MTL - How to Feed an Abyss!-Chapter 44 isabella

The people inside the transport ship were crowded, no one spoke, it was very hot, and the air was frozen.

This is a long journey that will last more than three days.

The outbreak of infected Huahai couldn't catch up with them, but the abyss was still restless, maybe they would encounter a wave of monsters from the air raid.

There are too many human beings, Shi Yuan only dared to nest in the corner, eating military rations with plain boiled water every day, and almost got so nervous that his tail got knotted.

His cell phone was broken, so he couldn't contact Lu Tinghan, and he boarded the transport ship in a hurry without registration.

He felt that Lu Tinghan must be very worried about him, so he found a soldier on guard and asked, "Hi, may I contact other people?"

The soldier didn't even blink, and replied coldly: "No."

Shi Yuan asked again: "Is it really not possible?"

The soldier ignored him.

Shi Yuan drooped his tail and went back to his room, where he was crowded with nearly a hundred strangers in the dark.

Cheng Youwen and Qin Luoluo are next door.

After Shi Yuan rescued them from the theater, the two expressed their gratitude, but the way they looked at him became...strange, hesitant to speak.

This is also inevitable.

The behavior patterns of monsters are unpredictable and strange, and the fluctuations of the abyss will never stop. In the past, it really happened that they voluntarily gave up their prey.

But Cheng Youwen and Qin Luoluo got too close.

It was close enough to clearly see that what the monsters were afraid of was Shi Yuan.

They may not be able to guess Shi Yuan's real identity, but they must know that Shi Yuan is not an ordinary person.

Shi Yuan didn't know how they would react.

He doesn't regret saving them, no matter how many times he starts over, he will do it again.

In the early morning of the next day, Shi Yuan was stopped by a major after receiving the compressed food.

Shi Yuan was a little scared.

The major's adjutant handed him a thick quilt. The major said: "The land general will give it to you. He asked you to tell me if you have anything."

The quilt is very soft and warm, especially when placed on a large bed. Shi Yuan hugged the quilt and rolled around a few times, wagging the tip of his tail happily, he thought, Lu Tinghan is so smart, he found him again so soon.

Two days later, through the observation cabin of the spaceship, a city appeared at the end of the horizon.

It is on a steep high ground, the huge windmill rotates forever, and thousands of solar panels shine in the morning light. Energy towers stand one after another, and you can feel electricity flowing in every corner of the city just by looking at it from a distance.

Fengyang City.

Union's energy hub.

The transport ship landed slowly. People went overboard, the sun made them cry, it was a disaster.

Everyone walked to different areas according to the assignment, and left in a transport truck.

Shi Yuan was worrying about how to contact Lu Tinghan when he heard someone calling his name.

It was Cheng Youwen and Qin Luoluo.

Qin Luoluo's leg was seriously injured, and she didn't know if she could recover. Now both of them have bad legs and feet, one limped on the right leg and the other injured the left leg, leaning on crutches, they walked towards Shi Yuan with difficulty.

"Grandma's really hurts." Qin Luoluo scolded, "That's really a mad dog, it only bites my meaty places."

Cheng Youwen said: "Dogs hate it."

Qin Luoluo gave him a blank look.

When they came to Shi Yuan, Cheng Youwen stuffed a cube-shaped object wrapped in newspaper into Shi Yuan's hand: "Here, here you are."

The newspaper is yellowed, and this thing has some weight. Shi Yuan asked, "What is this?"

"The money for Isabella." Cheng Youwen said, "That kid Xia Fang didn't expect me to keep a hand." He snorted, "I told Wolfgang a long time ago that we can't put all the money in At the same time, he didn't believe it. Fortunately, I took precautions and secretly hid part of it."

Shi Yuan took the money and asked, "Why did you give it to me?"

"Qin Luoluo and I will not stay in Fengyang." Cheng Youwen explained, "When we first evacuated from Gleaming City, we contacted the main city and found suitable jobs. Now they are still short of people, the day after tomorrow We are about to take the transport ship to the main city, and..." He glanced at Qin Luoluo quickly, "the hospital over there is better, and we can see her leg injury. Shi Yuan, help us transfer this money to Yi Sabella, I wrote the address in the newspaper."

"Okay." Shi Yuan agreed, "I will."

The people around started to move, and another 5 green pickup trucks drove away.

They didn't have much time, Cheng Youwen hesitated for a few seconds, and then said: "Shi Yuan, we didn't tell anyone else what happened in the theater that day. I don't know if it's a coincidence, or what, I don't know who you are, or It was…something. But I trust the you I know, thank you for saving us."

Qin Luoluo also said: "I want to say it again, the most correct thing I have done in my life is to recruit you into the theater troupe." She squeezed Shi Yuan's face again, "It's life-saving even if you don't earn money, see Look at this pretty little face... ah!"

She forgot that she was on crutches and almost fell, but was fortunately supported by Cheng Youwen.

The whistle blows and it's time for them to move on.

Cheng Youwen said to Qin Luoluo: "You go ahead first, I still have a few words to say to Shi Yuan alone."

"What's so mysterious, you still tell me behind your back, it's really..." Qin Luoluo complained, but still walked forward.

There were only the two of them left, Shi Yuan looked at Cheng Youwen and asked, "Mr. Cheng, have you confessed your love to her? Are you together?"

Cheng Youwen was caught off guard, and coughed a few times: "Gossip, why are you gossiping and asking questions! Do not imitate the good ones and imitate the bad ones!"

Shi Yuan:?

He didn't understand why Cheng Youwen reacted violently, as if he was stepped on by him unexpectedly and poked the sore spot.

Cheng Youwen looked at him for a few seconds, then sighed: "Have you finished reading "Waiting for Godot" I gave you?"

Shi Yuan: "It's over."

Cheng Youwen said: "I told you that this is a fruitless wait. They don't know who Godot is, whether he will come, or why they wait. We always do meaningless things. Things. Qin Luoluo is like my Godot, I can never wait, and I also can't wait for the day when drama returns to its peak."

Shi Yuan: "Oh...then you won't be able to mate, what a pity, I wanted to see if you would lay eggs."

Cheng Youwen: "..."

Cheng Youwen: "...Shi Yuan, you **** messed up my thoughts." He rubbed his browbones frantically, clearing Shi Yuan's words from his mind, "But how should I put it, just the matter of 'waiting' It takes courage enough, and I won't regret it. Besides, we're all still alive, aren't we? There's nothing better than that."

He patted Shi Yuan on the shoulder, and finally said: "If there is a chance in the future, I will write the script and you will play the role of the savior. Next time, I will give you seven yuan an hour!"

Shi Yuan said goodbye to him and watched him walk towards Qin Luoluo. The two turned around and waved goodbye to him with a smile, just like they said goodbye at the entrance of the Grand Theater every time after the curtain ended.

Shi Yuan walked forward along the crowd.

Before he got close to the green pickup truck, he was taken away by two soldiers. Turning and turning, he saw Lu Tinghan at the end of the air force base.

Lu Tinghan was surrounded by several mutant officers, expressionless. Shi Yuan's eyes lit up when he saw him, he rushed forward a few steps, the tip of his tail frantically swayed, and said, "Listen Lu...!"

He was hugged by Lu Tinghan.

Lu Tinghan had never hugged him so hard before. Shi Yuan was strangled by him, and Lu Tinghan's pile of medals also hurt his face. On the one hand, he was very happy and wanted to continue posting, but on the other hand, he was very worried that he would die because of it.

Heaven and man fought like this for a long time. Seeing that Lu Tinghan had no intention of pulling back, he whispered, "No...I'm going to die soon."

Only then did Lu Tinghan let go.

He looked at Shi Yuan, didn't say much, just lowered the brim of his hat and said, "I can't die. Shi Yuan, let's go home."

…

Fengyang City is very large. 38 years ago, the special infected creature "Hot Hurricane" hit here, bringing about a massacre. Only a quarter of the population remained, and it has not recovered until today. It has a large number of unused abandoned buildings and areas. After a little rectification, the conditions are very difficult and can barely live in.

The street is chaotic, full of Gleaner City residents queuing up, waiting for food and shelter to be distributed.

Fortunately, no one made trouble, they waited silently.

Shi Yuan followed Lu Tinghan to his home in Fengyang City.

The building is in a secluded corner with few people. Not far away is a huge windmill, 100 meters high, with 80-meter blades, casting shadows on the houses as it spins.

As soon as Shi Yuan pushed open the door, he felt something different.

— This is different from the home in Gleaner City.

The house in Gleaming City is always very clean and deserted, everything is neatly tidied up. The duplex structure is as beautiful as it is beautiful, and the living room and dining room are as spacious as it is spacious. Because there are few personal items, it always feels like a model house.

And this home in Fengyang City...

Single layer structure, neither big nor small.

The dark wooden floors are old, and one of the doors creaks when stepped on. The walls have been repainted, with scratches and different colors in several places, and the landscape paintings hanging on the walls are even more yellowed.

Pen holders, nesting dolls, rulers, sailboat models, old books and magazines are piled up on the desks and bookcases, and there are three or five pebbles in the empty goldfish tank, all kinds of miscellaneous things.

This is an old house.

Even though it has been cleaned as much as possible, the memories are still rolling here lazily, shaking off some clues from time to time.

Shi Yuan said, "This is..."

"It's where I used to live." Lu Tinghan turned on the light, "I was born in Fengyang City."

The old house only has two rooms, a master bedroom where Lu Tinghan lives, and a second bedroom.

Shi Yuan pushed open the second bedroom door, desk bookshelf, sketchbook, rocket model, single bed... The size of some things was designed for children.

Lu Tinghan said behind him: "I lived in this room when I was a child. You can sleep here first." Seeing Shi Yuan looking around with curiosity on his face, he added, "You can use whatever you want, as long as you don't break it. "

Shi Yuan said, "I will be careful, but what if I accidentally break it?"

Lu Tinghan said: "There is no other way."

Shi Yuan got the permission and started to fiddle with the things on the table. Lu Tinghan didn't seem to be busy, but miraculously stayed, sitting on the bed and watching Shi Yuan toss.

So Shi Yuan took the rocket model and asked him: "Lu Tinghan, what is this?"

"Rocket." Lu Tinghan told him, "A spacecraft that can go to space. The person sitting in the rocket is called an astronaut."

Shi Yuan: "Wow! Do you want to go to space?"

Lu Tinghan: "I thought about it when I was a child, but later I found that it couldn't be realized." He didn't know what to think of, and added, "I got this model in my first science class. It's all about kindergarten."

Shi Yuan asked: "The teacher rewarded you?"

"No." Lu Tinghan said, "There was a kid in the big class who bullied his classmates. During science class, I dragged him to the corridor and beat him. He cried and gave me his toys."

Shi Yuan: "..."

Shi Yuan studied the rocket model for a while, and got to know the fairing, engine, and booster. As for the principle of rocket lift-off, his brain is still unable to process this kind of knowledge, and it crashed, with a huge question mark on its tail.

Lu Tinghan stretched out his hand, straightened his tail, and controlled Shi Yuan to exit the shutdown state.

The rocket model ended here, and Shi Yuan picked up a pebble on the table and asked, "This one looks like the one in the fish tank outside."

"It's there." Lu Tinghan said, "I used to raise fish at home, small tropical fish, my mother likes that."

"You like fish?"

"Normal. Later, the logistics staff helped to change the water, and accidentally poured a tank of fish into the sewer."

Shi Yuan knew that the sewers lead to the outside of the city, and said: "Then they should be alive in the lake outside the city, and they gave birth to many small fish."

Lu Tinghan: "I'm not optimistic. Seven years ago, I commanded the air force to bomb the nearby lake and killed the infected fish." He recalled, "So, the color is really similar to the fish I raise. "

Shi Yuan: "..."

There is also an old family portrait on the table.

In the photo, the man is handsome and the woman is beautiful. Lu Tinghan in his youth is sitting between them, wearing a white shirt with a suit vest, and his gray-blue eyes are full of sunshine. The three of them are obviously very close, revealing the meaning of an elite family from head to toe, but it is magical to give people the feeling of... not very close, like a few polite strangers.

Just as Shi Yuan stared at the photo for a few seconds, Lu Tinghan took it away.

He said, "See you next time."

Shi Yuan rummaged around again, and found the badminton that Lu Tinghan had played, the chessboard he had placed in the corner, and a small packet of seeds that he hadn't planted in time.

Lu Tinghan told him stories one by one.

Shi Yuan found several notches on the wall that recorded his height. From low to high, they read "4 years old", "7 years old", "10 years old"... "15 years old", and there were no records after that.

Shi Yuan gestured, he was about the same height as 14-year-old Lu Tinghan, and he had to look up at 15-year-old Lu Tinghan.

He asked Lu Tinghan: "Can I still grow taller?"

Lu Tinghan: "It's a bit difficult."

"How difficult is it?"

Lu Tinghan said: "You were not as tall as my shoulders when you first came here, and you are still the same now."

"Should have also grown a little taller? I drank milk several times."

"It's really not half a centimeter long."

"Okay, okay." Shi Yuan was a little disappointed, stroked the scratches on the wall, trying to imagine what Lu Tinghan was like at that time.

After all, Lu Tinghan was a busy person, so he answered a phone call and left.

Shi Yuan sat on the bed and looked around the room.

The sun shines through the curtains and gently falls on the desk. Shi Yuan looks at the black pen holder, imagining how Lu Tinghan used to sit at the desk and write words stroke by stroke with immature hands.

he may—

He might stand in front of the old mirror, fasten his tie carefully, and look back at the notch on the wall, he is already halfway taller; he might have a badminton match with his friends, to show the strangeness of the Lu family’s unwillingness to admit defeat He may be sitting by the fish tank, sketching while watching the colorful tropical fish, the windmill outside the house sweeps the sky, and casts shadows round after round, never stopping.

For a long time, Shi Yuan knew Lu Tinghan as a resolute watcher of the abyss and a firm and reliable general.

Lu Tinghan seldom talked about military affairs with him, maybe it was because of keeping it secret, maybe he didn't want him to worry, or maybe he didn't want him to bend his tail like a question mark... Even that time, when Shi Yuan asked him about his old friend, Lu Tinghan Han also only said "the sun was very good at that time".

But just this afternoon, since Shi Yuan stepped into the house, something changed quietly. It's strange that someone like Lu Tinghan, who doesn't show his emotions, can let others live in an old house.

Shi Yuan felt that even a little bit...

He began to really understand Lu Tinghan.

Physically and mentally exhausted after a long journey. Shi Yuan became sleepy after a while, and threw himself on the bed after taking a shower, wrapping himself in the quilt.

He looked at the room full of objects and whispered, "Good night."

It was as if he was talking to the boy he didn't know in the past.

A day later, Shi Yuan received a notice to report to the work distribution center.

Shi Yuan got the new mobile phone that Lu Tinghan gave him, got the travel certificate, and went out early.

Before going to the distribution center, he was going to 149 Maple Street.

There is the residence of Isabella Garcia.

She is not in good health, and Shi Yuan is worried that she is in a hurry to use money for surgery, so he has to hand over the money to her as soon as possible.

He went out with the money Cheng Youwen gave him. There are no buses in Fengyang City, only blue trams. When he looked out of the window, there were still large solar panels and windmills.

Forty-five minutes later, he got off at the Maple Street stop.

Passing through two small alleys, he came to No. 149. He didn't see a house, but he saw a children's welfare institution—the children of the Gleaner City Star Welfare Institute. Most of the children came here.

The children were chasing and playing, Shi Yuan turned around twice, and asked a man sitting on the side of the road: "Excuse me, do you know where Isabella Garcia lives?"

The man just got sweaty at the construction site and waved his hand.

Shi Yuan asked again: "Do you know who I can ask?"

This time the man pointed to the right side and said, "Go to Rolf, he is the landlord. He is smoking over there."

Shi Yuan found Rolf. It was a thin man with a bad complexion and smelled like tobacco.

Shi Yuan asked, "Hello, where is Isabella Garcia?"

Rolf looked him up and down, and said slowly, "...what do you want her for?"

"I have something to give him." Shi Yuan said, "Someone entrusted me to give it to her."

Rolf pointed to the orphanage: "She lives there."

Shi Yuan was a little confused: "She works in an orphanage?"

Rolf sneered: "Don't you understand? Her home was demolished, and that place was rebuilt as an orphanage! You want to give her something? It's too late, she died eight years ago!"

Shi Yuan was stunned.

In an instant, he remembered everything.

He remembered that he had never met Isabella, never had a phone call or a video; remembered that everyone wanted to save money for Tracy, but was flatly rejected by Tracy; remembered that when mentioning the deposit time, You Wen said that Tracy’s surgery fee was enough. Yes, but with a strange look on his face, he gave him a copy of "Waiting for Godot".

The theater safe is getting full.

They conjured up a dream for Tracy, said they wanted to cure Isabella, and went to her with the most perfect performance.

Rolf was still babbling: "You are also the one from the Wild Rose Troupe, right? Their people have been here before, a very strong man, a lame man with a cane and a woman, to participate Funerals. I asked them how much money they got for acting, and it wasn't much at all! They wondered, what's the point of doing such a thing?"

"No." Shi Yuan interrupted him, "You haven't seen our stage play, if you have, you will definitely be moved by it."

Rolf shrugged: "Anyway, it will be forgotten every six months and a year. No one will remember, and those who remember will die."

A gust of wind blows, the windmill spins faster, and the blue tram makes a ding ding dong dong sound as it enters the station. When the troupe came here to attend Isabella's funeral many years ago, it probably looked like this. When you come, you are sad, and when you go, you take away a dream.

Shi Yuan looked into the distance, seeing the endless glow of the sun, whispered: "But, I will remember—I will."