winter in greenland

After a day of cross-examination, Dan and August were put on separate flights to Greenland.

The plane did not return to the base, but flew straight to the northeast coast and asked them to identify the place where the accident occurred.

After receiving the confirmed report, even if Hodge was unwilling, he had no choice but to sign and seal the document withdrawing the accusation, and sent him back to the base respectfully on the same day.

Heath waited at the gate of the base to bid farewell to Hodge and his party. When Hodge passed by him, his voice was cold and hard: "After the relevant materials are approved by the superior, you will be notified. Before the end of the entire process, Major August Don't leave the base."

Hiss said with sarcasm: "It seems to be a happy ending, Major."

Hodge ignored him and boarded the plane alone.

According to regulations, Dan is free to act as a witness, but August is precisely still in the review period, and strictly speaking, he cannot step out of the gate of the base.

After he and Dan were sent back, they only had time to see that the man seemed to be heading towards the playground. Before he could catch up and say a few words, the general of the base sneaked him into the office to give a lecture. There are no figures on the playground.

Anxiously turning around the entire base, Dan couldn't find Dan, but he bumped into Heath head-on at the gate.

"See Dan?" August's voice was eager.

Heath was a little confused: "Isn't he at the base?"

August was a little annoyed: "Why did you go to him?! Didn't I say..."

"What did you say?" Dan's voice came from behind him coldly, interrupting his unfinished sentence.

August turned his head and saw that Dan still kept his hands in his pockets, standing a few steps away from him, with a very calm expression on his face, making it impossible to see any emotion.

"I thought you were gone." August felt a little guilty for no reason.

Dan took a step forward: "Don't you think you should explain something to me?"

August was tongue-tied. His first reaction was to say that things were not what you thought. He wanted to say that I didn’t let you come because I didn’t want you to be involved in this incident again. He wanted to say that you don’t look at me with such alienated eyes. .

However, there were so many things to think about, and he couldn't say anything because he wanted to say too much.

Hiss on the side caught a glimpse of the situation, and called the patrolmen on the side to slip away. Only August and Dan were left at the gate of the base, and the atmosphere was strangely silent.

Dan didn't speak, just stood there patiently.

"I just... I just don't want you to get involved in these things again. This is obviously just a conspiracy by Hodge. In the end, he can't do anything to me. It's just a matter of time."

"Really?" Dan still stood where he was, speaking very slowly.

August heard something else, and raised his head sharply: "What do you think?"

"From the beginning, 'Arthur' was a taboo subject between the two of us, from camp to patrol. It's the same today. I remember asking you if you were related to Arthur , you did not respond to me directly. Now I ask this question again, do you still answer the same?"

August was a little annoyed: "This has nothing to do with Arthur, and those are indeed in the past."

"Is it in the past?" A faint smile appeared on Dan's face: "You didn't let Heath contact me, is it because this matter involves Arthur and the so-called 'don't want to mention' the past?"

August said nothing.

"So I participated in this matter from the beginning to the end, but about the truth of the accident that year, about the reason why you didn't let Hiss contact me, there is no explanation until the end?" Dan's voice was full of disappointment .

August couldn't stand his eyes like that: "So I told Hiss a long time ago that there is no need to find you! This is a farce from beginning to end."

Dan didn't speak for a while. After a while, August realized that he had said too much. He took two steps forward and tried to remedy it: "I didn't mean that, Dan. But it really has nothing to do with Arthur, I I don't want you to come here just because..."

"Forget it August," Dan interrupted him, with no expression on his face: "You know what makes me sad most? It's not that you don't respond to me, or that you can't forget Arthur, It's that you never believed me from the beginning to the end."

After speaking, he turned around and walked out of the base.

"Dan—" August chased two steps forward and tried to stop him.

Dan raised his hand to block him: "Don't come, you know you can't leave the base right now. I think we'd better be quiet."

After all, he walked outside without looking back.

August could only watch his back disappear at the end of the long street.

Heath found Dan in Papa John's tavern. When he came in, Dan was sitting on the bar with a glass of beer in front of him and a cigarette between his fingertips. too clear.An open brown package lay on the table next to him.

"You are here." Heath greeted, walked over and sat down beside him.

Dan lazily raised his eyes and glanced at him, but didn't answer.

Heath laughed a little embarrassedly: "August is going crazy at the base, but luckily you are here."

"No need, I'm leaving early tomorrow morning."

Heath almost dropped his jaw in shock: "Tomorrow morning?"

"I have to go back to Copenhagen."

"It has something to do with the little girl that Murphy brought? Who is she?" Heath couldn't hold back his curiosity.

Dan took one look at him and said nastyly, "What if I say he's my daughter?"

Heath almost couldn't sit still on the chair: "Ha, haha, don't be kidding, how could you have a daughter..."

The second half of his voice became weaker and weaker in Dan's eyes, and finally he said with little confidence: "That can't be really your daughter, can it? Does August know?"

Dan picked up his glass and took a sip, then said casually, "You can tell him."

Heath: "..." Why am I asking you this question?

Looking around, his eyes fell on the opened package next to him, and he had nothing to say: "What is this?"

Dan glanced. "Don't know."

With some curiosity, Heath took the imitation fossil carved by August in his hand and looked at it: "This is... a fossil?"

Dan's voice was still lazy: "Maybe."

Heath looked around over and over again, as if he could see something: "Speaking of this, I remember that one year we went to Svalbard for an investigation, and August seemed to have picked up a fossil there, but it was a pity that he couldn't find it. take away."

"Oh?" Dan said half-heartedly.

"I remember that August was just promoted to the rank of major, and it was also the first year he took over Sirius. The headquarters sent us to Longyearbyen to investigate the practicality of the snowmobile. We stayed there for about half a month. Two days before we left, the local guide took us to the national park, where August picked up the stone. Let me put it this way..." He looked at the stone carefully for a while: "It seems to be the same as August The piece Te picked up at that time still looks a bit like it."

Some points in his words touched Dan's memory, and Dan's eyes became a little thoughtful: "Just promoted...major?"

Heath was still careless: "Yes."

After a pause, his tone became a little emotional: "You know that sometimes, our religious beliefs may not be so pious in the eyes of outsiders, and even most of us are not very religious, but sometimes we also Believe in something."

Heath shrugged, as if looking for a more suitable explanation: "It's just...you understand what I mean? Some things may represent some beliefs. When we perform missions, we need to shoot if we encounter dangerous situations Well, it's only a second to pull the trigger, a blink of an eye. We need something to prove that ... existed. And I, I keep this." Cross necklace.

"That fossil may represent a certain meaning of existence to August. He stayed at the place where the fossil was found for a long time, but unfortunately the rules are rules, and he couldn't take it away in the end. "

After Heath left, Dan sat in the tavern for a while, and when he finally left, he felt a little unsteady on his feet. Father John chased him out with some anxiety: "You didn't drink too much, did you? Shall I take you back to the hotel?"

Dan shook his head, before leaving he still had a smile on his face: "It's okay, I can go back by myself."

The polar day has not yet ended in Greenland in early August, and the sky is still bright at midnight, but there are no pedestrians on the street.

Dan felt as if his brain had been soaked in alcohol, and he was a little groggy. He walked aimlessly along with his footsteps. When he stopped, he realized that he had reached the small house where August played the piano. The gate of the courtyard.

He stayed where he was for a few seconds, mocking himself with a wry smile. Just as he was about to turn around, the husky in the yard next to him noticed the movement of the stranger and barked violently.

For a while, the narrow alley was full of echoes of barking dogs. Dan was taken aback, and stepped back with his hands on the wooden gate of the yard. Unexpectedly, the gate was unlocked, and he just ran into someone's yard. inside.

From the outside, you can see the faint lights in the living room. The old lady should not have slept yet. At this moment, she heard the movement outside and went to the window to look out.

Dan met her eyes and turned around in a bit of embarrassment. Just as he was about to leave, the old woman yelled through the window, "Wait—"

Dan had to stop, and after a while, the front door of the house opened, and the old woman stood in the doorway wearing a shawl, squinting at Dan: "I seem to have seen you?"

Dan had no choice but to bite the bullet and turn around: "Hi, my name is Dan Smithton. I used to serve in Sirius before."

The old woman thought hard for a while, as if she remembered something, she smiled and raised her hand at him: "I remember, August and I mentioned you, come in and sit for a while."

Dan stood in the living room, which was unusually cramped. The room was small, with an old piano against the wall, a small fireplace next to it, and two armchairs in front of it.

"Sit down, I'll pour you a cup of tea." The old woman said and walked into the kitchen.

Dan chose to sit in an armchair near the piano. The room was warm, and the alcohol in his head made him feel drowsy.

"Looking at you, Auggie probably hasn't mentioned me to you, has she?" Her voice came from the kitchen, and she came out with a tea tray after a while.

After handing Dan a teacup, she sat down on the opposite armchair and smiled kindly: "My name is Laura, Arthur's mother."

Dan didn't know how long he had been sitting in the port. He only remembered that he left Laura's house in the middle of the night. He didn't book a hotel, and he didn't want to go back to the base so much. He simply found a sheltered corner in the port and nestled on the steps. superior.

The voices of Heath and Laura were like noisy ghosts, repeatedly ringing in his ears——

"...August was just promoted to the rank of major that year, and it was also the first year he took over Sirius..."

"...He and Arthur were never lovers..."

"...that's where August picked up the stone..."

"...I know my son, maybe he doesn't want to tell me, but I can see everything in his eyes, except that I've never seen Auggie like that..."

"...we need something to prove that there was..."

"...he's just guilty...that terrible accident..."

"...That fossil may represent a certain meaning of existence to August..."

"...he has been punishing himself for so many years, I thought he would be like this for the rest of his life..."

"...I stayed at the place where the fossil was found for a long time... I couldn't take it away in the end..."

"...He changed when he talked about you. He promised me that he would bring you to see me. I'm very happy..."

He still carried August's stone with him, and when he took it out now, he held it up in front of his eyes a little slowly.

He finally understood why August had to ask him to name a stone.

This is not something that can be formed overnight, it must go through hundreds of millions of years.

Fight infinite time with limited life.

This is probably the unique romance of August.

When August found him, there were 7 or 8 cigarette butts piled up at his feet, and his face was as pale as a ghost.

"I've been looking for you all night!" August pulled him up, his brows were frowned by the smell of alcohol and smoke on his body, his voice was full of anger.

Dan still didn't react, and looked at him with a little emptiness in his eyes.

August was frightened by his state, and looked him up and down nervously: "Are you okay? Are you okay?"

Dan seemed to realize the time at this moment, he turned his head and looked not far away: "I bought the boat ticket for this morning..."

"Don't go!" August lowered his head abruptly before he finished speaking, and leaned closer to Dan's ear, his voice almost gnashing his teeth: "You can't give me no chance to make mistakes! I admit that it was me before Wrong. Don't I even have a chance to correct this mistake?!"

Dan was hit by the suppressed anger and sorrow in his voice, and he just froze in place for a second and didn't recover.

"Don't go, don't leave here..." August's voice was filled with pleading, he tentatively lowered his head to touch Dan's lips, pried open his lips and teeth ferociously, and then began to suck kisses.

Dan doesn't push him away, closes his eyes and mumbles "I'm sorry" between the kisses.

August didn't hear clearly, so he let go of him slightly, and the tip of their nose was still touching: "What?"

There was a twinkle in Dan's eyes: "I said, I'm sorry."

Although August didn't understand why he apologized, he could clearly see the regret in his eyes.He felt as if the tip of his heart trembled following the person's eyelashes, and then he pressed the person into his arms distressedly: "I am the one who should say sorry. I didn't let Heath contact you just because I was worried... I was afraid of you I can't accept what I did. I'm sorry. About Arthur's time... If you want to hear it, I will tell you all about it."

"Then it seems that we have a long story to tell." Dan's voice was still nasal, but the ending was already stained with a distinct smile.

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Countdown to the Finale Part 2~

See you at 8pm~