Chapter 48 Chapter 48 But human life is the most irreparable thing...
"So you never thought that I would really kill that little zombie, and you didn't wait for me to come back, and you took the token and left by yourself, right?" Si Ruxu's fingers turned white from exerting so much force.
When the end of the world first came, many people were eliminated because of hunger, climate, and human greed.
The original supplies were enough for humans to survive for three months, but the human order completely collapsed in just one month. The first awakened mutants frantically collected resources and hunted their own kind, causing the hydropower station to completely collapse.
Due to social unrest, there was no supply from the hydropower station, and eighty percent of the materials that were difficult to preserve rotted and stunk, and were thrown to the roadside by the powerful psychics who occupied most of the materials.
The growing bacteria infected ordinary people without superpowers, as well as those with weak superpowers. Coupled with the shortage and monopoly of medicine, human society underwent a major reshuffle. The population plummeted, and the people suffered from dire straits.
Si Ruxu was one of the first people to possess superpowers, but her powers were too weak. Only at the first level, she could only release a few lightning bolts, which caused very little damage and could only barely burn a black mark on the body of a power-type superpower user.
Her parents, her relatives, her friends, in the next moment, all fell before her without warning.
Until one late night, she held her last friend in her arms, whispering soothing words to her over and over again. Her body was burning hot under her fingertips, and the high fever of two days made her moan unconsciously.
"Si Ruxu... just live your life well. Take my share... take all of ours."
"No, I don't want to!" She trembled and her voice almost broke.
"I don't want to live with anyone's life on my shoulders. You know, it's too heavy a burden... So hold on, you'll be fine... I..."
Will it get better?
Her abilities are weak. Her lightning ability has little attack power in the early stages, and her healing ability has no attack power and cannot cure people. Death is actually the most decent ending, and it is better than being dismembered by villains.
After a long time, she lowered her eyes and shed warm tears, but there was a gentle smile on the corner of her lips.
"It's okay... After tonight, there will be no apocalypse."
The world is already purgatory, so she thought that the underworld might not be that scary.
For the first time, she thought about ending her life to give herself some relief.
Just at this moment, the dilapidated door opened.
The crackling sound was very abrupt in the night, but Si Ruxu seemed unaware of it. A girl in a light-colored windbreaker stood at the door, looking over from afar. She held an illuminated energy core in her hand, and only a little light fell on her face.
Young and yet full of indomitable spirit.
Her gaze fell on the person in Si Ruxu's arms, she frowned slightly, and finally returned to Si Ruxu.
There were only the two of them in the room, and only the scent of two living things. She pursed her lips, said nothing, and took out two tubes of potion from her pocket, feeding them to Si Ruxu and the friend in her arms respectively.
From then on, the three of them lived in the base.
Si Ruxu never asked what the potion was, nor did she ask where Si Luoheng had been in the past few months, or how he had so many crystal cores and such a large laboratory.
And Si Luoheng did not ask Si Ruxu about their parents, their friends, relatives and sisters.
The silence between the two people was like that of strangers.
Until due to ideological differences, Si Ruxu took her friend and left the institute and they had no further contact.
The research institute could only repair one superpower core per month, which was a shortcoming in production. Si Luoheng had not lied to her, and she had only gone to find Luo Fenghe with the intention of giving it a try.
The boy eventually broke his promise, and her last friend died in her arms the year after that late night.
Si Ruxu thought about ending her life countless times, and countless times she stopped herself the moment the knife tip pierced her vein. Every breath she took was like a slow slicing of flesh and blood.
But everyone is dead, her parents, relatives and friends, everyone's lives are weighing on her.
She carried those people's hopes and their longing to end the apocalypse, and walked step by step, with a staggering gait.
The living are in pain, without the freedom to live or the right to die. So she is obsessed with ending the apocalypse and fulfilling everyone's last wishes.
And she herself had long been lost in countless lost nights.
How could she not hate Luo Fenghe? How could she hate Luo Fenghe?
Both of them are people who have lost their loved ones due to the end of the world and the greed of human nature, and are now carrying all the responsibilities alone.
The contradiction is always there. In the past, it was because of Si Qi that she didn't say anything. But now, the countless lonely nights and the countless evenings awakened by nightmares, all leaked into the impenetrable wall in her heart bit by bit.
"More than that."
Luo Fenghe closed his eyes, making it impossible to see his emotions.
"I was wondering why I should suffer the pain of losing my loved ones, and why you were able to save your friends in time. You worked for him, aiding and abetting his evil deeds. I would rather you suffer."
"But do you know...!" Si Ruxu stood up, and the soup in the hot pot shook. Some of it splashed on Si Qi's hand, leaving a small red mark.
"If you had rejected me, I would have let her enjoy her life more and feel more comfortable in her last moments, instead of always looking for traces of you on the road."
"If you had told me that Scarface was responsible, I would have been very careful and would have killed him even if it meant risking my life. Then there wouldn't have been so many tragic deaths!"
This was the second time Si Qi saw Si Ruxu lose her composure like that. The first time was when she was about to die.
She lowered her head and wiped the soup off her hands with paper, then rubbed them hard until they were terribly red. Then she reached out and held Si Ruxu's palm.
At that moment, Si Ruxu felt as if she was splashed with cold water. She paused, lowered her eyes, and saw Si Qi's hands were red from the scalding soup that got on them when she stood up.
Before the brain could react, cold fingers covered it.
Si Qi shook his head: "I'm fine."
Luo Fenghe saw Si Ruxu's visibly calmed mood and looked at them with a complicated expression: "I only now realize that I was indeed too narrow-minded and too young at the time. I acted on my own will and made many mistakes."
"But facing the current situation, I still hope that we can put aside our past grudges and form an alliance to resolve the apocalypse first. When the apocalypse is over, I will be at your disposal."
"Why should I punish you?" Si Ruxu sneered. No one could come back.
She knew in her heart that the real culprits were Moshi, Scarface, and those greedy people.
"Okay, okay, sit down and eat." Si Qi pulled the corner of Si Ruxu's clothes. The woman lowered her eyes slightly and sat down obediently.
The hot pot was still bubbling, and the warm light and flames fell generously on everyone's face. Si Qi curled his lips.
"I heard that if a great catastrophe is ended, all those who died in it will be resurrected. What if that's true?"
"Even these bizarre things from the end of the world have appeared, even gods. We should think about it carefully. After we have survived the end of the world and the five major purges, we will know everything."
It is a comfort, a reliance, and also a way out that Si Qi finds for the two of them.
The air was silent again. Si Qi fished out the scalded and soft meat, mixed the familiar sauce from his memory, coated every inch of the meat with it, and then placed it in Si Ruxu's bowl.
He didn't look at her, but poured himself a glass of water. "Well, I roughly understand, but what I want to know most now is why your ability has changed, and what happened after you left?"
Speaking of this, Luo Fenghe's expression became strange and he seemed to be struggling.
"Did I have a dream?"
"Dream?"
Luo Fenghe swallowed his saliva, as if this dream had left a huge shadow on him, lingering like glue stuck to his untouchable heart.
"To be precise... it was a precognitive dream."
He told the story slowly and leisurely.
"After the superpower core was shattered, I returned to where my old friend was, buried him, and left there alone."
"My superpower core has been shattered, but I didn't bring the token with me. Actually... I buried the token next to the monument I erected for my friend. It was just a little shallow."
So as long as Si Ruxu has the idea of using the tombstone he left behind as a vent, she can get the token.
But Si Ruxu didn't do that. She was rational and restrained. So when Luo Fenghe returned there, he looked at the intact tombstone and the withered flowers in front of it.
He seemed to see vaguely that the woman came back after killing the little zombies and looked at the empty house. She was half at a loss and half angry. But she still offered a flower to her old friend whom he had buried with his own hands when she passed by here.
He felt like he had done something wrong.
But human life is the most irreparable thing. He made a move that he could not regret.
Luo Fenghe looked at Si Ruxu. The woman lowered her eyelashes to hide the expression in her eyes. Si Qi's hand gently rested on her wrist, then slowly moved it upwards, interlocking their fingers.
"I walked into a cave by myself. Coincidentally, it was the same cave you lived in during the extreme heat. I lived in it, drinking water when thirsty and eating fruit when hungry. My body grew weaker day by day."
"When I was about to die, I had a dream. In the dream, a group of ordinary people were thrown into a crowd of corpses."
"I saw a woman... a woman whose face I couldn't see clearly. She was holding a stone and smashing it hard at the zombies around her. Unlike the others who panicked, she survived for a few more minutes, but only a few."
"In the dream, she and I fended off the zombies together, but there were too many of them. When I turned around, her heart... was pierced by a zombie's sharp claw..."
From Luo Feng's unseen perspective, Si Qi lowered his eyes to hide the cold light that flashed in them.
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