Chapter 33
The things messed my heart
After asked Sheilor to take off the backpack politely, the cold metal detection wand stuck close to Sheilor’s nape uncivilly. After “Dee” the sound, the reading and verification of the identity data were completed instantly. The soldier responsible for the checking took a look at the information on the elbow small screen, looked at Sheilor and had a smile, he said, “you are the senior fellow apprentice after all, but you look very young.”
Sheilor’s smile was a little bit contrived, the corners of the lips struggled a few times and then turned back to normal a bit, he put the backpack back on the shoulders and said, “crouched in the mine, always couldn’t see the sunshine, you should go there if you are willing to.”
There were not many corps for the East Forest garrison, but the toughest one was the mine maintenance force, it’s also the “crouch hole” called by the soldiers. That soldier had a pat on Sheilor’s shoulder with smile and said, “the senior fellows had the bad luck before, isn’t it the good one this time? Just retired, then you can got on the ship. Before, our chief operator retired, had to wait in the garrison command for half a year, then waited the spacecraft sent over to here from the Ministry of National Defense.”
After laughed and talked a few words, because there were a lot of passengers waiting for the inspection in line, that soldier let off Sheilor reluctantly, waved his hand and let him to pass the check point. Sheilor walked a few steps and didn’t forget to turn his head to say thanks. All he showed was very normal, but when he got on the greyhound bus, the body leaned against the back of the seat, he then found out that the cold sweat was all over his back, and wetted the clothes.
Sheilor uttered a sigh of relief gently, breathed out the nervousness within his body, wiped off the sweat beads dripping down from the hair, and sat on the soft chair exhaustedly. Just only a checking gateway, had already scared him not lightly, fortunately he had already remembered well the set identity of that disguise chip which was in his nape, then he could barely pass this gateway . But then he thought about it again, once somebody went to that nonexistent mine corps to check in the future, and what should he do?
Able to get through the check point easily, it’s nothing to do with Sheilor’s luck. The whole Federation had already gotten used to the convenience and accuracy of the federal electronic monitoring network in the past countless years, the body chip had already replaced the identity document, besides some important regions of the Federation might have the contrast of the fingerprint and iris, most of the rest identity verifications, all conducted with the body chip. Every citizen of the Federation from the day when he was born, would be covered in the splendor of the First Charter. So that there would be a conclusion in everyone’s mind subconsciously, the electronic monitoring network would never make a mistake.
In fact, in the past countless years, the central computer of the Charter Bureau and the all over the federal society electronic monitoring network didn’t make any mistakes indeed, except… that mechanic and the now sitting weak and limp on the coach bus youngster.
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Twenty three days later in the Capital of the Fudge state, the sky was murky, Sheilor’s heart was also murky. He sat in a fast-food restaurant on the street corner, having the beef noodle soup in front of him without knowing the taste, raised his head time to time, looked at that far away full of majesty sense building on the center of the street. He chose to come to here to have his lunch, just because this fast-food restaurant was closest to the trial court of the Fudge state, he could inquire about the situation of today’s trial case in the first time.
The police cars flashing the alarm lamp, shutting of the sirens, drove through the street outside of the fast-food restaurant quietly. Sheilor looked at the outside through the window, he was a bit absent-minded at the moment, then bowed his head subconsciously, buried his face in the large soup bowl. He always felt at the previous that moment, he saw the faces of Levi and little Johnny in the police car.
The orphan gang which Levi was in was blown apart by the second police station, didn’t know for what kind of reason, the trial of the case was arranged in the trial court of the Fudge state. The federal action to get rid of the mechanic belonged to the top secret, of course they wouldn’t impose the boring charge of colluded with the treason on the orphans of the Bell Tower Street, the wholly endured the undeserved catastrophe Levi was sentenced one year imprisonment in the end, this was also because he was just only eighteen years old.
This result was quite good, it might be assumed that the lawyer sent to Levi by the government also wouldn’t suggest him to appeal to the appellate court, or even the circuit court again, but Sheilor still felt sorry to Levi. Not just because of the disaster of the imprisonment, but also because he knew it clearly that Levi surely felt more sorry to him, because the federal government knew the existence of Sheilor and the mechanic from his mouth, the more important thing was, Levi might think that Sheilor had already died at this time.
“Young man, why are you pulling the long face?” The sitting on the other side of Sheilor and also having the noodle soup old man, looked at the distress expression of the youngster, said with a smile, “this young age, have already began to pretend to be lonely, imitate the despair, this can’t be succeeding.”
A literally having the noodle soup on the street old man could also say something this tasteful, suddenly Sheilor felt that the god had no eyes, let all these weird guys around him. Somehow, he suddenly had the urge to tell something, but his those secrets, couldn’t find a place to tell at all, he stared at the full face wrinkles of the old man blankly, opened his mouth and asked, “grand old man, have you ever experienced the extremely big trouble in your this life? Have you had something which made you very sad?”
“No.” The old man answered very simply, it had the crisp taste of the East Forest people, “there no barrier can’t be crossed in this world, if you really can’t cross it, that’s your fate. Who can fight against the fate? It’s just only a bit bitterer, you think about this, when we East Forest people are afraid of the hardship in these years? We also never complained to the Federation, being alive happily, it’s better than anything else.”
“But I just want to live straightforward, there still troubles run to me, and even suffer the extremely big wrongful treatment.”
“Then you just don’t live too honest.” The old man had a lick on the oily soup on the side of his lips and said, “just like the noodle, it must be chewy, but the soup broth must be smooth and greasy, then you wouldn’t be bullied in the society.”
The East Forest Region was rich in stones, it also produced richly the silent but optimistic and as tough as the grass characters like this old man. Sheilor suddenly thought of the people by his side in this life, his whole emotion calmed down, he had the touch in his mind, and thought of those things which he didn’t think of because of exhaustion, nervousness and sadness in these days.
That explosion had already had once many years ago, his boss could survive from that time, why the hell he couldn’t survive this time? Perhaps his boss had already changed in another chip at this time, pretended to be the professor of the university, was kidding on those youthful college girls? Or perhaps his boss was disguising as the business rookie at this time, playing his empty-handed to make money ability? Or even, his boss was laughing at his downcast and sadness in some corner at this time?
Sheilor looked at the old man at the other side of the table and said, “your first name won’t be Fengyu?”
Of course the old man was not named Fengyu, he looked at this jumpy youngster, heaved a sigh, took the soup bowl up and left.
Sheilor saw the sent down from the god to wake him up old man off, smirked at the noodle soup. He had already understood what kind of people he would become in the future, just like the noodle in the bowl, insists on what he should insist on, keeps the inner toughness, but the form to achiev
e this kind of toughness…
His boss was maybe dead, or maybe still alive, but just couldn’t come to meet him, just floating away in the white dress. Was this real? But what’s the problem? If he couldn’t meet him again in this life, what’s the different between the life and death? The key was what he should do in the future, wasn’t it?
Sheilor had the smile on his face, he cheered himself up secretly in the heart. At this moment, the mentality of this simple and honest youngster finally had some changes, just like some sunlight shined into the heart.
At this moment, the gloomy clouds over the Fudge state also disappeared finally, it showed out the very beautiful sunlight.
The youngster walked out of the restaurant, somewhat jerky and nervous to blow a whistle to a walking by young girl, tightened the backpack behind his back, and walked toward the direction of the garrison command.