【It is my heart.】
…
——It is my heart.
——You can’t hand it over.
There was no wind in the cave, only the faint white snow that poured in from the cracks and melted around them.
Lin Yuzi hugged Su Lixian tightly, and the hot liquid fell on Su Lixian's back. She squeezed the fruit in her hand into a paste and slowly fed it into Su Lixian's mouth.
The human heart is made of flesh and blood, it cannot be a glass bottle.
But when the glass bottle carries all the firewood, in the eyes of idealistic people, it becomes the heart that they must protect desperately.
Once the heart breaks, the body itself will die.
Even if they died here, the glass bottle would not fall into the hands of the Holy Alliance and be destroyed. When the Human Self-Saving Alliance came, maybe it could be found.
Even though, at that time, all people saw were two dry bones without flesh and blood, and a glass bottle that still emitted a deep blue glow.
Su Li first swallowed the fruit paste. Her swallowing function had become difficult. She retched while swallowing, like a cow chewing the cud. Lin Yuzi could only help her swallow and feed her snow water.
Her breathing was like an old bellows, one sound after another, harsh and shrill, and oxygen became a luxury.
"Yuzi, except for the Holy Alliance... everyone is trying their best to help us, we... can't give up." Su Lixian's face was as pale as paper.
"……good."
"Don't give in... don't abandon our history. The best way to wipe out a race is to erase their history and culture. We... can't give in. We have to wait for rescue."
"……Um."
"I'm... a little tired."
"It's okay, go to sleep."
When Su Lixian fell asleep, Lin Yuzi's pupils began to lose focus. She turned her back to Su Lixian and repeated the same sentence over and over again, like a madman.
"Live, live, live..."
"Live, live, live...
The time in the cave lasted for a long time, and the outside was gradually filled with the Holy Alliance Army. Lin Yuzi didn't even dare to go out to look for wild fruits.
Su Lixian was already weak, and the emotions of the forty-six people had been tormenting her. Once she had no food, her health deteriorated much faster than Lin Yuzi's.
Today was the seventh day in the cave, and Lin Yuzi quietly turned off the battery alarm of the flashlight. Now they had no light source.
They were all becoming more and more silent. The long wait, despair and hunger, waiting for death to come step by step in this dark cave, was more torturous than punishment.
Su Lixian had difficulty walking, and even standing up was difficult for her. She was in a daze for twenty hours a day, saying things like "Mom, I want to eat braised pork ribs," "Don't take my painting...", and "Old squad leader, are you worthy of your pride?" Lin Yuzi couldn't understand.
She just kissed the glass bottle repeatedly, looking at its star-like light, imagining that all good things were inside.
On this day, Lin Yuzi was looking at the falling snow through the gaps above her head when she suddenly heard Su Lixian's voice.
"Tamako."
Steady and crisp. Not hoarse at all.
Lin Yuzi looked back and saw Su Lixian, who had not stood up for a long time, standing up unexpectedly. Su Lixian was surprisingly in good spirits today.
"Why did you get up?" Lin Yuzi wanted her to continue resting.
"Drawing." Su Li smiled first.
She picked up a stone from the ground, moved closer to the cliff, and began to carve something.
She carved very seriously and her eyes were bright.
Lin Yuzi took a closer look and saw that Su Lixian was drawing with stones.
Simple flower trees, blooming roses, green vines climbing up the stairs. Then, there were stick figures, colleagues from the institute, driver Mr. Liu, Aunt Wang from the cafeteria, security guard Mr. Chen, Mr. Wu...
It was as if Su Lixian was using the last moments of her life to compose her life on the stone wall with the simplest paper and pen.
"Is this a rose?" Lin Yuzi asked softly.
"Yeah. Wen Sheng has liked roses since he was a child."
"Is this Green Ivy?"
"Yeah. Chongping likes it."
“It’s a beautiful painting.”
"For the roses and the green vines, you have to live on, okay? Okja. You will tell everyone that winter is not eternal. This is not the heroism of one person."
"The same to you."
“…”
Su Li first looked at Lin Yuzi with a look that Lin Yuzi could not understand.
Finally, Su Lixian carved the last three figures with shaking hands, pinching the stone. She drew them very carefully, and they were not simple stick figures.
The man wearing a police hat stood straight and had a warm smile.
The woman in a white coat, holding a harp in her hands, looked at the young man in the center.
The boy in school uniform was holding a fat orange cat in his arms, with a bright smile on his face without a trace of gloom.
They exist on the stone wall, in this dark cave. A family of three with a cat, all smiling. It seems that in the far, far future, there will be really good things, and maybe they can all be happy.
“Click.”
The stones made a fragile sound.
Su Li first vomited blood and slowly fell forward. The blood she spat out stained the stone wall, stained the painting with blood.
Lin Yuzi immediately hugged her.
Su Lixian's energy has passed.
She became weak again, even weaker than before.
"Yuzi, promise me... one thing." Su Lixian panted.
Lin Yuzi hugged her and shook her head.
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