After the child finished speaking, he ran into the house, as if to call the adults at home. Ji Ting looked at Shen Tuchuan with a complicated face, only to see him muttering expressionlessly: "No, this is not my house..."
"It must not be our family. It's been so long. My parents may have moved out. Let's ask them where they moved..."
"Shen Tuxi! Who told you to open the door casually?! What if the traffickers took you away!" Before Ji Ting finished speaking, Jiang Yu's irritable voice came from the room, completely breaking their illusions.
Ji Ting slowly opened his eyes wide: "It's really..."
"Who is it?" Jiang Yu appeared at the door, and when he opened the door, he saw two people outside.
As if the whole world had pressed the still button, even the air became silent. The three of them stood there quietly, and no one spoke first.
In the end, the sound of trotting broke the silence, and the child who had just entered the room ran out, hugged Jiang Yu's thigh and looked at Ji Ting and the two: "Mom, who are they?"
Jiang Yu's throat moved, but he couldn't speak, and Shen Tuchuan was even more silent. Finally, Ji Ting said, "Mom, we just came back to see you and Dad. If you don't welcome us, then we will return Go back... Don't worry, Xiao Chuan won't hurt any human beings, we just want to see you."
After she finished speaking, she used the cover of her sleeve to grab Shen Tuchuan's hand, wanting him to say a few pitiful and flattering words, but who knew that this person didn't say a word, but just looked at Jiang Yu expressionlessly. Just when Ji Ting was in a hurry, footsteps came from the room again: "What are you two doing here?"
As soon as the words fell, Shen Tushu came out, and Ji Ting smiled mischievously after seeing him: "Father."
Like Jiang Yu, Shen Tushu fell silent for a moment, stared at them for a long time, and suddenly turned cold: "What are you doing back?"
Ji Ting was stabbed by the defense in his eyes, and quickly explained: "We are not here to do bad things, really! We just came back to see you..."
"Let's go," Shen Tuchuan finally said. He looked indifferently at the little girl who was hugging Jiang Yu, "We are not welcome in this family."
Ji Ting was stunned for a moment, and before he could speak, he turned around and was about to leave. Ji Ting hurriedly grabbed him, and anxiously explained to Jiang Yu and the two of them: "Mom and Dad, it was Xiao Chuan's fault for burning materials, but he was also trying to survive , Later he went with me to a place where no one was living and lived until now, in order not to let the zombies continue to evolve under his influence... "
"Forget it, don't talk about it." Shen Tuchuan pursed his lips.
Ji Ting took a deep breath: "You may think that everyone should make such a decision, but he is no longer a human being. He gave up his own group for you. Those zombies already had wisdom when we left. As long as he thinks, the zombies will grow into an intelligent group that can fight against humans, but he doesn't, doesn't that mean anything?"
Jiang Yu's eyes were already flushed, she turned her face away to hold back tears, and Shen Tushu held her arm silently, without saying a word.
The child sensed that the atmosphere was not right, and stood obediently beside Jiang Yu, staring at the two people outside the door for a long time and then surprised: "Are you brothers and sisters?!"
Ji Ting: "..." The second child is confirmed.
"Go back and play with building blocks." Jiang Yu whispered, and Xiao Douding immediately cheered and ran into the house as soon as she heard that she could play with toys.
Ji Ting forced a smile: "We came back this time just to see how you are doing. I am relieved to see that you are doing well. Mom and Dad, let's go first."
After she finished speaking, she took Shen Tuchuan's hand, turned around and walked towards the corridor. When she was about to reach the stairs, Shen Tushu's unhappy voice came from behind: "You are leaving now, where do you want to persecute someone?"
"I don't hurt anyone." Shen Tuchuan said indifferently.
Shen Tushu snorted softly: "You are a zombie, and the instinct of a zombie is to harm people. Do you think I will believe your words?"
Shen Tuchuan's brows gradually frowned, feeling unspeakable irritability in his heart, just about to refute, Ji Ting spoke first: "Yes, Dad, he is a dangerous zombie, if you don't lock him up at home, who would know him?" What do you think is going to be a vicious thing in the future?"
"That's right, I can't let you leave like this." Shen Tushu said sullenly.
Shen Tuchuan paused for a moment, as if he understood something, he looked at Ji Ting, who immediately nodded affirmatively.
"Come in, it's no fun for Xiaoxi to play alone, you come and accompany her," Jiang Yu paused after speaking, and looked at Shen Tuchuan warningly, "If you dare to do bad things, your father and I will definitely be beaten to death this time. you."
"... Mmm." Although Shen Tuchuan's heart stopped beating a long time ago, when he heard her threatening words, he still trembled in the depths of his heart.
Shen Tushu glanced at them with a cold face, turned his head and went back home, Ji Ting hurriedly smiled and pushed Shen Tu Chuan into the house, very enthusiastically to please the two elders. Shen Tushu and Jiang Yu were both happy and complicated about their return. They were happy because they could see their children, and complicated because they couldn't help but think about the fire in the research institute that day, and felt very guilty about it.
Ji Ting could understand their thoughts, so when they were indifferent to herself and Shen Tuchuan at the beginning, she didn't feel discouraged. Instead, she was more filial to them, and at the same time asked Shen Tuchuan to do more good things outside to alleviate their troubles caused by covering up. Guilt for my son.
With the efforts of her and Shen Tuchuan, the two elders finally let go of their guards and began to get along with them as before.
During the process of getting along, Ji Ting knew that Xiao Xi was not Shen Tuchuan's biological sister, but a child adopted by Jiang Yu and Shen Tushu after they left and lost their emotional sustenance. But knowing the truth doesn't affect anything, it will only make the family love Xiaoxi more, and Shen Tuchuan is even more generous, so Ji Ting often sees him riding a horse for Xiaoxi with a cold face.
As the days passed, more and more people returned to their cities and began to rebuild the order of their homes. Gradually, the electricity was restored, and the running water was also available. There were more and more shops doing business on the street, and the milk tea shop of the hostess no longer tasted like sugar water.
More than ten years passed in the blink of an eye, and one morning, Ji Hearing saw himself in the mirror and was stunned.
"What's the matter?" Shen Tuchuan walked in without getting a response after calling her twice.
Ji Ting looked at the mirror silently, and shook his head slightly after a long time: "It's okay, I just feel that I have dark circles under my eyes."
"Yesterday I told you to go to bed early and you didn't listen. Go to sleep after eating something later." Shen Tuchuan rubbed her hair, turned and went out.
Ji Ting still looked at himself in the mirror, looked at the obvious crow's feet on his face, and kept asking the reader's resentment in his mind why he was aging. The reader's resentment was the same as before, and there was no movement for a long time. When she was about to get impatient, a line of unclear writing appeared: In order to avoid the infinite extension of this world, attributes such as aging and natural death are specially added to the traverser. The world will be successful only if the task is completed before the self dies.
Ji Ting was stunned for a moment before he understood what it meant. After Shen Tuchuan merged with the virus, he had the attribute of immortality, and if he had always maintained this attribute, then as long as Shen Tuchuan refused to let go , then this world is likely to be infinitely extended.
... But the question is, what is his obsession? Before he was bitten by the zombies, he was a kind and gentle boy. At that time, he had no birthmark, but after being bitten by the zombies, his emotional system disappeared. Not enough to support him to give birth to much resentment and love.
Without huge emotional ups and downs, without unprecedented obsession, the birthmark will naturally not appear. As for the tragedy in the original text, in a sense, it has been completely avoided. She thought she had succeeded, but she was surprised at this moment. Success, why hasn't the world disappeared
Things that had been neglected before suddenly came before her eyes. Looking at her crow's feet, Ji Ting could no longer be leisurely. The only thing she thought about every day was what Shen Tuchuan's obsession was, but she never thought of it.
This state lasted for almost a week until Shen Tuchuan's birthday. The whole family sat together for dinner, except for Shen Tuchuan and Xiao Xi, they were all drunk. Shen Tuchuan sent Xiaoxi to bed with a straight face, and then moved his parents and wives back to the bedroom one by one.
When he returned to the house after finishing all this, Ji Ting suddenly jumped out from the door, and hugged him with a blushing face: "I'll ask you a question."
She was so drunk that her face flushed, and there seemed to be tiny stars in her eyes. Shen Tuchuan didn't want to talk to a drunk at first, but the next second her tears flowed down her cheeks.
Shen Tuchuan: "... If you want to ask anything, just ask."
Ji Ting snapped: "What is your obsession?"
"What obsession?" Shen Tuchuan frowned.
Ji Ting thought for a while, and changed the phrase: "It's something you always wanted but couldn't get, and finally turned into a heart disease."
"I don't." After Shen Tuchuan finished speaking, he tore her off his body.
Ji Ting was dissatisfied: "You must have."
"No."
"there must be!"
Shen Tuchuan: "..."
The two looked at each other in silence for a moment, Ji Ting curled his lips and was about to cry again, Shen Tuchuan immediately said, "I have."
"What is that?" Ji Ting wiped his eyes.
Shen Tuchuan was silent again, and after thinking for a long time, he finally came up with one: "I'm sorry that I can't love you and your parents with normal people's feelings."
Ji Ting was taken aback for a moment.
"... I have already forgotten what it's like to truly love someone. If I can, I hope that one day I can have a sincere and rich love for you and my parents." After Shen Tuchuan finished speaking, he turned his face away in embarrassment.
He couldn't wait for Ji Ting's response for a long time, and he couldn't help turning his head for a while, only to see Ji Ting crying even more fiercely: "Is there something wrong with what I said?"
"No... I just think," Ji Ting hiccupped, "my world is really doomed to fail..."
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"What should I do, Xiaochuan." Ji Tingyi moaned in his arms.
Shen Tuchuan was silent for a moment: "Why are you in a bad mood recently?"
"Did you find out..." Ji Wen began to feel sleepy as he spoke, and did not answer Shen Tuchuan's doubts in the end.
Ji Ting couldn't remember what happened afterwards, and when he woke up the next day, he felt his brain ache, and he rolled on the bed for a long time before waking up, before he even opened his eyes, he remembered the conversation with Shen Tuchuan yesterday—
A guy who is destined to have no feelings, his only obsession is to have feelings, this is really... God will kill her!
She sighed and buried her face in the quilt, and didn't open it until the oxygen was thin. She stared at the ceiling absently for a long time, and finally gritted her teeth and accepted her fate.
Since this world is doomed to fail, then just enjoy it, at least you can be with him for a long time. After figuring this out, Ji Ting's dark clouds that had shrouded her heart for many days suddenly dissipated. Although Shen Tuchuan didn't know why she was in a bad mood at the end, everything seemed unimportant.
Time flies like an arrow, the sun and the moon fly, time seems to be drawn by eight horses, and soon they sent Xiaoxi to get married, and then their parents got old, until one day they sent their parents away in person.
Shen Tushu and Jiang Yu closed their eyes almost at the same time. They lived to be nearly ninety years old, and they didn't suffer when they left, which can be regarded as joy and mourning.
On the day of the funeral, Ji Ting and Shen Tuchuan sat quietly in the mourning hall that had not been demolished. After looking at each other for a long time, Ji Ting brought a makeup remover towel and helped him wipe off the old makeup on his face, revealing a handsome and clear appearance.
"Let's live in another place, and you will stop putting on makeup every day." Ji Ting's voice was gentle.
Shen Tuchuan stared at her white hair on the sideburns and was silent for a moment, then slowly said: "You are sixty years old this year."
"Sixty-three." Ji Ting smiled, and several layers of wrinkles formed on the corners of his mouth.
Shen Tuchuan lowered his eyes: "How long can you stay with me?"
Ji Ting froze for a moment, his originally very bright eyes were cloudy: "There should be... decades."
Shen Tuchuan was silent for a long time, and suddenly raised the corners of his lips: "Very good."
Ji Ting lowered his head, like a child who did something wrong, and apologized to him for a while: "I'm sorry, it's all my fault..."
"You don't need to apologize, I'm already very grateful that you can work hard to live," Shen Tuchuan held her hand, the skin of the two people formed a sharp contrast, "If someone must be sorry for someone else, then I'm sorry for you, I am sorry that I have not been able to give you the same love back."
"... You are doing well now." Ji Ting sighed, she had been trying to untie him for so many years, but it was a pity that his heart was very stubborn and never let go.
Shen Tuchuan hugged her wordlessly, unwilling to let go for a long time. After the funeral, the two bid farewell to the middle-aged Xiaoxi and returned to the plantation where they used to live. The plantation had a new owner and they spent all their money to buy it. Since then, the two have stayed away from the crowd again. Spend the rest of your life with each other.
Time flies, and in the blink of an eye it will be the evening twenty years later, Ji Ting opened his eyes after taking a nap, and it took him a long time to realize that his breathing was weak. She looked at the clock on the wall thoughtfully, knowing that it was time.
She waited quietly, her eyelids getting heavier and heavier, and she was not relieved until Shen Tuchuan came back.
"What's wrong?" Shen Tuchuan quickly walked to her side and held her hand.
Ji Ting looked at the loose and old hand held by him, closed his eyes regretfully for a while, and said in an old and hoarse voice: "I may... I can't be with you anymore." Although he knew that he would see you again in the next world, But there were still tears in the corners of her eyes.
After the age of forty, the difference between them has become more and more obvious. It has been so long since others mistakenly thought they were sisters and younger brothers, and then thought they were mother and son, grandparents and grandchildren. Although the age gap on the outside is getting bigger and bigger, their hearts have never been tortured because of it, they just cherish the time they spend together.
"Xiao Chuan..." Ji Ting looked at him firmly, seeing his face full of age spots under his eyes, he couldn't help laughing, "I used to be afraid that I would grow old one day, but looking at it now, it seems pretty good, I'm pretty Is it your old man?"
"You are a very beautiful little girl." Shen Tuchuan stroked her face.
Ji Ting panted weakly, and it took him a long time to rest: "I really want to spend more time with you, but I'm too tired..."
"I know, wait for me." Shen Tuchuan said in a gentle voice, patted her hand, got up and moved the cabinet away, revealing the hidden compartment inside.
Ji Ting looked at him suspiciously, but didn't have the energy to ask him when he found this thing. She watched Shen Tuchuan come back, holding a test tube in his hand. Before his dull brain could recall what it was, Shen Tuchuan drank the transparent liquid in the test tube in one gulp.
"When I first degenerated, my mind was muddled. I only knew to go to the research institute to find something, and if I found it, I could save someone. So I went there with obsession, and then I became who I am now." Shen Tuchuan finished drinking. She knelt down beside her, held her hand and said calmly.
"This medicine..." Ji Ting understood, his thick eyes slightly widened.
The corners of Shen Tuchuan's lips curled up a bit, and then a little ulcer appeared on his face, which gradually expanded and continued to spread towards his body, and the handsome appearance just now was quickly swallowed by the ulcer.
"I became one with the virus, and I instinctively regarded the antidote as a natural enemy, but for some reason, after getting the medicine, I didn't damage it, as if I would be sorry if I just destroyed it," Shen Tuchuan said As he spoke, his gums were completely exposed from the festering skin, "I think it should be because of my promise to you."
... He once promised that he would save the common people with him. Ji Ting slowly closed his eyes, and turbid tears flowed out: "I'm sorry, you who failed to save this world..."
As soon as she finished speaking, a tear fell on her hand. Ji Ting was dull for a long time before realizing that with her current posture, it was impossible for her tears to fall on her hand. With her last breath, she looked at Shen Tuchuan, only to see that his eyes, which were already about to rot, were continuously shedding tears.
"Listen, I love you." He laughed, obviously looking weird and hideous, but Ji Ting just felt warm.
With a smile on the corner of her lips, she watched the clock in the room suddenly stop, and then a force returned to her body. Ji Ting clearly felt that he was getting younger and younger, and then looked at the man in front of him, his limbs that fell on the ground turned into little stars, rushing towards him.
In less than a minute, both of them recovered completely. Looking at each other's smooth face, Ji Ting was at a loss for words for a moment: "You restore your memory..."
Before the words finished, she was pulled into his arms violently by him, and he gave her a fierce kiss as if he was attacking the city, and then let her go. Ji Ting stared at him blankly, while Shen Tuchuan stared at her firmly: "Go back soon, I will find you."
Ji Ting opened his mouth, and fell into darkness before he could speak.
The author has something to say: Come to think of it, it has been updated in advance, the next chapter is the new world, there are red envelopes, everyone can go and have a look hehehe, orc Xiaochuan to learn about it!