Can people be resurrected from the dead?
Zhou Zhou had always disdained the study of prophecies and supernatural powers. Death was death, a pile of earth, nothing left. Naturally, there was no resurrection. So when he received the message from Gu Yi, his first reaction was that he had finally gone mad.
This feeling has always existed. Every time they met after Xu Shiqing's death, Zhou Zhou could sense the change in Gu Yi. The change was subtle, like slowly sliding into the abyss.
Sometimes, Zhou Zhou would squat in the shadow of the corner and smoke with melancholy, catching the blazing sunset through the light mist, thinking of the little ghost who came and went in a hurry.
He was too young, imitating Gu Yi's style of wearing all black as if attending a funeral. Lin Dandan repeatedly "coerced" him into changing into brightly colored clothes, but Zhou Zhou laughed at him for looking like a student who was easily bullied, so the young man would secretly change back into his black clothes.
——Seventeen years old, just a little bit short.
Gaozhou gestured randomly with his hands and said, he was just a little bit away from turning eighteen.
That was a wonderful age, and Zhou Zhou had experienced it too. So he knew that if it weren't for this damned world, Xu Shiqing wouldn't even have to learn how to fight. He would have lived a good life, facing his most important exam at eighteen, and then having a coming-of-age ceremony.
...instead of not even being able to piece together the corpse.
He squeezed his eyes shut. That scene was a memory Zhou Zhou didn't want to recall. Their youngest companion, their younger brother, their family, were torn to pieces like rag dolls.
No one can bear to see a living person being turned into a cold stone monument.
revenge.
Zhou Zhou knew that this word was a common thought in their hearts. They didn't even need to say it out loud. They could tell just by looking at each other's eyes.
revenge.
They dug deep into the ground but found nothing, which even triggered a series of suspicions and pursuits.
And the following year, a piece of intelligence ignited the anger of all of them.
——The controller of City C, named A, collected a head.
That's Xu Shiqing's.
Lin Dandan's expression at that time was more vicious than ever before, with red eyes: That was Shi Qing... I saw him, I saw him!
The psychic who stole the intelligence covered her face in disbelief. She had never been so out of control before. This woman, known as the "Strategic Monarch" by the outside world, painfully deduced the terrible truth.
How Jiaming severed Xu Shiqing's head and meticulously preserved it, so that even after more than a year, it still looked as fresh as a real person. Clearly, to him, Xu Shiqing was an enemy, to the point where he deliberately cut off his head and displayed it as a trophy.
"City C is easy to defend but difficult to attack, and it's heavily guarded." Gu Yi squeezed out reason from his emotions: "And there are only four of us."
They need a force, a force that can compete with Jiaming.
Thus Evergreen was born.
Gu Yi is a person who will do his utmost to achieve something once he wants to. But once his goal is achieved, what kind of state will he fall into?
Zhou Zhou was unsure, and the same was true for Gao Zhou and Lin Dandan. They were the ones who had accompanied him until now, and had witnessed the other party's transformation from gentle to vicious. The open and covert attacks between the various bases, the various conflicts within the Changqing base... These were not something that the silent young man could handle. Gu Yi had forced himself to become another person.
The spring that Jiaming died in City C, was a time when clusters of cherry blossoms were in full bloom on both sides of the street, clinging closely to the branches.
When the long-tensioned tension was loosened, they all felt more or less relaxed, but the imagined sense of relief and joy of revenge did not come. Instead, what was left was emptiness and confusion.
Zhou Zhou felt that they had reached a crossroads. In the past nine years, they had lived for hatred, and starting this year, they had to learn to say goodbye to Xu Shiqing and move on.
It seemed sad, but in the process of building their base, they had found a way. For themselves, for others, for their homeland—it was as simple as that. Life is always about moving forward while enduring the broken glass underfoot, or whatever else. You just have to endure it, and it will pass.
Gu Yi's message at this moment made Zhou Zhou feel that he seemed to have reached his limit. Either he was blinded by the psychic, or there was something wrong with his brain and he was hallucinating.
Especially since this was the first year that Xu Shiqing was buried intact, and they had celebrated his death anniversary together. This happened just two days after they had separated. Zhou Zhou knew with his toes that such a coincidence was impossible.
Lin Dandan and Gao Zhou had set off early. As the face of the base, Lin Dandan couldn't interrupt her planned itinerary and turn back; transportation wasn't as convenient as it once was. And Gao Zhou, the accompanying technician and security guard, couldn't make it back either.
He guessed they were still on their way. With most ground base stations and satellites now abandoned, electronic devices like cell phones were no longer widely used due to frequent outages. Their communication relied on telegraphs, which were limited by distance. While Changqing had ample relay stations, intelligence on the leader clearly couldn't be obtained through those public channels.
Satellites, base stations... require both manpower and money.
Zhou Zhou took a puff of cigarette worriedly. Now there was trouble with the leader Gu Yi again. Shi Qing, Shi Qing, please bless your elder brother from the spirit in heaven. Little Zhou couldn't handle this situation.
"Ha!" Xu Shiqing fanned the air around his nose curiously. He suspected that he was sneezing because he had inhaled a foreign object.
He put this little episode aside and continued the previous topic with Gu Yi: "So this is ten years later?"
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