It's like some bad omen.

It seemed as if he had really gone to a dark and quiet place.

Is it underground?

Song Ran felt heartbroken and when she woke up, she had two lines of tears on her cheeks.

The landing time is 3:00 pm on July 1st. The gamma temperature has exceeded 43 degrees.

As soon as Song Ran left the airport, she was dazzled by the dazzling sunshine. The high temperature steeped in her body, and in a second she burst into sweat. Even the wind was blowing from the stove.

There were no motorcycles outside the airport, and it was replaced by a regular taxi.

She took a car to the hotel. Outside the car window, most of the buildings that were blown up last year were rebuilt. Even the damaged Alexander Palace was repaired by cultural relics restoration experts from various countries with the help of World UNESCO.

There were people coming and going on the street, and there were many shops, and there was a hint of prosperity.

She still looked at the driver, and asked enthusiastically: "Madam, it's not the first time you've been to Gamma?"

"I've been here many times," she said, "the last time was last December."

"No wonder you were surprised. Our city is rebuilt and our lives are continuing. Shopping malls and office buildings have been operating normally for a long time." The driver was proud. "Many cities are like this. We have recovered 83% of the land."

Song Ran turned his head to look at him and said, "Congratulations."

"This is of course worth celebrating. Although the war has not ended, many cities have restored peace. For ordinary people, peace is the best thing in the world."

Song Ran accidentally glanced at him and saw half of his prosthesis.

The driver noticed her gaze and shrugged and said, "Dedicated to the country."

Song Ran's eyes softened a little and asked, "Have you ever been a soldier?"

"Yes. The defense battle of Cangdi fought for a month. This leg was thrown there."

Song Ran's heart was slightly tightened: "Cang Di? When?"

“From March to April.”

She didn't say anything for a moment.

"Have you ever been to Cangdi?"

Song Ran nodded and asked, "Have you ever seen Cook Bing?"

"Of course I've seen it. I've seen it many times. They fight so well." The driver talked about the Cook Soldiers and kept talking, with a shimmering light in his eyes. "If it weren't for them, the terrorists wouldn't have been disbanded so early. The people of the Eastern Kingdom will always thank them."

"Have you ever met Asian Cook soldiers?"

"I haven't seen it before." The driver regretfully stumbled on his head, "There are too few Asians, only a dozen, oh, they are all from China. But I have never seen any of them. I heard that there is an Asian bomb-dismantling soldier who is very powerful. There are thousands of terrorists he eliminated. This is equivalent to saving tens of thousands of civilians. Unfortunately, I have never seen him, and I don't know what he looks like. I only know that he is Chinese. Madam, are you Chinese?"

"Yes." Song Ran nodded, "I'm the same as him."

"I love you." The driver said enthusiastically.

Song Ran stopped talking and looked out the window quietly.

She didn't want to talk about him to strangers anymore.

pain.

Song Ran came here and finally got the help of Luo Zhan. As soon as she arrived at the hotel, she met Major Harvey of the Eastern War Affairs Committee.

Major Harvey is in his thirties, tall and strong, wearing military uniforms and waiting in the hotel lobby.

As soon as he saw Song Ran, he got up and saluted her, bowed deeply, and said, "Ms. Song, I am very sorry for your loss."

Song Ran smiled slightly, "I don't think I lost him."

Major Harvey was stunned, looked at her with respect and said, "I will be responsible for and accompany you on your trip to the East. If you have any help along the way, please tell me."

Song Ran said: "I only have one need, which is to find him and take him home."

Major Harvey informed Song Ran of more details.

On that night five months ago, the extremist organization invested a large number of troops to attack the hospital, intending to capture all the wounded and the fighting Cook soldiers. But in the end, the Cook soldiers who came to rescue blocked the attack. Building 2 of the inpatient department was successfully rescued, but the battle was in tragic that night, and Cook soldiers also suffered casualties.

The situation was critical at that time. When Li Zan chased to Cangdi Temple alone, his teammates could not support him. Only Benjamin rushed over and received Song Ran, who was hanging from a rope under the back wall of Cangdi Temple.

"The helmet and body armor on you are all Captain Lee's," said Major Harvey. "This means he doesn't have any protective gear on him. You were not thrown down, but put them down. He was afraid of falling and hurting you. After Benjamin caught you, he wanted to wait for Li Zan, but he cut off the rope."

Song Ran's face was pale without a trace of expression.

"Benjamin thought you were dead, but he found a heartbeat halfway. When the hostage fired, Captain Lee's bullet hit his arm, perhaps because of this reason, he missed it.

After the hospital battle, Morgan and his team rushed to Cangdi Temple, but there were no living people in the temple. They suffered heavy losses and abandoned the Cangdi Temple stronghold. Piles of broken bodies were burned.

There were hundreds of people who were stuck together and it was difficult to tell. After that, no one had seen Li Zan again. In the past few months, we have tried to pry out some information from the captive terrorists. But no one knew which stronghold the group of people left behind in Cangdi Temple had escaped, and we have never found useful clues. For half a year, we have watched every video of the captives publicly dealing with them, and we have also found the locations for private handling. But most of the bodies cannot be identified..."

Song Ran paused for a long time and asked, "Where are Azan's comrades?"

"When the service expired in March, I was disbanded on the spot and returned to my respective countries. Only..." Harvey showed his helplessness.

"What's the only thing?"

"George and Benjamin are dead."

Song Ran was stunned. In such a hot weather, she shivered all over: "How could it be?"

"That night of the hospital, two Cook soldiers died, one was George, and the other you didn't know."

"What about Benjamin?"

"After the disbandment of the yaman, he did not return to China and continued to join other teams. Once, for some reason, he acted without authorization and was captured." Harvey said this and stopped for a moment, "I was tortured to death."

"The video was released online, and it has been deleted and banned because it was too bloody."

"Since then, other teammates in the team have also been disconnected. Some time ago, the War Committee tried to contact them to discuss the award of the national medal after the victory of the war, but no one could contact them. The only person who found Kevin and replied to the email was his family, saying that he had left serious traumatic sequelae in his body and mind, and his mental condition was very bad, and he even committed suicide several times. He refused to come to the East Country again, and also told his family that we would never contact him again." After saying that, Harvey was silent for a long time and said sadly, "They are the best teams in all Cook squads, clearing out the branches of countless terrorist organizations."

Song Ran didn't speak for a long time, his eyes were scattered, looking at the void. She saw a bus stopping at the stop, and the college student holding the textbook got off the bus while talking and laughing. The sun was dazzling. She suddenly saw a group of boys in their early twenties in their early twenties taking off their shorts, playing in the water, catching fish.

"When you have a rest, I will accompany you to Cangdi to see if you can find clues about him." Harvey lowered his eyes and did not dare to look directly at her, "Captain Li is our hero. We are also ashamed that we cannot find his whereabouts."

"I can set out tomorrow," Song Ran said, "But I may need a rest now."

Her food and accommodation issues were arranged. Harvey made an appointment with her for the next day's departure time, and comforted her for a while before leaving.

Song Ran returned to the room and felt exhausted and weak.

She lay down on the bed, breathing slowly, and breathing. She was very tired, but it was still early and she couldn't sleep. She didn't want to close her eyes and fell into darkness.

She looked at the ceiling in a daze. In fact, she didn't dare to think deeply about what the result would be. She didn't even dare to ask her heart, whether Ah Zan was alive or already...

She didn't want to think about it. She just wanted to find him, even if she was traveling all over the East.

Now, it seems that only this thing is meaningful to her.

She couldn't even experience any joy from the situation in which the Eastern Country improved.

Too ironic.

Does this mean that perhaps great love is just an illusion? And people are selfish after all, and only the individual's own pain is the most profound?

Song Ran walked up to the balcony and looked at Gamma City in the sun.

Half reconstructed, half trauma.

She saw that across the street was Gamma Polytechnic University.

The campus is full of trees, and young students come and go, and are full of vitality.

Song Ran suddenly thought of Sasin, she wanted to see him. Sasin had met Li Zan. In the Eastern Kingdom, he was the only remaining person who had a shared memory of Li Zan with her.

Now that the war is coming to an end, he should have come back to study long ago.

Song Ran sent a message to Sasin while going downstairs. I wonder if he could see Twitter in time. It doesn’t matter, she remembers Sasin’s surname, just go to campus to inquire.

Walking into the campus of the University of Science and Technology, a group of young college students wearing white shirts passed by, men and women holding textbooks, discussing learning issues fiercely.

Song Ran only understood xy and αβ.

The blown-up teaching building in the distance has been repaired. The tree-lined avenue is lush with trees, and there are several newly planted small trees mixed among the big trees. I think the original trees have been damaged in the war.

The birds chirped in the treetops, and Song Ran suddenly remembered the story of the little bird and the big tree.

At that time, Li Zan said that this was a love story.

At the end of the story, the bird found the big tree.

Song Ran looked at the tree, took a breath, and found that a small square was built on the right side of the main road. A huge black rectangular stone tablet lying in the center. The stone tablet is not high, but wide and long.

The edges around the stele were filled with flowers. A bouquet of fire was lit on the open space, and the flames were leaping.

Song Ran walked over and saw a line of golden East Country characters engraved on the top of the black stone tablet. She couldn't understand it, but she instantly guessed the meaning of the line - to the students of the University of Science and Technology who sacrificed their lives for the country during the war. Because the four sides of the stone tablet were covered with black and white avatars of young people, each with their birth and death years engraved under it.

Song Ran walked to the stone tablet, looking down along the young and vivid smiles, and found the third line eleven. She suddenly stopped, her heart felt like she was cut open by a knife.

Sasin's black and white smiley face was frozen on the stone wall.

Perhaps it was a photo of him when he first entered school. A boy of seventeen or eighteen years old had a green and shy smile, and his big eyes were shining with stars.

The photo carries the year of birth and death, and the time of death is 20 years, 9 months and 13 days.

Song Ran reached out and touched his face. The black marble was hard and cold, and the vision was blurred in the water for a moment. In the black and white photo, his smiling face was blurred as if it was exposed to the sun.
Chapter completed!