As the train started, the scenery outside the window began to move backwards, faster and faster.
After 1,000 express trains, it soon left the Chicago Railroad Company's railway network from a branch road and plunged into the dense forest of giant redwoods.
The redwood forest in northern Illinois surrounds the Great Lakes. There are giant redwood trees that are one thousand to several thousand years old. They cover the sky and the sun. Even in the daytime when the sun is the brightest, this forest is very bright.
It was dark, with only a little bit of sunlight streaming down from the gaps in the tree canopy.
Xia Mi was sitting by the car window, with her right elbow touching her knees and supporting her perfectly curved chin. The wind flowing from the gap in the window blew her hair slightly and scattered along with the rising sun.
"Brother! The news said there was a comet today!" Xia Mi suddenly raised his head and said.
"Comet?" Chu Zihang, who was sitting opposite him, frowned and thought for a moment, "Is it a newly discovered one?"
"I don't know, the news didn't say anything." Xia Mi put down the tablet, leaned on the car window and looked at the sky behind the layers of trees.
"There really is a comet, but it is basically invisible during the day." Chu Zihang said calmly, "If you want to see it, I will accompany you to the mountain to see it at night."
Xia Mi flew towards him with a smile, hung on him like a koala, and blew gently into his ear: "Classmate, if you dote on your girlfriend so much, aren't you afraid of spoiling her?
?”
Chu Zihang lowered his head slightly, pressed his forehead against hers, and closed his eyes silently.
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Colorful neon signs occupy a large area of view.
This city is completely different from what it was back then. The traffic flow is swaying on the elevated road, and the CBD area is brightly lit.
Under the sporadic lights of the building, Lu Mingfei was riding his bicycle slowly along the street with Eriyi on his back.
Eliyi sat on her side, her arms around Lu Mingfei's waist, and her little face pressed against his back.
The night wind drifting off the street carried the summer breeze and blew towards them, blowing up their thin clothes.
There were no people on the street, only the street lamps along the road on both sides cast bright yellow lights, and the tall plane trees cast large shadows.
Lu Mingfei hummed a song and drove Eli Yi around the streets without any destination in mind. He just wanted to take the girl behind him to take a good look at the city where he once lived.
Eriki's clear eyes lingered on the scenery on the roadside.
The night sky was deep and dark. There was a small restaurant on the roadside not far away, and the faint smell of chicken soup filled the air.
Those places further away are brightly lit billboards, large tracts of lush trees shrouded in shadow, and heavy clouds on the distant sky.
When passing by an old-fashioned residential area, Lu Mingfei stopped, stepped on the steps next to him, and turned to look at Eri Yi.
Eriyi pulled the corner of his clothes and pointed at the mottled exterior walls of the old residential buildings with shining eyes. It was rare that such residential buildings still existed here, with red brick exterior walls and many small advertisements posted on the walls.
"Let's go to the rooftop!" Eriki pursed her lips and said, her cold voice filled with excitement, "Has Sakura used to watch the stars on this rooftop?"
Lu Mingfei was stunned, and then he understood why Eryi was suddenly interested in the rooftop of this residential area.
When he was in a bad mood as a child, he liked to climb to the rooftop and enjoy the wind, skylight and the different smells of the city in spring and autumn alone.
When he and Eriki described all this, it was with a mysterious and fantastical color, just like the mysterious island described by Jules Verne, or the secret base mentioned in many Japanese comics, which every child will know when they are young.
They care deeply about their territory.
Lu Mingfei turned the front of his bicycle and rode deep into the old community. He parked next to a huge luxuriantly growing sycamore tree and carefully walked Eriyi up the stairs.
The building in this community is not high, only the sixth floor. The rooftop is on the seventh floor. The road to the rooftop is blocked by a wooden door painted green.
Unfortunately, there is no door in this world that can stop him.
Opening the wooden door, Lu Mingfei and Hui Liyi walked onto the rooftop. On the large open space, there were many herringbone-shaped solar water heaters and water tanks neatly placed.
He led Eri to the edge of the concrete platform, just like a young boy pulling a girl to his secret base, looking up at the stars that covered the vast night sky.
At this moment, it was not only Hui Liyi who was silent, but also Lu Mingfei.
He looked at the city with mottled lights at night. The city in his field of vision and the lights of the community below him were warm and cozy. He really felt like he was back in a secret base.
Lu Mingfei turned his head and looked at the girl beside him.
This profile is really heart-wrenching.
Eriyi seemed to be holding her breath, and the dim light in the distance was reflected in the hole.
She was looking at the city where the boy had lived, looking for the picture that the boy had once described to her. Finally, she turned her head and looked at Lu Mingfei, pursed her lips and chuckled, her eyes sparkling.
The wind comes from all directions.
The night wind blowing through the lush summer leaves gathered around them like a trickle.
Lu Mingfei was startled. This was the power of Yan Ling, but it was not him, but the girl beside him.
Huiliyi took the initiative to hold Lu Mingfei's hand, and they slowly lifted into the air surrounded by the wind. She raised her hand and pointed to the sky under the deep night:
"Let's go see the stars together."
Lu Mingfei was speechless and held the girl's hand tightly with his backhand.
Their feet left the ground, like a speck of dust in the dark night, swaying into the sky with the night wind. The bustling city beneath their feet slowly shrank in size. The brightly lit windows of every house outlined the outline of the city, and the viaducts
The endless flow of vehicles gradually became the size of ants, and finally converged into a colorful river of light that stretched across the city like colorful satin.
Even the tallest building in the city eventually became a square box in their eyes.
Lu Mingfei used [Mingzhao] as a cover and let Eliyi pull him to the top of the clouds.
They looked down and saw that the center of the city was condensed with torch-like lights, extending in all directions, weakening and gradually turning dark, with only a few fireflies remaining on the edge of the city.
Like an island in a vast ocean
Lu Mingfei suddenly felt a little confused.
In that lost age, he also walked among the stars above his head in the clouds, overlooking the scattered land in the vast sea.
To him, who was high in the sky at that time, the land islands under his feet were also stars.
Over the years, he had seen the city's brightest sunshine in spring while hiding on that deserted rooftop, seen the rising sun and setting sun, and also seen the city's silence after the hustle and bustle...
He once thought that he was alone at that time, but it was not until much later that he realized that he had actually been accompanied by a small figure all those years ago.
The little guy who always wears suits and ties will quietly hold his hand and accompany him to blow the spring night breeze, listen to the chirping of cicadas in summer, watch the autumn sunset, and bask in the warm winter sun...
It turns out that he has never been alone.
At this moment, the stars above his head were brilliant, and the midsummer night wind blew past him, dispersing the heavy black clouds in the distance with a devastating gesture.
Lu Mingfei heard the girl next to him say:
"Sakura, look at the comet!"
At this time...is there a comet?
Lu Mingfei suddenly came back to his senses and looked in the direction Eliyi pointed.
They stood on the sea of clouds and looked up at the starry sky that seemed to be far away. There was really a comet passing through the solar system.
The comet in the night sky looks like a distant badminton hanging upside down.
The bright and dense condensate in the middle is the comet nucleus, the hazy and fluffy gas envelope is the coma, and there is a dark and thin hydrogen cloud around the edge.
"Xiao Ya said that comets have no fixed size. When they are far away from the sun, their size will become smaller. When they get closer to the sun, their size will become larger and larger, and the comet's tail will become longer and longer."
Eriyi whispered in his ear,
"When the core of a comet approaches the sun with thin flames, its surface will vaporize due to heat, and the hibernating comet will enter the active period of life. Like the moon, it reflects sunlight, plus its own stimulated and burned light.
Forming a radiant garment.”
"Xiaoya also said that Sakura is the sun of this world. I think if Sakura is the sun, then I will be the comet that met Sakura. Sakura lit up my world. I have never regretted meeting Sakura."
The girl came close and whispered in the boy's ear.
This is the longest love confession.
Lu Mingfei turned his head, stared at Eli Yi and whispered softly: "You are not my comet, you are my moon. The comet will eventually leave the area governed by the sun, and will not pass through the solar system again until the next cycle comes, but I
I don’t want you to leave my world again. You don’t regret meeting me, and I am very lucky to meet you.”
The corner of the girl's mouth raised, and her vagina was as gorgeous and bright as a Van Gogh oil painting. She hugged the boy's neck and slowly pressed it against his ear:
"Xiaoya said that the best birthday gift is to give myself to you."
Immediately, the girl slowly closed her eyes, as if she was ready to let you have her way. All the whispers and murmurs at this moment made her feel sad in front of her, and her long eyelashes trembled slightly, revealing that the girl was not calm.
's heart.
Lu Mingfei couldn't help but groan in his heart, "That damn woman, she just led his lovely and pure Eriyi to ruin!"
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In this summer's clear blue sky filled with stars.
The comet that suddenly visited the earth seemed to come to witness some story.
It will eventually go away with those sad, unforgettable, painful and regretful memories.
All that's left are the best years.
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On the rooftop where Lu Mingfei and the others left, the boy sat on the edge of the rooftop with his feet dangling in the air. He hummed a song called "Forget Me Not" and looked at the comet track in the night sky.
He wondered whether it was the boy who flirted with the girl tonight, or the girl who flirted with the boy.
But no matter which one it is, the girl metaphor is wrong.
She is not a comet.
Every comet's journey across the solar system is not a leisurely stroll.
Every time they come to the sun, they will be peeled off a layer of skin and lose part of their substance.
And every loss of material will directly lead to the demise of the comet in the distant future.
This is not an infinite loop of journey, but a journey with an end point marked at the beginning.
So brother...
Do you still remember the chips you paid to restart your life?
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"Oh God, is this the legendary miracle?"
The old man's face turned red, and he raised his hands tremblingly, as if he wanted to worship the temple in front of him.
Chen Motong stood behind him, side by side with Ling, looking in disbelief at the temple in front of him, standing deep in the Arctic Circle, under the glacier.
This is a temple made of black stone. Behind the temple stands a tall statue of a man. He has a handsome appearance and is not angry. The carver is obviously a real master. In just a few strokes, he outlines the man's gaze on the world and all living things.
look.
On the forehead of the man's statue, there is a strange symbol.
Chen Motong looked at it and felt that it looked like a burning comet.
She had almost forgotten how long they had been in the Arctic Circle. At first, they kept circling in the sea, and the leader, Professor Saka, insisted that the ruins they were looking for were near that sea area.
No one knows how long they stayed, until one foggy morning, the captain suddenly found an island in front of him.
At Professor Saka's insistence, half of the people were left on the ship, and they organized a temporary team to land on the island.
This is a mysterious island. They did not find any signs of life on the island, but they found traces of human activities.
They went deeper and finally found a tunnel under the glacier mountain in the center of the island, and along the tunnel they found the temple in front of them.
"Ms. Chen! We have found the lost miracle!" Professor Saka came to her excitedly, held her hand and shook it vigorously, "This is definitely lost history! There is obviously a gap in human history records.
, otherwise there is no way to explain why there are statues and temples of the Great Emperor here!"
"Emperor?"
Chen Motong asked blankly, but Professor Saka had already turned around excitedly and directed his assistant to start taking pictures...
Just as she was about to catch up and ask, Ling beside her suddenly spoke.
"In the fourth month of the fifth year of Emperor Yuan's reign, a comet came out of the northwest, red and yellow, eight feet long, and in the next few days it was more than ten feet long, pointing northeast, at Shenfen..."
Nuonuo frowned and asked in a low voice: "Which book does this come from? Which comet is it recorded in, and what does it have to do with this temple?"
"It comes from "Hanshu Tianwenzhi", which records a non-periodic comet, and in ancient Roman history it was also called 'Julian's Star'."
Ling looked at Nono, and for the first time there was a complex expression on his delicate little face.
When the word "Julian" fell into his ears, Nono's mind was shaken and he was lost for a long time.
She looked at the statue in the temple and suddenly understood which emperor in history this statue represented.
At this moment, Professor Saka in front seemed to have found something, and he softly interpreted the ancient text on the temple wall:
"...He came from the divine, and he will eventually return to the divine..."
"... He will live as long as Nestor, and after his ascension, he will return to his place in the sky and be listed as a star. You can welcome his soul from the stabbed body, turn him into a star, and make him eternal.
For the gods, high in the sky guarding Capitolium and Vroom..."
"...He will eventually return in a thousand years, a thousand years from now..."