under the tower

Today Yanyi came home late, Ji Xi waited for him at home hungry, he thought that Yanyi was procrastinating or was caught up in some urgent matter.

Just when Ji Xi was thinking about whether to go to the martial arts gym to see what happened, he heard the sound of a key turning the doorknob.

Ji Xi opened the door, and there was indeed Yan Yi at the door, but his complexion was very bad, he looked almost bloodless.

Ji Xi was stunned for a moment, feeling inexplicably panicked: "What's wrong with you?" He asked, "Are you sick?"

Yan Yi didn't nod or shake his head, walked into the kitchen, he walked very slowly, as if every step was very strenuous.

Ji Xi followed behind him: "Yan Yi..."

"...I'm fine." Yan Yi said softly, "I'm just a little tired."

Following his previous example, Ji Xi reached out to Yan Yi's forehead and touched it.

It's not too hot, it's about the same as Ji Xi's own body temperature, and she doesn't have a fever.

He found that Yan Yi's eyes were full of red blood, and he looked really tired, as if his whole body had been emptied.

"What happened?" Ji Xi asked cautiously, "Can you tell me?"

Yan put a hand on the top of his hair: "It's really nothing, it has nothing to do with you."

He opened the refrigerator and didn't go shopping today. There wasn't much left at home.

"Are you hungry?" Yan Yi forced himself to say, "Get you something to eat."

In fact, Ji Xi was already so hungry that his chest was stuck to his back, but he said, "It's okay, so what do you eat?"

"I won't eat." Yan said.

"Then I won't eat it either."

Yan nodded his head, he really didn't have much strength, so he didn't say anything else: "I'm going to lie down for a while."

"Okay." Ji Xi eagerly escorted him to the bedroom, Yan Yi closed his eyes as soon as he touched the bed, and remained motionless.

Ji Xi doesn't know what happened, maybe it's just that Yan Yi worked overtime today, and he doesn't seem to have anything to do for him, he can only quietly stay by the bed, wait for Yan Yi to rest enough.

Yan Yi fell asleep directly until the next morning.

Ji Xi was also sleepy afterwards, so she lay on the side with her clothes on, and fell asleep without knowing it.

The next day, Ji Xi woke up with a sore back and a sore back. It was rare for him to wake up earlier than Yan Yi. The man on the bed was still sleeping, his breathing was calm, and his brows were slightly frowned.

Ji Xi looked at him quietly, then raised her hand to touch his forehead lightly, feeling the temperature.

Warm, not hot feeling.

Unexpectedly, with such a small movement, Yan Yi opened his eyes.

Ji Xi withdrew her hand and asked a little embarrassedly: "...Did it wake you up?"

"No, I was about to wake up." Yan Yi rubbed his eyes and asked, "What time is it?"

"It's past seven o'clock." Ji Xi said, "You slept for eleven hours."

"...so long." Yan Yi propped himself up to get up, his tone still a bit dazed, "Have you waited long? I'll make breakfast."

Ji Xi asked worriedly: "Are you okay?"

"Yeah." Yan Yi replied, "I feel much more comfortable after sleeping, I'm fine."

Ji Xi followed dubiously, Yan Yi's complexion had returned to normal, his movements were natural and full of energy, as if he was really just too tired from work, and he would be fine after taking a rest.

So after a while, Ji Xi forgot about it.

Near the end of the year, there was another wave of cold waves. At this time, the temperature in the Beicheng base had dropped below minus ten degrees. Yan Yi set up a simple stove at home to burn coal for warmth.

History repeated itself, this time the temperature plummeted, and the outside of the base was surrounded by a large wave of abnormal people who came out of nowhere.

The low-temperature heat-dispelling property of the aberrant is very strange. So far, scientific research institutes have not given a comprehensive answer, but only said that the aberrant will behave abnormally after the temperature reaches a certain extreme value, but will this extreme value change over time? And climate change, even changes due to individual differences between different aberrants, are all unknowns.

Because the mutants might break through the city gate at any time, the emergency alarm was sounded in the base, and all non-essential production operations were stopped. Yu Chengyuan had to take Ji Xi's leave, and Yanyi's martial arts class was also suspended. Everyone stayed at home and was worried. Waiting for this wave of attack to pass, or praying that the base army will return triumphantly like every time before.

Because production has stagnated, prices have ushered in another wave of skyrocketing. The green vegetables that were about [-] a catty before have risen to more than [-] a catty, almost doubled, not to mention all kinds of other daily necessities.

An atmosphere of constant panic spread over the base.

This is the first time that Ji Xi has experienced the siege of abnormal people in the city. Before that, there were occasional incidents of collective siege by abnormal people in Shencheng, but that was not within the scope of Ji Xi's concern.

The highest governing body of the Beicheng base is a spiral tower with thousands of arches cast directly into the outer wall of the tower. The outermost layer is all made of copper pillars, just like the Tower of Babel built by God in the Bible.

Looking from afar, all the residents of the base could see that in the center of the base, a sky-high tower pierced into the clouds, like a sea-fixing needle, piercing straight through the center of the storm in the dark clouds.

It is similar to the Pearl Tower in Shencheng Base.

This majestic and extremely tall tower will always be the light of people's spiritual sustenance, and the guiding lighthouse for sailing on the perilous ocean.

However, the fact is that countless helicopters were parked on the tarmac of the Pearl Tower all year round. Learning how to fly various types of aircraft and other common means of transportation was one of Ji Xi’s compulsory courses.

The Ji family has already made all plans - in the worst case, once the gate of the base is breached by the mutants, these high-ranking and famous clans will directly flee by helicopter, leaving the civilians underground to be ruthlessly gnawed by the mutants Eat and destroy.

Heavy snow was still falling, dark clouds covered the top, and the waves were treacherous. Rao, it was daytime, and the surrounding area was almost dark, making people instinctively feel an extremely oppressive and heavy atmosphere.

Ji Xi looked at the tall tower representing the ruling class of the Beicheng base that went straight into the sky. Its top shone with bright white light like a bright moon and stars, like a bright artificial planet, and there were people running away in a hurry on the street from time to time. Spread fears that the world is coming to an end.

There is an absurd sense of eccentricity.

Ji Xi and Yan Yi still lived their days as before. This abnormal crowd did not bring much change to their lives. After all, it was no surprise to Yan Yi. To Ji Xi, his thoughts were more Simple, since there's nothing he can do about it, don't spend any more energy worrying about it.

The only impact is that their meager savings have bottomed out again.

During the New Year, the deformed people who besieged the outer city have not all receded. In the small alleys of the sick wood area, every house is brightly lit. Some people have a piece of red paper or a lantern made of red paper pasted on the door. The custom left over from the century, chat table to celebrate.

Under the current situation, everyone was not in a lively mood, but Yan Yi went to the vegetable market that day and spent a lot of money to buy some vegetables and a small box of quick-frozen beef.

They moved out a large pot from home, which was supposed to be used to stew mish-mash, and then lit a small electric stove, put the large pot on top of the electric stove, put the lettuce aside, and put sesame paste, soy sauce, tempeh, Chili powder is mixed together to make a dipping sauce - Yan Yiguan calls this way of eating hot pot.

Ji Xi had never eaten this stuff before, and was very interested in the whole process.

The boiling soup was bubbling and bubbling, the warm yellow light illuminated the room brightly, and the hot steam blurred the man's handsome three-dimensional face, making him look like an unreal virtual image.

"Drinking?" Yan Yi asked, "Chinese New Year, be happy."

Ji Xi nodded happily, he used to socialize a lot, and he was good at drinking.

He drank himself to the point where he was half-drunk and didn't continue. The reality and the past seemed to be stretched tightly on the unbroken string, pulling each other left and right, looking for a continuation of the virtual image in front of him. Go down to balance.

Cannons and gunshots sounded outside from time to time, Ji Xi's face was reddish, her head drooped, and she rested on Yan Yi's shoulder with no strength. They were nestled together in a dilapidated house, like two beasts that depended on each other. , and briefly hid in the same cave, waiting for the storm to pass.

Lu Mingxiu has asked Yu Chengyuan to bring news, saying that everything is well arranged.

When the wind and snow pass, he will leave.

Fish play in the shallows, dragons swim in the abyss, and good birds choose good trees to live in. Ji Xi is always sober and understands that sooner or later he will return to the position that belongs to him.

And all he has now—

Nothing like a mirage, a mirror and a mirror, everything is a dream.