He came from the bell tonight

Chapter 78 Breaking the Army

The golden sunset spreads among the microwaves of the river, undulating and occasionally holding a few sweet-scented osmanthus flowers, passing through every turn of the city.

There are holographic billboards hanging in the glass buildings and dilapidated alleys, and the popular host said, "Good evening, today's recommendation is the new book by the most popular poet in the universe, "The Long Night Will End". Next , I will read the first poem for you - "I wish you a pleasant journey."

In the courtyard by the river bank, Su Ling accepted the gift book, while Ou Chuchu and the others happily surrounded Wu Bian Luo Mu himself.

And Xiao Huaiyan pulled away the chair beside Su Ling, slightly displeased: "I don't know what they like, it's just spitting."

Xiao Xia with sharp ears heard it, and didn't even bother to raise her head: "That's because you have bad aesthetics."

"Uncle Xiao, please sign this sentence for me!" Lian Xiao smiled "hehe", with a naive look coming out of his eyes.

Su Ling just observed it again.In fact, Xiao Huaiyan's eyes are obviously inherited from his father, but his mouth and nose are more like his mother's.Xiao Yimo was just the opposite.

A cup of jasmine tea was placed in front of him.

"Thank you, Ms. Zhong." Su Ling said very politely.

Zhong Yi "Ms. Zhong" suddenly smiled and rolled her eyes, and looked over with even more pity: "Just call me Auntie."

"Thank you." Su Ling said again.

"You're welcome," Zhong Yi said in a gentle tone, still retaining a girlish playfulness, "Xiao Yan doesn't usually bully you, right? It doesn't matter if he does, just hit him up."

Xiao Huaiyan, who was eating pine nuts, almost choked, seeing that there was only plain water in front of him, not even a cup of tea.

Su Ling nodded ignorantly, revealing a natural cuteness.

He himself didn't know that such a look was always easy to gain extra sympathy from the elders.

"Cough, cough cough," Xiao Huaiyan cleared his throat, pretending to be obedient, "Ms. Zhong, do you have any water?"

Zhong Yi glanced at him: "You still know how to go home."

Xiao Huaiyan turned against the guest, and was very wronged: "The old star is so far away, and you don't want to come and see me."

Zhong Yi said: "Look at you? It's very promising to go to the skirt star cluster and still break down."

"Why is Dong Mi complaining behind his back!"

"If it wasn't for Dongmi, what are you going to do?"

Su Ling watched suspiciously, the calm and restrained scene concealed tension.

Someone patted her right shoulder, Xiao Xia said in a low voice: "Did you see that? If more than one person in a family wants to have the final say, then such a disaster will be caused."

What's more, there is an absence who likes to have the final say.

Xiao Huaiyan and Zhong Yi retorted at the same time: "Who is the disaster?!"

Xiao Xia immediately greeted several young people: "Come, come, uncle treats you to a big meal today."

The white tablecloth is spread out, and the delicate roses are pressed against the corner of the table in the vase, and the rich old star features are placed on the long table.

Lian Xiao ate his hands full of oil, and still praised: "This is the best roasted pig's trotters I've ever eaten in my life! The food of Jiuxing is definitely the best in the league!"

Frank prayed for three seconds as a routine, then happily took a bottle of red wine and put it next to his dinner plate.

Xi Zidu tilted his furry head and asked, "Isn't this the wine Sister Yimo got when she got married?"

"You still remember," Frank said, "you scolded the chief from which remote planet, how could you marry a fairy as your wife."

Xizi stared wide-eyed, and immediately argued: "Three-year-olds are just ignorant."

Frank did not forget to shoot fire: "Yunqing, he liked to follow Sister Yimo when he was a child, he was very annoying."

Yun Qing blinked: "It's so cute."

At the other end of the long table, Su Ling's plate was full of food.He pulled the sweet and sour fish bit by bit.

Xiao Xia picked up some vegetables for Zhong Yi, and turned to the other side with dissatisfaction: "Do you ever talk to me like this?"

Xiao Huaiyan peeled a shrimp and put it in Suling's bowl, and said lightly, "Who told you to lie to Suling first."

"Where is this called cheating? I really have something," Xiao Xia lazily spread his hands, "I assembled a machine, and I want Su Ling to help me try it."

"What machine?"

Xiao Xia said: "It seems to be related to the contract."

Su Ling paused, and raised his head at the same time as Xiao Huaiyan.

After dinner, Xiao Xia arranged for others to stay at the special hot spring hotel in Chaowen City, and then went home with Su Ling and Xiao Huaiyan.

In the three-story house, an instrument is hidden in a half-sunken storage room.

"Didn't your uncle leave me a box after he passed away, which contains blueprints, and only he and I know the password," Xiao Xia unhurriedly flipped it out and showed them, "It's so troublesome, I don't even know what to do. I don’t know, the blueprint is only one-third drawn. I also managed to finish it before I found some information.”

Su Ling stared at the few thin blueprints: "This is the opposite."

"Yes, the anti-contract machine instrument," Xiao Xia patted the instrument, a little regretful, "It was built out of thin air, and many details are missing."

Xiao Huaiyan called up the structural diagram from the terminal.

Xiao Xia was taken aback for a moment, his eyebrows twitched: "Where did you get it?"

"The experimental cabin of M27." Xiao Huaiyan took it for granted.

Xiao Xiagao glanced at him and commented: "Not bad, like my own."

Under the comparison, he filled in the gaps in the original drawing, and then drew a circle with a pen.

"Here, unfortunately, it is missing one of the most important core components."

"Power core."

Xiao Xia raised her eyebrows, a little surprised: "How do you know?"

"Because Xiao Shiyue didn't find the power components of the contract instrument."

Xiao Xia shook her head.

"I heard that Qiu Ci was in a bad state in those years. He tried to make such a thing, but he always failed. He was also a soldier, and he didn't read any books, let alone science. Qiu Ci died Then he got so angry that he burned everything."

At that time, even Xiao Xia herself was not born yet.

"A few years ago, he dug it out again. When he came back late at night, he always felt that he owed Qiuci, so he drew everything he could remember. He didn't figure out the core of power."

But at that time, the ancient machines had become the secrets of the Ministry of Science.With Xiao Shiyue's status in the military, it's hard not to be suspicious.

"He thought of some ways, but the people he got to the Science Department couldn't give an answer."

Xiao Huaiyan thought of someone: "Xiao Boyu."

"Not completely," Xiao Xia said, "You still misunderstood him."

"That's not a misunderstanding." Xiao Huaiyan responded coldly.

Xiao Xia didn't bother to argue with him: "In short, I tried all possible energy sources as power in the simulation cabin, but nothing worked. Until I found a special substance."

He took out a glass vessel from the locked tin cabinet, and a thin layer of black particles was spread on the bottom.

When the vessel approached the instrument, those blacks suddenly jumped up, full of weirdness.

"This was collected from a certain ancient civilization before." Xiao Xia put the glass bottle into the groove in the center of the instrument, "At least there has been some reaction. I guess it is not the most accurate power source, but it is close to the answer. "

"So you originally wanted Su Ling to try?"

Xiao Xia was noncommittal.

"No, it's not safe. You're not sure what it is, how much it will be used, and what the consequences will be." Xiao Huaiyan sternly refused.

Su Ling stared at the machine that almost filled the entire spacious room in front of him, and some novelty arose in the haze.

Slender and fair fingers caressed the machine and slowly touched the glass bottle.Suddenly, the black sand inside began to collide frantically where he touched it, almost breaking the glass bottle.

The sudden weightlessness caused the glass bottle to fall, and some of it squeezed out from the gap in the mouth of the bottle, biting Su Ling's fingers violently, and couldn't shake it off no matter what.

The torn hole was immediately bleeding profusely.

"Turn off the lights!" Xiao Xia snapped.

With a snap, the room was plunged into darkness.

The infrared flashlight fell to the bottom of the glass bottle.

I saw those black things slowly retracted to the position where the red dot was, and then were locked tightly again.

Su Ling's fingertips hurt, but he didn't care.More disappointment gathered in my heart.

Perhaps it is also a luxury.

Xiao Huaiyan was very distressed, and carefully disinfected Su Ling's wound, and his unhappiness was written all over his face.

Xiao Xia sighed: "It doesn't look like this."

Just when the three were disappointed, there was a knock on the door.

Zhong Yi stuffed one of them with a glass of freshly squeezed juice, looking forward to it: "How about it, I entrusted the Agricultural Research Institute to cultivate a new variety of citrus."

Both Xiao Huaiyan and Xiao Xia were silent at the same time.

"Good, delicious." Xiao Xia bumped Xiao Huaiyan with his elbow.

Xiao Huaiyan tried his best to show that he didn't frown, the cup seemed to have a consciousness of its own, and he didn't want to touch his lips again.

"What breed is this?"

"Bitter orange is good for your health," Zhong Yi said.

Only Su Ling drank it all in one go and nodded, "Thank you."

"Su Ling, drink more, your body is growing at this age." Xiao Xia tried to sell his cup.

Xiao Huaiyan gave him a hard look and said, "Don't hurt anyone".

Zhong Yi folded her hands, a little dissatisfied: "What are you still doing here, come out and eat some fruit, I even cut a watermelon. Really, I have been waiting for a long time."

Xiao Xia hurriedly apologized with a smile: "Come here, don't be angry. Hey, you two don't stand still."

As soon as he left, Xiao Huaiyan murmured in a low voice, "It's really boring."

"I'm envious."

Xiao Huaiyan was taken aback.

The warm light on the stairs filled Su Ling's eyes, making those eyes paler and more lonely.

"You have a home," he said.

Xiao Huaiyan blurted out: "You have it too."

Su Ling stepped on the steps and turned slightly.Bright yellow light fell all over the body.

"Until you find out, you can call this home home."

Xiao Huaiyan said in his heart, he can also treat me as his family.

……

Su Ling was arranged to live in a guest room on the second floor, while Xiao Huaiyan was on the third floor.

The small room looked like a children's room. Su Ling slept on the lower bunk of the bunk bed, listening to the wind outside the screened window.Those ethereal dreams still haunted him, some darker, others brighter.

He pressed his pocket watch under his pillow, as if he would sleep better that way.

Before he knew it, Su Ling fell into a drowsy sleep, and the pointer in the pocket watch slowly moved to zero.

The bedroom door on the west side of the third floor was gently pushed open.

The handsome young man seemed to be a little puzzled as to why he was here.He was just about to go downstairs when he suddenly sniffed and smelled a scent.

On the wide terrace, a glass of wine is leaning against the railing, and white smoke rings spread out in the moonlight.

Leaning on the back of the chair, Xiao Xia immediately hid the cigarette behind her when she saw someone coming, and lowered her voice: "Your mother is already asleep, don't make any noise."

"You haven't quit yet." Lazy voice.

Xiao Xia was taken aback for a moment, always feeling that his tone of voice was a bit strange.

"Are you in charge?"

"I can keep it secret for you," Xiao Huaiyan stretched out his hand, "Give me one."

Xiao Xia and Xiao Huaiyan smoked while leaning against the railing in almost the same posture, looking at each other speechlessly.

"Su Ling also smokes?" Xiao Xia wondered.

In the past, Xiao Huaiyan was even more obsessed with cleanliness than Zhong Yi. He was the number one anti-smoking ambassador in Chaowen City.

Xiao Huaiyan was taken aback, and reacted for a while.

"No, he doesn't like it," said the deep voice.

Xiao Huaiyan raised his head to feel the cool night wind, the moonlight washed away the smoke and clouds, but failed to wash away the tiredness accumulated over the years.

……too long.

For a long time, he imagined that one day he would take Su Ling home with him.

They would live in the room he used to stay in when he was a child, they would go to the river to wait for the sunset together, they would go to the bookstore in the old street, do some very childish things, and say some boring words.

But even he himself seems to have not been home for many years.

Gradually, that thought became an empty picture, buried deep down.

So such a gentle night, I dare not feel real.

"What are you doing?" Zhong Yi appeared at the door in pajamas.

Xiao Huaiyan and Xiao Xia hid their cigarettes at the same time.

Xiao Xia put his shoulders on his shoulders: "It's nothing, just talking to my son."

"Well, let's chat casually," Xiao Huaiyan smiled, "Mom, you go to bed first."

Zhong Yi closed the door sleepily: "Okay, you guys go to bed early too."

Her footsteps paused in the corridor.

……Mother?

"It's been a long time since I heard you shout like that." Xiao Xia's suspicious eyes fell on Xiao Huaiyan's sleeve.

Because of the hidden cigarette, the soot got on it, and even the base of the palm rubbed some dust.

Xiao Xia was very sure that this would never happen to Xiao Huaiyan.

But Xiao Huaiyan still looked at the distance of the city as if he didn't see it at all.

"It's been a long time." His voice was dry and a little dry.

He looked sideways slightly, and the dim light spots surged into countless fragments, passing through the howling years in the deep night.

Xiao Huaiyan stopped talking.

Xiao Xia's hand stopped in mid-air, his eyes gradually changed from surprise to deep, and then he patted him on the shoulder lightly.

Xiao Huaiyan turned around and was about to say something, but was interrupted by Xiao Xia.

"Don't tell me," Xiao Xia's eyes were complex, "Many impossible things will happen in the universe, the more influencing factors, the more chaotic the future will become."

Xiao Huaiyan was slightly startled.

"What are you doing? Anyway, when I was in the army, I spent so many years in the Liberty Ship. I have seen more ancient civilizations than you have eaten."

Xiao Xia took a long puff of cigarette, and lazily comforted her: "Xiaoyi traveled alone in the star sea, and your sister dared to challenge the rebel army alone. You, be bold, just do what you want to do."

Xiao Xia had an expression of "I don't have any demands on you, a worthless person".

Xiao Huaiyan looked at him deeply, his eyes were slightly red, and after a long time, he extinguished the cigarette.

"Okay, don't be so moved." Xiao Xia said in an exaggerated tone.

He diverted the nonsense: "Today is a good day, we've seen everyone, and the old Chen's family is having a birthday, why don't I give you a whole cake to celebrate."

Xiao Huaiyan paused: "Old Chen's family?"

"That's right, he celebrated his birthday. I heard that his adopted son has also returned, the one who was very smart since he was a child, the baby of Tianwen Academy. The tube building with no lights on, which floor is it, the sixth floor-hey you What are you doing, kid?!"

Xiao Huaiyan turned over and jumped to the balcony on the second floor. It happened that Su Ling was woken up and just pushed open the door.

"Let's go?" Xiao Huaiyan hooked his hands.

"...What?" Su Ling hadn't fully woken up yet, and was in a daze.But he quickly recognized Xiao Huaiyan, and his body reacted faster than his consciousness, grabbing his fingers and turning over the railing.

"Save people."

"Who?"

"Chen Wangyu."