He was too cowardly to look back, looking back at the man who had given up his life for them.

After escaping with his sister in his arms, he hid in the library in the small town, and it was time for him to come to this place.

But he knew that the library had just brought back the rice and noodles before the holiday, and before the disaster, he was in charge of logistics in the government, and this account was passed from him.

He was lucky, there was no one inside, but Mimian was still there, holding his sister, and they hid in the library's collection for a whole year.

Afterwards, he took advantage of the night to go back, but there was nothing but an empty house, and the cold of the night numbed his heart, and he couldn't help but kneel on the ground and cry silently.

He knew that the man who stood in their way would never come back.

He knelt in the courtyard all night, and at dawn he almost couldn't stand up, but he still had to worry, and he didn't want to waste his life in exchange for it, so he staggered out of the courtyard and quietly hid back in the library.

Sun Ming didn't know how he survived that winter, he had no concept of time, he only knew that it was cold every day, and all the books on his father's bookshelf were pushed down and blocked the doors and windows.

He didn't even dare to open fire, so he could only soak the rice noodles in water, soak them softly, and then pinch his nose and pour them in.

Ordinary people toss so much that they have already entered the hospital, but I don't know if they want to live too much, just pull their stomachs for a while, and they will get used to it.

Just day by day, I survived the winter.

When the sun shone through the window lattice to his hand, and when he felt a slight warmth, he breathed a sigh of relief and was happy in his heart, but the corners of his mouth could no longer be held.

The world froze his face.

Although the cold winter has passed, but the hearts of people outside can't go back, once people cross the line in their hearts, they will never go back, they have tasted the taste of taboos, and if they want to retract again, it is impossible.

He wanted to stay in this library, but they had nothing to eat, and they didn't want to starve to death, so he had to force himself to adapt to this cannibalistic world.

Night is the best disguise, but he is not alone.

Late at night, after running into two people in succession, he shrank back.

It was changed to daytime, when the sun was at its strongest at noon.

Those people instinctively began to hate daylight when they crossed the taboo, and this was the safest time, Sun Ming hid on the corner of the street, looking at the empty street, and sneered in his heart.

What he was laughing at, he himself didn't know.

He just stepped into the scorching sun, and let the sun spread all over his body.

It's just that although he can't see anyone during the day, there are only these materials in the small town, and he searches night and night, and all Sun Ming can find is a little scraps.

They started with three meals a day, then two, then one, and finally two meals in three days.

Sun Jing has lost weight into a big-eyed doll, and after the initial crying and crying that she is hungry, the sparkle in her eyes gradually disappeared.

She didn't shout that she was hungry, but occasionally when Sun Ming woke up in the middle of the night, she found that the little girl sleeping in her arms had her big godless eyes open, staring blankly at the ceiling above her head.

If it weren't for the warm body temperature coming from her, Sun Ming would have felt at that moment that he was holding just a lifeless puppet.

The time he went out began to slowly lengthen.

For those eyes, and for myself.

Finally, one day, he found a large, leafy pumpkin in the aisle of his office at a city bank.

The pumpkin grew in a small white porcelain basin, and fell crookedly between the two tables, and on the weak branches hung two orange pumpkins as large as watermelons.

He was ecstatic.

Together with the porcelain basin, he wrapped it in a cloth and hugged it back.

It was the first time he had avoided daylight, and he had hidden in the shadows and crept back to the library.

As soon as he put his hand on the door, he felt a difference, someone entered, and his heart sank with it like the light of the twilight.

hugged the cloth pocket in his arms.

He climbed through the back window and hid in the doorway to look into the library.

In the library, a man and a woman sat cross-sectionally, talking and laughing, and beside them was a steaming cauldron.

The water in the pot hadn't boiled yet, but the light of the fire burning under the pot stinged Sun Ming's eyes.

He searched everywhere, but found no familiar figure.

Just when he thought Sun Jing had escaped, he heard the sound of broken footsteps in his ears.

His eyes narrowed suddenly, and he looked sideways at the door of the library.

Sun Jing's small figure was against the light, carrying a small bucket in her hand, because of long-term hunger, Sun Jingyuan was much thinner than ordinary children, just carrying this small bucket that was not much bigger than a kettle, her steps staggered and were about to fall at any time.

Sweat also oozed from the forehead.

But her eyes were bright, brighter than ever.

He doesn't know why?

Until Sun Jing moved to the woman's side and handed the bucket to the woman.

With an undisguised smirk on her face, the woman took the bucket from Sun Jing's hand, poured it into the pot burning next to her, and turned back to her, "Go and carry another bucket, and we will eat meat in a while." ”

The mouth opened and closed, but the eyes looked at Sun Jing standing in front of him, and the malice in it seemed to be about to flow out.

It's just that Sun Jing is too young, she didn't see it, meat, how long has it been, she has almost forgotten what meat tastes like.

But she knew that it was 10,000 times better than what she usually ate.

Although her legs and feet were too weak to walk, her eyes lit up, she nodded heavily, took the bucket in the woman's hand, and ran out without looking back.

It's just that what she doesn't know is that the meat she misses in her heart is herself.

Sun Jing walked out, and the man and woman smiled, and there was indescribable ugliness in their eyebrows.

The ugly Sun Ming wanted to rush out and smash their faces.

It's just that he didn't move, and he had to wait.

This time, Sun Jing walked more difficult with the bucket, almost taking two steps to rest, and the water in the bucket was only half a bucket.

And when she handed the bucket to the woman, the pot next to her was boiling, and the woman reached out and pulled Sun Jing into her arms.

began to impatiently pick up Sun Jing's clothes.

Sun Ming's fist clenched tightly, and he looked down at the white porcelain basin in his arms and the pumpkin hanging on the weak vine, in the eyes of others, their fate was like this pumpkin, the fruit was huge but the vine was fragile and broken.

At first, Sun Jing thought that this woman was messing with herself, and she was ashamed to protect her and not let the woman move, but the woman who was still smiling at her with her eyebrows just now slapped her head directly.

Tearing her clothes in her hands, Sun Jing tilted her head, pursed her lips aggrievedly, and then turned her head to see the undisguised desire in the woman's eyes.

She was scared, and she began to cry quietly, pushing the woman's hand.

But the woman stripped Sun Jing naked like crazy.

She hadn't eaten for five days, she was so hungry, in the eyes of a woman, at this moment, nothing could compare with Sun Jing's white and tender body.

Until something fell into the boiling pot next to it.

The woman and the man who followed her stopped, they wanted to look up, but their eyes could not take their eyes off the fat orange pumpkin that was half-sinking and half-floating in the pot.

As soon as the pumpkin rolled in the water, a slight sweet fragrance came out.

The man instinctively reached out and wanted to fish the pumpkin directly out of the pot of boiling water.

But halfway through, he was stopped by the other hand, and the man looked up and met the woman's eyes.

It's just that there is no worry in the eyes of women, and there are only evil desires that can't be hidden.

At the same time, the woman's other hand reached into the pot.

didn't care about the heat, just grabbed the thin pumpkin out and stuffed it into his mouth.

Sun Jing in her arms was thrown to the ground by her.

The man who grabbed his hand jerked away and bit the woman's mouth.

With blood, half of the pumpkin was dragged out of the woman's mouth.

The woman, however, seemed to feel no pain, and rushed over to scramble until a piece of pumpkin fell into the pot, and the pumpkin fragrance came out again.

Men and women threw themselves into the pot together.

The fire at the bottom of the pot was burning, the pumpkins fell one by one, the sound of water gradually fell, and the sparks at the bottom of the pot exploded violently, as if something had gone out.

Sun Ming came down from the vent with a pumpkin in his arms.

Picked up and naked, Sun Jing was lying on the ground, Sun Jing looked at the person in front of him with blank eyes.

Sun Jing hugged the person, rested her chin on the top of the little girl's head, and choked up, "Jingjing, brother is back, brother is back." ”

Sun Jing was coaxed like a puppet for time, and her eyes slowly became angry, she howled, and threw herself into Sun Ming's arms.

She cried until she fell asleep and hugged Sun Ming's neck.

Maybe she was still young, but she understood something from the woman's eyes.

From that day on, she would be scared when she couldn't see him, and she would stare at him silently with big eyes and cry for him.

Also from that day on, Sun Ming smiled and touched the top of her hair, and every time she went out, she would carry her on her back, since none of them could live alone, then let's be together, even if you die, your brother will hold you.

The firelight gradually swept through the entire library, but Sun Ming walked into the night without looking back, carrying his sister with the vines that were still weak but still trying to live.

They went back to their empty house, hid in the cellar where they had taken refuge, and lived by the pumpkin until everyone was dead, and they were still alive.

Three days ago, the pumpkin died, rotting from the roots.

Sun Ming seemed to see the fate that awaited them not far away, whether they would also wither and turn into a handful of loess like this vine.

The people are gone, the small city has become an empty city, and he takes his sister to wander around the city every day, like a lonely soul who doesn't know where his home is.

To live, just to live, until they met the wolves who smelled human and broke into the town.

Before that, he thought he had lost the courage to live, but the moment he saw the wolves, he clearly realized that he wanted to live.

Despite the toughness.

He picked up his sister and started running, and when he couldn't hold it, he held hands and ran together.

But even if he tried his best, the wolves still caught up, and he couldn't even live?

What was he thinking? I don't seem to remember.

He smiled.

Yu Yao wanted to laugh along, but the thick sadness in the smile couldn't pull the corners of his mouth.

She looked at the young man with a dead heart, silently waiting aside.

After a long time, until the firelight shook gently, the spark exploded, and the window turned from bright to dark, Sun Ming wiped the tears that he didn't know when he had been shed.

He smiled and asked, "What about you, what are you here for?" "He hadn't seen anyone in the town since last winter.

One day was enough time for Yuyao and them to come out of that sadness.

People are dead, the city is empty, and no matter how much you dwell in the past, you can't change anything, and you have to look forward to life.

"Because of this." Fang Chen directly took the topographic map that Zhu Ting had given him and spread it on the table, pointing to the dark yellow block on the map and said.

Without anyone else to speak, Sun Ming had already taken the map and looked at it, looked up and asked, what is this? "I remember that the altitude in our vicinity was about 1,000 meters, and the map marked how it could be a plain." The town is surrounded by typical hilly terrain, and he knows this.

"It's a swamp!" Fang Chen pointed to the large dark yellow and said.

Swamp? Sun Ming looked up, the small city was located in the northwest, and like other inland areas, there was a shortage of water here, and it was a severe water shortage, except for a jade belt river made of snow water that flowed through the city, and there was not even any irrigation water source around.

It's not like a coastal or low-altitude area, the groundwater is very close to the surface, and you can see the water if you dig five or six meters, and if they want to dig a well, it has to be a deep well, more than 50 meters.

And in this case, Fang Chen took the map and pointed to the large dark yellow area and said that it was a swamp, and Sun Ming was the first to disbelieve it.

Fang Chen looked at the expression on Sun Ming's face and understood it very well, because anyone you tell that in an area with a severe water shortage, there will be a wetland swamp of hundreds of square kilometers, and no one with a little geographical knowledge will believe it.

However, "Haven't you noticed any changes in the water level around you?" ”

Although the swampy wetland may have been created by living creatures, there must be enough water for the swamp to form.

As soon as Sun Ming wanted to say no, he suddenly thought of something, because he was living in a muddy way, he didn't care about the water source, if no one mentioned it, he might not be able to think of it, and now, Fang Chen suddenly asked, and he remembered something.

"Yes, yes, yes, last winter, the water level of the Yudai River did not drop." The Yudai River is a typical snow-capped river, which is greatly affected by the seasons.

In summer, the snow melts on the mountain, and flows along the tributaries of the mountain range to the Yudai River, the same time, the water level of the Yudai River is the highest, and in winter, the weather turns colder, the snow on the mountain moves down, the snow water is not melting, and the water level of the Yudai River will naturally fall.

In previous years, the Yudai River would even stop flowing directly in winter.

They rely on the two deep wells in the city for their daily water.

And last winter, he remembered that the water level of the Yudai River did not seem to have dropped, and there was a thick layer of ice on the surface of the river.