We made two stops along the way. The medic got off the mine stop with a polite salute. Asking if anyone was hurt until the end, it seemed that he regretted not having a chance to show off his skills.
Some people got off, but no one got on more. We talked to each other and gradually became closer.
physical distance or psychological distance.
Humans make up society. Humans need the same person the most, and the more those resources are shared, the more efficient they are.
Light, warmth, knowledge, fence, story.
The more they gather, the greater the share goes to each other, so humans have lived in a community for a long time.
… Of course, some who value utility over efficiency, prefer to kill and steal rather than live together, but anyway.
We were talking while collecting the lamps, but now we were listening to the old engineer.
“… When I was making this meta-conveyor belt, my brother passed away. It was a terrible accident. The ground wasn’t even hardened, but I got confused and stepped on it, and my body was torn apart. The appearance of being buried in the rapids of the earth… 𝑀𝑒𝑒 I hope you don’t imagine. I can’t even put it into words.”
I don’t know if this was intentional, but the blurring made me more imaginative.
The image of a person being crushed on the ground flowing through people’s heads flashed past. Red blood spread like lava into the flowing land… .
Recalling the past, the old sapper looked at the meta-conveyor belt with wet eyes.
“He was a good carpenter, but he wasn’t a good mason, and he didn’t know exactly what the flowing land was… . Now you probably know it well. It is closest to Mother Goddess. I’m riding on your brother’s corpse.”
“That… .”
“After my brother passed away, I couldn’t get my hands on anything. I almost died while I was working stupidly. At that time, my brother was the only carpenter in the unit, so he would be called first when building walls, but since my brother died, I was the only one to work. It’s only natural for the barriers to fall apart when they do their job alone… .”
After the coup took place, those who sailed during the kingdom were taken prisoners and ordered to work. However, no matter how hard the whip was, there would be no technology that didn’t exist.
The military gathered engineers from all over the country, gave them a coat of arms and gave them authority to rule the laborers.
Among them, Jiseon stood out the most.
“At that time, Ji-seon rescued me, but I feel ungratefully like this. Why are you here now, if you had come a week earlier, your brother wouldn’t have been able to live. 𝑀𝑒𝑒 I am also very selfish.”
He offered deep condolences to the engineer who spoke as if he was self-help.
“Don’t blame yourself. If I had been so selfish, I wouldn’t have even remembered that I was saved.”
“Kukk. Years have passed now, I’m speaking so calmly. At that time, I was filled with anger. After the construction was over, he drank only alcohol for several months… . While resenting the military and Jiseon. Still, if only I could see Jiseon again. I want to get down on my knees and apologize. It is my wish.”
“Don’t worry about that. It’s not just one or two people that Ji-sun saved. You won’t even remember. If someone suddenly apologized, I would be even more embarrassed.”
“… Come to think of it, I guess so. Unlike me, Jiseon was truly altruistic… .”
Well? Not necessarily, though.
Not knowing is medicine. Seeing the old engineer, he comforted me to eat comfortably. It’s better than going to see Jiseon and being shocked to see her right arm cut off.
After the bitter story was over, I took out the canned food that had been placed on the lamp. The general is a general in his own right, and he poured water into a slightly more luxurious canned meat, but when he smelled the smell of mine, he staggered over and over.
“What is that?”
“They put the pre-cooked food in an empty canned can and seal it again.”
“In canned food? That’s what a cannery does, right? Good luck. Come on, let’s taste it.”
A general who demands it as if it were taken for granted. I finished the calculations in my mind for a moment.
To be honest, it’s okay to give me some canned food.
But now I am set to not know the identity of the general.
I’m being respectful and I feel like I have an unusual status, but I don’t readily agree with it if it actually hurts me. Let’s go with a concept that is warm to family but not so generous to others.
The general will like it even more.
He closed his body slightly and blurred his smile. He smirked at the others and clung to the captain.
“… I’m not as good at compressing as a cannery, so I can only fit two servings per can.”
“Eh?”
When he showed signs of being wary beyond rejection, the general acted as if his pride had been hurt.
“hey. bro. I’m afraid I’ll ask for it with my bare mouth! Let’s eat together with our canned food! This is meat!”
“Meat cannot replace sincerity. I’m sorry, but this is for me and Pi.”
The general, with a frown on his face as if he couldn’t take it by force, exclaimed as he held out all the canned food he had.
“Ah! This is the judge’s board! Five!”
“… really?”
“Don’t say two words with one mouth! I don’t even want to eat cheap food for my brother! Take it all!”
Then the story is different… Let’s act with that feeling.
There is plenty of food anyway, but they use freshness and spices generously. It may be questioned, so it is difficult to take it out right away.
While I became Hwasaek and prepared the canned food, Colonel Gandh pointed out quietly.
“Master. Five is all we have.”
“Oh yeah? Brother, I’m sorry I gave it to you and took it, then four!”
“Since there are all five, why subtract one from that? So, what do you eat the day after tomorrow?”
When he was bullied by his disciple and subordinate, Colonel Gand, the general became angry.
“You are this child. If you don’t have canned food, you’ll have to think about getting it! Get out of here!”
“How do you get canned food on the belt? Are you telling me to commit a robbery?”
“A robbery? Did I teach you that way?”
“Then what do you mean?”
In any case, thanks to the generosity of the great general, that evening was more luxurious than ever.
Even the flowing land could not chase the sun setting in the west. The day was setting with smoke scattering backwards. Everyone yawned loudly and went to sleep in a place where the wind would not blow.
“What? Lost the lamp? I can’t help it. Hey Gand! Give me your lamp!”
The general shouted, pointing to the mother and son sitting close to each other. Colonel Gandh, who was suffering from the general again, squeezed his forehead and bit his lips.
“Then what do I bask in?”
“What do you know?”
“… I don’t know either. Master, give it to me.”
“Child, trying to eat the heavenly Master. Then, will you and me share the lamp? yes? Would you like to spend the night facing each other?”
“sorry. Just give me my lamp, as I will sleep alone.”
So everyone took their seats and lay down. Naturally, me and the captain, who were playing the older sister, were located in a similar space.
The captain, who took off his uniform packet and became a shirt-like, put on a sleeping bag packet. The compressed alchemy cap swelled up and wrapped around the captain’s body. It was as if it were surrounded by clouds, or as if it had become a golden sheep whose hair was growing rapidly.
Buried in a warm and fluffy sleeping bag packet, the captain let out a heavy sigh that did not match his attire.
“… eventful. It was a complicated day.”
“What is complicated? I meet good people and have a good night.”
In response to my casual reply, the captain said with a furious heart.
“You will not know. What kind of predicament the main building was in today.”
“Again, again. I heard you call me brother earlier. If you hear me, I will be amazed.”
On the other side are those who have reached their peak and put even the strong winds under their control. I won’t eavesdrop on other people’s conversations like a jjomsaengi, but I might listen to them unintentionally.
‘…み. Positive. General Patraxion is one who transcends human strength. He can hear what the main building is saying now. It’s dangerous to get caught up in what you’ve done once.’
So, in other words.
The captain still says you should treat me like an older brother.
“… Be careful with what you say, huh, brother.”
“Am I always careful?”
‘I don’t know if I’m teasing or acting because of the attitude that I don’t know!’
Both, both.
The more light and heat are shared, the greater their utility. Me and the captain each lay facing each other with two lamps in between.
I struggled to wear a regular sleeping bag, not a packet. In the meantime, the captain, who was buried in comfort, looked at me and fell in thought.
‘The main building is a communicator. Your identity should not be revealed. Whatever happens.’
The feeling is a sense of duty.
And it was sad.
‘If anyone knows the identity of the main building… After seeing their faces, knowing their identity, and realizing the connection between the two. The main building must commit suicide.’
It was an unquestioning belief.
Immediately after entering the middle school military school from an elementary civic school, one day when I was taking a class with an inflated dream.
Suddenly, without any warning, a member of the military came to her and said to her.
-Congratulations. An aptitude was found in you. A very valuable aptitude that can become a signal operator.
Aptitude to become a communicator. Hearing those words, the girl’s heart swells. The most comfortable stairs in the world, where you can become an officer immediately after entering. such a known place.
Breaking up with a friend she had already dated, the girl follows an instructor who comes from a very special school.
and agree
Girls who are not at all suitable for the military, and who are more sensitive and empathetic than anyone else. They supported each other and endured rigorous training.
They will never be able to stand alone, but their abilities are empathy and sympathy. The constant applied pressure shapes them into a well-fitting puzzle. They don’t bump into each other, and they don’t hurt. Friction is a luxury that you can afford when you can afford it.
Those who are thus divided into riders are commissioned as captains from the beginning and come out into the world. They will work alone, but they are not lonely.
Unique but not unique magic.
Because they have unique magic that can reach each other.
‘However, if the main building no longer needs to commit suicide. The main building does not have to self-destruct.’
It sounds obvious, but it’s not a fact. The captain looked at me with eyes trying to cool off.
‘You have not disclosed information about the main building to anyone at this time. So if you die, the main building has no need to die.’
Since it is easier to kill themselves than others, the signalman is forced to kill himself. But, if we’re together in a strange way with each other being vigilant as we are now.
Because it is harder to overcome the resistance of those who want to live than it is to kill someone.
‘General Patraxion is the sixth general. They are level 5, and there are no restrictions on them. If the main building reveals the truth even now and asks for it, I will punish you. In other words, the main building holds your name. The main building can kill you and save your life if you put your mind to it.’
“phew. it’s done This isn’t the right size. ugh. If only I could wear the clothes packet intact.”
Wheezing, crumpled into my sleeping bag, I lay down like a caterpillar. When their eyes met, the captain gave him a frightened expression.
‘… so that. The main building does not have to self-destruct.’
But the greatest enemy of a signalman is his ability to empathize. Such ability to identify others with one’s self destroys the format of the military power of signal soldiers.
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Maybe the windowless room was a facility to keep the information inside them, and at the same time, to completely store the signal unit.
Well, it’s not my thing.
“what are you doing? not sleeping.”
“… I’ll be fine. There is no alarm on the meta conveyor belt, so please wake up on time.”
“What if I can’t wake up without an alarm?”
“Unusual… sound… Weather time… thoroughly… .”
With the sound of his breathing getting smaller and smaller, the captain gradually began to fall asleep. I lay down and waited for the captain to fall asleep, then when I was completely unconscious, I got up.
… are you sleeping sleep?
Oh, it hurts my back because I’m on the edge.
I picked up my share of the lamp and placed it on my back. Lighting the lamps front and back makes me feel a little better.
If the sleeping bag is worn out, the environment should be good. I nodded in the warmth, basking in the light from front and back.
The captain’s thoughts came from afar.
‘… He said he was a glamorous older brother, really. You use the lamp back and forth because you’re cold.’
The captain hasn’t slept yet.
It is a brother’s right to exploit his brother. I hope you don’t interfere.