Chapter 40: How Far Away Is Forever

Previous Chapter

I had another dream, a long, long dream.

I dreamed of Yang Yuan and Xiao Wu, they were training with their lives on the training ground, and they were the only ones training on the huge training ground.

I was stunned for a long time when I saw it, and then I turned my head to look around, it was the familiar special forces, everything here was so familiar, even the slogans of their desperate training were so familiar, those were the slogans that echoed in my mind day and night.

I rushed over and shouted, "Yang Yuan! Little Five! Twenty percent! Li Xiao! ”

They didn't hear my shout, and after running the obstacles, they started running down the track, everyone shouting slogans with serious expressions, and nothing else could distract them except the slogans and the road under their feet.

So I chased them out, and ran along their backs, and we kept running from the training ground, and they were always unhurried in front of me, but I couldn't catch up anyway!

The surroundings slowly began to blur, and only the backs of the four of them were clearly visible in front of me.

We ran to a strange country, we ran through cities, we ran through villages, we ran through mountains, we ran to primeval forests.

And then their pace was still so brisk and vigorous, and I could only shout tirelessly and chase after them.

As we go deeper into the primeval forest, their figures also disappear into the jungle.

I looked up at the towering trees that were obscuring the sky, breathing in the musty smell of rotting plants in the air.

"Where have you been? Yang Yuan! Little Five! ...... "I kept shouting the names of each of them, and no one paid any attention to me.

Only the distant chirping of birds and the sound of the wind blowing through the leaves of the trees were hula.

Then I woke up.

--- my rented house, I was packing up my things to move, and the magpie was busy in the room, I walked to the coffee table and bent down to take out the photo album.

I sat on the sofa and looked at the photos of me and my comrades-in-arms one by one, until I turned to the photo of me and Wang Li, his face was painted by me, and I couldn't see his expression clearly.

But this is the only photo of me and Wang Li.

On the way back from the end of the act that day, the photography officer walked past us, Wang Li suddenly grabbed him on a whim and insisted on taking a group photo for us, the photography officer was more familiar with Wang Li, after all, the photography officer also followed when this kid was in the international competition, and took a lot of promotional photos.

So I was pulled by Wang Li to stand on the side of a troop carrier and take this photo, and I later asked Wang Li why he suddenly wanted to take a group photo.

Wang Li said, "Maybe after one of us had an accident that day, isn't this just a thought?" ”

I looked at the photo in my hand, and suddenly regretted that I drank too much and painted Wang Li's face, and then I found a lot of photo studios to restore this photo, but there was no way, I painted too hard, too dense, completely destroyed the surface of the photo, anyway, it could not be restored, which was also a regret of mine later.

"What are you looking at?" The magpie came over and leaned on my shoulder, and I closed the picture: "It's okay, clean up." ”

I can only artificially forget the past experience as much as possible, I just want to live a normal life now, I think as long as I forget it completely enough, I can live like a normal person, after all, PTSD is very likely to accompany a person for many years or even a lifetime, I don't want to live in such emotions every day, I don't want magpies to see me like this.

I drove around the mountain with the magpie, and the magpie happily put his hand out the window to feel the wind.

There are magpie's favorite songs on the center console.,The things she likes are some more popular songs, I basically don't have any aesthetics.,But after listening to it for a long time, I can hum a few words.,Hehe.,So the environment can always change a person's habits, isn't it?

After going down the hill is the outskirts of the city, and there is an armed police detachment stationed in a clearing in this place, and I look at it twice every time I pass by, and I really can't control it.

Several times, I can see a sentry standing motionless on the sentry post at the door, or the sentry post is empty, and I don't know what's going on, it's empty, maybe it's a meeting or something, don't raise the bar with me, I only said what I saw, and I don't understand the set of the armed police, after all, there is a bit of a gap between the rules of each unit.

But this day was different, and I saw twenty or thirty soldiers lined up at the gate, and one cadre was talking in front of the queue.

There is still a distance from the highway, and I unconsciously take a few more looks.

There are very few cars on this road, and the magpie knows me, so he doesn't care about me, and plays with his mobile phone.

After two glances, I just wanted to turn around and slammed on the brakes, but the car didn't stop, because I seemed to see a familiar face, and I felt ridiculous after I stepped on the brakes for a fraction of a second, definitely not, so I let go of the brakes.

The magpie was taken aback: "What's the matter?" ”

After finishing speaking, she put down her phone and looked outside: "Is there anyone you know?" ”

"No, I read it wrong." The cadre who was talking turned around and looked at us as my car drove by, it was too similar, it was really too similar.

But he had been sacrificing for years, how could it be? I smiled self-deprecatingly, it was impossible.

"Be careful to drive, you just scared me." The magpie reclined the seat and continued to scroll through the video.

"Uh-huh, okay."

I could clearly see through the rearview mirror that the cadre seemed to be still looking at my vehicle, probably because my sudden braking had just attracted attention.

--"Cripple! Here you go. ”

The magpie who was packing up in the bedroom suddenly called out to me, and I came back to my senses and stood up and walked over.

"How many times have you said it, don't call me a lame man, bad luck." I reached out and scratched her nose.

She wrinkled her nose: "In my eyes, you are a lame man." That's right."

The magpie pointed to the open wardrobe partition and said, "Is this all your stuff?" You can clean this up yourself, I won't move. ”

As he spoke, he opened the cabinet on one side and began to organize his clothes, under the partition were my things, military medals, photos, military uniforms without military ranks, and all kinds of small items brought back.

I took them out little by little, and finally I got the box of the medals, and I opened it, and a small sealed bag fell out.

It was the unknown flower I gave to the magpie in the first place, and now it is almost powdered, and it crumbles when I knead it in my hand.

"Oh my God, you still have it."

The magpie crouched down and carefully picked it up.

I just smiled and didn't speak, this is nothing to say, isn't it, and it's not that young people are just falling in love, if you say a few words of love at this time, it will definitely have a full effect.

The magpie was really moved, and I went back and continued to sort it out, and then a photo was enveloped in an envelope.

I pulled it out, it was the group photo, me, Magpie, Yang Yuan, Ercheng, Xiao Wu, Li Xiao, the only group photo of the six of us.

I picked up the picture and sat on the bed, and the magpie sat down next to me.

We looked at this picture and were silent for a long, long time.

"Whistling."

"Huh?" I turned my head and looked at the magpie's beautiful face, her eyes were always so bright and bright, and she whispered.

"You're crying again."

I wiped my face and tears did come out.

"Always make you see jokes." I said embarrassedly.

Then the magpie took me in his arms: "It's all right, it's all over." ”

I smelled the magpie and laughed sadly, yes, it's all gone, I'm starting my own new life, I want to forget the past forever, but forever, how far away.

(End of the play)