Snow is falling.

Jiang Muyin walked down the street with a black umbrella, the night of Christmas Eve was very lively, and a huge Christmas tree was erected in the center of the city, and small hanging lights of various colors were inserted between the leaves and branches.

From time to time, you can see young people dressed in Santa Claus costumes on both sides of the street, handing out small gifts.

Although the front line is suffering from a violent onslaught, and people are dying every minute, Norton in the rear still maintains his own rhythm of life.

This Christmas Eve has not changed because of the war, and it is still happy.

Running on both sides of the street were children dressed in little Santa Claus costumes, all of whom looked about the same age as Jiang Muyin. Some are in elementary school, and some are in junior high school.

"Are you in the COS military? It's very handsome. A boy saw Jiang Muyin with a black umbrella and stepped forward to say hello, "Do you want to play with us?" He said and held out his hand.

Jiang Muyin was stunned for a moment, then shook his head slightly, "No, thank you for the invitation." I still have some things. ”

"What's the matter? Let's come along. As he spoke, the boy reached out and grabbed Jiang Muyin's wrist, laughed and ran away with him.

"Hey......" Jiang Muyin shook off the boy's hand, how could his hand that he had practiced swords all year round not be something that an ordinary peer could grasp, "I really have something." ”

The boy scratched his face in embarrassment, "So where do you want to go?" You don't know you're Norton, right, my local can show you the way. ”

"I'm going to the Messianic Cathedral in Norton." Jiang Muyin patted the snow on his body and held an umbrella, "I know where the road is, thank you for your kindness." ”

"Ah, you're going there too." The boy was a little surprised, "I'm going too, together?" ”

Jiang Muyin smiled and shook his head, "You go first, I plan to walk over slowly, I haven't been so leisurely for a long time." ”

"Oh no, right? The curriculum in junior high school is not so tight. The boy said, "Could it be that you still participate in after-school tuition?" ”

Jiang Muyin was stunned, he hadn't talked to a normal person like this for a long time, he had been in that base for several months, and he was more often in the base when he went to Star No. 2. He didn't even know that he was a little out of touch with the world, and his speech seemed stereotypical.

"Sort of." He thought for a moment and said.

"That's really hard." The boy waved his hand at him, "Then I'll go first, and the sacrament will be gone if it's late." ”

"Holy Communion?" Jiang Muyin remembered that he had not engaged in religious activities for several months, although he still prayed every morning and evening.

He soon walked to the Norton Satellite Memorial Plaza, which was not a satellite from outer space, but a planet to be defended.

This square is close to that Christmas tree square in the city center, but it's quiet here. The black monument was marked with names one by one, and now there were more people on it.

From time to time, someone walks in, puts down a lit candle, and clasps their hands together or clasps their hands. Someone put down the candle and covered his face and cried bitterly, someone put down the candle and lit a cigarette, and the faint light of the fire illuminated the haggard face.

Now the entire memorial square is filled with a sea of candles, and the snow does not extinguish these fires, but makes them burn more vigorously.

Jiang Muyin also put down a candle, this was a five-yuan gadget he bought in the shop next to the street before entering the square, but this represented a broken heart.

And how many have died? When will this end? Does it have to be until the fire of civilization is completely extinguished and the entire human race is wiped out?

Jiang Muyin asked himself in his heart, what can I do?

Holding the sword and not holding the power, he is a pawn after all.

The pawn can't change the world, he can only charge.

The voice hidden in the depths of his heart has been saying to him, "Go and hold the quanbing of the world, it is right in front of you, you just need to reach out and take it...... Hold it! Go hold it! ”

Of course, Jiang Muyin also wanted to hold on to power, but he vaguely always felt that if he stretched out his hand, he would definitely lose something.

Thinking so, he had already walked to the river bridge. He put his hand on the fence of the bridge, looking at the great river that crossed under his feet, and even then it was not frozen.

There were several passenger boats adrift on the river, lonely.

Jiang Muyin retracted his gaze and continued to walk forward, but he didn't expect to bump into a person head-on as soon as he turned around, maybe that person ran too fast and fell down after hitting Jiang Muyin.

"Are you alright?" Jiang Muyin felt that he also had part of the responsibility, and stretched out his hand to pull that person up.

"It's over...... The cake is ruined......" The man ignored Jiang Muyin's outstretched hand, but cared about the cake in the cardboard box that had been shattered, and the cream spilled out of the broken mouth of the box.

"Maple Bell?" Jiang Muyin was stunned, he heard it very clearly, it was clearly Jiang Fengling's sister's voice.

"Huh?" The girl with the hood on the ground lifted her hat, and when she saw the person on it, her mouth suddenly opened wide, "Brother? Why are you here? ”

"You are, didn't you follow General Marshall to a military meeting? How is it here? Jiang Muyin grabbed Jiang Fengling, pulled her up from the ground, and patted the snow on her body.

"The meeting was postponed, and I heard that we had to wait until everyone arrived, but I didn't understand what it meant. It was only when I came out of the military headquarters in the afternoon that I remembered that today was your brother's birthday. Jiang Fengling scratched her head and laughed embarrassedly, "I heard that in the past, it was Mama Sesenseth who celebrated your birthday, and I haven't seen you have a birthday party in all these years." I used to think about holding a birthday party for my brother, but I always forgot it, and I can't forget it when I think about it this time...... Now the cake ......" Speaking of this, Jiang Fengling smiled a little bitterly.

Don't look at her now as a lieutenant-level officer, but the salary she can receive every month is not much, because this is an extraordinary period, where can the military department still pay her salary with extra money?

Especially some time ago, the Black Feather Dragon Sparrow stirred up the financial market and the stock market in Fei Lengcui, and the Warren index is still in its original state, and there is no room for it to rise at all.

This made the already tight military budget of Norton even worse, especially since the war broke out on the front line recently, and the military department could not open the pension for the soldiers who died in the war alone. I heard that the generals in the military department have not received their salaries for three months, let alone the captains below?

"It's okay, it's okay to eat, it's always bad to waste food." Saying that, Jiang Muyin bent down and lifted the deformed box, "Look, it's just a little cream coming out, and most of it is still intact." ”

"But it's your birthday, brother!" Jiang Fengling was in a hurry, and couldn't help but say that she was about to take away the cardboard box in Jiang Muyin's hand, "This kind of cake is defective, brother, you don't want your birthday to be defective, right?" Let's go buy another one! ”

"No need." Jiang Muyin pressed her sister's hand and gently hugged her, "Birthday doesn't look at whether there is a cake or not, it's just a matter of whether there is someone with you." For my birthday, it's enough to have my sister with me. ”

"Brother......" Jiang Fengling leaned on his chest, "You are really ......"17...Friends who read books, you can search for "Blue Chinese Network", and you can find this site as soon as possible.