Chapter 14:

Li Zhaodi put his trouser pockets in his hands and walked over like his father.
I thought his nose was so good that it could tell the unique smell of zombies in the stinky corpses everywhere, but he walked halfway, turned his head, looked at me impatiently: "What are you doing? No more fun?"
"Are you here to play..."
I murmured, and honestly walked forward to lead the way.
As I walked, I looked at this desolate and messy construction site: "I haven't come in to see it before, and now I find that many buildings have stopped before they reach the standard floor. In light of today's events, this place is really evil."
Wei Wuchang asked me: "What is the standard layer?"
"Well, how should I put it? The buildings now are very tall. Generally, all the units between the 3rd and 18th floors are the same. This is called a standard floor. The buildings below 3 floors are basically shops."
Wei Wuchang nodded: "Girl Su is so knowledgeable and talented."
He was too serious and serious. I suddenly felt a little embarrassed. I scratched my head and smiled politely: "No, I just want to draw comics. Sometimes I will learn about other knowledge inadvertently."
"drawing comic?"
"It's a kind of painting, using pictures to tell stories that I have come up with."
"admire."
It's been a long time since I was praised in person like this in Li Zhaodi's apartment, and the smile at the corner of my mouth was hard to hide.
"There is a pit in front of me." Li Zhaodi slammed it over, staggering and almost falling. I stood still and took a look at it. There were no pits on the good road.
I turned my head and stared at Li Zhaotong: "Where is the pit?"
He didn't even look at me: "I read it wrong."
Damn, this guy has a pit in his head! You vampires are nocturnal creatures! Do you think I don’t know how good your night vision is! Who are you lie to!
I wanted to scold someone, and the posture was ready, Wei Wuchang reached out and stopped me: "Miss Su, wait a minute."
"Don't stop me, I must reason with this vampire today!"
"No, I mean wait at your feet."
I looked down at the ground, there was nothing wrong with a piece of muddy ground, but the cold air that was pulling behind me floated forward for two or three meters and then turned underground.
Wei Wuchang picked up a stone and threw it to the front. He only heard a sound of rustling, the sand fell, revealing the wooden strips and newspapers covered on it. The stone of Wei Wuchang just now seemed to have hit the key to this trap, and the wooden strip of newspaper stayed on it for a while before it fell.
The big pit in the ground in front was exposed. It was about 1.5 meters in diameter. It is estimated that there would be no problem when the three of me and I jumped down together. I just don't know what the situation is.
It turns out...there is really a hole down here... Li Zhizhao, this guy, started shouting when he didn't get to the side, and when he got to the side, he said that he was wrong. He actually wanted to make me fall!
Pit goods!
"Why didn't you stop when you got to the side?" I asked Li Zhaotong.
He gave me a cold look: "You have to go down anyway."
He was right when he said that, the cold air on my neck floated down, pulling me, and even urging me to make me jump in. What we are looking for is right below. I am definitely going to go down. But Li Zhitong’s attitude is really unpleasant. Although he is usually unpleasant, but today is really out of place, especially, Yin and Yang. ...
Wei Wuchang glanced at Li Zhaozhen, and was silent for a moment, and said, "It's pitch dark below, and I'm used to walking in the dark. If my eyesight is not hindered, I can go down here to find the way. You can take Miss Su and come down later."
Before the two of us agreed, Wei Wuchang jumped down.
On the pit, Li Zhitong and I stood facing the pit, speechless for several minutes.
"The two can get down now, there is no problem below, but it is a bit deep."
"Okay." I responded, turned around, and naturally opened my hands, posing as I want to hug. Li Zhuan looked at me and didn't move for a long time. I also looked at him and shook my hands, "Hold me."
Li Zhao squinted, "Su Xiaoxin, don't you feel shy when you say something sometimes?"
"Why am I ashamed of you?" I asked back.
He said it like me and he would have any kind of love. I feel that in this world, I might even have love with Li Peiping, but it is impossible to have anything with Li Zhaotong.
why?
There is no reason, intuition. From the first side of seeing Li Zhaotong, I have this intuition.
Li Yu was silent, and it was rare once that I was so speechless. I was still secretly happy, Li Zhizhao raised his hand, crossed my arms, carried my collar, and led me into the pit. I was carried down by him like a cat.
As soon as he landed on his feet, I took a few turns before standing still in horror. As soon as he let go, I immediately lost my way in the dark: "Li Zhidao, don't go too far!"
"Shhh, don't make any noise." As soon as his voice became serious, although I was still full of anger, it was temporarily suppressed 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 hooking my neck had become a little messy. The bottom of the pit was chill everywhere, and for a while it made me wonder which direction the breath came from. But there was a soft voice, like the whimper of a child breaking into the ear.
I tried my best to identify the direction, but I felt that someone had grabbed my wrist: "Go here." Li Zhaotong said.
My eyes were blinded and I couldn't see anything, so I had to follow the power of his wrist. In the darkness, he was like the only beacon that I could rely on, guiding the direction.
"Li Zhidiao."
"Ok?"
"I want to say..." I paused, "If you can find the way, can you let me go up first?"
I admit that I am afraid of the darkness, but the reason why I don’t want to stay here longer is that I don’t like the feeling that I can’t do anything except rely on this person. This makes me feel that I’m useless, and it also makes me scared. , I am afraid that in this extreme situation, I will have an illusion that "he is the only".
Life experience tells me that once I have such an illusion about someone, no matter what the feelings are between them, then I'm all over. At least this period of time for this illusion is over.
"No." Li Zhaoyi denied me.
"why?"
He didn't answer, but Wei Wuchang, who had been silent, said: "There are other zombies here, and Miss Su is alone on it, I am afraid it is even more dangerous."
"Okay." For the sake of 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. The whimper of the child in the ear became louder and louder.
Finally turning the last turn, the voice became clear, and a faint flashlight suddenly appeared in front of him.
Knowing what might be ahead, I became nervous in an instant, and quickly grasped Li Zhitong's hand that was holding me. Still feeling unsafe, I hugged his arm directly.
Don't treat him as the only thing. At the moment of crisis, those are secondary considerations. Life-saving is the first priority.
"What do you hold so tightly for?"
"What are you talking about?"
During the conversation, Wei Wuchang had already walked over first, his figure looked very tall and mighty under the faint flashlight light, but when he just turned the corner, his figure stopped.
I limatled to live there, Li Zhitong: "Wei Wuchang is not moving. He must have been attacked by something. Let's withdraw quickly and return to the Association to bring more people."
"Miss Su..." Wei Wuchang called me helplessly, "It's okay in the next. Come and take a look."
I followed Li Zhaodi to the front with a little reluctance. When I got to the corner, I saw the scene illuminated by the flashlight, and I was also slightly taken aback. I have thought about many terrible scenes. My brain has been filled with various zombie films, but I never expected that what I saw in front of me would actually be such a crying...
mother.
It was the zombie who frightened me in the toilet, saw me in my dreams, and bit me on the way to buy a barbecue. I have seen her hideous, and I have seen her gentle and beautiful when she was a mother. What I see now is a terrible zombie.
She had a withered face, her eyes protruding, and her skin was dry as wood, but she was holding a living child in her arms.
The child was lying in her arms, complexion blue and twitching, the sound that came along just now was from this child. He is already awake. And his zombie "mother" was actually crying.
There were no tears, but her body twitched in her breath, like a living person, and after mourning and crying, she twitched conditionedly.
And beside her, there were three or four zombies, as if protecting her and protecting the child. It's just that the movements of these animals are a bit stiff, not as flexible as hers.
She turned her head to look at me. The light of the flashlight was shining from her chest. Her chest was no longer fleshy, and only the brown skeleton remained. She stuck the flashlight in her ribs so that she could hold both Hands are free to hold the child, and there is still light that shines on the child.
That's it, so I can see a heart in her chest that doesn't fit her body shape.
Her heart didn't beat, but it 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 was on guard in an instant, like a cat with explosive hair, becoming aggressive in an instant. The surrounding zombies also face Wei Wuchang instantly, like drones supporting the queen bee, erecting the thorns on their tails.
This mother...
I tried to let go of Li Zhaodi's hand and took two steps forward. She still stared at Wei Wuchang instead of me. I had an idea, I saw her in my dream, maybe she also saw me in my dream. Of course, there is Wei Wuchang in my dream, and perhaps she has also seen Wei Wuchang, but she knows that the heart in her chest is Wei Wuchang, and she probably knows the reason why she can get rid of the control of the corpsesmith now , It depends on Wei's impermanence heart.
So she guards impermanence, because she is afraid that he will take his heart back at this time.
But she believed me.
I took another step forward, and Li Zhaodi grabbed me: "Come behind me."
"Wait, I think she believes me. She came to me for help and won't hurt me."
"That's also coming behind me." Li Zhaoyi stepped forward, trying to protect me, but when he moved, the mother turned her head again, revealing her browned teeth, like a wolf in the wild, ready to attack at any time .
I immediately got rid of Li Zhaodi's hand: "Don't make trouble, don't move." I ordered him.
Li Yi was startled, but didn't say anything.
As I stepped forward, the zombie mother didn't set her eyes on me from start to finish, but was on guard for Li Zhizong and Wei Wuchang.
I walked in front of the group of zombies, they took the initiative to give me way, let me walk to the zombie mother, I squatted in front of her, looking at the child in her arms.
The child was breathing quickly, and I reached out and touched his forehead. Although his face is blue and purple, his forehead is terribly hot. As soon as I stumbled upon him, he immediately turned his head and spit out "Wow". I took a look and found something similar to grassroots in his vomit.
"What did you give him?" I was a little anxious.
These days, the search is so tight, she must not dare to go out looking for food, she is a zombie, hungry or starving, but the child has to eat, the food she feeds for the child is like grass dug next to this construction site. This kid is still a human body, how can he withstand such a toss.
I'm not sure if he was damaged by these things in his stomach or by food poisoning, but I can't handle either situation alone.
"You have to take him to the hospital." I told her.
But when the zombie mother heard this, she immediately hugged the child a little closer.
"You will kill him like this. You don't want him to die in your arms, right?"
"No, no." She hugged the child. "Child, my child, by my side, I will never get him off."
I can't bear it, but I can only tell her: "This is not your child." I said, "Your child died a long time ago. Have you forgotten? The air-raid shelters were separated, and then the cave collapsed. Yes. Even if your child was not in the cave at that time, even if he survived the war fortunately, many years have passed, many years!"
"My child, it's my child, mine!"
"This is not your child, it belongs to someone! You know how painful you lose your child, why do you have to let other family members take it again." I think she was a little bit out of control and held the child too tightly. So that it makes the child more uncomfortable. If this continues, I don't know how long the child can last. Anxious, I stretched out my hand and pointed to the side, "Your child is there!"
Sure enough, she immediately turned her head to look aside. I took advantage of her lack of attention, and 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 around. The head is extremely hideous:
"Don't want to take him away from me!"
She screamed, followed by Li Zhaodi's eager call: "Su Xiaoxin!" A few zombies behind me rushed towards me, and the next moment, I only felt a loud bang in my brain. , Like being stunned, the whole world instantly turned upside down.
It was like starting a nightmare. I saw those old fighter jets in the documentary flying overhead with extremely noisy sounds.
I saw people running and fleeing on the ground like ants. I saw the silent crows in the crowded and dark air-raid shelter, I heard the cry of the child, the despair of the mother, and the sound of the era beating the entire country.
And at this moment, I am in this air-raid shelter, trampled underfoot by a stranger, and the stranger is also pushed and trampled by another stranger, what dignity, what equality, nothing, even the right to live Deprived, and there is nowhere to avenge justice.
Bombs are exploding, caves are collapsing, and in an age when human lives are more humble than grass, countless people are buried in the rocks and history forever with unwillingness and fear.
Nothing is left.
I feel the passing of my life, 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, and as if from heaven, I suddenly became sober, as if drowning.
I coughed violently and breathed desperately. I grabbed the people around me and the last straw. I saw the faintly lit cave and saw Li Zhaotong next to me.
After the chaos, I finally reacted. I was in 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 Zhaozong. Hugging him desperately, his body is cold, but my moment is hotter than fire.
I didn’t say anything, I just tremble. Compared with the feeling I feel, the fear in the sky just now is nothing at all. I only then knew that when I was terribly scared, I would be scared to tears. Can't flow out.
I just want to hug a person and feel this chest. Even if he has no temperature, I want to use his breath to prove that I am 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 didn't have any strength, so I loosened him slightly.
It was also after the body recovered consciousness that I discovered that Li Zhitong was also holding me gently at this time, and his naturally cold hands lightly patted my back, like coaxing a baby.
"I am still alive."
"Well, it's still alive." He said, "I'm here."
Li Zhizhuang is always extremely confident in himself. I usually disdain, but at this time, I didn't refute anything, because I thought this way in my heart. Yes, he was there, but fortunately he was there.
It seems that all the catastrophes will turn into a bowl of noodles with too much chili.
After a while, I completely let go of my heart, and when I recovered, Li Zhaodi's hand was already removed from my back.
I took his hand, stood up, and looked to the side. The zombie mother had released the child she was holding and was standing in the corner. She looked at the pool of blood under her feet, describing silence, and the child is now In the hands of Wei Wuchang.
The other zombies are all on the side. They don't seem to have their own thinking, and everything obeys the command of this zombie mother.
"I don't want to say it." Li Zhaozhe explained to me, "I'm still doing it."
"You beat her?"
"Taking you back, she strangled the child herself and began to vomit blood, so she let it go."
"How long have I been dizzy?"
"Just one minute."
One minute... One minute is enough to suffocate me. If I stay in that hallucination longer, I am afraid I will really go crazy. However... the world that made me so scared was the world they really lived in back then.
"We will take him to the hospital." I told the zombie mother, "We will cure him."
She raised her head and glanced at me, stretched out her hand swayingly, but she dig into her chest, dug out the heart, and threw it on the ground. The surrounding zombies immediately stiffened, as if they lost strength in an instant, and fell to the ground in a mess.
"I'm going to find my child."
She said such a sentence, leaned against the wall, completely relieved of her strength.
I looked at her like this, my eyes flushed.
In my dream, I have seen her life. She came from Xiangxi. She was married at 16 and gave birth to children at 18. After the Anti-Japanese War began, her husband participated in the war. Life or death is unknown. She was strong alone and fled to Chongqing with her children. I went back home again, but I didn't expect to die in a foreign land. When she died, she was twenty-four years old and as old as me.
As old as me.
"You will find your child."
She sat on the ground, her skeleton loosened and stopped moving.
I asked Li Zhaotong, "Where is the corpse-shoveler? Can you find him and take her home."
After being away from her hometown for dozens of years, I hope she will return home.