Old days in the box

Chapter 394 Continue the ode to hometown with bright red
Huge rainfall bands continue to surround the Asia-Pacific region, bringing severe heavy rain to surrounding coastal cities.

While experts from various countries were busy over the disappearance of islands off the coast of Japan, a figure had already quietly moved from the sea and returned to the shore of the Kyoto Sea.

After completing the grand burial of the box, Zhou Xiao quickly returned to the familiar Jinghai City to complete the last task entrusted to Sun Hao.

Block A, No. 76 Road, Jinghai City - He has not forgotten the address given to him.

Although Zhou Xiao didn't understand the specific meaning of the words he was asked to bring, and who would be waiting at that address, this was Sun Hao's last words, and he must complete this instruction.

The heavy rain that hit here from afar had no intention of stopping. The rare heavy rain blocked the viaducts in the city. In the blurry rain curtain, there were dazzling red lights flashing everywhere and the sound of horns one after another.

Zhou Xiao gradually moved away from the noisy urban area, followed the address to a remote corner of the city, and found Block A of No. 76 Road mentioned on the address.

Just as Sun Hao said, this is indeed a big old warehouse.

The address of No. 76 Road actually no longer exists to be precise. It was a temporary road address before the urban reform. It had been gradually banned as a result of the development of Jinghai ten years ago.

It's just that this area is too remote from the city center, so it has never been included in the development plan, allowing the old-era road name to be retained.

The uncle let go of his hand and opened the door panel inward. This time, it was Zhou Xiao's turn to be stunned outside the door.

The uncle's movements were stunned, and the expression on his face also became astonished. He seemed not to have expected Zhou Xiao to say that name at all, and his movement of closing the door also froze.

Zhou Xiao has never seen such a speed of change in micro-expressions on anyone - this uncle's expression changed so quickly, almost instantly changing from irritability and exhaustion to a sharp hawk's gaze, like a veteran returning to the battlefield. .

After a while, a slow response came from the door. Someone opened the door panel from inside, revealing half of his face and looking warily at the uninvited guest outside the door.

Zhou Xiao looked inside while walking and saw a simple clothes rack placed on the open space of the warehouse, with a few clothes hanging to dry. Next to it was a small wooden table with an old-fashioned computer on it. As well as old equipment similar to typewriters, there are also many garbage bags with lunch boxes.

"We found the wrong person. This place will be demolished soon. Go, go!" Before Zhou Xiao could say anything, the uncle immediately showed his disgust as if he was chasing away a child. After saying this, he wanted to close the door.

With more doubts, Zhou Xiao lowered his head and stepped into the warehouse, following the uncle's footsteps and walking inside.

The other party almost revealed his identity in one sentence?
Is this the information Sun Hao told him? Or is it that Sun Hao has always mastered some method of communicating with the real world?

This place didn't look like a place where people could live, but more like a warehouse used to store wartime supplies in the past.

Zhou Xiao walked to the warehouse door, reached out and knocked on the rough door panel.

The visibility in the warehouse is very low, not much better than the dark sky outside. The classic old warehouse is like a dim birdcage. There are no accumulated goods inside, only a large number of yellowed paper documents piled one after another. Stacks were piled on the ground.

Zhou Xiao was not surprised by this, because since Sun Hao told him so, it meant that someone must be here; but the face that appeared behind the door panel turned out to be an elderly uncle with wrinkles on his face, which surprised him.

But soon, he recovered from the shock and immediately raised his eyes to re-examine the uninvited guest in front of him.

"...So you are the one who has been causing abnormal weather recently, come in."

"Wait, Sun Hao asked me to come." Zhou Xiao reached out to block the door and replied.

Zhou Xiao walked into the old courtyard surrounded by high red brick walls. No one could be seen inside. There were slogans like "Long Live the Great Unity of the People of the World" written on the mottled walls, which obviously came from a person who was bigger than he imagined. It's still a long time ago.

In such a large warehouse, there are only so many things stored there.

Just looking at such an environment, it is hard to imagine that a person could live here; but judging from various traces, this uncle has obviously lived here for a long time.

"Sit down, sit wherever you want... Look at my memory. Since his kid left, I don't even have an extra chair here. You can take mine." The uncle's voice was obviously very excited, and he even said With his hunched back straightened, Zhou Xiao discovered at this moment that this uncle was nearly 1.8 meters tall, with scars of various sizes on his body, aging with the years.

"How about it, is that guy taking the initiative to contact you? He should have told you everything? Alas, you don't know. It would be better if he went in, leaving me here to keep trying to contact him. I also followed him a few years ago. I came across a clue from Japan... I won’t talk about that anymore, how is he doing lately? Isn’t he happy being a god in there?”

The uncle took out an old cigarette from his pocket, leaned against the edge of the old wooden table, and smiled at Zhou Xiao in a slightly grumbling tone.

"Sun Hao is dead." Zhou Xiao replied.

The match held in the uncle's hand stopped in mid-air, unable to produce flames due to friction. His smiling face froze again, as if he had been shot in the back, making him speechless.

"why?"

"Before I answer this question, you have to tell me who you are?"

Zhou Xiao looked at the uncle in front of him seriously. Ever since he entered the door, this man seemed to have reached a consensus. What he said also showed that he was very aware of the existence of the window and the box. This really made him think a lot. No explanation.

"He told you this address, but didn't tell you about this place?" The uncle put down the matches and cigarettes in his hands, "We are members of the 7th Brigade of Jinghai, a special operations team affiliated with the Intelligence Department."

"Soldiers? He never said there were soldiers among the chosen ones."

"He is not the chosen one...didn't he even tell you this? He is a volunteer."

"Voluntary?" Zhou Xiao was stunned. In his impression, the box was a curse that wandered randomly in the world. It would automatically find anyone it thought was qualified. How could it be said that it was voluntary?

"In 1999, we received coordinated intelligence from multiple major powers, indicating that a special individual was randomly appearing in the world, bringing extremely unstable turmoil and potential threats. The last time it appeared in the British royal family, it almost destroyed the entire country. Buckingham Palace was set on fire."

Victoria - the name of this fertility goddess flashed through Zhou Xiao's mind. He didn't expect that she had such a noble background as the British royal family.

"After receiving the information, we attached great importance to it and continued to follow up and collect the information for several years. Until 2003, this individual - this box suddenly appeared in front of the door of our th Brigade in Jinghai without any warning."

"Has any of you been selected?" Zhou Xiao guessed.

"Yes, through the elimination screening method, we determined that this box had a special reaction on at least seventeen team members in our brigade. At that time, the chief of staff held an impromptu discussion with these seventeen team members. It was at that time that , that guy took the initiative to join."

There was a bleak smile on the uncle's face, as if he was indulging in the past time. At that time, they were still young men in their twenties, a prime time to serve the motherland and be high-spirited.

"But since the box made no further moves, why didn't you wait for it to leave on its own?" Zhou Xiao was puzzled. In his opinion, it should be human nature to seek advantages and avoid disadvantages in the face of unknown dangers.

"According to intelligence feedback from around the world at that time, this individual would always cause a large number of abnormal events wherever it went. Sometimes it could indeed bring incredible technology, but more often it would only bring huge uncontrollable threats. Since There's a chance we can control this thing, so why not? Even if we can't use it, we can at least make sure it doesn't fall into the wrong hands."

"So that's when he became a box holder."

"Yes, under the instructions from the superiors, I served as his technical support, and a team of two was responsible for this top-secret project. The leader's description of our tasks was very clear: the country does not require us to obtain any benefits from this individual, only that we Control the harm it causes and shut it down as much as possible to prevent it from causing more harm to other places.”

Zhou Xiao's heart thumped and she did not immediately respond to the uncle's description.

At this time, he finally understood Sun Hao's intention, understood the sentence "Sun Hao's mission is completed", and understood why he would keep this secret for thousands of years without asking for anything in return or at any cost, just for the sake of it. End the cycle of boxes.

It turns out that he was never a player who was forced to join, but a warrior who actively chose to walk into the night.

He came with a mission, and from the beginning he wanted to prevent the box from continuing to operate.

(End of this chapter)