Chapter 24 You are my home, the ocean that I never want to leave!
My name is Zhang Xiaohai, an ordinary person who has been struggling for two years in a strange world.
The reason I survived is not because I am so strong or how lucky I am, but because I have a lover who never leaves me.
His name is Liu Jiang. He always hugs me and says with a playful smile, "I am the river, you are the sea. The river always flows into the sea, so we are a perfect match."
Are we a match made in heaven? I still remember when I first met him, he was full of resentment, as if the whole world had wronged him.
One summer afternoon during my first year of junior high school, I took the money my mother gave me to buy review materials and, braving the scorching sun, prepared to take a shortcut to the bookstore across the street.
As I walked into the alley, I heard a loud noise and the sound of flesh hitting flesh. I was so scared that I hid behind the wall at the corner.
After waiting for a long time and seeing no movement inside, I cautiously stuck my head out and saw four or five yellow-haired boys walking out from the other end of the alley while cursing.
I patted my chest, stood up, and let out a long sigh. Fortunately, I dodged quickly, otherwise my small body would not be enough to withstand the other person's punch.
I originally wanted to take another route, but when I looked up, I saw the scorching sun in the sky. It had already reached this point, and those gangsters had left, so I decided to take this route.
So I walked forward quickly, but when I reached the middle of the alley, I heard a cough, which scared me so much that I shivered. When I turned around, I saw a young man with dyed white hair leaning against a trash can, blood gurgling from his forehead, and his eyes closed.
"Wow! Someone's dead." I jumped up in fright.
"Shut up." The white-haired boy spat softly, then opened his eyes and glared at me.
His eyes were red and looked a little scary. I shrank my neck, but still mustered the courage to ask, "Are you going to the hospital? Do you need me to help call an emergency number?"
The white-haired boy fell silent.
Seeing that his head was still bleeding, I couldn't help but ask again, "Your head is bleeding. If you don't go to the doctor, you might die."
The white-haired boy opened his mouth, then turned his face away, looking as if he didn't want to pay any attention to me.
Hi, I got a cold shoulder. I thought since I had already asked, it would be fine if he didn’t want to help. I was in a hurry to buy the review materials.
As a result, just as I lifted my leg to walk away, I heard a low voice, too soft for me to hear clearly, "What are you saying?"
The white-haired boy glared at me fiercely again, then said loudly with some shame, "I don't have any money."
Ah, I didn’t expect this to be the reason. I touched the two hundred yuan my mother gave me in my pocket, and looked at the white-haired boy lying on the ground, who seemed to be bleeding to death.
Should I save him or not?
Forget it, the teacher said that we should carry forward the spirit of Lei Feng and help others. Besides, if I don’t save him just because I have money, and he dies later, will he turn into a ghost and come looking for me?
In the middle of summer, my wild thoughts scared me into breaking out in a cold sweat.
"I have money. There is a clinic up ahead. It's my mother's friend. I'll take you there." Aunt Li from the clinic knew she was an acquaintance and would probably charge a lower price. I guess we could still have some money left to buy a book of exercises.
I thought about it and walked over, "Do you want me to help you?"
"No need." The young man said stubbornly, then supported himself with the wall behind him and tried hard to stand up, but failed after two or three attempts.
He looked up and saw me watching the show, and said viciously, "Are you blind? Why don't you help me up?"
Hey, what an ungrateful bastard.
I muttered to myself, reached out to help him up, and then found that he was actually a head taller than me.
The white-haired boy's half body weight was on me. I struggled to half-drag him forward, but after a few steps I was out of breath. "Hey, can you walk on your own?"
"Tsk, weakling." The white-haired boy said with disgust, but his tone seemed a lot lighter.
Then I realized he wasn't pressing me hard anymore, so we walked out of the alley supporting each other.
Walking out of the alley and onto the main road, luckily the weather was hot and there were not many pedestrians on the road, otherwise with the boy's face covered in blood, someone would probably have called the police.
We soon reached the clinic. I pushed the door open and helped the boy in, then shouted at the top of my lungs, "Auntie Li, Auntie Li, come and see me."
Aunt Li, who was resting inside, came out when she heard the noise. Seeing my face flushed red and smeared with blood from the boy, she was startled and hurried to help me up. "Xiao Hai, did you fall? Or did you bump into something?"
I wiped the sweat off my face and pointed at the person sitting on the stool. "It's not me. He's injured. Aunt Li, go check on him. Is he going to die?"
Aunt Li looked up and saw the white-haired boy's face covered in blood. She was immediately shocked and rushed over to check.
I saw Aunt Li coming over, pulling a plastic stool and sitting under the air conditioner to get some fresh air. Oh, it was so hot.
Aunt Li was busy with the young man in white. She first helped to treat the external injury on his forehead, and then found that the young man had a little heatstroke. She quickly helped him to the bed and gave him an IV.
After a busy half hour, I picked up my phone and saw that it was already five o'clock in the afternoon. If I didn't go buy the exercise book, the bookstore would be closing.
"Aunt Li, that's a lot of money. I'll give it to you first. I also need to buy exercise books. If I don't go, the bookstore opposite will close." I asked loudly.
Aunt Li came over and while counting the money, she asked me in a low voice how I knew this friend who looked like a gangster.
I was embarrassed to say I didn't know him, so I could only laugh it off. As a result, Aunt Li calculated it and found out that it cost 150 yuan. Then I remembered that the boy had no money, so I ran to the store next door and bought some food and drinks and put them next to the boy.
There are 20 yuan left, just enough to buy a book of exercises.
I said hello to Aunt Li and ran away.
I originally thought that my relationship with this gangster ended here, but when school was over on Monday afternoon, the boy with a head of white hair appeared at the door of my class.
It was only then that I realized that he was also a student of our school, two grades older than me, and a third-year junior high school student.
Hey, you’re already in the third year of junior high school, and you don’t study hard and go out fighting. You won’t be able to get into high school.
I murmured to myself that I should stay away from such a guy who didn't study well.
As a result, this person stuck to me like a piece of taffy.
We were together for four years. I was in my first year of high school and he was in his third year.
The white hair on his head had long since turned back to black. One day, with a buzz cut, he called me to the lawn where we often went.
"I'm going to join the army," he said to me.
"Ah?" I was confused. Didn't he say that he wanted to take the college entrance examination?
"My grades are not good." He scratched his head, "I won't be able to pass the exam."
"Why don't you take the college entrance examination before going, even if it's just to a junior college. Then you can continue your studies after you come back from military service." I was afraid that he would not be able to find a good job after serving as a conscript for two years.
He shook his head and reached out to touch my head. "Study hard and get into a good university. I'll come to see you then."
Finally, he left on a sunny day and embarked on his journey to join the army.
My life returned to normal, but there was one person missing by my side, and I felt a little empty and not quite used to it. I thought he would come back soon and visit me at my university.
As a result, two years and three years passed, and three years and three years passed.
I have graduated from college and found a job in the city where I graduated. I also went to his house to ask about his situation, but his parents had divorced long ago and each had their own family. I only knew that he was still serving in the army.
Maybe he has forgotten me.
I think.
The relationship between people is nothing but meeting and parting. Who is not a passer-by in someone else's life?
However, after get off work that day, I saw the tanned man, wearing a military uniform and holding a bouquet of flowers, standing at the company door.
The sour and astringent heat blurred my eyes.
He strode towards me and handed the flowers into my arms.
I looked at him and said, "Why did you come just now?"
He grinned, showing his white teeth, and said, "Sorry I'm late."
"Oh, don't cry. Why are you still so crybaby?" The rough big hands rubbed my face, scratching my skin and it hurt.
Was I crying? I thought I was laughing.
Laughing.
He found a job nearby and moved into my rental house openly, saying he would help me share the rent.
Some things, like water, always flow into larger rivers or even the ocean.
We naturally got together, and he immediately used his retirement benefits to buy us a house of our own.
He said that when he was in the army, he had been dreaming of a day like this, to buy a small house and have me in it, and his whole life would be worth it.
We thought that such beautiful days would continue like this forever.
Until one day, a blood moon appeared next to the bright sun in the blue sky, and the blood-red moon dyed the blue sky a layer of red.
Black vortexes appeared in the air one after another, and then a voice shouted, "Want to live? Struggle, ants."
The weirdness has arrived.
It turned out that some folk ghost stories or urban legends have come true.
The high-ranking official who had been secretly insulting children for years was hanged naked at the gate of the government building.
The man who beat his wife to death but escaped legal punishment was ripped open and his heart and liver taken out by his wife who crawled back from hell in the middle of the night.
The man who burned his wife and children to death but lived freely with his lover was burned to charcoal.
The unfilial son who sold his parents' house and kicked them out of the house in the winter froze to death in his bed.
The traffickers who had kidnapped the children were found dead in prison, their bodies covered in blackened little hands.
Those drug lords who sold flour were chopped into pieces in the villa.
Those villages that bought wives from outside and had children were wiped out overnight. Passers-by saw those thin women with loose hair dragging strong men and women with iron chains, beating them with thorns until they were bleeding, and driving wooden stakes into their bodies again and again, just as they had treated them in life. The men and their family members who assisted them in their atrocities, the howls of pain resounded throughout the mountains and forests.
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One piece of news after another quickly swept across the entire world. It seemed that all of them were about revenge and retribution, and they were all gratifying news.
At first, people thought that the so-called strange coming was just the retribution for the evildoers, and everyone applauded and celebrated. But a month later, the places where the tragedies had occurred began to emit a thick black air, and people passing by were caught in it.
Some people were able to walk out alive, but more people died inside.
This has become a vicious cycle. The more deaths there are in a place, the more dangerous it is. Some villages, some cities, and even some countries with heinous crimes have directly become strange paradises and transformed into strange areas.
The government of Daxia was the first to take action. They discovered that those who practiced Buddhism and Taoism, and even some hermit families, had ways and methods that could cause certain damage to the weirdness.
They acted quickly, and the army set up cordons outside each strange area to prevent ordinary people from accidentally entering, stabilize the economy, and teach ordinary people how to deal with the strange things.
Half a year later, Daxia was completely stabilized. At this time, the weirdness began to change again. They would randomly send invitations to humans. The invited people needed to arrive at the weird domain within the specified time. If they did not go, they would explode and die on the same day.
Daxia made many sacrifices in exchange for a piece of information: if they could find a way to conquer the strange domain, then the strange domain would disappear.
Even though the death rate is very high, those who are invited cannot refuse, but Daxia organizes a strange strategy team, who use their lives to help ordinary people to pave a bloody path.
Liu Jiang originally wanted to follow the country's call and join the Weird Strategy Group, but he was afraid that if he was not at home, Xiao Hai would be selected by the Weird Domain.
He is so weak and cries so much, he can't survive without me.
Time and again, like all ordinary people, they struggle to survive in this strange world.
They have witnessed many separations and deaths, and they feel more and more that as long as both parties are still alive, it is a kind of happiness.
Until they were selected by this C-level ghost village, Liu Jiang had his heart mysteriously taken out in order to save Zhang Xiaohai.
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Liu Jiang, whose heart was taken out, saw Zhang Xiaohai's red eyes from crying at the moment of death. He regretted why he couldn't be stronger. If he had been stronger, he could have stayed with Xiaohai longer.
They agreed to be together forever.
Don’t cry, your crying makes my heart hurt!
Even though my heart has been taken away, it still hurts.
How can I see you cry? You are my treasure that I want to hold in my hands forever!
I want to wipe your tears again!
I want to hold you in my arms again!
I want... I want to be with you for the rest of my life. I have already bought the puppy you wanted. As long as I go home this time, I will bring it back.
Xiaohai, I still want to be with you and grow old with you!
Xiao Hai——
Rivers always flow into the sea. You are my home and the ocean that I never want to leave!
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