“It’s fine.” The boy smiled. “I’m used to it. What about you?”

“My mother was killed by the Judge. My father… he stayed in District 6 when we went to the main city.”

“I’m sorry,” the boy also said.

The exchange of experiences seemed to rapidly pull the relationship between the two of them closer. There was a brief silence as the boy looked at the children on the training ground. He placed his arms behind his head and sighed. “I have been in the outer city for so long that I forgot we all came out of the main city when we were young.”

“I remember quite clearly.” Colin stated. “I wanted to be a biologist when I was five or six years old. I did well but I didn’t get to stay in the main city.”

“I wanted to be an officer when I was a child,” the boy muttered. “I fell down at the final assessment and the military didn’t want me.”

“Fate is fickle.”

“Our qualifications weren’t enough. Even if we stayed, it would’ve been hard.” The boy sighed. “It might not necessarily be happy to stay in the main city. I heard that some people wanted to study the human archives. As a result, they had excellent mathematical talent and could only calculate trajectories in the Lighthouse for the rest of their lives. If you think about it, you wanted to be a biologist. As a result, the base feels you are more suitable for you to be a linguist. How hard would it be for you to translate documents? If I was you then I would suddenly die.”

“This is why I don’t like the base,” Colin stated. “It is like a cold-blooded machine.”

“You have to think of yourself as a small part. Your genes are the model and determine what place you work in.”

Colin gave a rare smile. “You’re fun.”

The boy said, “We learn to use metaphors when learning language.”

“However, people aren’t parts. The base does everything in the name of serving human interests but we have been losing our humanity.”

“What else can we do? We can’t eat the base’s rice for free and need to have some value.” The boy stood up and stared at the children in front of him.

“I really like kids.” The boy suddenly smiled in a very happy manner. “I love this job so much. Maybe one day, I will teach a child who is a once-in-a-lifetime genius who will save the world.”

Then he talked to himself, “I have to prepare for my lessons.”

An Zhe looked at him curiously before glancing back at Colin. Colin didn’t speak anymore. An Zhe thought that Colin wouldn’t find his comrade this time.