The Guest: Book 2

by Yufeng Zhuang

Chapter 18

  Tonight Rain And Snow

  “The battleship is composed by three big systems, the structure system, the control system, and the power system… Some students may be thinking, what about the weapon system? What about the observation system? I think, the students looking at the composition of the battleship this way basically all are the boy students.”

  The voice of the sitting on the platform professor Chow was very loud, so that even the clipped on his shirt pocket micro speaker gave out the noise of protest. He stared at those boy students in the classroom, brushed off their opinions to say, “Only the like reading magazines little boys would look at problem and know about problem so simply. Don’t forget, only these three big systems are the foundation of all the compositions… Just we take the Feather series battleship as the example, what those three main laser guns on it are composed of? The super strong alloy base and the spar converter! The drive control calibration! The energy stimulation!”

  Professor Chow warped up his thumb, an induction light beam showed on the big screen, enlarged the structural drawing of the Feather series battleship, he pointed at three parts respectively and said, “And these three most important compositions, respectively, are the structure system, the control system, and the power system… The energy output of the weapon, after all will come upon the output of the power. Of course, if you want to talk about the shells used by the army, then you just take it as I never say anything.”

  “The three big systems not only exist in the macro category, but also the detail composition of every specific part on the battleship, only these three big systems can coordinate and cooperate perfectly, then…”

  “Of course, the Feather series battleship has already retired long ago, now the federation has the spar resource exhaustion, I figure that you don’t have too many chances to get on the battleship. Oh, the most important thing, we Pear Garden university is not the three big military academies or the West Forest military school, we don’t have the command department, it’s basically useless to tell you about these.”

  The laughter and booing sound of the boy students burst out in the classroom, but professor Chow simply didn’t care at all, just kept speaking excitedly by himself.

  “Then why do I need to spend the time to talk about these? That’s because you stand a chance to get in touch with the mecha, or those self-propelled armored vehicle, the self-propelled gun, but actually in the final analysis… Each one of them is the small battleship or the micro battleship, the things determine their performance and battle effectiveness, are still the structure, control and power these three big systems!”

  “Fuck! Suddenly thought of that you these guys will develop in the civil aspect in the future… This class will be wasted.”

  The laughter burst out in the classroom once again… Only Sheilor didn’t laugh, he also didn’t stare at the figure of Charming blankly. His mood was really somewhat complex and down at the moment, but he wouldn’t allow his life all sink into this inexplicable sentiment. He listened very carefully to professor Chow’s class, and felt that he had some kind of gain faintly.

  “The mecha is a small battleship.” Sheilor repeated the words of professor Chow in his heart. Recalled the first repair he had in the Antique Bell, the large number drawings of the M series mecha he read in the zone H, and then connected it with the personal operation he had these nights in the H1 area recently, he had the deeper understanding to the theory of professor Chow, and connected it in the mind to a even more strange direction.

  Because uncle had said to him in those years, the human body was the machine of the first sequence.

  If the mecha is a small battleship, then the human body itself is not a small mecha? The human body is also composed by the control system, the structure system and the power system. The structure system of course is the bone, muscle, viscera, hair, blood and skin these nature exist materials. The control system of course means the human brain and the nerve transfer… Only transfer through the nerve tract, the consciousness of the brain can control the contraction of the muscle, the movement of the joints and the breath of the lung, then these structures can work systematically.

  Then what about the power system? Of course it’s the energy human body need, the human body consumes the food, turns it into the energy it needs through the digestion and absorption organs, stores it in the body, becomes the fat and blood sugar, the breathed oxygen get into the blood, and then burn in the body with their ways, provide the continuous energy for the body.

  Sheilor thought silently, thought that his body seemed to have two systems not the same as the ordinary people. Like when he operated the mecha, the consciousness of the brain seemed to transfer to the limbs through a whole new channel. And that share of magical tremble power in his body, obviously couldn’t be erupted just by the normal way… He would become starving every time after he had the try, it should have the relation with the trait of this kind of energy?

  For such speculative results, Sheilor felt very satisfied. He raised his head and looked at the figure of that girl, and then he felt not very satisfied again. The three big systems of his body develop to the powerful direction, but heart and feeling this kind of mysterious things couldn’t become more numb a bit.

  “That little porter endured five hours outside of the Plum Garden, you really don’t want to take a look?” The sound of the girl students booing and making fun came from outside of the door, maybe some of them were really Charming’s friends, but the more were just having the thought to watch the scene of bustle. Charming always was quiet and indifferent in front of all the people, plus the story about his past, in the girl students of the Pear Garden university, actually she was not that popular.

  Charming ignored the noisy outside, without her permission, the electronic door wouldn’t let anyone to break in. she also didn’t care too much about the view and tease of other people. Except in front of that young boy student, she thought that she seldom lost her calm.

  Walked to the front of the window, in the distance was the Rose river reflecting the lights in the darkness, the nearby grass lawn under the Plum Garden, there seemed to have a boy student stood over the side of the lawn. He stood over there from after school to the night, not just the body, even the expression seemed to be the same. Charming looked at that boy student blankly, picked up a lovely doggy biscuit and put it into her mouth. Chewed and chewed, her eyes got moist up, incomparably distressed.

  The reason of distress was because she felt that she was very stupid, since she had already known that it would be the way like this, she shouldn’t be that way in that very day, shouldn’t go to provoke him. Now caused him to be the way like this, and she also became so sad like this, she still needed to pretend to be that look made herself sick.

  Had to admit this, student Charming was a very kind person, otherwise she wouldn’t give up her that good family, devoted herself into that career to strive the interest for the underclass people of the federation. But even after she had the training, that black frame glasses made her to appear sedate and mature, but for the matter about man and woman, she was still incomparably naïve and childish, confused in a complete mess.

  The phone rang just right at this time, Charming put it to her ear, and then she heard the voice of Sheilor.

  Sheilor was not a flirt, also not that kind of man crying out to commit suicide by hanging, he was just very rigid, as rigid as a stone. He had to make it clear the reason why Charming had her attitude sudden changed, so he blocked up the other party for half the night, finally dialed the phone in the end. He stopped the Charming’s question bout how he got her phone number, said calmly directly, “Don’t play cool any more. You are not Jane Sue, the acting is not so good, give it up. I don’t know what the fact you wish to hide on your that side, but I just want to tell you, this trick is useless for me.”

  “I guess that you are looking at me by that dark window at this time, and quite sincerely moved by yourself? Maybe you a
re crying as well.”

  The stood for a long time Sheilor finally brought out the ruthlessness which he had in the orphan gang on the Bell Tower street in those years, raised his head and looked at the seventh floor, said word by word bloodily, “Don’t you think that it’s very naïve?”

  Charming was looking at the downstairs Sheilor with the tearful eyes at this time, but her feeling was hit incomparably complex by these two paragraphs from the phone, she “Pa” hung up the phone, and climbed into the bed.

  The phone was disconnected, but Sheilor didn’t leave the Plum Garden, he felt that his heart was empty, if he couldn’t have the warm or words of that girl to fill it, it seemed to be empty like this forever. This was his first love, at least, it was her virgin night as well, he thought that two of them all should cherish it.

  So he behaved that he did cherish it very much, very hard, so he had been standing in the Plum Garden and waiting.

  It’s a bit cold in the late autumn, Sheilor was not an impulse man, he had already had the preparation, put on the thermal underwear inside, the outside was that green military dust coat which he got it in the airport, just exactly the one he wore when he met Charming for the first time. On the one hand, it’s for keeping warm; on the other hand, it could let the other party to think of him when she saw the clothes. This was already the most comprehensive arrangement which the love beginner Sheilor could think of.

  But he misestimated the disgusted degree which the god had to this kind of clichés, a continuous patter of cold autumn rain came without any reason, drenched him all wet. He wiped the rain on his face, somewhat annoyed to take a glance at the sky. It’s already quiet and silent in the Plum Garden at this time, even those watching the fun girl students had already fallen into sleep, only the raindrops accompanied with his figure, that seemed incomparably lonely.

  In the deeper night, a got up in the night to urinate girl student saw that man in the rain, she cried out a sound in the low voice.

  In the deepest night, the autumn rain suddenly became the first snow on the north of the planet, the flying snowflakes fell down just like this, fell down on Sheilor’s body, but cooled his body and his heart gradually.

  In the primary early morning, Sheilor brushed lightly the snow on his body off, left the Plum Garden silently, he felt that it’s too cold, he also could ask about the thing in the dancing party. Charming’s face showed on the window of the Plum Garden seventh floor, she was somewhat lonely to look at the footprints which Sheilor left on the thin snow, thought in her heart that he probably would really give up all his hopes to her.

  Sheilor didn’t go back to his gatehouse to have a hot bath and then go to the bed, first, the time was already not that much; second, his that exercised extremely strong body seemed to never have the bother to catch the cold in these years; third, he had the fire in his heart, the no bright color fire, made him very depressed, he needed to find a way to let it off.

  He walked into the still nobody H1 area, thought in his heart, that mysterious boy should have already fallen into sleep at this time, he himself only could roar at those color patches in the level VI test. But to his surprise, the tea table in the lounge was empty, but the green light on that door was still on, could it be said that that guy was still in there? According to the usual routine, it’s already four o’clock in the morning, no matter himself or that guy should already be free from the bother of the insomnia.

  The drenched all over Sheilor had a bit of concern, suddenly forgot he himself actually was at the most gloomy moment of youth, he walked to that room.