"How about it? The night view of Belloberg."
In the square at night, Cocolia and Yaoluo sat on the steps in front of Clipper Castle, each holding a glass of wine in their hands and sipping.
In front of the two people, citizens stayed here for a long time on the Yongdong Monument Memorial Square. Some people held flowers and placed them in front of the monument to commemorate the martyrs who had sacrificed their lives in the war.
In the dark night, little lights surround the monument, and the flowing light comes and goes, like fish swimming in the water.
There are long lines of lights farther and farther away, connecting thoughts from further places.
"It's beautiful." Yao Luo raised the wine glass high, the bright moon passed through the glass, and the amber moonlight reflected on their faces.
With a slight hint of alcohol on his face, Cocolia placed the wine glass on the steps, hugged his knees with his arms, and said slightly:
"Yao Luo, do you know?" The purple moon looked at the silver galaxy.
"The day I came back from the Lower Zone, the sound of the star core disappeared from my ears."
"This is also a good thing." After drinking the wine illuminated by the bright moon, Yaoluo listened quietly to Cocolia's voice.
"Yes, I only have a short life of more than ten years. Just becoming a great guardian has taken up almost all of my life. Do you think this kind of life can be called a success?"
"I can't define success, Cocolia." Yaoluo elaborated on his thoughts without answering directly.
"In the eyes of most people in Beloberg, you are a noble leader, a symbol of the people's will, and a... hero who protects Beloberg." After much deliberation, Yaoluo still said this word.
"But! I was almost bewitched by the star core, and I even planned to give up..." A hand stopped Cocolia's words, and Yaoluo shook his head.
"Of course I know." Yao Luo looked up at the moon in the sky. Dark clouds covered one corner of the moon, and the light shining on him was a little less.
"Even if you tell all your previous mistakes now and make the truth about the star core known to the public, the people today will not believe it, or in other words, they are unwilling to believe it."
"There is an old saying in my hometown, a saint's deeds have no regard for his heart. Neither you nor I will be a saint, but we can do the things of mortals."
"..." Cocolia looked at Yaoluo, she didn't know how to answer.
"Instead of feeling sorry for yourself now, it is better to do the present well. This is also one of your responsibilities as a great guardian. Bear the truth and leave good things to the people."
Cocolia felt that although the man in front of her was similar in age to her, he understood or could see the world from a perspective beyond this planet.
"There's no need to look at me like that." Yao Luo felt a little embarrassed by Cocolia's gaze and smiled.
"I'm just an ordinary person." Yao Luo sighed, thinking of his current life.
"Ordinary... person?" In Cocolia's eyes, Yao Luo is definitely an extraordinary person, but Yao Luo knows it himself.
Born as an ordinary person, without a distinguished background, went to an ordinary school, and lived an ordinary life. If there were no accidents, he would just live an ordinary life like all other living beings.
"Everyone will say that the key is what you do." Yao Luo stood up, patted the dust on his body, and stretched out his hand to Cocolia in front of him.
"follow me."
Somewhat hesitantly, out of trust in Yao Luo, Cocolia still put her hand in Yao Luo's palm.
"Ahhh!"
In an instant, the surrounding scenery became blurry, and the feeling of weightlessness came to her heart. The endless wind passed by her, and Cocolia could only rely on her feelings to hug the man in front of her tightly.
After an unknown amount of time, the sound of wind in my ears gradually faded away, and when the sense of balance in my brain returned to normal, Yao Luo also rang in his ears at the right time:
"Open your eyes."
Slowly raising her eyelids, the scenery in front of her was far beyond Cocolia's imagination, leaving her speechless.
Sky.
Endless as far as the eye can see, a pure place located above the world.
There are almost no places on this earth that humans have ever touched.
The clouds that usually floated overhead quietly slipped away. Cocolia grabbed a handful out of curiosity, but couldn't catch anything.
Waiting for the clouds to disperse, a bright moon appeared in front of Cocolia's eyes. It was bigger and brighter than what she had seen on land.
Since Belloberg was swept by the cold wave, it has rarely been possible to see such a clear moon phase with the naked eye.
The beautiful scenery diluted the fear of heights, and Cocolia's heart was filled with a strange feeling.
Human beings' desire and desire to conquer the sky is almost engraved in their bones. Faced with such a scenery, I believe no one can remain calm.
"Yao Luo! Look..."
The excited voices stopped suddenly, and Kokolia looked at Yaoluo. The silver eyes that should have been looking towards the sky were staring quietly down.
Suppressing the discomfort, Cocolia looked in the direction Yaoluo was looking.
"That is?"
Streets extending in all directions, houses as big as ants dotted the ground beneath their feet. Darkness reigned supreme, but unyielding firelight rose from everywhere, illuminating the city at night.
"Belloberg." A calm voice came from her ears. Cocolia felt that the city she was familiar with was so strange. She had never seen Belloberg from such an angle.
"Some people stand on the ground, but they can observe the world from the perspective of standing in the sky. Some people stand in the sky, but they can only look up at the sky from the perspective of standing on the ground."
"Kokolia, what kind of person do you want to be?"
Cocolia looked at Yaoluo, his eyes showed seriousness, as if he wanted to see through his heart.
After calming down, Cocolia began to think about the meaning of Yaoluo's sentence. After a long time, he hesitated and replied:
"Number one?"
Yao Luo shook his head.
Without giving her a chance to tell the second answer, Yao Luo spoke.
"You have to have both, Cocolia."
“No matter how high you are, never forget the people below you.”
"You and I are now at an altitude of nearly four thousand meters above Belloberg, a height that many people may not reach in their lifetimes."
"But." Yao Luo's tone changed, "No matter how long we can fly, we will eventually fall back to the ground where we are rooted."
"Before, all you could think about was decisions about the fate of this planet, and you were making judgments for all life on this planet like a god."
"But the people didn't have the opportunity to know. Unknowingly, their fate has been treated as a weight on the scale by you, isn't it, Cocolia?"
The calm tone penetrated into Cocolia's heart like a blade, leaving her speechless. It was as if a thousand layers of cold wind were whistling through Cocolia's heart. Even though her body temperature made her not feel cold, she was speechless. His heart felt as if it was frozen.
"Because, what he said is right." Cocolia understood that Yao Luo had completely analyzed her deepest thoughts some time ago.
"You have to remember, Cocolia." Yaoluo's tone suddenly became gentle, and he continued, "No one has the right to make a choice for everyone at any time."
"Destiny should be in your own hands."
Yao Luo stretched out his hand towards the moon and grasped it suddenly, as if he was holding his own destiny.
"And the fate of you and me is now closely related to this land and many people on this land."
Under the moonlight, the eyes of the man in front of him were like two bright stars, reflecting the light of all living beings around him.
"What we have to do is not to control it, but..."
"Carry it on your back."
The moonlight tonight is really beautiful, but Cocolia can't take her eyes away.
From a man.
………………
At the same time, there is a place that cannot be observed by any instrument, a place called Everwinter Ridge in reality.
A voice that echoed from heaven and earth rippled from all directions. The voice was neither like a man nor a woman, nor a child nor an old man.
Both like a devil and an angel, empty yet full of temptation.
"Suitable...container...found."
