a light

20. A grain of light

Several nearby dormant volcanoes erupted one after another, and a thick layer of volcanic ash rained down on the ground. The intermittent aftershocks lasted until late at night, without clouds, rain, stars, or moon.

Chang Xia was protected by Chang Dong's body, but he still fell into a place and passed out in the rapid fall.When I woke up, I thought there was something wrong with my eyes and I couldn't see anything.

It took him a while to get used to it, and he could barely see a little outline, his body was so painful that he couldn't move, Chang Dong still hugged him tightly.

He called Changdong a few times, but no one answered, his heart froze suddenly, and he fumbled around Changdong with his hands, but there was something heavy on them, and Changdong's back arched stiffly to block him , his room for movement is very small.

When he moved a little bit harder, dust and dirt fell into his mouth sparsely. Chang Xia choked and coughed in Chang Dong's arms. He coughed and coughed and heard a faint sound of gasping. He hurriedly held his breath and dared not move any more. .

Chang Dong's dry breath could be heard more clearly.Chang Xia's eyes widened in joy, and he hurriedly asked, "Chang Dong! Is that you? How are you?"

"Ahem..." Chang Dong was speechless, took Chang Xia's hand and patted him on the back.

"Are you injured somewhere? Don't move yet!" Chang Xia said, "We may be trapped, so please don't move."

Chang Dong didn't stop his elder brother's words, and moved his body after recovering, and got closer to Chang Xia, and the things on their backs that were holding them down didn't collapse.

"Let me rest for a while." Chang Dong lay on Chang Xia's body, said a few words hoarsely and then closed his eyes.

"it is good"

Chang Xia didn't dare to disturb him, and quietly groped for something to eat, or something that could be used, such as a flashlight.However, I only touched the holster, the gun rolled somewhere, and there were some crumpled paper ends.

Sighing quietly, I don't know how long they passed out and what's going on outside.

"How long has it been?" If it wasn't for Chang Dong talking right into his ear, Chang Xia wouldn't be able to hear his hoarse voice clearly.

"I don't know, I just woke up for a while, it's so dark, it should be night, after all, theoretically we are outside."

Chang Dong nodded, his throat moved and he wanted to say something but couldn't.

"Is your throat dry?" Chang Xia asked, holding Chang Dong's face with both hands and looking at him.The surroundings were pitch black, and both of them had gray faces, but their eyes were bright.

Chang Xia hesitated for a while, then slowly approached Chang Dong.Under Chang Dong's watchful eyes, the tip of his tongue stretched out to lick his dry lips, and bit by bit he opened the gap between his lips and sent it in.

Chang Dong sucked it in as if he had been hungry for a long time, he didn't look hurt at all, he grabbed his brother's uvula and sucked hard.

The sweet body fluid flowed into his mouth, but it made him thirsty even more.

"Does brother's words still count?" Asked for a long time, after squeezing his brother enough for Ben Changdong to let him go.

Chang Xia understood that he heard it, and whispered with heat on his face, "I'm not out of trouble yet."

"I see." Chang Dong's voice sounded much better, he nodded, lowered his body a bit and tried to turn over.

"Be careful!" Chang Xia yelled, subconsciously stepped back, and somehow the rock that had been holding him loosened, making room for it.

Chang Dong turned over smoothly and sat next to Chang Xia, feeling a sharp pain in his chest.

"How is it?" Chang Xia heard his gasp, and touched the place where Chang Dong was pressing.

Changdong shook his head and said in a hoarse voice, "There should be a fallen tree above us."

Chang Xia followed the direction he pointed, and it seemed that a tree had fallen on a big rock, creating a place for them to block the overwhelming rocks.

"There should be a gap." Chang Xia said, bowing his body and starting to grope around.

One hand stretched out upwards, and it took a long time to look up to see clearly, the sky was pitch black above his head.

Something fluttered on his face.

He didn't care about those, and carefully pushed away the rocks and pulled out a gap, trying to stand up.

My body was sore from being curled up for a long time, but I stood up straight.

The backlog of stones and branches flooded his waist, and after exhausting his strength for a long time, he finally pulled Chang Dong up, helping Chang Dong, who was injured somewhere, to climb out of the pile of rocks.

Outside was a night they had never seen before.

The two stood on the stone slab in a daze, and after rolling all the way down, they fell into another world. There were rocks and crooked trees everywhere, and it was impossible to tell that this was the place where they had lived for more than 20 years.

Across the ashes and rubble all over the ground, the horizon at the end seemed to be distorted, and a ray of light refracted from there.

It was finally dawn.

Chang Xia helped Chang Dong to turn over a hillside, and he could vaguely see the farmland they had planted on both sides. The soil in the field had been turned up, and the original strong green seedlings were crumbling.

The two walked all the way, shouting a few times from time to time, but no one answered.After the sky brightened, they finally found a few of them in the ruins of the collapsed military dormitory.A group of people suffered varying degrees of injuries, supported each other and continued to walk up. In front of them was the main building of Wangzhai. Before the earthquake, most civilians hid in the bunker, and now they don't know what happened.

When they were about to walk, they heard the sound of talking and moving things from the other side. Several people showed joy and quickened their pace. When they bypassed the ruins, they saw Shen Chuan commanding a dozen soldiers to carry the bricks and stones blocking the entrance and exit of the bunker. Liang Ye and others Several people fetched water from the well and searched for food in the collapsed barn.

Shen Chuan and Liang Ye were very lucky. After being overturned by the shock wave, they rolled into a spacious field. They were covered in gravel and dust, but they were not injured at all. They found more than a dozen survivors overnight and started to rescue the people in the bunker.

The two groups reunited overjoyed, Chang Xia and the others ate something and drank some water, and joined the rescue team.

Dozens of people worked in two shifts and spent two days almost without sleep to rescue the survivors below.

The bunker was very strong, but even so, more than half of the people were killed, and there were only more than 600 people left in the original base of nearly 100 people.

After burying the victims, the survivors stood in silence in the base that had turned into wilderness.

A few days later, the ash finally fell and the sky cleared completely.Shen Chuan, Chang Dong and others went out to reconnaissance in person, and the rest stayed behind to rebuild.

A group of people walked carefully in the riddled wilderness with weapons.Most of the city walls built around the base have been broken and collapsed, and there are broken bricks and iron pieces everywhere.Part of the minefield was detonated, and the size of the minefield was unknown. To be on the safe side, they walked around the minefield on a difficult road. After walking about two kilometers, they arrived near the camp where the imperial army was stationed. However, what they saw in front of them made them suspect that it was Not in the wrong place.

Looking around, there is not a single living person except them. There are crushed and torn remains of the imperial army everywhere, smashed fighter plane wrecks, and fragments of armored vehicles.The dried blood was mixed with mud and ashes, and there was still a lingering smell of blood when the wind blew.

The most unbelievable is not these.

Even Fukagawa, who can keep smiling at all times, couldn't help feeling a little dazed when facing the sudden cliff and abyss in front of him.

"Did it break due to the earthquake?" After a while, someone asked.

They walked a little bit, and they didn't know where they came across. A severed bone rolled down towards the severed rift valley.

A ravine with a width of [-] meters formed across the connected land, and the straight cliffs on both sides could not be seen to the bottom.

"It may also have something to do with the large-scale volcanic eruption. It was originally on an unstable volcanic earthquake belt."

"Earthquakes and tsunamis caused by volcanic eruptions work together, nature is really amazing."

"It's such a blessing to be alive."

Several scouts who were traveling with him sighed in a low voice.

Chang Xia looked around the riddled Asura field and almost felt sick, and whispered to Chang Dong, "How many people will die with such a large destructive power."

"The whole army will be wiped out, so many planes and tanks will be wiped out in an instant."

Someone asked: "This time the imperial army is really hurt, will it come to trouble us?"

"Not for the time being, it took them several months to transfer these people."

Hearing their sighs, Fukagawa looked across the rift, and the scene on the other side was similar to this side, tragic and lifeless.

"There seems to be a sound?"

When preparing to go back, a soldier suddenly said.

Walking along the sound, pushing away the rocks above, a few soldiers of the imperial army lay on their stomachs like arhats, and the sound came from below them.The bodies of the two people at the top began to stiffen, and the person below him felt hot and seemed to be breathing. There was another person under him. When they turned over, everyone was stunned. The guard was pressed under his body, his pale face was frowning, his legs and feet seemed to be injured, but his breathing was not hindered.

The soldiers asked Shen Chuan whether the prisoners should be executed on the spot or taken back to custody. Shen Chuan said that the prisoners were of higher rank, so they should be taken back first.The little soldier who was still breathing died on the road, and only Sen Bai was left alone, which is convenient to carry.

More than 100 people lived in the open for a few days to build a simple hut, and everyone lived together temporarily, and then arranged division of labor, and started the second reconstruction.

All the houses were damaged, but the collapsed masonry and trees were all ready-made, and they were directly used after sorting.The headache and heartache is the food problem. The farmland that is about to be harvested is destroyed. We can only cut open the land to see if there is any part that is about to mature and can be eaten. Fortunately, most of the surplus grain stored in the barn and bunker is gone. It can be picked up, and the springs and wells on the mountain can also be used.

There were several aftershocks intermittently, varying in scale and affecting the reconstruction progress.Everyone was very busy again. Fukagawa and Changdong re-examined the construction site, built fortifications, and Changdong also redesigned and produced power generation and communication equipment.

Two months later, the rubble and rubble all over the mountains and plains were finally cleaned up. The houses, turrets, and lookout posts were distributed in an orderly manner according to the mountain. The cylindrical mixed building around the highest point in the middle was stronger and more earthquake-resistant. The five-story building There are residential areas, planting areas, hollow gardens and rooftop theaters, schools, training centers, underground storage rooms and air-raid shelters in different vertically distributed partitions, and are equipped with gun holes and muzzles. All functions are gathered in one building.

Each family unit can choose a set of rooms, and if they don’t want to live in the building, they can build it on the farm outside.

The fortification team built cabins for people to rest on the basis of some damaged houses, or children's swivel chairs and slides, painted in colorful colors, dotted along the mountain.

The night before the completion of construction and moving into the new home, everyone gathered in the cleared space for a party.After experiencing the disaster together again, many young men and women secretly developed feelings for each other, and after dark, they each found a place to develop their feelings.

Chang Xia and Chang Dong chose a two-story apartment, and when they were allocating housing, a bigger kitten ran towards them.The kitten joined the scout troop, and spent the day with his friends, and lived with Chang Xia at night. This time, he habitually looked for him, but suddenly stopped while running.

After the two reunited with the team, Chang Dong thought that his elder brother's verbal promise came into effect automatically, and the two lived together as a matter of course. Seeing that there was a little guy who wanted to penetrate them, he frowned and asked Chang Xia, feeling aggrieved and dissatisfied Long-standing question: "How long have I been away, and you are going to raise someone else?"

"This..." Chang Xia looked at the bewildered kitten in embarrassment, not knowing whether to move forward or retreat, and said to Chang Dong, "The kitten is still so young, there are no other relatives." Stretching out his hand to rub Chang Dong's head, "Do you think he looks like you raised him together when you were young?"

Where does it look like.Chang Dong thought, but after finally making progress with his brother, his brother's wish still needs to be fulfilled.They had no choice but to take a step back and let the kitten live with them, but he wanted to immediately declare the ownership of Chang Xia, so he grabbed his brother's waist and kissed him.

Fortunately, the two-story suite is very spacious, the kitten lives in the downstairs room, and the upstairs is the master bedroom and studio.

At night, Chang Xia and Chang Dong lay on the new bed, and Chang Dong really wanted to hug his brother one step closer.

Chang Xia's heart beat a little fast, he knew what Chang Dong was thinking, he had already said his words and there was no way out, he didn't regret it but felt a little awkward, Chang Dong's gaze made him bow his head in embarrassment, then he thought that since he had agreed Chang Dong, it wouldn't be a problem to continue being so awkward, so he quietly raised his gaze.

Not wanting Chang Dong to keep looking down at him, the two eyes met, Chang Xia blushed, his heart beat a few beats faster, but he still couldn't hold back and lowered his head again.

Chang Dong's laughter came from above his head, the two got so close, Chang Dong's chest shook him.

"Brother, don't worry, let's take our time." Chang Dong said with a smiling voice.

"En." Chang Xia's voice was like a mosquito, but he felt something was wrong, "What are you doing?"

"Heh." Chang Dong laughed again, clenched his hands on Chang Xia's buttocks, "Help my brother get used to it, I'll stop here for today."

Chang Xia couldn't escape, being squeezed by his younger brother's hand, his whole body trembled like an electric shock, and he nodded reluctantly.

Everyone was given a proper room, even the captives.

Major Moribai was locked in the basement. Because it was a new house, there was no moisture or peculiar smell at all. It was dry and clean. There was a mattress in the corner with a complete set of sheets and bedding, sofas, tables and chairs, and a bathroom next to it.Except for the handcuffs and shackles, the other treatment is very good.

Chang Xia thought so, only when Tian was delivering food to Sen Bai, he saw Wu Dao using him to vent his desire.

He was startled, and he didn't dare to disturb the people inside, so he put down the wrapped lunch box and left.

(omit a piece of meat)

Chang Xia became very careful when he came to deliver food again, and opened the door with the key only after making sure there was no other movement inside.

Sen Bai curled up on the bed, covered with a sheet, wondering if he was wearing clothes underneath.

Chang Xia put the bento box on the table and wanted to leave, but the person on the bed suddenly asked him, "Is there any news outside?"

Chang Xia froze for a moment, remembering that he was majestic in the concentration camp and now he has been reduced to the enemy's plaything, he couldn't help but sigh with emotion, and replied: "Are you referring to the battle situation?"

Senbai nodded.

"The imperial army lost a lot last time, and other battlefields were restrained. It is not optimistic to pull the whole body."

The person with most of his face buried in the quilt seemed to smile inexplicably, and said "It's my fault", or maybe he didn't say it, the voice was too low for Chang Xia to hear clearly, and asked him if he needed anything else, he Never looked back.

Since the base was separated from the peninsula, the wind has become very strong. Fukagawa sent people to patrol the edge of the cliff every day. The other side was always calm, and neither troops nor civilians were seen.

One day, when it was Chang Xia and Chang Dong's turn to go, Chang Xia was surprised to find that the distance to the opposite side of the rift was significantly greater. The bottom of the valley, which could not be seen before, can now see the turbulent sea water as wide as a river.

They are getting farther and farther away from the whole continent.

The stones on the edge of the cliff were sharpened by the wind, and they cleaned up the corpses that once covered the ground. Now there are only scorched earth and gravel, and occasionally some blood can be seen.

The voice of Chang Dong calling him to be careful, they can go back was swept away by the wind.

it's very windy.

They put on autumn clothes, and the wind came up from the edge of the cliff in gusts, and the long clothes and trousers were blown against their bodies.

Chang Xia looked down, and there was an abyss below, but there was only a road away from the opposite side.

It's not an insurmountable distance, but he feels that he can't go back.

"Didn't you hear me? You didn't respond when I called you." Chang Dong hugged him from behind and pulled him back from the cliff, "Going home."

Chang Xia turned her head and saw the newly built white circular building on the hill with the yellowed woods behind Chang Dong.

It is a very strange scenery, with cliffs with no grass growing on one side, and a living paradise artificially built on the other.

In a few decades, the edge of the cliff will be sharpened by the wind, and the trees will fall to one side, farther and farther away from the mainland.But on the other side, Chang Xia holds Chang Dong's hand and walks on the way home. Even if the side they are walking is getting farther and farther away from the mainland, there will be endless life.

Until thousands of years.

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