Flower Moon

Chapter 22 put to the torch

"Master Hua, Hua Ling!" Tao Yue'er looked at him happily.It seems that as long as Hualing is around, he will become inexplicably confident.

"What's going on?" Hua Ling asked coldly.

"Yo, there's still a living." Ji Hanyu put his hands behind his back and spoke frivolously, looking at Hua Ling with a complicated look in his eyes.

On the one hand, he was surprised that he left the epidemic disease center, and on the other hand, he was surprised by his body shape and temperament—he didn't look like a person in the epidemic disease center at all.

He should be the noble son of a wealthy family.

Hua Ling didn't take his cynicism to heart, walked over a few steps, and helped Tao Yue'er up.

He leaned over and patted her skirt, and asked her, "Did you get hurt?"

Tao Yueer quickly waved her hands and shook her head: "No."

She waved her hand, but Hua Ling clearly saw two slits on her wrist, as if she had scratched the skin on the ground.

Hua Ling's eyes were a little colder, and the look in Ji Hanyu's eyes was a little more chilling.

"What did you do?" He said coldly.

Ji Hanyu raised his head slightly, and said with a smile: "Don't look at me with a cannibalistic look, I want to save her, okay?"

"Save me?" Tao Yue'er frowned, puzzled, "Didn't you come to me for a medal?"

"Medals are one thing, they can be replaced at any time, but you are different..." Ji Hanyu said, looking at the sky that was about to brighten, and said: "It's time."

"What do you mean? What time is it?" Tao Yue'er didn't understand what he was talking about at all, but Hua Ling's face became even more ugly.He hardly thought about it, turned around and ran towards the epidemic place.

Hua Ling's back flitted in the morning light, like a white line, Tao Yue'er followed closely, shouting as she ran, "Master Ling, wait for me!"

Hua Ling didn't realize it, and quickly disappeared into the woods. Behind him, Ji Hanyu quickly pulled Tao Yue'er, and shouted: "You can't go there!"

"Why?" Tao Yue'er was puzzled, "That's my home!"

"That was never your home!" Ji Hanyu bound Tao Yue'er's arms and said angrily, "They are all dead! They will kill you! Do you understand?!"

"What..." Tao Yue'er looked at him in astonishment, her pupils lost focus for a moment.But the next moment, she stepped on Ji Hanyu's foot.

"Whether they are dead or alive, I know better than you, I don't want you to care!" Tao Yue'er said, breaking free from the restraints in his surprise, and ran forward.

Many people stood outside the gate of the Epidemic Institute.There were people in white robes and black clothes, and there were also officers and soldiers in armor with swords and armor. They held torches in their hands and surrounded the epidemic place.And inside the courtyard wall of the Epidemic Institute, there was only a flame left.

The fire was raging in the courtyard, and the towering ancient trees were burned in the sea of ​​flames.The nostrils were filled with the smell of burning, including houses, clothes, and even Tao Yueer could smell the smell of burnt meat.

"Children...those children!" Tao Yue'er looked at it for a moment, dumbfounded, and immediately remembered the more than 20 children.

She was about to rush over, but Ji Hanyu hit her on the back of the neck. The last scene before she passed out was the huge lock in front of the gate of the epidemic center and the crowds.

Against the backdrop of the flames, their expressionless faces became even more ferocious because they were too ruthless.

The setting sun is dim, and the setting sun is like blood.

When Tao Yue'er woke up, she was still under the tree outside the epidemic center. Hua Ling was sitting beside her, wiping the books in her arms with her sleeves. The covers were slightly burnt, but luckily most of them were well preserved.It is "Quiet Drinking Meal Record".

Tao Yue'er's eyes were tender for a moment, thinking that everything before was a dream, but when the burning smell in the air rushed into her nostrils, she woke up in an instant.

"Children! Those children!"

Hua Ling looked at Tao Yue'er with no emotion in her eyes.He paused, tried his best to use a gentle and comforting tone, and said lightly: "They are all dead."

"Dead?" Tao Yue'er was stunned for a moment, she couldn't believe that Hua Ling would say such a terrible fact in such a peaceful tone.

"Are they dead?" Tao Yue'er confirmed again.

Hua Ling nodded: "Yeah."

After getting an affirmative answer, Tao Yueer roared, "Why didn't you save them! Why are you so calm?"

"There are people from the government outside. Tell me, how can I save them?" Hua Ling still had no expression on her face, and said calmly, "If we go to save them, maybe even you and I will get in."

"Why do people from the government come here?" Tao Yue'er remembered the young man in black clothes, and asked anxiously, "Ji Hanyu brought them here?"

"It should be." Hua Ling nodded.

"Why did he do this?" Tao Yue'er was furious. She, who was always timid and timid, wanted to catch Ji Hanyu immediately and cut him into pieces.

But Ji Hanyu is not here.

Tao Yue'er sat up, and saw not far away from the epidemic center, thin and small corpses were carried out by officers and soldiers, their bodies were covered with burnt marks.Together with the entire courtyard, they all turned into charred corpses.

Many people came to watch, but no one stepped forward to stop it.They just stood outside the yard, watched from a distance, and pointed.

Tao Yue'er's eyes were red, her hands were trembling, even if she was timid, she couldn't help it anymore.She stood up and wanted to rush up, but before she could take a step, Hua Ling stopped her: "Do you want to die?"

"Can you just watch them being taken away?!"

"They are already dead. Resting in the ground is the best ending. Those officers and soldiers will properly dispose of their corpses." Because they are all children who contracted the disease, they must be buried deeply, so there is no need to worry about their corpses being exposed to the wilderness.

Tao Yue'er looked at Hua Ling and pulled her hand away several times, but he held her wrist stubbornly, and she couldn't move it.

Hua Ling made up her mind not to let her control them.

Tao Yue'er watched silently, and after the children were carried away one by one, she said, "Why are you so cold-blooded?"

"What's wrong with me?" Hua Ling looked back at Tao Yue'er, her eyes were calm.

Tao Yue'er: "Sometimes I really don't understand you. No, maybe I don't understand you at all."

Hua Ling looked sideways at Tao Yue'er, waiting for her to continue.

His cold and indifferent eyes fell into Tao Yue'er's eyes, and she paused inwardly, unable to speak any more.

As Hua Ling said, those children are dying soon, and it is the end to be safe in the ground, but when I think of those children who were suddenly buried in the sea of ​​fire, they were the ones I had loved for several months, and I couldn't stop feeling sad in my heart.

Tao Yue'er asked: "You just went back for this cookbook?"

Hua Ling nodded: "Yes."

"You can risk your own life to save a cookbook, but you can be indifferent when you see the corpses of the children who accompany you day and night?! They were still alive just now, and now one or two have turned into scorched earth. How can you bear it?"

(End of this chapter)