Before leaving, Officer Wu asked the waiter to bring dinner to Anna's room.

Anna didn't eat a bite. Tears dried and flowed, and flowed and dried.

For a whole night, she didn't close her eyes for a moment, just waiting for news in the dark with her eyes open. The slightest movement in the hallway outside, a cough, or the sound of footsteps would make her feel like the end of the world was coming.

However, there is no news.

The next morning, there was a sudden sound of hurried footsteps in the hallway outside the door. It sounds like it's coming towards this room. Anna's heartbeat, tormented by anxiety and fear all night, rushed over and pulled the door open.

Standing outside the door landed Xiao Lin.

Lu Xiaolin's eyes were also red and swollen, looking like she had just cried, as soon as she saw Anna, her eyes turned red again, and she rushed towards Anna like a child, hugged her and cried again.

Anna held back her tears, took Lu Xiaolin to sit on the edge of the bed, let her hold herself and cry, and comforted her in a low voice.

Lu Xiaolin cried for a while, raised her head with teary eyes, and choked up: "Sister Anna, my brother will be fine, right? He told you that he would be back in three months......, right?

Uncontrollably tears rolled down Anna's eyes again, and she sniffed.

"Yes, he promised me. Don't worry. He'll be back soon. ”

Lu Xiaolin stopped talking, only cried silently, and when her mood finally stabilized, she told Anna that she only learned the news last night. Her father didn't want to inform her, but it was Hualan who called to tell her. She rushed to Lu Hang to find Director Tian, and learned that Anna had come, so she looked for her.

"Sister Anna, I'm so scared...... In case my brother doesn't come back......"

Lu Xiaolin's tears rolled down again.

Anna held back the great fear and helplessness in her heart because of Lu Xiaolin's words, and hugged Lu Xiaolin tightly.

"No, it won't. Trust me, I know he's going to be back!"

……

The day passed, and another night fell.

It's the third day Anna has been here.

Lu Xiaolin had been with Anna for the first two days, and left first in the afternoon, saying that she would go home to accompany her father. Before leaving, he repeatedly told Anna to eat something, saying that she had eaten almost nothing in the past two days, and if she continued like this, people would not be able to stand it.

In the past three days, Anna has made an unknown number of phone calls to Lu Airlines. At the beginning, Director Tian still answered, but it was still the same sentence, and she waited patiently. Then no one was found.

After Lu Xiaolin left, Anna rushed to the Army Aviation Academy again, but was told that Director Bai Tian had left the academy.

As if abandoned by the whole world, Anna returned to the guest house in despair, and finally couldn't help it, and mustered up the courage to go to the main desk of the guest house and call home.

It was Xiao Yu who answered the phone. As soon as she heard her mother's voice, Anna couldn't hold back anymore and choked up into the microphone.

Xiao Yu on the other end of the phone was startled and hurriedly asked what happened.

said that Lu Zhongjun may have had an accident and will never come back. Such a sentence now seems to have become a dagger that pierces her heart, and she is afraid that a word will become a prophecy, and she doesn't even have the courage to say it.

“…… It's nothing......" Anna held back her sobs, "I just miss you guys a little...... So made a call...... It's okay...... I'm fine...... I hung up first......"

Anna hung up the phone, and under the surprised gaze of the person next to her, she returned to the room with tears in her eyes, and could no longer support it, and threw herself on the bed, and the tears began to flow silently.

In the past two days, when Lu Xiaolin was there, she had been holding back her emotions to comfort her, and she didn't dare to show too much sadness at all, for fear that her emotions would make Lu Xiaolin more anxious.

Now there are no scruples. There's no one else on the side.

She didn't want to think about everything related to Lu Zhongjun in the past. But in his mind, it was like a projector, constantly flashing frame by frame of images related to him.

The first time they met, she crouched on the ground in confusion and helplessness, his attitude was extremely cold, even a little rude......

She came out of the student's home visit, took his car on the way, and on the night at the base station, he and Lao Ding talked and laughed. His smile across the fire gave her a sense of déjà vu......

The night before he was to leave, his car hit the pigsty of a roadside house, and the car was detained, and under the bright moonlight, he carried her on his back, and ordered her this and that in his usual domineering and pampered tone......

Later they got together. Every time we meet after a long absence, it's crazy and passionate to do love. Every kiss he had imprinted on her skin, every touch, until this moment, seemed to remain in the memory of every pore of her skin, and whenever she thought about it, she couldn't help but palpitate.

- She remembers every detail of their time together, clearly.

……

Anna curled herself up in a tight ball on the bed. It's as if that's how warm he feels when he's next to him.

There were no lights on in the room. She cried in the dark, and kept crying. Finally crying until she was tired, her voice was hoarse, the whole person was exhausted, all the anxiety, worry, and fear that had accumulated for a few days gradually seemed to float away, and her consciousness slowly began to blur, and she finally fell asleep in a daze.

It's like a nightmare, and it's real. In the middle of the night, suddenly, there was a rapid knock on the door in her ears.

She snapped her eyes open.

It was still pitch black, and the knocking on the door continued.

Someone is really coming. Not her dreams.

"Anna! I'm back!"

A familiar voice then came to her ears.

The voice of Lu Zhongjun!

Anna's heart swelled suddenly, and the blood in her heart, which had seemed to have condensed, instantly revived with the sound. His heart beat faster, he jumped up from the bed, and when he went down, he didn't have time to turn on the light, and his foot tripped over a floor-to-ceiling hanger on the side, and the shelf was hooked down in a slump, and Anna also tripped and fell to the ground.

"Anna, what's wrong with you!"

Outside the door, Lu Zhongjun heard the movement in the room, and became even more anxious, twisted the lock hard, and wanted to break it in.

Anna didn't feel any pain at all when a person fell to the ground. She seemed to be floating in an unbelievable dream, and without a moment's pause, she got up from the ground, rushed over and opened the door.

Borrowing a light from the corner of the hallway, Anna saw a man with a familiar silhouette appear in her sight.

She opened her eyes wide and looked at the real person opposite.

"I'm back!"

Lu Zhongjun opened his arms and hugged her tightly in his arms.

Anna was barefoot, the soles of her feet stepped on the cold floor tiles, and she froze in place as if she had taken root, allowing Lu Zhongjun to hold her tightly, but she was like a piece of wood, motionless.

Lu Zhongjun held her tightly in his arms, and the kiss began to fall on her forehead and face like raindrops.

His lips were so dry that they looked like they had peeled off their skin. Finally, when he kissed her cold lips and called her name, Anna seemed to finally react, and suddenly pushed him away with all her strength.

Lu Zhongjun was defenseless at all, and was pushed back a few steps by her, only then did he stabilize his body.

"Anna, what's wrong with you?" he walked over to her again, holding out his arm, "It's me! I told you I'd be back!

With a "snap", Anna raised her hand and slapped him.

Lu Zhongjun was stunned for a moment, but his arm did not stop, he stretched out and hugged her in his arms again.

"Lu Zhongjun, you damn guy!"

Tears suddenly welled up again in Anna's already dry eyes, and she hoarsely raised her hand to push him desperately, preventing him from holding her.

"Get out of here! You don't want to come back to me again! I don't want to see you in front of me!"

Lu Zhongjun fell silent and hugged her even tighter.

Anna couldn't break free of his arms like iron pincers, and finally gave up, crying as she clenched her fists and beat him indiscriminately, opening her mouth to bite him on the shoulder.

Lu Zhongjun never said a word, just hugged her tightly like that, and let her vent her emotions in his arms, until her fists that fell on her chest gradually became weak, and the sobbing began to become intermittent, and suddenly carried her to the bed, and he lay down beside her, his chapped lips kissed her tear-stained cheeks, and finally moved to her ear and whispered: "I know you're tired." I am back. I'm right next to you. You can sleep and wake up and everything will be fine. ”

He lay on his side beside her, holding her like that, patting her on the back like a child.

Anna curled up in his arms, quieting down, but her hands still gripped his arms, sobbing and sobbing, until she finally closed her eyes slowly.

After a long time, feeling that the person in his arms had fallen asleep, Lu Zhongjun finally gently pulled out his arm, which was a little numb from her pillow, and turned on the lamp.

The dim light of the table lamp filled the originally dim space, and also illuminated half of her side face in her sleep.

Her face was pale and haggard, her already pointed chin was now even sharper, a few locks of black hair were messily glued to her cheeks and forehead, and her small face was covered with tears, and even her eyelashes were stained with tears. Even in her sleep, her two originally delicate brows were furrowed, as if she was experiencing some terrible dream.

Lu Zhongjun's eyes looked down at Anna, who was lying beside him at this moment, with great pity and pity. After a long time, he helped her put the quilt together, got out of bed lightly, turned off the lamp, opened a window in the corner, sat down on a chair in front of the windowsill, put his legs on the windowsill, and took out a pack of cigarettes from his pocket.

……

Anna slept deeply, and when she woke up, her mind was blank for a moment, and she didn't know where she was. Lying on the pillow for a few seconds, a scene from last night suddenly flashed, his heartbeat accelerated suddenly, and he opened his eyes suddenly, facing the familiar eyes.

In the pale morning light, Lu Zhongjun sat next to her. His eyes were bloodshot, his cheeks were blue stubble, and he looked down at her with a gentle smile in his eyes.

Anna lay on the pillow like this, staring at him blankly, her eyes that were still red and swollen slowly became sour again, and suddenly stretched out her arms and stretched out to him to hug him.

Lu Zhongjun immediately leaned over and hugged her, his arms ran through the back of her neck and long hair, held her entire head, and lowered his head to kiss her on the lips.

Anna opened her lips and wrangled his tongue to him, kissing him.

He had the salty smell of tobacco mixed with seawater.

Kiss and kiss, Anna suddenly cried again, sobbed, and wrapped her arms around his neck.

Lu Zhongjun released her lips.

"Lu Zhongjun, I'm scared...... I thought you were really dead and never coming back...... You can't imagine my fear these days. I'm really scared ......."

Tears rolled down her cheeks and down her ears, wetting the hair and pillow behind her ears.

Lu Zhongjun stared at her teary-eyed face, raised his hand and used his fingertips to gently wipe the tears that were still rolling down.

"Anna, before leaving, didn't I promise you that I would give you an answer when I returned? ”

Anna looked at him with wide eyes.

"I decided to quit the test pilot in the future and not accept any more unusual tasks. ”

He said in a tone that sounded very relaxed.

Anna froze, looking at him with tears in her eyes.

Lu Zhongjun smiled slightly.

"Aren't you happy? I really promised you this time. It's not like before, you say yes, but in fact it's just perfunctory to you. ”

……

He promised her that he would not be a test pilot again!

That's exactly what she's been asking him to do.

Now he finally nodded. She also knew that he would do what he said.

But I don't know why, at the moment she is not in the mood as much as she should be.

Anna slowly sat up from the bed.

"Lu Zhongjun, you really ......"

She asked for a half-sentence and stopped.

Lu Zhongjun stood up from the edge of the bed, walked to the open window, and looked out of the window for a moment.

There was an empty pack of cigarette cases on the windowsill, and a dozen long and short cigarette butts were thrown on the ground at his feet, as if he had stopped in front of the windowsill for a long time last night.

Lu Zhongjun suddenly turned his head and said with a smile: "Anna, I don't seem to have told you about my experience when I first flew in the clouds independently. Actually, I didn't tell anyone. Because it doesn't sound very heroic. That was many years ago. ”

He paused, as if caught up in the memories of the past.

“…… I was very young then. He continued, "I remember it wasn't going to be very good that day, and the forecast was for a possible thunderstorm. But my comrades-in-arms and I still took off in turn according to the predetermined plan. I ascended along the cloud-piercing route taught by the instructor before takeoff, but when I reached the predetermined altitude of 5,000 meters, I found that there were no clouds, and there were still clouds around me, and I could not see where my comrades were. I was a little nervous at that time. But he could only bite the bullet and continue to fly, and before he knew it, he flew to an altitude of 13,000 meters. At this moment, the cumulonimbus clouds outside the cockpit twisted and deformed around me like a black cotton mass, as if they were about to swallow me up, and the ice crystals in the cloud kept beating and hitting the body, and I could even hear a very clear rustling sound like fried beans. I'm even more nervous......"

Anna held her breath nervously as she listened to him describe his experience in a nonchalistic tone.

“…… Just when I was nervous, suddenly, I noticed that the data of all the pneumatic instruments dropped sharply, and the speed suddenly fell to less than half Mach, I was very panicked, thinking that the plane had malfunctioned and stalled, and subconsciously pushed it forward. Later I learned that this was a very wrong operation. After I pushed, the plane began to fall sharply like a stone, but the speed did not rise. I was overwhelmed and my heart was beating very hard. I thought I was going to die, on the first independent flight. But just as the plane fell below 10,000 meters, the speed suddenly returned to normal. So I escaped with my life. ”

"I later learned that it was only the ice crystals in the clouds at high altitude that affected the flight data. That's how I also passed by death. That adventure was the first adventure in my flying career, and after that time, no matter what accidents I encountered, I no longer felt the slightest fear and hesitation, and I began to enjoy flying, even the excitement of conquest in addition to the mission that flying in various extreme conditions can bring me. ”

Anna stared at him in a daze.

"But Anna, this time is different from the previous ones. ”

Lu Zhongjun was silent for a moment, and then suddenly said.

He was still standing on the windowsill, his gaze falling on Anna's face, meeting hers.

"There was an accident on this mission, and I escaped into the sea with a catapult bag equipped with suspended objects before the landline exploded and crashed into the sea, and I floated on the surface of the sea for a day. Maybe God wouldn't let me die, but as luck would have it, I was pushed by the changing currents to a small reef that I couldn't find on the map. I waited on the island for a few days and was rescued, and the first thing that came to my mind after boarding the helicopter was that I missed my appointment and didn't come back on time as promised. ”

Anna burst into tears again.

Lu Zhongjun walked back to her and hugged her tightly in his arms again.

"In addition to mission and conquest, I now have one more you in my life. Maybe it's time for me to reposition myself in the future. ”

Anna's eyes blurred with tears and she looked up at him.

"Lu Zhongjun, won't you regret it in the future?" she choked up.

"Maybe I'll regret it too......" he said slowly.

Anna was stunned.

Lu Zhongjun suddenly smiled at her, leaned into her ear and whispered, "...... It's up to you to perform in the future. Remember, I'm all for you. Be kind to me in the future!"

Anna was stunned, then reacted, burst into laughter, and slammed his fists hard at him.

"Hey, is there a person like you, your man escaped death so easily, you either beat or scolded, you are so good to me-"

Anna bit her lip and reached out her little white hand to touch the patch of cyan stubble on his face that was a little prickly on his face as a sign of reassurance.

Lu Zhongjun took the opportunity to catch her fingers and bite them, and said vaguely: "I haven't smelled your meat for several months...... Miss me...... Don't think I stink, I'm going to eat you right now—"

Anna, supple as a little sheep, was pressed to the pillow by him.

The two were kissing in a daze, and suddenly there was a knock on the door.

"Anna, are you in there?"

Xiao Yu came through the door with an anxious voice.