Nexus.134 Sugiyama Tempest
—15 years ago—
A child less than three years old was lying asleep on the bed, but was woken up by the sound of his parents arguing, and in his hazy eyes, he saw broken dishes and lamps falling on the ground......
The two figures were arguing in the dim light, Dad was crumpling a piece of white paper that had been crumpled and distorted, with many words written on it, his head bowed, his body trembling, and bright red blood flowing from his other hand......
Mom burst into tears, her voice was almost hoarse, she kept shouting and roaring at Dad, and even moved her hands and feet, but Dad didn't fight back, let Mom vent, but his face seemed to ripple with impatience......
"Whoa, whoa, whoa—" The startled children, awakened by the voice, cried out and seemed to stop their quarrel......
Mom and Dad cleaned up their emotions, wiped the tears on their faces and came to the bedside, looking at the baby who was crying and blushing in distress.
Mother hugged herself into her arms in distress, shook it gently, and put it in her ear to coax herself to sleep as usual......
There seemed to be no more quarrels that night, and in a vague way, he seemed to hear his mother's sobs......
When he woke up again, his father was gone, and the ground had been cleaned up, and he looked up curiously and asked his mother, "Where has Dad gone?" ”
"He's going to work......" Mom replied very weakly.
He ...... He usually doesn't go to work until a little later......"
Mom didn't answer him, he looked up and saw the tears on Mom's face......
"Hmm...... Mom...... Don't cry, don't cry...... The wind is here......" As his mother usually comforts himself, he hugged his mother tightly and said not very neatly.
"Hmm......" Although he nodded in agreement, the tears couldn't stop flowing out......
……
"Uh......" opened his eyes, and the sky outside the window was already white.
The pale light shone on his slightly darkened face, and there was no light in his eyes, he rubbed his fluffy hair, and said to himself in this humble room where he was alone, "It's that dream again......"
It was a dream, but in fact, he knew very well that this was what happened to him, and it was not the first time he had dreamed of the past, this time, even the later part had not dreamed of it......
He lifted the thin quilt, which was only covered with many patches, and got out of the bed made of discarded wooden planks, and went to the half of the mirror he had picked up, and looked at the man in the mirror, who was not yet eighteen years old.
There was not a glimmer of light in his eyes, and the clothes on his body were already worn out and patched......
There was only a bed, a rotten sofa room, and a small old round table, on which there were only two tea jars, one of which had an old cleaned comb, a pen, and a few coins...... He picked up a small round medicine jar that was placed next to the bed, and the sound of the pills clashing was already negligible......
Pouring out the few pills he had left, he counted them over and over again, and there were seven left......
Picking up one and putting it in his mouth and swallowing it, he sighed, "There are only six left......
The sky lit up, and the back illuminated by the morning light looked particularly bleak......
"Can I still ...... How long will you live......" slowly said these words from his mouth, and a cool breeze blew outside the house, blowing the leaves outside the house, making a "rustling" sound, and many of the leaves that had withered and yellow were blown down.
Winter is approaching, and there are not many leaves left on this tree, just like his life...... In a little bit of burnout......
"Hurricane, are you up so early?" Changing into a denim suit given by a neighbor and walking out of the house, the neighbor's aunt who lives on the second floor greeted him warmly.
"Well, I'm used to it, Aunt Furukawa." He looked up and smiled, albeit smiling, but there seemed to be a glint in his eyes at this time.
"Hey, do you want that old stove here in our house? Isn't this about to be winter? Our family is going to get a new one, if you don't dislike it, you can use it! ”
Facing Aunt Furukawa's enthusiasm, he just smiled and shook his head: "Thank you Auntie for your kindness, no need, I'm fine!" ”
He knew in his heart that Aunt Furukawa was taking care of him, he had already been taken care of by their family a lot, and he almost froze to death at home in the winter of the previous years, but thanks to their timely discovery and carrying him to the fire, he was able to save his life.
He knew very well that Aunt Furukawa's family was not easy, after all, someone like him who could rent in the same remote place would not be a rich person. Their family also gets up early and works in the dark, just to eat a little food, and there is also for the two children to go to school, get up early and be greedy for darkness, often busy until the early hours of the morning, and have to get up before five o'clock every day......
He didn't want to trouble their family anymore, after all, he ......
Without continuing to think about it, he waved his hand and said goodbye to Aunt Furukawa: "Then I'll go first!" Bye! ”
Looking at his thin figure in the distance, Aunt Furukawa, who was rubbing her clothes, shook her head and sighed softly: "What a good young man, it's a pity...... It's a pity ......"
I came to the factory early, took out the key covered with rust stains and opened the door, so that the slightly dilapidated factory flickered a few times and turned on the lights.
"Hurricane, it's so early again?" He changed into his work clothes, and a middle-aged and naturally fat uncle also walked in.
"Mr. Nozaki, it's early!" He greeted warmly, and his eyes lit up again.
Mr. Nozaki was simply a lifesaver for him, reborn parents, and when he was desperate and young and unwilling to ask for him everywhere, he was able to eat and barely afford medicine to continue his life......
If it weren't for him, how could he have a place to sleep, maybe he would have been left from this world a long time ago......
He also thought about leaving this world like this and ending his painful life, but he didn't know why, every time he wanted to jump off the overpass, he always hesitated, and the voices of the past kept echoing in his head, making him squat down and cry weakly......
"Live...... To live......"
That voice has sounded in my ears countless times...... In the end, I finally let go of the idea of suicide and used my best strength to live......
"I don't have to work today." Seeing him put on his gloves, Nozaki reached out to stop him, making him very puzzled:
"Huh? Why? ”
Walking aimlessly alone on the street, the light in his eyes was gone, full of confusion......
"I can't do it anymore......"
"In the future, I won't use it......"
Mr. Nozaki's words just now echoed in his ears, and he couldn't stop sighing, although he knew that it would be sooner or later, but he didn't expect it to ...... so soon
Mr. Nozaki is a very good person, he used the savings of the first half of his life to build a factory, and received a lot of people like him, who are homeless and have nowhere to go, and saved a lot of precious lives, but now the competition pressure is high, and the factory has been losing money year after year......
He also paid a lot for himself for various reasons, and everyone was the same......
Right now...... He couldn't hold on anymore......
He is not worried about himself, but about his family, who also make a living from this job, just like himself......
I don't have long to live, but the others ...... Where do we go from here......
For a moment, he couldn't think of a way at all...... Walking alone on the street, it is now the rush hour for work and school, there is a lot of traffic here, it is very noisy, but his lonely figure is difficult to blend into this noise......
"Huh-" A red light flashed behind him, and the people around him turned their heads to look at him, and let out a burst of exclamations, he was stunned for a moment, and then looked back, and suddenly his eyes widened like them:
Surrounded by red light, a huge creature like a dinosaur appeared in the city out of thin air, and several cars did not have time to brake, and crashed directly into the huge soles of its feet and exploded, causing plumes of smoke to rise around it for a while.
This xenobiotic beast looks vicious, its body is covered with dense spikes, its long tail drags behind it, its powerful arms are full of strong muscles, and its body is extremely tough, and it is very strange that its head grows on its left chest, and there is only a huge sharp horn above it, and its white eyes and mouth are on its left chest, which looks very penetrating.
"Roar!!" The beast roared, moving its massive dinosaur-like body, and with a casual flick of its tail, it destroyed a building and reduced it to rubble.
"What kind of monster is this?!" He was so surprised that he couldn't care about it anymore, so he hurriedly turned around and fled quickly with the people around him.
"Uhh
"Help! Help me! As he was desperately trying to escape, he heard a cry for help from the side.
"This ......" he gritted his teeth, clenched his fists, and turned his back from the crowd as he laboriously made his way through the crowd in the direction from which the sound came.
Finally, next to a collapsed building not far from the alien beast, he heard the cry for help again: "Help!! Help me!! ”
"What's wrong??" He followed the sound and saw a middle-aged woman crushed under the rubble by a collapsing wall.
Seeing someone coming, her eyes lit up hope again, but not for herself.
"You hold on! I'll get you out right away!! He stretched out his hand to move the big boulders that pressed on her, but he was powerless, his thin body couldn't shake the big boulders at all, and it was useless to sweat profusely when he was tired for a while.
"I ...... I'm fine, please, please get him out......"
"What?" Hearing the woman's voice, he looked down and saw the infant baby she was holding in her arms......
"It doesn't matter if I'm dead, but this kid is still young and hasn't seen the world well, please...... Please get him out......" With tears in her eyes, she only hoped that her child could live at such a moment of life and death......
This...... Hearing her say this, his mind was reminded of the past:
"Mom, why don't you eat duck?" Seeing his mother deliver the only food left in the house to his mouth, he asked very suspiciously.
"Mom isn't hungry, as long as the wind can eat enough!" Mother's emaciated face forced a smile: "Good wind, after eating, my mother will take you to Auntie's house to play......"
"Hmm!" At that time, Little Storm didn't know what this sentence meant......
After going to my aunt's house, my mother didn't stay long, and after chatting a few words, he didn't understand and was leaving.
"You really don't need to ......" The aunt opened her mouth to stop her mother, but her mother didn't look back, her body trembled slightly: "I...... I'm fine, as long as the wind can ...... It's enough to live......"
"Mom, where are you going, duck?" He took small steps to chase after him, but the door closed with a "bang......
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"Stop talking nonsense!!" He gritted his teeth in refusal, his eyes lit up, and he moved the pieces that pressed her hard, his face flushed, and his hands were ground out with blood......
Touching the scene, with tears in his eyes, he roared bitterly: "If you are his mother, then let me live well together, and don't leave him alone in the world to live!! ”
He didn't want to see the scene of the separation of mother and son, which directly gave him motivation all of a sudden, and with all the strength of his body, he slowly shook the gravel......
"Ahh——!!!!hh He blushed and used all his strength, and with the sound of "huang~dang~", the largest piece of shard was removed by him and thrown aside.
"The people are still taking refuge, continue to attack, we must stop it from advancing!"
"Wait a minute, Captain!!" Lone Gate called off the captain.
"Lonely, what's wrong?"
"Look there, there's still people near the monster!" Everyone looked over and saw the figure on the ground who was trying to save people.
"This ......" Captain Kazukura frowned: "Shift behind the xenomorph beast to attack!" ”
"Understood!!"
"Hold on...... Immediate ...... ......He didn't have time to rest and breathe, quickly cleaned up the other small debris, looked up at this brave young man he didn't know, the mother seemed to see something in him, looked down at the sleeping child in her arms, and the hope of living was rekindled in her eyes.
"Whoa—" Reaching out to push all the rubble away, he lifted the last slab with great force, allowing the woman to crawl out from below with her child, and regain her freedom.
"Are you alright??" Ignoring the wound on his hand, he stepped forward to help the mother holding the child and asked with concern.
"Thank you very much, I'm fine," the mother shook her head and looked worriedly at her blood-stained hands, "but you......"
"Forget about it, run!!"
"It's not !! good" No sooner had the Night Raiders moved behind the Xenomorphs to prepare to attack when they saw the Xenomorphs open their large mouths on their chests and spit out a series of fireballs in front of them......
"Huh??" The foreseeers in the base seemed to sense something, and raised their eyebrows slightly, revealing a smile: "Welcome back......"
"Roar!! The roar of the monster came, and when the wind looked back, he saw a fiery red spherical object approaching rapidly, he hurriedly opened his hands to block behind the mother and son, a wave of heat hit, he closed his eyes, and was ready to meet death......
But there was no sharp pain as he imagined, he opened his eyes, only to see that the sunlight here was unknown to be obscured by something, and the mother and son in front of him looked behind him in surprise.
"Am I alive?" Looking down at the unscathed body, he followed their surprised gaze and looked back, and then dropped his jaw in shock: "Silver...... Giant ......"
As he said, it was this giant with a silver glow that blocked their attacks, the red energy core on his chest and the helmet-like shape on his head were very distinct, and his silver eyes looked at them gently, making them feel at ease.
"Ultra Warrior ......" Gumen and the others were stunned for a moment when they saw this silver giant, their eyes widened, and they couldn't believe it.
"Welcome back, Ultra Warrior." The Prophet smiled confidently, as if he had foreseen all of this.
"Roar!! Looking at the silver giant that had suddenly appeared to spoil its own good deeds, the xenobiot roared angrily at him, the eyes on its chest staring at him deadly, and once again opened its mouth to attack his back......
- To be continued