Chapter 71 Ending "Okay, see you then."
"Mother."
Li Ming was stunned after hearing this. He turned around and looked at the red-dressed disaster who had unknowingly walked to the window, and murmured, "She is your mother?"
There is a subtle feeling that "knowledge has entered the brain".
In corners that he couldn't see, other people's stories were going on. For example, Wei Zhehan might have already reunited with his parents, and Zhou Haoyu was already on his way to the capital.
"Mother."
The Red Dress Disaster did not answer, she just called out the name again.
Her palm touched the glass, and the glass window made a cracking sound. Just when Li Ming thought she was about to break the window and go out, the next second, disaster suddenly appeared on the street outside the building.
Her red dress was too bright and too conspicuous.
[Disaster: Red Skirt (Reflection)]
[Disaster sequence: A-05 space operation, C-133 game in progress, E-112 deformed]
[Note: She is a little girl who likes to wear a red skirt. The red skirt, glass bead hairband, hopscotch… these are her external features.]
【but……】
[These are not actually her hobbies, what she loves most is her mother. ]
[The glass bead hairband my mother gave me was snatched away.]
[The little girl was very sad about this, so she looked for the glass beads carefully. But now, the little girl found that she didn't need to look for glass beads anymore, because her mother would prepare a new string for her.]
She saw her mother.
【She is going to find her mother.】
[PS: Give up the hopscotch game and start from seeing your mother. Although an expectation has been dashed before it even started, we still have time to witness its ending. ]
Li Ming's brain suddenly crashed.
"Wait, something's wrong!" He was trying to catch up with the other person in a hurry, but he suddenly bumped into the glass. Li Ming was in so much pain that he broke out in a cold sweat, but the next second he turned around and rushed down the stairs.
The noisy voices filled Li Ming's ears.
He saw the previously scattered crowd fall into great panic. Some fled, some faced the disaster head-on, some froze... In the face of the sudden and strange disaster, everyone gave the most genuine and sincere reaction from the bottom of their hearts.
Li Ming froze in front of the building.
In his world, all sounds suddenly stopped.
Because Li Ming saw it.
The red-dressed disaster who had stood beside him not long ago had opened up a clear, straight path for herself. Blood stains appeared on her path.
She ran straight forward, and those people or things that blocked her way were crushed by space.
The cut-off houses, the broken crowds, the stained ground... In the dim streets, the brightest thing at this moment is her red dress.
"Get out of there..."
A faint, panicked voice suddenly rang in Li Ming's ears. It was his words. Without time to think, he quickly overcame his fear and shouted, "Get out of there!"
He rushed forward.
He quickly notified those who were on the path of the girl in the red skirt to get out of the way. He had to tell everyone who hadn't heard about this yet. Li Ming felt that even though he didn't trust the people here yet, even though they were still wary of each other, but... but -
How can life be lost so easily?
He had to run, he had to run faster than the little girl.
Li Ming ran until he was exhausted.
He was not good at sports, and he was not good at dealing with emergencies. His chaotic thoughts floated along with Li Ming's running, and he couldn't even think about the current situation.
Why did she suddenly attack people? How could she suddenly attack people?
The little girl was apparently fine before.
Before Li Ming saw these scenes, he didn't even think that the little girl would be the main cause. In the comics, she had always been following the actions of the headless disaster, and she was clearly not aggressive at all...
How come it’s available now?
The scene he saw on the tall building suddenly flashed through Li Ming's mind, and Li Ming's figure paused for a moment. He glanced at the back of the red skirt disaster, and then glanced at the farther and smaller crowd:
Because in the distance where they chased each other and each other,
Calamity's mother is being chased.
Li Ming felt a great sense of absurdity rising from the bottom of his heart. No one did anything wrong, and everyone made what they thought was the best choice, but tragedy happened.
The little girl ran very fast.
Her leather shoes made rapid clanking sounds as they stepped on the cement road. The two loose strings of glass beads on her hair were gone, and her hair fluttered in the wind.
The blood on her face and the stains on her skirt did not dampen her good mood.
She felt like she was becoming human.
She felt alive again.
Her mother was back with her. They still had time to see the sea and do many interesting things, just like before.
Leaving Lingcheng, crossing the 'Silence', heading to the capital... they could even walk the old path again.
This time, she can protect her mother.
But the road was too long after all, and a sudden gunshot ended the fantasy of one person and one disaster. The little girl slowly stopped, turned her head to look in the direction of the gunshot, and then turned her head to stare at her destination.
There was no blood on the path she ran on, but her destination was stained with glaring blood that would never fade.
"Mother……"
Li Ming heard the red skirt disaster whisper this word. Her words were mixed with complex emotions such as melancholy and confusion, and she was more human than before.
So Li Ming forced himself to stand up.
He looked ahead of them, and suddenly his eyes froze. The scene that he had not noticed due to fatigue appeared in front of him: the human being that the red-skirted disaster called "Mom" was lying in a pool of blood.
But even so, she still protected the child under her.
At this moment, Li Ming strangely recalled the words of the 'Eye of Truth': Although an expectation has been dashed before it even began, we still have time to witness its ending.
"Mother……"
The little girl whispered the word again. To her, the life symbolized by this word was everything to her, and it always would be.
She walked towards her mother in deathly silence.
Her expectations were dashed before they even began, and her fantasy ended before it even began.
The little girl squatted on the blood-stained ground and hugged her human mother awkwardly. Their stories were too thin and too hasty.
She did not look at herself who was protected by her mother, she just looked in the direction of the gunshot with her lifeless eyes. There stood her enemy.
"I will be back." He said softly.
"I will definitely come back from the abyss." He pronounced each word clearly. Hatred burned in His eyes like a blazing fire.
He could have stopped being human, and He could have accepted His own end.
Becoming a spirit wandering in the abyss for tens of millions of years was not something that He could not accept, because the abyss could not imprison His soul, and more importantly, because He was born before the catastrophe.
Finally, He strangled the human self.
An expectation was dashed before it even started, but hatred had already begun. He did not choose to act immediately because he was too weak, but he did not choose to leave without saying goodbye because fear was more tormenting than violence.
Li Ming froze in place.
His eyes were shifting between the disaster nearby and Old Hu in the distance, from whom he had just separated not long ago.
He suddenly felt his hands and feet cold. Everything happened so quickly that he couldn't even find a gap to take action. As long as he could remember, he seemed to have been witnessing other people's stories.
On and on, until he was completely fed up.
"Li Ming?"
Jiang Huai's breathless voice suddenly came from behind.
Li Ming turned back subconsciously and saw Jiang Huai, who was running towards him with rapid breathing and a red face. Jiang Huai wiped the sweat from his forehead and asked worriedly:
"Are you okay?"
"I... I'm fine..." Li Ming murmured dully.
When Li Ming turned his head to look at the pool of blood again, the figure of the red-skirted disaster had disappeared. He held his mother's body and went to the abyss.
“You did a great job.”
Old Hu, who was coming from another direction, came late. As soon as he stopped, he praised Li Ming: "Your shouting has helped us reduce many casualties."
Li Ming just stood there in silence.
After a long while, he asked in a dry voice: "Why aren't you together?"
"Something happened along the way." Jiang Huai explained.
Then he looked at the back of Lao Hu, who left in a hurry after saying one sentence, and sighed with a complicated look in his eyes: "Li Ming, humans are so complicated."
Humans are indeed complex.
After hearing this, Li Ming looked back at him sadly and said, "It seems that you have also encountered a lot of things."
"Um."
Jiang Huai described it with a look of melancholy: "I just met an aunt. She said sorry to me and said that she thought it was okay for the little girl to get close to the border, but she forgot that the child would also worry about her mother."
"Yes." Li Ming nodded mechanically.
He murmured absentmindedly, "Of course the child would worry about his mother. How could a child not worry about his mother when he sees her being chased? It's just that..."
When each other's fears were superimposed, the situation got completely out of control.
Li Ming looked at the crowd that was chasing him not far away. Their expressions and actions more or less showed the emotion of "surviving a disaster", but what they didn't know was:
It was their pursuit that caused the harm.
"Where is that aunt?" Li Ming asked.
Jiang Huai's eyes suddenly shifted. Li Ming followed his gaze and found that he once again focused on Lao Hu and his gun.
Li Ming thought he didn't need to keep asking.
The hustle and bustle of the crowd and the loneliness of the two formed an extremely strong contrast. Li Ming felt that he was isolated from the world again, but this time Jiang Huai was isolated with him.
"I asked him about this." Jiang Huai said softly, "But he said that Lu Youwei is dead, and everyone who is willing to take risks and accept changes is dead. He feels sorry about this, but people have to survive."
"Uh-huh."
Li Ming nodded perfunctorily. Then he looked at the bustling crowd, turned his back to Jiang Huai and said, "Go, Jiang Huai."
"Li Ming?"
"This place is not suitable for you." Li Ming said as calmly as possible, "Besides, aren't you in a hurry to go to Ningcheng? Don't stay here for too long."
Jiang Huai said: "What about you?"
"I want to stay and look for my sister." Li Ming said firmly, "She must be here."
Jiang Huai fell silent after hearing this.
He turned his head away in confusion. This was a decision he had to make. He couldn't stay in Lingcheng for too long. He had to go to Ningcheng, and he had to get to Qingcheng before the 25th of next month.
His schedule was tight, but Li Ming also worried him.
"Maybe, I mean maybe—"
Jiang Huai looked up, only to see Li Ming still using his familiar smile, and said helplessly: "If you can finish your work in Ningcheng faster, you will still have time to return to Lingcheng to see me."
"Maybe we can go together as a group of three then."
This is a good ending. Jiang Huai thought: But things don't always turn out this well. He had to accept it, he had to realize a reality, a reality that he and Li Ming had to say goodbye to.
More serious -
This might be the last time he sees Li Ming.
In the distance, the crowd of survivors is still noisy; further away, the fog still covers the entire city.
Nearby, Li Ming was looking at him, looking at him gently.
Li Ming was waiting for his decision. Although they both knew which choice was the best one at the moment, it still took some time to make it.
Jiang Huai felt unprecedentedly powerless, a feeling he had never experienced before.
Along the way, many people have placed expectations on him, and he has responded to those people's expectations, but he cannot give himself this expectation at this moment.
After a long while, Jiang Huai finally spoke:
"Okay, see you then."
He finally chose the right path.
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