His hope and confidence had never disappeared. Now they were as fresh as the first breeze.
——Ernest Miller Hemingway
December 31, 1982——
——Shinto Castle Kyoto.
The long coastline is covered with red sand, the dark waves rise and fall, and the seaside streets are bustling with people.
The new year brings a new poem, and for everyone in this city, everything is so beautiful.
Young students rode their bicycles down the short slope of Nishino No. 1 Town, heading towards the light rail line to Galahad Magic Academy.
The Fujimoto family from Beichuan County traveled across the ocean, crossed more than 600 kilometers of mountain 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. The soldiers responsible for regional security management
They often come here for gatherings. 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 door, there is a flower-filled cat temple. It was originally used to worship Ao Mingde, but the dark god did not want to live in this luxurious little temple and did not want people to worship.
So it became the only vacant property in Eiji Fujimoto's family, until one day a wild cat came to take shelter from the rain. The condensation water generated by the industrial park fell from the sky, and this little cute cat was also sent.
It lies next to the pottery statue of Ao Hun Ming De. It opens its eyes every morning, shakes the dust off its body, and cleans away some mud brought by the passing vehicles. In its yellow and amber-like eyes, it reflects
Two intimate figures appear.
Those are Fenfeng and Xiaotao——
——They were sitting side by side on the benches on the seaside road, wrapped in the waterproof plastic cloth of the war group. They were always fully armed and never slacked off. They seemed to be forever young and full of vitality.
Even this little kitten knows that the capital has ushered in good times. It can boldly go to the market to fish for scraps of fish gills, and can swagger through the city and play in the streets like other ordinary children. It no longer has to worry.
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 to return to its dream.
The coastal green belt has a large circle of crystal orchids that can grow without sunlight. They are always scary and always friendly. The flowers look very strange, like frozen corpses, without chlorophyll, and living in symbiosis with fungi.
In the dull and humid human society, it grows happily, is non-toxic and harmless, and can also be used as a precious medicinal herb.
The men and women on the benches on the seaside were very close to each other. Foehn Feng's division commander and his comrades put their arms around each other's shoulders, and their heads touched each other. There was no need for pedestrians to correct them - even this kitten knew that they were probably born together.
right.
Xiaotao's face was full of curiosity as she looked at the novelties brought by her comrades from the Nine Realms Platform.
She has charming eyes, a thrilling smile, two uncorrected rabbit teeth, and a slightly protruding upper lip. She is not as beautiful as in the Paradise of Shinto City.
She has a thick frame and broad shoulders, more like a European and American woman's body shape. She is 179 centimeters tall. Her short hair is clean and neat, and her sideburns have been trimmed so that it will not hinder her vision.
"What is this? Foehn?" She pointed to the thin white cord on her shoulder and a small in-ear headphone.
Sitting next to her is the leader of the Foehn Chapter. He has integrated sixteen large and small squads and war groups. Within the scope of Shinto City, his name is known to everyone - but now the battle
After the fight, he lost his real name and started a new life under the name of the division.
"Walkman! It's a Walkman!" Foeng Feng enthusiastically introduced to Xiaotao the new gadgets brought by Jiujie Station. In 1982 - WALKMAN was the most fashionable luxury product nowadays. It was a combination of technology and humanities.
combine.
His eyebrows are clear and sharp, and there is a deep scar on the bridge of his nose. The half-finger gloves only expose the knuckles. Many wounds can be seen, some are completely healed and leave spots like vitiligo, and some are incompletely healed and have pitted scars.
He held a cassette tape and shared the headphones with Xiaotao, asking his lover to listen to the voice from the other side of the world.
He was in high spirits, shouting out broken English words in Japanese.
"U2! You Too! Ireland's new band!"
He held up the Walkman with one hand and was busy stuffing the tape with the other hand. Just as he was about to take his arm away from his lover's neck, he immediately told Xiao Tao to hold it tightly.
Xiao Tao smiled and said, "No!"
Foehn Feng said aggrievedly: "I have to put the tape in with one hand. I can't do this!"
Xiao Tao stared at the bright red casing curiously, and saw the circuit wires in the plastic plate. She stretched out her hand to take the tape from Foehn's lap, looked at the cover again and again, and finally asked curiously.
"Is it stuffed inside here? In this box?"
Foehn Feng immediately said: "That's right! Just put it in and press this button, and singing will come out of the headphones!"
"Such a small box?" Xiao Tao asked in surprise: "Like a gramophone and a radio station? Like a cassette tape inserted into a recorder? The sound will be played out immediately?"
Foehn Feng said proudly: "How is it! It's awesome!"
"It's indeed amazing!" Xiao Tao's eyes lit up, and she continued: "It's just that Sony Co., Ltd. is amazing, not you! Foehn Feng! I'm not praising you! How proud are you!"
Foehn Feng pursed his lips, looking unconvinced.
Xiaotao slowly inserted the tape into the WALKMAN, fearing that the novelty would be damaged.
Foehn Feng pressed the play button, and the singing voice coming from the headphones immediately drew away the souls of the two of them.
Xiaotao only listened for about ten seconds, and then immediately asked Fenfeng.
"Punk?"
Foehn Feng immediately denied it: "It's Rock!"
Xiao Tao: "What a gentle Rock, such a simple Rock"
Foehn: "Rock should be very simple!"
Xiao Tao: "If you're going to say this, I don't understand. I only know that in rock music there are pianos, keyboards, and guitars that are too expensive for me to understand."
Foehn: "That's why the band will buy these extra things when they have money."
Xiao Tao: "Are they redundant?"
Foehn Feng: "Yes! It's just too redundant!"
Xiaotao: "But I think it's good. At least the POP elements have become more elegant, like poetry."
Foehn Feng stopped talking immediately, as if he was sulking. After the second chorus, he patiently stopped being angry with his lover.
"You don't like Rock?"
Xiao Tao: "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 Feng: "Tao! I think music is a very important thing!"
Xiaotao nodded vigorously: "Yes!"
Foehn: "If one day, we meet aliens! We can't understand the language and words, we must use music to communicate!"
Xiao Tao: "What a romantic statement."
Foehn Feng smiled, showing two rows of big white teeth, and winked at Xiao Tao: "Music contains not only mathematics, but also language, and countless deep feelings. It is the best gift God has given to us humans!"
Xiao Tao: "U2U2"
Foehn Feng: "These guys are the same as us! They are all about the same age!"
Xiaotao: "What does this name mean? I don't understand it."
Foehn pointed at the tip of his lover's nose: "U2! You Too! Come too!"
Xiao Tao asked doubtfully: "But how can I come with them? With them?"
Foehn Feng explained enthusiastically: "When these guys formed the band, they were all half-empty! They were all rookies! But the score written by the most powerful guitar master in the world, as long as three rookies can be found to play together, the effect will be
Not bad at all!"
Xiao Tao's cheek was pressed against Foe Feng's fingertips, and she felt a warm sea breeze blowing from the mouthpiece in her heart.
"hey-hey."
Foehn Feng continued: "Then the same goes for us! As long as we can find like-minded partners, no matter how difficult the problem in the world is, we will definitely find a solution! We can do it well!"
Xiaotao nodded slightly, her face turned red this time——
——Because this young man has never aged, whether in the battle group period or the division period.
The story of the war era is almost over, but he is still full of vigor and vitality.
"So I was thinking." Foehn tapped the tape cassette 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 headphones, we will always be there.
Together! We are listening to sounds from far away, we are communicating and talking all the time, across time and space, experiencing the same music! Experiencing the same feeling!"
Xiaotao: "It sounds like a ghost"
"How can you say that!" Foe Feng opened his mouth, frustrated and happy: "Peach! The moment the gramophone appeared, it could record the voices of the dead. Some people also call the gramophone a coffin, which can preserve the voices of ghosts!
But I think this title is too rude!"
Xiao Tao curled her lips and teased: "You actually like to trap yourself in these weird words and keep trying to get into trouble."
"That's the kind of guy I am! You're right!" Foehn Feng didn't care about his lover's teasing. He crossed his legs carelessly and looked at the tide and the dark ocean: "Otherwise, why would I have lost my own name?
?!"
Xiao Tao hesitated to speak: "Don't you ever think about continuing to live as the leader of the division?"
Foehn Feng's eyes also darkened, as if he had become a different person.
At this moment, he went from eighteen years old to thirty-six years old.
"No"
Xiaotao followed her lover's heart and whispered, "Can't you change it?"
Foehn Feng turned his head sideways and glanced at the seaside streets of the capital.
"The leader cannot be a certain person, no."
"The leader can only be the Sixth Division of the Gods."
"The people who live and thrive here have suffered a lot from human rule. They not only have to fight against natural disasters and wild beasts, but they also have to fight against bandits and bullies."
"If I can't even provide fairness and justice, I might as well hand over the job of consul to artificial intelligence."
"And ah. Xiao Tao."
He held his lover's cheek with a complicated expression.
"The fifty-one pillars will be completed next year. By then everyone will have an electronic ID card and a virtual ID. My name is Foehn Feng. What's wrong with this?"
"I only know how to fight. It's not just the enemies who are afraid of me. It's like the fire that burns away the weeds, and the hot wind that kills the crops. Every time I want to go to war, I have to consume countless bags of food and destroy countless buildings -
People are as afraid of me as my enemies."
"I can't even build a thatched house. Such a person should not teach others how to live."
"Even the cat adopted by Fujimoto's family hates my reiatsu, let alone the people who pursue happiness? They must miss me and resent me."
"So it's better to hide incognito! The nameless warriors don't have names either."
"I have heard their legends since I was a child and regard them as guideposts on the road ahead."
"From now on, I am also anonymous!"
Xiao Tao: "But."
"Tell me something else!" Foehn Feng immediately changed the subject and turned back into a sunny and cheerful boy.
Xiao Tao: "Then tell me something else."
Foehn Feng narrowed his eyes and nodded: "Yeah! Yeah!"
Xiao Tao blushed and tilted her head towards Foe Feng: "Should we get married?"
Foehn Feng glanced away, feeling guilty as a thief, and immediately corrected his sitting posture. He put his hands between his thighs.
"this."
Xiao Tao pouted and suddenly lost all embarrassment: "As you said, we will get married before the fifty-one pillars are completed."
Foehn Feng hurriedly explained: "That's what I said, but."
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Xiaotao no longer has any reservations, and all her hopes turned into grievances in the end.
"Are you going to delay again? Foehn! Are you going to lie again?! You told me before that you only need to recover the Kanto seaside, then Ginza, then the outer Kanto area, and now you are rebuilding towers and building neural networks."
Foehn Feng was evasive and had a complicated expression on his face: "I just think we should have a ceremony. How can we make a decision right away for such a lifelong matter?"
"The worst!" Xiao Tao pursed her lips, tears welling up in her eyes: "The worst! The worst! The worst is you! Foehn Feng! What kind of ritual? What kind of ritual? You have to ritual me every time."
Just for a moment, Foehn Feng opened the battery cover of the WALKMAN and took out a ring.
He turned over and got off the chair and knelt on one knee in front of Xiao Tao. The pyroxene jewelry composed of silver ring and black jade was the wedding ring.
He and his lover were joking in a rare way in the world, and it was like a prank that came true. He was the first straight man in the universe to do tricks.
"Of course there has to be a proposal ceremony."
Xiao Tao was half-crying and paused for a moment. Then she raised her fist and hit Foehn Feng hard on the cheek.
When the headphone cord flew up, the WALKMAN floated into the air, and the rings and batteries escaped, leaving her to hold on tightly with her skillful hands.
She finally came to her senses and cried harder, as if she had been stabbed in the heart. She suddenly fell into the red sand, resting on Foehn's arm, looking at the dark dome, far away.
The giant tower to the sky is about to become a support pillar, wrestling with this cruel world.
"It hurts!" Foehn Feng's chin tilted to one side, his face was expressionless, and he slowly straightened his mouth: "It hurts so much, it really hurts. It's super————super————it hurts!"
Xiaotao's hands were not idle, she slowly restored the WALKMAN and put the headphones back into her lover's ears again.
"I do not like."
Foehn Feng: "So I deserve to be beaten."
Xiao Tao wiped away her tears on the plastic poncho and raised her head to look at her lover's cheek.
"But I accept it!"
Foehn Feng laughed out loud immediately: "Of course!"
Xiaotao's eyes were blurred, and she suddenly began to look forward to the future.
They rarely discuss personal future matters. 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 Fenfeng talked about life after marriage.
"Would it be different?"
Foehn Feng: "What's different?"
Xiaotao: "Will it be different after we get married?"
Foehn Feng: "Definitely! Otherwise, why would you want to get married? You care about it so much that you can even hit me for it."
Xiaotao: "I suddenly couldn't figure it out. It seems like nothing has changed."
Foehn Feng: "Of course! From the beginning, I have fought with all my strength! I have also tried my best to like you! I have tried my best to love you with all my strength!"
Xiao Tao: "Then do we have to have a baby?"
Foe Feng hugged his lover and slapped Xiao Tao's forehead with his palm, asking the girl to wake up.
"Where is the child? Tao! Let's not talk about the transformation of the venom agency's prosthetic body - the radiation from the nuclear power plant alone will kill both of us. As for the matter of giving birth to a child."
Xiao Tao: "Adopt one?"
Foehn Feng: "Okay!"
Xiao Tao: "Boy or girl?"
Foehn Feng immediately said: "Of course Boy!"
Xiao Tao asked in confusion: "Why?!"
Foe Feng laughed and said: "Because U2's first album is called "Boy" - I like it!"
Xiao Tao was surprised: "Is it so casual?!"
Foehn: "Not only do I want "Boy", but I also want "War". I want to teach this kid how to fight! The second album must also be arranged!"
"You guys, are you living your life based on other people's band music?" Xiao Tao didn't understand and started to sing the opposite tune: "What if one day they name their new album "Divorce"?"
"Then let's break up! Hahahahaha!" Foe Feng laughed loudly: "Then we will return to being boyfriend and girlfriend! I will still love you with all my strength!"
Xiao Tao just felt unreasonable: "You guy, there is something wrong with your head!"
Foehn shouted: "Hold another wedding!"
Xiaotao: "Where can there be such a casual wedding!"
Foehn Feng turned over and pressed on Xiao Tao, holding up his strong body with both hands.
"Let our children come to the wedding too!"
"How could they be absent from such an important matter?"
"The most regretful thing in my life is that I didn't attend my parents' wedding!"
"The same goes for you! Xiaotao!"
Ishihara Momo blinked, it was really difficult to understand this crazy red stone man——
——He is like a ball of fire, like a piece of hot coal, like a handful of chili peppers. Sprinkling it into the eyes will make people cry, stuffing it into the stomach will make people feel warm, and speaking a few words will make people sweat all over.
She finally took off her headphones 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 like the world is often uneven, people can only seek common ground while reserving differences.
"I like what BOSS gave me"
She pulled out another cassette tape from her shoulder bag, it was the music of Frank Sinatra.
That's "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 we really not be friends?"
Everywhere is the mischievousness and sincerity, tenderness and romance of Ao Mingde.
Xiaotao left the most important and favorite thing to the person she admired and was most obsessed with.
"I like this, Foehn, come and listen to this - "My Way""
"My methods, my ways, my wishes, my way of life, my style of doing things, my long road to life."
"My way."
Farther and farther away.
Colonel Tom and Akira Igarashi, two elders, one fat and one thin, one tall and one short, watched this scene quietly.
The tall Tom is Foehn Feng's big brother, and his three-meter-plus body is a symbol of the descendants of giants. At this moment, this tough man is holding a small handkerchief, wiping his tears, sitting next to his old comrade Mr. Mingkong, as if
Like a little daughter-in-law, she pointed at Fenfeng and Xiaotao and moaned.
Akira Igarashi had a look of disgust on his face. He was short and thin. He gently slapped Tom on the face, asking him to be stronger. It was just that young people had finally found happiness. There was nothing to cry about. He comforted him with a few words.
after--
——Mingkong also started to sound the air-raid siren. The energy burst out from his small body was stronger than that of a giant. It scared the sleeping cat next to the small earth temple to stand up. It was so frightened that its legs stood upright, like a bow.
.
Xiaotao put the WALKMAN on her heart, held Founfeng's cheek, and looked at the little boy from bottom to top.
Foehn Feng still held up his body, his broad shoulders were like a big umbrella. He could hold it up with just one finger, but he didn't dare to reach out and touch his lover underneath him, for fear that he would fall as soon as he relaxed.
In the sand pit.
When the music started, they did nothing -
——Just watching, motionless.
Until the New Year's Eve fireworks bloom ten thousand flowers in the sky.
It has always been like this, and a moment has become an eternity.