The Modern Age of the Mysterious

Holding the candle, Pan was trembling slightly.

He saw everyone around him, including Peter Barry, with serious and focused expressions on their faces.

He followed the others and walked into the hut on the rooftop.

After placing the candle in the center of the room, Pan Cai began to look around.

It was a small room, but it was enough for seven of them.

Posters, newspaper clippings, and magazine photos were neatly plastered on the walls, and Pan began to browse the contents of the walls in amazement.

His eyes were first attracted by a photo of a "Ferris Wheel".

He stared blankly at the giant ship with the carriage on it, imagining it turning slowly.

"That's the Ferris wheel on display at the 1893 Grigor World's Fair..."

Pan turned to Holly Carter, who was talking. Today, with her braids, she became obviously more cheerful, and she also set her sights on the Ferris wheel.

Pan continued to watch, the newspaper clippings posted on the wall were varied.

There are gorgeous fountains, the most luxurious carousel, the clown haunted house that makes people queue up...

"These..." Pan's eyes sparkled, "What are they?"

"This one," Holly pointed to the clippings about the rides, "this is the amusement park that Peter and we envisioned—

"We dream of being a big man in the future, with enough money and power, to transform downtown.

"This amusement park, which is specially designed for children to play for free, is one of the renovation projects."

Being able to put so many interesting things together and let the children play for free... Pan was obsessed with it for a while.

"Don't just immerse yourself in the 'amusement park'." Peter seemed to find that Pan was staring at a newspaper clipping in an area. He patted Pan on the shoulder and pointed to the wall next to it - there were more materials posted there.

Glass-encrusted skyscrapers, automatic toasting machines, streamlined gasoline-powered cars...

Peter's hand was on Pan's shoulder, and the latter looked around the photos and drawings with some dullness.

Seeing Pan's stunned expression, Peter smiled: "Pan, do you know what this means?"

A little stunned, he turned his head to look at Peter, and Pan shook his head.

Peter Barry said patiently: "This is our dream."

Looking at Pan who was still a little confused, Peter continued: "Pan, you know, many people's dreams belong only to him. For example, to become a millionaire or a big star, to dream of moving out of the lower city and living in Long Island, Own a villa of your own and even have a motorboat...

"I think these dreams are too small."

"Too small?" For Pan, who was looking forward to having a full meal, he didn't know how these dreams were "small".

"Yes," Peter Barry nodded, "too small.

"Just pretend to be themselves.

"Think about it, even if they escaped downtown and lived a high life...

"The world remains the same.

"There are still people who die of pneumonia because it's too cold, and there are children who are stabbed to death by their peers for grabbing cans on the street...

"That's not a dream, that's an escape plan."

Peter paused, his eyes seemed to be looking into the distance.

"And I think differently.

"I want to change, not flee.

"I want to lead everyone together and change the environment we live in.

"Not only yourself, but also let more people live in happiness.

"Among them..." Peter smiled like a wise adult, he pointed to Pan, "including you."

Change your environment?

Let everyone live in happiness?

It was the first time Pan had heard someone make such a wish.

Peter's speech shocked him more than he imagined the playground that didn't exist yet.

"So..." Beside, Holly joined the conversation again, "You know what we're here for, right?

"Peter's dream is our dream.

"Our small family is not trying to monopolize the newspaper business on any street...

"It's about having enough power one day to build the lower city into a beautiful place."

In the candlelight, the partners showed tacit smiles.

Valley While Peter's dream was to transform the entire Lower Town, Pan's focus was largely on that playground.

He pointed to the blank space in the "land plan" depicting the Ferris wheel and the merry-go-round and asked, "Why is this place empty?"

Foley looked at the blank space and shrugged: "Peter thinks that the center of the playground should place something particularly eye-catching...

"To be able to hold down the entire paradise."

"What exactly is it, we haven't figured it out yet."

"Can't the Ferris wheel work?"

"Not even the Ferris wheel." Foley replied absentmindedly, wanting to return to the topic he had just started with Mike.

Pan fell into silence for a while, and the partners began to chat with each other.

They didn't notice that Pan's soul seemed to fly out of the sky - he was flying in his own imaginary playground...

Suddenly, Pan saw the thing in the center.

That is a castle.

He couldn't remember where he had seen such a castle, but it was a long, long time ago.

"Castle, how is it?"

With just a few words, the surrounding conversations stopped.

Including Peter, all turned their attention to Pan.

castle?

Build a huge castle in the center of an amusement park?

Everyone looked at Pan with surprise.

"That's a great idea!" Peter was obviously excited, "No one doesn't like castles!"

The friends all opened their eyes and nodded, and began to discuss which magazine or book to find a suitable castle picture...

For the first time, what he said was unanimous.

He even got the approval of the people he cared about the most.

Pan's little face flushed red.

The candles were still burning quietly, slightly warming the secret corner of the closed door.

The partners whispered about the future of the lower city, bursting into laughter from time to time.

At this moment, the whistles of the education officials, the singing of drunkards, the frightened sounds of wild cats kicking over the trash can, and the screeching sounds from somewhere, all of which were exclusively in Xiacheng District, interweaved into an unpleasant piece of music.

However, this small room temporarily blocked the music,

No one knows that there are seven young children here, who are talking about the bright future that belongs to everyone here.

It can be said that, whether in Pan's heart or in the hearts of Mike and others, that was the happiest time.

That rooftop also left behind more than one night of good memories.

Summer is here. They each sat on the edge of the rooftop with a bottle of soda, looking at the blue sky overhead, discussing what the clouds in the distance were transforming into.

Suddenly a beep sounded, and they saw a plane with three propellers fly through the sky.

Peter Barry stood up suddenly, chased the plane that had just taken off and ran forward for a while until he had to stop until he reached the edge of the roof.

"Guys!" he blushed - rarely seen him so excited, "that's the passenger plane that TAT just opened!

"New Covenant to Saint Los!" (Note 1)

The plane climbed quickly, and Peter stared at it firmly, as if to mutter to himself, "That's my Ford tri-engine!"

Peter didn't say that, but he didn't really own a Ford three-engine plane.

Friends all know that Peter has a far more obsession with planes than ordinary people——

He carved a Ford three-engine plane out of wood~www.readwn.com~ Everyone knows that it is his greatest treasure, and he keeps it on his desk and plays with it several times a day.

At that time, Pan was still sitting on the edge of the rooftop, with the sweet and sour taste of soda in his mouth, surrounded by companions who were thinking or whispering.

He turned his head to look at Peter's back, who was watching the plane in the distance turn into a black spot in the sky...

He suddenly felt that the night that "won't dawn" seemed to be dawn.

He wanted this moment to become forever.

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Note 1: This flight was launched in 1929 on our world line. In Modern World Line, due to the progressive movement of "San Andrea", the opening time was advanced by more than ten years. Generally speaking, the social and technological development in the story is slightly earlier than the reality.

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