seven relics

There is a bathroom in the bedroom, complete with toiletries and electricity.When the lights and the shower are turned on, this place seems to be an ordinary dormitory in an ordinary school on the ground.Lian Jiangyue couldn't help thinking: "Is this the ground?"

He felt that he was falling deeper into the ground, but actually he returned to the ground?No, it was impossible for him to return to the ground. When Wang Baoan saw them, he asked them if he fell from above.

Often people fall from above?

Wang Baoan seems to have long been accustomed to such a situation.The toiletries in the bathroom are very new. Could it be that this bedroom is specially prepared for people like him and Linglong who fell from above?

There are just too many questions.Lian Jiangyue thought for a long time but couldn't figure it out. He changed into the clean clothes that Wang Baoan put down, and planned to ask what the "home" Linglong Xing was talking about was.Since his "home" is on the upper floor, he might know something about it.

Lian Jiangyue went out from the bathroom, but Linglong Xing was already naked and fell asleep on the ground.The bright moonlight fell on his back, revealing four thorn-like marks, like scars.One of the scars ran all the way to his neck.

The color of the scar is very close to his skin color, and it can only be seen when you get close.

"Don't sleep on the floor, you'll catch a cold." Lian Jiangyue patted Linglong Xing and said softly.

Linglongxing turned over, rubbed against his feet, and wrapped her arms around his ankles.Lian Jiangyue squatted down and patted him again. Linglongxing let out a whimper and hugged Lian Jiangyue's calf.He still had a strong smell of chicken on his hands.

Lian Jiangyue then stretched out her hand, wanting to carry him to the bed, but after doing this for a while, Linglongxing, who had her eyes closed, suddenly gritted her teeth, her nose fluttered, her nostrils breathed out, and she opened her mouth to bite Lian Jiangyue A mouthful of calf.Lian Jiangyue had no choice but to withdraw her hand, Linglongxing's breathing became steady, and she seemed to be sleeping soundly and deeply again.

Lian Jiangyue sat on the ground and looked at him helplessly for a while, sighed, pulled off the towel hanging around his neck, wiped his hands, the scratches on his elbows, and the dirt on his face , grabbed the quilt on the bed next to him, and covered him.

He carefully pulled his legs away to leave, Linglongxing became anxious again, and Lian Jiangyue had no choice but to move.Linglong Xing slept on the ground all night, and he sat on the ground all night. Fortunately, he had a shadow to help support his neck and shoulders, so the sleep was not too uncomfortable.

The next day, not long after Lian Jiangyue woke up, someone knocked on the door. The other party was also a security guard. His surname was Liu, and his name was Liu Baoan.About the same size as Wang Baoan, about the same age and appearance, with two big hands and one broad shoulder, he looks honest and reliable.

Liu Baoan brought them breakfast, mixed with cold skin and soy milk.This is no different from the ground, the food is also real food, and it feels comfortable after eating it.

Liu Baoan also liked to look at people with a smile. He looked at Lian Jiangyue and Linglong Xing after finishing breakfast, and said, "Let's go, I'll take you out."

Linglong Xing burped, Liu Baoan looked at him, he touched his stomach, looked at Liu Baoan, looked at Lian Jiangyue, and neatly put on a set of sportswear brought by Liu Baoan.

It was a sportswear school uniform with the school name embroidered on the back, and the style was not much different from the school uniform Lian Jiangyue wore when she was studying.Lian Jiangyue touched it, and the material was exactly the same.

The three left the dormitory.The school was very quiet, and now it was dawn, Lian Jiangyue realized that the dormitory building and the teaching building were a bit old, the pale pink exterior walls were mottled, and the green paint on the wooden doors and windows were also peeling off to varying degrees.

There are four floors above and below the teaching building, and the doors and windows inside and outside are all opened.

When Liu Baoan led Lian Jiangyue through the teaching building, Lian Jiangyue glanced at those classrooms.The layout of each classroom, the number of tables and chairs, and the decoration on the walls seem to be a template, which is exactly the same.

There are more than 40 seats in the classroom of class one (first year), and only one child sits in it and reads. ([-]) The class has two children, a boy and a girl.Although there are not many students, every classroom has students and a teacher.The teacher is reading, the children are also reading, and the blackboard is full of words: early self-study.

Both the children and the teachers were very attentive. Even if someone passed by, no one raised their heads to look out the window.

When passing the monitoring room, Lian Jiangyue saw the wooden table and chairs in that room, and asked Liu Baoan: "Is the monitoring TV broken?"

"Surveillance TV?"

"Is there no monitoring TV in the monitoring room?" Lian Jiangyue searched in the corridor, but couldn't find the monitoring camera.

Liu Baoan said: "Well, maybe I need to ask Lin Zhuangzhuang."

At this time, they walked out of the teaching building, and Lian Jiangyue asked again: "Are there only so many students in the school? I think the school is quite big."

Liu Baoan scratched his head and scratched his head: "Aren't all schools this big?" He looked at Lian Jiangyue and had doubts, "Do you also have a school there?"

If you want to talk about the place where he was born and raised, then of course there is, but if you want to talk about the place where they fell, then...

Just when Lian Jiangyue didn't know how to answer, she saw outside the school gate, a man with a cowboy hat on his head, a beard, wearing a suede jacket and jeans, riding a fat and strong white horse, followed by a sorrel horse The man on the horse passed by, and the cowboy-like man glanced at them, touched his hat with his hand, and nodded to them.Liu Baoan waved his arms towards the man: "Good morning."

Cowboys gone far.

Liu Baoan was still waving his arms, and said to Lian Jiangyue: "Here, the money carriage has arrived."

I saw a cart with a motley horse parked outside the school gate.The horse lowered his head and gnawed grass, and a thin man in cloth clothes and shoes sat on the cart with his body crooked, smoking a pipe leisurely.

Liu Baoan went out of the school gate, and went up to talk to the man: "Money carriage, I'm sorry, take it to the elevator."

Liu Baoan and Qian Carriage glanced north at the same time, Lian Jiangyue looked out, and saw a tower towering in the distance among a group of buildings, and the spire of the tower towered into the sky.

Money carriage nodded, grabbed a straw hat on the cart and put it on.Linglong Xing jumped onto the cart.Lian Jiangyue said goodbye to Liu Baoan and got into the car.The wooden wheels turned, and the horses kicked up their hooves, pulling them unsteadily on the road.

Everything on the road has a sense of staleness.The school is old, the shops, banks, restaurants... Regardless of the decoration and signboards, they seem to be picked out of old photos from the last century and thrown on both sides of the road.Lian Jiangyue even saw the words "Supply and Marketing Cooperative" on the glass door of the store.

But the old is back to the old, but it is complete, and all kinds of infrastructure have not been left behind. There is a bus stop every 200 meters, barrier-free sidewalks can be seen on the sidewalk, and there is a street park at almost every intersection.

There were no cars on the road, the shops were open, but neither customers nor salespersons could be seen, and the same was true of banks and restaurants.These houses with open doors are like empty eyeballs one after another, facing the lonely road blankly.

Occasionally, a few people can be seen, either cleaning the road or climbing on the trees to trim the branches of the street trees.A horse is tied under a tree.

Lian Jiangyue asked: "Do you usually travel by horse?"

"correct."

"The bus station..."

"Bus stops," Qian Carriage said, smacking his lips, "doesn't every city have bus stops?"

Speaking of this, Lian Jiangyue saw the western cowboy again.The western cowboy straddled his white horse, stopped on the side of the road, and stopped their cart. He said to the money cart, "Money cart, where are you taking them?"

"Go to the elevator."

The western cowboy said: "I have something to ask these two people, I will deliver it for you."

"Okay." The money carriage stopped the horse, stopped the carriage, and said, "There are three of you, and you only have two horses. How about this? I will unload the horse and lend it to you. After you have delivered the horse, return it to me." , I will wait for you here."

The money carriage jumped off the cart and began to unload the horses.The listless Linglongxing stretched and got out of the cart all the time. He walked to the chestnut horse of the western cowboy, patted the horse's neck, rubbed the horse's mane, smiled, turned over and got on the horse .

When Lian Jiangyue heard the conversation between the cowboy and the money cart, she felt indescribably weird, and she still sat on the cart without moving.But Qian’s carriage unloaded the horse at once, and gave the western cowboy the reins of the variegated horse, and the man also sat down on the side of the road, and began to smoke tobacco leisurely again.Lian Jiangyue couldn't say anything, she heard a "fight" again, Linglongxing leaned on the chestnut horse and ran away.

Lian Jiangyue shouted: "This is the road! Be careful with the car!"

The western cowboy laughed and said, "Let's go too."

Lian Jiangyue got out of the car and got on the horse. The western cowboy waved his whip, and the white horse under his seat galloped off. Dust filled the sky.

After chasing for a hundred meters, the white horse's pace slowed down, so Lian Jiangyue tugged at the reins and slowed down.He and the cowboy lined up on the road.Lian Jiangyue looked back and forth: "I haven't seen a bus for half a day, it's a bit serious to be off duty."

He also said: "The money carriage is waiting for you there? He retired? Doesn't he have to go to work elsewhere?"

The western cowboy said: "He is a money cart, and his job is to drive a cart. Wherever a cart is needed, he will go there."

Lian Jiangyue has a little understanding of the social rules here. A person's life seems to be completely determined by his name, so who decides his name?He asked the western cowboy, "Haven't you asked Gao's name?"

"You can just call me a knight, a hero of heroes, a guest of guests."

"Is this the name your parents gave you?"

"No, I took it myself." The knight smiled, "I told them that my name is a knight, and I explained to them that a knight is someone who can do whatever he wants."

The knight glanced at Jiangyue and said, "Did you fall from above?"

Lian Jiangyue frowned: "Yes, but on my side..."

The knight said, "I mean the desert."

He added: "I can tell right away that you are not from here." He looked forward, "As for him, it's hard to say."

Ahead, Linglongxing stopped under a tree a block away. He stood on the saddle, looking up at the branches of an almond tree with his head raised.

Lian Jiangyue looked at the knight again, and couldn't help but be surprised: "You also fell from the desert? First fell into a cave, and then? Did you see a stone bridge? The stone bridge broke, and we fell into it." Here, what is this place? Why did I fall down and came to a city? There is also a sky here? Is the sky my illusion?"

He took two deep breaths, trying to distinguish the smell of phantom grass from the air, but in vain, he could only smell the smell of muddy mountain roads soaked in spring rain, which seemed to be the smell of horses.

The knight made a soothing gesture and said, "Don't worry, if you want to go back, there is a way to go back."

"This is the land of oblivion," he said.

"Before I saw you, I almost forgot where I came from and how I got here, but the moment I saw you, I remembered, and I understood, some things, people It cannot be completely forgotten."

The chivalrous man recalled and said eloquently: "I remember that I was an expert in the study of meteorites. I brought a scientific research team to the Gurbantunggut Desert to search for meteorites. We found in an ancient book that Gurban There used to be a prosperous city in the Tungut Desert. According to ancient books, one day, the golden rain fell, and the city disappeared the next day. Not long after arriving in the desert, after a sandstorm, my team and I separated , I have neither water nor dry food on my body. I walked in the desert for three days and three nights, but I didn’t meet anyone. There was sand everywhere, only sand... Just when I thought I was going to die of dehydration, I met A young man arrived and he rescued me. I asked him, what are you doing alone in the desert, and he said that he felt that someone was waiting for him here, so he came. I thought, he may have been sent by God to rescue me I should be someone, but I didn't expect that the person he said was waiting for him was not me.

"He had a horse. He saw that I was weak, so he let the horse carry me. He said he would send me to the nearest village. On the way, we encountered a sandstorm again, but this time I did not go with my companion, that is, the The young man separated, I don't know what happened, I just felt the young man clutching my clothes tightly, I heard the horse neighing, the wind was strong, but the young man grabbed me, I felt like a tree stuck in the sand Like a tree, the wind can't blow me at all. I feel my face hurts, the sandstorm passed, the young man rubbed my face with a kind of ointment, I feel much better, the sandstorm passed..."

The knight paused, looked into the distance, and continued after a while: "In front of us is a weapon mound."

Lian Jiangyue tightened her hands and asked the knight: "What's the name of that young man you met?"

The chivalrous man shook his head: "I don't know his name. He's probably eighteen or nineteen, at most no more than twenty. At first I didn't know how to describe the place in front of us. There were long swords and spears stuck on the ground randomly. Painting halberds, big swords, those things that I have only seen in martial arts comics, he told me, he said excitedly, this is the weapon mound, he ran in, jumped to a hill made of swords, A long sword was drawn."

"I still remember that sword. It was so black, it was long, it was thin, and it reflected black light in the sun, no, it didn't reflect black light, it absorbed the sun light, and it just emitted black... It was like a black hole , also very much like... a meteorite."

Lian Jiangyue caressed the neck of the variegated horse, and his shadow fell on the horse's long neck.He drew the crying rain from the horse.

The knight was stunned, and then laughed loudly: "I knew you had a story, but I didn't expect our stories to overlap." He asked Lian Jiangyue, "Can I touch your sword?"

Lian Jiangyue handed the crying rain over, but the knight withdrew his hand, his eyes wavering: "No, you take it back, I am no longer an expert in meteorite research, I am just a knight."

Lian Jiangyue took the crying rain back into the shadow, and he asked the knight: "What happened next?"

The knight said: "Later, the young man pointed to a ball of white light and said, look, this is the person waiting for me! I took a step forward to see the person clearly, and I fell down."

"I keep falling, falling, falling."

"I began to lose some memories, and I began to worry about gains and losses. Sometimes I want to go back, but sometimes I would rather stay here forever." The knight looked at his hands, "Forgetting keeps me young forever."

Lian Jiangyue also realized that this knight looks no more than forty at the most. If the young man he met in the desert was Lian Wuhen, the knight should be an old man with frosty temples.

Is that young man really pity me and hate me?Who was the person he was talking about waiting for him?

The knight said again: "We know too little about these aliens. We approach them, and they are also approaching us. We study them in our own way, and maybe they are also studying us in their own way."

Lian Jiangyue was a little confused.The knight showed a sad smile, and sighed, but his tone was free and easy: "Maybe it's radiation! Maybe it's because of the radiation produced by meteorites. People here keep forgetting and being forgotten."

"I still don't quite get it. You say this is a land of oblivion. Do you mean that the people here can't remember who they are and where they came from? Are they all people who accidentally fell into desert caves? Why do they all end up with work? Occupation as their own name? Haven't they thought about going back?"

"I don't know, maybe this will make life simpler and more pure. As for going back..." The knight pondered for a long time, "Maybe we often forget the reason to go back, maybe we have no reason to go back."

"If I stay here forever, will I also start to forget?" Lian Jiangyue looked at the knight and asked.

"So what do you remember now?"

Lian Jiangyue said: "I remember that I hated some people, and I felt guilty for some people."

The knight said: "Perhaps it is best to forget."

Lian Jiangyue said: "No, hate and love are both part of life. Life is neither good nor bad. I also remember that I am full of expectations for life. I look forward to happiness and loss. I want to try all the ups and downs of life. try."

The knight smiled veiledly, but did not comment.At this time, they were only one and a half horses away from Linglong Xing who was parked by the roadside.Lian Jiangyue asked the knight: "This is the forgotten land, what's on it? I seem to have passed through the other two floors to get here, have you been to the top?"

The knight nodded and said, "Up above is the Land of Pleasure and the Land of Eternity."

Lian Jiangyue smiled: "It sounds like the kingdom of heaven and the pure land in religion. It looks like a good place. Why did you come back here after you have been there? Who gave these names?"

The knight said: "After you have been to those two places, you will understand. If you want to return to the desert, you must pass through those two places. That is the only way. As for their names, I don't know who they are. The first one to call out, but after being in those two places, I think they are very apt."

The knight stopped the horse, stopped behind the chestnut horse that Linglong Xing was stepping on, and said with emotion: "I don't know what happened to that young man, and who is the person he was waiting for?"

Lian Jiangyue also pulled the horse, and said softly: "You are here forever because of forgetting, and he may have died because of being forgotten."

The knight smiled: "Death is a good answer."

He pointed to the towering tower: "After sending you off, I will start to forget again, only when others call my name, I will remember what I want to do, what is my life, maybe this is the meaning of the name. We always remember other people's names and keep forgetting our own identities."

"Ayi!"

Suddenly, Linglongxing poked her head out from between the branches and shouted.With a few green leaves on his hair and puffy cheeks, he raised his hand and threw a yellow apricot to Lian Jiangyue, and also threw one to the knight.His clothes pockets were full of apricots, he sat back on the saddle, ate the apricots wagging his head, pinched the horse's stomach, and the horse led him staggeringly forward.

"I still remember that Ayi means the moon." The knight looked at the apricot in his hand, "I call my daughter Ainur, she is my moonlight."

The heavy fruit bent the fruit tree, the knight bent down and passed under the tree, and said sullenly: "But I can't go back, I choose to forget, I can't bear happiness, I can't bear eternity, I will be here forever forget..."

Xia Ke looked very painful, he didn't speak anymore, and he didn't eat the apricot even if he grabbed it.Yellow juice dripped from between his fingers.

Soon, they came to the tower.They were received by a smiling woman.

"Take the elevator and go here," the woman said.

Lian Jiangyue and Linglong Xing dismounted, and the knight sat on the horse and waved to them, then turned and left.Linglongxing rushed into the tower at once, Lian Jiangyue was still looking at the knight, the white horse walked a few steps, the knight bent down, and stuffed the apricot he was holding into the horse's mouth.

People seem to remember nothing, and horses seem to have forgotten everything, walking forward blindly.

"Ayi!" Linglongxing stretched out her hand from a window in the tower, and impatiently urged Lian Jiangyue: "Quick! Go home!"

Lian Jiangyue also entered the tower.