Chapter 545 My World
The thirteenth day of escape.
On an asteroid, Su Xia met Silent Xia.
The two were in very bad condition and were still in danger.
The entire galaxy has been blocked. It is useless to escape in any direction. It is only a matter of time before you are caught.
As expected, just two days later, they were in danger.
The overwhelming number of starry sky warships appeared again.
At the critical moment, Silent Xia, who had been silent all this time, suddenly spoke: "Su Xia, take out Xunjie and let me touch it."
"good!"
Su Xia did not hesitate and immediately took out the boundary-seeking machine.
They had speculated in the months before.
If Cowboy Xia or Silent Xia touch the world-seeking machine, will they return to their original world?
After all, Cowboy Xia and Silent Xia had completed their missions, and it was time for them to go back.
However, no one was absolutely sure, so no action was taken.
But now there is no need to think too much!
Silent Xia reached out and pressed hard on the world-seeking machine.
The next moment, the entire machine burst out with a terrifying white light, and the dazzling light enveloped the bodies of the two people.
When the light faded, the two Su Xia disappeared, and the world-seeking machine also disappeared. The place was empty, as if they had never existed.
Seeing this scene, many starship commanders of the destructive forces could no longer sit still.
"Where are the people?"
"Damn it, they must be hiding!"
"Keep looking, even if we have to turn this star field upside down and destroy everything, we must find them!"
After this day, the destructive force in the starry sky seemed to have gone crazy and began to search for the world-seeking machine at all costs.
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Let me explain this on two sides.
Su Xia and Silent Xia are in a very special world at this moment.
At that time, the world-seeking machine burst out with white light, enveloping the two of them.
Both of their five senses were blocked for a moment, their eyes could not see, their ears could not hear, and it was as if everything around them had disappeared.
This state lasted for more than ten seconds.
The moment he regained his senses, a huge sense of crisis suddenly enveloped Su Xia's whole body.
Without even thinking about it, he immediately activated his psychic shield .
The next moment, a hoarse roar came into his ears.
"roar--"
A terrifying figure suddenly pounced on him and hit his psychic shield frantically.
Su Xia took a step back.
He looked carefully and a hint of surprise immediately appeared on his face.
"Zombies?"
In front of him, the one frantically biting his psychic shield was actually a zombie-like creature.
The creature was wearing tattered clothes with dried blood and stains on them, its hair was like dead grass, its face was hideous, its eyes were terrifying, and it emitted hoarse roars from time to time. There were still traces of blood at the rotten corners of its mouth.
His appearance is very similar to the zombies in many literary works.
Su Xia never thought that he would actually see such a creature in real life.
At this moment, he was on a long and shabby street.
The sky was gloomy and the light was dim. The shops on both sides of the long street were all dilapidated. Weeds grew in the cracks in the road. There were many rotten cars on the streets. The whole world was filled with death.
Surrounding Su Xia were all kinds of roaring zombie creatures.
"What kind of world is this?" Su Xia couldn't help but wonder, where did the world-seeking machine take him?
“This is my world.”
A voice came.
It's Silent Summer.
He was not far away, still with that expressionless look on his face. He was not surprised by the zombies around him, as if he had gotten used to them a long time ago.
He bent down, picked up a metal stick, and hit the zombie in front of him with it, smashing the head.
"Their heads, hearts, and spines are their weaknesses. Their bodies are not much different from those of ordinary people. Just treat them as lunatics."
Silent Xia walked towards Su Xia and wiped the blood off the metal stick indifferently.
After approaching, he glanced at the sky and said to Su Xia, "It's getting dark. Find a safe place first. There will be a zombie outbreak at night."
"good!"
The two men joined together and began to kill, fighting their way through the swarm of zombies filling the street.
After all the fighting along the way, Su Xia also noticed it.
The zombies in this world are different from the zombies in movies and TV shows.
In many movies and TV shows, zombie monsters seem to be immortal. Even if they are rotten, shot by bullets, disemboweled, or even only have a head left, they can still howl.
But the zombies in this world are very fragile and one bullet can take their lives.
Silent Summer said it well.
The bodies of these monsters are not much different from those of ordinary people.
They can't even be called monsters, more like highly aggressive lunatics who escaped from a mental hospital.
Before dark, the two entered a relatively closed building.
They spent a relatively safe night.
After communication, Su Xia learned that the world was not like this three years ago.
Everything happened on that night three years ago.
That night, the news reported that an accident occurred in a biological laboratory and a virus code-named "X" might have leaked.
Just seven days later, a crisis broke out in the city where the biological laboratory was located.
In the six months that followed, or twenty-eight weeks to be exact, the world was in ruins.
The world has become what Su Xia sees now.
At that time, Silent Xia was just a sophomore in college.
"According to the time, I should graduate soon."
Silent Xia had an indifferent expression, as if there would never be any other expression on his face, as if he was numb.
After daybreak, the two men left the building.
Five days later, under the leadership of Silent Xia, the two reached the edge of the city.
This is an abandoned villa area. It used to be where rich people lived, but now it is empty.
They stayed in one of the villas for one night.
The next day, at dawn, Silent Xia handed a map to Su Xia.
"Su Xia, keep going forward. There is an oasis ahead. There is an island in the middle of the lake. The island is safe. You can rest there."
He spoke indifferently, pointing in the direction of dawn.
Su Xia took the map, looked at him and asked, "Are you not going with me?"
"No."
Silent Xia shook his head, rolled up his sleeves, and showed his arm to Su Xia.
There was a shocking wound on the arm. The wound had not healed and the surrounding skin had turned black and purple.
He was injured, and the virus was eating away at his body.
"When did it happen?" Su Xia asked with a frown.
"The first day, when we return." Silent Xia put down his sleeves. "This virus will remain dormant for seven days. Today is the last day."
"I have some potions here that should be able to suppress it."
"No."
Silent Xia refused Su Xia's potion.
"Su Xia, I wish you success."
He took one last look at Su Xia and said a blessing.
This was the last sentence he said to Su Xia.
After saying that, he put on a tattered backpack, turned around, and walked towards the city alone.
Su Xia looked at his back and remained silent for a long time.
The two didn't even say goodbye formally.
Silent Xia walked step by step into the group of zombies. The zombies seemed to treat him as one of their own and did not attack him.
He just walked further and further away.
After an unknown amount of time, he came to a deserted university and stopped.
“Crack…”
He pushed open the rotten school gate, stepped on the withered yellow sycamore leaves on the ground, walked along the familiar campus road, and slowly came to the school's open-air gymnasium.
There are several rusty iron cages in the gymnasium.
In each cage, there is a zombie locked up alone.
Next to these iron cages , there is an automatic feeding machine, and next to the machine is a mountain of dried meat.
Every once in a while, the feeding machine would take out a few pieces of dried meat and feed them to the zombies in the cage.
"Fortunately, you are all still here."
Seeing the zombies in the cage, a smile suddenly appeared on Silent Xia's usually cold face.
The zombies in the cage were Li Defu and his gang, as well as the girl named Wang Xiaofan.
Silent Xia put down his backpack and slowly sat on the ground.
He looked at them with a smile, like a wanderer returning home, but beneath that smile, there was a deep sense of tiredness.
His friendship and love are all here.
"I met another me, and you probably won't believe it, he is very similar to my old self..."
He was no longer silent, but kept talking to himself for a long time, as if he wanted to say everything he had to say in his lifetime.
Time passes slowly and the sun sets in the west.
The light in the sky is about to disappear.
The last lingering glow shone obliquely into the gymnasium, a warm yellow, cozy and comfortable, just like every evening before.
He looked up at the sky, then took his backpack and pulled out a box of matches.
He sat in this warm evening, gently struck a match and lit a wire in front of him.
The wire began to burn rapidly, releasing a pungent smell of gunpowder.
"It's time to end..."
He dropped the match and his body swayed uncontrollably.
The virus was eating away at his brain, devouring his last bit of sanity.
"One last thing."
He tried hard to control himself and shakily took out a small box from his backpack.
Inside the box, there is a wedding ring.
He stood up with difficulty, took out the ring from the box, and walked towards Wang Xiaofan with a staggering step. The smile on his face became more gentle, and the world in front of him gradually became blurred...
…
Outside the city, Su Xia stood on a small hill.
He looked into the distance with complicated eyes, watching the last ray of light disappear.
“Boom…”
Suddenly, there was a deafening explosion in the city, flames shot up into the sky, and thick smoke billowed.
The earth was shaking, and buildings fell down one after another, turning into dust in the violent explosion.
Silent Summer is dead.
He is a man full of stories.
But in the end he never told his story.
The city collapsed, burying his past.
