Chapter 45: Chinese New Year's Eve
When Brunhilde awoke from his coma, he felt as heavy and numb as lead all around him, and his eyes were pitch black. As soon as she tried to raise her hand, she felt a sharp pain in her chest, and a stream of blood rushed up, almost spurting out of her throat.
She had to stay still, trying to keep her breathing as smooth and weak as she could, for each breath would also cause the pain of a broken sternum. I don't know how long she stayed like this, because every minute was as hard as a year and she lost her accurate judgment criteria. The snowflakes that fell on her face made her realize that her face was exposed; But the cold steel that surrounded her body made her realize that her body was still in a mech; The sound of the waves around her made her understand that she was still adrift on the sea; The cold air cleared her mind, recalling the Sunset Goddess before it exploded. Eventually, her sight regained, and a figure with her back to her gradually appeared in front of her, and some faint sounds faintly reached her ears.
"Thank you for taking us here, but you can't go any further." It turned out to be the voice of that nasty ghost! "See what I'm saying? You're about to get close to the shore, you're so big, you'll run aground if you swim any further. ”
Who is he talking to?
"Let's go, we'll swim the rest by ourselves." The pesky turned around, not wearing a mech, only a one-piece pilot suit that the driver came to standard, and a jacket. He leaned towards him, and Brunhilde struggled to get rid of him, but as soon as he tried to move, it hurt terribly, so he had to stay where he was.
"You're awake." When the figure squatted down, the contours of the face became clear, and it was indeed the face of the nasty ghost Hong Yuesheng.
You don't come here.
Brunhilde tried to yell at him, but the mecha's oppressed chest kept her from making a sound, and instead the smell of blood flowed down her throat. "You're badly injured, I'm going to get you out of the mech. Then swim together to the shore. ”
I don't want you to touch me! I hurt so much!
"I know, I know." Although Brunhilde didn't actually say a word, Hong Yuesheng seemed to understand. He suddenly raised his hand and pointed to the sky, "Look what that is!" There's a shooting star! ”
Brunhilde looked at the sky in the distance, dark clouds covered the moon, where did the meteor come from, who are you fooling! Your trick to deceive children......
"Ah!!h
Before Brunhilde could finish cursing in his heart, Hong Yuesheng forcefully moved her breastplate. Brunhilde almost fainted in pain, but was finally picked up from the broken wreckage by Hong Yuesheng. The beloved red mecha slipped into the sea, sinking into the dark underwater world under the tuft of water bubbles, permanently separated from himself.
"Bear with me a little longer."
"You ......bastard" Without the pressure of the breastplate, Brunhilde could just speak, but before he could refuse, Hong Yuesheng had already pulled off the manual rescue pull button outside the Brunhilde mecha pilot's suit, the life vest was inflated and opened, and then her whole person was sent into the water by Hong Yuesheng, and the pilot's suit couldn't resist the coldness of the seawater, and the already numb wound felt the stinging sensation deep into the bone marrow, Brunhilde spasmed violently, and trembled uncontrollably. But she gritted her teeth and didn't want Hong Yuesheng to hear her again.
Seeing that Brunhilde's life jacket was still working normally, Hong Yuesheng put on the emergency survival kit he had taken off the mecha on his back, slid into the water, and then patted the companion he had just talked to. It was then that Brunhilde realized that it was a huge whale floating on the surface of the sea!
"Listen to me," Hong Yuesheng said to the whale, "if you can understand what I say." ”
Idiot, how can a whale understand what you say!
"Go find another manta ray to come here, they must still be looking for us, and they won't leave us for a long time. If you are really Lisa, you should feel the radio waves that are close to you. Hong Yuesheng touched the whale's head and said, "Do you understand? ”
The whale gently arched its head towards Hong Yuesheng's body, and let out a low long roar.
"Don't you understand? …… Still can't do it. Hong Yuesheng pressed his hand to the heart and sighed, because the artificial heart reacted every time Lisa woke up, he guessed that although Lisa's main body disappeared with the manta ray generation, there were still residual memories left in the CPU (central processing unit) in the mechanical heart, and in this way, it affected the mind of the sperm whale, which was also disturbed by the electromagnetic waves released when the manta generation collapsed. But apparently the tiny heart CPU could not maintain Lisa's normal thinking and functioning, and the brilliance of the white bird no longer appeared in the whale's eyes.
Hong Yuesheng shook her head, turned around and swam to Brunhilde, who was floating on her back, and grabbed the back of her neck, but the whale also leaned its head over.
"No, no!" Hong Yuesheng put his palm in front of the whale's eyes to stop it: "You can't go any further!" It's going to run aground! He pointed hard at the sea, "Go back to the sea!" ”
The whale was still disobedient, turned its head sideways and looked at Hong Yuesheng with its intact eyes, and at the same time rubbed its head against Hong Yuesheng's body.
"Let's go!!" This time, Hong Yuesheng couldn't help but raise her voice, "Don't follow us anymore!" As he spoke, he grabbed the fragments of the blunt-headed mech floating on the surface of the sea and threw them at the whale. The sperm whale was in pain, and retreated with a muffled scream.
"Go for it!! Go find manta rays! In fact, Hong Yuesheng didn't know if the whale was gone like this, he raised his hand and rubbed his eyes, the sea choked his nose sour, causing tears to flow out. Seeing that the whale did not come any closer, he pulled the thruster on his pilot's suit, and the gas spewed out of the thruster, and the two of them staggered towards the shore one by one, and with each leap forward, Brunhilde felt like the bone was about to break and puncture her heart and lungs, and she had to concentrate to keep breathing. The sperm whale swam in circles behind the two, chirping sadly, but finally did not dare to follow.
The blizzard roared all around, but only the waters here were calm, and only white snowflakes fell quietly. Glowing jellyfish floating underneath the water surface are fluorescent green, making it feel like a paradise. At this time, Brunhilde noticed that they were in a sheltered harbor surrounded by half-moon rocks, and Hong Yuesheng beside her pulled her life jacket, panting, and tried her best to adjust the direction of travel and swam towards the shore, and after half a sound, the two finally arrived on land.
When Hong Yuesheng carried herself ashore, her face was very close, and the smell of sea in her breath made Brunhilde nauseous, but what surprised her was this thin Yaning man who she had never disliked, but her arms were solid and powerful, and Hong's figure was behind the water with green light, which made his whole person look weird.
They settled in a cave near the coast, and Hong Yuesheng carefully placed her on the cold rock, then opened the waterproof survival kit, which contained ignition tools, combustion, emergency medicine, and several weapons: including a pistol for self-defense, and a few grenades. When he went to chop wood around the cave to make firewood, Brunhilde endured the severe pain and reached for the pistol, but the arm that was already frozen was not angry, and almost did not obey the call, and Hong Yuesheng's heart thumped every time she cut it! When I was almost within reach, the sound of chopping wood suddenly stopped.
When Hong Yuesheng walked into the cave again, he saw Brunhilde lying on the ground with his eyes closed, and he didn't know if he had fainted again, and the contents of the rescue bag spread on the ground, including the pistol, were still in place. Hong sat down with his back to Brunhilde, sprinkled desiccant on the damp firewood as he had been taught in the previous training, poured incendiary on it, and lit the fire.
"Bang!" The fire finally ignited, making a "crackling crackling" sound. The fire was not big, but it finally had some warmth.
Hong Yuesheng turned his head to look at Brunhilde, the red fire light flickering on his face, revealing an evil aura.
"Listen, your ribs may be shattered, so it's pressing on your ribcage and making it hard for you to breathe." He said, "I need to take off your clothes and help you bandage." ”
"Think...... Don't even think about it! If it weren't for the fact that his face had been frozen bloodless in the winter sea, Brunhilde's face would have turned pale when he heard this.
"Leave it alone to you, you can't hold out tonight." Hong Yuesheng walked over to her.
"What about me, I want to! What does it have to do with you?! ”
"I wish I hadn't known you."
"Don't come any closer!" Brunhilde jerked his pistol out from under him and pointed it at Hong Yuesheng. It turned out that when Hong Yuesheng turned around and lit the fire just now, she finally got the gun.
"Hey! You! Hong Yuesheng was also very shocked that Brunhilde actually pointed the gun at him, and then turned angry, "Put the gun down!" He walked up to Brunhilde's warning.
Bang!
A gunshot rang out, and both men stayed there. Hong Yuesheng had a bullet-cut abrasion on his cheek, and blood soon oozed out. Brünnhilde was holding a gun with smoke coming from it, and if it weren't for her excessively weak body and severe pain, she couldn't have missed it.
"Have you made enough trouble?" Hong Yuesheng finally became angry and shouted: "I worked hard to save you, and you actually shot at me!" If it weren't for the fact that you're a woman, I wouldn't care about you crazy girl!! ”
Brunhilde suddenly pointed his gun at his temple at this time, with tears in his eyes: "I am a Meda Busoya warrior, even if I die, I don't want you to touch my body!" Especially you!! "She actually pulled the trigger!
Hong Yuesheng rushed forward in horror, grabbed her hand and pushed it away, and the bullet grazed Brunhilde's gold and fired, splashing golden sparks on the wall. She used too much force, a stream of blood rushed to her chest, and finally she couldn't hold on, her eyes rolled up, and she fainted. Unconscious, she was paralyzed in Hong Yuesheng's arms like nephrite, but she was not as hard as she was awake. Hong Yuesheng still clutched Brunhilde's gun-wielding right hand tightly, and there was nowhere to vent his anger for a while.
“…… Alas! Hong Yuesheng looked at Brunhilde in his arms helplessly, and sighed: "I didn't expect you to be so unkind to me...... between the words, I can't help but admire Brunhilde's determination.
The struggle further tore her wounds, blood oozing from the pilot's suit on Brünnhilde's chest. Hong Yuesheng couldn't care about so much red tape, so he had to quickly open the zipper on Brunhilde's chest, and a pair of elastic crisp breasts immediately jumped into Hong Yuesheng's eyes, his face turned red, and he quickly turned his face away. If Brunhilde wakes up and knows, he will definitely hunt him down to the ends of the earth.
It took a lot of trouble to take off Brünnhilde's one-piece pilot suit to her slender waist, and the fire reflected from the snow and ice in the cave reflected on her naked snow-white ketones, crystal clear and mottled with blood. In a coma, her long blonde hair was scattered on the ground, beads of sweat oozed from her forehead, her eyebrows were wrinkled, tears were clear, her cheeks were pale, her red lips were slightly open, and she made a "mmmmmm
Hong Yuesheng did emergency hemostatic treatment for Brunhilde, and when wiping the wounds and bloodstains, his hands inevitably touched Brunhilde's bare white skin, which made Hong Yuesheng's cheeks hot, and he was unsettled and in a hurry. After the poisoning and the anesthetic injection, he fed her a thick branch in her mouth to prevent her from crushing her teeth when she was in pain, and then used a first-aid nail gun to temporarily stitch up the wounds on her chest and ribs, and wrapped the straight branches that could be used to force on both sides of her waist and tightened them with bandages. When it was finally done, Hong Yuesheng was already sweating profusely, and her heart was jumping like a deer.
He retrieved the bomber jacket he had half-dried by the campfire and placed it on Brunhilde, then walked to the other side of the campfire and sat down away from her, clasping his hands on his knees, and watching the stormy sky outside the haven with concern.
In such weather, he and Brunhilde could not be traced in the sea, how could they find them for a long time?
"Uh......h It's so cold......" Brunhilde muttered in his sleep, shivering from hypothermia, and half of his jacket shivered and fell to the ground.
Hong Yuesheng shook her head, there was no choice but to walk over again to cover Brunhilde, her pale face was covered with beads of sweat, sliding across her cheeks and flowing into the s-shaped arc of the collarbone groove. At this time, she is not like the strong woman who is as cold and hard as a glacier on weekdays, but more like a little girl. After covering the clothes, Hong Yuesheng was about to withdraw his hand and walk away, but was grabbed by the unconscious Brunhilde's wrist.
"Mom, it's so cold! The water is frozen! ”
Hong Yuesheng tugged at her wrist slightly, but Brunhilde grabbed it tighter.
"I'm cold! Ahem, ahem! Mom, take me out of Heaven! Promise me, don't leave me! ”
Hong Yuesheng couldn't move, so she had to lie down next to Brunhilde, gently hugged her, and used her body temperature to help her recover her temperature: "Okay, okay...... I promise you that I will never leave you behind. ”
He gently patted Brunhilde's back as he used to put his sister Lingzi to sleep, and hummed the song that Phoenix Butterfly taught him:
"Now you say you're lonely,
You cry all night,
All right! You can shed tears for me.
Do you know that I have shed tears for you. ”
In Yaning's capital Mirage New Town, the people are gathering at the palace of the Governor of the Imperial Palace Mountain, under the leadership of Governor William, the whole process is broadcasting the countdown to the New Year, and Mr. Stephens is loyally waiting next to Governor William.
Dozens of searchlights outside the Doge's Palace lit up on time for the New Year's Eve ten seconds away, and the pillars of light passed through the snow, concentrated at one point in the air, and became the number "10".
"Ten!" "Nine!" "Eight!" The flooded crowd at the foot of the palace mountain read the numbers aloud.
Victor, dressed in a mink coat, looked down at the mortal world from the glass club above the canopy, accompanied by the silver fox, thoughtfully. Behind him, a group of government dignitaries were holding precious red wine in their hands to celebrate the coming new beginning.
"Seven!" "Six!" "Five!"
Rupert was engrossed in his dimly lit Intelligence Office tracking the movements of his 52-hertz song, the whale chirping in his headphones. Outside his office, other staff members were also happily watching the live television broadcast of the New Year's Eve countdown to the Governor's Palace on the wall.
"Four!" "Three!" "Two!"
Under the protection of the tank girl, Nakahisa commands the manta rays amphibious submarine, and is desperately struggling with the blizzard on the high seas, and the manta rays are churning and swaying on the water and rushing forward through the waves. Bonnie, Green Snake, Emily, White Tiger, and the rest of the remaining crew are busy in the bumpy control room under the orders of the red-haired Arya, keeping the submarine running and continuing to search for life signals.
"Wait for me! It's not time for you to braid!! Nakahisa yelled at the oncoming waves.
"One !!!"
As the countdown ended, in the cheers of everyone, thousands of fireworks rushed into the sky in the face of the snow, around the words "MY16 (16th year of the American and Asian chronicle)" composed of fireworks in the sky, surrounded by hundreds of birds and phoenixes, warblers singing and dancing.
"Happy New Year !!!! 16 years"
“Happy_New_Year!!”
Everyone put aside their disputes for a moment and blessed each other for a second now.
In the cave of the shelter, the only incendiary in the emergency rescue kit ran out, and the flames became smaller and smaller in front of Hong Yuesheng and Brunhilde, who were holding each other together, and finally extinguished, and the surroundings became dark again, only the lullaby that Hong Yuesheng sang to Brunhilde continued under the accompaniment of the cold wind howling outside:
"You made me, almost mad, lose my mind,
And you're still gone.
Remember? But I remember what you said on the side of the non-return......
Lalalalala (Hong Yuesheng forgot the words)
Come on! Tears flowed for me.
Do you know that I have shed tears for you, la-la-la-la...... (forgot again)"
The 16th year of the American and Asian Chronicles is Chinese New Year's Eve, and for those who have experienced that specific historical period of Asian and American cultural confrontation and integration, many things that have happened in the past ten years are unexpected. Many of the things I expected were crushed by the wheel of history and ended without a problem. And many more things may not be what you want, but they are being pushed by violence to intensify. In this way, in the noisy sound of firecrackers and sad songs, everyone once again came to the beginning of the new year.