The anti-gravity suit on the young man activated, lifting both the youth and the fallen person slightly off the ground.
The youth's back scraped a long track on the ground.
The unmanned motorboat corrected itself, flew several hundred meters forward, then turned back towards the young man.
The young man lowered his head to observe the person in his arms and shook his head.
He gently laid the person down and mounted the motorboat alone, returning to Starfire Town.
In the distance, the Hunters were approaching with a loud rumble.
Ren Zhong shifted his gaze away from the direction of the Hunters and glanced askew at the sky.
He had tried his best.
He and his Starfire Town had done their best.
He recalled debates with some classmates who prepared to study abroad and never return before the deep freeze.
The other passionately extolled the virtues of an absolutely free market economy.
Even then, Ren Zhong knew, the other was merely finding various self-serving reasons to justify their decision.
In a world completely ruled by profit-driven capital, so-called "human rights" and "political correctness" are no more than self-deceptive beautiful facades.
This is the world where the value of life can be quantified.
The world I seek to change.
Ren Zhong took a deep breath, feeling a slight sting in his nose.
Although he had long been prepared mentally.
He knew there would inevitably be deaths, just like the "one in ten" world Ma Dafu had once described to him.
This time, he had done quite well, yet the death toll still reached 130,000.
And yet, the mistake wasn't his.
All he could feel was melancholy.
Suddenly, a line of poetry came to his mind.
"Alas, immense as the skies, who holds sway over the earth?"
In his heart, he added a matching counter-line in a bittersweet poem.
"Regrets in life, with much helplessness, how can one relax?"
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