Chapter 10 Nine

I wiped my mouth with a napkin and stood up, Lin Lan lifted her bag from the chair next to her. "Do you have time yet? Let's go for a walk for fresh air," I said. "Okay." Lin Lan said. We walked out of the Xinzhenjiang Restaurant, the night was dark, and there was a dim street lamp overhead, the leaves of those trees chopped up the light, and sprinkled it sparsely. I remembered that two years ago, in front of the 28th floor of Peking University, there was this smell. There was a sense of grass and trees in the silence, no one could be seen, and the light color was like an old photo.

What a lame, yet another pointless meal. We sat down and started arguing about whether to order beef or pork, and then the guy who ordered the food joined the battle group, saying that beef is three food coupons and pork is two. While waiting for the food, each of them went to the shelf and picked up a magazine, turned it over and read it, exchanged it with each other after reading it, and continued reading. In the end, we exchanged opinions and agreed that Big Pig had been flirting with Zhang Hao recently, and then suddenly the food on the plate was empty. Several times I watched Lin Lan quietly turning the pages, a strand of hair around her ear scratched my ears, and I opened my mouth to say Lin Lan, when did you think I was still Very touching... It's really stupid to ask, and I have repeatedly dismissed this idea.

We got into that Audi, the general's distribution car. "Where are we going?" Lin Lan asked suddenly. "I don't know, let's take a look around." I said. "Yeah." She nodded. So the black military vehicle drove aimlessly on the elevated road, and a row of yellow lights stretched away, like an illusory road leading you to an illusory place. There was no traffic police, so I quickly increased the speed, and the Audi with a heavy chassis seemed to be speeding close to the ground. Lin Lan seemed a little tired, she put her face on the back of the chair and fell asleep.

Her eyelashes are thick and her face is clean. When her eyes are closed, she looks like a small doll. I was moved in my heart, wondering if I would miss this moment very much after many years: I was driving a car at night, with enough oil in the fuel tank, an empty and straight road in front of me, and a car next to me that I liked but seemed The woman who doesn't hate me is going to sleep quietly. The phone rang untimely. "Jiang Yang, where are you now?" The big pig seemed to be happily shouting over there. "People's Square, close to Nanpu Bridge." I was annoyed.

"Did you drive the boss' car?" "He gave me the key himself." "No one said you stole a car. Coincidentally, you can drop by Zhangjiang Town to check bubble defense generator No. 16. My side shows that its energy output is not stable, and the fluctuation index has exceeded the warning line of 0.45. " "I rely on!" "I didn't offend you, why do you rely on it?" "Worry." "I just want a reason to be relied on." Big Pig insisted. "When you should come out to help punches, there is no one, and you shouldn't come out to make trouble."

"Did Er Zhu and I lose our loyalty and didn't help you?" Big Pig's curiosity was clearly aroused. I lost my temper: "Forget it, you can't help me with this matter." There was silence on the phone for a while, and then the voice of the big pig suddenly realized: "Oh...then I understand! Then you take Comrade Captain Check out Bubble Defense Generator #16. The closest technician we have over there is you. The number of predators gathered in the sky tonight is horribly large. It is likely to be a new round of bombing. Don't worry. "The phone hung up, and Lin Lan was looking at me.

"Any interest in checking out the bubble defense generator along the way?" "It doesn't matter." With sleepy eyes, she threw off her shoes and hugged her legs and curled up on the car seat. I showed the reserve officer certificate of the Pao Defense Command with the purple Sophora japonica flower mark: "I am here to overhaul the Pao Defense Generator." The young military police carefully checked my certificate, looked at my face, and then looked at it coldly. Lin Lan behind me. "Captain Lin from the headquarters, she's here..." I shrugged, "To inspect the progress of the work." Lin Lan stared at me, and I stared back.

The barbed wire door was opened, and under the pale light, there was the unique silver single-winged eagle logo of Unit 7488. "Hey! Give me the toolbox at the back!" I wiped the sweat from my forehead, retreated from the console of the robotic arm, and shouted at Lin Lan. There was no one around, only she was sitting bored on the ground 20 meters away from me, looking up at the sky. The ground with a radius of one kilometer here is covered by insulating soft rubber, and the surface is pasted with non-slip rubber particles, reminiscent of the school's plastic runway. At that time, there were girls like this sitting on the side of our runway. I don't know. Are they in a daze, or are they waiting for their boy to finish the run.

"which one?" "The black one, the one with the metal casing." Lin Lan got up obediently, dug out one from a pile of toolboxes, and walked towards me with it. I smiled, she is always so obedient, as long as you say Lin Lan, do me a favor, so Lin Lan went, you can even ask her to buy you an ice cream, but she will say then you give me I have two shares, and I want to eat one... But I know that she is not an obedient and good girl in her heart. She can lie and cheat, just like the first time I saw her. "Here you are." She put the toolbox under my feet and stood there without moving.

"Stay away." I said, "There may be static electricity here." "Well," she agreed, "Is there a problem with the generator?" "I can't see it yet, but the energy response is decaying, and the fluctuation index is also very large." I handed her a goggle, "Put it on." card slot. This command card is not available to all technicians, I am someone who received early hardware training, and having this card means that I can open the internal circuit of the bubble defense generator. The mechanical arm stretched out slowly, it was fifteen meters long, and there was a monitor attached to the top. I aimed at the screen and slowly corrected the position.

The generator is a huge black column with a height of 60 meters, all of which are covered with iridium-containing titanium alloy plates, with white dazzling light shining through the top, and it directly connects with the bubble interface. The bubble interface is not buckled over Shanghai like an upside-down iron pot. At the position where the bubble defense generator is located, the interface will be extremely curved, forming a concave point, like a needle piercing down from above. The tip of the needle points to the top of the bubble defense generator. But this bubble interface is not broken. The chip on the mechanical arm came into contact with the valve lock, and the thirty-centimeter-thick titanium plate slowly moved down, and the entire mechanical arm automatically entered the internal circuit for connection. I looked at the monitoring interface that was automatically called up on the screen, and the different numbers on it began to flash quickly. The entire inspection process will consume 20 minutes, and I cannot leave here within 20 minutes. "Are you looking for a place to rest or chat with me here?" I said. "Let's chat with you, other places are not interesting." Lin Lan looked seriously at the huge machine half-melted in the night, she pouted slightly, full of curiosity like a child. "Is it fun?" I said, trying to tease her. "Well, it's interesting. I've never been here, and I'm not a technician." Lin Lan was rarely honest. My heart moved a bit: "Why did you join the army?" "I was spoiled very much when I was a child," Lin Lan leaned his back on the outer wall of the console of the robotic arm and looked up at the sky, "My father is a senior colonel and works in the General Political Department. He was in Baoding at that time, and my mother and I lived in Beijing. He rarely came back to visit us, and every time he left me a lot of homework and looked at my report card. He always told me, Lanlan should study hard, and my father will come back to see your grades. Then I enrolled in sketching class, handicraft class and guzheng class. I remember that when I was a child, my mother always took me to run on the streets of Beijing, rushing from one class to the next. At that time, the wind and sand were quite heavy. " "I don't have those things. I remember that I played arcade games all day long. My mother was familiar with every arcade room around the school. If she couldn't find me, she would go to one by one." "But I didn't like class, and then I played truant." "Oh? What about later?" "I don't know why I skipped school, maybe it was just to show my dad that I didn't want to be like that, that it's no use telling me now and then to study hard and be a good girl. Now I think so too, it's not easy growing up to be a good girl. " "You're pretty good." "You think so?" "On the surface." "Well," Lin Lan replied casually, "But I skipped school and didn't know where to go, and I didn't dare to leave school too far, and I didn't know the surrounding places. I was sitting on the beach at the construction site behind the school, playing with the Transformers my dad bought me. " "You still play Transformers?" "Well, I wasn't a girl who liked dolls when I was a kid... I buried Transformers in the sand and dug them up, buried them in and dug them out, and buried them deeper and deeper. Finally one time I couldn't dig it anymore, and I dug and dug and dug and dug and dug all afternoon, sitting there crying. Lin Lan said in a low voice, "It was then that I realized that I really liked the toy my father bought for me, and later I thought he was the most important man in my life. " "Well, then?" I don't think I need to say anything, just listen now. "Later my father found out that I was playing truant and beat me severely. But I was already playing wild at that time, and I didn't listen to anything. He hit me and I ran out immediately. The few boys who didn’t study well at school knew me very well, and they took me around. Sometimes in the dead of night we sang songs and made trouble on the road, but we just didn’t want to go home. Every time my father couldn't bear it and came to me, and then beat me again, but I still ran out. " "Ok." "Later he died in the line of duty." I was silent for a while, but before I could answer, Lin Lan lowered her head, her hair hanging down the side of her face, covering her glasses. "I joined the army just because I wanted to be like my dad." She tossed her hair. "Like your father?" "I know he's dead, and no one will be looking for me to come home from outside, and no one will buy me a Transformer. I was stupid all of a sudden, I don't know, I don't know why I play truant from school day by day like that, and what to do next. Lin Lan shook her head, "So I went to the military academy." Maybe I'd be vain if I didn't join the army?Like the kind of girl you can see everywhere on the streets of Shanghai, I will be old in a few years, walking in the vegetable market with a wrinkled face, discussing the price of cabbage with others. Isn't it a bit too bad to be a woman like that? " "It's funny, I never said these things, why did I tell you?" Lin Lan said suddenly. "Being a man is also very bad. Think about it, if you were a man, when you were young, you fell in love with a woman desperately and tried your best to be with her. If he catches up with her, seeing her getting old gradually, with goose skin and white hair, walking in the vegetable market, I would wonder if I should fall in love with her so madly. If you can't catch up, it will be even worse, until she gets goosebumps, and still likes her, but just like that, she is still far away from herself. When they met in the vegetable market, the old eyes wanted to shed tears, and they couldn't go up to hold hands or something. "I don't know what I'm talking about, I just said it in my heart. "Anyway, it's your own choice." "Is it true that we chose ourselves?" I retorted, "Who do you like, sometimes it's just by chance, right?" "I don't know what you men think." After a long time, Lin Lan said quietly, "If you had money, what would you want to do? What would you do?" "Me?" I stroked my hair, "Probably go to Stockholm, I saw a painting when I was a child, an alley with high walls on both sides, an old-fashioned railway lamp in the middle, a man in a trench coat leaning against the wall, Suddenly, I felt that the place was very good, and I wanted to go there.” "Have you ever been abroad?" "No, the last time the big pig and the two pigs said they would go to Burma to see the ladyboys together, but the war started before they asked for leave." "Cut! Then go to Stockholm, do you think you are a poet?" "Can't you think about it?" I put my chin on my knees, "I heard that it is close to the sea, so I want to stay in a place near the sea, where the sea breeze blows all year round, and you can fish, and the sun shines on the sea. Yes, it would be perfect if there are some ancient buildings on the small island in the distance.” "Damn! Stockholm is close to the Baltic Sea, and it rains half a year a year. You haven't studied geography well, have you? Can you pass the exam?" "Just think about it, it's not that serious, right? Besides, when will I be so rich that I can do whatever I want?" "Why do you like the sea?" "Have you played FF8?" "No." "There is a city in FF8 that is like that, by the sea, as long as you climb up, you can see a piece of blue, and you can't see the edge from afar. Industrial ruins were designed there, and a huge crane remained in the ruins, and the huge boom stretched all the way into the sea. There is always an old man sitting on the top of the boom with a fishing rod to fish, with sea water under his feet; a long bridge overlooking the sea, with a green flag on the bridge when there is no wind, and a red flag when there is wind, the old man He quickly collected the pole and ran away. At that time, when I played in this city, I just hung around and wandered around. I really envied that old man. It would be great if there was such a city. "I am fascinated. "You are so lazy." Lin Lan sighed. "It's not even the laziest. When I was a child, I wrote a composition entitled "My Ideal". My ideal at that time was to go to Xiaoyaojin Park next to our home to be the gatekeeper of the distorting mirror hall, so I really wrote it. As a result, the teacher read my composition on the spot, and the whole class laughed at me for almost a semester. " "Did you do it on purpose?" "No, have you heard the story of Sanmao? When Sanmao was a child, he wrote a composition saying that I wanted to be a scavenger, basking in the sun and looking for good things thrown away by others in the garbage dump. The teacher said it was not good, so Sanmao changed it, saying that I wanted to be a peddler. The teacher said it barely looked like it. Sanmao said that while I was selling and basking in the sun, I could also see if there were any good things thrown away by others in the garbage dump next to me. " Lin Lan was stunned for a moment, and then laughed out "puchi", "I'm convinced, it's so cold to tell a joke." " "What joke? That's my idol!" "Why do you want to be a janitor?" "Because that's why you can look at the distorting mirror whenever you want. It's so strange, I always liked looking at the distorting mirror when I was a child, but there is really nothing to do in Xiaoyaojin Park. " "You went to the distorting mirror, who will watch the door for you?" "Watch it after get off work. If you want to see the elongated one, you can see the elongated one. If you want to see the squashed one, you can watch the squashed one." "That sounds boring enough." "Actually, now that I think about it, it's really weird for a person to look at the distorting mirror in an empty mirror. But at that time, I liked to think in a mess, read idle books when I had nothing to do, and fantasized about myself, which was bizarre. "I shrugged, "It was like this when I was a child, looking around, wishing it could be more fun and weird. But now I can't figure out many things, so I don't think strange things are fun. " "Were you the kind of child who didn't fit in well and was very lonely when you were young?" "A little bit, it will be fine when I go to college later." "You are still a child now." Lin Lan concluded. "Kids are kids." I gambled. "It was so good when I was a child, I was what I thought of, and I was not afraid of anything..." Lin Lan glanced at me and said softly. I didn't understand her eyes, she turned her head quickly. "Lin Lan, are you afraid?" I said suddenly. "Why do you ask that suddenly?" "Just remembered." "Of course I'm afraid..." Lin Lan said softly. I think of the lyrics of that song: But through your eyes, I can't see the world clearly. The cell phones of both of them suddenly rang. I took out the cell phone and looked at it: "837: Please prepare in place and wait for orders at any time. There is a small-scale air strike." "837" is a low-level air raid alarm. Operators who receive the alarm do not have to rush back to their department to report immediately, but they must stand by. It seems that as the big pig said, the situation over tonight is really tight, but it doesn't look too serious so far. I glanced at the monitor behind me. The inspection of the internal circuit by the mechanical arm has ended, and the connection is being disconnected and slowly pushed out. I quickly scanned a few pages of data and frowned. "What's wrong?" "I can't see anything wrong with it. All the data looks normal, but it's not right when put together. The fluctuation constant is a big problem." "Look there, look there!" Lin Lan suddenly grabbed my arm and pointed at the sky. I followed her and raised my head, and saw a dazzling purple light collided with the bubble defense interface at a distance of about one or two kilometers from us. The huge purple light spot that exploded quickly split apart and flowed around along the smooth interface, like It was a pour of water poured on the bottom of the upside-down pot, and it flowed quickly in all directions. And the place above our heads that is in contact with the bubble defense generator is like a depression, the purple rays of light poured in like water, contacting the faint white glow on the upper part of the generator, bursting out like a purple aurora in an instant. Lin Lan jumped up, held my hand tightly, and waved the other arm. "That's right!" She exclaimed. I didn't speak, and saw the purple light reflected on her face, her face was as bright as jade, and there was a strange look in her eyes, like a child who saw heaven. "Many years later, children will remember this era. There is no other era where the sky is so beautiful, the purple meteor falls, the purple dahlia blooms and breaks, its petals are like purple water rushing in all directions, when it is extinguished, it is like a candle in a strong wind. If human beings still exist..." Lin Lan said softly, slowly lowering her head, her long eyelashes pressed down, and there was a flowing light in her eyes, as if it was about to flow out. At this moment, Lin Lan has a suffocating beauty. She is only 30 centimeters away from me, and she is a shadow standing very far away in the sky. I remembered what she asked me: Have you ever been a child, out of gregarious, lonely in a corner watching people coming and going?I lowered my eyes, but it was too late. Big Pig is right, you know there are some things that you will regret after reading, because you cannot forget after reading. "Let's go." Lin Lan let go of my hand, very naturally. "Yeah." I was a step behind. "It will look better if you straighten your hair." I said suddenly. "Oh..." Lin Lan twisted the strand of curly hair next to her ear, "When I'm free...maybe next week." The night was dark, the car was parked far away, the road was long, and the street lights cast our shadows It is also very long. Lin Lan's heels hit the ground, and there was a faint echo in the distance. She hummed a song I didn't know, and I followed behind with my hands in my pockets, keeping my head down and following the steps.