Song Linwei was puzzled. "Why did Sister Sheng suddenly go looking for Old Qin? About the escape ship..."
Qi Lingwu swallowed back the blood on his tongue, his voice hoarse. "Sheng An refuses. Tell the Base Chief-the Special Affairs Office won't board the ship, and that isn't a real solution."
Watching all of humanity die while they remained aboard a safe escape ship, left in a world with nothing in it-could they really go on living?
Send them into space? Their chances of surviving would be even slimmer.
And if they gave up, humanity would surely perish.
That would erase all their previous efforts, erase everything they believed in.
Only forty-nine days remained. The disaster and the escape ship both spurred Sheng An on. She wouldn't board. She would still stake everything on one last fight.
That was who Sheng An was.
Qi Lingwu understood her, and a faint smile appeared on his face.
His answer spoke for Sheng An as well.
Wu Buyu said, "Exactly. Why the hell would we leave? Humanity can't just die out like this!"
Li Xin said, "Right. I still have a world to save."
Jiang Yu nodded. "I'll always follow Sister Sheng."
Hearing that, Song Linwei smiled. With the relief and calm of something finally settled, he nodded. "All right. Actually, I knew Sister Sheng wouldn't agree, so I already turned them down."
But the Base Chief and Elder Li hadn't wanted to give up. They had asked him to persuade Sheng An and explain the pros and cons.
Song Linwei looked at the others. Not one of them reacted any differently to those words.
-None of them would abandon humanity and leave.
This was the Special Affairs Office.
These were the teammates who fought shoulder to shoulder and would always stay together.