abyss rose

Chapter 23

In the long tunnel leading to District Nine, armored vehicles drove steadily.

Chai Yuening didn't know how long the car had been driving, but an empty car began to drive past them on the other side of the tunnel.

It seems that the first batch of people who left the Seventh District have been safely sent to the Ninth District. These empty cars are going back to pick up other people, but they who evacuated first did not know what happened in the Seventh District.

"Are you approaching District [-]?" Jing Mu asked in a low voice, looking out the window at the vehicles that passed by him.

"Hurry up." Youlan responded softly, "But when we get to the entrance of the city, we probably have to line up for infection monitoring."

"With so many people, it must take a long time."

"I can't sleep well tonight." Youlan whispered, "Maybe, I won't sleep well in the future."

"On the bright side, you're not the only one who can't sleep well." Chai Yuening joked to ease the atmosphere.

However, this joke was obviously not very funny, and the atmosphere in the cockpit became even heavier for a moment.

The silence that fell again lasted for an unknown amount of time, and Youlan whispered softly, "Will the base be finished?"

After finally calming down, Jing Mu's eyes turned red again.

"Don't be crowed." Chai Yuening said.

"That's right, I'm being negative. Even if all the outer cities fall, the main city will definitely be able to withstand the attacks of alien beasts." Youlan smiled wryly, "However, how many people can the main city accommodate? Under the quota, which part of the people will be abandoned?"

Youlan said, looking out of the window quietly.

Chai Yuening didn't go to comfort her anymore, because she knew that everyone in this car who was lucky enough not to be abandoned had already witnessed an "abandonment".

In this precarious world, who can tell whether today's luck can be brought to tomorrow?

She could only walk in this long tunnel in silence until she followed the vehicle ahead out of the tunnel, until she saw the dim light outside the wall in the distance, and the thousand-meter queue waiting for the infection test. .

Chai Yuening was at the end of the line, and put all the people in the rest cabin and back cabin down, and then drove towards the car entrance a thousand meters away.

The car was stopped outside the entrance, and it was not released until the inspectors conducted a test on all four people in the car.

Perhaps it was because of the special period that the electricity in the Ninth District was not turned off in the early morning, and the incandescent lights on the street were as bright as in the daytime.

At the moment of entering the city, Jing Mu whispered in the back seat: "Captain Chai, my home is at C5-A1120."

Chai Yuening nodded, and drove her back to the C5 residential area first.

After sending Jing Mu away, Chai Yuening drove the car all the way to the Population Administration Bureau, trying to be allocated a temporary residence in the Ninth District, but was sternly persuaded to leave by the scary-looking team outside.

"The Ninth District is so big, and the line is so long. When we reach us, there will be no room." Chai Yuening suddenly remembered something, and turned to look at Chu Ci, "Yes, didn't you live here before? ?”

Chu Ci nodded: "H12-C0305."

Chai Yuening: "Is the room card still there?"

Chu Ci took out a magnetic card from his body: "Yes."

Youlan was delighted for a moment: "Great, I thought I was going to sleep on the street tonight!"

Chu Ci: "I don't have anything."

Youlan: "At any rate, it's a place to live. If you can make do with it, you can make do with it."

That being said, after arriving at the residence where no one lived for a long time, Youlan couldn't help but let out a voice of disgust.

"Is this a place where people lived?" Youlan looked at the empty house, his eyes filled with disbelief, "Little darling, before you followed Captain Chai, did you really live in this kind of place?"

It turned out that Chu Ci was not exaggerating when he said that there was nothing here.

The last time Chai Yuening came here, she didn't look into the back room much. Only after she came in this time did she realize that apart from a set of old tables and chairs in the living room and two broken rags in the toilet, there is only the narrow one in the back room. Plank bed too.

The plank bed was bare, with no sheets, bedding, pillows, anything.

"I don't have any money." Chu Ci said, looking at Youlan, "I went to work with you, but you sent me to the detention center."

"You..." Youlan was at a loss for words, frowned slightly, looked at Chai Yuening, then looked at Chu Ci again, "You didn't say that you had something to do with Captain Chai, did you say that it would be fine? "

The more Chai Yuening heard that the direction was getting worse, she quickly poked Youlan's arm: "Okay, okay, no matter how disgusted you are, you have to clean it up. I haven't lived in it for so long, it's covered in dust, and I'm going to sleep tonight."

"I've never suffered from such troubles. I just had my manicure done yesterday..." Youlan complained with a sigh, but in the end he went into the toilet, picked up a rag, turned around and shouted, "You two can't stand at the same time. Look, here's another piece of cloth."

Just as Chu Ci wanted to follow in, Chai Yuening took a step ahead.

Chai Yuening: "It's fine if I come, you're still hurt."

Chu Ci pursed his lips and didn't argue much, just retreated to the door and stood there in a daze.

After a brief cleaning of the house, Chai Yuening ran downstairs, pulled a few large black cloths to cover the goods in the rear cabin of the armored vehicle, and came back, covering the bed and the floor, sighed and said: "Let's go tonight." Just let it go, let’s talk about what’s missing tomorrow.”

In the quiet night, when the room lights were turned off, only the breathing of three people remained in the narrow bedroom.

The only bed was given to Youlan, but obviously, she, who had never suffered before, tossed and turned on the cold bed, unable to fall asleep for a long time.

That night, many people could not sleep, and Chai Yuening was one of them.

She could feel that her eyes were tired, but even with her eyes closed, her mind was still very active.

Her mind was in turmoil, and she would think of the slowly rising separation wall when she opened and closed her eyes, Ban Xiangming, whom she hadn't seen many times before, and the evacuation order maintained at the west exit of the city, where one after another ordinary residents were taken away. The army/police who sent the armored vehicles thought of the empty vehicles that passed by them on the return journey.

The drivers of those military armored vehicles safely sent off a group of District [-] residents. After returning, they would pick up the survivors who were walking on the road behind, but they could no longer pick up their former comrades in arms.

In the darkness, a soft and thin voice interrupted Chai Yuening's wild thoughts.

Youlan: "Are you all asleep?"

Chai Yuening: "No."

Chu Ci on the side turned over, obviously not asleep either.

Youlan: "Let's talk, just say something..."

Chai Yuening: "Say what?"

"I don't know." Youlan sighed softly, "I can't sleep."

"There must be a topic for chatting." Chai Yuening looked at the dark ceiling and said softly, "Aren't you the best at babbling? Let's start."

"What do you mean I'm the best at babbling? Is there anyone who talks like that?" Youlan muttered dissatisfiedly, but after mumbling, he still thought seriously.

After pondering for a while, she suddenly lay down beside the bed and asked Chu Ci, "Hey, what's your name?"

Chai Yuening's eyelids couldn't help but twitch.

She didn't know why, the room was so dark, but Youlan's eyes were so bright.

That is the light from the fire of gossip.

Chu Ci: "Chu Ci."

Youlan: "How long have you two been together?"

Chu Ci thought for a while, and replied seriously: "It's been a while, when I came out of the detention center..."

"That's a good relationship!" Youlan smiled and interrupted Chu Ci's unfinished sentence, "Tell me, what do you think of Captain Chai?"

Chai Yuening: "Youlan..."

Youlan pursed her lips: "Why, the sky is about to fall, why don't you let people chat about the sky before they die?"

Chai Yuening couldn't help rolling her eyes.

Seeing that Chai Yuening didn't stop her, Youlan asked again: "What do you think of Captain Chai? I mean, how does she treat you?"

Chu Ci thought for a while: "Be nice to me."

Youlan: "Oh~ what a good idea?"

Chu Ci: "Don't let me sleep after taking a shower, but help me wipe my hair."

Youlan: "Oh~~"

Chu Ci: "I'm not happy, she will make me happy in the way you said."

Youlan: "Oh~~~"

Chai Yuening: "Stop it, you're almost out of tune."

Chu Ci was stunned for a moment, and then said seriously: "Boss You, your tone is so strange."

"It's not strange, it's not strange!" Youlan sat up, smiled and waved his hands, "So there are colorful lights in my bathtub, have you tried it?"

Chu Ci: "Yes."

Youlan: "That feels amazing!"

Chu Ci: "...um."

Youlan's tone suddenly became excited: "Then which one do you like better..."

Chai Yuening: "Ahem! Ahem..."

No, where is it all?

These two people were chatting across frequency, how could they really chat?

Chu Ci turned his head and looked at Chai Yuening: "Did you catch a cold?"

Chai Yuening: "..."

Youlan's tone was ambiguous: "It's just that I've caught a cold, and I need your help to keep me warm."

Chu Ci: "...?"

Chai Yuening took a deep breath, gritted her teeth and said, "Boss You, why didn't I leave you in District [-] to feed the beasts?"

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The author has something to say:

Yulan: I understand~

Chai Yuening: You know a hammer.

Chu Ci:?

Come, come, I don’t go home until after [-]:[-] p.m., the hand speed is a bit slow, the update is late but it’s here, I’m a little busy these two days, and I’ll start adding updates when I’m done.