Chapter 15 The Road to the Future
Wearing a big backpack, standing at the door of a familiar yet unfamiliar home, looking at the two-story building in front of me, built with light steel keels, wood, and fireproof boards, Chiba Cheng sighed slightly, this is his home from today on.
He reached out to push open the courtyard door and was about to go in when he suddenly heard a voice from behind: "Chiba? Didn't you go on a trip?"
Chiba Cheng walked forward. After two steps, he belatedly realized that Chiba seemed to be calling him. He turned around and saw a black MPV (multi-purpose vehicle) parked at the intersection, a middle-aged man with black-rimmed glasses and an unshaven beard. The head emerges from the cab.
“Why are you back so soon?” He didn’t speak very confidently, with a cigarette in his mouth. His shiny forehead and slightly messy hair gave people a thick A strong sense of decadence.
After being stunned for a moment, Chiba Makoto pulled out this person's name from his memory. Takehiko Onoda lives not far away. He is a journalist and freelance writer. He has been engaged in this industry for an estimated twenty years. .
It stands to reason that with such a long working experience, he should evolve into an elite in the workplace, but ever since Chiba Makoto met him, this uncle has always been very decadent. He has never been said to be very motivated, careless, and human. Not worth it.
According to people in the village, he was not like this originally. He had been at the TV station for nearly twenty years and was a moderate supervisor. However, he suddenly resigned four years ago and disappeared to who knows where. , came back a few years later and became extremely decadent, and then made a living by taking news photos and writing articles for some newspapers. He was no longer the energetic young man he was before.
"It's Uncle Onoda." Chiba Makoto put his heavy backpack on the tiled road leading to the door and walked over. He still had a good relationship with this uncle. Although the other party is very decadent, his many years of experience as a journalist have accumulated countless strange stories. These stories are very popular with children. After he tells the stories, he always tells the children to study hard and not play all the time.
Onoda parked the car on the side of the road, turned off the engine and got out, and said to Chiba Makoto: "What, were you scared back by the monster?"
"Yeah!" Chiba Cheng was stunned for a moment, and then nodded. It seems that the news of the monster has spread from Akita to Chiba, but that's good. There is no need to find other reasons to explain why he suddenly interrupted his trip and came back.
Takehiko Onoda leaned on the car and blew a smoke ring into the sunset. He said melancholy: "I don’t know why the world has become like this. Even monsters have escaped, but this is okay. It’s time for those so-called realists to wake up and stop looking at the world from a narrow perspective.”
"Uh"
Chiba Makoto didn't know how to answer Takehiko Onoda's sudden philosophical sentiments, so he had to change the subject and said: "Uncle, have you just gotten off work?"
The words are nonsense, but they are really suitable when you don’t know what to say. Otherwise, it would be even more awkward for the two of them to sit facing each other and not speak.
"I went to Akita to interview a city that was attacked by monsters. Oh, what's there to interview? It's about exposing people's scars. Those who survive will have to bear the pain of losing their loved ones, which is even more unfortunate than death." Takehiko Onoda sneered. The words were full of sarcasm. After saying this, he realized that the boy next to him also lost his parents.
In the past two or three years in the small town, no relatives have come to see this boy. He has always been alone. Therefore, he said a few days ago that he was going to travel, which made Takehiko Onoda very happy. I felt that his encouragement to the boy to go out for a walk was working. Being alone in a cold home would make people sick.
After realizing that he had made a mistake, Onoda Takehiko immediately changed the subject and said: "But don't worry, kid, the monster has been destroyed by the giant. Many people in Akita witnessed the giant appear, defeat the monster, and then disappear again, alas. , this world is becoming more and more unrealistic."
After he finished speaking, he sighed habitually and turned around. He took out his mobile phone from the car and said, "Do you want to see what the giant looks like?"
Smell that he had pulled out the photos he brought back from Akita, Chiba Cheng leaned over curiously, and Each photo was taken very amateurishly, with poor angles and poor focus. Even Tiga and Golzan were not in the middle of the viewfinder, but Tiga and Golzan could still be seen clearly.
While showing the photos he brought back for the meeting, Takehiko Onoda said: "The monsters that destroyed the city appeared, and the giants who destroyed the monsters also appeared. Everything in this world is interdependent, so there is nothing to worry about, and you can live your life with peace of mind." "Well, thank you, uncle." Chiba Makoto nodded. This uncle is actually a very nice person. He learned his photography skills from Uncle Onoda.
Chiba Cheng has only seen his parents in photos since he was a child, which makes Chiba Makoto have different emotions towards photos. He feels that photos can record the people and things that have passed away, so he spent a fortune It was a lot of money for him to buy this camera, ready to record this trip that had just begun and ended.
After showing the photos he brought back, Takehiko Onoda glanced at Chiba Makoto’s camera still hanging around his neck and said as if he was looking for a topic: “Have you taken any photos these days?”< br>
As he said that, he picked up the camera and opened the LCD screen. At a glance, he saw a new photo taken by Chiba Cheng. Golzan and Melba were standing in the mountains, bending down and waving their paws. It seemed like he was doing something, but he didn't take a picture of the lower part.
"This" Onoda Takehiko was immediately shocked. There was more than one monster. What surprised him even more was that it was photographed by Chiba Makoto. No wonder the kid came back with a bad expression. He suddenly saw two monsters that were taller than a building. , the distance was so close, he must have been frightened.
But what surprised him the most was that he wanted to take care of this child, but he didn't expect to get such a big windfall. In addition to the monster that was destroyed by the giant, there was also a big bird-shaped monster. But the TPC’s public announcement only included Golzan, which means they concealed the truth.
Exploring the truth is the duty of every reporter, and big news is their lifelong pursuit. As an old reporter, Onoda Takehiko immediately realized that it must be reported as soon as possible, otherwise once this monster appears again, the news value will be lost will be greatly reduced.
But this photo was taken by Chiba Makoto at the risk of his life. He could not take advantage of a helpless child.
Chiba Makoto, who had experienced too many things yesterday, completely forgot about the camera. Then he remembered that he had taken photos of monsters and giant stone statues on the mountainside yesterday. He hesitated and said : "It was the Victory Team that saved me, and they asked me to keep it a secret and not to tell it."
"Keep it secret, keep it secret, they know it's secret," Takehiko Onoda seemed to be triggered by a bad memory, and suddenly became extremely excited: "If she told it, she wouldn't know anything about the past. As a result."
Halfway through the words, Takehiko Onoda stopped, took two deep breaths before suppressing his excitement, and said: "Sign my name and let them Come to me, I will give you all the royalties, and um, what are your plans in the future?”
“In the future?” Qianye Cheng shook his head, he was thinking about his life experience and With Tiga's power, he didn't have the mind or energy to think about anything else. Uncle Onoda asked, and then he belatedly remembered that Chiba Makoto, who graduated from high school, did not choose to enter college.
“Do you want to be a reporter?”
“Reporter? Me?”
"Yes, the things here are priceless now," Onoda Takehiko shook Chiba Makoto's camera and said with a smile on his face: "If you can get them to sign an employment contract and a special press card with you, Just like me, running around with a camera taking photos, interviews, Aren’t you envious of writing? Just do this job first and then change it when you find a better one.”
“It sounds pretty good,” Qianye Cheng thought to himself. It's better than working as a typist before time travel. I can no longer write novels in this life. It's a dead end.
(End of this chapter)