"It's been half a year, and we can't find more food. Grandpa is sick."

Neil instead expressed his true feelings about a smart machine: "Grandpa, he may not be able to get through it."

"Is he going to die?"

Neil went to the first two parts, his cold human-shaped bones, lowered his head and stroked Bella's short hair: "Sad."

Bella sighed softly: "I don't know why, but it's you who came to comfort me at this time, which makes me feel even more sad."

"Why?"

Neil asked with his head tilted.

"You don't understand."

Bella's lips moved, and after she said something, she squeezed out a reluctant smile: "Have you completed your mission?"

Neil nodded: "It's done."

Bella's eyes lit up: "Are we humans saved?"

"I don't know." The honest intelligence said the truth: "On the way back, Neil found that the 'reconnaissance mother H-008' entered Zone 11 again. According to speculation, they have a 45.1% chance of preparing for the final cleaning work, a 50.3% chance of preparing for reconstruction work, a 4.6% chance of... unknown." Neil said her idea: "Their systems are equipped with 'thermal sensing', and they are more like looking for survivors... looking for you."

"Oh no!"

When Bella heard this, her face turned pale. She hurriedly dragged Neil to the elder's room.

In the dim room, the elder was lying on the bed, breathing smoothly, and a towel stacked in squares was placed on his forehead.

"Body temperature: 39.2℃, heart rate: 123 times/min. He was feverish..." Neil's eyes lit up: "It's pneumonia, he needs 'antibiotics'."

"Um."

Even if Neil doesn't say it, Bella also understands the current situation of the elders, but Neil's analysis is more data-based. After intelligent machinery controls this universe, "antibiotics" have become a more precious luxury than energy. "Biocells" have been born, old, sick and dead in the life capsule for life, eating, drinking, defecation, and urinating. Under the monitoring of the system, they rarely get sick. Once they get sick, they will not go to treat them. They will directly throw away the waste treatment station and "discard". Antibiotics are "treasures" that only humans can use and cannot be obtained in this world.

The elder was already old and weak, and after the arrival of the spark, the earth turned into scorched earth, with food and water expensive and lacking, and multiple blows caused the old man to fall down.

On the hospital bed, the elder opened his eyes slightly, his dry lips curled to both sides, which was a relaxed smile: "Neil, I hope to hear good news."

Neil nodded: "I have completed the 'L' mission and are ready to log in to the magic light to meet with 'L'."

The elder smiled even more.

"grandfather!"

Without outsiders, Bella directly called the elder "Grandpa". She lay on the bed and told the elder what Neil saw on the way.

After hearing the news of the "Reconnaissance Mother" logging in, the elder did not show too unexpected expressions on his pale face. He struggled to get up, coughed violently, and waved his hand: "Bella, hurry up, let Neil enter the phantom light."

"But……"

"Go, it doesn't matter to me."

The elder smiled weakly.

...

At this time.

There were quarrels outside the house.

Vaguely, several young people were arguing over the "corpse".

"The corpse of the companion must be cremated, this is the order of the elder!"

A woman shouted loudly.

"Elder? That old man is almost starving to death! He is still following these ancient dogmas!" A man sneered, but his words contained undisguised anger and contempt: "We are the last survivors. Only when we survive can we leave fire for mankind! Now that the food is gone, what's the use of just keeping these broken dogmas? He wanted to let all of us be buried with him before he died! The old man should have died long ago!"

Another man with a strong aura gritted his teeth and agreed: "Tang, don't talk nonsense with these rotten guys! I've been hungry for half a month! I've eaten the bark of the tree, I've finished drinking the expired nutrient solution, and I even flushed the ashes burned in the 'historical text'! The ancestors said it well, people die like a lamp, and they starve to death, that's life! If they are still alive, they will wake up laughing when they know that their bodies can keep us alive!"

Listening to the quarrel outside the door.

Bella clenched her teeth, and blood bleeded between her teeth. She suddenly carried the rifle standing in the corner of the wall on her back, unable to help it, and was about to rush out.

"Wait, Bella...Ahem!"

The elder was in the bed and stopped Bella.

"grandfather?"

"Help me out."

"But grandpa..."

"Don't worry," the elder hid the bloody towel behind him, and kissed in a calm and calm tone, as if he could not beat him up: "They would not do anything to me."

Bella helped the elder step out of the residence.

Bella was carrying a heavy assembly rifle on her thin shoulders.

"The elder is here."

"The elder is recovered?"

"Shh! It's the elder..."

"The elder actually woke up!"

In the base square, a group of people surrounded him, and two groups stood in two factions.

Like water, fire, it is clearly distinguished from a high place.

A tall and thin middle-aged woman holding a rifle in her hand, but she dared not point the muzzle at her "companion" and pressed her to the ground, and her face turned red during the quarrel.

Behind the middle-aged woman is a house on the main base of Ark No. 11, without windows on all sides. In the past, after their death, they would hold a simple "mourning service" here to express their longing and sadness for their companions.

Neil looked quietly, standing in the distance, like a model, motionless.

It is not difficult to guess the cause of the incident. In the past month when Neil was traveling, the main base of Ark 11 was expensive and even the basic food and clothing of only 36 people could not satisfy. Those who were hungry, those who were sick, those who were dead were dead.

After a month, three elderly people of the thirty-six survivors died of hunger and disease.

The first two old men are the elders' old friends.

The elders saw them off with "cremation" according to convention.

The third person who died two days ago was named Mosey, a 56-year-old lame man.

Starved to death.

His body was temporarily placed in the "mourning hall".

A group of thorns led by Tang En were too hungry to bear the idea of ​​moving the corpse.

The elder, with Bella's support, came to the middle of the crowd.

"I can understand your thoughts."

"Leaves, after they wither, will fall next to the roots of the big tree, nourish the soil of the big tree, become 'nutrient', and in this form, become 'eternal'."

Tang En and others looked happy, and it seemed that there was a chance to hear this.

"Gugugugu"

In the quiet square, the sound of intestinal peristalsis sounded like a drum or a bell.

"But..."

The elder smiled, and in Bella's shocked gaze, he broke away from Bella's hand, tremblingly, and sat alone in front of the mourning hall.

"Leaves are leaves, big trees are big trees."

"Even if you starve to death, be beaten to death by smart weapons, and be frozen to death."

"We are human."

“Born as a human,”

"When we die, at least we must die like a person."

The elder sat on the steps in front of the door, leaning on the crutches with both hands, as if he would fall down if he didn't do so.

"If you are so hungry that you can't stand it, then eat it."

...

The quarrel in the square, to Neil, seemed like a farce.

She is a smart machine.

She couldn't understand, and couldn't empathize.

She actually agreed with Tang En's statement.

When humans die, they will be decomposed into the purest biomass.

In factories, biobatteries are also manufactured.

So, she couldn't understand what the elder said.

"Is this human?"

Neil thought, although she didn't understand, she still faithfully prepared to complete the task assigned by her brother, and came to the previous room alone.
Chapter completed!