sinovels Chapter 12
Chapter 12
Guys are beasts! "The landlord's wife screamed, which sounded a bit like what Su Mucheng shouted on the street the day before, "Beast!Mind our business!It's none of their business! "
She didn't know what to say, so she could only say a few words indiscriminately, "Yes... that's right, they always do this."
"Hmph! No one in the whole world likes them!" The landlady said viciously, "They are a group of demons! They suck other people's blood and eat other people's flesh everywhere!"
The expression on Chu Yunxiu's face almost froze, and she couldn't help thinking whether she would violate Wang Jiexi's foreign affairs discipline if she continued like this, but it was obviously inappropriate to express her stance at this time.Fortunately, Su Mucheng came out of the kitchen with a plate, and asked curiously, "What were you talking about just now?"
"Oh!" Chu Yunxiu said before the landlady began to condemn vigorously, "Just now the broadcast said that multinational forces may use poison gas, and asked to prepare a gas-proof room at home... um..." She tilted her head, with a little smile He asked blankly and innocently, "How do you prepare for this?"
"How else can I prepare?" Su Mucheng was asked inexplicably, "Tap the door cracks and everything to seal them with tape, and plastic film, that's the only way to do it now."
The communication between them has always been in Chinese, and the landlady who can only speak Arabic has no idea what the two young girls who rent their own house are talking about.However, Chu Yunxiu didn't care about this, she widened her eyes, as if Su Mucheng had some kind of special skill: "...you know?"
Su Mucheng smiled apologetically at the landlady's wife, and then said to Chu Yunxiu, "Of course, the anti-virus room is an old trick, and there are basements and so on."
"Pfft." Chu Yunxiu laughed suddenly, then looked at Su Mucheng with approving eyes, "Okay, okay, then I'll leave this matter to you."
"Please, I'm fine." Su Mucheng put the plate on the table, the food in it was so simple, but it could still be seen that a lot of thought was put into it, "But the landlady can't do this kind of thing, You have to help."
"Help, help, definitely help." Chu Yunxiu turned her head and smiled at the landlady who had been silent for a while because she couldn't understand Chinese, and then walked briskly to the kitchen to get the tableware - after breakfast, it was obvious that she would start to arrange anti-virus It's definitely a tough battle.
After completing the necessary arrangements, Chu Yunxiu decided to take the risk of going around the streets and try her best to take some pictures when she came back.She had thought that Su Mucheng would speak out to dissuade her, but she didn't expect that the latter would just silently pull out the backup camera—the one she had been using was destroyed yesterday—and said to her, "Let's go, where are you going?"
However, the camera is still highly sensitive on the streets of City B, and the particularity of the environment is doomed to prevent in-depth observation, and may even be detained.Although they finally returned to the residence without incident, they still felt exhausted physically and mentally. After a hasty goodnight, they went to rest.Chu Yunxiu fell into a coma-like deep sleep almost the moment she lay down, until Su Mucheng called her around three o'clock in the morning: "Yunxiu, don't sleep, get up quickly!"
Chu Yunxiu suddenly opened her eyes and sat up on the bed, and asked a little hurriedly, "What's wrong?"
Su Mucheng supported her by the bed, with a serious expression on her face: "Don't sleep, just now the landlord heard the broadcast saying that war started and asked me to go down and listen. I went to listen for a while, and it was the battleship of country A parked in the bay that fired first. I got a gun—get it, the president didn’t withdraw troops, it’s January 1th today.”
"...What should I do?" Chu Yunxiu suddenly panicked. No matter how many breaking news she ran in the country, she had never encountered such a situation. What does it mean to start a war? How should we understand country A's launch?They are still alive, which means that the missile did not patronize here, but—whether it is a missile or a bomb, when will it fall on them?Staying here does have the opportunity to convey the truth of the war zone to the world, but how to ensure that you will not fall into this huge meat grinder without leaving your bones?
Su Mucheng pursed her lips, it looked like a smile, but at the same time it was bitter enough.She stretched out her hand and touched Chu Yunxiu's face with her fingertips, her tone was very calm, "Don't be dazed, put on the helmet and take the camera and your other valuables, we go to the basement and hide first."
Chu Yunxiu got out of bed and put on her shoes, put on her helmet and picked up her heavy camera bag.There was a faint fire flickering outside the window, even through the thick curtains, she could clearly see it. She didn't dare to think about what it was, so she quickly put away her belongings and ran downstairs with Su Mucheng.The landlady was waiting for them at the entrance of the basement holding a candle. The candle was so thin that it looked like it might break at any moment, and the burning wick emitted a foul smell.All the food and water they had was stored in the basement, and there was even a gun.Su Mucheng took the key from the landlady's trembling hand and locked the basement door. The moment she pulled the key out of the keyhole, an earth-shattering bang exploded above their heads.Chu Yunxiu, who was sitting against the wall, suddenly turned pale - she already regretted staying here, and the bombing at the beginning of the war was enough to make her terrified.
However, this fear did not last long.Su Mucheng, who was the calmest among the three, walked back to Chu Yunxiu and sat down, and was immediately attracted by the latter's slight trembling. She quietly held her hand and asked, "What's wrong?"
"It's okay." Su Mucheng's company made Chu Yunxiu immediately relieve most of her negative emotions. She gritted her teeth and shook her head, secretly looking at the landlady sitting on the other side from the corner of her eye.The latter is very old, and has been very calm and pessimistic from the beginning to the end except for the complaints against the multinational forces. He has a completely indifferent attitude towards the war that has come. don't care.In contrast, I was the one who reacted the most—in fact, the most scared—in this basement.Long-term success in work and in all aspects makes it difficult for her to admit her fear, as if once she admits it means admitting defeat, she has always been a person who refuses to admit defeat.
But this cover-up is very familiar to Su Mucheng's eyes, and she can see through it without any effort. She spread her five fingers and clasped Chu Yunxiu's hand with her own, and said in a low voice: "It's normal to be afraid. It’s scary to encounter such a situation, and there’s nothing to be ashamed of.”
Chu Yunxiu's grasped fingers tightened suddenly, and after the accident, she took it for granted, "...Have you ever encountered such a situation before?"
"Yeah." Su Mucheng lowered her head and smiled, her lips parted with calm gentleness, "I met more than once, this is the first time I can't remember exactly. In fact, it's okay if we see each other more often. Fortunately, every time this happens, people are in more critical areas. You know, even if there is a war, it is not possible to bomb anywhere. Now City B is actually the same, although we all know that throwing a bomb at the presidential palace is possible. That's all sorted out...ah, it's a good thing the president won't know I'm here saying this."
"He knows and won't do anything to you," Chu Yunxiu said with a smile, "He's busy dealing with country A's missiles, so he doesn't have time to take care of you, a little reporter."
"Hey, yes, but what do you think we are?" Su Mucheng sighed exaggeratedly, "'Maybe you have no interest in war, but war is very interested in you?'"
"Of course not," Chu Yunxiu shook her head, "I think it's because war doesn't interest me, and I'm interested in war—but who said that, you can't make it up, right?"
"Of course not." Su Mucheng pinched Chu Yunxiu's body with her fingers, revealing a subtle sense of intimacy, "Trotsky said it, but you're right, I think the war did not mean anything to me." Not interested, I am interested in war."
"What's the matter?" Chu Yunxiu asked puzzled.
"Look," Su Mucheng let go of her hand, and counted on the palm of her hand with the other hand, "It's pretty good for ordinary people to survive a war. I've said about one, two, Three... At least three times. I have done many dangerous things, and some of them feel scared after thinking about it, but it must be because I haven't reached the time yet, so I have been living well."
Chu Yunxiu laughed because of her words, but soon fell into deep worry - Su Mucheng attributed her survival in this world to something like luck, and she reflexively thought that once this good luck disappeared, What would happen, what would happen—she didn't dare to think about it any further.The lack of sleep made her yawn lightly, and Su Mucheng happened to notice her, who raised her hand and pressed her head on his shoulder: "Sleep for a while if you're sleepy. Let's start to explode now, it will probably take a while." The bombing didn't stop until noon, and I'll call you when it's all right."
It was around three o'clock in the afternoon when they came out of the basement, and the house was still intact except for the broken window glass.The sky in City B outside the window was dark. It was unknown whether it was the weather or the explosion.The curtains hung dusty from the window frames, giving off a certain heavy smell of decay.Planes kept passing in the overcast sky, dropping dots of various colors—that could be bombs, or whatever.
There are many inexplicable things in the room.Remnants of the bombing, such as broken bricks and rubble, and even a shoe, probably flew in through the shattered glass window.Chu Yunxiu helped the landlady clean the floor, and Su Mucheng, who had relatively rich experience in war, cleaned up the shattered glass by the window so that they could nail boards to the window later. However, she stopped after a while and stood The window didn't move.
Su Mucheng's stilled figure caught Chu Yun's attention.