Quanzai Cone

Only when you really stand in front of the communication tower can you feel the majestic momentum of this man-made miracle.

Compared with the overwhelming snowstorm and the endless polar glaciers, it is as small as a grain of rice, but any creature standing in front of the steel gate will have the pride of overlooking the world because of its back standing on the top of the ice peak.

I turned my head and took a deep look at the cliffs that I had trudged through when I came here, and stepped steadily on the last step in front of the tower.

After getting the password and magnetic card at the base, the leading Zhijun easily activated the mechanism to open the gate, and rushed in with a pistol in his hand.When I followed me into the hall, the only staff member who remained in the tower had already knelt on the ground with his gun against the back of his head and his hands raised high.

The middle-aged man with a beard who had just woken up from alcohol shivered and shouted: "Don't kill me! I don't know anything! The leaders and team members of the group of sons of bitches have all run away, only me... ..."

There are messy fast food boxes and empty wine bottles around him. If the temperature is not too low, it may have become a dumping ground for flies.

Holding the only remaining pistol in both hands, I glanced at him with a disheveled and flustered face, and said to Zhijun, "I'll search the other rooms."

"Be careful." Zhijun nodded, and tapped his bearded head to stop him from looking around and making petty moves.

I left them and did a cursory search of the communications tower.Most of the space in the tower is used to accommodate various operating equipment, and the living area provided to people is not large. Looking at the beds in the dormitory, there are only about ten permanent staff, and now there are no signs of it except for the beard.

Back in the hall, the bearded man was vomiting his bitterness.

The base fell more than a month ago, just in time for the maintenance of the communication equipment in the tower. The news was delayed for nearly seven days.Some advocated bringing weapons to the base to check the situation, some advocated carrying simple communication equipment back to the edge of the polar circle to call the ship to return to the mainland, and some advocated staying at the communication tower and asking for help from the headquarters... Finally, they couldn't convince each other, and each of them recruited supporters to go Carried out his own plan, and the alcoholic beard didn't realize he had been abandoned until he went to Tarkon.

...But ten people can also create a split drama, this communication tower can't do it.After listening to the bearded and tearful accusation, I thought speechlessly.

He was tightly tied to the legs of the table, crying and shivering to answer Zhijun's question, and he didn't know what happened to me during the time I left. From the contempt of trying to fool the underage kid to genuine fear, even Don't dare to look straight at Zhijun.

"Yes, yes, but you have to go to the annunciator on the top of the tower..." he stammered.

Faced with our request to communicate with the outside world, the bearded man gave an affirmative answer, but if he wanted to avoid Umbrella's monitoring, he could not use the equipment in the tower and had to climb to the signal transmitter at the top of the communication tower Manually access the communicator.

In fact, based on the hacking skills of Zhijun and I, it is not impossible to forcibly use the equipment in the tower to bypass Umbrella, but it is too time-consuming, and the materials are not enough to support us to try slowly.

It's just an iron tower, just climb it.

Zhijun and I looked at each other, replaced and combined the equipment collected in the tower with the items on our body, dropped our beards and walked towards the top of the tower.

Open the secret door, and the polar cold wind roars in.I moved my body around on the solid concrete floor, took the climbing rope handed over by Zhijun and buckled it around my waist, and made a "start" gesture to him.

Zhijun nodded slightly, and started to climb the first floor of the steel tower standing on the top of the communication tower.

The escalator used for maintenance is narrow and difficult to navigate. In addition, no one has cleaned it in recent months, and a layer of ice and snow has formed.We crawled very slowly, as if two ants were climbing on the wall of a building, almost losing the concept of time.

When I finally leaned on the spire guardrail that only accommodated three or four people, my whole body was numb from the cold, and I shivered to wipe off the snow particles on the goggles, watching Zhijun pry off the cover of the signal device to adjust it.

At this time, the position is too high, the overcast clouds can almost be touched, and the surrounding ice peaks are trampled under the feet. Across the bottomless valley, you can see a flat and open place in the distance. I don’t know if it is the sea or the plain.

The lights of the communication tower broke through the gradually dissipating darkness, reflecting the glacier's brilliance. I didn't dare to look more, so I looked away.

After debugging, Zhijun connected the communicator and handed the black box to me.I tilted my head to look at him, took the rustling communicator, and cleared my throat.

"Hello, hello, hello? This is Gan Xunguang and Dazai Zhi."

Intermittent signals came: [Miss Gan... I am... Jianggu, Ling...]

"Mr. Jiang Gu!" I put the communicator close to my ear, raised my voice and briefly reported the situation of the trip, telling him the good news that the base and the research institute were destroyed.

The clear signal faithfully recorded the speechless sigh of the young man on the opposite side, and he said: 【...Didn't you say you wanted to find out the news at first?It's just you and Mr. Dazai, what if something happens? 】

I also find it outrageous.

Of course, I can’t say this kind of complaint. I tried to get away with it. Fortunately, Mr. Jiang Gu didn’t mean to hold on to it. After asking a few questions about the result, he confirmed the pick-up coordinates with me.I described the location of the safe house in detail, and the other side replied steadily and reliably:

[Received, the response team will leave immediately and arrive in about a week. 】

The signal was disconnected, I retracted the communicator, stayed for a while, and suddenly lost my strength and leaned against the railing behind.

ended.

You can go back to the safe house by another way. There is a record of traveling to and from nearby areas in the communication tower. Although it is farther away, it is very safe; weapons and food can be replenished from the supplies in the tower, so there is no shortage... Wait until you return to the safe house , The support team is almost here.

At last the long adventure came to an end, and for a moment I fell into a drowsy drowsiness.

Zhi Jun, who was sitting next to me in the air, approached me, his warm breath caressing my cheek: "Miss Guang, I can't sleep now."

I struggled and looked at him with his turtleneck pulled down wide-eyed, pulling myself together.

"I know, I have to go back, it's not time to rest..."

Before he finished speaking, he stopped him.

"That's not right," he reached out to take off the goggles, with a smile on the corner of his eye, and reminded, "Did Miss Guang forget the wish on the notebook?"

what.

I was stunned for a moment, remembering those two lines of handwriting.

【I want to watch the sunrise of Bingfeng with Zhijun! 】

【it is good. 】

Encountered so many things along the way, I almost left this initial expectation behind.Looking at the kite-colored eyes that were only a palm away from me, all the tiredness disappeared, and indescribable complex emotions overflowed my chest.

I unknowingly raised my head to look at the sky, and when no one was paying attention, there was already a ray of light at the end of the dark night.

The wind is still so cold that people shiver, but the intensity has decreased. Compared with the two, there is an illusion of "gentleness" in a trance.The black hair that slipped out from under Zhijun's hat curled up and stuck to the cheeks and neck, constantly curling with the wind, like the tip of a black cat's wagging tail.

Following his example, I pulled down the high collar that covered half of my face, took off my goggles, froze in the cold, and hugged him clumsily.

It's not warm at all, but the joy can't stop "gudong gudong" gushing out of my heart.

Head to head, hand in hand, we gazed at the horizon as it faded into the morning sun that ended the long night.

Thousands of valleys and ravines are lit one after another, and rows of ice peaks are like guards in white helmets, stationed in this uninhabited polar region across time.The flat area outside the mountains reveals its true face, which is an ocean covered with ice, and the pure and flawless dark blue emerges from the winding and broken gaps in the ice, becoming a gorgeous color beyond the red sun.

Zhijun, who was cuddling with me, looked at the scenery, raised his eyebrows and smiled.

That smile was light and faint, but it touched my heart more than any big smile I had ever seen.He lowered his eyes, his long eyelashes caressed the corners of my eyes like smoke and mist, causing an itch like a heartstring, and his voice flew into thousands of winds.

"It's great to be able to become lovers with Guang."

The fiery red unstoppably swept across the world, dyed the polar frost and snow crimson, and the clouds above the head were turbulent, melting into rouge in the majestic glow, making my cheeks pale pink.

I looked up at him, and heard him say with a smile: "But, at the age of 15, I want to wait for you, and it will take another seven years."

There was no trace of melancholy in Zhijun's expression, but tears filled my eyelashes suddenly.In the tears that flowed away, I hugged him tightly, sobbing and made an oath——

"I will definitely come to you soon!"

It's like a child's naive and unreal big talk, but under this polar dawn, inexplicably born the confidence of "absolutely achievable".

The bright red sun jumped out of the sea level, illuminating us who are small on the top of the ice peak.

Sunrise.

("Talk about the day after tomorrow: Dialogue with young people", end)