【Nain】Did they start dating today?

Chapter 15

Did they start dating today?

--No.

Slein stared at the blindfolded man on the stairs, and realized that it was not Inafan.But just as he wanted to get a better look, the other party disappeared.

Slein is a person who firmly believes in science. His father is a scientist. He does not believe in ghosts and gods in the world.

but……

The sudden rainstorm, the dark sky, the gloomy abandoned building, or the legendary old prison, the man who suddenly appeared and then disappeared... Slei, a science boy, couldn't help but feel a little shaken at this moment.However, I somehow feel that everything here feels familiar.

Slein raised his head and saw the cameras in the corner. There were quite a few cameras like this in the entrance alone.These machines that don't know how many years ago have stopped working, but he can actually imagine how they were when they were still working.

Yes, this used to be a prison, with cameras flashing red power lights and guards with guns patrolling.They didn't seem too nervous, and they could still hear the chirping of birds when the wind was sunny, and the sound of waves rolling in from far and near in the silent night.

why?Why did he think of this, and once he thought about it, Slein's eyes turned to the depths of the dark corridor.The cement-poured ground, every step is very solid, he has an intuition, as if something in this building is calling him.

It was already raining cats and dogs outside, and the sound of the rain was so loud that it seemed that thousands of ice beads had been dropped on the ground, so I couldn't go out at this time, so I better stay here.Slein decided so, and he was very concerned about the man who appeared just now, whether it was a hallucination or an illusion.

At this time, he found that the power light of the camera was actually on, blinking in the dark, very eye-catching.

Is it that man?Surely there are other people here?

Perhaps it is the deep-rooted scientific thinking that is at fault. Slein does not believe that it will be a ghost or something. The current stereoscopic projection images are very realistic, and some relatively advanced household artificial intelligence can also simulate realistic human images. There is also the theory of optics and electronics. ... Slaine wasn't sure if this counted as convincing himself, but...

If in the depths of the darkness, there is really an ethereal and lonely soul waiting for a long time, it seems to be a romantic thing.

After the eyes adjusted to the light, they realized that it wasn't too dark here.Slein walked along the corridor, choosing no other path, nor entering any room, until he stopped in front of a huge iron gate.He was surprised by his familiarity with this building. Could this be the sense of sight that science cannot explain?

Now, in front of Slein is a calling device covered with thick dust. He wiped the dust, and when his finger touched the display screen, the interface lit up.

There was no keyboard to enter any letters or numbers, just a very quiet, manly voice.

He asked, "Do you like the sea?"

His voice is like a calm sea, you can feel the stability and calm on the surface, but you can also know that there must be dangerous undercurrents underneath.But what is hidden in this voice is not so dangerous, but a loneliness deeper than the ocean.

"Do you like the sea?" the voice asked again.

Slein was stunned, he didn't know how to answer, he couldn't simply answer "like" or "dislike" intuitively, what this voice was looking for was a unique answer without standards.

"Do you like the sea?" the voice continued.

At regular intervals, the voice will repeat the question.Is this a recording?Or... is there really a stubborn person asking questions behind this?Slein didn't know, but felt more and more unable to answer lightly.

After hearing this question countless times, Slein finally spoke.

"I didn't like the sea before." He said, "But the beach at a clear night is always very kind, er... I don't like it, how can I put it... I just miss it." The light of the moon shines on the sea , the sound of the waves is light and crisp. The Nordic town where he was born is close to the sea. On such nights, he occasionally passes by the sea, feeling in a trance that he will meet someone here.

Unfortunately, I have never met anyone, so I always feel very lonely.

Slein was silent for a while, the voice didn't repeat the question, as if it was waiting for him.

"But now... I really like it." Slein said shyly, because he remembered the seaside where he almost kissed Inaho.

The sea breeze was very strong that day, fried noodles bread and fruit sandwiches spoiled the atmosphere, but Inaho's warm breath when he approached made him completely ignore everything.

When thinking of this, Slein suddenly realized that the regret and loneliness he felt when he was at the seaside had been filled at that moment.

Click, the iron door was unlocked, and moved aside.

There was a dim light coming from behind the door, and Slein narrowed his eyes subconsciously. He didn't know what he answered just now, but he could get in now?

Behind the door is another corridor, which is narrower and not as long. This time the door at the end is unlocked, and it opens with a push.

Inside is a glass box-like room, the light changes from orange to cool white light, behind the transparent wall is a set of metal tables and chairs, and a chess set is placed on the table.

Slein entered the room without encountering any obstacles. He looked at the chessboard and found that the chess game on it was halfway through. He picked up the black chess piece without much thought, and followed the chessboard one step naturally.

Another door of the glass room was opened, there was no light behind the door, it was really pitch black, so dark that he couldn't even see the road, Slein was also startled, but then, in the complete darkness, a light One after another the lights came on.

It is a passage with rooms with closed doors on both sides.Slein took a closer look, and each door was inlaid with a strange circular decoration, about the size of an exquisite pocket watch, but Slein thought it was a pendant.

Slein stopped at a certain door because he had an inexplicable impression of the pattern on this door.

He held the doorknob with a little force, and heard a slight sound of parts sliding inside the door lock.

Meanwhile, the lights went out, but darkness did not come.

For another soft twilight poured from the room behind the door.

Slein was dumbfounded, because the small room behind the door turned into a blue seabed, and the sun cast large spots of light through the seawater, illuminating the colorful corals, colorful tropical fish, transparent soft water bubbles and groups of jellyfish rising slowly. At the same time, a huge blue whale swam past overhead.

He stood by the door and the clownfish swam up to him and touched the tip of his nose.

Slein recalled the night when he was locked up in the aquarium with Inafan. At that time, he felt familiar, and what he saw was completely a memory in his mind from nowhere.

Slein walked in without knowing it, and he found the reason for this incredible sight-the spherical device placed in the center of the room.

It looks like a celestial globe, with a glowing blue sphere core wrapped in a transparent spherical shell, surrounded by several bronze-colored metal rings, very delicate.It is working, one metal circle after another rotates gracefully and gracefully, and the core they surround flows with warm radiance, which is reflected in the depths of Slein's blue eyes, like a shining star.

Slein was still amazed by this incredible sight, and the seabed began to gradually transform into another appearance.On the vast grassland, groups of zebras and antelopes are running, which is different from the azure blue of the seabed. This time, the picture presents a kind of ancient and barbaric golden color, with cheetahs running wildly, lions roaring from afar, and goshawks circling in the sky. High in the sky, there was a long and loud howl...

Then came the bustling and bustling city lights, and the blurred lights on the curtain walls of towering buildings; then came the cold and windy ice field, and the gorgeous aurora was like the highest-grade silk curtain, slowly rising from the deep night sky where the gods slept. lower……

The entire world, the entire earth, and everything is gradually pieced together from these bits and pieces.Slein gradually understood that these were scenery from every place on the earth, they were carefully collected by someone and put into this instrument.

— There are other scenarios besides the ocean.after……

——In the future, there will be more.

Slein always remembered someone saying something like this, was it for him?Who said it?

However, no matter who said it, and who it was said to, this promise that was scattered in the depths of memory and could not be found was finally realized.

"is it you?"

After all the images were broadcast, a straight light shot out from the device, pointing behind Slein, and Slein heard the deep, soft voice with endless loneliness again.

"Are you finally here?"

Slein turned and saw the man who had glanced up on the stairs.This time it was much clearer, he could even see a silver ring on his right ring finger, as if he was standing in front of him alive.

But Slein knew that was not the case, the other party was just a phantom.

Just like the realistic images that made him feel like he was there, he is just a virtual projection recorded from a long, long time ago.

He once thought he would never come back here again, but after meeting Queen Atheilam, he came back again without telling anyone.

Losing one eye doesn't mean that he can't drive, it's just that he should be extra careful, and it's best not to let the traffic police find out. He is still half a soldier, and his military rank is not low. Once he is found out, it will be a violation of military regulations.

Even if he had to take such a risk, he still chose to come here alone.

It was already very deserted, of course, this is a top-secret prison, but the faint sound of waves added a bit of excitement.Inafan walked into the building, and he activated the power supply here. Even though it is no longer in use, the access to the grid is still intact.He walked around slowly, and finally came to the cell where the man had been.

Inaho went in and took out the stereoscopic image projector that he always carried with him.He's going to be here for a long time, he's going to do a complete overhaul, but before that...

Inafan activated the stereo projector, and he made further adjustments, including... implanting a chip, which was part of the artificial intelligence that had received the Aldnoah factor from the Queen of Mars.

He confined the use of Aldnoah's special powers to this small machine he had made for Slaine.Of course, its capacity is much smaller, because all it needs to remember is everything related to Slein in Inafan's memory:

The way he laughed, the way he was angry, the way he was confused, the way he laughed at him, the way he looked at the sky, the way he let the bird rest on his fingers, the way he looked at the sea with a lonely expression... …

He asked him "Inaho, do you believe in an afterlife";

The way he raised his gun every time;

The way he tapped his forehead on the seashore;

The way he died before him...

"The afterlife..." Inafan whispered to himself, "If you believe so, then I also hope that this miracle can happen." He is about to set off for a trip, and he will travel to every corner of the world, but No matter how many times he left, he would still come back here, storing everything he had seen.

His time should start to flow too, but he will never take off that ring, he will never love anyone again, he will never be happy because the person who made him happy is long dead, but he will Live for the rest of your life in a world without Slaine.

then……

Welcome to the future when we meet him again.

Slein looked at the image in front of him suspiciously and curiously. He had never seen such a lifelike virtual projected portrait. He couldn't even see him as a virtual image, because the emotion in his eyes was so vivid, as if carrying a All the most precious things in a person's life.

Slein thought, what kind of person is it, and how much thought and memory has been devoted to constructing such a simulated personality?

The blindfolded man watched him quietly, then spoke.

——This is the first time someone can start this step, and I hope that the person who came is really you.

——Many people have come here before, I don't know if it's a coincidence, but none of them can come here.

This time, it was obviously just a recording that had already been prepared.But from the emotional words he spoke slowly, it seemed that this man was really speaking to him alive.

Slein felt very sad, because the person who made all this had undoubtedly been waiting for a long, long time. He had been waiting to meet someone, and he must... love that person...

Although he always felt that the man in front of him had a kind feeling, but Slein thought it was because the man was really like Inaho, and he didn't think he would know someone from so long ago.Slein felt sorry for this person, because the person who came here was not the person he was waiting for...

——Is there really an afterlife in this world?I have no idea.

——I don’t know if it’s you who came here, I don’t know if I can meet you among billions of people, I don’t know what you will look like now, I don’t know if miracles will really happen...

——All I know is that I've always wanted to see you, S...

A terrible thunder fell outside, and even Slein felt a slight shaking.I don't know if it was affected by this, the sound disappeared, and the virtual projection in front of him also became weaker. When he was about to disappear, a figure passed through this virtual image.

It's Inaho.

His face overlapped with the disappearing image, and Slein felt as if he saw the time flow back. At this moment, the boundary of time became quite blurred. He seemed to come across a long time, and then hugged him.

It was a real hug, but honestly not warm because the person holding him was wet and drenched in the rain.

"Yi, Inafan?" Slein asked stammeringly.

"Great..." He breathed a sigh of relief, and he didn't want to worry about whether he was in a mess now or whether he had completely lost his usual calmness.

"How do you know I'm here..."

The lights are now back on again, but the instrument in the room is still, I don't know if it is broken.Inaho glared at him and said, "Just after you chased Remulina away, I followed you."

But Remulina was running around, and Slein barely caught up, but Inaho, who was a step behind both of them, got lost for a while.Finally, because of the dispute with the gangsters, Inaho found them because of the disturbance, but bumped into the escaped Remulina head-on.

Inafan learned about what had happened from Remulina who was incoherent in panic. Before he had time to comfort the crying girl, he hurriedly told her which direction to go to go back, and then went looking for Slein without looking back. .

He lost his usual calmness, and when the torrential rain poured down, the icy cold water could not cool down his overheated brain due to anxiety.No one has ever seen Inaho like this, including himself.Before falling in love with someone, he never knew that he would be so afraid of losing someone.

He called his name in the sound of thunder and rain, not afraid of being discovered by those punks. He even thought that if they appeared, he would not mind fighting with him and smashing their nose bones with his fist, otherwise He couldn't vent his inner mania and anxiety.

Is he such a terrible person?It wasn't until he calmed down later that he suddenly realized how crazy and terrifying his thoughts were.

Fortunately, those little gangsters didn't meet him, and somehow, he felt that the surrounding environment became more and more familiar, as if he had been here a long time ago.No matter how dense the rain curtain was, he couldn't stop him, and he came to an apparently abandoned building by instinct.

Someone came in before him, and Inafan intuitively felt that it was Slein.He was even more familiar with this place than Slein, but he was too anxious at the time and didn't pay attention at all. He just wanted to find Slein quickly and go to him quickly.

He was afraid that if he was one step too late, he would lose him again forever.

And once it is lost, the colors of the world will fade away, and life will only be black and white from now on, and any happiness and joy will no longer have anything to do with him.

He obviously hadn't experienced it before, but he knew deeply what it would be like.

He didn't recover from the panic until he actually hugged Slein.

When the two came out of that strange room, Slein didn't forget to bring the strange device like a celestial globe. He touched a cold and hard thing on the base, and he saw it clearly with the light outside. It was a necklace. The necklace pendant looked very old, and the pattern was vaguely seen on the door.

"This is a talisman." Inaifan said, holding Slaine's hand tightly, as if afraid that he would run away if he let go.

"Uh, how do you know?"

Inaho also showed a puzzled expression after he finished speaking, he couldn't explain it himself, he thought so subconsciously.

Slein felt that it was not good to just take other people's things like this, but he vaguely felt that this thing should belong to him. After thinking about it, he finally put it in his pocket carefully and took it away.

When they returned to the entrance, the rain outside had lightened, and it was barely possible to walk back in the rain.The door was probably closed by the wind after Inaho came in, and it was a bit difficult to open from the inside.

Only then did Inafan let go of Slein's hand to open the door, and Slein looked back at the escalator. He was not sure why he wanted to see that man again, and he stared at him on the escalator. Both sad and warm.

It's like seeing something that was lost forever, and miraculously come back to me again.

Slein's mind became hot, and he was a little unconscious. When he turned his head, he found Inafan looking at him strangely, and then he realized that he had suddenly caught Inafan.

Inafan looked at him strangely, and Slein knew that this was not a good place to confess, there was no atmosphere at all, it was not romantic at all, it looked like a horror movie.

However, he just felt that this was the best time.

The heavy amulet in his pocket seemed to give him courage.He said, "Inaho, I like..."

Bang bang bang!Bang bang bang!

There was a loud knock on the door, accompanied by the angrily shouting of the punks: "Stinky boy! Are you inside? Open the door! Damn it! See if I don't beat you to death!"

"We know you're inside! You open the door yourself! Otherwise our boss will come later—" The other laughed viciously, "You're the one to see!"

Your boss has fallen "pretty" in the bushes, you didn't find him, how poor he is...Slein is starting to feel guilty.

However, he managed to muster up the courage to speak half of the words and was interrupted, and Slein felt that he was also very pitiful... His courage energy bar had been emptied, and he felt exhausted.

Inaho remained expressionless and said nothing.After the knocking on the door stopped, he signaled Slein to stand in the shadow behind the door, and then opened the door.

The two punks outside the door were about to knock on the door, when the door opened silently, and through the gap, they saw a face, as pale as a drowned person (due to the rain), like a corpse Expressionless (facial paralysis).

The thunder rolled in unison, and the lightning flashed just right. The person inside the door seemed to be standing in the thick darkness, and asked faintly, "Who are you looking for?"

The two little bastards had already taken a step back in fright, you pushed me and you pushed you, and then they bluffed loudly: "I, we are looking for a stinky kid with a foreigner's appearance, you... have you seen it! Is he went in?"

"No." Inafan said, "I have lived here for hundreds of years, and you are the only visitors."

"Yi——" the two punks hugged each other.

"Would you like to come in and sit down?" He continued to ask.

"Wow ah ah ah-"

The two punks ran off like shit.

Inafan closed the door, and these two guys would not pester Slein again, but who was the boss they were talking about... Inafan was thinking about it when he suddenly saw Slein looking at him with a suppressed smile on his face.Finally couldn't hold back anymore, burst out laughing.

"Hahahahaha...you actually... pretended to be a ghost to scare them...you are naive enough, hahahaha——" Slein laughed until tears came out, "your face...puh——hahaha I No more!"

Inafan became furious, "You laugh too exaggeratedly, I'm saving you."

Slein stopped laughing, and raised his eyebrows, "I don't need you to save me. Their boss was knocked out and tied up and thrown in the woods."

"Then who was so frightened that his face turned blue just now?"

"Anyway, it's not me, how could I turn blue from fright."

"It's you, I'm not mistaken, you're almost crying." Inafan said bluntly, "By the way, I like you, Slein."

"You just got it wrong, I—" Slein was dumb in the middle of speaking.

After a while, he blushed, and he threw the celestial globe casually, and then angrily rushed forward and grabbed Inafan's collar, shouting angrily, "You... I was the one who planned to say it first!"

Why does he still feel like a loser after being confessed by someone he likes? !

"It's a pity, I've already said it first." Inaho smiled smugly.

"The one just now doesn't count! Do it again!" Slein ran away in embarrassment.

"I like you, Slein." Inafan said, "Look, I'll say it first again."

Speaking of which, what are they arguing about?

Slein was furious. He grabbed Inafan by the collar and pulled him over. Inafan was still thinking about what Slein was going to do, so his mouth was blocked.

Slein kissed him, but he was too anxious, and his teeth collided and bit his lip, and the two let out a painful cry at the same time.They were already very close, and after the failed kiss, they subconsciously wanted to distance themselves. Slein fell backwards because he lost his balance.

Inavan pulled to grab him, and he fell to the ground, with Slein falling on top of him.

"Hmm..." Inafan was dizzy from the collision, before he could recover, Slein's lips pressed against him again.

It was the first time for Slein to kiss, and it was very jerky, just touching his lips, his mind and brain were melted together.He stuck out the tip of his tongue clumsily, licked Inaho's bloodied lips just now, and kissed his lips clumsily.

Inafan kissed Slein's lips back, but neither of them knew what to do. The passionate kiss lingered on their lips, and the voice of chirping was moist and intimate.I don't know how long they kissed like this, who opened their lips first, and who stuck their tongue first, the playful and childish kiss gradually became fiery and deep.

During the passionate kiss, Inaho sat up from the ground, and Slein hugged his shoulders and neck, making him sit on Inaho's legs. While changing positions, the intertwined kisses never stopped.

Under the rain-soaked clothes of Inafan, there was a frighteningly scalding heat. Slein felt that he was the same. After the brain, he felt that every inch of his body was accompanied by lingering kisses. And melt.

Inafan put his hands on Slein's waist, and poked his fingers through his clothes to feel his soft and smooth skin.Under Inavan's unconscious caress, Slein moaned vaguely, and the hot breath between them almost set the air on fire.

Slein pushed Inafan away a little while he was panting, he was a little out of breath from the kiss, his chest heaved violently, and his face was so red that he was about to bleed.

"Inaho, I..."

He felt that the hands around his waist were getting stronger, as if they were conveying courage to him.He looked directly into those red eyes, the indifferent young man looked like a well-behaved child waiting for candy, his eyes were full of expectation, he knew that Inaho was also waiting for him to say that sentence.

"I--"

boom!The door opened.

Cam rushed in, yelling at the same time: "Inafan, Slein, are you all right—"

And behind him, outside the door, there was a large group of people standing in unison, obviously Remulina's rescuers.

The storm outside has long since passed, and the weather changes as soon as it changes, but now the sun is shining, and the two kissed each other by the door. Now that the door is open, the light is sufficient, and everyone can see clearly.

Nina covered Yunzi's eyes, Remulina, who was crying in worry, was stunned, Esther covered her O-shaped mouth, Kurankan looked away awkwardly, and Kisuke had caught The boss who was found out by everyone is now dumbfounded with the boss, Lai kissed Mazluka forcibly without saying a word...

Inside the house, the power display of the camera flickered.

"Uh..." Cam hesitated, "I'll close the door, you continue?"

In the electronic data center in New Awara City, the huge processor is running smoothly, and the user "A?E" is typing the latest information.

Did they start dating today?

——_

The cursor stops and flickers, as if thinking.

A machine has no concept of time, but once, the person who created it made his own memories into electronic data input chips and stored them in an abandoned prison in a remote suburb.But he didn't know that the machine he made controlled the exquisite instrument through the wireless network, started the backup program by itself, and uploaded the memory data to the host.

Since then, AnalyticalEngine has kept this part of memory in its huge database.

His memory has also become its memory.

Since then, it has intercepted a recording of the call.

"Hello, Ms. Jiezuka Yuki. I have listened to every message of yours. Sorry, I am only telling you the truth now. I hope you can understand. At that time, I really felt that I couldn't keep Slein by Inafan's side. , You must not have seen his appearance at that time. In fact, I did not bring Slein back to Mars, he was buried under the white and soft snow in Northern Europe, it was a peaceful and clean place, Mars is too desolate."

The gentle female voice said softly, "Also, Mars doesn't have the one he loves."

Now that the new information has been edited, user "A?E" posted something new:

Did they start dating today?

——Yes, today they started dating.

END