Chapter 579 The Asymptotes Finally Intersect

The future... what is the word that corresponds to the future... called?

He has a clear mind, and there are no problems with his intelligence and cognition. However, at a special time, in a special place, facing a special person, someone needs a longer time to barely capture the person who is so special to human beings. concept——

past.

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"Ah! Oh no, no no! Ah Hua is missing!"

The shouts of her friends chased her back along the straight street. The girl dodged and turned into the alley. The sharp shouts were quickly dispersed in the warm wind of the summer night.

"Carol..."

"Ahua! Ahua! Where did you go... It's over, it seems to be really lost. Should we report it quickly... report it to Captain Hen?"

The voice of her friend chased her relentlessly. Her friend was the first and only friend of the same age that she had made since she was a child.

The master's apprentices didn't treat her badly, to be precise, they took good care of her, but that kind of care was a little bit like "Girls shouldn't practice these things" and "Master can coax her well." "Can you introduce more about the relationship?" and "How can she, a girl, practice better than us? Where should we put our faces?" and other distracting thoughts.

Girls of the same age are even less interested in talking to her, "You must have eaten too much, more than the boys, you are...", "Well, you see she eats in a hurry and eats a lot, it's just like..." , "Why are your hands so hard? Oh, let go, don't touch me, it hurts"... The world of children It's very simple. There are not so many good qualities mixed in black and white. As long as she shows her "difference" from the group, she will often be rejected by everyone. In this regard, even if she deliberately leaves her hometown and travels thousands of miles away, Studying abroad in Canghai City ultimately proved to be a waste of effort.

Only Carol, among her peers, was the only one who thought that her martial arts skills from elementary school to adulthood were very cool, and she was the only one who could face her terrible appetite with a smile, and also considerately share some of her portion with herself.

But just now, just a minute ago, she made a decision that might be said to betray Carol.

She wanted to leave the Fire Chaser, she wanted to leave here without anyone knowing, and without anyone being implicated.

Because she was going to chase another person's back.

Why do you do this... Why do you do this...

Staying in Fire Chaser, the instructor named Hen and Captain Himihu both said that as long as they are willing to stay in Fire Chaser, given their age, they will probably be placed in logistics and civilian positions that are not dangerous, and every month The amount of the subsidy is not small. Even if they don't stay, the Fire Moth promises to solve their future education and housing problems, and will give them a considerable amount of compensation in one go...

But now, following her impulse... gone, all gone... Fire Chaser will probably list her as a missing person, and if she can contact her father, she will give him double compensation... Of course, this is the best case scenario...

Father...still...

Is it too late to regret it now?

"Ahua! You should answer me, Ahua!"

Carol's shouting was getting closer... This guy said he wanted to go back and report to Captain Hen, but at this moment he still didn't just leave her alone...

Hua leaned her back against the wall. The rough wall stung her a little and made her feel a little itchy.

She covered her cheeks hard, and her body slowly slid down, but this trend had just begun. The man who had been standing beside her since she turned into the alley, but had never spoken a word, took her arm. His arms gently lifted her up.

But such a gentle gesture was not considered warm to Hua. Instead, it made her feel excited, as if she finally had to face the fact she was afraid of -

"You...are really Mikael...right?"

"yes."

"But... I heard them say that you were dead... and they even held a funeral for you..."

"...Aren't you going back? Carol is calling you."

Even though he had already revealed his identity, Mikael still pushed his hat down. Hua wanted to laugh at his cover-up behavior, but when she thought about how she was full of random thoughts but didn't dare to speak out, she felt that she was too embarrassed to say this.

"Go back, Hua. For you, staying in Fire Chaser is a better choice. You are still young, too young, so..."

"I won't go back."

Hua rarely used a decisive tone.

"Don't be angry, go back."

"I won't go back!"

"You...I'm leaving. If everything goes well, we should be able to meet again in a few years."

Mikael had nothing to explain and no time to explain. He planned to leave directly. If he left like this... Hua would not be able to catch up with him.

But at the moment when he turned around, Mikael only felt his sleeves falling down - helplessly turning around again, Hua pinched his sleeves with both hands, and begged cautiously but unwillingly:

"Mikael, don't leave me...Mikael, take me with you."

His vision was trembling slightly, and every muscle from his eye sockets to the corners of his eyes was trembling.

Whose is it?

Of course...both of them.

Quietly, the moon, which was half missing, moved to a position just sandwiched by the houses on both sides. The fluorescent moonlight shone along the gap above the head, gently grazing Mikael's face. The profile of his face finally fell gently on Hua's cheek.

The light in the blue eyes was constantly swimming, like gently swaying waves. Despite this, Hua's hands did not waver in the slightest. She just stubbornly held Mikael's sleeves and said nothing, but also Never let go.

"Why are you doing this...even though you don't understand anything until now, you still want to follow me...do you believe in me like that?"

Mikael's tone turned gentle unknowingly.

Hua's face twisted to one side. Some words actually didn't need to be said.

The moment she passed by Mikael, countless possibilities flashed through her mind, countless possibilities that were most loved by conspiracy theory enthusiasts. Without exception, she subconsciously put Mikael in the position of the victim.

This is a bit strange.

Seriously, how much does she know about Mikael? The two have met only a handful of times before, not to mention why her trust in him has now exceeded the credibility of Fire Chaser, and why she would rather leave Carol behind to be with Mikael. Going?

At that time, she couldn't answer this question and didn't even dare to think about it.

Perhaps as Mei said, existence in this world itself has no meaning, but if a person wants to live in this cruel world, he must always find something meaningful to himself.

And for reasons that even Hua herself couldn't explain at this time, she bound the meaning she was pursuing to Mikael.

"Who is talking in front? Hua? Is it you? Answer me quickly!"

Carol's voice was gradually approaching, and Hua only heard Mikael chuckle slightly, and then asked softly:

"It seems to be Carol. She is your... best friend, right? Do you want to take her with you?"

"You agreed!"

In Hua's excitement, the hands that were originally holding Mikael's sleeves shook and turned to hold Mikael's wrist tightly.

But after a moment of excitement, she had to calm down.

"No...Carol's parents have received news that they are coming to Moth City. It's better to let her stay."

From any point of view, this is an impeccable reason to consider others, but Hua can't tell clearly. Is he afraid of seeing Carol?

Or, she believed from the bottom of her heart that a lively and cheerful girl like Carol, who was loved by everyone, should be pursuing a completely different meaning than she, a gloomy girl who loved curious things.

In fact, no one can tell clearly, but the past cannot be changed.

Looking back from the distant future, at this moment, the distance between Carol and Hua is less than 20 meters. Even if they take a few steps forward, they can hear their conversation clearly.

If Hua suddenly regretted it at that moment, or hesitated for a few seconds, perhaps there would be no further entanglements between the two.

Of course, the word "entanglement" must be enclosed in quotation marks. The reason is that the relationship between the two has never been complicated, and in the following five years, there has never been a disagreement between the two - the latter may really have, after all, how can there be any idea in the world to start from scratch? What about two people who are completely the same in the end? But even so, there has never been a tit-for-tat exchange between the two, or even a quarrel. There is no doubt about this.

If the alley in Canghai City was the place where two people met for the first time, then this dilapidated alley in Moth City was the place that determined that their relationship would inevitably reach this point fifty thousand years later.

At that moment, Mikael just rubbed Hua's hair, messing up her carefully styled hairstyle, and then gently but forcefully held Hua's hand and said to her:

"In that case, thank you for your trust, Hua. I will take you to save the world!"

With this promise, which was not a promise, the two figures quietly disappeared into the alley.

As for Hua starting to realize why he was looking for meaning in Mikael, it was already half a year later.

Yes, half a year later, in the snowfields of Siberia.

On the day they arrived at the village where Qianjie was.

"Remember that day, Mikael?"

When thoughts return, not to mention memories, even the scene in the inner lake begins to disintegrate. The consciousness of the two people returned to reality. The closed clouds and the blood-red thunder light surged together. The sound of thunder was like distant drumbeats, gently tapping their eardrums, and also revived their tired consciousness. Cheer up.

"A lot happened that day, and you said a lot to me, but most importantly, you told me one thing we have in common - how little we have compared to others. "

Hua raised his right hand to block his bangs that were constantly being moved by the wind, but cautiously approached with his left hand, and finally rested it naturally and lightly on the back of Mikael's hand.

"It is precisely because we have so little that even when we lose something, the pain we feel is much lighter than ordinary people. Because of this, we often don't know what we are fighting for. I don't know why I want to protect things that don't belong to me at all.

"But Mikael, you are different. You can do this. This is something that I can't do and don't understand, but I long for it. The peace before the collapse, the happy family, and the memories of it will make people think In the campus life of Xin Yixiao, you have never had any of this, yet you are willing to fight as a Herrscher who should have destroyed the world.

"I watched with my own eyes as you became more and more painful during the battle. Your confident smiles became less and less, and you spent more and more time in silence and daze. In the past, I would smile and encourage you every time you met me. Later, as long as I didn't Whenever I open my mouth, you always walk past me in a hurry... Not to mention, when all this accumulates to the extreme, the moment it explodes...

"But even so, you still haven't given up the fight. What is it that drives you to keep moving forward? At what step can you stop? This is to understand your original intention, and then..."

Then, no one ever deliberately guided this relationship, and the relationship between the two did not suddenly grow rapidly at a certain moment, but slowly, slowly, unknowingly got closer, closer, and closer again, By the time Hua realized it, there was no cure.

"So, Mikael, I understand what you mean. In your eyes, if you accept my heart, you will accompany me into the future. This will make you shaken and make you want to give up for fifty thousand years. Everything you insist on, because if you continue on the original path, you will be shattered to pieces. But I don’t think you need to dwell on this - we have enough memories of the past for many years, so I don’t actually know whether there is a future. care."

Mikael suddenly laughed, but turned his head sharply, not daring to look at Hua again.

"But, Hua... have you ever considered the consequences of not letting go of the future? I only have a few months left. I will create a new world for you that can heal the pain of the past, but there is no such thing as a new world in that new world. There is no place for me. Today, we will act as if nothing has happened. You will regain everything you have lost in the new world, but if today... Hua, this kind of thing is too cruel for you, why bother pursuing it? What about something that will soon cease to exist?"

"Is it cruel?"

Hua bit her lip tightly and asked:

"Then do you think these fifty thousand years have been cruel to you? Wasn't it cruel the moment Alicia said to you, 'Live on'?"

"It is precisely because I have experienced such cruelty that..."

"Since you can endure such cruelty for fifty thousand years, I believe I can do it too!"

"magnificent……"

"Besides, Mikael, I can't look back. Letting go now is the regret of never getting anything, and continuing is the regret of gaining and losing. Which regret is more regretful?"

Mikael was silent.

Suddenly, a red thunderstorm tore through the thick clouds, but the thunder was as faint and faint as a slowly falling feather.

The sun shines through the cracks in the dark clouds, and something seems to be stuck on the eyelashes, refracting the sun into a variety of colors.

It was only then that Mikael realized belatedly that he was being hugged.

Hua hugged Mikael tightly from the right side. Her embrace was stiff. Mikael struggled instinctively, and she suddenly tightened her arms with such force that she almost broke Mikael's ribs.

"Mikael, let me stay by your side. Even if it's only a few months, even if it's only a few days, a few minutes... I want to see with my own eyes, to see you who, like me, had too little from the beginning, How far can you go for something that doesn’t belong to you?”

"..."

"And...and I can see that you are...very...very lonely right now, right? No one can talk to you about your worries, and no one around you knows about everything in the past...You can take me with you, like this Have these problems been solved?”

"..."

"If you are afraid that your determination will be shaken because of my relationship, I can actually try to supervise you..."

"..."

For some reason, Mikael took a deep breath, but was unwilling to answer.

As Hua talked, she became more and more hesitant and sad. She kept finding new reasons, even reasons she didn't believe in, to try to persuade Mikael, but the latter just smiled and remained silent, saying nothing.

For a moment, Hua collapsed.

She hugged Mikael tighter, her throat choked with sobs, and somehow she shouted the same words as she did fifty thousand years ago:

"Mikael, don't leave me...Mikael, take me with you."

The silence continued to spread, turning into darkness in his consciousness, almost swallowing Hua up.

But suddenly, Mikael spoke.

But before speaking, she held Hua's hand.

"Okay, I promise you."

"Really...really?"

"You've already said that you don't want the future...then I can only keep fooling around."

The corners of Mikael's mouth formed a beautiful "U" shape, and his smile was genuine. Only his brows were wrinkled uncoordinatedly, and there seemed to be something shiny hanging on his eyelashes.

Feel? Feel nothing.

There is no excitement of "finally XXXX", nor can I feel any excitement.

In fact, even the final response was extremely dull, lacking in waves and conflicts, which made the Herrscher of Consciousness on the side look sleepy.

But this is how Mikael and Hua get along.

There has never been a real gap between them. He understands everything she wants to express. She can always interpret what he wants to say in advance. The two of them just slowly get closer and closer as time goes by. But because there has never been a real gap, the relationship between the two changes so slowly no matter when and where.

Their relationship seemed so good that they could be together at any time, which would not make either of them feel awkward or surprising to others, but they always felt that something was missing, something was missing, something that neither of them could clearly explain.

Like an asymptote, infinitely close, infinitely close, infinitely close, behind it was the sadness of never being able to intersect.

Fortunately, there were so many tragedies in this world, so they finally had the opportunity to intersect.