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Crowding, screaming, pushing, shaking...
Yuan Xiaoyi finally came downstairs, but the ground was still in a mess. It was so miserable that there was no place to stand.
She couldn't look at the corpses that had been smashed to pieces, or the large and small intestines that had been cut open by the edges and flowed around. It would make her sick and want to vomit, but except for some bile and bitter water in her stomach, she really couldn't vomit anything. Something useful.
In the dark streets, refugees were scurrying about like headless flies, and the dizzying flashlight light was shaking chaotically. Some people nervously said that the army from the east was coming, while others said in fear that the army from the west was advancing. My words have turned into a mess, and there is no authoritative and accurate statement.
Yuan Xiaoyi, who had some experience in escaping from the floating battle, supported the swollen female classmate and made a decisive decision:
"There's going to be a fight in the city. You'll die if you stay here. Let's go outside the city!"
Her suggestion seemed to light up a bright light in the dark night, illuminating the headless flies that were running around, from their mouths to their legs. Then more and more people felt that what she said made sense and followed them. I think I should take refuge outside the city first.
When passing by the bodies that were thrown into pieces from a high altitude, someone swore viciously, cursing those who started the civil war that their entire families would die sooner or later. This was considered as a funeral message to the deceased and a "fight back" to the superiors.
The relatives of the victims, who had previously been pitying the frozen zombies on the ground from the tall buildings, suddenly had bad luck befalling them. They threw themselves on the corpses of wives, husbands or children in disbelief, shouting Waves of heartbreaking cries.
In the past, such miserable cries would have aroused sympathy and tears from many people, but now, there are only figures passing by in a hurry, and no one bends down to comfort them.
Those eyes that flicker from the sad people may also contain some other thoughts: they are not glad that they are still alive, but just pity the strange misfortune of these strangers, even if the deceased is right in front of them. It seems that such bad luck is far away from me. "Misfortune" always happens to others, and it should not happen to me. There must be something protecting me somewhere. Because I feel that I should be special and different from others.
The whistling shells seemed to be blind, unable to hit their enemies, but they often hit buildings filled with refugees, frightening the crowds inside to rush out like ants. Cover the entire road.
Yuan Xiaoyi and her classmates had not run very far, maybe not even three blocks away, when they noticed more and more figures swaying in front of them. In the darkness, the flashlight light that swayed around made them even more dizzy from hunger. dizziness.
"Go!" or "Run!" became the two words Yuan Xiaoyi heard the most. However, how fast could they go if they were weak? Being able to walk and move is already a struggle.
The increasingly intensive sound of gunfire in the distance, mixed with the roar of machine guns spitting bullets, became the only motivation for them to grit their teeth and move on, and the only way to escape from the city was. Only then can we hope not to be swallowed up by the flames of war.
Fortunately, the place where they settled was not in the central area of the city. Since there were no internal connections or backdoors, they had been forced to look for accommodation in the periphery. This time it became a life-saving straw. From here, as long as they persisted in walking for a while, they could get there. Completely out of the area that those damn civil war initiators are fighting for.
After passing another street, Yuan Xiaoyi felt that her legs were as heavy as lead, and the classmates who were supporting each other were even more likely to collapse at the slightest touch, but the outside of the city was still so far away. It seemed as if they would never be able to get there, and the dark shadows of the buildings behind them faded and flickered under the light of the gunfire, like huge monsters driving them away.
There are more and more people around, holding children. People carrying old people on their backs and people dragging their families with them all appeared out of nowhere and crowded on the road, moving out of the city with the huge flow of people.
Darkness, coldness, hunger, dead bodies, etc. made Yuan Xiaoyi unable to see clearly the road and figures ahead. I only know how to move my steps mechanically, and from time to time I will trip and fall on what may be a dead body or something else. However, the initial fear and nausea of the corpse are gone, even if I touch some bloody intestines. , she didn’t have the strength to scream.
While walking, she bumped into a person in front of her. She pushed her, but the man didn't move. She pushed her again, but the man still didn't move. Yuan Xiaoyi thought he was frozen or simply frozen. She was dead and wanted to go around, but she soon found that the classmates holding hands also stopped. At this time, she realized: the front was blocked.
Yuan Xiaoyi didn't know how many people were blocking this road, because she couldn't see and couldn't estimate. Only the flashlight lights that were still shaking annoyingly told her that there must be many, many, too many to count.
"Let's go?" "Why don't you go?" "What happened ahead?"
The artillery fire and gunfire from behind were like reminders, forcing the men who still had the strength to stand on tiptoes anxiously and ask questions loudly. Some anxious ones even climbed on the roof of the car on the roadside to look at the dense crowd of heads ahead.
The transmission of messages takes time. No matter how anxious the people behind are, there is still no definite information coming back from the front. You don’t have to look around. Just by the delay in the transmission of the message, you can guess how long the traffic jam is. distance.
People from behind continued to crowd in, people pressed against each other, and they were crowded together, and then they gradually stopped.
Compared with the previous slow movement, the waiting every minute and every second now is even more difficult. If you can keep walking, even if it is very hard and difficult, even if you don’t know when you will reach the end, you will always be there in your heart. Those who are hopeful feel that there will always be a time to go out, and they will have sustenance and will not be too afraid.
However, being stuck here makes people panic all of a sudden, especially if they don’t know what is happening in front of them, and their hearts are even more uneasy, like a fish on the chopping block, unable to control the knife of fate that may fall at any time. .
Yuan Xiaoyi couldn't figure out whether it was about ten minutes or twelve minutes. Anyway, at that time, although the previous news had not been transmitted, it was transmitted in another way.
The crowd in front started to move back!
Caught off guard, she was almost pushed to the ground and broke into a cold sweat.
If she fell at this time, the dense crowd would not be able to tell whether she was alive or dead as they pushed each other back, but not for a while. She would surely be trampled to death.
The flow of people retreated very slowly at first, as if the force transmitted to the ends would decrease, and it was not violent. But it soon became urgent, the person pushing the person accelerated backwards, and the speed became faster and faster.
The huge force of crowding cannot be resisted by a single person if one does not follow it. Sooner or later it will be crushed into meat patties.
Yuan Xiaoyi didn't have the strength to keep up with this kind of power and speed, but in fact, she didn't need to keep up. There were people behind her. Now when the front pushed, she only had to turn around and go in front of her. Clinging to one person, clinging to another person behind, being tightly sandwiched in the middle, following this force. He was automatically pushed away.
Something must have happened in front. Maybe the battle has already reached there, or maybe the front is blocked, but no one knows. This force coming from behind has told them that the front is very dangerous. They should turn around quickly. Maybe the front is blocked. People have become corpses.
The huge flow of people that had been rushing forward now all turned back, and there were piles of people. He walked back without knowing why, like a herd of pigs that had just been driven out of the pigsty in the building and were being herded back and forth.
Suddenly, Yuan Xiaoyi felt someone touching her butt. Then she squeezed hard. She subconsciously wanted to look back to see who it was, but sadly found that she couldn't even move. Then she felt her petite body being hugged tightly by someone, and the person's palm He had moved to her chest and grabbed...
A raw, sore feeling. It stimulated her nerve cells and cerebral cortex, making her shocked and angry. The feeling of humiliation and fear prompted her to use a force that she didn't know where to break away from the man's clutches, and squeezed into the gap created by the movement next to her. .
However, it was not a safe place. As long as the person moved a little, he could stick to him again. She felt that the person was very strong. He didn't look like a refugee who had been hungry for many days. He should be able to do it, so she was very scared. , don’t know what to do.
But after waiting for a while, maybe a few seconds, the person didn't come over. Just when she thought it might be a misunderstanding caused by the crowding, an eerie voice floated into her ears: "Thin skin and tender flesh, bulging forward and backward, What a little beauty, it’s a pity...I’ll leave a mark for you first, and I’ll find you when I come back from this fight.”
Hearing these lewd and shameless words made her tremble with fear, mixed with shame and anger, but helplessly found that she had no ability to resist at all. After finishing speaking, the sinister voice pointed at her, and then with a loud noise, from the crowd on the ground Rising from the ground, carrying roaring flames, it rose into the sky, stepping on the densely packed heads, and galloped away.
Under his howl, huge insects flew along the building walls on both sides of the road like shadows, followed the man, and disappeared without a trace in the blink of an eye.
The frightened crowd became even more crowded. Yuan Xiaoyi, who had just escaped from her classmates to avoid the clutches of the devil, was like a small leaf on the waves, being washed away by the crowd. No matter how much she shouted and struggled, she could not return to her companions.
She was not the only one who was washed away. Even if many people held hands tightly, they could not withstand the power of the torrent. While struggling and shouting, they were washed to pieces, and their wives and children were scattered.
Some weak women were even carried by other people and rushed to a very far place. They were unable to resist at all. They looked at their husbands who were separated by the crowd and holding their children. They stretched out their hands, and there was nothing but despair in their eyes.
Some people just put their children on the roof of the car to avoid the turbulent flow, but before they could climb up, they were pushed far away by the turbulent flow of people and watched helplessly as their children stood on the roof of the car. I was so frightened that I didn't know what to do.
Yuan Xiaoyi was frightened and helpless. She was squeezed here and there by the huge crowd. In the end, she didn't even know where she was squeezed and she was completely dizzy.
At this time, more and more people emerged from all corners, joining this army of people sticking to each other and piled on top of each other, rushing towards the city center like a flood.
At this time, she vaguely heard someone beside her saying that the smell of blood was everywhere outside the city, attracting many man-eating monsters. Everyone fled to the center of the city, even the refugees who were originally stationed outside and were not eligible to enter. They all rushed in, and the darkness was full of people, fearing that the city would be overcrowded.
Compared with those monsters who eat people regardless of their innocence, although the civil war armies in the city are hateful, they are still human beings. Do the soldiers really dare to shoot them all with machine guns? ?
Yuan Xiaoyi listened to these chaotic and almost shouted discussions. She didn't know how long it had passed before she suddenly felt empty and relaxed.
"Is it the end?"
She thought so in her heart, she could finally breathe a sigh of relief, the crowd almost squeezed her.
But she soon realized something was wrong. She raised her head suddenly and was shocked to find a black muzzle facing her in front. Under the dazzling light, there were actually tanks parked one after another, and behind the tanks, A steady stream of troops were advancing in, and their uniform steps continued to hit the cold ground.
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