It's as dark as night, like a pair of eyes of mine, and the distance that I can't see clearly is missing.

On the vast field, the warm wind blows, tugging at people's heartstrings and playing a lullaby of homesickness. When the last rays of light on the distant horizon broke, the stars replaced the sun, drizzling like silk and spilling over the vast land.

Bite!

On the dark earth, a towering lighthouse lit up. The top of the nearly 10,000-meter-high lighthouse can only accommodate two people to stand, and the top is the large searchlight that turns around in ten seconds.

I am a navigator in the dark night, a guiding light on people's way forward. I'm Lao Zhang, I've lived in the lighthouse for more than 30 years, I've seen countless spaceships, and I've experienced countless thrilling moments.

Tonight, it makes no difference.

Every night, Lao Zhang will take the elevator in the lighthouse and rise to a height of 10,000 meters, in addition to checking the searchlight as usual, is to appreciate the starry sky closer to the sky than others. A long time ago, Lao Zhang moved up to a recliner, and every time after checking the searchlight, he would lie down and look at the endless starry sky, and every time in addition to lamenting his insignificance, only endless loneliness remained.

Tick Tick!

The prompt on the lighthouse sounded, Lao Zhang quickly stood up, ran to the telescope fixed on the lighthouse, and through the thick tube, he saw a flashing red light in the distance. Lao Zhang hurriedly controlled the searchlight to shine in that direction, and at the same time let the searchlight flash again and again, according to the different flickering frequencies, different signals could be transmitted, hoping that the spacecraft in the distance could see it.

The spaceship was flying at a very fast speed, like a snail in Lao Zhang's eyes. In addition to this ship, there are several smaller ships flying around this huge ship not far away.

When the huge spaceship was still a thousand kilometers away from the lighthouse, two rows of red light lit up on the spaceship, and then more than a dozen beams of light were seen shooting towards the lighthouse. A beam of light struck the lighthouse's waist, causing the top half of the lighthouse to fall diagonally towards the ground.

Lao Zhang hugged the telescope tightly, didn't even care about the recliner behind him, and watched the sky fall in front of him.

With a bang, the lighthouse's searchlight fell to the ground and shattered. Lao Zhang also rolled out of it all at once. A large bag on his forehead was one of the main reasons why he fainted.

The Shark Empire's sneak attack directly triggered the eighteenth Territory War.

Lao Zhang is not young anymore, and he is lying in the hospital again, even if he is given a weapon, he will not be able to fight. The comminuted fracture of his left leg and the recurrence of rheumatism in his knee tortured Lao Zhang to death. The left leg, which was fixed with steel plates and steel nails, was no longer able to move, and the trembling refund seemed to tell Lao Zhang: You will be in a wheelchair for the next few days.

After a few days, Lao Zhang was able to move independently in a wheelchair on his own. In the past few days, Lao Zhang has been following this war, mainly through newspapers. Every morning, Lao Zhang would get up from bed, push his wheelchair, and find a quiet place to read the newspaper.

Even in today's incomparably advanced technology and network, the role of newspapers is still irreplaceable, even if there are various ways of information transmission, but paper is the oldest and most direct and authentic way.

The armies of the Shark Empire have broken in, many places have been cut off from the Internet and electricity, and when no information can be transmitted and sent in, newspapers have been repurposed as the only means of transmitting information.

The whole newspaper was about who did what in this war, who saved how many people, who was hospitalized and who was discharged. On the back of the newspaper, there was a large area with lines of names written on them, and those were the names of the fallen soldiers.

Most of the contents of the newspaper are different every day, but one sentence is always printed on the front of the newspaper: good will eventually triumph over evil, and we will win!

Lao Zhang's hospital is not too far from the front line, and many wounded people are sent in every day. A few days ago, the dean found him and said that there were not enough beds in the hospital, and since Lao Zhang, you are fine, or you should be discharged.

That night, Lao Zhang secretly left the hospital alone, and no one visited him in the hospital for a few days, his family and his friends seemed to have forgotten him, or perhaps, family and friends didn't know that he was still alive.

Lao Zhang didn't have many things, just a water glass, a few newspapers, a pair of scissors, a pen and a thick little notebook. Lao Zhang often uses scissors to cut out some useful information and clip it in a small notebook after reading a newspaper, and when he has tape or glue on hand, he will stick it on. He had a book like this before, but as the lighthouse withered, it went with the wind and couldn't find it. In the past few days, he has started the habit of cutting newspapers again.

After leaving the hospital, Lao Zhang wanted to go home, so he bought a ticket home. On the way to the station, he saw many people leaving their homes with their families. These passers-by all had sad faces on their faces, and some of them looked tired.

Lao Zhang didn't know what to say, so he could only silently walk into the station and get on the train.

Lao Zhang's hometown was far away from the war and was not affected by the war. He hasn't been home for thirty or forty years, and he doesn't know what happened to his family, whether his parents are still alive, whether his relatives and friends are still alive? He didn't know at all, and his hometown was even more timid, although he was mentally prepared.

Lao Zhang's hometown is a small mountain village, there are only 100 families in the village, and now thirty or forty years have passed, and earth-shaking changes have taken place, the roads in the village are wider, the houses are more taller and more gorgeous, the dazzling cars are parked on the side of the road or driving on the road, and the shops on the side of the road are lined up, and the façade is high-end and gorgeous. The whole village has evolved into a small city.

Where is Lao Zhang's home?

Lao Zhang followed the route in his memory, walking step by step, looking at the strange houses on both sides, he felt that he had come to a strange place.

He knew that no matter how much a village changes, some buildings will remain. What was once the only primary school in the village is now a museum, with a new primary school that covers a larger area, has larger classrooms and is more state-of-the-art. His home is just across the street from the back of the elementary school, and Lao Zhang turns into an alley, and the second home is his home, the former home.

Now, in front of Lao Zhang is an unfamiliar gate, a five-meter-high wall, with two Fu characters hanging on the gate, the red gate looks thick, and there is a camera in the upper right corner. Lao Zhang looked at it and decided to forget it, more than 40 years have passed, and this place has long been inhuman.

Lao Zhang found a restaurant, ate, and when he came out, he found that he had nowhere to go.

When most of the country's land is encroached upon, everyone must have the awareness and determination to defend the country. Although Lao Zhang is old, he still has strength, and he wants to pay a little effort to protect his family and defend the country. Now that the war is tense and recruiting troops everywhere, Lao Zhang tried several times, but was rejected, all of which were due to his age.

In addition to the time when the state is recruiting, a local armed force is also actively acting. Those who are old, weak, sick and disabled, women and children do not want to hide behind the state, do not want the country to shelter themselves from the wind and rain while they have nothing to do.

Lao Zhang saw a notice that there was an ammunition manufacturing factory recruiting stevedores. Lao Zhang looked at it, hey, this is okay.

This is a private military factory, and every bullet made in it is not tested by hand. This is an easy, simple, boring and repetitive job, but in Lao Zhang's opinion, it is too suitable for himself.

The person in charge of the factory looked at the resume provided by Lao Zhang and asked: Have you ever been the navigator of the lighthouse?

Lao Zhang nodded.

You can't be the one in the city next door, right?

Lao Zhang was directly stunned, because he heard his father's name from a person he had never met. Lao Zhang moved forward excitedly.

Do you know my father's name?

I think you haven't been home for more than ten years, right? Your father died more than a decade ago, and your mother died five or six years ago. By the way, you still have a younger brother, right? He is now the owner of a company. If you have time, you might as well go home and have a look.

After the person in charge of the factory saw Lao Zhang's name and home address, he felt very cordial, and he couldn't help but say a few more words.

Lao Zhang shook his head. His younger brother was only two years old when he saw him for the last time, and he had no impression of him at all, and now that more than 40 years have passed, the blood relationship has long been diluted, let alone any family affection.

Well, in that case, let's do it with me first, and whenever you want to go home, you can do it at any time.

Lao Zhang received a meal card, some quilts, pillows and work clothes, and found his dormitory. The dormitory in the factory is either a double room or a single room, the environment is very good, the dormitory is spacious and bright, with an independent bathroom, and the usual rent, electricity and water bills are paid in the factory, and they don't have to spend a penny. In order to take care of Lao Zhang, the factory assigned him a double room, and if there is any hardship in his usual life, at least there is a help.

After arranging everything, Lao Zhang began to work.

The offensive of the Shark Empire was like a bamboo, and Lao Zhang's country was losing one after another. The scales of victory in the war began to slowly tilt in favor of the Shark Empire.

Lao Zhang works day after day, and there is nothing to worry about. On this day, Lao Zhang came to the factory in a wheelchair as usual, and continued to check the bullets one by one and put them in the box.

Suddenly, there was a loud bang, all the lights in the factory went out, and electric sparks appeared everywhere.

It turned out that the Shark Empire had secretly launched an ultra-long-range electromagnetic bomb. This electromagnetic bomb suddenly appeared from the atmosphere at such a speed that no interceptor missile could intercept it. The electromagnetic bomb exploded when it was still more than 100 meters above the ground, and the electromagnetic wave generated swept away like a huge wave.

All the equipment that used electricity was paralyzed, including Lao Zhang's electric wheelchair.

Lao Zhang could only pull his wheelchair and walked out of the factory little by little, and when he came out, the scene he saw was like the end of the world. Plumes of smoke billed from the tall buildings in the distance, the streets were filled with people running to tell each other, and several burning cars were parked on the side of the road.

This...... Is this already called?

Lao Zhang looked at the tall buildings in the distance and couldn't help but worry.

No, the front line is still thousands of kilometers away from here, and if it continues to lose ground and cannot recover its inferiority, it will sooner or later become part of the battlefield.

Just when people thought that this war was difficult to turn around, an oolong incident occurred on the side of the Shark Empire. It turned out that the Shark Empire itself was secretly developing biological and chemical weapons, but he didn't expect to let others suffer before they were put into the battlefield. After this incident was exposed, there were disagreements within the Shark Empire, and there were more and more opponents, unable to withstand the pressure of public opinion, and the Shark Empire canceled the development plan of biological and chemical weapons. This matter is not so simple to end, because of this time, the people of the Shark Empire have a crisis of confidence in the Shark Empire, causing many factories to strike and people to take to the streets to demonstrate. For a while, it actually slowed down the pace of the Shark Empire's attack.

Lao Zhang's country finally had a chance to breathe, and took this opportunity to regroup and recapture several important cities in one fell swoop. And because of the defeat on the battlefield, the Shark Empire once again lost the trust of the people, and many soldiers became war-weary. As a result, a vicious circle has arisen on the side of the Shark Empire, which is a great thing for Lao Zhang's country.

As the Shark Empire retreated step by step and was finally driven out of the atmosphere, Lao Zhang's country, the Republic of Mountains and Rivers, won the final victory.

The amount of work to recover after the war was enormous, and Lao Zhang returned to new work.

Just when people thought that this war was over, the Shark Empire actually used a return pistol and caught the Republic of Mountains and Rivers by surprise. Under the guise of retreating, the Shark Empire secretly sent its most elite troops to touch the rear of the Mountain and River Republic. When the whereabouts of this elite force were revealed, all the remaining troops on the side of the Shark Empire were sent to the front line, whether they were wounded or not, just to delay the frontline troops of the Mountain and River Republic for a second.

However, the disparity in combat power between the two sides was too great, and some people had already seen that they were cannon fodder, so a voice began to spread among the crowd, that is, surrender. So, before the battle began, it was already over. When the elite unit was about to make a move, in addition to seeing a group of old, weak, sick, disabled doctors, nurses and wounded, a group of nearly 1,000 well-equipped soldiers suddenly appeared and surrounded this elite force of less than 100 people.

At this point, the invasion of the Shark Empire ended in failure. The Shark Empire paid a heavy price for the ransom of nearly a million captives, and signed a series of treaties that made it impossible for the Shark Empire to wage another war for hundreds of years.

Lao Zhang looked at the blue sky again, and couldn't help sighing, his hometown was lost and regained, but it didn't belong to him. When everything was calm, at night, Lao Zhang came to a cliff by the sea, where he quietly waited for the night to come.

Many years later, people fished a wheelchair out of the sea. In the mezzanine of the wheelchair, a small notebook was found, which contained several sections cut out of a newspaper, and these dozens of sections all told the same story, that is, the changes of a certain mountain village over the decades.

Finish.

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