infinite loop

The remaining points on the catering card that were about to run out were exchanged for two pints of cold beer. The ice-cold wine tasted thin at the mouthpiece, and Rory Beckett was almost sure that several gallons or more of water must have been mixed into it. , but even so, he could still smell a little bit of wheat aroma between his lips and teeth, but it was far less mellow and full-bodied than the dark beer he drank with his brother Yang Xi when he was at the base.

It's been so long since I've heard that word - "dangerous wanderer".The word grabbed him, like the part of his life that existed as a driver.

He once thought that this name would be permanently buried in the depths of his memory along with his life five years ago, and he would never mention it again. He never thought that once the sleeping past was awakened, it would still be so dazzling and vivid.

Miles, the foreman at the Wall of Life construction site, had one leg stuck in the seat. As soon as he saw Raleigh carrying the glass and walked to the table at the far end to sit down, he was drunk and started telling jokes with the skua suit again. The bearded man trembled with every opening and closing of his lips, deliberately amplifying the volume, "Hey, let me ask a question - how many mechs can replace a light bulb?"

Rollie Beckett ignored him and concentrated on taking a few sips of beer.

He had long understood what kind of inexplicable hatred this foreman named Miles had towards the Jaeger Project—since Raleigh got the job and accidentally leaked the identity of the retired pilot, Miles hated the mecha deeply. The cursing lingers in my ears day after day.To be honest, in order not to lose his hard-won job, he had forced himself to gradually get used to it—he should have been used to it.

But this day was unbearable.

For the first time, he found the other party's cynicism unbearably piercing and disturbing for no reason - which was not a good sign.

Seeing that Raleigh Beckett still didn't even reply with a single word as before, Miles became even more aggressive, and simply climbed onto the missing corner of the table, laughed and raised his arms and shouted:

"The answer is: not much! Because now everyone knows that mechas can't do anything!"*

Raleigh's knuckles on the handle of the glass froze suddenly, and the glass almost slipped from his fingers.

He felt that he was a little weird today, perhaps because of his conversation with the general not long ago, the emotions that gradually settled after his brother's death began to resurface, circling in his mind eager to find an outlet for an explosion.

"Hey, don't you think it's the Beckett kid who was fired by 'Jaeger'?"

Miles walked crookedly from the other end of the table to this one, deliberately trying to see his forbearance to enhance his sense of superiority. His obese body full of fat made the whole table creak. Raleigh Beckett watched calmly as the other glass of wine that he set aside had spilled more than half of it with the shaking, frowned and swung his heels back, almost standing up and giving the other party a lesson that he would never forget.

The reason why he didn't have time to do it was that before he got up, someone suddenly bent his leg from behind and pushed Miles' back knee, making the foreman who was usually domineering on the construction site straight up and kneel down with a plop!

Stepping on the table with one foot, Su Li, who appeared behind Miles, grabbed his collar and dunked his head into the beer glass beside the table.

Raleigh watched helplessly as the foreman's face collided with a glass of draft beer that had taken him two days of work to earn, and the stubble made a crisp sound.

Clutching the broken bridge of his nose, the foreman Miles pulled out his face from the shards of glass. His thick beard was soaked in alcohol, and the dripping drips left disgusting brown marks on his collar.He cursed and roared inarticulately, his head was hit so hard that his body collapsed into mud, and he slipped from the corner of the table and fell to the ground.

"I did what you most wanted to do, didn't I, Mr. Beckett?"

Su Li walked half a meter away in front of him, used the toe of her boots to push aside her plump body that was wriggling on the ground, and smiled at him sideways.

Raleigh slightly raised his blue eyes to stare at her. Gradually, the corners of his mouth curved up casually, and a sloppy smile appeared in his voice, "You owe me a beer, Miss Lopez."

"Sorry, I can't afford to pay for your wine." She shook her head and turned to General Steck who was silently waiting at the entrance of the construction site, "But I can introduce you to another job."

……

The voyage back to the base in Hong Kong is neither far nor near.Su Li and Luo Li chatted to pass the time, only Steck was a man of few words, most of the time he didn't participate in the conversation very much, just sat upright with his hands folded habitually, silently staring at the shadows coming from outside the porthole. Cloudy gray cumulonimbus clouds.

"My brother died in my head, and I could feel everything he felt at that moment: all the pain, the fear, the despair..."

The neck pillow leaned against the hard back of the seat, and Luo tapped his forehead with the protruding knuckles of his fingers, his eyelashes drooping down to cover his eyelids, with a tired and tired look on his face, "I watched that damned monster take Yance from our I was taken away in the mech... I wasn't the same me after that day. You can appreciate it, we had similar experiences, didn't we?"*

--I can not.

Su Li wanted to say that at first, but quickly stopped herself.

She knew very well in her heart that he regarded Catherine as someone with a similar wound in the vast crowd. After thinking about it, she chose a more euphemistic expression, "...I'm very sorry, I don't have any memory of my sister Alice's death, because..." —Because I'm not Katherine herself—"Because of that goddamn stressful memory disorder."

"But I live in that memory every day, and I don't like it."

It took two seconds for him to bury his face in his palms to calm his breath, and his voice was strangely uncertain, "I don't like it, but this is my memory. This is all I have left, Jan That's all that's left of Nozomi... just the feeling that was left in my head when he left."*

"It doesn't mean anything. Look at me—I don't even remember what my dead sister looked like without the pictures."

Su Li patted him on the shoulder half-comfortably, "You have to understand that sometimes it's not a bad thing to have painful memories."

As she talked, she thought of herself for no reason.

Traveling through every world, going through all the memories—whether they are good or bad, she keeps them all in her heart, uses them to arm her soul, and sharpens herself to become more and more indestructible.

Raleigh Beckett sat for a while without saying a word.

After a long time, he scratched his hair and eased the knotted brows, "...I don't know if I made the right decision this time, and I can't be sure that I can face the memory of Yanxi when I have synesthesia...but I think It's worth trying."

Returning a comprehensible expression, she caught sight of the helicopter flying over the coastline stretching for tens of kilometers at low altitude, and a fusiform bay protruded prominently from the sunken bay. The drizzle that had fallen since they left the base had still As it fell on the ground, the droplets fell into the water surface and made circular ripples.

She squinted her eyes, feeling the speed of the helicopter slow down, "Welcome to Hong Kong—this is the second time I've been here today."

A slender woman with short hair was standing upright in the center of the tarmac holding a black umbrella, probably welcoming them.Su Li recognized her—it was the person who followed General Steck and sent them to the helicopter this morning.

"Mr. Beckett, Miss Lopez, this is Mako Mori, the smartest one we have here."

Steck trotted all the way into the rain, took an umbrella from the short-haired woman's arms, and handed it to Raleigh, who opened the umbrella and covered Su Li's head with half, and they went down to the deep place through the empty elevator. Buried at the basement... "Welcome to the Shatterdome*."

Two heavy vertical doors swung open sideways, said General Stark.

The space presented in front of my eyes was unbelievably vast, and there were people passing in and out in four directions without interruption, and the fast-moving transport scooter divided the field of vision.Today, there are four giant mechas with a height of 25 floors, arranged from far to near, and the busy figures of technical workers are interspersed around the mechas under the support of the mechanical arms, performing routine system maintenance and body overhaul. .

Su Li raised her neck and looked up at the nearest red mecha, but with her height, she could only see the knee joints made of pure steel.

"Don't look at the small number now. In the heyday, all the workshops here used to accommodate up to [-] machines."

General Steck strode forward and gave a thumbs up to the wall behind him, "We set up a battle clock on the wall to record the frequency of monster attacks."

Then, on the way to the depths of Shatterdome, he explained the several mechas that passed by one by one.

"Russia's 'Cherno Alpha', the oldest generation of aircraft, is also the most ruthless war machine. It is responsible for patrolling the Siberia region and has not made any mistakes for six consecutive years."

"China's Crimson Storm, assembled in Changzhou. It is made of original titanium alloy without any impurities. There are fifty diesel drives on each tendon. It is a truly precise and deadly hunter."

Changzhou?She did remember that there were many wholesale markets for small commodities...

Su Li couldn't help taking another look at the well-equipped Chinese aircraft. Just as Su Li was thinking, General Steck, who was walking in front, suddenly stopped.She looked forward over his shoulder, and in front of her was the only mech she had ever seen here——

Australia's "Eureka Raiders".

The two pilots were nearby—Chuck Hansen was still squatting and teasing Max, poking his round belly back and forth with two fingers.Heck was the first to spot the few people walking towards this side, and quickly walked up to them.

After him, Chuck, who immediately reacted, also stood up straight, frowning in their direction.

Max, who was lazily lying on the ground, got up, and ran over with a collar and circled around a few people.

While Heck and Raleigh were exchanging greetings, Chuck stood there and whistled.

The bulldog Max got the order, trotted to Su Li's side, bit her boot and pulled towards Chuck.

The author has something to say: *The dispute with the foreman: The original plot here is from the official novel, which has been changed.

*The words of Raleigh on the helicopter are from the official novel, with changes.

*Shatterdome: The official translation of the Celestial Dynasty is the Shattered Dome, and I personally don’t understand it at all...so I didn’t translate it at all. XD Just remember that it’s a base. XDDD

In order to save space, the scenes of the science group/crayfish group/hair bear group are basically cancelled... although I am super cute about them

The father and son photo of the little kangaroo and the kangaroo father↓

In the next chapter, let's put the little angel's fruit ♂ bodily welfare [Hey]