Little Mushroom

"We are the people most connected to the fate of humanity."

When Mrs. Lu was a little girl, her mother told her like this. At that time, her mother's abdomen was slightly raised, and a new life was born inside.

"We are the people most connected to the fate of humanity."

When she grew up, she also told other girls this sentence. At that time, while taking on the role of breeding offspring for the base, she was engaged in the research of three-dimensional embryo culture technology. This research has extremely valuable value, so she is the only female of fertility who can freely enter and exit the Garden of Eden and Man at the lighthouse. One day, in the twin corridors of the twin towers, she met a handsome green-eyed officer.

Later she had a child, and the birth of this child had nothing to do with her duties.

Because of each other's work, she can't often meet her child's father, and only occasionally communicates through a communicator.

"I sometimes feel ... I betrayed the Rose Manifesto," she said.

"Why do you think so?" There was a calm voice on the other end of the communicator: "Aren't you nurturing a life?"

"To have children with your love, this was the right that women had before the declaration," she put her fingers on her lower abdomen, "I have the premise of not violating regulations and causing no loss of base resources. The freedom to dominate the uterus, I feel very, very happy, although the idea is dangerous. "

The memory is intermittent, with only a few key nodes.

"He's going to the military." Madam Lu said, "I previously suggested that he go to the United Front, and the assignment is now complete. You will meet him when you return to the base."

"Does he look like me?"

"One thing, it's not very similar, and his character is not like you. The base does not allow everyone to know their kinship, but as long as you meet, you can know who the other party is."

"I'm looking forward to seeing him."

"You will see." Madam Lu said, "Pay attention to safety in the wild."

"I will," said the man. "This time we recovered very important scientific research materials, some of which are also related to your direction."

She smiled: "It's been hard, and my research has been going well recently."

"I miss you." The voice of the man on the other side suddenly lowered: "Last night I dreamed of the day when human beings completely passed the disaster. We are still alive and our children. We are like all ordinary people. forever happy."

Her voice was equally gentle: "Come back early."

Everything was full of hope, but that was the limited joy-related memory of her life.

Ten days later, she could no longer call her lover, nor could she get any news about him, and she had made her worst plans.

When she made up her mind to go to the United Front Center to check the whereabouts of her lover, she met her child on the company corridor.

She didn't come to him very often, as if in a blink of an eye, the child who would sneak up from the 6th floor to the 22nd floor to meet her child grew into a one-sided adult, a handsome young military officer.

Although her heart was full of anxiety, seeing him was a relief to her: "You are here, too."

Lu Yan whispered: "Mother."

At this moment she saw the pattern of his black uniform and the silver badge on his chest.

"Didn't the base divide you into the United Front?" She wondered slightly.

"I'm in the trial court," he said.

"Why did you go there?" She asked, looking at him anxiously. Few would be willing to join the trial court if it was not necessary.

"I volunteered." The young military officer's cold green eyes seemed to have complicated emotions, but at last it fell to the calm of reason: "I can play a greater role in the trial court than in the United Front.

What she wanted to say, she finally shook her head helplessly. Everyone knows how crazy the trial court is, and everyone must not die.

When they separated, Lu Yan called her from behind: "Mother."

Mrs. Lu looked back at him, Lu Yan looked at her, her voice seemed slightly hoarse, and asked, "What are you going to do?"

"It's nothing," she didn't mean to let the children know that, but just smiled, "take care of herself."

——So she went and knocked on the office door of the Information Management Office of the United Front Center.

"Information Management Office. What would you like to query?"

"The United Front Center is directly under the commander of the first operational sequence. Lieutenant General Gao Tang, is he still in the wild?" She asked.

There were several keystrokes from the opposite side.

"Sorry," the staff member said, "The Lieutenant General has confirmed his death."

Her fingers were cold, but she still remained calm, and dedication to the base was the fate of every soldier.

"Are ... in the wild?"

"At the entrance," the staff member said, "the trial court records showed that Gao Tang was judged infected."

She froze before her eyes and could hardly stand still.

"Madam?" The staff called her.

"Trial Chamber ..." she murmured the term, "are their judgments accurate?"

"The high probability is accurate. The accuracy rate of each session of the trial court can be controlled at 80%. The average accuracy rate of students who officially joined the trial court this year is 90% ... Madam, do you need help? ?lady?"

The memory is like a blank tide, and her face is blurred. She lost her lover, and since that day, she and Lu Yan have gradually become estranged, and she has almost lost him.

— In fact, she is losing her child every day.

On the day the outer city was blown up, listening to the tremor from a distance, Lily got into her arms.

"Why did they blow up their city?"

"To make humans safer."

"But the people there are also the children of Eden." Lili said, "If the children are not important, why should we be held here?"

"They have their own reasons. In order to reach higher goals, they have to make some choices," she hugged Lily, and said gently, "the main city and the outer city are our children. Sometimes the children are willful, sometimes It will in turn hurt his mother and his compatriots, and we will not feel pain unless we understand them. "

When she said that, the blood stains leaking from the door slits of childhood, the badge of the courtroom of Lu Yi's chest, and the mushroom cloud rising in the distance overlapped in front of her eyes.

Lily asked the same thing: "Did that lady understand?"

She didn't answer, holding her forehead against Lily's forehead, and closing her eyes: "I really hope you will never experience this pain again."

Like a sad piece of music came to an end, An Zhe slowly opened her eyes.

He found himself lying next to the rose bed, looking up, the crimson green leaves swaying, and the shards of glass flickering. A dark shadow passed over his eyes, so he looked up again, and the cave on the dome that could only accommodate the queen's in and out became larger. The hollow occupied three-quarters of the dome, and its broken edge was shining with light. A bee so long as a human arm is flying through it.

The wave has disappeared, and there is no trace of the queen queen on the dome, but the glass has been shattered. On the night sky outside, artillery fire exploded like fireworks-it was the human army that began to fight. I wonder if they had Did not kill the queen. But it was difficult to hit a bee in the vast space at night. Anzhe saw the small bee flying high and disappearing under the silver light of the moon.

Then there were a few dark shadows. With the buzzing of the wings, five, ten, and countless bees swarmed from all directions, and some bees carried white pieces of fabric on their backs, looking at them with ease. The 22nd floor was empty, no one was visible, everyone turned into bees, and they flew outwards.

bee--

Another erratic picture appeared in An Zhe's mind,

It is a bee, an ordinary bee that does not eat people and only picks flowers.

It was a summer when the bees reproduced, but it accidentally hit and flew into the human city. This city was inaccessible and people's doors and windows were closed. It just wanted to find edible pollen, but it couldn't do it.

In the end, it saw—behind the glass, a bright red, full-bodied rose.

A woman is taking care of this flower. She is standing by the window sill, looking at the rose with a smile, looking at the sky outside for a long time, she seems to want to open the window and touch the sky outside. .

So the bee waited for a long time, when the woman left and came back, until she looked outside and shed a tear.

She seemed to have finally made a decision and pushed the window open—the wind outside and free wind poured in, and she closed her eyes as if she could fly with the wind.

The bee has been hungry for a long time. It is attached to the rose's stamen, pollen is covered with its fluffy hind limbs, and it probes its slender mouthpiece into the center of this flower.

— But it was quickly discovered.

The woman reached out to it, her fingers trembled, her eyes trembled, and she even had some madness. As if this was the first time she had seen such a life in her life, she was very slow and didn't seem to want to open it. But the instinct of the bee is doomed to happen next.

When her finger was only a few millimeters away and she was about to touch it, the bee stung her subconsciously.

When the bee dies, part of the internal organs is pulled out and hung on the end of the thorn when the body is away from the woman's finger. A bee can only use his sting once in his life.

But it didn't seem to die, its body fell into the rose bushes, its consciousness seemed to become a part of this woman's consciousness, and it just stayed dormant for so long. She was just ravaged and not infected.

-Until that part of its consciousness is gradually activated by strange waves in the distance.

The memory of the bee is simple. After removing this experience, it is even lacking. When An Zhe opened his eyes again, those things gradually faded out of his mind, and the roses in front of them were still bright. And who gave that flower to Mrs. Lu that year?

Only two people will give her flowers. Her former lover, or Lu Yan, gave them flowers for nothing more than to make her happy.

So when the rose was open, this beautiful scene moved her heart, and she wanted to bathe the sun and air outside, and met the bee who came after the flowers.

The outside wind blew in, and An Zhe was gradually awake, and he sat up from the ground-empty around him. Broken clothes, communicators and people carrying debris fell to the ground. He can imagine that when he was affected by the strong wave and fell into the memory of Mrs. and Bee, everyone present was also infected by the wave. Thousands of people turned into thousands of bees, flying through the openings in the dome to the sky.

He was an exception. He still maintained the human body, just like the insect bite, and he did not mutate.

At this moment, a dangerous instinct rose from An Zhe's heart. He looked up at the dome, and three small military helicopters were suspended. It was the place where the people who had just opened fire on the swarm. Go, only to find a black hole in the window of the helicopter facing him at this moment.

At the same time, the sound of mixed footsteps came from the door, the alarm sounded, the emergency lights and red alarm lights went out madly, the floor was shaking, and the armed emergency response soldiers rushed into the door and they were arrested by Anzhe Hold fast-everyone has a heavy weapon and every gun is pointing at him.