Chapter 36
The dust of the history
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In the weak “Zee” sound of the motor, the fixed porthole curtain of the room was pulled open slowly, the starlight outside of the spacecraft spilled in clearly and triumphantly. The immerse himself in chewing the synthetic beef Sheilor raised his head astounded, found the having watermelon head little girl was looking at the outside of the window quietly, the corners of her mouth warped up slightly, she smiled sweetly, and the immature face was full of the admiring light.
Up until now, Sheilor then noticed the eyes of Little Watermelon were not so big, just very bright. She was smiling slightly now, the eyes would be just narrowed, that made her particularly lovely. Sheilor had a smile to himself in the heart, thought of the intimacy when they just met earlier, probably it came from this pair of eyes? He looked at the outside of the window along Little Watermelon’s eyes, his eyes also stopped at the distance, he put down the fork slowly and heaved a sigh lightly.
The distance outside of the window was his hometown East Forest planet, once he thought of that he was going to leave there like this, changed the identity, also didn’t know whether he would come back in this life, no matter how optimistic and cheerful Sheilor was, his mood still would be a bit low. Maybe he didn’t want his own mood to influence the little girl, he contrived to have a smile, pointed at that planet and said, “I had never thought of that I would look at it in this angle, the picture album I looked at in the school before, is much more beautiful than the real picture.”
The quiet planet suspended in the space, the blue sea water and the green open country could be seen clearly, they even could see those extraordinarily big white mine from the spacecraft, they were like the scars telling the ancient history of this planet. Just only on the edge of the planet atmosphere, there was a layer of dusty and floating the light red dust, let these sceneries like being wrapped in a layer of yarn, in the eyes of Sheilor with the present mood, unavoidably would be somewhat uncomfortable.
“That is the initial heritage of the planet’s development.” Little Watermelon scratched her hair lovely, she knew what Sheilor meant just in a glance, explained in the childish voice, “the three galaxies of the Federation were all on the edge of the galactic nucleus, the stellar density is too big in the space, although the creator arranged three galaxies for the human beings very miraculously, didn’t let those gravities to tear people into pieces, but the light pollution is still very serious. Especially the East Forest planet is too close to the star in the galaxy, if there is no this layer of red particle area to shield the radiation, it’s very difficult for the human beings on it to survive healthily.”
“Brother, although these dust is very ugly, but it’s really useful.” Little Watermelon looked at Sheilor and nodded her head, said very seriously.
“Ah? So you mean these dust is man-made?”
“That’s right, it seemed to be the largest primary group explosion in history, at the same time, after the precise calculation by the Committee of Five, then achieved the subsequent effect.”
Sheilor stared blankly for a moment, until today he didn’t know that no matter he was on the side of the Bell Tower Street, or in the mine, or on the green open country of the natural conservation area, why the sky he saw was always that dusty, the stars he could see were so poorly less, all of these were covered by these dust after all.
Once he thought of in many tens of thousands years ago, the human beings came to the East Forest Region from the federal central area for the first time, extremely arduous to develop the desolate planet, with the enormous courage to transform the natural environment, he was full of respects to those ancestors in his heart.
He looked at Little Watermelon’s swinging slightly black hair and shook his head, had a wry smile, another reason he felt shocked was, the even a six years old little girl knew about history, but he didn’t knew. Although he could say that he didn’t finish the compulsory education,, but this still embarrassed him too much.
Little Watermelon took over the tissue he handed and wiped her small mouth, very clever to feel Sheilor’s uneasiness, she had a sweet smile and said, “this is the thing not written on the history book, I just heard my father talked about it, the ancestors of our family were the first group of people came to the East Forest to open up wasteland, for remembering the great achievements of our ancestors, I began to read these things since I was very little.”
After heard the explanation, Sheilor’s mood felt a little bit better, but then he noticed another strange thing, if it’s the old family responsible for developing the East Forest, why would Little Watermelon’s family be in the West Forest now? But this was not the problem which he needed to think about now, he didn’t question closely about it.
“After fly out of the atmosphere, then I just knew the starlight in the mighty universe is so bright.” Sheilor lowered his head, thought of the could have already turned to fly ash on the East Forest boss, thought of the still put in the jail by the Federation Levi, he had a smile in self-mockery and said, “my previous worldly ideal was to become a federal battleship auxiliary official. Now it seems, staying in the battleship every day, I’m afraid that I would be shined into the mine wild cat by these starlight.”
“Brother Sheilor, what happens to the wild cat?”
“The wild cat in the mine, once they were shined by the headlamp, they would stand on the track foolishly, and wouldn’t never move again, probably because they never saw such bright light before.” Sheilor lowered his head and said, but another voice sounded in his heart, a new life was waiting for him, even he wouldn’t revenge and wash off the wrongs for his boss, but he still wouldn’t work himself to the bone for the Federation no matter how.
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The standard time six o’clock of the next day, the lay sleeping on the floor Sheilor was waken up by the huge roaring sound, he put on the coat and lift a corner of the curtain to look at the outside, found out that the covered with the history dust East Forest planet was leaving him gradually, he then knew that the spacecraft finally got on the journey to the Capital planet. He had all kinds of feelings well up in his heart at the time, he even couldn’t find the suitable words to describe his mood at this moment.
A month ago, he was just an orphan who was having the peaceful life on the ground of the East Forest, his worldly ideal was just to attend the machine maintenance officer exam of the Ministry of National Defense, then enter the military, or go into the Capital Planet Circle to pursue the advanced studies, thus he could have a decent job in the big company. He had just only been on the tram at that time, he didn’t even take on the plane ever. Besides the seventeen blocks of the West River state capital, he hadn’t been to anywhere else, he was just an absolute redneck. But a month later, he left the West River state, got on the greyhound bus, arrived to another distant Fudge state, he even got on the first-degree commercial spacecraft of the Federation, traveled in the space, and would go to the really remote Capital Planet Circle!
The encounter of the life would always be weird such like this, it’s difficult to predict, Sheilor scratched his somewhat messy hair with some angers, turned his head around to look at the sound sleeping in the bed little girl, he had the urge in his heart, there was a very drama problem waiting for him. He believed that the little girl didn’t lie, but he just even couldn’t understand why these weird things would always fall on his head.
He didn’t think that the little girl was a trouble or a burden, because he was just such a character people, as long as the really needed help people came to his side, he would be always willing to try his own power to do something, moreover the other party was a poor little child.
Half hour later, the roaring sound ended, just in the long frightening silence, the Antique Bell commercial spacecraft left the East Forest planet, set out to the deep universe peacefully like a floating bottle, the speed was faster
and faster, but the people on the spacecraft didn’t have any feelings about it. In the big systematic world, the velocity comparison of the eyes lost its role. But that kind of vacant feeling, covered on the huge alloy spacecraft.
In the later days, Sheilor kept the absolute low profile on the spacecraft, besides went to the restaurant, he didn’t have too many contacts with the people on the ship, and not many people paid attention to this poor, living in the cleaning zone retired soldier as well. Although low profile, but Sheilor still tried hard to find the family for the little girl or something odd, but there was no any effect, after a few times inquiring about, he didn’t hear about any similar information at all.
Sheilor had no other ways, he really didn’t have any idea to go against the little girl’s will, and faintly, he also had already got used to have this little girl in the room, this kind of existence could make his runaway trip of disguise not so ice-cold, not so lonely.
The thing made Sheilor more surprised was, the not up to six years old girl really knew about a lot of things, it looked like that her family had the nice environment, had the training of book learning aspect on her since she was little. Although Sheilor didn’t go to the school in the last few years, but according to the instruction of uncle Fengyu, he still tried hard to stay in the library of the state university, the information couldn’t be said not broad, the knowledge couldn’t be said not profound, but even such like this, he still would have no answer for this little girl’s questions time to time.
Chatting and playing games, were the best way for people to close the gap and obtain the trust. In the long space travel, after not too long of the time, the gradually getting familiar big and small two children, because of this kind of psychological need for each other, began to trust each other quickly and began to be interdependent on each other.
“Little Watermelon, you sneaked out from your room by yourself, then do you still remember where the room is?” Sheilor asked subconsciously one day, and didn’t have too much hope, because the Antique Bell spacecraft was too big, how could a six years old little girl remember the direction clearly?
But he didn’t expect that Little Watermelon had a blink with her eyes, and then raised her finger up, pointed at the ceiling of the room. Sheilor stared blankly in situ, he couldn’t get his mind back for a while, these days inquiring let him understand something about the Antique Bell, the living area of the spacecraft was separated into two-story, besides the senior staffs of the spacecraft lived on the upper that floor, the others were those no one had ever seen at all… The big shots.
“Are you sure?” Sheilor looked at her in the eyes and asked.
Little Watermelon nodded her head, and then said with the tremble voice, “but I don’t want to go back.”
“You tell me the place, I’ll go to check it out.”
Little Watermelon lowered her head and held the doll, said in the low voice, “brother Sheilor, I just only dare to take you to the place where I climb out from.”
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The dust all over the body Sheilor looked at the holding his hand Little Watermelon astonished, he just couldn’t understand no matter how, how this little guy could get through the complex piping of the air-conditioning system of the spacecraft accurately, directly brought him to a totally strange place from the area 32.
He patted the dust off the body, pushed open the cabin door in front of him carefully, then he saw a piece of army green tarp. Sheilor lift the tarp off curiously, then he was astounded to see a mechanical arm pointing at him. The master of the mechanical arm was a very broken outdated mecha, didn’t know it was left over there for how many years, it was full of the dust of the history.