【Strike Lotus】Silent City

4.

Do you know the pain of living?

Abandoning these words, Xi Mietian turned around and left, and did not interrogate Yiyi Lianhua for several days after that.As if intending to let Bu Lianhua understand the meaning of his words before he left, he only gave him a piece of dry bread the size of a thumb that was as hard as a stone and enough water to satisfy his hunger so that he could survive.There was no physical or mental torture, just a growing hunger surrounding him.

When the time for the three meals a day comes, someone will regularly deliver water to Bu Lianhua, and chat with him a few times along the way. Thanks to this, he learned a lot about the historical and human relationships in Abel City, which also reduced the unchanging prison life. dull.

It was Gorski the day before yesterday, and Merienta yesterday. Day by day, the person who brought the water was different every day. He didn't know whether it was a deliberate arrangement by Xi Mie Tianlai or an unintentional coincidence.

Through the conversation, Yibu Lianhua easily captured everyone's temperament. Gorsky looked serious on the outside, but he was a sneer in his heart. He was the only person in Abel City who came from outside, and he had a deep relationship with Melenta; Melenta has a big body, doesn't care about small details, and likes to tell cold jokes. Although he looks big and transformed, he has his slender side; Neba is smaller than ordinary people, but his voice is as loud as a bell. Missing one arm and one leg, he still moves as nimbly as a rabbit.

And the person who brought him water today was a young man named Mintel. He was full of curiosity and energy. It was not too troublesome to deal with people like Mintel in the early days. Hua was so hungry that his eyes were dizzy, and he really didn't have the energy to answer Mintel's barrage of questions, and most of the time he could only let him talk to himself.

"Doctor, don't blame our boss, he is actually very kind to people."

Bu Lianhua smiled, and didn't have the energy to say anything more. He really wanted to sleep, but he knew he couldn't sleep, and once he fell asleep, he might never have a chance to wake up again.He has encountered a similar situation before, but that time was far more cruel than this time, at least here he does not have to suffer physical pain, and there are people to chat with him.

"Doctor, your complexion is very bad. Is there any discomfort?" Mintel pressed his face against the iron bars of the prison door. For some reason, he fell in love with this white-haired man as soon as he saw him. After performing the operation on the woman, he felt more admiration for him. This feeling was the same as when the boss ascended the heights to encourage everyone to unite and organize militias for self-defense.

"I'm just hungry, can you help me?"

"I..." Mintel hesitated after hearing the words, he was happy to help the doctor, but he didn't want to disobey the boss.

Confused, Lianhua closed her eyes lightly and said, "It's okay, just tell me more interesting things." There is someone chirping in your ear, it should relieve the emptiness in your stomach, right?

"Okay, then let me tell you about the history of the boss organizing the militia."

Another attack on the sky.Bu Lianhua let out a light laugh, but Mintel didn't hear it. "Well, as you please."

"When the boss planned to form a militia, everyone had no opinion, but no one knew how to organize a military team, and no one could find anyone to ask about related matters. The boss himself was very troubled. Later, Xiaomai accidentally said something, so Mu Mom knew about the boss's plan, she was very opposed to it, she said we are still young brats, we don't need to worry so much, she insisted on forcing the boss to disband the team, but the boss refused, in a fit of anger, mother picked up iron bars and beat him all over the street Running around, that situation is as funny as it gets.”

Mintel was frothing, the vitality infected Lianhua, he turned his face to Mintel and said, "It's impossible for him to give up like this." He couldn't say why, but his intuition was like this.

"Doctor, you really understand Boss," Mintel said with a broad smile. "As soon as the boss got stuck, ten bullock carts would not hold him back. In the end, Mama had to compromise, but she was worried about us, so she half-joined our team and served as our "medical soldier." Wiping her nose, Min Terry continued proudly: "Then Mum told the boss about the great achievements of Papa Maud when he was young, and the boss suggested to ask Papa Maude to train us. Papa refused to kill him at first, he said he left long ago The army was so drunk every day that they forgot how to load their guns, training ass. As a result, the boss threatened him that if he did not teach us military skills, he would have to cooperate with the aunts and mothers in the city not to grind dry rice wine for him to drink. The old man was so angry that he jumped up and yelled that the son of a bitch didn't have long eyes and rode on his head to act wildly. The boss immediately blocked him and told him to open his eyes. Today, the son of a bitch called him good-looking. Bite the bullet and go forward to surround the old man."

Speaking of this, Mintel scratched his head and giggled a few times, and then continued: "Actually, Dad was already drunk to the point of going crazy, but I didn't expect the boss to go crazy with him, and the two of them just fought like this After scolding until dawn, Dad woke up and laughed endlessly, saying that no one had accompanied him to go crazy for several years, and he was so crazy that night, he agreed to be our coach and teach us military skills.”

Wow, wow, Mintel kept talking about the past, with a little innocence on his childish face, when he talked about Maud's death, his eyes couldn't help turning red, and he didn't stop their stories until dark.

If his own hunger could be a little less, he would definitely be able to give the most cordial response to Minteli's story, Bu Lianhua looked at Minteli's leaving back and thought to herself, feeling apologetic in her heart.

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At night, it was Mintel's turn to call the whistle, and after he left, the surroundings fell into silence again. Looking out the window, we could see some stars, but Lianhua felt that his vision became more and more blurred.Even so, he wasn't worried that he wouldn't be able to survive, he knew that Xi Mie Tian Lai had no intention of letting him die, he would let him live.

His eyelids were as heavy as lead, and all kinds of past experiences flooded into his mind: children's cries for help, rumbling shells, houses collapsing, the painful past of his own and others' reenacted vividly.He suddenly felt parched, and even though he had seen Purgatory on Earth many times, it still made him palpitate.

It should have been in Wuyu Country that time, he remembered.He was rescuing war-torn people in a simple refugee camp in his territory. At that time, he did not know Emperor Canghe, but followed the people who raised him to travel around the world to practice medicine.He has no formal medical training, and his medical skills have been learned from the practice of medicine by the people who raised him since he was a child.He met that man in the Meixun Peninsula, which is known as the "Westland Gunpowder Depot". He was only 16 years old when he followed the man to Wuyu, but he already had rich experience in emergency operations. He saved many people, but There are not a few wounded patients who died at his hands.

Wuyu has been in turmoil for many years. At that time, the government army ransacked the village, many people were injured by stray bullets, and all swarmed to the hospital attached to the refugee camp for help.Although it is a hospital there, medical resources are extremely scarce, advanced medical equipment is lacking and manpower is seriously insufficient, sometimes even unsterilized equipment is still used on the injured in order to save the time limit for emergency treatment, and the chance of repeated infection of the injured increase, but also saved more lives.

It was raining overnight, and the people had just been ransacked by the government forces, and they were met with riots and poisoning by crazy people. Under the banner of confronting the government, they created panic in the name of the Self-Defense Forces, and the turmoil spread to the refugee camps. The infirmary was wiped out by the army, and all of their medical staff fell into the hands of the Self-Defense Forces.

It is simply a day that life is worse than death.

The Self-Defense Forces used endless tricks to torture prisoners, and the double torture of body and spirit caused each medical staff to collapse and go crazy.After torture, the Self-Defense Forces did not give them food or allow them to sleep. Every night they were told to take off their clothes and stand outside the prison for labor.His adoptive father died after suffering a cold for a week. He thought he couldn't last long, but unexpectedly, his will to survive was so strong that even he himself was surprised.

On the night of the tenth day, government troops attacked the Self-Defense Forces at night. Taking advantage of the chaos, he killed several soldiers and child soldiers who were monitoring him, swam across a long ditch, and fell to the door of a house in a remote town.

For a period of time after that, he often recalled the feeling of killing people. At that moment, he did not hesitate or hesitate to twist the slender neck of the child soldier, just to live.From that moment on, he understood that he had to spend his whole life to repay the blood. No matter how many people healed with his hands, he could not offset the sin of murder, but he would not neglect his responsibility because of this.

It is his responsibility to live and practice medicine. He always reminds himself that he has a long way to go, so in many things, he will choose the attitude of "not very important" to deal with, don't care, don't care, don't care Pray, that his soul may not grow weak and fatigued.

Opening his eyes slightly, Lianhua leaned towards the cell door one step at a time, and he heard the sound of soft footsteps coming from outside.

Is it coming to destroy the sky?He wished it was him, when he found him again, it meant that he would end his suffering.

"That guy is always like this." The visitor murmured, unable to hide his sigh.

It's not the voice that strikes the sky.Bu Lianhua raised her eyes to see who was coming, her disappointment could not be concealed between her brows.

"Did you say something you shouldn't have said?" Azak asked, with sympathy on his tightly pursed lips.

"Maybe." Yibu Lianhua replied vigorously, repeating his last conversation with Xie Mie Tianlai. "Then he asked me the same thing back."

"You shouldn't have said that," Azak frowned when he heard that, it seemed that Xi Mie cared more about Yi Yi Lianhua than he thought, otherwise he wouldn't be worried about what Yi Yi Lianhua said. "That guy killed his father, or so he thought."

Opening the cell door, Azak walked in and helped Lianhua step up.

"Are you going to let me out?"

"That's what he meant."

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After drinking the hot soup contentedly, and eating a few loaves of bread, Bu Lianhua's face gradually returned to ruddy.He stared at the bread crumbs and soup residues on the table, smiled shyly at Azak, and then took a tissue beside him to wipe away the residue from the corner of his mouth.

No way, he is really hungry.

"I'll clean it up." He said sheepishly, and started to clean it up.

"No need, the bathroom is behind the kitchen, you can clean yourself first. By the way, to remind you, it takes at least three days to walk from Abel to the nearest town, and you have to cross the desert. Please weigh the gains and losses before fleeing. "After finishing speaking, Azak walked to the kitchen with the bowls and plates, and didn't pay any attention to Lianhua.

Azak's proposal caught Lianhua's heart, so he quickly walked into the bathroom without thinking about anything. He hadn't showered in ten days, and his whole body smelled as if he had rolled in the gutter. The bathtub lay quietly on the ground, and my heart was filled with unspeakable emotion.

After putting the hot water in, Lianhua took off the dirty white clothes one step at a time. The remaining blood stains on it had turned iron brown, stained east and west, and he tried rubbing them with soapy water a few times, but found that the blood stains could not be removed. So give up.

"You put on Xi Mie's clothes first, and I'll hang them on the hanger in the dressing room."

"thanks."

Now I'm not afraid of running out of clothes to change.

Step-by-step Lianhua soaked the scrubbed underwear in the basin, then carefully applied soap from neck to toe several times, then washed the hair and face, and then scooped up a ladleful of water to splash under the forest, The dark brown liquid quickly flowed into the drain, and finally turned into small black earthworms and slid into the waterway.

His body returned to its original whiteness, and after washing several times, he stepped into the bathtub and squatted down, soaking in the pool that couldn't fill his whole body.The dense heat made him sweat continuously, he sighed and rested his head on the edge of the bath, too lazy to open his eyelids.

Let the time pass by every minute and every second.

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As soon as Xi Mie Tianlai came home, he saw the light in the bathroom was on, he walked into the bathroom with doubts, and saw Yibu Lianhua sleeping peacefully in the bathtub.

"This idiot." Want to die?

With a low spit, he hurried to the bathtub to pick him up. When he touched the cold water temperature in the bathtub, the haze covering his face deepened.

Abel City is surrounded by deserts on three sides, and the temperature difference between day and night is huge. Sleeping in cold water is tantamount to suicide.

Did he know that if he did this, he might never wake up again?

Thinking of this, Xi Mie Tianlai felt flustered for no reason. He hugged the sleepy Bu Lianhua horizontally, carried him to the bed, grabbed a large towel to dry his body, and thought while wiping, Aza Ke left him alone and didn't know where to go. Fortunately, he came back earlier than the scheduled time, otherwise it would be useless to let him lie in the bathtub until dawn.

What is wrong with this man?He was fine after starving him for ten days, but when he was released, he became so slack, thanks to the fact that he is still a doctor.Xi Mietian thinks more and more and his mind becomes more and more knotted, but he can't give up and stop caring about Yibu Lianhua's difference from ordinary people.

Nimbly wiping Bubu Lianhua's wet body clean, Xi Mie Tianlai took a blanket and covered him, pulled his hands and rubbed them vigorously until they became hot before slowing down, at this time he had enough time to pay attention Taking a step across an old scar on Lianhua's upper arm, his eyes followed the old scar to under the blanket, and the other scars exposed by the moonlight were almost all over his body. Streaks from the whip, and burn marks.At a glance, he could tell what kind of treatment he had suffered. It was cruelty that he and his companions were familiar with.

Xi Mietian couldn't tell what feeling was lingering in his heart at this moment, he just looked at those scars silently, and stroked them with his long fingers back and forth slowly.

His actions disturbed Lianhua a step, in exchange for his gentle whisper; the cold wind blowing through the gap in the blanket made him tremble frequently, he subconsciously stretched out his arms to search for warmth, and after searching for Xi Mie Tian Lai, he forcefully pulled him Hooked into his arms.Xi Mie Tianlai was slightly stunned, but he didn't have the slightest intention of resisting. He just adjusted his posture, let Lianhua face him and leaned on his arm, then pulled up the blanket to cover the two of them, and then stroked his shoulder with his fingertips .Caressing and stroking, he felt a layer of bumps on the surface of the skin. He pulled the quilt in confusion and looked closely, and saw a Sanskrit-like imprint on the place near the collarbone of Yibu Lianhua's right shoulder.

Staring at the birthmark, Xi Mie Tianlai's pupils were glowing with red fire, thinking that he also had a similar birthmark on the same position on his left shoulder, and he couldn't calm down his restless mood.

The boiling undercurrent when he saw Yibu Lianhua for the first time is now brewing restless riots in his calm blood. He sniffs the fragrance of Yibu Lianhuaxue's hair, letting the throbbing lull him to sleep.