Chapter 318 Light and Darkness
Chu Xingzhou got up and opened the refrigerator, and found that there were some biscuits and fruits inside, which were not broken yet. He asked, "Brother, have you eaten?"
"I've eaten it, where are you,"
"No, when I woke up in the morning, the hotel was empty." Chu Xingzhou tore open the packaging and ate two bags of biscuits with mineral water. He said while eating, "What are your plans? Should we stay in the hotel and wait for rescue, or do we find a way to leave by ourselves?"
Rong Lan thought for a while, "Let's wait here for a few days. As long as the electricity is constantly on the rise, the things in the refrigerator are enough for us to eat for a day or two."
Chu Xingzhou shook his head, "If the situation can be controlled, it will be fine even if you are hungry for a few days, but have you ever considered it? What if it can't be controlled, what if it continues to worsen?"
Rong Lan was silent for a moment, "Let's go to the hotel kitchen to stock up on some food. Assuming that what we are experiencing now is really the end of the world, that's the first day. The social order has not been completely chaotic, and in two days, hungry people will start to snatch it."
Chu Xingzhou nodded and said, "I think so too, let's go."
When they went down to the first floor, they found that the passengers gathered in the lobby had a conflict. Listening to their arguments, the two realized that this was a tour group. Half of them asked to stay in the hotel, and half of them asked to go to the train station or bus station to find a way to leave. The two looked at each other and felt complicated because they were also a little swaying between these two choices. At that time, no one expected that no matter which choice was wrong.
After they found the kitchen, they filled some food that was easier to preserve from the refrigerator and transported it back to the room. The hotel has emergency power supply equipment, and even if the power outage is out, it can still last for a while. They can keep food and wait for the situation to improve. At this time, both of them still felt that this strange chaos was temporary and the government would find a way to solve it.
They sorted out the delicious food, and they sat in the hotel and stared at each other. After they got free, the embarrassment of the quarrel last night was recalled.
Rong Lan sighed, "Sing Chew, I was wrong last night. Are you still angry?"
Chu Xingzhou snorted, "What do you think?"
"I just think Miss Sun is really good, and her age is also..."
Chu Xingzhou frowned and said, "You still say it?"
Rong Lan stopped talking.
Chu Xingzhou was still angry when he remembered what happened yesterday, "You think she is so good, why don't you chase her? You and her age are also suitable."
"She's been watching you."
Chu Xingzhou gritted his teeth and said, "Then if she was watching you, I would definitely be fine, right?"
Rong Lan sighed, "How come you are aggressive?"
"Is it that I am aggressive, or are you meddling in other people's business?"
A hint of displeasure flashed in Rong Lan's eyes, "Yes, I'm meddling in other people's business. I've been used to it for so many years, and I will change it." After that, he turned his head and stopped looking at Chu Xingzhou.
Chu Xingzhou felt very uncomfortable when he looked at his cold look. Rong Lan rarely got angry with him, but if he was really angry, it took him two months to coax him back. Since then, he has been carefully testing Rong Lan's bottom line. All the changes in his life are for individuals, just because he was afraid that Rong Lan would be too disappointed with him one day and ignored him. Thinking of this, Chu Xingzhou couldn't sit still, walked over and hugged Rong Lan's shoulder, and his tone was a little coquettish: "Brother, please care about my other things. I don't like that woman. How embarrassed you made me last night."
Rong Lan patted his shoulder, "So I apologized to you, I won't be like this in the future."
Chu Xingzhou smiled, "You see you didn't sleep well last night, so let's take a nap. In the afternoon, we'll go out to see if we can find a place to call. I also want to call my parents."
"Okay." Rong Lan also drank a lot last night and was indeed a little dizzy. He went to bed and lay down.
Chu Xingzhou was lying next to Rong Lan. After hearing Rong Lan's even breathing, he opened his eyes, turned around, and stared at Rong Lan's sleeping face carefully.
He has seen this face for more than twenty years, from a young child to a young boy, he has been seeing it mature, but he still never gets tired of it. Rong Lan is gentle and elegant, and has a pair of delicate and rosy lips that rarely appear on a man's face. The lips are often gently pursed, and there is always a hint of indifference between his eyebrows, which gives him a sense of coldness and alienation, a contradictory temperament of coldness but boundless charm, but with an abstinent aura, which makes Chu Xingzhou fascinated.
"Brother..." Chu Xingzhou suppressed the impulse in his heart and called out with a very low volume. Rong Lan did not wake up. He stretched out his hand and gently lifted the broken hair in front of Rong Lan's forehead. His fingertips passed by his smooth forehead. A sour and sweet tremor appeared in his heart. He and Rong Lan pillowed with each other countless times, but never could hold the person he longed for in his arms. As he grew older, he felt that there was a beast deep in his heart that could no longer be locked up...
Things did not improve as they thought, but instead got worse.
The next day, looking down from the hotel window, the weeds on the ground had completely covered the road surface, and many cars were abandoned on the street, and any dog could be larger than a person. There were crowds of people everywhere to rob the fire. Armed police and troops were dispatched to suppress the road, but the results were minimal.
At this time, people were in panic. Chu Xingzhou and Rong Lan hid in the hotel and did not go out, and discussed what to do next.
Chu Xingzhou said: "How long will the things in the refrigerator last for us?"
Rong Lan sighed: "If you save food, it will take four or five days, but I am worried that the backup power will be used up soon. Once the power is out, these things will deteriorate within a few hours."
"The hotel kitchen must have been robbed. Now we only have these things to eat. If there is a power outage or it is finished, we have to go out to find food." Chu Xingzhou lifted the curtains and looked at the chaotic city, "It's very dangerous outside."
"I really can't believe that the world has become like this even now... overnight."
"I think everyone is the same, but we must wake up immediately and find a way to survive."
"Yes, my parents must be very worried now, we must find a way to go home."
Chu Xingzhou patted Rong Lan on the shoulder, "Brother, I will protect you."
Rong Lan laughed, "Okay."
"why are you laughing?"
"The expression you just now looks like when you were a child."
“How young?”
Rong Lan smiled and said, "I don't remember."
Chu Xingzhou couldn't help but smile, "No matter when, I will protect you."
One day later, the hotel was powered off. They stuffed everything they could tolerate to eat, then touched the kitchen and found a few steel knives to carry them on their bodies, and left the hotel.
This was the fourth day after the earthquake. Because it was too close to Golmud, Xining had completely fallen. In four days, a modern city turned into a wasteland with wild weeds growing wildly. The streets were full of corpses, humans and animals, all of which were highly decayed and looked extremely terrifying.
The two of them carefully held the knife and walked across the street, but had no idea where to find food. Others must have snatched up the places they could think of, and now they could only walk around and try their luck, but the corpses on the street told them that they would probably pay a heavy price to walk around casually now.
Rong Lan's face was very bad. He was a little obsessed with cleanliness. Now the corpses on the street are not only described as ferocious, but also emit a strong smell of rottenness, which made him almost vomit.
Chu Xingzhou said nervously: "Brother, are you okay?"
Rong Lan shook her head, "It's too smelly..."
"I'd like to go to the shopping mall in front to find some clothes and shoes that are convenient for movement." They are here to discuss business this time, and they are all wearing suits and leather shoes, which is incompatible with such an environment.
"good."
As soon as the two of them crossed the road, several figures suddenly emerged from a small shop, each holding sticks and knives. The two of them raised the knife in their hands at the same time and stared at the person who came.
A middle-aged man in the lead looked them up and down, "Put down whatever you have to eat, otherwise you won't want to leave."
Chu Xingzhou said coldly: "Do you think we have something to eat?" They were wearing close-fitting suits and shirts, not even a backpack.
"Let's open my pocket and I'll take a look."
Chu Xingzhou flipped his pockets and only had a cell phone.
The middle-aged man put down his knife and said disappointedly: "Let's go."
The two of them had no intention of entangling with them and walked towards the opposite street.
The middle-aged man suddenly said, "Where are you going?"
"shopping mall."
The middle-aged man sneered, "I want to go to that supermarket to find something? I don't even have a bag of salt left."
The two ignored him and left straight.
When I arrived at the mall, the looted things were dragged from the gate to the street, and everything was there, rotten food, daily necessities, and clothes, and looked messy.
The two of them touched the mall, found some sportswear and quickly changed into it.
As soon as he changed his clothes, Rong Lan frowned and said, "Sing Chew, do you feel a little cold?"
Chu Xingzhou felt it, "It's true... strange, it's fine just now."
"Is there still air conditioning?"
"Impossible, this mall looks completely powered off."
Rong Lan walked to the entrance of the mall and stood for a while, and ran back immediately, "It really cooled down, and it dropped very quickly."
Chu Xingzhou had already felt his skin straightened. He grabbed a coat and criticized it on Rong Lan, "Put it on."
"No, if we keep going like this, our clothes are useless."
Chu Xingzhou looked at several display cabinets. It was summer now, and the thickest clothes sold were in autumn. "These clothes were not kept warm... It would take at least half an hour to go back to the hotel. If it became even colder during this period, it would be troublesome."
"Yes, I can't go back, let's try to put my clothes on my body."
Their slightly thicker clothes were wrapped around them, then they gathered them together and put on a temporary bed. The temperature dropped wildly, and the two of them hid in the pile of clothes, trembling.
Rong Lan had a straight fight with teeth, "Guess... how many degrees are now."
Chu Xingzhou said in a trembling voice: "It must be below zero."
"This is damn..." Rong Lan cursed, but he didn't know who to scold. They are still confused and don't know what happened.
Chu Xingzhou stretched out his arm tentatively, grabbed Rong Lan's arm, then slowly turned it back, and hugged Rong Lan's waist, "Brother... it's so cold."
Rong Lan's lips were so cold that his lips were no longer colored. The human body temperature was obviously very attractive at this time. He also hugged Chu Xingzhou back, "Don't sleep."
"Well, if you don't sleep, you can't sleep. Since it's the sudden cooling, it must come quickly... and go quickly, we must hold on." Chu Xingzhou hugged Rong Lan in his arms with force, and the two of them pressed their chests and lungs together. With each breath, they could feel the ups and downs of each other's chest and lungs. The feeling that the heartbeat frequency was gradually synchronized, extremely intimate. Even though Chu Xingzhou was so cold that his whole body was stiff, he might have hugged Rong Lan so unscrupulously, he still felt a little happy. Chu Xingzhou couldn't help but rub his cheek against Rong Lan's warm neck. He thought, if he just freezes to death, at least they would die together.
Chapter completed!