Chapter 1: Twenty-two-year-old junior high school student
Li Jianfeng became an orphan.
He was a newborn born after the Battle of Pseudo-Steel, and that year was January of the eighth year of the new century, and he was the last child born in that round of new births.
Today, in June of the thirtieth year of the new century, he has already passed his 22nd birthday for almost half a year.
Then he was orphaned, and both his parents died in Armageddon.
Li Jianfeng was very dazed, he completed his final exams in school in a daze, got his summer homework in confusion, and then returned home in an even more daze......
There is no longer his mother's smile and homely meals, let alone his father's hearty laughter, and pulling him to open the black together.
The house was deserted, and he didn't know what to do, so he could only sleep groggily at home all day, and then he woke up hungry and began to look for food all over the house, and finally found a pack of biscuits baked by his mother in the cupboard, and he grabbed it and ate it in a big gulp, and when he ate it, the biscuits in his hands were all wet, and even the biscuits in the biscuit box were wet.
Mom and Dad will never come back......
He will never see his parents again......
Li Jianfeng cried heartbreakingly, and only at this time did he really understand what was happening.
He was orphaned......
Yes, I still have to buy paper money, I also have to buy incense and candles, I heard my father say that it seems that there will be sacrifices, but where did he buy pigs, cattle and sheep?
Li Jianfeng bought incense and candle paper money through the family self-help program, and found a legal place where the sacrifice could be fired, and by the time the automatic program delivered the purchases, the time was already more than seven o'clock in the evening, and at this time, the simulated sunlight inside the moon had also reached the time to go down, and the street looked dim.
Li Jianfeng walked on the street in a daze, looking at the sacrificial points set up on the side of the road full of people, some single, many people, each crying, some crying silently, some howling loudly, Li Jianfeng saw this, his nose was sour.
People, only when they lose do they know how precious things are lost, and the usual daily life, which seems to be the warmth that should exist as a matter of course, is actually the most precious in people's lives, and nothing can be exchanged for treasures.
When Li Jianfeng lit the candle and lit the first piece of paper, big tears rolled down, and he really understood.
He no longer has a father and mother, he is an orphan.
"All good things need to be defended! All happiness needs irrigation! Irrigation is done either with the blood of the enemy, or with our own tears! β
This is what Li Jianfeng's father once said to him.
His father is a military fan, but also a martial arts fan, in fucking words, is an older middle and second man, is the best embodiment of a man to death is a teenager.
That's right, Li Jianfeng repeatedly confirmed that his father was indeed a second-year teenager...... Although he is in his fifties, it is really too much to describe him as a teenager, but his father has always been vigorous, at least more energetic than him as a son.
What steel cannons, giant ships, giant cannons, Gundam Zagu these are all men's dreams.
And what is the sea of stars is the future of mankind, when human science and technology are more advanced, he must save his own money to buy a private ship, and then go to the sea of stars to adventure, and every time he talks about this, his mother will be very disdainful and say, go, go, don't come back, I took my son to remarry, and then my father laughed every time.
His father named him Li Jianfeng, a name that has too many meanings and expectations, and Li Jianfeng, who is twenty-two years old this year, actually doesn't understand, or even if he does, he will only think that this is just a manifestation of his father's second secondary attack, until the moment when his father laughed loudly and then resolutely went to the front, he seemed to suddenly understand something.
The Armageddon between humans and the Argonians has ended, and according to later statistics, a total of 46,559,661 humans have died!
Li Jianfeng's parents are among them, and their names have been engraved in the Monument to Human Heroes, which will live forever with human civilization!
"All good things need to be defended! All happiness needs irrigation! Irrigation is done either with the blood of the enemy, or with our own tears! β
His father's voice seemed to echo in Li Jianfeng's ears again.
ββ¦β¦ However, we have not only watered happiness with blood, but also with tears. Li Jianfeng muttered.
"Yes, so this happiness is so precious and so beautiful, we must protect it."
A voice sounded beside Li Jianfeng, and Li Jianfeng, who was in a trance, hurriedly looked over, and he saw Lu Yuanming squatting beside him, just like countless ordinary people on the side of the road, there was no big pomp, no bodyguards, and even the clothes he wore were very ordinary street goods...... It's not the custom style of those private tailors who were hot a while ago.
Li Jianfeng was about to jump up when he was startled, but a force gently pressed him, so that he didn't shout, Lu Yuanming lowered his head slightly while burning paper money, and said, "Don't scream, just listen to me...... I'm here to apologize. β
"Your parents...... It should not be sacrificed at the same time, this is the negligence of our work, from the military service law has a stipulation, families with children do not need to serve, and at the same time, even if there are no children of the family, only one person in a family can join the army in an emergency, the situation was too urgent, there were too many things and too messy, and as a result, your parents were on the battleship......"
Lu Yuanming didn't dare to look at Li Jianfeng, he was afraid of seeing hateful eyes......
He should hate, hate him, hate the government, even hate humanity......
Lu Yuanming does not want and cannot use the so-called righteousness to ask Li Jianfeng not to hate, nor can he use the so-called "great", "brilliant" and "must" to describe the sacrifice of Li Jianfeng's parents......
Sacrifice is spontaneous and voluntary by the victim, and civilization must record and praise it, but this is not something that the non-victim can use to decorate the faΓ§ade!
Li Jianfeng has this qualification to hate!
And as the decider, as the supreme authority of the human race, Lu Yuanming naturally must bear this hatred, this is what he must bear.
But Lu Yuanming was still afraid......
He is not afraid of fighting, nor is he afraid of strong enemies, even if it is the so-called indescribable, even if it is the so-called thousands of warships, even if it is his own realm of demons, he is not afraid, but he is afraid that the twenty-two-year-old young man next to him will look at him with hatred, and he can't bear this.
Li Jianfeng also slowly calmed down at this time, and he exhaled and looked around.
The streets and alleys are full of worshippers, and further away are the brightly lit commercial streets, large squares, and even more distant and looming space elevators......
"My parents, is their sacrifice worthwhile?" Li Jianfeng suddenly asked.
Lu Yuanming was stunned for a while, and then nodded vigorously: "It's valuable!" Very valuable! β
"It was the most dangerous time for us humans, just a little, really, almost at the point of extinction, but you know what? In those last two or three hours, we human beings marched forward bravely without fear of sacrifice, one warship after another left the port, and groups of people boarded the ship......"
Lu Yuanming suddenly stopped talking, he remembered that this was not a government hall, nor an army playground, he was facing a teenager who was still in junior high school, he considered the words and said: "It is the loveliest people like your parents who support the backbone of our human victory, and their deaths are very valuable!" β
Li Jianfeng wiped his tears, then lowered his head and said while burning paper money: "That's good...... My father often said that now is the best era in the history of mankind, I can be regarded as a good time, if I am born in the morning, I am afraid that I will have to compete on the bridge of the college entrance examination, now is very good, I can study until I am thirty-five years old, and then there are countless positions waiting for me to choose, and when I grow up, maybe I can really drive a single-man spaceship to explore the sea of stars, every time my father says this, his eyes are full of light. β
"The sea of stars, it's definitely not right now, we humans are still plagued by the curse of sterilization, and when we solve the curse of sterilization, find the best star system as the home galaxy, and build our own livable belt home star, with the sea, plains, mountains, and extraterrestrial facilities, at that time, maybe we can really let everyone travel to the sea of stars, because we must have a home, if there is no home, then it is not the sea of stars, but the dark universe forest, and there will be no shadow when you step in......"
Lu Yuanming talked endlessly about the sea of stars, the future of mankind, and the most talked about the mother galaxy and the most important mother star.
Family?
Yes, home.
Li Jianfeng suddenly understood the word home.
The home he originally thought was so natural that it must exist.
His dad, his mom, and his ...... Their four-bedroom apartment, this is their home.
But when he came back this time, he felt that this home was so strange, this was not a home, this was just a house, and his real home was gone.
But...... His home is gone, but more people have kept their home, those who are a family of three, or even a family of seven, or eight are worshipping, with serious faces, but not crying, they are the people whose families have been preserved.
Li Jianfeng suddenly said: "You are also a second-class person." β
Lu Yuanming was about to talk about the traffic between the colonized star system and the home galaxy, and his face turned red when he heard this, so he continued to burn paper money and whispered: "Do you have any plans in the future?" Your parents' pension will be deposited in your credit money, and you are a martyr's child, and your future tuition and medical care, social services and other expenses will be free of charge, in addition to these, do you have any other requirements? β
Li Jianfeng shook his head, he thought for a while and said: "It's nothing, after that, I will go to school, first finish junior high school, then high school, college, and then look at it after the age of thirty-five, I think...... I might go to a doctor's degree, as my mother would have liked, or a military academy as my father would have liked, I don't know, but ......"
"I want to go and see, to see the sea of stars, if I can go then."
Lu Yuanming was silent for a long time, he stood up and patted Li Jianfeng's shoulder and said, "Go to school hard, I don't know anything else now, but if possible." β
"I'll take everyone to achieve this, you have to study hard, don't even know how to fly your own spaceship when the time comes."
With that, he turned and walked towards the alley.
Li Jianfeng was still squatting and burning paper money, and after half a ring, he suddenly roared loudly: "Protect our home!" Otherwise, I will never forgive you!! β
Lu Yuanming's figure paused, as if a huge weight was pressing on his shoulders, and then he waved his hand and walked away without looking back.