Blade and Swift

The first thing Yan Xichen did after talking with Curry was to find Rosen.He was too familiar with the structure of the base, and knew every door and every passage. Even so, Yan Xichen searched the entire base but could not find Rosen.When he inquired with a few mercenaries that Rosen was heading towards the enclosure, he was taken aback for a moment, wondering if it was possible that Rosen had already dealt with the crow, or did he find no one at all and finally went back?

Yan Xichen returned in a hurry, Du Yachen was not there, Duan Mingyi picked up his gun after hearing his few words, and searched with him.

It is difficult to find people in this kind of place, the area is large, and there are many people, and there are mercenaries everywhere.Yan Xichen failed to find Luo Sen, but met Du Yachen instead.He disappeared for a whole day, and Yan Xichen was wondering where he went, but before he could tell Du Yachen about Rosen's situation, Du Yachen pulled him aside and sat down: "Come on, let's see what I got."

"Archives?" The brown paper bag in front of Yan Xichen was very familiar. Whether it was the temporary base they stayed in before or the Hawkeye main base, there was an archive room underground.It's just that although the temporary base is still in use by mercenaries, it is basically deserted, and most of the files left behind are not confidential.The headquarters is different, the security must be strict, how did Du Yachen get in?

"I have my own way. Blackwater's mercenaries are often fucking used as spies." Du Yachen looked at him with a smile, and untied the string wrapped around the cowhide portfolio.

"Show off to me again?"

"I have a chance to take you to stay for a while." Du Yachen frivolously touched his face, took out the things and put them in front of Yan Xichen.

To Yan Xichen's surprise, the file was written in his own name.Although the mercenaries here communicated in Russian, the records in the files were in Ukrainian, and Yan Xichen found that he could understand them completely.This file records the content from 1988 to 1992, detailing what missions he participated in, and small things at the base.

With just one glance, Yan Xichen was full of doubts.Turning his head, Du Yachen looked beside him, and Yan Xichen gave him a funny nod: "What are you looking at? Do you understand?"

"I don't understand that I can get yours back? It's just not as proficient as you." Du Yachen flipped through a few pages lazily.

Yan Xichen was surprised. He pointed to the middle part and said to him, "These experiences don't match the ones in my head. It seems that not only are we experiencing Fang Shuo's memories now, but our real identities have been replaced in this space." It's gone. The owner of this file should be Fang Shuo."

"It's just now that it's your name." Du Yachen understood clearly, and he turned the file directly to the last page. The last time recorded was 1993, and the date stayed shortly before the Kiev mission.

Yan Xichen said solemnly: "According to the current timeline, the Kiev Nuclear Power Plant has not exploded, and the combustion furnace is safe and sound. This file is—"

Suddenly there was a sound in the distance, interrupting their conversation and thoughts.Du Yachen's reaction was very sharp, and he put his hand on his waist in an instant, followed his gaze, and found two figures on the mound, as if they came out of the white clouds under the sky.

Those were Duan Mingyi and Luo Sen. The two of them leaned close together, and when they got closer, they could see Duan Mingyi kept turning his head and talking to Luo Sen.

Yan Xichen put down the file, Du Yachen went up to meet him, patted Luo Sen on the shoulder twice, and asked him what happened.Luo Sen opened his mouth to speak, but before Yan Xichen could hear him clearly, he walked back quickly on his own.Yan Xichen wanted to catch up and ask, but Duan Mingyi stopped him: "Go back and talk."

After Luo Sen returned to the enclosure, he went straight to his room. Yan Xichen looked at Duan Mingyi delicately, and Duan Mingyi also looked at him delicately. Yan Xichen patted him: "Don't play charades."

"It's because of the rose." Du Yachen said.

"what happened?"

"On the day when Rose's accident happened, the crow was the only one present. Rosen followed us into the inner world to find Cain and undo Rose's curse. Our clues are slow now, and there is almost no progress. He is anxious." Du Yachen said a few words After the words were dialed, Yan Xichen understood.

Rosen has a calm personality and is absolutely submissive to Du Yachen. He will not show too much anxiety in front of them, but this does not mean that he is not in a hurry.When I saw a crow, I wanted to grab that string desperately.

Yan Xichen stood leaning against the door, hesitated to speak several times, his heart was very complicated.Rosen changed his clothes and came out, and sat down on the simple wooden chair in the middle of the room.

"I saw a crow, I'm pretty sure."

"You didn't catch up to him." Duan Mingyi said.

The implication may be that Rosen misunderstood.After all, this is Yan Xichen's outside world, and the crow didn't come in with them.

"I'm sure it's him. When I chased Gaoqiu, I shot him in the side. Go ask the mercenaries in the eastern part of the base if they heard it this morning?" up.

Yan Xichen observed Luo Sen carefully. This tall and burly man was low-key and silent on weekdays, and he even performed his tasks in a low-key manner. It was almost difficult to guess what was going on in his mind.On the day of the accident at the Basilica Theater, it was the first time that Rosen let his guard down in front of Xichen Yan and talked about Rose.

"I believe in Rosen." Du Yachen leaned against the wall, holding the gun, "It's just that this is the world of watches, even if you really see a crow, is that crow a real crow?"

Du Yachen lazily fiddled with the iron piece on the gun waist: "The watch world we live in is out of control. Have you ever thought that everyone has their own watch world, so what about Cain?"

For a moment, everyone looked at Du Yachen, and Yan Xichen was a little distracted.It's not that he hasn't thought about it, he's thought about it since Lao Jiang proposed it to him.The will he told Fang affects the outside world, if he has the outside world, then Fang Shuo will too.There are some things that Yan Xichen didn't think of until he entered the watch world, but Lao Jiang probably thought of them a long time ago.

Fang Shuo's watch world is very likely to be included in his watch world.As Du Yachen said, the will was grafted, and when they entered Fang Shuo's watch world, they didn't know it.At first, he thought that he just saw Fang Shuo's memories in his watch world... Now that he thinks about it, his hairs stand on end.

He thought of it, and Duan Mingyi and Luo Sen thought of it too.

Du Yachen leaned the gun against the wall: "Assuming it's really Fang Shuo's watch world, it's not surprising that there will be a fake 'crow'."

Rosen's face was still gloomy, not to show anyone, it was obvious that he was too bad to be bothered to hide.He took several deep breaths and stood up.

Yan Xichen knew that he might want to go out to get some fresh air, so he quickly grabbed Luo Sen.He looked around the crowd: "Curry came to me this morning."

The moon was scarce, and Yan Xichen climbed to the roof, sat on the dusty stone bricks, leaned back and looked at the sky.His slender legs were spread wide in front of him, his shoulders were hunched, and his head rested on his right shoulder, which was very comfortable, like a child, if you ignore the gun beside him.

When Du Yachen climbed up, he looked like this.

"It's too old to watch the stars?"

"Don't make it sound like you're very young." Yan Xichen didn't turn his head, he knew it was him just now.

"Every time you have something on your mind, you like to look at the stars."

Yan Xichen laughed, and the evening wind blew away his depression: "The stars know all the answers."

Du Yachen came over: "Ask him, do you know that I love you?"

My heart moved slightly, the wind stopped, and the sky was full of stars twinkling, as if I was really talking.

Yan Xichen turned his head and hooked Du Aachen's finger, and the stars seemed to fall into his eyes: "You don't need to ask, I don't know about them. I know best."

Du Yachen sat down with his legs curled up behind him, and pulled him into his arms. His chest rubbed against Yan Xichen's back, and both of them were a little bit scheming.

"I remember that when I first went to Hawkeye, I couldn't get excited about many things. At that time, there were not so many electronic entertainment. My language is not good, and it is difficult to make friends or read books. Fang Shuo can occasionally help me get a few Chinese books. They were all turned upside down in the room." Yan Xichen pointed to the sky, as if infected by Du Yachen, with a lazy attitude, "Later, I read a book about the universe, and I liked watching the stars at that time. .Sometimes, it feels more like looking at the universe.”

Du Yachen looked at his calm side face, then looked up at the stars, and smiled: "Look at the universe."

"Well. Sometimes after watching it for a long time, I still think about some metaphysical issues."

Du Yachen let out a 'Yo', and said with a smile: "It's still metaphysical. Tell me, what conclusion have you come to after thinking about it?"

Yan Xichen smiled: "Anyway, I thought about it a lot. Later, I found that it is difficult for people like us to solve practical problems no matter how much we think about it. Later, we seldom thought about it."

He sat up and nodded, and handed the document bag on the side to Du Yachen.

"If this is the latest piece of information you found, it means that now is the eve of the explosion at the Kiev nuclear power plant." Yan Xichen looked into the distance and put his arm on Du Yachen's shoulder, "You don't know that I came here for the first time, I hate Dead. The sky is full of snow, cold, damp, and smell of blood. My first impression of this city is white snow, red snow, and black gunpowder smoke. But one day, all this All of them are gone, such a vigorous city suddenly becomes a ghost town."

"Are you afraid?"

"Afraid? No. How I wish I could see everything with my own eyes, so that I could firmly engrave it in my mind..."

Du Yachen kept silent, he always acted as a qualified listener at such times.It's just that his eyes were burning hot, burning Yan Xichen in the night wind, and the fire wouldn't stop.

"Just now I was thinking, if I am really a willer, why does this space exist. It is probably too painful, too remorseful, and too hateful to represent the world and cover up all the pain and tragedy. Thinking——If this The world will never have pain, sadness, remorse, those moods, how good it would be. But Brother Shuo’s watch world is not like this, on the eve of the tragedy, I can smell the metal smell in the air now.”

Du Yachen didn't say anything, he gently pinched Yan Xichen's neck.This is his inner demon, and he can only get out of it by himself.

"I won't run away again."

The sky was dark, and a group of people were ready to go.Yan Xichen stretched out a dilapidated old map to show Du Yachen the way.This time, unlike the previous missions, they only received a notification of the location.Yan Xichen has a general direction in his mind, but after so many years, his impression of Kiev has faded, and he cannot fully confirm the driving route.

Old maps are not as convenient as modern GPS, Yan Xichen rubbed his eyes and felt that he was going blind.Duan Mingyi and Du Yachen were arguing, and they were about to quarrel.Rosen was driving in front, motionless as a mountain, even though his brows were furrowed tightly, and his dark circles were heavy.None of them are in good shape.

What's even more disturbing is that as the surrounding scenery changes, everyone's sixth sense gets worse and worse.Dilapidated buildings, broken steel bars, rotten and desolate walls, rusty metal bell jars, and more and more wildly growing plants.This is not the way Kiev used to be, and they all know it.A few days ago they just passed by the most prosperous area in Kiev, and Yan Xichen still remembered the appearance of the train station in his memory.But what is presented in front of them now is completely like another abandoned city.

Thick fog, thicker and thicker fog, they seemed to be in a steamer, almost unable to see the scenery in all directions.Lawson turned around and returned along the original road, but found that they couldn't find the way they came.

"This place is so evil." Duan Mingyi shook off the map, but couldn't figure out where they were.

No matter which direction you drive, it is a dilapidated scene, a city that is getting more and more rotten, an abandoned hell.The road in front of him was covered, and the buildings of the city could only be seen as huge ones when they came close.

"Are we ghosts hitting the wall?" Rosen also wondered.

Yan Xichen's body stiffened beside him, Duan Mingyi didn't notice Yan Xichen's abnormality.Since Rosen found out that they entered such a scene, his brows frowned even tighter.He drove faster and faster, from fifty yards to a hundred yards, ramming through the gray steel-reinforced dirt.

"Rozenga sprints at full speed."

As soon as Du Yachen's words came out, Rosen stepped on the accelerator to the bottom, and the car sped up instantly.Yan Xichen's heart was beating extremely fast, and he was staring at a certain point in the distant air, as if something terrible was about to jump out from a distance at any time.

All of a sudden, the car rushed out of the chaos like an airplane that finally broke through the clouds, the sight instantly widened, and the land became clear again.For a moment, it gave people the illusion of being suddenly enlightened.

A huge orange-yellow light covered the sky, enveloping them like a furnace.Everyone's faces were illuminated by the sudden appearance of color, as if reflecting a majestic fire.

The city in the distance seemed to be on fire.

"I... Fuck?" Duan Mingyi stared blankly ahead.

Five huge, volcanic-like reactors are burning, towering into the sky, like five burning volcanoes.They are not what they look like in reality at all, towering and huge, covering the entire city.It is also like a howling devil, threatening every human being under its feet, telling them to crawl.There is a thick metallic atmosphere in the air, every inch of the air is glowing, with temperature, sweeping the emission dust.

Yan Xichen trembled: "The tragedy in Kiev..."

The dark colors in Du Yachen's eyes were illuminated by the reactor, he reached out to catch Yan Xichen's, and held him tightly.

"The Kiev tragedy in 1993, after the leak at the nuclear power plant... I searched, but never experienced it myself."

A hundred times of searching or hearing about it is not as good as seeing it with one's own eyes, and the personal experience is shocking.They are reliving this moment in history through Cain's eyes.

In the dim yellow air, everyone's spine felt chills.

The author says:

I recommend the recently released "Chernobyl" by HBO. Part of the prototype in Kiev is based on the world's largest nuclear explosion pollution (there are also many overhead parts).As written in the article, the deterioration of the situation within [-] days is considered light, and the people near the reactor basically died on the spot.Nuclear pollution has spread to many surrounding areas. The government tried to conceal the truth at the first moment, and even blocked Chernobyl.Chernobyl was later reduced to a restricted area, and there is still a huge amount of radiation. Interested children's shoes can check it out.By the way, I also recommend "The Sorrow of Chernobyl", which is a shocking interview with many people who have experienced these things.