After saying goodbye to Luna in Boston, I arrived in Boise to meet Lily. It seems that she is always related to high-confidential projects. Boise Airport According to the navigation information given by Lily, Li Haojun took the shuttle bus to the simple runway on the south side. After getting off the bus and walking to the end of the runway, there was an old red vertical tail biplane. The three-point landing gear and the angles of the fuselage skin at the beam and the ribs indicate that it seems to be a simple wooden cloth structure. The high nose with the exposed planetary engine and the wooden double-blade propeller exudes primitive wildness.
Lily leaned against the fuselage with her hands in her pockets and stood in the rear cabin. Today she wore a beige fur flight jacket and her long hair was covered in the flight cap. The tight dark brown leather pants showed her figure well, and a pair of high-waisted black leather boots seemed a little fat.
"From the Red Queen?"
Lily's expressionless sudden question made Li Haojun not know how to answer for a while. He thought of his hallucination in Luna's office. Was Lily referring to the woman in a red miniskirt sitting on his lap?
"Yes, everyone calls her the Red Queen."
"Oh," Li Haojun answered a little woodenly.
"Let's get on the plane," Lily dodged and gave up the position of the backseat boarding ladder.
Li Haojun hesitated a little, thinking that he would have brought a parachute if he had known to take a plane. Then he thought again that this light aircraft could make an emergency landing even without power, so he climbed up. When he passed by Lily, his eyes swept across her face, thinking that with a beautiful woman by his side, he was a man, why would he be timid, so he smiled. Lily tilted her head, looked at him with her eyes, and raised the corners of her mouth slightly.
"There are goggles on the seat, put them on," Lily said, turning around and pedaling to the main wing, walked to the driver's seat and stepped into the cockpit.
Li Haojun sat in his seat, without wearing goggles, but just holding them in his hand, watching Lily's figure flickering against the blue sky, not knowing whether he was distracted or recalled. After staring for a moment, Lily had fastened her seat belt and started the engine. With a crackling sound, a few wisps of black smoke came out of the exhaust pipe, and the propeller began to spin vigorously, and the airflow pulled the plane slowly onto the runway.
When Li Haojun put on his goggles, the plane had already aimed at the runway and increased the throttle. The propeller stirred the airflow and the exhaust crackling sound was mixed with the rhythmic clicking of the valve, and the shaking of the engine spread throughout the fuselage.
"Fasten your seat belt," Lily shouted back,
"Okay," leaned forward and answered while pulling up the seat belt to tighten herself. After fastening the four-point seat belt and looking out, the rear wheel had left the ground, and the fuselage gradually rose into the air while shaking against the oblique crosswind.
Under Lily's control, the plane climbed step by step, then suddenly turned at a large angle and flew towards the mountains northeast of Boise. After the thin fuselage turned straight after overload circling, Li Haojun was relieved. While looking at the scenery on the side, he thought that it was impossible to communicate with Lily at this time. The noise was too loud and distracted her attention. After returning, he must ask the company to clarify the means of transportation. He could not take any unreliable and broken vehicles. The small plane did not fly at a high altitude. It flew over several ridges and valleys and began to lower its altitude. Fortunately, the goggles were connected to the fur hat, otherwise the head would lose temperature and the ears would have been frozen. Not far away, a simple runway was seen on the ridge. The plane was parallel to the runway at an angle and approached at a constant speed to lower its altitude and enter the three-sided flight. Although the terrain was flat, it was winter and the ground was still covered with snow, but the runway was overturned due to frequent takeoffs and landings. At the end of the runway, there is a small hotel and a small apron, where a small plane and two all-terrain crawlers are parked.
As the ground got closer and closer, Lily made the last turn of the plane, descended to the runway, landed gracefully in the crosswind of the mountain ridge, and taxied to the apron.
Li Haojun helped Lily fix the plane, and then followed her to the small hotel, quietly following behind her, secretly warming his ears with his hands.
This is not a hotel, but a two-story wooden building. It looks like a hotel or private club for mountaineers. But after walking through the door, passing through the lobby and the front desk, the staff will accompany you directly into the elevator shaft and descend underground to reach another world. The same identity was confirmed, and it was also a biotechnology facility, but Lily did not follow. The facility also uses the equipment and technology of Taraqi Biogenetic Innovation, so Li Haojun came here to do maintenance work again. The time was limited on the first afternoon, so he could only familiarize himself with the scale of the facility and the types and models of applied technology facilities. However, this facility is different from other places. There is no large-scale underground facility after the elevator shaft comes down. It seems to be just an entrance and a transfer station. You need to take high-speed rail transportation underground to reach multiple facilities in other places. They seem to be an underground facility complex, and they operate as a complete functional facility in an isolated state.
Returning to the initial transfer station, going up to the lobby of the ground building, looking out, it has been night, and only the dim light of the front desk blocks the night from the cold winter outdoors.
While hesitating, Li Haojun found that figure sitting on the sofa in the dark corner.
"Lily," Li Haojun looked in that direction, hesitant, not sure if she was still there, and asked softly. It was not until she slowly stood up that he gradually confirmed that it was her figure, walking from the darkness to the light here.
"You haven't left yet?" Li Haojun was a little confused. "Yes, the instructions I received were very simple, just send you here, that's all. It didn't say I had to leave." "Then you don't have one," Li Haojun was about to ask, don't you have a family, but he couldn't say it out loud. Lily smiled and answered simply, "I don't have any plans, let's go have dinner, just over there in the restaurant." This is a building disguised as a mountaineer's hotel, but it does not receive mountaineers. It seems that because of the confidentiality of the operation, even the visitors do not overlap. There are only Li Haojun, Lily and the service staff in the restaurant. In the simulated candlelight of the corner dining table, the night outside the window seems to compress the distance between the two people very well. "Your plane is cool, and your Jaguar last time, you have really good taste," Li Haojun first brought up this topic, which big boy doesn't like these, "Oh, I'm glad you like it, I spent all my salary on it, haha," "They are all very old models, do you do all the maintenance work yourself?" "Yes, I have my own hangar and maintenance equipment," Lily paused, fiddling with the food on the plate, then looked up at Li Haojun and said, "Maintaining them is my pleasure, whether it is the blue sky and white clouds, or the country road, they bring me a lot of happiness." "So, what about your family? Sorry, I really don't remember if you told me, but the moment you got on the plane seems to have been experienced by me before," Lily didn't say anything, looked up at Li Haojun, and then lowered her head to fiddle with her food, Li Haojun didn't ask, but just looked at her face inexplicably, one side was illuminated by the warm candlelight, and the other side was outlined by the cold light of the night. "Why bother to be so persistent? Actually, I don't remember it very well," Lily didn't look up, but just lowered her head and whispered softly. After a moment of silence, Lily looked up and smiled and said, "Tell me about yourself. How was your return this time? Does Emily still love you so much?" "Oh, you know her," "Of course," "Although I don't remember, it seems that our relationship has been maintained for a long time. Whether I am awake or asleep, she is with me, so," Li Haojun paused. It always feels a little unnatural to praise another woman in front of a woman. After a pause, he continued, "So I am still very lucky," "Isn't she?" Lily raised her head and asked Li Haojun. The candlelight illuminated her cheeks and hair, and her eyes revealed a woman's sorrow. Li Haojun realized that he might have a story with her, but he was relieved because of his amnesia, but left Lily alone to bear it, and at this moment he didn't know how to comfort her in front of him. "Okay, eat, what else do you want?" Lily urged with a smile, as if she saw his embarrassment, and changed the subject.
After dinner, they returned to their rooms. Li Haojun could not suppress his inner irritability, powerlessness and the weight of disappointment. He put on his coat and walked alone on the ridge outside the hotel. In the dim night, the all-terrain vehicles and Cessna aircraft parked opposite were cold metal.
As soon as he walked out of the corner of the hotel, the cold wind that swept across the ridge swirled and rolled up ice crystals and snow blocks and hit his face, as if it was in conjunction with the stinging heart, it also stung the skin. Li Haojun thought of the weapons and equipment in his basement. Was there a time when Lily might have been his comrade-in-arms who went through fire and water? Her restraint was because she had Qin Wenjing by her side, and he had forgotten all his experiences with her.
It was a starless night, the night was dark, and a crescent moon hung on the ridge of the snow-capped mountain in front. The moonlight and the white snow reflected each other, and the desolation and coldness were narrated. In order to maintain body temperature, Li Haojun hugged his coat tightly and kept moving. The snow and ice made a creaking sound under his feet. The aimless movement seemed to be chasing something, and it seemed to be avoiding something. The snow-capped mountains and crescent moon in the distance seemed like a solidified scroll, hanging in the sky, untouchable.
Until the biting cold wind had blown away the sadness in his heart, Li Haojun turned around and followed his own footsteps to return. The mountain wind urged him to return from behind.
From time to time, he looked back at the crescent moon in the distant mountains. It was its broken and cracked figure that illuminated the distant mountains in this dark night, depicting his own figure, which was spread long under his feet and swayed around the mountain.
Amid the creaking footsteps, the wooden house of the hotel was getting closer and closer. The reflection of the moonlight and the snow on the ground made the walls and windows of the building unusually bright. Just in front of the window of the room at the end of the second floor, there stood a figure, it was Lily.
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