[This chapter is written from 12 o'clock to the present, anyway, alas, ......]

Château Clontarf.

The morning sun is warm and warm, and the hotel garden is surrounded by large lawns and trees.

Walking on the ground paved with small pebbles, the uneven stones massage the soles of your feet. Su Zu slowly stretched his waist, took a deep breath of fresh air with a bit of grass and trees, and his slightly tired spirit was slightly invigorated.

"Thank you, Sue!"

The girl gently shook her golden-brown ponytail and raised her head slightly sideways, with a hint of a smile on the corner of her mouth.

"I just need to rest after the World Championships, and I'm in Europe, so I rarely get a chance to come to Ireland." Su Zu smiled, his eyes looking at the large green trees in the distance, and his mood was at ease.

At the World Championships in Helsinki, Suzu basically gave his all in every game, and he didn't feel it if he didn't rest, but he really quietly got out of the game and training, and suddenly he felt physically and mentally tired.

The system in his mind showed that his personal condition was not very good at this time, and the fatigue of various abnormal states ranged from mild to moderate, and he was also in a recovery stage.

"I'm glad you came to watch me play!"

Alan Hogg turned, put his hands behind his back, and gently tapped on the cobblestones.

The two walked through the cobblestone walkway all the way back to the hotel.

At the entrance of the hotel, a slightly chubby white woman pushing a middle-aged white man in a wheelchair was already waiting there.

"Morning, Sue! Alan, it's time for you to train! ”

In the wheelchair, the white man's voice was a little weak, but he could see that his spirit was not bad, and he was wearing a decent suit, but it was probably because he was too thin and weak, and he looked a little wide. Seeing Alan Hogg and Su Zu appear, he greeted the two with a smile.

"Dad, we've made it to the Final Four."

Alan Hogg walked to the wheelchair, kissed the white man gently, and then shook his hand and said.

"That's why you can't relax!" The white man's face was not good-looking, but he smiled calmly and said, "You have to face Germany later, and it will not be easy for you to win against them." ”

"We're going to be champions."

"Oh, so confident?"

"Of course, we watched 'The Notebook' before every game, and everyone said that Ellie Hamilton's lines would be memorized."

Su Zu listened to the conversation between the father and daughter beside him, and a smile also appeared on his face.

It seems that because of his presence, the conversation was not in Dutch, but in English all the time. And the movie "Love Notebook" is the lucky thing for the Dutch women's hockey team.

Even though they may have watched it dozens of times, all the players continue to watch the movie together before each important game.

In the sports world, this kind of superstitious thinking has always existed, and it belongs to the culture and ritual of the team.

"Alright, it's time for us to go!" The middle-aged man chatted with Alan Hogg for a few words, and looked at Su Zu, "Su, are you ready?" ”

"Of course." Su Zu nodded and took the wheelchair from the white woman's hand, "Ma'am, you can give me the wheelchair." ”

"We're ready to go, Pat." Su Zu pushed the wheelchair, lowered his head and whispered to the white man.

"I can't wait." Pathogg's fingers tapped and the armrest of the wheelchair.

"Wait a minute."

Just as Su Zu was about to push Pathogg away, Allen, who was standing next to him, suddenly called out to Su Zu.

At the moment when Su Zu didn't have time to react, the girl suddenly stood on tiptoe and kissed Su Zu, "Take care of him, Su!" ”

……

Pushing the wheelchair, I walked out of the hotel, and an Audi R8 car was already parked outside. A driver had already opened the door and was waiting for where.

Suzu picked Pathog out of his wheelchair and placed him in the back seat of the car.

"I have to say, I don't like German goods." Pat Hogg grumbled after getting in the car.

"That can't be helped. I want to rent a Skew, but I don't have a driver's license. Su Zu responded with a smile.

"Not only do you not have a driver's license, but you also don't know how to drive a right hand drive." Pathogg grunted.

Su Zu was a little embarrassed, but what the other party said was indeed the truth.

Ireland, like the United Kingdom, drives on the left-hand side, and although Su Zu knew how to drive in his previous life, he now has no driver's license, and he has never driven on the right-hand drive, so he still hired a driver.

Su Zu got into the car from the other side door, and the driver of the rental car folded the wheelchair, packed it into the trunk, and the car started and drove away from the hotel.

And just after the car left the hotel, Pat Hogg, who was sitting in the car, stretched out his thin fingers and made a gesture towards Su Zu, "Where's the thing?" ”

Su Zu took out a pack of Black Devil cigarettes and a Zippo lighter from his pocket with some reluctance, which he had spent some time buying yesterday. The Black Devil is a Dutch cigarette, and it's really not that easy to find in Ireland.

"Well done, lad." Pat Hogg laughed.

Su Zu opened the cigarette case, lit one, and the strong cigarette tar rushed straight to his throat, and his body reacted naturally, and began to cough violently.

Coughing as he handed the cigarette in his hand to Pathogg. The driver in front of him opened the window a gap very clearly.

"Athletes should not smoke." Pathogg took a slow puff, a look of long-lost enjoyment on his face, and then said slowly, "But life is too short! ”

Su Zu coughed twice, gradually calmed down, and then laughed as well.

It's not that he doesn't know some things, but after embarking on the road of competitive sports, he has put an end to many habits that damage his body.

"Sue, do you want to know what I think of you?" Pat Hogg smoked lightly and slowly, puffing on a thin puff of blue-white smoke.

"Life is wonderful, I never thought Alan would know a young man from the East. And I, a survivor who was about to leave this world, was in a car with the world's best competitive sprinters.

You know, if you're not a first-class sprinter, I'm not going to see you at all. And you, unlike what I thought. I've traveled to Asia, but sadly, I've never been to China. What I see in you is a composure that is different from that of people of this age.

You are all athletes, you have different nationalities, your jobs, your ideas, your philosophies. But honestly, that's your business, and I don't care what the end result will be.

Amazing, isn't it? Two people who are thousands of miles apart may just meet each other, or they may know each other. Alan is a good girl, and you're a great lad too. ”

"Because, did I buy you the Black Devil?"

"Haha, ahem, you're right!"

……

In just two days, Su Zu didn't expect him to become so familiar with the unmasked Pathogg, and even had a feeling of an old friend.

Alan Hogg was amazed to see it, she once wondered if she would provoke disgust when she brought a foreign man to his father in his last moments.

After all, the difference in outlook on life and values is huge, which is actually discovered when the two parties occasionally chat or communicate through email.

Fortunately, they have a topic, which is competitive sports, and the feeling of being foreign is a bit mysterious, to some extent.

It's just that it's between the opposite sex.

On the one hand, this comes from Allen's factor, whether it is Su Zu or Pathogg, they are very clear.

It's like if you have a daughter, when he brings back a boyfriend to you.

You just need to talk a few words, and you will probably know in your heart what kind of person the other person is.

Men don't understand women, but men never understand men.

Su Zu and Pathogg had a tacit understanding, and when Suzu saw Pathogg in a wheelchair, he inadvertently remembered the dark years he had had.

And Pathogg also seemed to see that Su Zu had a different kind of difference in his heart, which came from the eyes of a dying man who looked at the world at the end, and saw it thoroughly.

This teenager from a foreign country, his growth path has been reported in various newspapers and newspapers. Even the Netherlands has no shortage of information on the growth history of the new world sprint champion.

This is a teenager who has grown up from setbacks and hardships, and although he is not very old, he has become as resolute as a majestic tree.

Standing proudly, wind and rain.

It's not about all kinds of instilled values, but a kind of essential life philosophy.

Struggle, hard work, open-mindedness, persistence!

How many things are never in a hurry; The world is turning, and time is pressing. 10,000 years is too long.

……

The car travels on the halfpenny bridge and along the banks of the River Liffey through the clean roads of Dublin.

In the area near the river, Suzu helped Parker-Hogg out of the car, and the two leaned against the railing to watch the seagulls coming and going.

After that, the car started again.

I came to a valley on the outskirts of Dublin.

I took the train and went straight to the top of the mountain. Looking down from the mountain, the view is vast, and you can almost see the coast in the distance, and the valley is full of mist, which is extraordinary.

Above the valley, there are colorful figures flying like butterflies, which are high-altitude parachutes, an extreme sport.

"Pat, are you really going to try?" Suzu stood on the lawn on the side of the mountain, watching as the staff were already putting on Pat Hogg's helmet and fastening the parachute belt.

"Of course, why not!" Pat Hogg was not loud, but excited.

"This is what I wanted to do most before I left this world, and I wanted to try this when I was in therapy. It was going to be a European Championship for Allen to come, but I knew I wouldn't be able to make it through. Luckily, you're here! ”

There was a bright smile on Pathogg's withered face, a smile that had seen through life.

Perhaps due to the difference in values, some people will be painful, helpless, and sad in the final moment, but there are also some who can face the world with a smile.

This project of parachute gliding directly from a high altitude with the wind has only been seen on TV by Su Zu before.

But Su Zu can also see that this project is much safer than flying in wingsuits, and skydiving. He had a professional staff member to operate the parachute, and when he was directly from the edge of the cliff, he had already opened the parachute with great effort and glided directly.

Of course, the price will not be cheap, but this is not a problem for Su Zu now. He now costs tens of thousands of dollars to play in a Golden League, not to mention other various incomes.

"Sue, don't you want to give it a try?" Pat Hogg asked Suzu with a smile.

Su Zu stood beside Pathogg, helped the staff to fasten the various straps on his body, and shook his head slightly.

"I might try it when I retire, but not yet."

"Good!" Pathogg clapped his hands, "Let's go!" ”

With two staff members holding Pat Hogg in their arms, and with the efforts of the parachute gliding staff who controlled Pater Hogg together, the three of them ran quickly.

Dragged a huge parachute and flew up at the top of the mountain, and then a white flower-like landing hill left the top of the mountain and floated over the valley.

Su Zu took out the camera he had prepared in advance and snapped a few pictures of Pathogg.

……

Leaving this high-altitude paragliding club, Suzu and Pathogg did not go straight back to the hotel.

On the other side of the valley is one of Dublin's most famous seaside attractions, the Howth Cliffs.

Suzu cart wheelchair and Pathogg traverse the cliffside path, where Yeats wrote his poem "The Twilight of Celtic."

"Pat, it's time for us to go back." Su Zu looked at Pathogg as if he had exhausted his physical strength because of the high-altitude gliding he had just done, and his spirit seemed a little sluggish at the moment.

"No, Sue, such a magnificent view, I wish I could see it again. If you don't go to the last moment of your life, you never know what you want? ”

Su Zu didn't speak, just nodded, looking at the sea and sky in the distance, and occasionally seagulls fluttered by.

It was only after I went through the last period of my life, experienced the despair and darkness with no end in sight, and had a chance to do it all over again, that I found my way forward.

The terminally ill man propped up the wheelchair with trembling hands and tried to stand up with all his might.

Su Zu walked up to him and wanted to reach out to help.

He waved his hand and refused.

A man with terminal cancer and suffering from countless illnesses stood on the top of the cliff of Hoth, the sea breeze howling.

Looking into the distance, the sea and the sky are lined, and the turquoise sea level meets in the mist of the sun.

Climbing high and looking into the distance, it seems to see the end of the world.

Su Zu heard him shouting as if he had exhausted all his strength:

Never say hello to the night

The old decay please nirvana at the end of the day

Roar at the dissipation of light

Although the sages were defeated in the darkness

Poetry can't set the sky on fire

Never say hello to the night

The sage dances in Biwan

Cry out for good deeds that drown in the storm

Roar at the dissipation of light

The madman is like a father who praises his father day by day

In the singing, I suddenly felt belated sadness

Never say hello to the night

The deceased was hallucinated at the end of his life

The blind pupils unleashed the brilliance of a shooting star

Roar at the dissipation of light

Then you, my dying father

Please pluck the last handful of tears

Please curse, please bless

I pray, and I will never do it

Greetings in the night, roaring

Dissipate in the light

……