Annihilation of the solar system

In the past few days when Li Linjie returned home, he first went back to his hometown to visit his uncle and aunt. Their attitude towards Li Linjie seemed to be as good as when they had just received the pension from Li Linjie's parents. The big reason for this is that they don't have to work in jobs above C level.

They were recruited and their daughter could attend college normally. As for what kind of job Li Linjie was doing, they didn't care.

After that, Li Linjie went to the university campus where his sister was studying to visit her sister, who was a freshman. She kept asking what kind of job Li Linjie was doing, because all her high school classmates who graduated with her canceled the college entrance examination without exception.

She directly entered a vocational college to learn professional skills. Then she participated in planetary defense production. Only she was directly admitted to a well-known university.

My sister knew that if it was not related to Li Linjie's work, she would not be treated like this. However, Li Linjie only told her sister that he was now working at the space center as an A-level volunteer, and did not tell her that he was going to

tasks to perform.

On the last day, Li Linjie returned to the city where he once worked. He came to the door of the house he had rented. He took out the key from the secret location of the fire hydrant at the door. Only he and Xiao Meng knew where the key was. He didn't know where it was.

The misconception was that the key had been tampered with, and Li Linjie found that the key did not seem to be in its previous location.

He opened the door with great expectation, but what he saw immediately extinguished his hopes. The whole room was exactly the same as when he left, except for a thin layer of dust.

Still unwilling to give in, he came to the locker on the balcony with the last bit of luck, and with the last glimmer of hope, he opened the locker containing items related to Xiaomeng. The hope was shattered without any suspense, and the photos inside

There is no change at all from when it was put in with other items.

One by one, he took out the photos and other things from the box. Looking at the beautiful little dream in the photo, memories of the past came to his mind again. However, after more than a year of accumulation, the sadness and heartache have dissipated.

Less, at least he can basically face the reality that Xiao Meng has left him calmly.

But the longing and concern still seemed like the other day, and the scars in his heart still hadn't healed. He sat cross-legged in front of the storage box and counted those things one by one, as if sorting out his messy feelings, unable to be alone for a long time.

Suddenly, he found half a pack of cigarettes thrown in intentionally or accidentally at the bottom of the box. He took out one and wanted to light it, but found that he had no lighter since he had not smoked for a long time.

He held his numb legs and walked to the gas stove with a cigarette in his mouth. He bent down and lit the cigarette with the blue fire. The strange yet familiar smell made him cough several times, but his mood seemed to be relaxing.

Some.

Li Linjie smoked several cigarettes one after another. Finally, looking at the photos and other items placed on the floor, he made up his mind to pick up the phone and dialed the string of numbers engraved in his memory.

The familiar ringtone sound did not appear directly in the receiver, but a long string of electronic tones followed by the sound of being connected.

One beep, two beeps, three beeps, four beeps... until a busy tone came from the receiver and the call was not connected. Li Linjie put down the phone with a sigh.

He began to try hard to recall every word Xiao Meng said before she left him, because he felt that those might be the last times he heard Xiao Meng's voice in his life. But the harder he tried to recall, the more blurry it became, so blurry that he couldn't even remember it.

What exactly does Xiaomeng's voice sound like?

“Ding ding ding ding ding!”

The phone in Li Linjie's hand rang. He was surprised and delighted when he picked up the phone and saw that it was a series of very unusual caller IDs. It seemed that the call was not from Xiao Meng, and such call numbers were probably from the aerospace industry.

It was a call from the center, the Academy of Engineering or other departments. He calmed down his emotions, answered the phone and said in a straight voice with his usual opening words when answering the phone:

"Hello, I am Li Linjie, an A-level recruit of the Space Center's "Guanghan Palace" project. Which department are you from?"

There was no sound from the other end of the phone for a moment, and Li Linjie was about to ask again. The voice of a weak woman as sweet as honey came from the receiver:

"Lin Jie, are you calling me?"

Li Linjie immediately recognized that it was Xiao Meng's voice. He was surprised and happy but pretended to be calm in his tone:

"Ah... Xiaomeng! Sorry, I don't have your caller number. I thought it was the superior department looking for me."

Xiaomeng is still as gentle as before:

"Oh, it's okay. I'm sorry. I don't use that phone anymore, so I don't always have it with me. When I heard it ringing, I ran over to see if it had been hung up."

Li Linjie couldn't hide his excitement, but he didn't know where to start, so he could only ask in the most bland way:

"You...are you okay!"

Xiaomeng's reserved and polite reply came from the microphone:

"Yeah! Pretty good. What about you?"

"Well, I'm pretty good too." Li Linjie felt a little regretful for saying these meaningless words.

"Hey! By the way, I just heard what you said on the phone, have you been recruited?" Xiao Meng's calm and gentle tone reminded him of the way they used to call her colleagues when they were together.

This made him a little disappointed.

Xiao Meng's question seemed to give him an outlet for the thousands of words in his heart. He wanted to tell Xiao Meng what a great cause he was doing now. He had gone to space and would later complete an even more unprecedented undertaking.

mission, he is now one of the group of heroes called heroes who stand at the forefront of Earth's defense.

And the reason why he was able to do all this and stand out from the selection process was that he wanted to prove to her that he was a man worth trusting for life.

But when the words came to his lips, they were stuck in his throat. Xiaomeng's politeness and politeness made him almost sure that she had completely let go. She just regarded him as a friend who was more ordinary than an ordinary friend, and the only person who couldn't let go was

It's just him.

"Oh, that's right. Now everyone has to accept the call-up for the Planetary Defense Program. Didn't you accept the call-up over there?"

Xiao Meng hesitated:

"Well, I saw on the news that there is such a recruitment, but I have not received such a notice here."

Li Linjie was stunned. There were only three situations where Xiao Meng's age and physical condition would exempt him from the obligation to be drafted.

The first is that she is a high-tech or high-tech talent. Obviously Xiaomeng is not suitable. She is just an ordinary college graduate with good looks.

The second is that immediate family members who have made outstanding contributions to planetary defense, like Li Linjie’s sister, can enjoy certain preferential treatment. This reminded Li Linjie of that heavy rainy night. When he chased out, he saw the car gradually disappearing under the rain curtain.

limousine.

The third situation is for women who are pregnant or breastfeeding. Thinking of this, he was so upset that he couldn't help but shudder. Xiao Meng on the other end of the phone saw that Li Linjie hadn't spoken for a long time, so he asked tentatively:

"Lin Jie, are you still there?"

Li Linjie came back to his senses from his panic thoughts, and his speech was a little messy:

"Oh, still there...I'm still there..."

"Did you call me for something?" Xiao Meng asked.

Li Linjie looked at the photos and items on the ground with tears in his eyes, or he came back to his senses and said hesitantly:

"Oh, yes. When I was cleaning up the room, I found that you still had some small things left with me. I happened to go home during the vacation and cleaned them all out. If you are free, I will bring them to you.

"

Xiaomeng was silent for a moment:

"Lin Jie, I am no longer in the previous city, so it may not be convenient."

Li Linjie was startled, but this situation was still within his expectation. He continued to pretend to be calm:

"Oh, that's right. Then give me an address and I'll courier it to you."

The other party was silent for a moment, then hesitantly said:

"Lin Jie, don't get me wrong. I'm not hiding from you on purpose. I'm not in China. I'm now settled in New Zealand. It may not be convenient for express delivery in such special circumstances. Why don't you keep it for me first and wait until later?

Give it to me when you get the chance, okay?"

Xiaomeng's gentle words seemed to give Li Linjie a blow in the head, and his mind went blank...

To him, New Zealand, which is far away across the ocean, is just a distant corner on the map. He never cares about the terrain, the climate, the language spoken, whether they celebrate New Year's Eve or Christmas...

But at this moment, Xiaomeng told him that the person he cared about had gone to such a distant place. He was speechless, and Xiaomeng was also silent. Li Linjie tried his best to collect his emotions and forced a smile.

The forced laughter was mixed with more swallowing:

"Oh, no trouble then, just leave me here first, nothing else..."

Before Li Linjie finished speaking, he heard the cry of a baby coming from the receiver. Although the sound was not very loud, Li Linjie heard it clearly. His last glimmer of hope was about to be shattered, and he stood there blankly.

He was at a loss. Xiao Meng's voice came from the other side of the phone, but it was not speaking to him:

"hi,daniel,lookatthebaby.hemayhavewetthebed."

Then a man's voice was heard:

"ok,honey,i'llgonow!"

"I'm sorry, Lin Jie, I have something to do here. I'll hang up now. I'll contact you later, okay?"

Xiao Meng hung up the phone. Li Linjie stood there as if his soul had been taken away. He hated himself for returning to this place that would make him sad. He hated himself for making this call that he shouldn't have made. He hated himself for why he always

Can't let her go.

He put down the phone, knelt on the scattered photos and burst into tears. He sobbed and peeled off the protective case in his hand, wanting to throw away the phone card and let Xiao Meng disappear from his world forever.

When he took off the phone's protective case, a young photo of him and Xiao Meng fell to the ground. He wiped away his tears and looked at the photo. They hugged each other so sweetly, and smiled so brightly and happily. That was just right.

It was the first-anniversary photo that he had never found before. He didn't expect that she would always be by his side.

He looked at the photo for a long time and felt much calmer. He put the photo in his wallet behind the family photo, and looked at the blue clothes on his body and the bright red armband on his arm. He was now

There is no other choice. No matter whether Xiaomeng can return to him or not, he can only continue to complete his own mission.