usenovelonline Chapter 11 EXODUS
Chapter 11 EXODUS
【Memories of Sakuwa (II)】
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Streets and alleys where neon lights cannot shine, humid air, and never-ending rain.
In the garbage dump, there is an old-fashioned TV that is still tirelessly playing entertainment programs. The voice is hoarse and horrible, like an old woman whose neck has been twisted. On the screen, the host wears an exaggerated clown mask, with bright red lips grinning to the bottom of the ears.He raised a finger, and the right half of his face was close to the camera, his eyes were enlarged strangely, and the wrinkles on his face were clearly visible.
"Civilizations escaped collectively 3000 years ago? Where did they flee? Why did they suddenly disappear from the long river of history? What message did the sacred objects left by the mysterious Zhu Si bring to mankind? Hoho——Welcome to Uncle Tom No Words Don’t talk about the Moon House—I’m Tom Sim, and I look forward to your call 24 hours a day!”
"Hi Tom, I'm on the phone for the first time and I'm a little nervous."
Soon a call came in, and the clown symbolically raised the red microphone to his ear: "It's okay, dear friend, I will encourage you with the warmest applause!" He applauded while bouncing on the stage.
The opposite side was a bit jerky, and one could imagine that he might be rubbing his pants uneasily, but after that, what he said was amazing: "...I just want to tell everyone that I hope that human beings will stop doing nothing to holy objects. The search for meaning."
The clown made a puzzled expression, with fluorescent green hair trembling on his head, still smiling hippie: "My dear, why do you say that? Are you the death fire government A little spy sent by him?"
"You mean Su Huang? Of course not. I just want to say one thing to them—" The tone on the other end suddenly became extremely tough, almost yelling into the microphone word by word:
"Fuck it."
/nine years old
great spiritual guide
we're on the black road
The center of the sacred ring (referring to Yelan City)
tree withered
far away
far away
We are doomed to be exiled by the old days
Artificial daylight moves to the next time zone and darkness descends on the desert.After the darkness falls, the sky is a lonely and desolate dark blue, the ruins are dark silhouettes standing in the dark blue, the sand dunes are faintly soft white like silk, and the long wind sweeps the sand and gravel, scraping people's faces.
Between the sky and the earth, human beings are a few short vertical lines, stepping on the shadows of each other on the back of the dunes, leaving a winding footprint at the end of the team.The boy was wearing a black linen cloak, with a few strands of silver hair floating out. He turned his head anxiously and took a last look at his former hometown.
This year
The Sakuwas were forced to leave Yelan City
Divide into five teams
A stay in the lonely city
The other four went around the world in search of stolen relics
They don't know if they'll come back
Shano walked west.From ancient times to the present, there are only two continents on the world's seas, one is called Donglu and the other is called Xizhou, and the two continents are separated by the Guthras Ocean.They are shaped like two fishes biting each other head to tail, with their heads facing upwards, and a long tail dragging to the south, where there are mountains and dense forests.The head of Xizhou fish is facing down, and the tail extends to the north, where there is a barren snowfield.
Facing the map, he didn't know where he was going. Some people said that there was a Beta city by the sea in Donglu, one of the seven satellite cities that guarded the capital. The Suhuang government built a huge fort there. Maybe they could go to Beta. The city takes its chances.
/16 years old
Three tall cooling towers stood in the distance of the city, and the green lights of the aviation obstruction lights on the top pierced through the rain curtain, flashing at a frequency of once every five seconds.Beta City has a special feature. From a low level, you will find that the city is full of dirty intestines, but from a high level, the buildings planned by the government are in order, like giant ships moored on the sea. , the relics of Yin Qi civilization are interspersed among them.
The 16-year-old Shano stood on a wire board protruding forward on the roof of a residential building. He walked to the front of the wire board, like a diver about to jump, his body was empty.But of course he didn't jump, just shook the rain from his hair, put on the hood of his black jacket, put his hands in his pockets and overlooked the whole picture of Beta City.Wind and rain howled at his feet.
"What time is it?" he asked.
"One more minute." Su An came from behind and stood with him on a high place in the city.
"Actually, you don't need to do it."
"It's okay." Su An installed the Hidden Blade on his wrist, and pulled down his sleeve to cover it.You can see that her movements are quite skilled at this time.
They dyed their hair black and wore black pupil stickers. They looked like ordinary people in appearance. They were nothing more than two street teenagers.Their clothes all come from trash cans, black hooded jackets with "FUCKME" printed on the back and bright yellow smiley faces on the back, ripped jeans, and espadrilles of different colors that are obviously patchwork.
They could clearly see the alley below and the five or six streets nearby. Shano saw a man coming out of the Red Shell Subway Station with a briefcase under his arm and a Clough blue tie on his chest. It shows that he is an employee of a government department.Su An also put on her hat, squatted down, and the hands on the dial clicked.They are waiting.
Finally, the man turned into the alley they had been monitoring for a long time, Shano made a gesture: "Let's go."
Su An jumped down from the high platform, stepped on the wires, clothes hangers and air conditioner, and landed lightly on the ground, right in front of the man, blocking his way.The man holding the briefcase was taken aback. In front of him, the rain had blurred the narrow alley into a blue square. In the center of the square stood a slender girl in black, with the cold light of a knife point on her cuff.
The girl was wearing a black hat, so she couldn't see her face clearly, but she could feel a killing intent rushing towards her face.The man panicked, turned around and ran away.However, when he turned his head, he found in despair that another person jumped behind him, and the canvas shoes popped into the puddle. The person wiped both sides of the dagger on his cuff, pulled the jacket zipper to the highest point, and took a step. One step closer to him.
wow-
The sparrows on the poles flew up.
The scream stayed in the man's throat, and in the blink of an eye, there was another corpse in the dark alley.The body was warm, and there was a large handful of blood in front of the white shirt and Clough's blue tie. The blood mixed with the rainwater and flowed into the sewer, where it bubbled and bubbled.Shano slashed the man's eye and cut through the micro-recorder implanted in the pupil, while Su An took out the computer from his briefcase and wrapped it in his clothes.
"Let's go."
The blood on the knife was quickly washed away.
They finally come to the city, and the city is not what they imagined in their childhood.
/16 years old
IKAE is a warm place. It is the world's largest chain store for household goods. It sells standardized products such as sofas, bed frames, kitchen utensils, and lighting to urban residents. Of course, Shanuo and Suan like it only because of its free hot dogs. And cones, and a sofa that can sit for an unlimited length of time.
Although hot dogs and cones are free, you still have to go to the window to collect them with shopping receipts.They don't have an ID code, and they can't talk about consumption, but they quickly learned to be like other street children, standing by the glass trash can at the exit to betray their pity.
At seven or eight o'clock in the evening, with the bright yellow walls of IKAE as the background board, the children waiting at the door lined up in a long colorful line.Some of them stretched out their skinny little hands and begged vaguely to every passerby: "Please, please give us a small ticket." Luanuo and Suan were different from everyone else, they did nothing but leaned against the wall quietly, raised their heads and cast a glance with wet eyes when someone walked by.
Each time, they get the most shopping receipts.
Shano took a stack of receipts in exchange for six hot dogs and two cones, and the two sat on the sofa and devoured them. IKAE's hot dogs are really good. They had never eaten such a (high-calorie and) happy food in Yelan City before.The crust of the bread is shiny and soft to the bite. Although the sausage sandwiched in it is a bit thinner, it has been smoked and fragrant, and the top is sprinkled with diced green onions.They really want to spend their whole life in IKAE if possible.
Shano and Su An usually arrive at IKAE at [-]:[-] pm, and stay until the closing time of the mall as much as possible. Warehouse organizers push bulky goods in front of their eyes, and one of them is always responsible for driving homeless people.Sometimes they come across a very rude fat man with a dismantling wrench in his pocket, and all the brats run away screaming.Fatty likes to trouble Su An the most. For this reason, Shano left a big punch hole on his nose.
Whenever Debussy's Arabesque No.1 piano sounded, they knew it was time to leave. Today, it was a gentle big sister who asked them to leave. She would look at them with pity, but she would not do anything.
The 16-year-old boy and girl walked out of the brightly lit IKAE, walked through the vast rainy night, and walked straight to a small hillside at the edge of the city, where several hollow circular machines scattered there were their overnight shelters.These machines are eid energy ring components, where the damage is abandoned.Shano got in, and Su An got in too, and the sound of raindrops hitting the iron shell was very crisp.
After turning on the night light, Shano turned on the computer he hid in the corner, that is, the computer they robbed and had the permission to log in to the internal website of Su Huang's government.Shano downloaded a data package and opened it with a detailed staff list. Since the data is too large and there is no retrieval function, he can only search line by line.
He finally found familiar names: "Zay" and "Marco."That was the pseudonym used by his predecessors.There were four people in Sakuwa who came to Beta City at that time. They planned to infiltrate the government one by one to inquire about the holy relics starting from the oldest one, but as a result, those who went in never came out again.
Zai and Marko have been out of touch for seven months.
Su An asked: "Are they still alive? What do the files say?"
Shano scanned the screen, and the red "DEAD" came into view.They died, no one knew how, and their bodies were thrown into the incinerators under the "fortress", as the urban legend said.
For the expected answer, the young man sighed, without any expression of sadness, as calm as a priest who is about to put a rope on a death row prisoner:
"Next...my turn."
final match.
Later, in Beta City, Shano met a woman. He didn't know her name, but only knew that she was working within the Suhuang government. She was between 35 and 40 years old and had a special and mature charm.
She likes Shano very much, and often invites him to dinner and drinks, and then takes him home.Women live in District A (high-end residential area), black and white rooms, only sheets are as blue as sea water.She took off her high-heeled shoes at the door, and faced Su Huang's badge on the wall - a towering giant tower, and performed her daily routine reading aloud. After reading aloud, she switched the micro-recorder in her eyes to private mode.
Shano slept with her when he was 22, and the relationship lasted for many years.He never mentioned this to Su An. He said that he found an easy job in the government, and then used the money the woman gave him to help Su An rent a house in District D. He would go and have a look when he had time.When making love with a woman, he stares absently at the rain outside the window, but has to show a gesture of commitment.Later, he became the plaything of many women in District A, a young body that can be called at any time with a phone call.
They trilled, and Shano straightened up and raised his head to the sky. Ironically, he saw the red kite, the red kite that he didn't want to help others take down when he was a child, and was wrapped around the clothes hanger.
Silver Pigeon Knight, Cherry Blossom Tree, Yelan City... They all seem like distant memories, but he is indeed still a "knight". If someone is willing to buy him, he will ride on it.However, in the chaotic days, he asked himself, he never forgot the vision.
The blond boy and Sakuwa under the tree seem to be reminding him that "to walk on the golden road, you must first go through the stage of falling."
He has a clear goal, and all his customers are people who work in the system and have a high status, and they have a lot of information in their hands.Smarter than his predecessors, Shano chose the dirtiest and most effective path.After all, he is the Silver Pigeon Knight, Shano looked at his hands and smiled, the Silver Pigeon Knight, the guardian of the sacred objects with a sword, the most proud young man in Yelan City——
is he still thereAre you still listening?He knew he must be there, in the city, in his heart, in the desert wind, he must still be riding a white horse, holding a long | knife, and his silver hair flying like a flag.
He sat down on the bed with a satisfied smile, and there seemed to be a deep blue sea in front of his eyes, in which was shining a sacred light with unknown meaning.
...
Finally, when Shano was 33 years old, an unexpected news appeared.
"What? People from the Weaver party found another sacred object?" The woman got up from the bed and picked up the phone with her sweaty back: "Damn, how many fragments are there in this thing?"
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The author has something to say:
Let me take you through the timeline:
58 years ago: eid nuclear test, "eggs" appeared outside Yelan City
33 years ago: Shano was born
30 years ago: Making the "civilization escape hypothesis"
29 years ago: hunting scholars
27 years ago: WF established
25 years ago: Battle of Kesar
24 years ago: The bombing of Yelan City, Shanuo was nine years old at this time, and he had just been knighted for a year, and Su Huang obtained the Holy Object I
18 years ago: WF found clues in the snow mountain
About a month ago: WF found the relic II, the star was resurrected
In other words, WF is 24 years behind Su Huang, but it doesn't matter, they have a male lead.
current characters
WF members: Shanmu Zhelang, Yunan, Long, Xing, Siswell, Terok (deceased);
Sakuwa: Shano, Suan, High Priest (Suan's father);
Desert residents: Honghe, Hulie (deceased), Guzi (deceased);
Suhuang government: ****
Important characters living in the lines: Liang Shiheng, Helios (WF leader), the legendary Shanmu’s old comrade-in-arms, Sakuwa who was with Liang Shiheng in Shano’s vision