Chapter 11: Fierce Fire
The moonlit night is bleak, and the breeze wails.
Under the silver moon, Qin Kai knelt quietly on the balcony, his girlfriend was lying in his arms, and his peaceful face seemed to be asleep under the moonlight.
The hot and humid current passed through his stiff face, and his black hair danced like an elf.
He raised his hand and brushed her hair gently, with a hint of trembling in his cautious movements. As his palms slowly left her skin, a sudden cramping pain in his chest, and his outstretched palms suddenly clenched into fists.
The face tattoo on his arm also became taut from loose to tense because of his fist clenching hard, and the face looked more serious.
It's all ugly stuff. Qin Kai glared at the zombies below, but he didn't bother to take a second look, so he refixed his gaze on his girlfriend's body, his eyes were full of soft light for a while, as if time was also standing still at this moment.
"I was going to take you back to see your parents at the end of this year." Qin Kai hugged her tighter as he spoke: "After meeting my parents, I will go and wash the tattoo, and then go to see your parents." Seriously, it's not that I'm reluctant to get this tattoo for five or six years, it's because I'm afraid of pain that I don't dare to wash it. Really, really, I didn't mean to make excuses, I was really just afraid of pain. β
"I didn't save any money in the first two years of work, and your birthday was very casual, looking at the way you don't say it, but I know that from the way you look at others, it is full of envy, and I really feel guilty about it. But to tell you secretly, in fact, I have saved a lot of money this year, all of which I earn by working two jobs, although it is very hard, but as long as I think of your happy smile, I feel that it doesn't matter anythingγγγγγγ β
As Qin Kai spoke, his eyes wet unconsciously. His girlfriend also seemed to hear his words at this moment, and her body gradually began to "react". She was convulsing constantly, and Qin Kai had no choice but to hug her tighter.
All his pain was written on his face, and the unwillingness made his features twist together. His eyes were closed, and his face was furrowed. He struggled repeatedly in despair, and for a moment the blood in his whole body began to flow backwards.
Eventually, he unloaded all his defenses, and his girlfriend in his arms stopped twitching, and he pulled out his clenched fist hand, and the fruit knife in his hand reflecting the moonlight was already dyed a blinding bright red.
He looked at it with a smile, the corners of his mouth twitching from time to time.
What is the meaning of being alive? With a wave of his hand, the cold light of the fruit knife flashed from the night sky. But it didn't penetrate his body as he expected. He looked up in amazement and saw that Ye Yao was standing in front of him, standing with his hands on his arms.
"Why?" Ye Yao asked tightly between her eyebrows: "Isn't it enough to die one?" β
"What's the point of my life without her?"
"Is the meaning of your life a person?"
Qin Kai looked at Ye Yao with a smile before he shook his head and said, "You won't understand this feeling." β
Ye Yao ripped off the fruit knife in his hand, then leaned against the balcony calmly, and said, "Of course I understand, because we have the same experience, but I am a day ahead of you." β
When Ye Yao said this, it seemed so natural that only she could feel it, and her heartbeat had a strong sense of acceleration.
"This... How could it be... Qin Kai looked with his mouth open.
"I admit that until this morning I had a hard time accepting this fact, and I was uncomfortable and hopeless." Ye Yao stared at the moon, and then slowly lowered her gaze to the lawn downstairs, reflecting the moonlight in her lost eyes.
"But I always believe that all suffering is temporary, and as long as I live, everything will get better one day." She said with her eyes down.
"You're so optimistic." Qin Kai laughed.
"It's not just optimism!" Ye Yao suddenly raised her head, looked at him firmly, and said, "This is even more of a manifestation of courage, the kind of abandoning everything and choosing death is the most cowardly performance." β
"Poisonous chicken soup."
"With this sudden change, don't you want to wait for the day of truth? Maybe there will be an antidote? And what about your family? Aren't these the reasons for you to live? β
At this time, the breeze outside the house began to become agitated, but the air seemed a little stiff. Qin Kai sat still, his eyes never leaving the corpse in his arms, silence dominated the dark night, only Ye Yao's long hair was dancing wantonly with the breeze.
Ma Rui, who was already lying on the bed, quietly looked at the dancing curtains, although the window only left a gap, but it still couldn't withstand the stirring of the breeze, and the continuous sound soon made Su Yi on the other end of the bed frown.
"Don't you think it's a little noisy?"
"It's a little." Marry continued to look in the direction of the window, hesitated for a moment before standing up, he first glanced downstairs, the silence was like a graveyard. He took a deep breath and closed the window completely.
Back on the bed, he didn't lie down directly, but sat on the head of the bed. Su Yi, who was beside him, looked at him with wide eyes and doubts, and said, "What are you doing sitting, please God?" β
"No, did you hear anything?" Ma Rui tilted his head to the side with a serious expression, and Su Yi also raised his head to listen carefully.
"What's there..."
"Shh Marry holds his index finger in front of his mouth.
"Help! Help me! It's on fire! The hissing sound seemed to be forced out of his throat, but it seemed to come from far away, so small that he would not notice it if he didn't pay attention.
"It's supposed to be a fire." Su Yi lay down with his heart at ease, and now in this situation, no one cares about the life and death of others at all. Ma Rui didn't care, just adjusted his posture a little and lay down.
At this time, there was a sound of kicking and tapping and running quickly outside the house, and the next second Ye Yao broke into the room. He looked panicked and said, "The building is on fire... β
"What? Is it our building? Marley sat up in shock, hurried to the window, and looked upstairs.
Although the floor was higher, you could still see that the flames had spread to the window, and the thick black smoke was rising into the sky, and a layer of black debris was floating in the air, with a smell of burning.
The wind became an accelerant, and in a matter of minutes, the fire was like an out-of-control mad dog, mercilessly engulfing the two-story building, and the fire had no intention of attenuating, and it seemed that nothing could stop it.
"We're getting out of here." Ma Rui retracted his head and picked up the Tang knife placed at the head of the bed.
"Where to go?" Su Yi looked blankly.
"You can go anywhere, you can't stay here anyway."
"Why don't you just go to school, it's a shelter over there." Qin Kai stood at the door, his expression did not reveal a trace of panic. Ma Rui glanced at him and nodded knowingly.
"Just go there!"
Ma Rui walked quickly out of the room to the balcony, a foul-smelling wind blew in his face, and then a black shadow quickly passed in front of his eyes, and before he could react, the sound of heavy objects falling downstairs sounded.
Ma Rui was stunned for a moment, and poked his head out to see, just as he expected, there was a charred corpse lying flat underneath, with blackened skin and charred clothes glued together, and hair curled up in thin shapes.
There was still a thin wisp of smoke on his body, stiff and still, and he looked like he was dead. But what Ma Rui didn't expect was that the corpse only lay flat for a while, and soon stood up slowly, and the empty eyes were particularly infiltrating in the dark night.
The four of them paused on the balcony for a moment, and according to the plan discussed temporarily, after Qin Kai put his girlfriend's body on the bed in the room, he was the first to climb to the second floor along the rope, and then flipped over to the roof of the bus, followed by the three behind him.
Everyone was climbing the rope with trepidation, and now they were even more worried about the unknown downstairs for the heights they had feared before. So much so that when he first got on the roof of the bus, Ma Rui could already feel the blood flowing all over his body at an accelerated pace, and he believed that others felt the same way as he did now.
It's like going to school sports day, the seconds of preparation time before hearing the starting gun go off, it's so long and so tormenting, and the heart is always beating.
A little bit pushes people to the brink of collapse.
When he was about to get off the bus, Ma Rui put one hand on Qin Kai's shoulder, and his slightly trembling hand handed Tang Dao over: "I feel that you will have a greater effect." β
"Why don't you even believe in yourself. No one will save you at a critical moment. Qin Kai grinned contemptuously, he didn't take the knife, but pulled out the fruit knife on his waist, stepped on the windshield of the bus that had cracked and jumped in one go.
Ma Rui glanced back at the building, the flames rising from the floor had begun to stain the sky above him red, and even the oppression of the heat had made the picture in front of him begin to distort.
"BOOM" A burst of bang rang out, and the loud bang was deafening. Ma Rui shuddered at the sudden noise.
He watched as the glass of the high-rise building burst out, and thin shards fell from the sky like a rain of swords.
After jumping out of the car, a large number of zombies had poured out of the surroundings, Ma Rui then panicked, he quickly fled on the road, and then saw the direction of Qin Kai's escape, and he was followed by the two women.
Damn it! I actually fell behind.
Ma Rui scrambled to catch up, his eyes fixed on the backs of the three of them, the distance was so close, but he couldn't catch up with them anyway.
Seeing that the three of them turned into an intersection, the road in front of them was blocked by two zombies that suddenly appeared.
The reason why it was said to appear suddenly was because his attention had been on the three people in front of him, ignoring the surrounding situation for a while, and he didn't suddenly react until the zombie stood less than three meters in front of him.
Ma Rui had no choice, he instinctively clenched the Tang knife and slashed at the zombie head-on, the blade flashing with the cold light of the night, and the black and red blood was like sauce all over the body.
With this knife, he seemed to have used all his strength, and the two zombies in front of him were cut off at the same time, and their bodies knelt straight in front of him.
He had never wanted to live so much, watching the two zombies fall to the ground, he actually exuded a sense of relief, looking back at those walking corpses, the arm holding the Tang knife seemed to no longer tremble.