Chapter 301: Chapter 15: The Hero_2 Chapter 301: Chapter 15: The Hero_2 “So…
I can take you flying in, and you just need to follow my gliding.
In return, you only need to accompany me to the museum once,”
“Just cooperate with me to see an exhibition hall.
After that, I will join you in searching for the medicine, and then we will jump from Sky City on the return journey.”
Lin Xian had thought communication would go smoothly.
Upon hearing this, Big Face Cat looked up at Ah Zhuang, Er Zhuzi, and San Pang, surveying the surrounding expectant, yet numbly unfamiliar faces of the villagers, and shook his head:
“I can go with you, but they can’t.
It’s not that I don’t trust you, it’s just…
I can’t let everyone take this risk.”
He raised a finger, looking around:
“You see, around here, we’re just a few men left.
If all four of us go with you and all perish…
what would become of the remaining villagers?”
“Without the medicine, we indeed have no future to speak of.
But if all the men die, without even one left to guide the women in learning to skydive, how are the women supposed to continue our unfinished mission?”
Lin Xian looked at Big Face Cat.
Unexpectedly, in the Third Dreamland, his thinking and scope had grown to such an extent that he could assume great responsibility.
This was probably also a man’s sense of duty in the face of crisis.
Perhaps with Lee Cheng passing away early and the older men dying one after another, even the naturally rebellious Big Face Cat had been compelled to take up the mantle of leadership, becoming the pillar of these people.
Lin Xian had noticed earlier that among the crowd, neither the wife of Big Face Cat nor the figures of his daughter and son were present.
Each time he boarded the hot air balloon on a one-way journey, it was that one solitary figure, with no one to embrace him before departure.
Lin Xian had opened his mouth several times to ask, but ultimately, he never voiced his question.
The answer, however, was quite clear.
In a world ravaged by radiation sickness, given that Big Face Cat’s father had died early of the disease, it was likely that Sister-in-law Lian, and both the daughter who bickered with Big Face Cat and his son Little Face Cat, had also departed from this world.
In that period, in reality, Lin Xian had experienced too many deaths and farewells.
He had truly come to understand the sorrow of losing friends and family.
Therefore, he never asked Big Face Cat this all too obvious question, to spare additional grief.
“Big brother, I’ll go as well,”
At this point, Ah Zhuang stepped forward from the crowd:
“According to today’s plan, if you failed, it was my turn to go up.
I think what this guy say is very likely true, I’m willing to take a gamble.”
Big Face Cat nodded, patting Ah Zhuang on the shoulder:
Then he turned to Er Zhuzi and San Pang:
“You two better not go.
If we don’t come back, the care of our fellow villagers…
you will be in charge…
You’ll need to teach the women to skydive, raise the children to grow up, and after you’ve fulfilled your mission…
then come find us in the heavens.”
Having said that, Big Face Cat looked at Lin Xian:
The two of us will accompany you.”
“Alright, more would be better, but I understand your situation; two is fine.”
A delicate figure squeezed out from the crowd, raising her small hand, covered in calluses:
“If there aren’t enough people, then I’ll go too!”
In an instant, all eyes were on the girl who appeared too mature for her actual age.
Big Face Cat said sternly:
“You’re the last one who should be going!
If we men die, there are the women; if the women die, there are older children.
Besides, both your parents died up there…
you need to preserve the Lee Family’s lineage.”
I’ve wanted to go for a long time!
I’ve been practicing parachuting skills regularly, I can handle it.”
“This isn’t something good to be eager for, you think you can go just because you want to?”
Big Face Cat replied irritably:
“Boss Lee was the first to parachute into Sky City.
Before he left, he made me promise to take good care of you; and your mother was the second…
Your family has already sacrificed too much for this, how could I possibly let you go!”
His words echoed in the minds of those surrounding them.
All of them owed Lee Cheng far too much.
From the earliest relocation, to combating radiation sickness, and finally to the desperate leap into Sky City, it was Lee Cheng leading them, guiding them in the battle against fate and the future.
When humanity had no hope left to overcome radiation sickness,
Lee Cheng proposed that since the source of radiation was in Sky City, the inhabitants there should also be affected by the sickness, and with their advanced technology, they surely already had a cure.
if they wanted to save the people on the surface, they had to parachute through the defenses of Sky City!
Break in and steal the medicine and deliver it below!
When this mad plan was suggested, everyone thought it impossible, no different from a death sentence.
was willing to be that first person to face death.
Everyone watched him ride the hot air balloon to an altitude of 10,000 meters, glide down approaching Sky City, and finally, witnessed him turn into a ball of flame in the lasers.
At that time, Lee Ningning had just turned one year old, barely learned to walk on the ground, still oblivious that the fleeting fireworks in the sky meant she no longer had a father.
The instantaneous vaporization of Lee Cheng intensified everyone’s fear of Rhine Sky City, deterring any recklessness or approach.
Lee Ningning’s mother, still nursing and the wife of Lee Cheng, stood up: