Last night's red wine seemed to be a sleep aid, and this morning the two of them woke up and rushed to report to the underground facility, where the soldiers had already begun their work under the leadership of their officers, and Li Haojun was leading Kesia to inquire and verify the equipment and pipelines. To Li Haojun's surprise, the soldiers here are also young people, and all of them are male, but obviously the discipline is much better than the base where he taught last year, where men and women are mixed, and no one is talking to each other in the work, they are all doing their own things and their expressions are serious.

  But after a long time of contact, they realized that something was wrong, the interaction between these soldiers and other people was simply minimal, Li Haojun had tried to pick up some topics but they didn't pay attention to it. And also tried to interact with different people, but almost no one responded, the response was like a template, no personality, they just worked under the instructions of their officer Jack, although it was not known if his real name was Jack. During the process of trying to interact with them, Li Haojun also paid attention to scan Jack out of the corner of his eye, keeping an eye on his reaction.

  After today's work, the cleaning and organizing work would be basically over, and the next step would be to work on the equipment, piping connections, and other ancillary electromechanical equipment. But in terms of workload, it didn't look like it could be done in a week's workday.

  After completing today's work on the ground, on the way to the restaurant, Li Haojun couldn't wait to whisper in her ear.

  “Did you notice how I interacted with those soldiers today?”

  “Uh, what's the matter.”

  “I don't think their state is quite right, I suspect that they were suppressed by drugs or brainwave devices, probably because of the secrecy here,”

  “Oh.”

  “So this world isn't innocent, remind Malaya to be safe out there,”

  “Okay, I will,”

  Today, Keyshia seemed to be a bit moody and didn't say much, Li Haojun hurriedly asked,

  “What's wrong, not happy today?”

  “No,” Cathia looked up at Li Haojun, seeing that he was still looking at himself with his eyes full of concern, she explained.

  “Tomorrow will be Friday, you'll be going home after work,” said Kesia with a miserable smile.

  “As if, I care more about the separation than before,” said, raised his eyes to look at Li Haojun, the dim candlelight shone on her face, half of her cheeks showed warm contours, half hidden in the shadow of the bangs. Her thin figure made Li Haojun's heart feel love and compassion.

  “I'll spend the weekend with you then,”

  “No good, I don't want to affect your life more,”

  “Then why don't you come home with me, Marlea isn't home anyway, you'll be lonely going back by yourself,”

  Keyshia thought about it.

  “No, I won't bother your lives,”

  Li Haojun also felt it, the change in intimacy between them. In the beginning, it was just a working relationship, then there was a friendship, but back then, it was still possible to simply say goodbye, and now, everything was not so easy.

  “Come home with me, tell Emily that it's a lonely weekend for you on your own with Malaya out of the house,” but after uttering those words Li Haojun felt bad, after all, it was just a coworker relationship, and

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  “Or just say next week, I'll go to Ellensburg with you, you'll be on your way,” No, Li Haojun thought to himself, am I not starting to tell lies to trick Qin Wenjing? On second thought, why bother to explain so much, is it a thief's heart, work colleagues what can not party. But then transpose a thought, it is inevitable not to think of male and female relations on, although Christmas or other holidays can be, if the usual is also so blatant, is indeed a problem.

  “Well, I think, not can not degenerate to tell lies to deceive her,” Li Haojun said with some shame.

  This time it was Kesia's turn to laugh, the corners of her mouth were grinning up to her ears, but didn't let out a giggle, just looked down and listened to Li Haojun's advice sentence by sentence, and then denied the bureau, and a moment later looked up to see how he looked at him

  “Alright, I know you have me in your heart, I'm much happier now,”

  Ah! Li Haojun also couldn't help but feel that this was really an easy task.

  Back to the room, the window is still as gloomy as yesterday, the world is so big, beyond the clouds and mist unknown stars, the world is so small, so small that only two people embracing each other, the world is so small, so small that only two people embracing each other.

  “So how do you plan to spend the weekend at home by yourself?” Not being able to accompany her, Li Haojun wanted to ask for more details about her, as if this would be like spending the weekend with her, and

  “I guess it would be to talk to Malia and tell her everything you instructed, huh?” Kesia made a point of mentioning Li Haojun's concern, then laughed at his seriousness, then thought inconsequently, planning piece by piece, and

  “Need to clean the house, wash the clothes that I changed out of, buy some food supplies, and that's about it,” said Kesia, thinking about it, and asked.

  “So how do you want to spend the weekend?”

  “Well, I generally, don't often do the work of preparing food, the yard needs me to take care of it, I'll do the laborious work of cleaning,” said, suddenly Li Haojun brightened up and said.

  “Kesia, I also have a basement where I can play driving simulation games, I used to go there often, to do some calculations or entertainment, now I'm busy, I don't go there often, why don't you come and play together, what type of video games do you like?” After saying that, Li Haojun looked at Kesia excitedly, and put his arm around her shoulder with force.

  Kesia thought about it and said.

  “I'd rather not, you're already here at the beginning of this week, I won't bother you guys when you go home on weekends,” she said and looked at Li Haojun with a smile.

  “Okay then,” said Li Haojun, somewhat helplessly.

  “Is it that I'm too greedy, with her company still want your company,”

  “Only you want my company, don't you want to accompany me?” Cathia asked rhetorically.

  “I want to, I hate to accompany you twenty years before,” said Li Haojun gently pulled up her hand, in his mind flashed back to the little girl in the dream, I wonder if these hands are the same little hands that he didn't manage to touch in the dream, the lonely young one was so helpless,

  “How do you know you didn't accompany me twenty years ago?” Cathia asked softly, looking into Li Haojun's eyes.

  This momentarily made Li Haojun not know how to answer, thinking for a moment to ask tentatively.

  “Could it be that you know something?”

  “I don't know, but I just feel familiar with you.”

  “Oh,” Li Haojun nodded, then said.

  “Maybe it's really fate, remember initially in Ellensburg, when I met that little girl in my dream, it happened to be you who appeared in front of me,”

  Listening to Li Haojun's statement, Kesia didn't say anything else and just looked at each other silently.

  ......

  With Kesia, who had already been buried in his heart, Li Haojun embarked on his return trip for the weekend. The neon lights of the airport and the hurried figures of travelers in the dark night, coupled with the separation from Kecia, the mood seemed to hit rock bottom. Although the distance between home and family was getting closer during the flight, Kasia, who had been left behind, was a constant source of worry.

  Li Haojun also wondered if he had fallen in love and could not extricate himself, and even began to worry that he would be emotionally involuntary estrangement Qin Wenjing, such apprehension plagued him all the way.

  Until he stood in front of his house, that familiar feeling seemed to envelop him again. Entering the yard and closing the door with his hand back, there was that familiar bench and porch again. Walking into the living room, the night is dark, there is no silhouette, Li Haojun inexplicably a trace of panic in his heart, afraid of losing Qin Wenjing. I don't know why I feel this way, afraid that I will never find her again in this house. So with fear, quickly walked a few steps to Qin Wenjing's bedroom door, gently pushed open the door.

  Through the curtains of the light night color, the person who made him terrified and afraid of losing, is still there, lying on his side on the bed.

  Li Haojun came to the front of the bed, kneeling on one knee, leaned over and the sleeping Qin Wenjing face-to-face, looking at her face in the night, listening to her even breathing, until convinced that she is still good, by his side, only to go to the living room to take off his coat, back to the bedroom, gently lying sideways behind her, breathing in the smell of her hair, feeling her indispensable in his life.

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