Chapter 130: Getting Married
It was already ten o'clock in the evening when Banxia returned home. She was cold, tired, and in pain, her lips blue from the cold. The first thing she did when she entered the house was not to use the radio to report her safety to the headquarters, but to quickly empty the hot water in the thermos and take a bath. She soaked herself in the basin with her head drooping over the edge of the basin. She stared at the white steam rising in the air with her dirty little face, her eyes lifeless. She was in a daze for a long time, not knowing what she was thinking.
The girl in the mirror was soaking in the water naked, with sections of vertebrae protruding from her hunched back. She was so thin that she didn't look like a human. She stared blankly at the person outside the mirror. Her hair was matted by mud and water. She was so dirty that she didn't look like a human either.
If the teacher was still there, she would squat down and scratch her head.
Yaya, why are you as dirty as the stray dogs outside?
She was sure to say that.
Stay away from me and don’t come near me until you’re clean!
She still has to say that.
“Ha…ha…ha-chu!”
After soaking in cold water for a long time, I caught a cold, and not only that, I also had menstrual cramps. Two lines of clear snot hung down my nose. I wiped them with my left hand, then my right hand, and the snot hung down again.
The hot water gradually turned her skin red, and the hot water dispelled the cold, and her whole body became warm. Finally, the girl stood in front of the mirror and looked at herself. She looked so haggard and deformed, with bruises all over her body, and scars all over her arms, shoulders, waist, abdomen, and calves. She looked like a wounded soldier who had just come off the front line.
It's really dangerous.
I almost died.
It is more dangerous underground than on the ground. She would rather be chased by Big Eyes than fall into the turbulent underground river. Although the underground river saved her life, if it were not for the backpack, Banxia would be a floating corpse now. It is better to have her head chopped off by Big Eyes than to drown in the deep, dark tunnel filled with sea water.
Banxia recalled the big eyes she had just seen. It was hard to imagine where that thing came from. The red iris was like a sea of blood that was always flowing into the abyss, and the black pupil was the abyss. What kind of monster was that? It moved in secret, appeared and disappeared, and could always find herself, with a sly look in its eyes.
She remembered its gaze clearly. Once the big eyes locked onto her, the girl would feel as if she had fallen into an icy cave, her scalp would go numb, and it would feel as if her soul had been sucked away, no matter how far away they were.
They always met each other's gazes, as if their eyeballs would lock onto each other. When the distance was closest, Banxia was only one meter away from it. At that time, Banxia was so frightened that her brain went blank. Her eyeballs turned left, and Big Eyes' eyeballs also turned left. Her eyeballs turned right, and Big Eyes' eyeballs also turned right. Banxia had not had time to think about these details before, but now that she was back home, she had time to think about them.
How strange.
Is it locking its sights on me?
Banxia stood in front of the mirror with her hands on her chest, her eyeballs turning left and right, and the person in the mirror also turned left and right. This was a mirror image.
I can’t figure it out, forget it, I don’t want to think about it anymore.
It's time to go and tell them that I'm safe.
They must be worried... But why can they sit back and relax while I work so hard? Damn it, it's so damned, the more I think about it, the angrier I get.
It's not fair.
Leave them alone for a while.
snort!
Banxia thought so fiercely in her heart.
She rolled herself up in a blanket and lay down on the bed, wanting to rest for a while. She wanted to make up to herself and report her safety after she had rested enough.
As a result, I slept until noon the next day.
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When the two sides restored communication again, several men in the command center were almost crying. Old Wang immediately drove to Qixia Temple to fulfill his wish. He had just gone to burn incense and pray in front of the Buddha in the morning, muttering that the Buddha must bless her with safety, and if she is not safe, you will definitely suffer a bad end. In the evening, the communication was restored, and the little girl came back alive and kicking. My God, the Buddha is better than radar. Wang Ning burst into tears and almost converted on the spot.
I will go out and drive to Qixia Temple right away to give the Buddha some good food.
Zhao Bowen finished two packs of cigarettes. He hadn't closed his eyes in the more than ten hours since he lost contact. He sat in the dark corridor and smoked one cigarette after another.
Bai Yang went downstairs to find him, and he showed Yang Yang his white hair, also one strand at a time.
"If I take this job, I'll be damned at least 20 years younger," Lao Zhao said. "But if she doesn't come back, I can jump off the eighth floor tomorrow."
Bai Yang looked at his back and shoulders and felt a little suffocated.
Lao Bai and his son took turns on duty, listening to the radio, just like a tower waiting for a lost flight. They were expecting a miracle, but Bai Yang was so tired after tossing and turning for a day and a night that he fell asleep while watching. Until he vaguely heard someone shouting "BG" in the headphones, he thought he was dreaming.
"BG?"
"BG? BG?"
"BG are you there? BG4MXH?"
"BG4MXH? This is BG4MSR, calling BG4MXH. Please answer if you hear me."
"BG4MXH, can you hear me? BG4MXH? BG4... Poplar! Poplar!"
The girl was annoyed.
"Fuck can you hear me!?"
Bai Yang woke up with a start and slapped himself, only then did he realize that he was not dreaming.
A huge stone fell from the hearts of hundreds of people at the same time. That day, a magnitude 2.2 earthquake occurred in Qinhuai District, Nanjing.
Although the second phase of the Dongfanghong Project ultimately failed, the silver lining was that Banxia herself was not seriously injured, only her hair became shorter.
It's quite a pity for her. She treasures her hair very much and spends time taking care of it every day.
"Your hair will grow back if it's short," Bai Yang comforted her, "but if your hair is short, it won't grow back."
"I managed to save my life... ha... ha!" said the girl. "But I didn't see it had a knife. I don't know what it used to cut. It's scary. If it had a knife, it would be really sharp. It's so fast that I couldn't even see it. It's an invisible knife. You call it the Swordsman. This name is quite appropriate."
"Uh-huh."
"It was just a little bit, BG, do you know? It was just a little bit, and my head was taken off. I don't know if I was lucky or unlucky, I actually stepped into the well. Oh my god, do I have a strange physique? I always step into pits when I go out."
"Uh-huh……"
"It's more dangerous down there than on the ground. The water is so dark, deep, and fast. I was washed away when I fell in. I drank a lot of water, all seawater, salty and bitter. I bumped into it when I fell in, and it hurt so much. Why do I bump into it every time I fall into the well? Luckily, my backpack helped me hang on, otherwise I would have drowned in the sewer and become food for the fish."
“Hmm…hmm.”
"Oh, don't cry."
"I didn't cry."
"You were just crying. I heard it," the girl said. "You were sniffling."
"I don't."
"You just have it!"
"I...I just have a cold."
"You're just crying!"
Old Zhao lit up his last cigarette, threw the empty cigarette box on the ground and crushed it, then walked in and said to everyone, "Get ready, we should go and carry Miss Qiu's sedan chair. Humans alone can't handle this, she has to get married."
(End of this chapter)
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