East of Eden

"You probably used to be a warrior." Dr. Shanmu entered the data on the computer, "The Royal Army, the Far East Knights, and the Holy Moon Society. There were many active groups in that era. Maybe you belonged to one of them."

The wind blows his collar, Xing sits on the back seat of the jeep and calmly says, "Maybe they don't even belong."

"But at least we've made some progress on your identity."

Xing was silent for a while, and then said: "I saw heavy snow at that time. It should be a place I am familiar with. I fought with another man, and then I killed him."

"Snow? The snow field is in the north." Siswell said: "But 3000 years ago, the northern border was an uninhabited land. At least for now, we have found no traces of human life. About 500 years ago, the world There was a drastic change in the climate once, and mankind ushered in a century-long ice age. It is said that there was a group of Chidahan people at that time, and later—”

"Sorry, I'm a little motion sick."

While Siswell was talking, Xing suddenly pressed his chest and retched violently to the outside.

"Give him the plastic bag!" Long shouted, grabbing the steering wheel.Yun An quickly found him a bag from the pizza shop.

The man's face was very pale, his black hair was stuck to his face with sweat, his ribbed chest heaved up and down like a bellows, his nails were firmly embedded in the leather seat.

"Am I too noisy? I'm sorry." Siswell was at a loss, and lowered her head guiltily and worriedly.

"Yeah, I'm tired of listening to your little history class." Yun An was very embarrassed.

"Yun An, don't talk anymore." Shan Mu turned her head, "Be quiet for me."

The boy was beaten up by the always gentle doctor, so he had no choice but to shut up.

The shadows of buildings gradually appeared on the horizon ahead. It was already evening, and the sky without the setting sun was burning bright red, like dried blood.The Persian-style domes sit under the curtain of the sky as dark silhouettes, with soft and mysterious arcs, and underneath them are straight walls with pointed arched windows, revealing the dusk like bright stars.

Singing sounds were heard from far away, as well as the sound of hands beating snare drums, the clamor of closing stalls in the market, the laughter of children, and the barking of dogs.The reggae-headed man was named Hu Lie. He was driving a pickup truck in front, and he stretched out his hand from the window and shook it vigorously.

"Akondo is here." The doctor turned off the computer, and the data projected on the lens disappeared, turning into a glass sheet with two smooth sides.

They got out of the car and walked into the desert town filled with fireworks at dusk.The children frolicking at the intersection showed sparkling eyes, and looked after them like little tails.The markets on both sides of the street have already closed, and the vendors put down the thick curtains embroidered with colorful flowers, birds and rattan patterns, and the wind chimes on the pillars rang softly.

A football jumped out from nowhere, bounced twice on the flagstone floor, and bounced into Xing's arms.He had just recovered from motion sickness, holding the football, standing there in a daze.

"Keya. (Give me)" A barefoot little boy ran up to him, stretched out his hand straight, and spread his thin fingers.The boy was wearing a jersey with the number 10 in blue and white vertical stripes, which was as wide as a holy robe, probably by stealing the clothes of his brother or father.

Xingwei smiled and threw the football to him. The boy held it against his toes, and then deftly carried the ball in his mouth and disappeared into the depths of the alley.

The cars on the street are not cars, but primitive carts with dried fruits on them.This messy place is extravagantly bustling in its own way, with houses crowded and overlapping, interlocking each other, stretching out stairs, awnings, drying racks and bed sheets blowing in the wind in a bizarre, dazzling way. The color scheme combines them at will.

"Ranavido——! Ranavido——!" A black man riding a scooter yelled, knocking on a gong, and his loud voice echoed throughout the street.

Yun An asked: "What is he shouting?"

"It's going to rain, let's pack up your clothes quickly." Shan Mu said, "There are still five more days to go."

The boy glanced at the date on the watch: "It's really only five days left, I almost forgot."

"Dividing the day and the day" is also one of the common sense in the new world.Without the sun, people had to use artificial light sources to simulate sunlight.This artificial light source relies on huge eid energy towers, and there are a hundred of them on the mainland today, but since the cost of activating the energy towers at the same time greatly exceeds what the Suhuang government can afford, they have formulated a "new diurnal calendar" "—Divide the land into four time zones according to longitude, each time zone has three months of Khaita time that can enjoy artificial sunlight, and the rest of the area is dark.

The day when the artificial sunlight moves to the next time zone is called a "divided day". The climate is unstable before and after the divided day, and the most common thing is torrential rain. Desert rainstorms are not uncommon in this era.

"You should know 'divides the day and the sun'?" Long walked to the edge of the star.

Star nods.

"So cherish the rest of the daytime." He narrowed his eyes and looked at the crimson sky: "Even this redness will disappear soon."

REDDRESS. These words flashed in red neon lights.

Led by Hu Lie, they went to the Red Dress Bar, where the ghost swordsman had appeared in the man's mouth.

The owner of the bar is Hu Lie's neighbor, with a clean cut, wearing a bright blue leather jacket and an eagle pendant around his neck.It was only six o'clock in the evening when I entered the door, and the bar was deserted, only a woman with her thighs exposed was practicing dancing around the pole, and the boss was eating nuts while watching a football game.

"Hey! Guzz!"

The two blacks greeted each other and hugged each other.After Hu Lie's introduction, the boss named Guzz learned about their origins and started talking with them in fluent common language.

"By the way, your bar is very cute." As a colleague, Long was naturally the one who talked the most: "I like its log tables and chairs and stained glass chandeliers, and of course, that dancing girl."

Guz laughed, showing his snow-white teeth: "In addition to the dancers, our wine is also very good."

He took out a boot glass and poured the dragon a pitcher of cold amber beer, thick with foam.Then he turned to Xing and asked, "Sir, do you want to have a drink too?"

"Onme." Hu Lie patted his chest aside.

So Xing had a full glass of beer in this way. Holding the daunting glass boot, he hesitated for a moment and then raised his head and drank it down. His Adam's apple turned up and down, and soon the glass bottomed out, and he replayed it again. On the bar counter, there was a crisp "boom".

"Brother is good at drinking." Long sighed, and said to Shan Mu, "Doctor, you must help him write down the 'can drink'."

"Of course, this is an important clue, the research on the efficiency of alcohol dehydrogenase in Homo sapiens in different eras." He didn't know if he was joking, but he recorded it in a serious manner.Doctor's humor is sometimes difficult for anyone to figure out.

After the men drank and chatted, finally, the time seemed to be about the same, Siswell raised her hand cautiously and asked: "That...about 'Sakuwa', I hope you can tell me more We have some details."

The boss wiped the glass and replied: "That day they sat in the window seat until three o'clock in the morning. There were three men and one woman. Their bodies smelled like blood, which made me spray a lot of freshener afterwards."

Siswell's face turned pale, and his hands on his knees were clenched into fists: "Are they still in Akondo?"

"do not know."

"Then what did they talk about? Did they say where they were going?"

He smiled and said, "Young lady, you must know that Ghost Swordsman has always been taciturn. Sitting there drinking wine is like a sculpture, which chills the atmosphere."

She wanted to ask again, but the doctor gently pressed her hand.The doctor got up, and even though he was equipped with mechanical legs, he still needed the support of crutches for his actions. He was smiling, and his gray hair added a kind of intimacy, and he slowly moved to the front of the bar: "Boss, we are very interested in ancient swordsmanship. Maybe you can tell me where they live? I am a scholar who specializes in the study of samurai, and this chapter is missing after writing a book for ten years.

After hearing this, Guz and Hu Lie looked at each other and shrugged: "There is a giant dragon skeleton in the east of the desert. Some people say they came from there."

Hu Lie added: "But it is dangerous to go further east. I suggest you wait for them to purchase items in Akondo. You will see them once a month."

Shan Mu shook his head, a gleam of light flickered from his glasses: "I'm afraid... we don't have that much time."

The air fell into silence, unspeakable worries lingered in people's hearts, and cigarette butts were still burning.In the empty silence, only the football game on the TV was extraordinarily noisy, the radio waves were buzzing, and there were cheers that seemed to come from a distant century——

"Goal! No. [-] player Oleando Hickey! Scored the first goal of the game for us!"

"Orliando Hickey, who is only 16 years old this year, is on the St. Exec Stadium for the first time. We saw that it was a long pass from Nape—"

Yun An stubbed out his cigarette and got up from the sofa: "Orlando Hickey? A ball game more than [-] years ago?"

Guz put down the polished glass in his hand: "That's right, this is my favorite match, the debut of Orlando Hickey."

Yun An smiled, and said in a weak voice: "But everyone knows the outcome of this game."

Doesn't the excitement of the game lie in its unknown?No one will ever guess what will happen in the next second, and the winner will never be determined until the last moment, just like a vigorous gambling.

"So what if you know the ending? It's interesting to know the ending." The boss suddenly looked like a philosopher: "There is an old black saying called 'Dicatorreia', life is a futile effort like a butterfly. Everyone's ending is death, but even if it is repeated thousands of times Over and over, we will all live briefly and beautifully like butterflies."

In the evening, they settled down in a cheap local hotel.Although there were five of them, they insisted on only one room, which made the innkeeper look at them very strangely.

"It's best not to act separately when you go out. Didn't your mother teach you?" Long rubbed Yun An's short chestnut hair: "I'm not familiar with the place here, maybe something will happen at night."

"It doesn't matter to me, isn't there a woman in the team?" He said and glanced at Siswell.

"I don't mind." She said firmly.

There are three beds in the room, and the result of everyone's distribution is: one for Siswell, one for Shanmu, one for Xing, and the rest sleep on the floor.

Xing said: "It doesn't matter, I can also play the floor."

"Don't refuse, even if I don't have a bed, you must have a bed." Dr. Shan Mu said earnestly: "After all, you are the heart and soul of all of us."

"..." Xing Yi was speechless for a moment.

Shan Mu rolled up the right trouser leg, tapped the silver metal leg with his knuckles, sighed softly, Yun An saw this, and immediately took out the toolbox from his bag.

"Doctor, do you need a replacement part?"

"Ah." He smiled apologetically, "I'm sorry to trouble you."

The boy sat beside the doctor's bed and opened the three-layer toolbox.The kid was really serious when he was serious, frowned slightly, picked out the worn nails at the joints of the mechanical legs with his slender fingers, screwed in new ones, and finally held his breath and pushed the nerve probe back into the interface.The process of reconnecting the nerves should be extremely painful, but Shan Mu didn't make a sound, just bean-sized beads of sweat dripping down.After replacing the parts, he let out a long sigh of relief: "Thank you."

Yun An shook his head and helped him put down his trousers, very lightly.

"It was injured in Kesar more than ten years ago." Shan Mu said to Xing calmly.

"Have you ever been a soldier?"

"It's a military doctor, but he also went to the front line." He lay down and folded his hands peacefully: "But it was a long, long time ago."

Unexpectedly, the common sense memory implanted in the star brain actually contained knowledge about the Battle of Kesar.It was an extremely tragic battle. Su Huang defeated more than a dozen rebel organizations in the southern mountainous area, and finally won the unification of this world. The price he paid was the death of [-] soldiers.

The doctor took off his glasses: "Star, memory is a magical thing, it's your old friend, it will never, ever go away."

"One day you'll remember."

......

Xing also lay down, and the rain began to fall outside, beating on people's hearts imperviously.

An old-fashioned chandelier hung from the ceiling, the dim light attracted a group of moths.

He squinted his eyes, and the lights dimmed in front of his eyes, until his vision was covered with gold.He put his hand on his forehead, and his fingers slightly caught the light, touching the round edge of the chandelier.

sun.

The sun appears to be round.Golden circle.

The man in the snow-white robe was running in the field, his long golden hair brushed gently on his face, and there was an ancient sandalwood fragrance.

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*The opening quote is from "sundalandofmind", a piece of pure music.

*This chapter has barely changed.