(2-in-1)

The flashlight fell to the ground, and the beam soaked in the color of blood, showing a dark red.

Light reflected around the walls, illuminating the empty underground space like moonlight.

Everywhere were the corpses of worms, their bursting juice and blood pooling on the ground, water dripping from above, ripples on the mirror-smooth planes.

The air is filled with the unpleasant smell of blood and decay, and it is cold and damp all year round, and the air is turbid and congealed, like an underground warehouse that has not been ventilated all year round.

Finally it was quiet, and it was so quiet that it was frightening.

Minutes had passed, no more mutated worms had appeared, and the flesh-and-blood monster had stalled.

Su Wanqing sat in the seat of the car, raised her head with difficulty, and stared at the flesh-and-blood sculpture in front of her.

From here, only his back was pierced by tentacles, his arms were broken, and the part above his chest was stuck into the monster's body.

There was a huge wound on his bare back, running from his back to his abdomen, blood flowing from the wound, and he and the monster remained in this position, as if they were one, as if they were one sculpture.

The distress signal was issued, her watch was the locator, and rescue was rushing here.

She couldn't do anything, she had broken bones all over her body, there were several falls and sprains, since the day before yesterday, she had not rested for two days and two nights, her mental and physical state had never been so bad as today, she always felt that she was almost going to die, but she still survived and kept her consciousness awake.

Although she was alive, she couldn't do anything, she could only sit in the seat of the car and watch the familiar and unfamiliar back.

It was Amori's back, and memories poured out involuntarily, and those memories she thought she had forgotten suddenly appeared clearly in front of her eyes.

It was her second year in Zhoushan City, and she rented a house in Shili Sunshine and lived there for two years.

She made an important decision and decided to move out.

It was the third Saturday in July, and on a sweltering afternoon, cicadas echoing through the trees, she was standing at the entrance of the community, and in her field of vision, the heat wave distorted the asphalt road.

At one o'clock in the afternoon, Ah Shou arrived at the gate of the community and accompanied her upstairs to tidy up her things.

There was a lot of furniture that needed to be taken away, such as the microwave that she had used for a long time, such as the pots and pans in the kitchen, such as the oven that she bought back and thought about studying her own cooking, but basically didn't touch it much.

And her pillow, her dolls, the sheets she was used to sleeping in, the various clothes in the closet.

Many, many things, packed together, big bags and small bags piled on the floor.

She couldn't move so many things as a woman, so she originally said to ask a moving company to help, but Ashou said no, he said that he had good physical strength and could move things by himself.

is really good at big words, on a hot day of 38 degrees, his face is flushed and sweating profusely when he is tired, but he keeps saying that he is not tired.

Thanks to him, it took him an afternoon to transport all the things he was going to move to his rented car.

When I drove to Yucheng International, it was dark, and I knew that it would not be dark until seven or eight o'clock in summer, so they packed and moved these things, and they were busy from noon to seven or eight o'clock in the evening.

It was dinner at a stir-fry restaurant downstairs, and I ordered three dishes, boiled beef, braised pork ribs and vermicelli soup, and the hard-mouthed man ate five bowls of rice, and most of the dishes were eliminated by him.

After all, he has exerted so much physical strength, and it is normal for him to be hungry.

After eating, they began to move furniture and tidy up the room.

The newly rented house is on the seventh floor and has a large balcony through which the sun shines in the afternoon.

The bedroom and balcony were oriented the same, the living room was large, much larger than the house she used to live in, and the sofa was large and soft enough to lie on horizontally.

There was a double bed in the bedroom, a very large and wide double bed.

They were busy until midnight to take care of the house, and the room, which was originally a little empty, suddenly became much warmer.

They slept in the same bed that night, and in the days that followed, they would be alone in that room at night, kissing, lingering, sometimes in bed, but not only in bed.

She was still young that year, she learned to dress herself carefully, learned to wear all kinds of beautiful clothes, in addition to studying and working, she began to study cooking, and she cooked herself when she got off work early.

When he comes back with a table of hot dishes, he'll think, oops, she's really going to be a housewife.

He drove her to the beach on a motorcycle, got down on one knee as the fireworks went off, and asked, "Will you marry me?" ”

She blushed slightly and whispered, "I do." ”

Let the sea breeze blow through and whisper, blowing her long hair in all directions.

She stretched out her hand, someone put a ring on her, surrounded by the noise of the crowd and the explosion of fireworks, they kissed, and those passionate days now came to her heart.

They got engaged and met their parents.

She also thought that every day from now on, they would be together.

But after all, she didn't wait for the wedding, she went abroad to attend a seminar.

She made a long-distance call abroad, and Mamoru said that he moved back to his mother's place, asked her when she would be back, and asked for leave to pick her up at the airport when the time came.

She said she didn't know, it might be a while, and she said sorry for postponing our wedding.

He said that the wedding can be done again, and for the two of them, the wedding is just a process, and there is no need to be in a hurry.

They talked about their thoughts over the phone, and agreed on the day when they would see each other again.

That was six years ago.

It turned out that the last time I heard him speak, it was six years ago.

Her fingers flexed slightly, touching the hard stuff in her pocket.

Square box, jewelry box, box containing her engagement ring.

She made hundreds of phone calls on the plane she had fled, but none of them went through, and she sat in her seat dumbfounded, never wearing the ring again that day.

She hated these molds, hated them deeply, and she devoted her energy to research day and night, keeping herself busy, and not giving herself time to rest, because as soon as she stopped, she would be surrounded by a great sense of emptiness, which felt as if she was in the void of space, cold and suffocating.

In fact, she soon found out that it was not Amori.

You can tell it in a few words, although they have the same face, the way they speak is not at all, and their personalities are very different.

How can someone who has been with each other for hundreds of days and nights not even be able to tell the difference?

Even though his appearance is the same as before, he gives her the feeling of a stranger she has never met.

In the darkness, the sculpture moved.

He slowly withdrew from the monster's body, and little by little, pulled the tentacle out of his body.

Black bacteria covered his wound, and he bent down and bit down on one of his severed hands, then connected it to the fracture, and the flora spilled out of the crack, sticking to his hand like glue.

Both hands were connected, and he slowly walked towards Su Wanqing.

The way he had just fought was crazy and hideous, and there was no doubt that he was a complete monster.

But even though he was covered in blood and looked at that familiar face, Su Wanqing didn't feel afraid.

He squatted down and touched Xiaobai's head, and the hand he picked up seemed to be not very flexible, and his movements were very stiff, but after the little guy saw him, he jumped out of the car happily.

"He helped us, he helped us to lead the way, to control the worms that attacked their owners, and thanks to him, I was able to win." He lowered his head and whispered.

"Where is he?" Su Wanqing looked into the darkness and grabbed the jewelry box in her pocket with her right hand.

"His consciousness is lodged in the body of that monster, in fact, he should have thought a long time ago, when I saw him before, he could still appear in front of me in another posture, he could write to me and communicate with me, but he couldn't do these things just now, which shows that his state is very poor, much worse than before."

"You say his consciousness is there?" Su Wanqing stared at the remains of that monster.

"Yes, originally he was infected as the Administrator's egg, but there were some accidents in the middle, which caused his consciousness to shift to that monster, resulting in my body not being controlled by the fungus master, and this accident also caused the deformed body to divide into two consciousnesses, he was the weaker one, he lost a lot of memories, but he still remembered what I looked like, so he helped me many times, but this help prompted the other consciousness to make up his mind to destroy him."

"In fact, his consciousness was almost wiped out, two days ago, after he helped me in the sewers, the fungus master cut him off, the two split in two, the fungus master's consciousness was withdrawn into the mother's body, his mind was worn out, and he remained in this deformed body."

"The reason why the ground will collapse is because he feels me, he was ordered to kill me, he is already in a mechanical state, but because you are implicated, some kind of necessary will, let him recover some memory, he has been protecting you, the concentration of mold in that nest is exceeded, even if there are antibodies, it has no effect, at that concentration, as long as you breathe, the mold will invade along the respiratory tract and mucous membranes, but you and Xiaobai are not infected, because he is the owner of the nest, He forcibly controlled the mold and did not break out in your body, and the others did not have such good luck, so they all died, and only you and Xiaobai were not harmed. ”

"So Robson died even if he had antibodies?" Su Wanqing pursed her lips.

"Protecting you is his limit, even I am being attacked, only you can be spared."

"But why didn't he just take us out and lead you to this underground parking lot?"

"Because his newly recovered will is very weak, so weak that it will disappear at any time, you have already been infected, but he controls the characteristics of the mold not to break out, if he disappears, you will die like other infected people, so he chooses to kill 'himself' before consciousness disappears, and chooses to let me replace him."

"This place is not actually an exit, it is the center of the nest, and the whole nest spreads out from this underground parking lot, and the center is closer to us, so he led us to the center, and he entrusted your safety to me, as long as I kill him, you will be safe."

"You say. Did he die, did you kill him? Su Wanqing asked stunned.

"Yes, he died, and I ate his heart, but he asked me to bring you a message, do you want to listen now?"

The person in front of her suddenly raised his head and looked straight at her.

She looked at him, and after a long silence, nodded.

"What do you usually call him?"

"Amori. I'll call him Amori." Su Wanqing said dryly.

"Long time no see. Susu"

He suddenly replied in a different tone, and for a moment, it even gave her the illusion that he was back.

"Wait a minute."

He stood up, rummaging through the misshapen mass of flesh and tearing out a photo album from the pile of shredded flesh.

He took the album and opened it, and the first page was a group photo, a group photo of them going to the beach, with warm sunshine and soft sea breeze.

I really didn't expect to see this photo again, they are so glorious in the photo, they look so happy.

"I don't know if I'll ever see you again, I don't know if you're okay, but I have a letter ready for you."

He held the photo album, stroked Xiaobai's head, sat on the ground, and spoke to Su Wanqing.

"I made up my mind to leave something behind because I miss you so much and I want to talk to you."

"Let me tell you how I love you, the first time I saw you was at a blind date organized by the team, you sat in the corner, and I saw you at first sight."

"They say you're a returnee doctor, they say you're arrogant, I don't believe them, I just want to try, I tried to ask you out for dinner, come out to watch a movie, you basically refuse, even if you come out, you don't accept a treat, if I give a gift, you must return the gift, your return gifts are more expensive than my gifts, which makes me very stressed, you are very cold, to be honest I am already disheartened, that day was with the determination to go to the battlefield, to send you flowers, I didn't expect you to promise me."

"We've spent a lot of time together, you're not so cold anymore, you're smiling at me, you're holding my hand, and when you're with you, time always flies, and I realize that you're probably different from everyone I've ever met."

"I'm used to having one more person in my life, I'm touched by your appearance, sometimes I feel very unworthy of you, I love you more and more, I know that you have quarreled with your parents, because I am just an ordinary traffic policeman, and you are a doctor with a bright future, you quarrel with them very much, but you still persuaded them to agree, I can only swear secretly in my heart that I will never let you make the wrong choice."

"The night you promised me to propose, I was so happy, I couldn't even believe it was real, I had to hug you, kiss you to feel that this was reality."

"If I can see you again, I must propose to you again, otherwise I will think it is a dream."

He closed the album, unzipped Su Wanqing's pocket, and took out the jewelry box, as if he knew what was in his pocket.

He fell on one knee, took out the well-maintained ring, looked her in the eye, and whispered, "Will you marry me?" ”

There is no sea, no crowds, and no fireworks.

Surrounded by monster corpses, the air was muddy and smelly, and the sound of water droplets echoed in the confined space, such a proposal was not romantic at all.

It was obviously such an unromantic proposal, but it made her tears burst out of her eyes, and she burst down the embankment, and she cried.

She cried and squeezed out a smile: "I do." ”

The ring was worn on her ring finger, as it had been for many years.

But this time there was no kiss or hug, and she cried loudly, tears dripping down the wedding ring.

The wedding was over, although there were no guests, no audience, no vows at the banquet, but in her heart, her wedding was over.

She became someone's wife, put on a wedding ring, and from then on, everyone could understand that she was a married woman just by looking at her fingers.

From today on, she is a married woman and will not take off her wedding ring again.

(End of chapter)