Chapter 146: The story of a man with a baby looking for his wife (26)
Two hundred years ago, the plague came quickly and violently, but in a short period of time, every household hung up white lanterns, and the voices of crying never stopped. Those who were still alive wanted to escape, but hundreds of miles around have been built. Surrounded by a high wall, there are people guarding the outside, and no one inside will be allowed to escape.
They became abandoned existences and could only slowly wait for death.
One day, a Taoist priest stepped into this place where corpses were everywhere. He shook his head and sighed at the miserable situation in front of him, but there were still people who were still alive, with a desire for survival in their eyes.
He thought that he should find a way to save these people.
After repeated divination, he saw a turning point and walked to the end of the village. There was a simple wooden house here. In the air that was filled with putrid smell everywhere, the lonely house stood here, but there was something alive inside. Human breath.
The Taoist priest opened the door.
Inside the house, the body of the adult lying on the ground was covered only with a rag. There was a pool of dried blood on the ground, indicating that the man's death was not due to illness.
The Taoist priest walked into the house, glanced around, and finally walked into a dusty bedroom. He knelt down and saw two children under the bed.
They were skinny and skinny, and the skin on their faces had already developed ulcers caused by the plague. They were discovered by the Taoist priest while they were hiding, and they couldn't help but huddle together and hold each other's hands tightly.
They are twins, and I don’t know who is older and who is younger. Anyway, they are the same age, the same appearance, and the same guarded eyes when looking at people.
Their mother was one of the first to die from the disease, and their father had also contracted the disease not long ago.
This is an isolated city. No one will come to save them. Even if they try hard not to swallow, they will only slowly suffocate to death due to ulcers all over their body and pain.
The desperate father had a premonition that his death was coming. Before he lost his ability to move, he looked at his two children.
In such a desperate situation, adults cannot survive, and children who lose the protection of their parents will eventually die.
The father made up his mind, went to the kitchen, picked up the knife, and slowly walked towards the two children.
But in the end, he was the one who fell in a pool of blood.
The Taoist priest said to the hiding children: "Do you want to live?"
The two children answered in unison: "I want to."
Even though they are now infected with the disease and their skin has ulcerated pain, they are still eager to breathe, do not want to die, and want to live. Although they are small, they have a stronger desire to live than adults.
The Taoist priest said: "I have a way for you to survive."
There were clearly two children in front of him, but he only said "you" instead of "you".
Two gray children crawled out from under the bed. They were twins, like mirror images. They were exactly the same in height and appearance. Even the traces of the disease on their faces were exactly the same.
"You are the best extreme yin body. With a little modification, you can contain the filthy air of the world. I have a method here that can make a medicine boy. By then, everyone's diseases will disappear, but..." said Chang looked at the two children and said softly: "Who should I choose to help me with this?"
The two children looked at each other, silently seeing their own reflections in each other's eyes.
If you are destined to choose one of the two children to sacrifice, this will be a huge psychological burden for the person making the choice. Even the Taoist priest cannot make the choice easily.
Therefore, the Taoist priest said: "Then it's up to you to decide."
They were put into a small forest and three copper coins were placed in their hands.
The Taoist priest told them, "If it's one head, it's still possible. If it's two heads, there's still a chance for a change. If it's three heads, it must be God telling you that this is the most correct choice." .”
"Listen up, the next choice is in your hands."
"The child who goes out first has the right to choose."
This is a mountain forest with no direction. Because there are more corpses in the city, more crows are staying in the forest. They stand on the branches, blending into the dark night, as if waiting for the new smell of decay to appear. , a delicious bite of rotten meat. He said: "What is the drug boy he is talking about?"
He replied: "I don't know."
He added: "He said that the one who goes out first has the possibility of choosing, which means..."
He answered, "The person who walks out last will be given up."
"Why does dad want to kill us?"
"I don't know either." The child who answered said, "I still remember that Xiao Shitou's parents would rather starve to death themselves than leave food to him."
"Yeah, I'm so envious of Little Stone."
"Do you want it?"
"What?"
"Everyone else's preference for oneself."
"Want."
"I want it too."
The two boys kept chatting, holding hands all the time and walking forward aimlessly. However, the road in the forest was complicated, and they just walked in circles for a long time.
"I'm tired."
"I'm hungry."
"If we keep going like this, we will definitely die in the forest."
"I don't want to die."
"I don't want to die either."
They looked at the copper coins lying on their palms in a tacit understanding, threw them in the air together, and when they fell into their palms, two coins were heads and one was tails.
But they were not looking at the same path.
When they looked at the path that the other party was interested in, they tossed up the coins again, and all three coins were tails, which indicated that the path the other party wanted to take was not the one they should take.
"I don't want to be separated from you."
"I don't want to either."
So, they could only huddle together behind a tree. Their bodies leaning together could warm up a lot in the cold night, but the night temperature was still dropping. How long could they last, hungry and tired? Woolen cloth?
The two children cuddled together and fell into a slumber due to exhaustion, but soon the cold wind blew and they were both awakened again.
"I had a very strange dream. I dreamed that I put on a Taoist robe and became a Taoist priest. I could kill demons and exorcise demons. Many people would be very respectful when they saw me."
"I also had a strange dream." But the child lowered his head and did not say what he was dreaming about. He murmured, "Fusheng, will all our dreams come true?"
"I don't know." The boy named Fusheng said, "The Taoist priest said that we have a very special physique. Maybe the things we dream about will come true. Chang Yu, what did you dream about?"
Chang Yu pursed his lips and said, "I don't remember."