Chapter Nineteen: Survival and Living
Niven stood up from his seat with his eyes loose. The radio in the carriage was playing a reminder to arrive. Niven rubbed his eyes and stood up, carrying a package containing several of his clothes in his hands, and then lined up in the crowd and left the carriage.
It was not until after he walked out of the car that Niven became completely awake. Then he began to feel excited. Looking at the brightly lit city outside the platform, a kind of excitement mixed with expectations and some fear made him even his steps heavier, and finally...
Finally come back!
Two months have passed since he applied for a work report on the sub-base two months ago, and was later transferred to the sub-base and left this safe, unfamiliar, but familiar island city. Although the hover truck can indeed carry workers back to the island every day as the government said, there are also a very small number of workers who require staying at the base for work reasons. As one of the few engineers on the island, he is also a member of the list of people staying at the host.
Of course, as a few staying people, not to mention that they cannot be with their family for a long time. In the dangerous situation of the sub-base for 24 hours, Niven received more than five times higher than he had imagined at the beginning. The entire sub-base basically did not use much money, so he basically transferred the money to his wife's credit card.
Standing in the elevator passage, Niwen fell into a kind of memory. Although it was only a memory of half a year ago, it seemed as if it was the previous life. It was the memory before the catastrophe of the Red Sea. Everything was so peaceful and everything was so quiet. As a science and engineering dog, he wore glasses early and inherited the essence of most science and engineering dogs. He was a dull and boring object for girls. He was not handsome, had no wealthy family, and had no extraordinary abilities. Therefore, from studying to working, he had no chance of women at all.
After a blind date, I finally found an ordinary woman of the same age. No, she should be an older woman with a slightly ugly appearance. However, he didn't think it was anything wrong. He looked a little worse, but he wouldn't have any strange things. With this mentality, he got married.
But reality and imagination always have enough distance. After three years of marriage, he accidentally went home to get the project documents and bumped into a naked man running out of the doorman, and his wife's expression of laughter or relief...
Afterwards, divorce, singleness, alone, occasional loneliness and loneliness, and the usual monotonous life ended during the entire Red Sea catastrophe. Many people who were familiar, unfamiliar, knew, and did not know died in the two disasters, but he was lucky enough to survive, and met and saved a mother and daughter in the abnormal area of the second disaster.
It was said to be a mother and daughter, but the woman was actually only twenty-four or twenty-five years old. She was a beautiful woman who was so beautiful that he would only dare to see secretly on weekdays. She had a very good temperament and talked about her. She was a daughter raised by a wealthy family. However, there was nothing rich or not in the face of disaster. Now she was in trouble. This woman lived alone with her daughter, and her family had already died in the disaster.
In that abnormal area, Niven saved the mother and daughter, and then took them to struggle to survive. During the occasional rest, he also heard the woman talk about her past... It was a somewhat clichéd and old-fashioned story. A beautiful girl who had just entered college, fell in love with a gangster in society because of her rebellious thoughts of youth and a simple and ignorant life. After being cheated of money and sex, the whole gangster disappeared without a trace, leaving her big belly, and her angry parents, and then gave birth to the whole child, but the mother had just gone to college...
The truth afterwards, fleeing, seeking survival, encountering a rescue army, and being expelled by the super strong man, but one of the woman's legs had mutated, and a little girl needed to support him, he didn't know what kind of mood he was in, and he agreed to all this in the eyes of the woman, whether it was living together, paying his salary after finding a job, or when the little girl woke up crying at night, or the woman's repair medicine, every time, he silently took on all this with the man's shoulders...
Maybe I'm just a spare tire?
Maybe she just needs help for the moment?
Maybe she just wants to survive?
Niwen is an ordinary family. Whether it is the people he comes into contact with, his parents and elders, or the rumors in society, they all tell the same words, that is, beautiful women are poisons for ordinary people, they are not something people of his level can ask for, he is not worthy of her, no matter in terms of age, appearance, temperament, or future...
Then just treat it as a rescuer to the end...
But...why did she look at him with that?
But... why did she say that it was his responsibility to protect them?
But... why did she knock on his door at night?
Give alms? Or deal with it?
Niwen is also afraid of the mainland. People who have experienced abnormal areas have an unexplainable fear of the abnormal areas that are more terrible than death. But he still applied. When asked whether to stay for twenty-four hours, he also chose to confirm... Is he really not afraid? No, he is very scared, but he still applied. Do he really just want a lot of money?
No, his mood is very, very complicated. He wants to leave more time for each other and at the same time he wants to get the final answer...
Whether she got better jobs after she cured her leg, she got a better job based on her high education and high diploma, then took her daughter away, or told him to divorce, or... when she came back, she saw another man, who was taller and more handsome, or had a higher status, or a warrior, internal strength realm, internal energy realm?
He...is not worthy of her...
In two months, everything can be clearly defined... It's just a life-saving grace. It's no big deal. Now it's not ancient times, so there is no need to promise yourself. What's more, there were similar ridicule on the Internet before. If the other party is tall, rich and handsome, then it's naturally promise yourself. If the other party is poor, short and ugly, then you will repay you in the next life...
This...is not bad...
With fear, expectation, excitement, or finally being relieved, Niven walked out of the elevator passage, took a deep breath, and walked out of the suspension station step by step. He had almost no need to look for it, and instinctively looked up at a place outside the crowd. There, he saw a beautiful tall woman with a raised belly, holding a little girl's hand. When he saw her, the woman's eyes seemed to have some wet reflections, and then shook her hand hard, and the little girl shouted loudly.
Inexplicably, Niven's heart calmed down, and a strange feeling that had never been seen before filled his heart. It seemed... happiness?
Outside the station, the journey home of the three of them was not far. Both of them were silently silently and without saying anything. Only the little girl kept talking about the interesting stories of the past period. Soon, the three of them walked back to their home. As soon as they entered the home, the woman asked the little girl to take a shower. In the mood of the little girl's unwillingness, she forcibly drove her to the bathroom.
(So...is it coming?
Niwen sat silently on the sofa and watched the woman come to the living room from the bathroom. Both of them were silent for a while, but before the awkward atmosphere broke out, the woman suddenly said, "I applied..."
(Did you apply for divorce?)
Niven nodded, his throat was itchy. He scratched his neck, and it seemed that the strange heavyness made him speechless. He looked at the woman and was still so beautiful. He immediately laughed and said, "Well... I know, then I..."
"Sub-base jobs and front-line staff's families accompany them." The woman said this directly without waiting for Niven to finish her speech.
"?" Niwen looked at the woman without understanding, and for a moment he had no idea what he had heard.
The woman suddenly walked to Niwen, with tears in her eyes, or something else. She looked at Niwen and said seriously: "Xue's name has been reported to the city hall. Nixue is actually quite nice, and she will only reach the age of elementary school next year... Let's go together, go to the base, our family..."
“…one, one family…”
"Well, our family!"
The woman suddenly kissed Niven's mouth. When she kissed her deep, she suddenly bit his lips hard. Finally, the woman's tears came out...
Flowed into Niven's heart...
Chapter completed!