Chapter 3 3. Rose Corridor
It was noisy and tossing, and when it was Huaiyu’s turn, dusk was gradually rising.
After the zero-point contribution card made a "beep" sound, everyone around who noticed it couldn't help but fell silent.
Huaiyu didn't seem to have any sense of shame, and just kept waiting obediently and silently.
She has nothing to be ashamed of. She has forgotten everything that happened before, and she doesn’t know whether she died and came back to life or suddenly mutated. Anyway, when I opened my eyes today, I was wrapped in a cocoon by tree roots.
After crawling out of the cocoon, I forgot everything except my name and some vague common sense. I can’t even remember my parents, relatives or friends at all.
Anyway.
She is so kind, so she probably didn’t do anything bad. The zero contribution card is not her fault. It must be the world that has failed her.
Thinking about it this way, my mental state became extraordinarily stable, and my smile was magnanimous, which made the people around me who were ready to make small talk speechless.
After a while, the other party finished registering and gave her only 30 bottles of nutrient solution and a pound of soybeans.
"The future life is your own. Without the country's guarantee, you will starve to death if you continue like this."
Huaiyu hugged this pile of things and rolled his eyes at the other party:
"I know."
After thinking for a while, he added: "I will live a good life, thank you, auntie."
……
Walking out of the hall, the sky in the distance was intertwined with dark blue and orange dusk.
The shabby bus at the entrance is already crowded with people, and the loudspeaker is still urging:
[To facilitate everyone’s registration, the bus is free this month——]
[Terminal Rose Corridor——]
Huaiyu was stunned for a moment, and then trotted over. The driver kept honking the horn and shouting:
[Let’s go inside for those at the back——]
“It’s full, it’s full! Master, let’s start the train!”
“That’s right, I live in Jinyuan, and I won’t leave if I don’t leave. It’s going to be dark!”
The next moment, everyone felt their bodies tightening, and their steps moved to the side involuntarily.
“Holy shit! Who is squeezing!”
"Stop squeezing, stop fucking squeezing! It can't fit! My feet are hanging in the air!"
"Hey, hey, hey, don't squeeze out my nutrient solution——"
The door finally closed. Huaiyu held the handrail tightly and smiled innocently at the people around him who were crowded together like sardines.
Looking out through the cracked glass, the city changed from orderly to ruins and then gradually desolate, very much like the scene in her dream.
But what else is there in the dream?
"Rose..."
She murmured, unable to think of anything more.
The bus swayed and bumped all the way, and it was very difficult to drive on the broken road towards the suburbs of the city.
The number of people in the car gradually became fewer and fewer. After a few more people got out of Jinyuan Community, only Huaiyu and the driver were left in the car.
The two looked at each other in the driver's seat. Huaiyu bent his eyes: "I'm under the Rose Corridor."
The driver reluctantly started the car: The terminal is the Rose Corridor, but that doesn't mean we really want to go to the Rose Corridor... Why do people really live there?
He muttered, but couldn't help but gossip: "Girl, it's not your turn in Jinyuan Community...you, you, you, have you been deducted big points?"
" No." Huaiyu shook his head honestly: "I probably didn't make any contribution."
Driver:...
...It seems that the bus did not stop at the Rose Corridor. It's really dangerous here, so much so that we have to turn back.
Twilight has enveloped the surroundings, and the mountains in the distance are only vague outlines.
The night wind gave off a cool feeling. Huaiyu squatted down and touched the green grass buds on the ground, recalling the morning broadcast he heard in a hazy state, vaguely remembering that it was in March.
She was a little hungry, but the soybeans were still dry and hard, so she touched the bag of nutrient solution.
The packaging is not so fancy, it looks like a jelly bag. It simply said [Basic Nutrient Solution], and the rest of the ingredient list was blurry in the night. Only vitamins and the like could be vaguely seen.
Curious, she unscrewed the lid and tasted it -
Well, it was sour, the sweetness was very light, and there was a little salt. As for the taste...it's like wood residue soaked in water and thickener added.
Not delicious.
But it doesn’t matter. Too many things happened today. She has to think about where she is and why she formed a tree root cocoon on Sanqing Mountain, right?
Could it be that...the root nodule mutated?
Hey! I don’t dare think about it, it’s too disgusting!
Huaiyu quickly walked around and decided to consider the past and the present life first.
For example, where will you sleep tonight?
The surroundings were dark and dim, and in the distance you could vaguely see the lights dimly turning on in tall buildings, and then extinguished quickly.
Huaiyu tugged at his tattered clothes and walked back and forth twice on the treated barren ground, and then suddenly reacted——
No one is watching, so she doesn't have to stay here at night! Go back to the mountains! There is even a cocoon of its own there!
Well, it’s a bit weird to say this, but in short, the tree roots are twisted into an oval shape, and some pine hair and dead leaves are stuffed inside. Isn’t it safer to sleep than here?
The fragrance of the rose corridor in the middle of the night is getting stronger and stronger, and the ferocious spikes are hidden under the green leaves. In the early spring of March, it is obviously in a hurry to bloom.
Huaiyu couldn't remember from which direction she came in during the day, but when her fingers touched the soft and fragrant petals again, not far away, there was a tall, unconcealed flower. The column that Yu was paying attention to suddenly lit up the alarm:
[The mutation value in Area 37 of the Rose Corridor increased rapidly, and something strange was suspected——]
[The mutation value in Area 37 of Rose Corridor is rising rapidly, and something strange is suspected——]
[The mutation value in Area 37 of Rose Corridor is rising rapidly, and something strange is suspected——]
She retracted her hand instantly, and then He looked at the depression in front of him nonchalantly and got in decisively.
Three minutes later, the roar of the engine sounded in the silent night.
Two minutes later, Huaiyu huddled in the cold masonry structure and heard the faint sound of military boots stepping on the ground above.
"Come out!"
Someone yelled loudly.
She slowly poked her head out, like a bud growing innocently under layers of lotus leaves, well-behaved and weak:
"I didn't move..."
The gun filled with coldness was slowly raised, and the crowd around them relaxed slightly, but their expressions were still stern:
"It's so late, what are you doing here? You are not allowed to stay in the Rose Corridor area at night."
Huaiyu was so confused: "But this... is my place now."
She was slow Slowly climbed up from the masonry structure, like an innocent puppy that had been driven here. His clothes were in tatters, and his long hair was messy from getting in and out.
Then he pointed at the pile of scattered ruins: "Look, this is the place of Qiangwei Mansion, and it was assigned to me today."
Everyone around was stunned.
"You...were assigned to you?" The leading soldier had a rose badge on his chest, and he realized at this moment:
"You mean to register for assignment today? Why are you assigned here alone?" Did someone touch your contribution?"
Under the helmet, his expression became increasingly cold.
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