infinite loop

"and then?"

The 14-year-old boy quietly lying on the bed with his chin in his hands raised his drooping eyelashes, and looked at the black-haired woman who sat beside the bed and carefully tucked in the quilt.There was a hint of a smile on the pale, bloodless young face, deep blue eyes were deep and gentle, and the brown hair lay softly on the profile of the face, and the hair occasionally slid down the ears with a slight shake.

"Then there is no then."

Relying on the shape of his lips to identify the other party's simple question, Su Li rubbed his fluffy head, and said softly with a smile on the corner of his mouth, "We bombed that place and fled back in the emergency cabin at a critical moment. The monster will never come out again."

With a short hum, she fully expressed her disdain for the happy conversation between mother and child. Lily Hansen, a 16-year-old girl in adolescence, looked at her sick brother and frowned. The admission notice, the face with pale and gentle features instantly came to life, and the corners of the eyes could not hide the look of high spirits.

"The old man will definitely yell and curse again when he sees this this time." Holding the thin piece of paper with two fingers and waving it, she crossed her slender legs with her arms folded, and stretched out on the back of the chair relaxedly. A lazy waist, jokingly said in a very proud tone.

There was a rustling sound on the bed, Mike Hansen sat up, and his mother quickly bent down to put a pillow on his back.

"Don't bully mom and say bad things about dad behind her back." He said quickly while keeping his lips as still as possible.

Su Li still noticed something from his strange expression.

"What did she say, Mike?" He asked this question but didn't expect to get an answer. On the surface, the two little devils had two diametrically opposed personalities, but secretly they were always willing to cover up for each other.Besides, it didn't take a second to know that Lily was expressing her opinion of her father again—exactly the same as when Chuck was younger.

In a blink of an eye, Su Li cast a warning look at the face that was carved out of the same mold as when she was young, in exchange for the girl raising her hands and reluctantly compromising.

In the second year after the end of the Anti-Monster War, Lily was born under the common expectation of the whole family.At the beginning, Chuck didn’t know where he heard the gossip, so he decided with all his heart that the little guy in his wife’s belly must be as handsome and handsome as himself, so he closed the door and discussed with Heck for an afternoon, and finally decided on The name "Mike".

As a result, Chuck was dumbfounded as soon as the little guy was born—he put his delicate, pink and white daughter into the pram with stiff movements, and looked down at her wrinkled little face after crying loudly. The corners of his mouth twitched vigorously amidst the annoying noise.

"Is this guy going to cry all the time?" he asked, frowning.

"Definitely." Su Li nodded without blinking.

He showed an impatient expression, and tapped his forehead with his index finger.

"Tch... so troublesome."

In the state of simulated synaesthesia, Su Li can be sure that she can perceive his true emotions.It's not what he said, "It's noisy and annoying", but——

"Baby is so cute, don't cry, don't cry, come and let Daddy hug you!"

... This is very in line with Chuck's usual style of saying something wrong, and Su Li, who was in a weak state at the time, accepted it calmly.

But later, the two had a dispute over the naming of their daughter.

"The old man said that he only recognized the grandson named Mike." Seeing that the other party didn't want to let go, Chuck had an idea and used his father as a bargaining chip in the negotiation, "I also think..."

"Stop doing this, Hansen."

Su Li, who was on the hospital bed at that time, pulled up the quilt and put on an unquestionable determination, "I'm not a heartless parent who names a cute girl Mike."

The two stalemate, and the worst cold war ever broke out.

Together, they went to find Heck, who was living alone at the base in Sydney.Back then, Su Li's rescue capsule popped out of the sea first, but Chuck did not come up for a long time.Heck waited sleeplessly by the seaside, his eyes were red from burning, until the raider's escape pod floated up, Chuck opened the hatch and came out staggeringly, Heck rushed up ahead of Su Li and gave him the A solid hug—after which the father and son talked all night long, finally unraveling the knot that had lasted for many years.

Heck, who learned what happened, spread his hands, and proposed a solution graciously - "It will be fine to have a boy named Mike in the future."

So everyone is happy.Lily, a girl with dark hair and healthy wheat-colored skin, looks very much like her black-haired and black-eyed mother, but inherited her father's arrogant, sharp-edged character.Su Li felt a headache every time he saw that face that was exactly the same as his own showing a reckless and beating expression. Fortunately, two years later, the youngest son named Mike was born, which was completely opposite to Lily. Although he looks cool like Chuck, he usually behaves well-behaved and gentle, but he only has a strange stubbornness and paranoia in some trivial things. Although Su Li has relieved a lot, she can't help but mistake him for herself. The soul passed through Chuck.

Unlike other children who fell asleep with fairy tales, Lily and Mike grew up with their mother reading "The Chronicle of Monster Wars" every night.Mike didn't take it seriously, but Lily was deeply moved by those heroes who made great achievements from the bottom of her heart. After she turned sixteen, she did not hesitate to apply for the US Marine Academy - that is, her mother, those bedside boys The school that one of the protagonists in the story attended.

"You know that your father doesn't want you to join the army." On the day when she learned the news, her mother said without raising her head while spreading jam on the burnt-brown bread. Her expression didn't show much surprise. But there was a hint of reproach in his tone.

"Come on, I don't want to listen to the old man's orders." Lily leaned on the back of the chair and crossed her legs, showing an extremely bored expression.

Su Li put down the knife and sprinkled the chopped walnuts in the thick layer of sweet and fragrant jam, as if she had never heard of it.The neglected Lily stretched out her hand in dissatisfaction, and successfully attracted her attention by shaking it under her eyelids. She said word by word with a deliberately enlarged mouth:

"I can simulate synaesthesia with you too, Mom."

——She knew that her mother, who used to be a mech pilot, lost her hearing in an accident, and she also knew that it was her father who used the simulated synaesthesia device to become her ears.

"Let's talk about it when you grow up, little girl." Su Li laughed and shook her head, then put the stuffed bread on a plate and pushed it in front of her.

"I'm already 16!" Lily retorted fiercely reluctantly, only getting two or three perfunctory nods from the other party.

After a month of anxious and anxious waiting, she finally lived up to expectations and received the admission letter from the Marine War Academy.She was so excited, she rushed to the kitchen with the document bag from the courier and hugged her mother and younger brother one after another—who knew that she accidentally knocked over the hot biscuits that Mike had just taken out of the oven , the hot debris fell on his feet and burned his right foot.

—that was the immediate reason why Mike, her brother, had to stay in bed for two months.

That's right, her younger brother Mike Hansen, the son of two top ex-pilots, is not interested in those fascinating monsters and mechas at all, but is keen on playing with pots and pans in the kitchen Jobs—not a boy at all.Ever since the petit fours he made in his debut show at the age of eight surprised the tongues of the whole family, his mother confidently and boldly entrusted him with almost half of the work in the kitchen. Lily went to watch with the mentality of watching A few times, unexpectedly, Mike seemed clearly enjoying it.

She couldn't understand her younger brother's strange hobbies, just like she couldn't understand why her mother, who was once one of the best mecha pilots, would be willing to be a housewife at home, doing trivial and complicated housework all day long.

Lily had always thought it looked boring, at least compared to piloting a mech.

"After the war, why didn't you stay in PPDC?"

The younger brother who was ill in bed fell asleep quickly, and she and her mother quietly exited the door together, and couldn't help asking suddenly.

"Because this world doesn't need me anymore."

Su Li quickly understood what she meant, burst out laughing, and sat down on the sofa cushion in the living room, and replied without thinking, "It's much more interesting to teach you two little guys to be adults than mechas." gone."

……Is it really?

Lily was dubious.

Father Chuck, the current commander of a division of the Australian Air Force, returned home late when the night fell to cover the twilight.Lily put the acceptance letter in front of him succinctly and clearly, and immediately saw the other person's furious face as expected.

As if venting his anger, Chuck slapped the simulated synaesthesia device viciously on his ear, and it took almost all his patience to forcefully withdraw his hand pointing to her nose, and instead knocked hard on the papers spread out on the table, the sound almost came from his teeth. Squeezed out from the crack, "What the hell is this?!"

Lily confronted him with her neck up, and answered without hesitation, "Notice from the U.S. Marine War Academy, you should congratulate me, I was admitted."

Chuck resolutely cast a look at Su Li who was busy making dinner in the open kitchen, with a clear expression of displeasure symbolizing "Can I beat her up"—in fact, he really thinks so now of.

Su Li lightly sliced ​​off a slice of tomato, and a silver light shone through the tip of the knife, "Of course not, you have to be a kind father."

The corners of Chuck's lips twitched twice, he turned his head swallowing his anger, and couldn't help getting angry when he met the provocative eyes of his adolescent daughter.

Lily made a face.

"Didn't Mom and Aunt Alice go to the Marine Academy at the age of 16?"

Throwing out an irrefutable strong example, she ignored Chuck's darkening complexion and the gradually lowering air pressure around him, and continued to add fuel to the flames confidently, "Just wait and see, my military rank will definitely change in a few years." It surpasses yours. I will take care of my younger brother and mother, so you should retire as soon as possible, old man."

The forehead twitched non-stop, the last contemptuous address caused the nerve called reason to break with a bang, Chuck stood up and was about to go into a fit, when a bright red round object flew towards him, the soldier's keen intuition made him feel He sideways decisively dodged, and after a time difference of one-tenth of a second, the probe accurately caught the ball thrown from the kitchen.

— That's a tomato.

Chuck raised it to his mouth and took a bite, chewing the delicious pulp mixed with sweet and sour juice, and sat down slowly.

"Go if you want."

In the end, Lily got an unexpected answer—the man with a mature face raised his eyebrows, his face full of pride, "But don't expect to surpass your mother, let alone surpass me."

The family of three ate dinner at the dining table as usual, Mike had a low-grade fever due to a burn infection and was still in a coma, so when the harsh phone rang, Su Li immediately grabbed Mike before he was awakened.

Hearing the voice from the microphone, she unconsciously showed a helpless expression.

"You must have called me because Yang Xi is back." Su Li rolled her eyes silently, and made up her mind to guess, "Tell me, how long do we want us to take care of Kate this time?"

Kate Beckett, the six-year-old daughter of Alice and Yancey, is a typical spoiled little princess who is wayward and lawless, even more so than Alice when she was a child.

After Yanxi retired from PPDC, he was hired by a security company to be the manager of the system testing department. He was traveling all day to supervise the quality of products, and it was difficult to stay at home for several days all year round; Alice stayed in the army and continued to serve as a soldier. , It's just that he switched to a civilian job and ran errands for General Steck and General Heck with Asako Mori every day.Both of them are very busy, and Alice especially dislikes Kate disturbing their rare and precious world of two, so she always sends Kate to Su Li's house when Yang Xi is free, so as to save energy and time for herself to spend time with her lover.

"Thanks to our experience together, you really know me, Catherine."

Alice giggled on the other end of the phone, "I'm on my way to your house, see you in a quarter of an hour."

She will never be able to get rid of the troublesome mission of helping the Lopez family take care of the children... Su Li sighed, and prepared a pair of fluffy rabbit slippers that Kate loves to wear every time she comes to the house, bending over and placing them on the floor mat at the door.

In less than a quarter of an hour, Kate, who was wearing a delicate leather jacket, stood in a small group at the door, waving goodbye to her radiant mother in a childish voice.

Lily has always disliked children, and always put on a ferocious expression to scare them into tears, so she had already gone out for a long run around the garden under Su Li's orders.Chuck, who has never been able to deal with crying little girls, wanted to follow out, but was stopped by Su Li's warning eyes after he stepped out of the door, so he had to walk back with his head drooping, and with a look of hesitation, he used his strong arms to hold her back. Kate tossed it in the air and held it high.

It is estimated that she was lectured by Alice before leaving. Kate tried her best to maintain a docile and obedient appearance at first, but later she couldn't hold back the loneliness and boredom of her peers and started to make a lot of noise.Mike, who was awakened, limped out of the room, squatted down, rubbed his sleepy eyes, and stroked her little hairy golden head with his hands.

"Be good, don't cry, brother will give you something delicious." He took out a small cake from behind as if conjuring, and handed it to her in a coaxing tone.

Smelling the mouth-watering aroma at the tip of her nose, Kate let go of her tightly clenched fists, and her wet green eyes widened with sobs.

Relieved to be finally freed from the little devil's hell, Chuck patted his son on the shoulder approvingly.

"It's already late at night, why hasn't Lily come back?" Su Li glanced at the clock on the wall from the corner of her eye, and quickly frowned.

"I guess Aunt Sasha is the only one who can make my sister be obedient." Mike handed the small cake to Kate who was hugging his thigh and waiting to be fed. cheeks.

Su Li was noncommittal, picked up little Kate who was feeling drowsy after eating and drinking, and walked into the bathroom.

Speaking of Sasha - the Russian mecha pilot couple has continued the fine tradition of a model couple. The two have never blushed and quarreled. Occasionally, when Sasha expressed dissatisfaction, Alex gave way first. .Together, they opened a private mecha museum on the Russian border, where the last five mechas that were permanently retired, Crimson Storm, Cherno Alpha, Dangerous Wanderer, Eureka Raider, and Monster Smasher were all post-production models. Tucked in, it occupies an area far larger than the Kremlin.

At the ribbon-cutting ceremony for the opening of the museum that year, Sasha and Alex not only invited the drivers, but also invited the Chinese driver triplets who were models to preside over the ceremony.They have each found their favorite girls, and they are said to be preparing for a century-old wedding.

Raleigh Beckett and Cai Tiantong can be regarded as the only two bachelors left in the last generation of PPDC front-line personnel.Since Cai Tiantong developed a miniature synaesthesia device for Su Li, he has discovered the hidden business opportunities in it. He partnered with Luo Li to start the research and development and marketing of high-tech hearing aids, and it is also very successful.

Lily came back late after Mike and Kate had gone to bed. Su Liyu dismissed her earnestly and sent her to wash up. After a series of war-like actions, the three restless little devils were taken one by one. Half-forced to fall asleep, Su Li, who had finally finished the day's work, pressed her forehead. As soon as she stepped into the bedroom, she saw Chuck sitting on the side of the bed looking at her with a half-smile, "Don't you have a bedtime story today?"

Su Li shrugged, deliberately showing regret, "The history of war is over."

She turned off the light.

The author has something to say: *Do you still remember the tomato stalk_(:з」∠)_

The history of war is over.So far, the ending of Raleigh and the story to be filled~

Thanks to [Zhang Xiaonao][Siyuxianyin] for mine╭(╯3╰)╮shyly poking the navel one by one XDDD

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