[Xiao Xiang] reverberation

Qin closed his eyes, curled up, and hugged the blood-stained hand holding a small activation chip tightly to his chest.

"I got you."

11

There was a heavy snowfall in the L area that had not been seen in many years, and it was even heavier than the snow in the J area when Sun Xiang died.

Area J that day had the whitest land, the reddest blood and countless remains of mechanical arms on the snow.

The high-intensity fighting day and night has already overwhelmed Sun Xiang's body, and the injections left by Xiao Shiqin have been exhausted a few days ago.Facing another round of onslaught by the enemy, he felt fear for the first time on the battlefield——

So close that he heard Death's approaching footsteps.

The severe pain in his body became stronger and stronger one after another. Sun Xiang stuffed a small handful of pills into his mouth, and then turned on the communication terminal to instruct the central control room to release the last batch of mechanical units.

Looking up at the combat machines whizzing by in the air, he slowly pulled out the last weapon from the mechanical armor.

"Small things...why haven't you come back..." Sun Xiang looked at the surging enemy army ahead, and smiled with tears in his eyes, "I won't wait for you."

"Sun Xiang!"

Screaming and sitting up from the soft duvet, Xiao Shiqin was panting heavily with sweat, and couldn't calm down for a long time.With his backhand, he caressed the tiny scar left by the spinal implant surgery (*Note 4) on his back. Under that small scar was buried Sun Xiang's last memory and last wish for this world.

The digital algorithm of cortical stack technology is complicated, but the log entries on the memory side can be divided by date. Xiao Shiqin has accepted all of Sun Xiang's memories and emotions since he left the J area.

Those times that he had never participated in, the pain and despair that Sun Xiang endured alone poured into his mind one by one, making him constantly think about it and suffer terribly.

This is punishment.

Xiao Shiqin thought.

At the end of the memory, Sun Xiang lay on the white snow and tried his best to dig out the tracking chip that Xiao Shiqin personally injected under the skin of his left arm.He curled up, hugged the blood-stained hand holding a small chip tightly to his chest, laughed and shed tears.

He never resented, but he couldn't help the child's complaints and the pleasure of a successful prank.

"Small things, you can't find me."

Everything vanished.

Xiao Shiqin sat on the bed for a long time, and suddenly smiled for no apparent reason.

"Yeah." He said to himself, "I can't find you."

Have you really been here?

do you really exist?

The snow had stopped outside the house, and the long-lost sunlight diffused across the sky, shining into the house into bundles of light divided by the shutters.Xiao Shiqin was so shaken that he squinted his eyes but couldn't feel the warmth. He heard the clock outside the bedroom and the sound of water dripping in the kitchen. He thought it would be great if there was still the noisy voice of Sun Xiang.

But no.

Only tiny specks of dust float in streaks of light.

After a while, he remembered that it was time to visit the research institute today.

"Drip-drip-drip-drip-"

Regular sounds echoed in the airtight and empty laboratory, and the dark room was illuminated by soft fluorescent blue light.Xiao Shiqin stood in front of the glowing glass cabin, his entire face was pale by the light.Through the glass, he traced the outline of the sleeping person with his hands over and over again, with great affection.

"Sun Xiang," Xiao Shiqin slowly pressed his forehead against the glass bulkhead, smiled silently and then let out a bitter voice, "They are all fake fire, you are different."

After a long time, he separated from the glass bulkhead and stared at the young man in the cabin again in the silence.

"You are the real sun."

There was love in his eyes, the spark that survived the ashes of decay.

never go out.

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Note 4: Spinal base implant surgery: It is part of the same system as the cortical stacking technology mentioned above. This surgery implants a receiving device at the base of the spine, which can receive digital genetic genes, emotions, memories, etc. from the memory terminal.