“For whatever reason, he must love you too.”

“Will a judge like a heterogeneous?”

Polly replied, “I don’t know. However, I have lived with many heterogeneous species for 100 years—if you think I am still qualified to be a judge.”

Looking at the grey-blue eyes that seemed to know everything, An Zhe thought that Polly must know the reason why Lu Feng liked him but didn’t dare to ask. Polly must have a reason for not saying it.

Heavy images emerged in front of An Zhe’s eyes. Inside the city gates, a woman who lost his husband cursed him hoarsely. At the supply station’s square, a bullet went through Du Sai’s head but she fell toward him. Countless silhouettes appeared, those hoarse shouts, the trembling fear and the love that seeped into the bone marrow. Countless black shadows rose up, surging together and stretching out their hands, a pile of love, hatred and fear that knew each other well, pushing him to the top of the mountain where the cold wind roared and allowing him to look down at this group of beings.

No one approached him, no one knew him and those who admired him would rather make a false doll with his body then take the initiative to even say a word to him.

As for… as for the Judge’s pity and preference, this was something no one dared to expect. What type of creepy fear and unimaginable honour would it be? As a heterogeneous, he was in opposition to humanity yet he had a vague expectation that he would gain and—and he got it.

At least, from the moment when Lu Feng put his gun in An Zhe’s backpack, in this one second out of billions of years—in the second the Judge left his gun to a heterogeneous, he betrayed his life’s faith to love him.

Then like the fairy tales in children’s textbooks, the midnight bell rang. One returned to the Abyss and one returned to the base.

Like a sandstorm that was gradually ending, in the bells, the dust settled. An Zhe’s heart returned to its ordinary frequency little by little. He had received an unimaginable gift but he was completely calm instead.

He felt it was enough, everything was enough.

“If one day, humans are safe and you see him…” He requested of Polly. “Please… please don’t tell him that I’ve been here.”

“No one can lie to a judge.”

“Then tell him that I was here and then left. I’ve gone far away and might be anywhere in the world.”

Polly gazed at him with a gentle and sad expression. “I really hope God will take care of you.”

An Zhe slowly shook his head.

“I can’t love him, nor can he love me.” An Zhe spoke these words gently.