absolutely hot

Su Ze followed Lan Aowen out of the TV station building, and they went upstairs to a black suv left by the men and horses outside the building.

Lan Aowen drove his car and rushed out from the crowd of zombies. There were a lot of zombies on this street, and the only sound in the car was the dull sound of the bodies of the zombies being knocked into the air.

At a certain moment, Su Ze seemed to hear Lan Aowen say: "Talk to me!"

Only then did he realize that his consciousness was beginning to blur. Although he tried his best to stay awake, he still collapsed against the car window. The unbearable high fever made him short of breath, and his chest heaved violently.

While driving, Lan Aowen anxiously turned his head to look at him frequently.Before he lost consciousness, Lan Aowen seemed to have stopped the car. He saw in a daze behind the windshield that there seemed to be a medical station on the side of the road.

Consciousness intermittently, as if Lan Aowen was still calling him one second, and Lan Aowen was no longer around him the next second, as if a part of the memory had been picked out.The groans of zombies could be heard from time to time in the medical station. After an unknown period of time, Lan Aowen came out covered in blood. His expression was anxious, obviously he hadn't found the vaccine.

Su Ze saw Lan Aowen opened the door and got into the car, and wanted to say you should stay away from me, maybe you haven't been infected yet, but he seemed to be sinking in boiling water, unable to make a sound.

Sitting in the driver's seat, Lan Aowen unscrewed a bottle of medical alcohol, and poured it clumsily on the wound on Su Ze's shoulder. The burning pain made Su Ze's vague consciousness clearer again, and he opened his eyes with difficulty. eyes, looked at Lan Aowen who had no idea how to treat him, but couldn't blame him.

Lan Aowen's curly hair was messy, and his eyes were flustered. Some filthy blood fell from his face onto Su Ze's shirt. Lan Aowen poured alcohol with one hand, and wiped the blood off his face with the other. Almost half of the bottle was poured, and Su Ze's pain nerves were numb, and he could only hear Lan Aowen talking to himself in disbelief:

"Will this be better..."

Then he bit open the sterile packaging of gauze and bandages with his teeth, and wrapped them layer by layer on his shoulders.Lan Aowen used up all the bandages and gauze in his hand, and put his last hand on his chest, just looking at him like this.

Su Ze looked at Lan Aowen's expression, that kind of indescribable stagnation, just like the moment before the snow mountain was about to collapse, how could it make him feel so distressed...

Lan Aowen leaned over and hugged him, resting his head on his uninjured shoulder:

"Just now in the church, I should have put the ring on your finger. People like you, God will bless you."

The voice was quiet and low, with a little sadness, Su Ze completely lost consciousness at this moment.

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The body could still feel the coolness, and his consciousness was on the verge of blurring. For a moment, Su Ze couldn't tell whether he was in the SUV with Lan Aowen, or at the bottom of the icy sinkhole, until he heard the pattering sound in his ear. The sound of the water seemed to be a high tide, his body was soaked deeper in the water of the underground river, the biting chill brought him back to reality, and those previous memories should be just flashbacks to some extent.

That time when he and Lan Aowen left the TV building and passed out in the car, he didn't wake up again, and what happened after that was only heard through other people's mouths.

There are some facts that are certain. The Obispo prevention and control center that John mentioned does exist. It is on a small island in the middle of the lake. There are only two ways to get to this small island-by taking a yacht ferry, or through the only one connecting Boardwalk on lake shore and islets.

But no one thought that when they arrived at the shore of the lake, what was waiting for them was Lou Zhan's convoy.

To be precise, it was Lou Zhan's vehicles and some of the left-behind convoy members. Lou Zhan took a team of people to the prevention and control center on Huxin Island in two small boats. Obviously, they also came for the vaccine.The reason why the pontoon bridge was not chosen was because at that time the pontoon bridge was completely occupied by an astonishing number of zombies after the outbreak of the zombie tide, making it impossible to pass through easily.

After Lou Zhan arrived at the prevention and control center, he was also attacked by a large group of zombies. In the process of breaking through the zombies, two small boats that were already in poor condition were involved in the artillery fire and were scrapped one after another.So they are now facing a problem-how to leave Huxin Island with the vaccine.

In the end, Lou Zhan contacted the left-behind team members outside the prevention and control center by radio, and he decided to "cooperate" with Lan Aowen.

Lou Zhan will provide a vaccine. In exchange, Lan Aowen, Xiao Mo and his party will be responsible for clearing the way for Lou Zhan and distracting the zombies on the floating bridge.

Su Ze couldn't imagine what kind of mood Lan Aowen had in agreeing to Lou Zhan, to cooperate with the enemy, or to cooperate in such a way of working hard, for the arrogant Lan Aowen, it was tantamount to suffering humiliation .

But in order to save him, Lan Aowen had no other choice.

The way of cooperation can be described as close to death. Lou Zhan's convoy provides explosives, and Lan Aowen and Xiao Mo are responsible for placing the explosives in the waters on both sides of the pontoon, and then leading the zombies to the killing range of the explosives.

This alone was already very dangerous, not to mention that they didn't have a boat at the time, and all the work had to be done by people in the water—the person who planted the explosives had to dive underwater, and the person in charge of covering could only wear a life jacket to cover in the water.

Not to mention that both explosives and bullets may misfire in the water, and placing explosives in diving is undoubtedly the most dangerous part, because that is the place closest to zombies, and the person who placed explosives cannot carry weapons for self-defense in order to carry explosives. Life depends on the cover of teammates.

In the end, he only knew that Xiao Mo was the person in charge of diving and planting the explosives, and Lan Aowen was the person covering Xiao Mo.

Even if there is no accident for Xiao Mo, this arrangement seems a bit inappropriate, because everyone can see that Lan Aowen and Xiao Mo are not on the same page, it is really hard not to doubt whether Lan Aowen will do his best to protect Xiao Mo , but because Xiao Mo and Lan Aowen were the best swimmers in the team, it seemed that there was no other choice under the circumstances.

No one expected that Xiao Mo would die unexpectedly in the end, which made what was inappropriate even more suspicious.

When he woke up, it was already three days later, and they were already far away from the prevention and control center. At that time, he only had one thought. When Lou Zhan's people left Chicheng completely, he wanted to go back and retrieve Xiao Mo's belongings.

But Lan Aowen refused:

"His body is horrible, I hope you don't go."

When Lan Aowen said this, he was very calm. From his eyes to his tone, he was like a person without prejudice, very reasonable and considerate. However, there was a hint of restraint under that calm appearance, but it was just that he was immersed in the unbelievable feeling at the time. He didn't notice the blow.

He was eager to know how Xiao Mo died, who was by his side at that time, whether he left a word, whether he died in pain... However, everyone in the convoy, Egg Tart, John, Beji, No one seems to want to talk about this topic.

He could only guess that Xiao Mo's death was just like what Lan Aowen said, it was horrible.

Until one time, when he woke up in the middle of the night, he vaguely heard Beiji, who was watching the night outside the tent, talking to someone.

"No matter how Xiao Mo died, it's best not to get involved if it's none of our business."

After a long time, the boy's hesitant and dull voice came: "I'm still on Brother Lan Aowen's side..."

"That's fine." Beji seemed to pat the boy on the shoulder.

The conversation ended here, but he was so terrified that he couldn't sleep anymore, his mind seemed to be wound up, and these compulsive doubts and fears kept circulating in his mind.In the early morning, he walked out of the tent and was in charge of watching his part-time vigilante egg tart fall asleep by the hot campfire. He took a gun by himself, wrapped his coat tightly and left the camp. Everything.

He walked two kilometers on foot, and found Lan Aowen who was loading food into the car by himself in an abandoned convenience store by the side of the road. Lan Aowen pushed the rear door and was about to get in the car. He must have noticed it from the rearview mirror. He turned around in surprise:

"Why are you here? You walked all the way?!"

Lan Aowen's astonished expression actually startled him. He turned his head and glanced at the glass window of the convenience store, only to find that his lips were pale and his face was completely devoid of blood. He looked much better than the mutated zombie just now. Where to go.

"I want to talk to you." He said in a deep voice.

Lan Aowen's lips closed subconsciously, he could see that Lan Aowen didn't like the opening remarks, and his whole body exuded a strong message of rejection.He was too familiar with Lan Aowen's micro-expressions. He pursed his lips, his Adam's apple was tensed, and his eyes flickered, asking him to keep silent.

"Let's talk about it later." Sure enough, the next second, Lan Aowen interrupted him bluntly, opened the co-pilot's door, and signaled him to get in the car.

He stood there motionless:

"How did Xiao Mo die?"

The surroundings suddenly became alarmingly quiet.Lan Aowen let go of the hand on the doorknob, and finally he pushed the car door shut with a "bang", facing the window glass, and snorted coldly: "It's still a question..." Turning his head and looking at him , "What are you doubting me about?"

"Can you be honest with me?" he said, "Xiao Mo is my best brother."

"Will you believe me if I tell you the truth?"

"Why don't you believe it?"

"I know what you are suspecting. I suspect that I asked Xiao Mo to plant the explosives. I suspect that I deliberately wanted to cover him, so that I could deliberately release water while covering him." Lan Aowen said faster and faster, and the more excited he was, the more he said. , "But that's not the case!"

He waited for a long time but did not wait for the words he should have heard after "the fact is not like this". He didn't know why Lan Aowen had such a reaction, why it happened to be the reaction he was most afraid of seeing, so he opened his mouth slowly and with difficulty. Said: "Don't you understand? I owe him a life. I just want to know how he died. At that moment, he was only with you."

The two of them just stood outside the convenience store, their individual figures reflected on the dusty glass, one at this end and the other at the other end.

"I didn't harm Xiao Mo!" Lan Aowen gritted his teeth and said every word.

"Then tell me what you saw?!"

The first time he yelled at Lan Aowen, Lan Aowen was obviously stunned, and stood there in a daze.He looked at Lan Aowen like this, and cried out in pain in his heart, you just say what you saw and what he was doing at the last moment before he died, I don't care how miserable and painful his death is, all I care about is how he died now Not sure!How did he die, tell me everything you saw, but why don't you speak? !

Lan Aowen remained silent, he raised his right hand slowly at the end: "I swear, Xiao Mo's death has nothing to do with me."

Su Ze looked at Lan Aowen who said this without saying a word. He swore in such a cold manner, as if he felt that his life was as cheap as an ant. He could die at any time, and he would not tell what he saw. .

He looked at the deep indifference in Lan Aowen's eyes, like looking at the endless seawater above his head when he was submerged in the water, feeling helpless as if he was suffocated.

"...Well, since you have already made an oath." He gave up and no longer argued with Lan Aowen, because he knew that it would not change anything.

Lan Aowen said, "Can I get in the car?"

He got into the car and was still sitting in the passenger seat of that SUV. Lan Aowen drove the car silently.He recalled that day in the car, Lan Aowen was so embarrassed and clumsy, sad and desperate because he didn't know how to save him, like a hard-shelled shellfish, finally opened his cold and hard body, revealing his naked and soft heart.He misses them so much and is so reluctant to part with them, but he also knows that they cannot go back.

Between deceiving himself and breaking with Lan Aowen completely, he chose to leave silently.

But do you think you can escape everything like this?When Bei Ji said those words to him, it seemed that there was only the worst ending between him and Lan Aowen.

But these are not important now...

The rising water overflowed his chest.

He is about to know the truth, with Xiao Mo...

He still hoped that Beiji was lying, that Lan Aowen was innocent, and that he was unable to tell the truth because of some kind of difficulty, although he couldn't think of what kind of difficulty it would be, which would make Lan Aowen, who is so possessive, feel innocent. I would rather let him go than tell the truth.

But please tell me, such difficulties really exist...

The icy water began to swallow the body's consciousness from the fingertips, and the footsteps of death came so gracefully and gently, the feeling of disappearing into this world bit by bit was not scary at all.

At the last moment of his life, he suddenly wanted to take another look at the bright starry sky, trying to focus his sight on the starlight above his head.

The starlight was sometimes clear and sometimes blurred in his slack eyes. He looked at it, and suddenly a light burst out from the corner of his eyes, as if a star suddenly burned at the end of the starry sky tens of thousands of light years away. He stared intently at this incredible scene. The scene, and then heard a "plop", as if something fell into the water.

The white light of the flashlight illuminated the shadows in the dark cave behind the water waves, which was very dreamy. He followed the light and saw a figure standing in the swaying water light and starlight. He was still wearing his familiar black raincoat, and pours of cold water flowed from the rock wall. He came down, passed the raised rocks, and hit his already soaked shoulders, as if they were glowing.

Lan Aowen's curly hair was wet and messy, trembling in the cold water, his handsome face like a seraphim was covered with mud, but his eyes were full of redemptive light.

Su Ze watched this man walking towards him, knelt in the cold water and hugged him, only felt that all the stars were sinking behind Lan Aowen's shoulders, the dawn that only belonged to him had arrived, sunshine, warmth, hope , all of them are back.