Chapter 26 Someone has been here
I froze, "You...what are you doing?"
"I...I don't dare to sleep alone..."
Xiao Leng's voice was as quiet as a mosquito bite, and I could only feel the hot breath coming from my neck.
"What's wrong?" I asked confused.
I moved my body and tried to put a little distance between myself and Xiao Leng to avoid touching places I shouldn't touch.
Although she is my sister, I am a normal male. The current situation makes the atmosphere between the two of us inevitably awkward.
"I...I..."
Sensing that I was moving away, Xiao Leng tightened his grip on me and hesitated for a long time without uttering a complete sentence.
But this grasp made her cling to me naturally.
She buried her head in the quilt and I couldn't see her expression. But the coldness from my elbow always stimulated my nerves, and the hot air on the little cold face under the quilt made every hair on my body stand up.
The atmosphere fell into silence.
The white light outside the house suddenly flickered, and the light flickered through the glass on the top of the door...
There is also a regular buzzing sound in my ears, which is the sound of the generator in the base.
I suddenly understood what Xiao Leng was afraid of.
It was a completely unfamiliar environment, shabby and even a little eerie. It was understandable for her to be scared when she was left alone in a room.
"Eh..."
I suddenly sighed. After hearing this, Xiao Leng raised his face from the quilt and peeked at me.
I turned my head to meet her eyes. She blushed and immediately pulled the quilt up to cover her.
"How did you get here? Where are your clothes?"
I asked helplessly. In fact, I had calmed down a lot.
I have been reciting the Three Character Sutra silently in my heart.
'At the beginning of man's life, his nature is good…'
But Xiao Leng just covered his face and killed me, which almost made my heart tremble and I ran away.
Even if I'm not a girly girl...
"I...I saw no one in the corridor, so they came running here."
Xiao Leng said angrily, holding me tightly with his two little hands, probably because he was nervous.
She was hunched over, curled up like a kitten.
"You, don't you know you are an adult? You are not a child anymore."
There was a hint of hatred in my tone, and I shook my head and spoke again, "I sleep on the floor, in the same room with you, don't be afraid."
"don't want!"
As soon as he finished speaking, Xiao Leng immediately retorted, "Brother is already very tired. It's hard to sleep on the bed. I won't disturb you to rest."
I looked at her exposed eyes and wondered if she really didn't realize the difference between men and women.
Even if I'm the older brother, I shouldn't...
She seemed really tired. She leaned on my shoulder for a while, and then she breathed evenly.
And my head was like a ball of paste, and my consciousness was gradually sinking.
After being highly tense, a person suddenly relaxes, and his whole person is like a broken spring, without any strength anymore.
'Buzz——'
A ringing in my ears lingered, and I fell asleep completely.
But on the other side of my subconscious, I opened my eyes again.
In front of me is the university campus, pink petals fall from the trees, and the park is filled with peach trees.
I was sitting on a bench, and there seemed to be someone sitting next to me.
I tried to turn my head to look, but I couldn't turn my head.
Who is sitting next to me?
I only saw a figure, not a clear figure.
Finally, I heard a crisp sound and a click on my neck, and I turned around.
The surrounding environment began to collapse, and the original youthful campus turned into ruins.
In the ruins, that was Xue Anya's bloody face.
Two streaks of dark blood seeped out from the corners of his eyes...
"You...I found you!"
She immediately rushed towards me!
I was shocked, but I couldn't move!
The moment she rushed over, I could clearly see that the skin on her body fell off layer by layer and fell to the ground, turning into dirty blood.
But those hands still grabbed me, as if they didn't know the pain at all.
There was a broken manicure on Xue Anya's pale finger. The nail cap was completely rolled up, and there was a can ring stuck in the flesh.
"Ahem..."
I clearly felt suffocated, and death enveloped me instantly.
I struggled like a drowning man.
And Xue Anya looked crazy while suppressing me. The strong smell of blood filled the tip of my nose, and I almost fainted.
At the last moment when I was about to die, I finally reached out and grabbed Xue Anya's arm.
But the touch of this arm was like a ball of flesh and blood, which softened as soon as it was grasped.
Xue Anya let out a piercing scream, her body turned into a pool of blood, and pieces of blood fell towards my face.
"Huhu——!"
At this moment, I woke up suddenly and realized that I was dreaming.
What a real dream!
The cold touch of flesh and blood falling off in the dream seemed to still be there.
"elder brother..."
Xiao Leng's voice came to his ears, and his voice was trembling.
I looked down and my palms suddenly retracted as if they were electrocuted.
Only then did I realize that Xiao Leng had been sleeping next to me, and the arm I grabbed Xue Anya in my dream just now was not actually an arm.
But...
"Ahem, yes...I'm sorry..."
I quickly stood up from the bed with a look of shameful embarrassment on my face.
"ah!"
But the movement when I stood up made Xiao Leng scream in surprise and hold the quilt firmly in his hand.
"I'm sorry, I'm not..."
I kept explaining, but I didn't know where to start.
Xiao Leng covered his face with the quilt, leaving only one eye exposed.
"I...I'm hungry..."
I gradually calmed down, looked at her appearance, and couldn't help but shake my head.
"I'm going to see if your clothes are dry and get you something to eat."
After that, I opened the door and went out.
The clothes were hung in Xiao Leng's room. When I got them, the suspenders were already half dry because they were thin.
The pants were obviously still wet.
You can't wear this. With today's sanitary conditions, a cold may be fatal.
It was so wet that it could only be dried over a fire.
Holding the clothes, I originally planned to open the door and tell Xiao Leng.
But as soon as he opened the door, he happened to bump into the two brothers of the Li family who were returning from the water room.
They saw Xiao Leng lying on the bed through the half-open door, and then looked at the clothes in my hand.
Li Xiang greeted me with a strange expression, "Are you awake?"
"Just...just woke up."
I smiled awkwardly and pointed to the aluminum pot Li Chong was holding.
"What is this for?"
"Filled half a pot of water, thinking about boiling water to heat cans and instant noodles. Everyone must be hungry."
Li Xiang explained.
"Where to boil water?" I asked again.
"Get some firewood from outside. It's a big place here, so you won't be afraid of making a fire."
I looked at the watch, it was seven o'clock now, it shouldn't be completely dark yet.
"Give me a moment and I'll go hug you."
After all, Xiao Leng's clothes also need to be dried by fire, so I walked in and prepared to say hello to Xiao Leng.
"good."
Li Xiang responded, and the two brothers walked away holding the aluminum pot.
But before I could put down my clothes, Li Chong's voice vaguely reached my ears.
"Brother, are they brothers and sisters?"
"Why don't I feel like it?"
"Then the names of brother and sister should be nicknames, right?"
"Can't you just keep your mouth shut? Wait until others hear..."
…
The voice gradually faded away, and Li Chong's three fatal sentences locked me in place.
Xiao Leng hid under the quilt and vaguely heard it.
They seemed to have misunderstood something.
"Forehead..."
I felt that the atmosphere was a bit awkward and I didn't know how to speak for a while.
"Pfft!"
Xiao Leng suddenly laughed out loud, "That Li Chong is really a living treasure, hahaha..."
I smiled helplessly, "Looks like I have to explain later."
"If you explain anything, it will get darker and darker. Let him be stupid."
Xiao Leng huddled under the quilt and smiled, looking a little playful.
"Hey...wait here."
Sighing, I hung Xiao Leng's clothes on the doorknob, closed the door and walked outside.
Li Chong and the others were probably planning to light a fire by the door. There was a special vent there, and the smoke would not affect the residence.
Walking out of the accommodation area, the sound of footsteps could be heard on the stone tile floor.
Outside the accommodation area is the operation area, and on the left side of the operation area, there is a sign for the test area, which we have not been to yet.
Passing through the operation area, here is an open platform connected to the iron gate of the corridor.
The iron gate was open, and the door outside the corridor was also opened.
There was only an aluminum pot filled with water by the door. The two of them should have gone out to collect firewood.
I walked out along the corridor. The sky outside was dark. The last ray of sunset had already set, but the sky was still a little bright...
The two Li brothers were standing at the entrance of the air-raid shelter, their heads lowered and they didn't know what they were looking at.
I walked towards the two of them, "What's wrong?"
Li Xiang's body trembled, and when he looked up and saw it was me, he breathed a sigh of relief.
Li Xiang's expression made me feel something was wrong, and his face suddenly became serious, "What's going on? Why don't you take the firewood back?"
However, following his gaze, my body also stiffened.
Because, in the black ashes of our firewood, there were several more footprints.
They are human footprints.
The footprints were very clear, like boots stepping on them.
This is...
Someone has been here...