nashuaworldcup Chapter 234 Where are we going?
Chapter 234 Where are we going?
“Alicia, we’ve never spoken face-to-face like this before…”
“Of course, you and that child are very busy every day. I know that. You came here ten thousand years ago and now you are assisting that child. I have seen everything you have done, so I naturally trust your character.”
In a seemingly ordinary coffee shop, in a quiet little corner, two people sat facing each other, with only two cups of latte coffee on the table, steam rising from them.
Dim lights hung overhead, and Ange stood alone outside the café. This was a nearly top-secret meeting, and Raffarin Lo didn't want anyone, including the henchmen of the secret intelligence agency, to know about their meeting today.
This is something that Alice absolutely must not know, Raffarin thought.
"In short, there are many things I have to say, but... I don't want Alice to know them."
Raffarin handed a stack of documents to Alicia, who took them and read them word by word. At first, she was puzzled, then her expression changed, and finally her expression became serious.
If what is said above is true, this new civilization will inevitably be destroyed within twenty years.
She looked at Raffarin Low, who nodded. Alicia couldn't see any evasion in his expression. Raffarin Low had his hands on the table, covering his cheeks.
She was immediately plunged into a huge struggle after receiving the news.
For her, returning to Earth is her only obsession, but at this moment, the crisis left behind by the ruins of the previous civilization is about to destroy the naive new civilization that is completely unaware of it.
If the out-of-control intelligent mechanical army is not destroyed, then once they destroy the last remaining computer stabilization mechanism on the wasteland ring, the planet's own self-defense mechanisms will be activated, launching all remaining antimatter annihilation missiles to completely destroy the planet's surface.
Unlike the wasteland ring and the Antarctic wasteland, the existing continental structure is completely unable to withstand this level of weaponry. When the antimatter bomb explodes on the ground, the resulting chain reaction will alter the magnetic field, tear apart the fragile planetary atmosphere, and permanently change the appearance of the planet's surface.
"How to do?"
Alicia didn't fully understand these things; the only thing she could comprehend was that if she didn't take action, everything she loved would fall apart and cease to exist.
"All our current technology is no match for the unmanned intelligent combat swarms deployed by the United Nations on Earth, but the United Nations has indeed left behind numerous military legacies on Earth... However, those experimental equipment require two people to enter the link pod to activate, while the United Nations' weaponry has DNA verification..."
"In other words, Alicia, you, me, and Alice—only three of us can activate those things... and the radiation level in the equatorial wasteland ring is very high. If we choose this path, then..."
In other words, it's a certain death sentence.
Are there any other options?
"If we don't choose this path, our only option is to use all our resources to build a spaceship and travel to the nearest, known only habitable planet—Earth, the origin of the United Nations."
"But we can't build them, can we? We've only just launched rockets like that. I've seen NASA's budget, and it's already 8% of the country's annual GDP."
Raffarin Lowe nodded. What she didn't say was that building a small spaceship to accommodate just a few of them would be enough, but Alice wouldn't agree to such a plan, not even Raffarin's first one.
She never wanted to run away from any difficulties.
The suffocating silence lasted for ten minutes. Alicia's expression changed slightly. She could tell that the "creator of vampires and all races" before her was not so resolute. She could see that there was still hesitation in Raffarin's eyes, a hesitation stemming from his obsession with his homeland.
"I would do anything for Alice."
Alicia said softly that Alice's reforms made her who she was, and that the blood ties born by accident and chance had not been betrayed.
In return, she entrusted everything to her. Alicia and Alice were once enemies, but times have changed, and now, nothing touches her heart more than Alice.
She didn't want to go through either the incident in Trian or the one in the capital. Rather than trying to make amends after things happened, this time, she wanted to protect something from the very beginning.
Alicia reached out her hand to Raffarin: "She is also your child, isn't she? My Creator... I've heard Alice tell me about the magnificent story from ten thousand years ago, and I believe she will inherit our wishes."
"Our civilization, whether it was ten thousand years ago or now, must have people who have to sacrifice. Hope is built on despair, and new life comes from destruction."
Raffarin Lo nodded. She knew from the beginning that there was no room for compromise. She held out her hand: "Although we still have a chance to survive, if we must sacrifice ourselves, let Alice take my place, take my eyes, and go see my hometown, which is also her hometown."
Raffarin Lo explained to Alicia what they had to do now.
First, attacking the church is a foregone conclusion. They must take over the connection terminal located in the Holy City Cathedral, communicate with the planet's computer, and gain access.
"Alice won't agree. She'll definitely be there then. We'll just have to make things difficult for her."
Raffarin Lowe tells Alicia that she has a plan to temporarily isolate Alice, as they do not want Alice to set foot in the area.
"Ten years, is ten years enough?"
"Enough. Ten years. It's just a pity that Alice created the country with her own hands, but she will find a way to ignite the spark and burn away all the decay once again."
"What a pity... we may never get to see the beautiful world she created."
“Am I not? My hometown, which I may never see again, I could have just left, but she still pulled me into this reality, making me measure the new world step by step.”
Alicia and Raffarin, two people from an old era, gaze at the stars, while the city at the foot of the mountain outside the window shines brilliantly.