Chapter 46
The man clicked it with doubt.
Only a very small number of semi-developed natural galaxies in the nebula will have snow. When Chu Zhao was editing the "Afterword" before, he specially edited a heavy snowfall out of his own selfishness.
But this time, everything was in the video of "Silence". Audiences with or without immersive mode on could all feel the heavy snow blowing towards them.
The snow seemed to be melting into the sky above the entire nebula, floating and fluttering, with no end. Even the edge of the picture was covered with jagged icicles, and the snow seeds were as big as goose feathers, soft, and white, yet covering the sky and the sun.
It was a snowstorm big enough to drown everyone.
Marshal Pei Shiyun's figure suddenly entered everyone's sight from the lower left corner. From the side, there were medals of honor on both shoulders.
However, the six stars representing the marshal were no longer on the brim of the hat and the front of the military uniform, but a single star with black and gold borders in the center.
Together with the four marshals behind him, they demonstrated the fact that Pei Shiyun was no longer a marshal, but an independent marshal of Nebula who could give orders to marshals.
This kind of situation of setting up a military rank above the military domain marshal has happened in the Nebula before, but it usually happens when there are great changes in the Nebula and the general system at all levels is no longer trustworthy. At this time, the Nebula needs an independent general marshal to take charge.
Marshal Pei Shiyun had obviously been in charge for quite a while, because when he appeared, all the senior generals present, whether they were five-star or six-star, or representatives of the conference court, stood up:
This means that they will completely obey Marshal Pei's authority until Xingyun lifts this emergency. Today's meeting is obviously to resolve some long-standing dispute.
Marshal Pei glanced around the circular Black Tower conference hall before slowly saying, "Sit down." The moment his cloak fell on the chair, everyone fell silent.
The background music was Chu Zhao's favorite song, "One Hundred Years of Solitude." As the sad tone slowly cut in, the snow rushed down diagonally.
Marshal Pei Shiyun: "Has the public opinion been dealt with?"
This surprised the audience a little. The appearance of the Independent Marshal meant that Nebula had been completely taken over by the Independent Marshal. With internal and external troubles, how could he still have the time to deal with public opinion? It should be said that public opinion was no longer the most important thing to pay attention to at this time.
No one should dare to use public opinion to stir up trouble at this time.
The fact is indeed so. The meeting court has always been arrogant, but when it comes to special periods, the representatives immediately become respectful and stand up to speak, all of which are about the consequences of some speeches and provocateurs.
After that, there was silence.
Marshal Pei Shiyun glanced at him, and when the man was about to wipe his sweat, he took off his gloves and put them on the table, and said lightly: "The public opinion that falsely accused Marshal Ying Ying of treason." The others were shocked. "Why didn't you deal with it?"
The senior generals in the video are still fine, but the Ying Pei CP fans outside the video, such as Xia Liu, have already:
[? You who are standing here, do you dare to say one more word? Who betrayed? ]
【? Meeting court, do you want to die? (Referring specifically to the one in the video) Marshal Ying Ying devoted herself to Xing Yun, fell into a sleep and almost couldn't be saved by the special treatment cabin. This is something everyone knows, but you framed her for treason? Even if you treasoned, Marshal Ying Ying would never have treasoned (smile)】
[Marshal Ying Ying had several personal soldiers who died in Zerg sieges]
[Fuck you, I really want to swear, what on earth are you thinking! ]
[Honestly, have you noticed that Marshal Ying Ying is not one of the four military marshals? It seems that the senior generals of the Thirteenth Army are also standing behind another marshal...
The representative of the meeting wiped his sweat and said, "Your Excellency Marshal, we have already discussed this point. We believe that in this special period, since there is no evidence to prove that the core area of the East Region was not driven by the chief commander Marshal Ying Ying before the rebellion, and now that the military morale is uncertain, giving the people some freedom to discuss is actually-"
Before he could finish his words, the calm independent marshal interrupted him: "Marshal Ying Ying has already died in the defense battle in the core area of the East Region. Who gave you this right?"
The more he spoke, the colder his calm eyes became, revealing a bottomless darkness: "Slandering the former Eastern Region Marshal."
The representative of the conference hall was immediately frightened and his face turned pale. Not only was he afraid to speak because of the cold and angry tone, he even subconsciously took a step back.
However, when Marshal Pei finished speaking and stood up, the representatives in the meeting hall turned pale and almost trembled. Marshal Pei Shiyun was still angry, but this anger was not like the grief and hatred for his lover's unjust death, but just out of justice and respect:
The audience felt empty and confused for a moment.
Marshal Pei Shiyun: "Although I have seldom met Marshal Ying Ying, I know that she has made outstanding contributions and is a cold and straightforward person. She repeatedly visited Marshal Heng out of respect for her mentor, but in your eyes, it became her intention to form a clique to overthrow Xingyun."
His tone was not harsh, but the sharpness in his words made several people sit up and take notice: "If Marshal Ying Ying and Dong Yu did this, Xingyun's first line of defense would have collapsed long ago."
How could it be their turn to deliberately smear here?
Marshal Pei did not say it explicitly, but his words were already extremely harsh. After he left with the four marshals, the entire conference room was still immersed in a tense and cold atmosphere of silence. The representatives of the conference room were pale, their limbs were trembling, and they could not sit down for a long time.
Back at the command ship, the adjutant, who was also unfamiliar to them, approached and whispered something. Marshal Pei Shiyun turned his face, still in profile, and half of his body was still submerged in the fierce wind and snow outside the window.
The audience could only see Marshal Pei Shiyun's angular profile and slightly drooping eyelashes. "Calm down the Thirteenth Army."
Compared to the cold and fierce attitude at the meeting, Marshal Pei was obviously more inclined towards Marshal Ying Ying and the Thirteenth Army after the meeting, and his words were calm. "They suddenly had a marshal handover, which was inconvenient."
"Marshal Zuo Su requests an audience."
Zuo Lin, as the adjutant of Marshal Ying Ying, was not able to survive when the marshal died. Zuo Su happened to be the sister of Zuo Lin's adjutant. In the video, she succeeded Marshal Ying Ying as the commander of the East Region.
"What's up."
Zuo Su was still very young. Given her qualifications, if she hadn't had a broken spine, it would have been impossible for her to take this position. She also respectfully handed over a letter with both hands.
Just like the custom of sending a branch of spring to someone has been infinitely diluted in Xingyun, few people write letters in the era of advanced communications, and the current writing style is also simplified. The way of notification by letter also seems old-fashioned and ridiculous.
Marshal Pei Shiyun took the letter and read it through, then handed it to his adjutant and told Zuo Su, "Go back."
"marshal?"
"Marshal Ying Ying left her trusted aides and the key to the secret combat base in the backup energy cabin of the mecha."
Marshal Pei Shiyun turned his head to look at the heavy snow outside. This snow was clearly a sign of the collapse of the nebula ecosystem and the doomsday, but at this moment it seemed inexplicably sad and desolate.
"The backup energy cabin is where the mecha self-destruct key is. When she left, she expected that some of the generals around her could not be trusted."
The adjutant also looked heavy-hearted: "Marshal Ying Ying died on the front line of the East Region. His merits in protecting the Nebula cannot be erased. The Council wants to slander Marshal Ying Ying to erase the fact that the Nebula system almost collapsed due to their wrong decision. This is just asking for trouble."
Pei Shiyun reached out his hand, took the letter back, and said, "You go and deal with it first."
The adjutant nodded and walked out.
Marshal Pei Shiyun took the letter, spread it out with his fingers, and read it again and again in the heavy snow. This scene overlaps with the "Postscript", which instantly reminds people of the heavy snow that separated them from life and death.
However, Marshal Pei Shiyun missed Marshal Ying Ying in the heavy snow. It was Marshal Ying Ying who predicted the crisis in the Western Regions and took the lead in ending the possible disaster in the Western Regions. As a result, he died. It was she who chose such a fate.
And now, they haven't even met each other. They are just ordinary marshals of the same military domain. They know and respect each other, but even until his death, Marshal Pei Shiyun never knew more than this.
This may be considered a pity.
But the audience soon discovered that they had thought too highly of Chu Zhao.
In a state of emergency, the Nebula cannot operate independently, and all decisions must be voted on by the independent marshal and all senior generals present in the meeting chamber.
Therefore, in the following period of time, the conference court launched a frantic counterattack and continued to throw dirty water on Marshal Ying Ying, while Marshal Pei Shiyun and other people in Xingyun became more aware of the efforts made by Marshal Ying Ying during his tenure due to the persistent arguments of Marshal Zuo Su and the Thirteenth Army.
Another failed argument. The new representative of the conference hall pretended to be calm, but in the end his face turned pale. When he was about to catch up with the independent marshal to explain himself, his adjutant stopped him. Marshal Pei Shiyun paused and slowly turned around.
"I want to know why you think that everything Marshal Ying Ying did can be twisted and smoothed out by you?"
His brows were cold.
"Does it mean that for you, merit is something you can discredit with public opinion?"
Marshal is just a military rank and not worthy of respect at all?
But it was the merits from numerous battles and the unquestionable strength that created the halo of the Nebula Merit, and that allowed Marshal Ying Ying to sit in this position at such a young age, yet no one questioned or opposed it, and everyone in the Eastern Region respected him.
Public opinion slowly died down. As Marshal Ying Ying was rehabilitated, more and more of the victories that belonged to Marshal Ying Ying and the Eastern Region became known to the public.
Marshal Pei Shiyun often opened the letter in the dim morning light after the snow, and after reading it, he would look up at the snow-covered nebula in the distance.
That is a world that the Eastern Region has never reached, and it is also the world that they have tried their best to protect.
[QAQ, although I know that Marshal Ying Ying and his men died for what they deserved, it’s still so sad]
[Damn you, this conference room, damn you, this black media (tears streaming down my face) I’m going to kill you (crying loudly)]
[Wuwuwuwu, although they don’t know each other, what’s wrong with that? Let them never have a deeper regret than this. Wuwuwuwuwu, let them respect each other for the rest of their lives and never be separated by death.]
[woooo ...
But soon the background music began to match the snow, a distant and sad song. The vast sky was like a dim mirror, illuminating the dormant and silent nebula completely.
Marshal Pei Shiyun stood in front of the meeting room of the Black Tower, overlooking the gray land. The adjutant came in and handed him the notes of Marshal Ying Ying that Marshal Zuo Su had found again.
Pei Shiyun flipped through the documents and suddenly rubbed his nose, which was unusual for him, and put the information aside. At night, the nebula turned into a dim star. He sat down again, with his left hand against the center of his nose, and his right hand quietly flipping through the documents.
When he saw a certain page, he closed his notebook, closed his eyes, and called his adjutant in: "Call the representatives of the meeting court."
The adjutant was stunned for a moment, because in his impression, the marshal rarely gave orders alone, and most decisions were left to the meeting court for discussion and resolution, even though the independent marshal had this privilege. But he still responded quickly.
Then he was stunned for a moment when the man came out wiping his sweat.
The adjutant checked the time, knocked on the door and went in. He saw the marshal standing in front of the window. He was not wearing his military jacket, and his notebook was on the table. The marshal was looking at the snow-covered field in the distance, and then he said, "Forget it."
At this moment, even though the adjutant didn't know why the marshal suddenly called the representatives of the conference hall over, he suddenly understood that this call was because Marshal Ying Ying had died.
Even if the conference court is punished or suppressed again, she will never come back.
This sound seemed to be the prelude to the tragic song that followed.
The situation in Xingyun gradually stabilized, but the situation in the East Region was turbulent due to the lack of trust and support for the new Marshal. This was not a problem with Marshal Zuo Su's ability, but Marshal Ying Ying had been the Marshal for too long and was too stable.
The territory of the Eastern Region is vast, and it would not be appropriate to hand it over to anyone rashly. Marshal Pei Shiyun, who has solved the nebula problem, can only assist in the management temporarily.
He patrolled the territories she had walked through, discussed with her confidants how to open the defense line, and also opened the notes at night.
He even found the wreckage of her mecha.
"Xuan Deng" is a name that really suits her mecha and her own style. A solitary lamp hangs high, guarding one side.
That day he stood in front of her mecha and presided over a ceremony for other senior generals in the Eastern Region to mourn Marshal Ying Ying and other generals who died in battle.
After the ceremony, he wiped the dust and charred debris on the surface of the mecha in front of him, and suddenly he was struck by a part.
Marshal Pei Shiyun was startled, squatted down following the part, and then picked it up, only to find that it was not a part, but a command core.
Students in military academies have to practice command. Because they participate in so many battles, they even need to regularly replace the command chip of their mecha to ensure that they can maintain the same frequency contact with the temporarily matched team.
He had seen this command core before.
The scene flashes back.
In a very tense battle, the opponent was arrogant and relied on the novel moves of their mecha hands and the fact that most of their team members had actual combat experience to crush them madly in the first half.
At that time, they were all freshmen and had never encountered such a situation. The First Military Academy did not designate a commander. When they were about to lose the battle, he and another 0019 stood up at the same time, and after hearing each other's voices, they said calmly at the same time:
"It doesn't matter, let's cooperate in the battle."
This spontaneous tacit understanding made both of them stunned for a second, and then in the second half, relying on the coordination of the two completely unfamiliar commanders and the anger held by others, they finally turned defeat into victory.
After the command was over, Pei Shiyun wanted to contact Ying Ying, but unfortunately Ying Ying was called away by others. Later, due to some strange coincidence, he never saw the command core 0019 again.
.It turns out that I have seen it before.
Marshal Pei Shiyun, holding the command core, stood up. The hanging lights were silent, and the snow outside the window blocked the stars.
In that silence, the layers of tragedy reached a climax, and Pei Shiyun seemed to see the Marshal Ying Ying whom she had never met. She was very strong and calm.
She would foresee all the dangers in the future, and after finishing her command, she would use the 0019 channel to say to him: "See you again if we are lucky."
If, if he rushed forward at that time, if they exchanged contact information, perhaps he would have met a completely different Ying Ying. He would have been her partner, they would have fought side by side, served as generals together, and chased each other.
They would talk about everything, exchange their combat methods and training experiences. They would have their own opinions in the meeting, but after the meeting, they would put the meeting aside and talk to each other about the weather today.
They will get to know each other.
Instead, now he could only look up at the tall and broken hanging lamp, imagining the person who had amazed him when he was young, how she broke through the wind and snow, how she was invincible alone.
Why did she still keep this command core? Why didn't she break out? But, it was all missed. It was too late.
Marshal Pei Shiyun held the command core tightly. When he returned to the command ship, he reflexively opened the notebook and read it over and over again until midnight, when he finally climbed up to the real tower.
He stepped into her memorial site and saw a holographic projection on the suspended mechanical tombstone that outlined a Ying Ying that he was not familiar with, but was exactly the same as the one he had imagined.
She supported her head and sat on the chair without wearing gloves. Like him, she liked to stare at her palms with her eyes downcast when thinking, turning them over and over.
Marshal Pei Shiyun stood in the black tower, silently standing all night. When the adjutant found this place, a thin layer of snow fell on the marshal's shoulder straps, but he just said: "Let's go."
[Fuck, I want to cry]
[It’s not what I thought, right? QAQ]
[I don't know why Marshal Pei came but I still can't hold back my tears, wuwuwuwuwu, didn't they agree that it would be candy? ]
Marshal Ying Ying became more and more of an invisible reference for Marshal Pei Shiyun when making decisions. He flipped through her notes, served as the coordinating marshal of the East Region, and occasionally went to the Thirteenth Army base in person to see how her subordinates trained the troops.
Once he walked among the new recruits and saw one of them rehearsing the fleet formation that he had used when he was a new admiral. When the adjutant called the instructor over, they said that their marshal had also used it.
When the scene where Pei Shiyun rebuked the court for slandering Marshal Ying Ying reappeared, Marshal Ying Ying was standing in front of the window in the background:
"Marshal Pei of the Western Regions has a cold and hard style, but the Western Regions are orderly and swift."
Ying Ying turned around.
"If we have time, you and I should go to the Western Regions for an investigation."
The picture is blurry and the audience can no longer see who she is talking to.
But what they could clearly see was that before they met, the two marshals had already been friends for a long time. If it weren't for the failure of that command, they would have had the opportunity to become very compatible colleagues. If it weren't for the crisis facing Nebula, they would have had the opportunity to appreciate each other and move forward hand in hand.
If Marshal Ying Ying had not sacrificed himself, they would have been close friends or even a perfect match. But Marshal Ying Ying sacrificed himself, and the fate that Marshal Pei Shiyun had realized and even grasped was already a pity.
When I was watching Wei Heng, someone said, "You were born before I was born." In fact, it is not true. The biggest regret is that when I knew that there was a soul in the world that I respected, admired, and was very compatible with, this soul had already dissipated in the world I witnessed.
Moreover, we had met once before, but never met again after that.
If these were any two people in the world, if they had never made exactly the same moves at any time and in any place to make the audience feel that they were a perfect match, then after her death, I realized that my falling in love with her might have been just a lie.
But for Ying Pei, whom he had never met, how could this not be considered a kind of fate?
When you devoted all your energy to the Nebula and died calmly, I was impressed by your invincibility before your sacrifice. I admired your calmness and your strategy. I was angry about the slander caused by your sacrifice. I felt your thoughts from your notes and wanted to know what would have happened if you had not sacrificed yourself.
But I don’t know what will happen anymore.
What was left for Pei Shiyun was a sacrificed and limited Ying Pei. And he no longer had the chance to continue to understand her, or even become close friends with her and cooperate with her tacitly.
He fell in love with the unique soul in the world. He fell in love with the noble, dissipated, silent soul, the one in a million left in this world.
He and she had the same mission. Therefore, as he spent the rest of his life guarding the Nebula, he would think of what she had done for this star field ten, a hundred, or a thousand years ago.
At the end of the video, the snow covered the walls. The white tower outside the window became blurred, and Marshal Pei Shiyun's hand was on the glass, touching the white tower.
The adjutant came to ask about the restart of the league and whether two commanders would be allowed to participate in the battle this time. He also provided two videos of excellent cooperation between two partners to achieve a perfect victory.
He looked at them, but what he saw in his eyes were him and Ying Ying. When they were still military students, they relied on each other and could defeat other military academy teams with their tacit understanding.
When they finished the battle and rested against the training ground, he tilted his head and asked her which star field she would go to, but she said: "I'm very happy to be your partner."
He looked at her, she smiled for a while, then turned her head and drove out in the overhead light.
When the sky suddenly darkened, what emerged from the snow was the wreckage of the hanging lamp that had defeated Zhan Wudi. In the cockpit was Ying Ying, whose body was covered in blood and whose eyes were filled with fear.
"marshal?"
Pei Shiyun handed the video back: "Allow it."
Adjutant: "The conference court may object, but the transition period of the special period has not yet been completely completed, and public opinion should not rebound."
Marshal Pei Shiyun looked at the white tower behind the glass. The adjutant said that it was built by the East Region to commemorate Marshal Ying Ying's meritorious service. The higher the white tower, the longer the longing and the greater the respect.
The White Tower had come to an end in his sight, but he was still staring at the endless snow, until the snow flew back to the dome, beyond the nebula, and until that year when they joined hands to conduct the command.
He said my name is Pei Shiyun.
She said my name is Ying Ying.
"Nice to meet you."
There is a star coffin in the black tower. But the remains are much better preserved and less empty. Her coffin is empty in the white tower, where flowers bloom every year, unlike other places that are infected by snow.
He looked at the transparent coffin and stretched out his hand.
It seemed as if they had really known each other many times in another time and space, and they had really fought side by side with tacit understanding, until the entire nebula knew that Pei Shiyun and Ying Ying were famous on the same level.
"I wish you peace." Pei Shiyun whispered. It was as if he wanted to make up for all the blessings he owed her before he met her. If she, who has already sacrificed herself, can't receive it, then in another time and space, let me take the initiative to get to know you.
"I wish you peace."
"Ying Ying."
Thousands and thousands of times.
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