Ling Qiu laughed out loud, and the sunlight filled his amber eyes, so bright that they seemed to flow out.
An Yu stared at the smile so close at hand.
"Hey, isn't it? Why do I feel like you're going to cry?" Ling Qiu was startled, "I just want to go to the main city, and it's not like I won't come back. It's true that going to the military headquarters won't be as free as it is now, but every year During the holidays, I will write to you often and send you bread from the host city."
An Yu was stunned for a while, then suddenly lowered his eyes and smiled.
"Sourdough bread," he whispered.
"What kind?" Ling Qiu was stunned for a moment, "What did you say? Louder."
"It's okay." An Yu shook his head, raised his hand to wipe the moisture from the corner of his eyes, and walked to the dirty ground behind him as nonchalantly as before, "The sun is so bright, I'm sweating."
"Why are you sweating? I think you just want to sleep again, so let me start laying the groundwork here." Ling Qiu laughed angrily and jumped up on his hands, "I have to ask if my admission notice has been sent, you If you feel sleepy, go back and continue sleeping."
"Okay." An Yu nodded.
He looked at Ling Qiu's back and suddenly said again: "Brother... Ling Qiu!"
"Ah?" Ling Qiu turned around from a distance, "What's wrong?"
"Military Headquarters—" An Yu stood up and chased a few steps in his direction before arriving in front of him, "The Military Headquarters is far away..."
"Of course, that's the main city of humanity." Ling Qiu punched the wall confidently, "We won't be able to see each other for a long time. Oh, by the way, remember to remind me the next time we meet."
"Remind what?" An Yu asked.
"Hmm... let me think about it." Ling Qiu licked his chapped lips, "Oh, I heard that the main city is full of materialism and people can easily lose themselves. If we haven't seen each other for a long time, remind me not to Forget about your original intention.”
"You won't forget." An Yu said softly.
"Just a reminder!" Ling Qiu clicked his tongue, "What if I get lost."
"Okay." An Yu nodded.
Ling Qiu turned around and went downstairs. When he reached the corner of the stairs, he turned back and asked with a smile, "Do you need me to remind you of anything, the expiration date of bread? The date of subsistence food distribution? Or the way to beg for food from the resource manager?"
"I remember all of this. I rarely forget things." An Yu paused as he spoke.
A shiver suddenly bloomed in his heart. He looked at those bright smiling eyes, and the hot sun burned on the back of his neck.
As bright as the person looking at him.
"Those who dare to bet on the last chance of survival will not lose." An Yu said as if he could not help himself.
"What?" Ling Qiu was startled, "Where did you see the poisonous chicken soup?"
"From..." An Yu was speechless, "From..."
"Oh, okay, I got it!" Ling Qiu hurriedly went to get the notice, and hurriedly went downstairs while muttering: "I haven't even gone to school, and I can dream of poisonous chicken soup. I'm really going to kill you."
An Yu turned back to the railing and watched the figure appear downstairs, running out in a hurry until it disappeared into nothing.
"Thank you." An Yu said softly, staring in the direction where the figure disappeared.
It wasn't until this moment that he realized how much brotherly indulgence Ling Qiu had given him.
Even though Ling Qiu thought it was just a hearsay from beginning to end, at the last moment of his life, he still reminded him persistently.
Maybe not to fulfill the promise, but just to make him relax.
It's a pity that he didn't have the chance to tell Ling Qiu in the end.
——This sentence has stayed with me for a long time and saved me from death many times.
So, brother, thank you.
*
After wandering through time and space for an unknown amount of time, An Yu finally saw the familiar building. The time and space of the orphanage was gradually being repaired in the wind and snow, and the team on the ground that had just finished the battle was still resting.
He hovered high in the sky and watched the first broken lens slowly disappear.
If no action is taken, the second broken lens will spontaneously disappear as time and space are repaired, and the 1% sealed by Qin Zhilu will never be traceable.
An Yu looked at the broken lens lying on the ground. The moment he got it through space folding, he turned around and disappeared.
Almost at that moment, the familiar figure on the ground turned around and looked in the direction where he had just been.
Qin Zhilu still held a piece of compressed biscuit in his hand, staring into the air without moving.
An Yu, who was opposite him, immediately asked, "What's wrong with you?"
"That gust of wind just now..." Qin Zhilu stayed still for a while before eating the biscuit, "It seems that a very familiar smell passed by. I haven't had a mental crisis in many years. I may have had some hallucinations."
Away from the sky, An Yu gently touched his chest.
He folded the broken lens that sealed the 1% officer to his chest, where his heart was, very safe.
After he finished all this decisively, he suddenly felt his consciousness shake, as if something was about to wake up completely.
He didn't know how long he could retain this ability, so he didn't dare to stay any longer. He watched the commander swallow the last bite of biscuits, then turned around and continued to push time and space backward.
This time the shuttle was very precise.
It's early morning, at the steeple, before the chaos caused by Mori falls.
The senior executives of the Order had just finished a party to welcome Dian and Lumen. The 190th floor and above were in a mess. An Yu came to Dian's floor and saw Dian in the corridor with a messy head after a hangover.
Dian held a loose page torn from the notebook in his hand, and frowned after passing by him, "Didn't you just take the elevator down to eat?"
"Yeah." An Yu paused, "I'm afraid you can't find the page that was torn by Grape, so I came to see you. Did you find it?"
"Found it. Grape should be thankful to God, otherwise I would really never be done with him." Dianqi said: "No, I have to teach him a serious lesson even if I find it. This book is my main body, and every page carries How can my will be torn apart at will?"
"Don't be in a hurry to find grapes." An Yu said, "Just put this page away."
"Where can I keep it?" Mentioning this dian made Geng angry, "If you tear it off, it won't grow back. I can only put it back in the book. I don't know if it will be lost..."
"Otherwise -" An Yu thought, "put it in a book first, go to the Seed Museum when you have time, and hide it there."
"Plant Seed Museum? Are you talking about the thing that Putao risked his life to threaten the Black Tower?"
An Yu nodded, "Don't tell Tao Tao, he is responsible for protecting and supervising the museum. If you let him guard your loose pages without knowing it, you will be even."
Dian was in awe, "An Yu, the rumors are indeed true - you are really evil."
An Yu didn't want to meet himself in this time and space, so he left immediately after telling him. Then he set the time back for more than ten days, and as expected, he successfully obtained a preserved page from the Plant Seed Museum and put it together with the officer's broken lens.
When leaving the museum, he was careful not to let Tang Feng and Zhu Tao, who were leaning together to read a plant manual, notice him.
…
At the last stop, An Yu came to this year's winter solstice.
Winter Solstice 2149.
The day he finally confessed his love to his superior.
On the snowfield outside the minaret, he saw the heated conversation between the two people. He saw Qin Zhilu turning around and striding away after saying "Let's go" in embarrassment. Behind him, he was so angry that he shed a tear.
Qin Zhilu stopped at that moment.
Maybe because He has a higher dimensional perspective.
At this moment, An Yu finally saw through that person - that cold and hard man, and his heart was also violently turbulent and struggling.
He watched Qin Zhilu walk back uncontrollably until he came back to stand in front of him.
An Yu lowered his eyes and thought, and in an instant, a biting wind howl sounded from the distant sky and came to him in an instant. Qin Zhilu was startled for a moment, and looked at the heavy snow falling all over the sky again in astonishment.
Then those black eyes fluctuated for a moment, as if they were remembering something, and they seemed unbelievable.
Emotions that could no longer be concealed spread out in those eyes.
An Yu stood in the wind and snow, quietly watching himself in this time and space complaining incoherently in the sky, watching the man's confusion, watching him kiss himself.
He finally understood what Dian said - in this last unique time and space, what could make everything turn around might be just a piece of bread or a snowfall.
It was a snowfall he made for his superiors. Qin Zhilu had already made an unknown oath when he was 16 years old, when he was in the darkest and most desperate state.
The snowfield was completely silent except for the howling wind.
And the throbbing in his heart at this moment.
*
Time and space pass by like quicksand, and the huge thing is complete in an instant. Deep in the consciousness where it has lived, it casts a casual glance at the strange and small world.
And left decisively.
An Yu opened his eyes again, and the person who leaned over to kiss him from the torture frame was disappearing. The familiar body gradually became transparent, but the gentle gaze seemed to have always been there.
"Sir." An Yu said in a hoarse voice: "Do you know."
"In fact, there is eternity in this world."
Everything has happened in the past.
The absurdity and romance.
Those waves and dust hidden in the torrent of time.
Those unexpected encounters and words.
And every snowstorm seems to be ordinary.
At this moment, it finally settled.
Be their eternity.
*
When the yellow sand that shrouded the wasteland faded, the ravines on the ground disappeared without a trace.
The earth is flat and solid, as if nothing strange has ever happened.
The wind and snow all over the world stopped at this moment, and Black Tower once again received "nothing unusual" abnormal reports from various regions.
Tang Feng, who was about to get on the plane, suddenly felt a light behind him, and with a plop, Zhu Tao, who was sleeping behind him, fell to the ground and woke up.
Zhu Tao looked at him with shock and hurt, "Sir, what do you mean?"
Tang Feng was also stunned for a moment. Because he had to free his hands to open the cabin door, he originally tied Zhu Tao to himself with the messy grape vines on his body.
But the vines shrank back on their own.
