Chapter 70: Rescue • The Girl's Final Journey
The world is buried by heavy snow.
In the wasteland of the apocalypse, there is not much life to be found.
The layered world of steel is colder than snow, and the edges of the crater left by nuclear war are littered with the wreckage of war machines.
Beneath this infinite world, there is a small hut.
Outside the hut, an old man who was already very old and with a kind smile, after watching his two granddaughters disappear and never see them again, picked up the gun in his hand and aimed it at his temple.
This was the most enjoyable way, and he gave them all the food to find new hope.
Instead of waiting in this hut to starve to death together, it's a cruel world.
The moment the trigger was pressed, there was no imaginary pain or relief, only something soft against his forehead.
He opened his eyes and saw a small flower on his forehead.
A strange young man sat on a snowdrift not far away and watched him.
In desperation, the old man looked at the flower as if reminiscing about the past, a color he hadn't seen for too long.
"You fought in that war that destroyed the world?"
Shirley asks the old man who was willing to adopt two baby girls after the war, and now prefers to pay the price of all food and death just to keep their hopes alive.
Without questioning who Shirley was, the old man gently removed the floret from the muzzle of the gun and twisted the stalk.
"I fought in that war, and the aftermath would give me nightmares all the time, and my brain was stunned in the world of blood and fire.
After so many years, I can't forget the moment of destruction, when people were like a row of candles in a gale, and when the wind subsided, the candles were extinguished. ”
He described the war with a very euphemistic metaphor, and in fact, the real scene was far more cruel than words.
"I don't understand human feelings, I go back in time.
You will find that human beings can repeat the process of destruction a thousand times.
Desires and conflicts in the depths of the will will cause unavoidable sorrow. ”
Shirley has repeated this apocalypse too many times, and as long as he doesn't force changes the thinking of those before the apocalypse, then everything will come to this point.
"Of course I know, so sad, hopeless, Chido and Yuri, the two of them are still young, I don't need to tell them these things.
I actually have a glimmer of hope that they can find a future.
As for me, I'm so tired that I don't want to go on.
Even if I found the future, I couldn't break free from the shadows of the past. ”
The old man sat on the ground in vain and looked at Sherry.
"I see what you mean, sleep, it's like a dream, the soul will be forgiven, and there will be no more suffering in the red dust."
This is the second time that Sherry has encountered this situation, the first time, it is Lone Bat 1367.
The old man slowly closed his eyes and fell to the ground, losing his breath.
The dirt separates itself and buries the body for the old man.
Sherry stepped towards the car driven by a young girl named Chino.
At nightfall, snowflakes fall.
The two teenage girls were sharing food with each other and looked up at the snowflakes.
"This shape should look delicious." Yuri pointed dumbly at the sky.
"If you eat too much snow, your stomach will be so cold and painful, be quiet, Yuri, I don't want to be hungry again soon."
Qianhu touched his little belly, felt the touch, and then touched Yuli's little belly after being dissatisfied.
"Don't, take your hands away, your hands are so cold."
Yuri rolled over and bit down on Chino's little hand.
"Yuri is a puppy!" Qianhu shook off his saliva and said with disdain.
"There are footsteps." Yuri alertly grabbed her Mauser rifle and aimed at the snow queen who heard the sound.
Chito also jumped up, this is what their grandfather trained them for, it is a course for self-preservation.
A tall figure walked out of the wind and snow, stretched out his hand to remove the snow curtain, and came to the two of them.
"Can you let me travel with me? I have food here. ”
In this way, the young Sherry began to remodel the car with the light in their eyes, and then moved boxes of food out of the wind and snow and put them in the car.
From beginning to end, Qianhu didn't understand how this car was transformed into a jeep with such a big rear compartment and so much power.
Two days later.
"Mr. Shirley, are you still going to follow?"
Yuri said yes, in fact, she was just testing if Shirley would leave.
Chino's eyes were looking behind him while driving.
"You want to drive me away? You've eaten a lot of my canned fish. Shirley rubbed Yuri's head.
The road ahead, because of Sherry's presence, has become less bumpy.
Five days later.
"Mr. Sherry, don't leave ......"
Yuri, who was asleep, hugged Chito tightly in the carriage and talked in her dreams.
Shirley is looking at the world......
A month later.
Chinohe and Yuri, who have already seen too many survivors of the Doomsday Traveler with Shirley, are excited to watch the water flow by the river.
"Mr. Shirley, come here! Come and see! ”
Shirley pretended to be sleepy, walked up, and looked up at the sky again.
The journey is almost over.
Another week later.
It was already a huge platform that could overlook the world.
There was no way up anymore, and Chiho and Yuri fell on the platform, like two little crabs paddling their hands and feet.
"Thank you, Mr. Sherry, and now, please leave, we have reached our destination."
Speaking the most light words, there is the most indissipated sadness in my heart.
In their eyes, Shirley is a very capable person, and there is no problem at all to live alone.
And they set off with all the hopes of their grandfather, and in the end they did not see any hope at the end of their reach.
"yes, I really should have left."
When Shirley said this, the hearts of the two girls tightened again.
"But before I leave, I'll give you a gift."
Shirley came to the edge of the huge platform.
He stretched out his hand, and the wind blew, and the soft light went with the wind and sprinkled into the world.
The world of steel is changing, and this tallest platform is slowly falling.
The height of the whole world is the same, from the height of the mind of nothingness, back to the place where you can beat steadily.
The steel jungle turns into a real jungle, and two young girls lie on dry moss.
The sunlight in the forest becomes real, and the stream flows not far away, and there are fish that Chiho and Yuri like in it.
"So, is Mr. Shirley a god?"
Yuri sat with a heartless duck and looked up at Shirley who had turned around.
"yes, look up at the stars when you miss me."
On Sherry's body, a soft light flickered.
"You're lying, there won't be Mr. Shirley in the stars." Chiho still debunked the white lie.
"Qianhu, separation is something that everyone is not willing to accept.
We've been through it quite a few times along the way, and you should learn to get used to it. ”
When Sherry's voice disappeared, the rich land ushered in a new life.