Chapter 35: We Shall Ultimately Be United as One (Part 3)
"I think the name should be... 'Star-Chasing Covenant'." At this moment, she suddenly recalled a certain scene and decided in her heart.
"Does this name have any special meaning?" Flan was puzzled.
"Forgive me, I can't explain it to you right now." The girl blinked her eyes, beautiful as gemstones, and declined playfully.
She couldn't tell them the truth about the outside world yet, Tilan answered in her heart, then turned her gaze to the sky.
Pursue the eternal, become the stars, she actually hated being forced by others, even if it was by her family and friends, even if the other party claimed it was out of love and for her own good.
Times have ultimately changed. In this era, humans no longer need to compromise to get along with people they don't adapt to or like in order to survive. The convenience of the information industry allows everyone to independently live in society and live in a way that they like and feel comfortable with.
She liked the lively atmosphere of being with everyone, reminisced about the scenes of outings and picnics with a few friends during university, but also deeply understood that everyone is different, and forcing everyone to live according to the exact same model and standards is bound to be oppressive and unhappy.
The suddenly recalled scene was that day when she, Ores, Blanchi, and Shui Yanqing played with sparklers at night, a few held the lit fairy wands in their palms and waved them, sprinkling all kinds of beautiful light spots in the air, they shined and glittered, like stars mirroring and chasing each other.
They had similar values, but each had their different preferences and characteristics. They didn't need to deliberately differentiate themselves; each's brilliance illuminated one another, warming each other without being too close. This way, they could gather when lonely and also maintain individual independence and non-interference on ordinary days.
Like intertwined, brilliant stars streaking across the sky.
If in the future everyone could get along like this, that would be good, but this is surely an extremely luxurious thought, because it requires abundant material resources, so everyone doesn't worry about survival, and there is no pressure brought by the outside world.
But just as previously imagined, today's civilization can slowly achieve this, rather than arranging people in repetitive low-end jobs for social stability, it's better to enhance the quality of the entire civilization and all individuals, allowing them to fulfill the value expected of higher intelligent beings.
Humans were destined to create beautiful and hopeful things, not toil for daily meals, only in the past productivity was far from sufficient, forcing them to compromise.
Now, we possess a force far stronger than ever, so why confine the spirit to the shells of the past?
Everyone should free themselves from that outdated system and mindset, only then can the entire civilization truly enter the next stage.
Aspire to the ever-distant future, those innumerable possibilities and exciting things, forge a covenant of trust and shared culture, become the stars chasing each other in the universe.
This is the future I will bring to everyone, both as colorful and diverse as the Tree of Life Sect and as united as the Primordial Heart, respecting each other like the Deep Sea Alliance, efficient in collaboration like the Mechanical Council, with mutual recording and inheritance like the Cloud of Tracing, past factions and ideas merging here —
— We will eventually unite as one.
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