[Science Fiction] Escape from Paint City

Sha Qianxing is the eldest in the family, and his father named him this name in admiration of Li Baida's chivalrous character of "killing one person in ten miles, never leaving him in a thousand miles".Although it is impossible to be a knight-errant in modern society, the father still hopes to have a drink with his son Yuexia and talk about the pleasant things in life.

It's a pity that things didn't work out as expected. For some reason, Sha Qianxing, who grew up slowly, became more and more introverted and bored. Although he didn't have any rebellious behavior, his father often felt heartbroken about where was the little doll carved with jade and smiling. went.The idea of ​​playing chivalry with the eldest son was even more futile.

At the age of 17, Sha Qianxing insisted on joining the army. Since then, he stayed in the military for several years from the military academy to the army, and he spent less time with his family.The father and mother thought about it and gave birth to another daughter. The lively, cute and petite little daughter attracted all the attention of the family.Later, except for two or three phone calls a year, Sha Qianxing had almost no contact with his family.

Father sometimes sighed with emotion, how could he be estranged from his eldest son, but Sha Qianxing's reticence and the military's restrictions on the outside world kept this relationship from improving.

My old lady felt that this was not possible, and at her urging, the army happened to be adjusting personnel. When Sha Qianxing was 25 years old, he was finally granted a three-month vacation and was able to return to Mocheng to reunite with his family.

However, in these three months, the world has undergone earth-shaking changes.The devouring insect mutated, and Sha Qianxing, as an active soldier, was urgently summoned to evacuate the people to the White Tower base.

He was separated from his family again, and after this separation, he may never have the chance to meet again.Fortunately, because of Sha Qianxing's timely notification, his family became the first group of people to arrive at the White Tower, at least they will be safe and sound.

Because he was recruited temporarily and was not familiar with the local personnel and equipment, he became the person who guided the crowd and led them to escape to the White Tower, and was lucky to be one of the very few survivors among the soldiers.

Along the way, there were constant quarrels, cursing, running, and screaming. Sha Qianxing heard the noise of the people, and his body couldn't help moving, but his mind was in chaos.Facing the sudden disaster, he was more worried about the future.

However, before everything could be thought about, everyone entered the life capsule and fell into a deep sleep.When he woke up again, the suddenly assigned watchman status, the tasks that had been deployed in advance, and the long wait all pressed on him without rejection.

Faced with the death of the senior - this was told to him when the senior met him - Sha Qianxing was not too sad, he knew that every moment of the senior lived in infinite regret and pain, and finally he was able to die, For him, it was a happy thing.

To Sha Qianxing, being able to have responsibilities but not having to choose the direction to go forward is a more relaxing thing.He is used to following orders, and as long as the action is worthwhile, his brain will not hesitate.But if he had to make his own choice, it would be something that would make him at a loss as to what to do.

This kind of life is no different from Sha Qianxing's days in the army, except that he no longer has teammates around him.

Loneliness comes like a tide.The White Tower stores the life capsules of tens of thousands of people, but they are all tightly sealed like coffins, hidden from view.Inside the empty lighthouse, only the sound of footsteps going up and down the stairs every day and the occasional mechanical dog bumping back and forth can be heard.

No matter how introverted and indifferent a person is, he still needs the presence of other people.

It's not that he's so lonely that he goes crazy, or mentally disturbed, but there will be a nameless restlessness that diffuses from nowhere in his body, and occasionally stirs his nerves, making Sha Qianxing want to hold his heart tightly.

In order to soothe his emotions, he began to observe the remaining 63 watchmen, and looked through their past audio-visual materials-there are naturally records on the life capsules-only the life capsules of these 63 watchmen were individually tuned out and placed in the In the hall on the first floor.

There are old people and children among them. The oldest is over 80 years old, and the youngest is only 15 years old. It doesn't take too much time to look through all of them.

With a glance, Sha Qianxing's gaze was attracted by a young man.

The young man was wearing a muddy pure white short T-shirt and black shorts, his soft flaxen curly hair was wet and stuck tightly to the side of his face.His skin was fair, the tails of his eyes were slightly upturned, his brows were tightly locked, and there seemed to be tears on his eyelashes. His sad demeanor made people feel distressed unconsciously.

The young man seemed to have known each other, and suddenly opened the memory of Sha Qianxing's past. It was the person who briefly looked at him when he was evacuating the people.

Obviously it was only a one-time meeting, but the appearance of the young man was deeply imprinted in his mind, so that when they met again, Sha Qianxing immediately spotted him.

As if a certain mechanism had been turned on suddenly, Sha Qianxing's heart rippled for the first time, and joyful bubbles burst open one after another, filling his heart to the brim.

There was a voice in his head screaming frantically.

Want to know him, want to see him smile, want to talk to him, want to touch him, want to...

Desires grow and spread untimely, like gangrene attached to the bone, like entangled dodder flowers, which are difficult to pull out.

The only way to get in touch with the young man is to choose him to be the next watchman, so that he can spend at least seven days with him in the virtual world.

However, the awakening value of youth...

Sha Qianxing made a decision that violated the rules and became a guide for young people without visual acuity.

It's ok... I just reversed the order, since he's also in the Overwatch candidate, as long as you're prepared, you'll be fine.

Sha Qianxing thought in his heart that since he had made up his mind, he no longer hesitated, but thought about how to understand the young man and how to wake him up.

The other life capsules were put back to their original places, only the youth's life capsule was taken to the top floor by Sha Qianxing.Sha Qianxing sat on the high-backed chair in the observation room and began to look through his files carefully.

Water Chen...

What a very gentle name, Sha Qianxing thought to himself, one water and one sand, this surname is exactly the opposite of his own.

Shui Chen, 23 years old, freelance artist.His parents died of illness when he was five years old.He grew up in the Mocheng Welfare Institute, and Dr. Qi became his guardian until he was 15 years old.But he doesn't live with Dr. Qi, but lives alone in the northern district of Mocheng, and spends most of his time collecting folk songs from all over the world.There was a good friend who was five years younger than him, named Tan Ting, who was a well-known young violinist.

……

The written materials only dryly describe Shuichen's life trajectory every year. It seems that painting is the whole of his life, and it should be a good entry point to get close to him.

Sha Qianxing was not satisfied, he began to look through those video materials.

In [-], citizens' right to privacy was further protected. As long as everyone did not break the law, no one or any force could view his personal information that he wanted to hide, even the government/government.

In hindsight, this statement is clearly an expression used by politicians to fool ordinary citizens.Although it is not enough to detail people's life at every moment, Sha Qianxing can basically find videos of Shuichen in different stages and situations, especially important moments such as entering a higher school and falling in love.There may be trivial daily and too personal pictures, but they are automatically blocked.

The death of his childhood parents and ten years of life in an orphanage did not cast a cloud over Shuichen's heart, or he was good at transforming all negative emotions into his own creative desires.No matter what happened, happy or sad, he always reflected it in his work immediately.

When other peers were still playing meaningless games and arguing about meaningless things, Shuichen had already painted on the ground, walls, paper, grass, river water, pencils and other mediums he touched.Even when he was sleeping, his hands would unconsciously paint on the sheets and body, as if he would never stop creating for a moment.

He is a born painter.

Sha Qianxing liked his crazy appearance.He kept watching his videos every year and every month, and felt that he could look at him through the screen many times.It can be said that later on, he knew more about what happened in Shuichen in each period than he knew about his own past.

Probably people are inferior and nervous in front of the person they like. For the first time, Sha Qianxing regretted why he hadn't tried painting in the past. For the first conversation with Shui Chen, he began to teach himself to paint.

However, there are some things that can be accomplished naturally by one person, but cannot be done by another person with a hundred percent effort.

Without the guidance of a teacher, without any auxiliary materials, Sha Qianxing can only rely on his own imagination and Shui Chen's painting process to guess how to learn how to paint.

But with the same movement, Shuichen can paint the gurgling water and the blue sky, but Sha Qianxing's painting is just a splicing of color blocks.

Sighing again, Sha Qianxing crumpled the drawing paper and threw it behind him. The mechanical dog jumped up, held the paper ball in his mouth, and ran to Sha Qianxing.

Probably, because I didn't see the real thing?Sha Qianxing cheered himself up in his heart, it must be like this, definitely not because he has no talent at all.

Consoling himself, Sha Qianxing began to use Shui Chen as a model to sketch from life—he learned the term “sketch from life” from Shui Chen’s video—although he didn’t make much progress after having the real object.

However, staring at Shuichen seems to be addictive, and Sha Qianxing doesn't care about the effect of the painting, he only knows that he is constantly consuming drawing paper every day, depicting Shuichen from different angles.

Later, he started to turn on the video, drawing water stars in different periods. Through the distorted portraits, he saw a real and vivid water star beside him.

In this way, until the next watchman was awakened, Sha Qianxing was finally able to enter the virtual world, stood in front of Shuichen, and said to him: "I am Sha Qianxing, I admire you, and I like your paintings very much." .”

The author has something to say: So everyone basically understands Qianxing's state of mind before seeing Shuichen, he is really a boring person [hhh]

He can be regarded as being selfish, but this kind of selfishness is not completely ignored, otherwise he could choose to stay in Qicheng with Shuichen.

Qian Xing's opening was basically successful, except for the selfishness of his senior, his attire was completely...【hhh】It was just an accident that met Shui Chen's appetite?

This chapter mentions the seniors again, and the next chapter begins to tell the stories of the seniors.