The whole empire is watching my live broadcast of Tomb Raiding [Interstellar]

There were people coming and going on the street, and many people who had dinner were taking a walk or on their way to an appointment. Most of the freshness for outsiders had passed, and soon no one paid attention to the three people standing in front of the pastry shop.

Du Leding's probing eyes met the boss's frozen eyes, and all his thoughts were fully revealed under the street lamps on the street and in the lights of the shops.

There was a shadow in her eye sockets, hiding complex emotions, as if she was a little nostalgic, a little lonely, and a little resistant, completely different from the previous expressions that exuded the smell of wine and dust.

Du Leding asked tentatively: "Beauty, is someone threatening you?"

The boss froze for a moment, then smiled in surprise: "I'm just a wine seller, what benefits can I get by threatening me?"

Charlie was puzzled: "But don't those two words usually appear in very bad words, 'sooner or later I will come back to take care of you', 'you will have to pay back your debts sooner or later'..."

Du Le Ding nodded in agreement - doing bad things will be discovered sooner or later, so it should be done at noon.

The boss tore up the letter, grabbed the scraps of paper in his hands, and smiled slightly: "That's not what it means, these two words are my name."

"Your name is Zaowan?" Du Leding couldn't laugh or cry, "Zhang Zaowan, Li Zaowan, Wang Zaowan? There is no such name."

The truth revealed by the boss in an instant is like a plum blossom falling on the ground in a snowy day, leaving behind a glimpse, it is covered and buried in a blink of an eye.She rubbed her forehead and said with a smile: "I hate it, my name is He Zhaomu."

She paused for a moment, then added: "Come from time to time, from time to time, from Qin to Chu."

Her interpretation of her name carried a self-deprecating irony.Du Leding looked at the unsatisfactory curvature of the corner of her mouth, and guessed that there might be a story behind the name.

Charlie asked cautiously, "Boss, do you know that Tang Xin?"

This is nonsense, and Yu Xinyan's tossing and turning Yu Xinyan's book made it clear that not only did they know each other, but their relationship might not be simple.

He Zhaomu waved his hand: "I run a bar on the circular train, and I don't know how many customers I have every day, and I know a lot of people, but it's all superficial friendship."

Although she refused to tell the truth, it further proved that she and Tang Xin had a deep friendship.Du Leding smiled, and changed the subject to: "Why did your parents give you such a name? It sounds nice at first, but it always feels weird after you explain it."

He Zhaomu leaned against the wall outside the dim sum shop, lit a cigarette and said leisurely, "My parents died in the catastrophe of the end of the earth. My adoptive father gave me my name to satirize a person and a relationship."

"He used to run a bar, and he was used to seeing all kinds of people, but he fell headfirst into a false love." He Chaomu's eyes looked towards the end of the long street, and he was slightly fascinated, "Have you ever been in love?"

Du Leding shook his head.But very inexplicably, Su Teng was remembered at this moment.

There was a burst of panic in his stomach, and he quickly forcibly suppressed this strange feeling.

"It shouldn't be, you're so handsome, and God favors you." He Zhaomu withdrew his gaze and teased, then withdrew his smile and said, "My adoptive father fell in love with a man. I didn't know that man already had a family. I thought I finally met him." When it comes to true love, I wish I could die for him."

"When my adoptive father adopted me, he was quite old, and he still gave me this name, which shows how much he hates that person."

"The name is a curse. I have no blood relationship with my adoptive father, but I still repeat his life, guarding a bar, waiting for a man who will never come back."

The bar was so lively, and there were all kinds of people coming and going, but none of them were the ones she wanted to see.Her name is both poignant irony and helpless mourning.

Du Leding and Charlie looked at each other—the boss was waiting for Tang Xin, right?

He Zhaomu blinked at Du Leding: "Do you still think this name is interesting?"

"It's very interesting," Du Leding said with a smile, "I don't read much, and I haven't learned any poems, but I learned this line of poetry while watching a movie-if the relationship lasts for a long time, how can it be there? Day and night."

A gust of wind swept across the vast snowfield, blowing out the plum petals buried deep under the snow, and the bright red dots on the pure white were really eye-catching.

He Zhaomu's eyes sparkled with a handful of spring water, his lips moved as if he wanted to say something, after hesitating for a long time, he suddenly changed into a charming mask, patted Du Leding's face and said, "Would you like to have some snacks, I treat you .”

Du Leding didn't bring any money with him when he went out, and he was worried that he wouldn't be able to eat dessert. Now someone offered to take out his wallet, and he happily agreed.

The snacks in the store are varied and varied, which makes the patients with difficulty in choosing fall into deep distress.Du Leding chose left and right, and ordered two crystal clear steamed buns and four cherry cakes. After bidding farewell to He Zhaomu, he and Charlie walked to the bar with a snack.

After eating a sakura pancake, Charlie felt unsatisfied, so he put his hand into the bag to touch another steamed bun, but Du Leding slapped his paw away.

He said dissatisfied: "Stingy ghost, there are several more, do you want to eat alone in the middle of the night?"

Du Leding said casually, "Bring it to Su Teng to eat."

Charlie smiled connotatively: "Yoooooooooo, so this is the case, so I won't compete with the male god. But when did you have such a good relationship with him, and you even wanted to bring him a copy of something delicious. "

Du Leding's footsteps stopped, and he didn't react for a while.When he was choosing dim sum, he really didn't intend to bring one for Su Teng. The idea just floated through his mind so naturally, so lightly that he didn't even realize it.

"You talk a lot of nonsense." Du Leding opened the paper bag, trying to cover Charlie's mouth with steamed buns.But he had already eaten one just now, and there was only one left of that delicate pink snack.He hesitated for a moment, moved his fingers to the cherry cake, took it out and stuffed it into Charlie's mouth.

Charlie held the cherry cake in both paws: "Why don't you ask the boss about Tang Xin any more, instead of talking about something useless, I'd rather talk nonsense about you."

Du Leding: "In my opinion, Boss He doesn't necessarily know too much. Even if he knew, he wouldn't say anything. Do you want me to torture him to extract a confession? People like Tang Xin live in no fixed place, and their identities are often changed. We still eat frequently, and our interpersonal relationship is mostly an employment relationship of money transactions. He is still on this planet today, but he may go to the next planet tomorrow. You can't find this kind of person even if you want to find out."

Charlie frowned: "Then tell me, the person Boss He is waiting for is Tang Xin?"

Du Leding smiled: "Then I don't know, what if Tang Xin is delivering the letter for someone else."

During the conversation, the two had already arrived at the entrance of the bar. Du Leding poked his head in and inspected around the entrance, and finally locked his eyes on Nat who was sitting alone in the corner.

It has been a while since she went in, but now she is still alone, looking at her in a daze with a cigarette in her mouth, it really doesn't look like she is waiting for someone.

Du Le Ding stood for a while, seeing Nat drinking one cup after another of spirits, he couldn't help but pushed the door and walked in.

"Miss, are you desperate?" Du Leding pulled out a chair and sat down opposite Knight.

Nat supported his head and looked up, casually said: "According to my experience, it's better to drink some wine when you're injured."

Charlie sat on Dule Ding's lap, clawed at the edge of the table, and said worriedly: "Your experience doesn't sound very reliable."

Knight smiled indifferently, raised his eyebrows at Du Leding and asked, "What do you want from me?"

Du Leding brushed away Charlie's dangling tail, picked him up and threw him on the sofa beside Knight: "I saw you entering the bar just now, and I was very worried about you, so I came here to take a look."

Knight is different from Duledin. She doesn't like to go around the corner in everything, and her true nature is to go straight to the point.She held the wine glass and pointed her index finger at Du Leding: "You are quite contradictory. On the one hand—I don't know why, you are doubting me, on the other hand—probably because of Su Teng. Because, you are really worried about me. Should I thank you for your concern?"

Su Teng, Su Teng, Su Teng, why can Su Teng be involved in anything?As soon as Du Leding heard the name, his conditioned heartbeat accelerated. This strange reaction made him deeply baffled, and he didn't know what it meant.

He stabilized his mind and cleared his throat deliberately: "What you said, we have lived and died together, shouldn't I care about you?"

This is half true, half false.How sharp Knight is, how can he not hear it.Du Leding was wary of her, and she was not careful. There was a thick glass wall between the two of them, which seemed very transparent on the surface, but in fact they couldn't touch anything.

Du Leding was thinking about the scene in the mountain village in his heart, and he wanted to find some grass snakes and gray lines from her, but he didn't communicate well with her, and the hypocrisy and deception he had trained all over his body were completely ineffective.The two sat opposite each other, silent, like two middle-aged unemployed people who were drunk, all their worries were kept silent, and there was a silence in the small corner of the bar that was incompatible with the laughter and laughter around them.

After a few more glasses of wine, Knight relaxed a little bit, and took the rare initiative to say: "You still suspect that I ran into the woods alone in the middle of the night with a communication device."

Du Leding said indifferently: "Some people are born to be lone rangers."

Compared with the village in the mountains, this incident was nothing at all, and he also heard a suspicious distress signal from the communication equipment.Faced with the same matter, everyone makes different choices. Some people choose to discuss with the people around them, and some people choose to deal with it alone. This is all due to the experience and habits formed by years of life experience. It is not without reason that Te would do so.

Nate narrowed his eyes and asked, "You really think so?"

Hearing her question, Du Leding put away his laziness: "To be honest, no."

Du Leding did not have a high degree of trust in human nature, and his previous thoughts were just speculations about the behavior of ordinary people.Is Knight a normal person?Du Leding never thought so.

Knight smiled contemptuously as if she had expected it long ago. She lit a cigarette, leaned on the back of the sofa, and said in a deep and cold voice: "I used to be a soldier in Teradal. I heard about this place. ?"

Charlie had just ordered a glass of juice from the waiter, and when he heard this, he let go of the suction pipe: "I know, the most description about Teradal is one word - chaos."

Teladar is a neighboring country of the Deman Empire. Since the last century, it has been caught in endless territorial disputes and civil wars.In this chaotic, poor, and dirty country, sensational massacres occur every few days.

On the streets of the slums, you can see crude and large unmanned mechas everywhere, like the "kowtow machines" for oil pumping operations in oil fields, lined up in twos and threes.They are all scrapped parts from the war, collected and repaired by the rebels as tools to deliver bombs.

The task of the garrison is to hunt down these rebels, so they are often attacked. When the two sides exchange fire, they will blow up a large number of houses and blocks.The people who live there have nowhere to go. After years of raids, they have long been numb to this. The simple temporary shelters were destroyed and then rebuilt, and then the corpses scattered on the street were smashed into pieces with a blank face. Blocks clear away quickly.

"The so-called garrison is not a regular army, but a mercenary hired by the government. It does not have a noble mission of maintaining peace, but only for money." Knight paused and continued, "The local residents and those rebels call us' Dire Wolves, who see us as predators, hate us. At the same time, we also hate and loathe them. This emotion combined with the environment at the time made everyone in it very crazy and bloodthirsty."

Du Le Ding's eyebrows twitched, and he thought that it was as expected, Knight was a soldier, and he was a mercenary, so he couldn't hide his hostility.

Knight's eyes were straightened, and the ambiguous and dim light above her head fell in her eyes, reflecting a smoky memory: "My team, including me, has eleven people. People like us are just working hard for profit. And a team formed temporarily, there is no loyalty to each other at all. But in that kind of ghost place where you don’t know if you will be alive the next day, some feelings gradually developed during the days of having fun in the bitterness.”

Human beings cannot avoid having feelings. This seemingly superfluous thing has become the bond between people, the spiritual pillar of interdependence, and the last trace of humanity in a cruel environment.

"On one occasion, a group of rebels took a group of hostages in a so-called rich area and occupied a building. Members of my team and I were sent to rescue the hostages. After arriving, we sneaked into the building to search, and it didn't take long The two sides exchanged fire."

"Something was wrong at the time. The number of rebels was small, and we didn't see any hostages. But before we could react, two mechas drove into the building and were then detonated."

"I and another team member were on the top floor of the building and survived by chance. Those who were very close to the explosion point were all buried under the reinforced concrete."

Speaking of this, Knight's chest began to rise and fall rapidly. She took a sip of wine, sipped her wet lips and continued: "Another team member was seriously injured and fell into a coma. I tried to contact other people with a communicator. , I had no hope at all at the time, but I didn't expect that someone was really alive."

Knight was also injured at the time, with his right leg pinned down by a crossbar and unable to move.She picked up an alloy plate that was blown apart and lifted the beam, looking for surviving companions in the ruins.

The lower floors were completely blown away. She told others to stay awake and persevere through the communication equipment, while struggling to move forward through the collapsed floors.

Nat threw his head back on the back of the sofa: "I kept looking, I kept looking, and I turned over one piece of cement board after another on the ground. The nails were full of blood, but no one saw it. They shouted for help through the communicator, I know they're down there, but I can't find them..."

They were trapped in the ruins for a day and a night.That day and night, Knight's ears were filled with the cries of his companions for help.It was not until the next night that the garrison sent men to dig them out.Except for Knight and the team member who was seriously injured and unconscious, everyone died.

Maybe at the moment of the explosion, he was already dead.

Du Leding sighed silently, and said in a low voice: "Maybe you had hallucinations after the explosion, but there was no cry for help."

He couldn't understand Knight's mood at that time, but he could understand why she was so obsessed with the distress signal when she was in the forest.I'm afraid that cry for help, whether it's real or an illusion, has become a lingering nightmare in her life.

"I think so." Knight bit his lip and nodded, "Hallucinations, people often have hallucinations when they are physically and mentally traumatized. The companion who survived with me said that he saw him in a coma. The instructor in the army scolded him loudly and scolded him as a coward, because he couldn’t hold on to such a small injury. Maybe this fierce instructor was his life-saving straw when he was dying. He grabbed the person who appeared in the hallucination, and finally survived."

Du Le Ding said: "Probably because of the will to survive. Even if one suffers from great pain and heavy injuries, people will miss life when they are about to die. At this time, they often think of the person they trust and want to see the most. There will be hallucinations of that person, sustaining them to live."

Nat rubbed her face, the memory was too heavy, which made her look a little tired.She forced the corner of her mouth to smile and said, "Yes, just like Su Teng."

Du Leding frowned: "Su Teng also had this experience of seeing hallucinations when he was dying? Is it related to his genetic bone modification?"

"Hmm, this matter is a long story." Knight drank half a glass of wine in one gulp, seemingly unwilling to mention the specifics, "In short, he survived with the mental support of hallucinations. It is said that the imaginary person is very real, but others cannot see it."

Knight paused, smiled and looked at Du Leding: "That person's name is Neo. Although this was before he was 15 years old, Neo had a great influence on him. I heard him say For once, Neo was free, uninhibited, and optimistic no matter how bad the situation was.”

Du Leding frowned subconsciously—it's a hallucination and personality setting, don't be too tall, okay!But after thinking about it, maybe this hallucination is someone Su Teng already knew, just like the team member in Knight's memory, he saw the former instructor in the hallucination.

Knight took a sip of his wine and glanced at Du Leding: "It's quite similar to you."

Du Leding seemed to be caught off guard by a nail and nailed to the chair, his eyes froze for a while: "Like me?"

Knight nodded: "Su Teng's early experience made him unable to maintain normal intimacy with anyone, but he treats you differently. I believe you feel it too. So maybe you are very similar to that person. "

Du Leding bit the flesh in his cheek, and smiled meaninglessly: "So that's how it is."

"I know a lot of people who have experienced life and death. Many of those who survived have talked about hallucinations when they were dying, and most of them are similar." Knight was silent for a long time before he seemed to be talking to himself. "But do people see themselves before they die?"

Du Leding replied absent-mindedly: "Yes, I am too narcissistic, or my soul is out of my body."

He stood up while talking: "I'm so sleepy, I have to go back to sleep. You should go back early, don't be found by the nurse."

Nate waved at him.

Charlie followed Du Leding out of the bar, rubbed his eyes and said, "I'm sleepy too, I'm going to find Zhou...Why did you miss the snacks you bought for the male god!"

"Hungry." Du Leding swallowed the snacks expressionlessly, crumpled up the paper bag and stuffed it into the trash can, "Isn't it just a wish to give something, I bought it for him, it's my wish, It doesn't matter who eats it."

Charlie wanted to complain about "I've never seen such a brazen person", but when he saw Duledin's back under the street lamp, he couldn't say it.

The person who was smiling all day long looked a little lonely at this moment.