After talking to Sakura, Hugo sat alone in the living room. With everyone busy all night, the curtains around the living room were not fully opened, so that the room felt dim.

Hugo looked at the curtains that blocked his vision, and his mind was thinking.

This Yuanshan apartment is actually the private property of the people, and even if they defect from the Manken Society, they still belong to the property in the legal sense of the present world. But the Manken Society is still headquartered here like a dove occupying a magpie's nest. I wonder if this is a demonstration or a provocation.

And although many people know who is in the Yuanshan Apartment, no one has ever come here to find trouble, as if they are reserving the last bottom line for the Manyan Society.

But which side will show mercy to the enemy?

"What the hell are you people going on?"

Hugo slowly closed his eyes, and although he did not fall asleep again, his brain fell into a state of light sleep.

At this time, Hugo suddenly remembered the last time he lived with Tsuneyoshi in a military fortress many years ago.

...

"Hugo!"

Tsunekishi's cries echoed through the military fortresses, and the empty underground cities echoed Hugo's name.

After a long time, Hugo's voice also responded.

"Here we are..."

After about fifteen minutes, Hugo walked into an empty hall, which was flickering with only a few energy-saving devices with not a high wattage, but the light it released was like tomorrow in the underground fortress where he could not see his fingers.

Hugo sat down at a wooden table with a miniature music player from which beautiful piano music slowly flowed.

Hugo didn't have any emotion for the melodious music in the dark, but still shouted: "Changji, what are you going to eat tonight?"

"Your favorite curry, of course. As the words fell, Chang Yoshi had already walked out with two white dinner plates.

"It's curry again, even Indians don't eat curry as much as we do. Hugo complained dissatisfied.

Tsuneyoshi shrugged his shoulders after placing the plate on the table and said, "What are you complaining about? ”

After that, he raised his nose and sniffed the curry-scented food, and then frowned and said, "I'm really tired of eating it." ”

Then Chang Ji picked up the spoon and said, "But what can be done? Our current environment is not as good as that of Indians, although the population of more than a billion people there has overcrowded the whole country, but at least no one will die alone, and look at you and me, it is simply two living dead people living in the ground." ”

Hugo put the rice dipped in the curry sauce into his mouth and said, "Who told you not to go out, you can't see the sun here." ”

Tsuneyoshi said: "What if I see the sun? What else does the sun have besides giving me some ultraviolet radiation? Is it bright? Please, I can't think of anyone in this universe who can make me feel light, and the temperature of the sun is not even as good as this plate of curry rice for me." ”

"If you can remove curry from our list of recent foods, then you can feel something more warm," Hugo said. ”

Chang Ji sighed and said, "Okay, I'll try to change the recipe tomorrow." Then he sighed and said, "But I think we can't get rid of the curry this time." ”

"Although there is enough food to feed us for nearly a thousand years, the variety is limited, and potatoes, rice, instant meat and curry cubes are the most we have. And the storage time of these things is also limited, and after 50 years, more than 80% of the food here will expire. ”

Hugo frowned and said, "If you tell me that you have to eat curry for fifty years, then I really want to die." ”

"Look at your appearance. Chang Ji pursed his lips and said.

Then the two began to eat silently, playing the soothing piano sound beside them.

When the two finished eating, the piano music also came to an abrupt end, and it was not known whether it was the program settings or the player's battery had run out, and it did not continue to play the next song.

Tsuneyoshi was the first to finish his food, and then he watched Hugo eat. When he watched as he swallowed the last bite of rice on the plate, Chang Ji suddenly said, "Hugo, have you ever thought about the future?" ”

Hugo raised his eyes to Chang Ji and said, "Do you think we have any future?"

Chang Ji's eyes widened and said, "Of course, of course we have a future. Whoever is alive has a future. ”

Hugo shook his head and said, "That's the rest of our lives, not the future." ”

Chang Ji rolled his eyes and said, "I can't see that you are still chewing words in front of me at a young age." Was it influenced by the recent reading of "The World as Will and Appearance?"

Hugo shrugged his shoulders and said, "I've been reading comics, anime, and movies about superheroes lately, and I'm not going to be affected by The World as Will and Appearance, in my eyes Schopenhauer is not enough. ”

Chang Ji pursed his lips and said, "It's not a small tone at a young age. After that, he tilted his head and thought for a moment, "Superhero comics? ”

Victor Hugo said: "Classics will always be handed down." ”

Chang Ji said: "Schopenhauer is a classic. ”

Hugo insisted: "Schopenhauer was just a madman. ”

After the two of them quarreled for a while, Chang Ji said: "Okay, we won't quarrel about those dead people now, let's talk about some things in the future." ”

"If it is said that in 50 years the food in this military granary will be expired and deteriorated, and the facilities will also deteriorate, and the situation will be very bad, if it does not go well, maybe the number will be even smaller than in 50 years. And at that time you..."

Hugo interrupted Chang Ji and said, "What are you going to do at that time?"

Chang Ji was stunned for a moment when he heard this, and then smiled: "That's not something I have to think about, I have been completely ancient in fifty years, maybe the moss on the tombstone is as thick as a cashmere carpet." ”

Hugo nodded and said calmly: "Then do you think I will still be alive at that time?"

Chang Ji was completely speechless when he heard this, and after a long time, his voice was a little choked and whispered: "But you were still very young at that time..."

"There are no young and old people on the Huangquan Road, you and I understand this truth. Hugo's tone was far from that of a teenager.

Chang Ji closed his eyes in pain, and then said, "Hugo, you don't want this. That's not what I want to see. ”

Hugo said: "It doesn't matter what you want to see. After that, Hugo also stopped his body and said to Chang Ji: "We have enough supplies in our hands to use it for fifty years, what are you worried about? Do you think that this place will not change in fifty years?"

Chang Ji pondered for a long time and said, "I'm not sure about this. ”

"I don't know exactly what Higashishima has been going through so far, or why, but I can sense from the Tsukishima military who tried to kill me that we have been completely abandoned by this world. ”

"In their eyes, we're not survivors, but... It is a monster that has changed overnight! Only by destroying us can the world be safe and peaceful. ”

Speaking of this, an unusual anger flashed in Changyoshi's eyes, and after nearly seven years of baptism, this inner anger still did not dissipate in Changji's heart. Hugo's reaction to this was very calm, and he just looked at Tsuneyoshi silently.

Chang Ji said: "I don't know how the Tsukishima government and the military explain it to the outside world, but now that this place is completely closed off, the biggest possibility is that there was a nuclear leak here, this excuse is the most panicked and avoided, after all, there are too many bloody lessons in history." And if it really turned out to be as I expected, then it would not be enough for the East Island to be sealed for a century. ”

Hugo nodded and said, "You can see it very clearly. ”

Chang Ji smiled bitterly: "This kind of understanding really makes people want to cry without tears." ”

Hugo was silent for a long time and then suddenly said, "I'm not interested in this world. After a pause, Hugo said: "I have forgotten a lot of things from my childhood, and I can't remember a trace of them for so many years. ”

"I don't know why, but I don't care. What I have now is my life. ”

"As you say, the world has abandoned us, and I don't want to pay attention to the world, let alone the people in it. I have no intention of communicating with him, let alone getting acquainted with him. Now this place is all I have, and those food and books are my last nostalgia for this world. They are my last nostalgia for life. Except, of course, curry. ”

After that, Hugo stood up and said to Chang Ji: "So you don't have to worry about me, you and I may not be the first to leave this world." ”

Looking at Hugo's figure disappearing into the darkness, Changji's face showed an unusual solemnity.

...

A burst of passionate jazz music sounded, and the sound of cheerful music instantly burst into Hugo's mind. Hugo sat up as if he had been electrocuted, and his palm had subconsciously slipped under the pillow and grasped the handle of the dagger.

"Good morning, little lazy!"

Chang Ji appeared in front of Hugo, happily stretched his arms and shouted to Hugo.

Hugo, who was still in a hazy sleep, looked at Chang Ji in front of him in a daze, and after a while, his palm slipped off the hilt of the knife, and then said to Chang Ji in a daze: "What are you doing again?"

Chang Ji said happily: "Of course I'm waking you up." My soldiers, the sun had come out completely thirty minutes ago. ”

Hugo said: "What does it have to do with me that the sun can't come out? ”

Chang Ji said: "This is a bad statement, as the saying goes, why sleep for a long time before death, and sleep forever after death." At the beginning of a new day, of course, we must also have a new state to welcome. ”

Hugo wondered, "Are there hallucinogenic drugs here?"

Chang Ji shrugged his shoulders and said, "I was so lively before, but you didn't notice it." ”

Chang Ji exclaimed, Hugo's sleepiness had completely subsided, he grabbed his hair fiercely with his hand, and then said: "Okay, okay, Chang Ji, let's open the skylight and say something, what do you want to do?"

Chang Ji smiled and said loudly: "Let's do something interesting today, let's go camping!"

...

In front of Hugo was a huge pulley box, into which Tsuneyoshi was placing the same ingredients and items, while chattering endlessly.

"You can't imagine how excited I was when I found out that there was a store of beer here, and I really couldn't imagine that there was such a thing stored here. At that time, I thought that no matter how many preservatives were in this beer, I would drink it in one go. ”

Hugo raised an eyebrow and said, "Do you still need beer for camping?"

Chang Ji stopped his movements and looked at Hugo, then pursed his lips and showed a sad expression.

"God, look at this poor little fellow who has read so many books but doesn't know what to bring for camping. ”

Hugo said: "You are not a believer, and I have never seen you expect, what are you thinking about God?"

Chang Ji said: "No way, at this time, I have to find a third party to complain to you." I was supposed to speak to Ridley Scott, but I'm sure he couldn't hear me. ”

Hugo said: "Well, I can understand what you said, but what I don't understand is why you have to go to something on a whim... Camping!"

"Life, Hugo, that's life. ”

Tsuneyoshi said to Hugo in a sophisticated tone.

"We can say that the most unfortunate man in the world, abandoned by God and the world, but fortunately we are still very wealthy, we have a treasure trove of food, and we have a large empty city as a back garden, and believe me, there is not even a king in the history of mankind who can do this. ”

"And we don't have any social responsibility on top of such a huge fortune, and there is no legal clause that can bind us. We are only the people of absolute freedom above the Promised Land. And as free people, don't we, stay in this dark underground fortress every day, and bind ourselves to an invisible cell?

"So we have to change, we have to enjoy our unfortunate but unique life to the fullest. ”

Hugo said helplessly: "What a madman." ”

"Staying in this place for a long time makes people crazy, but the most I do every day is talk to my own echo." With that, Chang Ji let out a few loud screams, and there was an echo in the empty underground space.

Looking at Hugo, who was still lacking in interest, Chang Ji finally made a move.

"If you go out with me for a picnic today, we'll have a hearty barbecue, otherwise you'll have curry with me for the rest of the week, three times a day, you choose. ”