[Four Drive Brothers] Reshaping Reality

Zhou Yan dragged Brett through the streets one after another, brightly lit or dark and hidden, full of people or quiet and empty.The ordinary scene that they used to be indifferent to and never looked back, suddenly became the only one that may have no follow-up due to the uncertain length of time together.As the host conference approached, the number of partings between players began to become more frequent. After Zhou Yan and Brett sent off the German team and Carlo and the others, they also witnessed other teams gradually embarking on their way home.

Zhou Yan didn't know what method Brett used to keep the U.S. team, which was facing the major task of bidding for the World Cup, from leaving, but Zhou Yan knew that that day would not be too far away. I learned from the increasingly frowning brows, and I can also understand it from the increasingly anxious team atmosphere of the US team.

Zhou Yan looked at the brightly lit signboard of the store on the right, and pulled Brett in without hesitation. It was already evening, and there were no other customers in the store. Zhou Yan sat directly opposite the owner's table.

Brett looked around and sat next to Zhou Yan with doubts.

Zhou Yan pointed to the shopkeeper at her earlobe, but her hand was caught by Brett when she fell, and Brett asked, "What are you going to do?"

"Ear piercing." Zhou Yan briefly explained, "I know astronauts can't have wounds, so you don't have to accompany me, I can do it alone."

Brett looked at her with a tangled gaze, he seemed to be thinking about some kind of wording, but in the end, Brett nodded with difficulty.

Zhou Yan felt the cold feeling of the cotton soaked in alcohol licking on her earlobe, and she nervously grabbed Brett's hand.She has always been a person who is very afraid of pain. Even if she is sick, she would rather choose to take medicine than to get an injection.And this time, it wasn't that she suddenly had some lofty ambition to challenge herself, but suddenly, she felt that she had to choose a special way to make a footnote for this period of time. It was best to keep it forever, and it was best not to. obliterate.

Zhou Yan felt that the pinhole was gradually penetrating through her swollen earlobe, but the pain did not come as she imagined. If, if it doesn't hurt, then can she not feel sad when facing parting?

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The news urging the US team to return to China finally started to come. Brett studied the wording in the email word by word, and could almost empathize with the confusion and anger of the person in charge of the United States.His prevarication finally came to an end, he could no longer use sampling in Japan and finishing work ahead of time as an excuse, and yes, Brett knew, during these days, the content of the work he had planned was completely idle, Brett's low Efficiency and zero results can't even fool me.

Brett picked up the earrings in his hand, which were a parting gift he had just bought last night.During NASA training, the professor told them that nothing in this world is more important than every corner of your body, and any scar will cause it, even for the best astronauts, under the influence of abnormal air pressure in space of ashes.During the game, the team doctor told them that they must be careful in summer, because it is the season when various bacteria and viruses breed most rampantly.

Brett himself has all kinds of knowledge unmatched by his peers, but he was completely at a loss for words when he saw Zhou Yan's decisive gesture when she was about to get her ears pierced.Zhou Yan doesn't like beauty, and piercing her ears is a completely useless behavior.But after getting to know Zhou Yan, Brett gradually understood that in this world, not everything can be decomposed by logic and pros and cons.

On the day when Brett left Japan, Zhou Yan boarded the car to the airport with the American team.Everyone else sat far away, Brett reached out and touched Zhou Yan's earlobe lightly: "Does it still hurt?"

Zhou Yan replied with a smile: "Honestly speaking, a little bit." From time to time, the wound radiated a dull pain, and the missing gap lingered in a lonely void, and encounters in the world were generally the same.

Zhou Yan solemnly took out a tape from her backpack: "This is for you, you can listen to it on the plane."

Brett held the tape in his hand, the casing of the tape was still emitting residual warmth, and the lonely autumn wind was already blowing outside the window.

When we arrived at the airport, because most of the teams had already returned home, only the Japanese team, the Chinese team and the Australian team came to see us off. Xiaohao wiped his nose: "I feel like I've been running to the airport these days, I'm used to it."

Teng Ji hit Xiaohao on the shoulder with a fan: "Hey, Xiaohao, don't spoil the scenery, okay?" He turned to the US team and said, "Let's continue to compete in the World Cup next year."

Brett nodded and said: "Miller will be the captain of the US team next year. I believe he will lead the new US team members to win the championship."

As soon as Xiaohao was about to protest, Aiji pulled him aside, and Qiao motioned for others to follow her to another area to chat.

The surrounding crowd cleared the scene in an instant.Facing each other in this area, only Zhou Yan and Brett were left.Zhou Yan still remembers that during this month, she said various farewell words to the captains of each team, used official words to unfamiliar players, and made appointments with familiar players to meet in the future.But at this moment, Zhou Yan suddenly didn't know what to say, so she could only smile lightly, looking deeply into Brett's blue eyes.

Brett held Zhou Yan into his arms, his chin was pressed against Zhou Yan's shoulder, and Zhou Yan's hair unrulyly triggered a light itch behind his ear.This subtle feeling made Brett feel a little better: "No matter where you are in the world, I will definitely see you again."

Zhou Yan nodded in Brett's tight embrace.Love is more than a joy, you are more than a memory, embrace you, I will, reluctant to breathe.

The first thing Brett did when boarding the plane was to put the tape into the device and plug in the earphones. The background music of the tape was exactly the famous song that he and Zhou Yan had heard by street performers in the Landlord Shrine. The Maiden's Prayer.Above the melody, Zhou Yan's voice said: "The first time I met you was at the airport. At that time, our two teams went to the international school together. On the bus, you sat in front of me on the left. In the middle of the night after the journey, you were still holding the computer and writing something earnestly. At that time, I felt ashamed, and I also wondered and wondered, what kind of person are you?"

The corners of Brett's mouth curled up, and he turned up the volume of the earphones.

"If there wasn't that field training camp, maybe we would never be familiar with it..." Listening to the sound played in the earphones, Brett closed his eyes, his intoxicated expression seemed to be in a good dream.He met her, he fell in love with her, the city was made for love, and she was made for his soul.

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The wind blew her hair in disorder, and Zhou Yan pushed her hair behind her ears. It was almost dusk, the extremely hot and dry temperature in summer gradually passed away, and the air began to have a coolness that could not be ignored.It seems that the departure of each team has also taken away this lively summer.Brett and the others have been away for almost a week, and Zhou Yan sees her earlobe has stopped bleeding day after day, the wound has formed a scab, the pain has finally disappeared, and the silver earring is shining in the center Bright.

The method she once thought of to divert attention finally failed completely, and the metallic flashes that she saw clearly in the mirror every day seemed to be mocking her incompetence.so what?Zhou Yan resigned herself and said to herself that she still has plenty of time to feel lost and nostalgic.

She still remembers Brett's last autumn, the flames of sunset dancing in his eyes, the moment when the leaves fell into her heart one by one.

"Come back to America with me." Brett asked her expectantly.

Zhou Yan paused for a moment, then shook her head. She saw the flames in Brett's eyes dimming bit by bit. She smiled apologetically. I feel that the taste limit has been exceeded.

Zhou Yan thought that she didn't know what Brett was busy with now, but what he did must be as profound and difficult as the courses and books he studied when she first met Brett.

She imagined him thousands of times.

The tape probably consumed too much of her energy. Recently, Zhou Yan's mind has been completely occupied by the images she recalled. Now, when Zhou Yan walks around the international school, she can vividly recall Bray. Especially in the scene of carrying a pile of team supplies and struggling forward on the road full of cherry blossoms, as long as Zhou Yan thinks of the situation when she stepped forward to help at that time, she can hear a cry in her ears at that moment. "Ian" with a blushing heart.

"Ian".

See, she really had auditory hallucinations, Zhou Yan thought sadly, and she also felt that her symptoms seemed to be getting worse.

"Ian".Brett walked out from the corner covered by cherry blossoms. Brett saw that the person opposite him seemed to have been frozen in place. He walked at a leisurely pace, only the gradually uncontrollable arc of the corner of his mouth showed his mood.

Zhou Yan was still standing there, not saying a word at all.

Could it be that after only a few days, she completely forgot about him?Brett thought gloomily.Brett raised his hand in front of Zhou Yan's eyes, and found that she was still unresponsive. Brett had no choice but to hug Zhou Yan into his arms. Only then did he feel Zhou Yan's trembling, and Zhou Yan caressed his back. hands.Just as Brett was about to say something, he felt an unexpected force attacking him. Zhou Yan's arms embraced him vigorously, as if she had been separated from him for a long time.