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Boston, the oldest city in the United States, broke out here in the 18th century, ignited the fuse of the American War of Independence. Since then, everything that happened in this city has been like a microcosm of the entire modern civilized society.
Here are the world's top institutions. The centuries-long mountain cutting and sea reclamation project has tripled the city's urban scale, showing how great human power is.
This is the drafting ground for the Declaration of Independence and one of the centers of the abolition movement during the Civil War. The brick-red road of freedom in the urban area symbolizes that mankind is step by step to get rid of the shackles of ignorance and power and move towards the final spiritual liberation.
Science replaced religion, machines replaced human power, cars and planes replaced donkeys and carriages, and rigorous and fair laws replaced the king's will... The changes that human society has taken place in these two or three centuries are greater than the sum of the past few thousand years.
However, the scale of the war between the two world wars far exceeded the limit of the history of human wars. The emergence of an atomic bomb that was enough to destroy all mankind, finally awakening people who were immersed in optimism, leading to a comprehensive reflection of the entire European and American society in the 1960s.
At that time, many people went to the countryside to build green farms... No, they did not reject modern technology. They also watched TV, used phones and microwaves. They just wanted to get close to nature and felt that such a life was more meaningful than living in a small box of steel and concrete.
The more you walk up the mountain, the more you feel silent. Qingxiao's voice floats in the air, and it sounds like the lonely wind coming from the valley.
This day is not a weekend, there are very few tourists, they look for a small road from the mountain to climb the mountain, but they don’t encounter any figure along the way, and the leaves are very thick. When they step on it, they make rustling sounds from time to time.
Qingxiao turned around and smiled at Yu: It's here, let's take a break
It is true that I went to the top of the mountain and walked out of the dense forest and crossed the hills. In the distance, there was an endless gray sea passing by a little more. The docks were busy and tall buildings were everywhere. That was Boston, known as the American Brain. They had spent the college years full of laughter and the past year of confusion and setbacks, and now they were about to leave.
Leave forever
They put on a blanket and sat down on the spot. The damp wind blew from the sea, which kept blowing for hundreds of years.
I'm still a little reluctant to leave... Qingxiao murmured and laughed immediately, but we will have a better life. I think flowers and vegetables feel more comfortable than cold instruments
I will miss this place. Yu was sure to notice Qingxiao's eyes when he asked. His face turned slightly red and said: I met you here. In college, well, it's usually the happiest time for a person.
Qingxiao smiled and leaned backwards against a big tree. The lazy smile gently bloomed on his face, like a fleeting light: Let's talk about it.
Um?
Talk about yourself, and me
He was in a moment of inconsistency and thought through the dirty experiences carefully one by one. It was nothing more than the love, hate, and love that people were used to in the world, which made the parties involved feel in pain. Looking back, it seemed like they were a different life:
My mother died when she was ten years old, and then her adoptive father was very bad to me because I was not his biological child.
My mother died earlier. I died when I was seven years old. Since then, I have lived with my father, but I don’t know how to treat him, because I rarely saw him before, at first I thought he didn’t like me, but later I realized that my mother didn’t want him to approach me, and he was unwilling to implicate me because everything he did was very dangerous
When I was fifteen, I came to Tokyo alone. When I met Yamashita, I didn’t know whether to hate him or thank him. After all, except for the request I asked when I met, he was really good to me. I could stay in Tokyo, complete my studies, and get into Harvard. He helped me a lot, and that request was originally something I agreed with...
The first time I fell in love when I was sixteen, um, you know... Simon people are a little bit old, I confessed to you... The ending was not wonderful, my dad forced him to get addicted to drugs, the operator was Uncle Uchida, who I have always regarded as an adoptive father, and had a big fight with my dad. When I ran away from home, well, I was eighteen years old
I was admitted to Harvard at the age of nineteen and saw you
I have never found the meaning of life. For a long time, I spent the day in the laboratory and the red light area at night, until I met you...
Their eyes meet in the air, and time seems to be still at this moment. They are staring at each other face to face, and in this moment, they understand each other's own insight into each other's eyes.
The sky is gloomy, as if it is about to rain, the trees around it have accumulated water beads due to the moisture.
I want to ask you a question, I have been thinking about it for a long time
Ask
I may not be able to get better for the rest of my life.
I know
Don't you regret it?
Not yet
This is really not the answer that satisfies him. Qingxiao always had that kind of hateful smile on his face. I don’t know if it was a joke or if it was really unsure.
He endured it and then, but he still couldn't help asking: If you, well, came to save me at the time, at that time, at that time, you wouldn't have thought about this? If you had known that there would be such trouble, would you still save me?
I've never thought about this
Ah?
I just want to save it first and say you can't wait. Qingxiao scratched his head embarrassedly and said, "I'm just such a person who acts before thinking. Some things. If you think too carefully and for too long, you may not dare to do it." Why not do it first? When encountering difficulties, then think of a way. As long as you don't give up, there will always be some effect.
As long as you don't give up, will it be effective? Yu murmured, a light flashing in his eyes
Now of course I know that the facts may not be as beautiful as expected. Qingxiao smiled bitterly and said: I seem to have been doing this kind of thing all the time. I once made such a rash and irresponsible promise to Simon, saying that I must develop a drug to help people quit drugs... Where is that easy? I can't do it at all
Kiyotaka...
I understand what you mean. As long as you try your best, you can be ashamed of your heart. In the past, I can also use this to comfort myself, but... Qingxiao was silent, a fallen leaf swirled on his shoulders, and then slid to the ground.
In the past three years, I can easily develop drugs that humans cannot resist, but I know very well that even if I don’t care about anything and go all out to study drug rehabilitation, I may not be able to develop them in another thirty years. This is the science I once vowed to devote myself to is always easier to use for killing people than to save people
Qingxiao raised his head and looked at the gray sky, connected to the ocean. He could hardly see the dividing line around it. He could only hear the faint sound of waves passing from the distant coast.
Qingxiao hugged her knees with her hands, and her stubborn eyebrows and eyes showed a childlike loneliness under the dim skylight: It is said that technology is a sign of the progress of human society. I used to believe it so deeply, but to be honest, the chance of technology destroying human society is far more than bringing people into heaven. Look, medicine is so developed, but even a small cold cannot be cured, and your disease...
Yu thought for a while and said: Qingxiao, you can't think so. After all, scientific progress has solved many problems, right? Like smallpox, tuberculosis... your work is meaningful!
Qingxiao calmed down for a moment, and then said: Xiaoyu, I really envy you for having experienced so many things, and you still believe that life still has meaning.
What you have always believed is that you didn't realize that no one can be like you, even though you know that there may be no result and may lose your life, you still do so without hesitation and have experienced so many blows, but you are still willing to give, not afraid of being hurt, not afraid of losing money... Even I can't do it. Yu slowly said, he tried his best to control his mind, but he still couldn't help but feel excited.
He had to stop, grabbed Kiyoko's hand, took a breath, and repeated: You have always believed it, otherwise, you wouldn't have done so much
Qingxiao looked at him quietly, a strange look flashed in his eyes, and said: Maybe your impression of me is still in the past... But in those three years, I have really changed a lot, haven't you noticed it?
Some images flashed through his mind, Qingxiao's way of wielding the knife, Qingxiao talked about murder as if nothing had happened... Finally, he looked at those eyes and shook his head with certainty
Qingxiao smiled and pointed to his heart: Maybe he didn't look like he was, but here he had changed, and I could feel it
He sighed and said with a smile: In those three years, my outlook on life was almost completely subverted. Seeing that the police were as rogue as a hooligan, and maybe they colluded with criminals to cheat people. I really think that the law, morality, Ah, how can it not change? In fact, everything is changing, it is no big deal.
But if you say it, it means you are regretting it
As time goes by, those extreme and indignation that are desperate will slowly fade away. The morality and reason formed over the past 20 years will reoccupy your heart, otherwise you will not choose to leave, even if it makes you suffer.
Why do you still laugh? Don’t you know that your eyes have already revealed your secrets?
Yu didn't say these words, but just patted Qingxiao's back of her hand comfortably, Qingxiao raised her eyebrows and looked at him. Her eyes were still as enthusiastic and pure as they first met, with some silly doubts.
Just like this person, never changed
You see, after so long, you still haven't learned to lie
Boston, the oldest city in the United States, broke out here in the 18th century, ignited the fuse of the American War of Independence. Since then, everything that happened in this city has been like a microcosm of the entire modern civilized society.
Here are the world's top institutions. The centuries-long mountain cutting and sea reclamation project has tripled the city's urban scale, showing how great human power is.
This is the drafting ground for the Declaration of Independence and one of the centers of the abolition movement during the Civil War. The brick-red road of freedom in the urban area symbolizes that mankind is step by step to get rid of the shackles of ignorance and power and move towards the final spiritual liberation.
Science replaced religion, machines replaced human power, cars and planes replaced donkeys and carriages, and rigorous and fair laws replaced the king's will... The changes that human society has taken place in these two or three centuries are greater than the sum of the past few thousand years.
However, the scale of the war between the two world wars far exceeded the limit of the history of human wars. The emergence of an atomic bomb that was enough to destroy all mankind, finally awakening people who were immersed in optimism, leading to a comprehensive reflection of the entire European and American society in the 1960s.
At that time, many people went to the countryside to build green farms... No, they did not reject modern technology. They also watched TV, used phones and microwaves. They just wanted to get close to nature and felt that such a life was more meaningful than living in a small box of steel and concrete.
The more you walk up the mountain, the more you feel silent. Qingxiao's voice floats in the air, and it sounds like the lonely wind coming from the valley.
This day is not a weekend, there are very few tourists, they look for a small road from the mountain to climb the mountain, but they don’t encounter any figure along the way, and the leaves are very thick. When they step on it, they make rustling sounds from time to time.
Qingxiao turned around and smiled at Yu: It's here, let's take a break
It is true that I went to the top of the mountain and walked out of the dense forest and crossed the hills. In the distance, there was an endless gray sea passing by a little more. The docks were busy and tall buildings were everywhere. That was Boston, known as the American Brain. They had spent the college years full of laughter and the past year of confusion and setbacks, and now they were about to leave.
Leave forever
They put on a blanket and sat down on the spot. The damp wind blew from the sea, which kept blowing for hundreds of years.
I'm still a little reluctant to leave... Qingxiao murmured and laughed immediately, but we will have a better life. I think flowers and vegetables feel more comfortable than cold instruments
I will miss this place. Yu was sure to notice Qingxiao's eyes when he asked. His face turned slightly red and said: I met you here. In college, well, it's usually the happiest time for a person.
Qingxiao smiled and leaned backwards against a big tree. The lazy smile gently bloomed on his face, like a fleeting light: Let's talk about it.
Um?
Talk about yourself, and me
He was in a moment of inconsistency and thought through the dirty experiences carefully one by one. It was nothing more than the love, hate, and love that people were used to in the world, which made the parties involved feel in pain. Looking back, it seemed like they were a different life:
My mother died when she was ten years old, and then her adoptive father was very bad to me because I was not his biological child.
My mother died earlier. I died when I was seven years old. Since then, I have lived with my father, but I don’t know how to treat him, because I rarely saw him before, at first I thought he didn’t like me, but later I realized that my mother didn’t want him to approach me, and he was unwilling to implicate me because everything he did was very dangerous
When I was fifteen, I came to Tokyo alone. When I met Yamashita, I didn’t know whether to hate him or thank him. After all, except for the request I asked when I met, he was really good to me. I could stay in Tokyo, complete my studies, and get into Harvard. He helped me a lot, and that request was originally something I agreed with...
The first time I fell in love when I was sixteen, um, you know... Simon people are a little bit old, I confessed to you... The ending was not wonderful, my dad forced him to get addicted to drugs, the operator was Uncle Uchida, who I have always regarded as an adoptive father, and had a big fight with my dad. When I ran away from home, well, I was eighteen years old
I was admitted to Harvard at the age of nineteen and saw you
I have never found the meaning of life. For a long time, I spent the day in the laboratory and the red light area at night, until I met you...
Their eyes meet in the air, and time seems to be still at this moment. They are staring at each other face to face, and in this moment, they understand each other's own insight into each other's eyes.
The sky is gloomy, as if it is about to rain, the trees around it have accumulated water beads due to the moisture.
I want to ask you a question, I have been thinking about it for a long time
Ask
I may not be able to get better for the rest of my life.
I know
Don't you regret it?
Not yet
This is really not the answer that satisfies him. Qingxiao always had that kind of hateful smile on his face. I don’t know if it was a joke or if it was really unsure.
He endured it and then, but he still couldn't help asking: If you, well, came to save me at the time, at that time, at that time, you wouldn't have thought about this? If you had known that there would be such trouble, would you still save me?
I've never thought about this
Ah?
I just want to save it first and say you can't wait. Qingxiao scratched his head embarrassedly and said, "I'm just such a person who acts before thinking. Some things. If you think too carefully and for too long, you may not dare to do it." Why not do it first? When encountering difficulties, then think of a way. As long as you don't give up, there will always be some effect.
As long as you don't give up, will it be effective? Yu murmured, a light flashing in his eyes
Now of course I know that the facts may not be as beautiful as expected. Qingxiao smiled bitterly and said: I seem to have been doing this kind of thing all the time. I once made such a rash and irresponsible promise to Simon, saying that I must develop a drug to help people quit drugs... Where is that easy? I can't do it at all
Kiyotaka...
I understand what you mean. As long as you try your best, you can be ashamed of your heart. In the past, I can also use this to comfort myself, but... Qingxiao was silent, a fallen leaf swirled on his shoulders, and then slid to the ground.
In the past three years, I can easily develop drugs that humans cannot resist, but I know very well that even if I don’t care about anything and go all out to study drug rehabilitation, I may not be able to develop them in another thirty years. This is the science I once vowed to devote myself to is always easier to use for killing people than to save people
Qingxiao raised his head and looked at the gray sky, connected to the ocean. He could hardly see the dividing line around it. He could only hear the faint sound of waves passing from the distant coast.
Qingxiao hugged her knees with her hands, and her stubborn eyebrows and eyes showed a childlike loneliness under the dim skylight: It is said that technology is a sign of the progress of human society. I used to believe it so deeply, but to be honest, the chance of technology destroying human society is far more than bringing people into heaven. Look, medicine is so developed, but even a small cold cannot be cured, and your disease...
Yu thought for a while and said: Qingxiao, you can't think so. After all, scientific progress has solved many problems, right? Like smallpox, tuberculosis... your work is meaningful!
Qingxiao calmed down for a moment, and then said: Xiaoyu, I really envy you for having experienced so many things, and you still believe that life still has meaning.
What you have always believed is that you didn't realize that no one can be like you, even though you know that there may be no result and may lose your life, you still do so without hesitation and have experienced so many blows, but you are still willing to give, not afraid of being hurt, not afraid of losing money... Even I can't do it. Yu slowly said, he tried his best to control his mind, but he still couldn't help but feel excited.
He had to stop, grabbed Kiyoko's hand, took a breath, and repeated: You have always believed it, otherwise, you wouldn't have done so much
Qingxiao looked at him quietly, a strange look flashed in his eyes, and said: Maybe your impression of me is still in the past... But in those three years, I have really changed a lot, haven't you noticed it?
Some images flashed through his mind, Qingxiao's way of wielding the knife, Qingxiao talked about murder as if nothing had happened... Finally, he looked at those eyes and shook his head with certainty
Qingxiao smiled and pointed to his heart: Maybe he didn't look like he was, but here he had changed, and I could feel it
He sighed and said with a smile: In those three years, my outlook on life was almost completely subverted. Seeing that the police were as rogue as a hooligan, and maybe they colluded with criminals to cheat people. I really think that the law, morality, Ah, how can it not change? In fact, everything is changing, it is no big deal.
But if you say it, it means you are regretting it
As time goes by, those extreme and indignation that are desperate will slowly fade away. The morality and reason formed over the past 20 years will reoccupy your heart, otherwise you will not choose to leave, even if it makes you suffer.
Why do you still laugh? Don’t you know that your eyes have already revealed your secrets?
Yu didn't say these words, but just patted Qingxiao's back of her hand comfortably, Qingxiao raised her eyebrows and looked at him. Her eyes were still as enthusiastic and pure as they first met, with some silly doubts.
Just like this person, never changed
You see, after so long, you still haven't learned to lie