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"However, my children have all become strangers..."

Alex and Misha have both grown up.

Alex, in particular, has changed significantly. He is now a cadre of the Reunion Movement and possesses extremely dangerous Originium Arts, currently being personally trained by a sorcerer from the Ursus Guerrilla Force.

When Sergei saw his son again, he almost didn't recognize him.

As for Misha, she's doing alright. She's currently working at the Rhodes Island branch in the core city. She's not infected, but because she has an infected brother, she knows the suffering of the infected, so she really enjoys her job.

The one who changed the most was naturally Ilya's daughter, Lyudmila. This Lupo was sent to Syracuse by Dr. Kal'tsit to receive training from her "grandmother," and later returned to Chernobog to become an assassin for the Reunion Movement.

Later, Bai Ye personally mentored her, and she has now grown to the level of an elite operator.

If one were in the Unarmored Alliance of Kazimir, one could at least rise to a high position.

"Take it slow. Why is it that the families of all the friends I know don't seem to have harmonious relationships?"

Bai Ye sighed, looking somewhat troubled.

From Lungmen, from Core City, from Rhodes Island...

“It’s precisely because they are family that the wounds are so deep when things break down…” Sergei also lowered his head.

“I don’t understand, because I haven’t experienced any of these things.” Bai Ye smiled. “However, as long as you’re alive, there will be opportunities. Time is enough to heal everything. You see, at least now Lyudmila won’t be yelling to kill you, and your son won’t be all lovey-dovey with you right away.”

Sergei bowed to Bai Ye again to express his gratitude, and then left.

Bai Ye watched his departing figure and couldn't help but laugh.

He was overjoyed that his old friend had returned alive.

White Night detests suffering. Perhaps some might say that this land is a collection of suffering, and even glorify suffering for that reason.

Some people deliberately seek out hardship, simply pursuing the process without any real goal. It's as if enduring hardship equates to success.

Bai Ye would only scoff at it.

That's bullshit!

It's just a way of simply moving myself.

Never believe that suffering is something to be praised. Suffering is suffering. It does not bring success, and it is not something to be pursued. The reason why suffering can temper one's will is because suffering itself is unavoidable.

The only useful thing is probably the light that shines when humanity overcomes suffering.

What Bai Ye preferred was an ending where everyone could go home smiling. He believed that kindness existed in this world, something worth fighting for to the very end.

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"Come out."

After Sergei left, Bai Ye suddenly spoke up.

Then, a figure emerged from behind the pillar of the city hall.

"Instructor, I knew I couldn't hide it from you."

"Hmph, you're all still too green. How much of 'Grandma's' skills have you learned?" Bai Ye chuckled.

The person who came out was clearly the one mentioned in the conversation between Bai Ye and Sergei earlier, Ilya's daughter, Lyudmila, also known as "Kingkiller," a cadre of the Reunion Movement.

Although the name sounds impressive, her actual strength is not that great. Compared to Talulah and Yelena, she is indeed far inferior.

Lyudmila called Bai Ye "instructor" because Bai Ye had been training her and her Ghost Squad.

In fact, even before the operation to capture Chernobog, White Night had already begun to provide these agents with relatively systematic training.

What level is Bai Ye? Back in the "Wanderer's Tea Party," although he wasn't a professional wanderer, he could completely take over and fulfill the duties of a stealth operative if the thief in Team Five was unavailable.

As one of the top players, teaching these ghost agents is more than enough for them.

“Now that it’s just the two of us, we don’t need any honorifics—you heard what we were saying just now.” Although it sounded like a question, Bai Ye’s tone was certain.

Lyudmila nodded:

"I heard it all."

"What are your thoughts?" Bai Ye asked casually.

Lyudmila was silent for a moment, then said softly:

"I can understand, but I cannot forgive."

"Mm." Bai Ye nodded.

He could naturally understand the girl's attitude.

“However, I still have to thank him. Although I’m reluctant to thank the man who killed my father, he really did risk his life to help the Reunion Movement.” Lyudmila paused and added.

Sergei played an irreplaceable role in bringing this mobile city into the hands of the Reunification Movement.

"You've grown up too," Bai Ye said, looking at the Lupo girl in front of him.

“Following you… I’ve been learning from you and the leader for so long… but as expected, I still can’t do what the leader does.”

Back when they were on the frozen ground, some of the infected people, after acquiring a dilapidated mobile plot of land, wanted to stay there with it.

They were content with the status quo and no longer wanted to follow Talulah south.

Talulah didn't even ask them why they left; it was undoubtedly a betrayal for the Reunion Movement. Some worried that these people would sell out the organization and leak information to the disciplinary forces in exchange for their lives, so they suggested that Talulah execute them.

But Talulah refused, even allowing them to take some of the precious food and water. Lyudmila witnessed the entire incident.

She knew she could never do that. Or rather, no rational leader would let these people leave.

Almost no one would take such a big risk and hand over their fate to someone else.

However, Talulah did it anyway.

“Yes, that’s why she inspires genuine respect…” Bai Ye took a deep breath and then looked at Lyudmila and said, “But it is precisely because of this that she is both beautiful and fragile.”

Expectations lead to betrayal, betrayal leads to anger, and then one will make the other party act according to one's own intentions. Therefore, the more lofty one's ideals are, the more easily one falls into madness, and tragedy is often the same.

That's why in the timeline before White Night's journey, Talulah was able to turn to the dark side so easily and have her mind controlled by the black snake.

"Instructor, what are you thinking?" Lyudmila looked at Bai Ye. "Actually, I've always been curious about what exactly you're trying to help everyone for."

"For what... Lyudmila, do you know? As long as you have a dream, it can be sad at times, but it can also be very passionate at others."

As Bai Ye spoke, he raised his head, looked up at the extremely high dome of the city hall, and said softly:

"I have no dreams, but I can protect other people's dreams."

"If there's anything else I want to do, it's to go up there and take a look after everything is over... That must be my parents' dream, right?"

"It's strange that you don't have any dreams of your own. Are you really living purely for others?" Lyudmila looked at Bai Ye in shock. In fact, this guy was even more outrageous than Talulah.

After all, people live for their ideals; a person without ideals is like a blank shadow.

Bai Ye chuckled self-deprecatingly:

“From the very beginning, we had no choice…”

Almost all the orphans of the "Tianjin Four" incident were adopted by the Loyalty Academy. From the beginning, they would not live for themselves; the value of their lives was to continue Earth's civilization.

Bai Ye was used to this kind of thing, so even when Luna kicked her back to before the public beta, or even kicked her to the Terra continent, and told her about a grand and unbelievable plan, she didn't feel much of a stir in her heart.

I've long been used to it.

"I am a useless person. I have accomplished nothing from the beginning until now. So, if I can succeed in doing one thing, it will probably prove my worth..." Bai Ye said with emotion.

Lyudmila shook her head:

"If instructors can be called useless, then what are we?"

……

Inside the city hall, Bai Ye also saw two somewhat familiar figures.

"Natalia and Sonia?"

No, they should now be called "Early Dew" and "Winter".

Because they have all joined Rhodes Island and have their own codenames.

It's not surprising that "General Winter" stayed in White Night, after all, Hellagur and Big Daddy are here, each of whom is Sonia's idol, which makes the girl nicknamed "General Winter" very excited.

Bai Ye was somewhat surprised that Natalia was able to stay. After all, she was a noblewoman. Although her family business had suffered a huge blow due to the Chernobog incident, it was still within the acceptable range for a large family with deep reserves. While it would not be as prosperous as before, it could not be described as a complete decline.

Bai Ye used to think that this young girl had made a hasty decision on a whim, and that she would give up her job in the core city and go back to being a rich young lady due to pressure from her family and the outside world.

As a result, she has actually persisted until now.

And judging from his expression, this guy seems to be enjoying it?

……

I need to keep working hard too!

Bai Ye stood beneath the magnificent dome of the city hall, gazing at everything before him.

Unbeknownst to him, he had developed an incredibly deep connection with the city, becoming inseparable from it, something he hadn't anticipated at first. However, it didn't seem so bad after all.

But Bai Ye wouldn't stay in one place for too long; he had his own things to do. He should have left long ago, but various circumstances kept him there. Now, it was time to set off.

Volume 7: The World Only God Knows

Chapter One: On the Aircraft

"Since we got this rice cooker, I haven't needed to pilot the aircraft myself anymore. I'm getting lazier and lazier..."

Seeing Bai Ye sitting leisurely in the cockpit, Ghost Shark couldn't help but complain.

The rice cooker she was referring to was, of course, the round robot Hanai 2, which was placed on the base next to Byakuya. In the local dialect, it would be Hanaijiro.

With the robot in control, Bai Ye's life became much easier; he could even lie in the cockpit reading newspapers and drinking coffee.

"I've told you so many times, this isn't a rice cooker... This is a cheese-themed artificial idiot!" Bai Ye rolled her eyes and complained.

Hannah 2 is an AI operating platform native to Terra, and Rhodes Island's...

Six-wheeled work platforms like Castle-3 and Lancet-2 are all from Raytheon Industries' Existent series. However, White Night customized Hanai-2, giving it the ability to pilot flying vehicles.

Bai Ye originally wanted an AI similar to Luna or Rhodes Island's PRTS, or at the very least, one on par with his original AI butler, El. What he got instead was a rather mediocre AI. Even after collecting a large amount of Bai Ye's flight data, it would sometimes make mistakes in the air.

Calling it a rice cooker isn't entirely wrong, since it makes rice so delicious...

Fortunately, Bai Ye was an excellent pilot, so a bad situation did not occur.

“We have similar things in our hometown, such as the ‘little helper’ that cleans itself…” Goredia looked thoughtfully at the “rice cooker” next to Bai Ye.

"Next time, we should also go to the deep sea to see what your Atlantis is really like," Bai Ye teased from the side.

Skadi was somewhat puzzled:

"Atlantis?"

Laurentina shook her head, clearly not understanding what Bai Ye was talking about.

“Oh, that’s a legend from my own hometown,” Bai Ye explained with a smile. “There was an ancient civilization called Atlantis, which had developed a very high level of technology, but for some unknown reason, it sank into the sea.”

“I’ve seen similar legends here. Perhaps a long time ago, there was more frequent interaction between land and sea than now, when they are almost completely isolated…” Goredia guessed.

Although Goredia didn't know that the "hometown" Bai Ye mentioned referred to was a completely different place, her guess about this land did make some sense.

According to Dr. Kal'tsit's speculation, the civilization in the deep sea may have inherited the mantle of the previous civilization.

only--

“In the past, there was no sea barrier, but now, the sea and the land have been completely cut off by the sea.”

"Moreover—those things seem to have been brought upon you Agorians yourself. But that's understandable; after all, arrogance is something a civilization is born with."

Bai Ye spoke of the harsh reality of the present.

Goredia remained silent. Although her expression was grim, she couldn't refute Bai Ye. As her understanding of Hai Si deepened, Goredia gained a more profound understanding of these people who were once mere enemies.

If Bai Ye and Da Qun weren't lying to her, then based on the information available so far, it can be confirmed that Agor's current predicament is indeed due to his own reckless actions.

"Let's not talk about this now—we're just going out to have fun, why are the captain and Bai Ye taking it so seriously?!" Laurentina couldn't stand it anymore.

The atmosphere in the cockpit was almost suffocating.

The sharks were worried that the swordfish might suddenly become enraged and, in a fit of anger, pierce through the thin metal sheet of the aircraft!