infinite loop

It was probably a dream.

Everyone in the dream is still alive.

Raleigh Beckett was awakened from sleep by a violent jolt.His first reaction was that the monster made a comeback from the blown gap, and he couldn't help but jerk his body up and quickly wake up.

It took him two seconds to withdraw his eyes from the state of deep sleep, and immediately turned his eyes to the side after he could see clearly - he was sticking to a huge glass window, and the setting sun outside the window was burning with the color of flames The layout melts into the sky, and the bustling midnight street scene retreats steadily.

He's in a...on a bus?

Raleigh was suddenly surprised and suspicious.He clearly remembered that he was still in the dormitory assigned by PPDC when he fell asleep, why did he come to such a place as soon as he opened his eyes?

"Um...you awake, Raleigh?"

A voice sounded from the side.Raleigh's body instantly stiffened to the bone marrow, and the blood froze into icicles and flowed backwards in the blood vessels, all the way from the fingertips to the heart was shocked.

"Yan..." He suddenly turned his head in disbelief, "Yanxi?"

What came into my eyes was the face of my elder brother who had been away for more than six years. At this time, I was looking at him from the seat closest to him with a puzzled look of "what's wrong with you".

Raleigh felt his blood pressure was soaring to a dangerous threshold.

He forced himself to take a deep breath, and another breath.It wasn't until the trembling deep in his internal organs gradually eased that he withdrew the strange gaze that was staring at Yang Xi, and tried to maintain a steady breathing, "How could you... how could I... be here?"

"You're sleepy, Kid."

With a mocking expression on his face, Yang Xi raised his hand and rubbed his brother's fluffy dark blonde hair indiscriminately, "We just got off the plane and are now on the bus to the suburbs of Sydney. Forgot? We agreed Came here to see Alice and Katherine Lopez."

Raleigh was still a little dazed, his blue eyes were full of bewilderment, and he looked like he couldn't figure out the situation.

Lopez...Alice Lopez...Wait, Katherine Lopez...Katherine? !

He clearly remembered that in the depths of the gap, she pressed the escape pod to activate the pop-up button for him, allowing him to emerge from the sea intact and survive alone, while she herself remained forever in the place where the monster originated, and was destroyed with it .

But now...

"After all..." Not noticing the intricate expression on his younger brother's face, Yan Xi scratched his head casually with his knuckles in his hair, and continued, "You know, after all, they saved our lives—in Alaska."

...Alaska?

Raleigh calmed down a little.

Regarding Alaska, his deepest memory is the battle in which Yanxi died-the monster "Blade Head" tore apart the dangerous homeless, and carried Yanxi out of the cockpit to the bottom of the sea.

So... maybe he's back in time, the opposite of reality—I'm afraid it's the Lopez sisters who saved Yancy here in the Gulf of Alaska.

If you think about it that way, everything makes sense.He took out his mobile phone from his pocket and looked at the exact date displayed on it—March 2020, 3—to confirm his judgment even more.

So... he thought he must be dreaming, sure.

——Raleigh confirmed this fact almost without thinking.

"If i remember correctly,"

Since it was in a dream, he no longer had any extra scruples. He stuffed the phone back into his pocket, turned to Yang Xi, and pretended to be relaxed and cheerful in his own tone when he was 20 years old, "Lopez is driving a New Zealand plane. A, why do we come to Australia?"

Yan Xi gave him a strange look.

"...It seems that you are really sleepy."

Looking at the increasingly dark night outside the car window through his younger brother's shoulder, Yan Xi continued, "Katherine Lopez's boyfriend—that arrogant kid—is called Mike Hansen, from Australia' Eureka Raiders' pilot. That's what you told me."

"...Chuck." Raleigh couldn't help correcting, "It's Chuck Hansen."

He suddenly remembered Chuck calling him Riley in the restaurant before blowing up the gap—that was a distant memory.

"Whatever—his name is Hansen anyway."

Two rows of neatly arranged street lamps flickered on along the street, and the flickering lights and shadows fell on Yang Xi's face and shoulders, dividing into ambiguous color blocks.

After about a quarter of an hour, the scene outside the window gradually changed from a modern city to an original countryside.The bus wobbled and stopped in front of a lonely stop sign on the side of the dirt road in the outskirts, and he could barely make out the name of the stop through the rust stains.

Since they only planned to stay for a day or two, both brothers were dressed in simple and light clothes, and there was no extra luggage to carry.Yan Xi called Alice by the stop sign, and a few minutes later a gray and green off-road military vehicle broke through the night and stopped firmly in front of him.

A tall, mean-looking young girl got out of the car—he guessed it was Alice Lopez, Catherine's sister.

When the other party first saw Raleigh, he only gave him a slight nod, and then immediately walked up to Yan Xi and took him into the back seat.

That meant Raleigh had to dive headlong into the passenger seat.

Holding the steering wheel was a woman's hand—slender and fair, with well-defined knuckles.The chatter and laughter from the back seat made him twitch the corners of his mouth, and he exchanged glances with Catherine Lopez who was driving, not surprisingly seeing a little helplessness and apology in her eyes.

He never expected to see her again, though he didn't know if it was her.

"Are you tired after so many hours of flying?" The other party turned on the stereo in the car, and the soft classical jazz played slowly, covering up the intimate conversation between the two in the back seat just right.

Raleigh remembered the tune.He had heard the same melody in her memory back then, and he remembered that she liked it very much, no matter which world it was in.

He finally dared to admit that the woman in front of him was not Catherine Lopez, but the one who had a close sympathy with him, nakedly opened up the whole self, was honest with each other, and shared all the joys and sorrows.

"Su—" he started to talk but stopped immediately. In 2020, at this time, they have not communicated yet.

"Catherine...?" He tentatively called out her current name.

"Huh?" She responded quickly, like a trembling sound from the tip of her nose, and at the same time gave him a sideways look, with a touch of politeness and alienation in her tone.

"What's the matter?" she asked.

"No...it's nothing." Raleigh immediately sat up nervously and looked straight ahead with his eyes, but his peripheral vision continued to drift uncontrollably in her direction.

He always wanted to look at her more, maybe say a few more words.

After all, this is a dream, and there will always be a time to wake up.

"We're going to the Sydney base, right?" He rubbed his sweaty palms and asked out of words.It was clearly a cold season in early spring, but it was unclear whether it was the air conditioner in the car or his ups and downs that made him feel hot all over.

"Of course, I have already greeted General Steck with Chuck's mailbox." Unaware of his strangeness, Su Li looked at the bumpy road ahead and frowned in disgust. The tone could be called friendly, and he said patiently, "You guys stay at the base for one night first, and Alice and I will take you around Sydney indoors tomorrow."

"no problem."

When she mentioned Chuck's name, the gentle light that flashed in her eyes was keenly caught by Raleigh, and he was stunned. He didn't know what kind of strange feeling was causing it, so he could only quickly lower his eyes and speak in a relaxed and ordinary tone. Changed the subject, "I heard that you rescued Yan Xi in the Gulf of Alaska? Thank you."

"I heard...?" The other party raised his eyebrows and looked at him in a blink of an eye.

"..."

Raleigh knew he had made a slip of the tongue, and for a moment didn't know what kind of explanation he should use to round it up.Fortunately, the other party didn't continue to entangle in this little episode, but turned his attention to the fortress with a looming outline in front of him, and slowly stepped on the brakes to reduce the speed of the car instantly.

"We have arrived."

The gate of the base opened slowly for them after identification.Amidst the noisy engine running and soothing jazz music, Raleigh saw a tall figure standing straight not far away with his hands hooked to the edge of his trouser pockets.

Su Li turned off the car, and was the first to get out of the car and walk in front of the man.

Raleigh watched through the tea-colored glass as she stood on tiptoe and was held in the arms of the other party who was obviously taller than one head and pressed her lips intimately, without even noticing that Yanxi and Alice got out of the car.

"Hey, time to go."

Finding that his younger brother was not in the mood all the time, Yang Xi turned back to the car, bent his fingers and tapped on the window, reminding him aloud.

"……Yeah, I got it."

Raleigh forced himself to look away, got out of the car with his backpack on his back, and joined the camp of several people talking and laughing.On the way into the base, he could feel that Chuck Hansen's unfriendly eyes were always on his back-it seemed that even at this point in time, he didn't like himself very much.Raleigh shook his head secretly and smiled wryly, then shared the weight of the backpack on the other shoulder.

Su Li sent the Beckett brothers to the idle dormitory, where the interior layout and furnishings were almost exactly the same as the Anchorage base in Alaska.Raleigh put his backpack on the flat bed, looked around the room that brought back countless memories, and then suddenly thought of something, turned decisively and hurried out, and stopped Catherine Lopez who was about to leave at the end of the corridor.

"What's the matter?" she asked politely.

"It's nothing..." He stared at her face with bright and clear blue eyes, suddenly curled up the corners of his mouth and smiled softly, his voice lowered, like a feather scratching his heart, "I just want to say thank you. "

"For Alaska?" Su Li also laughed, and waved her hands indifferently, "You're welcome."

"...No." - also for the bottom of the Pacific Ocean.

He hesitated to speak, and finally gave up what he hadn't said, nodded to her, then turned and walked towards the dormitory.

God knows how long he hadn't taken a serious shower after it was all over - until the age of 20, Yan Xi was still warning him that if he didn't brush his teeth properly, he would get tooth decay, so Raleigh had to wash his face and brush his teeth under the supervision of his brother, Only then was he allowed to lie back on the bed.

The night at the Sydney base is quiet and silent, with occasional leaves rustling by the breeze.

"Hey, Yanxi." He opened his mouth to his brother who was sleepy on the opposite bed.

The person whose name was called rubbed his eyes and responded with a good temper: "What's wrong?"

Raleigh considered his words: "Do you know the Kadnovskys? They are the pilots stationed on the Siberian coastline."

Yan Xi thumped his forehead, trying to keep himself awake, and tried to answer him clearly: "I know...they drive the old-fashioned Cherno Alpha, but they have never made a mistake in these years in Siberia—— What's wrong?"

"Nothing." Raleigh changed the question, "What about the three Wei brothers in China?"

Yang Xi turned to look at him, "Still stationed at the Hong Kong base...why do you ask this?"

"It's nothing." He smiled, turned over and faced the wall again.

This is probably a dream.

Everyone in the dream is still alive.

After some time, he opened his eyes.What caught my eye was the double dormitory assigned to him by PPDC after the monster war, where he lived alone.

In the end he had to come back to reality.The reality is that he is here, and only him.

The author has something to say: The agreed-upon side story XD continues Chapter 23 The author has something to say about the side story 1.

Little angels are really suitable for writing abuse memes... 【.

Thanks to [Ling Yehuang] for mine=3=Pinch your face XD

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