Global Natural Disasters

Si Nan, an office worker, unknowingly does a good deed by saving a girl who is severely injured and hospitalized. During her coma, she experiences recurring nightmares of struggling to survive in v...

Chapter 8

Sinan returned to the house, tossing and turning, unable to sleep. Not only because there was suddenly another person living with him at home, but also because his phone had just received a reminder from the local government department that there would be high temperatures tomorrow, with the temperature reaching as high as 40 degrees.

This was considered a new high in Xingcheng, where the temperature had been low for many years, and made her feel very depressed. She turned on the air conditioner to 25 degrees for the first time, and then she felt that the body temperature was much better. She locked the door and slept comfortably until dawn.

When I woke up, I was awakened by the crowing of a rooster and a pair of geese.

She opened her eyes and found that it was only about five in the morning.

Poultry are indeed natural alarm clocks. I wonder if they will be complained by our neighbors because of the noise they make.

Si Nan yawned, got out of bed and opened the curtains. A ray of dazzling sunlight shone into the room, forcing her to close her eyes and stretch out her hands to block the sunlight.

The sun rising so early is not a good sign.

It took her a while to adapt to the light, and she felt that the air was much hotter than usual. She stood in front of the window and admired the beautiful view of the river in the distance. She heard some movement on the balcony of the living room, so she walked to the living room and found Cheng Suming standing on the balcony, holding a shower head and sprinkling water in front of her vegetable basin.

Si Nan was a little surprised. He walked to the balcony and greeted Cheng Su Ming: "Mr. Cheng, good morning. You woke up so early. Were you woken up by the chickens and geese?"

"No, I was worried and didn't sleep well. I'm used to getting up early." Cheng Suming smiled and replied to her. After pouring the water from the shower, he walked to the chicken shed and added some feed to the trough next to the chickens and geese. He also added some water to the water tray. He bent down and poured the manure from the manure tray specially placed under the chicken and goose shed into the vegetable bowl to add organic fertilizer. He turned around and went to the bathroom to wash his hands. Then he asked Si Nan, "What do you want to eat for breakfast?"

"It's all right. There are ingredients I bought in the refrigerator. You can make whatever you want to eat."

Si Nan was very surprised that Cheng Su Ming, a city dweller with a good family, didn't mind the dirt at all and did things that only farmers would do. Seeing Cheng Su Ming walk to the kitchen, open the refrigerator, and look at the many ingredients in the refrigerator for a long time without moving, she frowned and said, "If you don't know how to cook, just sit in the living room for a while. I'll do it after I wash up."

She thought Cheng Suming would refuse. Although they were living together, they had only known each other for less than a day and were not familiar enough to eat each other's food.

She was just being polite. After all, brothers should settle their accounts clearly. When strangers live together, they naturally have to keep the bills for their belongings separate.

Unexpectedly, Cheng Suming didn't mean to be polite at all. He sat directly on the sofa in the living room, holding the remote control in his hand, turned on the TV, and said to her: "Then thank you for your help. I'm not good at cooking, and I'm not picky about food. I can eat anything."

Simon:......

Are people in the city so friendly? Do they really not consider themselves outsiders?

She finished washing up while muttering to herself, and went to the kitchen to cook two bowls of noodles. She deliberately put less chili oil and pepper oil in the noodles for Cheng Suming, as she was afraid that he, a rich kid, was used to eating high-end ingredients and didn't like heavy-tasting food.

The noodles were served on the table, one bowl was red, and the other bowl had just a little bit of red. The little bits of red were added with some green vegetables, a golden fried egg, and some cooked sesame seeds floating in the chili oil. The colors were bright and looked very appetizing.

Cheng Suming thanked Sinan, picked up the chopsticks, picked up the noodles, and ate all the noodles in no time, even drinking the soup.

Although he ate very quickly, he looked very elegant and didn't look like he was wolfing down the food.

Si Nan had only taken two bites when Cheng Su Ming finished the whole bowl of noodles. The key point was that Si Nan thought that Cheng Su Ming was a grown man and his appetite must be bigger than hers, so she specially cooked a little more for him.

Seeing him slowly wiping his mouth with a tissue, Si Nan looked as if he had seen a ghost: "Are you full? If not, I'll cook more. Are the noodles I cook so delicious?"

"Your cooking skills have always been to my liking. No matter what you cook, I like it." Cheng Suming smiled at her: "I'm full, no need to cook anymore. Wait until you finish eating, then we can talk."

Si Nan felt strange. What did he mean by cooking to his liking? He said it as if she was an old acquaintance. They had clearly never met before yesterday. He didn't know what he wanted to talk to him about.

Si Nan finished her noodles. Before she could stand up, Cheng Su Ming took the bowl from her hand, walked to the sink, washed the bowl, and sat in front of her again. He looked at her with a gentle look in his narrow eyes and said, "Si Nan, if I tell you that I had the same dream about natural disasters as you a week ago, would you believe it?"

Si Nan's eyelids jumped, "What do you mean?"

Cheng Suming took out his phone and sent her two screenshots: "Are you the one who regularly releases predictions of natural disasters and doomsday?"

Si Nan looked down at the screenshot. Wasn't that the doomsday prophecy she posted every day? When she posted, she had clearly made it anonymous and cleared all traces of her ID for fear of being targeted. How did he find her?

"Cheng Wei's parents are researchers who mainly develop network technology products. I am their nephew, so it is normal for me to know some black technology." Cheng Suming sent another screenshot to Si Nan: "This is someone who posted at the same time as you. I can't find his information. He should be a hacker. This is a post I posted a week ago. I don't know if you have seen it."

Si Nan looked at the screenshot of the poster she had wanted to contact and realized that something was wrong. Her eyes were solemn. "Just say what you want to say."

Cheng Suming put down his phone, his face heavy, "This story starts with the car accident I had a week ago."

He told Si Nan about his experiences in his previous life in the form of a dream: "Everything started with a sudden high temperature... We took care of each other and supported each other for five years in the end times. I gradually fell in love with you, but you didn't believe in so-called love at that time, and were extremely wary of all men. If I wasn't a doctor and had saved you twice in major disasters, I'm afraid you wouldn't let me get close to you... Later, you were discovered to have a space by someone you once trusted, and were attacked at night by the 'scavengers' led by that person. In the chaos, you sacrificed your life to protect me..."

When he said this, his deep eyes revealed endless pain, and his voice couldn't help but tremble: "It was me who failed to protect you. If I had noticed that person's thoughts earlier and expressed my feelings to you earlier, maybe we would still have a beautiful memory."

Recalling how the man led the scavengers and chopped her body in the most cruel way, Cheng Suming was shaking with pain.

She was so smart and strong, she survived the terrible natural disasters that followed one after another in the end of the world. Finally, when he was seriously injured, she couldn't bear to leave him. She hugged his injured body and said to him with tears in her eyes: "Su Ming, I'm very happy to meet you. I'm afraid I can't get through this today. I can't let you get involved. I will lead them away in a while, and you can run away when you get the chance. See you in the next life."

She hid him under a secret abandoned building and sealed his mouth with tape to prevent him from shouting and making noise, which would attract the men to attack him.

He watched her leave, watched her being discovered by those people before she had gone far, and after a long fight, she was ambushed by that man, her head chopped off with a knife, and her body was chopped in half with axes by the beasts, who pulled her organs and gathered around her, cheering like wild beasts.

The feeling of grief swept through his body like a tsunami. His heart felt like it was being torn apart by a hand. He howled in pain continuously. Regardless of the severe pain in his broken legs, he crawled towards her desperately with tears streaming down his face.

One step, two steps, three steps...it is so close, yet so far away.

The wanton laughter and chatter of those people were like the most poisonous snakes and scorpions, devouring all his hopes without leaving a trace...

Si Nan was shocked. She listened to what Cheng Suming said and wanted to say it was ridiculous. How could such things happen? But what Cheng Suming said was too real. It was completely beyond her dream. He even knew everything she had experienced as a child, the little secrets in her heart that no one knew about, that she didn't like sweet and sour food, and many other things she had overlooked.

The most important thing is that he knows her most important secret, he has space!

She had never told anyone in this world, except herself, that she had a space. If Cheng Suming's dream was true, then his existence would be a big trouble.

In peacetime, it is impossible for her to kill people to keep the secret of the space, and she does not have the courage to harm others. But if she does not find a way to make Cheng Su Ming keep the secret, her space will be like Cheng Su Ming said, once others know about it, it will bring endless dangers.

Perhaps seeing her look of doubt, Cheng Suming took out two small boxes and handed them to her, saying, "I know you don't trust me, and I don't want to explain too much. I imagined countless possibilities before returning to China, but I didn't expect that God would treat me well. You turned out to be Cheng Wei's savior and moved into my house. This is all God's will, and it's a chance for God to make amends for me! I've made preparations. The small box on the left can be used to hold me hostage, and the one on the right is a wedding ring."

"Sinan, marry me. Let me protect you as your husband and guard the secrets that belong only to us. We will support each other and survive the apocalypse together. We will never betray each other."

Coming out of the Civil Affairs Bureau, looking at the big red marriage certificate in his hand, Si Nan felt unreal and thought he was crazy! How could he listen to Cheng Suming's sweet talk and marry him so hastily to protect the secret of the space? They had known each other for less than a day!

Compared to her confusion, Cheng Suming's face was filled with happiness. He held Si Nan's hand tightly, fearing that she would run away. He called her "wife" all the time and stuffed several bank cards into her hands. "Wife, this is all my savings over the years, plus the assets I have dealt with recently, about six million. Buy whatever you want."

This was a huge sum of money Si Nan had never seen in his life. Si Nan felt much better as he held the bank card in his hand. Standing at the entrance of the Civil Affairs Bureau, he said to Cheng Su Ming, "Don't call me wife. Call me Si Nan or An Nan. We are married by agreement. Before I voluntarily sleep with you, you are not allowed to call me so intimately or have too many intimate actions. Do you hear me?"

Cheng Suming struggled for a moment, but finally let go of Si Nan's hand helplessly: "Okay, whatever you say."