Chapter 13 morning

When Anka got up, Luo Ying woke up immediately.She had always slept very lightly, but when the strength in her shoulders suddenly lost, her nerves immediately woke up. She saw first the distant peak of the mountain light up, and then saw the outline of the cave entrance glowing with gold, so she knew it was dawn.She closed her eyes and opened them again, closed them and opened them again, to wake herself up completely.She got up silently, turned her head to look around, and found that Anka had already left the cave. The cave was spacious and silent, and the land at the edge of the cave was illuminated by the morning light, like a warm wall.Luo Ying stood up gently, raised the corner of her wings, and followed her out of the cave.

Anka stood on the right side of the cave entrance, rubbing his waist with one hand, and silently looked at the distant mountains.The sky is still not very clear, his silhouette is slender, half of his body is hidden in the darkness, half of his body is facing the direction of the sunrise, and the mask reflects a faint light. Seeing Luo Ying, he smiled briskly, and whispered, "It's cold outside, what are you running around for?" He didn't drive Luo Ying back, but stretched out his arms, Luo Ying stood over, and he hugged her from behind. "Are you watching the sunrise?" Luo Ying asked.

Anka nodded and said, "Well. I haven't seen it in years." Luo Ying sighed softly: "I have never seen a real sunrise. I have been to the sea on earth, but I happened to meet a cloud." The breath of day descends little by little.The sky is still dark and dark, but if you look everywhere, you can see the rays of light flourishing.The sun climbed out of the mountains one by one, but it was still hidden behind a mountain peak. You could see the brightness, but you couldn't see the real light source.The valley sheds all the camouflage of night, the gully stretches, and the dust is exposed, like a child curled up and sleeping, forgetting all the violence of the day before.The wind in the early morning was also peaceful. Luo Ying saw the thin silk edge on the belt slightly rising, but she couldn't feel the touch of the wind blowing her body.The light starts to be gorgeous, gold and black alternate with the ups and downs of the mountains, and the large valleys have returned to their usual yellowish brown. The sharp edges of light and shadow draw plump and smooth curves one after another, outlining the majestic pouring from the sky to the earth like mountains and rivers. complicated lines.

"Look." Luo Ying suddenly pointed to the mountain. "What?" Anka looked in the direction of her fingertips. "Mountains. The edges of shadows have shapes." "You mean..." "It was carved by hand." "How could it be?" Anka said while staring closely, "But it's true..." At this time, the entire valley and gully on the south and west sides they faced was illuminated by the rising sun, showing a strange pattern of a huge tree, an upside-down tree from the sky to the ground, and a waterfall on a high mountain. The general tunnels are thick tree trunks, and the thousands of ravines and ravines in the lower part are luxuriant branches. The terrain is natural, but every connection and corner has traces of artificial decoration and carving, which removes the roughness and unnaturalness. Coherent, let the whole mountain become a complete picture.In the early morning sunshine, each hole is dark and round, inlaid among the scattered branches, like a fruitful harvest in autumn.The openings between the branches have also obviously been polished, much smoother than the surrounding irrelevant caves with uneven edges, and the size is also the same. Looking from a distance, they really look like plump fruits one after another.The golden and vast mountains, black giant trees and branches, under the vast and uninhabited sky, have a quiet but shocking impact.Luo Ying and Anka were stunned.

The light moved inch by inch, none of them spoke, their eyes followed the shadows, and as the sun gradually rose, the shadows gradually sank into the valley, and the shape of the tree disappeared bit by bit in the field of vision, from the roots to the trees tip.At the last moment, Luo Ying suddenly pointed at the foot of the mountain and screamed. "That's...an H and an S! It's Grandpa's handwriting." "You mean, these are your grandpas..." "Yes, it must be." "If that's the case, it can be explained. He flew over and carved it from the sky."

"Do you remember that apple?" "Yeah." Anka nodded, "So, this is a commemoration?" "Maybe." Luo Ying was filled with excitement, "But I suddenly thought of another meaning." "What do you mean?" "Didn't we talk about Mars and Earth last night?" Luo Ying said, "I was thinking, maybe one world and the other are both apples, maybe there is no sequential relationship between each other, maybe it's just branches, from Starting from the same trunk." "So the world is an apple," said Anka. They stood, and stood for a long time, until the sun was high and the bright morning came down.The sun shines through the dust and covers the hills, and the disappearing outlines linger in their minds.

Luo Ying's mind suddenly circled some words buried in her heart.She didn't know why the memory of these two days was so good, as if she had buried those words and sentences from the first moment she read them, only waiting for this day to break out of the ground and grow into a big tree.On nights and mornings like these, they flowed naturally and unhindered like tears secreted from sad eyes.She opened her mouth softly and recited in a low voice. "A common distant purpose unites us to our brotherhood, and that is how we live. Life teaches us that love does not consist in mutual gaze, but in two persons looking together in one direction. Only continuous on the same climbing rope , Only those who climb towards the same peak and meet there can be called like-minded people.”

Anka looked at her with a smile in his eyes, but the expression in his eyes was very quiet: "Is this the same book you read last night?" "No." Luo Ying shook her head, "This is "Wind, Sand and Stars." "Wind, sand and stars?" Anka repeated. "Yeah. Wind. Sand. Stars." ※※※ After daybreak, the two of them reconnected the spent accumulators to the wings, and the wings spread flat out over the hole, facing the sun, storing energy for a new day. Not long after Anka turned on the remote communication, he heard Longge's voice, asking them if they heard it and if they woke up.Luo Ying looked towards the bottom of the valley.The ore-breaking ship was slowly coming towards them, swaying, unhurried, with the usual air of not worrying about the sky falling, leaving the col where it stayed at night little by little, and driving to their feet.

Mira’s voice rang through the earphones first: “Did you freeze to death at night? Didn’t you eat or drink? We had a banquet tonight, made a pumpkin cake, and there was Gio wine in the refrigerator. We listened to the music and played Midnight card. Well, Kingsley, what are we doing...” "You are so beautiful," Anka was not angry, "be careful that your nose is so long that it breaks the skylight." Longge carefully asked Anka about the condition of the equipment at hand. When the big ship drove directly below the cave, they saw a small door opened on the turtle shell-like cabin roof, and Longge's head was exposed like a small bean, with a shiny forehead. They waved a small flag from nowhere and pointed to a long pole protruding from the back of the cabin.

"Can you see the net?" "can." "Can you fly down by yourself?" "unbearable." "Then can you jump into that net?" Anka visually checked the distance and the diameter of the net bag: "It's too small. It's too far away." "Then what are you going to do?" "I'll drop an accumulator in a minute. You go ahead." "OK, no problem." "Take it easy," Anka said with a smile to Longe, "if not, let Sorin control it." "You don't believe me again, do you?" Longge grinned again.

Anka started to get busy, Luo Ying looked at him, wondering what she could do to help.The night before, she hadn't worried about the day's departure.But when she was about to leave, she realized that things were not as simple as she imagined.Yesterday when they took off, there was compressed air from their feet, but today the air was almost used up, and they couldn't glide to take off, because the cave was not high enough and not long enough to reach the run-up speed. Luo Ying was surprised to find that Anka was tearing off a pair of wings.The film was carefully torn off from the veins of the wires, but the soft and tough wires were not torn off, but carefully twisted into a long rope, twisting and coiling on the ground into a thick ball.Then he attached an electric accumulator to one end of the rope, and threw the end of the rope into the wind like a sailor on a ship.A stone bag made of thick cotton nets protruded from the stern of the mine ship, swinging from side to side, firmly connecting the accumulator into the cabin. Then Anka wrapped the middle part of the rope around his waist and connected it with the belt. Then, when Luo Ying was not clear, he walked up to her again, and tied the rope around Luo Ying's waist ten meters away, firmly They were fastened and knotted, and a pair of wings were attached to each of the two men's backs.Last night they dismantled a pair of wings to make a greenhouse, and this morning they dismantled another pair and twisted them into ropes, so there are only two pairs of the four pairs of wings left for the two of them. "Look at me for a while," Anka explained to Luo Ying, "Just jump down like I did." Then, he stood on a small open space at the entrance of the cave and waved to Longe, who made a knowing gesture knowingly.A tough flagpole was raised at the end of the mineship on the ground, and one end of the rope was fixed to the pole, and the mineboat began to move slowly. At this time, Anka started to run lightly, jumped out of the platform, followed the direction of the mine ship, and fell obliquely forward.When he passed by Luo Ying, he said with a smile: "You just said, what about the people who are connected to the same rope?" The length of ten meters passed by almost instantly, before Luo Ying had time to exclaim, she jumped out subconsciously.The moment she jumped into the air, her mind went blank.She fell down and slid forward at the same time. The cliffs on both sides of the valley mouth rushed towards her face like huge waves. She fell rapidly, and the earth was getting closer and closer.She couldn't estimate the distance, and didn't dare to move. She felt that she was going to die, and the ground was right in front of her eyes.However, the fall soon slowed down, and the wind bulged the wings on their backs, as if a hidden hand was holding their bodies in the air.Luo Ying's heart calmed down, she gradually got used to it, and felt that it was not so scary anymore.She lowered her head and saw the long string extending from the flagpole, stretched obliquely into the sky like the string of a kite.She became a kite. Luo Ying stretched her hands and feet, no longer worried, followed the traction on her waist, and let herself gallop in the valley.The thin line followed the mining ship, up and down, and left in the farewell of the rock wall.The valley road is not deep, and it is fleeting.Before the texture of the valley can be clearly seen, the golden V-shaped mouth of the valley rushed to the front. "I'll take you this way today," Longe said excitedly. "This is the road we discovered yesterday when we were hiding from the boat." As he said, the boat had passed through the valley and turned into an open area that they had not passed the day before.After that, there was another valley road. It was hard to tell how far it traveled. The boat suddenly turned in one direction and passed a sharp bend. Anka and Luo Ying flew over the rocks. "Won't you be careful?" Anka cried. "Do you know where it was just now?" Longge ignored Anka's accusation, and said loudly, "We saw a stone tablet there, which says Ahn'Qiraj Cliff." "Oh my God!" Luo Ying exclaimed with difficulty against the wind, "Is this the place?" "Yes," said Longo, "this is the place you are looking for!" Luo Ying turned her head in the air, staring at the place she only had time to glance at from a distance, the place where her grandfather was born.It was a valley, and there was a huge stone tablet in the valley.She passed by in an instant, it was far behind her, and the details could not be seen clearly, and it was no different from every canyon and cliff in the distance.It stands there, standing like a posture handed down from thousands of years ago, red and steep, not remembering new life, not remembering death, not remembering the war caused by it, and not remembering the respect offered by human beings.She kept trying to look back, but gradually lost sight of it.It was there in the distance, drifting away from her. She had seen the Vale of Ahn'Qiraj at last. Then, Longge's voice pointed to another area. "Pay attention to the right side for a while." He reported in advance. The Ahn'Qiraj Valley was completely left behind, and they suddenly broke into an empty field. This is also a valley, but it is wider and flatter than yesterday's basin.This valley is very different from yesterday's wasteland. An exquisite metal circular building with a new face is located in the center, crawling like a spider, with its feet firmly planted in the soil. Surrounded by different aircraft, buildings and aircraft have fire emblems on them. "Anka," Luo Ying exclaimed, "this is..." Anka was strangely silent. "Can you see what this place is?" Longge still asked excitedly, "We can't guess it anyway. I've never heard that there is such a place here. It must be a mysterious place. We can go back and have a good time." Let's take a look." Anka remained silent. "Do you have any ideas?" Longge was still asking. "No...no." Luo Ying answered for Anka, her heart gradually sank. The mining ship was still driving fast, and there was no time for worry.Luo Ying was still thinking about it, and a new warning came again. "It's the plain, be careful." Just halfway through Sorin's reminder, their field of vision instantly expanded to infinity. Luo Ying only felt a lift on her waist, and she was pushed to the side.The speed suddenly increased, and the direction suddenly changed, Feiyang's rope was pulled even tighter, Luo Ying raised her gaze in the wind. The sky hangs, the fields are boundless, and the golden land is as vast as the sky.The long line of the boundary between morning and evening extends sharply to the end of the planet, and the yellow sand billows smoke and dust at the boundary between the sky and the earth.The city in the distance can be seen, a little closer, countless circular transparent domes are shining under the sun, like burning clouds on the wasteland, shining brightly on the ocean of yellow sand.The lines of the blue tunnel car spread and twist, and the edges are blurred, as if it is about to float into the sky. At that moment, the city becomes a well in the desert, surrounded by green hopes that attract all eyes.Luo Ying suddenly began to understand the motivation of the Martians to explore.Since she was a child, she has watched many brothers and uncles around her go on long journeys. They rushed into the ore pile with high spirits, they ran to Jupiter, and they manipulated the spaceship to make fancy movements in the vacuum, not just for survival.They set out because there was this city behind them, this transparent light city.It's warm, it's bright, it's safe.It contains the power of sunlight in the desert, and hope in the dryness.As long as they can see the corner of it dimly through the long wind and sand, they have the courage to continue to fly.They could still fight as long as they sat looking at it in the distance in the cold and barren sand.Luo Ying didn't know if she saw it for the last time before her parents died. She thought, if she saw it, the pain would be less. This is the second time that Luo Ying and Anka are flying and dancing on the vast land.The last time I was facing the fiery red sunset, overlooking the city wall-like clouds, but this time I was looking at the cloud-like city under the dark sky.Luo Ying felt that she had also become a cloud, and she didn't need to control or force, but just floated around, left and right, and flew to the distant horizon with the wind. The wild sand was flying, Luo Ying's heart was empty, and her wings were flying in the wind. ※※※ Mars has no clouds.The yellow sand raised billows of smoke and dust.The people gathered in the meeting hall looked anxiously into the distance. The hall is a rectangular and semicircular plane structure, and the glass on the ground has marble patterns.There are four carved pillars on both sides of the rectangle. The pillars are tall and shaped like the stone pillars of Greek temples. Between the pillars stands a huge bronze statue with a battle flag hanging behind the bronze statue.A golden podium is placed in the small semi-circular hall, on which a circular Mars emblem is engraved, and "Mars, my home" is written in seventy-five languages ​​below. The arc wall behind the podium is a huge screen. At this time, the sand under the sun is displayed on the screen. Four huge ships are lined up solemnly, waiting for the battle. The silver-white shell reflects a little light. final preparations.The sky is billowing with cloud-like yellow sand. Hans stood on the podium, calming down the tension of the crowd with his quiet voice.The low-pitched conversations of the crowd never stopped, sometimes surging like depressing sea water, sometimes churning like restless waves, the heels of their shoes hitting the ground back and forth, and the crisp sound was like dense drumbeats. The assembled people are so addicted to anxiety that they are desensitized to the images on the screen.The yellow clouds in the sky rolled closer and closer, and few people realized what this meant in time.The vulnerable mothers gathered together and wiped their eyes with small handkerchiefs, and the fathers confronted Hans over and over again, urging a more effective and effective large-scale search. It wasn't until the gray-brown mining ship approached and the children's dancing figures were clearly discernible that the parents in the hall gradually understood and gathered in front of the screen. The hall was eerily silent.An uneasy silence hung in the air, and no one wanted to break it.People gradually opened their mouths. This silence lasted until the children jumped in.Their laughter echoed in the hall all the way from the outside to the inside, very clear and sharp. "...How did you drive it just now? Are you drunk?" "Do you have a brain? The wind is blowing sideways, if I didn't drive like that, you would have fallen!" When they came in, they took big strides, their eyebrows and eyes were so excited that they seemed to fly to the sky, and they took off their helmets and visors as they walked, shaking their hair vigorously, like a gust of wind bringing a burst of sunshine.However, they soon saw the parents in the hall, their voices immediately lowered, their footsteps quickly became small and cautious, their arms loosened, and their figures involuntarily stood upright. The solemnity in the hall is like a calm wall, gently disarming all the wind.They stopped, stood in the middle of the hall, looked at each other, and no one spoke anymore.The adults stood around on both sides, and some mothers rushed forward, but were held by the arms of the more calm fathers.A transparent stalemate froze in the hall. At this time, Hans stood on the podium and cleared his throat, cutting the anxiety in the air with a blunt knife-like voice.His eyes are calm, and his straight nose is like a knife, suppressing the tiredness brought out by his hair and wrinkles. "First of all, we are very happy that each of you can come back safely," he said solemnly to the children. "Your talent and courage have been fully verified during this trip. However, I would also like to invite You are mindful of the impact your actions have on others, and your parents and teachers are very concerned about this completely unreported and irresponsible travel." Hans stopped for a moment, looking at them, then at their parents.There was no sound in the hall, and he noticed that many people's fingers were lightly clenched. "Growing from a smart teenager to a mature adult, the most important thing is to learn to be responsible for your actions." Hans continued, "This time the behavior violated the city safety law, went out of the city illegally, and stole the permit. , causing a huge threat to the personal and national security of the person concerned, and if it causes adverse consequences, it will be unimaginable. Such willful behavior should be punished even by young students. As a necessary education for future rational citizens, a certain degree of punishment is a matter of course. "However, in view of the fact that all the teenagers who participated in this matter came from the study abroad mission on Earth, and some incidents in the process of studying abroad have not been properly explained, which caused a great imbalance in the psychology of the teenagers, so I declare: the teenagers will only be quarantined for one Monthly acceptance of guidance and education, exempt from other due responsibilities. "At the same time, I hope to take this opportunity to explain some historical events. In the Earth-Mars transaction two years ago, the students of the Mercury cluster were indeed taken as hostages in the negotiations without knowing it. This is our Mistake, and here I offer my most humble apologies to all members." After Hans finished speaking, he bowed to all the children on the stage.Everyone in the audience was stunned, including adults and children.Before, the Mercury cluster had imagined various possible outcomes and confrontations of this matter, but did not expect this scene. "But I want you to believe that studying abroad in itself is not a political deposit. I hope you can believe it." Hans saw the children start whispering, and as he had predicted, doubts spread.He pretended not to have seen it, and continued to say calmly: "In this incident, the relevant adult supervisors must take corresponding responsibilities and accept punishment. The first person to be punished was Warren Sanghis, who was on duty at the exit gate in Aru District. Due to slack in work and failure to perform their duties, people who should not have left the country have left the country. Therefore, from now on, they will be transferred to the mine ship storage center for full-time maintenance and repair work, and the deadline is to be determined. "The second person who needs to be punished is Dr. Renee from the First Hospital of Saliro District. He helped the teenagers master the key information of history, bionics, and biological sensing, and he knew the teenagers' plans, but he failed Good guidance, supervision, and dissuasion are serious dereliction of duty. He should have been severely punished, but in view of the fact that there was no major accident in the end, the punishment was reduced. I announce the decision: order Dr. Rainey to leave the current laboratory and be transferred to the archives , to assist administrators in taking care of historical archives, and they are not allowed to hold scientific research and teaching positions without approval. It will be implemented from now on.” After Hans finished speaking, he looked around the crowd, and his gaze stayed on Luo Ying's astonished face for a while.Then, he stepped away from the side door of the hall and never came back, keeping the teenager's commotion and parents' concern and scolding behind him.