After a moment, Madam Lu stated, “I will prepare some materials. Once Lieutenant General Liu Shan arrives, I will go.”

There was the sound of the filing cabinet opening and everyone in the living room was silent. It was so long that she almost lost consciousness. Yet she was still wondering why her mother had knocked her unconscious.

Why? Why?

Because…

Because—

She thought about it as she was losing consciousness.

—Until a shot rang out.

She trembled all over and her hands were sweaty. her gold badge slipped from her hand and hit the ground with a clear sound the next moment. Her crumbling faith was the same as this badge. In this difficult to measure time, she struggled to grip the badge in her hand again, bringing her fist to her chest.

For a long time, blood slowly flowed through the gap in the door like the tentacles of an octopus. She looked away from there toward the warmly decorated room. She didn’t know if it was sadness, hatred, pity or nothingness in her eyes.

The next moment, she completely lost consciousness.

======The third rose, 2105

She was taken to a place where she stayed with girls of the same age in a few small rooms. Food and water were delivered to her every day. She knew that many things happened outside for at least three months, because such a life lasted for three months.

She had been thinking about why her mother knocked her out if her mother didn’t know the danger that was going to happen. If her mother knew the danger, why not take precautions earlier? If killing Madam Lu with the gun could solve the problem, why did the chaos last for three months? If it was predicted that the chaos would last for three months, why choose to kill her?

Sometimes, she suspected that her other deliberately killed herself. In addition, her mother knocked her out to keep her alive.

Her mother said that apart from the women closely related to the declaration, the other members of the base were indifferent to the opposition. Of course, there was a way to make them care. It was to let them see that the thing that oppressed them was so huge that it would one day crush everyone.

Or maybe she would never know the truth.

No matter what, her mother Madam Lu and Madam Lu’s companions had failed. It was because she and her companions were brought to a large, white hexagonal building that she had seen every day when she opened the curtains. It was called the Garden of Eden.

In the hall, an old, strange woman took her hand.

“Child.” The lady asked. “Do you love humanity?”

“In any case,” she spoke softly, looking into the lady’s eyes. “Humans are made to love each other.”

She went in. She knew that years later, she would be known as Madam Lu. It was as if her mother was still alive.