Salvation equals death

"Hey, have you ever heard of whale fall?"

"The largest creature in the ocean dies in the sea, and its body will sink to the bottom of the sea. This sinking process is called 'Whale Fall'. The entire sinking process lasts from four to 24 months. During this period, Marine life will use the corpse of the giant whale as food. Some invertebrates will use the corpse of the giant whale as a habitat, and will continue to eat its corpse while multiplying. Finally, after chemical energy self-support, the body of the giant whale The organic matter will all decompose and become nutrients for marine bacteria, nourishing the entire ocean."

"And the place where the giant whale's bones finally fell will form a vast reef area, which will become an ideal breeding ground for countless creatures."

"From birth to death, from flesh to bones, it has completed a cycle of the ocean system in its own life, and the whale fall has become the last touch of tenderness it gives back to the sea."

"When the giant whale falls, all things live."

Akashi Seijuro heard this murmur full of girlish longing in the library, but he didn't take it to heart.

The meaning behind the word whale fall is indeed very artistic and aesthetic, but if it is placed in reality, the process of corpse decomposition will definitely not be easy to see.

Compared to these, Akashi is more concerned about the upcoming National League.

This is the last game of the Generation of Miracles. After the national league is over, they will go to different schools, fight on their own, and part ways.

Akashi doesn't feel pity, because the weak feeling of "pity" belongs to the No. 1 category, and he only needs to win.

Today's Generation of Miracles has already played against the school teams of the major basketball powerhouses, and none of them can play. In last year's competition, there were still "five without championships" and "Generation of Miracles". This year, I don't even have a decent opponent. I can't say how disappointed, but it's true that it's boring.

In order to prevent his teammates from being passive and sabotage, Akashi even established the rule of "everyone scores at least [-] goals in each game". If the opponent hears this, I'm afraid they will feel humiliated.

"Momoi, is the coach still unable to get through?"

"Well, maybe it's because I'm preparing for the final exam. After all, I'm going to be promoted to a third grade soon."

"It doesn't matter if Ai Niu doesn't come." Ziyuan drooped her eyelids and said in a tired tone, "It's normal for her not to want to watch such a boring game, after all, the result is already doomed."

The generation of miracles did not expect that in this final middle school match, they almost encountered the worst Waterloo in their lives.

A dark horse named "Chasing Light" made it to the finals like a broken bamboo. Under the negligence of Generation of Miracles, the score was even pulled to "57:16".

There was an uproar.

You must know that the Generation of Miracles has always crushed opponents of the same level with an absolute gap in strength since its debut. No one thought that they would also be "crushed" one day.

The audience was shocked, unaware that the Generations of Wonders were also shocked.

"Why...?" Momoi Wuyue covered her mouth and couldn't help but widen her eyes, "...Why do they know how to breathe?"

Akashi's heart sank little by little, he had a guess in his heart, but he didn't want to believe it.

In the team named Zhuguang, there is a member named "Ogiwara Chenghao", who is lucky to drag Heizi, and he has some impressions of this person.This young man named Ogiwara Chenghao was originally the captain of a third-rate basketball team. Because of Kise and Shion's malicious behavior of scoring the score, he was so heartbroken that he lost his soul. The point where the team fell apart.

If Akashi remembers correctly, Ogiwara Chenghao should have given up basketball after that game and transferred to another school.

However, Ogihara Chenghao, who was standing opposite them now, had firm brows and bright eyes, as if a flame was burning.Not just him, but every player in the Chasing Light team.They are high-spirited and skilled. Not only do they master the breathing method that can instantly improve their physical fitness, but as the captain, Ogiwara Chenghao is also familiar with the ball skills to the point where Akashi feels dazzling.

——He integrated swordsmanship into basketball, and played a stunt that belonged to that talent.

That person... unexpectedly!Betrayed the generation of miracles!

Anger ignited Akashi's iridescent pupils, he suppressed the urge to immediately go to that person for an explanation, and calmly directed his team members to deploy tactics. Momoi Itsuki, who had been idle aside, immediately resumed his duties as a military adviser and began to analyze the opponent's data and lines of attack.Therefore, in the second half of the game, the two sides played back and forth, which was very exciting.

Akashi thought to himself, he would let Zhuguang be defeated, and tell that person with the facts that the team she joined after betraying Miracle was nothing but rubbish.

The generation of miracles has been battle-tested and experienced. Every player is a pillar of existence, regardless of physical fitness or skill.

In comparison, the Chasing Light team is much inferior in terms of physical fitness, but their teamwork is very tacit, and they have their own set of passwords and sign language. Individual players may not be very good, but when they are twisted together, they are very good. Like unshakable steel giants, not to mention the desire to win that far surpasses everything burning in their chests.

This game was played very hard.

Constantly suspend the game to discuss tactics, constantly change the combat strategy, and even start overtime when the two sides are tied.

At the end of the fight, both sides were exhausted, and Generation of Miracles even turned on all the zones, and only then won the game with a narrow point difference.

In the generation of miracles, the zone has not been opened for a long time.

——Because only with the love for basketball can you open the zone.

The game was very embarrassing for both sides. When the winner was announced, the audience cheered. The crazy shouts and screams almost toppled the dome. The referee declared excitedly that this was "the most exciting game ever", no? It was one-sided, not absolute crushing. After the game, almost no players could maintain their demeanor, and all of them fell down on the field sweating profusely.

The hypoxia caused by strenuous exercise drained the oxygen in the lungs, and the pain of blood vessels about to burst intensified the flow of blood. Apart from dizziness, there was blazing heat—a blazing heat that almost burned people.

Aomine Daiki lay on the ground, silent for a while, and finally couldn't help bursting out laughing, he was out of breath from laughing, and his whole body was trembling from laughing.

"We won—!"

Qingfeng laughed so hard that his teeth could not see his eyes, Huang Lai couldn't help cheering, Zi Yuan lay on his stomach sleepily, but the corners of his lips couldn't help but turn up, like a little Shiba Inu constantly wagging its tail.

Midorima, who is used to being arrogant and restrained, tried her best to stand up, adjusted her glasses, and hummed softly: "I brought a lucky thing today." As he spoke, the corners of his mouth slightly curled up.

Akashi, who was the only one who could keep his dignified posture, looked at his teammates who couldn't suppress their excitement. For some reason, he couldn't help laughing, but he still tried his best to smooth the corners of his lips.

They have played so many games, met so many players, and won so many victories—but only this time, they couldn't help laughing.

——Because it was too difficult.

"We lost." At the end of the game, the two sides shook hands. The youngest boy in the chasing team blushed. He stared at Akashi and gritted his teeth. "But don't be complacent! The five of us are going to the same school! We Sooner or later, I will defeat you and take the coach back!"

"Coach?" Akashi raised his eyebrows, and instantly tightened the hand holding Ogiwara Chenghao.

"Coach Fuze." A tall, stern-faced teenager said, "She taught us for three months, and we... will never forget it."

"She once said that she would help us catch up with miracles, but in the end she only taught us for three months and arranged a training plan for seven months. In just ten months, we were completely reborn "Ogiwara Chenghao can't forget the basketball game that made him feel heartbroken. It was that person who pulled him out of the abyss. "Generation of Miracles, I used to hate you very much, I hate your contempt and disrespect for basketball, but She cares about you and doesn't want you to be ruined by meaningless victories."

"So, she raised us as competitors for the miracle—we're the whetstone, but we might as well smash the knife."

Akashi was slightly taken aback, lowering his eyes.

Ogiwara Chenghao took a deep breath, and said in a deep tone: "In the past, we wanted to defeat you because of the shame of being underestimated because of your weakness. But from now on, we will become stronger and stronger until the day we defeat you ——We will use our strength to prove to her that we are better than you, more worthy of her expectation, and more worthy of her care."

"This is the origin of 'Chasing Light'."

——We will chase and take away the "light" of miracles.

Facing the opponent's rhetoric, Akashi smiled, and after a while, he suddenly squeezed Ogiwara Chenghao's hand, almost crushing his bones.

He said: "Go away, go dreaming."

……

When Akashi walked out of the basketball court with his satchel on his back, he couldn't help looking up at the blue sky.

He suddenly wanted to see her, for no reason.

He thought of the girl who was weak and weak when he first met her, but who could turn the audience around with a soy sauce bottle, how she squatted on the ground aggrievedly saying that she didn't want to eat okra because she had a high fever, and how maddened she was. Saying that she was going to break one of Huiqi's legs, she remembered that she was wearing a peaked cap and looking over her head. When she saw his gaze, she took off the cap with a smile, and put her backhand on his head casually.

Powerful but gentle, elegant but lively, he must admit that No. 1's gaze also has merit, she is indeed very cute, even the fact that she doesn't eat okra is so cute.

Akashi did not expect that Kuroko pursued "meaning" and he pursued "victory", and that gentle but cunning girl would give such an answer that was the best of both worlds.

"Little Akashi! Little Akashi! Wait for me!" Kise yelled from behind, and immediately put an arm on his shoulder, "Little Akashi is also going to find the coach? Let's go together!"

Akashi, who was about to walk towards the train station, turned a corner abruptly, and changed the subject somewhat abruptly, "No, it's just that the hospital informed me that I can go get her medical report."

Their little coach was a person who refused to do a physical examination, until Akashi accidentally witnessed her coughing up blood a while ago, and suddenly remembered that this person was also like a dog when he first met, so he ignored her objection and directly stuffed him into the hospital .Unexpectedly, after the physical examination, she disappeared from the world, and she didn't even come to watch the final national league game.

Although he witnessed the coach vomiting blood with his own eyes, Akashi, who knew the magic of the breathing method, did not think about a more dangerous situation.

"Stomach bleeding, damage to the hippocampus, and varying degrees of failure of the kidneys and brain..." The doctor said with trepidation, "At this level, I am afraid that the senses of hearing, smell, and taste have all disappeared, and vision is also declining. And accompanied by severe pain, hemoptysis, visceral erosion, and memory loss. Such patients are suffering every day of their lives, worse than those in a vegetable state. We will suggest giving up treatment or euthanasia. Are you sure this person is still alive? Normal People should have died about three to five years ago."

"How is this possible? Did the test go wrong?" Akashi frowned, the little coach could obviously run and jump, and even drove 120 yards on the accelerator.

Before Akashi could confirm, there was the sound of a drink can being smashed to the ground behind him. Akashi turned his head and saw Kise holding his mobile phone, staring at the screen out of focus, without even noticing that the drink had dropped on the floor.

"Aka, Akashi..." Kise's voice trembled, "Little coach, she..."

"died……"

……

[The shining meteor for a while—the super-popular female singer and honorary winner of the Naoki Award, Ai Fukuzawa passed away. 】

[A good student with both good character and academics, the queen of Iai in the kendo competition, according to relevant sources, the invincible Fukuzawa Ai is actually already terminally ill? 】

[Fuze Foundation was established, and the world's first intelligent AI system 'Little A' was officially launched. The interest and investment income generated by its patent will be used to support the poor, diseased, and disaster-stricken. 】

[Fukuzawa Ai's last swan song "The Bucket List" is officially released. 】

No one thought that the life of that person who was stronger than anyone else and gentler than anyone else would be so short.

After Ai Fukuzawa died, her LMS management company released hundreds of songs that she recorded during her lifetime. Most of these songs are pure music or some melodies that restore the natural ecology. It has been confirmed by psychologists that these pieces of music have the effect of treating mental illness.And these pieces of music later became the collections of major psychological clinics. After experiments, it was found that the pieces of music have miraculous effects on patients with depression or children with autism, but no one knows how Ai Fukuzawa composed these tunes that hit the soul directly. .

In addition, she also left behind valuable smart technology and staggering family property, and established the Fuze Foundation to support the poor, orphans, seriously ill, and disaster-stricken people all over the world. The flow is also completely handled by the intelligent system "Little A", and this intelligent system that implements Fukuzawa's will also voluntarily retains a self-destruction program as insurance.If nothing else, this fund will be handed down like a Nobel Prize, and it will still help those in need many years later.

As soon as the news came out, the world was shocked. People wondered how a young girl who was only in her prime could develop intelligent technology far beyond the technology of the times. Shockingly shocking and sad.

This girl whose parents died at an early age suffered from an extremely rare disease, and was almost diagnosed as a terminally ill patient by major hospitals. Many medical staff even proposed euthanasia out of pity.Because death is a kind of relief for her, but Ai Fukuzawa did not compromise. She almost lived every day of her life as if it was her last. She spent her childhood in studies and laboratories until the second year of high school. Only with the last wish of "wanting to live a beautiful campus life" did he enter the PK private college.

This talented girl suffered for more than ten years with a sickly body, and finally left precious wealth for the world, even if every day of her life is painful.

She is telling the world in her own way that she has been here.

What is even more worrying is that after the photos and videos of her performances were released to the world, everyone found that the girl under the camera was always smiling.

That calm and breezy gentleness was once the light in the abyss for many people.

But the person who ignited the light turned his back on the light he ignited, and fell into darkness forever.

"How is this possible? Obviously... the coach took us to eat sushi a while ago, didn't he?" Kise Ryo couldn't believe it, he tried hard to smile as usual, but in the end he just squeezed With an ugly crying face, "Cheat, lie, right? She's been smiling all the time... isn't she?"

Yeah, she's smiling all the time.

But, but, amnesia, coughing up blood, visceral erosion, loss of five senses... How on earth can she laugh when she suffers from such inhuman torture every day?

"It must be very painful. Why didn't she say it? So she kept saying that she had a bad memory, that she was in poor health, and that she couldn't taste... so it was all a joke?"

"Is it because she said we didn't take it seriously, that's why she keeps smiling, always smiling, because the more scared... the more she has to smile?"

No one knows what she has experienced, but such inhuman pain and incomprehensible loneliness, even if it is just a guess or two, is heart-wrenching.

"Coach!" Kise Ryota squatted on the ground, hugged his head, and cried like a child, "I'm sorry, I'm too arrogant and immature, so you can't let go until the end!"

"I'm sorry—I'm really sorry!"

It is because of the "miracle" that "Zhuguang" exists.

They finally felt the joy of victory again, understood the meaning of the team, and found their love for basketball—after she died.

Looking back, they realized that they had always drawn strength from that person who was strong enough and gentle enough, but never thought about giving anything in return.

Not even her death was known.

The moment Kise wailed, Akashi turned and left without hesitation, he didn't want to hear other people's cries and remorse, not at all.

"Did you know? There is a whale named Alice in the sea, known as 'the loneliest whale'."

"Because the normal whale's call frequency is 10-39 Hz, but its call is 52 Hz. It is very sad that it is the only 52 Hz life in that area."

"It sang a song that no one knows, from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and sent it to the other side of the world."

It was that corridor again, and it was the same library again, but the once careless young man couldn't help but stop, staring absently at the sunshine outside the window.

"Whale fall is beautiful, but have you heard of 'whale rise'?"

"It is said that only the largest whales in the ocean can give birth in the deep sea. The young whales will rise from the deep sea with a little air in their bodies. Most of the young whales will suffocate to death in the process, or cannot bear it. The sea pressure exploded and died, but only the upper part of the calf was able to surface, saw the first light of the newborn, took a deep breath of northern air, and dived again."

"And the young whales that have experienced the cruel whale rise will grow to twice the size of ordinary whales. They will become the largest creatures in the ocean. They will spend their entire lives protecting the balance of the ecological chain, and then the whales will fall on the day of their death. A complete cycle of marine ecology—they are the greatest life created by the Creator, using the cruelest newborn to breed the gentlest death.”

"From birth to death, a life is melodious like a fairy tale."

"Snap"—is that the sound of the pen cap falling to the ground, or the sound of tears breaking?

The teenager doesn't know.

That person used to soak his ice-covered heart with tenderness, but on the day the ice and snow melted, he surprised him with an extremely beautiful death.

——She is the blue whale in the deep sea, the loneliest and largest blue whale.

After experiencing the cruel whale rise, singing a tune that no one can understand alone, and finally returning to the ocean gently.

He came to the quiet town, found the gentle forest, stepped on the lawn softened by the sun, and came to the place where she slept for the last time.

She once said with a smile, "This is where I will live in the future." He didn't take it to heart at the time, but he didn't know that she never lied.

The place where she was buried was full of mountain flowers, and he knelt down to fiddle with the fluffy dogtail grass, and his fingers were lightly pricked by the tip of the grass blade, which hurt a little, like being pierced in the heart.

Her gentle humming came from the earphones, and there was a faint smile between the lines, as if facing the warm sun in early spring and March.

"This is my bucket list, and I want to use it to shout out to the world that I have been to this wonderful place and walked through my own scene happily."

"Do you, like me, have these wishes that you don't want to live up to? There must be, right?"

"After all, we all live so seriously, expecting to be gentle."

"right?"

【Extra. The Loneliest Whale in the Deep Sea】