Chapter 105 Where Is the Past in Life

"Woo woo woo... Boss! Another bowl!" Kevin poured all the noodle soup into his stomach and sighed with satisfaction.

He had agreed to treat his comrades to a meal, but because he was new and performed too well in the simulation training room, he distanced himself from the others. In the end, only Hua and Carol came as promised... and that was only because they knew Mikael and Ellie.

Besides, it was clearly a meal... why did they end up at a noodle shop...

It's a noodle shop... At least two of the four people were very satisfied.

Hua picked out all the remaining noodles in the noodle soup and drank it all. She wanted to shout "Another bowl" like Kevin... But she was too embarrassed... Although Kevin and Mei paid for it, a bowl of noodles didn't cost much... But she was still too embarrassed... Forget it, the calories in a bowl of noodles are enough, I'll go back to the cafeteria to see if there are any leftover steamed buns... But... What's even weirder than the above is that the four people never said a word to each other. It's as if four people who had met once happened to meet in this noodle restaurant in Xin Mo City, sat together, greeted each other, and had dinner, that's all. Kevin may not be the first to notice this problem, but seeing that no one else spoke, he could only suppress his embarrassment, deliberately raised his voice, and said in an extremely exaggerated tone:

"Wow! Look at this new moth city, how long has it been? Less than two days? The main city area has been rebuilt!"

As soon as he finished speaking, he heard a shout from a distance: "An extra bowl of noodles for table number seven! Come and get it yourself!"

"Noodles are important, noodles are important..." Kevin sneered twice, and ran two steps to get the noodles back...

But once he was interrupted, he didn't know how to continue.

He skillfully picked up half a bowl of noodles with chopsticks and stuffed it into his mouth. He chewed it, but it didn't taste good.

"Boss! Did you forget to put salt in this bowl of noodles?"

Kevin angrily took the noodles to argue with the store owner.

"Ah? Impossible? The salt is over there, add some if you want."

Kevin sprinkled a spoonful of salt into the bowl, and also made several spoonfuls of chili oil, took it back to his seat, and tasted the noodle soup again...

This time it tasted bitter...

It was so bitter that he covered his throat and coughed, and even tears came out.

He picked up the soda on the table and drank most of the bottle in one breath, and finally suppressed the bitterness.

Looking at the other three people who had been silent all the time:

Mei crossed her arms and muttered something, pushing her glasses on the bridge of her nose from time to time, as if she was thinking about something.

Carol, who was originally the most lively, supported her chin with her left hand, and used her right hand to control the chopsticks to pick up the noodles that had hardly been touched one by one.

As for Hua, who was originally taciturn, she put her hands on her knees, lowered her head and stared at the bottom of the bowl, without saying a word.

"Uh... Can't everyone say a few words... It's so awkward to be in such a lull..."

Kevin scratched his head, thinking he had found a great topic: "Hey! Hua, Carol, I heard that you were saved twice by Mikael in Canghai City... Ah! Mei, why did you step on me!"

"..."

"Hey..." Carol put down the chopsticks with her right hand, held her cheeks with both hands, and sighed twice, "Hey..."

Kevin patted the leather boots that were stepped on by Mei with his hand, and asked with gritted teeth.

"Why are you sighing!"

"Why else can you sigh... Brother Mikael is so strong... How come he died without a sound?"

"Let's go."

Hua suddenly jumped up from the stool.

Suddenly becoming the focus of the other three people's attention, she unexpectedly did not feel embarrassed. Instead, she calmly pointed at the teacher's wall clock in the noodle shop and said:

"It's getting late, we should go back... Tomorrow, we will resume our daily training..."

When Kevin mentioned this, he took a deep breath. His physique was indeed unreasonably strong, but training...

Is there really anyone who likes training?

He even thought... since he had such a good physique, those physical training contents were dispensable, so he might as well take this time out to date Mei.

Uh, wait, there is another problem. Even if he can escape the training, Mei doesn't seem to have much time to date him now... Even his boyfriend can't figure out what Mei is researching.

The group walked in the streets of New E City in a daze.

There were still fine cement slag piled on both sides of the street, and there were only three or two street lamps along the street, and only a faint light could be seen from a long distance.

The noodle shop was similar. From the outside, it looked like a rough house with intact style. The walls were not even painted. The tables and chairs were all simply cut thick metal plates...

These reminded the four people all the time: there was a collapse here not long ago.

Even if the whole city had been swept away by the collapse beasts, and even if the city center was rebuilt in just a few days after the modular construction technology was adopted, the traces of the collapse on the city were already there.

Just like the whole world.

Except for a few areas such as Tianqiong City, the eastern and far eastern parts of Shenzhou were basically destroyed. The United Government did not even plan to rebuild this area. The reason was very simple - there was no population to fill it...

As they walked, the differences between the four people finally became clear due to their close relationship. Carol and Hua fell behind, while Mei and Kevin walked side by side in front.

"Hey! Hua! There is news from my parents. I plan to let them live in Moth City. Then they can come to our house to play during the weekends!"

"..."

"Ahua, why don't you speak today? By the way, your father..."

Carol silently covered her mouth. She finally realized that she had made the same stupid mistake as Kevin just now.

"Oh...ah!"

Hua suddenly uttered two syllables in surprise, "I...I haven't contacted him yet..."

"Not yet contacted" means many things. It may mean that it has been... so it cannot be contacted. It may also be that the survivors lack contact equipment, and the statistics are confusing, so they cannot be contacted for a while...

But that doesn't matter anymore. What matters is, which one does Hua want to express? Carol couldn't figure it out either.

If it's the former, her emotional expression seems to be too gentle, and if it's the latter, her feelings seem to be too suppressed.

"Ahua..."

Carol wanted to say something else, but Mei and Kevin who were walking in front suddenly stopped. Kevin took a step across, blocking everyone, and looked at the dark alley on the right with a hint of caution.

"Da... da... da... da..."

The sound of chaotic footsteps came from the alley. Kevin's vigilance is still necessary, because disasters often mean an increase in the crime rate. No one knows what the purpose of the people coming out of the alley is... or maybe they are not human at all. , but the dead soldiers who have not been cleaned up.

There were no street lights in this section of the street. Hua squinted slightly, but he couldn't even catch the outline in the dark alley.

Kevin silently took two steps back, and the others followed suit - only Hua Zhi stayed where he was.

When she came back to her senses at Carol's soft call, she was alone at the entrance of the alley, facing what was about to come out.

Kevin just wanted to pull Hua back, but it was already too late.

Hua saw clearly that there were four people in total, each wearing a thick and wide cloak and a hood to hide their figure.

When they walked out of the alley, the cold moonlight spread far away, coating everyone's body with a layer of silver.

Three figures in a row, shorter and girl-like, hurried past Hua. They lowered their heads and Hua could not see anything clearly.

Walking at the end was a man about the same height as Kevin. The hood only covered the upper half of his face, but not the lower half.

Hua glanced blankly, and a familiar feeling came to his heart.

The other party seemed to feel her gaze, and raised his head imperceptibly. From Hua's perspective, that familiar face came into his eyes.

"Boom!"

"Boom!"

"Boom!"

The sound of her heart suddenly reached her ears loudly and rapidly, but Ke Hua did nothing and allowed the figure to stop for half a step in front of her, then quickly turned around and left.

"Huh...fortunately there was no conflict."

"Yes, yes, they look really scary!"

The voices of Kevin and Carol seemed to reach Hua's ears after crossing a long distance.

It's like crossing an ocean, or crossing the border between two different worlds - Hua thought.

Until she noticed three other people's eyes were focused on her.

"Let's go, Hua, those four people don't mean any harm."

"oh oh."

Kevin and Mei were still walking in front, facing the direction of the moon.

Carol jumped and stepped on Kevin's shadow in the moonlight, while Hua's mind was filled with the amazing glimpse just now:

Who is that?

Is that really him?

No, no, no, I must have read it wrong.

He is dead.

There's no way he's here.

But is he really dead?

Do you want to catch up and ask?

Just ask?

No, you cannot act without authorization...

At this time, Mei in the front suddenly started talking to Kevin about philosophical topics.

"Kevin, have you ever heard of the law of entropy?"

"Uh...ah! I think I heard about it in physics class."

"Hmm..." Mei snorted noncommittally.

"What I want to say is not limited to the increase in entropy in the laws of thermodynamics, but a philosophical thinking. Entropy represents the degree of chaos in a closed space. The higher the entropy value, the higher the degree of chaos. And the so-called entropy The law of increase means that in a closed space, entropy always tends to increase.”

"Uh...just like my dormitory?"

"Oh! Are you very sharp this time? But after all, the same is true for the earth, and so are humans. Imagine that even if there is no Honkai existence, due to the limitation of the speed of light, humans cannot escape from the solar system, nor can they develop resources in the universe, so to In the end, human beings are bound to perish - especially for individual people. So, Kevin, can you answer me now... What is the meaning of human existence? "

"Uh... Mei, can we change the question?"

However, Mei ignored Kevin's begging for mercy. She said to herself: "In fact, there is no meaning in life at all. Even if your life is 'meaningful', it will be just a handful of loess in the end. Even if you make No matter how outstanding the contribution is - sociological significance, human beings will eventually perish, and this so-called meaning will ultimately be meaningless, even for the tens of thousands of years that human civilization itself has existed, and even the tens of thousands and hundreds of thousands of years that will follow. , before the 13.8 billion years since the birth of the universe, it was just a fleeting moment.”

"Well……"

"But, Kevin...are you going to stop living because of these desperate facts?"

"No way?"

"Yes, no. Because the meaning of human existence is existence itself - the existence of civilization itself is a kind of negative entropy. What humans do from generation to generation is to fight against the increase of entropy and try to turn this world destined to collapse The world has become orderly again. This desperate resistance is like Sisyphus pushing the ball... Isn't this desperate resistance to the established destiny the only meaning of our human existence? Meaning that only we humans can achieve.”

"Uh... Mei, calm down. What do you want to say?"

"Oh! Sorry, actually what I want to say is - since our existence itself is the meaning we have been pursuing, then we are trapped in ourselves: just let go and do what you want to do, and be bold if you want to ask. Since the ending is destined, let’s do what we want to do. In this way, when we reach the end, we can look back on our life and save a lot of regrets, right?”

"Mei...I didn't understand..."

"..."

Kevin could understand every word, but he couldn't understand the whole paragraph, but he accepted every bit of the helplessness and encouragement contained in it.

So he knew what to do, he silently held Mei's hand, and the latter did not resist, and even took the initiative to hold Kevin tightly.

But not long after, Carol, who was walking behind, suddenly screamed:

"Ah! Oh no, no no! Ah Hua is missing!"