Perhaps what Nelly had said was not what he had been hiding in his heart all this time.
However, it was true that he had vented all of his dissatisfaction and resentment.
Everyone else was silent.
The oldest of the group, Mrs. Elliot, who already had a head of silver hair, looked at Nelly with sad eyes.
As the only young person on the farm, everyone cared about Nelly. Hearing Nelly's words and the dissatisfaction and despair that he had been suppressing, how could they not feel sad?
However, they could not refute him.
Perhaps they had already accepted all of this, but they could not refute Nelly's words. After all, it was just as Nelly had said.
Despair, boredom, depression …
It was to the point that even choosing death was not a bad thing.
Nader suddenly stood up and walked to the corner of the room. He fumbled around and took out the last roll of cigarettes that he had treasured. He lit it up and took a deep puff from it.
"Cough, cough." He choked and coughed non-stop.
In the past, Nader had been a heavy smoker. However, he had to quit because all of the tobacco factories had stopped production, and people could no longer waste precious resources to produce cigarettes.
However, Nader soon found a familiar feeling.
As if the cigarettes were working, his irritable expression gradually calmed down.
Everyone was looking at him.
"Nelly," Nader said in a hoarse voice, "I'll sign up with you."
"What?" The rest of the people were shocked.
Even Nelly's eyes widened.
Evidently, no one expected Nader to say this.
"I'm already 50 years old." Nader's expression was very calm. He slowly spat out a mouthful of smoke and looked at everyone with a reluctant gaze, "You all know that ever since Patience died, even I don't know why I'm still alive. In fact, ever since then, I've been thinking about leaving this world."
"Mr Nader," Nelly said anxiously, "you don't have to …"
"Nelly." Nader interrupted Nelly, "Many people know this, which is why I'm the manager. It's so that I have something to do."
In reality, this was not rare.
In this world, although people were infertile, they would often find a partner to give themselves a reason to live. Single people rarely lasted for too long.
Nader's wife, on the other hand, had passed away at an early age due to lack of medicine.
Therefore, even Nelly found it hard to say anything at this time.
"Now I understand. Instead of dying like this, I might as well make my life more meaningful. Perhaps this can fill the hole in my heart," Nader continued. It was obvious that this wasn't an impulsive decision.
Of course, he could choose to continue living like this.
However, Nelly's decision seemed to have influenced him.
Because he used to be just like Nelly.
Everyone present remained silent.
But Nader suddenly laughed.
"Hey, guys, there's no need for that. No matter what, this is still better than euthanasia. Do you still remember our rules? I think this choice is worth a farewell party, not to mention … they might not even choose me. "
This sentence seemed to have worked, as many people laughed.
"That's right. You're already 50 years old. Who would fancy you?"
"Maybe they'll assign you to a farm. In that case, you might as well stay."
"If that's the case, I'll sign up too! To be honest, I've wanted to leave for a long time. "
"That's right. Everyone can see that. You should laugh more. Hahaha."
“.....”
The originally sad atmosphere seemed to have been diluted by a lot.
There were some things that even Gu Yan and Reid didn't expect.
If a person wasn't even afraid of death, why would they be afraid of sacrificing more to make their life more valuable?
Therefore …
As time passed, Reid and Gu Yan were surprised to find that many people in their fifties, sixties, and even sixties and seventies had chosen to sign up.
They no longer cared about their own lives, so they didn't care about the so-called difficulties. They also didn't care about whether they could persevere or not. Some of them even wanted to make this unfortunate life of theirs a little more worthwhile.
Finally, the live broadcast ended.
However, the impact of this live broadcast on the whole world had just begun.
Almost everyone was discussing the spaceship and the project.
Even the people of the global political power had held emergency meetings one after another.
Some people wanted to do something to get the technology from the Human Reason Guardian Association, and even wanted to target public opinion. However, this voice only lasted for a short time before it was ruthlessly suppressed.
Because they were all warned by the Human Reason Guardian Association.
The global political power was too fragile.
In this civilization that had weakened to the extreme and was still weakening, it was already very difficult for them to maintain their own existence without collapsing. It was impossible for them to go up against the Human Guardian Association that had glory, technology, and power.
What's more, more people wanted to join.
They wanted to join this great plan and become a member of the Human Reason Guardian Association.
On the eighth day after the live broadcast that changed the whole world.
The Global Association, to the world, issued an announcement, officially disbanded.
All departments still remained, but the power was transferred to the Human Reason Guardian Association.
This news that should have changed the world seemed quiet at this time. Most people didn't care and even felt that it was natural.
For such a civilization, power didn't mean much.
On the other hand, Gu Yan and Reid understood that their greatest challenge was about to come.
"There's not enough food at all." Gu Yan's expression was very serious. "The situation in this world is worse than we thought. Relying on the food production of only one medium-sized migration spaceship, it can't even make a splash!"
"The people who signed up will only get 200 million in the end. If they have to starve, at least 95% of them will choose to give up." Reid shook his head.
"Then choose 10 million people who won't give up!" Gu Yan emphasized, "If they want to win this war, they have to make these 1.8 billion humans fight for the food of these 10 million people. If they're determined enough, united enough, and hardworking enough, they can still do it … In the end, we can't solve all their problems for them."
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