This time?
Su Mingan couldn't understand exactly what Noel meant.
The wind and snow lifted Noel's golden hair, and the heat expanded and disappeared on the side of his face, outlining his pale face. His expression was very focused.
"Look down," Noel said.
“Hula——”
The crow's altitude dropped, and Su Mingan looked down and saw a train speeding past the ground. Through his five senses, which were in excellent condition, he heard the voices below. A train was speeding past, and a mother and daughter were chatting.
"Nini, be good and don't stick your hands and head out of the window, okay?" A mother's voice came from the train, and she pulled the girl's hand back.
"Mom, when will Dad come back from the battlefield?" said the girl.
"After tonight, if we can see the dawn, Daddy will be back. Nini, you must give him a big hug then, okay?"
"good."
"Not only Dad, everyone on the battlefield is a hero. Nini should learn from them in the future, do you know?" said the mother.
"Okay!" The girl paused and said, "Mom, what should we do if we don't see the dawn?"
"That means a nuclear explosion has occurred... It's okay, Nini, you just need to remember that in the 48th year of the catastrophe, everyone fought to the last moment with all their might, whether it was frontline soldiers like your father or logistics like your mother." The mother said softly, her voice choking with sobs: "No one is guilty..."
"Oh, Mom, look out the window, I see crows! Live crows, so beautiful—"
Suddenly, the girl screamed in surprise.
The mother looked up and saw a crow outside the car window, like a floating black island. Under the dark sky, it looked so distant and peaceful as it flew towards the earth, as if it was about to melt gently into the water.
During the long war, people could hardly see any living animals, and the air was always filled with a gray haze. The girl had never seen a bird since she was a child.
But tonight she saw it.
On the last night of the war, before dawn, she saw a free bird.
"Mom, didn't you say that we can only see birds after the war is over, a long, long time later, when people enter spring?" The girl said, "Since I was a child... I could only see the foggy sky. Can there be birds in the cold winter?"
Mother holds the girl in her arms.
She rubbed the girl's head:
"Nini, maybe spring has come."
…
……spring.
Su Mingan had heard this term more than once.
In the eyes of the people in the ruined world, it represents all that is good. Warmth, beauty, light... Spring will have everything that is missing in the winter night. Spring will bring back everything that is lost during the war.
For this spring, countless people died in the sixteen years of cold winter.
“…”
The crow continued to move forward. He saw the lights of thousands of homes in the city. The flashing red lights of the cars were like flowing blood vessels, connecting to the heart of the earth that maintained the lives of all residents.
The lights of the Skylon Tower flickered, and the wires on the streets rustled like bells.
He looked far away and saw beyond the city - corpses that could not be seen with the naked eye. Trucks were speeding with ammunition, trains were running like pythons, and soldiers heading to the front line were holding guns and bidding farewell to their families. The Fuyuan Festival was perfectly integrated with the last night of the most dangerous Dawn Battle, and everyone was looking forward to entering the warm world.
“Crash!”
The flames shot up into the sky, the same color as the fireworks.
High in the sky, Noel also looked down at this brilliant world.
"I often think... the universe is endless, but humans are so insignificant." Noel said, "Humans are a very peculiar race - even if they become the overlords on the planet, they cannot solve the problems that can be easily solved between animal tribes. Humans do not have the absolute rules between animal tribes. Some people are born with rebellious nature, which makes them want to rebel all the time even when they are ruled, chasing the freedom that can only be achieved at the cost of their lives..."
Su Mingan turned his head and looked at Noel, whose eyes were bloodshot.
"To describe this kind of person in one sentence, it's..." Noel also looked at him: "...people like you and me."
"...What?" Su Mingan said.
Noel's voice was too soft for him to hear.
"I say, I admire people who are born to rebel," Noel said with a smile.
The other side of the night sky was so far away that even if Noel looked far away, he could not catch anything except the skyline. Those distant nights were like a safe full of secrets, trapping reckless adventurers like moths to a flame.
Compared with the vast snow and wind, the fragile human body is as tiny as a speck of dust, which reminds people of the truth of the universe and life and death.
"Puppeteer, what do you want to say?" Su Mingan said.
"I would say... what can crush people the most is a recurring feeling of powerlessness," Noel said. "People who are born rebellious lose what they want again and again, and cannot get it back again and again... For these individuals who are suffering and cannot end their pain, no theory can touch their hearts and souls, or communicate with the despair they feel."
"Then what do you suggest?" Su Mingan vaguely felt that Noel was hinting at him: "Puppet Master..."
etc.
At this moment, Su Mingan suddenly thought of a possibility.
Noel's in-game profession is a puppeteer.
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