Apocalyptic Paradise

Chapter 37

Chen Zhuxia sat on the haystack, sweat dripping down his back.

"Zhu Xia, what's wrong with you?" Yuan Dingfang carefully studied her face by the light of the fire.

"The ring is gone, the space is gone," she replied curtly.

"Uh——" Yuan Dingfang took a deep breath, opened his mouth a few times, and wanted to comfort him, but he didn't know where to start.

"Well, maybe it feels that its mission has been completed. That's why it left you."

"Maybe." Chen Zhuxia's voice was a little tired and decadent.

"Don't worry, I'm still here." Yuan Dingfang moved closer to comfort her.

Chen Zhuxia put her arms around her knees and was silent for a while.

Don't look at her free and easy words, but if she is really lost, there will definitely be panic and regret in her heart.That ancient book once showed her the way forward when she was most flustered.The space carried by that ring was once her greatest reliance, and now all of this has disappeared in the blink of an eye.Whoever it is, will feel uncomfortable.

"Zhu Xia—" Yuan Dingfang scratched his head anxiously, looking more at a loss than Chen Zhuxia himself.

"It's okay. So many people have nothing, didn't they come here as usual? What's more, it has been with me for such a long time, and I should be content." Chen Zhuxia said in a low voice, comforting Yuan Dingfang and himself.

"Well, it'll be fine." Yuan Dingfang sat down next to her.

"Now, I won't worry about the secret being exposed. Ha." Chen Zhuxia played with the ring gifted to her by Yuan Dingfang on her ring finger, and smiled self-deprecatingly.Yuan Dingfang felt very uncomfortable hearing it, and he also pulled the corners of his mouth as a smile.

"2013, August [-]th, the flood is coming." Chen Zhuxia recalled the line of red letters in his dream.He said each word clearly, for fear that he would forget when he turned around.

"Well, I carved it with a knife, and I forgot it." Yuan Dingfang didn't ask how she knew it, let alone verify the truth. He stood up, found the machete in the corner, and seriously Carved on the stone wall.

"What's the date today?"

"May 10th." Yuan Dingfang carved the date again.The fonts are crooked and ugly.Yuan Dingfang looked at it carefully, with thoughts and memories in his eyes.

After all this is done, the torch is about to burn out.

"Sleep for a while." Yuan Dingfang said.Chen Zhuxia nodded, the matter had already happened, and it would be useless to think about it.Save your energy and think carefully about your future path is the right thing to do.Thinking of this, she lay back and fell asleep.

The torch burned out the last bit of pine oil and went out in an instant.The cave returned to darkness.

Everything was silent, only the breathing of the two could be heard.

"Zhu Xia," Yuan Dingfang called tentatively.He felt that she must be very uncomfortable at this time, so he decided to have a conversation with her to divert her attention.

"Ah."

"Do you remember the night I left you screaming?"

"Yes. I thought you were going to turn into a beast."

"That time, I almost couldn't remember you. Later, when I was still awake, I carved many of your names on the ground and stones." Yuan Dingfang narrated in a calm voice.

"Later, after my body mutated successfully, I vaguely remembered the past events in my mind, and when I looked at those words again, I remembered them all. Am I very smart?" Yuan Dingfang laughed suddenly, with a childish tone in his voice proud.

"It's very smart." Chen Zhuxia praised solemnly.

Yuan Dingfang laughed a few more times.

"Zhu Xia, I think you are sometimes too serious, even when telling jokes, you still keep a straight face. Are you like this before?" Yuan Dingfang felt that he had become a little more familiar with her, and he began to speak casually.

"Uh, not all. It's mainly due to my personality. I told you about my adoptive parents. They are both very serious people. The atmosphere at home is like this. I also put on a straight face unconsciously." .Actually, I think it's quite majestic. Boys didn't dare to trouble me when I was in school."

"I'm similar to you, but some girls still like to provoke me." The two began to chat about various past events unknowingly.

"What did you say? The girl provoked you?" Chen Zhuxia suddenly grasped the crux of the matter.

"This..." Yuan Dingfang was dumbfounded, he really didn't know what he said wrong.

Chen Zhuxia sat up suddenly, his voice was much more serious than before.

"I forgot to ask last time, but now I just remembered, I asked, you have to answer honestly."

"Okay, you ask. I'll say anything."

Chen Zhuxia struck a match with a stroke, and lit the half of the candle above her head.Candlelight illuminated their faces.Chen Zhuxia looked directly at Yuan Dingfang with bright eyes.Yuan Dingfang was a little flustered by her look, and his eyes turned away hastily.He cleared his throat pretentiously and said, "What did you say you wanted to ask me just now?"

"I remember telling you before, is my standard for choosing a mate?"

"Yes, is it the standard of a virgin?" At this point, Yuan Dingfang's voice could not help but decrease.

"That's right." In comparison, Chen Zhuxia was much more natural than him.

"Then let me ask you now, are you now?"

"I—" Yuan Dingfang was dumbfounded again.Why did she ask so outrageously.

Seeing his hesitation and hesitation, Chen Zhuxia had already come to her own conclusion, she sighed regretfully: "Oh, it turned out not to be."

"Who told you, I'm not anymore." Yuan Dingfang immediately blushed when he heard someone doubting his innocence.

"Also, why do you think I'm not? Have you tested it?" At this point, Yuan Dingfang's tone was much tougher than before.

He moved towards her, and said forcefully, "Here, don't you have your own test method? You can do it yourself."

Silence, an embarrassing and ambiguous silence filled the cave.

Chen Zhuxia frowned slightly at first, and then slowly let go.She looked at Yuan Dingfang thoughtfully.Then, she took his arm, rolled up the sleeves, and looked at it carefully from the top. In the middle, she seemed to be afraid of making mistakes, so she held the candle closer and looked at it.

Finally he said: "I'm sorry, I made a mistake of subjectivism just now, theoretically speaking, you are indeed right."

"Theoretically?" Yuan Dingfang asked in confusion.

"Yes, there is another layer of practice." Yuan Dingfang almost went crazy.

He asked coldly: "So, have you tested it in practice?"

"Not yet." Chen Zhuxia answered frankly.

Yuan Dingfang fell to the ground with a plop, and snored after a while.Chen Zhuxia blew out the candle and lay down again.

"A prescription," she called.Yuan Dingfang ignored her, and the snoring continued.

Chen Zhuxia slapped him on the face, Yuan Dingfang couldn't put it on, so he had to stop snoring, and asked in a muffled voice, "What's the matter?"

"Stop snoring."

"Oh, got it, go to sleep. There's still a lot to do tomorrow." Yuan Dingfang said again in a muffled voice.He turned over and continued to sigh, what happened this night.In the first half of the night, it was midnight horror.The second half of the night is nonsensical.She actually tested herself, with a serious look.

(End of this chapter)