allonlinenovel Chapter 96 Breaking the Army
Chapter 96 Breaking the Army
The snow-white light is extremely dazzling, illuminating the shadow of the blizzard, and covering the silver-white body with a thin layer of timeless light, which is still brand new in the years.
The black muzzle of the gun was attached to the front glass, the hand holding the gun had distinct joints, and there were faint scars near the heel of the palm.
The other hand on the cuff of the black trench coat held an open pocket watch.The photos embedded in it have become slightly blurred.
The pointer moves step by step and pops out with a soft sound.
At 04:30 p.m. on a winter night, the sky was completely dark.
With the short sound of brakes, the oncoming light shrank.A red motorcycle stopped next to the blizzard.
Someone knocked on the window.
"……coming?"
"Ah."
The all-glass office building looks like a ghost in the cold night.
Xiao Huaiyan closed the pocket watch, put it in the side pocket of the windbreaker, and followed the people in front out of the elevator.
The woman with the high ponytail was wearing a black and white uniform, and the ground where the high heels passed seemed to have a layer of ripples.The body that has been well-trained for many years makes her back straight like a shochiku.
The stilettos stopped at the corner.
"Go, Xu Jie still has something to do with me, so I won't wait for you."
Xiao Huaiyan nodded slightly, maintaining a polite distance: "Thank you."
"You're welcome. When I was transferred from the police department to the military department, you were the one who showed me the way." Wang Yunxi's patterned smile suddenly softened a little, and he looked at him strangely.
The young man in front of him has already become a taller man than before, and his handsome and quiet eyebrows are still dignified after the wind and frost.He became more silent and more at ease.
only...
"You really don't look old," Wang Yunxi joked, "If Suling..."
As soon as the name came out, the air became a little quieter.
Wang Yunxi stopped abruptly and glanced at him, not knowing whether it was sympathy or comfort.All she ultimately said was, "Good luck."
In the minister's office, the solemn-looking general stood at the other end of the desk and closed the file in his hand.
"Major General Xiao, you have been in the military for ten years since you graduated from Imperial College in 2498. In the past ten years, you have accomplished many things beyond my reach. I thought you wanted to go further. At the time, the chief and his wife I entrusted you to me because I hope you can always remember why you came here. Now, do you really think clearly?"
"I've thought it through, Minister." Without hesitation.
After a long time, he heard a sigh.
"After retiring, I will no longer be your officer."
"...Yes," Xiao Huaiyan saluted him one last time, "Teacher."
The winter in Xuecheng is always extremely long, and the heavy snow like a goose feather brushes past the street lamps, and occasionally it looks gentle.
Walking through the bustling street, many people gathered at the door of the bookstore on the corner.It is said that the store manager has invited a professor from the Star Alliance Academy to give a lecture in the bookstore tonight.The content is Boundless Falling Wood's new collection of poems, "At the Turn of the Galaxy".
The snow wind blows away the ups and downs of poetry recitation.
"I wait in the cracks of time,
The two ends of the answer, there is no eternity
We are a subset of time, dust
……
If the universe really exists, the only secret
It's also about I love you. "
……
The girl holding the book of poetry fastened the fluffy cloak and straightened the hat with rabbit ears facing the glass.She suddenly opened her eyes wide in surprise, turned around and ran across the street excitedly.
"Xiao Huaiyan!"
The white air exhaled by the girl covered her body, rolling out like a cloud of fog.
As soon as the driving lights came on, the driver honked his horn frantically.
Xiao Huaiyan quickly dragged her by the back collar and carried her to the side of the road.
"When did you come back? Mom didn't tell me." The girl muttered a few words, smiling broadly.
Xiao Huaiyan glanced at her: "It's not big or small, Fang Yanyan. You should at least call uncle."
"I don't~ Come on, let me touch the blizzard! It's so beautiful!"
Yan Yan got into the back seat of the blizzard and shook the snow off his clothes.She had sharp eyes, and she saw the pocket watch on the passenger seat at once. She poked her head over to open it and took a look, but Xiao Huaiyan snatched it away before she could look carefully.
"Stingy ghost!" In her mind was the person in that photo, she recognized the one next to Xiao Huaiyan.
In the huge alliance star field, everyone should remember that name.
Su Ling.
……
The blizzard drove all the way to Xiao Yimo's old house.
Today is Yan Yan's birthday, and many people came to the house.Family members, old friends, new friends, but they are still chatting and laughing.
Frank hiccupped, turned his head and saw Ao Lai was dismantling the model of the Sky with the little girl.
Since that incident that year, there have been major changes in the top management of the alliance, a large number of people have been purged, and many newcomers who have just emerged have been replaced.Then the "Regulations on the Protection of Humanoid Weapons" was promulgated, the form of "contract" was abolished, and all relevant materials and instruments were destroyed.
"...Not working in the military?" He looked at Xiao Huaiyan, "That's good. Let me just say, that kind of place is not suitable for you. Of course, it is not suitable for me either. So I quit early, and it is better to be a doctor Simple."
Xiao Huaiyan hit the nail on the head: "Sell equipment to a doctor who was fined by the alliance?"
"Then how can it be considered a sale! A self-developed high-end product! Besides, I don't rely on my family, so I have to find a way to be self-reliant. Who is like Austin, who graduated from the military school and went to the Ministry of Justice obediently."
Not far away, Xizi was in the crowd.
"I heard that Yun Qing is coming back. It's a long way to travel to the distant Xinghai every two years." After Frank finished speaking, his drunkenness gradually picked up, and he began to speak indiscriminately. If you know, well, don’t look at me like that.”
Xiao Huaiyan ignored him, went to the yard and opened the door.
Ou Chuchu and Lian Xiao arrived panting.
"Boss! I'm so sorry for the late voyage!" Ou Chuchu adjusted her glasses.
Lian Xiao was very dissatisfied: "Obviously your hall has been holding meetings, if I had known earlier, I wouldn't have waited for you."
"Will you die later? When I reported to the Imperial College, I waited for you... If I hadn't met Suling—"
"Then will you let Qin Yue wait?"
"This is different!"
……
The two entered the house noisy all the way.
Yan Yan greeted them warmly, and looked towards the door with a bunch of presents in her arms.
It's strange, I saw Xiao Huaiyan just now, why did he disappear.
When she turned around, she found that the black windbreaker that had been hanging on the shelf had also disappeared.
She ran out the door and looked at the end of the street in the heavy snow. It was empty, the ruts were covered with snow, and there were no traces left.
In Poseidon's auction house, a woman as elegant as a cat unveiled the last collection, and quietly slipped behind the scenes.
Abraham is doing abacus, and the golden poodle climbs his thigh to ask for a toy.
Coral took out a few banknotes and looked up at the time.She paused, then took out another box from the cabinet.
"He's here?" Abraham didn't lift his head.
"Well, I'm going out for a while."
After leaving the hot hustle and bustle and the smell of alcohol, she instantly sobered up a lot.
Like every year in the past, she stepped on the railings and eaves and walked around a few blocks before seeing the dark car.
"You're too early," said Coral, handing him the box.
"I haven't asked you yet. These two fragments of the Star Sea are basically all the Starfields in the Alliance. You have collected them for so long and run to the Star Sea every year. Do you really want to be our non-staff member? exist--"
Xiao Huaiyan interrupted her lightly: "I'm in a hurry."
The implication is that I don't want to chat.
Coral snorted and rolled her eyes.Then she suddenly extended her hand and greeted across the street: "Hey, handsome guy, don't you want to come for supper?"
Zheng Kanzhi, who was on a business trip in Neptune Star, stopped abruptly, feeling like he had seen her somewhere.In the end, she was ridiculed by Sarah who was following her: "Why, you can't walk when you see a beautiful woman?"
Zheng Kanzhi said "no", and the blizzard flew past him, splashing rain all over the place.
"You are so unlucky, hey, why does that person look familiar?"
The overhead screen is broadcasting the pterosaur's rescue report.There was a volcanic eruption there last month.One of the doctors who participated in the whole process wore a mask. When he was asked "Why did he choose to be a doctor", he looked back at the photo frame on the table.It was a gentle smile, without hesitation, like a fool.
Someone called him outside the camera: "Doctor Si, we need emergency treatment here!"
Sarah at the bottom of the screen said "Oh": "When did he get out of prison?!... Hurry up, it's going to rain!"
Between lightning and thunder, rain covered a large area of Seagod.
Beside a barren and straight coastal road, Xiao Huaiyan pulled out a piece of paper from an abandoned mailbox.
Dong Mi left the address where the Liberty Ship was parked, and added a sentence: "On vacation, don't disturb. Ps. If there are two people, you can disturb."
Each of them remembers that name and will never forget it.But no one wants to chat with him, even when he is mentioned, he will say "if he is still there", or sad, or sigh, as if he really does not exist.
The sound of rain is endless.He sat in the driver's seat with the window ajar, and the cold wind nearly blew out the firelight.He pinched the lit paper, and the black ruins rustled down.
The last gleam of fire came close to the cigarette butt, and then fell into the potholed rainwater.
The white smoke ring stained the rearview mirror, like a fog.
The peach blossom eyes were reflected in the blurry mirror, the indifference faded away, and the deepness gradually became a trance.
It seems that everything in the world is moving in a good direction, which is the most perfect.
But only he was there.
He wanders in the gap of time.
...I can't go for a long time.
The two memories with completely different trajectories 12 years ago can be light or heavy, sometimes bright and sometimes dark, like ghosts and ghosts who are always entangled.Two extremely clear chains exist at the same time, showing himself that the clues of the world have changed.
Su Ling said that it is a gift of time.
Even if they all merge into the same destination in the end.
But all these years, he roamed the universe alone.He has been to all places related to Suling, and walked every road he has traveled in the human world.But every happy moment in the memory, if it appears indistinctly, will make his life worse than death.
Sometimes he couldn't even tell if it was real or his fantasy.
... If the past is false, does the present really exist?
With a sound of "beep", Blizzard's automatic control console opened, and it didn't know where it touched, a pop-up window suddenly popped up, and a piece of audio began to play automatically.
"...Is this what you're talking about, No. 30 Route [-], only Poseidon has such a straight coastline." It was his own, very young voice.
Another cold voice rose slightly, as if expecting: "Go now?"
"But it's raining, and there's still traffic jam ahead, so we can't catch up with the ship. How about we go again next time?"
He replied sullenly, "Okay."
"Really, after my birthday, we will go together again."
……
Immediately following another passage, a clearer overlap in memory.
"Aren't you counting the stars?...Aren't you afraid of death at such a dangerous time?"
"Then why did you go in?"
"It's not because you are here. As your master, of course you have to clean up the mess—"
……
The two recordings were played in a loop, echoing in the limited space without stopping.
He tilted his head slightly, covering his eyes with the back of his hand.
The wind and rain wiped out the sporadic soot and faint sobs on the ground.
……
The white ship passed through the vast sea of stars and landed on the water of an asteroid lake, floating like a soft white petal.
It was dark all around, only the rustling of the wind.
The white pagoda on the other side of the lake is covered with ruins of withered vines, leaving a silent silhouette.
He didn't go in that direction, but climbed up a hill according to his memory.It faces the sea, and it is still desolate and dark.
It has been like this every year for 12 years.
A green leaf emerged from the mud he stepped on, and followed his footsteps all the way to the dead Populus euphratica tree.
He sat under the withered vines, looking at the black wasteland.
In the silent night sky, thick clouds seemed to gather, and there was no starlight at all.
He suddenly remembered what Su Ling said at that time.
At that time, he remembered clearly.
Su Ling said that he would not break his promise.
So he has come to this day alone.
Xiao Huaiyan leaned against the dead tree with his head up, and slowly closed his eyes.The fatigue of the past years is slowly dispelling, leaving silence.And those scattered dusts become real in the eternal and grand proposition of time.
Slowly, he fell into a deep sleep.
Until the pocket watch pointer in his pocket made a slight sound, his consciousness was awakened.
He had heard that voice countless times, and it meant the end of the day and the beginning of a new one.
And at this moment, it was reaching the end of the overlapping of those two memories.
Is that the end... the end of everything.
It's like it never started.
The world is still silent.
until--
He didn't want to lift his heavy eyelids at first, but he seemed to feel the light.
Stars from afar float on the surface of the sea, and the tide washes the reefs.The edge of the light red clouds is the dark blue night sky, and the dust is swept away by the shining stars.
A golden leaf fell from the top of his head and landed on the palm of his right hand, lightly.
Another pale hand was covered there, and it was slowly inserted between the fingers, and it was fastened.
The heavy weight on the shoulders suddenly lightened, and the clear breath was close at hand.
Su Ling gently called his name and blinked.
Slender fingers caressed that familiar face, wiping away the moisture from the end of his eyes.
Su Ling raised his head, a slight smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.
"Listen," he said.
It seems that there are endless bells ringing in the distance, at the end of the tide, at the end of billions of galaxies, at the return of time.
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The author has something to say:
Aww, this is the end of the text, thank you for your support~
The writing of this story is really fun and satisfying, I hope you enjoy reading it too.
Today there is another chapter of sweet and sweet episodes ~ If you want to read later, you can leave a message and let me know!
The source of inspiration for this article is "The Order of Time", plus my fantasy elements account for the vast majority.The title "He Comes from the Bell Tonight" is actually a double reference, referring to Xiao Huaiyan whose timeline has been reversed after zero o'clock, and Suling from the depths of time.This article sets the timeline as a straight line, without elements of parallel time and space, and everything that happened is on this line.Therefore, after Suling experienced "death", the two past timelines merged. Since then, Xiao Huaiyan has two complete memories at the same time. Whether it is the past or the future, it is the same person for Suling .
ps. "Fourteen Nights" will also be a story related to time ~ I should start the next book, but I may write some short stories first (not sure), after all, this book has no list since v [ Tears], so I would like to thank the little cuties who followed up again, okay?