In just six or seven days, to many people, it seemed no more than the blink of an eye.
But one thing was certain: many had more or less made what they believed to be the necessary preparations. Some even carried a strange mindset akin to heading for a battlefield or the gallows, saying goodbye to family and friends, leaving behind trigger-activated email wills, and waiting for the "final hour" to arrive. If they were given a chance now to abandon their user status and withdraw from this cycle, many would probably hesitate before accepting it, wouldn't they?
Li Yun understood that, but he felt nothing much about it.
Wisdom or foolishness, courage or cowardice—everyone had their own aspirations. When the forest was large, every kind of bird could be found. The world had always been like this; it could not really be called right or wrong.
Near evening, standing on the rooftop of this old residential building, the young man held down his glasses and quietly watched the silhouettes of towering buildings rising and falling across the distant city. In the increasingly dim sunset, another face of the world drifted in on the evening breeze—a fiery red sun was sinking inch by inch toward the end of the earth.
It was quite a stirring sight.
But clearly, he at least still had the mood to admire the scenery. The others had no such leisure.
"These birds really are something..."
As several people came up to the rooftop, Ruan Chenggang, who was grimacing as he cleaned the ground with tools in hand, could not help complaining.
It could not be helped. Things that flew through the sky were different from things that ran on the ground.
Now that people had come onto the roof, the nearby birds had all flapped