The cabin is only a few square meters, and the air is hot and dull, echoing with the hum of equipment running and mixed with turbulent noise.
The lampshade on the bulkhead was old and yellowed, giving off a dim light.
The single bed fixed in the corner was covered with a thin mattress. The sheets had just been changed but still had an old smell. The sponge in the pillow had no elasticity and had collapsed into a nest.
The living conditions at this moment were far from comfortable, but looking at the face so close to him, Li Liang felt that everything was just right.
In the false life created by Elune, the Zhou Xiaomian who spent his whole life with him was a perfect wife, gentle, patient, and tolerant. She never had a quarrel with him until her death. Even in those long decades of life, He did not experience any suffering. As Elune said, it was a "smooth and orderly life experience."
He devoted himself to it seriously, but always knew that it was fake, because real life is full of regrets and waste, and real people are never perfect.
Cain is the Lord of Mayflies, a criminal, and a tough gangster. He is sometimes rude and violent, like a tempered double-edged sword. At the same time, he is Zhou Xiaomian who still retains a trace of innocence despite his ill-fated fate.
At this moment, the girl closed her eyes and pretended to sleep, but her eyelashes were trembling, as if she was expecting a kiss.
Li Liang reached out and gently touched her face.
Sudden.
The corner of Cain's mouth moved, and he said vaguely: "My arm is numb, can you kiss me... um..."
The world quieted down.
Li Liang closed his eyes at first, but when he opened them accidentally, he found that Cain's eyes were widened.
When their eyes met, he felt a pain in his lips and said helplessly: "Hey... why are you biting me?"
"Why are you sticking your tongue out?"
"...You have to stretch your legs when kissing."
"Yeah?"
"yes."
"Oh, then kiss me again."
"...Hiss...why are you still biting?"
"Pfft~ Hahahaha... Hey, believe me, I really won't bite this time."
"..."
"Well... you are very good at it, Li Liang."
"It's... okay, you haven't had it before?"
"No ah."
"You... last time at your house, you still wanted to solve my physical problems?"
"Oh, I didn't understand that at the time."
"Understand now?"
"Yes, I asked Sonoya after that time, and she said that in your time, such things should be more subtle."
"...So, she also lent you a tube of lip balm?"
"Yes," Cain licked his lips and wondered, "were you eaten?"
"..."
For the next four hours, the two hugged each other, and Cain softly recounted the gunfire and blood she experienced on the Defiant, the first time she killed someone with her own hands, the first fight, the first business deal...
"I Have a Picture Book of Ghosts and Gods"
Her tone was exceptionally calm, but Li Liang could hear the unconcealed loneliness in it. Later, he told Cain about the false life created by Elune, his father, his brother, and the Internet a thousand years ago. era.
At a certain moment, they forgot where they were, let alone their fate.
Until there was a knock on the door.
It turned out that the submarine had quietly arrived at the Fuji.
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When the submarine slowly entered the hatch at the bottom of the Fuji, Li Liang came to the command module and watched the dark space that gradually appeared through the holographic monitor.
Three years after waking up, he never left Zhongjing and could only learn about the other six cities from Activision Internet. The Fuji made him most curious. It was a giant ship that never docked, a ship wandering in the ocean. The city of the sea.
When he first set off from Denali, he learned about the dusty history of the Fuji from Mizuno.
The predecessor of the Fuji was the "Prelude" floating ship built by Samsung Heavy Industries a thousand years ago. It was the largest floating facility in the world at that time. Strictly speaking, it was not a ship. This behemoth could not rely on its own Powered navigation, which relies on tugboats, is essentially a floating LNG facility used to extract and produce natural gas from deep sea gas fields.
When the "nuclear war" broke out, the Prelude had just returned to Geoje Island, South Korea from Australia. When the disaster struck, tens of thousands of survivors flocked to the ship and fled to safe waters.
The Prelude, which weighed more than 600,000 tons, was indeed able to withstand the stormy waves, but the tugboat was not immune and was swallowed up by the storm not long after.
After a short period of drifting, the survivors on the boat realized in despair that they might never be able to reach the shore, and the water and food they carried were extremely limited.
In that dark age, survivors on land could still search and plunder food from the ruins of human civilization or the sturdy bunkers of the wealthy, and they could also obtain water from deep underground. But the people trapped on the Prelude, All that can be seen is the furious sea and natural gas production equipment weighing 80,000 tons.
Then, the darkest thing happened, man "degenerated" into a beast.
No written or visual records of that period have been handed down. When another giant ship, the Veritas, brought the dawn of survival, there were less than two hundred people left on the Prelude.
The "Truth" was built by Japan's Imabari Shipbuilding Saijo Shipyard. It is a large container ship with a load capacity of nearly 190,000 tons and a capacity of 20,182 TEUs. When the nuclear war broke out, it was sailing at full load, but there were only a few dozen crew members on board.
These crew members boarded the Prelude and rescued the survivors trapped in hell from the bones.
Humanity finally returns.
It is said that in those days, the remaining more than 300 people truly realized that everyone was equal, united and helped each other. They put down their guard and selfishness and regarded their companions as family members.
They opened all the containers, threw the once priceless luxury cars and luxury goods into the sea, preserved food, dewatered the water, collected soil, seeds, and handmade seawater dewatering equipment.
Two huge ships drifting alone in the middle of the ocean are their only homes.
Since most of the crew on the "Truth" came from the Fuji Consortium, they named the two ships "Fuji" together.
They thrived and lived through the entire Dark Ages. Even if Xi'an appeared, they were unwilling to return to the land.
Eventually, Xi'an renovated the Fuji and established the Canopy, allowing it to become one of the seven cities.
In the following hundreds of years, with the flow of population and the rise and fall of gangs, the underground world of the Fuji changed hands several times. The two most important gangs were the Yakuza and the Sanxing Society. It was just like when the two ships first met, but they were once as close as each other. Brothers, now the situation is like fire and water.
In recent years, the Three Stars Society has become so powerful that Yakuza has to temporarily avoid the spotlight. On the Fuji at the moment, Park Jungtae, the boss of the Three Stars Society, is so popular that even Denali's Wolf Lord doesn't take it seriously.
Mizuno said that Song, who was in the China-Beijing Youth Association, was Park Chung-tae's friend for many years and had already spread the news in advance. This meeting should not have many twists and turns.
Twenty minutes later.
The hatch at the bottom of the Fuji closed and the water level began to drop. At the same time, the submarine drained the seawater from the main ballast tank and slowly floated to the dock.
After the Spades members who arrived earlier took control of the pier, Li Liang climbed out of the cabin with Cain, Mizuno and Allen. Just as he stood still, he noticed a group of people appearing on the other side of the pier, and waved his hands casually. Signal spades to let go.
The leading man was wearing a bright yellow suit that seemed to be one size too big. He staggered closer, plucked his ears with his thumbs, and said casually without raising his head: "Xiba..."
