[Cehua] The wind and rain are like dark

The inner city is where all the rancid smells come from these days.He Xiaoxiao staggered across the corner of the street, only to feel that he could no longer walk. The sensation of gold stars splashing in front of his eyes made him dizzy, and he tried his best to suppress the urge to vomit.He hardly saw anyone along the way, but as he got farther and farther away from the camp, the rancid smell became heavier and heavier.Although he hasn't seen anything yet, he knows in his heart that the entire city has become a huge cemetery.Every time he breathed out, he could feel that it was the breath of rotting corpses mixed with the plague, trying to attack from every corner of his body.But he didn't have time to think so much, his heart was beating extremely fast in his chest, one beat, another beat, poking his throat to force out the nausea.He bent down several times in a row, but couldn't spit out anything. He could only try his best to identify the way, and staggered towards the direction of the medical office.

The houses on both sides of the small street were silent, and looked dead and decayed, as if they had been abandoned for a long time.He couldn't remember how many times he couldn't walk anymore, so he had to stop again and wipe the sweat rolling down his forehead with his sleeve.The weather was overcast, and it was almost impossible to tell what time it was.Indistinctly, he seemed to hear someone's voice, but he couldn't identify the source, so he had to stand up and turn around one street corner after another.The voices of people are getting louder and louder, it seems that someone is talking, the voice is strange, it seems to be very close, but also seems to be far away.But there was a strange smell spreading around.

He Xiaoxiao's face turned pale, and he covered his mouth and nose with his sleeve almost without thinking. He hadn't seen anything yet, but he could already feel the hairs on his back standing on end, and the waves of coldness and heat felt like the tide From the back of my heart.The smell was the rancid smell that he was almost used to, mixed with a burnt aroma, and what was even weirder was the smell of boiled meat, which was greasy, with a little bit of fragrance and a strange fishy smell.The abdomen, which hadn't eaten seriously for several days, involuntarily made a sound, but the throat twitched inexplicably. He Xiaoxiao bent down with his head tilted, his shoulders twitched and couldn't spit out anything, but his footsteps couldn't stop. Turning the corner, a long street suddenly appeared in front of you, and people gathered in small groups everywhere.

He Xiaoxiao turned his head suddenly, but saw a group of people gathered together a few feet away, he couldn't see their expressions, he could only see their expressions like animals fighting for food, gathered around a big pot, the faint red color underneath The flames licked the bottom of the pot, the water vapor from the pot was not conspicuous in the midsummer weather, but the smell of fishy meat was already rushing towards his face, and the surroundings became restless, He Xiaoxiao suddenly realized that it turned out that People were sitting or lying on the ground all around, but their clothes were ragged, their expressions were withered, and even their faces were no different from this loess street.It's just that with the smell of meat, the expressions on all the faces became alive, as if they saw a beast of prey.

He Xiaoxiao opened his eyes wide and staggered back a step.All the people came from all directions, crowded together in one place, the sounds of fighting for food and shouting, mixed with the greasy heat, heat, and epidemic, rushed towards him as if they were alive.He couldn't scream, but his feet seemed to have understood the meaning in his heart. Although he was weak, he ran wildly driven by fear and nausea.His feet were caught by something, and he staggered and fell.No time to care about the severe pain in his elbow, he immediately struggled to get up, but immediately froze.

The pile of corpses was close at hand.In such a hot and dead August, the rancid smell was already unbearable.He Xiaoxiao was caught off guard, and the dead body's hand was withered and stiff, with rotten pustules growing on it, almost poking him in the face.He shivered and backed away as if he had been scalded by fire, but his eyes caught sight of the faces of the dead bodies in the pile of corpses, the dull color, under the half-closed eyelids, the dead eyes seemed to poke straight at his face.He Xiaoxiao heard a strange whine from himself, and his wisdom told him that he should get up and turn around and run, running all the way, no matter where he went; but another voice seemed to tell him that no matter how hard he ran, he couldn't run. Get out of this huge death cemetery.He struggled to back away, but he could hear himself whimpering, much like a dying cat or dog.It seemed that a few people walked past him, He Xiaoxiao couldn't see their strange eyes, they looked at him like a monster - no one came up to ask or help him, just let him struggle like this - Living is already good, who has the mood to care about others?

He didn't know how he struggled to stand up and ran wildly without looking back.There was a blurred vision in front of him, and his chest seemed to explode. He threw himself on the street pillar, gasping for breath like convulsions.Only then did he realize that he had arrived at the medical office.The two door leaves were half-closed, obviously in a miserable state of decay, he didn't even have time to catch his breath, he just slammed into it, the two door leaves made a heavy sound under his hands, a cloud of colorful dust was scattered in the beam of light Flying wildly, he heard a panicked scream that seemed to come from inside, it was a man's voice.

"Don't come here! Don't come here! There's nothing here! Don't come here!"

The tone was almost weak, but it carried a hint of hoarseness, like a scream before dying, and He Xiaoxiao suddenly exploded a layer of grains from the back of his neck to his spine.Before he had crossed the threshold, two people with disheveled hair rushed out from inside. They were as thin as two ghost figures, but their strength was astonishingly great. He Xiaoxiao was almost screamed out of pain when he was rushed towards them without hesitation.The two shouted loudly and dragged him out hysterically.

"It's me! It's me! I am... He Xiaoxiao! Let go—"

He was out of breath, and shouted a few times before the two seemed to understand suddenly, and withdrew their hands abruptly.He Xiaoxiao staggered to the side, only felt the golden stars bursting out in front of his eyes, almost before he could react, he heard a burst of sobbing and crying, he took a closer look, only to find that these two were Wanhua disciples who were originally in the medical office, It's just that at this time, it has been described as haggard, almost like a walking dead.A hot feeling was choked in his throat, He Xiaoxiao opened his mouth several times, but couldn't say anything, he could only rush forward and hug them tightly.I don't know how long it took before he heard his own voice, which was dry and filled with deep fear.

"You are still alive, it's good to be alive... It's good to be alive! It's good to be alive... Where's Junior Sister Luo?"

He saw one of them shake his head.The movement of shaking his head was very slow, so slow that He Xiaoxiao felt a layer of freezing chill in his heart that sealed his whole heart little by little.He Xiaoxiao opened his mouth, and he wanted to ask again, but his lips couldn't stop trembling, his eyesight gradually blurred, and the tears welling up in his eyes seemed to understand the meaning of this action faster than his heart.He Xiaoxiao trembled, that Wanhua disciple slowly turned his head, and He Xiaoxiao saw that his reddened eyes gradually filled with something like a mist.He followed his gaze and slowly turned his head. The door on one side of the wing room was open, and there was a dark gap in the middle, with no light in it. It seemed like a huge mouth waiting to devour something, quietly watching him.He knew that it was the wing room where several Wanhua female disciples usually lived.

He Xiaoxiao stood up slowly and walked over there step by step.The two wooden steps in front of the porch creaked under his feet, seemingly overwhelmed.He reached out and opened the door.Dim light came in from the side of the window sills, making the interior bleak.Only the hot breath spread quietly in this room.He saw a set of clothes on the couch, which were often worn by Wanhua's female disciples. It was a little dirty, but it was neatly folded.He Xiaoxiao stretched out his hand and picked up a hairpin resting on it.On the slender wooden hairpin, there is an equally plain black wooden bead hanging on it. This small fringe is gently shaking in He Xiaoxiao's trembling hands.Reflecting the little bit of dim light coming from the window lattice, the wooden beads looked serene and cold.He remembered very clearly, that day when he was out of the city with his juniors and juniors, Luo Xiaoxue lost her hair ornament and got off the horse to look for it. It was this hairpin that was in her hand at that time.

He Xiaoxiao turned around trembling, and the two Wanhua disciples had already walked up to him, leaning against the porch pillar exhaustedly, bowing their heads in silence.

"...Where is Xiaoxue... Where is Xiaoxue...?! Where is Xiaoxue?!"

The terrible silence spread like a plague. After a long time, no one knew who answered him in a low voice.

"...dead...buried, buried..."

"...Buried...Where is it buried?!"

His voice was trembling, but what answered him was still a terrible silence.

"Where was it buried?! Ah?!" He Xiaoxiao roared, "I'm asking you something! Where was it buried?!"

No one answered him.As soon as He Xiaoxiao raised his eyes, he saw a young and haggard face opposite, with red eyes filled with tears.Silence, still deathly silence.No one answered him.He Xiaoxiao turned around, supported the pillar with one hand, gritted his teeth and shed tears.Unstoppable choked sobs surged up wave after wave, he didn't seem to be crying, it seemed like he was vomiting unbearably.

"Senior Brother He, Senior Brother He!" The younger brother howled and rushed over, his choked voice was incoherent, "Senior sister is really...really buried—buried in the backyard, but we can't stop those people outside, we can't stop them -"

"...Brother He...you must have seen the situation in the city when you came here," He Xiaoxiao heard their sobbing voices, "the epidemic has long been... the cannibalism, it's been a long time! It's been a long time! It's been a long time! At some time, Senior Brother Gu told the common people that people who died from the epidemic could not eat and had to be burned with firewood, but everyone was so hungry that no one wanted to listen, and some people were too hungry to take it... The ones that haven't been burned... If we weren't lucky enough to find some grass roots and bark, they would have long ago—”

"...What about Aping...Aping...what about..."

While he was talking, he stumbled and wanted to go to the other side, but someone rushed up from behind and grabbed his arm.

"Senior Brother He! Senior Brother He! You can't go! Senior Brother Gu, he, he, he—"

He Xiaoxiao shook off their arms vigorously as he walked.Everyone didn't have much strength, and even though they were fighting fiercely, they all seemed weak, with an indescribable misery.The two juniors couldn't stop him, and they leaned on the corridor exhausted, gasping for breath.He Xiaoxiao forcefully pushed open a door, but there was no one there, and pushed open another door forcefully, a stuffy smell that hadn't been ventilated for a long time rushed out from the room, it was the smell of chronic illness, even though he was used to smelling it The rot in the city also involuntarily tilted its head.

He walked in step by step.Every step is like walking on three feet of black ice, and there is a chill coming from the soles of the feet.Under the thin sheets and tangled hair, he saw a haggard face.He Xiaoxiao stared at this face for a long time, and felt strange—this person looked like his junior brother Gu Ping, and he seemed to be someone he didn't recognize.His ashy cheeks were deeply plucked, and the little light coming in from outside the dusty window paper cast a false halo on his face.He Xiaoxiao stretched out his hand, and only when he touched the ashes-like cheek, did he feel his fingertips trembling violently.He Xiaoxiao was trembling, calling his junior brother's name in a low voice.

"...Ping...Ping, wake up, it's senior brother...it's me...you, wake up..."

The person on the couch didn't respond, He Xiaoxiao really wanted to raise his voice to wake him up, but found that he was trembling so badly that he couldn't raise his voice no matter what, so he lay down on the side of the couch, repeating Gu Ping's name in a low voice.It didn't seem long before he heard a slight cough.

It was Gu Ping who opened his eyes.He Xiaoxiao saw a dull blankness in those eyes.This blank gaze stayed on He Xiaoxiao's face for a while, He Xiaoxiao saw his eyes light up, and then his vision was blurred, he groped to grab Gu Ping's withered hands, while lifting his sleeves, he couldn't wipe them off. tears fell.

"...Is...Is it Senior Brother..."

"...It's my fault, it's all senior brother's fault, I shouldn't be angry with you," He Xiaoxiao cried bitterly, "Junior brother, I'll take you out, you—"

Gu Ping seemed to be stunned for a while.While crying, He Xiaoxiao felt his icy fingertips groping the back of his hand, but the palm touched was scalding hot and sticky with sweat.Those cold touch points flicked back and forth on the back of his hand for a while, but he heard Gu Ping speak, his hoarse voice full of anxiety.

"...Master...brother! You can't stay here...get out...get out...I'm infected with the epidemic—you..."

In fact, he didn't need to say it, He Xiaoxiao had already seen it at the first glance.But what is this?He Xiaoxiao turned a deaf ear to it, even though his eyes were darkened and he couldn't breathe, he still tried his best to stand up, wiped away his tears and said: "It's useless to talk less, since I found this place, you immediately follow me—— If you don’t move, you have to go—”

"Senior brother...I..." Gu Ping wanted to say something, but he took a short breath before taking the next breath, "I'm already... useless, you bring those two senior brothers—"

Before he finished speaking, he turned his head and coughed again.He Xiaoxiao could hear that he was extremely weak, coughing and choking, he had no strength left.He knew in his heart that with his own state, there was no way to bring Gu Ping back.A burst of desperation suddenly overwhelmed him, He Xiaoxiao propped up his hands and looked at Gu Ping in a daze.At the same time, there was a sudden commotion outside the door, the sound of countless people chasing and shouting, accompanied by the vain shouting and blocking of the two disciples outside, which made He Xiaoxiao feel panicked.He only had time to turn his head to look at Gu Ping, and just as he stepped out of the door, he saw a woman running in screaming from the other side of the yard, followed by a group of men.The woman was wearing a dirty and shabby dress, and her screams almost lifted the sky.

"Don't eat me, don't eat me—don't eat me!"

He Xiaoxiao froze on the spot, feeling cold from head to toe.Just in such a dazed effort, the woman had already rushed towards him, and she threw herself at He Xiaoxiao's feet, clutching the hem of his clothes with both hands, weeping and screaming silently.

"Help me! Save me—save, save me—"

The group of people following behind had already rushed to the front, before He Xiaoxiao could react, the woman under her feet screamed again, and rushed straight into Gu Ping's room with the open door behind him.He Xiaoxiao was already stunned in shock, but at this moment he yelled loudly like a dream, turned around and ran into the room, grabbing the woman and grabbing Gu Ping's wrist.The incoherent howls were mixed with everyone's cursing and footsteps. The woman held a pair of bony hands, tightly clutching Gu Ping's hands and the bed and refused to let go. He Xiaoxiao didn't expect her two reeds The great wrist can burst out with such great strength, and it can't even pull her away for a while.Her body kept shrinking inward in vain, but she couldn't reach the hands of the men who stretched out to her and pulled hard.He Xiaoxiao originally intended to throw her away with all his strength, but seeing this situation, he couldn't bear to use any force for a moment, and let her cry in despair.

"...Save me...Save me! Save me! I don't want to die—I don't want to die, gentlemen of Ten Thousand Flowers Valley, please do me a favor, save the little woman——save—" She grabbed Gu Ping's hand , screaming, He Xiaoxiao saw her staring red eyes behind her disheveled hair, and her pale paper face was almost out of shape, "Don't eat me! Don't eat me—don't eat me! Eat him! You eat her!" Him! He's dying! Eat him! Eat him!"

He Xiaoxiao's eyes were wide open, and for a moment he suspected that he had misheard that sentence just now—the hand that was supposed to be on the woman's wrist loosened, but immediately clenched it tightly again.

"Get out! Get out!"

"—Don't eat me! Eat him! Don't eat me! Don't eat me!" The screaming sound almost burst the eardrum.He Xiaoxiao only felt a bone-chilling coldness all over his body, reaching to Tianling. He wanted to protect Gu Ping with his backhand, but it was already too late.Her words seemed to give people some great enlightenment, there was only a short moment of silence, followed by the sudden sound of swearing and scuffling.Countless hands stretched out, each pair of ghost hands urging death.During the tussling and wrestling, He Xiaoxiao suddenly recognized this group of people, this crying woman who was unwilling to die, and this group of men were a group of people living in the nearby streets—many days ago, they had carried With a tall belly, she rushed in anxiously, begging her junior brother who was lying on the couch to save her life.He Xiaoxiao couldn't care about anything anymore, he didn't even know what he was doing, although he was exhausted at the moment, but after all he had practiced Huajian Xinfa, several men were knocked down by him during the fight, moaning and cursing The voice was louder and louder, mixed with the woman's sharp howl and Gu Ping's heart-piercing cough.The endless hunger has made the eyes of this group of people red.

"Why eat me...why eat me?!" The woman's wail couldn't last, her voice was completely hoarse, someone was fighting for food, and she was fighting for her life, "Don't eat me! Don't eat me! Keep it I’m still useful—eat him! If you want to eat it, eat him! It’s he who looked at my body and ruined my reputation! What’s wrong with me! What’s wrong with me—”

He Xiaoxiao turned around while wrestling, this slap did all he could, and slapped her backwards, several men took advantage of the momentum to grab her.He Xiaoxiao's hair was disheveled, he didn't have a weapon on him, he didn't have anything, he could only rely on his little physical strength to fight against this group of people who were driven crazy by hunger.But there were too many of these people, He Xiaoxiao hadn't eaten for several days, he couldn't beat this group of people who used to eat human flesh.While struggling and wrestling, his hands and feet were tightly locked by several people, and he received several severe blows on his lower abdomen, and a fishy sweetness came from his throat.He tried his best to break free, but his overstretched limbs and muscles twitched as if he had a mind of his own. He Xiaoxiao groaned in pain. Among the countless shaking hands, feet and figures, he saw Gu Ping's pale flash past. The bony hand grabbed He Xiaoxiao's clothes, and quickly let go under the strong pull.

"Senior Brother—Senior Brother! Save me...I don't want to die...I don't want to die..."

His eyesight suddenly became blurred, and He Xiaoxiao suddenly felt that everything around him was infinitely magnified and slowed down in his eyes, like a scroll slowly floating past his eyes.He suddenly remembered that he had painted countless paintings in his life, but none of them was as clear and ironic as in front of him.The surroundings suddenly fell into an infinite silence, and he could only see faces with different expressions that seemed to be floating in the water in front of him, blue, yellow, red, and pale faces, with expressions that were so hungry that they were numb, crazy but And calm.For a moment, he suddenly felt that he was already in the ghost prison.The sights I saw in the camp before were all faded away, they were nothing—they were nothing.The clamps on the arms have not been released, and the violently shaking scene in the field of vision is still extremely slow for some reason, as if they are all floating in the water.

These people—these people, are they still people?Is there anyone alive in this city?In other words, are these alive, or not human?In the last life-and-death moment, she grabbed Gu Ping's clothes and said that she would be willing to repay her in the next life, but at this life-and-death moment, she kept calling Gu Ping a woman who ruined her reputation, and incited this group of people. A woman who came to eat people, is she still human?And this group of people who look like mad dogs in order to fight for food, and those who eat women, children, and children in order to survive, are they still human?In this whole city, among all the living and panting things under the endless thick clouds, including himself, is there any real person?

He heard an indistinct laugh, low and frantic, and it was himself laughing.I don't know why, what's so ridiculous, but those countless laughter seemed to have their own will, and they rushed out from the depths of his chest. If there were no people behind him tightly clamping him, he would have Just laughed so hard.

"You...you...ha, hahaha, hahahahahaha—are you still human? You...ha, hahaha! Haha—hahahaha—you still, still...are you..."

The tightly held body was still struggling subconsciously, but he couldn't move. He heard someone whispering, but he couldn't hear clearly, but he knew what they were talking about.He has never been more aware than at this moment that under such circumstances, in this city that has lost all humanity, he can't save anyone—if he eats it, he can eat it, and it's the most convenient way to eat him too.He couldn't save his younger brothers and sisters, and he couldn't wait for Li Jin to come. He Xiaoxiao had no choice but to hope that he would reach the underworld of the underworld, and someone would join hands to climb the Wangxiang high platform.

"Take him away together!" He heard someone shouting loudly, with a kind of creepy excitement in his tone.He Xiaoxiao lowered his head, he found that he was crying, but actually laughed.But then someone hesitated and said: "No... I've seen this person, this person was with a soldier before, it's better not to provoke people in the barracks—in case...in case in the future— —”

These words fell into He Xiaoxiao's ears clearly, he raised his head, and couldn't help crying while laughing mockingly and heart-piercingly.They are still thinking about the future!Still thinking about the future!Where did it come from?Where did it come from?

"Ha, ha ha... ha ha ha ha! You..."

Someone tapped him hard on the forehead.Things within the range of sight shook violently, and He Xiaoxiao heard his heart screaming his junior's name, but his eyes were plunged into an endless darkness of despair.