Chapter 28: The Grave Keeper (1)
"When I first started, I met Chi Mo at the opening ceremony of the school. He was the representative of all the freshmen, the best student of Lu Er that year, with excellent grades, excellent physical fitness, excellent military talents, and excellent looks. ”
"I still remember that the sun was just right that day, there was no summer heat at all, there was just a shower in the morning, the air was humid, next to the school square, there were many flowers, he came to the stage on behalf of the new students, went to salute the principal, with a particularly bright smile, when he looked down, so many people, but just glanced at me."
"Later, I thought that this is probably how a person has given his whole life, just because of a good time, a suitable environment, a random person, and a look. I don't know about others, but I'm like that, and if not all of this, so are you. ”
"Since that day, I have liked Chi Mo, not only because he is handsome, not only because he is in the limelight, but because I believe that this person is my destiny for life. I once asked my mother why she fell in love with my father in the first place, and she told me that if you try your best to follow a person's footsteps, slowly, you will fall in love with him, catch up with him, and the two of you will be together. ”
"After that, my parents died in an experimental accident, this sentence became the last sentence she said to me, I never forgot it, but I never understood it, until that day, I met Chi Mo."
"Chi Mo is the person I was destined to be, and before I could catch up with him, he would suddenly appear in front of me without knowing when, sometimes it was a school event, sometimes it was a private party, sometimes it was on the practice field."
"I often tell myself that it was all accidental, because he was so dazzling, so I always felt that it was fate that made me meet me from time to time. But this could not convince myself, and I found that I was in love with him, and I could not let go of him from then on. So I tried my best to catch up with him, study hard, dress up, and reject all male classmates who were interested in me. ”
"In the end, I became the same student as him."
"At the end of the first semester, Chi Mo and Guan Jue and I became the top three people in this year's grades, and the three of them began to intersect at that time."
"Chi Mo is good at piloting mechas, Chi Mo is his name, his family is surnamed Zhao, one of the mecha families in the second order of the Three Thousand Empire, if nothing else, Chi Mo graduated from school and entered the mecha formation, participated in more than five large-scale battles and won, his family will be promoted to the first sequence because of him."
"Guan Jue was born in poverty, and he only went to university when he received government funding since he was a child, so his mind is difficult for ordinary people to figure out, and he studies very hard, he is not a genius, so he will never be able to catch up with Chi Mo, but he will not be depressed. He was good at chess, accustomed to the back move, and just like in military strategy, he was always able to win from behind. ”
"My parents were researchers in a mecha production company in the Empire, and when I was developing a new type of energy, I was orphaned because of the improper operation of other people, and the energy furnace exploded. I thought I had to be like my parents and see the world they were fighting for. ”
"Originally, I would have succeeded."
"But there are always so many unthinkable things in life, just as I didn't expect to meet Chi Mo, Chi Mo couldn't have imagined that he would encounter such a change."
"In the second semester of his freshman year, Chi Mo's father was discovered and arrested by the empire because he participated in a mecha unit's rebellion and was the mastermind of collaborating with the enemy, and was sentenced to a secret death sentence in less than three days. When the court-martials found Chi Mo, no one, including himself, knew what was going on. ”
"After he was taken away, Guan Jue once went to the government department that funded him to inquire about the matter, and when he came back, he didn't know what he heard, no matter how I asked, he just didn't say it, told me that it was confidential, and his face was ugly and terrible, even now, Guan Jue didn't tell me what he heard."
"Chi Mo's thing was only roughly known when I saw something from the news later, and Chi Mo revealed some of it to me."
"From the very beginning, Chi Mo's family was not a member of the Three Thousand Empire, and even the first few generations were not of human blood, they lurked until now, just to continue to steal the information of the Empire's mechas, relying on the strong body brought by the inhuman bloodline, and even reached the height of the second sequence."
"The people of the Zhao family plan to enter the army after Chi Mo graduates and then tell him everything, but before he graduated, there was a huge crisis on the foreign side that supported them, and they were notified to rebel against the mecha formation and flee, the empire's mecha management is so tight, it is conceivable that it was soon discovered."
"Chi Mo was taken away and interrogated many times, and it was initially concluded that he did not know about it, but in order to avoid future troubles, the Imperial Military decided to abolish his ability to drive a mecha, cutting off the two meridians needed to drive a mecha on the spot, and since then, he has gone from being the best student to the biggest joke."
"That's when I became Chi Mo's girlfriend."
"There is a magical power in this world, and it is called *love. It will give you hope when you are at the lowest point in your life, will give life to your dead heart, and will allow two people to go through all the difficulties with each other's support, even if you can't walk, at least you will die happily. ”
"At that time, I was the only one who accompanied Chi Mo, and later, I had more care. The three of us are still the three people with the best grades in school, the gap between Chi Mo's grades and his identity has made him a thorn in the eyes of some people, and I try my best to maintain Chi Mo's dignity, and they call him a peacock. Guan Jue used some means behind his back, and most of the people who ridiculed Chi Mo were not very happy from then on, and since then, the peeping at Chi Mo in the school has died down, and Guan Jue has become a poisonous snake. ”
"Guan Jue and I accompanied Chi Mo out of his darkest months, and I was very happy to see him become cheerful again, start learning again, shift from mecha piloting, and gradually focus on military command, but after this kind of thing, people will still change after all."
"I and everyone, including the instructors of the military command at the time, found that the silent military plan was no longer as accurate and decent as the textbook, although it was still safe, and the victory rate became extremely high, but all his plans never spared the lives of soldiers."
"A year later, he published his own military theory thesis, in which he advocated using everything that could be used, squeezing out all the value that could be squeezed out, and trying to strike at the enemy as much as possible to expand the results of the battle under the condition of ensuring his own victory.
"That's why they call him a goat."
"At the beginning of the Three Thousand Empire, there was a typical case. In those years, there was such a period of time, many places could not afford to eat, the crops were not as productive as they are now, the livestock could not be fed, they did not have the strength, they did not grow fat, and it was difficult to go to the field and make meat to eat. In a small town in the mountains of the west, because of the lack of meat, they introduced the goat. ”
"In the beginning, the goat became everyone's treasure, even the poorest family had to buy one and keep it at home, because this creature can climb steep rocks, find food on its own under various terrains, and eat a wide range, never have to worry about feeding it, and can usually use goat's milk to supplement nutrition, it is simply the best livestock."
"But gradually, after four or five years, the local people found that the environment around the city was getting worse and worse, and many places had no grass, rockslides, and soil erosion, which caused many people to lose their lives.
"As a result, after investigation and analysis, it was found that the root cause of all this was in the goats."
"Goats originated from the mountain goat breed, their ancestors lived in the extremely harsh environment, the serious lack of food in the mountains, resulting in their most terrible habits, that is, they never stop foraging, when the food is sufficient, they will also keep looking for grass to replenish energy, and they are different from other sheep species, eating grass and never leaving roots."
"Over the years, every year the newborn grass has been eaten by goats, uprooted, and those that can't be pulled up are thrown away with hooves, and all the foundations of the land are eaten up one bite at a time, and slowly, all the grass is gone, and there is no root support on the mountain, and the land begins to drain, without the protection of the soil, and the rocks begin to weathered and fall, causing more than 200 tragedies within a year."
"The only thing that is certain is that this city has survived the most difficult years of the empire by relying on goats, and gradually relying on the capital accumulated over the years, it has slowly developed into a more famous big city in the west, and the people in this city have never raised a goat again."
"After the publication of Chi Mo's paper, some people compared the case of the city with his tactics, and publicly criticized this military strategy of fishing in the dry water as the most undesirable strategy, hence the nickname of the goat."
"Chi Mo has never given up such an idea, even if he is criticized by everyone, even if the school begins to revoke his paper, after such a setback, what kind of firm heart he has and the persistence of a road to death, even I don't know."
"One day, suddenly, he came to me happily and told me that there was hope for his meridian recovery. He said that a teacher from the Three Thousand Academy approached him and told him a way to repair the body and even enhance the physical fitness of ordinary people, and if this project is successful, people who do not have special meridians in their bodies can also become mecha pilots. ”
"His elated appearance sends chills down my heart, if there really is such a project, then what will be the cost? I didn't splash cold water on him in front of him, and of course he wouldn't spare any price. I know that now I am the only one who supports him unreservedly, and what a blow it will take for him to question what he cares so about. ”
"Originally, I thought that this matter would still take time, but I never expected things to progress so quickly, and when I was about to graduate, he proposed to go to the Eastern Wilderness to station, telling me that if I got control of a base, I could do all kinds of experiments in secret, of course I could hear what kind of experiment it was."
"At that time, I found out that he had become something I didn't know anymore, it had become scary for me, I started to run away from him, and finally even proposed to break up, but he didn't care at all, and was still obsessed with such a terrible project."
"His application was successful and he became the top military commander of this base, and I thought we would go our separate ways, but I didn't expect to be assigned to the same base as him. I thought it was incredible, I applied for a job at a research institute, but what went wrong? ”
"No one gave me an answer, until the day I set off for the Eastern Wilderness with a heavy heart, a person appeared in front of my house, he said that he was a supervisor of the Three Thousand Academy, he suspected that Chi Mo was colluding with illegal experiments, handed me a badge, and told me to go to the supervision department of the Three Thousand Academy to find him as soon as I found anything."
"At that time, I was shocked and thought that things were not so simple."
"If the Three Thousand Academy really needs someone to monitor Chi Mo, it will definitely not explain in such a hasty way, nor will it choose a Chi Mo's predecessor so casually, at least it will take a process of investigation and education."
Then his move must be meaningful, this is the so-called yang conspiracy. The Three Thousand Academy must have known about Chi Mo's actions, and there must have been a real spy in secret, putting me on the surface just to attract Chi Mo's attention, as Chi Mo's lover who had just broken up, I was the best choice for this Yangmou Design Center. ”
"From that moment on, I learned that the Empire had an ambiguous attitude towards Chi Mo's research. The Empire would never admit that they supported such a brutal experiment as human experimentation by a single person, but they could pretend they didn't know anything and let someone outside of their control, or even someone who had been pushed out of all systems, do it. ”
"Because this scapegoating is really perfect. When the experiment is successful, they can be said to be a new achievement of the Empire, and when the experiment is revealed, the scapegoat can be pushed out immediately, and there is no need for any defense, because he is the descendant of the spy family. ”
"I knew these things and came to this base anyway. I can't just tell Chi Mo that his matter has been discovered, I know that the watchers of the Empire may be everywhere, and they can't meddle anywhere. I started to participate in some of the experiments in the name of helping him. ”
"Guilt is such a thing, in the beginning, you still think it's all sin, and slowly, you get used to it, you become numb, and even some people find pleasure. After seeing too many human experiments, I found that I was no longer capable of influencing Chi Mo, and could only watch one person after another die in front of me, but I was not moved at all. ”
"Everyone who disregards life will have a price, An Xiaoyu, you have to remember. I know that Guan Jue knew from the beginning that your future life will be more difficult, you will become a better person, you will face more serious things than us, and we can only be discouraged, you still have the passion and vitality to strive for change, but never ignore the loss of life. ”
Bai Amaranth's pale face was covered with sweat, and the abdomen covered by her hand was already wet with the blood that was constantly flowing out, and even when she spoke, her voice was intermittent and trembling, but she smiled at An Xiaoyu and said with a smile: "Look, my retribution has arrived, you must remember." ”
An Xiaoyu nodded.
Coming out of the central passage, Bai Amaranth couldn't walk anymore, An Xiaoyu dragged it, Bai Amaranth pointed her the way, and the two of them came to a spare workshop in the mecha warehouse and hid in the utility room in the corner. After dealing with the bloodstains outside, An Xiaoyu returned to the house, and heard the voice of Bai Amaranth being relieved: "I'm already going to die..."
At the last moment of facing death, Bai Amaranth let go of all her pride, no longer spared words like gold, and told An Xiaoyu what she knew, hoping to explain the things she couldn't let go of to this girl who had never met a few times in total, but firmly believed that she would continue to walk on her behalf.
"Sure enough, as I expected, although Chi Mo's experiment was not supported, it was not received = disturbed, and none of the things he secretly did in the base were discovered by anyone, and even the accidental death toll in the base was extremely simple, and no one would ever come to check it."
"His experiments are very successful, which can enhance the body's self-repair ability and make normal people more robust, but the experiment is still one step away, that is, there is no guarantee of lifespan. One of the most successful examples you've seen is the test subject who broke out today, his body became extraordinary, but after testing, he only had ten years left to live. ”
Upon learning of this result, he began to become disheartened, and as he watched one person die after him, he felt that the experiment was impossible to succeed, and he began to thwart it. Chi Mo could only keep him in the sleep pod forever. ”
After that success, Chi Mo's experimental scheme became more and more feasible, but the problem of longevity was not solved, and he began to meditate on it, no matter what he borrowed from any long-lived living organism, there was no way to solve the problem in front of him.
It was at this time that he saw his last hope - you! Ann whispers! ”
"Me?" An Xiaoyu was surprised, she didn't know that she had been involved from this time.
"You may not know how long you have been running in the desert at an incredible speed after you encountered the Sand Sea Centipede, which has exceeded the limits of the existing human body, but you have only regained your normal mobility after a period of treatment and a few days of rehabilitation, which makes Chi Mo very interested in you. He thinks you must have a secret in your genes that keeps you in peak health after such extreme sports. ”
"So he began to approach you, wanting to investigate you, and even wanted to use your body for a final experiment, if he could get your secret, then the results of his experiments would be complete, and once he had such technology and ability, the empire would recognize the legitimacy of his experiments, erase all the shadows of his past, and let him return to the silence of the peak of his life."
"At first I just thought it would be a good thing if you could really make his experiment successful, but things are not as we all think, your arrival seems to be the last bargaining chip that God has placed here, and it has tilted all the scales."
"From the beginning of Chi Mo's approach to you, I tried to stop him unsuccessfully, and reminded you to be careful of him, but the two of you still became lovers, I don't know if Chi Mo really likes you, or simply wants to take advantage of you, so then I watched coldly and found that everything had changed."
"Before taking you to the experiment, Chi Mo said that he wanted you to take one last look at the desert that gave birth to you and raised you, so that you would not leave any regrets, so he asked people to take you out of the base, and it happened that at this time, there was a beast tide, and then you got his door card, and it happened that at this time, water seepage occurred, and you were taken to the mine."
"At that time, I still thought it was all a coincidence, but at this time, the base came to the investigation team of the imperial capital. As I told you, no one has ever embarrassed him since Chi Mo's experiment was acquiesced, but this investigation team came to this base so persistently just to investigate everything. ”
"I observed the entire investigation team, they did come to investigate the base, and the person in charge of the investigation work was indeed the deputy minister who led the team, but they had other things hidden under the investigation work, and at this time I noticed a person in the investigation team."
"This person doesn't look like a bureaucrat, he doesn't look like a clerk of the Authority, he looks more like a highly educated preacher, and I learned later that this person is coming to you, you should know, his name is Ni Yu."
An Xiaoyu was pleasantly surprised: "Ni Yu, is he still alive?" ”
"Yes, he's still alive and relentless in his search for you, he was there when he learned that the unit that finally dealt with the train wreckage and the Sand Sea Centipede was our base, but Chi Mo rejected his application due to the secrecy of the base, and lied that he didn't take in any of the victims."
"I don't know for what reason, Ni Yu went to the investigation team, and used the rights of the Three Thousand Academy to designate this base as a checkpoint, and took advantage of the beast tide and water seepage that happened at this time to enter the base smoothly."
"So when Chi Mo found him, he controlled you in the old ward, and quickly transferred you, and in order to speed up the progress of the experiment, he even directed a good show, pretending that your hiding place was breached, so you naturally became a test subject."
"But Zhang Shujie's disappearance made Ni Yu discover the clues, and following Zhang Shujie's clues, he found Nurse Liu who gave you care at the beginning, and learned of your existence, so everything in the base was revealed and brought to the sun.
"At this time, a message was sent to my terminal, asking me to go to that place and wait for you to appear, and when I met with you, I realized that it was Guan Jue standing behind your rescue operation, and I understood."
"Guan Jue is the watchman sent by the Empire, and his watchdog mission did not start from coming to the base, but from the day he went to inquire about Chi Mo's imprisonment, he had already given the order, and he accepted it. No one is better suited for the job than his viper, who is extremely good at back-handing, and he has not disappointed the Empire either. ”
"His existence, I don't know, Chi Mo doesn't know, everyone doesn't know, but it plays a fatal role."
After Chi Mo's experiment was exposed, he showed his talent, completely intensified the incident, and relied on four moves to push Chi Mo to a dead end, saving you in the first step and cutting off the progress of the experiment; The second step reminds the inspection team to seize the warehouse, start the battle, and involve the energy of the silence; The third step sent a message that made Chi Mo think that the army of the empire was coming, and he had completely lost his way out; In the fourth step, the test subjects in the sleep pod were released, and all the test personnel were killed. ”
"At this time, I finally realized that your arrival, the arrival of the beast tide, and the arrival of Ni Yu may not be a coincidence."
"Why did the empire make human trials taboo? Not just because he is inhumane and unacceptable, but because such an experiment hurts heaven and heaven, and God will not tolerate it. It must have been his experiment that had touched the taboo between heaven and earth, so that the heavens sent you, caused all the things, and made all the people involved accept the punishment they deserved. ”
"My retribution has arrived, the retribution of the experimenters who participated in the research has arrived, and the retribution of the silence should also have arrived." Bai Amaranth looked at An Xiaoyu with relief in her eyes.
An Xiaoyu was a little stunned: "What kind of retribution, God, these are all fake, there must be some reason..."
Bai Amaranth shook his head: "You haven't walked out of the Eastern Wilderness, you haven't been to the imperial capital, you don't know, there are always things in this world that are beyond the scope of human understanding, and only a few people can touch them." The Imperial Oracle's House is an open metaphysical institution, I have seen their methods before, and when you see them once, you can no longer get rid of the fear of heaven and earth. ”
"Heaven and earth are not benevolent, all things are dogs, anyone in front of the laws of heaven and earth, is not worth mentioning, once you violate the taboo, it is difficult to say what kind of fate will give you, such as death, and for example, life is better than death..."
An Xiaoyu had already realized that Bai Amaranth was really going to fail, and she cried and asked, "Why me?" ”
Bai Amaranth looked at her very carefully, as if she wanted to see her through, and seemed to want to imprint her in her last life: "No one knows why it is you, maybe one day in the future, you will know, but this requires you to keep looking." And the silence ...
She spread out her hands and held a colorful badge in her palm: "Chi Mo is being used, he is certainly guilty, but, the person who is using him behind his back, I want him to accept the result he deserves, like Chi Mo, and hold this badge... Take it! ”
As he spoke, Bai Amaranth's face became hideous, and he used all his strength to stuff the badge into An Xiaoyu's hand: "Go to the Supervision Department of the Three Thousand Academy, find the person who gave it to me in the first place, and find the culprit..."
An Xiaoyu clenched her hands and kept nodding: "Okay!" I'll go find it! ”
Bai Amaranth's voice has become weaker and weaker: "You must be the one sent by Heaven to redeem all these evils, and all the moments when you appear have an unattainable meaning, and it must be the same now." I know you are, find it, smash it, and... And the silence ... Save the silence..."
An Xiaoyu listened, she had lost the ability to think, what Bai Amaranth said, she should do what she wanted, but suddenly, she found that Bai Amaranth no longer spoke, the whole room became suffocating and silent, she wiped her tears, and when she looked into her arms again, Bai Amaranth's eyes had lost their brilliance.
This arrogant peacock finally lowered her head, finally lost her brilliance, and at the last moment of her life, she put down the disguise of her whole body and entrusted everything to An Xiaoyu. Her life was painful, but in this last moment, she left with a shallow smile, and the relief that finally came gave her endless comfort, and the crystal tears in the corners of her eyes put an end to all her sorrows.
In the quiet spare workshop, in a utility room with a closed door in the corner, a wail suddenly broke through the sky, and intermittent cries continued to echo in the empty room, as if blowing the horn of mourning, as if accompanied by a long thunder accompanied by bitter wind and rain.
An Xiaoyu put Bai Amaranth's body on the table in the utility room, looked at it for a long time, and finally cried dry her tears, her eyes were resolute and resolute, when she pulled Bai Amaranth, she looked at the woman in front of her, how many years she had lived a miserable life alone. The closest people around him, one has become a puppet to be used by others, and the other has become a betrayer lurking in the shadows.
She thought about herself, wondering if she could still hold on to her love for someone after such a blow like her, but at least now, An Xiaoyu knew that it was not time to give up. White Amaranth is dead, it's a mess outside, she has no weapons, she can't fight, she doesn't know what to do with everything. But that doesn't excuse her from hiding in this corner.
The hard badge in the palm of his hand hurt his hand, and An Xiaoyu's ears still echoed Bai Amaranth's last entrustment: "Save Chi Mo!" ”
If, An Xiaoyu thought, if I am really a person sent by heaven and destined to end all this, why can't I let these things end in the way I want? She looked up at the sky, but all she could see was the metal ceiling.
She felt that no matter what the outcome was, she should do something, at least not hide and wait for the tragic ending to take the initiative to find herself like now. But what should be done?
An Xiaoyu stood in the empty workshop, looking around in confusion.
Suddenly, her eyes lit up.