End of the World Cycle

Xie Qin opened his eyes and took a deep breath, as if he had been pulled back from a near-death state. He stared with his eyes wide open and couldn't help but feel palpitations. He took a deep breath and barely regained some consciousness. He looked down at his hands. There was no blood or scissors, just the same clean pair of slender hands covered with calluses.

She was confused. She had just killed someone, that scumbag. Xie Qin didn't know what she was feeling. Everything around her was familiar, like the shabby bunk bed in the dim little bedroom. Xie Qin poked her head out of the upper bunk and looked down. She saw a little boy of seven or eight years old on the bed with his eyes closed.

She rolled off the bed and knelt beside the little boy's bed, wanting to touch him in disbelief to see if he was real. Then the door was suddenly slammed open.

"Child! My child!"

Hearing the voice, Xie Qin turned around with tears in her eyes.

"mom!"

The woman almost pounced over and hugged Xie Qin in her arms.

"My child, my child."

Xie Qin clearly felt the pain from her mother's strangulation, but she did not struggle. She was so happy that she couldn't wait to feel happy, because this proved that this was not a dream and they were both still alive.

"Mom? Sister." Xie Ran, who was still lying on the bed, called out childishly, somewhat confused and a little surprised.

The moment the three of them looked at each other, except for the younger Xie Ran who was a little confused, they all seemed to understand that they were reborn.

Now that they were all reborn, they had to wonder if that scumbag was the same as them.

Without thinking too much, Zhang Mingfang carried Xie Ran from the bed to the wheelchair, took the two children and left the small bungalow while their stepfather, who was still sleeping soundly due to drunkenness, did not wake up.

It was only 5 o'clock in the morning, and the three people seemed not to be sleepy at all because of the palpitations after surviving the disaster.

"Mom? What are you going to do?" Looking at her mother in deep thought, Xie Qin spoke first.

If I hadn't been so cowardly in my previous life, my brother wouldn't have been beaten to death by that scumbag, and my mother wouldn't have been strangled to death by him. If I had been braver and stabbed the scissors into his neck earlier, maybe they wouldn't have experienced the despair of dying.

Zhang Mingfang knew from the mist in her daughter's eyes that the child was blaming herself. They had originally lived a wealthy life and her husband was a truck driver. It was only that one time that she did not follow the truck that her husband died in a car accident.

When her husband died, her daughter was only eight years old, and her three-year-old son fell from the second floor because his mother-in-law was not taking care of him, and his lower body was paralyzed.

When the parents-in-law saw that their youngest son was paralyzed, they wanted to divide the family property. They swallowed up half of the pension and property given by the husband and drove themselves and their son out.

In order to treat my youngest son's illness, I sold my house and spent all my savings. In order to get the bride price, I had to remarry with my child. I worked day and night, and it took my older child five years to raise the younger one.

The person I remarried can still be tolerated. Apart from the fact that he likes to beat people after drinking and make trouble at night, he doesn't have any major problems.

But for some reason, she couldn't get pregnant even though they had sex every day. The man gradually became irritable. After examination, it was found that Zhang Mingfang had injured her body when giving birth to her second child and could not get pregnant again.

After that, Zhang Mingfang was beaten from time to time. If she wanted a divorce, she had to return the betrothal gift, but she didn't have the money. Until the day when Xie Qin had her first period, when her stepfather found out, her eyes were no longer clear when she looked at Xie Qin.

On the day of the incident, the stepfather drank a lot of wine. In the living room, he started to curse Zhang Mingfang for not laying eggs, punching and kicking her until he was tired. Xie Qin hugged her brother and curled up on the lower bunk, not daring to cry.

This was what my mother told me, because if this man noticed the brother and sister, they would be beaten up again.

But this time, even though the brother and sister didn't make any sound, the door was still violently kicked open.

"Since your mother can't give birth, then you have to give birth." Looking at the pale girl on the bed, the stepfather pounced on her.

Xie Qin screamed loudly, and in just a moment, her thin pajamas were torn to pieces. She resisted fiercely, as if she was screaming for her life. Even though Xie Ran was trembling with fear, he still wanted to protect his sister.

She bit her stepfather's arm directly. An adult man who had been doing hard labor for many years was too strong for two children. Xie Ran's neck was grabbed and thrown out directly. His temple hit the corner of the desk beside him. His small body just twitched a few times before he became motionless.

Xie Qin was held down again before she could even check. Zhang Mingfang regained consciousness and picked up a pair of scissors from the coffee table. She stumbled towards the source of the noise and saw her son lying in a pool of blood. She shouted,

“Of course!!”

Then he watched the beast lying on his daughter, and started fighting without any reaction. The man was so angry that he knocked Zhang Mingfang to the ground with one punch, and the scissors flew to the side.

After getting a moment's respite, Xie Qin looked at his brother on the ground in horror, and at his mother whose neck was being strangled by his stepfather. His ears were ringing and his mind was in a mess. It was not until his mother stopped struggling that Xie Qin's eyes fell on the scissors on the ground in a trance.

The man didn't even have time to react, and the little girl had already thrust the scissors into his neck. Blood spurted out like a fountain, and in a split second, three bodies were lying in the narrow, dim bedroom. Xie Qin held the scissors tightly, and the corners were all covered in blood.

I lost consciousness in a trance. When I woke up again, I was back on the bed, and the following events happened.

"Kill him." Zhang Mingfang spoke after a long while.

A woman who has been tortured by life for so many years does not seem so cowardly to live again.

"Mom, he has to die, but we have to live too. Every time he wakes up drunk, he doesn't remember a lot of things. Even if he is reborn and remembers these things, maybe we can make him feel that all this is just a dream of his."

Zhang Mingfang looked at her daughter, hesitated but nodded. Her daughter was very smart, so smart that she had gotten full marks on almost all the exams since she was a child. She was so smart that she could earn some money for her brother's medicine by studying at a young age. Therefore, she had no doubts about her daughter's idea.

After all, this approach is not impossible.

The three of them only stayed in the park for half an hour before returning to the small bungalow. The man on the bed hadn't woken up yet. Zhang Mingfang fumbled for a long time before collecting fifty yuan for Xie Qin. Then Xie Qin pushed her brother into the small bedroom and held him on the bed.

"Sister." The seven or eight-year-old child didn't understand anything, but he knew fear and danger.

"Be good. Go to sleep. Nothing will happen." Xie Qin gently rubbed her brother's hair and said softly.

The man got up at breakfast time, feeling dizzy, but still looked at Zhang Mingfang in the kitchen who was serving porridge with an inquiring look. He seemed to be thinking about something, and scratched his head in annoyance.

With just this one action, the mother and daughter understood that this person was also reborn. The two of them were as usual, one of them carefully invited the man to have breakfast, and Xie Qin timidly carried her schoolbag and spoke in a low voice.

"Good morning, Dad. I'm going to school." The man looked up, his eyes full of inquiry and greed. He was sure that he was dreaming. But he had been thinking about asking his stepdaughter to give birth to a child for a long time.

Looking at his pretty stepdaughter, the man only thought about that matter and took out ten yuan from his pocket and gave it to Xie Qin.

"Buy some delicious food, you're too thin." As he said this, he squeezed Xie Qin's hand.

Xie Qin was a little scared, but didn't dare to resist.

"Come on, let's go. We're going to be late." Zhang Mingfang pushed Xie Qin's shoulder, allowing her to take two steps back and break free from the man's hand.

Xie Qin did not go to class. Instead, he went to a nearby pharmacy and bought two boxes of cephalexin. He turned several corners and found a small store, bought a lollipop, and sat on the street waiting.

Just across the street, a man was looking at him thoughtfully. Then he saw the man walking towards him through the traffic.

The man was wearing a black T-shirt and loose jeans. He was very handsome. His skin was very white, like jade, and he really glowed in the sun. Just as Xie Qin was overwhelmed by the man's beauty, he squatted directly in front of her. Xie Qin subconsciously dodged.

"Can you see me?"

Xie Qin nodded subconsciously.

"Interesting. Let me see what the reason is." Then I watched the man take out a thick book from somewhere, flipping through it for a long time, frowning, and shaking his head. He supported his handsome face with one hand and pretended to think.

"Oh! So you are a reborn person."

“Who are you?”

"Poor kid. Let me help you. The world is about to end anyway. Give this to me and I'll exchange it for something good. I'll give this to you too." As he said that, the man took the cephalexin from Xie Qin's hand and stuffed the thick book into Xie Qin's hand.

After a while, he took out a small white pill out of thin air.

"Let your stepfather eat this, and he will die of overwork while working. You, your mother, and your brother will receive a considerable compensation. Just live your life on your own from now on." After saying that, the man prepared to leave.

"who are you?"

"Go back, little girl, your mother is still waiting for you." After saying that, the man disappeared. If it weren't for the book and pill in his hand, Xie Qin would have almost thought it was an illusion.

"The End of the World: Healing Space" was the name of the book. Somehow, Xie Qin inexplicably believed that person. He wanted his mother to sprinkle cephalosporin on the food for his stepfather, and insist on doing it every day, so that his stepfather would eventually die from excessive drinking.

But this is not foolproof. She knows how powerful the police are now. If it is really like what the man said, maybe the three of them will have a future.

Xie Qin didn't say much, and her mother believed her and dissolved the pills in the kettle. She waited for the alarm to ring at noon, and took the prepared lunch box and kettle to the construction site.

The meal was finished, and the water was finished. When Zhang Mingfang got home, even though the temperature was 37 or 38 degrees Celsius, she was still shivering all over. But within two hours, Zhang Mingfang's phone rang.

When she heard the news of her husband's death, Zhang Mingfang burst into tears. However, through the phone, everyone thought she couldn't accept it, but they didn't know that Zhang Mingfang was crying for joy.

It was an accidental death, and it was also death from overwork. The construction site paid a sum of money according to the regulations. It was not too much or too little, 50 yuan. The man was nearly years old and his parents had passed away. He only had some distant relatives. Zhang Mingfang did not make a fuss or argue. This matter was like a stone dropped into a deep pond, and it was over quickly.

After everything was settled, Xie Qin was sure that the man was really helping her. As if she suddenly remembered something, she ran back to the bedroom, picked up the book "The End of the World: Healing Space" that was still on the desk, and opened it with trembling hands...