Chapter 32: The Remnants of the Tang Dynasty
The location is familiar, but the scene is a little unfamiliar...
The location of Tangcheng Middle School is very conspicuous, the gate is on the edge of this street, in front of the gate, and in the middle of the street, there is a large open space, with some cordon drawn to ensure the safety of students entering and exiting.
But now, the ruins are piled up here, and they have lost their meaning of existence...
As the best high school in Tangcheng, the original gate of Tangcheng Middle School can be said to be majestic and extremely magnificent, but now, more than half of the four bronzing characters of Tangcheng Middle School have been smashed, and the two words of middle school in the back have fallen, mixed in a ruin below, and disappeared, leaving only the two words of Tangcheng dancing with dragons and phoenixes, interpreting a kind of incomplete domineering...
Looking inside, it's also a ruin...
Zhou Che stood in front of this pile of ruins, his face was solemn, his eyes were blank, and he was slightly in a trance.
From the beginning of high school to the third year of high school, in the past three years, he spent most of his time here, for here, he didn't feel anything before, and even because of a natural sense of depression, he was still a little disgusted here, thinking about leaving here early...
It's just that after a few days, when he came back here again, maybe because he had experienced too much, or maybe because he had changed too much, for Tang Zhong, he actually had a kind of nostalgia and fascination, as if he was half at home!
Even for some reason, if he had to make a choice between where he lived and here, he would choose this place, because there were his companions and memories, but the place where he lived, that is, the nominal home, was deserted and there was nothing.
I really didn't expect that when I left school a few days ago and came back here a few days later, it would have become like this!
Nothing was once there...
School... Gone!
"Whew..."Taking a deep breath, Zhou Che came back to his senses, but Shu Meng on the side was still a little stunned, I am afraid that I will not be able to accept this kind of change in a short period of time, after all, this is the place where they have been staying for more than two years...
And just when they were stunned here, Uncle Li may have lost the patience and composure just now because of his thoughts, and rushed straight forward.
"Mengmeng, let's go."
Seeing that Uncle Li had already left in front of him, Zhou Che also reacted immediately, turned his head to greet Shu Meng, and then followed without hesitation.
Of the three school buildings, one has not collapsed, the upper part of the building has been destroyed, and one has been completely reduced to ruins, and in the center of those ruins is a huge deep pit.
This building is a teaching building for the first year of high school, and it was directly hit by a meteorite!
The teaching building of the second year of high school is intact, and the teaching building of the third year of high school is partial...
Compared with other buildings around Tangcheng Middle School, it is actually not too high, generally six floors, one grade and one building, and in order not to affect each other for the three grades, the layout between the teaching buildings is also relatively scattered, and the collapse is only a part of it, so it seems that there are still many places in the school that are not covered by ruins.
But Uncle Li in front of him didn't care so much, so he stepped on the ruins directly and rushed straight to the teaching building in the second year of high school.
His son Li Zheng, the classroom is in this building!
"Ahh
Zhou Che stood on the ruins, looked around, and was about to keep up with Uncle Li, when suddenly Shu Meng from the rear came with an exclamation, which made him feel startled and quickly turned back.
"What's wrong?" frowned, Shu Meng didn't see anything around her, but her body trembled slightly, and her face became a little ugly.
Uncle Li's side also heard Shu Meng's exclamation here, but he glanced back and saw that there was no problem, so he turned around and rushed into the teaching building...
"There's a hand!" Shu Meng stretched out his hand and pointed to the ruins under his feet in front of him, and said in a trembling voice.
Hand?
There was no nonsense, his face changed slightly, he walked directly to Shu Meng, looked in the direction of Shu Meng's finger, and sure enough, he saw that under a pile of small pieces of reinforced concrete blocks, a bloody hand was stretched out, but it seemed that there was no movement!
"This is the student of our school..."A chill welled up in his heart, and Zhou Che's face became a little unpleasant.
Although this hand is red with blood, it is not difficult to see that this is a teenager about twenty years old...
When he was in Pearl Square, although some people died, and even killed a Cheng Yuanyuan with his own hands, the impact was far less than the shock brought to him by the hand in front of him!
Like himself and Shu Meng, like his brothers, like Xu Xiwen, this is a student, a student of Tangcheng Middle School!
may be compared to those who have nothing to do with themselves, the death of this classmate who is in the same school as them and has been getting along day and night makes them have a sense of substitution, as if they really feel that death is actually close to them at this moment!
After being silent for a moment, bending down, Zhou Che swallowed a mouthful of saliva, his right hand was useless, trembling all over, and he barely used his left hand to move away the ruins piece by piece, until the corpse of a male wearing the uniform of Colonel Tang was completely revealed, and he did not stop.
Looking at this corpse, Shu Meng covered her mouth, and her body was constantly trembling.
His body had been somewhat deformed under the weight of these ruins, and most of his skeleton should have been broken, and the blood stained the school uniform red, and the heavy rain washed away later, which became extremely dirty.
At this moment, the blood had coagulated and turned dark red, and his face was also a little distorted, also stained with blood, but he could barely make out the appearance...
"Do you know him?" Zhou Che didn't turn his head, stared at the corpse in front of him, and said.
This man, he doesn't know...
At Tangcheng Middle School, he has an indifferent attitude towards everything, and there are many people he doesn't know...
Shu Meng was also silent for a moment, seemed to be a little uncomfortable, raised her head, took two steps to the side, and then said softly: "I don't know..."
"Under this ruin, it is estimated that there are many such corpses..."Raising his head, Zhou Che looked at the ruins in front of him, his face was solemn.
This is the location of the first high school teaching building, which has completely collapsed at the moment, and it is estimated that when the disaster just happened, there were already many students inside, maybe someone found that the situation was wrong, and ran out early, or maybe ran a step late, and still did not survive.
There may also be some students who are afraid in their hearts, hide in the classroom and do not come out, and finally die, in short, under this rubble, there are definitely not a few such corpses!
"Let's go upstairs and have a look!" Zhou Che turned around and walked directly to the third year of high school teaching building, which was only half left, Shu Meng didn't speak, and hurriedly followed.
As for this corpse, they didn't know how to deal with it, and they didn't have that much spare time to deal with it, after all, under this pile of ruins, they didn't know how many such corpses there were, and they couldn't deal with it.
Call...
As soon as he stepped on the stairs, there was a gust of wind blowing, because the sky was covered by clouds, the surroundings were already dark, and the long corridor in the teaching building was silent, which was even more eerie.
Zhou Che didn't care much about it, and he didn't care so much, he walked directly upstairs, his classroom was on the fourth floor, he just stood below and looked up, the location of his own classroom on the fourth floor was still there...
...
It's just that when he walked to the staircase on the third floor, there were a large number of ruins and fragments, blocking the entire staircase tightly, and he couldn't go up at all.
"The other side!" Without further ado, he let out a low roar and walked straight to the east staircase.
He clearly remembered that when he left the classroom a few days ago, Xu Xiwen had already gone home, but there were still many classmates in the classroom, and even his brothers were very likely to return to the classroom after playing.
Although a few days have passed, it is unlikely that there will be anyone in the classroom, but he has not seen it with his own eyes, and he still does not want to let go of any possibility!
His classroom should not have been destroyed, and his brothers may still be in the classroom!
As soon as he thought of this, Zhou Che couldn't bear it a little and sped up, but when he walked to the staircase on the east side, he was suddenly stunned!
The staircase on this side is also tightly blocked, and there is no gap to go up at all!
"Grass!" Zhou Che's face became more difficult to look at, Shu Meng was also a little stunned on the side, her classroom was on the fifth floor, even if she was still there, she couldn't go up.
The ruins at the staircase are stacked in a mess, and they are of different sizes, if you move a little, it is very likely that the entire pile of ruins will pour down, not to mention that Zhou Che only has one hand to use now, even if he has sound limbs and full of physical strength, he does not dare to try it easily!
After being stunned for a moment, Zhou Che always frowned, and finally knew that he was like now, and if he wanted to move away, there was no way at all, and he could only give up...
Turned around and walked to the edge of the fence, the height of the third floor was originally nothing here, and the surrounding view would basically be blocked by high-rise buildings, but now, after most of the surrounding buildings collapsed, the field of vision has also become broader, at a glance, undulating, a ruin, scattered with several huge pits!
On the third floor, ten meters high, looking into the distance, Zhou Che actually felt a little condescending...
He saw most of the school.
Most of the dormitory buildings have collapsed, the canteen is still intact, the football field is clean, but there are huge cracks, and the rest of the place is a mess!
The sky in the distance was also dim, and under the sky, there was a gray ruin, which seemed to have no life at all, like a dead land!
It's just that this kind of dead silence, in addition to being gloomy and cold, looks like there is an extremely majestic shocking power!
On the rolling ruins, all kinds of buildings of different heights and remnants are like tombstones, as if the entire gray world has become a huge cemetery!
And those deep pits are like digging graves one by one, waiting to bury something...
"Zhou Che, what should we do now?"
I don't know how long it has been, Zhou Che's mind is about to merge into the world in front of him, but Shu Meng came back to his senses first and gently pulled him.
Retracting his gaze, Zhou Che was still extremely shocked in his heart!
"We... Let's search the other classrooms first..."After a moment, he took a deep breath and spoke.
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