Apocalyptic Paradise

Chapter 39

Time is approaching that date day by day.Chen Zhuxia became more and more anxious.Sometimes, the scariest thing is not death, but the process of waiting for death.This is how she is at the moment.Yuan Dingfang waited with her.The two looked at the calendar on the wall, and looked at each other from time to time, sharing this terrible secret together.

From June to July, the weather was dry with only a few sporadic rains in between.The trees on the mountain were withered, as if they were sick.The earth was cracked, and it was hot enough to steam a person.

Except for hiding in the cave at the hottest time of noon, everyone is working at other times.Now the cave has been filled with all kinds of things.

"If there's not even a drizzle, will there still be floods?" Ming Ji squinted his eyes and looked at the white sunshine outside and said listlessly.

"After a severe drought, there may be a severe flood." Wang Ke took over the conversation.

"Maybe." Ming Ji slumped and sat down against the wall, while the others were also dozing listlessly.The weather is too hot to let people have a little energy.

"Zhu Xia, do you think we can survive this time?" Yuan Dingfang asked in a low voice.

"I don't know." Chen Zhuxia looked blank.

"Is there anything you want to do but haven't done?" Yuan Dingfang asked again.

"I want to do it but haven't done it yet?" Chen Zhuxia tilted his head and thought for a while, but there seemed to be none.

"What about you?" Chen Zhuxia asked back.

Yuan Dingfang thought for a moment, then shook his head: "No more. All the revenge I want to avenge have been avenged."

The two remained silent as usual, sitting against the stone wall.

Until the sun went down, the heat that filled the sky and the earth didn't dissipate at all.The whole earth is like a huge steamer, steaming hot.It makes people's throats smoke, and their bodies and minds are irritable.Everyone whimpered and fanned their straw fans, complaining non-stop: "Let it rain, let it rain. I can't stand it."

At night, the cave is also hot and dry.

Chen Zhuxia tossed and turned and couldn't fall asleep.

Yuan Dingfang raised his straw fan to fan her, and said, "Go to bed first."

Chen Zhuxia simply sat up, and Yuan Dingfang also sat with her.

Chen Zhuxia suddenly said: "Dingfang, during the day you asked me if there was anything I wanted to do but didn't do?"

"En." Yuan Dingfang responded, continued fanning, and waited for the next sentence.

"I remember—I haven't met a man yet."

"Cough—" Yuan Dingfang coughed uncomfortably as if he had been choked.

Chen Zhuxia continued: "Now I have no space, no ancient books. I have nothing to rely on. When disaster strikes, it may disappear all at once."

"Isn't there still me?"

"You, it's not bad if you can protect yourself."

Speaking of which, there is an air of doomsday sentimentality in the air.None of them knew if they could survive.Personal power is extremely small and weak in the face of huge natural disasters.

"Don't think so much, there must be a way for the car to reach the mountain. Let's sleep first." Yuan Dingfang sighed softly, not knowing how to comfort her.

The two were silent for a long time, and Chen Zhuxia spoke first: "Maybe we will die in this disaster, I have thought through it thoroughly, and I don't want to leave any regrets."

Yuan Dingfang replied in a low voice: "But I'm not ready yet."

Chen Zhuxia asked in confusion: "What is there to prepare for? Many men want to jump on women as soon as they see them."

Yuan Dingfang contradicted angrily: "I'm not them!"

Chen Zhuxia snorted softly: "Since you don't want to, forget it, anyway, you are not the only man."

"No!" Yuan Dingfang sat up like a cat whose tail had been stepped on.

Chen Zhuxia slowly leaned forward and leaned on him, and said with a smile: "I was teasing you, why did you react so strongly? Do you think I am a casual person?"

Yuan Dingfang replied in a muffled voice: "You are not a human being if you treat me casually." While saying this, his arms involuntarily wrapped around her waist, and hugged her tightly.

Yuan Dingfang comforted in a low voice: "Don't be afraid, we won't die."

Chen Zhuxia replied: "I'm not afraid"

"Hmph, trying to be brave. Everyone is afraid. It's because everyone has the instinct of greed for life, so there's nothing to deny." Chen Zhuxia didn't speak, and hugged him even tighter.

Yuan Dingfang thought for a while and then said, "Let me sing you a song to cheer you up."

"You can sing?" Chen Zhuxia was surprised.

"Of course, I used to sing when I was a soldier. I'll sing you one of my best songs."

"Okay, let me listen."

Yuan Dingfang cleared his throat in embarrassment and said, "I really can't let go. I used to sing in a chorus and never sang alone." After working on his thoughts for a long time, he finally opened his mouth: "Get up, get up, I don't want to do it." People of slaves! Build a new Great Wall with our flesh and blood!..."

Chen Zhuxia couldn't help laughing: "Is this what you are best at?"

Yuan Ding Fang Zheng said: "I think it is very appropriate to sing this song at this time. At that time, our nation was facing the crisis of national subjugation and genocide. Now all of us are facing the threat of death."

Chen Zhuxia nodded sadly: "Yes."

"However, the lyrics also need to be changed."

Chen Zhuxia thought for a while and continued singing:

"Get up, get up! People who don't want to be zombies!
Let's build a new Great Wall with our flesh and blood!
Humanity has reached the most dangerous time!
We stepped on the earthquake together, avoided the mudslides,
Together we brave the meteorite hail in the sky

Braving the rain and wind

Go ahead!Enter! "

The two sang over and over again, their low and solemn singing pierced through the darkness.Cut through the irritating heat.It seems to be a cool wind, slowly blowing into people's hearts.

The two sang until their voices were almost hoarse. Yuan Dingfang touched the water jug ​​beside him and handed it to Chen Zhuxia. The two took turns drinking a few sips and lay down again.This time, there was no chasing and dodging, and the two were naturally close together.

"Go to sleep for a while, I feel much cooler." Yuan Dingfang persuaded.

"I feel it too." Chen Zhuxia echoed.

The two fell asleep in a daze.

When I woke up the next day, the exception was a half cloudy day.The sun rose for a while in the morning, and at noon, the sky began to darken.

The sun seemed to be buried by thick dark clouds.The light gradually dimmed.The sky seemed to have been splashed with a large amount of black ink, and the blackness made people feel extremely depressing.Everyone walked out of the cave together and looked towards the sky together. No one spoke, and the atmosphere was a bit depressed.

Not long after, the torrential rain came, and the rain was thick and powerful.The heavy rain was accompanied by a strong wind, which could almost knock people over.The woods all over the mountain roared together, like a group of demons dancing wildly.The whole world of Tianshan Mountain is full of water, making people unable to distinguish east, west, north, south.

"Come in." Yuan Dingfang wiped the rain off his face and yelled at Chen Zhuxia and the others.Everyone waded through the water and moved into the hole step by step, and quickly blocked the stone door.

At this time, the rain was heavier, as if the Tianhe River had a gap, and it fell straight down.Standing in the cave is like standing under a waterfall.

The huge sound of rain swallowed up all other sounds, leaving only the rushing sound of rainwater in the whole world.A lot of water was also poured into the cave.Fortunately, the northeast end of the cave is connected to an underground river, and the rainwater flows down automatically.

The sky outside turned into night.

"Is it really going to be a flood?" Ming Ji said to himself.

Chen Zhuxia remembered that today is July 20th.Just as she was thinking so, in the dim light, a hand stretched out and held her two tightly.The two held hands tightly, and neither of them spoke.Looking at the iron curtain-like rain curtain outside the cave together.

(End of this chapter)