Accel World (先飞看刀) Chapter 77: Little old man…
Early in the morning, Yang Xiaohan, Nie Chengyan, Shui Xing Xiaohan, and Shui Xing Xiaowei began to move things outside the school.
The student dormitory will be closed tomorrow, and while Nie Chengyan is still here, they started to help the Mercury sisters carry it, and help them tidy up by the way.
The entire campus has become quiet. Many students have already left yesterday, and the playground has become empty. In the past at this time, there will always be people playing basketball here. At this moment, the entire basketball court has become completely deserted.
Nie Chengyan changed into an exquisite plain white long dress, the skirt fell to her ankles, and she became more and more slim, her hair was still in a neat ponytail.
Mercury Xiaohan and Mercury Xiaowei did not wear the same dress this time, or in other words, they looked exactly the same, they were both knee-length skirts with floral flowers on them, but one was red , and the other is blue, the skirt was chosen for them by the squad leader, like pansies with two stalks, although they look exactly the same, they have their own brilliance.
Yang Xiaohan was wearing a light yellow shirt and gray pants. Although he was carrying things with the three girls, at this moment, for some reason, he was quieter than before.
"Mr. Xiaohan, what's wrong with you?" Nie Chengyan asked worriedly.
"I had a dream last night," Yang Xiaohan said sullenly, "I dreamed about a war, I dreamed about..."
What did you dream about? The three girls looked at him together.
"It's nothing, it's nothing!" Yang Xiaohan suddenly scratched his head with both hands, "I don't have a sister at all!"
Still thinking about this? Nie Chengyan, Mercury Xiaohan, and Mercury Xiaowei all looked at each other.
"It's all because Chengyan asked me such inexplicable questions yesterday, causing me to have those messy dreams." Yang Xiaohan complained.
Nie Chengyan thought to himself, maybe Teacher Xiaohan really doesn't have a sister. But or... He actually really wants to have a sister, right?
Although it is only after seven o'clock in the morning. The sun has risen in the sky. Not long after, the cicadas in summer began to sing. Mercury Xiaohan and Mercury Xiaowei each carried a backpack, Nie Chengyan was pulling a trolley bag, and Yang Xiaohan was carrying a large backpack on both shoulders. Walk in the direction of Huayuan. I don't know why, at this moment. None of the four spoke.
As if to break the silence, Mercury Xiaohan said without words: "Next month will be my birthday and Xiaowei's. By the way, Teacher Xiaohan, when is your birthday? We will help you Together?"
Yang Xiaohan shook his head: "I don't know either. I was picked up by the master at the foot of the mountain. The master said that at that time, I looked like six or seven years old, but the one who was approached by the master I can’t remember the matter myself. The master said. At that time, no matter what escape method he taught me, I could learn it immediately. He originally suspected that I had practiced escape method since I was a child. Later, he said, it’s a bit Not quite. What’s even more strange is that he said that there are some escape methods. He only taught the beginning, and then I will master it by myself. It’s like practicing again after rebirth. Before the master picked it up, I must have never practiced the escape method."
Is there such a thing?
Nie Chengyan said: "So, Teacher Xiaohan...you don't even know who your parents are?"
"Yeah!" Yang Xiaohan walked forward, walked, and suddenly turned around, "I... probably don't have a sister?"
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In the morning, I helped Sister Mercury carry things and do cleaning in the student apartment, and at noon, Nie Chengyan cooked noodles in the apartment.
The weather was really too hot, the electric fan was whistling, and the four of them played cards in the newly cleaned room.
At around three o'clock in the afternoon, they went to Qingxu Girls' High School and met with Su Feidi, who was working hard to make her TV debut. Nie Chengyan sold her a new song she had written .
"It's better for you, it's a big holiday, you can go wherever you want to play!" Su Feidi said.
"Be content!" Nie Chengyan said, "Not everyone has the opportunity to be a star."
Shuixing Xiaohan and Mercury Xiaowei nodded vigorously.
Because Nie Chengyan was on the train after 9 o'clock in the evening, it was still early, and she made money selling songs, so she took them to Wen Jiaoao's restaurant for dinner.
When you push the door open, the first thing you feel is the cool air in the restaurant. In the city of Luofeng, there are not many restaurants with air conditioning, and Wen Jiaoao happens to be one of them.
When you enter the restaurant, the first thing you see is the elegant and stylish restaurant hostess who is wearing a beautiful purple dress and leaning on the bar!
Music sounded in the restaurant, and it was "Mei Di" who sang "Mei Di". Although the album hasn't been officially released yet, "Wen Jiaoao" Among the guests, quite a few are students. The hostess is full of style, and the air conditioner is never stingy. The whole restaurant looks very classy, but the price is enough for ordinary people to accept. Naturally, it is deeply loved by students.
Of course, at this time, Nie Chengyan, Yang Xiaohan and the other four already knew that, as members of "Gray Vision", the purpose of this restaurant was not to make money in the first place.
"Xiaohan, is your school on holiday too? Are you ready to go home?" Wen Jiao looked at the little boy sitting on the swivel chair opposite her.
"No," Yang Xiaohan replied, "I'll just stay here until school starts?"
He himself wasn't too sure what he was going to do.
"Why don't you just work here," Wen Jiao said with a smile, "You don't have much to do anyway."
The boy thought for a while, but before he could speak, Sister Mercury called out: "Mr. Xiaohan, you still want to teach us how to escape."
"Ah, that's right!" the boy said grinningly.
The wage earners who are free, hard-working and evasive can't be fooled! Wen Jiao sighed.
The four of them found a place to sit down, because they were about to part ways. This time, Nie Chengyan granted them permission to order more desserts.
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Outside of Wen Jiaoao's restaurant, on the street, there are cars coming and going.
Hot weather. Let everyone who passes in front of the store. They all seemed very spiritless. The bus stopped at the station, and a few people got on and off the bus. At the intersection on the other side, for unknown reasons, there were many more traffic policemen, maintaining order. A car turned in a panic, trying to avoid the traffic policemen in front, but was stopped by several plainclothes officers for interrogation. The driver was completely dumbfounded. Under the cross-examination, he kept wiping his sweat.
Several students who were excited because of the holiday were fighting in the street. A burly, ordinary-looking man stared at them for a while, then turned his head and scanned other places. Behind him, on the road, a brand new military vehicle slowly stopped on the side of the road. The burly but not outstanding man turned and opened the door, followed by an old man with a cane. got out of the car.
Obviously, the old man has aged, **10 years old. It made his back look rickety, he was not a tall man when he was young, but he became shorter and shorter when he was old, but at the moment he got off the car, it seemed that he had some kind of mysterious aura that made passersby come and go, Invisibly away from him.
The old man was wearing a Chinese tunic suit, with a cane in his right hand and his left hand behind his back. He raised his head and looked at the signboard above the restaurant. , the neon lights around the edges of the words have not yet been lit, and it is not very conspicuous at the moment.
Accompanied by the burly man, the old man walked towards the main entrance of the restaurant. At this moment, the glass sliding door of the restaurant opened, and four people walked out one after another. The girl in the white dress, the light yellow shirt and the gray pants The boy and the twin sisters walking side by side behind the boy left the restaurant together, they turned a corner and walked to the other side while talking and laughing. At this moment, the old man’s eyes fell on the boy, and followed him moving away.
"Chief?" The man next to him asked in a low voice because of the old man's sudden stop.
"It's nothing!" The old man turned around and looked up at the buildings in the distance with vicissitudes of life. "It's just... I remembered some past events."
In my memory, that was more than forty years ago. With a decisive victory, the founding of New China has been decided.
At that time, I was pushing a boy in a wheelchair down the mountain under the rising sun.
——"If you have something you want to do, tell Uncle Xiao, and Uncle Xiao will definitely help you do it."
——"I want to go to Tian'an City, I want to go to Tian'an City with the chairman on the day of the founding of the People's Republic of China."
——"Haha, is this the one? It's too simple. I'll go and talk to the chairman for you. It's definitely fine... How about letting you read the line that everyone designed? You On Tian'an City, I waved my little hand: The Chinese people have stood up! How about it? Let me talk to the chairman?"
——"This, this is no longer needed..."
Obviously, he had promised to take the child to Tian'an City on the day of the founding ceremony, but in the end he couldn't do it. The child who grew up in the smoke and flames of war couldn't wait for the dawn of peace in the end. Once again, the old man looked at the young boy in the group of four who was walking away with his back turned away, and thought in his heart: "If that child can live to this day, his grandson must be as old as he is, right? If I can protect him properly..."
The old man who never thought that he could live to a peaceful age watched his comrades fall one by one, but he lived with scars all over his body until now. Died because of a mutation. If possible, he really wanted to exchange his forty-plus years of life for that child's life. Only in this way could he truly have no regrets, but life is such an irony.
The burly man pushed open the sliding door for him in front of him.
Leaning on a cane, the old man walked towards the door amidst the sigh of fate, but the memories that were suddenly disturbed did not stop there.
——"Xiaohan, you actually gave me random nicknames outside."
——"Yes, is there? Ha...haha..."
——"Don't scratch my head and play dumb, everyone is screaming after you now, hehe, you actually said behind my back that I am... small, old, and old!"
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Sitting tenderly and charmingly behind the bar, watching the teacher-student group of four talking and laughing as they left the restaurant.
Then, not long after, the sliding door of the restaurant was pushed open again.
The one who pushed the door open was a burly man. Although he was tall and burly, for some reason, the first impression he gave was ordinary, as if he had a strange aura about him. On the field, people don't want to pay too much attention to him when they see him for the first time.
The door was opened, and the burly but surprisingly unobtrusive man stepped aside, and a vicissitudes but short old man with a cane walked in slowly.
Even the always quiet and elegant hostess of the restaurant was slightly moved at this moment.
The founder and supreme chief of Dongyue, the founding general who once fought side by side with the first leader of the founding of New China, and King Zeus of North America, the red gem of the blood paradise, stood by all supernatural beings, escapees One of the three giants at the pinnacle of mages and sorcerers, and the most legendary figure on the mainland of China today.
Even Wen Jiao never thought that this old man would appear here.
"The drizzle is floating, the breeze is swaying, relying on the infatuated love; the snow is falling, the yellow river is turbid, let him be heartbroken; put it down, the sword in my hand, I am willing; call it back, the love in my heart, fate is over! Why do you want to be alone, you are on the other side of the world..."
The light music sound reminded me again, the old man was standing there, leaning on a cane with both hands, listening quietly. Although it is a beautiful melody and voice, it is a lyrics that expresses sorrow for the new words. However, at this moment, the girl's light singing voice makes the old man feel touched at this moment.
——Let it go, the sword in my hand, I am willing; I call it back, my heart, my fate is over! Why do you want to be alone, you are on the other side of the world...
Chairman, comrades-in-arms, Xiaokong, Xiaohan... After finishing these last few things, I will go to the other side of the world to find you. (To be continued.)