If I don't have money to go to college, I can only go to slay the dragon

Chapter 959 Stars (Two in One)

Chu Zihang sat on the right side of the cabin, quietly looking at the rising view outside the window, everything on the ground was moving away quickly, the light, noise, temperature, and the wind from the lake blowing in through the gap in the cabin window lowered the level not long ago. hotness and boredom.

Xia Mi sat opposite, a lock of wet and soft forehead dangling in front of her eyes, she stared at Chu Zihang in front of her in a daze.

No one expected that things would develop to this point. They should have split up and were locked in the same cabin of the Ferris wheel.

The Ferris wheel has been going up, and the view from below has been looking up. If that line of sight does not belong to a group of Chicago police who have been late to guard the entrance and exit of the Ferris wheel, this picture will be even better.

The neon lights hanging outside the cabin will not make the inside of the cabin look too dark. Xia Mi hesitated for a while before saying sorry, but Chu Zihang made a move first, and he took a bag from his pocket. The tissue came out and handed to Xia Mi.

"Oh, thank you, senior brother." Xia Mi was a little surprised by Chu Zihang's sudden thoughtfulness, pulled out two tissues and wiped the wet spots on his body, "Sorry, I seem to be lagging behind."

"It's not time to talk about this yet, but it can be remedied." Chu Zihang said, "Lu Mingfei, are you still on the channel?"

"I'm here, I've been here all the time. What happened to you guys? Why was it so noisy just now?" Lu Mingfei's voice rang through the public channel of the headset.

"We need your help here." Chu Zihang said succinctly, "Xia Mi and I are trapped on the Ferris wheel. I need you to go to the power distribution room of the amusement park and turn off the main switch."

"What trouble are you in?" Lu Mingfei was taken aback. He didn't expect Chu Zihang's kind of murder to be forced to a skyscraper in Chicago, and he was usually the one who drove others to a dead end.

"The people from the Chicago Police Department and many of the onlookers can only temporarily avoid them. They are waiting under the Ferris wheel." Chu Zihang approached the cabin of the Ferris wheel and glanced at the scene below. Several police officers in police uniforms were To evacuate the crowd and pull the cordon, the young men who were brought down by Chu Zihang with knives were also handcuffed to the railing beside them to keep watch.

"I'll go, how did you provoke the police, what do you need me to do?"

"Go to the power distribution room, go north through the green garden to a gray house, there are security guards in front, the back door has been opened, you can sneak in and turn off the main switch, we will continue to complete the task, and then take advantage of the darkness from the Ferris wheel Climb up and down."

"Is there enough time? Don't turn around and get arrested before I arrive." Lu Mingfei asked.

"The Fireworks Ferris Wheel is different from other Ferris wheels. Once it is started, it will turn counterclockwise three times, and the cabin will open after three times." Chu Zihang said, "The time for each circle is 2 minutes, and now we have 5 minutes time."

"I've already seen the green garden." Lu Mingfei's voice was a bit breathy, it should be that Chu Zihang was already running fast when he spoke.

"I'll leave it to you." Chu Zihang stopped talking after saying this.

The next step is to wait.

The Ferris wheel was still spinning quietly, and was about to climb to the top of the first lap. Xia Mi, who was sitting opposite, wiped off the water stains on his body.He rolled the toilet paper into a ball and put it in his pocket, looked up at Chu Zihang, and found that the other party didn't look at him, so he whispered, "Brother, are you angry?"

"No." Chu Zihang looked out the window of the Ferris wheel.

"." Xia Mi didn't know what to say, and turned his gaze out of the window embarrassingly.

The cabin swayed towards the sky, the noise on the ground became farther and farther away, and the cabin became quieter and quieter.

Both of them were fermenting in silence. This situation and environment was too suitable for wild thinking. Thoughts and ideas kept rising, and they exploded the moment they surfaced.

Suddenly for a moment, one of the two inexplicably remembered that in the past, when his classmates talked about the Ferris wheel, they would always have special reactions, just like this facility is independent in the amusement park and has a special status. , At that time, he didn't understand it very well, but now he seems to understand a little bit.

The Fireworks Ferris Wheel on the lakeside of Navy Pier is not a giant Ferris wheel like the "London Eye", so its cabin is not too spacious, and it is a very delicate boundary between crowded and uncrowded, comfortable and unsatisfactory.

The guests sitting on the skyscraper sit on the left and right seats, and their knees can touch each other within a few centimeters.In such a small space, they are forbidden to have their own comfort zone. Even their eyes have almost no place to hide their eyes. When you look out of the window, you will inevitably see the opposite person from the corner of your eye.

Her breathing rate, the curling of her fingers, the shaking of her eyelashes, all the tiny movements can be seen, and you can even smell her scent that you can't usually smell, that sweet, with a hint of intoxicating temperature.

cola flavor.

This is the smell lingering in front of Chu Zihang's nose, the whole cabin smells of cola, there is no doubt that Xia Mi is the source of the smell.

Xia Mi himself also seemed to realize that his 'fragrant' smell was too strong, and he played with the wet lock of forehead hair a little embarrassedly, his eyes dodging.

"Xia Mi." Chu Zihang called her name, breaking the embarrassing silence that would become embarrassing if it continued.

"I'm here." Xia Mi cheered up, his eyes met Chu Zihang's in front of him.

"Why didn't you avoid it?" Chu Zihang asked.

"Huh?" Xia Mi was taken aback.

Chu Zihang silently looked at the water marks on her body.

"Ah, there was someone behind me at that time, I didn't want to cause more trouble." Xia Mi replied.

"The highest priority for the executive department's executives to perform field missions is to protect their own lives." Chu Zihang said, "This time it's Coca-Cola, so it won't be the case next time. There is always a better way to deal with it."

Xia Mi stared at Chu Zihang and didn't answer. It wasn't until Chu Zihang felt that he had said something wrong and recited the regulations of the executive department silently again that the girl opposite sighed, "I know, brother, I'm sorry, This time I made a mistake."

"It's not a mistake. It's not wrong to choose to calm down and control the situation at the first time. I just want to tell you that next time you encounter similar things, you can think about whether there are other better solutions." Chu Zihang shook his head and said.

"If it was you, brother, what would you do?"

"Without alarming others, use force to deter the conflict before it escalates further," Chu Zihang said.

"Are you going to do it directly?"

"There is an easier way." Chu Zihang gently flipped his jacket with his left hand, revealing the handle of the PM pistol pinned to his waist.

"Deterrence by force." Xia Mi immediately understood what Chu Zihang meant.

Sometimes a simple and subtle action can resolve many conflicts.

"Protect yourself, the mission is indeed important, but there is no need to hold the idea of ​​sacrificing for the mission all the time." Chu Zihang nodded and said.

"Isn't it a bit too much to sacrifice or something? I just got splashed with Coke."

"See the big from the small." Chu Zihang looked directly at Xia Mi and said, "In Kassel College, in the executive department's specialist assessment, the examiners will use various angles to judge a student's overall quality, including Emergency response, psychological hidden dangers, etc. If this is an assessment, your judgment and reaction are undoubtedly unqualified, and the examiner will think that you have a tendency to self-destruct and cowardly."

"I thought that at least I would get a good evaluation of 'forbearance'." Xia Mi opened his eyes wide and was a little annoyed, "Haven't your instructors heard the saying that a little patience can lead to chaos?"

"But can you imagine Lin Nian being splashed with Coke?" Chu Zihang said.

Xia Mi paused for a moment, then shook her head. After seeing Lin Nian these few days, she really couldn't imagine Lin Nian looking as embarrassed as herself.

"I'm not totally denying the practice of forbearance and regress, but I just want you to know that 'forbearance' is mostly linked to 'incompetence'." Chu Zihang said softly, "A lot of times it's just because I can't find a better one. There is a better way to solve the dilemma before turning around and running away, but this will only make things worse."

Xia Mi still wanted to explain something, but she saw some emotions in Chu Zihang's lowered eyes and suddenly stopped talking.

The cabin was quiet for a while as the Ferris wheel began its second turn.

"Brother, you said that I like to regress. It may be related to my previous habits." Xia Mi said.

"Habit?" Chu Zihang raised his head and asked.

"I've been used to turning big things into small ones, and taking a step back." Xia Mi looked sideways at the black Lake Michigan in the distance outside the window, "My mother often taught me that it doesn't matter if you suffer a little, don't worry too much, just get by." .”

"I thought you were very favored at home."

"Why?" Xia Mi asked.

Chu Zihang didn't know how to answer, there was no reason, but he felt that she was the type of little princess, a bit like Liu Miaomiao and Su Xiaoqiang.Which parent would not love such a girl?She was born to be proudly displayed to others by her parents, right?A smile looks like sunshine.

"But it's not a good habit."

"It's not true for others, but it's true for me." Xia Mi said, "Do you still remember my brother?"

"Xiawang, he should be left by us to rest in the hotel room."

"What do you think of my brother?" Xia Mi asked.

Chu Zihang didn't speak for a while, he looked at Xia Mi, wondering what kind of evaluation the girl asked him about the boy with blue pupils.

Seeing that Chu Zihang didn't answer, Xia Mi just smiled: "Do you think my brother looks like a puppy, the clingy one?"

"Some." Chu Zihang answered honestly.

"We are twins." Xia Mi said, "I stayed in my mother's womb for ten months like him. He was born six hours earlier than me. By the time I arrived, my mother might have run out of strength and the labor force was too weak. , so it was very difficult to give birth to me, and it took a long time to give birth to me. During this period of time, the nurse forgot to take care of my brother, who was suffocated for half an hour, and it was too late when I found out again.”

"Dissociative disorder." Chu Zihang still remembered that Xia Mi had mentioned the disease name, "Is there no way to treat it?"

"It cannot be treated." Xia Mi said, "This is one of the sequelae of brain damage. Even without this disease, he might still be a demented child, but the doctor said that thanks to this disease, he can retain part of his intelligence. When he is not sick, he will be very noisy. He likes to tear down the house and toys. It is just as terrible as manic depression. But when he is sick, he will be quiet, his IQ and cognitive ability will become lower, as if he has been cut off As stupid as the frontal lobe."

Chu Zihang was silent.

"My mother said that I owe this to my brother." Xia Mi looked at the night scene outside the window, "I have been doing well in sports since I was a child, and I was even a cheerleader in high school. My brother is taken care of a lot. Because they think that without me, my brother may be as good as me, or even better than me. I can only be a cheerleader, and he can go to the Olympics to win gold medals. But I took my brother’s chance Take it away, I'm the only one with a normal head among the twins, so I owe it to my brother."

"So you hate your brother?"

"No, I don't hate him." Xia Mi lowered his head and played with his hands, "Brother used to listen to me the most, maybe because we stayed in the same belly for ten months, so he liked me very much, I said What is what. Once he got into a fight with five or six boys for a stupid reason, because one of the boys told everyone I was his girlfriend. My brother got angry and fought with him and broke his front teeth Lost."

"Xiawang? Knock out someone else's front teeth?" Chu Zihang was stunned for a moment, really unable to connect that frail boy with fighting.

"My brother used to always like to cause trouble. Before he got seriously ill, he was actually not weak. He fought very hard and had great strength. Even the gangsters on the street couldn't beat him!" Xia Mi smiled, "But fighting always Those who want to cause trouble, every time I break into trouble, I apologize for him, and I deal with the aftermath for him. I walked all the way, and he followed me by the hem of my clothes, and dragged him from house to house to say sorry. Those people scolded us as brothers and sisters. Tutor, I can only apologize with a smile, because it is indeed my brother who did something wrong."

"That time I was rarely angry with him and felt very ashamed, so I didn't let her hold my clothes and let him stay at least ten meters away from me, and he followed me from a distance. Not far. Every time I turn a corner, I have to stand and wait for him, until he turns and bumps into me, and then runs back in fear to keep ten meters away. After a while, I can see him poking his head at the turn, wanting to see me Are you moving forward?"

"At that time, I felt very angry and funny. When the anger subsided, I waved to him who was still submissive behind me when I was about to get home. He became happy when he saw me waving, and ran over and continued to hold my skirt. horn."

Chu Zihang looked at Xia Mi, and said softly, "What about now?"

That's right, what Xia Mi said at the beginning was "My brother used to listen to me the most." The meaning of this "before" is a bit intriguing, and Chu Zihang noticed this.

Xia Mi's expression didn't change much, looking at the scenery outside the skyscraper, he said slowly: "Didn't I say that my brother was sick, and then he got older and became more and more serious. The disease of dissociative disorder is really miraculous. Let a rambunctious guy become quiet. The doctor said that when he got sick, his IQ would be greatly reduced, his desire would also be lowered, his emotions would be suppressed, his perception would be impaired, and his body would become worse and worse. Before he could Hit two bad boys with one hand, and after a while he can't even beat me with arm wrestling."

"When I was sick, my brother didn't talk very much, and he didn't have any energy. He just sat quietly. When I looked at him, I even wondered if he was my brother. It was like a different person." Xia Mi Said, "I will sit next to him who is sick when my family is away, put the hem of my skirt in his hand, and ask him if he still remembers me. If it was before, he would definitely catch me and call my name." , but at that time he just turned his head to look at me and then turned back. At that time, I didn’t know why I suddenly wanted to cry, and then I lay down on the bed and cried.”

"He's been like that ever since."

"Always like this."

"Have you heard of prefrontal lobotomy?" Chu Zihang said suddenly after being silent for a while.

"Well, what?"

"The way people used to create bipolar disorder and psychosis, cutting off the human prefrontal cortex can effectively regulate emotions and aggressive behavior. Alcohol is injected into the lobe, and the nerve fibers in that piece are destroyed by alcohol-dissolving lipids, thereby destroying the connection between the prefrontal cortex and other brain regions. People who have undergone the operation are like walking dead, with only the most basic desires and reflexive behaviors." Chu Zihang said, "People who have undergone this kind of surgery will forget many things, including their own family members. What I want to say is that the people who choose this kind of surgery are usually the family members of the patient. After the patient loses a certain amount of self-care ability, they also regard the patient as their own family member. This is a bond of blood that can never be severed, so no matter how he is, he is still your brother. He likes to hold your skirt since childhood brother."

"Yeah, he's still my brother." Xia Mi nodded and said, "It's just that I don't like him as much as before. I still like the brother who likes to cause trouble, is strong, and will fight for me, even if I will take him with me. He went all over the streets to apologize, but now I don't have that opportunity."

Chu Zihang lowered his eyes and looked at Xia Mi's clothes. He didn't know why the topic suddenly came to this point. It seems that this kind of thing should be hidden in the bottom of his heart, right?Just like the "absolute domain" in "EVA", the absolute spiritual domain, you don't want others to come in.

For example, he has a Maybach full of holes hidden in his heart. When he suddenly wakes up in a dream, he often feels that he is still sitting in that car. It is pouring rain outside and the song is playing repeatedly on the stereo.He never told anyone about it because no one else would understand.If so, why tell others?Still tell him.

Perhaps as Lu Mingfei said before, he is a good tree hole and he is serious. There are indeed many people who like to analyze these inner things with him, just like countless times before.

before.

Chu Zihang recalled the past, those fuzzy memories, looking at Xia Mi, he felt that the girl's cheek gradually matched the one in the memory. No, several outlines overlapped, just like drawing thin rice paper on the TV screen. Like a flower, as long as the tip of the pen is pressed lightly, the paper can be pierced to see the bright crystal lattice behind.

But at this moment, Chu Zihang's vision suddenly became dark.

The cabin under them stopped, shaking slightly in the air due to inertia.

"Senior brother?" In the darkness, Xia Mi raised his hand subconsciously, and Chu Zihang's wrist was immediately held gently by Chu Zihang, and then put down.

"Lu Mingfei succeeded." In the darkness, Chu Zihang stabilized Xia Mi's emotions and looked outside - the entire Ferris wheel stopped moving.

Xia Mi also turned his head to look outside, and was stunned, because not only the Ferris wheel, but the entire south side of the Navy Pier was dark!There was no light in the entire area, and the entire Navy Pier was full of exclamations from tourists. From time to time, the lights of mobile phone cameras were turned on to illuminate everywhere.

"He seems to have made a mistake with the electric switch. And the timing of the power outage is a bit late." Chu Zihang observed the position of the cabin, and the cabin of the Ferris wheel they were sitting in is now at a lower position, the most ideal timing It should be the Ferris wheel that took them to the direction of three o'clock or nine o'clock. At that time, they could climb out of the cabin and walk parallel to the iron rod of the Ferris wheel to place the signal jammer on the rotating shaft of the smiling face.

Chu Zihang bent over and got up in the cabin, Xia Mi shrank to the corner to make room for him to easily remove the cabin glass of the Ferris wheel, worrying about tourists climbing and falling, these glass are designed to be fixed and cannot be opened of.

The dark cabin gradually lit up with a molten red color, the temperature of the entire cabin rose by tens of degrees Celsius in an instant, and the breathing became a little stuffy.Xia Mi locked his eyes on Chu Zihang's fingertips, and the molten red light illuminated most of the cabin, as well as Chu Zihang's pale red side face and pupils as beautiful as melting gold.

He lifted his fingers that seemed to be burning close to the screws at the four corners of the cabin glass. The alloy that fixed the window was deformed and twisted due to high temperature, and a whole piece of glass was quickly and easily removed.

At this moment, the refreshing lake wind outside poured into the cabin with the sound of the tide, washing away all the sweltering heat. Xia Mi couldn't help but took a deep breath. What lingered at the tip of his nose was the smell of the lake and the smell of the boy. The scent of the body wash.

"Brother, be careful." She said.

Chu Zihang stood the removed glass on the seat, and leaned his front body out. The strong wind instantly messed up his black forehead hair. He pressed hard on the roof of the cabin with his unaffected hands. In the cabin, in a suspended state, exert strength with both arms, do a horseback gymnastics and turn the legs, and directly 'throw' yourself on the roof of the cabin!
There was a "bang" sound from the iron sheet on the roof of the cabin, Chu Zihang squatted firmly, his eyes swept the darkness below him, listened to the noise on the ground, and made sure that he was not noticed by anyone, and then he was about to reach out to grab Xia Mi below.

But what I didn't expect was that Xia Mi didn't appreciate it at all, and took the first step to grab the roof of the cabin with his backhand from the inside. When he exerted force with his wrists, his slender legs stretched out of the cabin first, and with an upward hook, his body rolled over in an approximate circular arc. Trajectory, both feet stepped on the roof of the cabin first, then straightened the upper body with terrifying core strength and flexibility, and stood beside Chu Zihang!

"Amazing, isn't it?" Xia Mi said proudly.

"." Although in the dark, Chu Zihang's golden pupils have a certain night vision ability, and he can see the girl's inconceivably flexible figure.He didn't say anything, there is some reason for Xia Mi to be rated as 'A' by Norma, and it's definitely not limited to the high-risk 'Pupil of the Wind King'.

"Wait here for me." Chu Zihang instructed Xia Mi, bent down and climbed up the iron rod of the Ferris wheel.

If the tourists below saw Chu Zihang's current actions, they would definitely scream and couldn't help but record them and upload them to the video website. In this extreme environment of walking on the balance beam, he was almost walking on flat ground, and the strong wind of Lake Michigan could not interfere with his movements at all. Stepping on iron rods is like nails sticking into a wooden board, and each step is more stable.

When the pouring angle was greater than [-] degrees, Chu Zihang held the iron rod with both hands and continued to climb up with tree-climbing skills. At this point, more than skills are needed. Only the maintenance personnel of the Ferris wheel will find out some An iron rod connected to the rotating shaft is covered with black sunken palm rubbings.

Arriving on the platform with a slightly curved shaft without any surprises, Chu Zihang placed the signal shielding device, and after a simple modulation, he wrapped it repeatedly with tape and fixed it on the iron sheet, making sure that it would not be blown by the wind before returning to find it in the same way. Waiting for his Xia Mi.

Back at the top of the cabin, Chu Zihang was about to discuss with Xia Mi how to go on, but before he could speak, Xia Mi, who was sitting on the cabin with his knees hugged, raised his finger and pointed down, saying, "Look, senior brother."

Chu Zihang looked in the direction Xia Mi pointed, and then he was stunned, because he saw a very beautiful and strange scene.

The entire southern side of the Navy Pier was blacked out, and it should be pitch black, but in the darkness that Chu Zihang looked at, countless white stars rose up.Those starlight dots are like fish schools surging in the black tide, and the light dots are shining like the Milky Way when you look around

That's not a star.Those are the flashlights that tourists take out their mobile phones to light up. They raise their mobile phones to illuminate them. If there are more than one, they will become the Milky Way flowing on the ground.

It is also different from Chu Zihang's imagining that the crowd would panic after the blackout. The people in the dark were surprisingly calm. They all stayed in their positions without crowding or panic. Zhong pointed to the sky.

Chu Zihang on the high place thought for a moment that they had been spotted, and subconsciously knelt down and lowered his head, but when he saw Xia Mi sitting beside him looking up at the sky, he suddenly realized that things were not what he thought.

"Look up, there are stars." On the ground, the Yankee boy who was tied to the railing whispered to the girl in the baseball cap who was holding her wrist and was sobbing softly.

"Leave me alone," said the girl in the baseball cap with her head bowed.

"No kidding, look up, there are stars." The Yankee boy elbowed her.

Annoyed, the girl in the baseball cap glanced up at the sky, then froze.

Some people say that modern cities cannot see the starry sky because of light pollution, migratory birds will lose their way due to light pollution, and newly hatched sea turtles will die due to light pollution. If there is no light pollution in the city, people can see as many as 7000 stars in the clear night sky with the naked eye. stars.

Chu Zihang, who was standing upright beside Xia Mi in the cabin, didn't know how many stars he saw in the sky now, but there was no doubt that at the moment of the blackout, looking at the night sky of Lake Michigan from the Navy Pier, the stars were shining brightly.

The violent lake wind swept across in the darkness, lifting the white cloth covering the scroll, causing the flowers underneath to sway in the air, and the golden chain-like stars trembling in the black sky!

It was a starry sky full of stars, which had already disappeared into memory with the development of the times. People by the lake held up white stars and looked up at the purple starry sky. Lake Michigan by the pier faithfully recorded this everything.

Among the gorgeous long stars, Chu Zihang stood on the tall Ferris wheel, stepped on the iron roof of the passenger cabin, and looked at the entire night sky in front of him. In the sound of the wind, he heard the girl sitting next to her knees chanting The girl read something seriously, so he listened carefully.

The lights in the distance of the Chicago CBD area behind, the headlights of the cars are connected together, flowing continuously in the golden veins of the city, and the voices of the crowds on the ground are intertwined, woven into a soft gauze and covering the tide of the lake on the reef.The mighty night wind from far to near blows Xia Mi's hair on the Ferris wheel: one lock, two locks, three locks, just like Chu Zihang standing beside her silently, listening to the stars counted in her mouth : One, two, three.

　ps: no pigeons!It's two in one!

　　
　
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