour after the key is triggered...Thank you for your cooperation."

After identifying the two people, the wheel-shaped autonomous machine automatically left, and the other autonomous machines also resumed their previous actions.

There were only two people left on the empty street again.

"Is there anything you want to say?"

Hasegara asked.

He realized that Jerome was unnatural today and seemed to have something to say.

Looking at the empty city in front of him over and over again with complicated eyes, Jerome shook his head.

"A month ago, you asked me what my story was like, but I didn't tell you. Are you interested in hearing it now?"

"I'm interested in hearing it."

Jerome glanced at Hasegaro behind him.

"Then continue to follow me."

The ion engine under their feet ejected light blue light, and then flew towards the target at a hundred times the speed of sound...

The shallow energy layer on his body shielded him from the impact of the outside world, while underneath him, the city cluster formed a blurred afterimage, and the earth was rapidly stretched and thinned in his sight, turning into a series of floating phantoms.

10 kilometers, 20 kilometers, 30 kilometers... 50 kilometers... 100 kilometers...

After flying for several minutes and thousands of kilometers, the two stopped.

Underfoot is a huge urban agglomeration, a huge urban agglomeration that is no less than the administrative district of TVIK-6395465.

The dense high-rise buildings and dense road network all prove the prosperity of the past, but that is the past.

Today, there are only endless urban ruins as far as the eye can see.

Strange and huge plants are entangled around the city, and unknown beasts are wandering in the city. Those huge floating cities have already crashed due to lack of maintenance. Not far away, there is a huge floating city that crashed over the city. remains.

Civilization and wilderness are now integrated.

TVIK-6395056 Administrative District, an administrative district with a similar number but was abandoned many years ago, and all the residents have already left.

The area of ​​​​the ruins of this urban agglomeration is so huge that even if you walk from the center of the ruins for a year, you will not be able to reach the end. However, such huge urban ruins have never been repaired, because above the ring world, like this There are too many ruins in the city.

When a city is reduced to ruins, humans will not repair it, but will only think about finding a new place to live.

Even though most of the Ring World has been reduced to wasteland, urban ruins, jungles, and no-man's land, this small half of the Ring World can still easily accommodate 20 billion humans. Even in these more than a thousand years, the entire Ring World has been squandering the legacy of its ancestors. There has been almost no new construction, and it has never been able to squander the huge wealth left over from the [Golden Age].

In that early [Golden Age] of the ring world, human beings created so much glory that even if the order continued to collapse, it would be enough to leave descendants for endless years.

"What a magnificent ruin... but it's still a ruin, isn't it?"

Looking at the ruins, the corners of Jerome's mouth twitched, revealing a sarcastic smile.

If this ring world full of ruins is a big ruin, then the humans living on the ring world are undoubtedly people living in a big ruin.

Hasekara closed his eyes, as if he was feeling something.

In the ruins, sporadic autonomous machines were monotonously repeating words such as "Abandoned area, please do not live in it." These self-disciplined machines have been promoted here for many years, and it looks like they will continue to be promoted, even if the end is three days away.

"About 20,000 galactic years ago, one of my ancestors came to the Sumor galaxy and participated in the construction of the earliest ring world..."

Jerome held the cigarette in his mouth, lit it expressionlessly, took a deep breath, and then exhaled a circle of smoke.

He did not use psychic energy waves to speak, but opened his mouth to speak rarely. Unlike his handsome appearance, his voice was very hoarse and he sounded very tired.

"At that time... there was no empire or republic yet. It was still dominated by a supreme scientific conference composed of scholars. Someone in that group of scholars proposed an idea to build a ring world. Then various loose human governments at that time participated, A large number of humans and machines were sent to participate in the construction. It seems that my ancestors were workers from one of the small regimes? Probably."

"Building the Ring World is a very, very long process. Humanity has never built such a huge project before or since. So, my ancestors asked their friends: 'How long do you think we will stay here?' 'At that time, his friend shook his head. Then the ancestor understood and said to his friend: 'I think we should settle down here.'"

"This is one of the few records left by my ancestors."

Jerome looked at the cigarette butt in his hand complicatedly, extinguished it, and then lit another one.

"So, a family was established..."

"After that, many, many years passed. The Supreme Scientific Council disappeared, the First Empire disappeared, and came to the Second Republic. My family was on the verge of destruction many times due to turmoil. Once, the only descendant was also reduced to On the wild planet, he almost became a barbarian and barely escaped. It was not until the year 18741 of the Galactic Calendar that the ring world was finally built."

"That year, 15,000 galactic years had passed since my ancestors came to the Sumor galaxy."

As he spoke, he pointed down with his hand and said calmly.

"This area, and even this whole world, was built by our family for generations."

"Two,787 generations, counting me, from my unknown ancestor to the present, it has been a full 2,787 generations. My family has been settling here since the world was repaired."

He raised his head, closed his eyes and fell into memories, murmuring.

"Sometimes, I really feel that our family is like a family made up of dead people. My two thousand generations of ancestors have always been around us. They never speak, but we know that they are always there and they are always silent. Watch us quietly, watch us quietly build the world, watch us build this TVIK-6395056 administrative district..."

The closed eyes opened again.

In a daze, he seemed to be able to see countless phantoms right in front of him. Those figures were male and female, old and young, but none of them could clearly see their appearance.

He knew that those were just illusions, an illusion that he was overwhelmed by the long history of his family, but he couldn't let himself not look at it, because he could see it, he could see the silent gaze of those figures.

Is it mercy? Is it loving kindness? Is it concern? Is it harsh criticism?

He didn't know, he only knew that the eyes of more than two thousand generations of ancestors were looking at him. They didn't speak, but they were looking at him.

"They're here, they've always been."

In front of those eyes, the 2787th generation descendant of this family weakly lowered his head and said softly.

"Then, just 400 years ago, administrative district TVIK-6395056 was abandoned..."

At my feet, on the solid road surface, a few grasses swayed gently.

The green grass was swaying like this, they were carefree, as if they were a huge taunt, taunting him and this ancient family.

He didn't know why, but these few grasses made him look more and more displeased. Gritting his teeth, nameless anger surged into his heart.

He stepped on it suddenly, stepped on it angrily, and cursed over and over again.

"Waste! Waste! Waste! They are all a bunch of fucking waste! This district is a joke! This world is a joke! Humanity is a joke! What the hell are we here for? What the hell are we here for? ? Everything is trash! Nothing can be done! Nothing can be done!"

"..."

He stepped on it, cursed and whimpered.

After a long time, he fell to the ground exhausted, with big letters lying on the ground.

"Hasegaya, my story is finished now. If you want me to return to my post, please give me the order quickly."

As he spoke, he closed his eyes.

But after a long time, he still could not hear the words from Changgu Jialuo.

Opening his eyes in confusion, Hase Garo was operating something on the watch in his hand.

"What are you doing?"

"Applying for TVIK-6395465 Sheriff Jerome to take one day off. After one day, he will return to work."

The cold voice remained the same.

Then, Hasekara looked at him.

"Tomorrow... I hope to see you at the Sheriff's Department again."

After saying that, the man turned and left.

Looking at the leaving figure, Jerome's eyes were complicated.

"Hope...to see me again."

…

“The ancestor asked his friend: ‘Are we about to create the world?’ The friend replied: ‘No, we are already creating the world’.”

——"Stories of Ancestors"

"Haha, so it seems that I can also be the God of Creation?"

In space, the young worker raised the bottle of wine in his hand and laughed at his friend's answer.

In the distance, next to the blue giant star, countless machines are creating miracles.

…

TVIK-6395465 Administrative District, nothing happened today.

There are still 2 days until the end.