Nexus World, in the evening, at the door of a newspaper.

Lone Gate held a rolled-up piece of printer paper with the contents of a newspaper from a few years ago.

The most obvious place on the paper was a photocopy of a girl in the flames and smoke of the explosion, the girl was only thirteen or fourteen years old, she kept running in the face of an explosion that would kill ordinary people at any moment, and her face was palpable with fear.

Next to the photograph is a caption and headline of the news — a report on the brutality of the war, which was published a few years ago by the same newspaper that Gumen now has arrived.

The annotation in parentheses below the photo indicates the name of the person who took the photo - Ji Yajun.

"We don't have someone named Himiya here."

In response to Gumen's request to see the person named "Ji Ya Zhun" in the newspaper office, the security guard who guarded the door replied with certainty that there was no one named Ji Ya Jun in the newspaper after thinking carefully and checking the record book.

"How so? This photo is issued by this newspaper, and it is clearly the name of Ji Yazhun on it. ”

Lone showed a copy of the newspaper he found on the Internet to the security guard.

"Really," the security guard nodded, and quickly explained, "but there is really no one named Ji Yazhun in this newspaper, and this name is only the name of the photographer, not the name of the writer, maybe the newspaper bought it from a reporter?" This is a very normal thing. ”

"This ......"

Lone Gate was a little disappointed.

He had come back with a copy of the newspaper in his hand because of the partial memories of the man who had transformed into Nexus that had flooded into his mind that day after touching the coffin.

Among the many memory fragments passed down by that person, only this scene is the clearest, and even just recalling this picture, you can feel the endless remorse in that person.

For this reason, Lone Gate deliberately took a leave of absence, found this picture through the computer and the Internet outside the base, and learned the name of the photographer Ji Yazhun.

This is from a newspaper from a few years ago, and the person who took the photo was called Jun Himiya.

However, when he tried to search for "Himiya Jun" on the Internet by this name to find his photo, and compare it with the physiognomy of the Nexus human body he saw that day, he found that there was almost no information about the word "Himiya Jun" on the Internet.

In desperation, he had no choice but to go to the newspaper office that issued the newspaper to see if he could find this person named Himiya Jun, but now he found nothing.

"Sorry to interrupt."

Gumen apologized to the security guard, then turned to leave, preparing to find the man named Himiya Jun by other means.

"Please wait a minute," a somewhat hesitant woman's voice called out to Gumen, "Excuse me, do you know Ji Yajun?" ”

A white-collar woman who had just come out of the door of the newspaper office walked up to the lonely door and asked.

……

Inside the newspaper office, in the woman's office.

The woman, who identified herself as Megumi Sakuda, worked at the newspaper, and after receiving an affirmative reply from Lone, she took him to her office.

"Although he is not very old, he is a top-notch photographer and journalist in the industry," Sakuda Hui sighed, sitting across from the lonely door, "When he quit a few years ago, I also held on many times. ”

"Resigned, why?"

Puzzled asked.

Even if he's Ultraman, he shouldn't have to resign, right?

Destroying Xenomorphs and protecting ordinary people doesn't have to happen all the time, and besides, the time for Ultraman's transformation should be extremely limited, right? You don't have to fight all the time, so there's no need to quit at all.

"Because of this photo," there was a table between Gumen and Saku, on which was a copy of the newspaper that Gumen had printed and brought with him, and Saku put his finger on the photo of the girl in the smoke of gunfire, his expression was a little gloomy, "This photo he took with his own hands was torturing him." ”

"In the past, he was no, it should be said that he has always been a 'hot-blooded young man', like the protagonist in many hot-blooded boy comics, he has a strong sense of justice and responsibility, especially as a talented reporter with excellent ability."

"He goes in and out of all corners of society and industries, constantly using the camera in his hand to reveal those unhealthy practices and hidden filth," Sajiu said in a complicated tone, "but because of this, he touched the interests of many people, and also received revenge from those people." ”

"Revenge?!"

Lonedoor's eyes widened.

"Ji Ya used to be a very well-known journalist in the industry, and what he exposed can often cause a lot of repercussions and dissemination, even if vested interests will use all means to cover up the report after it comes out, but it is impossible to erase all his influence after all."

"So those people's interests were ultimately lost because of Mr. Himiya, so they started to take revenge on him for this?"

Lone guessed.

Saku nodded silently.

"How can this be!"

Lone Gate clenched his fists.

"If there are more and more righteous and enthusiastic reporters like Ji Ya, more secrets will be revealed, and then those people will suffer greater losses, so in order to prevent others from following Ji Ya's example, so ......"

It is necessary to curb the "unhealthy tendencies" of journalists who report on those gray or even black interests for the sake of justice, and to let the journalists who do such things be duly "punished" in order to warn others who think in this way.

Saku didn't say the second half of the sentence, and there was no need to say it.

Lone Gate clenched his fists, the powerful explosive power hidden in his muscles, after transforming into Tiga, he could easily wipe out a mountain, but at this moment he only felt powerless.

"Because of all kinds of retribution, and even prejudice in the industry, Ji Ya, who was originally innocent and hot-blooded, still maintained justice, but he no longer believed in anyone, and he stuck to justice, and finally pushed himself into a dead end step by step."

Saku sighed.

"Then what happened to Mr. Himeya?"

Lone Door hurriedly asked.

In the end, the desperate Ji Ya chose to leave Yingzhou, although he was still an employee of the newspaper at that time, but the place of work was on the battlefield.

"Battlefield?!"

He went to a war-torn region, and in a world where there were only two paths, life and death, he stepped into it with the consciousness of death. Later, when he returned from a lost soul, he cried bitterly and confided in me for the first time about his experience on the battlefield. ”

"He was wounded on a dangerous battlefield, and although his injuries were not serious, he developed an infection from them, and his life was in danger when he was alone in that place where medical conditions were extremely poor. Fortunately, a local little girl accidentally found him almost unconscious. ”

"The girl took him home, took care of him, and tried to treat him with local herbs, and finally with the girl's efforts, he was out of danger and gradually regained his health."

"The girl's name is Serra, a local who lost her parents because of the war, and after she rescued Himiya, she lived with Himiya, treating him as her brother, and Himiya also regarded her as her own sister."

"So they became family in that dangerous battlefield, and in that place full of death and danger, Serra, who was like a sister, became the spiritual pillar of Himiya at that time."

"This Serra, is this the little girl in the photo?!"

A sense of foreboding surged out of Lone's heart.

"Yes," Saku nodded, "This photo was taken by Himiya himself at that time." He said he would never forget the day when he and Serra were playing together by the river when he heard gunfire in the woods in the distance. ”

So he immediately went back to his house with Serra, grabbed his camera, told Serra to hide in the house and not run around, and then turned and rushed to the battlefield.

"Serra, went to find him?"

When Gumen asked this sentence, he felt that his breath was almost stagnant.

"Well," Saku nodded, and continued, "Actually, from a professional point of view, that photo is not clear enough, with Himeya's technology and camera quality, it is possible to take a clearer photo, and the reason why I didn't shoot it is because ......"

"Ji Ya, who was lying on his stomach and taking a photo, immediately noticed the familiar figure inside after taking a certain photo, so he immediately adjusted the focus and enlarged the picture in the camera, so he saw Serra, who rushed into the battlefield to find him."

Saku said in a deep voice, "He said that he had just seen Serra's figure in the camera when he saw Serra running towards him in surprise, and then her small figure was enveloped by a ball of fire rising from the ground, and then disappeared completely. ”

"Ji Ya only thinks that Serra has always been well-behaved and obedient and understanding as a younger sister, but he ignores that a child who is only twelve or thirteen years old at most, even if he is precocious, how can he still remain calm when his only current relative is actively involved in danger?"

Saku sighed deeply: "Himiya originally stepped into the battlefield with the consciousness of death, but he witnessed the death of his most important person there because of his own fault. ”

"Ironically, the photo was discovered by the editor-in-chief by chance, so the editor-in-chief took a screenshot of the photo of Serra running through the gunfire and smoke, enlarged it, signed Himiya's name, and published it in the newspaper of the day."

"Subsequently, the photograph that brought him countless remorseful remorseful and remorseful repercussions caused a strong reaction in society, and later became widely acclaimed as a series of photographs taken on the battlefield, and was nominated for an internationally prestigious journalism award, which made him even more painful."

"What's even more ironic," said Saku's tone, was deeply sad, "because the reason for 'calling attention to war and leading to peace' was that Himeya, who agreed with the newspaper to publish the photos, later found out that the whole world was affected by those photos......"

"Only those war zones have not been affected in the slightest."

……

With a copy of paper in his hand, the lonely man left the newspaper office in despair.

It was already completely dark, and Lone walked silently on the road.

"Please wait a minute."

A familiar voice sounded behind him, and Lone Gate turned his head quickly.

Ji Yazhun stood behind him and said to him, "Do you have time to talk?" ”