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This night, meteor-like flames lit up the entire night sky above the main city.

As early as an hour before the start of the war, the residents of the "battlefield" outside the Second Ring Road were concentrated in the nearby underground air-raid shelters.Some of them have just returned home from work, some are sitting at the dining table eating, and some are anxious about the unpredictable future in small groups. Afterwards, a notice from the Second Ring Security Bureau came from the radio and the communicator. They were asked to take refuge immediately, and the police officers had already responded downstairs in the residential area within the designated area.

The air-raid shelter was cool and dark, and the adults were ashen-faced, huddled and sitting together, worried about the battle situation outside.The children were full of curiosity about the sudden incident, chirping and asking what was going on outside, and even wanted to go to the air-raid shelter to have a look.Without exception, they were scolded by the adults who grabbed the back of their necks and pressed them back.

Three children took advantage of the chaos to escape the supervision of their parents and guards. They quietly bypassed the crowded crowd and moved forward against the cold stone wall. After several twists and turns, they finally came to the entrance of the air-raid shelter. The army, they saw the night sky lit by the fire outside, and heard the rattling and roaring incessantly.The guards found these children, but they were unable to send them back immediately due to lack of manpower, so they had to tell them to stay obediently and not run around.

The three children were driven to a position a little further in, and it took some effort to see the outside, but if the guards refused to let them move outside, they had no choice but to give up.

"Why are there so many big birds and fire in the sky?" asked a child with braids in the sky. He was the youngest and the most mischievous among the children.His pronunciation is not quite standard, babbling, but fortunately, the friends can understand.

"Those are monsters!" said one of his tall companions, pumping his fists as if he were fighting himself. "They're fighting monsters with fire and arrows. Sea ghosts."

Another little man said, "It's not ghosts, my dad said, those are gods, they came to save us."

The tall kid immediately retorted: "Then why is your father still hiding? Isn't he going to meet God?"

The little man blushed anxiously: "He said there was a reason..."

The braided child didn't want to participate in their dispute, so he leaned against the cold wall quietly, stretched his neck with all his strength, and tried to see more of the night sky outside from the hole that was mostly blocked.

The fight lasted all night.The two companions had already lost interest, and fell asleep beside them on their backs.The braided child kept staring wide-eyed at everything outside. His body was still small, and his steps were light. The guards didn't notice when he approached the entrance of the cave step by step and nestled in a corner by the cave wall.

The sky is a magnificent sight that a child has never seen.The cloud-like swarm of sparrow fish seemed to crush the entire city, and the rockets shot at the sparrow fish scattered and assaulted, like throwing sharp and deadly hooks in the sky.The fighter jets flying at low altitude rushed into the densest fish school and exploded clusters of blood-stained sparks. The bursts of bright colors ended an unknown number of lives in a short and lasting manner.

The child looked up all night until all the noise gradually disappeared, and the sky suddenly appeared in the distance. The uncle of the guard received the news of victory, raised a tired smile and went to his comrades to evacuate the crowd.

The child was found by the parents who had been worrying all night and was beaten up.

The harder the parents cried, the harder the attack.The child's buttocks were beaten black and blue, like the scorched bark and houses after a fierce battle.The child was carried on the shoulders of his father, walked out of the air-raid shelter with the crowd, and followed the guidance of the soldiers to a new shelter-it is said that a more protracted war has just begun.

The child lay on his father's shoulder, staring at the outside of the cave full of gunpowder smoke with a pair of ignorant eyes.Instead of taking him back to a home full of toys, his parents took him to new places with a lot of other people.Since last night, everything seems to be different, the child has such a vague impression in his immature heart.

He stayed up all night, lying on his father's broad and warm shoulders, bouncing and bouncing, his eyelids getting heavier and heavier.In a daze, he heard someone calling Captain Lou, reporting many things to him.

The child didn't understand what these words meant. His eyelids became heavier and heavier. Before the eyelids closed completely, he saw a tall man in a dark green uniform standing not far away. His clothes were already tattered and his face was haggard. exhausted.His eyes met the child's, showing a little relief, and then quickly moved away.It was a pair of unforgettable eyes, dark blue and brown like crystal clear glass balls in a shop window, and like a clear sky and tall trees - reassuring colors, so the child slept soundly.

Sixty years later, the kid with the braids has become a famous historian.Looking back on this gorgeous and cruel night he personally experienced in his childhood, he wrote with his dry hands like bark:

"Bullets can't penetrate the flesh of these monsters. Bows and arrows in the age of cold weapons have become a better choice...History is repeating itself. Disasters and despair often come in new forms, but human beings have never given up hope. Like trees trying to grow towards the sky, like the ashes of death fireworks, there are always protected seedlings sucking nutrients, waiting to break through the ground."

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After that, the long road of tens of thousands of people resisting sea ghosts and rebuilding their homes is only a few pages in the history books, and sometimes it is even erased because of blandness, but the people who were born in it cannot jump to read, nor can they read. Press the fast forward button of your life.Time flows slowly and irreversibly forward for all.

The main city gained a short but precious period of peace.

Lou Yue came to the scientific research institute again one month after the night of the sparrow invasion.The defense and aftermath work has been on the right track. He doesn't have to guard the second ring every step of the way, so he wants to visit the scientific research institute in his spare time.

It is getting more and more difficult to see Ran Yu now.Since Ran Yu delivered the news in time a month ago and helped humans gain an advantage against sea ghosts for the first time, Ran Yu's "secret weapon" has been more strictly protected, and no one else can get close to it, even responsible Members of the scientific research institute's research team who wanted to see Ran Yu had to go through layers of approval.

The end point of approving documents is no longer Captain Lou, Director Wei, or Commander Albert of the security department, but the city lord's office.

Even for Lou Yue, if he wanted to see Ran Yu, he had to make an appointment one day in advance and pass the approval.When Lou Yue learned of this new regulation, he had already gone home, washed and tidied up, and on the way to the scientific research institute by car, his resentment could be released from the communicator.

Yan Ai was also very helpless on the other end: "This is also for the sake of Ran Yu's safety. You also know that he is currently the most important channel for us to understand sea ghosts, so there must be no mistakes."

The application form required three levels of signatures. Lou Yue quickly went back to the inspector's office to stamp and sign for himself, and then went to the scientific research institute to find the dean to sign, and finally sent it to the city lord's office.When Lou Yue took the form to the scientific research institute to sign, the dean was attending an impromptu meeting. Yan Ai, who came to receive him, took him to the reception room, looked him up and down, and was amazed: "I understand that you are here to visit your subordinates. Those who didn't know thought you were here to propose marriage today."

Lou Yue hadn't seen Ran Yu for a month, nor had he heard from him.This month, the soldiers on the front line of the Second Ring Road have had a terrible time. All their energy has been put on preventing the second invasion of sea ghosts or pike fish, resettling the people, and rebuilding after the war.

Out of an inexplicable mentality, he carefully looked in the mirror before coming here, and felt that his image was too stretchy, so he went home to freshen up for a long time, changed into a new set of elegant clothes, and even sprayed on some perfume.

Lou Yue was at a loss for words for a while, but Yan Ai seized the opportunity to pull out the question that had been hidden in his heart all along: "What's the matter with you and Ran Yu? You two won't really be like what Albert said..."

Lou Yue was stunned for a moment, and then remembered that Albert said "you two are married". He didn't know whether it was helplessness or other emotions came to his heart. He felt a little hot behind his ears: "Listen to those old guys talking nonsense, we just friend."

"You didn't know Ran Yu after he entered the city. The time was too short, you wouldn't make friends so easily... No, you still have friends?"

"Oh." Lou Yue responded, ready to fool around.

"Don't be perfunctory to me," Yan Ai folded his arms around his chest, "I've already found out that Ran Yu was the reason why you used to go to Xiangxiang's old house. Xiangxiang told me that he passed by the old house several times, I saw you sneaking around the mailbox. And you always have a hellish face, and only in the days after you sneak around there every few months do you look like a human being..."

"Oh? Said it to An Xiang?" Lou Yue smiled, "What else did he say?"

In fact, Lou Yue's smile is very good-looking, but Yan Ai knows too much about the bad water behind this kind of smile, so he panicked: "No, no, no, just casually, chatting, Captain Lou, don't be so foolish about making jokes .In short, I now know that you have maintained a pen pal relationship with him for a long time. This is a good thing, and it will be very helpful for our future research. But at the same time, I also need to know your real thoughts so that we can share information in the follow-up There is no misdirection in the interpretation."

"I don't know either," Lou Yue put away his perfunctory gesture and said seriously, "I only know that if I hadn't stopped for a while when I passed by that old house ten years ago, I saw the letter falling on the ground. , if I hadn't opened the letter out of rare curiosity, and if I hadn't responded to the letter on a whim some day later, maybe my life now is completely different."

Yan Ai listened quietly, thoughtful.

"There were many coincidences and accidents at the beginning of this incident, and it is unnecessary to say these now." Lou Yue suddenly smiled at himself, "You are right, I really don't have many friends, maybe I don't deserve it, but I have kept him As a very good friend, I don't want to lose him. But now according to the situation, I can't even see him once. I don't know if he is uncomfortable in it. You know, he used to live in such a free place Outside the city. I'm so busy with things now that I can't take care of here sometimes, please take good care of him."

Lou Yue's tone was close to pleading, this was the Lou Yue that Yan Ai had never seen before.She guessed that maybe Ran Yu's sudden isolation made Lou Yue feel too powerless and frustrated.

"Of course I will try my best to help him, after all, he is our hope for research now." Yan Ai thought for a while, and said after deliberation: "But according to my observation, you don't look like you get along with him like a friend, and Ai Bo You said that you didn't refute when you got married. I thought you didn't refute it so that no one would dare to approach Ran Yu in the future, just like you blatantly took a new guard who had just entered the city into your home."

Yan Ai paused, a little smile appeared on her face when she was immersed in good memories, and then she said with the attitude of someone who has experienced it: "We generally don't call this kind of behavior taking care of friends, but to declare sovereignty."

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The author has something to say:

Babies, I'm coming to Liao! !Boo boo!Happy National Day!I just crawled out of Kawen's quagmire and three-dimensional endless emo very late today orz I am finally happy again!

I feel that this chapter is only half written. Thinking about it, I should update it first to show that I really didn’t run away (bushi)