black sky

The sky filled with fireworks gathered into bombs, the flames entered the gun barrel, the scattered planet fragments regrouped, the edges joined together, and the cracks disappeared;

Rotten dead leaves fly back to the branches, crushed petals are rewrapped into balls, and the morning star in the sky falls to the sea;

The people in the frozen capsule got up one after another, and went backwards to the kitchen, living room, street, and shopping mall;

The bright blue light in the dragon pillar suddenly retreated to the activation point, and then returned to the disaster transfer device in the City of Silver;

Swipe the start lever to the original position, and the received command disappears from the screen;

The experimental materials jumped out of the reaction pool and returned to the carriage of the transport shuttle. The door of the carriage was closed, and it quickly retreated along the track...

Chus felt that he had had an extremely long and absurd dream. The scene in the dream was always switching back and forth between forward and backward, and the flow was so fast that when he opened his eyes and tried to recall it, he found that he couldn't think about it. stand up.

The place where I woke up had snow-white walls, and there were several warm and bright watercolor paintings hanging on the walls. I heard the slight sound of the nutrition machine running, mixed with the indistinct sound of breathing.

The smell of disinfectant water and nutrient solution was mixed in the breath.

This scene was so familiar that he was stunned for a while, almost thinking that he had returned to the White Eagle Military Hospital in 5702.

He subconsciously glanced at his left half of the body, and actually saw the wiring of the instrument.

The consciousness that was still a little bit confused just now became sober in an instant!

The final result of the grid process is to go back to 5702 and start again? !

And what about the people he met later?

What about Sae Young?

What about Jiang Qi?

Chu Si frowned deeply, and when he was about to sit up with all his strength, the movement affected the nutrition machine next to him, Didi's reminder sounded, and the door next to him was pushed open almost at the same time, and some familiar faces hurried rushing in--

Mr. Shao wearing a mask, his assistant Miller, some young doctors and nurses, and Heng Shao.

"Hey, don't move!" Even though he was wearing a mask, he could still see that the old man had a coffin face.He put Chu Si back on the bed with his antibacterial gloved hand, "Your wound hasn't healed yet, what do you want to do?! The condition of the internal organs just stabilized this morning, and it hasn't been long since the mechanical body was replaced with cultivated limbs. You can’t use your strength especially on half of the side!”

The old man became furious when he saw that the patient was showing signs of rebellion. After scolding and admonishing him, he stretched out his hand and pointed to a place farther away, "We came in together, you see... so why is Yang Duo safe?!"

Yang?

Chu Si was taken aback, and opened his mouth: "Who is safe?"

His voice was so hoarse that even he was stunned for a moment, but he didn't care about it, but turned his head to look at Old Shao's fingers.

There was a nutrition machine blocking the line of sight before, but now the nutrition machine has been moved away by the little nurses who came in, and the scene behind is revealed——

On the next bed, Sae Yang was lying on his side with his eyes closed, facing him in a deep sleep.

There was a heavy tiredness on that man's face, and there was a slight wrinkle between his brows, but he still did not hide his handsomeness.

Chus looked at it for several minutes before confirming that he was awake and read correctly.

It is indeed Sae Young.

So he suddenly calmed down, and was pushed back to the bed obediently, listening to the old man continue to use Say Young as a positive teaching material, reprimanding him for not caring about rest.

Shao Heng, who was wearing a sterile suit, listened for nearly 10 minutes, and finally couldn't help but reminded, "Old man, it's because Mr. Yang hasn't woken up yet."

"Get out!" Mr. Shao turned his head and pointed at the door, "What are you doing here? Can you afford to interfere with his recovery?"

Shao Heng was helpless, first waved at Chu Si, and shouted with a smile, "Sir, it's good to wake up, the newly transplanted limbs have almost recovered yesterday, and I heard what Miller said about the results of the report. Said that you can get out of bed and move around when you wake up, and the old man is too nervous alone."

Mr. Shao immediately glared at Miller angrily.

Miller: "..."

The young and gentle doctor raised his hands high to show his innocence, he took two steps back helplessly, stood side by side with Shao Heng, and squeezed a sentence through his teeth: "Captain Shao, can you avoid betraying me once? "

Shao Heng maintained a smile and faced the old man, "No."

Miller: "..."

They buzzed something, but Chus didn't really listen to it. His body sank on the soft hospital bed, but his attention had been drawn away from his limbs, and he was always focused on his right hand, feeling Sa Er Yang's soft but even breathing.

After a while, he inserted a few questions in a hoarse voice between the buzzing crowd: "Where is this? How long have I been asleep?"

"White Eagle Military Hospital." The old man lost his temper and replied seriously, "I have been in a coma for a year, and I was just moved out of the ICU yesterday afternoon."

The old man has a stubborn temper and insists on changing "sleep" to "dizzy", without showing any mercy.

He was about to say something more, but the prompter on his body beeped again.

"You—" The old man looked at him still a little worried.

Shao Heng had already opened his mouth, "The other beds are probably awake too, so you can go, old man, don't stare at one person, I will accompany you here, and if there is anything to do, make sure to call someone immediately."

Mr. Shao glared at him, checked the instrument display next to Chusi's bed again, and then left with Miller with a stern face.

After the little nurse was busy, with the help of Shao Heng, she re-adjusted the parameter settings of the nutrition machine for Chu Si, connected the wiring, and left in a hurry.

Shao Heng pulled the chair to the side of the bed and sat down, propping his knees with both hands, and said to Chu Si: "It can be regarded as sending the Buddha away, my ears are so hot."

"So what's the situation now?" Chus's voice was too hoarse, and he didn't want to take any effort to speak, so it was almost a low voice, "My memory is still stuck in the progress of the grid in Fort Barney, and I can't keep up with you guys. topic of."

"Are you asking what happened after the grid process?"

Truss nodded.

Shao Heng thought for a while and said: "How should I put it... In fact, when there was a problem with the grid process, we all fell into a state of shock, so no one can fully explain what it was like. But according to the Judging from the extracted data, after you restarted the grid process, time began to adjust itself. And because the connection between the Dragon Pillar and the center of the Experimental Area of ​​the City of Silver was cut off instantly, it caused... a phenomenon similar to a siphon, but it is In the sense of time and space."

He gestured while explaining, "It is to go backwards at a very high speed, and then move forward again, using the time difference and energy changes formed in the middle to change many things, and at the same time achieve a logical self-consistency within the scope of time and space. The original purpose of the grid process is just Cut off the link to prevent the City of Silver from getting worse and causing us more irreparable consequences. But I didn't expect the final result to be a bit beyond expectations."

"What do you mean?"

Shao Heng said, "The results obtained by the research institute say that hundreds of times of constant advances and retreats have resulted in the reality stabilizing at a rather strange point—there was a slight time error when the City of Silver transferred the disaster. , so our planet stopped the car at the moment of collapse."

"Just at that point - people have hid in cryogenic capsules and activated cryonics and started to sleep, the global earthquake before the collapse destroyed many places, rescue is still needed, and those who fight against the time experiment will still Appeared, and the battle with the City of Silver started as usual, you still went to the underground of Fort Barney to start the grid process, to avoid further expansion of the disaster."

After he finished speaking, he shrugged his shoulders and said: "It is that many things that should have happened still happened, but the total time was slightly earlier, starting before the moment when the planet collapsed, and the rest were repaired by the seams of time." The next series formed a circle. According to the research institute, this is probably a kind of risk aversion for time? It avoided the energy disorder of the level of the collapse of the planet, and chose to gather those bad things in a small area. "

Chu Si couldn't help asking: "Which small area is so unlucky?"

Speaking of this, Shao Heng's mood became cheerful, even a little gloating: "It's not bad luck, it's self-inflicted. A few months ago, there was a little news leaked from the City of Silver, saying that it was their time experiment area that appeared. The energy and space-time disorder caused by the experiment, and because the shielding zone around the experimental area was forgotten to remove, led to that disorder being confined within the experimental area, forming a closed space-time Rubik's cube, and all the chaos will be in that closed area The error value of each cycle is the consumed part. This situation will not stop until the chaotic energy is completely consumed. It is conservatively estimated that it will take nearly 220 years. This space-time Rubik's Cube alone is enough for the City of Silver Take it, at least for the past 220 years, they can calm down and have some scruples."

220 years, a lifetime is just that long.

Truss felt a little emotional.

"On this matter, I believed a few words." Shao Heng straightened his long legs, and leaned comfortably on the back of the chair with his arms folded.

"what?"

"Sacrifice is always worth it. And... you have to pay for your sins." Captain Shao felt comfortable physically and mentally, but he stopped short of shaking his feet twice, and said seriously, "But if you lie down for a whole year, then Lifeless physiological data, it looks like a row of tombs waiting to be sealed, especially yours! If you follow the normal procedure, the critical illness notice you received this year can be made into a planetary civil code, plus Yang Sir's penal code—"

He laughed dryly, "The old man is about to have a heart attack, or he would be so nervous."

Chu Si turned to look at Sae Yang, "That Sae—"

"Don't worry, sir, it has stabilized, but it may take another two days to fully wake up." He said and tapped his temple with his finger, "This is actually good news. Because time self-adjustment nailed the current stable state , will no longer fluctuate arbitrarily, so the experts from the hospital and those from the research institute have been observing for three months, saying that the chip found in your brain, and the time experiment bionic tissue in Mr. Yang's body, It can finally be removed safely. Otherwise, it may be very troublesome in the future, and it is easy to consume too much physiological energy. In the middle of last month, the doctor performed operations on you respectively. Mr. Yang stripped and replaced too many tissues, so he woke up later. "

"Oh, by the way, without the influence of the chip, you don't need to continue to use the mechanical one on the left half of your body. The old man has used your DNA to cultivate the limbs, which are the same as the original ones, and have been replaced for you, although the wounds are basically visible now. If you can’t get out, you can still move around appropriately, but it’s best to be gentle with the left side in the last six months.”

Chus: "..."

He was silent for a while, then opened his mouth and said: "Since time has found a stable point through countless running-in, and continues on, why do I still remember those things after the breakup?"

Shao Heng said: "I also remember, in fact, everyone who participated in it should remember. According to the conclusion of the research institute, in fact, what happened during the hundreds of times of self-adjustment and running-in has also been left in our brains. The traces are just that we think we don’t remember. Maybe one day we suddenly feel that a certain scene seems familiar, and it just happened in the repeated running-in. This kind of memory remains...maybe it’s a kind of vigilance, or a commemoration. "

But whether it is vigilance or commemoration, it is good.

"So it's over?" Truss asked.

Shao Heng nodded, "Yes, it's over."

As he spoke, he got up and walked to the window and opened the curtains, "The location of this ward is very good, with a wide view, and you can see far away. It's too wasteful to block the curtains. You can see that the sky has turned white." I guess the sun is about to come out."

Chu Si let out a "hmm", looked at Say Yang's hospital bed next to him, and said to Shao Heng, "Since you have stood up, why not do me a favor."

"what?"

"Merge the two beds together."

Shao Heng: "........."

He looked at Chus silently, and Chus calmly looked back at him, as if he was making a normal request that patients all over the world would have, like pouring a glass of water.

After a while, Shao Heng said with a delicate expression: "Fortunately, the old man is not here."

Chu Si raised his eyebrows: "What?"

"You don't know, when you and Mr. Yang restarted the grid program, my old man just regained consciousness, and he must have seen it with his eyes..." Shao Heng stopped and didn't continue.

Chu Si nodded as usual, "So?"

Shao Heng thought for a while, and said: "For my old man who feels uncomfortable seeing people hugging in the street, you and Mr. Yang gave him a great stimulus. I made a rational guess, and I guess he was conscious of it at the time. Immediately lost for a few seconds."

Truss finally couldn't help laughing.

Shao Heng muttered to himself, and finally honestly loosened the rollers under the bed, bringing the two beds closer together, but they were not completely joined together, lest it would be inconvenient for doctors and nurses to come.

After the bed was adjusted, Shao Heng said that it was almost time, and brought some medicine for Chu Si to soothe his throat.

As he went out, Truss could clearly hear the heels of the guards outside.

Say Young was still in a deep sleep. Chus squeezed his exposed fingers and pulled the quilt back.

While doing this, a bright color suddenly appeared in his peripheral vision, and when he looked up again, he found that the sun came out at the far edge of the field of vision outside the floor-to-ceiling windows.

It wasn't until this moment that he really realized that the long seemingly endless black sky had finally passed, and a large swath of morning light diffused up from the sky, and even a few beams had crossed the boundless land and passed through the clean glass , spread in the house.

The clock on the wall shows planetary time and weather—

April 5715, 4, sunny.

Chus turned off the lights in the room and quietly watched the clear sunlight come in little by little. He coated the bed cabinet, tables and chairs with a layer of fluffy edges, wrapping everything bright and gentle.

You see, after all, there is still a deadline.

He woke up at just the right time, just in time to reunite with the person he missed in a gentle warm spring.