To my frozen hometown

Chapter 89 The adult world is dangerous

After nightfall, Liuyuan and Al had finished their work, and the old man didn't pursue the fallen apple, but took it as a reward for Al.

The wind and snow outside should be a little less, because the sound of the wind seems to have gradually subsided, but the weather on the ice field is still as cold, or even colder.

In the lobby of the lounge on the second floor, Liu Yuan was drinking a glass of warm water and standing by the window. She turned her body slightly, looking at the end of the ice field in the dark night.

It is still about half a year away from entering the range of the eastern snowfield. Counting the supply and stay time along the way, it will take at least a year for her and Al to reach the territory of her home country.

One year is not too long, but it is not too short either. For Liu Yuan, this journey undoubtedly has a special meaning, but the journey at this time seems to have changed a little.

She thought that she would go back to the seaside of her hometown in silence, and then jump into it, and fall into a long enough deep sleep in the cold and darkness, long enough for her to forget all the previous things.

But it was as if fate really arranged it. On the way, she met Al, De Rosso, Liz, and various people.This made her, who was supposed to be preparing to die in advance, feel a little unspeakable throbbing.

However, this kind of throbbing did not make her give up the idea of ​​death, but made her more determined.

Because she saw some glorious passing again, and in these passing, she was sure of one thing again.

That is, there is actually no difference between living and dying. The difference lies in how you view the relationship between the two, and the difference lies in which of them gives you a greater sense of belonging.

Liu Yuan has been wandering for too long, and she is already exhausted.

Now she just wants to find a place to stay and never leave.

And this place can only be her hometown.It can only be the sea that she once grew up, gazed at, yearned for, and confided in.

It will embrace her deeply and quietly, it will cover her tiredness with the sound of waves, it will kiss her with the sea water, and finally accept her.

Liu Yuan believed that this would be her best ending.

When the moonlight covered the sea, when she sank to the bottom of the sea.

Thinking of this, a smile appeared on Liu Yuan's face, and her face was reflected in the window, appearing calm and peaceful.

Al sat on the other side of the hall, holding the apple in his hand in a daze.She didn't have anything to do, and she planned to save this apple to eat with Liu Yuan before going to bed.

The old man sat across from her and flipped through several documents.

After finishing the work at hand, he might have sensed the girl's boredom. The kind old man thought for a while, raised his head, adjusted his glasses, and said.

"Little girl, you have nothing to do, do you want to hear me tell a story?"

"Is it okay?" Al looked at the old man hesitantly, as if he was worried that it would affect his work.

"Of course, it's nothing. Anyway, I have finished my work today." The old man said with a smile, and put the documents in his hand aside.

"Then, I'll trouble you." Al whispered while holding an apple, but judging from her appearance, she should be looking forward to hearing an interesting story.

"Hehe, no trouble, it's just that I, an old man, want to chat with someone." As the old man said, he picked up the coffee in hand and took a shallow sip.

"In my life, most of the time is wasted. Only this aging age has given me a slightly wider horizon than others, and a few personal and impressive stories."

"And when it comes to this research institute, I actually don't have much to say. The only thing I can talk about is probably the incident 23 years ago."

Having said that, the old man sighed softly, put the coffee in his hand on the table, and then continued to narrate.

"At that time, it was the seventh year since the establishment of the institute. Because there were no research results for a long time, and the top management of the greenhouse was pressing every step of the way, the morale of our team had always been low. This was nothing at all, because many years Everyone has been used to this situation since then. Until, one person had a problem."

"His name is Herman, and he is the first batch of researchers who came here. This person usually doesn't talk much. Compared with communicating with other people, he seems to prefer to work hard alone. And everything after that, it seems It started with one of his personal observations..."

In the following period of time, the old man told Al emotionally a story about a researcher who observed something that shouldn't be observed, then went crazy and finally died.

Seeing the old man playing tricks and pretending to be serious, Liu Yuan, who was standing aside, could basically be sure that he was playing tricks on Al.

Obviously, this kind-hearted and gentle old man is not as serious and strict as he appears on the surface, and even has a bit of a bad taste.

And Al, as a girl who may not have heard a few stories, has never heard such exciting content.

So just in the middle of the story, she was already frightened and froze, tightly hugging the rabbit doll that was sitting next to her.

This should be the first time she heard a horror story, so she was so scared that she almost lost her voice and movement.

"Later, I heard that someone saw Herman who was supposed to be dead again. In this corridor on the second floor, at about twelve o'clock in the middle of the night, he saw the other party knocking on the door one by one. Then I asked inside: Did you see that woman with six eyes..."

"Speaking of which, when I was smoking outside the door last night, I seemed to have caught a glimpse of a tall and thin figure standing outside in the snow."

Liu Yuan leaned against the window and interjected at the right time.

"But I must have misread it."

(So ​​you have the nerve to say that others are bad taste!?)

"Woo." Al, who was curled up in the chair, groaned inexplicably.

The wind outside was blowing moderately, and the noise was loud, making the atmosphere even more weird.

Well, if there are no accidents, this night should be very difficult for Al.

　ps: I will go to the hospital for an examination tomorrow, so I will ask for a day off in advance.However, it is not yet determined whether to have a second operation, because if the result of the examination is not good, it is not impossible to give up the operation.In short, we still have to wait for the results to come out.Finally, I would also like to thank everyone for your support so far. Really, thank you.

　　

　

(End of this chapter)