On the playground of the Moon Recruit Training Base, the atmosphere was solemn and solemn, and as the "journey of the stars and the sea" came to an end, the bodies of the two sacrificed recruits were placed in the middle of the instructor queue and the recruit queue.

A guard with a gun stepped forward, and with an order, all the people present stood up and saluted, and the guard with a gun fired thirteen shots into the sky.

This ceremony, which is rare for mankind to be preserved from the pre-galactic calendar, is a unique etiquette in the army to commemorate the sacrificed soldiers.

And in such a solemn atmosphere, Lu An and Xie Silan were not in their minds and wandered out of the world. People tend to rise up in infinite reverie in the quietest time, just as the more people around them, the more lonely they are.

Both of them were in this moment, remembering similar scenes back then.

It's just that Lu Yingbang's funeral that year was not fired thirteen guns, but twenty-one salutes.

In today's space age, energy weapons have long been the mainstream, and chemical explosive weapons are only useful in the atmosphere, and they have long been squeezed to the ground.

It's like the speeding vacuum train between Lu'an and the two sides of the Pacific Rim, as well as the public transportation facilities of "ice and fire", are all remnants of the old era, and they can only be used on some very special occasions.

In order to fire the 21-shot salute, dozens of space ships were rebuilt at one time and dragged into the atmosphere.

You must know that all space warships, starting from the smelting of the materials required for construction, to the completion of their construction, to their service, maintenance, and decommissioning, are all in the space environment. Entering the atmosphere is tantamount to suicide for a warship.

Although the war was over at that time, these warships may have to face the situation of decommissioning, but it is still a very luxurious act to enter the atmosphere and burn brightly. After all, dismantling warships in space can also recycle and use a lot of materials and equipment, and after entering the atmosphere, dismantling and recycling and sending them into space is tantamount to brain-dead behavior.

However, not only was there no objection to the matter at the United Summit, but the Supreme Council immediately adopted the proposal by a large majority.

It's just that time flies, no matter how grand the funeral was back then, it has long been forgotten, and Lu Yingbang has become a name in history, and almost no one will remember it anymore. In addition to those who still remember him, such as Lu An, such as Xie Silan, such as Lu Yong.

After the firing of the gun, the instructors and recruits marched in line in front of the two crystal freezers covered with the "United Flag" and greeted each other in silence.

At the end of the ceremony, the two crystal freezer capsules covered with the "United Flag" were slowly carried back to the spacecraft, and under everyone's attention, the spacecraft slowly started its engines, then lifted off and flew away, and gradually disappeared from everyone's field of vision.

These two young men, full of hope for the future, were called from Earth to the moon, and their training at the recruit training base was nearing the end, and perhaps their bright future was close at hand, but now everything was over.

They came to the base to say goodbye to everyone, and then they were carried back to Earth by a spaceship, flew to their hometown to say goodbye to their loved ones, and then slowly faded into oblivion, as if they had never existed.

And Lu An looked at the spaceship that gradually disappeared in his field of vision, and suddenly remembered their faces in his heart. Although their faces were pale and stiff lying in the crystal freezer, it was only when Lu An stepped forward to pay a silent salute just now that they remembered their names - Thomas Cooper and Nelson Botha.

In the corner of his memory, there were still these two teenagers, although their faces did not correspond to their names, Lu An finally no longer felt a little strange.

Thinking about their young age, their relatives would have to bear the same grief as they did back in a few hours, which made Lu Anxin sigh.

Their lives came to an abrupt end in their twenties.

Boyhood?

Lu An, whose thoughts drifted into the distance, suddenly remembered that after returning to his parents' villa with his sister Anna, on those sunny and sunny afternoons, he took out a book from his father's old paper pile and read it to his sister who was not proficient in Huaxia.

She listened quietly, reading to herself, reading the stories that seemed like fairy tales at the time. In those books, there are many incredible people, many incredible stories have happened, and their behavior is so incredible that Lu An never believes that it is true.

For example, the book says that in the early days, people in their teens could be called teenagers, and people in their thirties called themselves old husbands. That's a joke!

If he is old at the age of 30, then his father is a big fool who only obtained his doctorate at the age of 28, but why does every book that mentions his father in reality not forget the evaluation of "young genius"? Even the sculpture erected for his father in the Third Military Academy has this evaluation?

If he is old at the age of thirty, then the old man in the family is eighty years old, is he already half cut into the ground? But why does everyone who mentions him say that he is in his right age? If it were put in the book, wouldn't this old man be treated as a monster?

Later, Lu An read about an eighty-year-old fishing man who assisted a hero in building a huge empire, but he scoffed at these books even more, isn't this old man also in his eighties?!

So later, when Lu An was forced to sell his parents' villa for his livelihood, he did not hesitate to abandon the pile of waste paper. I and my sister don't have a place to put these things in our home, not to mention, even if you want to collect your parents' relics, anything else is much better than these nonsense papers.

However, since he talked more and more with Lin Yonghuan, he gradually regretted that his original actions seemed to be a little too reckless.

The books in his father's collection seem to be some great knowledge. I read it to my sister at that time, but I didn't even have a tenth of it, and what I had an impression of was even more fragmented to one percent.

The things left behind by my father were destroyed with a flick of my hand.

Now whenever Lu An recalls the knowledge brought to him on the pile of paper, he regrets very much that the treasure left to him by his father was lost by himself.

Because of this, Lu An is now insisting in the "Heart of Shadows", hoping to find more clues about his father, and he certainly doesn't allow himself to miss it again.

Not to mention, his mysterious and powerful brother may have followed his father here. The elder brother in the real world has almost nothing left, but there must be evidence of his brother's existence in the organization of "Shadow Heart". One day, I will have to walk the path that my brother once walked, to follow in the footsteps of my father.

According to the paper left by his father, he was absurd and naïve in his "youth", and he made mistakes again and again in his teens. However, at that time, Lu An never regretted those afternoons.

Her sister crawled on the floor, blinking the long eyelashes of her eyes, curiously listening to herself read the words, her smile being the best consolation for her age when everything was wrong.

"Boyhood", once a teenager was considered a teenager, and now a teenager is still a teenager. Probably the good times are all boyhoods!

Young and frivolous......

Lu An read the word from his father's book, but unfortunately the boy named Thomas Cooper was already young before he had time to be frivolous, and this Nelson Botha was also young before he had time to be frivolous.

If they were alive, they would surely be like they are now, hating the group of people who attacked the day before yesterday, and gritting their teeth with hatred.

"In that case, I have written down your hatred, and I can't let go of any of those people."

Lu An said silently to the sky that had long since disappeared.

At the end of the ceremony, the chief instructors of the base training announced that they were disbanded and returned to the dormitory to rest.

After all, most of the people in the base had only returned to the base this morning, and after the chaotic scene the day before yesterday, and being interrogated like that by the special services of the gendarmerie, many of them were exhausted to the extreme after attending the farewell ceremony of their comrades.

Lu An glanced at Xie Silan, who was standing in front of him staring at him, and felt a tremor in his heart, wondering if she still remembered yesterday's events, so she quickly shrank her head and turned around and ran.

My sister said that women are very vindictive, and they will not forget it even after ten years.

At that time, Lu An still didn't believe it, but Anna easily educated him with facts. She crossed her fingers and easily counted some of Lu An's "crimes" since she saw her, and even the time and place were clear, so Lu An, who had a vague memory, didn't believe it.

Therefore, Lu An is convinced that the current Xie Silan definitely remembers the fact that she teased her when they met yesterday afternoon. If you don't run away quickly, will she let her grab herself and beat herself in front of hundreds of people?

And Xie Silan saw Lu An running away and opened her mouth, but she didn't know how to stop him.

Could it be that he also remembered the teacher's matter? This child never refused to give in in front of him, always pretending to laugh and scold and not care, but refused to say a soft word. Alas, forget it, let him go. ”

Soon after Lu An trotted all the way back to the dormitory, there were recruits from the same dormitory who came back one after another with tired steps, lying down and falling asleep. The base also knows this situation, and deliberately put a day off for everyone today.

Ten minutes later, Lu An was also confused by the shouts one after another, and was about to lie down and sleep comfortably, when a piercing emergency assembly order suddenly sounded in his ears.

When I sat up from the bed in a daze, I remembered the sound of "cordial greetings" in various languages.

"What's the matter? Emergency assembly or surprise attack? ”

While scolding and scolding, everyone woke up some people who were still sleeping in bed, and those who were still sleeping at this time were basically similar to suspended animation, and they couldn't wake up without slapping them hard or kicking them out of bed. After that, Lu An rushed to the playground with the flow of people.

It was probably this time that the prisoners were so angry that the playground was no longer as silent as it was at the noon assembly, but there was a low buzzing sound, and various versions of the "physiological hygiene" greeting could be heard everywhere. If you look at the chief instructor standing on the edge of the playground with an ugly face, you can know who everyone greets.

After everyone arrived, the chief instructor of the base scolded loudly: "Rabbit cubs, you will grow guts if you don't see each other for two days?!" If the gendarmerie still has this role, I'll throw you bunnies into the gendarmerie again in the next training!" ”

After the "cordial greeting" stopped for a moment, he said loudly again: "I know that you are not satisfied, but if you get on the warship in the future, you will still be like this, be careful that the captain throws you out of the ship and drifts in space!" Also, this emergency assembly is to convey the first-level combat readiness order that has just been received. ”

Everyone was in an uproar immediately, "first-class combat readiness"? Is this going to war again? Is there another interstellar war between Mars and Earth?

"The Lunar Command has ordered that all personnel and equipment of our base immediately assemble at the designated location. Disbanded now, all transferred in ten minutes, hurry up——!!! Let's all take action, what are you doing here, quick! ”

The recruits who had just gathered on the playground suddenly dispersed in a hurry, and Lu An, who was running with the flow of people, was a little dazed.

"Level 1 combat readiness? Mass transfer? ”