death of hope

Chapter 82 "Flying Windfall" (82) Phantom of the Past

The monster howled and wrestled with the warrior.

The flames of moxibustion heat make the back sweat,

Anna is running,
The movements are rough and clumsy, like a lost dog crawling out of the mud, without any regard for her ladylike image,

Holding the documents and the ferry ticket in his hand, he threw off his long legs and ran desperately.

Blood flowed down the soft and slender waist along the fragrant shoulders, and the long snow-white calf was covered with mud.

The car that exploded was far behind her,
Run all the way down the ramp fork on the right side of the elevated road...

Somehow,
She usually neglected to exercise and became a long-distance runner.

Every cell in the body sounded the alarm, even if the mouth was dry... the teeth were full of blood, and they didn't stop, for fear that they would be ashamed of Roy's sacrifice if they stopped.

She took a deep breath, with tears in her eyes, and put aside all her thoughts, only remembering Roy's words:

"Please... my dear... go to the place where we met! Come on! Don't let me... die in vain!"

Tears run down the cheeks,

How much she hopes that this road can travel through time and space, so that everything can go back to the past,
It doesn't matter even if you work hard every day in the battery factory, as long as you can snuggle with your lover, that's enough...

nothing can be changed,
In the distance, the night sky in the urban area was reflected red by the flames. Half of York City was burning in riots. Thousands of people died tonight. new year celebration of the year.

Anna didn't dare to think about her parents and brother at all... All she could do was run, run...

I don't know if it's because of lack of oxygen or something, but visions of the past began to appear in my mind,

(Did God hear my prayer...)
At this time, she had already run off the side road, and the asphalt road turned into a dirt road with potholes, and she came to a field on the outskirts of York City.
There is a forgotten poor town here, and the dilapidated sign is painted with "Huaxi Town"

The sky has a beautiful name, no flowers, no streams, the town is sandwiched between a landfill and a polluted lake.

Anna's brain is severely hypoxic, her hallucinations are getting worse, her body is exhausted, and she is running with only her soul and will.

Time and space seem to travel backwards,

Anna remembered being pestered by hooligans in the neighborhood. She went to the market to help her mother buy onions, and a group of men who smelled of alcohol followed and blocked her in a dark alley when no one was around.

At that time, she was only 15 years old, and she was already slim, her face and body were not inferior to any Playboy magazine cover girl, she was a beautiful legend in the slums.

Whenever she walks down the street in a calico dress, she attracts countless eyes, like a hormonal bomb full of feminine charm explodes in the hearts of men, even aunts and aunts can't help but take a few more glances.

Under such a bad public security situation, a beautiful girl like her is simply a fresh lamb waiting to be slaughtered.

At that time, those wretched gangsters were about to take off her blouse while drinking, and she wanted to scream, but her mouth was gagged.

At this time, the young Roy rushed into the alley like a gust of wind, picked up a broom stained with feces from the sanitation worker's tricycle, and swung it wildly, driving away many taller and stronger adults than him in an instant.

"Run! Miss Anastasia! Go and tell the adults!"

That was Anna's full name, which few people knew except her family,

Five minutes later, when Anna arrived with the heavily armed neighbors, the gangsters had already fled, only to see Roy lying on the ground in rags and bruised nose and swollen face.

He stinks, and after being beaten, someone urinated on his body, and he was still holding a piece of the gangster's clothes. He was obviously dragging the other party desperately to prevent them from chasing Anna, and he muttered in a daze:

"Run away..."

After that incident, their relationship has been upgraded from friends to lovers. They hang out together all day, and the boys who chase her around the block are all jealous.

No one is optimistic about this young couple, because they don't match well at all.

Roy has been a bad boy since he was a child, getting into trouble every day,
Because of minor conflicts, he smashed the glass of others, drank wine from adults secretly, and entered the juvenile detention center because of petty theft in the supermarket. Only the veteran Jon can control him.

When he grew up, Roy was far from being a good man. He was not self-motivated, greedy for petty gain, full of foul language, spitting everywhere, heavy on cigarettes, got into fights when he disagreed with him, and liked to brag and lie.

Everyone around Anna is tirelessly...over and over...repeatedly telling her,
"That kid is not good enough for you. He's just been like that all his life. He's not good for anything. Miss, on your terms, I can find an outstanding young man to take you out of the slums and live in a wealthy area to enjoy life..."

For the kindness of the neighbors in the neighborhood, Anna laughed all of them,
She is not the kind of girl who hates the poor and loves the rich. She pursues feelings more than material things.

Roy loved her more than himself and dared to risk his life for her. This alone was enough for her.

The past in my mind gradually became blurred...

Finally... Anna couldn't run anymore, and collapsed in the town. It took a while to recover, and found a mess around her.

The riots in York City spread to this remote town. The sheriff was transferred to the wealthy area of ​​the city to support.

The town was deserted, all the shops and houses were smashed and looted, several big houses were set alight, sparks and ashes were flying all over the sky.

Looking at the parking lot at the other end of the town from a distance, she finally understood the purpose of Roy's decision to come here - if he could find a means of transportation, he would be able to reach Starport in time.

To get to the parking lot, you need to cross the town. There are several corpses of townspeople and gangsters lying in the center of the town. Anna limped over tremblingly, picked up an old-fashioned double-barreled shotgun from the ground for self-defense, and put several A red 12-gauge hunting shot was tucked into his trouser pocket.

Following the childhood memory fragments, Anna came to an old house,
This is a small church converted from a farmhouse, with a cross on a pointed Gothic vault.

Anna's parents, both devout Catholics, brought her to worship every weekend when she was young.

The door of the church was wide open, and Anna walked in, but there was no one there.

Dirty wooden benches, ripped palm cushions, creaking underfoot on old decaying wooden floors.

(It hasn't changed at all, it's still the same as it was back then, tattered.)
The priest here is a devout Catholic. In order to protect the purity of the diocese, he rejected religious donations from companies and any advertising promotions, relying entirely on church subsidies and meager donations from believers to maintain the chapel. operate.

(This is the seat in the middle of the third row from the left.

It was here that I met Roy back then.

My rocker ball dropped and rolled away,
The boy picked it up and handed it back to me, accidentally touching my finger,
His little face 'teng! 'The ground turned red, Albert's brother laughed hard,

Sister, look, this kid is so thin-skinned that he is even embarrassed! )
The man is dead.

All the sweet memories of the past are gone, Anna sat in the old position, put her hands on the long horizontal table, closed her eyes and prayed to the old cross in the center.

"Glorious and merciful Lord,
Your believers, in this world, cry out to you, sigh and cry to you, please look back on us mortals, for all the favors you have bestowed, we sincerely praise and thank you, amen. "

(End of this chapter)