[Full-time Chusu] Dreaming of death

Chapter 14

"Chu Yunxiu strode to the cabinet where her helmet and camera were placed in the basement, quickly armed herself, then turned and ran towards the door. However, as soon as the basement door was opened, there was a loud explosion and a slide in the sky. and the landlady in the basement let out a scream, and she dodged up the stairs and shut the door behind her. Their house was still there, and it didn't even look like it had been attacked, but The violent vibration on the ground was impossible to ignore. Some of the wooden boards that sealed the windows were ignited, and they were burning violently at this moment. She went around every corner of the first floor of the house and called Su Mucheng's name, but there was no answer. The door of the house is still locked, and the wooden strips used for reinforcement are also intact. Where did Su Mucheng go——Chu Yunxiu wondered frantically, where could she go alone under such circumstances—

She suddenly remembered the balcony on the second floor—it was an open-air balcony. A few days ago, for safety reasons, they secretly went out and moved a lot of relatively flat stones back to seal the door leading to the balcony to prevent the explosion from causing a fire from the second floor. The building floated into the house and blocked them in the basement—and immediately ran for the stairs.As soon as she turned around the stairs, Chu Yunxiu decided that she must have seen the scariest scene in her life:

The stones piled up in front of the door leading to the balcony had already been removed. Those were the products of the bombing, but now they were randomly piled up on the ground, turning the originally clean house into a ruin.The door was also open, and through the door frame, one could directly see the night sky outside at this time, like thousands of meteors falling—but Chu Yunxiu knew clearly that those were not meteors—and Su Mucheng was standing in that background , without any protective measures on the whole body, even the helmet is thrown at the feet, the camera is held in both hands, and the lens is pointing directly at the sky.

Chu Yunxiu suddenly became furious, she jumped over the gravel in two steps in three steps, rushed straight up and dragged Su Mucheng down on the balcony floor, and shouted viciously: "Do you want to die!"

Su Mucheng didn't have time to react and was dragged down by her, and in a hurry, she only cared about protecting the camera's safety. She fell heavily to the ground, her facial features tangled up in pain, "What are you doing here?"

"Come up to watch you die!" Chu Yunxiu panted heavily and sat up from the ground, "Bombs don't have eyes, what are you coming up to take pictures of?"

"Because I'm only close enough at this time." Su Mucheng quickly regained her composure, and just freed up her hand to rub the painful part of her body. "I don't believe you don't want to take pictures."

"I," Chu Yunxiu was stumped by her words—it was true that her first reaction when she came upstairs was to pick up the camera to take pictures, but that was just a conditioned reflex caused by her occupation.In a war environment, you must keep calm at all times, the worst thing is conditioned reflex.She admitted in a very rude tone, "I want to take pictures, but I don't want to die! You don't want to take pictures at all, you just want to die!"

Su Mucheng seemed to be stabbed in the sore spot by such blunt words, and the whole person became quiet as if the power was unplugged.Chu Yunxiu was so angry that she wanted to kill herself, and she completely forgot that they were still in a dangerous situation at this time. She just gritted her teeth and glared at Su Mucheng—the latter quickly connected the line, but entered a certain place. An over-excited state: "So what?! Why are you stopping me?!"

Chu Yunxiu immediately remembered that Su Mucheng had mentioned that her brother, who was also a war reporter, died on the battlefield many years ago, but this not only did not calm her anger, but made her even more angry.She grabbed Su Mucheng by the collar, "So you want your brother to know that not only did you not do anything meaningful for peace, but you are seeking death through war? He died to record the truth against war, What if you are killed here?!"

"..." Su Mucheng was stunned by Chu Yunxiu's roar. She never thought that this weak person from a peaceful country who would be afraid of bombing in her eyes would have such a side.This undisguised directness even made her feel a little fear, not from the war or facing up to her own psychological problems, but something else related to the relationship between the two of them.However, just as she was about to say something, a bomb fell on the street where the house was located. The air wave from the explosion was wrapped in rubble and hit from below, throwing the person backward.They slammed into the wall at the other end, and the blasted masonry fragments fell on their heads and faces, almost burying people alive.It didn't hurt that Chu Yunxiu had prepared in advance, but the unprepared Su Mucheng was covered in blood. Fortunately, the key parts of her body were blocked by Chu Yunxiu with her body. At most, she suffered some extra flesh. suffering.

"Mucheng, Mucheng, Mucheng." Chu Yunxiu, who had recovered from the dizziness of the impact, panicked when she saw the blood on her face, and she spoke in a crying voice, "Mucheng, are you alright? Mucheng?"

"It's okay...cough..." Su Mucheng spat out bloody saliva with difficulty. When the explosion happened, she just opened her mouth to speak, but was stuffed by the rubbish that exploded, making her extremely uncomfortable, "It's okay. , It should be a cut..." She coughed hard a few times, and the sudden change made her heart clear, "You are right, I am indeed looking for death, cough, cough, so let's get out of here... I couldn't give myself that chance."

Chu Yunxiu burst into tears after hearing what she said. She couldn't figure out why she was acting like this all of a sudden, but the feeling of a big stone falling from her chest couldn't be fooled.She pinched her cuff and wiped the blood on Su Mucheng's face indiscriminately—Su Mucheng wanted to leave here, which is great—maybe she had been looking forward to leaving since she stayed, but Su Mucheng was always here, she He didn't want to leave alone.Now that Su Mucheng proposed it on her own initiative, everything else is not so important.This is really not aboveboard, but it is honest enough: she just likes this, and no one can say anything about her.She is indeed an emotional woman, she is willing to bite the bullet and stay for Su Mucheng, of course she is also willing to leave together, this was originally a simple matter.

In the early morning of January 1, the artillery fire stopped for a while.Chu Yunxiu and Su Mucheng, who had returned to the basement to avoid the bombing, did not dare to delay, and immediately got up to bid farewell to the landlady.The latter did not respond to the upcoming parting, but the long silence completely exposed her worry-it was almost impossible to leave City B at this time, although they didn't seem nervous about it.Chu Yunxiu smiled and handed a series of items such as chemical protective clothing to her, and kept repeating thank you in Arabic.

"Are you really leaving?" the landlady asked, speaking quickly and vaguely, with a faint cry.Chu Yunxiu was clueless when she heard this, and turned her head to look for Su Mucheng in a daze, "Mucheng? This... I can't understand what she said."

"What's wrong?" Su Mucheng, who was counting things, came over and said to the landlady, "What?"

"You really want to leave?"

Su Mucheng's expression moved slightly, and then she said calmly: "Yes, we are leaving here. Although it seems irrational, we have reasons to leave. I am very sorry to leave you here alone."

The landlady sighed, and quickly returned to her calm and compassionate look on the day of the war, obviously not surprised by the result, "I just went to see your car, hers is not working, yours may be okay."

"Okay." Su Mucheng gently hugged her shoulder, "Thank you very much for taking care of us."

"Let's go," she retreated from Su Mucheng's arms, quickly turned around and stopped looking at them, "Leave before those demons drop more bombs."

City B fell overnight, and the streets were strewn with wreckage of all kinds of horrific shapes that were hard to identify. The once prosperous capital turned into ruins full of despair.After the war, Country I was like an isolated island, all modes of transportation had been interrupted, only one road leading to the border had not been completely closed, and there was no other way to leave at this time.But on both sides of it are the radio positions of country I, which may encounter armed attacks from the coalition forces at any time.Su Mucheng, who was familiar with the road, was thinking about the possible second plan while driving, and finally drove the car on that road helplessly.

The road after the bombing was very deserted, and there were light armored vehicles buried in loess bunkers on both sides of the road.Military jeeps painted with camouflage came and went in the dust; occasionally a giant oil tanker passed by, bumping and leaving several heavy loess traces.There is a checkpoint next to the road, and the soldiers on duty, wearing American helmets covered with camouflage cloth, spread their legs in a vigilant posture, holding up their Italian flags and intercepting all passing vehicles without military logos to check their certificates—the certificates are unqualified shall not pass.

Through the window of the car, Su Mucheng saw the soldiers on duty from their front car constantly bringing up refugees from country I who were in distress, and turned to Chu Yunxiu, "I may not be able to leave."

Chu Yunxiu, who was looking down at the documents in her bag, raised her head when she heard the words, "What do you mean?"

"Look at those people standing on the side of the road in front." Su Mucheng pointed forward, calm as if it had nothing to do with her, "We are not the only ones who want to escape, there is a high possibility of you escaping with your passport. But I'm not sure. This road leads directly to City A, the capital of country Y, if I'm detained, you can drive yourself."

"Are you kidding me?" Chu Yunxiu pinched her passport, almost wanting to throw the small book in Su Mucheng's face, "Do you think I'm stupid? What good will you get if you get detained?"

Su Mucheng made a gesture to signal Chu Yunxiu to calm down, "There is no good outcome, treason does not have a good outcome. I don't want to do this either, but the current situation is that I probably won't be able to leave."

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