The Ducati Sport1000 was flying at lightning speed, weaving in and out of traffic. There were a few times when Li Liang felt like he was going to be taken away by the rearview mirror of a passing motor vehicle.
He hugged Cain tightly, but he couldn't think of anything charming. Every time he tried to speak, he was pushed back by the wind, and Cain rode faster and faster. In the end, he couldn't even open his eyes.
Cain was right, this wasn't a motorcycle, it was just a one-man boat.
She wasn't driving fast, she was flying very low.
The street scenes on both sides swept back quickly, and Li Liang couldn't recognize the direction for a while. It wasn't until small advertisements popped up one after another beside him, and a hazy holographic light and shadow appeared at the end of his field of vision, that he realized that in half an hour, he had almost reached Yiban Street. .
This most prosperous area in Beijing was being rebuilt very quickly. Walking through the dense traffic, there were almost no traces of the damage caused by the war. However, when he raised his head, he could still see many buildings through the gaps between the crisscrossing overpasses and viaducts. The high-rise structure has not yet been repaired, heavy machinery and equipment are erected on the facade, and there are even vague signs of engineering drones.
Li Ru put a lot of thought into making the area around Yiban Street the first area to be rebuilt. Entertainment is an outlet for young people to release their hormones. It is estimated that the Bureau of Order's supervision of illegal hallucinogens is looser than in the past. Parking and flashing lights are rare in the streets and alleys. Light of the Bureau of Order airship.
The traffic here was congested, but Cain had no intention of slowing down. The motorcycle rushed straight onto the sidewalk, and passers-by dodged. For a moment, amid a chorus of curses, he jumped up more than ten steps and landed with a crash, and merged into the main road again. The whole process It can be called fast and furious.
Ten minutes later, the motorcycle turned into a relatively quiet street.
The sky above the street is obscured by a viaduct. On the left are five-story shops, most of which have been converted into apartments. On the right is a parking lot. The ground is covered with dirty graffiti. There are a group of children playing football and a few boats thrown in the corner. The abandoned pontoon and the parking lot are next to the viaduct auxiliary road. On the other side of the viaduct is the densely packed buildings in the Yiban Street area, vaguely showing colorful light and shadow.
When the motorcycle finally stopped in front of the rolling shutter of a shop, Li Liang finally remembered where this place was.
Cain's childhood home.
Machsas's magic talisman is called "Echo of Sorrow". When the heroic spirit and Cain compete for the dominance of the "forced closed loop", the two people's conscious worlds are close together, and Machsas's divine power reappears. Three important scenes that affected both men's lives.
Among them, it was here that Zhou Xiaomian was taken away by her adoptive father and grew up to be Lord Mayfly Cain. At the same time, her parents were also killed here.
Li Liang looked at Cain who was leaning over to open the lock, and suddenly felt a little distressed.
The little girl hiding in the closet finally came back here.
Wow.
Cain pulled up the rolling shutter, turned around and noticed his eyes, and was stunned for a moment: "What's wrong?"
"It's okay," Li Liang smiled, "Why do you live here?"
"Nowhere to go," Cain kicked off the side stand and pushed the motorcycle through the door.
Li Liang followed up and found that the layout of the first floor was exactly the same as many years ago. It still looked like a maintenance workshop. There was even a half-repaired JEEP off-road vehicle on the lifting frame. The ground was full of oil stains, and the cabinets against the wall on the right were There are old parts and tools piled inside, and old tires stacked in the corner. There are also equipment for tire removal and pneumatic monitoring, as well as a special adjustment instrument for anti-gravity engines.
There is a door on the left wall, leading to another room. There is a dining table in the corner, covered with dust. There is also pneumatic equipment hanging on the wall opposite the rolling shutter door. There is also an open door in the corner, which is the bathroom.
The air smelled of engine oil and rubber.
Snapped.
Cain turned on the halogen light, walked to the door and pulled the roller shutter, and said casually: "Sit wherever you want."
Li Liang looked around: "Where to sit?"
"Inside," Cain pointed to the bedroom, entered the bathroom and closed the door. The sound of rushing water could be heard for a moment.
"..."
Li Liang shook his head, opened the door and walked into the room on the left.
The layout of the room is the same as in the "Echo of Sorrow" scene, with cabinets used as partitions to separate the living room and bedroom.
As soon as you enter the door, there is an old three-seater sofa against the wall on your left. There are a bunch of empty wine bottles on the coffee table, and the ashtray is full of cigarette butts. There is a bookshelf against the wall on your right hand. It is empty, but there are not many books. Several photo frames.
Li Liang took a closer look and saw that they were all photos of the same person. A girl in her teenage years looked like a gang member. She had a shaved mohawk and her neck was covered with tattoos. One photo showed a negotiation scene. The girl was sitting in the middle of the crowd with an indifferent expression. There was one scene in the engine room of the Defiant. She was holding a submachine gun high and shouting to the dark crowd.
Judging from her appearance, the girl should be Cain's sister, Zhou Xiaoyou.
He remembered that in "The Sorrow of Echoes", Cain's adoptive father's name was Chris. The first person Chris took away was Cain's sister Zhou Xiaoyou. Later, when Zhou Xiaoyou died, Chris shot the two sisters' parents and took him with him. With Cain gone, it can be said that this elder ephemera was the source of all Cain's pain, but he is now dead.
When he recaptured the Defiant, he took matters into his own hands, ending Chris' paranoid life.
Chris mentioned the "mission" of the ephemera and the "prophecy". Li Liang could easily think of the prophecy tablet in the "abyss", but Cain never mentioned it.
There are many clues about the "Time War", and there is no need to reveal Cain's scars. Or, he vaguely feels that he may be the culprit of everything, and Cain knows it.
He sighed silently, put down the photo, and walked into the bedroom.
Compared with the messy living room, the bedroom is much cleaner. The quilts are folded neatly, much like an ordinary girl's "boudoir". There are also cosmetics piled on the dressing table against the wall, but there are frag grenades and cotton pads next to the eye shadow box. On top of the bullet box, an eyebrow pencil was inserted into the trigger slit of a pistol, and guns of different lengths were mounted above the mirror.
The most conspicuous thing is that there is an old rag doll lying on the bedside, with traces of sewing.
There is an old Activision connected projector hanging on the wall opposite the bed. It is covered with dust and I don’t know if it can be turned on. However, the old-fashioned stereo underneath is polished to a shiny finish. The transistors on the amplifier are very new, as if they had just been replaced. Up.
This thing is an antique. Li Liang remembers seeing this kind of tube amp when he collected his old Apple phone. However, with his financial resources, he couldn't even afford a transistor.
Unexpectedly, Cain is also an audiophile.
He fiddled with the amplifier a few times and continued walking inside. There was another door inside, leading to a small kitchen. The flue was opened directly on the back wall. It looked like it hadn't been used for many years.
This is normal. It is hard to imagine that Cain would cook by himself.
Li Liang turned back and came to the cabinet between the bedroom and the living room. In "The Sorrow of Echoes", Zhou Xiaomian was hiding in this cabinet, covering his ears and curling up, waiting to meet his fate.
He slowly opened the cabinet.
Underwear hanging inside...
Sudden.
A voice came from the side: "Does the style look good?"
"..."
Li Liang silently closed the cupboard door, turned around and was stunned: "Why are you taking a shower?"
Cain was seen wearing a bath towel, leaning against the partition with his arms folded, his hair wet and his cheeks rosy.
"Didn't you come to my house just to sleep with me?"
"Fuck you," Li Liang lost his voice, "Who wants to sleep with you?"
"Oh," Cain sniffed, "I thought you had physiological needs because you stayed at the anchor point for a long time... I heard that your kidney is second-hand, will it affect its function?"
"Do you have any common sense? What is the relationship between kidneys and function," Li Liang said angrily, "I got a new one when I was in Shangcheng District. There is nothing wrong with my kidneys."
"Then you don't like women? You shouldn't..."
"Can we talk about something else?" Li Liang didn't know whether to laugh or cry. He pulled up the chair in front of the dressing table and sat down. He gestured to the cabinet and said, "Do you still have time to buy clothes?"
"No time, it's all a gift from Sonoya," Cain sat on the bed and tilted his head and said seriously, "You...chatting like this is foreplay?"
"You..." Li Liang rubbed his forehead and changed the subject, "Why do you live here? Where do they live?"
"Now they have all moved to Fifth Avenue and live near Massey Bionic Pet Hospital." Cain climbed onto the bed and leaned against the bedside with the doll in his arms. "Sonoya, K, House, and Li Ru, well, all people."
"Huh? They..."
"House is the most stupid. The whole family moved to the 'Ford SLOW' on the first floor of the pet hospital," Cain sneered. "Now the vicinity of the pet hospital is the safest place in the world. Four semi-bionic commandos are stationed opposite the hospital. Anyone in the building who dares to show his gun on the street will be shot immediately."
"No way..." Li Liang wondered, "Why don't you go live there?"
"Messe let me live in your utility room," Cain said with an ugly face. "It's damn smaller than the bathroom, and the old man is still repairing pets. He gets up at six in the morning and makes noises all day long."
"Ah? Where did he get the order?"
"He thought they were individual tourists, but in fact they were all sent by Li Ru. They were carefully selected and made just right. The old man still buys breakfast at a fixed place every day, and the price has not changed." Cain narrowed his eyes. "Except for Dr. Xisen, no one you know is a fool. They don't even have this bit of vision. Aren't their lives in vain?"
Buzz.
The bracelet vibrated, and Cain glanced at it and hung up.
"Did they have some misunderstanding about me?" Li Liang frowned.
"What you think is your business, and what you do is their business. Whether you admit it or not, you are Xi'an's twin gods. If you are willing to treat them as friends, they will not really care like Dr. Xisen. Rules," Cain shrugged. "This world is very realistic. The bullets on our backs tell each of us that feelings are the most unreliable things."
"What about you?" Li Liang asked softly.
"Guess," Cain leaned over with his upper body supported, exhaled like blue, and murmured lazily, "Guess I want to go to bed with you because I like you, or to please you?"
"Go away," Li Liang smiled.
"It's boring," Cain lay back lazily, his bracelet vibrated again, and she hung up.
"Who called you?"
"Yuan Quan," Cain covered his face with a rag doll, "she was led astray by Acti's bitch, and her head is full of unrealistic ideas."
"what idea?"
"She's directing the new season of Hansel and Friends."
"Then what?"
Cain revealed two smiling eyes from behind the rag doll and sneered: "She wants you to play the supporting role."
"..."
