[Xiao Xiang] reverberation

Lightly throwing a question back.

Sun Xiang was taken aback, "Isn't it 2025...?"

Xiao Shiqin stopped what he was doing, turned his face, and looked at him calmly, "Then take a good look at me."

Following the strength in his hands, Sun Xiang raised his face and looked back at him, his gaze meticulously swept over the corners of his eyes and brows, "You...you..." His throat suddenly choked, and Sun Xiang hurriedly lowered his head, calming down. It took him a long time to ask with trembling voice: "What's going on?"

—·To be continued·—

2. 03-04

03

It was midsummer when Xiao Shiqin arrived in Zone J.

This war-torn fortress has no summer vitality, and the vast and barren land is scorched by the scorching sun, making it difficult for a blade of grass to grow.The sun is a brutal white, the wind is a heat wave wrapped in gravel, rough and silent, not even the sound of cicadas.

After Xiao Shiqin chatted briefly with the person in charge of the base, he was taken to the biometric information collector in the hall to enter his identity.

"Director Xiao, please come this way." Xiao Shiqin was accompanied by a middle-aged man named Cui Li from the headquarters who was doing these preparations. After the fingerprint and iris information, the command center will grant you advanced permissions, and then you can freely enter and exit any place in the command base."

"Thank you." Xiao Shiqin was always a gentle and polite person.

While taking fingerprints, he looked at the ground surface distorted by the heat in the distance outside the tempered glass window in front of him, and chatted with Cui Li casually, "You said that Team Sun ran out alone, is it really all right? ?”.

"Others would definitely not dare to go out alone." Cui Li stood beside him with folded arms, twisting the hair on his forehead with one hand, "But Team Sun is different."

"How do you say it?" Xiao Shiqin was transferred here from Area L under the order of the Alliance General Headquarters. On the surface, he was to provide tactical support for Area J, but in fact he had other tasks. As the combat captain of Area J, Sun Xiang and his new team The partner had clearly piqued his interest.

"Captain Sun is different from ordinary people, he..."

While speaking, the gate of the command base opened with a loud bang, and a young man with the appearance of a lightly armed soldier rushed in swaggeringly dragging a half-dead giant mutant biochemical beast.

Just as Xiao Shiqin wanted to confirm the identity of the visitor with Cui Li, he saw that he had already stepped forward to greet him, "It's amazing, Team Sun has made another big discovery this time."

"Phew! It's dead!" As soon as Sun Xiang let go, the huge mechanical tail of the biochemical beast hit the ground heavily, making a loud noise, "They have created a new mutant again. I don't know when they will be mobilized. You Let everyone be ready for battle at all times."

"it is good."

"Whether this thing needs to be disassembled for research or what you can do, I'll go to the treatment room." Before Cui Li could answer, Sun Xiang walked into the base with his aching left shoulder. As if thinking of something, he turned backwards and turned back, "Didn't you say that the general headquarters will come today? It hasn't arrived yet?"

"It's already here, I haven't had time to introduce you to Team Sun." Cui Li turned his head to look for Xiao Shiqin, but the latter had already moved from the information collector to the head of the biochemical beast and began to observe out of professional instinct Work, "Director Xiao?"

Xiao Shiqin raised his head, and met Sun Xiang's curious eyes looking back and forth at him.Smiling politely, he stretched out his hand and said, "Hello, Team Sun, I'm Xiao Shiqin, the mechanic sent by the headquarters to work with you."

"Sun Xiang." A perfunctory shake of his fingertips was the end of the greeting, "Did I hear you right? The headquarters is willing to send a mechanical expert to a place like ours?"

Xiao Shiqin secretly smiled wryly, thinking that this time he might have encountered a difficult situation, "Captain Sun was joking, the conditions in Area J are extremely difficult but it is a fortress of war, and only by defending this area can the deployment and construction of the rear front be guaranteed. Not to mention me , just letting Team Sun defend this place is enough to prove how much the headquarters attaches importance to Area J."

These words actually praised Shun Mao to Sun Xiang quite a bit. Hearing that, he felt much more at ease, but he still had the vigor that no stranger should come in, "Hmph, don't lie to others. Why don't you just talk about it?" What did you see when you watched it for a long time?"

Xiao Shiqin breathed a sigh of relief, feeling that the young man in front of him didn't seem to be that difficult to get along with, "To be precise, this is not a mutant biochemical beast, but a biochemical mechanical beast, that is, a traditional man-made mechanical beast with some biological characteristics added. .”

"Is there any difference?" Sun Xiang was confused.

"The difference is..." Xiao Shiqin suddenly stopped, caught a glimpse of his hand still covering his left shoulder out of the corner of his eye, and changed his words: "Leader Sun should go to the treatment room first, and I will explain in detail later."

Cui Li, who was exposed to the sun for a long time beside him, also nodded in response, "Yes, Team Sun, so I can arrange someone to take care of this place."

"Alright." Sun Xiang tilted his head, neither said when nor where to listen to Xiao Shiqin's detailed instructions, nor asked Cui Li how to arrange the headquarters staff, turned around and left on his own.

Cui Li shook his head and sighed after watching him walk away, "This temper is not a day or two, not a captain's self-awareness."

"Very good." Xiao Shiqin smiled nonchalantly, recalling that moment when Sun Xiang tilted his head just now, he felt a little cute, "By the way, before you said that Captain Sun is different from ordinary people. what's going on?"

"Strange." Cui Li smiled inexplicably, and raised his hand to tap the giant mechanical beast next to him, "Director Xiao can tell what this thing is at a glance, but he can't see the difference between Team Sun and ordinary people? "

Sensing that there was something in his words, Xiao Shiqin couldn't help frowning, a strange conjecture popped up in his mind, but he didn't say it in the end.

Using the terminal to call someone to clean up the mess, Cui Li led him to continue collecting biological information, "Actually, there is nothing to say, the Human Weapon Project, you know?"

04

Sun Xiang was taken home by Xiao Shiqin.Along the way, Sun Xiang looked at the rapidly receding high-rise buildings outside the car through the car window, and couldn't help but marvel at the rapid post-war reconstruction and restoration of District L.

Xiao Shiqin held the steering wheel and turned his head to look at him from time to time, then said with emotion: "Ten years have passed after all."

"I still can't believe it." Sun Xiang twisted his body and sat down, lowered his head and bit his nails and muttered in a low voice, "I actually fell asleep in the research institute for ten years."

Xiao Shiqin looked at him distressedly and helplessly, and patted his head lightly with his right hand.It's not a soft and smooth touch at all, but it's exactly the same as in memory, even his small movements of nodding slightly to follow the rhythm of his stroking haven't changed.

"Small things." Sun Xiang suddenly looked up at him as if he suddenly remembered something.

"What's wrong?" Xiao Shiqin withdrew his hand and continued driving.

"If I never wake up, are you going to wait like this forever?"

"I knew you would wake up."

"Why are you so sure?" Sun Xiang laughed heartlessly, his crescent-like eyes were shining brightly, revealing pleasure and curiosity.

"Otherwise?" Xiao Shiqin paused slightly, "You must give yourself a reason to persist in waiting."

Sun Xiang blinked, nodded thoughtfully, then turned his face to the car window, and muttered for a long time: "I think, these ten years are as simple as sleeping for me, and it doesn't matter." Long and short, but you are different. You must be lonely, you have always been alone... Wow!"

Xiao Shiqin lost his mind for some reason, and when he noticed that the light in front changed, he hurriedly stepped on the brakes.Both of them were swayed forward by the inertia and bounced back to the backrest.

"Fuck! Scared me to death!"

"I'm sorry." Xiao Shiqin took a deep breath, "I can't do this alone. I don't feel lonely in these ten years. Stop thinking about it."

Sun Xiang intuitively felt that something was wrong with Xiao Shiqin's mood, but he couldn't tell what was wrong.After thinking about it, how could ten years pass as easily and casually as he said, and I probably hit his pain point.Sun Xiang pursed his lips and stopped talking, leaned over and quickly kissed Xiao Shiqin's right cheek before the signal light turned green, then quickly retracted his seat and tilted his head to one side, pretending to be asleep.

childish.

Xiao Shiqin touched his hot face, looked at his red ears, and started the car with a smile.

To say that you are not alone is a lie and a joke.

Is there anything scarier than waiting forever?

Is it a failure of hope?Is it the loss after being extremely happy?Is it because the person you like is right in front of you, but there seems to be an insurmountable gap?

Xiao Shiqin thought, neither.

The most frightening thing is his heart that still doesn't want to die after things backfire again and again.

After parking the car in the basement, Xiao Shiqin woke up the co-pilot who was wearing a sleepwear until he really fell asleep.Sun Xiang rubbed his eyes and looked like he was still asleep, and his voice was soft, "Why is it so dark..."

"In the basement, come on, we'll be home when we go up." Xiao Shiqin grabbed his hand and held it in his hand, especially taking care of the position near the tiger's mouth.He used to like doing this very much. He said that the thenar muscle in Sun Xiang's hand was so plump that it looked like a cat's meat pad when pinched.

Sun Xiang squinted his eyes and let him play with it for a while, then suddenly grabbed his hand with a backhand and said, "Why don't we raise a cat?"

Xiao Shiqin laughed when he heard that, and rubbed the back of his hand twice, "Then Sun Xiangmao is not allowed to fight with the later ones."

"Cut!" Sun Xiang rolled his eyes at him, withdrew his hand and slid out of the car, "Childish!"

Xiao Shiqin got out of the car and caught up to the elevator, swiped his card and pressed the button on the top floor before he could ask.Sun Xiang looked at him in surprise, "What do you think?