Little Mushroom

Lili whispered: "I'm sorry, madam, I'm just a little worried about Sinan."

"Can't you tell me anything?" Mrs. Lu reached out her hand, Lili obediently left Anzhe, and was held by Mrs. Lu in the past.

When she met at the lighthouse last time, Mrs. Lu wore a mask. An Zhe could only see her eyes. This time he finally saw the lady's features. The lines of her features were soft, her eyebrows were curved, but she was thin. When her lips didn't smile, she slightly squinted, adding a little firmness to this gentle look. Lu Yan doesn't look like her.

However, inexplicably, An Zhe feels that her features are similar to Lily. If all the people in the base are grown from the embryos of Eden, and all the embryos are from the women in Eden, then Lili may indeed be the youngest daughter of Mrs. Lu's blood.

In this way, Lili's behavior after seeing Mrs. Lu leave him and be dragged by his wife can be understood-after all, she is the wife of the wife and not his baby. Only spores in this world will never take the initiative leave him.

An Zhe looked at Mrs. Lu, who did not know what measures Mrs. Lu would take against him.

Just listen to Mrs. Lu asking: "Is he your friend? Are you coming to find him in the passage?"

Lili and An Zhe looked at each other, her cunning eyes turned, and said to Mrs. Lu: "He doesn't want to go back, can I invite him to be a guest?"

"We can invite Anzhe for dinner, and their stuff is so bad," she said again.

An Zhe understood that the little girl wanted to help him hide from the search of the people below, but he didn't think Mrs. Lu would agree. After all, he suddenly appeared here, which was too weird.

But to his surprise, Mrs. Lu said, "Okay."

Lily said "Wow" and said, "Mrs. How nice today."

Mrs. Lu lowered her head and touched her hair: "I always love you."

Lily rubbed her palm intimately: "I like ma'am too."

——Anzhe was taken to the twenty-second floor of the Garden of Eden. The atmosphere here was peaceful, the sound of the corridor was soft music, and the white walls were full of images, all flowers, butterflies, bees, clouds or the Virgin. Things like it are like another world compared to the outside.

In the spacious corridors and halls, Anzhe also met other women. They all wore white long dresses, covered with black or chestnut hair, and had a quiet face. When they saw Mrs. Lu, they gave her a friendly greeting.

In the cubicle of the public cafeteria, Anzhe had dinner on the 22nd floor. It's sugared milk, half a roast chicken, and a bowl of vegetable corn soup.

After dinner, the lady said, "It's time to send your friends away."

Lily coquettished her: "Let him stay a while."

The lady condoned her request and said, "Then go watering flowers with me."

So Lili took Anzhe's hand, walked through the white hall, and came to another round room. Anzhan saw the lush red and green in this room. The center of this room was built into a flowerbed of several square meters in size, and the lush red roses in it.

"My lover used to bring me some seeds from the wild," Mrs. Lu said to An Zhe. "Later Lu Yan will do this too. I remember you staying with him that day."

An Zhe nodded.

"He rarely wants to be close to anyone." Mrs. Lu picked up the silver kettle on the flower stand.

Just then, in the light of An Zhe, something suddenly flashed, and he turned his head subconsciously—it was the TV screen in this room. No one pressed the remote control and it turned on automatically.

"Message from the Emergency Response Department." The broadcaster spoke much faster than usual. At the same time, a half-length photo of Anzhe was printed on the screen. "The suspect was arrested urgently. If there is a witness, please provide his whereabouts immediately. Message. "

An Zhe ’s body was slightly tightened, and the hour-long tranquility just seemed to be an illusion. The world was still in danger for him. He looked to Mrs. Lu.

But listening to Mrs. Lu said softly: "Don't be afraid."

Mrs. Lu's behavior is always unexpected. He initially thought that his wife was a firm advocate of base rules, but now it does not seem to be.

An Zhe: "You ..."

"I will not help you escape, but I will not surrender you for the time being." Mrs. Lu smiled.

An Zhe asked her, "Why?"

"They always have a lot of reasons to arrest someone." Madam Lu looked away from the screen. She lowered her head and watered her rose bush. The crystal water drops rolled on the edge of the crimson petals, and then The green leaves fell and fell into the soil: "Like forty years ago, they arrested my mother."

An Zhe didn't know what she wanted to say, but she seemed to want to tell a story. Many people he met wanted to tell him a story, as if everyone had some memorable past hidden in their hearts.

So he didn't speak, just listening quietly, the fragrance of roses surrounded them, Lily picked one, she peeled off the petals from the holder, held them in her palms, and threw them into the air. Just like a rain, the petals fell down, sprinkled on her hair and body, and a piece fell on Mrs. Lu's hair.

"Four bases of humanity, 23,371 women voted against and passed the following declaration: I voluntarily dedicate myself to the fate of mankind, accept genetic experiments, accept all forms of assisted reproduction, and strive for the continuation of the cause of the human race." Lu The wife repeated the "rose declaration" that An Zhe had heard in Lili's mouth in a very light tone, but her tone seemed lower than the clear and cheerful voice of the little girl.

"This statement was deleted with a sentence, a prerequisite," Mrs. Lu said. "On the premise of having basic human rights, accept genetic experiments and accept all forms of assisted reproduction. In addition, the initiator of the declaration also Reached a consensus with the base that women will manage women. "

Her finger touched the soft edges of the rose: "But that was almost seventy years ago. At that time, everything seemed to have hope. The fate of humanity is in front of us. As long as we can continue, things will happen. Alright ... if I was one of the 23,000 women at the time, I would agree without hesitation. Everyone is sacrificing, and I am willing to contribute as much as I can for the benefit of humanity. "

"At that time, the in vitro culture technology of embryos was not mature, and the children had to stay in the mother for at least seven months. The base hoped that for a larger population, their uterine rest time should not exceed fifteen days." Mrs. Lu looked up. Looking at the steel-colored ceiling: "The task of childbearing is too heavy, all their lives are destroyed and life is passing. They hope that the base can relax the requirements, but no one agrees."

"The women who signed the Rose Declaration voluntarily, and all the girls born thereafter, dedicate themselves to this declaration-and we need the population so much. The lighthouse and the military think so, most of the main and outer cities Everyone thinks so, even women who manage women think so. "

Her tone was gentle, and this tenderness seemed to evoke an emotional resonance. An Zhe listened quietly, and he saw Lily sitting quietly on the edge of the flowerbed.

"To fight for the protection of basic human rights, they launched a protest movement. Forty years ago, my mother was the initiator of that protest movement-she seems to be the first initiators of the Rose Declaration. One. "Mrs. Lu smiled." But all the images and texts were destroyed. At that time, I was too young to remember too many things. I can only remember one night when the soldiers of the United Front Center broke in. After we locked the door of her house, she locked me in the room, and then a gunshot ... I saw blood flowing down the door into my room. Later, I was sent to the Garden of Eden. "

"They finally found that only the most effective way to control fertility resources in their own hands, so they deleted the sentence in the declaration, a new generation of girls were gathered together and taught to grow up by Eden They have kept their responsibilities in mind since childhood and did not receive additional education. In this way, the base does not have to worry about the decline in fertility, and no girl will feel the pain of losing human rights because of uninterrupted birth. "

She looked at the surrounding walls, but looked at the entire human base through the walls: "I feel pain for this, but also know that my pain is only a trivial part. In this place, everybody dies every second. The only way for humans to survive in this era is to turn themselves into a whole creature. People with different responsibilities are different organs of this creature, the lighthouse is the brain, the military is the minions, and the people in the outer cities are flesh and blood. Buildings and walls are skins, and Eden is the womb. "

An Zhe looked at her, and she seemed to understand An Zhe's eyes, and said, "I never resent it here."

She leaned over and picked up Lily, who buried her head on her shoulder.

"I just get confused a little," she stroked Lily's hair with her fingers. "We resist monsters and aliens, and foreign genes contaminate human genes, in order to preserve humanity ’s unique will and avoid being beastly. Governance ... But in order to achieve this, what we do violates the rules of humanity. And the collective we formed-everything it does, acquires resources, grows itself, and breeds offspring. It can reflect the nature of beasts. Humans actually don't have anything different from external monsters, but because of the flexibility of their brains, they give self-deception to their various behaviors. Humans are just one of all ordinary animals. It is like All life is born, and it is about to die like all life. "

Mrs. Lu's eyes had a deadly expression: "Human civilization is as worthless as its technology."

She no longer spoke, looked up at the ceiling for a long time, and Anzhe saw her palm pressed against a dark knob—and then turned slightly.

The radiation-proof metal plate on the ceiling burst open. This is the top floor of the Garden of Eden. There is no limitless sky outside the glass. At night, when the solar wind stops temporarily, the silent twilight and the Milky Way pour down together.

An Zhe softly said: "There will be a better day."

Maybe there will really be a day when the judges don't have to kill their fellow men, the soldiers don't have to sacrifice in the wild, and the girls in Eden are free again.

"No," Mrs. Lu said, "the time is coming when the world is completely broken."

"Lily," she turned to the little girl in her arms, and said, "Do you want to fly?"

An Zhe looked at her gentle side face. After hearing this sentence, a chill suddenly rose behind him.

Just listening to Lili holding her neck, her voice was crisp and she asked, "Can you? Just like Sinan?"

"Yes."

At this moment, An Zhe finally fully understood Sinan's intention for Lily to return to Eden.

-Contrary to their guess at that time.

Back to Eden, it was not because Eden was safe.