"Let go of me, Lei Qi, let go of me!
"I hate you, Lei Qi, I hate you to death. I don't want to talk to you anymore. Let go of me!
"How did you become like this? How did you and Dad become like this? You've changed beyond recognition. I don't even recognize you anymore! Are you really my brother and father? Have you been invaded by some alien race? Have you been possessed? "
"Please, brother, you can't do this. Shanua is innocent. It didn't do anything wrong. On the contrary, it has been protecting us and has even sacrificed its limbs more than once! It needs us, and we need it too. We can't treat it so cruelly!
"Brother, think about it. Didn't you like Shanua a lot when we were young? I remember that at that time, you were the one who had the dream of becoming a dream creator before me. You liked Sanuya more than I did. You often went to tell Sanuya stories. Sanuya and I were both your loyal listeners. Why did it change now? Ever since you grew up, everything has changed. Everything has changed! "
The girl struggled on her brother's shoulder, kicking her legs and scratching her hands, but she could not stop her brother from carrying her to the hospital in New Hope City like an expressionless and cold statue.
This was originally a large general hospital. Not to mention the people living on Shanua, even the residents who mined in the asteroid belt would come here for treatment when they were seriously ill. However, like everything else, that was a thing of the distant past. Now, people had built a medical ship with advanced facilities and a beautiful environment. Most people went there to see a doctor. Only some Meditation Healers and psychiatrists from the Dream Control Bureau were still stationed here.
Pep used to not understand why psychiatrists were still here.
Now she knew.
Her brother locked her in a white room with sponge on all six sides. She could not even hit the wall if she wanted to. He licked the scratches on his arm silently.
The girl was still angry. She stared at her brother and said fiercely, "Lei Qi, you've changed!"
"Of course."
"Everyone, no, all lives will grow up and change. I will change, and so will Shanua." The elder brother was like a mini daddy. He said calmly, "Everyone, no, all lives will grow up and change.
Pep was at a loss for words. After a long daze, he managed to say, "No, Sanuya and I will always be like this. We will never become as … as dark as you and Dad!"
"Yes."
The elder brother laughed. "The reason why we became so dark is because we hope that the people we protect will always be bright and never become like us."
Pep opened his mouth, but he really didn't know what to say. He couldn't vent his anger, and could only weakly plead, "Brother, do we really have to do this? Is there no other way? Can you go and plead with Papa again, or you let me go and let me talk to Sanuya? There's always a way. We can always come up with a solution that won't hurt anyone. "
"Let you go so you can tell Sanuya that we're going to kill it?"
The elder brother asked calmly, "Can you predict how Sanuya will react after hearing such news, and how many people will be killed by its reaction? Including the people who are still living on it and the fleet around it — five million, ten million, fifty million, or even more?
"Yes, Sanuya is very kind and pitiful. Its life is naturally precious. It's perfectly normal that an innocent and kind little girl like you can't bear to watch it die in ignorance.
"However, our compatriots, the five million, ten million, fifty million, and even more human beings, including all your friends, are innocent, kind, and pitiful too. The babies who are just born and don't know anything have the right to continue living.
"If you insist on going your own way and disregard the lives of hundreds of millions of people in order to save Shanuya, I do not believe that this is true kindness. Perhaps, from the perspective of all of humanity, this is the greatest evil."
As if struck by lightning, Pep was rendered speechless.
The elder brother sighed and squatted down.
"Don't blame me for being cruel. I don't have a choice either. You know that many things are not decided by the Dream Control Bureau, or even our little fleet," the elder brother said.
"Be it as the director or our fleet commander, we are all insignificant characters before the 'Supreme Combined Operations Conference'. The monitoring of every Void Hunter has always been a major event supervised by all human fleets, and when our Void Hunter raised the question of 'who am I', the hundred fleets under the Supreme Combined Operations Conference would simultaneously receive the alarm through gravitational wave communication and pay close attention to how we deal with the Void Hunter. According to the 'Emergency Plan', if the worst-case scenario is that the Void Hunter goes completely out of control and destroys or even enslaves the entire fleet, the remaining human fleets would be free to attack us and completely destroy us along with the Void Hunter that has gone out of control!"
"What!"
Pep was hearing such a shocking 'Emergency Plan' for the first time, and the girl could not understand it at all. "How can that be?"
"What should we do if that's not the case? Should we simply watch as the Void Hunter devours the human fleets and analyze all the secrets in their brains, further developing into a terrifying devil king that we cannot imagine? "
Her brother sighed again and said, "As a matter of fact, Dad and our commander are both very conservative in their attitude toward the Void Hunters. They both like the Void Hunters and the traditional lifestyle. They hope that human beings and the Void Hunters can live in peace and maintain the symbiotic relationship where they need each other. Really!"
"How is that possible?"
Pep was suspicious. "Dad clearly wants to kill Sanuya!"
"Annihilation is for rebirth. Killing Sanuya is to prevent the 'anti-Void-hunter faction' in the Supreme Combined Operations Conference from finding a reason to completely destroy the Void Hunters."
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