Chapter 151: Life and Death Are All Together
Just when Promise was worried and nervous, the blacks left the deck from behind Promise, and suddenly, there were only five of them left on the deck, which made Promise breathe a long sigh of relief.
Sure enough, as Xia Meng said, the storm stopped after an hour, and then, the sun came out, and the sun had turned into a sunset at this time, dyeing the sea a golden yellow.
Xia Meng stood on the deck, posing all kinds of funny movements for Li Li to take pictures of her, under the natural canvas-like scenery, every photo did not need to be repaired, and it was so beautiful that it was heartwarming.
Seeing that Xu Promise had not moved, Xia Meng walked up to Xu Promise, "Sister Xu Promise, I'll take a picture of you too, right?" ”
"No need, I'll just watch you shoot!" Promise smiled.
"It's hard to come to Aleutian once, it's a pity not to leave a little memory, stand in the best place of the sunset, I'll take pictures for you, don't worry, my photography skills are good, I promise to give you a beautiful picture." Xia Meng urged.
Unable to restrain Xia Meng's enthusiasm, he promised to get up from his chair and promised to like to pursue perfection in everything.
Since I decided to take pictures, I had to take it seriously, wearing this heavy and bloated down jacket, I would definitely not be able to take a particularly good look, so I took off the black down jacket and walked to the fence of the ship in the red underskirt.
After deliberately posing a few times, he promised to lean on the railing and look into the distance, looking at the gorgeous sunset, and his eyes couldn't help but be confused.
Although the sun at this moment is sunset, it is similar to the sunrise that she and Gu Moyan watched from the river patrol tower at a height of 300 meters.
It's also breathtakingly beautiful.
It's a pity that he also appreciated the scenery in her eyes at that time.
Now, she is the only one who hides this beauty in her heart.
A wind blew and tossed the promise's long hair, and the promise couldn't help but turn his head sideways to the wind, and reached out to straighten the messy hair.
While she was arranging her hair, Xia Meng quickly pressed the camera and pressed the door, taking a few photos of the promised side face in the backlight.
Xia Meng looked back at the photos she had taken, and exclaimed excitedly, "Wow, this is the best photo I've ever taken so far, there is no one!" ”
"It's really beautiful, so meaningful!" Li Li couldn't help but admire.
"Sister Xu is a true goddess, and the photos are amazing." Xie Tao's chubby face was full of sincere praise.
"Xia Meng, isn't Jiang Cheng holding the 'National Photography Art Competition' recently? You can take this picture to the competition, and you will definitely win the championship. Han Ming said.
Seeing that a few people praised their photos so beautifully, Xu Promise smiled a little embarrassedly.
"I'm not on camera at all, you don't comfort me anymore."
Promise walked over, and Xia Meng handed the camera to Promise.
"I don't believe you can see for yourself!"
Xu promised to pick up the camera, and when he saw the photo above, he couldn't help but be shocked, this is a silhouette photo, and it is really meaningful and feeling to be captured.
In the photo, she stands on the side of the fence with her head upright, her facial features are three-dimensional and natural, the corners of her mouth are hooked with a gentle smile arc, her long hair is flying in the wind, her slender and slender hand caresses her hair, she is looking into the distance, her exquisite figure is integrated with the sky and sea behind her, it is so harmonious, beautiful, and full of artistic conception.
I have to say that Xu Promise is also very satisfied with this photo.
"Well, it's really a good shot, it's very literary, it's my favorite type, thank you!" Promise smiled.
"Sister Xu, I think Han Ming's proposal is good, I really like photography, and I want to use your photo to participate in the photo contest, okay?" Xia Meng looked at the promise expectantly.
Looking at Xia Meng's clear gaze, thinking that when she offered to go with her, she welcomed her without hesitation, and promised that if she didn't even agree to her small request, she would be too sorry for Xia Meng's trust in her.
After all, in this indifferent society, when someone suddenly proposes to go together, they can't help but wonder if the other party has arranged some trap waiting for her to jump.
Xia Meng's trust is precious.
"Of course I'm fine, I'm afraid that the result will disappoint you, after all, it's just a silhouette photo, and it doesn't mean much." Promised.
"Thank you, Sister Xu, don't worry, I won't be disappointed, it's important to participate, I've worked hard, just be happy." Xia Meng is full of free and easy Taoism.
Looking at Xia Meng's innocent smile, Xu Promise couldn't help but sigh, it's good to be young!
No matter what you do, you are not afraid of failure and results, because there is still a lot of time to start over.
Thinking of this, Xu Promise's heart couldn't help jumping, she was obviously not yet 27 years old, how could her mentality be so pale?
Fear of failure, fear that the result is not what you want, fear of starting over!
How can you be so afraid?
In her twenties, she obviously has a lot of time to break through, fight, and work hard, and she shouldn't be afraid to start over, why is she so timid?
In my mind, I couldn't help but think of Gu Moyan's handsome and fairy-like face and the shrunken little face of the same style, promising to know that it was not that she was afraid of failure, but because she had love and weakness in her heart.
That's why I'm afraid!
Seeing that Xu Promise was in a daze, Xia Meng asked with concern: "Sister Promise, what's wrong with you?" ”
"Sister Xu, are you okay?" Li Li pulled the promised hand.
Promise immediately sobered up from his own world, and immediately showed a lazy smile, "I'm too tired after a day of running, it's time to go down and eat something to rest." ”
Watching the figure of the promise walk off the deck, Li Li said softly: "Do you say that the promise is out of love?" Along the way, I saw that her smile was not heartfelt. ”
The other three immediately nodded in agreement.
"I don't think she's going to be a person who has plans to come out to play at all, she just ran into us and wanted to come out to play temporarily!" Xie Tao said.
"I don't know who made such a beautiful Sister Xu sad." Li Li said curiously.
"Don't guess, whether she is out of love or wants to come out to play temporarily, it has nothing to do with us, as long as we have fun along the way, let's go down and get dinner!" Xia Mengdao.
In the next two days, in addition to the necessary toilet, he promised to rarely leave the sleeper bed, lying on the upper bunk alone, sleeping in the dark, waking up to the glass window of the upper bunk, looking at the sea outside in a daze, quietly experiencing loneliness alone, precipitating inner thoughts.
After two days, I really felt that my heart was no longer so troubled, no longer so uncomfortable and painful.
After more than seventy hours at sea, the ship finally docked in the small town of Chignik.
Everyone got off the boat and couldn't help but let out a cheer when their feet touched the ground.
Especially Xia Meng and Li Li, they hugged each other happily and jumped up, feeling the sense of solidity brought by the ground.
Maybe it's because I've experienced too much, and I promise to step on the road with the fresh smell of earth, although I feel that my heart is stable, but I am not so excited that I jump up and laugh at them.
"How lonely and thrilling the ferry is in these three days, I have experienced it, and when I go back, I will resolutely not take a steamer, but take a small plane back, so everyone will use this trip leisurely and leave enough money for the ticket to go back." Xia Meng proposed.
"I agree, it's good to experience it, if I take another three days on the steamer, I'll go crazy." Li Li raised her hand in agreement.
"Then decide, everyone should refrain from seeing everything and wanting everything." Xie Tao reminded him.
"Alright, it's getting dark, let's find a hotel to stay in first!" Han Ming said.
Carrying their hiking bags on their backs, the group walked up to a pickup truck with a soliciting driver and asked him to take the promise to the small town of Chignik.
After agreeing on the price, the driver enthusiastically helped Xia Meng and their luggage to put them in the pickup truck, promised them to get in the car, and the car drove to Chignik Town.
For the town of Chignik, Xu didn't know much, and took advantage of the car to go online about the introduction of the town.
It is known that most of the people here make a living from fishing.
The king crab season is the most delicious time here.
If you want to eat king crab, this is the most authentic.
As a crab control, even though it's winter, I promise to try king crab.
Because of the three days on the ship, she felt that her stomach was shrinking because of the light food.
"The king crab here is very famous, shall we go eat it? You don't have to worry about the money, I'll invite you to eat. Xu Promise proposed.
"King crab is the symbol of Aleutian, coming here without eating king crab is like going to Beijing without climbing the Great Wall, it is equivalent to coming in vain, you don't need to ask, we just pay for it ourselves." Xia Meng smiled.
"Don't be polite to me, you can trust me so much as a stranger, take me to play, this journey has brought me a lot of happiness, I really appreciate you, I hope you give me a chance to treat, so that I can feel more comfortable." Promise to look at the sincere way.
"Although I don't know your identity, but my intuition tells me that you are definitely not an ordinary person, money may be just a number to you, since you are so sincere, then give you this opportunity, we are not polite to you, we have to eat enough tonight!" Xia Mengdao.
"Okay, crab legs are enough." Promise smiled.
"Oh yes, king crab, here we are!" Li Li shouted happily.
The car quickly drove down the streets of Chignik, which was much more prosperous than promised.
With seven days to go until Christmas, the streets are beautifully decorated and filled with the joy of the New Year.
After finding a few hotels, we finally stayed at a hotel named 'Lucky'.
That night, Xu Yu took Xia Meng and others to eat happily, then took a beautiful bath in the hotel, slept comfortably, and started the real Aleutian trip the next day!
During the five-day journey, the footprints of the five people of the promise group traveled through several towns in Aleutian, and the scenery enjoyed along the way made several people cheer and cheer, and the promise was completely fascinated by the scenery of the Aleutian, forgetting the grievances and entanglements that made her sad, and devoted herself wholeheartedly to this trip.
Pleasant times always pass quickly, and before you know it, it's Christmas Eve.
Promise them to travel to Unalaska, the largest city in the Aleutian Islands, the most famous attraction here is an Orthodox church, before the United States bought Alaska, it was the territory of the Russians, and the Russians brought their religious beliefs, so there are beautiful figures of churches in various towns here.
He promised to go to the church, but Xia Meng and the others wanted to go to the Christmas Eve masquerade, and promised that he didn't like the noise, so he separated from them.
For the first time in so many days, Xu promised to travel separately from Xia Meng, although it was very lonely, but it was also a pleasure to enjoy a solo trip occasionally.
A person is promised to walk in the direction of the church, and the people he meets along the way are greeted by the people with elaborate or funny makeup on their faces, elaborate or exaggerated costumes, and happy smiles on their faces.
Looking at the pedestrians on the side of the road, they laughed freely and cheerfully from time to time, so that the foreigner who promised him could also feel their joy in welcoming the New Year.
Walking slowly, the more she walked away from the bustle and hustle and bustle, and the fewer and fewer people she met, and in the distance, she saw the bright light of the cross on the church, and showed her the way.
After walking for another half hour, I promised to come to the church, which was very quiet compared to the bustle of the street.
I don't know if it's a psychological effect, but when I walked into the church, I felt a burst of tranquility coming over me, as if this was another world isolated from the world, and people couldn't help but feel clean and pure from the inside out.
Fingertips run over the benches, imagining the believers sitting here on weekdays, holding Bible books, singing and praying sincerely, and making promises feel very warm.
In the big church, I don't know if it's because it's Christmas Eve, but there is no one except for the promise.
There are beautiful frescoes hanging in the church, and I promise to go upstairs while admiring the frescoes, and I want to know all about this church, and I heard that standing on the top floor of the church and looking at the scenery outside is the most beautiful.
As he walked to the fourth floor, he heard a man's displeased voice coming.
"Deliver with one hand and pay with the other, is it possible that you want to regret it?"
Xu Xunsheng walked softly, and through a crack in the door, he saw a conference room, where eight black people sat on one side and six white people sat on the other, with solemn expressions and looked like they were about to fight at any time.
Xu Promise's eyes moved over the black man, and when he saw the black man with a hideous picture tattooed on his face, his heart couldn't help but jump.
Unexpectedly, after meeting on the steamer, after six days apart, she met the group of black people again.
On the table, Promise sees packets of white stuff in a small box.
Promise couldn't help but think to himself, what is that?
"Brother Alexandri, don't be angry, our Kenny brother has no intention of repenting, but I just think that the price of your goods is a little higher, and there is a shortage of funds on hand recently, do you think you can lose another layer?"
"Bang......" a black man slammed the table.
"It's too much deception, we worked hard to bring the goods from Africa, took a few days on a steamer, went around most of the Aleutians, and finally came to this broken church, I didn't increase the price with you, you actually let me drop a percent, are you fooling me?"
The black man's hand was removed, and Promise saw a black pistol lying on the table, which immediately frightened Promise so much that his brain went blank and he forgot to react.
At this time, a hairless cat in the church stepped on Promise's feet, and when Promise looked down to see the wrinkled skin and protruding eyes of the hairless cat, he was about to scream in fright, and his mouth was covered from behind, and she was dragged backwards.
The series of shocks scared the promise so much that the script could kick the door.
"Nono, it's me!" A gentle voice rang in Promise's ears.
Xu Promise turned around and saw Gu Moyan's familiar eyes, she couldn't help but stare at her, she couldn't believe what she saw, and stupidly let Gu Moyan pull her downstairs.
"Oh no, someone found out, chase after it!"
Gu Moyan ran to a small remote room on the second floor with the promise in his arms, and jumped from the window with the promise in his arms.
"Bang......" A gunshot rang out, and the promise felt the bullet pass by him, and it rang in his ears.
She was protected by Gu Moyan in her arms, rolling on the grass like a rolling ball, and then Gu Moyan held an iron bucket lid and pulled her to run into the mountains.
"They ran to the back mountain, everyone chase after them, we must not let them run, we must not leave them alive!"
Behind him were the vicious words of those people, and the promise couldn't help but weaken his legs when he heard it.
These people are members of the drug cartels, they all have guns in their hands, people like them are drug lords who kill people without blinking, and when she sees them, they will definitely not be soft on her.
But what's going on with Gu Moyan?
Why did Gu Moyan appear by her side at a critical moment?
"Why are you here?" Promise asked as he ran.
"I've always been there for you!" Gu Moyan's voice was full of forbearance.
Several guns were aimed at him just now, and although he tried to dodge, he was shot in the arm.
Fortunately, this is a dense mountain forest, otherwise, he and Xu Yu would have died under the random guns.
Gu Moyan's sentence 'I've always been by your side' shocked Xu Promise, and at the same time, there was an indescribable emotion in her heart, but now there was a chasing soldier behind her, and she didn't have time to be moved, just ran forward desperately.
She had already put him in such danger, and she must not drag him down on the way to escape again.
The more people are afraid of something, the more they come, and the more they want to run faster, the more their feet make trouble for her, because she ran too fast, she tripped over a stone, fell heavily to the ground, and her face was heavily scratched by the branch in front of her, and the pain was so hot that tears fell.
"Nono, how are you?" Gu Moyan squatted on the ground and asked with concern.
"I'm fine!" Xu Promise said, grabbed Gu Moyan's arm and stood up from the ground.
The place where she held it happened to be the place where Gu Moyan was shot, and when she held it, the heart-piercing pain at the wound made Gu Moyan's handsome facial features wrinkle together, but she endured the pain and did not make a sound.
Xu Yu didn't let go, he kept holding Gu Moyan's hand and ran forward, the voice of the chasing soldiers behind him kept shouting arrogantly, occasionally gunshots rang out, and then the sound of bullets hitting trees or penetrating leaves sounded in his ears, and Xu Xu was even more frightened when he heard it.
"If you can't escape, I advise you to come out obediently, otherwise, I will let you die a miserable death."
Listening to the man's words, Xu Promise was terrified in his heart, and there was not a moment when he prayed that the night would come soon, as he did now, and it would be easier to hide from it.
However, it was only four o'clock now, and I was afraid that it was not yet dark, and one of them was accidentally killed by those stray bullets that were firing wildly.
Promise is wearing a red down jacket today, which is extremely eye-catching in the green forest.
Gu Moyan pulled the promise to hide behind a thick tree, and said in a deep voice: "Your clothes are easy to be discovered, take them off quickly." ”
"Good!" Xu Promise reached out to pull the zipper, and when he raised his hand, he saw that his palms were full of dried red blood, and he was instantly startled, "How can there be blood?" You got shot? ”
Xu Promise hurriedly went to check Gu Moyan's body, and found that there was a hole in his shoulder, blood soaked the sleeves of the long black trench coat, and Promise's tears flowed down instantly.
"I'm sorry!"
Because of self-blame, because of sadness, Xu Yu forgot to take off her clothes, Gu Moyan hurriedly helped her take off the down jacket on her body, put his black windbreaker on Xu Yue, and only wore a navy blue fleece shirt, and tucked the red tie around her neck into the down jacket, threw it to the side, and took Xu Yue's hand and ran in the opposite direction of the clothes.
Xu Yu saw Gu Moyan running in the mountains at minus a few degrees in a thin shirt, and he was very distressed.
"I'm not cold in a sweater, I'll wear a jacket for you!" Promise to run while running.
"At this time, I won't feel cold at all, giving you a windbreaker will only increase the weight on your body and make it inconvenient for you to escape, because you are wearing white hair, so I will give you clothes to wear, otherwise I will throw away the windbreaker together."
When people are running for their lives, they should throw away all the obstacles that may be affected, and the most important thing is to save their lives.
"This is the woman's clothes, they should be nearby, chase after them!"
The grim voices of those people sounded behind him.
Because I have been running for the past few days, I have walked too much, and after running for a while, I promise that I can't run anymore, and my feet are shaking uncontrollably.
At this time, as if God didn't cooperate, it rained heavily, and the icy rain fell on Xu Promise's face, and under the blowing of the cold wind, it was bitterly cold.
Gu Moyan found that Xu Promise lacked physical strength, so he picked up Promise and walked up the mountain.
Looking at Gu Moyan's calm and handsome face, Xu promised to say nervously and softly: "Moyan, you let me down, you can run away by yourself, it is better to die alone than two people to die together, you can't lose your parents all of a sudden when you wake up, you let me go quickly." ”
Gu Moyan ran forward with unwavering steps, and said in a loud voice: "I will never leave you alone, I want to live together, I want to die together, the child has his own destiny, what he will become in the future depends on his own creation." ”
The tears of the promise flowed even more fiercely, and all the hatred and resentment towards Gu Moyan in his heart came to naught at this moment, and some were only deep self-blame and remorse.
If it weren't for her willful persistence, the two would not have fallen into such a dangerous situation.
At the insistence of the promise, Gu Moyan put her on the ground, took her hand and ran up the mountain.
The wind was raging, and the rain was getting heavier and heavier, and the icy rain hit Promise's face, but she didn't feel a little cold, because her heart was fanatical at the moment.
The rain was very urgent, and the road under my feet quickly became soft because of the rain, and it was very difficult to walk.
But Gu Moyan knew that such soil was more prone to mud loss, and if he couldn't run to the top of the mountain as soon as possible, there would be unpredictable dangers.
After climbing to the top of the mountain, Gu Moyan stopped, and at this time the sky was completely dark because of the rain.
The clothes on both of them were soaked, and they shivered from the cold when they stood on the top of the mountain.
Looking at the vast ocean in front of him, Xu Promise asked with a trembling voice, "What now?" “