Chapter 119 When you said it back, we were the same age
Chapter 119 You said we would be the same age when you came back
Author: Curse Temple Curtain Curtain Wizard
Chapter 119 You said we would be the same age when you came back
When Cooper and Little Brand returned to the Eternal, the Romilly they saw was no longer what it used to be, and his beard and sparse hair had begun to be taken over by white.
"I've been waiting for you for many years." Thanks to Tas' presence, Romilly, who had a communication partner, did not lose his ability to speak.
Cooper looked at Romilly guiltily: "How many years have you been waiting?"
"It should be... 23 years, 4 months and 8 days by now..." Romilly said calmly. He noticed that one person was missing: "Where is Doyle?"
Cooper did not answer, but stepped through the airtight cabin and walked towards his bed.
Little Brand thought of Doyle, his eyes turned red again, and he cried: "I thought I was ready...I was proficient in theory...but the truth is completely different..."
"What about Miller?" Long-term loneliness seemed to have weakened Romilly's emotions. Even when his teammates were killed, he didn't show too much sadness.
Little Brand crossed his arms and did not answer directly: "There is nothing we are looking for on that planet."
Stepping forward and looking at the much older Romilly, little Brand asked distressedly: "Why don't you go to sleep?"
"I have hibernated several times, and I thought you would never come back." Romilly said, "I thought it would be a waste to spend my life and time sleeping, so I kept studying black holes."
"But I can't send the information to your father. We can only receive it, but we can't send anything out." Romilly regretted very much.
Little Brand asked: "Is he still alive?"
"Of course, he is still alive." Romilly said: "Really, I have saved all the information over the years, go and take a look."
[More than twenty-three years... countless ordinary people do not have a clear concept of this number. Only some older people recall their youthful years more clearly in their memories. From that time on, they have been reminiscing like a revolving lantern.
Only now can we understand how long it took.
And Romilly, alone, has been waiting for his companions who don't know whether they will come back in an unknown place from the earth for more than twenty years.
Many people thought of what the pink-haired murderer did when they were looking at the inventory yesterday. He hid his biological mother under the dark floor. I don’t know how long it took, but one thing is certain, even if the light can already be seen in the eyes
, even though she was just a little bit away from being rescued, she was as unresponsive as a corpse.
Loneliness doesn't make people bleed.
But it will make people feel as if they are dead.
Crossing the interstellar world, Cooper happily looked at Tass next to him. If he did not leave Tass behind in the future, it is simply unimaginable what Romilly would have become without anyone to communicate with.
"At least, we won't make the same mistake twice." Romilly said easily in the clean room. He had never experienced it personally, and he himself could not imagine what kind of pain it would be.
But if you can, don’t go through it.
For the four people in this clean room, the inventory video can really be said to be a lifesaver, especially for Doyle, who really died in the inventory. Not to mention that this planet is worthless, they don't
I will go again; now even if I go, I will have some experience and know how to deal with it, so that I will not panic like in the video, and then lose my life in the reality that is too different from the plan.
In a certain historical world, Bai Juyi looked at the "Gift to Lotte at the First Banquet in Yangzhou" presented by Liu Yuxi in his hand, and sighed. At this time, he and Liu Yuxi had returned to Luoyang, and they were composing poems and giving gifts to each other at the Yangzhou banquet.
, I thought it was enough to have mixed feelings.
But now that I see this Kunlun slave living alone for twenty-three years, I suddenly feel that the difficulties in the past are nothing.
After looking up to the sky and laughing a few times, Bai Juyi cheered up, left the place where he was staying, and walked into the crowd.]
Sitting in his seat, Cooper clicked on the communication data that had been cached for twenty-three years.
Taking a deep breath, Cooper looked at the screen anxiously.
"Hi, Dad." Tom on the screen has changed somewhat, becoming more mature, and his voice is slightly deeper: "I graduated, and my grades were second in my class... because there was a teacher who still only gave me
It gave me a C grade and lowered my average score, so I... second place is actually pretty good, right?"
Cooper looked at his slightly proud son on the screen, wiped the tears from his eyes and smiled.
Good boy, you proved that son of a bitch teacher wrong.
"Grandpa came to attend the graduation ceremony... uh... um..." Tom was a little embarrassed: "I met another girl... I can't think of anything unexpected, she will become your daughter-in-law... Her name is Lu
Yisi.”
Passing the group photo to the camera, Tom's face was full of regret, but he couldn't hide the happiness in his voice: "This is her photo, she is very beautiful, right? Murphy, a stubborn girl, said we are a perfect match.
"
Tom couldn't see that his father, twenty-three years later, was bursting with tears. He gritted his teeth to prevent himself from crying. Even though the tears were pouring out continuously, he still had to see everything displayed on the screen clearly.
But Tom fulfilled his responsibility as a communication bridge very well: "Speaking of Murphy...Murphy, she stole grandpa's car...and then the car crashed, but don't worry, nothing happened to her. After all, she hit the tractor as soon as she started.
Even though it was on, the airbag didn’t even explode.”
Cooper knew that he had missed the most important time in his children's lives. Murphy was now in her thirties, and she might even have children of her own. Tom and Murphy's graduation ceremony...wedding...
…I wasn’t even there, the corn harvest might have failed again… Did the tractor break down… Did Donald break something recklessly…
Missed so many things...
"Hi, Dad." On the screen, Tom, who had just graduated, was replaced by a somewhat overweight, weathered man. Cooper didn't recognize him for a while, but it took him a while to confirm that this was the grown-up Tom.
"You're a grandpa!" Tom on the screen held a confused baby and said with pride on his face: "We named him Jesse, and I wanted him to be called Cooper, but Louise said this
The name can be saved for the next child..."
After handing the child to his wife Louise, Tom asked little Jesse to say goodbye to the camera.
At the other end of the screen, Cooper wiped away the tears on his face and subconsciously waved to the video, as if it was a real-time video call.
"Sorry, I haven't sent you a message for a while." The video automatically played continuously. Compared with the time when his son was shown, Tom, who had gone through a lot of vicissitudes, looked at the camera alone again, wanting to see his father in the starry sky through this camera: "
Because...because of Jesse's matter..."
A few seconds ago, the child's joy was captured in the video. Cooper didn't know exactly how long he had been on earth, but the twenty-three years of video were all accumulated together, and Cooper had a feeling of time and space confusion.
.
A few seconds ago...it was the joy of a newborn...now...the condition of the earth has become so bad that newborns are prone to die...
"Grandpa passed away last week..." Tom's brows showed endless sadness on the screen: "We buried him in the wasteland behind the farm... with his mother... and Jesse.
… Jesse actually has a place reserved for you.”
Cooper had stopped crying and was holding back countless emotions in his heart. It was hard to say what specific mood he was feeling now.
"Murphy came to attend grandpa's funeral... Although we haven't seen each other very often in these years, she still came..." Tom looked at the camera blankly, tilted his head and sighed: "I know you can't actually see it at all.
These... all these messages... are just floating in the boundless darkness... Louise said... I have to let you go."
Looking up at the camera, Tom's eyes were full of confusion, but as he remained silent for a while, most of the confusion had dissipated: "I also think it's time to let you go. I don't know where you are, Dad, but I hope you
Be safe...goodbye."
The screen went off and everything came to an abrupt end.
Cooper subconsciously stretched out his hand, thinking there was something else, but the twenty-year-old video sent by his son had already finished playing.
[Interstellar World, Little Brand and Doyle, Romilly looked worriedly at Cooper who was crying just like in the video.
Graduation, falling in love, getting married, having children...bereavement of children, bereavement of relatives...
Every node is crucial to anyone, but Cooper is not here.
They have prepared everything, including their hearts, to devote themselves to finding hope, because they all have nothing to worry about. Even little Brand participated in Operation Lazarus with the support of his father.
But not Cooper.
If 'they' hadn't found him, he would have had a very happy middle-aged life. The only psychological shock might have been the early death of his grandson due to the deterioration of air quality caused by desertification.
For a moment, they had this idea in their hearts: If they still need to set off, it is better to let him stay on the earth, and just the three of us will go. At least, there is no need to go to the most terrifying planet.】
The video ends abruptly, a moment of despair that Cooper has never felt so alone.
The screen did not go off for long, and a strange woman appeared on the screen.
"Hi, Dad." It's very different from Murphy when she was a child. The grown-up Murphy seems to have never woken up and never seen her as a teenager. If it weren't for that call, Cooper would really
He couldn't recognize that this was his daughter.
"Hi, Murphy..." Cooper called out to the woman on the screen who looked very strange from her face in a voice that was hard for him to hear.
"You bastard." Murphy's first words after greeting him were not very gentle, but Cooper once again couldn't control his tears and expression, and once again laughed and shed tears.
"When I heard from you, I didn't say anything because I was still angry about your departure." Murphy in the video was a little thin and looked very haggard: "But when you lost the message, I felt
It’s all my fault.”
The screen on the Ever Given is not high-definition. In order to send information to such a long distance, the video itself cannot be too large.
But even so, on the unclear screen, it could be seen that Murphy's eyes were red: "Today is my birthday, and this birthday is very special, because when you left..."
Cooper covered his mouth, his lips trembling.
Murphy on the screen opened his mouth several times, but was speechless: "Because when you left, you said that when you came back, we would be the same age."
Murphy on the screen could not see Cooper, who could no longer hold back his tears: "Now that I have reached the age when you left, it stands to reason that now is the time for you to come back..."
But you didn't.
Murphy didn't say these words, but her heartbroken eyes told everyone about her sadness.