Under the brilliant fireworks.

The family stood at the door of the gymnasium, and an old man in a gray vest looked around, babbling incessantly.

"What about people? Why don't you come yet? ”

When they parted yesterday, he made an appointment with Lao Lu, who he met on the high-speed train, and met at the door of the gymnasium when the time came, but he waited here for a while without seeing anyone......

Or rather, people everywhere.

"Old man, it's time for us to check the tickets!"

Liu Peizhong was still reluctant to leave, and glared at the staff who wanted to help him, and then looked at his wife and shouted at the top of his voice, "Wait...... My friend, I'm coming right away. ”

"you XXX! You live with your brother with a different surname! ”

Finally annoyed by his own family, his wife threw down such a sentence and walked to the gymnasium by himself.

Standing next to the two old men, the slightly younger man had a crying and laughing expression on his face, and hurriedly asked his daughter-in-law to take his son to catch up with his mother-in-law, so as not to be scattered by the crowd, he came to his father, and persuaded him bitterly.

"Dad, we can't wait any longer, the flow of people is so big, if we don't leave, we will be kicked out by the security guards here."

"That's right, Uncle Liu," standing on the other side of the old man, a fashionably dressed white-collar woman put down her mobile phone and sighed, "Let's just watch a good celebration, can't we?" If you have a big holiday, you have to introduce me to someone...... Wouldn't it be better to introduce it tomorrow? ”

Even if it's a blind date, there's no blind date in this kind of place, right?

If you encounter face blindness, I'm afraid you won't even know that the person next to you has changed.

"You don't understand!"

"I don't understand anything, do you say?"

Liu Peizhong hesitated evasively, but finally sighed and spoke.

"This ...... introduced to you It's a bit unusual. ”

The white-collar woman rolled her eyes.

"The stupid son of the landlord's family or the little son of the coal boss's family? This is Shangjing, how can it be unusual? ”

"The license plate of his father and mother who came to pick up is Jing A......"

"Brother, I don't think it's good to release pigeons, let's wait!"

Looking at his cousin who suddenly turned his face, the man standing next to him was suddenly dumbfounded.

Damn, that's too realistic, isn't it?

But

Kyo A......

The man nodded his head.

"That's right, that's okay, let's ...... Let's wait. ”

I don't know when it started, and fireworks were already blooming in the sky.

Although they wanted to wait a little longer, looking at the commotion of the crowd and the staff of the venue who came up to maintain order, it was clear that there was no place for them to wait.

The crowd began to move, and Lu Zhou's side also entered the venue.

At first, Lao Lu was a little obsessed because he didn't meet the old friend and the niece he brought, but after entering the venue, he left this matter behind.

Because, everything that appears in front of you is too illusory.

The arrows floating in front of you were immersed in the smoke column as if they were real.

"This ...... Can I touch it? Not knowing how to describe the illusory light and shadow in front of him, Lao Lu opened his mouth, and he didn't know who to ask, so he could only point it to his son.

Looking at his bewildered father, Lu Zhou smiled.

"Don't worry, it's just a hologram, it won't be broken."

In order to prevent the loss of equipment caused by personnel trampling, except for a few projection equipment used to complete the picture, almost the vast majority of holographic projection equipment is on the ceiling. Like a crystal lamp hanging from the ceiling, holograms throughout the gymnasium are built from the top down.

There is no need to worry about breaking something valuable.

Under the guidance of the lights, the group followed their numbers and found seats.

After taking his seat, Lu Bangguo, under the reminder of the staff next to him, fastened his seat belt.

Before the celebration began, he looked around the gymnasium, looked at the crowd of people, and the spectacular gymnasium itself, and said with emotion.

"This bird's nest is quite beautiful...... It's a shame I haven't been here before. ”

Fang Mei glanced at him: "What's the pity, aren't you here now?" ”

"What we see now is definitely different from what we saw in the past...... Zhou'er, how long will this celebration begin? ”

Just when Lu Bangguo had just asked this sentence, Lu Zhou was about to answer, when the light on the ceiling suddenly dimmed. With this gradually dimming light, the originally noisy 100,000-person conference hall suddenly became quiet by a few decibels.

Lu Zhou raised his head, looked at the time on his watch again, and a smile of anticipation appeared in his eyes.

Looking at Daddy, he replied.

"It's already started."

……

When the last audience member was seated, the sound of music from all corners of the venue washed away the noise of the audience.

The beams of light from the sky faded, and the venue gradually melted into the night, except for a few light sources from mobile phone screens, which were almost invisible to the fingers.

In the silence, people gradually stopped shouting loudly and whispered quietly. There was a hint of excitement in that voice, and a hint of anticipation.

It was a long-awaited celebration.

It's finally getting started!

An invisible fog rose in the night, like a thick cloud, and soon filled the entire interior of the gymnasium. It's as if it's coloring an entire oil painting, it makes the darkness thicker and more visible.

This time, even the light emitted by the mobile phone screen was engulfed in the artificially generated fog.

Only a few Hanhan turned on the flashlight, but the staff quickly followed the light source and confiscated the phone. After registering their identity, the phones are sent to the security room and returned after the celebration.

The darkness did not last long.

Just when people were confused about what this celebration wanted to express, the dotted light suddenly appeared around everyone. The pale red particles of light are like fireflies flying in the flowers, and they are also like sparks burning in the prairie fire, dancing in this invisible fog, outlining a series of small and impossible to ignore trajectories.

There are more and more fireflies flying, like a galaxy shuttling overhead.

Distracted by this spectacular and romantic scene, people stopped talking and began to look curiously at what was happening around them.

The child sitting in the arms of an adult stretched out his right hand to hold the firefly that did not exist.

The couples who snuggled up to each other excitedly pointed to the light points in the sky like shooting stars, and took the opportunity to make a wish to be together for the rest of their lives......

Everything in front of you is like a mirage in the fog, full of dreamy beauty but not real feeling.

At this moment, when everyone was not ready, suddenly all the brilliant light particles flew into the air, gathering into a fiery red color.

The flame was like a torch, emitting energy like a burst of magma, illuminating the thick wall of fog into an oppressive dark red. The rising light was like a boiling flame in a trench, and like a cannon fire piercing through the night sky, pouring down on the silent land.

Under the shroud of that oppressive atmosphere, the children subconsciously stopped crying, the couples stopped the love words of you and me, the adults held their breath, and the old people clenched their fists, and the colors reflected in their pupils seemed to be evoked memories of the years......

Suddenly, the propeller-pushing fighter plane broke through the clouds and swooped down from the air with a muzzle spray of flames. The screams in the stadium were so loud that it was hard to tell if it was ambient sound or someone's shouting.

As if in the scene of a war movie, in the center of the fierce firefight, people swayed their bodies from side to side to dodge, and if they were not tied by seat belts, most of them would have fallen to the ground.

It was only the moment of this opening that was terrifying, although the crisis was far from over.

The battlefield became 10,000 acres of fertile land, followed by 10,000 acres of withered yellow.

In the snow and ice, people climb Mount Everest. In the swamps, on the frozen soil, in the mountains, people carry sickles and hoes and go forward without hesitation, looking for the lifeline of industry......

In an era of scarcity of productivity, man is the least valuable machine.

But it is precisely this most worthless machine that has carved out a world on a ruin with its own hands.

There is no other reason.

They believe that tomorrow will be better, and they are convinced.

This is the only fuel that keeps them moving, apart from carbohydrates.

Maybe they didn't have any concept of automation, and there was no such novelty as artificial intelligence in those days. But they still firmly believe that there will be a day in the future when everyone will be fed and clothed, do a decent job that is different from them, and realize the value of life in things that are more worthy of their time, instead of wasting their lives on the assembly line......

Preferably, you can also be a little hypocritical after you have eaten enough...... And this is something that most of them have never experienced.

Even if they knew it, when the day actually came, they would probably not see it.

But that's nothing.

They believe that even if they do not see it, their children and grandchildren will see it for them, and will tell them in their dreams about the future, and will not waste their sacrifice.

The reflection of the times is like a marquee, flashing in front of people.

When they saw the memories of the past in their eyes, the eyes of many old people were full of tears. The children sitting next to the adults, although their eyes were ignorant, they still couldn't help but clench their fists under the infection of that atmosphere.

Until, the appearance of a small car.

It was sailed from a ship docking.

The whistle seemed to blow the horn of joining the WTO, and the beautiful era was finally unveiled in front of the people. The oppressive atmosphere finally faded away in the undulating music, and then thousands of tall buildings rose from the ground.

Oriental Pearl, Bird's Nest, World Expo Pavilion...... There is also the Xiaguang that conquered the Earth-Moon orbit, and the Moon Palace floating above the Nine Heavens.

In the last scene of the celebration, an astronaut carrying a red flag walked from a vast gray lunar soil, just like his fathers, with a strong arm, the red flag was heavily planted on the moon.

The screen switches again.

The red flag was gone.

Instead, the gray wasteland beneath his feet has been transformed into a space city that seems to only appear in science fiction movies. The rail train suspended between the high-rise buildings, and the cargo box crawling along the mine road, are heading somewhere......

Lu Zhou noticed that the father, who was sitting next to him, quietly raised his arm and rubbed the corners of his eyes with his cuffs.

He didn't speak, but silently looked away.

He knows very well that his father is a face-loving person, which is exactly the same as himself. If his son discovers his weakness, he will be so uncomfortable that he can't sleep all night.

“…… Feel. ”

"Feelings?"

I really can't think of any words to describe it, Chen Yushan sniffed and said in a choked voice.

"It's spectacular."

Lu Zhou smiled and nodded slightly.

"yes, it's spectacular."

Although he doesn't know if this celebration can be regarded as a success, he doesn't know if Star Technology's holographic projection system has fired the first shot......

But the most precious meaning of this celebration is undoubtedly achieved.