Zou Shichu's eyes were dark, and he picked her up by the waist: "If you are tired, come home with me and rest."
Faced with the hug from someone who had once betrayed him and whom he hated so much, Si Nan felt genuinely uncomfortable.
She wanted to struggle, but she had no strength left. She could only lean weakly in his arms, silent.
Zou Shichu carried her out of the house. The light outside was very bright, which hurt Si Nan's eyes. She couldn't help but squint.
She was just about to open her eyes to see where she was, remember the route and be ready to escape at any time, when Zou Shichu got a handkerchief from somewhere and covered her eyes with it, and whispered in her ear: "If you are tired, have a good sleep. When you wake up, we will be home."
Sinan gave up struggling.
When Zou Shichu cheated on him with Jiang Feifei, they were in bed together and she caught them. He didn't give any explanation at all. Jiang Feifei even deliberately rubbed his body, calling him dear and asking her to respect and bless them. She still remembers the disgusting scene vividly.
I never thought that after five years, these two people would do anything to get to the top, even selling out themselves, and Zou Shichu even killed Jiang Feifei with his own hands.
While Si Nan was sighing over the retribution, she was also chilled to the point that Zou Shichu was truly a heartless bastard. If she wanted to stay safe and sound in his hands and keep her innocence, she had no choice but to be obedient and wait until her strength recovered.
Zou Shichu carried her into a car. She heard the sound of the car engine starting and drove for a long time, but she didn't know where it was going.
Her head was dizzy and she tried to stay awake, but the car was shaking like a cradle, and she couldn't hold on and fell asleep.
When I woke up again, it seemed dark.
She lay in bed for a long time before she remembered what had happened.
She struggled to get up from the bed and looked around where she was. She seemed to be in a basement, and the surroundings were furnished like a normal room. If there were no windows and no secret surveillance, she would not have thought that this was a basement.
She looked around and suddenly felt something was wrong. Why did the furnishings in this basement look so much like the furnishings of the rental house she had rented in the old community of Xingcheng before the end of the world? Even she didn't have that much money at the time and couldn't bear to spend money on food and clothing, so she only bought a simple cloth wardrobe online, and the color and decoration were the same as before.
These decorations were made by her before she broke up with Zou Shichu. How could Zou Shichu remember these things?
Si Nan felt weird in her heart. She wanted to stand up, but she had no strength and her whole body was still weak. It was much better than the dizziness and headache she had before. At least she could pull the trigger of the gun.
She sat on the edge of the bed and tried several times to stand up, intending to escape. Unexpectedly, she lost her balance and fell off the bed with a loud thud.
Probably hearing the noise she made, the entrance to the basement was opened. Zou Shichu strode down from the entrance, and seeing her lying under the bed, he quickly picked her up and asked with eyes full of heartache and worry: "How did you fall off the bed? Does your head hurt?" As he said that, he touched Si Nan's forehead.
"It doesn't hurt." Si Nan turned his head to avoid his hand, disgust unconcealed in his eyes.
"How can it not hurt? In the past, when you got hurt, you would tell me that you were in pain and asked me to blow on your wound and apply medicine on you. Now your head is all red from the impact, it's impossible for it not to hurt."
"You know that was in the past. Now, no matter what kind of injuries I get, my husband will take care of them for me. You don't need to worry about it."
Zou Shichu's hand, which was touching her forehead, paused in mid-air. He suddenly reached out and lifted the back of her head, pulling her in front of him.
The two of them were almost face to face, so close that they could feel each other's breath.
Zou Shichu stared at Si Nan fiercely and said, "You want to remind me that you are married? So what if you are married? In today's society, marriage is meaningless. Whether you are married or not, as long as I want you to be my bride today."
He said, throwing her onto the bed and reaching to unbutton the collar of the suit he was wearing.
Si Nan was startled by his action, and did not care about exposing the space in front of him. He directly took out his hand and gun from the space, pointed the gun at him, and shouted: "Don't come over here, I will shoot if you come over again!"
"Where did you get the gun?" Zou Shichu stopped what he was doing, and suddenly remembered that after Si Nan was kidnapped by the people in Changji Base during the severe cold, there was a rumor in the base that she had a spatial dimension. A cold light flashed in his eyes, "Is that rumor true? Do you really have a spatial dimension? Do you really want to shoot me?"
Si Nan didn't say anything, but silently pulled the trigger, aimed at his legs, and fired a shot.
Two gunshots rang out in the dark night. Zou Shichu was shot and couldn't help but kneel on the ground, looking at Si Nan in disbelief: "You actually shot me?"
His expression was one of extreme shock and pain. He couldn't believe that the woman who once loved him so much would one day pick up a gun and shoot him without hesitation.
At that moment, his heart seemed to be torn apart by someone, and he felt so painful that he couldn't help but burst into laughter, with hatred in his eyes: "I really underestimated you, it turns out that women are much more cruel than men! Very good, you are unkind and unjust, you'd better kill me now, otherwise you will never leave here!"
Si Nan frowned slightly. No matter what this man became, the memories of their more than ten years of companionship since they were in school would not easily disappear. She could kill him, but she felt it was unnecessary.
Apart from cheating and betraying her emotionally, Zou Shichu has never hurt her in other ways over the years. On the contrary, if it weren't for him, she wouldn't have met Cheng Suming.
She loves Cheng Suming, she is very sure of that, and Cheng Suming loves her too, she knows that in her heart.
The love and pampering that Cheng Suming gave her made her feel that the future was promising even in the difficult doomsday environment, and she never gave up her desire to survive.
She had no doubt that Zou Shichu was now crazy. If she didn't kill him, there might be many troubles later, but she didn't want to shoot him to death.
She half-knelt in front of Zou Shichu, looked into his eyes filled with anger and hatred, and slowly said: "Zou Shichu, don't be obsessed, ask yourself, do you really love me? From the moment you chose to abandon me and be with Jiang Feifei, you no longer loved me in your heart. You just saw that I was living better than you and that I was married to another man, so you were jealous and your self-esteem was at work."
Zou Shichu stammered, wanting to open his mouth to refute, but she spoke softly first, "I shot you, you must be very painful and hate me very much. But you have to remember that these two shots were for the harm you once caused me, and I am returning it to you. When I broke up with you, my depression worsened, and I was in great pain. I did many irrational things. At that time, my pain was much more painful than your current wound. Zou Shichu, I actually don't hate you a long time ago, otherwise I would have had many opportunities to kill you, but I didn't do it, because in my heart, I still remember the boy who accompanied me through the difficult years. We are even now, and no one owes anyone anything. If you really love me, then let me go, and we will go our separate ways in the future, and we will be well and never see each other again."
"Now, I want to leave here, Zou Shichu, I hope you won't stop me."
Si Nan used all her strength to stand up, lowered her eyes and watched the resentment and anger in Zou Shichu's eyes disappear, turning into a sad and painful look. She walked away step by step with unsteady steps, without looking back.
The process of leaving was very painful. I don't know what kind of medicine Jiang Feifei gave her, but it had a very strong aftereffect. She had to exert force with every step she took. She couldn't walk far before having to lean against the wall to rest, and she was gasping for breath.
The basement was very deep, with many stairs leading up. She finally climbed to the entrance, and then she heard the sound of Zou Shichu limping after her, enduring the pain.
She was horrified and climbed up desperately, using all her strength to push open the entrance to the basement, just in time to meet two soldiers who heard gunshots from the basement and wanted to go down to check what was going on.
The six of them looked at each other in shock. Si Nan reacted quickly, pointed his gun at the two soldiers and said, "Get out of the way! You are soldiers, I don't want to shoot you, but if you try to stop me, don't blame me for being rude!"
The two soldiers looked at each other and showed no intention of moving aside.
Si Nan rebuked coldly: "You are soldiers, wearing military uniforms, but doing things that help the tyrants to commit atrocities. Are you worthy of your status?"
The two soldiers hesitated for a moment. They were assigned by Commander Ye to work under Zou Shichu. They knew very well that Zou Shichu was a villain who would not give up until he achieved his goal. In order to get what he wanted, there was nothing in this world that he would not dare to do.
They all knew how much he valued Si Nan. If they let Si Nan run away, given Zou Shichu's almost insane methods, they would probably not have a good ending.
But Sinan's words reminded them that they were soldiers, and their duty was to protect the safety of the people and obey the orders of the military organization, rather than being trapped here and doing things according to the orders of a villain.
Si Nan saw their inner struggle and said in a soft voice, "Comrades, please cooperate with me. I will talk to Brigade Commander Zhou of the Army and ask him to transfer you away from here. I have some friendship with him, so he should give me some face."
Their eyelids twitched, they looked at each other again, and then silently moved away.
Si Nan thanked them and looked around, and found himself in a detached three-story building. Judging from the location, it should be a military barracks because there were many soldiers in uniform walking around outside.
Zou Shichu actually took her and hid her inside the military camp. If she didn't contact the outside world, no one would have thought that she was hiding here. It must be said that Zou Shichu was really good at finding places to hide people.
Si Nan ran out carefully. She didn't know if it was because this place was too remote, or if Zou Shichu thought that everything would be fine if she was locked up in the basement and there would be no need for so many people to guard her, but she didn't see any other soldiers when she ran out of the first floor door.
Unfortunately, the gate to the courtyard outside the gate was locked. With her current strength, she couldn't run far. After thinking about it, she turned back to the building, climbed up step by step, and finally stopped at the door of a room at the end of a corridor on the third floor. She quietly hid in the room and locked the door from the inside. She felt more secure.
This is a room for storing miscellaneous items. There is thick dust inside. It seems that no one has been here and cleaned it for a long time.
Si Nan searched for her cell phone and found that it had been taken away by Zou Shichu. Fortunately, she had a spare cell phone in her space. She was also glad that she was still within the Shishan base and had network coverage so she could make a video call.
She took out a mobile phone from the space. After the Shishan base resumed network communication, they sold the internal chip cards they developed to the outside world. The price was not cheap, and one communication card cost 500 points. She bought two cards and inserted them into the mobile phone card slot stored in the space, just in case.
She picked up her phone and called Cheng Suming. Almost the moment the call was connected, the person on the other end picked up the phone: "Anan, where are you?"
Hearing the familiar voice, Si Nan's eyes turned red and he couldn't help sobbing: "Su Ming, I seem to be in the military camp, but I don't know the exact location. I'll give you a location, you..."
As she spoke, she heard Zou Shichu's furious curses coming from downstairs, followed by the sound of groups of soldiers running around looking for her after receiving orders.
Are you unwilling to let her go?
Si Nan's nerves tensed up. He immediately hung up the phone, turned on the positioning system in his phone, checked the bullets in his gun, and found that there was only one bullet left.
Cursing silently that it was raining cats and dogs, she took out a crossbow from the space, installed iron arrows on it, and then moved out two heavy wardrobes from the space and placed them against the door.
After doing all this, she was so exhausted that she had to sit on the ground and gasp for breath.
Zou Shichu didn't find her downstairs and guessed that she should not have left. He checked the surveillance and found that she had climbed to the third floor. Regardless of the pain in his leg from being shot, Zou Shichu gritted his teeth and endured the pain, and climbed upstairs with others.
There were footsteps in the corridor. Si Nan knew that Zou Shichu was coming upstairs. Her heart started beating wildly and she suddenly regretted not shooting him to death.
"Da-da-da-"
The sound of men's leather shoes walking and stopping at the door.
Si Nan took a deep breath and waited for Zou Shichu to come in so he could fight him to the death.
Time passed minute by minute, and there was no movement outside. Si Nan felt anxious, not knowing what Zou Shichu was trying to do, but she knew he had not left.
She silently clenched the gun in her hand. If Zou Shichu dared to break in, she would kill him without hesitation!
No one can restrict her freedom. She is no longer the girl who would hide away in sadness and depression when she was wronged or bullied.
The two of them faced each other through the door for several minutes. Zou Shichu suddenly spoke up: "Xiao Nan, why did you marry him in the first place?"
His hiding place was exposed, and there was no point in pretending he didn't exist. Si Nan frowned slightly: "What does this have to do with you? You just need to know that I love him very much now."
"You still won't lie as always." Zou Shichu laughed softly outside the door and asked again: "If Cheng Suming died, would you be with me?"
"No." Si Nan answered without hesitation: "I will kill you and die with him."
Zou Shichu heard the expected answer, his heart was already numb with pain, he took a deep breath, was silent for a long time and said: "You can go."
Si Nan suspected that he had heard it wrong, or that he was playing some tricks, and he remained unmoved.
Zou Shichu limped away from the door. She still couldn't believe that he would let her go so easily. She held the gun in her hand and pointed it at the door with a vigilant look until Cheng Suming shouted anxiously from downstairs: "Anan, where are you?"
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On the way back, Si Nan leaned in Cheng Su Ming's arms, feeling a sense of unreality, and muttered to himself: "Su Ming, am I dreaming? Zou Shichu just let me go like this? Is he not crazy?"
Cheng Suming knew about her past with Zou Shichu, so he hugged her tightly, kissed her forehead and said, "It's all in the past, don't think about it. From today on, I'm not going anywhere. If I leave you, something bad will happen to you."
"Yeah, why is it so strange." Si Nan smiled weakly: "Those who are against me always seem to be able to attack me when you are not around. I even wonder if I am the reincarnation of the God of Unlucky."
"I won't do that anymore. I won't leave you again." Cheng Suming lowered his head, kissed her lips, and whispered, "Anan, I love you."
They have been married for five years, and this is the first time that Si Nan heard Cheng Su Ming say so solemnly that he loved her. She looked at Cheng Su Ming in a daze, feeling mixed emotions, including happiness, confusion, and not knowing what to do after being suddenly declared in love.
Just as she was considering whether to reply to him, "I love you too," the car stopped and they arrived home.
After Si Nan got into trouble again, Cheng Su Ming once again resigned from his job at Shishan Military Hospital and stayed at home to take care of Si Nan every day, following her wherever she went.
Occasionally, there would be patients who were seriously ill and asked him to treat them. He would take Sinan with him when he went out, and also bring Dahei and Dabai as bodyguards. He would feel at ease only when they went out together.
As the days passed, the drought became more and more severe, and the groundwater became less and less. The Shishan military tried their best to pump water, but it was still not enough for the entire base to drink.
The drinking water supply has changed from 1,000 ml of water per person per day to only 300 ml of water per person every two days.
Such a tight water situation naturally caused the land to dry up and crack, large areas of vegetation to die, and a food crisis to occur.
The crops and various medicinal herbs planted at the Shishan base had to be harvested early because there was no water for irrigation.
Without medicinal materials as raw materials, N79 infectious disease pills became scarce. An unprecedented scramble for pills broke out in Shishan Hospital. Sheng Youbin, who was at Shishan Hospital, witnessed one of the scenes.
The entire Shishan Hospital was filled with patients inside and out. Everyone wore masks and were standing or lying down, crowded in the hospital wards, passages, cashier halls, etc., actively cooperating with the work of the Shishan military, waiting for the second batch of N79 tablets developed by the Shishan military to come out for treatment.
But in the afternoon, a patient who had a rare mobile phone in those days contacted his family outside. After hearing his family talk about the situation outside, he suddenly became emotional and randomly grabbed a nurse to ask her if the N79 tablets were out of stock and if the Shishan Pharmaceutical Factory could no longer produce the medicine.
The nurse was startled by him and stammered, unable to explain herself. Just then, on her medicine cart, there were a few N79 pills for critically ill patients. The patient snatched them away and stuffed them into his mouth frantically.
When the others heard what he said, they were surprised and panicked. They gathered together and tried to grab the pills on the cart.
The corridor was packed with patients. Everyone was pushing and shoving the carts there, and fighting each other. As more and more people squeezed in, a stampede soon occurred in the narrow corridor.
One person fell down, and then groups of people fell down. At the entrances of the passages on both sides, many people who had heard the news rushed over to grab medicine. The people in the middle were squeezed so hard that they could not move and had difficulty breathing. They kept shouting for help, saying things like "I can't breathe, I'm going to be squeezed to death."
Sheng Youbin was in the middle of the aisle. As more and more people crowded in, he realized that something was wrong. He pulled the young nurse who was squeezed into the corner by the excited crowd to his side, squatted quickly, let the nurse step on his shoulders, lifted her up, asked her to open the ventilation fan above the aisle, and let her climb up.
The nurse struggled to turn on the ventilation fan and climbed up to the ventilation duct above. Instead of just walking away, she turned around, hung upside down, and used all her strength to pull Sheng Youbin's only arm and pulled him into the ventilation duct above.
Some people saw their actions and wanted to imitate them, but it was too late. The crowd was getting bigger and bigger, and the people who were squeezed in the middle of the aisle couldn't move at all.
Sheng Youbin and another person were lying in the narrow ventilation duct, gasping for breath. They lowered their heads through the gaps in the duct's air vents and saw that the people below had been squeezed into a large pancake that was tightly packed together, so tightly that it made people's backs chill.
Screams and cries for help were heard incessantly. Hundreds of people near the carts were trampled to the ground and lost their breath. The people who were stepping on them had their hands and feet squeezed together. Their faces were pale and their pupils were dilated. It was obvious that the air was stuffy and compressed in their chests due to the crowded crowd, causing them to suffocate and their heartbeats to stop.
By the time the army received the news and sent a large number of people to evacuate both sides of the passage and rescue people in the middle passage, more than half an hour had passed.
Nearly 50,000 people rushed into the narrow passage, which was less than 500 meters long and less than three meters wide, in an instant, and at least 3,000 people were trampled in the stampede while scrambling for medicine.
People's hands and feet were entangled with each other, many people fell into a coma, and even more had stopped breathing and their bodies were stiff. The medical staff and soldiers who came to rescue them couldn't pull those unconscious people away.
Sheng Youbin, who witnessed the tragedy, was still lying on the ventilation duct. The nurse beside him wiped the sweat from her forehead and said, "Sheng Youbin, luckily you reacted quickly and carried me up the ventilation duct. If we had climbed a few steps later, we would have become one of those corpses."
"I just instinctively felt it was dangerous and wanted to find a way to retreat. Fortunately, you didn't leave me alone." Sheng Youbin tilted his head to look at the nurse wearing a mask with approval in his eyes: "Xu Xiao, I was right about you."
Xu Xiao is a fat female nurse with a round face and a cute appearance. She is much fatter than other thin female nurses. She and Sheng Youbin are not in the same department, and they do not have much contact with each other.
The reason why the two knew each other was because one of them was a "one-armed" medical assistant who came into Shishan Hospital through backdoor connections and was laughed at by others.
One reason is that she is fat, unlike most of the slim and slender female nurses that everyone sees, and she is also ridiculed.
When the two of them were eating in the cafeteria or on night duty, they would chat with each other. After a while, they got to know each other and felt that they were connected by the same fate and sympathized with each other.
Xu Xiao said: "How long have we known each other? At least two years. Am I the kind of ungrateful person? You surprised me. You look skinny and have only one arm, but you can actually carry me. I weigh 160 pounds! You are the first person who can carry me. My family and friends all laughed at me for being fat and asked me to lose weight, but I have a physical problem and I gain weight even by drinking water. The moment you carried me, I was so moved that I almost cried."
Sheng Youbin was used to Xu Xiao's straightforward nature and smiled: "Don't look at me because I'm thin. When I'm not at work, I always exercise with my neighbors. Don't say you weigh 160 pounds. Even if you weigh 260 pounds, I can still carry you."
"Is that so?" Xu Xiao's eyes rolled, her cheeks flushed, and she turned to look at Sheng Youbin and said, "I have been laughed at for being fat since I was a child, which made me feel very inferior. I am 25 years old and have never been in a relationship. Before, I always thought that whoever can hold me up, no matter who he is, as long as he is a man, as long as he is not married and has no girlfriend, I must catch him. I wonder if you have a girlfriend?"
Sheng Youbin was stunned for a moment, and answered subconsciously: "No..."
"Great!" Xu Xiao cheered, "Sheng Youbin, from today on, I'm going to pursue you. Please don't look down on me because I'm fat!"
Sheng Youbin looked at her pair of bright eyes, and somehow his fair face turned red. He hummed softly, turned his head to look at the situation in the passage below, and waited for the people below to be pulled away before they went down.
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