Red dust kills beauty

[-]. The red thread of fate⑤

The first stop of our wanderings was Yanbei, the hometown where Xiaobai had not returned for many years.

In the past, Yanbei was the head of the eight districts and the most prosperous place.But after the fall, Yanbei was also the hardest hit.An air strike killed tens of thousands of people, countless families and refugees moved south, and then there was continuous war. Now Yanbei is not as good as it used to be.

When Xiaobai told me that he wanted to go back to his hometown, I readily agreed.

Wuzhou and Yanbei are nearly [-] miles away, and they have to pass through many checkpoints of warlords in various places. I took Xiaobai Xiaohui, climbed over the roof of the train, squatted in the freight car, sat in the donkey cart, and all kinds of magical rides Way.

The most memorable ride was when we passed through Xuzhou and found that the Lu army and the Pingwu army were fighting there. We had to go through northern Anhui, then detour to northern Henan, and then went north to southern Hebei.Because of the repeated detours, as well as the blaze of war that he saw along the way, they all had a great impact on Xiaobai.

He asked me, why are people fighting wars when they can barely survive?

I can't answer this question. I thought about it and said, probably because they want too many things.

Xiaobai lowered his eyelashes with a pitiful expression.He shook his head and gestured to me: "I don't like fighting."

I asked: "Why? You are a person with abilities. As long as you control your abilities, you will be among the top ones. And people like you, in a peaceful society, cannot have so many privileges— —The troubled times are your stage.”

Xiaobai blinked: "But I never wanted to be famous. I also didn't want so many privileges."

I can't figure it out, but it doesn't stop me from being interested—I've lived in troubled times as long as I can remember, and it's hard to imagine what the peaceful and prosperous scene of Haiyan and Heqing was like.

Then Xiaobai described it to me—I rarely saw him in high spirits: "The air in Yanbei is not very good. In spring, there are sandstorms and willow catkins. When the wind blows, the catkins like caterpillars will blow on the face." , Occasionally when he was carrying his schoolbag to school, he could hear passers-by complaining, and the owner of the snack bar said that the catkins had blown into the soup pot."

"But weeping willows that have been around for many years are very beautiful. Some willow branches are tender and some are thick. When you pinch them with your fingers, sometimes white juice will flow out. My classmates and I like to play with them."

"There are also a lot of birds, especially in winter. Every morning before dawn, you can hear the calls of birds outside. It is even more so in the park. When you lie on the lawn, you can hear the sound of their wings flapping."

"People are also very nice. Whether they are migrant workers, newly registered residents, or old Yanbei people, everyone I meet treats me very well. Every time I pass by, the auntie at the commissary in the community will greet me In the past, eating sweets, the old man in the park once finished Tai Chi, took a brother Alpha to teach him a lesson, and scolded him for going out without a surveillance bracelet..."

I was taken aback and interrupted him: "Surveillance bracelet?"

He froze for a moment, then shook his head: "I forgot, there is no such thing now. Before the fall of District [-], every teenager had to register after gender differentiation, Omega had subsidies, and Alpha had to wear a monitoring bracelet , it will record your susceptibility period, remind you to inject inhibitors, and monitor your pheromone level. If the pheromone surges in a short period of time, you will be suspected of illegally labeling Omega, and the monitoring bracelet will directly send an alarm to the regulatory authority— ——I heard that because of this incident, the eighth district and which large district in the west were still in trouble, saying that the eighth district despised human rights..."①

I was stunned for a while, and it took me a long time to understand: "This is... protecting Omega?"

I just can't understand it.In my concept, Omega is a group of waste, they do not produce, have no combat power, except for a few awakened superpowers, only one womb is left to use.Those who can't survive sharpen their heads, just want to get a bottle of Omega conversion agent, not because Omega has a high status, but because even if it is raised like a sow, it is better than starving to death.

And Alpha, who is the dominant gender, would give way to Omega, which is beyond my imagination.

Xiaobai scratched his head, a little shy, and continued to write on the paper: "Probably, I don't know... It's all happened when I was young, and I don't quite understand what it means. I remember it so clearly, just because My dad was an Alpha and my mum was an Omega, and my dad said it was 'the right thing to do'."

This incident gave me a great shock.The scene he described to me is like watching "Tokyo Menghualu" in later generations, with an ethereal and illusory fragrance. I exhausted my imagination, but I could only outline a vague shadow.

He described the high sky and lonely clouds to me, and the buildings in the former dynasty were covered with warm orange glow in the sunset; all I saw were ruined walls, and only one simple petrol bomb could destroy a whole block. Fried to pieces.

He told me that the weather was clear, he and his friends would fly kites on the grassy slopes of the park, and occasionally the kites would be hung on wires or tree branches; I have never seen children running and jumping on the street carefree , They all huddled behind their parents, with terrified faces, or even more simply in groups of three or four, extorting widows and widows with fierce expressions.

I stared at the piece of paper full of vigorous handwriting for a long while speechless.Those scenes are really too far away from me.

Another time, after we had already entered Jizhou, we met a group of vicious Zhi (Zhili) troops who claimed to be under the command of Commander Qin. After learning that our destination was Yanbei, they asked us to go with them.I wondered which pheasant general this Commander Qin was. I only found out when I asked that the most powerful organization in Yanbei now is an organization called Yu Jingchun. These years have also become a bit of a climate in the Zhili generation.

We were stuffed into their tanks with our hands tied behind our backs. I noticed that their armaments were quite old, not as advanced as those of the Pingwu Army, so I asked why.

Their team leader took out a bit of tobacco from his pocket, stingyly twisted two or three sticks with his fingertips, first sniffed it cherishedly, and then put it in his mouth to chew.While chewing, he said, "For another thing, since Mengdi was bombed, Maozi beat him over and over again. Commander Qin said that he would rather die than return, and all the money was used to repair the wall. Thank God for the tanks still driving now." Bar!"

I couldn't help feeling a little more fond of Commander Qin.

Later, when I regained my memory, I remembered that when I was a zero hour, after the self-defense force grew stronger, I was beaten back by Qin Zhaojin at a banquet and complained to Fu Baixue.

I was so angry that I paced around the room, yelling at Qin Zhaojin for being a bastard, a bad old man who only excludes others, and I will kill him sooner or later.

Fu Baixue was quite calm, drinking tea while persuading me to let it go, saying that he has hard work and no credit.

I raised my eyebrows and raised my voice: "Toil? Just him?"

Fu Baixue sighed: "As the Qin family, he didn't flee to the south to live a good life, but stayed in Yanbei for so many years, until the Self-Defense Forces showed up and the burden was relieved--now he started to eliminate dissidents. That's kind."

I spat: "That's why he throws it away when he's done using it."

Fu Baixue smiled: "In short... the most difficult ten years, if it weren't for him, Yanbei would have disappeared."

But now I still don’t know that Commander Qin is the Qin Zhaojin who will make my head as big as a bucket in the future. Xiaohui is sitting in my arms, next to Xiaobai, and the three are as good as three quails. I just want to know these people Where are we going to be taken.

The space in the tank is small, we can't see the outside, we can only perceive the outside world according to the road conditions.When we came to a place where it was obvious that there were potholes, the tank stopped, and the team leader stretched out his hand to us: "Shuilongpo is here, five pieces of Chenghui meatloaf-don't hide, it's you, I saw it just now Here's the pancake in your backpack."

I was a little confused: "You tied us up with a rope, didn't you want to sell me?"

The group leader's eyebrows almost flew into the sky, and his critical eyes swept around: "Just you? How much meat can you sell? Masters don't do such useless things as selling women-Shuilongpo is The place where you foreigners stay, I am kind enough to drive here for you, still not grateful to Dade? Leave the food, and then take your old, weak, sick and disabled to the Lord. "

The cold wind was howling, I hugged my empty backpack, and asked Xiaobai in a trance: "Have we met a kind person or a robber?"

Xiaobai pondered for a while, then gestured: "Good robber."

How should I put it, later on I encountered this kind of thing a lot and I got used to it, so... very Yu Jingchun.

As the first stop for migrants, Shuilongpo is messy and messy.Xiaobai was a little sad. He told me that there was no such place in Yanbei. It used to be a mountain with beautiful scenery. When autumn came, the mountains were covered with red leaves.

Again, I can't imagine it.

After a lot of force (Xiao Bai) and verbal (Xiao Hui) deterrence, we finally found a place to stay.This is a shack made of discarded tanks and other alloy plates. After promising to provide the owner with a daily meal, he held his nose and let us live in.

Ever since entering the Yanbei territory, Xiaobai has been a little gloomy. I couldn't bear to see it, so I took him out to relax, trying to make him happy.

After chatting with each other for a while, he finally felt better, and when we planned to go to the city tomorrow to see Xiaobai's old residence, a gray shadow suddenly jumped past our feet.

I squinted my eyes: "What just jumped past?"

Xiaobai shook his head to show that he didn't see clearly either.

This is quite surprising, because until now, I have not seen a living thing that my dynamic vision cannot capture.

I came to be interested and chased after him directly.Xiao Hui and Xiao Bai followed closely behind.The other party also seemed to know that someone was chasing him, and he was always cleverly drilling the path at such a high speed that I even lost track of him a few times—if there was no Xiao Hui.

After attaching the little gray thing for nearly half an hour, the opponent finally got tired, his speed slowed down, and I caught him.

The reason why I am so interested in this thing is because I vaguely saw a dim red line attached to its front paw—exactly the same as what I vaguely saw on Xiaobai's fingertips back then.It's just that the red line is just a glimpse, I haven't seen it since I rescued Xiaobai from the research room, and seeing you now, of course it aroused my interest.

It seemed to be something that only I could see. Afterwards, I asked Xiaobai if he had seen it, and he gave me a negative answer.

After catching the little thing, I realized it was a puppy. Its gray fur was not really gray, but silvery white. It was just dark gray because it was too dirty.

I don't know why, but I think this dog is very cute, and I like it very much when I look at it, and I want to keep it.

I lifted it up and showed it to Xiaobai, Xinqi said: "Look! A white puppy! But you have already called Xiaobai, so we can call it Xiaoxiaobai!"

Xiao Xiaobai sounds like Xiaobai's child.I snicker.

Xiao Bai watched it closely for a while, then hesitantly wrote on the paper: "I don't think it's a white dog, but a silver wolf... Maybe we can't keep it."

It's a wolf! ?

I lowered my head in astonishment, and turned over and over again the loveless pup in my hand. It wanted to bite me very much, but I avoided it every time it showed its fangs.I was so addicted to playing that I deliberately moved my finger to let it bite, and then quickly retracted it.After an unknown amount of time, I suddenly felt my waist being poked, and when I turned around, I saw Xiaobai looking at me with a worried face.I just remembered what he said, and suddenly said: "Oh... oh, why can't I raise it?"

I pouted.

"Because..." He paused, groaning for a long time, "Because we already have Xiao Hui." His expression became firm again.

I turned my head and asked Xiao Hui: "Xiao Hui, do you mind?"

Xiaohui let out a cry, spread its wings and hovered in mid-air, its two paws eagerly wanted to grab Xiaobai, the puppy—oh no, the little wolf was startled, and leaned into my arms , Xiao Hui let out a rattling laugh.

I watched it with great interest, then turned to look at Xiao Bai: "I think Xiao Hui doesn't mind."

"..." Xiaobai pursed his lips. He looked at me, then at the dog, and then gestured angrily, "I'm going back." Then he turned around and left.

"..." I stared blankly at his leaving back, and Xiao Hui, and Xiao Xiaobai, who was finally caught in the air by its claws, looked at each other in blank dismay, "Is he jealous? Obviously Xiao Hui is not jealous. "

Xiao Xiaobai let out an innocent "owwow".

It doesn't even have a "woof", it seems that it is really a wolf.Somehow, I'm kind of sorry.

Next chapter: The Red Thread of Destiny ⑥

I frowned at this mean kid: "You are so annoying."

The witch merchant responded politely: "Everyone, each other."

?April [-]st

Aning: I want to raise a dog.

Zhao Zhao: Get lost! ! !

①: See volume [-] for details, what about Yangchun Baixue ③.

Lao Bai was born in an era of partial peace.At that time, although the whole world fought for decades, Yanbei was still considered stable, and the livelihood was just a little tight, but as a middle-class family (with a house and registered permanent residence) + senior intellectuals (Xiaobai's characters, parents' hobbies), Fu The couple still provided Lao Bai with a very stable childhood. The most different thing from the other three is that he knows what the normal social order is like.