Chapter 50
Marshal Zhu Heng turned off the holographic screen.
The adjutant was stunned for a moment, and almost blurted out: "Marshal, you can look further back and you will know that it is not the case", but swallowed it silently. Spoilers are not a good habit.
Moreover, the adjutant glanced at the marshal and felt that Marshal Zhu Heng did not think that this was just a video.
Zhu Heng stood up and walked to the porthole.
The command ship was very long, with portholes occupying almost two-thirds of the front ship. When the jump was boring, the blindfolded Wei Qi would break free from his embrace, let him take her here, then listen to the sound in the universe and ask him, what is this?
"Why do you want to make me think that you are just an ordinary general?"
Zhu Heng closed his eyes.
They had argued like this before. Actually, Zhu Heng asked himself, he hid his identity during that period just because he was cautious by nature, and he didn't want the Zerg to know he was here before they were completely wiped out.
However, this cautious nature also made them realize the deepest gap between them later. In the video, Wei Qi said that if they didn't know that he was the Marshal of the Southern Region, they would never be together.
Zhu Heng knew.
That's why he knows better.
Of course she would be angry. Of course she was not someone he could easily impress or approach. He hoped that she would be like a star hanging in the sky for the rest of his life. She didn't want to be so close.
Otherwise, how ugly he would be in her light, how uncontrollably he would want to possess her? He himself didn't know.
But watching the video, he couldn't help missing her. He missed her expression, her briskness, her footsteps in the ship, her sometimes cautiousness and sometimes boldness.
He missed Wei Qi as if he missed her saying "I will". Whenever he thought that one day she would remember him like a grain of sand in her hand, he felt both happy and painful.
This happiness and pain wrapped him tightly.
So much so that when he saw Wei Qi in the video wanting to pretend to marry him, he felt the emptiness and pain that Zhu Heng in the video felt, which he could completely empathize with.
"marshal."
Zhu Heng turned around.
He had to admit that the creator of this video was right, she had predicted their future with flawless, accurate and amazing precision, she had seen with accuracy and amazing precision the past they would have, the past that he might destroy and that he shouldn't have reached at all.
She even preserved Wei Qi's tone and habits so carefully.
"Let's set sail."
There is a regular meeting of the Supreme Court this afternoon.
The adjutant decided to remind him: "Marshal, the video has not been played yet. There are many people in the comments who hope to see the sequel of you and Miss Weiqi together."
He asked himself, the reminder was obvious enough.
Zhu Heng only remembered what she said to him in the dream. He was desperate to leave with her, breaking through layers of obstacles and reaching the edge of the nebula. Wei Qi in the dream said to him: "Zhu Heng, you should wake up."
Later, Wei Qi learned about this dream from him, looked at him for a while, and asked him: "Will the military marshal also indulge in illusory victory?"
He actually knew that videos tended to be idealistic. He knew that at the end of the video, Wei Qi might forgive him. She might just be playing a prank on him or just teaching him a lesson.
But just like, Nebula won't bring them together.
He hoped that he had never reached that kind of illusory happiness, maybe this way he would be more able to accept the real pain. Maybe he only needed to bear this pain alone, instead of imagining that she was also bearing it, which would make both her and him doubly miserable.
When she left she said: She would.
She would never forget him.
"Let's set sail."
When the ship entered a fully blocked flight state, Zhu Heng reopened his light brain and when he exited "Echoes", he saw in the related recommendations that another video creator, Niao Niao Shengyan, had attached a postscript to his latest updated video.
This is exactly what Xia Liu felt was missing.
But she cried after watching it and immediately posted a comment:
[QAQ I would rather you didn’t complete this paragraph! ]
Zhu Heng clicked on it.
The video is the postscript of "Silence", and the protagonist is also Marshal Pei Shiyun in "Silence", but unlike the main film of "Silence", the one who supplements the "postscript" is Marshal Pei who has never forgotten Marshal Ying in the last few clips.
——Xia Liu said something was missing, and Chu Zhao saw it.
But she thought about it carefully, and felt that what Xia Liu felt was missing was probably what she had cut for the sake of continuity. Marshal Pei Shiyun had actually always been in close contact with Marshal Ying Ying, but he still became an independent marshal based on the part where they slandered Marshal Ying Ying.
Frankly speaking, Chu Zhao originally wanted to cut this part, but it was too bad, so she changed her mind after cutting a little bit and it didn't work. Now the public is calling on the public to be considerate of the marshal and other senior generals.
She used a tragic video as a prelude before editing the new video so that they could sympathize with the marshals and feel their own feelings. Is that not too much?
Moreover, this postscript style was originally her style. When she asked the boss for his opinion, she still resisted a little bit:
【Smoke curling up】: Actually it’s not that bad, not that bad (testing the edge of being banned)
Pei Shiyun wanted to reply, but a hand had already passed over him and clicked the screen. Pei Shiyun looked at her, and Marshal Ying Ying tapped the desktop, turned his head and raised his eyebrows.
Pei Shiyun: "It's so hard to get a sweet cut."
Ying Ying: "You make it sound as if Marshal Pei had just insisted on finishing it."
Pei Shiyun retracted his gaze and didn't look at her: "Give me the suppression bracelet." He whispered again: "Maybe I can fulfill Marshal Ying's expectations and watch it quietly."
Ying Ying smiled, tapped his wrist, and put the ring on his wrist again: "Really?"
Jingwei suddenly became alert. Pei Shiyun was quiet for a while, then adjusted the bracelet's suppression effect to the maximum and held her hand.
【1999】：Okay.
This tone... Chu Zhao almost hit her keyboard when she received it and wanted to withdraw her video, but the boss agreed. She pretended not to know that the person on the other side was Marshal Ying Ying who was sacrificed by her. After posting it, she completely disappeared from the Internet and didn't read any messages.
Now let’s count, it’s been two days since the post was released? No one should be scolding her anymore, right?
While the video was unfolding in Marshal Zhu Heng's light brain, Chu Zhao also quietly logged into the backstage accounts of his own Niao Niao Shengyan and Ling Bo.
Snow. More snow.
Xia Liu has evolved to the point where when he sees the snow, he can feel the desolation and sorrow of the snow flying all over the sky, and his heart aches.
Then I saw a man dragging a dark red cloak covered with ice, snow and mud, staggering forward on the endless rugged glacier.
His steps seemed to be very heavy, and he fell every time he took a step. The surrounding technology buildings were buried in ice and snow, with only the tops exposed. The suspension hall had crashed, leaving only long tracks, without a single living being.
This is the real end of the world.
This is true silence.
And that man, with bruises all over his body, even his gloves were cut, his face was covered in blood, his pupils were gray, but he just staggered forward stubbornly.
It’s Marshal Pei, it’s Marshal Pei Shiyun!
Xia Liu felt as if her breath was being held. Even though she had seen two marshals in a state of distress, seriously injured and dying in the previous video, she had never seen such a tragic scene. She had never seen Marshal Pei Shiyun so sad and desolate, as if all his vitality had been sucked away.
Xia Liu and all the other fans watching the video looked up as if they had received an electric shock. In front of him, on the tall glacier, the black spire that marked the Black Tower was tilted.
Marshal Pei Shiyun finally found the black tower.
He closed his eyes, and in the heavy snow, like the last scene in Silence, he leaned against the side of her suspended mechanical tomb, curled up and fell down. The snow covered his military uniform, burying her like it buried Marshal Ying Ying.
They celebrated her death with a grand Third Tower.
The narrator uttered these words.
Before the audience understood what was happening, the scene had changed from being covered in heavy snow to the arrival of spring when the snow melted. The scene became unexpectedly light and cheerful, with green everywhere, flying ships everywhere, and neat and serious military cadets everywhere.
This was actually many years ago when they were still military cadets.
Marshal Pei Shiyun, with his face covered in blood and gray pupils, was like a soul. He shuttled among the young cadets. From time to time, he was knocked by them and his figure became blurred and staggered, but he always went in one direction, becoming increasingly faint but never changing direction.
No one paid attention to him. No one paid attention to a dead soul.
Only her.
The picture stops here.
Marshal Ying Ying, wearing a cadet uniform, leaned against the mechanical wall and touched the reagent tube of nutrient solution with his friend beside him. His friend frowned and spat, "It's really unpalatable."
Marshal Pei Shiyun's mouth twitched. His figure was transparent, his cloak was stained with blood and covered with ice and snow, and he was out of tune with these young and energetic military academy students.
But he still pulled the corners of his mouth, as if he knew what she would say, and paused there, then slowly opened his mouth and repeated to her in a hoarse voice:
"Just bear with it."
After saying that, Marshal Ying Ying raised his eyebrows to his friend, but Marshal Pei Shiyun burst into tears and laughed. He laughed so sadly that he almost fell among the cadets, and his cloak was so heavy that it couldn't be lifted by the wind of this world.
But there was finally some color in his gray pupils.
When Ying Ying was going to participate in the next league, he propped himself up on the ground and followed her eagerly like a ghost. There were still many people who bumped into him, and there were still many people who couldn't see him.
He just stared at Ying Ying until he was behind her. Then he reached out and wanted to hold her hand. When he heard someone calling her, he finally stopped.
"Without a commander, how can we be sure of anything?"
Marshal Pei Shiyun turned his head.
Several military academy students with blurred faces murmured: "It's no wonder that our school doesn't take it seriously. Look at other military academies, they have been practicing for seven or eight hundred years, but we still don't know how to fight."
"Ying Ying, what are you going to do?"
Marshal Pei Shiyun immediately retracted her gaze and looked at the people around her. She threw the command core and turned back: "Contact Pei Shiyun from the next department. He is not the best at playing support--"
A gust of wind blew by.
She paused before she finished speaking.
"What's wrong? He is the best in his department and can be your assistant. Don't you think about why?"
"Where's my command core?"
Ying Ying spread out her palms. She couldn't see Pei Shiyun, but now she was actually in front of the soul-like Marshal Pei Shiyun.
His fingers were wrapped around the command core, not a bit of blood stained it, but Pei Shiyun curled up in front of him in pain, like mist with a hole in it pierced by the wind.
He obviously paid the price for interfering with the past. But he held the command core tightly, refusing to let go. Ying Ying, who had excellent reconnaissance skills, frowned, and only turned around when someone said, "Let's start."
"Forget it, I'll go rent one."
【Fuck (tears streaming down my face)】
Ying Ying walked away through the misty Pei Shiyun. He was still kneeling there, his cloak hanging down, covering his bloodstained hand that was tightly holding the command core. Pei Shiyun's gray pupils were wet with snow, and his expression could not be seen clearly.
The game ended smoothly just like their previous cooperation. Ying Ying took the temporarily rented command core and wanted to ask for contact information. When she was about to leave, she wrapped the command core in her palm and was about to leave.
Pei Shiyun looked at her when she was a military school student and called out softly, "Ying Ying." She suddenly stopped, frowned and looked back.
Pei Shiyun smiled. He gently held her shoulders, even if he couldn't, he just gently made this gesture, and then whispered something to her. She obviously shouldn't hear it, she obviously shouldn't feel anything.
But when he looked down, he saw a handful of snow melting in his palm.
When he went back, Pei Shiyun had already left. Ying Ying sighed: "Forget it, maybe next time."
Pei Shiyun knew that there would be no next time. He followed her like a ghost, standing quietly beside the military academy student Ying Ying, watching her from being invincible to being invincible. He watched her every grand victory, and gently raised his hand among the crowd cheering for her.
When I was about to applaud, I realized that the shadows had faded so much that I couldn't even see my hands.
He had no choice but to stay by her side like mist. In her dream, she saw a heavy snowfall that covered her body. When she told her friends about it the next day, she had never dreamed of it again.
He was far away from her, sometimes even standing still, waiting for a whole day before she came back. When she came back, his figure would become more solid, and the audience would know that he was locked here.
He was locked in that command core and could only follow her like a shadow, but he still liked to make trouble. She wanted to get to know Pei Shiyun, so he knocked over her water cup and turned off her computer. Only when Ying Ying said "forget it", would he sit down and watch her train.
But sometimes, he would get angry. Whoever approached her, he would silently let the temperature drop sharply. Marshal Pei Shiyun seemed to have really turned into a piece of snow soul, and this snow soul belonged to her, completely and completely.
Fortunately, Ying Ying had no shortage of friends. She was always convincing, and others still surrounded her. When he found that he couldn't drive others away, he would stare at her blankly, and after a while, he would quietly take the snow back.
He became more and more indifferent. At this time, Marshal Ying Ying had become the leader of the Thirteenth Army, one step away from the Marshal of the East Region. He wanted to be the biggest interference, and when she finally pulled out the sword that symbolized her ability to rule the East Region, he froze the sword with snow.
But when she gritted her teeth and tried to draw the sword, he squatted down and looked at her face, and suddenly wanted to touch her face. This distraction caused him to fail.
Ying Ying quickly recovered the East Region like a destined leader. Wherever she went, everyone believed that she was a natural-born marshal and a natural-born hero of the nebula. Only he would wear that dark red cloak and watch her train until late at night.
[I failed. I must fail. She belongs to the nebula, to victory. I chased her like snow chasing the sunrise. When the sun rises, she is still the sun, and I may have melted.]
[I think I can't let her die like this. ]
Pei Shiyun disappeared. No one knew he existed.
But Marshal Ying Ying almost died in order to protect the core area of the East Region, and when he was about to close his eyes, he still came. He was stained with heavy snow, and his dark blue military uniform could not be seen. His injuries were no less serious than hers.
He kissed her face gently, and Ying Ying could only feel a gust of wind. He held her hand gently, without even the gloves touching her. He pressed his forehead against hers again, and she was already unconscious.
Marshal Ying Ying held the sword, knelt on one knee on the ice, lowered his head, and laughed in confusion: "It's true."
She started coughing.
But it was Pei Shiyun who coughed up a large mouthful of blood.
Ying Ying closed her eyes: "That's fine."
He was so thin, as if only this vague shadow remained after his sacrifice, but he still tried to get closer to her, intertwining their figures, just like he had pressed against her holographic image countless nights before.
He seems virtual now too.
He began to recall.
[You were promoted. You proposed marriage. You were with me. You were stationed in the East. You found a traitor and killed him. You died. You were slandered. You were vindicated. You were slandered again.]
Those pictures were too thick, overlapping each other, like a torrential snow. Pei Shiyun said with tears:
[If it weren't for me, you wouldn't have been misunderstood so harshly by them.] They already knew that the alliance between military domains would be met with suspicion and they already knew that the higher the power alliance, the heavier the fall.
But they clearly didn't subvert Xingyun's heart in that way. She was only in the core area to eliminate the traitors, but she was still slandered. He became an independent marshal, but she was still slandered.
[“The Marshal is naturally devoted to Xingyun, but she has her eyes on the power of the Western Region. If she makes a wrong move, doesn’t it prove that she has been aiming for something big from the beginning?”]
[“If the Marshal had not been bewitched and deceived by her, Xingyun would not have come to this point.”]
[Too many. Too many.]
Pei Shiyun's entire face was blurred, but he stroked her face. He knew that she was about to sacrifice, but he was powerless to do anything. He knew that she would be slandered for eternity, but he still hoped that she could look up at him, to see that he was here.
At this moment, Marshal Ying Ying suddenly forced himself to slowly open his blood-stained eyes.
The cry of a crane suddenly sounded, like the scream of the bottom plate colliding directly into the nebula. [If I can't change you, Ying Ying, if protecting the nebula has always been your belief, if you are destined to sacrifice, I beg you. ]
Pei Shiyun said in a hoarse voice: [I beg you not to have any stigma against me. I beg you not to care about me, a tiny speck of dust, in your glorious history.]
She had closed her eyes and stopped breathing.
He held her in a daze.
"I beg you."
【Don’t love me. 】
If disobeying is such a serious consequence, then don’t disobey. If innocence is such an important innocence, you must always be innocent.
What does it matter? What does it matter?
You died for Nebula.
[They celebrated her death with a grand Third Tower.] He did not want to see that Third Tower rising from the history of the nebula.
So after she closed her eyes, he opened his hand when he was buried in the snow. The command core that had brought them together and made them fall in love lay in his palm, leaving a bloody mark.
He just gently held it again until the snow buried them all.
"Just bear with it, forget it."
As long as you are still the undefeated Ying Ying in history who devoted himself to Xingyun without any stain, what does it matter if you endure loneliness for a lifetime or are misunderstood a hundred years later?
You will just be you.
And I will eventually become me.
That me will not feel pain because I knew you and fell in love with you after you died, but will only feel happy. In that happiness, the marriage between the East and West and Ying Pei was just a secret.
I won't reveal this secret.
I kept this secret for the rest of my life.
Until death brings us together.
"lonely".
This big word appeared on the cover at the end of the video, making all the people who were crying so hard that their noses were blocked slowly look up, and then withdraw from the atmosphere of the video, and then, everyone:
[Ah (crying loudly) Ah (breaking down) Ah (tears streaming down my face) I thought she cut a piece of candy, and Ying Pei would be pure and sweet from now on. I am such a fool. I am simply the biggest fool in the entire galaxy and the entire universe (crying loudly)]
[Help me! I couldn’t understand the first half of the video, but it was so sad. I understood it inexplicably after watching the latter part (tears streaming down my face). He went back to the world so that she wouldn’t die in obscurity and be slandered by others after death. They were originally together in that world! (crying)]
[After crying, I can't help but sort out the timeline. The correct time should be that Ying Pei met when they were military school students and became partners. After becoming marshals, Ying Ying Yuanshuai proposed to Ying Pei and they were together. Then the traitor crisis broke out in the Nebula and Marshal Ying Ying died. Because of long-standing prejudice, Marshal Ying Ying was still considered the culprit even after his death. Disregarding the rules of the Nebula and marrying Marshal Pei Shiyun was one of his crimes. After his death, he was slandered again.]
[(Who knows that my hands are shaking with anger when typing these words)]
[Later, Marshal Pei Shiyun should have returned to the past and successfully prevented them from recognizing each other (crying), but he failed to prevent Marshal Ying Ying from sacrificing herself. He also let it go. As long as she could leave with a clear conscience, he couldn't find a better way, and he couldn't get to know her again, so it didn't matter.]
[He could even accept her sacrifice! Because the military academy still teaches sacrifice education, and Marshal Ying Ying was willing to leave, but he couldn't accept that she was slandered after her death. That's why he didn't want them to know each other. So in the main film, they fell in love after death, which was caused by Marshal Pei himself.]
[What's the difference between this and Marshal Ying Ying knowing his fate and willingly going to die? Ying Pei takes turns to stab you, right? (tears) Smoke curling up, you have no humanity, you are simply not a human being]
[I couldn't stop crying since I saw Marshal Pei return to the past after his death. Who would have thought that was not the biggest knife]
[He really recognized Marshal Ying Ying at first sight, and even said that he would just endure it, but if they were not so close and fearless, how could they be criticized by thousands of people? Marshal Ying Ying fought for Xingyun all his life, and being with him was the biggest stain.]
[When Marshal Pei Shiyun opened his hands to reveal the command core, my heart ached so much that it almost stopped beating. Who could have thought that a regret many years later was what he had tried his best to avoid after his death. The past he missed was the sharp blade that killed her, so he used it to kill himself.]
[I don’t want to talk anymore. The one who got stabbed is still in class. The whole classroom is crying.]
[I beg you, don't love me, wu ...
[I was watching "Silence" and was numbed by the knife. The regret of puffing and agreeing suddenly became a shocking sound]
[The curling smoke has definitely been waiting for this moment since releasing "Silence". She did it on purpose! 】
[It all connects together, everything connects together, even the storyline of "The Fall of Gods" where Marshal Ying Ying sacrificed himself and Marshal Pei Shiyun realized belatedly that he had lost the precious love of his life, that feeling as if fate had deprived him of something, all makes sense (tears streaming down my face)]
[How could two people who love each other so firmly not be able to be together? Unless the ending of their first life together was too tragic, that’s why Marshal Pei and Marshal Ying had their memories, their soul tacit understanding was taken away, that’s why they missed each other so many times, that’s why they suddenly realized, that’s why fate played a trick on them (crying)]
[It turns out that it wasn't fate that was playing tricks on me. It was the moment you sacrificed yourself that our past was sealed by my own hands along with your death.]
[I am teasing myself. I am teasing myself! ]
[They were already married, but when he went to find her, all he had left was the command chip he had snatched away.]
[Family members, I want to curse (choked up), can you come with me to send razor blades to Niao Niao Shengyan? ]
[Even now, can't my Ying Pei break this curse and be together? Does the Council really intend to slander one of them as a traitor after Ying Pei gets married? ]
【Let’s see who dares. I’ll kill him! 】
[Really, this is such a tragic ending. I don't believe the outcome the conference court is worried about will be more serious than this? ]
[The meeting court still dares to oppose me* (smile) (content has been blocked)]
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