I dialed a familiar number, and after a beep, the person on the other end finally picked up the phone.
"Hello."
"Honey, it's me. Please don't hang up."
He said in an almost pleading tone, "I feel like I'm dying. I just want to see you and the child. I want to say sorry to you."
There was silence on the other end for a while, but Tang Xin didn't hang up the phone.
"I don't accept your apology."
The more you love, the more you hate.
Tang Xin clenched her phone and repeated, "I will not accept your apology, even if you are dying. I will not let you see your child for the last time, because you don't deserve it.
I will remarry in the first year after your death; I will change the child's name to Tang; I will make him gradually forget that he has a father like you; I will make your Li family extinct. "
After she finished speaking, she hung up the phone.
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Game Day 21
It rained continuously for nearly a week and no one dared to go out.
The germs are invisible, yet they seem to be everywhere. Every breath I take is filled with fear.
People dared not open windows, and wore masks at all times even when they were indoors. Food and vegetables soaked by rain in the past few days were inedible, and the previously abundant supplies were once exhausted in the past few days.
People trapped in the steel building could not move and had to turn their attention to their neighbors on the same floor.
There was a knock on Fu Anan's door. "Hello, neighbor. I'm the owner of the third floor. Do you have any rice that you can share with us? The price is negotiable."
This is the fourth time.
"I'm sorry, but we can't hold out for three days."
Fu Anan rejected the neighbor's request and asked, "Do you have any medicine for colds? My boyfriend has a cough and a fever."
"No, no."
But the person next door was the smartest. The tenant of the opposite room put a seal on her door, which read, "My husband is infected with the disease, and my family is in quarantine. Please do not approach."
This thing works better than anything else. After she hung it up, no one knocked on her door anymore.
Fu Anan was inspired by this, and Fu Yizhi fell ill that afternoon.
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In a city of half a million people, the number of infections and deaths has now exceeded one-fifth.
The survivors all stayed in reinforced concrete buildings. Without human activities, other creatures began to gradually occupy some parts of the city.
Bird and small animal droppings were found on the streets.
These little animals can be seen everywhere, at crossroads and in shops that haven’t closed yet.
Especially rats and reptiles, they gradually expand their range from dark corners, sewers, and garbage dumps, crawling towards people's homes.
In the dead of night
These rats and reptiles gradually crawl into the house through tiny cracks, entering the kitchen, toilet, bathroom, and every corner of the room.
A mouse was crawling quickly on the ceiling, its target was the closet opposite.
However, it had recently become so fat and strong that it fell down halfway through its climb and landed directly on the face of the woman who was sleeping below.
The thin and tiny claws pressed against her mouth, and the unpleasant smell of rat was inhaled into her lungs close to her nose.
The woman woke up instantly.
She screamed and sat up. The mice were faster than her and disappeared from the closet in the blink of an eye - they were not infected with the virus, they were the carriers of the virus.
(End of this chapter)