Chapter 113: The Frozen World
"Tengu!"
As everyone exclaimed, the stone beast cracked its mouth, revealing two rows of interlaced canine teeth.
"Celestials, welcome back to earth. Holding a candle, the village chief slowly walked towards the three-meter-tall stone beast, which was white on the surface and had marble-like markings.
The tengu suddenly bit the village chief's upper body, picked it up, raised his head, grunted, swallowed his entire body, and the candle fell back to the ground, rolled in front of the villagers, and went out.
"Run. Kemin yelled, pulled Angel on, and ran down the trail.
The tengu caught up with the lagging ones, opened his mouth and bit them, and the sound of cries and screams came from behind, and everywhere he went, the candlelight was extinguished.
In less than three minutes, the four-legged running footsteps were about to catch up, and the two legs couldn't outrun it, Kaiming took Anqi's hand, turned around, and left the crowded path, having the experience of being chased by big monsters, he knew that it would be safer to go to a place with fewer people.
Holding a candle, the two crouched behind a rock, and saw the tengu's large paws pressed down, and the three villagers fell on the road, spitting blood from their mouths and their eyes up. It swallowed them one by one, turning its gaze to the rocks. Kaimin blew out the candle and held down Angel's exclamation, hearing the tengu's low pant in the darkness, his paws stepping over the top of their heads.
When it was far away, Kaiming lit the candle and glanced at Angel beside him, and the breath exhaled by each other turned into white frost.
"Oh my God, it's getting cold all of a sudden. Angel rubbed her hands together and said.
"This must have something to do with a vision, let's go, go back to the village. Kaiming picked her up and walked down the hill with a candle in hand, the path was full of bitten corpses, and when he reached the entrance of the village, the stream froze and the droplets of water on the leaves condensed into drooping crystalline columns.
The hands and feet of the two men, who were wearing only T-shirts and short sleeves, were trembling, and the wind was blowing, and their skin was about to crack. They rushed into the house, took out the cotton clothes in their luggage, put them on, and directly pulled up the quilt and wrapped it around their bodies.
The roof tiles rattled strangely, and Chemin and Angel's heads peeked out of the covers, and saw the windows and tiles covered in ice.
The white cold air spreads through the house, drifting through the hot water cup, the hot water solidifies, and the hot air turns into ice crystals in the air, and the tinkling bell falls back into the cup.
The two of them retracted into the quilt and heard the gurgling sound of freezing coming from the surface of the quilt, "We have to think of a way, or we will freeze to death." After Angel finished speaking, a beam of fire light was erected in front of her eyes, illuminating the faces of the two.
Kaiming held the lighter close to the candle in his hand, lit the candle center, and propped up a little space to allow the heat to accumulate in the bed, while leaving a finger-sized vent. When the outside of the quilt was all frozen, the two let go of their hands, and the space was fixed, and they curled up inside, gathered in front of the candlelight.
"What the hell is going on?" asked Angel in a whisper.
Kai Ming's gaze sank, "I saw the black-robed man just now, and he said that the lunar eclipse would last for twenty hours. ”
"Twenty hours!" Angel looked at the burning candle, which was only half a candle left, "and it lasted half an hour at most." ”
He became silent, seemingly without a better idea.
"The temperature is still dropping, and it won't be long before we freeze into ice sculptures," she said, holding her hands over her shoulders. ”
There was a sound outside the house, the sound of the tengu's footsteps, and it had been wandering around the village, and no one knew how many people it would have to eat before it resigned itself to the next hibernation.
At night, the city was covered with a thick layer of frost, the trees, the lampposts, were all drooping ice, the white air currents fluttered in the wind, and the people who had not had time to flee stood in the streets, their eyes widened, their expressions were forever frozen in the moment of freezing, and when the wind was fierce, one of them was blown down, and he fell to the ground, shattering into large and small red ice cubes.
Above the ocean, the waves lost their vitality, the three destroyers stopped rocking, and the Star-Spangled Banner on the aircraft carrier broke, slammed on the deck, and scattered into small particles.
The power compartment of the aircraft carrier was steaming, and Bass and several military personnel gathered together, hugging the nuclear power reactor, and behind them stood a large number of personnel who had not made it, frozen into ice sculptures.
"Oh my God, I don't want to eat popsicles again. Caton's fat body was clinging to the wall of the furnace, and one person occupied the position of the two, and he looked at his colleague who was frozen behind him, and as soon as his face left the wall of the furnace, the red skin instantly turned white, and he put it on again.
Bas frowned and said, "This must have been done by the Chinese, they used meteorological weapons." ”
Caton shrugged, "Sir, please don't be paranoid, everyone knows it's a vision caused by a black hole." ”
Bass's eyes squinted to him, "Are you sure they didn't make the black hole?"
Caton rolled his eyes, the guy was too sick to be saved.
The candlelight shook twice, extinguished, and the cold began to seep into the bed, and the body shivered unconsciously.
"It's cold...... We...... Burn something more......" Angel's voice became choppy.
"I didn't ...... Stuff...... It burns. Kemin replied.
"Clothes, burn my clothes so they don't freeze to death. She reached for the button.
"We can't burn our clothes in the pot, the smoke will poison us. ”
"I can't stand it, it's too cold in here. The corners of her eyes were filled with tears, and the tears did not fall into frost, and the only thing that could be remembered at this time was her mother's arms, she was very clingy since she was a child, and she couldn't change this habit when she grew up, and she often snuggled in her mother's arms when she watched TV on weekdays.
She curled up in a ball, and suddenly an embrace wrapped her trembling body, warm, and hot air in her ears.
"Kaiming, are we all going to die?" she asked.
"I don't know. It is possible to survive, or both to die, or to live one or the other to die. ”
Hearing his words in her ear, she shook her head, "I don't want to live alone, and I don't want to die alone. ”
"Angel, I'm not going to let that happen. ”
She felt the tip of his nose touch lightly on her ear, "Do you miss your sister?"
He was silent for a while, "I only have you in my heart, and nothing else." ”
The lips met in the dark and sucked gently.
He let go of her and heard her say, "If only we had met sooner." ”
Maybe the world is not perfect, that's why there are so many rules to govern people. I am afraid that only at the end of the world will humanity be liberated from it.
The cold made his eyes heavy, and he only shivered when the other party breathed.
"I almost couldn't hold on. Angel said.
"Angel, don't give up easily. When I was in Egypt, I was trampled under the feet of a monster, and I couldn't hold on at that time, and when you suddenly appeared in front of me, I gritted my teeth and got through. ”
"Yes, but it's only been an hour, and we won't be able to survive the remaining nineteen hours. ”
She's right, I'm afraid I won't be able to survive the rest of my time, so I have to find a way.
"There you have it, the car, let's go to the car and start it. ”
"It's too risky, it's going to be cold outside, and we're going to freeze into icemen as soon as we step out the door. ”
"You can only take one risk now, and it's death to stay in the house anyway. "Even if you freeze to death immediately, it's better than dying in a long ordeal.
He propped himself up, thumped the frozen quilt, and heard the ice on the surface shatter and fall to the ground with a clatter.
Angel wanted to move, but found that her feet didn't obey, "Kaiming, my feet are frozen." ”
If that were the case, she would have to stay here and die.
"You go alone, leave me alone, I don't want to be a burden to you. She said.
"No, I have nowhere to go except to stay with you. He pressed the lighter and shone her feet, which did not freeze, but the blood clotted together, and the skin below the thighs was blue-purple. He reached out to touch her, her feet were cold and unconscious.
He unfastened his chest and lifted her feet into the warmth of his chest. The cold soles of his feet pressed against his skin, and he endured the shivers of his body.
Ten minutes passed, and I felt my feet in my chest warm up, and when I took a lighter, my skin turned rosy again. Kai Ming breathed a sigh of relief, if the frost on her feet had been discovered a little later, I was afraid that there would be tissue necrosis, and her feet would not be saved.
Although she was still tingling, she was much better than before, and she was able to move her toes.
The biggest headache now is, how to get to the car outside safely? If you rush out, it will freeze into ice in less than two steps. He looked at the lighter in his hand and said to Angel, "If you want to escape, you can only set yourself on fire." ”
Angel silently listened to him describe the steps of escape, especially the essentials of the movement, if the cooperation is not good, or one of them is half a beat slower, both of them will be frozen to death.
"Do we really want to do this? If we do ignite the fire, it means that there is no turning back. She frowned and said that the success rate of the plan was too low.
Kaiming put his hands on her shoulders, "At this point, we can only give it a go." ”
The two exchanged a look, lit a lighter, and the flames burned in the quilt, opening a hole to allow the smoke to escape. In order to make the fire burn as soon as possible, the other corner of the sheet was lit.
Listening to the sound of the flames, they looked at each other's faces red by the firelight, and their warm eyes.
"Rush!" he shouted. The two of them jumped out of bed and rushed to the door.
The moment Kaiming's hand touched the metal doorknob, he let out a scream, "Oh. ”
The doorknob was so cold that Angel saw his skin sticking to it, and her palm couldn't retract. She was stunned, but recovered quickly, because she knew that if she hesitated, the cold would pass along Kaiming's arm, freezing his whole body.
She pulled down a corner of the burning quilt and let the fire burn the metal handle on the door, and as soon as it was hot, Kaiming's hand was gone.
Twist the doorknob left and right, the door won't open, it's frozen.
"Kick hard. ”
Hearing Kaiming's shout, Angel also lifted her foot and kicked the wooden door. The first foot went down, and the door only rang once, the second foot heard the ice breaking, and the third foot banged, and the wooden door fell outward.
The white chill rushed into the house, intertwining with the heat of the burning quilt.
The two took a deep breath of warmth and rushed into the cold snap outside.