"I can't even find them...! I can't even bury them..."
The blonde girl walked forward in the endless ruins with her head down, and every step she took felt heavy and laborious as if it was filled with lead.
She had no intention of figuring out the direction because she had already lost her destination and it would be the same wherever she went.
After all the wars, the world no longer looks like a world, but more like an endless corridor.
The scenery was the same everywhere; she was just marking time.
"Besides the filthy rats, the only things that kept me company were those disgusting insects."
"Or maybe I'm the same as them?"
"...Why did I escape at that time?"
"...Why do you want me to live?"
"..Why are you giving me power only now?"
"If I had come earlier, I would have been able to rescue everyone..."
"...Your Majesty?"
"Oh……"
"How ironic."
The clear image blurred and disappeared again. The ship girls who broke into the second room looked at each other and guessed part of the truth.
"So this place... is indeed fake?" Aurora stroked the cold stone wall, "...what Her Majesty the Queen experienced is real?"
The hero also fell silent, the devastated scene just now constantly appearing in his mind.
There was no life and total silence.
If she were to explore such a place, she would have no fun at all and would probably be in even worse condition than Queen Elizabeth in the video.
Yuanchou was also surprised. This was completely different from the beautiful world she had heard from Dafeng. It wasn't even close to it.
The goddess of fate's eyes were red, and she held Jarvis' hand tightly, as if only in this way could she muster the courage to continue to move on to the next room.
"I found a construction machine."
"I don't know if it will work. I don't have any Rubik's Cubes on me anymore."
"I would love to have new subjects so that I would no longer be alone."
"But if I do this... they will spit on me."
"It's like what I did in my dream."
"And am I really...capable of taking on this responsibility?"
"Is it really a good thing for them to be born into this world?"
"........."
"But I really need a friend, a family."
"I... don't want to be alone anymore."
"The Rubik's Cube...if we look for it, we'll find it, right?"
"But before that, I have to do something for them."
"At least... there should be a 'home', right?"
"Well, I need a home."
"..."
"...I am such a selfish person."
The smaller blonde girl wiped her tears, memorized the place, turned around and began to search for building materials with all her might, digging up stones, putting them into the space, and bringing them to the flat ground.
Dusty, muddy, sharp-edged, irregularly shaped...
As long as it could be used to build a stone wall, she would take it all and transport it to an open space far away, where she would clean and polish it and make it into beautiful stone bricks.
Sunny, rainy, hot, cold.
In a world overflowing with oil resources, people are tirelessly transporting and piling them up day and night.
It took her an unknown number of years, but she used her almost stagnant mind to build a palace, and dug deep into the ruins to obtain a number of decent decorations.
Finally, she stood in front of the statue she had made with her fingernails, looked around, and burst into tears because of the dilapidated and worn-out house.
She found that she still could not welcome the arrival of new life in such a world.
"I'm beyond help."
“I long to be saved.”
"I gave up the truth without hesitation and selfishly wove the false."
"There were some problems with the construction device, but it's still usable, and the result of a single camp is also to my liking."
"I used the remaining ten Rubik's Cubes to bring them back and wrapped them in the quilt to prevent them from seeing anything outside."
"At the same time, I am enjoying this illusory happiness in a painful and despicable way."
"So it was Her Majesty the Queen who sent us..."
"... Let's go to the next one."
"......OK."
"Becoming a powerful shipgirl is a mistake."
"Sometimes, being weak is a necessary condition for happiness."
"In a world without any threats, being a 'human' is much happier than being a 'shipgirl'."
"Capability will escalate conflicts, expand impacts, and push things toward an irreversible outcome."
"So... they should just be 'humans'."
"As long as there is enough energy from the outside world, I can provide for this place forever and extend this peace indefinitely."
"This time, I will handle everything perfectly."
"I want to take on this responsibility, for them and for myself."
"I found a research institute underground. It's where they build research ships."
“I don’t understand these devices, and I can’t learn them.”
"But I recognize the photo of Cheshire, and I recognize the button that says 'Start'."
"For the first time, good luck has come to me. I think there might be a new member in the family."
“Scientific research takes a certain amount of time, but everything is proceeding in an orderly manner.”
"I went back and told everyone the good news, and naturally received their praise."
"...I've heard this countless times, but it still makes me happy."
"Because only in this way can I be firm in myself, fight against the darkness in my dreams, and not give up the belief in living."
"My body..."
"I couldn't tell whether they were pulling me down or for some other reason, but I gradually lost control of myself."
"On the day I visited Cheshire, who had not yet taken shape, my consciousness gradually blurred and my vision was invaded by darkness."
"I was afraid of what I might do, so I took Cheshire, who was still a little kid, into the bed."
"When I woke up, I found that everything around me was blank and I was standing in a big pit."
"And this place was originally an underground research institute."
"I really need treatment, but there's no one to help me, not even anyone I can talk to."
"Your Majesty..."
"Is this Her Majesty the Queen?"
"They deceived these people with lies one after another, as if every day was a happy day."
"But I lost Cheshire, and his health is getting worse."
"I had no one to turn to, so I tricked them into going far away, ran down to the bottom and locked myself up, doing the old job that only common people would do."
"engraving."
“That’s when I realized that praying to God is useful.”
"It doesn't help the situation, but at least it makes me feel better."
"What a pity...
I've destroyed everything I've accomplished, and I have to go."
"I'll be back."
"Wait until I come back."
"I carved these not for them to see, but for myself to see."
"Only in this way can I have a chance to defeat myself. Otherwise... I'm afraid I won't be able to maintain this lie."
"If I lose consciousness...
"At least, at least we have to continue their happiness..."
"Dreaming is better than living in hell."
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"..........
"So all this was done by Her Majesty the Queen?"
Yuanchou looked at the slowly disappearing scene in front of him and nodded silently. This was the last part and also the final truth.
The vampire didn't know what to say, and the others were completely silent.
There was too much information and they couldn't figure out what their mood was. They just felt like there was something stuck in their throats.
I can't swallow it, and I can't spit it out.
Aurora clenched her fists, looking worried, "..So now, Her Majesty the Queen...?"
Yuanchou let out a long sigh, "I'm afraid we need to get out of this dream before we can confirm it."
Jarvis remained calm and looked at the blank room where the image was when he was a child. "Now, what should we do?"
Everyone has not yet recovered from the series of memories just now, only Dafeng is the most sober. She doesn't care about pain or happiness, she just wants to go back.
So she ran back to the hall with the peach pit in her arms, stepped on the throne and searched carefully, but finally returned empty-handed.
"There's nothing here. Let's go to that hole. Commander must have been waiting for me for a long time! Let's go!"
This kind of behavior has a great impact on people's favorability towards her, and the depressed ship girls' impression of her has dropped a lot.
They were so puzzled by Dafeng's indifference that they began to doubt whether the kindness they showed to the other party was worth it.
But the most urgent task is to try to leave here.
The ship girls suppressed their annoyance in their hearts and spent most of the day walking from the palace to the edge of the dream.
In the darkness, an oil lamp provided a faint warm light, guiding everyone to find the gap that no longer spewed flames but still contained high temperatures.
"...What should I do now?" Janus saw her for the first time and wanted to touch her.
Yuanchou stopped her and took the firewood that Yingxiong used as a crutch and poked it at the gap. An orange-red flame instantly ignited from the place where the firewood touched the gap.
"Don't use your hands, let me do it."
The nun called out carrier-based aircraft and used up all the oil to bombard the breach. Even after the ammunition ran out, she held on to her equipment and endured the high temperatures transmitted from it as she dug.
However, the barrier between dreams and reality created by the [META ship] is something that ordinary ship girls cannot cross.
When Yuanchou fell to the ground exhausted with his hands burned, the gap still existed, giving people hope while blocking all thoughts.
Two young nurses quickly stepped forward to bandage the wound. Aurora clenched her fists, reluctantly picked up the carrier-based aircraft on the ground that had not yet cooled down, and gritted her teeth to take over the position of Resentment.
One fell, and another took his place.
