Abyss Express

Chapter 393 Interlude·Interlude丨XXX·Anonymous

Foreword:

His hope and confidence never faded. Now it is as fresh as when the breeze first blew.

— Ernest Miller Hemingway

December 31, 1982——

——Shinto City, Kyoto.

The long coastline is covered with red sand, the black waves are ups and downs, and the seaside streets are full of traffic and people.

A new year opens with a new poem, and everything is so good for everyone in this city.

The young students rode bicycles and rushed down the short slope of Nishino No. 1 Town towards the light rail line to Galahad School of Magic.

The Fujimoto family from Beichuan County traveled across the ocean, crossed more than 600 kilometers of mountain roads and waterways, and came to the seaside of the capital to open a small restaurant. In front of the door was the temporary warehouse of the Foehn Regiment. They often come here to meet up. Like the boss, they come from the farther north and are strong warriors forged by the north wind.

Next to the temple of the little earth god in front of the gate, there is a temple of the cat god full of flowers, which was originally used to worship Aohan Mingde, but the dark god didn't want to live in this extravagant small temple, and didn't want people to worship, So it became the only vacant property in Eiji Fujimoto's family, until one day a wild cat came to shelter from the rain, and the condensed water produced by the industrial park fell from the sky, and this little cutie was also sent.

It lies next to the pottery statue of Ao Ruo Ming De, opens its eyes every morning, shakes the dust off its body, and cleans up some plaster brought by passing vehicles. Two intimate figures appeared.

That is Foehn and Xiaotao——

——They sat side by side on the benches on the seaside road, covered with the tarpaulin of the battle group, fully armed at all times and never slacking off. They seemed to be forever young and full of vigor.

Even this kitten knows that the capital has ushered in a good time, it can safely and boldly go to the market to fish for fish gills, and it can run through the market like other ordinary children to play in the streets and alleys without worrying Cultists, don't worry about human flesh factories.

It listened to the sound of the waves, as if the dome and the earth were urging it back to its dream.

There is a large circle of green belts along the coast, which can grow without sunlight. The crystal orchid, which is always scary and always kind--the flower looks very strange, like a dead corpse, without chlorophyll, and symbiotic with fungi. In the dull and humid human society, it grows gratifyingly, is non-toxic and harmless, and can also be used as a precious medicinal herb.

The men and women on the beach bench were very close to each other. Foehn's division commander and his comrades put their arms around each other's shoulders, their heads were bumped together, and no pedestrians needed to correct them - even this kitten knew that they should be born together. right.

Xiaotao's face was full of curiosity, watching the novelties brought by her comrades from the Nine Realms platform.

She has charming eyes, a shocking smile, two uncorrected rabbit teeth, and a slightly protruding upper lip, not as beautiful as in the Bliss Dimension of Shinto City.

She has a thick frame and broad shoulders, more like a European and American woman. She is 179 centimeters tall. The short hair is clean and neat, and the sideburns are trimmed so as not to hinder the vision.

"What is this? Foehn?" She pointed to the thin white wire on her shoulder and a small earphone.

Sitting next to her is the leader of the Foehn battle group. He has integrated sixteen large and small squad groups. Within the scope of Shendao City, everyone knows his name—but now After the fight, I lost my real name and surname, and started a new life with the name of the division.

"Walkman! It's a Walkman!" Foehn enthusiastically introduced to Xiaotao the new gadgets from Nine Realms Station. In 1982—WALKMAN was the most fashionable luxury nowadays. It was a combination of technology and humanities. combined.

His brows and eyes are clear and sharp, and there is a deep scar on the bridge of his nose. Only the knuckles of the half-fingered glove are exposed, and many wounds can be seen, some of which have completely healed and leave spots like vitiligo, and some have incompletely healed pitted scars.

Holding a cassette tape, he shared the earphones with Xiaotao, asking his lover to listen to the voice from the other side of the world.

He was elated, shouting broken English words in Japanese.

"U2! You Too! New band from Ireland!"

He picked up the Walkman in one hand, while the other hand was busy inserting the tape, just as he was about to take his arm away from his lover's neck, he immediately asked Xiaotao to hold it tightly.

Xiaotao smiled and said, "No!"

Foehn said aggrievedly: "I can't do this kind of thing if I need to insert the tape with one hand!"

Xiao Tao stared at the bright red shell curiously, saw the circuit wires from the plastic plate, reached out to take the tape on Foehn boy's lap, looked at the cover page again and again, and finally asked curiously.

"Is it stuffed in here? In this box?"

Foehn immediately said: "That's right! Just plug it in and press this button, and the earphones will emit singing!"

"Such a small box?" Xiaotao asked in surprise, "Like a gramophone and radio station? Like a cassette tape inserted into a tape recorder? The sound will come out immediately?"

Foehn said triumphantly, "How about it! It's amazing!"

"It's really amazing!" Xiaotao's eyes lit up, and she said immediately, "It's just that Sony Corporation is amazing, not you! Foehn! I'm not praising you! You are so proud!"

Foehn pursed his lips, looking unconvinced.

Xiaotao slowly stuffed the tape into the Walkman, for fear of ruining this novelty.

Foehn pressed the play button, and the singing voice from the earphones immediately attracted the souls of the two of them.

Xiaotao only listened for about ten seconds, and immediately asked Foehn.

"Punk?"

Foehn immediately denied: "It's Rock!"

Xiaotao: "So gentle Rock, so simple Rock"

Foehn: "Rock should be very simple!"

Xiaotao: "If you want to talk about this, I don't understand. I only know that there are pianos, keyboards, and guitars that are too expensive for me to understand in rock music."

Foehn: "That's because the band has money, so they buy these extra things."

Xiaotao: "Are they redundant?"

Foehn: "Yes! It's just too much!"

Xiaotao: "But I think it's good. At least the POP (popular) elements have become more elegant, like poetry."

Foehn stopped talking immediately, he seemed to be sulking, and after the second chorus, he patiently stopped being angry with his lover again.

"You don't like Rock?"

Xiaotao: "No. I just don't like noisy things."

Foehn: "That's why I spent a lot of effort to get this tape!"

Xiaotao nodded hesitantly: "Yeah."

Foehn: "Peach! I think music is very important!"

Xiaotao nodded vigorously: "Yeah!"

Foehn: "If one day, we meet aliens! We can't understand the language and writing, and we must use music to communicate!"

Xiaotao: "What a romantic way to say it."

Foehn grinned, showing two rows of big white teeth, and winking at Xiaotao: "Music contains not only mathematics, but also language, as well as countless deep feelings. It is the best gift God has given us human beings!"

Xiaotao: "U2U2"

Foehn: "These guys are just like us! They're all about the same age!"

Xiaotao: "Does this name have any meaning? I don't understand it."

Foehn pointed at the tip of his lover's nose: "U2! You Too! You come too!"

Xiaotao asked suspiciously: "But how can I come with them...with them?"

Foehn explained enthusiastically: "When these guys formed a band, they were half full of water! They were all rookies! But the score written by the world's most powerful guitar master, as long as you can find three rookies to play together, the effect will be good." Not bad either!"

Xiao Tao's cheek was pressed against Foehn's fingertips, and she felt a warm sea breeze blowing from her mouthpiece.

"hey-hey."

Foehn continued: "Then we are the same! As long as we can find like-minded partners, no matter how difficult the problem in the world is, we can definitely find a solution! It's not bad!"

Xiao Tao nodded her head lightly, this time her face was blushing——

——Because this young man never grows old, whether it is during the battle group or the division period.

The story of the war era is about to be finished, but he is still full of vigor, always so powerful.

"So I was thinking." Foehn tapped the tape cassette lightly with the back of his finger: "The little brothers from Ireland must think that we listeners are the same as them—as long as we put on the earphones, we will always be in the same place." Together! We are listening to voices from far away, we are communicating all the time, across time and space, experiencing the same music! Experience the same feeling!"

Xiaotao: "It sounds like a ghost"

"How can you say that!" Foehn opened his mouth wide, depressed and joyful: "Peach! The moment the phonograph appeared, it could record the voices of the dead, and some people called the phonograph a coffin, which can preserve the voices of ghosts! But I think this title is too disrespectful!"

Xiaotao pouted and laughed, "You like to trap yourself in these weird vocabulary, and keep digging into the corner."

"That's the kind of guy I am! You're right!" Foehn didn't care about his lover's teasing, he raised his legs carelessly, looking at the tide and the dark ocean: "Otherwise, why did you lose your own name? ?!"

Xiaotao hesitated to speak: "Don't you think about continuing to live as the leader of the division?"

Foehn's eyes also sank, as if he had changed into a different person.

At this moment, he went from eighteen to thirty-six.

"No"

Xiaotao followed her lover's heart and whispered together: "Can't you change it?"

Foehn turned his head and glanced at the seaside streets of the capital.

"The leader can't be somebody, no."

"The leader can only be the Six Divisions of the Gods."

"The people who thrive here have already suffered from the rule of man. They not only have to fight natural disasters and beasts, but also fight bandits and bullies."

"If I can't even give fairness and justice, I might as well hand over the work of the consul to artificial intelligence."

"And ah, Xiaotao."

He held his lover's cheek with a complicated expression.

"Fifty-one pillars will be completed in the next year. By then, everyone will have an electronic ID card and a virtual ID. My name is Foehn. What's wrong with that?"

"I know how to fight. It's not just that the enemy is afraid of me. It's like the fire that burns the weeds, and it's also the hot wind that kills the crops. Every time I want to go to war, I have to consume an unknown number of bags of food and destroy an unknown number of buildings—— People are as afraid of me as my enemies."

"I can't even build a thatched hut. Such a person should not guide others how to live."

"Even the cats adopted by Fujimoto's family hate my Reiatsu, let alone people who pursue happiness? They must miss me and hate me at the same time."

"So it's better to hide your name incognito! The fighters of the Anonymous have no names."

"I have heard their legends since I was a child, and I regard them as beacons for the way forward."

"From now on, I am also an anonymous person!"

Xiaotao: "But."

"Say something else!" Foehn immediately changed the subject, and turned back into a sunny and cheerful boy.

Xiaotao: "Then talk about something else."

Foehn squinted his eyes and nodded vigorously: "En! En!"

Xiaotao blushed, tilted her head and leaned towards Foehn: "Should we get married?"

Foehn glanced elsewhere, feeling a little guilty, and corrected his sitting posture all of a sudden. Hands between the thighs.

"this."

Xiaotao pursed her lips, and suddenly lost all embarrassment: "As you said, we will get married before the fifty-one pillars are finished."

Foehn hastily explained: "That's what I said, but."

Xiao Tao no longer has any restraint, and all her hopes turned into grievances in the end.

"Are you going to delay again? Foehn! You are going to lie again?! You told me before that you only need to recover the Kanto seashore, then Ginza, then Kantowai, and now it is to rebuild the tower and build a neural network."

Foehn was evasive, with a complicated expression: "I just think we should have a ceremony. How can we make a decision right away for such a lifetime thing?"

"The worst!" Xiaotao pursed her mouth, tears welling in her eyes: "The worst! The worst! The worst is you! Foehn! What ceremony? What ceremony? Every time I have to perform rituals on me."

Just for a moment, Foehn opened the battery cover of the Walkman and took out a ring from it.

He got off the chair and knelt in front of Xiaotao on one knee. The silver ring and black jade pyroxene jewelry was the wedding ring.

He made a rare joke with his lover, as if a prank had succeeded, and it was the first straight man's trick in the universe.

"Of course there must be a marriage proposal."

Xiaotao was in the middle of crying and stayed for a while, then she raised her fist and slammed it on Foehn's cheek.

When the earphone cable was pulled and flew, the Walkman also floated into the air, and the ring and the battery all scattered and fled, making her hold on tightly with a pair of skillful hands.

She finally came to her senses, and cried harder, as if her heart had been cut by a knife and an axe, and she was planted in the red sand all of a sudden, resting on Foehn's arm, looking at the dark dome, the distant The giant tower reaching to the sky is about to become a supporting pillar, wrestling with this cruel world.

"It hurts!" Foehn's chin was tilted to one side, his face was expressionless, and he slowly straightened his mouth: "It hurts to death, it really hurts. It's super——————Super———— Pain!"

Xiaotao's hands were not idle, she slowly restored the Walkman, and put the earphones back into her lover's ears again.

"I do not like."

Foehn: "So I deserve to be beaten."

Xiao Tao wiped away her tears on the poncho plastic cloth, and looked up at her lover's cheek.

"But I accept!"

Foehn immediately laughed out loud: "Of course!"

Xiao Tao's eyes were blurred, and she suddenly began to look forward to the future.

They seldom discuss their personal future. Most of the time, they are thinking about what this 378,000 square kilometers will look like in the future.

At this moment, Xiaotao and Foefeng talked about their married life.

"Will it be different?"

Foehn: "What's different?"

Xiaotao: "Will it be different after we get married?"

Foehn: "Of course! Otherwise, why would you want to get married? You care so much about it, you can even hit me for it."

Xiaotao: "I suddenly couldn't figure it out, it seems that nothing has changed."

Foehn: "Of course! From the very beginning, I fought with all my strength! I also loved you with all my strength! I did my best! I loved you with all my strength!"

Xiaotao: "Then do we have to have a baby?"

Foefeng put his arms around his lover, and patted Xiaotao's forehead with his palm, telling the girl to wake up.

"Where are there children! Peach! Let's not talk about the reconstruction of the VENOM organization—the radiation from the nuclear power plant alone killed half of our lives. As for the matter of having children"

Xiaotao: "Adopt one?"

Foehn: "Okay!"

Xiaotao: "Boy or girl?"

Foehn immediately said: "Of course it's Boy!"

Xiaotao asked suspiciously, "Why?!"

Foehn laughed and said, "Because U2's first album is called "Boy"—I like it!"

Xiaotao was surprised: "Is it so casual?!"

Foehn: "Not only "Boy", but also "War". I want to teach this kid how to fight! The second album must also be arranged!"

"You guy, do you live your life according to other people's band works?" Xiaotao didn't understand, and started to sing the opposite tune: "What if one day they named their new album "Divorce"?"

"Then let's split up! Hahahahaha!" Foehn laughed loudly: "Then it will change back to the relationship of boyfriend and girlfriend! I still love you with all my strength!"

Xiaotao just felt unreasonable: "You bastard, something is wrong with your head!"

Foehn yelled, "Have another wedding!"

Xiaotao: "Where is such a casual wedding!"

Foehn turned over and pressed on Xiaotao, propping up his strong body with both hands.

"Let our children come to the wedding too!"

"How could they be absent from such an important event?"

"The most regrettable thing in my life is that I didn't attend my parents' wedding!"

"You too, Xiaotao!"

Shi Yuantao blinked his eyes, it was really hard to understand this crazy Redstone man——

——He is like a ball of fire, like a piece of hot coal, like a handful of chili peppers, which makes people cry when sprinkled in their eyes, warms them when stuffed into their stomachs, and a few words can make people sweat all over.

She finally took off her earphones and pulled out the tape.

"I do not like this."

She doesn't understand U2, let alone Foehn's music taste, but this is only a small part of life. Just as the world is often uneven, people can only seek common ground while reserving differences.

"I like what BOSS gave me"

She pulled another cassette from her shoulder bag, the music of Frank Sinatra Frank Sinatra.

It was "I Love You Baby·I Love You Baby".

That's "Fly Me To The Moon·Let Me Fly To The Moon"

That's "That`s Life·This is Life"

That is "Can`t We Be Friends? · Can't we really be friends?" "

Everywhere is Ao Han Mingde's naughty and sincere, gentle and romantic.

Xiaotao leaves the most important and favorite thing to the person she most admires and is most obsessed with.

"I like this, Foehn, listen to this - "My Way""

"My method, my approach, my desire, my way of life, my style of doing things, my long journey in life."

"My way."

Farther away.

Colonel Tom and Igarashi Akeku, fat and thin, one tall and one short elders watched this scene quietly.

The tall Tom is Foehn's big brother, and his body of more than three meters is a symbol of the descendants of giants. At this moment, this iron man is holding a small handkerchief, wiping his tears vigorously, and sitting next to his old comrade-in-arms, Mr. Ming Kong, as if Like a little daughter-in-law, pointing at Foefeng and Xiaotao.

Igarashi Akira looked disgusted, he was short and thin, he patted Tom's face lightly, asking this embarrassing thing to be stronger, but young people have finally found happiness, there is nothing to cry about, and a few words of comfort after--

——Mingkong also started to raise the air defense alarm, the energy emanating from that small body was stronger than that of a giant, which scared the sleeping cat next to the small earth temple to stand up, and made it stand upright with its legs like a bow .

Xiaotao held the Walkman in her heart, held Foehn's cheeks, and looked at the boy who didn't grow up from bottom to top.

Foehn is still supporting his body, his broad shoulders are like a big umbrella, he can continue to support it with only one finger, but he dare not reach out to touch his lover, for fear of falling on the ground as soon as he relaxes. In the bunker.

When the music started, they did nothing—

— just watched, not moving.

Until the New Year's Eve fireworks bloom ten thousand flowers in the sky.

All the while, the moment becomes eternity.