"Scarlet, I signed up for the coffin bearer." Shang Tan'an said in the night.

"Hmm. You're welcome. Scarlet replied. After a while, she thought of something, lifted the big curtain next to the pillow, and said softly, "Tan An......"

The moonlight shines in, clear as water. She sat up, brushed the long-winded drape off her shoulders, and looked out at the bunk beneath the bed.

Shang Tan'an saw the movement on the bed, so he also sat up and faced her. "What's wrong?"

They sat opposite each other, and the moonlight silently spread on their respective sleeping utensils, so that they could see each other's eyebrows and eyes. Scarlet suddenly felt that the question she was thinking about now was so cruel to Ge Guanqing, the soul who might still wander among the starlight and ashes of the wilderness. Rational as her, she can't speak for a while.

"Can't sleep?" Shang Tan'an asked in a low voice.

Scarlet shook her head, and finally reminded, "...... Tan An, is it okay to carry the coffin? Mr. Ge, the cause of his death ......"

"It doesn't matter. Scarlet, Guanqing has already ......" Shang Tan'an didn't say anything more, looking at Scarlet, his eyes were faintly sad, "Tomorrow's coffin is just a jar of ashes." ”

"What about Mianmian, does Mianmian know?"

Shang Tan'an nodded silently.

The first victim of Ramarin, Ge Guanqing, a rock and soil analyst at the Ministry of Environmental Safety and a resident of Humboldt, was buried at the Shilin Heights Memorial Garden at the end of the third month of landing.

All attended his funeral.

With the utmost respect, they arranged a planetary funeral for him.

Fourteen coffin bearers, the seventh on the left is the general of the escort army, and the seventh on the right is the partner of the conscription group.

The place where they turned Ge Guanqing's clothes into ashes and swirled with the starlight was called the Clothing Wilderness.

They built a new church of faith next to the Clothes Wilderness, where he could rest his spirit. After the Heroic Spirit is gone, if the living people in the future are tired, confused, or stranded, they can go there and receive inspiration.

They carried his coffin, starting from the church of faith, and walked silently and solemnly through the wilderness of clothes to the garden of remembrance.

They planted white roses in the garden of remembrance.

In the middle of the memorial garden, a tall memorial tower was built.

General Shlooney, the Supreme Commander of the Tawang Construction Corps, said: "He is our dearest brother, he is a handsome, young, brave, and enthusiastic son of the Alliance, and he is an affectionate husband. He has left us with eternal remembrance. He was the first hero in the history of Rawang mankind, the eternal hero. Let us rest our brother here and face the brave new world of Rawang, who will guard the place of souls behind us, and we will protect his lover for him, carry on his unfinished ambitions, and open this brave new world. ”

In order to commemorate Ge Guanqing, he must also be commemorated, and General Shlooney announced that he would name a piece of undersea basin after Ge Guanqing's surname.

Since the beginning of the landfall in March, every mountain range, every piece of land, and every river in the entire Tamarind continent has taken on a name. According to planetary geographic naming conventions, their names follow earlier observers, discoverers, and researchers as a tribute and gratitude. At the funeral, General Shlooney announced that the name of the newly mapped underwater features would be given to Ge Guanqing, and from now on, to other legionnaires who had made outstanding contributions to Rowang.

"Our grief and longing are so deep, like the ocean that envelops our continent. We need to honor our warriors, and we put their names under the ocean, closest to the core of Tamarin, as if in our hearts. Since then, the spirit of the warrior has been like an ocean around the continent, forever haunting the land where we live and struggle. ”

On the east side of the highlands, it crosses the Qianping Mountains, the Wowo Alluvial Plain, and the Kayibe Delta, and then passes through the Miaoluo Islands in the sea, and crosses a just-named Schlooni Gully on the seabed, which is the Geshi Sea Basin.

Ge's Sea Basin has now become the promised land for the warrior Ge Guanqing.

Scarlet looked at the lit up surround screen on the memorial tower, and the vast sea flew down, and there was an eternal silence of the underwater sandbed. She looked at Qiu Mianmian again.

Qiu Mianmian under the memorial tower was supported by her head of the household and Feng Hua'er left and right, her expression was numb with sadness, she raised her head mechanically and looked at the Ge's Sea Basin that was constantly circling on the screen.

It's too deep and too far. Scarlet couldn't help but feel sorry for Qiu Mianmian in her heart. She didn't know how Qiu Mianmian would let her miss Ge Guanqing in the future, cross so many mountains and plains, penetrate such deep seawater, and reach the place where his name will last forever.

In March, the protective shield of the first high ground increased the internal and external exchange hours every morning. At this time, the morning style of the middle of winter in the highlands was cold outside, and the wild cold air from outside the protective shield blew up the white rose petals on the coffin.

Scarlet's face was blown by the wind, and only the thin fluttering eyelashes could intercept a wisp or two of cold air, and it didn't take long for it to seem to be hanging with fog droplets. She looked hard at the coffin bearer standing behind General Shruni, where there were Shang Tan'an, Gu Huaici, Yin Decheng, Qi Changgong and his robe. Patches of white rose petals brushed across their robes and faces, and they were as silent as statues.

Where will their future Promised Land be? She pondered.

Not at the bottom of the Tamarind Sea.

After the funeral, Scarlet and Shang Tan'an went home. It was originally the day of the moon, but because of the funeral, the market in Mulala was closed, all mobile field services were stopped, and the activity centers of the communities were not open. Some of the neighbors visited the door, and some took advantage of the good weather for most of the afternoon to rent housekeeping robots to change clothes.

Scarlet and Shang Tan'an sat outside the west wall of the house, leaving their No. 1 dome with only an empty courtyard, and no one would look for them.

They looked at the wilderness for a long time.

"The sister-in-law of the Yin family said that Mianmian will not return to the Ge family's current house for the time being, and she may continue to receive a period of recuperation in the hospital." Scarlet said, "They are afraid that she lives alone in the original house, and when she sees someone else's house, she will think of Mr. Ge." ”

Shang Tan'an thought of Qiu Mianmian's crippling appearance at the funeral, and recalled in a trance that she met at the New Year's Eve dinner at Mulala Camp Fort, she greeted her elegantly and gently, and remembered that Ge Guanqing ran back to clean up the dormitory with a smile when he was training with Kolaqi, and chatted with him about family things, and there was always something very stuffy in his chest.

"It's good to recuperate for a while." He said.

"What will happen to Mianmian in the future?"

"I don't know. Decheng said that he had not heard his sister-in-law talk about this, maybe it was too sudden, and none of us expected it...... Such. Shang Tan'an said in a deep voice, "The legion should arrange it for Sister-in-law Ge." ”

Scarlet thought about it, what kind of arrangement is good for Qiu Mianmian?

She was silent for a long time, and said slowly: "That?? Worm, why did Mr. Ge have no chance at all? ”

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