Chapter 1059 The curtain of the past is the beginning of a new chapter
Chapter 1059 The curtain of the past is the prologue of the new
Applause, whistles, cheers, and shouts, the voices of the crowd resounded throughout the square.
No one commanded.
No one instigated.
And the waves of sound that rose one after another were all echoes from the bottom of everyone’s heart!
They defeated the wasteland!
They defeated their former selves!
Each of them was the dawn that dispelled the long night, the sun rising from the horizon!
”Long live the alliance!!!”
”Long live the new era!! ”
”Cheers to unity!! ”
”Cheers to the survivors!!!”
”Cheers to each of us!!!”
The resonance caused by the soul-stirring voice ignited the blood in everyone’s heart, and even General McLen standing in the audience couldn’t help but want to join in, but considering the political impact, he finally just clapped his hands lightly.
Unlike the East Empire officers who were holding their heads, most of the people in the enterprise didn’t have any idol baggage.
Especially Yi Chuan, who was standing aside, couldn’t help but shout along.
”Awesome–!”
He learned this word from the players.
Although he didn’t know what this word meant at first, he gradually understood its usage after using it more.
Captain Syms, who was clapping politely, glanced at this guy, exchanged glances with McLen without making any expression, and whispered to each other.
”Isn’t this guy from the Enterprise?”
”Those guys are like this, there’s no need to be surprised.”
McLen replied softly, paused for a moment and added his own opinion.
”Besides, cheering for the new era is actually nothing big. This is a good thing for everyone, including the Weyland people… personal opinion.”
Ignoring the surprised look of Captain Syms, McLen ended the topic.
In fact, His Majesty Saren may not care about their performance at this grand event.
After all, without the tacit approval of that majesty, the reformists he represented who learned from the alliance would not have appeared at all.
That lord was a truly wise and talented emperor. He did not strangle the progressive forces of the Eastern Empire in order to maintain his supreme power, but found a balance between the progressive forces and the conservative forces.
But this is exactly the problem.
Most of the Weilants could not accept radical changes deep down in their hearts… at least the Weilants who chose the East Empire could not accept it.
Even within the reform faction, they worshipped the orbital weapons and land-based naval guns of the Alliance.
They still need some time.
But General McLen believed that this time should not be too long, and at most three generations would be enough.
As long as he managed the New West Sail Port well enough…
Just as McLen was thinking this, two pairs of eyes not far away were staring at the East Empire delegation.
The owners of the two pairs of eyes were representatives of the Borneo Kingdom and the Mammoth Kingdom.
They stood on both sides of the audience.
One pair worshipped them as role models and prostrated themselves, while the other pair despised them from the bottom of their hearts as if they were evil spirits. There
are reasons for worship, and there are reasons for contempt.
In a sense, the Weilants are like a mirror, reflecting the divided spirit of the survivors of the Borneo Province.
Of course, the same is true in reverse. The Borneo people are also the mirrors of the Weilants.
They are like two sides of a coin.
Even if most people on both sides rarely notice it.
Unlike the Legion and the Enterprise, the representatives of the Academy were much calmer. Li Ke and Yang Kai standing in the audience were both calm and composed, as if everything was under control. This was
indeed the case.
As a neutral force in the wasteland, their plans behind the scenes were basically successful, and they did not sacrifice the interests of any survivors.
The most brilliant conspiracy was probably like this.
Instead of becoming enemies, they and the people they used became friends with the same interests.
In this way, they can also leave this planet with confidence. If they meet again in the next few thousand years, they may become allies to renew their previous relationship.
Of course, there have been some debates within the Academy recently, such as whether to continue the plan from 200 years ago.
And Dr. Conclusion’s instructions for this are that those who want to stay can stay, and those who want to follow him can follow him.
This is the best result.
The ark heading to the future could not accommodate everyone, so this can be regarded as an explanation to those who stay…
The cheers are still ringing in layers.
Unlike the different expressions in the audience, the joy expressed by the people in the square was much more consistent.
Wrench, who shouted “Long live the administrator”, was so excited that his face flushed, without any airs of the commander of the first army of the alliance.
The eager eyes were just like the first time he stood in front of Chu Guang with his chest puffed out and a wooden stick on his shoulder –
’Wrench, No. 006, sir! ‘
He still remembers to this day that it was the first time he really spoke face to face with the administrator who saved him from the hands of the plunderers.
The sir never looked down on him because of his humble origins, and even made him the captain of the guard.
From that moment on, he made up his mind to follow the sir for his whole life –
even though under the teachings of the sir, they no longer only used “loyalty” to demand their own virtues, and no longer called him “sir”.
Not only Wrench.
Lu Bei was the same.
Including the senior officers of the Second Army, the Third Army and the General Staff, and everyone in the Guards.
Most of them had been following Chu Guang for a long time, even before the birth of the Alliance.
In addition to the wastelanders who were saved by Shelter 404, many of them were even prisoners of the former.
For example, Vanus.
He was once a traditional Weyland officer, with RDX flowing in his veins. He was prepared for war from the moment he was born, and he had no doubts about the jungle law of the survival of the fittest that the Legion had instilled in his head since he was a child.
It was not until he built a not-so-beautiful house with his own bricks that he suddenly realized that the world was not just the part he saw. There were many other people living in places he could not see.
They were the cornerstone of the world.
If the vast majority of people in the entire civilization could not get the most basic equality, then the privileges of a few people were just castles in the air floating on the garbage dump.
It was from that moment that he had a new ideal in life.
Compared with the mansions, gold and fine wine that he had already enjoyed enough, he wanted to see what a new and more equal world would look like.
And that person did not disappoint his expectations and really let him see a new era that he had never seen before –
every day in the future was worth looking forward to for him…
Not only Vanus thought so, but also another beautiful figure standing in the crowd not far away.
The fiery red hair was like red maple leaves in autumn, falling on the shoulders like a waterfall.
Looking at Chu Guang standing under the monument, Xia Yan’s eyes were filled with three points of joy and appreciation, and the remaining seven points were emotions that she herself could not explain clearly.
Unlike others, including Xiaoyu and Pai, she did not have too many visions for the new world. The motivation that prompted her to work hard was not because of any grand goal, but just to help him.
After all, she had eaten so much of his food, so it was reasonable to do something.
And the kindness of the leg…
She had been alone since she was a child, living a day-to-day mercenary life. If nothing unexpected happened, she would probably die quietly in a corner where no one cared, just like most mercenaries in Boulder City.
In fact, she almost took this path, especially after losing a leg, she no longer had any illusions about the future.
However, when she gave up on herself, that person did not abandon her who had already given up on herself, but half-jokingly said to her, “If you don’t study hard, throw her out.”
Of course, he never did this once, and never fulfilled those cruel words that he had said more than once. Instead, after the most difficult period was over, he sent her and Xiaoyu to Camp 101 to study when they were still in the right semester.
Looking back now, that was probably the first ray of light she saw from the darkness of her life…
so much so that sometimes she couldn’t help but wonder if her father was still alive, would he be as strict and kind as him.
Although it was a little different from the future she had imagined, she eventually became a better person
after learning something in Camp 101. She never thought that she, who could not read a single word, would have the opportunity to become an engineer and work with other engineers to design the first self-developed power armor of the Alliance.
Every day in the future is worth looking forward to, even if she doesn’t have any particularly lofty ideals.
”Thank you…”
”I hope I can help you.”
Not far from her, Alyssa’s excited little face flushed, contrary to her usual well-educated and polite appearance, she clapped her hands red with excitement.
She finally waited for this day.
After the collapse of the building in the inner city, she once again witnessed the arrival of a new era –
this moment was the same as the future she imagined.
After liberating the city, the survivors outside the Boulder City finally ushered in a glorious liberation.
From now on, they will no longer distinguish each other.
And it’s not just Qingquan City, all the people who unite will be like this.
When everyone realizes it, the unimagined future has arrived unexpectedly.
She is happy for him from the bottom of her heart.
Not only Alyssa, but also Xiaoyu who is beside her is also emotional.
The skinny girl has grown into a graceful young lady.
She didn’t expect that Brother Chu still remembered things from so long ago. She couldn’t help but cover her mouth.
However, even if she tried to restrain her moved emotions, her eyes couldn’t help but be covered with a layer of flashing tears.
”It’s hopeless, it’s hopeless… This guy has been brainwashed.” Pai next to him shook his head in self-abandonment, looking at Xiaoyu who was full of “Brother Chu” and could only complain helplessly.
However-
it’s no wonder that the wastelanders on this land regard him as a god on earth.
Actually, think about it, he is right.
Most shelters either mess up things and blame the people below for not executing well, or adapt to the wasteland and hide in a corner.
Indeed, few people burn themselves like them, again and again.
But then again, others can’t do it either, right?
Of course, even so, it is undeniable that they have done something remarkable.
This legendary experience may become the first chapter of a great epic…
In the corner of the square, Yin Fangzheng stood side by side with Qi Liu, the director of the Academy’s Investigation Department.
The latter used to be his boss’s boss’s…boss, in short, his position was so high that he could not even see him.
But now the two of them are on an equal footing.
Strictly speaking, Yin Fang is even slightly higher than this former boss.
After all, he is now the chief scientist of the alliance, and the corresponding chief technology officer should be the academy.
However, he doesn’t really care about these rules and regulations, and doesn’t like to put on a high-handed attitude.
At this moment, he is just standing here as a former academy explorer, welcoming the new era he has been looking forward to for a long time.
”I’m thinking about something.”
Hearing the voice coming from the side, Qi Liu smiled warmly and said in a polite tone.
”What’s the matter?”
Looking at the direction of the monument, Yin Fang narrowed his eyes and said with a carefree smile.
”Sometimes I can’t help but wonder, did you send people to chase me all the way here, deliberately driving me here?”
Qi Liu was slightly stunned, and then laughed.
”No, your case is purely a coincidence, or an accident.”
”Really.” Yin Fang smiled, “I thought everything was calculated by you, but it seems that things are not like this.”
”Did you just find out?” Qi Liu didn’t feel offended, but laughed and teased, “To be honest, most of our strategies have deviated from the original intention, but those unintentional actions have produced unexpected results. Sometimes I can’t help but wonder if there is a larger plan behind this that has enveloped us a long time ago, so that all the mistakes have become the best arrangement.”
Yin Fang said in a casual tone.
”My opinion is the opposite of yours. It’s not that the mistake became the best arrangement, but that people’s unanimous choice reversed the worst result that should have occurred.”
Qi Liu looked at him in surprise, and a trace of admiration gradually appeared on his originally calm face.
”It would be great if every explorer in the academy had the same vision as you.”
”How do you know they don’t?”
Yin Fang smiled faintly and said in a noncommittal tone.
”But this is probably the difference between us. We never require every researcher in the alliance to have the vision of a chief technology officer, but believe that every researcher has the potential to become a chief technology officer. When I am gone one day, there will be a thousand of me.”
Qi Liu tried to imagine the future scene, and finally turned into a light sigh.
”…That’s really scary.”
…
As the speech came to an end, the medal ceremony officially began. The players who participated in the final battle walked up the steps under the monument one after another, and Chu Guang personally put on the medals symbolizing the highest honor for them.
Except for the Burning Corps still floating in the Lagrange Point Space Station, almost all the corps of the Alliance participated in the awarding ceremony, wearing the golden glory on their chests, and walked towards the crowd with their heads held high, accepting people’s flowers, applause, cheers and praise.
In a sense, this is also a military parade with unique characteristics of the Alliance.
And for the players, this kind of self-worth realization and sublimation of life goals is simply awesome!
After all, it is an experience that cannot be exchanged for money.
Some old players behaved calmly because of their previous experience, while some new players who had never seen the world were so excited that they almost disconnected on the spot.
The grand ceremony is still going on, and the aerial drones collected videos from multiple angles on the scene and transmitted the live data back to the Endpoint Cloud in Ideal City.
At present, the users of Endpoint Cloud are not only the residents of Ideal City, but also the major survivor settlements in the central and eastern regions of the entire Middle Continent.
Including Dawn City in the Valley Province, Weifu City in Jinchuan Province, settlements on the Death Coast, and French Fries Port in the Baiyue Strait, etc.
There are even the South Sea Alliance Islands, Kinggaren Port, and Silver Moon Bay, etc.
For those survivors who can’t be there in person, they also have the opportunity to see the grand scene in the Dawn City Square and share the joy of the arrival of the new era with local survivors…
At the same time, similar grand scenes not only occurred in Dawn City, but also in other places in the wasteland.
Emperor Saren of the Eastern Empire also delivered a speech about the new era on the castle of Norton City, and belatedly awarded General Griffin a commemorative medal with mixed reviews.
He is a conscientious general, but unfortunately he stood on the wrong team and followed the wrong person.
Today, the Eastward Expansion Faction has fallen and scattered, and Saren can finally close this coffin that has been there for a long time.
The Eastern Empire will enter a new historical stage in the future. They said that what needs to be considered is no longer which direction to expand, but to find a suitable balance between the old and the new.
On the other side of the Great Desert.
Mahatma Zaid, who executed the traitor Grove and his followers, happily announced that the war against the red soil had achieved a decisive victory, and made a violent statement that he never said that the red soil could not be eaten, and if you are really too full, you can eat a little soil to satisfy your tooth. The
new education committee member and propaganda committee member who replaced Sir Kabaha immediately patched up what he had said before, and the chairman Sava, who followed closely behind him, immediately raised his hand to indicate that those words were said by himself. Everyone spontaneously started the next bloody game.
However, the good news is that the red soil that was once forbidden to be eaten can now be eaten again, as if overnight the red soil suddenly stopped occupying arable land and became a seasoning for life.
In dealing with the devastating famine in Borneo Province, General Lowell’s red soil once again played an indelible and decisive role, allowing the overfed people to finally hold their heads high and feel proud again.
This time, no one will deny his achievements.
It’s just a pity that the person who once wrote a book about him has been buried in the soil he planted.
Even if this was not his original intention…
…
The Great Rift Valley.
In the obsidian-carved conference room, the chief who had lived for countless years looked at the light blue light and shadow suspended in front of the conference table with a smile, and his eyes were full of approval.
”I was right, that person is the ‘professor’… No wonder he can do what I can’t do.”
Doctor Conclusion, who was sitting at the table with his arms folded, said with a hint of sarcasm in his eyes and laughed.
”You know, my teacher was most afraid of you thinking this way when he was alive.”
The chief raised his eyebrows.
”When he was alive?”
Doctor Conclusion asked back.
”Do you think he’s still alive?”
”…”
The chief was silent for a long time, and a trace of loneliness and sadness appeared in his cloudy pupils.
This kind of emotion rarely appeared on his face, but it stayed for a particularly long time at this moment.
”That’s true…”
As if relieved, he sighed deeply and said with a little self-mockery.
”It’s been 200 years… I still remember the first time I met him, I was still a child. Haha, this time it’s considered that the old man sent the young man away… Actually, it’s pretty good.”
The only flaw is that, apart from the old popsicles frozen in the refrigerator, there are not many people left from that era.
The new era…
He is not so eager to see it.
Perhaps, this is one of the reasons why he has never been motivated.
Of course.
There is really not much they can do now.
The former War Construction Committee was indeed very strong and powerful… But that was more than a century ago after all, and now they can only rely on the power of the Holy Shield to survive in a corner.
Looking at the chief who was still missing the past, Dr. Conclusion suddenly thought of something and said to himself.
”…Speaking of which, the war in the Free State seems to have ended. In the end, it seems that Mayor Odo, who led the citizens to revolt, won.”
The Academy did not intervene in the war directly, but just watched from a distance.
The Alliance and the company established a safe zone outside the Free State to accommodate civilians, and did nothing else.
Of course, some volunteers ran over to join the war, which is another matter.
After all, the Free State and Firestone Group had exported mercenaries before, and this time they were just hit by a boomerang.
The chief didn’t show much surprise on his face, and he obviously knew it.
In fact, the person who prompted Mayor Oddo to make changes was himself.
”…Really? That’s good. Although Sigma is also a good guy, it is indeed rare for him to climb from the bottom of the slums to the top of the building, but his era is over after all.”
If there is only one thing wrong with him, it is probably that he did not make changes when everything was still in time, but instead repeated the suffering he had endured on others in an even more severe way.
As a dragon, he will always meet a stronger dragon slayer than him, not to mention that the whole wasteland has changed.
”Haha, it’s quite easy for you to be a hands-off shopkeeper.”
Dr. Conclusion said sarcastically.
But the chief didn’t care, just said it in a flat voice.
”It’s not that I choose to be a hands-off manager, but I have to do it. I have tried to control everything, just like when you were here, but the final result is that everything will be out of control, as you have seen.”
Dr. Conclusion shrugged his shoulders noncommittally.
He did not agree with this statement. The academy has enough positive examples in “cybernetics”.
Of course, he also admitted that this was achieved at the expense of some people.
The chief was silent for a while and continued.
”The fate of the Free State is doomed. From the moment it was established, the current situation was doomed. Those who want stability but don’t want to be controlled can only drift above the clouds like a hot air balloon and fall freely after reaching the critical point…”
”It’s not just the Free State, many places are actually like this. Their current situation is not because a guy named Sigma deceived them, but because all of them are liars… successful liars or failed liars.” ”
As for the guy named Sigma, he is just the most successful one among them… Of course, they are now aware of the problem, so they will soon enter the next stage of history.”
When he said this, the chief suddenly turned his eyes to Dr. Conclusion and said with a somewhat interested tone.
”Actually, what I am most curious about is you… Even if the Wasteland Era is over, do you still plan to take those researchers to wander around outside the solar system?”
Conclusion nodded.
”Yes.”
The chief looked at him in surprise and suddenly smiled.
”I didn’t expect that there is someone in this world who is more stubborn than an old antique like me.”
Conclusion smiled faintly, not taking the guy’s ridicule to heart at all, and said in a nonchalant manner.
”It has nothing to do with stubbornness, and it has nothing to do with the Wasteland Era. I just want to fulfill my mentor’s last wish.”
The Chief’s eyes were a little surprised.
”Your mentor… you mean the professor? Did he ask you to do this?”
His voice was a little anxious, as if he was eager to get a positive answer.
However, Conclusion just shook his head, not caring about the old man’s opinion at all, and spoke to himself.
”He didn’t ask me to do this, but just told me… if the Wasteland Era hadn’t happened, he would most likely take a group of like-minded people to do this, instead of using the resources and funds for the ‘Ark’ plan to repair the black box and the shelter.”
The Chief stared at him in surprise for a long time, and then muttered to himself.
”…I see, I always felt strange, why it is called the Ark Project, so this is what it means.”
Ignoring the muttering of the Chief of the Great Rift Valley, Conclusion continued in a casual tone.
”He also told me a lot. He said that if nothing unexpected happens, this ark heading to the future will hatch an archaeological and academic organization called the Academy in this galaxy after several thousand years…”
”Unlike the current academy, the academy that exists in the future is an intergalactic cooperative organization whose goal is to excavate the remains of pioneer civilizations and explore the origin of the universe. Its members are not even limited to humans, but also aliens from other civilizations.”
”Although this sounds a bit far-sighted, I will never forget the expression on his face when he described that picture to me… It was as if he had really seen those things.”
”From then on, I made up my mind. I planned to inherit his will and do this for him… For this, I uploaded my thoughts to the circuit board and exchanged my death for endless life.”
”It just so happened that the War Construction Committee was disbanded, and so many people were eager to leave this ‘dead planet’, so I and many people had a common goal. Thanks to this, the academy is no longer a loose academic organization, but has actual political power.”
When he said this, the man floating in the holographic image showed a faint smile on his face.
“It’s actually pretty good.”
“Now we can filter out those who are fleeing and keep them on the ground, and only take those who share the same ideals to do this great thing.”
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(Thanks to the book friend “心就不暖” for the reward!!! PS: The foreshadowing of the Ark Project is actually related to the ending of the Farsightedness if line that I wrote a long time ago, but I can’t find the manuscript. I’ll make it up later depending on fate…)
(End of this chapter)
