To my frozen hometown

Chapter 12 Dream and Reality

At about [-]:[-], Liu Yuan's coat was ironed, and after putting on the coat that hadn't been so clean for a long time, Liu Yuan finally looked a little more civilized, without the barbaric look when he just came out of the ice field. The appearance of a person.

At the same time, Al also woke up. Hearing that Liuyuan was going to go shopping, she immediately said that she would go together.

Because there was no need to refuse, Liu Yuan took the child with him.

In fact, she didn't have much to buy, it was nothing more than some weapons supplies.As for things like gasoline, she doesn't have anything to exchange for the time being, so she can only think about it after Watson's entrustment.

Thinking about it this way, accepting Watson's commission is not a bad thing.

It's nothing more than a little trouble. Liu Yuan has encountered little trouble when traveling on the ice field. Thinking about it carefully, it's not bad.

Taking the remaining oxygen tanks, Liu Yuan found a weapon shop and exchanged two boxes of ammunition with oxygen.

This is the standard price, neither side suffers a loss, and the weapon shop can still make a small profit.

"Thank you for coming."

With the polite voice of the clerk, Yanagihara and Al came out of the weapon shop.

The time at this time is only noon.

Liu Yuan held two palm-sized boxes in his hand, which contained copper-yellow bullets.

After counting the bullets, it was found that there was no problem with the quality of the bullets except for one that was a bullet case.

Putting one or two bullet casings in a bullet box and selling them to customers together is a relatively common method in this kind of shop.

Liu Yuan picked out the shell case without any surprise, and prepared to throw it away.

But when she lifted the bullet casing, she suddenly felt someone tugging at her clothes.

Turning her head, she realized that it was Al who was looking up at the bullet casing in her hand and asked.

"Liu Yuan, if you don't want it anymore, can you give this to me?"

"This is unusable, what do you want it for?" Liuyuan didn't understand Al's intentions, but still handed the bullet casing to the girl.

Al smiled slightly and spoke.

"Souvenir."

Liu Yuan still couldn't understand what a bullet case could be used to commemorate.

But Al had already taken the cartridge and put it carefully in his pocket.

After shopping, the two walked back.

Maybe it was because the snow outside the greenhouse was a little smaller, which allowed the noon sun to shine into the greenhouse.

The slightly warm sunlight casts the shadow of the city on the ground.

Al followed Yanagihara, walking on the street covered with warm sun.

Today's weather is really good, for this ice field.

"Liu Yuan, where are you going after you leave here?" Al walked, turned his head suddenly, looked at Liu Yuan and asked.

"Didn't I say, I'm going east, I'm going to do something there."

Yanagihara replied while putting the bullet into the side pocket of his coat.

She loves this dress, because this baggy dress always has unexpected volume.

"East." Al looked up at the sky outside the greenhouse.

It's a pity that in the greenhouse, she can only see the sky on the side of the isolation cover, which makes it hard for her to tell which side is the east.

"What are you going east for?" she asked again.

Liu Yuan closed the side pocket of his coat, paused, and replied.

"There, I might be able to find what I'm looking for."

"What did Liuyuan want?" Al tilted his head, obviously unable to think of what kind of thing it would be, and asked curiously again.

"What does Liuyuan want?"

This time Liu Yuan lowered his eyes, as if avoiding the sunlight falling from the sky.

She must have thought for a long time before she put her hands into her pockets and said slowly.

"A place where I can stay."

"A place where you can stay?" Al was stunned, as if he couldn't understand.

"Yeah." But Liu Yuan just responded, and continued calmly: "A place where I never have to leave again."

It would be a belonging, a belonging of hers.

Al looked at Liuyuan blankly, and after a while, he suddenly smiled and said with his beautiful eyes bent.

"Then Liuyuan will definitely be able to find it."

"Why?" Now it was Liuyuan's turn to be dazed, she was stunned, and then looked at Al suspiciously, wondering why this girl was so determined.

"Because." In the warm sun, Al turned around and looked at Liu Yuan with a clean smile that belonged to her alone.

"I trust Liuyuan."

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You know, Liu Yuan has not felt such a feeling for an indefinitely long time.

She felt that she seemed to see the light of this era again.

A ray of light in which someone still has hope in their hearts, a ray of light in which someone still believes in the future.

It was a very dazzling light, like sunlight passing through the snow, illuminating her dark pupils.

"Yeah." It should be a little absent-minded chuckle, Liu Yuan looked at Al, came back to his senses, and said affirmatively.

"I'll find it, I promise by my name."

Guaranteed with the last thing she left before the disaster.

She'll find it, find that sea, find a place where she can never leave again.

There, she would sink into her dreamland.

That will be a very beautiful dream, in which there will be blue sky, green grass, sunshine, and home.

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Greenhouse Guard.

In the corridor, a dull footstep sounded.

It can be heard that the owner of the footsteps seems to be very tired, which makes his steady footsteps become a little procrastinated.

With the sound of footsteps, Watson walked out of the corridor.Holding a roll of newspaper in one hand, he pushed open the door of his office with the other, with an unconcealable tiredness on his face.

He's been very tired lately, really tired.

He didn't know how many nights he hadn't had a good night's sleep. He only knew that he would wake up in the middle of the night from time to time, and then he couldn't sleep again.

"Huh." With a weak breath, Watson walked to the desk, didn't care about the piles of documents, and just sat down on the chair wearily.

Allowing the chair to turn half a circle, he half-lyed in the office chair, raised his neck, and stared at the ceiling.

It may have been 1 minute, or 5 minutes, or it may have been longer before he slowly sat up straight, facing the pile of documents on the desk, and rubbed his frowning brows .

He had to deal with these things, even though he knew that most of them were useless letters of complaint.

Complaints or something, of course, is to complain that the Greenhouse Guard is not doing well.

Because of the beast, Greenhouse No. [-] has been on alert for two months.

If the guard can no longer be opened, the resources inside the greenhouse will be tight, and at that time, there will be problems in the affairs of various departments.

But, why are beasts so easy to drive away?

Because of the environmental problems in the No. [-] Greenhouse, every year, herds of beasts come to the Greenhouse to look for food.

And the situation is getting worse as the numbers of the beast spiral out of control.

By this year, the number of herds had faintly exceeded the range that the Greenhouse Guards could handle.

After many probes, Watson is well aware of this.

So he has been thinking of ways to ease the current situation.

Fortunately, he finally thought of a countermeasure.

That is recruiting and hiring people.

Recruit ordinary people who are willing to take risks to participate in the dispersal of the herd to make up for the lack of manpower.

But even so, there are very few hired personnel who are willing to join the action, because the risk of entering the ice field is very high, not to mention facing the herd of beasts.This is undoubtedly an unacceptable condition for those shrewd employees.After all, no matter how much you earn, you have to spend your life, right?

"Humph······"

With a headache, Watson opened the newspaper in his hand, but the first thing he saw was news about the herd and complaints from the residents, so he had to close the newspaper even more with a headache, and put it on the table.

understaffed......

Sighing helplessly, Watson leaned back on his chair and thought about it.

In a daze, he thought of the wanderer who came from the ice field again.

Although it might be just a drop in the bucket, when he thought of the picture of the other party driving away a pack of wolves by himself, he couldn't help but have a little fantasy about that wanderer.

It would be nice if she could help with this operation.

Of course, Watson is just thinking about this kind of thing.He understands that no matter how strong a person is, he is powerless in the face of a herd of beasts.

It was a sad sense of powerlessness, but it was there.People who haven't seen the herd of beasts will not understand that feeling.

I only hope that the homeless person can participate in this operation.

Thinking of this, Watson stretched out a hand and took out a pack of cigarettes from the desk drawer.

Now, he can only rely on this thing to lift his spirits.

But before he could smoke one, there was a knock on the office door.

"Bang bang bang." The dull voice echoed in the office.

Watson looked at the door, raised his eyebrows, and finally put down the cigarette in his hand helplessly, and said to the door.

"come in."

The door was pushed open, and a woman in a dark blue military uniform walked in from the outside.

She was Watson's secretary, but she looked more like a soldier in appearance.

The woman walked into the room, gave a military salute to Watson and said, "Sir."

"Hmm." Watson responded, secretly hiding the cigarettes under a document on the table, and asked aloud.

"What's the matter, Ms. Secretary?"

To be honest, Watson didn't like his secretary.

Because every time the other party came, it basically meant that there was trouble again.

And this lady hates cigarettes, very much.

Seeing Watson's small movements, the secretary frowned, but said nothing.

She also knew that Watson had been tired enough recently, and he really needed to relax.

Holding a few folders in his hand, the secretary stepped forward, put the files on Watson's desk and said.

"This is today's document, and all departments have responded, hoping to solve the problem of beasts outside the greenhouse as soon as possible."

Sure enough, another pile of troubles.

Looking at the documents piled up even higher, Watson rubbed his eyebrows again.Recently, this action has almost become his habit.

"It will take a certain amount of time to prepare for going out and formulate the plan, so you can reply to them like this." Watson said in a distressed tone.

He also wanted to solve the problem as soon as possible, but this kind of thing obviously couldn't be solved just by thinking about it.

Moreover, in addition to ensuring that the problem can be solved, he must also minimize casualties and material loss as much as possible.

These are not so simple things, why can't the people in those departments think about it for him.

"We've responded with that excuse three times this week."

The secretary replied seriously.

"Then reply for the fourth time." Watson covered his face with his palm.

"You must have full confidence before you can expel the herd."

As he said this, he slowly lowered his hand and looked at the secretary with his eyes.

This time, those eyes carried a heavy burden.

"You know, we can't fail, not even once."

Because once it fails, it means too many things.

The death of soldiers, the cut off of resources, and the collapse of greenhouses are all consequences that they simply cannot afford.

They are the Greenhouse Guard, the last army of mankind, so they cannot fail even once.

The secretary looked at Watson's heavy eyes, looked down for a while, lowered his eyes, and solemnly straightened his body and replied: "Yes, I will reply to all departments as soon as possible."

Watson nodded, briefly flipped through the documents on the desktop and asked, "Aside from that, is there anything else?"

"One more thing, sir." The secretary took out a note from his pocket and handed it to Watson.

"We have already found the Ms. Alice you mentioned yesterday, but we found her in the public cemetery in the greenhouse."

(End of this chapter)