Seeing that Lu An was still dumbfounded, Tanaka Baie said it again.

"Please let me follow you."

It's just different from the first sentence when it was said so categorically, just gentle and resolute.

Lu An frowned slightly, and asked rhetorically, "Are you sure?" ”

"Yes." Tanaka Baie's tone became a little pleading, and he said, "Please let me follow you!" ”

Even if Lu An had a thousand reasons and thousands of excuses at this time, he couldn't say it to refuse Tanaka Baie, he hesitated for a while before nodding and said, "It's just that I have some personal matters to deal with first, and I may have to let you wait for a while." ”

Tanaka Momoe smiled and nodded, "Yes, as you wish." ”

So, Tanaka called a flying car from the bottom of the mountain and carried her and Lu An to Shin-Edo City, and an hour later, they appeared at the speeding vacuum train station at the Zero Airport Airport.

At this time, it was midnight in Zone Zero.

At two or three o'clock in the evening, all the buildings on Union Peak are brightly lit, and the heart and brain of the entire human world are never-resting after all. It's just that the streets are sparsely populated, there is no public transportation, and Lu An, who has returned from the asteroid belt, has also withdrawn from the army and cannot take the commuter bus of the joint command.

If it were usual, Lu An would rather walk up to Union Peak and walk to the Honorary Military Cemetery by himself. This time, thanks to Hyamoe Tanaka, she easily called a private flying car and carried the two to the foot of Union Peak.

Lu An entered the cemetery alone, Tanaka Baie did not follow in, she remembered what Lu An said, "Wait a minute", and waited outside the cemetery. From three o'clock in the morning, until four o'clock in the morning, I saw Lu An walking out of the dark and quiet cemetery.

"Sorry to keep you waiting."

Tanaka Momoe smiled and shook his head, and instead asked, "Shall we go to the Fourth District next?" ”

"Well, let's go to San Francisco on the West Coast first, I'm going to meet my mom and brother, and then we're going to Rocket City in the South Bay."

South Bay is the sea area south of the 4th District, and the coast of the South Bay is densely packed with urban agglomerations of the 4th District, which has become the core area of the entire 4th District since the development of the aerospace industry hundreds of years ago. Rocket City, on the shores of the South Bay, is home to what is now the capital of the 4th Arrondissement. Masashin Kobayashi, who is the deputy consul of the 4th district, now lives in the city.

"Let's go directly to the flying car, it's faster, I've borrowed the flying car just now, and it's convenient for us to move when we get to the fourth district."

Seeing that Lu An still had plans to take a speeding vacuum train to the fourth district, Tanaka Baie persuaded him like this.

Lu An hesitated for a moment, then nodded in agreement, after all, this time it was not just to worship his family, time waits for no one, and Kobayashi Zhengxin will not honestly wait for them in Rocket City.

The two of them came to the foot of Union Peak Mountain, and roared up in a flying car, but in only twenty minutes, they flew from Union Peak in Area Zero to the west coast of District 4. After a year, Lu An came to the Psio cemetery again, the waves of the Pacific Ocean were still tirelessly crashing against the cliff shore, and the sound of breaking the waves through the air resounded day and night, and everything around him seemed to have not changed.

The guard of the cemetery was still the enthusiastic black uncle, and when he opened the iron fence gate, he said curiously: "Lu, you came a little early this year." Did you bring your girlfriend to meet your mother? ”

Lu An smiled and shook his head, but turned to Tanaka Baie and said, "It's windy here, and it's also a private cemetery inside, so you don't have to wait outside." If you wish, follow me inside, and take shelter from the wind. ”

Tanaka Baie raised his head in surprise, looked at Lu An, and saw that he was not politely avoiding embarrassment, so he quickly nodded in agreement, and then followed him through the iron fence gate and entered the cemetery.

The iron fence door creaked shut, and the sound of the crashing waves seemed to be blocked out of the cemetery, which was different from the solemn silence of the Honorary Military Cemetery, but the deep and lonely silence, and the mist of the summer night filled the cemetery, adding a bit of mystery.

Tanaka Baie silently followed behind Lu An, feeling like walking on the edge of the two worlds of yin and yang, as if he was in the many ancient legends of the eleventh district. She raised her head and looked at the sky, the mist flowing in the night sky, but the light of Sirius and the North Star pierced the veil coldly, very different from the bright starry sky of the clear summer night in her memory.

Tanaka Baie stopped, looked up for a moment, and then looked at Lu An in front of her, who had already walked forward a dozen steps in the mist, and her figure gradually blurred, as if she was about to disappear into the deep and mysterious distant future, she hurriedly lowered her head and quickly chased after it.

I don't know how long she walked in the fog, Tanaka Baie was in a trance and thought that she was walking on a road that would never end, so when Lu An stopped, she didn't stop her steps and hit Lu An's back headfirst.

"Ahh Tanaka Baie exclaimed in a low voice before he quickly apologized: "I'm sorry, I didn't ......"

Lu An didn't look back, just shook his head and replied in a low voice: "It's okay, I stopped suddenly, I'm sorry." ”

After speaking, Lu An stretched out his hand and squatted down, and two low black shadows appeared in front of Tanaka Baie's eyes.

Although she couldn't see Lu An's movements clearly, she could tell from the voice that Lu An was brushing away the dust on the stone with his hand, and he was cleaning the two tombstones in front of him.

Tanaka Baie hurriedly reached out and took out a square towel that was used as a handkerchief in his pocket, squatted down, and handed it to Lu An. But Lu An was probably too focused, and he didn't pay attention to Tanaka Baie's movements in the night, and he didn't pay attention to her for a long time.

Tanaka Momoe had no choice but to whisper: "Use this, wipe it cleaner." ”

"Thank you!"

After Lu An took the handkerchief, Tanaka Baie, who squatted down, also saw the names on the two tombstones, although she had known the situation in Lu An's family in detail from her father before, but she still trembled in her heart and couldn't help but hold her breath.

One tombstone only reads "Mother", another says "Brother", and there is a row of small characters underneath, presumably the date or year of birth and death, but there are enough shadows in the dark night, and Tanaka Hyakue is not very real.

With only a lonely title, no other words such as names, Tanaka Baie couldn't help but feel very weird, but under this atmosphere, she had to suppress the doubts in her heart.

After a while, Lu An wiped the two tombstones, then stood up and lowered his head, as if he was staring at the two tombstones, and as if he was bowing his head and whispering.

Tanaka Baie had to take a half step back slightly, then stood up and silently accompanied Lu An to look at the two tombstones.

"Alright, let's go."

In this foggy and dark environment, Tanaka Baie's thoughts quickly became in a trance, and when she suddenly heard Lu An's words, she seemed to be awakened, she suddenly trembled and retreated, but she didn't expect that there was a low stone step behind her, and she fell backwards.

If it weren't for Lu An holding her hand in time and pulling her hard, maybe Tanaka Baie would have fallen directly.

Waiting for Tanaka Baie to stand in shock, the embarrassment in her heart could not be increased, and the exclamation she had just subconsciously exclaimed, pierced the silent and dark atmosphere in this cemetery.

"Uh......" Tanaka Momoe was glad that she was in the dark now, and Lu An couldn't quite see the embarrassed blush on her face.

"Let's go, it's dark here, watch your step."

Lu An said, handed the handkerchief back, and said, "Sorry, I soiled your handkerchief." ”

Tanaka Momoe took the handkerchief, but he didn't know what to say in embarrassment, so he just subconsciously asked, "I just saw that there was no ...... on this tombstone."

Before Tanaka Baie finished speaking, she suddenly stopped, and the embarrassed flush on her face became even worse.

It's just that Tanaka Baihui, who was facing the small stone path of the cemetery, couldn't imagine that she couldn't see Lu An's face hidden in the darkness clearly, but the starlight that pierced the mist in the sky shone down, and the faint light at the entrance of the cemetery was reflected, illuminating her face faintly, and Lu An took in her embarrassed look.

"Isn't there a name on the tombstone?"

Lu An asked rhetorically, was silent for a moment, and then shook his head and smiled bitterly: "Actually, I don't know what the reason is, when my mother died, my brother handled these things single-handedly, and it may be my mother's wish that I didn't engrave my name." Later, my brother had an accident, and he didn't say a word left, so I buried him here, so I had to follow my mother's example. ”

After speaking, Lu An gently walked down the low stone steps, and suddenly turned back and said: "Speaking of which, I don't know, if I die in the future and am buried here, what should be the name engraved on this tombstone." This is my mother, this is my brother, and what am I going to be? When I think about it, I'm a little troubled......"

For Lu An, every time he came to this cemetery in the past, he would always think that if he died one day, who would bury him?

Anna was still safe at the end of August the year before last, and she told him here that if she was not there in the future, she would also want to be buried here, so she would erect a small tombstone to the right of her mother, and accompany her mother with her brother left and right.

"Then when I die, where will I put the tombstone?"

"You're lying on my right side."

"Why are you squeezing me out! Okay, good, no squeezing, no squeezing. Alas, but I suddenly found a problem, what should I call it then......"

Then they looked at each other, and then both of them fell silent, and the topic was never brought up again.

Now, Lu An probably doesn't have to worry about no one burying him anymore, and his sister Anna may not come to squeeze the place with him anymore, and this question of what to do will be left to Anna to worry about in the future.

After all, in order to be worthy of the title on the two tombstones he erected on Mars, he had decided to take the risk alone; Even if you don't die this time, you will always die next time, and even if you don't die next time, there will be a next time......

Lu An knew that there were so many enemies in his mind, and it would probably be his sister Anna who would bury him first in the future.

Why bother so much?!

And Tanaka Baie followed Lu An back and looked at the two low tombstones, and couldn't help but think, "What are you carved?" ”

Is it a younger brother? Whose brother is it? Or is it a husband? Or is it a father? ……

However, neither son, brother, nor any other name would seem appropriate when they were next to these two tombstones in the future.

She instantly understood the meaning of Lu An's words.

"In the future, who will bury this monument?"

When Tanaka Baie turned around to look again, Lu An's figure had already walked from the darkness towards the light at the entrance of the cemetery, and she opened her mouth several times to comfort him, but she really didn't know what to say.

What could she say? Whatever the relationship, it's not appropriate to be here.

I could only sigh deeply, go down the steps, and follow closely.

(End of chapter)