Seventy years ago, before the Heavenly Kingdom Fall.
Lu Baiyan had been an Ascender in his prime, the leader of Utopia's logistics and support unit, a Great Siming into whom enormous effort and expectation had been poured.
But after the Heavenly Kingdom Fall, everything became completely different from before.
The glorious future vanished without a trace.
Every brilliant wish was shattered by cruel reality, ending in bleakness.
Some died in despair, some fell into madness, while even more survivors scattered in every direction. Others chose to step into hell and begin an exploration from which there was no return.
There was no contact ever again.
Among the vast majority of survivors, some were found to have ties to Golden Dawn and were sentenced.
Another group was imprisoned and placed under surveillance.
"But did he really betray us seventy years ago? Didn't the case files say there was no concrete evidence..." Huai Shi asked in confusion. "Could they really lock him up for seventy years just because he was suspected?"
"What else?"
Russell retorted, "There was indeed no direct evidence against him, but I never killed him with my own hands, did I? After all these years, isn't he still alive and well?
Back then, I even had someone defend him on grounds of innocence... Though I did extend his sentence by just a little, he still had his life, didn't he?
He was alive. Every day, he could drink coffee and watch television. Even if everything he had sworn to protect was already gone, he could still tell people, 'I'm innocent.'
If you say it doesn't matter, that you believe him and forgive him, then how could you possibly face those who sacrificed themselves?
As his former companion, allowing him to spend the rest of his life in some corner