"Well, she's beautiful, isn't she?" Bunin, who stood inexplicably, asked suddenly, he looked at a movie poster in front of him and smiled heartily.

The poster shows a tall and beautiful girl practicing ballet, the photographer is very professional, her beautiful figure under the white training is set off even better, her soft blonde hair and blue eyes are perfectly preserved, so that people can see her beauty directly even through the poster.

She has a bright smile on her face, which will make people who pass by unconsciously bring the same smile. In the past, when the city was still prosperous, there were many people who stopped to watch it like Bunin now.

"Bella Koptuneskaya?" Fingal read the girl's name from the message on the poster.

He glanced at Bunin, who was smiling brightly, and looked at the girl's resemblance to Christina's face on the poster. The rest of the place is covered in snow and ice, and only this one booth has been carefully cleaned and maintained, so it's not hard to guess the identity of the people on it.

"Are you showing us off?" Fingal raised his eyebrows and said, "No matter how beautiful she is, she is still an aunt even if she is not an old grandmother, and my girlfriend is much prettier than her, and younger than her!" ”

The smile on Bunin's face gradually faded, and he let out a long sigh after his silence: "yes, how nice it would be if she were an ordinary grandmother or aunt now......

The atmosphere was a little solemn, and Fingal's eyes, which were stunned for a moment, drifted to the side: "...... I'm sorry. ”

You know, it's not easy for him to apologize if he wants to be cheeky. Then he gradually fell silent, and if he thought about it, his girlfriend didn't seem to get old.

"That's all for the load-bearing topic, I've prepared a feast for the two of you in the lounge. Please also have a good rest after enjoying it, although the car is fully equipped, but it is not qualified as a rest place. Bunin, who had recovered, bowed lightly to the two of them.

He straightened up and said apologetically, "I'm sorry I can't accompany the two of you, but I should have been by the side of the two of them." It's just that I have some trivial matters to deal with now, and I hope you will forgive me. ”

"It's okay," Lu Mingfei turned around silently, "Prepare your information, I'm looking forward to those." ”

Fingal gave him a baffled look, then quickly followed Bunin with a word of passing.

After the two of them left, Bunin's face quickly turned gloomy. He removed the cordon in front of the theater and pushed open the door to enter.

There was also a long passage behind the door, with several tightly closed windows on either side. This is the ticket office and there are some stalls that specialize in selling snacks, and when the theater is still running, people who watch movies take tickets in their left hands and hold snacks in their right hands and go straight in.

It's just that the theater, which has been sealed for a long time, has been set as a forbidden place by him and no one is allowed to enter, and even the theater that usually has to ask him for instructions for cleaning is running again today. The sound of a movie playing in the screening room can be heard even outside the theater.

Opening the door at the end of the hallway, Bunin swept the dense seats with cold eyes, and his expression gradually eased until he saw the only spectator who had turned around when he heard the movement.

Christina hid her pistol under her seat and looked at Bunin with a complicated expression. She didn't get up to say hello, nor did she look back to continue watching the movie, just staring at Bunin who suddenly broke in.

Bunin quietly closed the door behind him, and walked to the seat next to Christina and then on the other side of the aisle, as quietly as a comedian kept his voice down.

He looked at Christina's face close to the end of the day, and then at the girl on the screen who could only be seen on the screen, and it felt as if he had traveled through time. The light of the screen shone on his face, reflecting the sparkle in his eyes.

Christina, who was watching him with a wary look, noticed the teardrops in his eyes, her tense body gradually relaxed, and the gun that was secretly facing him was slowly withdrawn.

After a long silence at the screen, Bunin's throat moved, and he said in a somewhat choked voice, "You know what? My first encounter with your mother was actually in this theater. ”

After the same silence for a while, Christina said softly, "...... I haven't heard her mention it yet. ”

"Actually, that's not quite accurate, because she was on the screen and I was lying under a seat." Bunin suddenly laughed, he wiped the corner of his eye with a sleeve and continued, "Before this, this city was the world I knew. There is only one hospital, only one school, only one amusement park, and there are quite a few shops in this world, but most of the things sold in them are cigarettes and alcohol......"

Lost in memory, Bunin continued, and Christina listened silently.

"It wasn't until one day, when I sneaked here, that I found out that there are people in the world who travel in addition to bicycles and cars, trains and planes, and it turns out that there are places in this world where the summer is very long, and it turns out that the world is ......," Bunin said here and suddenly paused.

He stared at the screen with indescribable longing in his eyes. Christina looked up, and in the screen, the heroine was dancing on the stage, her beautiful figure spinning on the screen, like a flying white swan, and her skirt was dancing, which made countless people intoxicated. Presumably, at the beginning, countless people in front of the screen who saw this scene were also equally intoxicated.

Silently erasing the sparkle from the corners of her eyes, to be honest, this is not the first time Christina has watched this movie. Every birthday, after her adoptive parents celebrated her, when she returned to the room, she would dig out those old videotapes, quietly shut herself in the room, and silently watched all the girl's movies.

She imitates all the movements in the girl's play, she laughs when the girl laughs, she sings when the girl sings, and she dances when the girl dances. Actually, the girl ...... That is, her mother, who couldn't be with her, taught her a lot of things, but didn't teach her how to cry. Because her mom only shows her beautiful side in front of other people, and always has been.

Bunin, who came back to his senses, lowered his head and wiped the corners of his eyes, and he said with a soft expression: "At that time, I realized that there are still such beautiful girls in the world."

Christina secretly rubbed the corners of her red eyes, and she asked with a somewhat cold expression, "What is she to you?"

Bunin was stunned for a moment, obviously not expecting Christina to ask such a question, but he still replied, "...... She was my whole world. ”

"Was?" Christina frowned at him.

"yes, because now my world has become another girl." Bunin smiled at Christina, and even the most hard-hearted person would be moved by the pampering in it.

But Christina's cold expression remained unchanged, she stood up with her coat without saying a word, ignoring Bunin, whose expression became a little overwhelmed, and left directly.

Bunin's expression was a little dazed, as if he had done something wrong and didn't know it. He stretched out his hand and opened his mouth, as if to say something to keep Christina, but he didn't say anything when he saw a flashing figure in the screening room.

The sound of the door opening sounded, but the sound of the door closing was not heard for a long time. Bunin looked back in surprise to find Christina standing by the door with her back to her.

At this time, Christina's cold voice came: "If you were given a chance to choose, would you send me away?"

With his mouth half-open, Bunin felt that he suddenly couldn't speak. After a long time, he lowered his head weakly, and said in a somewhat dry voice, "...... I think I would. ”

The door slammed shut, and the sound of Christina's high-heeled boots on the ground faded away.

Bunin's body shrunk back into his seat, his eyes staring blankly at the seat where Christina had just sit, and by the light from the screen, he found a few grass clippings on the ground there.

He knew that there was no grass in the frozen city, and he knew that there would be this, and he knew why Christina had such an attitude towards him. But it doesn't matter anymore, because from now on, he is no longer qualified to be by his side in the world......

The door to the screening room opened again, and the sound of platform leather shoes on the floor gradually approached. The figure in black sat down in the position of the forward Christina.

"It's unlikely that the outcome will change, but if you say no, she might look back at you." He glanced sideways at Bunin, who seemed to have lost his soul, and said with a chuckle, "Girls always like to ask these assumptions that they have and don't, but just a lie can make them happy for a long time." ”

Bunin was as silent as an old piece of wood, his blank eyes staring at the screen playing the credits. At one point, his eyes lit up, and the name Bella Koptuneskaya flashed across the curtain, and then faded away as quickly as she did.

"It's so hard for you to keep this place the way it is for so many years, I can't even remember, is this how this place is?" The man looked left and right, his face full of surprise.

Then he stood up and patted the dust on his clothes, and said, "But that's the end of it, this place must also be changed, and it must conform to the preferences of young people today, otherwise my precious daughter will not like it."

He sighed suddenly: "I didn't expect it to be so troublesome to take a child, the choice to let you send her away was really the right one." But now I have to take on the responsibility of being a father, and the role of a father is indispensable in a family. ”

He glanced at the silent Bunin again and said, "After this time, you can also leave and live the life you want, and those properties in Moscow will be given to you as payment." I know you're sneaking around on some other business, so don't ask for anything else. ”

Bunin was silent, as if he was dead. The man didn't look at him again and left down the aisle. Suddenly, he paused as if he had thought of something.

"That's right." He turned around and reminded, "Those film reels in the screening room are also mine, you can't take them with you...... But when I think about it, I still need to build a place to store this, which is a bit of a problem. ”

He looked at the screen and sighed: "Originally, I didn't want to put this, but I wanted Christina to recall her family relationship." ”

Then he turned around and shook his hand: "Forget it, you can take these things with you." It's okay to throw it away if it's troublesome, but don't let Kristina see it......"

The man left, and the movie was over. In the empty screening room, the pale light on the screen shone on Bunin's pale face.

……

The guests were housed in an upscale apartment in a corner of the city, which was said to be a high-end apartment, but it was actually a four-story building with cement on the outside. Perhaps it was indeed upscale when Bunin was young, but now it is very backward even from the perspective of more than a decade ago.

However, although the exterior is shabby, the interior decoration is worthy of the word "high-end". Thick wool blankets don't feel a chill even if you step on them barefoot, the velvet curtains hanging from the windows make you feel a burst of warmth, and the bronze sconces on the walls ...... No matter how you look at the decoration here, it is the configuration of a certain star hotel, and the top-floor suite where Lu Mingfei stays is even worse.

"That old fellow, there is not a word of truth in his mouth." Fingal took a bite of the Australian prawns in front of him, pulled over the Kobe beef next to him and took a bite, scolding the person who prepared such a sumptuous dinner for them.

As a good hand at creating fake news...... Bah! As a professional media person, he keenly perceives Bunin's nonsense with his keen sense of smell.

"Of course, it's not all a lie, at least that outrageous dragon of high class is real." After taking a sip of beer, he said with a depressed face, "How can such an existence appear in such a small place, and be imprisoned by some low-blood half-breeds and ordinary people. If we hadn't seen it with our own eyes, the guys in the Enforcement Department wouldn't have believed it. ”

"It's still alive, but it's just an unconscious wreckage. Its 'nucleus' is gone, presumably hiding somewhere waiting to hatch. Putting down the bowl quickly, Lu Mingfei, who had finished eating, wiped his mouth, "Let's talk about it, what is the real deal he asked for." ”

"Senior brother, you are really still keen." Fingal smiled, he and Bunin were there like clowns, not to be harlequins. Although the two were playing with each other on the surface, they were talking about another thing through the exchange of some expressions.

Then he took out EVA's terminal, activated the anti-listening program and put it aside before saying with a straight face: "Although I don't know if what he said about the research of God is true or not, what he said about using that dragon as a bargaining chip is true."

Lu Mingfei poured himself a glass of water and waited for him to continue.

"And there's only one thing he needs us to do......" Fingal's face became a little strange, and he secretly glanced at Lu Mingfei and said, "He wants us to take Christina." ”