Chapter 79
Amidst the condemnation of the conference court, the results of the second round of PK competition on the theme of "catching up" came out, but Chu Zhao's account data was higher than before the period of public opinion fermentation.
Because when the PK competition ended at 12 o'clock, the silent Niao Niao Sheng Yan updated a video. The name of the video is "Chasing Light".
This is also a song that Chu Zhao likes very much. Because the interface of the editing door is connected to mental power, she can even reproduce this song according to memory when the nebula itself does not have this background music.
However, Chu Zhao still had the moral courage to mark the original author and invited Yin Lang to read it with her. After a few days of getting along, Yin Lang had completely figured out the source of her incorrect schedule, and Chu Zhao was also completely accustomed to the embarrassment of living in the same room with her former landlord.
One thing that makes people feel comfortable is that most of the time Yin Lang would not appear in Chu Zhao's private area. Instead, he would stay on the balcony as if he had something to do. He would not turn off the computer until dark, and then go back to the living room to persuade Chu Zhao to get enough rest.
The Glass Hands boss was also very well behaved. When they started watching the video, he even tried to steal the canned yellow peaches they had prepared. Yin Lang copied the recipe according to Chu Zhao's description, but soon stopped moving.
The video begins.
The protagonist of "Light Chaser" is Sheng Shu, who is also the shadow that follows her everywhere. At that time, Sheng Shu was still a subordinate of Yan Xun with the rank of second lieutenant.
She was in a private training room, with her head resting against the spherical standing training cabin. The light only shone on the dark golden spike on her right shoulder, and the rest was hidden in the darkness.
But when the cursor on the training pod moved, she turned her head slowly. The light briefly passed through her eyes and stayed on the lit holographic screen.
Above is the output curve of the record holder.
Just like the shadow in front of her, it seemed to be at an unreachable distance from her.
But in a flash, she stretched out her hand in front of the lit holographic screen, and her pale and thin fingers suddenly tightly grasped the laser gun that split the sky - the light was dazzling, as white as lightning, but it was held in the hands of an ordinary person - and then she swung it violently!
The lightning seemed to be brought up by her swift and fierce movements, and it fiercely flipped over her slender figure.
Then Sheng Shu's wrist was pale but shaking like thunder, and he smashed the spear onto the invisible holographic screen.
The blue holographic screen shook and calmly reported the training results: [Single charged heavy attack 1200.3N, distance anchoring highest record 1340.8N, 140.5N. It is recommended to retest after recovering physical strength. Do you want to try again immediately? ]
In the darkness flashing with blue light, the two options were not touched at all. But after a few seconds, the thunder fell again suddenly and unexpectedly, stirring up even more smoke and dust.
Sheng Shu was panting, her hair covering her eyes. The wide-brimmed military cap also blocked most of her face. But when she breathed softly, it still felt like a bow and arrow that had accumulated power to the extreme.
Her nerves were stretched very tight.
"Pah" - with a loud bang, the mechanical voice finally announced that she had reached the upper limit of the power value for a single training session, and was only one step away from the highest record.
Sheng Shu was already bent over exhausted and supported himself on the ground with one hand.
The cloak fell down suddenly like a sand tower. Only a dark red was left in the darkness. The sound of breathing, like the sound of drums, slowly matched her heartbeat.
The voice began, "Do you know what you are talking about?"
She tried her best to get close to this result. Sheng Shu could only hear this sentence amidst her tired and heavy breathing after finishing the training.
There is no mention of liking someone in this video. There is no hint that the premise of this sentence is that she said to Chief of Staff Zhou Xingjian: "What if I say I like you?"
But from this cold echo, they could still feel the suffocation and chill brought by this sentence, just like the deepening ink color of the background, condensing into a mountain that could not collapse.
The mountains have thousands of strong walls.
Even if she quickly straightened up again and performed well enough to break the record in a single time, so that the mechanical voice could say "Congratulations! Single record broken" continuously without any fluctuations, she would not be able to overturn this mountain.
The golden ears swayed, dimmer than before.
The next scene is her opening the door. The rank on her shoulders has changed from second lieutenant to general, and she has jumped from a subordinate officer to a commander. But she still maintains the habit of training.
Sheng Shu walked into the darkness alone. A narrow beam of light illuminated her. She took off her gloves, put on mechanical weights, connected the brain-computer chip, and loaded into the training cabin. Then she fought against the simulated Zerg.
The intensity of the training in the training cabin was not enough to leave her with scars. But when she opened her eyes again, her hair fell down, and the brim of her hat could not hide the dark red.
Her movements became more skillful, her predictions more accurate, and she even had the demeanor of a commander when she raised her hand to draw her gun. But the darkness still suppressed her firmly, and there was still an immortal shadow standing in the darkness.
Like a maggot attached to a bone. Like a shadow following the rising sun.
Like the night that falls every day and the stars that rise every day, he watched her silently for a long time, and left quietly when she woke up from her dream, sweating and covered in blood.
Sheng Shu began to have trouble sleeping many nights. She received long-term treatment, and even the new recruits in the Northern Territory knew that the Admiral Sheng who led them had been suffering from a long-term illness, to the point where he visited the treatment cabin every day.
In the pure white treatment room, which was completely opposite to the pitch-black training room, she was gently restrained by countless mechanical belts. The therapist in a white coat asked her: "Is your mental power fluctuation normal?"
Sheng Shu closed his eyes, with the chip stuck to his temples.
Sheng Shu: “Normal.”
"Routine?"
Sheng Shu: "Same as before."
The therapist looked at the record interface and said, "Strange, why does Jingwei show that you have withdrawal symptoms?"
Sheng Shu's eyelashes didn't even move.
Withdrawal reaction is a very serious physiological reaction. This means that even a body that is strong enough to control a mecha cannot escape the limitations of acquired physiological instincts and can only become a vassal of the addictive substance, a puppet that cannot be driven freely.
Sheng Shu was once placed under long-term surveillance because of this diagnosis.
But when Yan Xun asked Jingwei, who was responsible for monitoring her, Jingwei only replied: "General Sheng's life is normal."
She was indeed fine.
She was even more outstanding than any other cadet in the past.
Her peers who had belittled her now willingly became her subordinates.
Parents who regarded her as a negative example took the initiative to choose a military academy for their students next to the military area she was inspecting and managing.
The inspector general sent from the central galaxy cooperated with her work unconditionally.
She was also resolute and invincible. A glimpse of her on the battlefield. She did a sideways kick, and the camera was fixed on her face, showing the rebellious and ignored Sheng Shu in the past, now polished and fully blooming.
Chief of Staff Yan Xun and his adjutant who were watching the battle in the hanging hall said: "Look at her, like a sharp sword unsheathed." This word was just the right one to describe her.
She also abides by her duties. It's as if she has shed her rebellious skin. The 26-year-old Sheng Shu is calm and skilled, which makes people admire her.
But back in the training cabin, she was still knocked down in two or three hits, propped up on the ground with one hand, blood and sweat dripping down, she was a loser panting slowly.
She still lost to the shadow. She punched the Zerg in front of her, drew her gun, and even drew her bow and arrow, but she was still easily defeated by the shadow.
The shadow never fought back. It just stood there in silence.
Until Sheng Shu's eyes were stung by the wet hair. She staggered and supported herself on the ground, slowly stood up, and took up the heavy cloak with her.
He then spoke:
【Do you know what you are saying? 】
Sheng Shu breathed silently. She became a slowly frozen statue in the darkness. Her silhouette stood still in the darkness, but the narration surged out from the cracks like a tide.
Very slowly, a tide rose under the moon.
【He almost became my nightmare. 】
There was not even any dialogue in the video. But they could imagine Sheng Shu's tone in this short sentence. It must be calm, without the vicissitudes and resentment of years of training, only the resignation of being tempered to the end.
She was resigned to her fate and calm, making people wonder if she had been drained of emotions: [For a long time, I could hardly stop thinking about him at inappropriate times. Supervising the training and selecting new recruits is a very important task for the general. But throughout July, I couldn't select a single person who met the requirements from the list of new recruits for supervision.]
[Chief of Staff Yan was the one who recommended me to become a general. My behavior disappointed her, and she severely demanded that I be dismissed and start over from the rank of lieutenant general. And reflect on why I made such a mistake.]
[From second lieutenant to general, I should have walked more steadily than anyone else, and I knew why I stood out. But I made an outrageous mistake that even a student who had not graduated from a military academy could not make. ]
[She said what he said. Are you sure you want to keep going like this? ]
In the dark training room, Sheng Shu, whose military rank could not be seen clearly and whose machine stage he was in, knelt on one knee, lowered his head and panted, with blood and sweat dripping down his face.
She had given the best answer she could, and Jingwei had recorded her heavy hits in the record library. But she still couldn't stand up from under that mountain.
The background music takes a sharp turn for the worse.
[Our relationship broke down the year I was promoted to general.]
Suddenly, the situation took a sharp turn for the worse. The doors and windows of the dark training room were opened, and white light slowly advanced like dust, then drifted and filled the entire room.
[Because I was promoted too quickly, there were a lot of rumors about me within the military.]
[They said I made mistakes in command, shirked responsibility, and did whatever it took to win. I don't care. As long as I win, these are just embellishments. It's just that on the day I specially invited him to attend my award ceremony, he came in person, but he didn't come.]
[The league arranged for the new Star Patrol Commander to be our medal-awarding general. I didn't see that he was actually a little unhappy that he couldn't wear this badge under his award.
I didn't expect that when I looked up, I saw him looking here from afar in the crowd. He didn't bring his adjutant with him, and it seemed that he had just finished a meeting. I was very happy, but he didn't participate and just looked down. After the meeting, I found him and wanted to tell him that I was honored to have you here. 】
The dark training room's Shen Mo shattered.
Sheng Shu, who was defeated, raised his head, his pupils reflected the cold and indifferent look of his shadow. Zhou Xingjian's epaulettes were dazzling, and he turned his head, and even his gloves were full of coldness and self-restraint.
[I was too young at the time. I thought that by inviting him over to make my senior proud, I could shield him from any criticism, except that he was not here to witness an important day for me. I didn’t think about crossing the unclear boundary between them.]
Many people have said that Zhou Xingjian's junior sister is her amulet. This identity is indeed her amulet.
Sheng Shu's narration was imbued with a calmness that was later ingrained into her bones. [He only said two sentences to me.]
[Since you have already served under Chief of Staff Yan, I am no longer your senior brother, but you can still come to me if you have any difficulties.]
The second sentence: [You can visit the teacher more often. ]
They were not harsh words, but what they meant at the time was that they were completely done with each other.
She was so unwilling that she chased after him before she could even wear the medal. Unfortunately, when she arrived at the port, the biting wind blurred her vision and the only sound in her ears was the rustling of the wind.
His words were so clear that they were engraved in her mind: [Do you think I can't tell what you are thinking? Sheng Shu. You'd better make sure you don't want to continue like this.]
She returned to the training room.
The equipment was old, and it had been used for who knows how many days and nights. But in the dusty furnishings, Sheng Shu slowly stood up. He propped himself on the floor, which was covered with dust. His cloak was also so old that it looked like he had never changed it.
She is still the same Sheng Shu who has been defeated over and over again.
Still the same rotten and old person locked in memories.
But Zhou Xingjian had already moved on. Only a shadow remained in her memory.
The holographic screen said that her winning rate was steadily increasing, and her achievements were becoming more and more outstanding. In the training room, she learned to use laser guns and ion cannons, to operate mechas to command formations, and to connect the entire team to form alliances and wipe out the Zerg.
She still couldn't get past that shadow.
When selecting Chief of Staff Zuo, she turned her head to look at the dusty place. For the first time, it was so bright behind Zhou Xingjian. She looked carefully and found that it was the cosmic aurora. A large piece of cosmic aurora passed through the porthole and fell at her feet.
Through the shadows, overcoming fate.
Zhou Xingjian became transparent in front of her. His always cold expression was illusory and torn apart in front of her.
Sheng Shu, who was already a five-star general and might be the first 26-year-old chief of staff in the Northern Territory, stood in front of him and thought for a moment.
Then the light tore through him, and she said, "Actually, I just wanted to call you Senior Brother—" A large area of brilliance poured in, filling the dusty training room.
Sheng Shu stopped talking.
It turns out this isn't even a training room, it's just a small warehouse.
Many years ago. He and the teacher appeared in this warehouse. The teacher held her hand, squatted down and said to her: "This is your senior brother. He is seven years older than you. You can ask him anything and let him help you."
It turned out that she had been lingering in this small warehouse for these years, where she even had to lower her head and curl up to get in. In here, she had nightmares about never catching up with that senior brother, and never being able to say such a sentence in front of him.
In fact, she just wanted to reconcile with him. Who could believe it? Even Sheng Shu herself didn't believe it.
"Maybe it shouldn't have been."
She said calmly.
[I probably regretted it before. I expressed my thoughts so bluntly and poorly at that time. As a result, I later became the chief of staff of the Northern Territory together with him.]
The narrator paused for a moment.
Then large patches of light poured into the warehouse, making it even brighter than before.
Sheng Shu looked at himself curled up in the corner of the warehouse with trembling eyelashes, curling up even more violently as if burned by the light.
Withdrawal reaction.
Like a worm curled up after being sprinkled with coarse salt.
Sheng Shu watched quietly.
Until the light covered the entire ship.
She became the person she hated the most and did the thing she hated the most - she was so passionate about a man who had to take care of her in every possible way out of a favor, and almost exhausted all her energy over the years to become a senior general, a chief of staff, and someone who could stand by his side.
But if it were Sheng Shu back then, he would probably just smile maliciously and say: Ask him why he said that.
"No reason, it's annoying. Can't I?"
She had been suffering from recurring nightmares over the years, and it turned out that it was all because she once slept in an old warehouse that was too narrow and damp for her.
【I can never forget it. 】
But when she turned around, walked out of the rest cabin, and returned to her position, the stars in the sky were all bright. She was already a strong candidate for the chief of staff, with outstanding military achievements and respect from her adjutant.
She took off her gloves and asked her adjutant who were at the meeting.
【But probably it should be forgotten. 】
The adjutant mentioned Zhou Xingjian, and then said that the things were returned, and also said that he was not worthy of the title of senior brother, but this time Sheng Shu did not just remain silent.
She paused and said, "I see." During the voting, she heard people at the meeting talk about her bad deeds when she was a rebellious teenager. They said she occupied other people's mechas and pushed people off the spacecraft, and she was nostalgic for old things in the remote areas of the fringe galaxies.
The person who spoke to her said in a fluctuating tone: "Really? Where did she put it?"
【Burned.】
The two looked surprised, and then suddenly shuddered and looked at the person who spoke with horror. Sheng Shu sat next to Zhou Xingjian. She was also young, but had enough prestige. After thinking for only two seconds, she replied calmly, just like she had spoken before:
【I burned it.】
Can't get back together.
Then just get along normally.
Later, Sheng Shu thought back. During those few words, she actually remembered something. When she was abandoned and wandered in the marginal star system, and was about to be sold and clung to the warehouse and refused to leave, the person who sold her spat and said, "What are you grabbing? It wasn't yours in the first place."
Even the shabby warehouse was not hers. Why would she want something that could never belong to her? That's right, it was never hers in the first place.
She was successfully elected, and the adjutant sent people to clean the cabins. Hearing that a cabin was on fire, he was surprised. The man replied: "It was indeed burned. The sunlight was too strong and it burned up."
The video ends with a few peaceful images telling stories one after another.
Xia Liu still didn't come out. He dragged the cursor back to the last few seconds to watch the shot that flashed by.
The small warehouse that Chief of Staff Sheng Shu had used as a training room and forced himself to curl up and toss and turn inside was indeed only a charred shadow, with even the parts shattered into ashes. The picture was raised again, and not even ashes were left.
The powerful command ship is left with only the powerful commander; even the cosmic aurora cannot illuminate her.
Audiences who have watched "Light Chasers":
[Woo, woo, my woo (tears)]
【Ah ...
[How hateful and heartless (tears streaming down my face)]
[What did Staff Officer Sheng Shu do wrong? She just wanted to hold on to the warehouse tightly, but even that warehouse was not hers (crying and looking for her head on the ground)]
...It is the most direct and calmest be I have ever seen (crying)]
[Mom, what did I see? Even the experts said that Chief of Staff Zhou Xingjian had no feelings for Chief of Staff Sheng Shu. Could this really not be a couple but a one-sided love? QAQ]
[When I watched the previous video, I thought the master was being stubborn. After watching today's video, I was silent. There was really no room for maneuver.]
[The Aurora of the Universe also burned down her warehouse. In fact, the ships are all made of mechanical metal, how could they be burned in flames? (Tears streaming down the face) Only things brought back from the edge of the galaxy are likely to be old and rotten and not tolerated by this world (woohoo)]
[Stop talking. I feel bad for Chief of Staff Sheng Shu (pounds the table). Besides, it’s all over now. The past has been burned clean. It’s time to move on. If you hadn’t mentioned it, I wouldn’t have remembered that after the selection of the chief of staff was over, Chief of Staff Sheng Shu and Chief of Staff Zhou attended the meeting together. Even if they are not lovers, they can still be good colleagues. Isn’t it better to let the past be the past?]
[It may be that Chief of Staff Zhou was too much of a salvation for Chief of Staff Sheng at that time, which is why she couldn't give up the instinct to chase him for so many years. Now that they have the same identity, maybe she doesn't have to give up anymore. She won't be burned by the light because she is in the dark.]
[Although, the passionate and straightforward love in the video still breaks my heart QAQ It’s a pity that Chief of Staff Sheng Shu at that time didn’t have a good ending. In the end, he broke out of the cocoon by cutting off his own past.]
[It’s enough for her. She keeps asking for it but can’t get it, which makes her trapped in her own trap. She even has sleep disorders. It’s hard to say whether this is still love or not. It feels more like a demon in her heart than love.]
[All can only be discarded. It must be a mental demon. Fortunately, she has come out of it. Now that she has come out of it, she can look forward.]
She will not always be anyone's subordinate. Once someone throws her in that warehouse, she can only wait for that person to come and find her.
She is already the 26-year-old Chief of Staff Sheng Zuo.
The warehouse burned down in a flash.
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