Chapter 20: Two Lu Yao
My mind went blank, and I felt dizzy for a while, and it took a long time to react.
"Lu Yao! Lu Yao! "I slapped him on the face as I struggled to sweep the snow off his body." Wake up! What happened to you! His face was blue, his lips were purple, his whole body was cold and piercing, and he lay stiff in the snow, almost blending in with the snow. I shuddered and put my hand on his neck and pressed it against his artery for a minute without the slightest wave. I didn't believe my fingers, thinking that the touch must be too cold to feel, and I put my ear to his chest and listened carefully, but there was no heartbeat. No way! I felt his pulse again, but it still didn't beat.
Lu Yao died. These four words came to my mind. I don't know what these four words mean, whether his consciousness is dead, or his whole being dies with it, no matter which one of them, I can't accept it. I caressed this cold corpse, just a moment ago, he was still beside me, he was still holding me with his hands, warming my body, and now, he was lying quietly in the snow, his eyes closed, as if the whole world had nothing to do with him.
My tears burst out of my eyes, I failed, why, I said that I had to believe in myself! Tears rolled down my cheeks and turned into cold tear stains that clung to my dry skin. I can't let him lie in the snow like this, for soon darkness will come, and the goblins will devour his body, and I must take him back to the cabin.
Thinking like this, I wiped the tears from my face, frantically scraped the snow from his side with both hands, dragged his stiff corpse, and walked with difficulty in the direction of the cabin. The corpses rubbed against each other in the snow, making a familiar and creepy rustling sound. My heart was full of fear and sadness, and I trembled and opened the door of the wooden house and put Lu Yao in the corner of the room.
Next, what should I do, how should I face the darkness alone. I sat on the bed in the cabin, my mind blank for a moment, and I had no idea. I stared at the cold corpse in front of me, hoping that he would wake up now, and that he could still call me Miss Wu in a northeastern accent. Thinking like this, I once again left tears in my eyes.
After all, the dream didn't give me much time to grieve, and the sky outside the window began to darken again. The idea of survival reminded me that I couldn't just give up, and even if I was the only one left, I had to try to find the source of evil. I walked to the door, followed Lu Yao's example, put all the tables and chairs against the door, and picked up the wooden stick in the corner. I remember that Lu Yao took the firewood knife with him when he went out, so I carefully searched for the side of his corpse, but I didn't find it. Maybe I accidentally lost it when I went out, I thought.
Darkness gradually reigned between heaven and earth, and sporadic rustling began to emerge in the distance. Since I was the only one in the cabin, I became extremely nervous in the dark, looking at the door and the window, always fearing that the ghosts would break in. The rustle gradually approached the hut, and in the snow under the lightning outside the window, a large group of strangely shaped animals marched in the direction of the hut. My heart beat to my throat, and I shrank in a corner of the cabin, not daring to move.
Suddenly, in the midst of those terrifying rustles, there was a rush of footsteps from far and near. The footsteps were distinctly less like those of the ghosts, more like someone running in the direction of the hut. The sound grew closer, and finally stopped at the door, followed by a sharp knock at the door.
I was a little overwhelmed by the sound, and the stick in my hand tightened, and at the same time, I had some doubts in my heart. Could it be that in this dream, apart from me and Lu Yao, there are other people's existences?
"Miss Wu!" The person at the door suddenly shouted, "Miss Wu! It's me! ”
Is this voice ...... I stared in horror in the direction of the door, and before I knew it, I got up and walked towards the door. A lightning bolt flashed, and the dark room was illuminated in an instant, and Lu Yao's body was still lying there quietly in the corner of the room, and I seemed to hear him say to me again, no matter what I heard or saw, I couldn't open the door. Thinking of this, I went back to the corner and continued to wait for the darkness to leave.
Seeing that I had no intention of opening the door, the people outside the house stopped knocking, and hurried to the window, banging on it vigorously. "Miss Wu! Wu Chao! It's me! Open the door! ”
The figure of the man was reflected in the glass, and it looked so familiar. Short hair, angular face, tall body, and even the voice has a slight northern flavor. Is he really Lu Yao? I began to doubt myself constantly, and at the same time set my eyes on the corpse in the corner of the house. His cold face remained unchanged, and under the light of lightning, that pale and blue face suddenly made me feel a little strange and frightened, as if he would open his eyes at any moment and become the kind of ghost with empty eyes. Lu Yao is dead, he can't come back to life, it's all a lie, it's all fake! I kept meditating in my mind, glancing to the other side, hoping that this painful ordeal would soon pass.
"Miss Wu! Open the door! It's too late! The man outside the house was still banging on the window. The walking dead monsters in the distance seemed to be attracted to him, and they all began to gather in his direction.
The monster gradually surrounded him to the edge of the house, he saw that I didn't open the door, he could only use the firewood knife in his hand to keep chopping those monsters, and the sound of chopping ** began to come from outside the room, dull and difficult, and every sound revealed the smell of blood. But outnumbered, the man was gradually overwhelmed by the monster's figure.
"Miss Wu! Save me! In the midst of the monsters, the man cried out in pain at the top of his throat, "Please! Help me! ”
This heart-rending sound filled my eardrums, and I couldn't help but look at Lu Yao's body in the corner again. Which is true and which is false.
"Wu Chao-!" Finally, after his last roar, I opened the door of the hut and rushed out with my stick. I don't know where the courage and strength came from, I pulled Lu Yao out of the monster like crazy, and the wooden stick in my hand kept waving, and finally dragged him to the house.
By the time I reacted again, I had already closed the door, and Lu Yao, who I had rescued in, was lying on the single bed, dying.
"Miss Wu......" He called out to me weakly, and I hurried to the bed and took his hand.
"Thank you......" After saying that, a bleak smile appeared on his bloodless face. Then, the darkness faded, and we were once again greeted by the snowy day.
I looked back at the side of the corner as if I remembered something, and the empty corner suddenly shocked me, where is the corpse? Just now, I had been staring at Lu Yao, who had just entered the door in front of me, and I didn't notice the corpse in the corner. Could it be that the moment I opened the door, the corpse ran out on its own? I couldn't help but shudder at the thought of this.
Lu Yao, who was on the single bed, gradually regained his senses and opened his eyes with difficulty. "Miss Wu, why didn't you open the door just now?"
"Because...... Because I found your body. I uttered the words word by word, observing the expression on his face.
"What!" As if stimulated, he sat up from the bed. "Impossible! When I went out in the morning, I didn't grasp the time, and when darkness came, I quickened my pace and ran back, but instead of opening the door, you thought I was a ghost. ”
I felt guilty to hear him say that, but at the same time, I was a little skeptical. Although what Lu Yao said was completely in line with reality, what about the corpse I picked up from the snow.
In the face of my question, Lu Yao didn't answer, just told me not to think too much, some things here are not carried out according to my own ideas. I nodded, pretending to understand, and told him to rest well, and let me do the work of cutting vines.
I'm going to go to the place where the body was dug up again. I said to myself.