Flowers Blooming in the Wasteland

Celeste asked very directly, Fu Yunlan opened his mouth, but stopped talking.

"What's wrong?" He Xiao carefully observed Fu Yunlan's reaction, not missing any detail.

"No...it's nothing." Fu Yunlan adjusted her emotions, and began to describe in detail what happened to her and what the Devourer forcibly communicated with him.

Celeste said with lingering fear: "...Fortunately, you were not bewitched by its rhetoric."

He Xiao added: "It's not that the Devourer can't tell lies. Its intelligence is beyond the imagination of ordinary people, and its eloquence skills are also very good. It's not strange that you will be swayed or even persuaded by him, but you have to keep in mind that no matter how A glib tongue doesn't change the fact that Theliste wishes you well, and the Devourer wishes humanity extinct."

"I understand that I won't believe what it says, but I'm not sure if it has done anything else to me, whether it is my body or my will, it may be out of my control at any time. Like Beethoven..." Fu Yunlan looked at Celeste solemnly, "So you must listen to He Xiao, don't let your own emotions sway your judgment, and rather treat me as the enemy with the greatest malice Take precautions, and make sure I can't do anything to hurt you, understand?"

"I will, don't worry." Celeste nodded.

He Xiao said lightly: "In this state, you can't hurt anyone."

"That's good." Although he also estimated this point, Fu Yunlan still felt a lot more relieved when he heard He Xiao's confirmation. Let me erase a specified memory?"

Thelister asked, "Do you want to forget what the Devourer showed you?"

Fu Yunlan didn't answer directly, but said: "Some bad memories are...a burden to me. If they can be eliminated, I hope I will never think about them again."

He Xiao shook his head: "We can indeed forcibly steal or change human memory, but the human brain is like a locked box to us. If we want to touch the things inside, we must break the box. The human beings touched by us have suffered irreversible mental damage, and the final result is either madness or dementia, and Celeste will not want to see this result."

"...I understand." Fu Yunlan lowered her head in disappointment.

Counting on forgetting to escape reality is really not enough, since you can't forget, you have to face it.

After hesitating for a while, Fu Yunlan looked up at He Xiao: "Can we have a chat alone?"

"If you wish so." He Xiao didn't ask the reason, and simply stood up and went out.

After the door was closed, only Fu Yunlan and Celeste were left in the meeting room. Fu Yunlan asked uncertainly: "...He really left? He can't hear what we say now, can he?" ?”

"Don't worry, my authority is as great as his, and he can't bypass me to monitor us." Celeste asked, "Why do you deliberately avoid him?"

"It's nothing..." Fu Yunlan looked at him hesitantly, "Can I kiss you?"

"Come on." Of course Celeste would not refuse, so Fu Yunlan held his face and gently pressed a kiss on his lips.

When he was taken away by the Devourer, Fu Yunlan thought that he would never have the chance to see Celeste again. Even if it was just an imaginary kiss in the virtual world, his heart was filled with the joy of finding it again.

If you don't pay attention to the subtle difference, it's not much different from the real world. Celeste's lips are as warm and soft as in memory, and his reaction is as unabashedly enthusiastic as usual.

When Celeste lifted the hem of his shirt, and caressed his strong waist with cool fingers, Fu Yunlan grabbed his hand: "...I just want to kiss you."

"Okay." Celeste withdrew his hand graciously, and Fu Yunlan grabbed his finger apologetically and put it on his lips for a kiss: "It's great to see you again, because I've always been thinking of you, Only then did I resist the devourer's spiritual erosion, otherwise I'm afraid I've completely lost myself now."

"Well, it's good to have you back." Celeste was also very happy about this, but he felt that Fu Yunlan's mood was a little low, and even he could tell that Fu Yunlan must be extremely depressed.

"I didn't go through such a test, and I didn't even know that I loved you so much." Fu Yunlan looked at Celeste with complicated emotions, "I never dare to expect too much, but sometimes I can't help it. I think it would be nice if you loved me too."

"Of course I love you, why do you doubt this?" Celeste looked at Fu Yunlan in confusion.

"... After I escaped from the Devourer, for some reason, I recalled some memories that should not belong to me. At first I thought it was imposed on me by the Devourer, but the more I remembered, the less I can be sure of this, those memories... are too real, as if I have personally experienced another part of my life." Fu Yunlan asked in a calm tone as much as possible, "Can you answer me a few questions truthfully? Just because I used to take care of you, don't comfort me, and don't lie to me."

"You ask." Celeste didn't know what happened to Fu Yunlan, but the other party's tone made him uneasy.

"Fang Jingyu and I are not actually twin brothers. We are clones cloned from the same sample, right?"

Celeste could only answer truthfully: "Yes."

"You made us?"

"...You can put it that way."

"Are we all here to serve as containers for that dying 'sample'?"

Celeste didn't know how to answer for a while, but Fu Yunlan took his silence as acquiescence: "So you are with me for this reason, that 'sample' is your lover, and I just It's his... stand-in."

"No!" Celeste grabbed his hand, "Do you really have no feeling for how I have treated you for so long, whether I am sincere or treat you as a substitute?"

"I'm sorry... I just..." Fu Yunlan held his forehead, "All this is beyond my comprehension, and I'm in a mess."

In fact, he saw and remembered Celeste's kindness to him. This non-human boy not only guarded him unswervingly in adversity, but also gained the power and authority that fell from the sky when his edge became more and more obvious day by day. After he came to power, he still did not change his original intention and only liked him alone. He never wavered in the slightest no matter how other people flirted with him or flirted with him. Of course, he couldn't turn a blind eye to these things.

If he could forget, he would rather not know anything, continue to enjoy Celeste's tenderness and attachment to him with peace of mind, and continue to think that even if he can't be compared with He Xiao and others, he is at least the most important thing in Celeste's heart But now, this matter can only stick in his chest like a thorn, reminding him not to be sentimental all the time.

Celeste looked at him uneasily: "Tell me first, what exactly did you remember?"

"In that memory, it seemed that I was not me, but another person. I was born in China at the beginning of the [-]th century. At that time, it was not as poor as it is now, but people's lives were not easy. I always wanted to make a difference. Do something about the current situation, and I am determined to go to the military academy. There, I met a young instructor who was four years older than me. He was knowledgeable, wise, and calm. I secretly fell in love with him for a long time..." Fu Yunlan said in a complicated mood Looking into Celeste's eyes, "After a lot of things happened, I finally knew that my instructor was not an ordinary human being, but a kind of alien from the universe. He was a 'guardian', although his personality It's not the same as it looks, but I have a feeling it's you, isn't it?"

"...That's me, and it's not me." Celeste lowered his gaze, "Do you know about my clan's 'rebirth'?"

"I've heard He Xiao mention it, but I don't know the details. Does it have anything to do with it?"

"Of course, I have to explain this to you first." Celeste said, "'Guardian' itself has no gender. The way we reproduce is 'rebirth'. When we have enough energy, we will be in' In the process of "rebirth", we split and become two independent individuals, but most of the time, "rebirth" is just to eliminate our own abnormalities, just like restarting a computer, we will delete a lot of useless or disordered memories during the process, Only keep the necessary knowledge and experience. For us, before and after "rebirth" are two completely different people. , everything before will be wiped out. Do you understand this?"

Fu Yunlan nodded: "Are you trying to say that the person in my memory is actually you before rebirth?"

"Yes, I have the memory of each generation of ancestors for more than 2 million years. I remember every period of history of our ethnic group from primitive ignorance to highly developed civilization, but for me, it is the life of others. Only with The time after you met is my own, so you are not a substitute for anyone. When I met you, I still can’t remember the past at all. The person I like is just you from the beginning to the end. I am with you It doesn't matter whose clone it is."

"But, could it really be such a coincidence?" Fu Yunlan still couldn't believe it, "The earth is so big, even now there are millions of people who survived, why did you use Thurley? Sturt's body, it looks like it was specially designed to meet me as a clone."

"I also suspected that this was not a coincidence, but the result of someone's deliberate arrangement. I even suspected that the feelings I had for you were fake, so I snubbed you during that time, and I wanted to figure out if I was real. I like you, or the memory left by the second generation has affected my judgment, or everything is a routine programmed by someone in advance."

Fu Yunlan felt a chill in her heart: "...then do you have the answer now?"

Celeste shook his head: "No, but it doesn't matter anymore. I only know that seeing you hurt is more heartbreaking than being hurt. I don't want you to suffer, I don't want you to be sad. It doesn't matter how this feeling came about. What matters is that since it already exists, it exists.”

Fu Yunlan was a little moved by these words, but it was far from enough to resolve the distress that seemed to be blocked by something in his heart: "That is to say, since then, you have already remembered everything?"

Celeste could only nod his head: "Yes. I didn't tell you before because the truth is of no use except to trouble you, but since you've already remembered it yourself, I won't hide it from you in the future. looking at you."