Chapter Twenty-Eight: Death
After dinner all the children were sent to the foot of the mountain.
The guards are still warning: "Don't try to slip away and jump into the sea, the nearest land boat ride from here will take three days." And it's full of sharks!"
Except for a few children with distorted psychology, most of the people present were very depressed.
With a bang, everyone rushed towards the mountains. Su Yao held her sister's hand tightly and kept running towards the depths of the forest. As he ran, he shouted: "Hurry up!
Sure enough, there was a scream behind him, and it was clear that some people couldn't wait to do it. It was a full hour, and they stopped just when Su Mei was about to lose her strength. Su Yao told her to take a break, while he went to find a weapon himself.
In a few moments he returned with two thick twigs and a bamboo. And he smashed a stone, sharpened two wooden sticks with stone chips. He broke the bamboo, and fixed the two sharp pieces of bamboo with torn clothes, and made two bamboo knives. When they were done, they headed for the top of the mountain.
The forest was silent, save for the chirping of insects and the occasional night cry of birds. Thinking that many people have already died, the surviving children must have lurked, they know that the night is not the hardest time, but the road down the mountain before dawn is the most cruel.
"Can't go too far. The younger brother Su Yao is very assertive: "Try to save physical strength." So the two of them found a bamboo forest and hid it.
In order to ease the tense nerves, Su Mei took her younger brother's hand and kept whispering about her childhood. Although the memory is a little fragmented, it is so warm.
Su Yao listened quietly and smiled innocently. Until the east was a little pale, he hugged his sister lightly. "Sister, it's time to go!"
The road down the mountain was a little muddy, and a light rain last night didn't wash away the traces of the fight. From time to time, you can see the overwhelmed grass, the blood in the mess, and the blood-stained sticks thrown around. Finally they saw the first body, a boy with black curly hair. Su Mei still clearly remembered that he invited their sister and brother to form a team last night, and swore that he could protect himself. But the younger brother refused, and he was still very unhappy, and when he left, he said a few cruel words, saying that without his protection, they would not hold out until dawn. But the irony is that the siblings are still alive, and he is just a corpse lying on the ground with a broken skull and a weirdly twisted neck. The further down you go, the more corpses you encounter, most of them are tragic, and some of them are even mutilated, which shows that the first time you go up the mountain is the bloodiest moment.
Su Mei was secretly glad that her brother's decision was right, at least now the two of them are safe and sound. Carefully bypassing a few traps, Su Yao wiped his sweat and said in a deep voice: "It's almost dawn, and the living people should have gathered at the foot of the mountain." Let's slow down a little bit and don't get involved too soon. ”
Before he finished speaking, he suddenly clenched the bamboo knife, pulled Su Mei behind him, looked at the woods next to him vigilantly, and shouted: "Who? ”
With the sound of a rope, a girl walked out trembling with a wooden stick. I saw that her face was covered in blood, covered in mud, and her left arm seemed to be broken, but it was hastily tied with strips of cloth torn from her own clothes.
This is the only girl among the twenty-four children except Su Mei as of last night. Although the relationship is not very good, Su Mei does not dislike her. This girl is smiling at everyone, and even a little flattering. She never gets angry when others bully her, and she also takes the initiative to help other boys wash clothes and clean up the house. This may be the reason why she is not strong enough to get to where she is today.
"Dandan, how did you do this?" Su Mei couldn't help but ask.
Dandan hugged Su Mei's arm tightly with her intact arm: "They are all dead! Intermittently recounted the encounter. It turned out that yesterday she and the other three children, including the tragic death of Curly Hair, who had just seen her, teamed up to go up the mountain, and at the beginning, it may have been because of the large number of people, and the three boys were also very strong, so they were not targeted. So they didn't walk fast, and when they approached the mountainside, Curly suggested that they take a break, but before they could sit down, they were attacked by a sneak attack. It was five children who made the move, and two of the children who were drinking in the cafeteria with cold expressions took the lead. Curly was knocked down in an instant and lost his life, and the other two boys only lasted a few breaths before they collapsed. She broke her left arm and rolled down the hill, and her shoulder bone was shattered by a stone, but she survived by a tree. The five of them all went after the two boys who had escaped, but they didn't pay attention to her, and she hid until she was discovered by the siblings.
"Take me with you!" Dandan hugged Su Mei's thighs and cried bitterly and didn't let go.
Su Mei was embarrassed and said to her brother: "Let's take her, she is also pitiful." ”
Su Yao frowned, it would be more dangerous to bring one more person, but he softened his heart when he looked at his sister's pleading gaze. After a while, he asked, "Can you go?"
"Yes, don't worry, I won't drag you down!" Dandan quickly stood up. Although it was still a little shaky, he also followed the two of them closely, for fear of being left behind. At this time, half of the sun has slowly revealed the horizon.
"We've got to hold on. After half an hour's journey, Su Yao looked up at the sky and turned back to the two girls behind him. Before they could reply, a joking voice came from the grass in front of them: "Why are you in such a hurry?
"Ahh Dandan screamed.
"Oh, there is another fish that slipped through the net!" the boy said with a cruel smile on his face, "Don't worry! ”
"The remaining two people in their team were also killed by you?" asked Su Yao in a deep voice.
"Yes!" the boy still smiled. "But there was one boy who was ruthless enough to roll down the cliff with one of us in his arms and die together. But it's okay, the fewer people there are, the more opportunities there are!"
Su Yao turned back to the other two children and asked, "Are you with them that you are not afraid of being killed by them in the end?"
The two children's eyes shrank and subconsciously took a step back.
"Let's go!" Taking this opportunity, Su Yao let out a loud shout to push Su Mei away and threw the wooden stick hard, while brandishing a bamboo knife and rushing towards the two leading boys. The two children were also stunned, but they didn't expect him to dare to take the lead when he was at an absolute disadvantage. In a hurry, a boy was pierced through the shoulder with a wooden stick, screaming and falling back. The other was instantly slashed by the bamboo knife in Su Yao's hand, but at the same time, the wooden stick in his hand also hit Su Yao's chest hard.
The sound of bone cracking was far away, and Su Mei heard it. She ran over to her crumbling brother like crazy, crying silently.
"It's okay!" Su Yao's mouth was foaming with blood, and he was obviously also injured in his internal organs. But he still smiled and patted his sister's hand.
Plop, and then the boy who took the lead fell to his knees and covered his neck. But blood still gushed from his fingers. Slowly, his eyes lost their brilliance, and then he fell to the ground with surprise and unwillingness.
The air seemed to freeze, and the battered boy stopped howling and opened his mouth wide in horror. For half an hour, no one spoke or moved, only Su Mei was sobbing quietly.
"He was wounded, and you went up and killed them. The injured child clutched his shoulders and howled.
The two boys from the back of the palace slowly gathered around, and Su Yao stood up and grabbed the bamboo knife that was still dripping blood to protect his sister behind him. The two boys quickly waved their hands and walked around them with a hint of fear, towards the injured child.
"Ahh But in the blink of an eye, he was caught up and knocked down. Screams rang out, but soon fell silent.
Seeing that the two did not return, Su Mei half-dragged and half-hugged her younger brother and moved towards the foot of the mountain step by step. Dandan followed them silently with a gloomy face. Su Yao coughed up blood from time to time, apparently the broken sternum had punctured the internal organs. And she can only keep comforting her brother and depicting a better life for him in the future. even begged him not to give up. At this time, Su Yao had no strength, but he still insisted on responding to his sister with a smile.
After a full hour, when the morning sun had completely crossed the top of the mountain, they finally returned to the gate of the compound at the foot of the mountain. A platoon of guards was waiting there early, and the man from last night appeared in front of everyone again.
"Oh! The timing was just right, but there were six of you. See for yourself how to solve it?"
This sentence made the three people who had been slightly relaxed instantly tense their nerves. Sure enough, three strong boys stood up on the grass next to them, staring at the man and two women who arrived behind with a wicked smile. The two boys who had given up attacking them earlier were not among them, and had apparently been killed by them.
"Hehe, I didn't expect it! There are so many ruthless people left, there are actually two women left, and one seriously injured man. It's not too difficult, you can go and solve any of them!" The tallest, strongest boy commanded the two behind him.
The two children with cruel sneers slowly gathered around. Su Mei protected her younger brother behind her in horror and kept begging. But the boys were unmoved, and they continued to press close.
Poof, before they could make a move, a sharp wooden stick passed through Su Yao's back and came out of his chest.
It was Dandan, she chose Su Yao, who had no ability to fight back, to kill her.
With a wail, Su Mei sat down on the ground with her younger brother in her arms, and kept trying to wipe the blood from his chest, but she couldn't wipe it clean.
"Live, live!" Finally spitting out the last few words with difficulty, Su Yao's eyes slowly closed with deep attachment and reluctance.
"Why!" Su Mei stared at Dandan with bloody eyes.
Dandan was stared at and shuddered: "I don't want to die, I can't die! I can live if he dies!" Hahahaha, she smiled nervously, but she didn't dare to look at Su Mei's eyes that could kill people.
"Take them to bandage and rest. The gloomy man commanded.
Several guards stepped forward to take them away.
"That woman is crippled, do you want to keep her for the rest of your life?" the man asked dissatisfiedly.
"Yes, yes, that's it. The guard left a cold sweat on his head, and hurriedly dragged Dandan outside. "No, I can live, I'm the fifth, I don't want to die! I'm the fifth!"
Dandan was dragged away in a roar, and gradually lost his voice.
"Let go of me! I want to be with my brother!" Su Mei resisted, screamed, and bit as she was set up by the guards. But she had no strength anymore, and as her brother's increasingly cold arm was ruthlessly withdrawn from her arms, her eyes went dark and fainted.