black vine fairy tale

It has been two years since the "Doomsday" came.

Zhang Xinlin wiped the black stain on his hands vigorously.

Half an hour ago, he was attacked by mutated vines.The final result of the battle was like this - the huge black vine writhed in pain on the ground, the thick skin twitched constantly, as if howling mournfully, and the black juice from the fracture splashed straight onto the ceiling.

That's right, the ceiling.This place used to be an ordinary residential building in a city. Zhang Xinlin is now sitting on a sofa that has been completely ashamed. On his left, sits the skeleton of the owner. trace.

Zhang Xinlin was very tired. If he hadn't been extremely tired from running around for several days, he wouldn't have been so embarrassed by this vine.

Fortunately, the vine has not acquired strong toxicity.Zhang Xinlin thought while wiping the stain.His brain was a little hypoxic, dizzy, and thirsty as hell, and he vaguely felt the pain in his back, urging him to deal with the wound.

He just sat on the sofa, wiping his hands slowly and vigorously.He felt that he should first find water to drink, and then open the backpack to use disinfectant and bandages to bandage the wound; perhaps these two actions should be reversed, and he should treat the wound first and then find water.But he still didn't get up in the end.The curtains with large mold stains could not cover the afternoon sun, so he was like this, his thoughts were floating up and down in the drowsy light, but he was still repeating that movement with his hands, even though the stains had been cleaned, he still Did not stop.

Zhang Xinlin vaguely realized that this vine might not be non-toxic, but had a slow-onset psychotoxin, which made him mentally depressed.No wonder he, who has experienced many battles, was still successfully attacked by this vine. The moment he stepped into this room, he might have been poisoned.

Get out of here quickly.The severed arm of the vine was still rolling unyieldingly on the ground, the black sap from the broken part flowed more and more, and a clear fragrance gradually rose in the room.

Zhang Xinlin struggled to stand up, but she could hardly feel the existence of her limbs.According to common sense, at this time, he should have an alarm bell in his heart, force his will, and stay away from this house, but the mental toxin came quietly, and before he knew it, he felt as if he had fallen into a warm and clear The lingering aroma also became sticky.

This feeling is very familiar.Zhang Xinlin's eyes narrowed unconsciously.Where is it?where is this

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By the way, he should be sleeping in the rented apartment by now.

Zhang Xinlin's eyes were completely closed.Behind the dilapidated curtains, black shadows flashed from time to time, and there was a loud noise in the distance. The owner's headless corpse was shaken and fell on Zhang Xinlin.The vines on the ground gradually stopped moving, but the black juice was still flowing silently.

Zhang Xinlin didn't know it, and gradually fell into a distant dream.

He slept late today, and the sunlight outside seemed to be very good.Zhang Xinlin thought endlessly.

In his dream, he rolled over and sank deep into the warm and soft blanket.What a cozy atmosphere, he hasn't been like this for a long time... No, isn't he like this every day?

What was he going to do today... Zhang Xinlin tried hard to recall, but couldn't remember anything.

Graduation... yes, graduation.Today, he graduated from college.Outside the dream, Zhang Xinlin's feet moved slightly, as if she was eager to leave.In the dream, he had already jumped out of bed and rushed to the bathroom to wash up.

Why did I sleep for so long? What if I miss the graduation ceremony?It takes at least 10 minutes to go from the rented apartment to the university playground.what time is it now?Zhang Xinlin turned on the phone, but the screen was blurry, and he couldn't see the time clearly.

He didn't know what preparations he had done, he just felt anxious and busy.The next moment, he was already standing by the door, ready to go.There is an umbrella and a small box on the shoe cabinet.He didn't notice the umbrella, and he didn't pick up the locket.He rushed out the door directly.

In the sky, the sun was hanging very high, and he felt drenched after he hadn't walked far.But there are fewer people and cars on the road.Zhang Xinlin felt a little strange, this road is usually very lively, why is it a bit deserted today?He didn't think about it, and hurried to the playground under the hot sun.He remembered that when he passed by yesterday, he saw that a stage had been set up on the playground, and rows of chairs were neatly placed.

However, when he stood at the entrance of the playground, he saw that all the chairs had been put away, a few more tents had been set up beside the playground, and a group of people were tearing down the stage.There wasn't a single graduate in a gown on the playground.

Zhang Xinlin was still at a loss, a person next to him called him.In the dream, he didn't hear what the man said, but his body moved and he ran towards the gymnasium.

By the way, he remembered - the graduation ceremony was temporarily moved to the closed gymnasium of the school.

While running, Zhang Xinlin covered the sun with his hands—the sun was getting hotter and hotter, and the dazzling light made him dizzy.He felt like he was getting wet.

Outside the dream, there was a loud noise from the window, and the glass scattered.Then, a man jumped in.The curtains, which had been spoiled by mildew for two years, finally fluttered to the ground with a sound of tearing.The sunlight outside the window shone directly on Zhang Xinlin's face, Zhang Xinlin frowned slightly.

The man paused, observed the situation, and then immediately made a decision, swept away the skeleton lying on Zhang Xinlin's shoulder, picked up Zhang Xinlin, kicked open the door and ran out.He inhaled a bit of poisonous gas, and his body swayed for a moment, but it was only for a moment; the next second, he returned to his original state, and disappeared without a trace within a few breaths.

Zhang Xinlin is still dreaming.

He finally made it to the gym.At the graduation ceremony, he couldn't remember who said what. The faces of the people around him were also very blurred. Occasionally, one or two clear faces flashed by, but they just greeted him and left.Zhang Xinlin wondered why his friends left after only saying a word to him; but then he found out that he left in a hurry.But what exactly he wanted to do, Zhang Xinlin couldn't remember at all.

He searched all over the gymnasium and ran outside again.The sun was still so dazzling, and he was soaked to the skin not long after he went out.He seemed to be holding something heavy in his hands, and his hands were trembling slightly.He lowered his head, but only saw a fluffy white paper.

After searching half of the campus, Zhang Xinlin finally stopped.

He saw a person, standing a few steps away from him, with his back turned to him, looking at the sculpture by the corridor.

Zhang Xinlin didn't move at this moment, quietly watching the man reach out and wipe something on the sculpture.

Who is that?Zhang Xinlin forgot.

He wanted to say hello, ask him—what?Zhang Xinlin was puzzled.do i remember him

The two stood like this, the sun above their heads became more and more blazing, and the dazzling light made people dizzy.There was no sound around.

Who is that?Who are you?

Zhang Xinlin stretched out his hand to wipe, his face was wet.It's really hot today, he thought.

Zhang Xinlin wanted to walk forward, at least to say hello to that person, but just as he took a step, everything around him was suddenly distorted, and a sharp sound erupted out of nowhere, like an alarm, like a scream—up and down the road Ups and downs, swaying, he fell to the ground, but it didn't hurt, like falling on cotton, accompanied by bumps and screams, he became more and more drowsy, his brain hurt like it was going to explode; the tall trees and street lamps on both sides were also twisted into Disordered lines, the unusually hot sun in the sky gradually distorted into a red-gold vortex, but the light dimmed, dimmed——

After Zhang Xinlin got rid of the dizzy feeling, the first feeling was cold.Something cold dripped on his face.He opened his eyes abruptly—

The rain poured down.He was drenched.There were no cars or people on the road.On the open-air playground where the graduation ceremony was held, several people were tearing down the stage.

Zhang Xinlin looked up, but there was no sun.The gloomy sky seemed to hang down and hit the earth, bringing a heavy rain curtain, and all the colors were dimmed in the pouring rain.

He stood in the cold rain, strangely, after waking up for a while, he was not very cold, his whole body was warm, and the cold scenery around him seemed to be just a movie.

He walked to the sculpture.

It was a sculpture of a dandelion, and the small umbrella of a dandelion seemed to be able to blow away with the wind in a second.

The person who just stood here has disappeared.

Zhang Xinlin raised her hand and placed it where the man had just let go.That's the base of the dandelion's leaves, because there's a little groove where the rainwater collects.Zhang Xinlin wiped away the accumulated water, but in the next second, the water accumulated again.

Zhang Xinlin suddenly felt very tired. From the bottom of his heart, the deepest part of his soul, exhaustion surfaced.His shoulders slumped, as if he could no longer bear the weight of the rain curtain.He was drenched all over.He raised his hand to touch it, his face was wet.It's raining hard, he thought.

He closed his eyes again.The sound of rain fell on his ears, and it was noisy.

"Zhang Xinlin? Zhang Xinlin!"

Zhang Xinlin slowly opened his eyes.

Someone is calling his name.His vision was a little blurry, and it took several seconds before he realized that he seemed to be lying on his back.The figure in front of him gradually became clear.

"Mu Shuo?" He was still in a daze, and subconsciously called out a name.When he opened his mouth, the hoarse voice surprised him a little.

The man who rescued him just now knelt and sat beside him, with his head bowed, but after hearing the name, he buried his head even lower, not daring to look at him.

Zhang Xinlin moved her arms and legs and sat up slowly.He is still a little groggy now, and he can't remember where he is.

Zhang Xinlin felt a little puzzled, looked around, and felt something strange on her face, raised her hand to touch it, it was wet and full of water.

The touch brought him back to reality in an instant.He slowly remembered that the "doomsday" had already come.It has been two years since the graduation ceremony.

He looked at the furnishings in front of him in a daze, which was completely different from his apartment.The slightly damp coat covered his body to maintain his body temperature, and on one side were a few canned cans and some terrible animal parts, all of which were food.There are some ointment bandages and other objects in the distance.This place looks like an abandoned warehouse, not very big, without windows, but there is a hole in the wall, and the moonlight shines in, shining on the swaying firewood inside the house.

Zhang Xinlin gradually regained consciousness.He wiped the water off his hands.He collected himself, and said to the person kneeling beside him, "Chen Ling, thank you for saving me." His voice was cold as usual, and the hoarseness just now seemed to be just an auditory hallucination.

Only then did Chen Ling dare to raise his head tremblingly. Seeing that Zhang Xinlin was fine, he breathed a sigh of relief: "This is what I should do."

Zhang Xinlin was silent for a while.There seems to be a heavy layer of dead air floating in this abandoned warehouse.

Afterwards, he said to Chen Ling, "Let's go."

Chen Ling raised his head abruptly. The eyes of such an iron-blooded man were gradually turning red.Zhang Xinlin didn't seem to notice it, and his tone was flat: "You take all the supplies away. There are still survivor organizations in this city. Go find them. With your ability, you should be able to live well."

Chen Ling stood up suddenly, grabbed Zhang Xinlin's shoulder, and said tremblingly: "Zhang Xinlin, Mu Shuo entrusted you to me before he died, I can't...I can't do this!"

Zhang Xinlin was very tired.Tiredness floated up like a tide through that dream.He stared at the crack in the wall, outside the crack was the watery moonlight.

After a long time, he opened his mouth, still in a dead silent voice that didn't know whether to be happy or angry: "You have saved me twice, which is enough to pay for Mu Shuo's kindness in saving your life. Now, let's go."

Chen Ling's hands holding his shoulders were like iron welds, and he was a little choked up at this moment: "Zhang Xinlin, you..."

All supplies were taken away, which meant no clean water, no food, no weapons.Even if Zhang Xinlin is very skilled, he will not live for a few days.It's almost |suicide manifesto.

Zhang Xinlin smiled at this time.Since the arrival of "Doom", he rarely smiles.With this smile, the flamboyant young man in the university seemed to be back.He said to Chen Ling: "Let's go. The two of us must live at least one."

Zhang Xinlin's head was still hurting, and he vaguely felt that the poison of the vine was not simple.His hands were a little weak, and he rubbed his painful head, but he couldn't relieve the pain at all.He smiled helplessly and said, "I'm poisoned, and I don't have much time." Actually, he wasn't sure, but in order to force Chen Ling away, he could only say so.

"The vines in that house are highly poisonous. As soon as I entered that house, I inhaled the poisonous gas. Then I fought for too long. There is no way to cure the poison. Look at you, you should save me and leave immediately , the poisoning is not deep, it’s nothing serious. But I don’t think I have much time left.”

Chen Ling stared at Zhang Xinlin's face, trying to find traces of his lying on it, but in the end, he could only kneel down: "At least, let me send you away in the end."

Zhang Xinlin shook his head: "It's not necessary. Besides, I'm not looking for death. I have to spend the last period seriously."

Zhang Xinlin said: "Mu Shuo...Mu Shuo saved you after a narrow escape. If you were dragged down by me and died like this, it would go against his original intention."

Chen Ling still knelt on the spot.Zhang Xinlin patted him on the shoulder: "Let's go. Aren't you still looking for your sister? Don't waste your life on unnecessary things."

"In this last time, I also want to go alone."

In the end, Chen Ling still couldn't convince Zhang Xinlin, and was driven away by Zhang Xinlin when the morning light was twilight.Although Zhang Xinlin said it was unnecessary, Chen Ling still left almost all the supplies for him, and he only took a knife and odds and ends that were not easy to carry.

Zhang Xinlin watched Chen Ling walk away step by step.

Many faces flashed through his mind.

Ding Yun, a boy who was only 12 years old, when they passed by a small shop, he found a piece of toffee, which had expired, but he was still very excited, holding the toffee and reluctant to eat it.Then, they were attacked by mutated spiders.Before being dragged away by the spider, he threw the candy to his favorite Mu Shuo.But after a breakout, the candy was lost along with the bullet.

Zhou Ming, just over twenty, used to be a medical student, studying pharmacy. After the "doomsday" came, the school disappeared, and they went around and followed Mu Shuo to survive.In the end, due to insufficient medicine, he died of infection.Before he died, he gave Mu Shuo one of his diaries, which he wrote after the "doomsday" came to encourage him to persevere in life.Now that he is going to die, please ask Mu Shuo to live on his behalf.But in a fire, that notebook was reduced to flying ash.Also turned into ashes was a book of poetry.

It was a collection of poems by Zhu Yingting, a girl who was only sixteen years old.Mu Shuo rescued her from the siege of mutated birds. She likes literature, and her compositions were often circulated in school.In the last days, she also insisted on being romantic. On many nights, she would read poems for everyone, and she copied all the poems she wrote.In the apocalyptic world, no one snatches stationery, so she and Zhou Ming would choose the notebooks and pens she likes in the stationery store. After choosing, she bowed to the counter and wished the owner of the store well.

And then... Mu Shuo.

Zhang Xinlin's headache was severe.

Mu Shuo grew up with him, and was admitted to a university in the same city.After graduating from high school, the two officially dated.After the university graduation ceremony... Zhang Xinlin remembered the small box he forgot to bring before going out in his dream.

After the graduation ceremony, he proposed to Mu Shuo, right in front of the dandelion statue.

Then, "the end" came.

Mu Shuo took him away, and the two met many people on the road, from Chen Ling at first, to Ding Yun, Zhou Ming, Zhu Yingting, and others.Those times were extremely difficult, but Zhang Xinlin was not afraid.He took Mu Shuo's hand and said that they would live together until the end of the doomsday.

But just like the toffee, the diary and the collection of poems, Mu Shuo also left him in the end.The engagement rings of the two were also lost.

Zhang Xinlin curled up and fell asleep again.No one was guarding him right now, and he might be killed quietly in his dreams, but his head was really hurting too much.

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