How did it get to land? Was the area briefly submerged by seawater?
It must be a tsunami.
Chen Ci walked over to the jellyfish, raised his hand and gently touched the outer shell of the machine.
Cold, hard texture.
This is a creation left by humans, but it has become a part of the bodies of marine creatures.
A layer of moss and slime mold grew inside the mechanical shell, and the organic matter left behind after the jellyfish decayed continued to nourish them. Chen Ci stepped over the intermittent tentacles on the ground and came behind the umbrella.
"September?" Fu Tianhe's voice came from afar, full of worry.
"I'm here," Chen Ci responded, leaning down and picking up the round parts scattered among the large black stains.
The mechanical core has long stopped functioning, but there should be some residual energy left in it.
Chen Ci put the core into his pocket, stepped back, and took a photo of the jellyfish.
The sunlight poured in through the windows and the broken gaps in the ceiling, falling softly on the aquatic life, penetrating its long-gone body. Perhaps it evaporated in this way a dozen years ago.
After doing all this, Chen Ci returned along the same path and came to where the stairs were.
Finally seeing Chen Ci, Fu Tianhe was refreshed. He stretched out his hands and said, "Do you want to come down?"
After Chen Ci left, the place where he first stepped on fell down, and the floor was farther away from the front half of the stairs.
Coming down is much harder than going up.
Chen Ci estimated the distance and decided it was indeed not easy to get through, but jumping down directly was too high and he might get hurt.
"Come on, I will catch you." Fu Tianhe stretched out his arms and said seriously.
Chen Ci nodded, he slowly leaned down and sat on the edge with his feet dangling in the air.
The sound of concrete cracking appeared again.
Chen Ci kept moving forward, shifting his center of gravity. When most of his body was sticking out, he suddenly pushed out with his arms and jumped out!
At this moment, the whole world slowed down.
Fu Tianhe's hands passed accurately under Chen Ci's armpits and hugged the boy whole. Under the huge impact, Alpha's left foot took a step back and stepped heavily on the step below, successfully stabilizing his body.
A faint fragrance wafts over my face, as if it is the scent of some kind of flower.
Fu Tianhe couldn't explain how he felt at that moment.
He and September still had no skin contact of any kind, but they hugged each other solidly through several layers of clothes.
The boy's breathing was rapid, and the air flow hit his neck. The soft ends of his hair scratched his cheeks. Fu Tianhe claimed that he was not a sensitive person, but he wanted to shudder at these tiny stimulations.
The thrilling jump finally made Jiu Yue nervous. She grabbed a piece of cloth on his sleeve with both hands and only let go slowly after making sure he had landed safely.
The Omega was a head shorter than him, so when he held her, he could just embrace her completely in his arms. If he lowered his head a little, there might be unnecessary contact... Fu Tianhe was thinking in a mess when he heard Chen Ci's breathing gradually slowed down.
Chen Ci was looking for a suitable landing point with his feet, but Fu Tianhe was standing too far forward, and he accidentally stepped on the Alpha's shoe.
Fu Tianhe: “Ah!”
All the beautiful fantasies burst like soap bubbles, Fu Tianhe hurriedly stepped back, Chen Ci grabbed his strong arms with both hands, and finally stood firm.
After a few seconds, Chen Ci patted Fu Tianhe, signaling him to let go.
Fu Tianhe took a deep breath, his heart beating fast.
The thrilling jump made his adrenaline surge, and a fine layer of sweat appeared on Chen Ci's smooth forehead, and more fragrance also drifted away, surrounding the two of them.
That's the omega's pheromone.
Fu Tianhe couldn't recognize the name of the smell for a moment. All he could think of was how fragrant and soft it was.
Chen Ci slapped him twice more, this time with greater force.
Fu Tianhe finally came to his senses and hurriedly let go of her hand. With his limited education, he could only remember something like “a warm and fragrant woman in my arms”.
Chen Ci lowered his head and straightened the wrinkles on his clothes.
Fu Tianhe looked at Chen Ci who was so close to him. If the sweat he was sweating all over before was caused by fear, now it was completely due to agitation.
Having just seen September climb up to the second floor with great agility and strength, Alpha was heartbroken when he saw him so calm with his long eyelashes drooping.
It’s September after all, giving him new surprises every moment.
Chen Ci didn't know that Fu Tianhe's head was full of pink bubbles. He walked down the stairs and sat on the bottom step.
Fu Tianhe took a deep breath, suppressed the crazy throbbing in his heart, came to sit next to Chen Ci, and asked: "What's on it?"
Chen Ci: "The corpse of a primitive creature."
Fu Tianhe was stunned: "Primitive creature?"
"It must have been brought here by the tsunami. It's dead."
Fu Tianhe nodded in understanding but didn't take it seriously. In today's world, compared to primitive creatures, humans are a minority.
After all this trouble, Fu Tianhe must be tired. He took out cooking utensils and food from his bag and said, "Let's have lunch."
It was the first time that Fu Tianhe traveled with September, and he didn’t want to let Chen Ci down, so most of the weight of the backpack was on food and water.
He lit the gas stove and cooked a pot of instant egg drop soup, which he paired with three flavors of canned food, making it a lunch full of energy.
After lunch, I felt sleepy as expected. If there is anything that I can't resist, it is probably the biological clock that I have developed over the years.
Chen Ci narrowed his eyes and noticed that he was sleepy. Fu Tianhe immediately took out a moisture-proof mat and laid it on him, then found a sleeping bag.
"Take a break."
Chen Ci did not refuse. He was aware of his physical condition. If he forced himself not to sleep, he would feel exhausted for the whole afternoon and evening.
He took off his coat and lay down in the sleeping bag with his clothes on. After a few seconds, he stood up again and took out a black eye mask from his bag under the gaze of Fu Tianhe.
Fu Tianhe recognized that it was the gift he had given to Chen Ci, and his face suddenly became hot.
Chen Ci lay down again, put on an eye mask, and fell asleep.
Fu Tianhe didn't even dare to make a sound, for fear of making some noise and disturbing Chen Ci. The boy's calmness was beyond his imagination. He didn't seem to think that falling asleep in front of an unbonded Alpha like him was dangerous.
Should he be proud or disappointed?
He felt honored by September's trust, but also disappointed that September did not treat him as an Alpha.
Fu Tianhe quietly stared at Chen Ci's sleeping face. He leaned against the railing of the stairs and suddenly felt relieved.
There was nothing left for him to think about, fate, disease, the future. He could let go of everything and focus only on this small area of land covered with vegetation.
He waited, waiting for the setting sun to no longer be so scorching, waiting for the moment when Chen Ci would wake up.
Chen Ci woke up at three o'clock.
It was exactly the right time Fu Tianhe had mentioned. The hottest noon had passed and they could set out again.
The two continued to move towards the suburban border, and Chen Ci took the pistol that Fu Tianhe had placed on the table.
There are more and more remains of various primitive creatures. The flesh and blood have long since decayed, leaving only pale bones and black machines intertwined, scattered in the ruins like some kind of work of art.
But there are no more remains as big as the jellyfish on the second floor.
The sun gradually set, and before it went down, Chen Ci finally reached his desired destination.
The abandonment of suburbia has its end.
At the end of the beacon is the sea.
The waves rolled with foam, approaching like a white line, and the rustling sound filled my ears.
There is more here than they imagined.
There is a recycling station diagonally above the CPU side room, where garbage often falls and scatters in the abandoned suburbs.
Skeletons, robots, garbage, ruins, plants.
Fu Tianhe even found a tattered paperback book.
Paper is a very precious thing.
The pages of the book were so blurred that they were barely recognizable. As soon as Fu Tianhe picked it up, it fell apart. Fu Tianhe was so scared that he quickly grabbed it with force.
A few pieces of paper swirled and fell to the ground, like pale butterflies dancing.
Fu Tianhe picked up the papers one by one and folded a small paper boat. He walked to the seaside, bent down, and placed the paper boat in the water.
The evening sun fell on Alpha, forming a dark silhouette against the light.
The overturned palette covers the top of the head and turns into the sky. Even the clouds are soaked in dye, gradually fading from deep blue to purple, and then presenting a unique and gorgeous pink at the junction of the sea and the sky.
The ruins were submerged by growing plants. Chen Ci found a low wall to sit on and put his backpack aside.
He swung his feet, just like when he was a child sitting on a chair that was too high in the laboratory, but what was placed in front of him was no longer a blank paper stained with boring ink.
The boy looked at the boundless sea, with endless plants, pebbles and waves beneath his feet.
The silhouette of the moon was vaguely visible, and the brightness of the sun was not enough to cover it. It was a full moon, and it seemed particularly close.
The little paper boat floated on the sea, bobbing up and down with the receding tide, heading deeper and farther.
——Will it go to the moon?
The setting sun falls.
It fell much faster than expected. In just a few minutes, the sky changed several colors. At the moment when the last ray of sunset glow sank into the sea level, the sea surface suddenly seemed to be covered with fog.
The distance became hazy and dark shadows emerged, as if some huge creature was hidden in the mist.
Something is emerging, something tall, huge, and extremely oppressive.
Chen Ci couldn't help but hold his breath.
Fu Tianhe also stood up, and the sea water fell from his fingertips, soaking the shallow beach.
In just a few seconds, the scene became clearer and it seemed to be floating in the sky.
It is snowing.
In the vast ice field, a huge building collapsed in pieces. Its structure was extremely complex, with countless layers, pipes wrapped around the outer wall, and the curtain wall was covered with traces of ice and snow.
Matrix collapses, metals twist, structures collapse.
The most solid steel fortress was in ruins, with the sea water constantly beating against its base and the blizzard mercilessly covering the surface. The whole thing was sandwiched between the blue and white colors, making more details inevitably missing.
But it is still extremely tall, towering over the clouds like a palace in heaven.
The moon hung coldly at its top.
At this moment, even the roar of the waves disappeared without a trace, and Chen Ci could only hear the sharp sound of the wind and snow.
It was as if the scene had really come into the world.
Desolate and vast, with irreversible despair and decadence.
He couldn't move his gaze away at all; his eyes were fixed on it, his heartbeat remained at 75 beats per minute, and his pace was disrupted.
"What is that?" Chen Ci heard himself ask.
"Mirage, a phenomenon that often occurs in coastal areas."
Fu Tianhe explained: "It is a false image formed by the refraction of light by the atmosphere, which means that all mirages really exist in the world."
He carefully determined the details of the building in the clouds. The huge building that collapsed on the ice and snow was very easy to locate.
It is a place he can never forget or forgive.
"What we are seeing now should be the sixth beacon on the Greenland Ice and Snow Plateau - the moonlight that disappeared more than ten years ago."
moonlight.
The moment the syllables were uttered, Chen Ci's chest suddenly surged with an unprecedented urgency, driving him to tense his entire body as if it were fate.
—Yes, he knew, he was going there.
To the moon.
The mechanical body of the manta ray behind him suddenly flashed a faint red light. In the empty eye sockets that had long been corroded by microorganisms, the parts trembled very slightly, then quickly disintegrated and pieced together to form a teardrop-shaped camera.
Facing the direction of Chen Ci and Fu Tianhe, he faithfully captured all the scenes.
Chen Ci retracted his legs, changed into a squatting position, and then stood up.
The boy stood on a low wall, as if this would allow him to see the mirage more clearly.
He raised his hand and pointed at the illusory beacon of moonlight. His voice was still calm, as if he was just stating something that was absolutely certain. He said to himself and to Fu Tianhe on the shore:
"I want to go there."
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