"Tell me, you could just tell him directly yesterday, but you have to endure it alone. Now that you're fine, I'm afraid I won't have a chance."
"Oh, it's so annoying. I just feel... I feel very embarrassed..."
"I'm still embarrassed. If you continue to be so embarrassed, your lover brother will become someone else's husband."
"Fuck you! What kind of lover brother, I'm tired of talking about it. I... I have figured it out anyway. If I can't open my mouth and he doesn't take the initiative, then we have no chance and there is nothing to fight about."
"Tsk, tsk, tsk, what a fate! Let me see, you just can't hold back your breath. You always feel that you will lose someone if you speak first. But have you ever thought about it, if you don't speak out boldly when you meet someone you like, wouldn't that mean
Regret for the rest of your life? In the final analysis, you still don’t like him enough."
"You... forget it, I won't tell you anymore, I'm going back."
"Hey! The banquet is not over yet! Why are you so anxious!"
The two figures disappeared.
Guan Dehou sat at the table and listened to them talking as if he was drunk.
It was hazy, and he couldn't hear clearly, nor could he figure out what they were talking about... He always felt like someone was calling his name.
"Who are you?" Guan Dehou asked, holding his forehead.
"You shouldn't be here." It was a man's voice, magnetic and very pleasant.
Guan Dehou turned his head when he heard the sound and saw a little boy standing in front of him.
But looking at the child's height and appearance, he looked to be eight or nine years old at most, but his eyes were deep and terrifying.
After just a brief contact, Guan Dehou felt that all his secrets had been seen through by the other party.
"who are you?"
The little boy looked at Guan Dehou and was silent for a long time before asking, "Do you trust Li Shaoan?"
Li Shaoan?
Guan Dehou was startled, "How do you know him?"
"You don't need to ask too many questions, just answer my questions directly."
This sentence carries an undeniable sense of oppression.
Guan Dehou didn't want to pay attention to him at first, but he couldn't help but replied, "To be honest...since that incident more than ten years ago, I don't have that much trust in Lao Li..."
Hearing this, the little boy showed a mysterious smile and said, "Very well, keep your opinion, it won't do you any harm."
Guan Dehou frowned and said, "What on earth are you talking about?"
The little boy ignored Guan Dehou. He continued to look at the lively crowd around him, and then said, "Today is my ninth birthday, and it is also the last day I saw my brother... For many years after that, I only knew that he and his mother had been fighting on the front line.
, the rest... I don’t know anything about it... Thinking about it now, I was really indifferent at that time. Even though I had so many opportunities to be with my family, I still chose to be alone."
Guan Dehou frowned, thought for a moment and then asked tentatively, "Are you... talking to me?"
The little boy turned back to look at Guan Dehou and said, "If you were given a choice, would you rather stay with your family or die for your country."
Guan Dehou did not answer. He felt that these questions were meaningless and boring.
So he tried to get up, but as soon as he had this thought, he felt like something was pressing down on his whole body, making him unable to move.
"What's going on? What did you do to me?"
The little boy looked at Guan Dehoudao calmly, "You are about to usher in an important turning point in your life. Before, the path you chose made you miserable, but this time is different. You have more choices, so be more clear-headed.
Don’t let yourself regret it.”
As he said this, the little boy stepped forward and put his hand on Guan Dehou's heart.
Guan Dehou was stunned, "What are you doing?"
The little boy smiled slightly and said, "It's time for you to wake up."
After saying that, Guan Dehou felt a tightness in his chest, as if he had been pushed by something.
This feeling was very uncomfortable. Guan Dehou frowned and said, "Hey! Little brat! Don't add insult to injury!"
The little boy ignored him and moved his hand slightly.
This time, Guan Dehou felt not just boredom, but heartbreaking pain.
And when the severe pain came, he felt dizzy, and then he sat up as if he had woken up from a nightmare.
…
Nalan Xinyu was startled. She looked at Guan Dehou who suddenly sat up like a corpse. She was stunned for a moment, and then said with great joy, "Uncle, you finally woke up! I thought you would never come back!"
Guan Dehou looked at Nalan Xinyu blankly and said nothing for a long time.
Nalan Xinyu didn't even smile. She asked cautiously, "Uncle? What's wrong with you?"
Guan Dehou then asked, "I seemed to have had a nightmare just now... In the dream, I was attending a banquet. The banquet was very lively, but I seemed to have drunk too much and could not move at all. There was also a child and
I said a lot of strange things..."
"Huh?!" Nalan Xinyu was stunned. "Weird words? What strange words?"
Guan Dehou tried hard to recall it, but he couldn't think of it anymore. Only the feeling was still lingering in his heart.
"I can't remember clearly... Anyway, there are some words that are not understandable..." Guan Dehou pinched his eyebrows and said, "Although I don't understand, I don't know why... what he said made me feel..."
Very uneasy...as if...I am about to lose something..."
Nalan Xinyu was even more shocked when she heard such words, as if Guan Dehou's experience had touched some incredible taboo.
However, Guan Dehou did not notice this. He let go of his hand and stared blankly at the sea of grass in the distance.
The sea of grass bathed in the bloody sunset looks dangerously beautiful...
Guan Dehou sat there for a long time before trying to get up and said, "No, I have to go back as soon as possible."
Nalan Xinyu had been thinking about things just now. After hearing this, she came back to her senses and said, "Wait a minute, uncle, your physical condition is very bad now, you should take a rest, and my brother just entered the Dead Sea to save you.
He hasn’t come back yet.”
Guan Dehou was indeed very weak now. He tried, but after failing to get up smoothly, he asked curiously, "Your brother? How could you save me?"
Nalan Xinyu shook her head, "I don't know, but if it weren't for my brother, uncle, you would never have come back."
Guan Dehou frowned, "Is your brother a little boy who looks about ten years old?"
Nalan Xinyu shook her head, "No, my brother should look more mature than me."
"Hey...then that little boy is..."
"Um...Uncle, everything you saw in the Dead Sea was a broken illusion and cannot be believed to be real."
Guan Dehou didn't think so. He remembered clearly that the boy took the initiative to find him and said some strange words.
Seeing Guan Dehou's silence, Nalan Xinyu was about to say something more.
A ray of light lit up from the depths of the sea of grass, and the dark sky seemed to be ignited, and it "burned" in an instant.
Guan Dehou opened his mouth and looked at the incredible wonderland in front of him.
Nalan Xinyu said excitedly, "It's brother, brother is back."
elder brother?
Guan Dehou tried to get up again, and this time his strength seemed to have returned.
He stood up, and just as he saw the light, a figure gradually walked in.
Although the two sides were still hundreds of meters apart, Guan Dehou sensed a dangerous aura... something that Nalan Xinyu had not seen before.
So Guan Dehou subconsciously touched the pistol behind him.
After a while, the figure came closer, the light faded, and the sky returned to its previous darkness.
A young man in Tsing Yi wearing a black and white mask stood in front of Guan Dehou.
There were no openings for facial features on the mask, but Guan Dehou could clearly feel the young man looking him up and down. The feeling was a bit strange, but the dangerous aura before had disappeared.
The young man looked at Guan Dehou for a while and then asked, "What did he say to you?"
Nalan Xinyu's smile, which was about to introduce the two of them, froze.
Guan Dehou frowned and asked, "Did you see him too?"
The boy took another step forward and asked, "What did he say to you?"
Guan Dehou shook his head, "I don't remember."
"You lied." The young man's tone was calm. He raised his finger and pointed at Guan Dehou's heart and said, "It's not that you don't remember, but you chose to forget."
Guan Dehou was stunned for a moment, then laughed, "Young man, what you said is really interesting. I didn't lie. I really don't remember."
The young man was a little reluctant, and he added, "But you know in your heart what information he said contained."
Guan Dehou frowned and became a little unhappy, "Tsk...what do you mean?"
The young man took back his hand, took off his mask, revealed a fair face and said, "There is no malice, but the information he disclosed is very important to us. Even if it is to help us, tell me how you feel now, okay?"
Such a pleading tone made Guan Dehou a little embarrassed to say anything.
After hesitating for a moment, he said calmly, "It's actually nothing... I just feel... he seems to be reminding me... no... more precisely, it's a warning."
"warn?"
"Well, although I can't remember exactly what he said, I remember the meaning of his words very clearly. It was indeed a warning." Guan Dehou did not lie.
Although the fair-skinned boy did not look so handsome, he gave Guan Dehou the feeling of being like the white clouds on the horizon, giving people a special sense of remoteness and loneliness.
After the fair boy was silent for a while, he raised his hand and said, "My name is Fang Ke."
Seeing this, Guan Dehou also stretched out his hand to shake his hand, "Guan Dehou."
Fang Ke nodded, and then said, "I know you don't belong here, and there is still a long distance between your era and the future, but some things are happening in your era that will affect the future, so... I must
Pay attention to every variable that may affect the jump array, please forgive me."
'Leap array? Haha...another word that I don't understand...' Guan Dehou thought in his heart, and said with a smile on his face, "I heard Xinyu roughly tell you about your work. Although it's not too clear, there are many majors.
I don’t understand the words, but I can feel that you are all dedicated warriors, you can even be called heroes, so... I want to apologize. I am the uninvited guest who has caused you so much trouble.
.”
Fang Ke's reaction to Guan Dehou's compliments was mediocre, but Nalan Xinyu's face turned red and she seemed to be very pleased with it.
"Do you really think you are an uninvited guest?" Fang Ke asked back.
Guan Dehou was startled, "Huh? Isn't it?"
Fang Ke said, "The bunker space is complete and stable most of the time. Even if there are threshold breaks in the jumps in some areas recently, it will not affect the normal space-time array, and it is impossible to change a space that exists in the three-dimensional space.
Complete individuals in the world are pulled in here, so... the accidents that happen to you may have many necessities that you haven't noticed yet."
This sentence gets to the point.
In fact, Guan Dehou himself had been thinking about this issue before.
If one or two coincidences are coincidences, then many coincidences connected together may not be coincidences. There is just an invisible thread that has caused a chain reaction, and Guan Dehou has not yet seen the owner of this thread.
That’s all.
He had doubted Li Shaoan before.
After all, this trip to the United States seemed to be a partnership between him and Li Shaoan, but in fact they were two completely independent moves. The organization handed over people like Guan Dehou to Charles, but also assigned Li Shaoan to provide logistical support. At first, Guan Dehou thought that he would try his best to
This operation against "Player 0" was done better. But now it seems that the deeper the muddy water sinks, the harder it is to see where the "big fish" is.
But Guan Dehou is not in a hurry. He is calm when faced with problems and always takes advantage of the situation. This has a lot to do with his many years of work experience.
What Guan Dehou didn't expect was that the appearance of a "mysterious cube" suddenly disrupted all his thoughts.
He suddenly realized that maybe the vast web of "interests" and "sins" he was trying to unravel was just a corner of this intricate network.
What has happened in recent years is no longer simply related to international security and social stability.
It is more likely that what these two people are doing is the same... it is related to the future of mankind...
But this concept is really too big.
Thinking about the future of mankind based on the stature of Guan Dehou, a former martial artist and the captain of the Chinese Special Service Detachment of the National Security Department... Isn't this the same as an ant standing under a big tree staring at the apple on the tree and considering gravity?
Not only did he not have the ability to think about it, he also didn't feel that reaching a conclusion had any practical significance for an ant like him.
So after listening to Fang Ke's words, Guan Dehou said calmly, "Accident is accident. There is nothing inevitable. Even if there is, I guess it is just that we think too much."
Fang Ke heard the words and glanced at Guan Dehou. His eyes were dark and shiny. Although they were not as deep as the little boy before, they seemed to have the power to see into people's hearts.
Guan Dehou now dislikes looking into other people's eyes less and less, especially these two.
So he avoided his gaze, then smiled and asked Xinyu, "It's strange to say... Although my stomach is not growling, I feel like eating. This feeling... is really... right, Xinyu, you
Do you usually want to eat?"
Xinyu nodded, "Of course we have to eat, but the food we usually eat is very special, and uncle probably won't like it."
Guan Dehou smiled, "Oh? Although I, Guan Dehou, have never eaten a Manchu-Han banquet, I have eaten a lot of strange and weird things in the world. Even earthworms and geckos that most people dare not even think about can be eaten with moss.
Well, so, girl Xinyu, don’t scare me.”
After hearing this, Xinyu took out a backpack from behind, took out a box from the bag and handed it to Guan Dehou, "Uncle, you can eat it and see."
Guan Dehou has already spoken out his big words, and now that the box is in front of him, he can no longer act cowardly.
He thought to himself, 'I don't believe that the stuff in here is so disgusting that I can't eat it...'
So he took the box, but after only opening it and taking a look, Guan Dehou closed the box again with a snap, then silently handed it back to Guan Dehou, then consciously walked to the side and knelt down...
vomit………………
After watching Guan Dehou vomit a "rainbow", Fang Ke said to his heart, "Let's prepare some normal food for him."
Xinyu smiled, put away the box, then picked up her backpack and said, "Uncle, if you can't eat this, walk a little further. There is our supply station there. You can eat whatever you want."
"
Upon hearing this, Guan Dehou stopped the behavior of "vomiting the rainbow".
He stood up suddenly, wiped his mouth, turned around and said, "."
But this time he learned the lesson and followed Nalan Xinyu and Fang Ke honestly.
The three of them just walked in the direction of the "sunset".
…
Shortly after the three people left, a girl of similar stature to Fang Ke appeared where they had been before.
Staring at the back in confusion, the girl's heart beat much faster. She looked up at the looming figure floating in the sky, gritted her teeth, and then silently followed Guan Dehou and the others.
…
On the way, Guan Dehou asked about the "sister" Xinyu mentioned.
Nalan Xinyu did not shy away from this, and kept emphasizing to Guan Dehou how beautiful and outstanding her "sister" was, but she always avoided mentioning her name.
Even if Guan Dehou asked directly, Nalan Xinyu would change the topic.
This made Guan Dehou couldn't help but become concerned.
Fang Ke saw through Guan Dehou's thoughts and explained, "In the bunker space, speaking a person's name from other people's mouths can easily cause the nuisance of 'Xu Li', which is very serious for the person whose name is mentioned."
It’s dangerous, so...we usually don’t say each other’s names directly.”
Guan Dehou was stunned for a moment, then he looked at Nalan and said in his heart, "Ah? Then if I call your name so many times along the way, wouldn't it hurt you? In addition... who is Xu Li?"
Xinyu smiled sweetly, "It doesn't matter, uncle, the 'Xu Li' are all cowards. They only bully lonely people and people with fear in their hearts. Now that the three of us are together, they won't show up easily."
Guan Dehou nodded and said "Oh" and then asked, "So... what exactly is Xu Li?"
Xinyu didn't explain, so he said calmly, "Xu Li is the neuroprimordial body left behind by the forerunners who fell into the Dead Sea and died... They are the heroic spirits who sing elegy on this evolutionary road..."