Chapter 16 second quarter

There stood a small old man.Shoulder-length white hair and a matching gray tracksuit that was filthy dirty.He looks about the same age as Lord Yamada, about eighty years old. "Come in, close the door." Xi Yu's commanding voice was rough.Ian honestly closed the door with his backhand, but the other party was not a brass and iron brother, which made him very disappointed. Even so, he looked around expectantly to see if his brother was hiding in the room.However, there was no one else in the small rectangular room except the old man.Also barely furnished. A slender iron bed stood against the wall.A small old TV was on, I don't know if it was used to replace the lighting.Next to it are piles of antique video players.

What was shown on the TV screen was an old black and white movie, and it was broadcasting a scene where a tall foreign actor and a woman with nearly dark hair were talking intimately in a foreign language.The woman was dignified and lovely, showing an expression that Ian had never seen on the faces of women on the streets of Shibuya. "Are you the Colonel?" Ion came back to his senses, and tried his best to ask this question.Da Zuo coughed: "That's right, I am Da Zuo." Ion tried his best to hide his disappointment.Somewhere in his heart he firmly believed that the copper and iron brothers were waiting for him, but the one waiting for him was an old man.

The tense nerves suddenly relaxed, and the strength slipped away from the feet.Ion was dizzy for a while, unable to support the heavy skull, and the world was spinning.Let alone twins, there is only one strange old man here, why am I here? Why did I come all the way to the ground?Why did I abandon the earthly world?Someone tell me! "Oh? That's rare. Isn't that the New South in your hand? Where did you get it?" ①New Nanbu M60 pistol, a special pistol for Japanese police and palace guards. Da Zuo held Ion's hand with guns, and Ion wanted to break free.Colonel is very strong.

"do not touch!" "Hey, don't get excited." The chief pressed his index finger yellowed by the smoke against Ion's forehead and said. "Okay? You don't understand anything, so listen to me." "Ok." "It's not 'um,' it's 'yes, I see.'" "Yes, I understand." After repeating the recitation, Ion's head ached.he is tired.The body creaked.Totally to the limit.Where should I go?Ion held his head. The Colonel looked at Ion incredulously. "What's wrong?" "I don't know. But the person I'm looking for isn't here."

The Colonel roared in a phlegmatic voice.He seemed very upset. "Who told you to be self-righteous? Who are you looking for?" "brother." "There are no brothers here. The people who live here are not related by blood. There are no parents and children and no brothers." There was a lot of yellow dirt on the chest of the Colonel's tracksuit, which seemed to be splashed by food.How is this virtue different from that of the homeless elder Yamada who lives in Gongyuan Village?What commander, what luminous troops. The disappointment in Ion's heart turned into dissatisfaction, which swelled violently.

"Hey, what's your name?" Da Zuo asked frequently looking at the TV screen. "Ion." "Ion, what's your last name?" "No last name." The Colonel smiled contemptuously. "Just by doing this, you are eligible to join the team. It is difficult for people with surnames to join the Luminous Army." But Ion is no longer interested in the Luminous Army.Since the copper and iron brothers are not here, it is useless to stay in such a gloomy place. "Boss, I don't need to join the team." Da Zuo smiled wryly: "Why are you so rude, kid? You suddenly didn't want to join the team when you saw me, right? There's nothing like that. You came here because you wanted to join the team, didn't you? And I just wanted to let you join You sent Sabu to pick you up from the team. You even stole the gun to get into the team, didn't you?"

"yes." "Then why didn't you join the team again?" "There is no brother here." The Colonel smiled happily: "You stubborn guy. Hey, where did you steal this gun from?" "I snatched it from the old lady at the locker shop in Dogenzaka." Ian answered honestly, and the Colonel seemed very happy and said, "Isn't it Photon from the Cross Shop? Photon still has a gun." It turned out that the shop I robbed was called "Cross Shop", and the pistol lady was called "Photon"?After knowing the proper noun, Ion felt ashamed of his behavior again, but it was hard to recover, and he had already committed a crime.Ion looked at the gun in his hand, suddenly felt heavy, and wanted to throw the gun away.When he got the gun, he thought he was omnipotent, but now he only thinks the gun is terrible.He deeply felt that this gun would kill him one day.

"Okay? Listen carefully. The gun has a safety device, and it cannot be fired until the hammer is pulled up. You hold the gun, but you don't even know how to shoot it. It's too dangerous. Leave it to me." Ion said angrily, "You want to grab my gun?" "No, I just borrowed it. I haven't touched a real gun for a long time, and I want to miss it." The Colonel stretched out his thick hand, and his attitude was indisputable.Ion put the gun in his palm.As soon as he let go of the heavy gun, his whole body became weak.Ion felt weak for a while, and fell down on the cold stone ground.

"What's the matter? You're just a brat. How old are you?" Da Zuo's mocking voice descended from the sky. "do not know." "Thirteen or fourteen. Or older?" "perhaps." "How come you don't know your age?" "I don't remember anything from my childhood." "It's so convenient." The Colonel said the same thing as Sabu.why?Ion was surprised, and fell asleep on the ground as if in a coma. How long did you sleep by yourself?When he woke up, he found that he was still lying on the stone floor, his whole back was completely cold.

The Colonel seemed to have forgotten Ion's existence, sitting on the bed, watching TV engrossed, playing with Ion's pistol in his hand. The movie just now hasn't finished yet.Man and woman sit on car seats and chat happily.The two are always chatting intimately.Ion looked up at the screen, thinking of Mogami and Kemiko.How are they two?Would they remember him even if he died underground? "you're awake?" When the chief turned his head, Ion was about to get up immediately, but the chief stopped him.His demeanor softened a little. "If you want to sleep, rest. When you go underground, you will feel sleepy. Especially in winter, you really want to sleep. Really. I used to hide in my sleeping bag and sleep soundly all day long."

Ian smiled slightly when he thought of the youth of the Luminous Army wrapped in a sleeping bag. "Just now you said you were looking for your brother, what kind of brother is it?" "Twins called Copper and Iron. Three years older than me." "There are no brothers with that name here, and no twins here." Da Zuo immediately denied it.Sure enough——Ian was feeling disappointed, and the Colonel said again: "But there is a child named Xi." "Tin? Female?" "No, man. He wrote the song for the Luminous Force. He's that...what's his name? By the way, singer-songwriter." Is that gloomy song?Ian wanted to see Xi. "I want to see him." "Do you want to? Then I will allow you to join the team first." The commander stood up and took off the old microphone hanging on the hook on the dirty wall: "Announce to all the team members, this is the commander. Ian officially became a member of the Luminous Army from today. Ion contributed his pistol to the army, so he made an exception and was promoted. As a warrant officer. Don’t be discouraged, everyone, continue to work hard and make contributions to the Luminous Army. Also, Sabu is coming to the chief chamber.” Ian listened to the voice of the chief commander resounding slightly throughout the entire underground air-raid shelter.He didn't know what a "warrant officer" was, but he could guess he was getting special treatment for the locker store pistol. "That's enough." The Colonel turned to Ion and said. "You can stay here as much as you want, act with the army, steal money, fight the company, and live on leftovers." "I want to see Tin." "What's wrong with you? Don't you even know a little bit of etiquette? First thank me for allowing you to join the team! Thank me!" Da Zuo was furious.Ion hurriedly lowered his head, but it was already too late.Colonel's slap hit Ion's cheek unexpectedly.Colonel's palm was extremely thick, and the impact was so big that it didn't feel like a slap at all.Ion staggered and pressed his cheek that was beaten.The pain made his tears flow out. "Why do you do it suddenly? It's too much." The chief yelled with a serious face: "What is too much? You are now a team member. Since you are a team member, please behave yourself. The rules of the Luminous Army are very strict. You didn't come in because Xiao wanted to eat nothing?" "No." Ion desperately replied with pain. "You don't know what the luminous army is and you ask to join the army. If I come to see it, you are an idiot. In the army, if you are told to lick your shoes, you have to shut up and lick it immediately." Ian listened dumbly, but the Colonel poked him hard on the back and said, "Stand at attention!" "Ah, sorry." "What 'ah, I'm sorry'. Put your heels together, stand upright with your chest up, and answer 'Yes!'. Do it for me until I say yes." Ian answered again and again: "Yes!" He didn't eat anything, so he was dizzy.While Ian was practicing, the Colonel went to change the video tape and play other movies.This time it's a war movie.Majestic music came, and several helicopters flew by in groups.Da Zuo looked at the picture completely for a long time. "Boss, is it ready?" Ian summoned up his courage to ask, and the Colonel looked at him blankly: "What's all right?" "The 'yes' practice." "It's an exercise in 'yes' to say 'Report to Colonel,'." Report to the Colonel, it's a "yes" exercise.Report to the Colonel, it's a "yes" exercise.Ion repeated it again and again, but the Colonel seemed to have lost interest in educating Ion, and his eyes were fixed on the screen. There was a knock on the door, followed by a voice: "I'm Sabu." The Colonel pushed his chin and asked Ian to open the door, and Ian opened the door.Sabu stood at attention outside. "Sabu, teach this guy how to talk." After finishing speaking, Colonel pushed Ion's back to drive him out, and the door closed with a "bang".He wants to enjoy his favorite movie by himself. In the dark passage, Sabu looked at Ion's face and sneered: "You will be promoted to warrant officer as soon as you come in?" "What's the meaning?" Sabu shrugged: "The warrant officer is one level higher than Maruyama. That guy can't kill you, that's great." There was no sign of Maruyama, but he might be watching from the sleeping bag on the ground.Ion bit his lower lip.Although it was voluntary, entering into a world full of rough boys confused him.The park village of the vagrants is managed autonomously by adults, so there is no unsightly barbaric behavior. "This is the rank of the army, so it only matters during activities, but Maruyama has always been that kind of virtue, loves to show off, and is an out-and-out bully, you have to be careful." Sabu murmured. "Sabu, I didn't expect the Colonel to be such an old man, why didn't you tell me from the beginning?" Ian blamed Sabu and said.Can't anyone be trusted here?However, Sabu said with a straight face: "What are you talking about? He raised children like us and is our benefactor. Although he has a weird head, he dominates the army, and no one will say anything. Colonel is absolute." Ion's stomach growled.The headquarters is filled with the smell of food.Sabra tugged at Ion's sleeve and said, "Dinner is here, let's eat." A large pot was placed on the gas stove in the center, steaming hot.There was a row of teenagers in front of them, all holding cup noodle containers.This situation is the same as the food distribution, the only difference is that the person responsible for serving the food is his own boy. The boy who was replenishing kerosene everywhere before ladled the soup in the pot into everyone's containers with a serious expression. "Let's go to the queue too." Sabu took out an instant noodle container with a missing edge from his arms. "I don't have anything to pack." Sabu silently rummaged through the nearby trash bags.He picked out a container and sanitary chopsticks that he thought were still usable and handed them to Ion. The container has not been washed, and I don't know how many people have used it, but Ion is hungry and doesn't mind.Thinking that I will gradually get used to this kind of life that is dirtier and more casual than street life, although I am uneasy, I also have the pleasure of wanting to just give up and degenerate like this, which is inconceivable. "Warrant officer, how much do you want?" The boy stirred the soup with a big spoon.There seemed to be everything in the thick chowder. "Of course it's full," Sabu interjected. Ion and Sabu were eating chowder in front of the oil stove.Vegetable crumbs, sliced ​​meat, sausages, chikuwa, instant noodles, rice balls, and chowder soup are all delicious. "How is it? Is it delicious?" Sabu ate up in the blink of an eye and asked with a cigarette in his mouth. "tasty." "Compared with the one in the park, which one is better?" "The food here is more delicious." Ion lied.There are homeless people who have worked as chefs in Park Village, and there are also many food banks donating food, which is much more delicious than the food here.But Sabu boasted contentedly, "The meals of our army are well-known in the underground. Especially the rice cooked by Sakae is very good. Even if he is killed, he will not steal muddy water into it." Sabu pointed to the young man about ten Said the two-year-old boy. Eita seemed to realize that he had become the topic, and cast a gloomy gaze here. "Sometimes when I go out to the ground and eat hamburgers or fried chicken, I feel so delicious that I almost die. Some people flee to the ground because there is no food underground." "Contrary to me." Ian said in a low voice. Losing his goal and staying underground, he didn't know what to think. "What do you think happened to that guy? He died instantly. Said that we crawled in the dark all day long, and our skin became very fragile." "Did you go to Shibuya Palace last time for training?" "Yeah. Rare training on the ground, and an arson errand, everyone's freaking excited." Recalling the pain of his castle being robbed, Ion was silent, but Sabu didn't notice it, and continued: "It was dispatched once every two months at most, so everyone tried their best. Like Maruyama, it's almost like confused." Ion finished the soup.He still wants to eat another bowl, but it seems that no one will add a second bowl. This should be the only food for the army. "Do you want to smoke?" Sabu persuaded him to smoke, but Ion hesitated and took one anyway.Sabu lit the fire for him, and Ion took a puff and choked on the smoke immediately, but he managed to finish one.The whole mouth is astringent and bitter, which is extremely uncomfortable.He wiped the corner of his mouth with the cuff of his shirt, and Sabu elbowed his side and said, "Don't force it." "I don't." Ion felt incredible, why would he want to smoke?If you often smoke and take drugs, you will be unable to extricate yourself.Without these things, life on the streets, already hard enough, would be made even harder.So don't touch luxury goods - who said that?It should not be a model student.So who is it in Park Village?Could it be Jincheng? After Ian escaped from the child care center, he was Jincheng's younger brother for a while and lived together.At that time, Jincheng tried to use street children to efficiently obtain money and food, and Ion was also sent to beg in shopping malls frequented by rich people, or to queue up for food. But after the street boy grew up, he became more and more aware of self-assertion, and left Jincheng one after another, just like Ian.Jincheng only knows how to sit back and enjoy the benefits and exploit the children's benefits, and his fate is terrible.Ian remembered the half-crazy appearance when he met Jincheng on Ome Street, and shook his head. "What are you thinking? Still frowning." Sabu shook his dirty hands in front of Ion.Ion smiled wryly. "I didn't think about anything." "Nonsense, you're in a daze. You miss the ground, right? You want to go back to the ground and make out with your homeless sister, right? Wait until my sister tells you: Christmas is coming soon!" "I don't even think about it." Ion was gagging, but bickering with Sabu was fun.On the one hand, it was because Ian had never had friends of the same age in the past, and also because it was his normal state to be alone.But ever since he felt that the Bronze and Iron Brothers were nearby, Ion could no longer bear being alone. "Ion, you are different from me, you should be very popular with women, huh?" Sabu smiled silly, rubbed the cigarette out on the floor, and put the butt of the cigarette in his pocket cherishingly.Then he snatched away the cigarette butt that Ian was still holding, and stuffed it into his pocket. After a humble dinner, the team gathers in twos and threes to smoke cigarettes or read old magazines.Several people looked up at the ceiling, and the lighting in the headquarters seemed to have dimmed a bit. "Sabu, about that picture..." Ion said. "What picture?" Sabu used his arm as a pillow, lying on the stone floor with black mold everywhere. "When you came to Shibuya Palace, you drew the picture on the wall. I saw the brother's mark there." "You keep talking about this incident. What kind of brother's mark?" Sabu yawned uninterestedly. "Maybe you're tired of hearing it, but it's my brother pictured there. I want to see my brother. Please, help me." Sabu scratched his sticky hair wet with sewage and said, "I'll tell you no. There's no one called copper or iron here, and I haven't seen twins." "Who thought of that picture? It's not the chief, is it? I want to know everything." "That's probably what Xi thought." Sabu replied.Tin again. "Did Tin also write the theme song for Luminous Force? Where is that guy now?" Ion suddenly became interested and leaned out, but Sabu seemed to be unable to fight the drowsiness, and squinted his eyes while yawning. "He's not in now." "Then where is he?" "I don't know that guy." "Why don't you know?" Sabu lay down and gave an impatient "Oh".The voice had become ambiguous. "I don't know." "Really? This place is so small, how could I never see it? Stop lying." Ion said angrily.But Sabu's tongue was no longer working: "I really haven't seen it before." "Sabu, are you trying to lie to me? You tried to leave me in the sewers too." "Ouch, Ion, I'm going to sleep as soon as I finish dinner." "why?" But Ian also felt that his body was extremely heavy, his eyelids were almost covered, and he snored.Sabu had fallen asleep. Eita threw the discarded instant noodle containers into black plastic bags one after another for recycling.Ian thought it was a garbage bag, but when it was time to eat breakfast, he might take it out and use it again. "Can you put your finished container in it?" Eita asked, pointing to the plastic bag.Ian slowly nodded his head and murmured: "Hey, I feel sleepy as hell, why?" Ian tried his best to raise his head and look around, almost all the "soldiers" were around the stove or in sleeping bags with their eyes closed.Eita stared at her black nails and said, "There are medicines in the dinner that make you sleepy." Eita's hair is long and grows down her back, but her bangs are cut short like a mane, so she looks like a hyena or a wild dog.He was wearing a stained gray hooded jacket and dirty jeans, with muddy sneakers.Almost all the teenagers here dress up like Eita. "Why did you do that?" Ion's tongue was almost unable to move. "It was ordered by the Colonel." Eita said while packing up Ion's container. "The chief said that the underground is always dark. If you don't do that, the rhythm will be chaotic and life will become messy." Sakata probably thought the word messy was funny, so he smiled faintly.But it was gone in an instant, like the light of Sabu's headlamp illuminating a deep shaft. "Don't you want to sleep?" Rongta shrugged. "I ate it right after cooking, and then put the medicine in." "Why don't you sleep by yourself?" "I dont want to sleep." "why?" When the last question was uttered, the Ionian was already unconscious, but he did hear Eita's answer. "I hate dreaming." What kind of dream will you have?The clear-headed self sees the phantom of the self sleeping like mud, just like the self in the above-ground world is asking the self wandering in the dark underground.However, from here on, Ion's consciousness disappeared. "Get up! Hurry up!" Someone shook Ion's shoulders.Ion wanted to open his eyes, but his eyes could not be opened as if they were stuck with adhesive.He wanted to talk back, but it might be the effect of sleeping pills, so he couldn't make a sound no matter what. "I'll take you to see Xi. Ian, get up!" Hearing Xi's name, Ion finally opened his eyes.Looking at Ion was a bald man.The hateful man who ordered Maruyama to execute Ion.But Ian couldn't forget his intoxicated look when he played the drums. "Sorry, I'm so sleepy." Ion finally squeezed out these words.The bald man said desperately, "Listen up, don't have dinner tomorrow. Do you understand?" Ion nodded half asleep.