Page 49 of The Guest

Chapter 49

  As the porter in the Pear Garden

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  Had to admit that, the structured the fundamental of the federal society Committee of Five in those years, really had the descendents couldn’t reach wisdom and foresight, those shining civilization brilliance characters and the continued perfection society structure, all proved this point. The three administrative planets of the Capital Planet Circle have graceful environment and four distinct seasons, just put the university town on the north latitude area from ages ago, it also embodied the care and thought of the federal ancestors. Probably the about seventy days a year severe cold weather, could only let the federal youth, in the rich and peaceful environment, still feel the cruelty of the nature and the hardship of the living life.

  The university town actually was not a town, but the campuses of the universities built sporadically on the plains along both sides of the Rose river. Most universities of the Capital administrative planet were set up over here, in the wake of the developed degree of the federal society increased day by day, the educational level also increased day by day. The area of every academy was getting bigger and bigger, in the period of Constitution Calendar thirty-four, they linked together gradually, became a huge community, the federal people chronically called this big area as the university town.

  Just now the Federation seemed to long forget the great aspiration why the federal ancestors set up the academies over here, the central heating in the building was twenty four hours supply, the air-conditioning system kept the air which people breathed absolutely fresh, Once in the winter, the students would hole up in the building and not go out, they would face the crystal screen everyday to wear down the tiresome time, how could they experience the so-called cruelty of the nature?

  On the southeast area of the university town, there was a not so eye-catching but very beautiful secondary academy, it’s called Pear Garden University. In the back of the dormitory of this academy, the road led to the federal living quarters, had an even more not eye-catching grey bungalow, very awkward to poke on the backdoor of the Pear Garden University, let the whole garden snowflakes as pear flowers scenery to become as stiff as a poker.

  Just a little bungalow far away from the main buildings of the academy like this, still could enjoy the central heating, it’s warm as spring in the room, the didn’t spread on anti-frost liquid windows were full with the delighting mist. A palm wiped away the wet mist from the window, through the window looking at the snow frost on the pear trees in the garden, Sheilor smiled cheerily, he thought in his heart that this was really a good place, in a severe-cold winter such like this, it’s still this beautiful, where had he seen the scenery such like this in East Forest? The sky of hometown was always dusky, made people depressed, how could it have the whiter than the pear flower snowflake?

  He had come to the Pear Garden university more than ten days, this was all according to the suggestion which his boss Fengyu left on the light screen before he died, and after all, he was a fugitive who had the disguise chip installed in the body, of course he wouldn’t be willing to really according to the information on the chip, go to the retired arrangement office of the Ministry of National Defense to look for a job, he just simply came to here by himself, submitted to the university an application and some strange recommendations which were in the backpack originally, then he was very easy to have the present job.

  Originally he still felt very surprised, why the job was that easy to find, but then he found out later, after all, this job besides to watch the back door of the Pearl Garden University, just needed to have the response to clean up the road within ten meters, called it by a good name of logistics department member, but actually he was just a porter. He belonged to the most-derived of the society without any doubt, the salary was really low to be somewhat poor… But fortunately there was still a lot of money in that Three Forest United Bank card, Sheilor also came to the Upper Forest not for the money, he didn’t even have the strong will of not content to be below others, he was very pleased to accept this job, and had this small grey bungalow only belonged to him.

  If for the general federal citizens, no matter how beautiful the snow scenery of the Pear Garden University was, had watched more than ten days of all white in succession, they would be tired of it. But Sheilor was not the same, he never saw the snow in his this life, the more than ten days of watching the snow, was just only having a little addiction. Now the time period was still the winter vacation time, there were just a few students staying in the whole university, so his job had still not started formally yet, everyday besides cleaned up the snow, he didn’t have anything else to do, and it’s very leisure.

  Through the light screen computer which the logistics department originally set up over the gate house here, Sheilor would also got on the net everyday when he was free, viewed the information of the Peal Garden University all over once carefully, then he knew that this seemed not eye-catching academy, besides those academies directly subordinate to the Ministry of National Defense, was one of the most prominent universities, in the three systems of the auto mobile armor and the standard repair of the battleship device aspect. Of course, the three military academies directly subordinate to the Ministry of National Defense and the West Forest military school were all impossible in the university town, and they were also not the places where Sheilor could sneak in at will, so if Sheilor wanted to fulfill his own interest, the not-eye-catching Pear Garden would be his best choice. He then understood, in his boss’s arrangement, he still thought about his ideal, so his mood couldn’t help but getting warm same as the air in the room.

  When he just came to the university town, Sheilor tried to apply an auditor certificate, after all, he still had a lot of money in the card now, it should be good enough to pay for the sponsor fee, but unfortunately, the school responsible for the auditing freshman affair principal and the director of the dean office were same as the students, all went back to every big cities of the capital planet to have the vacation.

  And the thing made Sheilor felt pity was, the library of the Pear Garden University, also because of the reason updating the system and vacation, closed the door in these days, then he basically couldn’t get into contact with the knowledge, the most interested he was in M series mecha structure and repair aspect; and also didn’t have any way to look for the archaic books and records, to find out whether it had any words about that share of magical tremble power in his body.

  In these more than ten cold wind and cold snow days, the had nothing to do Sheilor, besides watched channel 23 every night and surfed the net to search for the interested machine maintenance knowledge, most of the surplus time, he would stay in the warm bedding, closed his eyes to feel the fine changes of that share of tremble in his body, and tried to do it like what he thought on the Antique Bell, hid this kind of making people feel dizzy tremble…

  The blizzard was big outside, he hadn’t practiced that set of ten posture movements for days, he also worried that he would be seen by other people, but the tremble in his muscle was getting proficient along with he slept in the bedding day by day in fact, and actually somewhat he had the feeling that it would come out along with his mind.

  This night, along with that kind of familiar sore and pain in the deepest place of the body muscle and joints, Sheilor sank into the deep sleep in the accompany of the blizzard whistle sound, in the dream, he seemed to see an all purple hair lovely girl married him as his wife, and he became the chief mechanic in a big company in the Capital, he could fix all kind of interesting things every day, and he faintly heard some big shot announced on the TV, an inside story at the back about the big explosion was exposed… Many pleasing things, the sleeping soundly Sheilor had the corners of his mouth floating the sweet smile, he laughed to make his body to tremble up, this kind of tremble didn’t stop for a long time, until the muscle under his skin began to tremble slightly, it seemed that every time it trembled a
bit, his body would get stronger a bit.

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  It’s a bright and beautiful day in the spring, the colorful flags fluttered, in the S1 Administrative Region of the Upper Forest, the blizzard and the severe cold on the Capital planet always came fast, and went away even faster. It was just only the February, the snow on the Rose riverside had already melted totally, got into the flowing to the south clean river water, couldn’t find a trace any more, only left a stretch of boundless green field and verdant spring forest to people, and the many among the grassland and the woods academy buildings were very harmonious with the environment.

  Today was the day of school opens, countless students came back to the university town by all kinds of vehicles, the been quiet for two months campus became lively once again, from now and then, some cars drove into the quiet Pear Garden University, more young female students walked in together, a share of yearning youth breath rippled in the campus accompanied with their coming. Because too many students went to the federal living quarters to go shopping, so the been somewhat deserted backdoor was also getting lively, the chirping sounds kept sounding, even it covered the male students’ voice criticizing fervently the government by the fountain.

  Suddenly, a talk came from the campus door, and then the talk was buzzing up, stopped abruptly, the young people of the school were attracted the attention by something, stopped the footsteps subconsciously, cast the complicated eyes to the door there. By the fountain those several affected deeply by the Colin socialist male students, also stopped spurting their wholehearted warm blood, walked to this side, but didn’t get close to the backdoor, and looked over there with a kind of strange eyes.

  A having shoulder-length hair, wearing a black frame glasses female student, holding a pile of books, in the gaze of countless eyes, calmly but a bit chillily walked into the campus from the backdoor of the Pear Garden University. The eyes surrounding contained too many emotions, pity, sympathy, disgust, despise, envy, jealous…

  The students of the Pear garden University recognized easily who this girl was, because she was the person of the year among the freshmen of the Pear Garden University a year ago, or to say the rebel people-- Charming, the came from a good family Charming, after she went into the university, began to come into contact with the Colin socialist, surprised everyone, this girl resolutely gave up her good life, gave up her study, went to the far away S2 Administrative Region, devoted to the New Jersey state where it had the most powerful anti-government force, began to shout for those people living in the bottom of the society, and participated in the demonstrations time after time.

  What did Charming do after she left the Pear Garden University, her schoolmates didn’t know any specific situations, but they knew that rumor was real in the first place, this once shocked countless people girl, really was tired of the so-called righteous romance, forsake the darkness for the light, returned to the arms of the Federation again…

  The embarrassing silence was at the backdoor of the Pear Garden University, no one came up to say hello to this wearing black frame glasses girl, no welcome, only the faint hostility and those complex eyes. That’s right, when she left this campus one year ago, she should have known that she didn’t have the possibility to come back.

  -- If said that her former ideal was childish and ignorant, but for the common and comfortable life, then easily gave up the so-called ideal, then why did she leave at the beginning? Why came back again after she left? Was it ludicrous? This was probably the thought in most students’ hearts, they were quietly and full of the pressure to look at Charming. But Charming didn’t have any uneasiness, had her face upward slightly, and walked to her dormitory building.

  Just right at this time, those several advocated Colin socialist by the fountain male students, stopped her way suddenly, and said angrily, “you betrayed your ideal?”

  “My ideal is to live well exactly.” Charming had a push on the black frame glasses, didn’t care this several people, walked brush past them. The students all around looked at Charming’s figure with that sort of strange but taunt look, the had speech male student stared blankly for a moment, and then spitted a saliva behind her back in disgust,

  “This schoolmate, please wipe these stain off.” A wearing red armband youngster walked to the side of this male student, handed him a rag, and said seriously, “and according to the regulations, I will suggest the students’ affair department deduct you three credits.”

  That boy student asked with great anger, “who are you?”

  The youngster had a pull on the red armband, and replied, “I am a porter.”