Chapter 10: Attending the Memorial Service
August 27, 102, cloudy.
On this day, all practitioners spontaneously went to the Martyrs' Cemetery built in the northern area of the survival base.
Because this day is the day for a memorial service for the practitioners who died while guarding the survival base seven days ago.
The Martyrs' Cemetery is a cemetery built since the new era for practitioners who have died to protect the human survival base. Their remains are buried there for future generations to pay tribute to them.
In the central area of the Martyrs' Cemetery, there are dozens of giant monuments, each of which is nearly a hundred meters high.
These huge monuments are the monuments to the martyrs of the practitioners. Each monument is densely engraved with the names of the practitioners who died to defend the survival base. The names are engraved here to remember their achievements, so that future generations will remember them, remember this period of history, and not forget their original intentions, and fight the beasts to the end!
The line to present flowers to these martyrs was very long, stretching thousands of meters outside the gate of the Martyrs' Cemetery, and the line was still getting longer.
In this team, there are not only practitioners, but also many ordinary people. They all come to mourn the martyrs who sacrificed their lives to defend the survival base.
Some of them are relatives and friends of these martyrs. They are sobbing sadly in the team, missing their children, lovers, and friends... May they rest in peace in heaven.
Now, Li Weiyi was also standing in this long line, moving slowly forward.
The gloomy sky began to drizzle at some point, as if the sky was crying for the heroes who died in the battle.
In the long line, many people had red eyes and many were sobbing softly.
The flower-presenting team moved slowly, and it took nearly two hours before it was Li Weiyi's turn.
Li Weiyi walked forward, placed the white flowers under the Martyrs' Monument, and bowed deeply with gratitude.
Straightening up, Li Weiyi looked at the names on the Martyrs' Monument, and a firm voice rang out softly: "Rest in peace! We will definitely wipe out all the ferocious beasts! Let the human world return to peace!" As he spoke, Li Weiyi clenched his fists.
After looking at the names on the Martyrs' Monument a few more times, Li Weiyi walked away, allowing the people behind him to continue to pay their respects.
…
"You are the defenders of humanity!"
"You are the heroes of humanity!"
"Your achievements are unprecedented!"
"Future generations will remember you!"
…
Today, all the top leaders of the three major forces who were able to come came to the Martyrs' Cemetery to attend the memorial service for the heroes who died defending the human survival base!
Speaker Liu Longshan, the highest executive officer of the Survival Base Alliance Government, personally read the eulogy on the stage and told one moving story after another.
"Zhang Tian! Born in the 79th year of the New World, he joined the Alliance Government Army in the 101st year of the New World. He has been with the troops on hundreds of missions to kill nearby ferocious beasts. In more than a year, he has killed more than 300 ferocious beasts in total!"
"Zhao Wen! Born in the 57th year of the New World, joined the Practitioner Association in the 80th year of the New World, experienced four beast tides, and killed more than 8,000 ferocious beasts!"
"Sun Mo! Born in the 81st year of the new world, joined the Merchant Alliance in the 102nd year of the new world,..."
…
Listening to the touching eulogies, Li Weiyi walked in the Martyrs' Cemetery with a heavy expression, looking at the vivid names on the huge monuments.
"Zhang Xiaobai! He Tianguang! Wang Dachui! Lin Bai! Zhao Minghui! ..."
Many of them were about the same age as Li Weiyi, and some were even a few years younger. They were in the prime of their youth, but they sacrificed their precious young lives for the survival of mankind. They are the heroes of mankind! They are the defenders of mankind!
Without these many fearless lives fighting their way through the difficulties ahead, how could the survival base be safe and sound as it is now!
How can we not be moved by these people!? How can we not cherish their memory!? And how can we not let future generations remember them!?
In the misty drizzle, the names on the huge monuments seemed to come alive, emitting a dazzling light...
Hero! Immortal!!!
Li Weiyi was standing under the monument, silently memorizing the names one by one. At this moment, in the drizzle, a tall figure walked over, stepping on the shallow puddles.
"only!"
"Jinsong!"
The man's name was "Zhang Jinsong", a good friend of Li Weiyi. He also came to the Martyrs' Cemetery to pay tribute to these heroes. He happened to see Li Weiyi here and walked over.
Zhang Jinsong's father was also a cultivator and belonged to the Alliance government army. A few years ago, during a beast tide, his father died in the battle to defend the survival base, leaving only Zhang Jinsong and his mother to depend on each other.
And now Zhang Jinsong is also a practitioner, and has followed in his father's footsteps and just joined the Alliance Government Army this year.
Zhang Jinsong smiled stiffly, and stood with Li Weiyi under the Martyrs' Monument, looking at the heroic spirits there.
"I didn't expect to encounter a king-level beast this time. If it weren't for President Zhuge coming here, I'm afraid my Survival Base No. 7 would no longer exist, right?"
"Alas! Even so, nearly half of the practitioners in the base have been sacrificed!"
"Yes! The defense of the base is a bit tight now! I heard that the government is ready to cooperate with the Practitioner Association and the Merchant Alliance to jointly defend the survival base."
"The base needs practitioners to guard all four sides, plus patrols within the base. I'm afraid the government has sent out all the troops, right?"
"Even if it's not, it's almost the same. Otherwise, the three forces wouldn't have been able to cooperate further."
As they walked out of the Martyrs' Cemetery, they discussed the current situation.
"Weiyi! Why don't you join the Alliance Army? I believe that with your strength, it will be easy for you to join the Alliance Army. Then, you and I can fight together!"
"Jinsong! I've found a place to go, but it's not the Alliance Army. I'm joining the Practitioner Association. I'll go there when my injury heals. I won't be able to fight with you."
"Oh? The Cultivator Association? With your strength, it will be no problem for you to join. But the three of us can't get together to kill the beasts."
"Three people? Could it be that Youwei has also joined the alliance army?"
"Yeah! I just joined two days ago!"
"Youwei", full name "Nian Youwei", is a close friend of Li Weiyi and Zhang Jinsong. When they were in school, the three of them were called the "Best Buddies Iron Triangle"!
"Where's Youwei? Didn't he come?"
"He has been here, but he left first because of something. I went to pay respect to my father again, and that's when I saw you!"
"I didn't expect that both of you would join the army. Now that the three major forces are cooperating, the three of us have a chance to kill the beast together!"
"Um!"
Li Weiyi and his companion walked out of the Martyrs' Cemetery in the drizzle.
Outside the Martyrs Cemetery, the line of people coming to pay tribute became even longer. Although it was drizzling, it still couldn't stop people from paying tribute to these iron-blooded heroes...
