At five o'clock the next morning, we got on the truck to the city. We sat in the back of the car and the old man looked at us. It's just that he kept looking around, and from time to time he fired a few shots into the trees in the distance.

After driving for half an hour, I faintly heard some strange sounds, and then the sound gradually became louder, and then a small thing appeared in the distant sky, and there seemed to be a membrane floating in the air on the top of my head, and then the thing got closer and closer, only to realize that the membrane was connected to that thing.

All three of us were curious about it, but the mercenaries weren't so calm. The mercenary sitting in the passenger seat took a machine gun and fired furiously at the flying object, but it didn't seem to work. The flying object was only about 25 meters away from us. I realized that the flying object also had two machine gun muzzles underneath, but unlike the mercenaries' machine guns, that one had six barrels. At this moment, I saw the flames burst through an iron pillar in the window, crushing the head of the mercenary in the passenger seat, and the brain spilled all over the cockpit in front of us, and the mercenary's neck was spurting blood like a crater. That's when I understood that the machine-gun bullet would soon break through the partition of the cockpit and pass through our heads.

The old man took out a huge sniper rifle from a wooden crate and fired a shot at the middle of the fuselage and the membrane of the flying object, and the flying object and the membrane immediately separated, and after separation, I realized that the membrane was just four long oar-like things, and it only looked like a membrane when it rotated very quickly.

Then the flyer fell from the sky and exploded.

Later, I realized that the flying object was called a gunship.

We came to a garden with all kinds of flowers, and it was ridiculously large, estimated to be the size of ten of the mines we had dug. The car drove in the garden for ten minutes and was very fast. I vaguely saw a house, and when the car got closer, I realized that it was a very large house, probably as high as a mountain. However, except for its height, the rest of it is not close to the mountain. The house is not as uneven as a mountain, and the high walls of the house are smooth, as if they were cut with a huge utility knife. And it was very clean, it was the cleanest building I've ever seen in my life. The color is as brilliant as the sunset sun, all golden yellow. There are long pillars at the entrance to the house, and stone lions carved in stone on both sides.

Entering the gate is a large hall that is full of colorful sculptures and small fountains. My perception of the old man's economic strength changed completely.

The old man took us to the fifth floor, and he sat on a grass-like sofa with some hairy prints, and said that the patterns were messy, and he couldn't say that they were messy, because they were very regular and well-organized. Later, I learned that people call this kind of thing art. It seems that if they build a few railways, they will shout that it is a work of art.

The old man drank brown wine and drank a mercenary to talk about the world.

We stayed in place for two hours, and for those two hours we looked at the interior of the house until the mercenary walked away.

The old man said to us, "What is your fate?" ”

The big one said without any expression, "Slave." ”

The old man said, "It's pretty much the same, but the fate of all of us has one characteristic, that is, we can't choose freely. ”

I interrupted the old man and said, "Who said that?" I said this suddenly.

The old man let out a frightening smile like that stinky fart: "Believe me, your destiny is to live obediently at the bottom of society, because you are an orphan that no one wants, and you are destined not to have equal opportunities with those normal people, and you can't choose the life you want." ”

I said, "That's because I don't have the days to live with those so-called normal people now, and I believe I can get along with them." ”

The old man said: "I used to want to be an orator, but then I was not forcibly arrested by the government to become a soldier, and after I retired from the army, I became a mercenary, and life could not give us a choice at all." ”

It took me almost all my courage to say to the old man, "That's because you don't dare." ”

The old man's face was wrong, and he was much more gloomy. Say, "What did you say?" ”

I said, "Because you don't dare to do your thing, you don't dare to choose your own destiny, you just want to live the life you want, it's just, you haven't achieved it at all." ”

The old man smiled faintly and said, "Do you think I haven't tried? It's just that the dirty hearts have transformed this society into a garbage dump, and whatever clean things appear will be polluted, and you will know later. ”

At the time, I didn't understand what the old man meant, but now, what he said is correct.

I didn't believe it at all, but I couldn't continue to talk to the old man, so I didn't speak.

The old man asked, "Then what is the life you want?" ”

I said, "I don't know, anyway, I want to live a normal child's life." ”

The old man said, "Then try to choose your own destiny." I will let you go to a normal school and study with normal children, and if you regret it, you can come back at any time. ”

I swore to myself that I would make the old man regret it. But in the end, I regretted it.

The old man turned to the short man and said: "We have a lot of flowers here, but we who only know how to touch the gun and don't know how to appreciate it, so you have to go to the city to sell flowers, until all the flowers in the garden are sold, you can be free, during the period of selling flowers, I will give you 100 yuan a week for living expenses, but it depends on the situation, if you don't meet the minimum sales target, I won't give you money, if you sell too much, I will give a little more, understand?" ”

The short, big man hung his head and said, "Got it." ”

The next morning I was woken up in a hurry, and I was very uncomfortable with the unusually clean dress of a few mercenaries. They wiped out all the germs on me with a clean towel. I changed into a perfect set of clothes, and I was given a school bag, made of rough leather, and now I have the lowest grade of this school bag.

There was still half an hour before sunrise, and the old man said that I should take a car to school at sunrise. This time it may be a long time to go, so I went to talk to the short and big ones. The short one saw me dressed so neatly and asked me if I was going to be a waiter.

I said, "That's to be a waiter, didn't the old man say, I can go to school, this is my own choice, I will definitely make the old man regret it, I believe that normal people can't do anything out of the ordinary, it should be fine." ”

The shorter said, "I hope so, come on." ”

I looked at the big one, and he reacted, and said lightly: "Oh, to be honest, I don't really believe that you will make the old man regret it, we are slaves ourselves, we can't change anything, and we can't become big people, it's just the immutable rules, we have to follow the rules to be down-to-earth, to live." ”

I used to be a little happy, but now I'm downset by the big one's words. I said, "I'm fed up with this kind of life, I don't want to live a life of enslavement, I can't hold my head up for the rest of my life, I always have to gamble in life, I don't want to give my fate to my knees, walk on my knees for a lifetime, nothing can change." ”

The big one squinted his eyes and said impatiently, "Then you can go!" Then he left where we were chatting.