Sure enough, Xia Qiming left after seven days, failing to celebrate Xia Yinan's 14th birthday.On the day of farewell, Qiao Yaoyao was still the same as usual, repeatedly giving instructions, and I don't know how worried he was.

The death rate among field personnel is high; in the last year alone, three investigators have died and two others have been driven into insanity.

The number of people who come back from the future with them is rapidly decreasing. Maybe in another ten or twenty years, they will all be old, and there will be no successors after that.

Li Yaxin is still conducting experiments without interruption, and every researcher is exhausted.When Qiao Yaoyao delivered dinner to Li Yaxin once, she saw her sitting in a pile of messy papers, holding a pencil in her hand in a daze.

Qiao Yaoyao gently put the things aside, walked over and sat down beside her, and held her hand: "What's wrong?"

"I feel some inspiration." Li Yaxin said, "But those things, I can't tell others in words. I'm thinking about how to say it."

Qiao Yaoyao was a little surprised: "But it's not something like this, human beings can't express it."

"Yes, so it's incredible just that I can understand it." Li Yaxin said in a low voice, "My mind is very confused now, and a lot of past knowledge is completely different." She subconsciously grabbed Qiao Yaoyao's Hand, "Maybe that's how they see the world."

"That's great." Qiao Yaoyao squeezed her hand back tightly and said with a smile, "This is a very good thing. Your research has finally come to fruition."

"Well, yes..." Li Yaxin looked at the front in a daze, and echoed.

Qiao Yaoyao had never seen her expression like this, such hesitation, and her hands were cold.

But after all, she didn't understand these things, so she could only hold Li Yaxin's hand firmly, and smiled: "Don't think about it for now. Hero, it's time for you to eat." She brought over the hot meal and kissed He hugged Li Yaxin affectionately, "How is Yinan in the lab?"

"Most of the time, he looks for books by himself," Li Yaxin replied after returning from his confusion, "I also asked a few people to take him with him. He is really smart. In a few years, he should be able to help It's our time."

"That's good, he's not as brainless as his father." Qiao Yaoyao put a chopstick of vegetables on the rice for her, "Okay, let's not talk, let's eat."

……

Zhou Chenyi pushed open the door of the small restaurant on the street, and there was noise and bright lights inside.In the far corner sat a man smoking a cigarette, looking out the window.

"How long has it been since we met?" Zhou Chenyi sat down opposite him and said with a smile.

"Be conservative for five years," Xia Qiming smiled, and took a puff of cigarette leisurely, "The time we went back was so different. We haven't seen each other for so long, but you have lost a lot of weight. You finally know how hard it is to take care of a child, right?"

"Bai Qiu is taking care of it. I can't help much. The child panics when he cries." Zhou Chenyi began to greet the waiter.

Soon a girl with blond wavy hair and wearing an orange-yellow restaurant uniform walked over. She walked with a curvaceous body, deliberately showing the charm of her curves.

Zhou Chenyi ordered two bowls of beef ramen, and continued: "Since Yaxin notified us, we have started to pay attention to Hastur's traces. Sure enough, in addition to Xing Zhicai's clues, we found something wrong that had been ignored. It is indeed in the world. Walk, leave your own traces and believers."

"It knows we're here, and it chased us back after a hundred years." Xia Qiming flicked the ashes into the ashtray, "Fortunately, it didn't fully realize where we are, and the deity couldn't break free."

"That means we still have time," Zhou Chenyi said, "Shall we act together next? What about Xingzhicai?"

"Xingzhicai has to be taken care of, and Hasta can't let it go." Xia Qiming leaned back on the seat and raised his feet carelessly, "I have already told Yaxin that the Field Service Department will send more people over."

"...It's been so long," Zhou Chenyi said in a low voice after being silent for a moment, "Do you still believe in the role of Huang Yin?"

Xia Qiming nodded: "Of course. It doesn't matter whether I believe it or not, but that we must believe it. The Yellow Seal is our last hope, and we must take it."

Zhou Chenyi smiled: "I still remember what you told me when you were a child, if you can't beat him, you have to steal."

"That's right." Xia Qiming immediately smiled, "I didn't expect you to be my true inheritance. As long as you have good skills, it doesn't matter if it's a god or a ghost, everything will be ours."

"You are really shameless." Zhou Chenyi took the ramen and stirred it with chopsticks, "But I support you. And let me tell you in advance, I may not be able to help you with Hasta. You make it to the end."

Xia Qiming picked up noodles with chopsticks and blew: "Why?"

"I was parasitized by Xingzhicai." Zhou Chenyi picked up a piece of beef, studied it under the light for a few seconds, and said casually, "And Bai Qiu too."

Xia Qiming's chopsticks stopped: "What?"

"It means that it is growing in my body now." Zhou Chenyi said, "Don't worry, this level of star color can't understand our conversation."

"Have you found a way to eradicate it?"

"Not yet, according to Bai Qiu's deduction, there will be a place where the star's body is. As long as its body is killed, all infection phenomena will be eliminated. I have written this theory in my notes. If it succeeds, there will be confrontation later. means."

Xia Qiming said: "Then what if it's not right? What if you can't find its body?"

"Then we will die." Zhou Chenyi drank another spoonful of noodle soup and smiled, "Isn't this obvious. I have witnessed the ascent of stars before, and it is really an extremely gorgeous sight. I can't forget it now, it's like the stars have come to you. So don't worry, when we die, we will all look good."

He continued: "What's more, in this area, there are their vassals, probably at the level of hounds. We found that it can swallow a large part of a person's memory, causing a temporary coma, and other injuries have not been found for the time being." .Bai Qiu was already very careful, but let him... be swallowed up."

Zhou Chenyi's "he" refers to their child who is only seven or eight years old.

"He is still in a coma. According to experience, he will be fully awake in about a month. The memories during this period are all fuzzy and cannot be stored for a long time. Before that, if the color of the stars is not resolved, it is time to erupt."

"If you brought him back to the base at that time, and the two of us are gone, don't let him know about us, not at all. Change your name too, so don't make him suspicious."

"What's the need?" Xia Qiming frowned, "Isn't he the only proof that you two remain in this world?"

Zhou Chenyi picked out the coriander in the noodles: "We are not great men. What proof do we need? He just needs to live well. No matter where it is, the next generation is a new hope. Maybe they can do what we haven't done. Yes. There is also Yinan, I heard that he is very smart, and when he learns from Yaxin, he will be very powerful in the future."

"Probably." Xia Qiming put out the cigarette butt, "I wish I could stay with him and Yaoyao for a few more years."

"You are better than me." Zhou Chenyi said with a smile, "It must be fine."

Xia Qiming took a large piece of beef from Zhou Chenyi's bowl very naturally: "Cheer up, I've known you old guy for decades, and I haven't planned to attend your funeral so soon."

"I hope so too." Zhou Chenyi still smiled, "But don't take advantage of this time to steal my beef, okay?"

He firmly held Xia Qiming's hand that hadn't retracted, and pinched the beef back.

In the early morning of the next day, the warning came together.The memory-devouring attendants and Hastur's traces appeared in the detection system at the same time.

Bai Qiu was injured in the last battle, and he had to take care of their unconscious child, so he stayed in the residence.Xia Qiming and Zhou Chenyi set off at the same time, each riding a bad battery car, one headed east and the other headed west.

"It's easy for you to use this kind of tool in the city." Bai Qiu said, "The volunteer team has prepared vehicles and exoskeletons outside the city, and you can see them when you go. Pay attention to communication."

"Of course." Zhou Chenyi said, and kissed her, "I'm leaving."

Time was running out, neither of them had time to eat breakfast, and their clothes were poorly matched.Bai Qiu bought four steamed buns at the breakfast shop downstairs, divided them into two bags, and hung them hot on the handlebars.

As the car drove past, the heat from Dabai Baozi continued to dissipate along the way, making it sway.

Two men in their 40s with unshaven cyan stubble on their faces and red-gray helmets rode a battered battery car to the end of the city in the morning light.

The small vendors beside them had just set up, shouting constantly, more and more pedestrians, the whole city was quiet and beautiful.No one could have imagined that those two passers-by, who looked ordinary and even somewhat embarrassed, were rushing to the battlefield.

……

Xia Yinan saw Xia Qiming again when he was 19 years old.

After not coming back for five years, Xia Qiming looked much older. When he came back, he saw only him and Qiao Yaoyao, and hurried to his room and fell asleep.

He brought back a child, and all the thick notes that Zhou Chenyi had written over the years.

Xia Yinan knew that this was the child of Zhou Chenyi and Bai Qiu, but he had vaguely guessed why those two didn't appear together——

I heard that two years ago, the color of the stars went to the deep space again with a gorgeous color.Countless souls disappeared in such starlight, and there were no traces left, and the ground was barren.

The child only remembered the days when Xia Qiming took him with him, and occasionally he could recall some fragments of the past, but he had no memory after all.

Xia Yinan didn't like children and only saw him once or twice in the first half month.In my impression, it was like seeing some ferocious little beast, full of some kind of strange wildness and vigilance.

According to Xia Qiming, as soon as he could remember, he was on the journey of searching for higher existences, hanging out with soldiers and ruffians all day long, and encountered several battles with hounds, so it was normal for him to become like this.

Xia Yinan didn't like him, but he liked Xia Yinan very much, and he followed Xia Yinan carefully several times.

Anyway, he didn't hinder the experiment, so Xia Yinan let him go.Li Yaxin was taking the child with her now, and Xia Yinan still remembered what she told the child when she returned to the base.

At that time, the child hid behind Xia Qiming, desperately refusing to get close to Li Yaxin, his black and white eyes were fierce.Xia Qiming talked for a long time before he forced him to withdraw his hostility and stand in front of Li Yaxin.

Li Yaxin had just finished a lot of manuscripts, and his complexion was very bad, but he still squatted down and said as gently as possible: "You will have my last name from now on, okay?"

Of course the child didn't respond.

Li Yaxin didn't mind, and still said softly: "'Suo' means north, so you will be called Li Shuo from now on."

The sun rose brightly in the distance, the ramen shop was bustling as usual, and the clerk was extremely hot.Passing through the hawkers and the streets, there are two tombstones on the edge of the city.

No one has heard the name of the burial person, and no one knows that one of them likes to eat steamed buns for breakfast, and the other carefully picks out the coriander in the noodles every time.

At the end, Li Yaxin took the child's hand and Xia Yinan's hand, and said with a smile: "We still have a long way to go, but we are very old, maybe one day we will stop. Whether we can continue or not Research, you are all the hope here, one south and one north, it is the whole world."

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