Longmen Memoirs

"Occasionally I deliver letters for others, but most of the time I actually receive the letter and hand it over to the person it belongs to." Chen Mo explained.

In fact, there is no difference between the two statements, but for Chen Mo, there is a big difference. In the former, he wrote the letter himself, while in the latter, he intercepted the letter and took it to find the owner of the letter.

The result was the same, and receiving a letter of departure was not a good thing in Kazdaele.

Froststar didn't quite understand.

She is like a large village girl. Of course, this term is not very appropriate, but it is not much different when applied to Shuangxing. Maybe because of the guerrillas, she has some exposure and knowledge of cities and knowledge, but after all, The military-style education from the former Ursus is too one-sided and very different from what real ordinary people should contact, but from the perspective of an infected person, Frost Star's cognitive level is obviously beyond Most of the people outside the city and the general infected people.

Perhaps it was from Chen Mo's eyes that he could see his less-than-respectful thoughts.

Frost Star's expression became a little unkind.

"Are you thinking of any bad thoughts?"

"I didn't mean to laugh at you."

"You said it all." Shuangxing said expressionlessly.

"So I said I didn't."

"..."

The white Carters was a little speechless. She felt that Chen Mo said that on purpose. Although he looked innocent, the kind-hearted Carters was a little confused about whether what he said was true or not.

“How far do we have to go to Kazdaele?”

Carters wisely chose to change the topic, which made Chen Mo a little regretful.

One of the few pleasures he has, and his current pleasure is to test the reactions of the people around him. I don't know when he developed this bad habit, but Chen Mo doesn't think it's bad.

Because of this, he could feel that they were all still alive.

"Very soon. In two days, we will cross the Ursus border. If I remember correctly, there is an abandoned signal tower in the direction we are going now. We can use it to contact Kazdel."

"Huh? Or because of work." Shuangxing asked.

"Previous job." Chen Mo answered frankly, and added: "I don't lie to people very much."

Shuangxing automatically ignored the second half of his sentence. She didn't really expect Chen Mo anymore, but in fact, most of the time, Chen Mo really didn't lie. On the contrary, he usually told the truth.

"What did you do before? Why do I feel like you know a little bit about everything, but you can't tell me." Shuangxing looked at Chen Mo in confusion and asked.

"Just like you said, I used to do a little bit of everything, so later I became a little bit good at everything."

"I knew you would answer that."

"Then why ask?"

"If you want to ask, just ask."

Froststar said, of course.

Knowledge and age are not directly proportional, but generally speaking, the older people are, the more knowledgeable they are, because they happen to have experienced enough, but it does not mean that they have experienced the era that young people have experienced, so disagreements are inevitable .

For young people, they are eager to know more and have their own views on the world. However, there are too many things that are different from what they expected. Therefore, young people are easily confused by a huge setback. Then the whole concept changed dramatically.

It's not because they are not determined enough, but because they have paid the price of growing up.

Chen Mo has a rare deformity, because he was not born a child, so the process of his growing up is more like aging than growing up. He has already passed the stage of growing up, so that in the subsequent life, He keeps "aging".

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Chapter 65 On the Tower

In Shuangxing's view, Chen Mo is a rather strange person. She is different from everyone Shuangxing has met before, including Tallulah.

Chen Mo gave people the impression of being a bit mysterious, indescribably mysterious. When she first came into contact with him, Shuangxing only regarded him as Tallulah's friend. This was not the first time Tallulah called those so-called friends in her mouth. Now, Tallulah is used to calling most of the infected people she knows as friends.

The word "friend" in her mouth is really not new.

But Chen Mo was different. Shuangxing could see that the relationship between Chen Mo and Tallulah was far more than just friends, but this had nothing to do with Shuangxing. The first time Shuangxing changed his impression was when the team moved away from the guerrillas. On the way, Chen Mo's behavior made Shuang Xing so angry that her attitude towards Chen Mo became much colder.

Shuangxing is not used to dealing with such people who are full of sinister calculations. Although she knows that Chen Mo is right, his direct way of weighing the pros and cons makes it difficult for Shuangxing to have a good impression.

It was also from that time that Shuangxing understood that for Chen Mo, the only reason for him to stay was Tallulah. He didn't care about the situation of the infected, nor the life and death of their group, because Tallulah cared about, That's why he cares.

But what cannot be denied is that because of his existence, or because of his actions, their evacuation went much smoother, so that Chen Mo gradually gained the trust of the infected in the camp, but Shuangxing still held him in his arms. She was skeptical, she couldn't trust people like Chen Mo, not yet.

But with the return of the guerrillas and what Chen Mo did in the camp, Shuangxing's perception of her changed slightly. Chen Mo was no longer so mysterious. He seemed like an ordinary infected person. It would be better to say that he even Compared to people like himself who have stayed in the camp for a long time, he is better at getting along with the infected, communicating with them, and gaining their trust.

At least Shuangxing felt that she was definitely not as popular as Chen Mo among ordinary infected people now.

If I have to say it, it's probably because in his eyes, he truly regards the infected as human beings, people who are the same as ordinary people, with respect and equality. Maybe this kind of thing can be disguised, but if it is disguised, then he is also pretending. It was so good that even he gradually began to believe that he seemed to be fellow travelers with people like him. Even the snow monsters, Shuangxing often saw Chen Mo chatting with the snow monsters.

The snow monsters like him. They like him because he seems to know a little bit about everything. They like him for being easy to deal with. They also like his little secrets about Tallulah and his "well-informed" and humorous nature.

It is not difficult to get in touch with him. Children, women, and soldiers can all be chatted with. No matter what they are engaged in, he knows something about them.

There is an illusion that since Chen Mo joined the camp, their situation has become better. At least before, Shuangxing couldn't believe that he would come to Kazdale one day.

What really made Shuangxing change her attitude towards Chen Mo and make her feel that this person became mysterious again was undoubtedly the attack by Ursus' internal guards a few months ago.

Shuangxing couldn't deny that perhaps one of the reasons for her change in attitude towards Chen Mo was that Chen Mo saved her life. This was a fact that Shuangxing couldn't deny. No matter how much doubts and distrust she had about Chen Mo's purpose and behavior before, but At least he saved his own life, and when a person is willing to risk his life to believe in his actions, no matter how false his actions are, it no longer matters.

The important thing is that he is indeed fighting for the infected, and he is indeed making efforts for the survival of the infected. This is a fact that no one can deny or take away.

No matter how many empty words a person says, the facts are not more convincing. Shuangxing thinks so from beginning to end. She is also a more practical person.

April 3

They arrived at the Kazdaele border in the afternoon. Fortunately, they did not encounter any natural disasters along the way. Otherwise, it would have taken several more days to bypass the areas affected by natural disasters.

The signal tower stood within sight, surrounded by a flat wilderness. In fact, if he hadn't seen the broken signal tower in the wilderness, Shuangxing wouldn't be able to tell whether they had left Ursa. Sri Lanka.

There is no actual national border between Ursus and Kazdaele. In fact, most of the time, ordinary people traveling from one country to another without professional messengers cannot distinguish themselves unless they enter towns and villages. Which position does it belong to now?

Although she and Chen Mo brought maps bought from the nearest mobile city, the map alone could only determine a general direction.

The sky was dim, and dark clouds gathered over the vast wilderness. Along with the strong wind, the sand and dust on the wilderness were raised, so that both of them became a little gray.

The camel beast took difficult steps in the dust. Low-altitude black clouds gathered in layers and rolled with the air currents. The wind was slightly moist. This was a prelude to rain, and it was a heavy rain.

Sure enough, when she and Chen Mo walked under the signal tower, the rumble of thunder rang out, and within a few seconds, heavy rain fell from the sky, and soon the vast wilderness was covered in a hazy haze.

Chen Mo was still rejoicing that they finally reached the bottom of the signal tower.

Froststar just put away her dusty cloak and shook it vigorously. The flying yellow dust filled the bottom of the signal tower, making her cough several times.

Compared with before departure, the girl became much more haggard. As expected, long-distance travel is not a life that people should live. Chen Mo may have been accustomed to this kind of life.

There is nothing he can do if he is not used to it, because in his short 23 years, most of his time was actually wasted on the road from one place to another. He occasionally stopped for a year and a half, but he was never able to truly settle down.

No one should get used to living this kind of wandering life. No one likes to wander around without stopping, and Chen Mo doesn't like it either. Although the scenery on the road will not be too repetitive, although it will always happen every time he goes to a new place. Meeting new people. The only advantage of traveling is that it doesn’t make you feel bored and you don’t have to live a life without much change in the same place every day.

But no matter how much people like travel and novelty, they must have a temporary port of rest, just like a ferry on a long voyage, they must eventually find a temporary supply destination for themselves.

That destination can be a certain person or a certain place, it doesn’t matter how far away it is, as long as it is there.

Regarding this point, Chen Mo really wanted to communicate with Mostema. Among all the people he knew, only the Sakota had the most say in this matter.

In fact, Chen Mo was quite curious about how she would answer.

When he thought of this, Chen Mo thought of the Luper he had picked up in Syracuse, Texas. She called herself Texas, and Chen Mo didn't know her name until the end.

I don’t know how she is doing in Longmen now, and whether she has adapted to her new identity and new job. In fact, it’s good to be called Texas, just like what Kribo said a long time ago when she got the codename Snake. In other words, a new beginning usually comes with a new name. As for the past, just remember it.

So Chen Mo thought of many people again without knowing it.

Even he himself didn't realize that he had accidentally met so many people. When he wasn't paying attention, he had actually walked into many different figures in his life.

There was thunder and raindrops【=$

The sky was dark, and the gray clouds were rolling in the strong wind and heavy rain, like a raging tide, and Chen Mo's memory was like a beach under the tide.

The camel was tied to the door and the camping tools were removed from the camel's back. The signal station had been abandoned for a long time. The signaling room was filled with dust, rusty cables and steel frames, and the tattered iron mesh on the outside.

Some papers with this writing on them are placed on the table. There is no power supply in the sending room. Even the Originium capacitors used as backup energy in the distribution box have long been removed. There is nothing valuable, just like this signal tower. If the steel materials used to build the signal tower were not too heavy and difficult to dismantle in a remote location, there would have been no trace left.

"How do we contact Kazdale?"

After looking around the dim room, Shuangxing asked Chen Mo, who was cleaning the dust on her desk with discarded paper. Shuangxing couldn't understand the words written on the piece of paper in her hand.

Mostly written by the Sakaz people.

Speaking of which, Chen Mo became proficient in Ursus very quickly. When we first met him, he still had a slight accent when he spoke. He probably couldn’t understand the commonly used dialects, but it’s different now. Although his literacy level is not good, Go up, but his Ursusian isn't too bad either.

Tallulah is not so good. When I met Tallulah not long ago, she would occasionally get angry and say something that was probably not so nice in a language that no one understood. But now she rarely does that. She She is becoming more and more like an Ursus. Although she considers herself an Ursus, Froststar has never seen an Ursus like her.

At this point, Shuangxing has always felt that Chen Mo and Tallulah are very similar. They both like to talk nonsense and talk nonsense. The only difference is that Shuangxing can understand Tallulah's words, while Chen Mo is always yin and yang.

Shuangxing felt weird. Even though his tone was very ordinary, the words meant that.

"There is an underground warehouse in the dispatch room, which contains leftover communication equipment."

Chen Mo replied, Shuangxing saw what he was looking for on the floor in the sending room. Not long after, a piece of floor was pulled open, and a secret door appeared in front of Shuangxing.

The heavy rain pounded on the yellowed glass windows, the sound of raindrops became dense, and the thunder dimmed, and then followed the white light across the sky, and sounded dull again, this time a little far away.

Chen Mo turned on the flashlight, and the light source shone down the iron ladder.

"I'll go down and see if it still works. You wait for me up there."

He looked at Froststar and said, Froststar nodded.

"it is good."

Chen Mo bit his flashlight and climbed down the iron ladder. Shuang Xing watched from above as the dots of light sank into the dark underground little by little.

In fact, it is not very deep, only about five or six meters high.

The space below is not as wide as expected. It is a small darkroom of more than ten square meters. With the light source of a flashlight, the whole picture can be seen clearly at a glance.

An old-fashioned communicator was placed in the corner. The cables looked a bit messy, extending from the top and connecting to the tall signal tower above.

This is a backup motor, and the Originium capacitor stored in it has not been removed. Turn on the switch, and as the old instrument is awakened and starts to operate again, it will make a low hum, the signal light will flash non-stop, and the whole machine will tremble slightly. Just when Chen Mo thought that this old guy couldn't resist the erosion of time and was no longer useful, the hum of the machine stabilized and the signal light stopped flashing.

Chen Mo climbed up the rusty iron ladder again and climbed out from below.

Froststar, standing above, reached out to him.

"What's the situation next?"

"The equipment can still operate." Chen Mo said and glanced down.

This was once one of the many secret contact points established by the Tower of Babel. It also served as an intelligence network node built in Kazdare during the mercenary group period to transmit war information to the Tower of Babel.

However, judging from the current level of abandonment, he and Shuangxing are probably the second batch of visitors here besides the people who established this stronghold. Fortunately, the original password can still be used.

In fact, Chen Mo admires the doctor very much. It is no wonder why although the Sarkazis in the Tower of Babel respect Theresia, they say that the person who makes them fearful but fortunate is that guy, because they originally built this The huge intelligence network is the work of the Doctor.

Although later due to some special reasons, this huge intelligence network was handed over to Chen Mo, but in the Tower of Babel, it was the doctor who was always responsible for handling these complicated information networks, and he understood everything clearly.

Chen Mo felt that the doctor would die young one day. He thought so with malice, because those laborious tasks were really not something that humans could do.

Chen Mo was relieved, but the doctor, his old friend, didn't know what he was worrying about now.

I heard people say before that he was originally a scholar and researcher, but later became the frontline commander of the Tower of Babel, and he was also a notorious commander.

Chen Mo didn't dare to think about Theresia. In fact, since he left Kazdale, he never imagined that he would come back, and come back in this way.

Will Kazdale say no?

Chen Mo was actually not so sure. He just had a hope, and he had never tried to place his hope on others.

"Then we are waiting here now?" Shuangxing asked.

The light came on inside the house, and the light source was a small portable light used in the tent, so the light source was not too bright and looked a bit dim compared to the dim sky outside.

"I'm afraid not."

"Ok?"

"Below is the host of the backup equipment. To send signals, you have to use the transmitter placed on the top of the signal tower."

Chen Mo said that from inside the house, he could only see the tower below the signal tower. In the heavy rain, Shuangxing saw him unpacking the package, taking out the poncho inside, and then taking off his coat.

"You have to go to the signal tower outside. It's raining so hard now."

"It's fine."

"I'd better go." Shuangxing suddenly said, grabbing the poncho from Chen Mo's hand.

Chen Mo was a little surprised.

Shuangxing seemed to realize that what she said was wrong, because in fact, she had no reason to argue with Chen Mo over this trivial matter, unless there were other reasons.