Doomsday Wonderland

It would be great if the memory could be extracted and engraved on a carrier like a video disc.

This way, she could play it over and over again, experience it, and live in that memory as many times as she wanted. She doesn't have to worry that every time she recalls, her brain will make mistakes that humans inevitably make: For example, forgetting some details, such as changing a certain part unconsciously... The memory left behind in the end may be different from what really happened that year. It's completely different.

If Xie Feng had a choice, what she would play over and over again was the time she spent with Dong Luorong on the cruise ship on that rainy night.

At the moment the cruise ship started, both Xie Feng and Dong Luorong experienced the same feeling: it was as if the thick cloth that had been covering their faces for a long time was removed, and they were able to breathe freely for the first time. Outside there is a heavy rain, a vast ocean, a dark night, an escape route with no place to stay, and a shadow of doom hanging over our heads - but everything is wonderful.

If this is the end of the world, then Xie Feng will open his arms and jump into the end.

The outside world was so vast, encompassing possibilities she could never imagine, but there was no more restraint or oppression; she had the strength and ability to let herself face the sea breeze and collide with the waves - Xie Feng imagined, She would hit the metal with a reverberating sound like a yellow bell.

What's more, there is Dongluorong.

Before meeting Dong Luorong, Xie Feng actually had not realized that his old nineteen years were gradually shrinking and drying up. Dong Luorong didn't save her life - she stretched out her hand to catch Xie Feng who had lost his old life, and like her mother's birth canal, sent Xie Feng into a new life.

How could there be a suitable word to describe this feeling? Xie Feng was very doubtful about it. Such a feeling is so unusual that it must have escaped the coverage of words.

She and Dong Luorong danced lightly in the heavy rain, the record containing strange music, the strong wine mixed with sea water and rainwater, the crisp sound of the wine glass when it was knocked lightly, and Dong Luorong's laughter when he tilted his head back. Voice……

Xie Feng was willing to replay all the memories that happened in these few hours over and over again until he met the patrol warship.

At that point in time, she would go back and start from the beginning, starting from when she yelled the snake head out, play it again, and watch it again.

However, people cannot control their thoughts—at least most of the time.

The sound of heavy rain has never been so loud before, hitting the sea surface almost furiously, causing the waves to tremble and sway. Each current seems to have its own will, trying to break up and scatter everything they see.

Waves that are not particularly violent for ships can make people feel so desperate when they are thrown into them - what happened? Xie Feng was still confused deep in her mind until she emerged from the sea with a cough.

Was everything that happened just now a dream?

Under the dark heavy rain, on the dark sea without a trace of light, raging waves like mountains rise and fall one after another. Xie Feng used all her strength to push through the undercurrents in the depths, cut through the waves of water, and fight against each wave that crashed towards her; she broke through the layers of water curtains and tried her best to move towards the boat and was hit. Swimming in the same direction, he didn't even realize that he had been screaming loudly, calling Dongluo Rong's name.

How could a small yacht like that used by human traffickers to secretly move their prey be a rival to patrolling warships?

So before setting off, the smuggler explained to her several times that their route completely avoided the coastline patrol. He had walked on the sea so many times that he had a good idea of ​​when to set off and how to go so as to avoid being caught with a high probability - when a few people spotted a large ship in the distance, he was so shocked that he froze.

"That, that's not a coastline patrol boat. This place has long been beyond their patrol range." He looked at it with the binoculars for a few seconds. When he turned his head, his face was already pale. "That's one... I've never seen one before... It seems to be a frigate!"

The snakehead didn't know, but Xie Feng and Dong Luorong knew very well that Qiu Changtian's death must have been discovered.

Just the death of a security minister may not have led to a pursuit of soldiers in such a distant sea area in a short period of time; but the circumstances of his death and the confession of the surviving guard can prove that the escapee One of them is an evolver - it's not surprising that a warship is dispatched.

Another thing that was not surprising, but that no one expected at the time, was that the warship fired at them without even sending a communication to confirm its identity.

What to do if an innocent person is killed? This question seems to have never been a problem.

Xie Feng actually had a vague memory of the moment when the hull of the ship was hit by a cannonball, as if her memories were blown to pieces like the ship.

She remembers a deafening thud, she remembers fragments of white light flashing in front of her eyes, she remembers Dong Luorong's hand slipping out of hers, and how she was hit hard by something, thrown high into the sky, and then It hit the sea with a "snap", which was so painful that she seemed to lose consciousness for a moment and a half.

Children in the City of Tears generally have good water skills, but even Xie Feng felt as if she had been swimming desperately for a lifetime before she finally swam back a little bit, and finally saw a few blurry and white fragments on the dark waves—— She could barely recognize what part of the ship it was.

Among them was a larger shadow that seemed to be a broken deck. It drifted at a slower speed than the other fragments. After several seconds, it had not drifted far away, as if there was something heavy hanging on it.

When Xie Feng realized this, he immediately became energetic, kicked his feet, plunged into the water, and swam towards it at full speed.

"Here," a distant call made Xie Feng, who resurfaced, suddenly feel disappointed - it was the voice of the snakehead.

The snakehead put one hand on the deck, barely showing his head, and yelled at her desperately: "Help us, Miss Dong is injured!"

Xie Feng almost burst into tears.

Maybe the tears really fell, but she couldn't distinguish anything between the sea water and the rain. She didn't know how she swam to the broken deck. She reached out to fish it out, and sure enough, she found it on the other side of the snake's head. I touched a person - when she was fished out of the water, her black hair was wrapped around Xie Feng's arm. Her body was so cold that even the blood pouring out of her body could not feel any warmth.

"Don't be afraid, don't be afraid," Xie Feng pressed his fingers on Dong Luorong's carotid artery, realizing that she was still there, and also realized that he was actually more afraid than anyone else. "I'll save you, I can save you, look at me..."

Miraculously, Xie Feng's voice seemed to bring back a little of Dongluo Rong's sanity. In Xie Feng's arms, she softly let out a murmuring voice; it didn't sound like she was moaning after being seriously injured and soaked in the cold sea, but like she woke up from a long dream and was about to fall asleep again.

"I'm fine..." Dong Luorong whispered, "It's just a little painful..."

Any sane person would realize that it was impossible to save her. But Xie Feng did have another way. This way didn't suddenly hit her nerves until she held Dong Luorong in her arms.

"I can, I can make another item," Xie Feng said with pleading, "I suddenly felt that I can make another item now..."

"There is no... desk lamp." Dong Luorong seemed to be smiling.

Not only the desk lamp, there is nothing in the vast black sea at this moment that meets the qualifications to be made into an object.

But there is one person who fits the bill.

It turns out that people who are dying can...can be made into humanoid objects.

Xie Feng hugged Dong Luorong and was trembling all over for a moment. He couldn't tell whether it was cold or fear.

"Are you... willing to stay with me all the time?" Xie Feng buried his head between her ears and neck. Her blood hit Xie Feng's lower abdomen. Before it had time to warm up, it was turned cold by the sea water. . "As...as an object?"

In just a short moment, Dong Luorong seemed to be speechless.

She seemed to be losing consciousness. If Xie Feng hadn't kept calling her, she might have gone away long ago. Xie Feng didn't know if he was being selfish, maybe he was, but if Dong Luorong couldn't answer, she - could she make the decision for her?

Dong Luorong suddenly moved. Xie Feng thought it was the waves undulating at first, but it wasn't until she struggled to move again that Xie Feng realized what she was doing.

The heart-shaped silver pendant, [Compare Hearts to Hearts], has not expired yet and is still hanging on Dong Luorong's wrist.

The effect of [Comparing Hearts with Hearts] can only cover one person at a time; when the snakehead suddenly came back to his senses as if awakening from a deep dream, Xie Feng had already taken his place and was completely immersed in Dong Luorong's body. In mentality.

"……I do not want to."

She obviously didn't speak, but Xie Feng heard it.

"My whole life... I have lived as an object. I am a decoration, a hanging picture, a lucky charm, an object of money, a target of sales... but I am not a human being. My life has changed a long time ago Being taken away and no longer my own, my wishes, dreams, likes and dislikes... have never been asked. If I can't live according to my own wishes, then I would rather... no longer live. UU Reading www .uukanshu.net”

She seemed to smile again.

"I am very satisfied to finally reach the sea."

...It's true, she is indeed very satisfied.

The next few minutes were all a blur. Xie Feng had such an experience when she was a child: She was scolded by her mother and felt aggrieved. She cried so hard that she couldn't breathe evenly. Her mind was so dizzy due to lack of oxygen that it seemed like nothing outside her body existed except crying.

The difference at this moment was that she didn't know whether she was crying or whether she was smiling contentedly because of Dong Luorong's influence.

Later, two things finally broke through her dream-like unreal state.

One is the snow-white searchlight. As the warship approaches, it tears apart the black curtain covering the sea.

Second, under the searchlight, she could clearly see the snake's head still hanging on the deck. He was staring straight at Xie Feng, his eyes getting bigger and bigger, getting further and further away, and slowly turning to the sides of his head. He looks like a mantis, a sea mantis.