Li Dangdang walked over like a father with his hands in his trouser pockets.
I thought his nose was so sharp that he could distinguish the unique smell of the zombie in the smell of corpses everywhere, but he walked halfway, turned his head again, and looked at me impatiently: "What are you doing with the stick? Stop playing?"
"Are you here to play..."
I muttered something, and honestly walked to the front to lead the way.
As I walked, I looked at this desolate and messy construction site: "I haven't visited it before, but now I find that many buildings have stopped before the standard floor. Combined with today's events, this place is really evil."
Wei Wuchang asked me: "What is the standard layer?"
"Well, how should I put it? Nowadays, the buildings are very tall. Under normal circumstances, all the apartment types between the 3rd floor and the 18th floor are the same. This is called the standard floor. The buildings below the 3rd floor are basically shops."
Wei Wuchang nodded: "Miss Su is very knowledgeable and talented, and she is very talented."
He boasted too seriously, and I suddenly felt a little embarrassed, scratched my head and smiled politely: "No, I just want to draw manga, and sometimes I will inadvertently learn about other knowledge."
"drawing comic?"
"It's a kind of painting, using pictures to tell some stories that I thought up."
"admire."
It’s been a long time since I’ve been praised face to face in Li Dangdang’s apartment, and the smile at the corner of my mouth is hard to hide.
"There is a hole in front." Li Dangdang said a word, and I staggered and almost fell. I stood up and took a closer look. There was not even a brick in the good flat road.
I turned my head and glared at Li Dangdang: "Where is the hole?"
He didn't even look at me: "It's a mistake."
Damn, this guy has a brain! You vampires are nocturnal animals! Do you think I don't know how good your night vision is! Who are you kidding!
I wanted to scold someone, but when I was ready, Wei Wuchang stretched out his hand to stop me: "Miss Su, wait a moment."
"Don't stop me, I must reason with this vampire today!"
"No, I mean you wait a moment at your feet."
I looked down at the ground, there was nothing wrong with a piece of mud, but the cold air drawn by my back drifted forward two or three meters, and then turned into the ground.
Wei Wuchang picked up a stone and threw it forward, only to hear a rustling sound, and the sand and stone fell, revealing the wooden strips and newspapers covered on it. Just now Wei Wuchang's stone seemed to have hit the vital point of this trap. The wooden slats and newspapers stayed on it for a while, and then fell down.
The big hole in the ground in front was exposed, with a diameter of about 1.5 meters. It would be no problem for me to jump down together with Li Dangdang and Wei Wuchang, but I don’t know what’s going on below.
It turns out... There is really a pit down here... This guy Li Dangdang started shouting when he was not on the edge, and when he really got to the edge, he said that he was wrong. He actually wanted to make me fall!
Pit!
"Why didn't you stop when you got to the side?" I questioned Li Dangdang.
He gave me a cold look: "You have to go down anyway."
What he said was indeed correct, the cold air on my neck floated down, pulling me, and even seemed to be urging me to jump inside. The thing we are looking for is below, I am definitely going down, but Li Dangdang's attitude is really annoying, although he is usually quite annoying, but today is really out of the way, especially, the yin and yang are weird …
Wei Wuchang glanced at Li Dangdang at this moment, was silent for a moment, and said: "It's dark down below, I'm used to walking in the dark, and my eyesight is fine, so I'll go down first to explore the way, Your Excellency will bring Miss Su down later. "
Before we both agreed, Wei Wuchang jumped down.
On the pit, Li Dangdang and I stood next to the pit, silent for several minutes.
"The two of you can come down now. The bottom is fine, but it's a bit deep."
"Okay." I agreed, turned around, and naturally opened my hands, posing for a hug. Li Dangdang looked at me and didn't move for a long time. I also looked at him, shook my hands, "Hold me."
Li Dangdang squinted his eyes: "Su Xiaoxin, don't you feel shy when you say something sometimes?"
"Why am I ashamed of you?" I asked back.
He was talking like I would have an affair with him. I think, in this world, I might even have a love affair with Li Peipei, but it's only impossible to have anything with Li Peipei.
Why
No why, gut feeling. From the first time I met Li Dangdang, I had this intuition.
Li was silent for a while, it was a rare time that I was so speechless. I was still secretly happy, Li Dangdang raised one hand, crossed my arms, lifted my collar, and led me into the pit, and I was carried down by him like a cat.
As soon as his feet landed on the ground, I turned around several times before I stood still in horror. As soon as he let go, I immediately lost my way in the dark: "Li Dangdao, don't go too far!"
"Shhh, don't make noise." As soon as his voice became serious, although I was still full of anger, I temporarily suppressed it for the sake of the overall situation.
The three of us stood at the bottom of the pit, and I felt that the cold air that had been hanging around my neck became a little messy. It was chilly everywhere at the bottom of the pit. For a moment, I couldn't figure out which direction the breath came from. But there was a soft sound, like a child's whimper, broke into the ear.
I tried my best to identify the direction, but before I was sure, I felt someone grab my wrist: "Go this way." Li Dangdang said.
I was completely blind and couldn't see anything, so I had to follow the strength of his wrist and walked forward. In the darkness, he was like the only lighthouse I could rely on, guiding the direction.
"Li Ruan."
"Um?"
"I want to say..." I paused, "If you can find the way, can you let me go up first?"
I admit, I'm afraid of the dark, but the reason I don't want to stay here any longer is because I don't like feeling like I can't do anything but rely on this person, it makes me feel useless and makes me Fear, fear that in this extreme situation, I will have an illusion of "he is the only one".
Life experience tells me that once I have such an illusion about someone, no matter what the relationship between the two is, then I am finished. At least the period of time when this illusion was created is over.
"No." Li ranted against me.
"Why?"
He didn't answer, Wei Wuchang, who had been silent all this time, spoke up: "There are other zombies here, Miss Su is on it alone, I'm afraid it's more dangerous."
"Okay." Seeing that there are three people now, I compromised.
For me, this is the ultimate darkness, I can't see anything, only the strength of my hand is holding me, or turning left or right, I don't know how long I have been turning around in this underground labyrinth, and I have been entangled in The sobbing of the child next to the ear also became louder and louder.
After finally turning the last corner, the voice became clear, and a tiny flashlight suddenly appeared in front of him.
I knew what might be ahead, so I became nervous for a moment, and quickly grabbed the hand that Li Dangdang was holding me, feeling unsafe, so I hugged his arm directly.
Why don't you treat him as the only one? In times of crisis, those are secondary considerations. Saving lives is the first priority.
"What are you holding so tight for?"
"What did you say?"
During the conversation, Wei Wuchang had already walked over first, his figure looked very tall and mighty under the faint light of the flashlight, but when he just turned the corner, his figure stopped.
I immediately stopped Li Dangdang, who was about to go there: "Wei Wuchang didn't move, he must have been attacked, let's withdraw quickly, and bring more people back to the Suction Association."
"Miss Su..." Wei Wuchang called me helplessly, "I'm fine, just come and have a look."
I followed Li Dangdang forward with some reluctance, and when I got to the corner, I also saw the scene illuminated by the flashlight, and I was also slightly taken aback. I have thought about many scary scenes, and my brain has been filled with all kinds of zombie movies, but I never imagined that what I saw in front of me would be such a crying...
Mother.
It was that zombie who scared me in the toilet, saw me in my dream, and bit me on the way to buy barbecue. I have seen her hideousness, and I have seen her gentle and beautiful life as a mother, and What you see now is a scary zombie.
She has a haggard face, protruding eyeballs, and dry skin, but she holds a living child in her arms.
The child was lying in her arms, his face was blue and purple, and he was twitching non-stop. The sound that came all the way just now was made by this child. He is already unconscious. And his zombie "mother" was crying.
There were no tears, but her body twitched while panting, like a living person, like a conditioned reflex twitch after crying.
And beside her, there were three or four zombies, as if they were protecting her and the child. It's just that the movements of these dogs are a bit stiff, not as flexible as hers.
She turned to look at me, and the light from the torch was shining from her chest. There was no flesh left in her chest cavity, only a brown skeleton, and she stuck the torch in her ribs so she could put two The hands are free to hold the child, but the light can still shine on the child.
That's it, so I could see a heart in her chest that didn't fit her size.
The heart didn't beat, but stayed firmly in her chest, it was Wei Wuchang's heart.
"Child..." she opened her mouth and said with difficulty, "help him."
Wei Wuchang stepped forward, and she immediately became alert, like a cat with fried hair, and instantly became aggressive. The surrounding zombies also instantly faced Wei Wuchang, like a drone supporting the queen bee, erecting the thorns on its tail.
this mother...
I tried to let go of Li Dangdang's hand and took two steps forward, but she still only stared at Wei Wuchang, not me. It occurred to me that I had seen her in the dream, and maybe she had seen me in the dream too. Of course, there is Wei Wuchang in my dream, or maybe she has seen Wei Wuchang, but she knows that the heart in her chest belongs to Wei Wuchang, and it is very likely that she knows the reason why she can get rid of the control of the mortician. , It all depends on Wei Wuchang's heart.
So she is on guard, because she is afraid that he will take his heart back at this time.
But she trusts me.
I took another step forward, but Li Dangdang stopped me: "Come behind me."
"Wait, I think she believes me. She came to me for help and won't hurt me."
"Then come behind me." Li Dangdang took a step forward, trying to protect me, but when he moved, the mother turned her head again, revealing her scorched teeth, like a wolf in the wild, ready to attack at any time .
I immediately broke free from Li Dangdang's hand: "Don't make trouble, don't move." I ordered him.
Li Dangdang was taken aback, but didn't say anything else.
I walked forward step by step, and the zombie mother didn't look at me from the beginning to the end, but was just on guard against Li Dangdang and Wei Wuchang.
When I walked up to the group of zombies, they gave way to me and let me go to the mother of the zombies. I squatted in front of her and looked at the child in her arms.
The child was short of breath. I reached out and touched his forehead. Although his face was blue now, his forehead was terribly hot. As soon as I touched him, he immediately turned his head and said "wow" and spit out a mouthful of water. I took a closer look and found what looked like grass roots in his vomit.
"What did you feed him?" I was a little anxious.
These days the Suck Association has searched so hard, she must not dare to go out for food, she is a zombie, she will not die of hunger, but the child has to eat, the food she feeds the child looks like the grass dug next to this construction site, This child is still a human body, how can he stand such a toss.
I'm not sure if he had a stomach upset from the stuff or food poisoning, but either is something I can't handle here alone.
"Got to take him to the hospital," I told her.
But when the zombie mother heard this, she immediately hugged the child a little tighter.
"You'll kill him like this. You don't want him to die in your arms, do you?"
"No, no." She hugged the child, "My child, my child, by my side, I will never lose him again."
I couldn't bear it, but I just told her: "This is not your child." I said, "Your child died a long, long time ago, have you forgotten? You got separated in the air-raid shelter, and then the cave collapsed." Even if your child was not in the cave at that time, even if he survived the war by luck, many years have passed by now, many years!"
"My child, it's my child, mine!"
"It's not your child, it's someone else's! You know how painful it is to lose a child, why do you want other family members to bear it again." I saw that she lost control of her emotions and hugged the child too tightly. So that it made the child even more uncomfortable. If this continues, I don't know how long the child can last. In a hurry, I stretched out my hand and pointed to the side, "Your child is over there!"
Sure enough, she immediately turned her head and looked to the side. Taking advantage of her distraction, I immediately reached out and took the child out of her arms, but as soon as I moved the child out of her arms, she immediately turned away Head, extremely ferocious face:
"Don't even think about taking him away from me!"
She yelled loudly, accompanied by Li Dangdang's urgent call: "Su Xiaoxin!" A few zombies behind me rushed towards me, and the next moment, I only felt a loud "boom" in my brain, as if I was stunned Just like that, the whole world turned upside down in an instant.
Like the beginning of a nightmare, I saw those old fighter planes in the documentary flying overhead with extremely noisy sounds.
I saw people fleeing on the ground like ants. I saw the dead silence in the crowded and dark air-raid shelter. I heard the cries of children, the despair of mothers, and the sound of times beating the whole country.
And at this moment, in this air-raid shelter, I am trampled underfoot by strangers, and strangers are also pushed and trampled by other strangers. I have no dignity, no equality, nothing, not even the right to life. Deprived, and, with nowhere to redress.
Bombs are exploding, caves are collapsing, and in the age when human life is more despised than grass, countless people are forever buried in rocks and history with unwillingness and fear.
Nothing was left.
I feel my life gone, I feel my anger, my despair, my hatred, and my helplessness and powerlessness.
I am dead.
I thought I was dead, but gradually, I heard someone calling my name, as if from the abyss, or from heaven, I suddenly woke up, as if I had drowned.
I coughed violently, breathed desperately, grabbed the people around me, grasped the last straw, I saw the dimly lit cave, and saw Li Dangdang beside me.
After the chaos, I finally realized that I had fallen into a hallucination just now, but even after realizing this, I still couldn't suppress the fear in my heart. I rubbed up and hugged Li Dangdang. Hug him desperately, his body is cold, but mine is hotter than fire at this moment.
I didn't say anything, I just trembled. Compared with the feeling now, the fear in the high altitude just now was nothing at all. Only then did I realize that when I was extremely scared, I would be so scared that I couldn't even shake. Tears can't come out.
I just want to hug a person and feel this chest. Even if he has no temperature, I still want to use his breath to prove that I am still alive.
"Su Xiaoxin." I heard him say in my ear, "It's okay, it's just an illusion."
I know, but I still can't let go. It wasn't until I hugged him so hard that my whole body began to tremble like cramps, and I lost all strength, that I released him a little bit.
It was only after my body regained consciousness that I realized that Li Dangdang was also gently hugging me at this time, and his naturally cold hands were gently patting my back, as if he was coaxing a baby.
"I'm alive."
"Well, still alive." He said, "I'm here."
Li Dangdang is always very confident in himself, and I usually disdain it, but at this time, I didn't refute anything, because I also thought the same in my heart, yes, he was there, fortunately, he was there.
It seems that all disasters will turn into a little trouble like putting too much chili in a bowl of noodles.
After a while, I was completely relieved, and when I recovered, Li Dangdang's hand had already been removed from my back.
I took his hand, stood up, looked to the side, the zombie mother had let go of the child she was holding, and was standing in the corner, she looked at the pool of blood under her feet, and she was silent, and the child is now In the hands of Wei Wuchang.
The other zombies stood aside, they seemed to have no thinking of their own, and everything obeyed the command of the zombie mother.
"It's not to listen to what you say." Li Dangdang explained to me, "It's still time to do it."
"You hit her?"
"Took you back, she strangled the child so that the child started to vomit blood, so she was so scared that she let go."
"How long have I been out?"
"Just a minute."
One minute... one minute is enough to suffocate me. If I stay in that hallucination any longer, I'm afraid I will really go crazy. However... the world that scares me so much is the world they really lived in back then.
"We'll take him to the hospital," I told Mother Zombie, "and we'll fix him."
She looked up at me, stretched out her hand staggeringly, but dug out the heart from her chest, and threw it on the ground. The surrounding zombies immediately froze, as if they had lost all strength in an instant, and fell to the ground in a mess.
"I'm going to find my child."
After she said such a sentence, she leaned against the wall and completely lost her strength.
I looked at her like this, and my eyes were red.
In my dream, I saw her life. She came from Xiangxi, got married at 16, and had a child at 18. After the Anti-Japanese War began, her husband joined the war, and her life and death were unknown. She was strong alone, and fled to Chongqing with her children, hoping to wait for the end of the war. , and went back to my hometown, but I didn’t expect to die in a foreign land. When she died, she was twenty-four years old, as old as me.
Same age as me.
"You will find your child."
She sat on the ground, her skeleton loosened, and she stopped moving.
I asked Li Dangdang: "Where's the mortician? Can you find him and take her home?"
After leaving her hometown for decades, I hope that she will eventually return to her hometown.