Chapter 24: Shadows in the Sun
Just out of danger, everyone did not recover for a while, and the dense forest was quiet again.
"Ahem, ahem......"
"Matt, what's wrong with you?"
Li You and Sister Hua, who were walking side by side in front, heard the sound of talking behind them and hurriedly looked back. One of the black men was looking at them with horror on his face, holding his brother who was falling to the ground and twitching.
"Not good", Li You hurriedly stepped forward, lifted the clothes of this named Matt, and subconsciously retreated two steps after seeing his stomach bump and said: "Hurry away, he should be infected by fungi!" ”
Before he could finish speaking, several insects came out of Matt's body, crawled towards the black brother next to him, and burrowed under his skin in the blink of an eye.
Two people, one foaming at the mouth, had symptoms of epilepsy; The other was a miserable howl, and his life was short. Sister Hua couldn't bear it, and wanted to step forward to see if she could help them, but was stopped by Li You.
He shook his head and said to Sister Hua, "The only thing you can do now is to end their suffering. ”
"I can't do it, no, I'm going to take a look."
"Are you crazy?" Li You glared at Sister Hua's eyes and said: "You can't help them, just now I saw the dust stirred up on the ground, I felt that something was wrong and stopped you, I just found that there were a lot of objects in the grass that looked like stones, which were crushed by monsters, and I thought of the scene I saw in the laboratory, what flew up on the ground was not dust, but spores." ”
Sister Hua's eyes widened and said, "Then, it's really hopeless?" ”
"Hmm."
After a moment of silence, Sister Hua picked up the gun with tears in her eyes, pointed the muzzle of the gun at the two people on the ground, and hooked the trigger.
"Brush, brush", after the gunshot, some sounds made by unknown objects, remembered in the woods, Li You dragged the tearful Sister Hua and ran towards the original route.
In less than two hours, the six-person team was left with Li You and Sister Hua, which shows the power of this dense forest. Li You, who was following Sister Hua, began to doubt whether his choice was correct.
He even felt that the things that were happening in front of him seemed to be his hallucination. Maybe he had never crossed at the beginning, but there was a gas explosion in his home, which blew himself away, and he was hit the head and fell into a deep coma.
But seeing the black blood stains on his palms through the night vision device, he had to admit that this hallucination was too fucking real. Thinking of the corpses that had disappeared behind him, he thought of the first time he saw the dead.
In 2011, he received a call from his father at three o'clock in the morning, saying that his grandmother might not be able to do it. Li You, who was tossing and turning, received a call from his father again an hour later, and also learned the news of his grandmother's death.
Remember, why did the old lady who was usually healthy and rarely even had a cold suddenly pass away? Li You was in front of the coffin, crying for a long time, and couldn't let go that he didn't see her for the last time.
The changes in life made Li You work harder to earn money, not because he wanted to achieve a great career, but because he wanted to escape the troubles in life by working selflessly.
"What do you want?" Sister Hua saw that Li You's face was not very good, and asked with concern.
"It's okay, think about the past." He opened his goggles, rubbed his hazy eyes, and said, "How long will it be before we can go out?" ”
Sister Hua didn't speak, and stretched out her finger to the front. Li You looked at it, and a ray of light not far away was penetrating through the gap between the trees.
The two of them ran non-stop, and after a while, they were again bathed in the sun.
"Sister Hua, do you think that sunshine is the most wonderful thing in the world?" Li You closed his eyes and felt the ultraviolet rays with his heart.
Sister Hua also closed her eyes like him, and the sudden stinging pain on her face made a "eh" cry. Li You thought that another monster had appeared, so he quickly looked at her vigilantly.
I saw that the position of her leaking cheekbones seemed to be rubbing against the dirt, and it was a little black. Li You reached out and pulled down the headscarf around Sister Hua's mouth, but the scene in front of him made him speechless.
"What are you looking at? Tell you, we may be related by blood, and you are not allowed to beat me up for my crooked ideas. But why does my face hurt so much? ”
Li You looked at the black blood vessels that appeared on her face, and he didn't know how to answer her, because he remembered that before Yuan Aida died, his neck and face were also covered with this kind of black blood vessels.
After taking a few deep breaths, Li You looked at Sister Hua and said seriously: "Listen to me, don't be afraid!" ”
"What's wrong with you? What's on my face? ”
Li You, who was in an extremely entangled mood, didn't say it in the end, because he knew that even if he said it, he couldn't change anything, and only by quickly finding Peng Lao, or that Li Xianglan, could it be saved.
"It's nothing, it's a little dirty, let's hurry up!" If you don't know how to do it, you have to move forward.
"Don't mind, I'll take a look in the mirror myself."
Li You had already walked out a few steps, and it was too late to come back to stop her, and she said that why do women like to carry mirrors with them?
After wiping the stubble that came out, Li You sat down on the ground and lowered his head without saying a word. When Sister Hua saw the blood vessels on her face, she was stunned at first, and then accepted it calmly.
"Let's go, it's the right thing to do with them." With that, she was going to bring the hijab back to her face. But Li You, who had just raised his head, saw her face and said ecstatically:
"Don't move, I'll take a look", he stared at Sister Hua's face closer, and found that the black tree-like blood vessels were slowly fading, even if the speed was slow, but it should be better. "Look, it seems to be fading down!"
Sister Hua stared at her face in the mirror, and soon she also discovered this phenomenon. And Li You looked at the sun in the sky, grinned and said: "It seems that this sunlight is really a wonderful thing, I guess, it is the ultraviolet rays that have an inhibitory effect on the growth of this fungus." ”
"Okay, you're smart again now, let's hurry up and find Peng Lao, maybe I can still be saved!" After she finished speaking, she took the brunt of the brunt and troted down the hill. Li You did not hesitate and followed closely.
The closer you get to the border, the faster the temperature drops. They had left all the thick clothes they had prepared in the dense forest, and if there was no sun, they would have frozen.
And the sun, who has been taking care of them, is also preparing to go home from work. It was also the first time in their lives that they longed for time to pass slowly.
There was no green cover on the frozen soil under his feet, but Li You looked at the bare mountain in the distance and estimated that he should be able to reach the peak after walking for more than half an hour. But Sister Hua has begun to have a fever now, shouting that her stomach hurts a little, and she is weak and doesn't know if she can hold on to that side.
"I can't do it, you can go by yourself, leave me alone." When the black veins on Sister Hua's face climbed up the corners of her eyes again, she lay trembling on the frozen ground and did not move.
Li You looked at her distressedly, gritted his teeth and said, "No, I can't leave you alone, even if I carry you to the place." After speaking, he took Sister Hua's arm, carried her back with a little force, and wrapped her legs around her.
"I really can't walk anymore, so don't waste your energy."
"Shut up! If it were me, you wouldn't have left me alone! Li You said firmly, and Sister Hua behind her forced a smile. However, if any bugs come out of your body, let me know in advance. ”