abyss rose

Five days is as short as an instant.

The money in the two bases is not in circulation, so Liandong made a calculation, called Du Xia together, and went to the corresponding service office to exchange some currency of the Floating Void City in proportion to use it for the five-day tour of the Floating Void City.

However, in the first three days of the five-day tour, Chai Yuening, the captain, was abandoned by his teammates.

Everyone seems to have made an agreement. They set off quietly every morning, and come back when they are tired from playing in the evening. They get together to make delicious food on the table. First, send two copies to Chai Yuening’s room, and then go back to eat lively .

That's right, you don't even bring your captain with you to eat, and resolutely implement the final concept of leaving a "two-person world" for Chai Yuening and Chu Ci. You can tell with your toes that it must be that Youlan told them some messy and ruined things behind their backs. The words of people's reputation.

How could a simple existence like Chu Ci understand what Youlan said?

Youlan has led everyone astray, and now that everyone is doing this, it is likely to make Chu Ci feel that he is not welcome.

After realizing this, Chai Yuening wanted to try to bring Chu Ci to blend in with everyone, but Chu Ci didn't want to hang out with everyone at all.

Chu Ci likes to stand by the window of the living room, or the balcony of the bedroom, looking at the sky, the clouds, the fighter planes on duty, or the cars and people passing by downstairs.

Apart from these, I just love to sit beside Chai Yuening and read books.

Chu Ci seems to like the poetry collections of the old world very much, and there are many books on the half-side bookshelf of the desk.

She always likes to look over and over again.

"Don't you want to go out and have fun?" Chai Yuening asked tentatively, "With everyone?"

Chu Ci hesitated for a while, looked up at Chai Yuening, and said softly: "It's better for me not to go out. Although Dr. Yi has allowed it, the base won't be at ease. The scope of my activities is wide, and Dr. Yi's side will not be very serious. Easy to explain."

Chai Yuening: "Is that so..."

Chu Ci nodded: "As long as you don't move within the prescribed range, the drone detector will follow me. Everyone is uncomfortable being stared at by that thing."

Think about it too, if Chu Ci could walk around like a normal person, Chu Ci wouldn't have the temperament that seems to be isolated from the world for a long time.

That day, Chai Yuening thought about it, got up and asked, "Then where can you go? Go out for a walk with me?"

Chu Ci tilted his head, seemingly at a loss.

Chai Yuening: "Take me to the farthest place you can go."

Chu Ci was silent for a long time, as if hesitating, but finally nodded with a smile.

Later, they went to the roof of that building.

Even if they just went to the rooftop, two small drones slowly rose up, hanging in the air not far away, with countless pairs of eyes behind them, watching them quietly.

It wasn't until that moment that Chai Yuening knew that the scope of regulations Chu Ci spoke of might just be that small room.

As long as you leave that house, no matter where you go, something will follow you.

Chu Ci definitely doesn't want this to be known by everyone, and he doesn't want to be a prisoner who is under surveillance anytime and anywhere in everyone's eyes.

The floating city, like an archipelago in the sea, has many tall buildings standing proudly among the clouds.

This building is 26 storeys high, but it is not the tallest building among countless buildings, but standing here, it is enough to see far away.

She is like a quiet prison bird, she doesn't even have a companion, she is used to not being noisy, just in this cage, quietly looking out at the world that does not belong to her.

"There are many things that I didn't want you to know." Chu Ci said softly.

She leaned on the rusted guardrail in front of her and looked at the distant sky without much expression on her face.

"But when you asked me like that, I couldn't help it anymore. I wanted to let you know something..." she said, "It's useless to know it, and we won't have a chance to meet each other in the future."

Chai Yuening couldn't see through the joy and sorrow of the person in front of her at that time.

All she knew was that she was a little shaken.

Floating Void City is very good, except for Chu Ci, everything here looks so free.

It's just that neither she nor her teammates belong here.

They are foreign guests, they can be entertained for a while, but they will not be kept for a long time.

The floating city is very good, but it is still not their home.

Their home is at the base of the dungeon, their family and friends, everything they know is there.

But she suddenly wanted to stay here.

Even in this strange human base, I have to start over with nothing.

Even if he doesn't have the trust of the military, and no sources of missions and supplies, he may still have to ask some low-level mercenary teams to try him out.

At that moment, she impulsively said the words in her heart.

"I can stay and be with you."

It's just that the person who heard this sentence didn't give her the expected answer.

She thought that Chu Ci should be happy.

At least every time she said similar things in the past, Chu Ci was happy.

But not this time.

Chu Ci was silent for a long time, and finally said lightly: "I am an experimental sample of Floating Void City, not your teammate anymore."

She said, turned sideways, and took a deep look at Chai Yuening: "It's just an acquaintance, it's enough to send it here, I'm not a free person, I can't keep entertaining you like you took me in... ...You go back. As you can see, I'm fine."

Chai Yuening opened her mouth, but in the end she still hesitated to speak.

Chu Ci didn't seem to want her to stay, although he didn't know why, but the feeling was very strong.

On the night when she first came here, she said that she only stayed for two or three days, and Chu Ci was unhappy.

But when she said that there was nothing wrong with staying for ten days and half a month, Chu Ci said that five days would be enough.

Two or three days is too short, ten or so days is too long.

Five days seemed like a time limit, maybe the time that the doctor left for Chu Ci.

How can a sample of the floating city stay at home and entertain guests from outside?

Chai Yuening thought that she was indeed impulsive.

She didn't know why, she was so impulsive at that moment.

She and Chu Ci don't really have any serious relationship as Youlan said.

After all, they are destined to have different lives, such inexplicable impulse will only bring pressure to Chu Ci.

So she nodded after a brief loss, and stopped talking silly words.

On the last day, everyone had a lively dinner around the table just to bid farewell to Chu Ci.

At the dinner table, someone was talking about strange topics that Chai Yuening couldn't stop.

Old Xiang: "Chu Ci, our captain can't bear to part with you. Maybe when she goes back this time, she doesn't even want the bonus from the base. She just wants a plane. When she learns it, she will come to you if she has nothing to do."

Lonicera: "The oil for this round trip is precious."

Old Xiang: "No matter how expensive you are, you still have to see each other, right? The two little girls can't stay in different places for too long."

Lu Qi: "When we have saved enough money, why don't we move here together? Du Xia, go back and ask your grandma if she would like to come to the sky to have a look."

Du Xia: "Yes."

Old Xiang: "It seems that we are really sorry for Youlan. We agreed to help her there in the future. In the end, we all came here to live a good life."

Liandong: "Let Boss You come here to have a look, she will like it here."

Old Xiang: "She can't bear to part with her black market."

For a while, the dinner table was full of laughter.

Chai Yuening looked at Chu Ci.

Chu Ci was quiet. She listened to everyone's words without refuting or participating. Her eyes were shining brightly, but it was hard to fathom what she was feeling at this moment.

Chai Yuening only knows one thing, she was ordered to be expelled by Chu Ci today.

Chu Ci didn't want her to stay here, and maybe he wouldn't want her to come back here either.

***

At four o'clock in the morning on the second day, it was still dark.

Chu Ci sent everyone to the bottom of the building.

Lu Qi, who wasn't too awake, joked casually, saying that they were born and died together, so why don't they give everyone a ride.

Chu Ci just frowned and smiled.

Chai Yuening looked around subconsciously, and the drone suspended in the distance was quietly monitoring here.

"You're the one who talks too much." She grabbed Lu Qi's arm and dragged him into the white van that came to pick him up.

Then he waved to Chu Ci, saying his final farewell.

Ye Qing drove them away from there.

Chai Yuening looked back and saw that Chu Ci was still standing under the tall building.

The sky full of stars accompanied her to bid farewell to her.

The cool night wind made her hair messy, as if she wished that the slender figure would be swept away from someone's world, without leaving a trace of tenderness.

Chai Yuening watched that figure getting smaller and smaller in her line of sight, so far away that it gradually disappeared, and so far away that even the tall building disappeared into her world.

For some reason, she felt empty in her heart, and all the voices around her could no longer reach her ears.

When the car arrived at the main city airport, Chai Yuening boarded the return plane absent-mindedly. She couldn't help being nostalgic, but she stayed away from the "island" in the sea of ​​clouds and the people she personally sent back to the "island" in silence.

The plane flies from early morning to evening, the sky rises and sunsets.

They returned to the sandy plain with the signal tower on the ground.

The plane slowly landed at the entrance of the elevator platform in the main city, and the inspectors at the security checkpoint walked towards them pushing the equipment.

Everyone went down in a line, and Chai Yuening followed at the end.

"The captain seems to have lost his soul along the way."

"Boss You is right..."

They whispered softly enough, but Chai Yuening no longer explained anything like before.

She suddenly felt that she had indeed been lying to herself.

Because I was afraid, because I didn't dare, because I felt that there would be no results, so I was so reluctant, but I still had to pretend that it wasn't the same thing.

Chu Ci was so special that she didn't dare to think about how she could stay by her side.

She has no way to give her freedom, no ability to protect her, let alone bear the pain caused by the experiment for her, and change her prison bird-like status quo.

But she can obviously choose to accompany her.

Chu Ci said that there are many things that she didn't want her to know, but couldn't help but want her to know.

Chu Ci still has a lot of things on his mind that he hasn't said...

That day, on the rooftop, if she was willing to ask, she would definitely be able to hear her.

Chai Yuening finally realized that she once again left Chu Ci behind.

The first time, she left Chu Ci alone in the Ninth District.

At that time, she thought that she would never see her again in the future, and her heart should be extremely peaceful.

But this time, she couldn't calm down anymore.

There was a familiar voice, as if she was still whispering reproaches in her ear.

——I seem to know what it means to be sad. It’s really you who hurt me every time.

This time, she must have made her sad again.

At the moment when both the identity test and the infection test had passed, Chai Yuening suddenly turned around and slapped open the door of the plane that had just been replaced by the accompanying rotating pilot and was about to return overnight.

"team leader!"

"I can't leave her behind!"

As Chai Yuening said, she boarded the plane again under everyone's surprised eyes.

"Please ask the base for a reward for me. Chu Ci and I had someone block the ventilation system in District [-]. There is a girl named Jing Mu in District [-]. She was the technician at that time. If she is still alive, she can Testify for me." Chai Yuening shouted towards the ground, "This plus the bonus for the ground mission, no matter what, it is enough to change the plane to see you off?"

"Aren't you in too much of a hurry?" Lao Xiang said in amazement, "It's really inseparable for a day!"

"Captain!" Lonicera yelled, "We got the bonus, we'll go find you after packing up!"

Chai Yuening nodded: "Don't leave anything important behind!"

"Don't worry, it won't happen!" Liandong said, waving to Chai Yuening.

Chai Yuening understands that people who firmly believe that they will see each other again can always choose to say goodbye without any burden.

This is not the case with her and Chu Ci.

For a moment, she could feel that if she didn't go back immediately, maybe she and Chu Ci would miss it forever.

Come and go for two days and nights.

At around eleven o'clock on the new day, she came to the human base in the sea of ​​clouds again.

This time, no one came to pick her up.

Holding the little money left on her body, she searched all the way and got on the city bus here, and rushed towards the place where she lived temporarily.

At 03:30 in the afternoon, Chai Yuening, who had gone many wrong ways, returned to the foot of the tall building.

She knocked on the corner door on the seventeenth floor, but only saw another person in pajamas.

There is no second person in the house.

"Chai Yuening?" Ye Qing's eyes were full of disbelief, "Didn't you leave?"

She is Yi Shuyun's assistant, and Chai Yuening knew about it on TV.

She and Chu Ci have a similar figure.

The clothes in the closet are indeed the style she wore when she was on camera.

This is Ye Qing's home.

Suddenly, Chai Yuening seemed to hear a voice.

"Go back."

"As you can see, I'm fine."

Very light, very thin, right next to her ear, on her heart.

"I lied to you."