Chapter 18 No power

When the group saw that Ying Xian was coming, they quickly stuffed all the remaining cigarettes into her hand.

That pack of cigarettes was not expensive, not even mid-range. It was the cheap and powerful kind that some old smokers loved.

Ying Xian was speechless for a moment. He shouldn't be so afraid of himself.

She only took one and gave the others back to them.

When she was in high school, she was taken to play with some senior sisters, and she naturally learned to smoke, but she basically smoked thin, cool cigarettes.

But at that time, Ying Xian felt that smoking was boring and quit before the college entrance examination.

Now that I light it up again, I don’t know if it’s a psychological effect or something, but it really dispels some inner irritability.

It was just that she hadn't smoked for a long time, so she suddenly smoked harder and coughed unavoidably.

A group of people gathered around and smoked. Shu Kongdu's eyes never left Ying Xian's back. He kept holding a pack of inexpensive thin cigarettes that he had opened and smoked in his pocket.

If he had known that Ying Xian could smoke, he should have brought back a few packs of good cigarettes when he was at the convenience store.

Seeing her smoking that cheap cigarette and coughing now made Shu Kongdu feel choked up in his heart.

Shu Kongdu's concern for Ying Xian did not start after the apocalypse began. Even Ying Xian didn't know that Senior Shu, who was like a flower on the high mountain in everyone's eyes, had been paying attention to her since she was a freshman.

She, until her senior year.

At that time, Shu Kongdu had just come out of a family tragedy, and with the encouragement of his counselor, he made up his mind to take the postgraduate entrance examination.

He spent many days in the library, even to the point of forgetting to sleep and eat.

It was also at that time that he studied for a long time and forgot to eat. He almost fainted as soon as he stood up. He held on to the table for a long time before recovering.

Shu Kongdu went to the bathroom to wash his face and wake up. When he came back, he saw a few little black rabbit toffee on the table.

He looked around in surprise, and unexpectedly met Ying Xian's eyes, who were paying attention to him.

She smiled at herself, pointed to the toffee on the table, and left the library with the book in her hand.

It seemed that she thought she was suffering from hypoglycemia.

The tips of Shu Kongdu's ears quietly turned red for a long time. It was at that time that he remembered Ying Xian's smile in his heart.

Later, Shu Kongdu met Ying Xian at the department party.

It was also at that time that Shu Kongdu remembered that she was a freshman from the Fashion Design Department. Her name was Ying Xian, and she was a newly recruited member of the model team.

But Shu Kongdu still felt inferior to her because of the changes in her family. Until she was admitted to graduate school, she didn't dare to say a word to her.

And Ying Xian also forgot about the "hypoglycemic" classmate in the library. The two occasionally met each other, and her eyes rarely stayed on Shu Kongdu.

After Ying Xian finished smoking the cigarette in his hand, his whole mouth was filled with bitterness.

She touched her pocket, took out a toffee from the space, peeled it open, and stuffed it into her mouth.

There isn't much food left in the church now. Although everyone is saving, after all, there are eighteen people with eighteen mouths.

It's still raining outside, so it's not practical to go out.

There was thunder outside the window.

Late at night, after a thunder explosion woke everyone up, the light that had been on flickered twice and went dark completely.

Some people went to the socket and tried to charge their mobile phones, but they couldn't charge at all.

The power supply completely stopped.

Everyone's mood plummeted, and from time to time someone would quarrel over trivial matters.

The three people on Ying Xian's side ate the food brought back from the convenience store mixed with the stockpiles in the space, so the apparent food consumption seemed to be much less than the others.

After Yang Lijuan finished eating the biscuits, she rubbed her belly in a daze.

The child in the belly is very obedient, knowing that things are not peaceful now, and does not make trouble with himself.

But when will this damn apocalypse end?

She thought of her husband who committed suicide in order not to implicate her again, her eyes became sore, she quickly turned her head and looked out the window, silently shedding tears.

The child that she and her husband had been waiting for for many years was finally about to be born, but her husband did not wait until the child was born.

Yang Lijuan's tears fell more and more fiercely, and in the end she even had to bite the back of her hand to stop herself from crying, but she still couldn't control the twitching.

Chu Zheng, who noticed that she was crying, glanced at Ying Xian, who was sitting far away to avoid the smell of smoke on Yang Lijuan, and made a mouth gesture to her.

"Aunt Yang is crying"

Ying Xian was shocked, but she was worried that the smell of cigarette smoke would make a pregnant woman uncomfortable, so she didn't get over it.

"Comfort yourself"

She answered with her mouth, and Chu Zheng nodded to show that she knew, moved in the direction of Yang Lijuan, and gently rubbed her back.

The heavy rain lasted for four days before it gradually stopped, and a putrid smell stronger than before floated into the church along the cracks in the door, filling everyone's nostrils.

Under the influence of this taste, even appetite has weakened a lot.

Ying Xian guessed that the source of the rotten smell should be that heavy rain fell on the ground, forming puddles, and zombie corpses soaked in the puddles, which accelerated the decay.

But it’s not a problem to always be like this.

After discussion, everyone unanimously decided to move from the first floor to the second floor.

The second floor of the church was originally a place for storing sundries and some choir practices, as well as a priest's lounge and restrooms.

Ying Xian carried the white candle in the church up to the second floor. Under the dim candlelight, the few white robes hanging in the corner looked particularly scary.

There were more than ten people, some sitting on chairs and some sitting directly on the ground.

No matter what their identities were before the end of the world, they all seem extremely down-to-earth at this moment.

Ying Xian sat down on a chair with a backrest that they deliberately left open, and casually put a candle on the table.

Yang Lijuan and Pan Wenfang returned to the room. She glanced around and asked the person who had a cigarette for a cigarette to hold in her mouth. Before she could light it, she was stopped by Shu Kongdu.

She looked at the other party with some surprise, and saw that Shu Kongdu did not speak, but handed her the pack of thin cigarettes that had been hidden in his pocket.

"You smoke too?"

Hearing Ying Xian's question, Shu Kongdu didn't know what to say.

"I used to smoke, but now I don't smoke much. You can smoke me."

Ying Xian suddenly felt that the senior in front of her was very cute. She put the cigarette on her lips back into her pocket, took one out of Shu Kongdu's cigarette case, put it in her mouth, and handed another one to him.

"That won't work, we have to smoke them together."

The girl's slender fingers held a cigarette and brought it to him. Shu Kongdu was stunned.

Seeing that he didn't respond, Ying Xian didn't think much and directly put the cigarette in his hand between Shu Kongdu's lips.

It wasn't until the tips of Shu Kongdu's ears turned red in front of him, and then became redder and redder, that Ying Xian realized what he had just done.

She seems like a pervert who teases innocent boys!

Ying Xian awkwardly took out a lighter from the space and lit a cigarette, then handed the lighter to Shu Kongdu.

When he took it, his slightly hot fingertips touched Ying Xian's cold fingers.

Both of them were very embarrassed, but they still did not waste this precious pack of cigarettes. They smoked until the cigarette holder was almost burned before putting it out.

And Shu Kongdu's face slowly turned red in the smoke.
Chapter completed!