【Left Travel】LA MORT HEUREUSE

Keywords: Quiet Night Thoughts

IV

The last exam before the summer vacation is over in 10 minutes.Fujiki Yusaku finished answering the test paper casually.The last test was physics, and he was almost distracted while answering the paper. He finished answering the test paper 10 minutes before the end of the test time, without checking at all, and focused on his own thoughts.The questions were so simple that he could answer them in a hurry. If he hadn't been distracted by his thoughts, he could have answered them faster.

"Oh, it's so hard! Time! Time! It's over!"

Shima, who was sitting in front, yelled softly, causing everyone to look at him.The invigilator scolded him, "Quiet!"

Yusaku also turned a deaf ear to this commotion, he put one hand on his chin, staring at a certain point on the table.He was thinking of Mira.He had put enough food in and checked that the windows were closed.He simulated Mira's trajectory in his mind.Mira would jump onto his twin bed, then from the bed onto the ledge, along the ledge to the side table in the corner, and finally onto the floor.The last time it successfully jumped onto the window sill, it desperately wanted to attract Yuzuo's attention and show off its dexterous jumping skills, but in the end it couldn't stand firmly on the window sill, staggered in embarrassment, and fell to the ground, whimpering in grievance , looks very funny.Yusaku couldn't help but chuckled softly.At this time, is Mira sleeping, or chasing her own tail?Maybe they are researching each other with the machine beep about what the other is.He hoped the apartment wouldn't be too messy.Yusaku felt that Mira was a little careless and clingy, so why did he suddenly think of taking Mira home, and even gave it a name?because it...

The bell rang for the end of the exam.

"What? You have a cat?" Kusanagi Shoichi asked Yusaku in surprise, as surprised as he heard that Yusaku suddenly had a girlfriend.

"There's no need to make a fuss." Yusaku frowned, and couldn't help wondering if it was wise for him to tell Mr. Kusanagi about it.

"Little Yusaku, you are lonely," Kusanagi said with a smile, "Because that guy left, you suddenly feel lonely."

Yusaku glanced at Kusanagi, didn't say anything, and continued frying the hot dog.

"Yeah, we've been together for a long time, even though we're quarrelsome, we still feel reluctant." Kusanagi continued.

is that so?Yuzuo thought, did he find a substitute because he missed AI?However, he was very clear that when Mr. Kusanagi said "that guy", they didn't think of the same person.He was still frying the hot dog expressionlessly, feeling a sense of loss in his heart for no reason.

"Oh, Yuzuo, there are very few young people who still have such a stern face during the holidays, and Hanno's affairs have come to an end, you, it's time to relax."

"Yeah," Yusaku looked at Kusanagi and said, the expression on his face softened, "During the summer vacation, I have nothing to do, why don't you look after the car. This way you can spend more time with your brother."

"Thank you, Yusaku, but I can't afford the salary."

"You can directly get three free meals."

"Hey, you are very polite."

Yusaku sat at the folding table set up next to the fast food truck with a hot dog sandwich and a drink, watching the evening news broadcast on the big screen in the square while eating.The news broadcast to the LINK-VRAINS server had to be temporarily suspended for maintenance for a period of time due to the large-scale attack activities of the network hacker organization Hannuo.This was followed by a statement by SOL Security Minister Akira Caizen on the matter.

The news footage turned to the duel between PLAYMAKER and REVOLVER.Yusaku looked at the screen while eating a hot dog, his expression as indifferent and calm as ever.It was as if he was not a party involved in the news, but just an ordinary bystander.Kusanagi came out of the dining car, stood beside him and watched the news screen with him.

"When asked why Hanno attacked LINK-VRAINS, SOL didn't tell the truth." Kusanagi said.

"That's right, SOL doesn't plan to make public about Ignis."

"But no matter what, you have become a hero of LINK-VRAINS."

"I don't think SOL thinks that way."

"That guy Revolver shouldn't just disappear, right?"

"That guy is not the type to just disappear. As long as he doesn't achieve his goal, he won't let it go."

"That's right. That little guy should go home, really, I don't want it to be wiped out either."

"Boss, please have a hot dog set meal."

"Hey, okay."

Someone ordered, and Kusanagi returned to the dining car in response.

There was no sound in the scene of the duel between PLAYMAKER and REVOLVER broadcast on the news. This duel has been broadcast for several days in a row, and the popularity has not diminished.

"The following is the 360 ​​in-depth perspective column. We are honored to invite Dr. Tamura from the School of Information Technology Engineering of University A as a special commentator, and Mr. Huokou, Director of the Marketing Department of SOL Company, and Mr. Caiqian, Director of the Security Department, as special guests."

The host of the column asked: "Excuse me, Dr. Tamura, what do you think of the cyber attack on the Tower of Hanoi?"

"Well, I tend to think that this is a non-profit-oriented attack." Tamura replied.

"Some analysts say that this attack is an act of revenge. Do you think this is the revenge of the Hanno organization?"

"Revenge... I personally don't think it's revenge."

"Then what do you think the Hanno organization wants in this large-scale attack?"

"I think this is very much like performance art for young people."

"Performance art for young people?"

"Yes, let's put it this way, if there are obvious traces of profit-driven large-scale organized crimes, then the perpetrators are likely to be older people. As for the Tower of Hanoi attack, we can't see the profit appeal .So the leaders of the organization are probably young people in their 20s."

"This point of view is very novel. I don't know why you think so?"

"You can see the criminal's behavior pattern, which is more like idealism or perfectionism. The Tower of Hanoi is a piece of art for the criminal to promote his personal philosophy. This is the unique passion and psychological characteristics of young people.

"The leader of the organization, Revolver, is probably a very talented young man. This reminds me of a graduate student in the Chemistry Department of our university. He is very talented. However, these talented people are often very arrogant and self-willed, lacking social and moral constraints , that is, the so-called arrogance of talent.

"The graduate student in the Department of Chemistry relied on his talent and intelligence, thinking that he could escape the constraints of secular laws and morals, and went to blow up the Ferris wheel in the middle of the night, and he did it almost flawlessly. However, the police are not all idiots. There are also righteous sons who are full of justice. They stand on the side of ordinary people's interests and maintain social order and justice."

"Then, why did the chemistry graduate student blow up the Ferris wheel?"

"You can't guess it, he felt that the Ferris wheel blocked his view of the sea view in the research institute."

"My God, I can't imagine it."

"Isn't it? High IQ crimes are often not motivated by profit demands or hatred, but a show-off that despises the world. It proves that the chosen ones are different from ordinary people, and that the chosen ones can do whatever they want."

"That's a terrible thought. So, you think Revolver too, the Tower of Hanoi, is an act of miraculous ostentation?"

"Yes, a willful crime. But it probably isn't a crime in the eyes of a man like them."

"Okay, Dr. Tamura, thank you very much. Mr. Fukuchi, what do you think?"

"Dr. Tamura is a person in an ivory tower after all. It is idealistic to think about the problem. I think there are only two driving forces for criminal behavior, one is money and the other is hatred. Everything else is appearance, and the essence behind it is nothing more than Money or venting hatred."

"So, do you think the appeal of the Tower of Hanoi's attack is money or hatred?"

"I think it's clearly about the money, it's just a shady business rivalry, the Tower of Hanoi is most likely the work of our company's competitors, but unfortunately, they're going to be disappointed. SOL survived this crisis. Huokou touched his chin, unable to hide his complacency.

"I don't think Revolver is from our competing company," Zazen Akira said. "What's more, SOL can survive the crisis this time because of the voluntary help of PlayMake, BlueAngel, GO Onitsuka and others."

"Speaking of which, the former Minister of Security, Kitamura, seems to have been attacked by the Hanoi organization and is still in a coma. What a coincidence, the attack on the Tower of Hanoi happened during Kitamura's tenure."

"Huokou, you seem to have something in your words." Cai Qianhuang felt that Huokou was insinuating that he had colluded with Revolver, and couldn't help feeling a burst of anger.He remembered that Beicun seemed to be an alumnus who graduated from the same school as Huokou, and had a good personal relationship.

Huokou spread his hands, curled his lips, and pretended to be innocent.

"Thank you both for your speeches, let's start with a commercial." The host noticed the clues of the quarrel and quickly signaled the director to insert the commercial.

Yusaku threw the plastic drink cups and hot dog wrappers into the trash can next to the dining car, and said to Kusanagi, "Mr. Kusanagi, I'm going back. If you need me to see the car, just send me a message."

"Okay, be careful on the road and swim."

Yusaku walked to his apartment along the familiar route.He walked along the street to the overpass, stood on the overpass for a while, and the surrounding pedestrians hurried past him.At this time, the clouds were dyed bright colors by the setting sun.Under the overpass is the train line, and a train roars past.Yusaku looked at the train that disappeared into the tunnel ahead.

That night, that person said in the dark: "There is one and only one purpose for a person to do anything, and that is to obtain pleasure."

He didn't know if it was a joke that that person deliberately made for fun, or that person's real thoughts.He still feels very confused and ignorant, like being trapped in a forest maze in the mist.

His memory of Hongshang's meeting only stayed ten years ago, and there was a gap of ten years in between, until he saw the adult's meeting again and refreshed his memory.He looked at the train going into the tunnel, and thought that human beings are like a train, a space-timeworm traveling through the time and space of the universe.Man is not an individual isolated in a certain time and space. If the time and space of the universe can play slow motion, then it will be found that man is a continuation of time and space. The 8-year-old is on the No. 8 train, and the 18-year-old is on the No. 18 train. Every year, the train will have one more car.The past time and space, present time and space, and future time and space occupied by the entire superior view are a complete superior view.And what I see is only a part of my vision, which is tantamount to a blind man feeling an elephant.

He originally took it for granted that even if there was a gap between the two of them for a period of time, just like a train entering a tunnel without seeing each other, the reunion must still be the same as in memory.It's like a train coming out of a tunnel, exactly the same as it was before entering the tunnel.But the reality now is that the 8-year-old Hong Shangliu saw that the train did not enter a tunnel, but a wormhole, which was quite different from his predicted trajectory and personality evolution.Yusaku snorted softly, revealing a bitter smile.

If the 8-year-old Hongshangjian is completely different from the 18-year-old Hongshangjian, then what makes him still believe that these two Hongshangjians who have spanned 10 years are the same person?

Perhaps there is only the bond created by two people spending time together, only the memory about each other imprinted in each other's minds has not changed, and this memory has become a mutual confirmation of each other's real existence in the past time and space.

The sky was getting darker, and the street lights on the street had been turned on.From a distance, it merges with the car lights on the winding driveway to form a sea of ​​lights, like orange stars on the land of the city.Yuzuo looked up at the sky, and found that a few stars lit up first, it seems that tomorrow will be a good weather.

Yusaku opened the door of the apartment, and Mira greeted him happily with her tail upright, meowing and walking around Yuzuo's feet, repeatedly rubbing her body against Yuzuo's trouser legs until she was sure that the other party was covered with her own. smell.

"Welcome home, master." The machine beep greeted Yuzuo when he walked down the stairs, and complained to Yuzuo that the cat's hair was a bit tangled in its cleaning side brush.Yusaku helped it remove the entangled cat hair.It is no wonder that in the era of increasingly advanced artificial intelligence, people gradually prefer electronic pets even to pets.An electromechanical pet has all the advantages of a pet without any of the hassles of a natural pet.

Yusaku took his pajamas and walked into the bathroom, Mira followed, wanting to go in together.No matter how many times Yusaku taught it, the cat is still full of persistence and enthusiasm for visiting him to take a bath.If the cat's will is forcibly violated, it will scream as if it was slaughtered while scratching the door.Yusaku could only use the shower head to warn it. The cat who was sprayed with water was quite frightened, and it really restrained itself a lot.

Mira is a Chinchilla.Youzuo didn't know its breed and gender until he took it to the veterinary hospital for vaccination.He met it on the way home from school one day. At that time, a kitten under one year old was bullied by several crows by the litter box and meowed helplessly.There was no collar around its neck, so Yusaku didn't know if it was an abandoned cat or a lost cat.He took it home, or rather the cat followed him, and he didn't refuse.

The cat had blue-gray eyes and white, slightly curly hair with hints of silver-gray in it.Against the backdrop of white hair, those blue-gray eyes are as mysterious and deep as ice fields.He couldn't help being a little fascinated.

After the kitten was brought home, he left it at home for a few days, and he barely paid attention to it except for feeding.He watched its every move, meeting those blue-gray eyes from time to time.Those eyes gradually changed from initial fear and doubt to trust and attachment.

On the weekend, he finally had time to take it to the pet hospital for a physical examination. The doctor needed to fill out the pet case card and asked him the cat's name.It just occurred to him that he hadn't chosen a name yet.

"My name is Mira." After a series of thoughts, a name flashed in Yuzuo's mind.

Then, Mira checked her body at the pet hospital and measured her weight.Only then did Yusaku know that its breed is Chinchilla, a male cat, about 7 or 8 months old.

At night, when Yusaku went to bed, Mira also jumped into bed.Yuzuo carried it down and put it on the ground, saying, "You are not allowed to come up."

Although his bed is very narrow, it is not impossible to accommodate a cat.It's just that he's not used to having a living creature with breathing and heartbeat beside his pillow.Yusaku closed his eyes.Since the events of the Towers of Hanoi, the recurring nightmare of pure black seems to be over.In fact, his nightmare was over after a nighttime visit by an unexpected guest.In its place was another dream and hallucination.He often vaguely felt someone sitting in the corner of his room in the mist of sleep, looking at him silently, like a ghost.However, when he opened his eyes, there was no one in the room, only his own breathing and heartbeat.

That uninvited guest will no longer appear in his room.He seemed to be able to sleep peacefully without distraction, but why was his heart still tied up by some invisible thread, and he couldn't calm down without opening his eyes to make sure?

Yuzuo felt Mira lingering by the bed for a while, then jumped onto the bed lightly, lying on his pillow, with her body against his face.

"Mira." Yuzuo called it reproachfully.The cat rubbed against him and made a coquettish meowing sound.

The cat's soft and fluffy hair rubbed against Youzuo's cheek, making him feel a little itchy.It was a warm, breathing and beating creature, very close to him.Even if he exiles himself on an isolated island with only one person, isolated from the warmth of the world, he does not dislike the company of another life.He buried his fingers in the cat's soft and fluffy fur, stroked it lightly, and felt the comfort brought by the soft hair passing over the skin of his fingers.The cat purrs comfortably.

Yusaku was surrounded by the silence and darkness of the night, he remembered that night, in total darkness, he heard a strange uninvited guest whispering in his ear, and the other party's hair rubbed against his face, causing a slight itchiness.The body automatically remembered that feeling, and the similar feeling brought him into the memory of that night.Yuzuo felt a sudden burst of strange pain in his heart, in the position of the heart, there was a dull pain like tightening, one after another, like the rising tide.As expected, he was not used to this kind of intimacy, so he pushed the cat away and turned his back.

After the duel at the Tower of Hanoi, Revolver's whereabouts are unknown, and Yusaku doesn't know when he will appear again.He opened his eyes, looked out of the window, looked at the shining stars one by one in the night sky, and thought of another person somewhere in this world, maybe looking at the same night sky as him at sea, maybe that person is very familiar with Polaris and The orientations of various galaxies may have invaded the system of a certain artificial satellite to navigate for itself and monitor the sea surface conditions.Thinking of this, a smile appeared on his face.

He thought that when they met again, would there be another ten years of separation between the two? 20 years, or even 50 years?It was not until the two were old that they finally met again as opposites.

Revolver may become a crazy and paranoid scientist, occupying a hidden island, developing military weapons, and developing a death ray that can blow up a planet.Of course, there is another possibility. Revolver has since disappeared, hidden in the secular world, married a wife and had children, and lived an ordinary life.

If it was the latter possibility, would I be happy for him?Incognito, live an ordinary and happy life, and his life will no longer have his own participation.The strange and profound pain seized his heart again.

If so, where does his own future lie?He might join the World Peace Organization, become an anti-explosion commissioner, and be stationed in a desert armed base.He was able to isolate himself from the world in the desert, quietly filling his solitude with precise and complicated work.

Is this the future he wants to seize with Hong Shangliaojian?Disjointed trajectories of fate.

No.The future he wants to be grasped by the two together is not a parallel line that the two do not intersect, each running on its own trajectory.He wants to participate in that person's life, have a common future with him, and also wants that person to participate in his life.The media enthusiastically praised his sense of justice. He had read some BBS comments and media reports.Perhaps, as they praised him, there was some kindness, justice, and tenderness left in his heart.However, the only purpose of his actions, there is only one thing he is obsessed with.He knows very well that there is only one person who can quench his thirst for his lonely thirst.

(TBC)