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At night, firewood crackles and crackles, and stools and tables that have been dismantled to pieces burn in the old room, illuminating the damp and foaming walls.

It is a house decorated with clear water, the ground is solidified cement, and the window on the first floor is pitch black, like a black hole, trying to suck people through.

A simple stove was built out of bricks on the fire, and on the stove was a copper kettle, and the water boiled, the spout made a whistle-like sound, and the steam rose.

Kyungwon poured hot water into the cup and poured coffee bean powder into it, and the rich aroma of coffee diffused throughout.

"Is there anything else you'd like to do?"

"Want to do something? Does it mean ideals and aspirations? ”

"It's your regret, do you have anything like a life list?"

Jing Yuan lifted the kettle and poured Tang Xue a cup of hot water.

"What is the list of life?"

"Why don't we exchange a list of the lives of the two of us, write it down on paper, and then exchange it for each other to see."

"Okay."

They write down their wishes on paper and exchange them with each other.

Kyung-won reads Tang Xue's list in a shallow way.

"1. Die in a place I am familiar with;

2. Don't be in pain when you die;

3. Die with someone you love;

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Almost every one of them has the word "death", which is not at all like a life list, but more like a death notice.

Although their current situation is very dangerous, they can't be so pessimistic, they keep thinking about death, and their mood has become depressed.

It was unlucky, and he crumpled the note, intending to throw it into the fire for fuel.

But a thought popped into my head, and I didn't throw the note out.

"Is your life list how to die? Are there any other regrets? ”

"Nope." Tang Xue shook her head.

"Don't you want to do things like changing new clothes, eating delicious food, setting off fireworks, etc.?"

"If I were alone, I wouldn't want to do these things."

"It's too pessimistic, although we are in a difficult situation now, but we must also learn to make fun of suffering."

"That's not the case, I'm not bitter at all."

"What do you mean?"

"Or. Look at what I wrote? ”

Kyungwon flipped the crumpled piece of paper open, this time reading the text carefully and carefully, trying to find out what the pattern was.

Tang Xue stood up, sat beside him, pointed her finger at the row of typesetting, and smiled slightly.

"Look, it's all about death and afterlife, right, have you ever wondered why I'm writing that?"

"Why?"

Kyungwon pursed his lips and patted his face.

Unconsciously, Tang Xue got into his arms, hugged his waist, and looked at him affectionately.

Even if he is as dull as he is, he understands what this is all about.

"Does that mean you have no regrets?"

"yes, I'm very happy and happy." Her head rested on Kyung Won's chest: "As long as I can be with you, I will be very happy, I can't think of any regrets I have, so I can only write about how I died." ”

"It's amazing, as long as I'm by your side, I don't feel scared at all, even if someone tells me that the world will explode in the next second, I think I can face it calmly."

When she said this, she stretched out her hand and clasped it with Jing Yuan's ten fingers, and she could feel her pulse and temperature.

Her heart was beating fast, and even in the orange firelight, her face could be seen reddening.

Maybe it made her very shy to say something like that.

Did Tang Xue really fall in love with herself as she said?

Before this, Jingyuan always had doubts, he didn't dare to believe Tang Xue, he had always treated her as a chat partner to get along with, and he didn't dare to invest too much emotion, for fear that it would be a lie.

Over time, there may be more family affection, but there is no progress in love.

But at this moment, somehow, he really believed what was just now, it was the girl's sincere words.

Because her heart was beating so hard, her face was red, and her eyes were closed, but her clenched hand never let go.

Kyungwon had one hand connected to her ten fingers, and the other was around her waist.

Suddenly he felt that she was very beautiful today, more beautiful than every day he had ever seen.

"If we can't get by land, then let's try to leave by boat, there will be a way."

Kyungwon whispered in her ear, staring at the dark window, reflecting the burning fire.

The next day, he drove that SUV to the coast.

Although it was very difficult to walk by sea, and he didn't know if he would be able to find a safe piece of land if he continued to go north, he still decided to do so.

First of all, they had to prepare a boat, a boat that could sail on the sea, not too big, but at least able to accommodate two people and a dog.

The best sailboats, the kind of boats that need to be refueled, and even if they can move, they may break down, and then they will become a floating duckweed on the sea, with no way out.

Food and water didn't have to worry too much and there was plenty of it in the car, all brought from the villa.

They made their way around the coastline, which was empty and they didn't encounter anything.

"Where was the gathering place where you lived before?" Kyungwon asked.

"It's better not to go." Tang Xue shook her head: "None of them are good people, and they have guns." ”

"Do they have a boat?"

"Probably, in the first year, people who went out often brought some sea fish and crabs back, and the food was not very scarce at that time, and they should have been maintaining fishing boats that year, but then I don't know what happened, and even the sea was polluted in the next few years, and even if they had fishing boats, they were probably abandoned."

Tang Xue tried her best to persuade him not to go to the gathering place, she remembered what kind of hell it was.

"It's okay, let's just go quietly, and if they have a boat, we'll steal it."

Kyungwon held the steering wheel with one hand and touched her head.

A ruin, unimaginably miserable, and hardly a complete corpse can be found.

"Looks like you've been ravaged by some powerful monster."

Kyungwon sighed.

Tang Xue stared at the wooden stakes inserted together, and was silent for a long time.

"Which house did you live in before?" Kyungwon asked her.

"There." Tang Xue pointed in a direction, which was close to the rock wall.

"Do you want to go back and see?"

"Don't." She responded unequivocally.

She took Kyungwon to another place, not far from the gathering place, which was an abandoned western restaurant on the coast.

She took Kyungwon's hand and talked about the cold, terrible, dark night that seemed to freeze her to death as she walked.

"I didn't dare to come here alone, but it's incredible, holding your hand like this, I'm not afraid at all."

They found the bones of Tang Xue's sister, dug a deep pit, buried the bones, and bowed three times.

In the evening, they found the fishing boat on the beach near the gathering place, still intact, tied to a stake with a rope, with sails and an engine.

After some investigation, he selected a medium-sized fishing boat and got to work.

For three days, Jing Yuan, under the guidance of Tang Xue, spent three full days repairing the ship.

He had an ominous premonition in his heart, so he did not dare to rest, and did not sleep for three days and three nights, working uninterrupted for seventy-two hours.

He carried all the food and water in the off-road vehicle to the boat, not only that, but also found a lot of canned food in the gathering place, probably the group of people in Tang Xue's mouth, and later went to the canning factory and moved a lot of canned food back.

These were all cheaper for him, and the whole fishing boat was stuffed to the brim, enough for them to eat for two or three months.

Early in the morning of the fourth day, the two of them and a dog boarded the boat.

In fact, the ship was repaired yesterday, but there was a lack of wind to make the boat move.

At this moment the wind came, the canvas puffed up, and it went with the wind.

Tang Xue steered the direction, and Kyungwon and Xiaobai stood on the deck, looking out at the shore, keeping an eye out for unexpected situations at any time.

Ten minutes after they left the port, a black line appeared on the beach.

It was a dense crowd of zombies, surging like a rising tide.

But they can't get into the sea, and Kyungwon is far away from them.

He beckoned Tang Xue to come to the deck to watch this spectacular scene, the two of them hugged and laughed in the sea breeze, and the sun shone down, as if it was a grand elopement.

They raised their right hands high and waved sharply.

"Goodbye!" He said.

"Never see each other again!" Tang Xue shouted.

"Wang!" Xiaobai screamed angrily.

The wind and waves of the fishing boat and the sun are moving forward, and the only sound in my ears is the rippling waves.

A month later.

The farther north it went, the colder it became, and they did not know how far they had sailed, and there was no navigation and no compass.

Once on board, the things they need to fight are no longer monsters, they have to fight against the sea.

Further on is the frozen sea, and there is no land in sight.

They brought warm clothing, food and water, but for another two weeks.

What is most lacking is fuel, without which they cannot light a fire, cannot guarantee warmth.

Jing Yuan became sluggish and sleepy in a cold environment, and Tang Xue and Xiaobai, as homeothermic creatures, could not adapt to such an environment.

After discussion, they made a decision.

It is impossible to return home, so you can only continue to move forward.

The fishing boat couldn't break through the ice, so they had to go on foot.

Abandon the fishing boat, take the food and water you can take with you, and continue to set off towards the unknown shore.

"Are you afraid?" Kyungwon asked.

Tang Xue, who was wearing a down jacket, exhaled a white breath: "No, not at all, I think I am the happiest girl in the world." ”

She smiled brightly, and the locks of hair in her ears moved in the wind, soft and bright.

Kyungwon carried his travel bag and was ready to go, Xiaobai was packed in the bag, and only a small head poked out, and a winter hat was tied to his head.

Tang Xue was wearing a ski suit and holding ski poles in both hands.

They stepped onto the ice, and Kyungwon could feel the thickness of the ice with the faint feedback of vibrations.

Tang Xue followed behind him and walked where he walked.

If there is land around him, he can quickly feel that the vibrations are reflected in the ice and dirt, which is completely different, he is like a humanoid radar, which can detect the nearby road.

I don't know if I can reach the other side, but at least this side is not covered with those thick fungus blankets, a snow-white world as pure as glass.

They walked for a long time, and the temperature got colder and colder, so cold that it began to snow.

Jing Yuan carried Tang Xue and Xiaobai forward, and the ice was so thick that it was impossible to step on it.

"It's like when we first met, you walked in the snow with me on your back." Tang Xue prostrate on his back and whispered in his ear.

"Back then, you weren't that nice to me." He made a joke.

"Actually, at that time, you were a big hero in my heart."

"Then your attitude towards the big hero is too bad."

"I can't believe it, I think that the big hero must be pretending, and I was very wrong."

"Thank you." Tang Xue lay on his back: "Rescued me." ”

"Sleep, it's late."

"Hmm."

After a while, she fell asleep, sleeping like a baby, safe and quiet.

"Found it!" Kyungwon said loudly, "Land! It's land! ”

He couldn't wait to get up and running, and the snowfield appeared in front of him, it was a strait, and the strait used to be an island, and the islands connected to the land.

The island has snow-covered pine trees and an abandoned lighthouse.

He and Tang Xue came to this small island, and went to the lighthouse, where people had lived at the bottom before, with a fireplace, a bed, a thick cotton jacket and charcoal, but no one had used it for a long time, and it was covered with dust.

He went outside to pick up some branches and came back to make a fire, and even caught a snow hare.

This place has never been polluted, it has only been forgotten.

They decided to settle near this lighthouse, which is rich in resources, such as woods, small animals, and water resources, so they can put the snow back and boil it directly in a pot, and it is good fresh water to boil out.

So they settled here, cleaned the lighthouse, built a fence, and Kyungwon went hunting, bringing back elk endemic to the Northland, so they started farming, and their lives gradually stabilized.

Until one day a few years later, a group of humans came from the other side of the snowfield.

Humans with an orderly team, Tang Xue came forward to negotiate with them, and learned that they had no malicious intentions, they were from the Northern Federation.

These humans were very surprised to know that Jing Yuan and Tang Xue had developed a 200-head elk breeding industry.

They graciously invited the two to join the Federation and become citizens.

In short, Tang Xue was dealing with the outside world, she negotiated smoothly and sent these people away, and before leaving, they left a fully charged mobile phone and a full hovercraft with gas.

Many more days passed, and more people came.

The surrounding villages were established, Tang Xue and Jingyuan were integrated into the village, and the village was connected to the electricity and network, as if returning to the past, peaceful and peaceful.

Many men come to pursue Tang Xue, she knows how to raise animals, and she is young and beautiful, can speak well, and is knowledgeable, but Tang Xue always holds Jingyuan's hand and says in a gentle tone, you are not worthy, she said that you have only seen her good side, it is not love at all, it is just impulsive.

The young lads didn't know how the wooden, rarely showed up and rarely spoke man chased a good girl like Tang Xue and held her firmly in the palm of his hand.

They suspected that Tang Xue had been used with witchcraft, and felt that the man must have used some improper means.

But later, these rumor-mongers, as long as they say bad things behind their backs, their luck will become very bad, such as falling and breaking a bone due to the quality of the equipment, eating a bad stomach one day, pulling to collapse and other unfortunate things.

Gradually, new rumors began to emerge that men were messengers from heaven and earth, and that they were to be respectful of him.

It has been passed on for many years, and everyone slowly believes it.

As the days passed, the village grew bigger and bigger, and all kinds of facilities were being restored.

Old neighbors would always ask her why she didn't want a child.

She never answered directly, just smiled and left alone.

On this day, the woman sits on the top of the lighthouse, in the arms of the man, looking out into the endless distance.

The woman has become very mature, but the appearance of the man is still the same as before, without the slightest change.

"Don't forget my life list, remember to help me fulfill my wishes."

"I've never forgotten."

The man pulled out the crumpled piece of paper from his bag, his eyes swept over the first three, gently stroking the woman's hair, sniffing the familiar smell of her.

"I love you." The woman said.

"I love you too." The man also said.

They kissed on the top of the tower that no one knew, reminiscing about the past that only the two of them had, and recalling their sudden elopement that spring.

(End of chapter)