When the law of conservation of isolation is broken

When Zhang Luotuo opened his eyes in the morning, Qiao De was no longer by his side.He touched the sheets, the temperature on them had been lost for a long time.His heart tightened, he sat up, and looked at the clock, which glowed faintly in the room with the curtains tightly closed.

"Sunday, 25:[-]".displayed above.Zhang Luotuo sat up and looked around in bewilderment, but did not hear any sound.He dressed and went into the living room, but the warm-toned room was empty, and the cheap red sofa stood alone.

At the door, the shoes that Joad used to go out disappeared.

Zhang Luotuo opened the door, and the empty corridor faced him blankly.He thought for a while, turned back to put on his shoes, and walked out blankly.

Although he didn't know where Joad could go, he still entered the elevator and pressed the button with the number one.Joad.Thinking of him, he raised his head and watched the number keys change constantly in a daze.Last night's night, tears, and the numb Joad, they leaned heavily on each other in the night, and then fell asleep, everything was like a dream.

He walked out of the apartment.The streets are just waking up, the buildings look like fragile chips against the gray skyline.Occasionally, pedestrians pass by with dull eyes on the road, with the smell of cigarettes after a night on their bodies.Zhang Luotuo looked around in this deserted street, feeling a little uneasy.Where will Joad go?He is not the kind of person who likes to go shopping.Some bad thoughts started running in his mind, but he suppressed them immediately.Impossible, he convinced himself.

He turned his head, suddenly stopped looking, and his heart returned from his throat to his chest.

Joad was standing across the road, wearing a black jacket as usual, his height and cold cheeks were eye-catching, but unlike usual, he had a furry thing on his head that didn't match his temperament , which makes him seem like a bizarre game character.Zhang Luotuo narrowed his eyes, it was Mao Mao, it was writhing restlessly.

Joad looked here, and their eyes met.Joad nodded, for some reason, there was a trace of unnaturalness in his expression.

The green light is on.Joad took a step and walked over.Maomao screamed happily and threw herself into Zhang Luotuo's arms.

"I'm fine, I just came out for a while." Joad said first, as if he had seen through Zhang Luotuo's worries.

"Why did you go out?" Zhang Luotuo asked softly, feeling the tension in his heart drop. He just thought for a moment that maybe the management department took Qiao De away.Joad is rarely willing to go out except for work. He has a natural aversion to crowds, not to mention he wears fur.

Joad turned his head away and said calmly: "I want to go out for a walk. There is artificial grass near here."

Zhang Luotuo blinked in surprise, opened his mouth, but didn't speak.Artificial grass, going out for a walk, this sounds very unjord, Joad hates walking, and has never been interested in artificial grass. To be precise, he scoffs at places other than Jiulongpo and the management department. See it as life.Joad also noticed Zhang Luotuo's surprise, but he didn't explain, just took Maomao, shrugged, and continued to move forward.

"Let's go," he said, "let's go to the supermarket together."

Zhang Luotuo paused, then rubbed his eyes to make sure he had woken up.

But the moment of Zhang Luotuo's astonishment was far from over.They went to the supermarket together and picked out some artificial meat, bread and jam. In the past, Joad would hide aside and look around coldly. He would not come forward until Zhang Luotuo had paid the bill and help him choose He doesn't like supermarkets, just like he doesn't like all the crowded areas in Chongqing.But today he is different. He dodges in the endless stream of people, avoids the dirty uniform as much as possible, and still persistently holds the bottles of discounted drinking water that the camels managed to grab.When they were checking out, he stood in front of Zhang Luotuo, holding something expressionlessly and facing the artificial intelligence, asking it to swipe the card he took out.Zhang Luotuo pretended to look around, but actually glanced at Qiao De from behind. He felt very dazed about this scene. He never thought that Qiao De would be willing to take something whose total value was less than 10 in his life.

"I want this." Joad clicked on the blue cabinet next to the cash register, and a box of "Kurokawa" cigarettes slipped out of the cabinet. He completely ignored Zhang Luotuo's confused gaze.

They went back to Zheng Zheng's house, Zhang Luotuo set up breakfast, and Zheng Zheng just got up.She walked into the living room and backed away in fright at the sound of Ah Coal's morning news—Jode sat on a cheap green chair, picked up the steamed buns and bread, and bit into them bit by bit.

"What did Lu Xing do to him?" She squeezed into the kitchen, asking suspiciously and in panic.Joad never usually eats with them, he would rather eat nothing and keep a completely empty stomach.Zhang Luotuo shook his head at her, silently picked up two glasses of milk, walked out of the kitchen, and handed one of them to Joad, who was lowering his eyes, taking the last bite of the steamed bun.Joad gently took it from his hand and took a sip.

Zhang Luotuo also felt very strange, but he didn't want to ask Qiao De.

He noticed that Joad's eyes were shining, they had been there since the morning, the moment he saw him, burning like last night.

After this morning, he felt that he knew vaguely why.

They finished their breakfast in silence, and Zheng Zheng stared at Qiao De without a glance, like looking at a abnormal lighthouse.Joad took out the pack of cigarettes after eating. "Kurokawa".Cheap black packaging with a silver mansion printed on it.He opened it awkwardly, apparently never having smoked before.He took out a cigarette, held it in his mouth, and the fire was lit at the end of the cigarette.

Zheng Zheng took a breath, quickly lowered his head, and kicked Zhang Camel.What happened to him?She made a mouth shape.Zhang Luotuo shrugged her shoulders to show that he didn't know anything. On the other side, Qiao De took a deep breath of a cigarette, his face became flushed, and then he coughed, and the table trembled.He obviously never smoked, never, smoking was more like torture for him.But he didn't give up, continuing to inhale the smoke into his lips and exhale awkwardly.The smell obviously made him sick, yet he gritted his teeth and repeated it over and over, as if torturing himself.His cheekbones paled, as did his complexion, only his gray eyes glowed incessantly, like perpetual motion machines that didn't exist.

Zhang Luotuo looked at him without saying a word.

Joad met his gaze.None of them spoke.Silence burns like fire.

After a while, Zheng Zheng finished her breakfast and went out with her windbreaker.

"Take care of Qiao De, I think there is something wrong with him." She whispered to Zhang Luotuo and disappeared through the door, leaving only Qiao De and Zhang Luotuo in the room.Zheng Zheng didn't turn off the TV, and the boring TV series were still chattering endlessly. Qiao De stepped forward. He squeezed into the red sofa and watched the TV series calmly, as if he had become interested in it. Zhang Luotuo hugged Mao Mao, and He sits together.

They stare intently at the screen.

"...we just love it here." It's a cowboy TV show, and the cowboys utter the empty, mournful chants, get up, and walk into the night.Seeing this, Zhang Luotuo felt a little thirsty. He stood up, took out two cans of beer from the refrigerator, and gave one to Joad.Joad glanced at the beer can. He never drank beer, but this time he took it, opened the lid, took a sip without hesitation, and then a quarter of the can.

They continued to remain silent, dazed in the boredom of the TV series. "Freedom... for freedom, false freedom..." said in the TV series, the storyboard is very rigid.They stared at the screen knowingly, swallowed their beer, and remained motionless.After a long time, Qiao De finally turned his head and looked at Zhang Luotuo.Zhang Luotuo turned his head, he also looked at Joad, Joad's face, Joad's lips, pale complexion, twinkling gray eyes.They looked at each other as if they had never seen each other before. They were completely honest and completely calm. A silent and gentle atmosphere enveloped them, as if it was a peaceful night.Zhang Luotuo opened his mouth, but closed it gently again.He didn't ask that "what are you thinking?" That sentence is completely unnecessary, at least at this moment.

"Are you two in love?" Ah Mei asked curiously, and he finally couldn't help but speak while looking at each other.

The next morning, Zhang Luotuo woke up at five o'clock. He turned over, and there was no one beside him. The bed was like a clean white paper with the temperature of being burned.He sat up, not surprised, and walked into the bathroom. Joad was brushing his teeth in the mirror. He noticed the appearance of Zhang Luotuo, but nodded like Zhang Luotuo without surprise.He spat the chemical foam from his mouth and flooded his forehead and eyes with water.

"Let's go for a walk." He said to the hexagonal mirror, as if he knew that Zhang Luotuo would wake up at this moment.The mirror reflected his gray eyes, and inside was the face of a camel.

At 21:[-] in the morning, there is a little black in the gray.This is the absolute threshold of the sky, the night in Chongqing has never been pure black.Zhang Luotuo looked out the window, and the spaceship gradually landed on the parking lot.When they got off the spaceship, Zhang Luotuo was wearing a jacket and crossing the deserted road. A few hundred meters away, the holographic image bent over them.

"Heaven of consumerism..." Soft voice, impeccable face, black-haired girl showing them extravagant silver dress, the logo of the department store behind it gleamed.They wearily passed through, and then passed through, those mansions, the beetle-like dense ship docks, the game halls that tired all night, the considerate bars and dance halls.Their end seems endless.

The road they walked became more and more desolate, and the buildings in their field of vision gradually became rarer. Finally, they bypassed the countless neon lights covering the street, and stopped in front of the abandoned sports field. There was no one there, and it was out of date. Everything was overthrown and started over.

Zhang Luotuo is very familiar with this place. He came here twice, once because of the crash of the spaceship, and once for Ah Mei.

He stepped onto the plastic track and walked towards the green lawn, Joad leisurely followed behind him.They gradually walked into the central circle.The sports field was vast and flat. Zhang Luotuo saw the spaceship he had abandoned. It was still parked there, motionless, like a fossil.

He smelled a faint smell of smoke in the air, he turned his head, Joad lit his first cigarette this morning, this time his movements were much more proficient than last time, he put the "Black River" Cigarettes on lips.flutter.Sparks come out.He took a deep breath and let it out, frowning.

"How is it?" Zhang Luotuo asked him.

Joad shook his head: "Very bad." His tone was very flat, but he insisted on finishing that cigarette.They continued to walk towards the center of the stadium, and passed the wreckage of the spaceship. Zhang Luotuo looked at it reluctantly. It was surrounded by a piece of bare land, without any artificial green grass, because the small piece was burned away when it fell.

"The beer is also terrible, and the breakfast is also terrible, right?" Zhang Luotuo asked jokingly.

Joad nodded as expected, showing an unbelievable expression: "I have never eaten such an unpalatable thing, including this cigarette. I guessed that this is not good, and it turned out to be true."

"You can tell from the price, this is a famous cheap cigarette." Zhang Luotuo waved his hand at him, "The taste is not pure."

"I don't understand what is pure or impure, but I think it tastes bad." Joad said, thinking, "I have never smoked on Mars before, and we are not allowed to smoke at the Mars base, because we are coming to Earth Smoking may weaken our resistance, making it impossible for us to take a spaceship that takes a few days from Mars to Earth.” He talked about Mars and those past events.Zhang Luotuo quietly listened to every word Qiao De said.

"After arriving on Earth, I saw a lot of people smoking and drinking those beers, just like many people eating in the company's restaurant. This is like a habit they have brought in. It is an instinct they must have. Maybe it's not good, but If you're one of them, you're bound to do it." He shook his head, disapprovingly.Listening to Qiao De's words, Zhang Luotuo immediately remembered those days in the company.Joad, the whole management despises the company restaurant, they would rather go hungry than have a bit of porridge from the K-type imitation human side. "Dirty." Zhao Yi commented arrogantly.

"I always thought I was different from you, but it turns out..." Joad lowered his eyes, glanced at the cigarette in his hand, and said in a cold and mocking tone, "Whether you smoke or refuse something, we don't Any difference, all of this is doomed." He lowered his head, took another puff of the cigarette, exhaled the mist, closed his eyes, and stretched out his body in a relaxed manner, as if floating in the air.Zhang Luotuo watched the mist drift into the gray mist.

He had a vague idea that to Joad the smoke might not be smoke, or anything else.Turns out it was never different.Buried in the cigarette were all those self-righteous differences, and Joad saw in them small truths that he had never thought of before.

"I wanted to save you before, and I thought my fate was destined to return to Mars." Joad said, looking at the burning cigarette butt, with a bitter tone, "but this reminds me that I, like you, have never been different. "

coffee.cigarette.beer.The breakfasts, the smelly things, the bitter food that he dismissed.Smell, heat, feeling, life in Chongqing.He renounced them entirely, as false, for Mars, fate, and life to come.But he's trying to get all the truth into his mind now, like his past.After being frozen for a long time, he finally said these words softly and confessed, but he couldn't even open his mouth in front of the past, until only he and Zhang Luotuo were left on the sports field, he finally said it unconsciously .

They stood in the playground for a long time and then went back.

And this isn't the last time they'll be on the field.The next day, Zhang Luotuo opened his eyes, turned his head, and saw that Qiao De's gray eyes had been opened, and he stared at Zhang Luotuo silently, as if he was watching him who was sleeping soundly, or waiting for him to wake up , They got up again around [-]:[-] in the morning, without needing to talk to each other, they took the elevator downstairs in a tacit understanding, and came here again.They stay in this playground, sometimes they say something, sometimes they don't say anything.No one noticed them in the gray area, which was like a black triangle in the ballroom before.

Joad stood in the center circle of the playground, and he looked to the sky, something etched in his eyes, though he said nothing.

"The moon can be seen on Mars." He looked at the sky, and suddenly mentioned the planets, which he knew so well, "the moon, the satellites, and the sun." His eyes passed through these seemingly never-ending Gray mist, reaching somewhere, "I lay on the lawn with my dad when I was 12 and studied the dark spots on the moon, where the sky is not like this, black is black, white is white."

Sun, moon, satellites.Zhang Luotuo raised his head.The top of his head was filled with gray clouds and mist, some of which were neatly piled up, like huge waves in the game, covering their heads.He couldn't imagine those, he'd never seen them, not once.He opened his eyes, trying to imitate Joad's gaze through the gray fog, imagining the appearance and brightness of those planets.Joad had told him about galaxies and nebulae, when they stayed at Joad's home, Joad spread out a map of the world.Zhang Luotuo raised his head, and he seemed to be back in the lounge of the old man's record store in a haze, with those continents, oceans and stars above his head, Joad was talking to him about this.

The blue sky, the extraterrestrial universe, will burn the human atmosphere.

They appear dimly.

He unconsciously thought of his wish, which had been dusted for a long time: After retiring, he traveled around Chongqing. He had longed to go to every place on the map and fly everywhere, but he failed. The only time he was close to the nearest There was a stormy night when his spaceship was engulfed by air currents and kept going upwards, but he pushed it down forcefully. "If you fly over a few thousand meters, you will die." He kept Chongqing's advice in mind.

But what is above those few kilometers?What is above death?he thought unconsciously.He had never thought about it before.

They stayed for about four hours that day, until Zhao Yi called Qiao De.

"Why aren't you in the company?" she asked suspiciously.

Joad was silent for a while, and replied: "The traffic conditions today are not very good. Someone had a traffic accident on the road. I will be at the company later."

He hung up the phone and lowered his eyes under Zhang Luotuo's gaze.

"Traffic accident?" Zhang Luotuo narrowed his eyes and showed a smile. He knew that his smile was malicious. Qiao De was the only one who was never late in the company. He came early every day, which is like A formula or formula, he followed Joad and asked, "What traffic accident hindered you?"

Joad glanced at him and walked straight over.

"You." He said softly.

Zhang Luotuo stopped in his tracks, blushing.