The morning sun floats, flickering as stratus clouds fade in. At this moment, Higashishima has entered the winter season, because most of Tsukishima is in the temperate tropics, so it is difficult to see snowflakes here, but the exhaled breath can already form a frost mist.

Hugo and Chang Ji climbed up from the mouth of the underground water line, and they didn't breathe fresh air for a long time, and Hugo only felt that the cold air was like fairy dew directly into his heart and lungs.

"Phew, after being a gopher for so long, I finally came out to breathe. Chang Ji breathed a long sigh of relief, and a happy smile appeared on his emaciated face.

Hugo looked around, although it was an unfamiliar landscape, but it was also a desolate ruin, perhaps the only thing left in common on the East Island.

"Where do we go next?" asked Hugo.

Chang Ji looked up at the newborn Ming Sun in the east and said: "To the north, the military grain depot is located in the northern region of the East Island, and now we have no GPS navigation and no compass, so we can only rely on the sun as the coordinates." But rest assured, navigation instruments can be wrong, and the only thing that doesn't change is the moving celestial body. ”

Hugo nodded, paused for a moment and said, "Where is the Stone Forest?"

Chang Ji glanced at Hugo, hesitated for a moment, and said, "To the south, it's more than half an hour to walk." ”

Hugo nodded, and Chang Ji said in a low voice, "Do you want to go and see it?"

Hugo thought for a moment and said, "What happened to their corpses?"

Chang Ji said: "I can take you away that night is already the limit, and I don't have time to think about the corpse." I think that the Tsukishima military will send people to search and take care of the battlefield later, after all, they also lost a few mechs in the stone forest. If not, I'm afraid that in the past half a month, it will be a wilderness of violent corpses, and now there are only carrion corpses left. ”

Hugo nodded, then turned north and said, "Let's go, hurry as soon as possible, and arrive as soon as possible." ”

Chang Ji hesitated for a moment and said to Hugo, "Are you sure you don't want to take a look? ”

Hugo shook his head and said, "Let the past pass after all, it's useless to read it." With that, he took the lead and walked out to the north.

Chang Ji sighed lightly, glanced at the south and said softly, "Everyone, goodbye." ”

It is not only to say goodbye to the deceased companion, but also to say goodbye to the lost time.

...

Before the dawn dawns, the light spreads on the earth.

Hugo walked among the rubble and rubble with his equipment backpack, although he had been away from the East Island for three years, but he was not the slightest stranger to everything on the East Island, and all the bricks and tiles were vividly remembered in Hugo's heart.

Instinctively, Hugo had come to the ruins of the "Stone Forest", which was the first stop he had to go to the East Island.

The stone forest has not changed much because of the passage of time, and the difference from seven years ago is that the dust on the rubble has become thicker.

Standing on the outside of the "Stone Forest", Hugo stopped for a long time, and finally walked inside. There are some things that you can't escape on your own. Seven years ago, Hugo chose to avoid it, and today he wants to make up for the regrets of that year.

The "Stone Forest" is full of rubble, and the abandoned collapsed buildings have long been unable to see their original shape, just like a mountain of waste rocks.

Hugo was walking along the gravel road, and he felt slightly unfamiliar with the place. On that night seven years ago, Hugo had been running all the way by the dazzling light of the fire with the sound of a huge explosion, and he had not paid any attention to the scene around him, but now the scene appeared in the morning light, but he was a little confused.

Hugo stood down, placed his backpack on the ground, and then closed his eyes slightly and quietly realized.

The cool breeze of the morning flowed around him, like a group of invisible elves dancing in the air.

Hugo felt the flow of the morning breeze, felt the familiarity brought to him by the "stone forest", and in the darkness, there were bursts of voices calling for him to march somewhere.

Hugo opened his eyes and walked towards an abandoned stone path.

Finally a spacious area appeared ahead, with relatively little rubble, but the traces of the fierce battle could be faintly seen on the ground. Hugo stood still, looked at the empty field in front of him, and a voice in his heart was telling him - this is it!

Hugo looked around carefully, and saw no mecha wreckage or rotting bones other than the ruins.

Hugo exhaled softly, and the heart that had just been turbulent gradually calmed down. I can't imagine how I would feel if there had been no change here for seven years, and when I saw the same scene as seven years ago.

Hugo's mind resurfaced Dicard's face, the final place of death of the man who formed the original sin, sacrificed the survivors of the East Island while trying to protect the survivors, and turned out to be an unrealistic otherworld. Speaking of which, I don't know if his life is rated as a legend or should be said to be sad.

Hugo set his eyes on a location in the clearing, remembering that it was the real place where Hugo died, where he received his name, and where he was born.

"I'm back. Hugo whispered.

This goodbye was seven years too late.

Hugo bowed down and sat down slowly in the place where Hugo died, and the ground below him was cool, but Hugo's heart felt very warm. There are no happy memories for Hugo here, but compared to the intrigue in the outside world, Hugo feels that the eerie East Island is more pure, and the people who once existed here have no other superfluous desires, and all they look forward to every day is to live well.

However, for such a humble request, the world does not give.

Fingers brushed the ground, and Hugo's eyes became colder and colder. Dicar, Andrew and others all died here, but Hugo did not feel the pleasure of revenge. On the contrary, this is the beginning of one's own hatred.

Tsukishima, the world.

It is absolutely unforgivable that those who live outside the East Island without experiencing the horror of the Day of Destruction raise their butcher knives against the innocent survivors of the East Island.

Hugo is only scratching the tip of the iceberg about the truth of the past, but Hugo believes that the rest of the truth is about to come out.

"Don't worry, I will avenge you, this blood debt must be paid off!"

Hugo whispered, then leaned over and kissed lightly on the ground.

When he looked up, Hugo suddenly noticed several broken stones in front of him, and the front of the stones was empty. Hugo thought about it carefully, and remembered that the music remembered that the position was a high stone platform, but the stone platform at this moment was also destroyed.

When the real thing is not human.

And who broke it?