Chapter 467: Impermanent Things, Colorful Voices (5)

Qiao Yu slept deeply.

Another vibrant heart is close at hand, and every beat is like the sound of an ancient bell, with a calm and reassuring sound.

She vaguely dreamed of some scenes, which were desolate and tragic, but also like young shoots breaking through stones in the cracked earth, bursting with indescribable vitality.

Standing at the front of the crowd was a vague figure whose face could not be seen clearly, with a sharp temperament and cold lines.

In Qiao Yu's eyes, it was a big ball of strong flames. If the two words "hope" could be interpreted by real things, then they must be this ball of fire.

Now she was also wrapped in such blazing fire, both in her dream and outside her dream.

The tongues of fire protected Qiao Yu's ears, shoulders, back, legs and feet. All the joints and muscles seemed to have melted under the warm temperature, slowly relaxing and no longer being stiff or tight.

It feels like home.

It’s the feeling of living among the same kind, of being understood, accepted, and tolerated.

The silk thread engraved deep in the soul exudes a faint halo, forming a cocoon for Qiao Yu.

Qin Jue got up and she opened her eyes.

At this moment, the cocoon of light broke open, and Qiao Yu became the captain's little fox.

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Have you ever heard of the “abandoned cat effect”?

This new term born in modern times describes the phenomenon of cats that have been abandoned and become extremely well-behaved and clingy when they are picked up or have new owners, for fear of being abandoned again.

The same is true for some children who have lost their parents since childhood and lack family care.

Qiao Yu has known since she was a few years old that her favorite dean, grandma, has too many children to take care of. The orphanage is a big family, and grandma is everyone's grandma, not hers alone.

She has no home in the true sense, and her synesthesia and eye-catching appearance in turn drive her to become deeply autistic, as if she has retracted her most precious and soft parts into a turtle shell. Unmoved.

Until a ball of fire burned away Qiao Yu's hard shell - there were sparks left in the shell early in the morning, and at a certain moment, it burned into a fire from the inside out.

She felt reassured, but after feeling reassured, fear arose.

"Lili is a music witch! A music witch is the gentlest person in the last days!"

Moran stuck his head out from the edge of the screen, swam from his phone to the TV, and happily circled Qiaoyu.

"Really..." Qiao Yu hesitated, "What was I doing at that time?"

"Well -" Moriran lazily turned over, "I'm singing. Every time a battle is won or there is a large-scale sacrifice, the music witch will come out of Abba's tent and sing for everyone. .”

"...That's it?" Qiao Yu was stunned.

Maybe "I" in such a difficult environment are really good at music.

"Don't underestimate the charm of art!"

Instead, Moriran rolled over and returned to his human form on the screen, holding his two small hands to the sides.

"You remember - oh, Lili, you forgot - life at that time was very cruel. Before the base was built, the sun in the sky was such a big fireball that it was so piercing that people couldn't even open their eyes. The temperature was far higher than it is now. The light was not allowed to A lot of measures need to be taken to kill a person in the sun. It will be extremely cold at night. Once the bonfire is extinguished, the people patrolling and keeping watch will not be able to survive tomorrow.

"Then the conspiracy of the garbage system was discovered, and the two parties broke up. It never let the sun appear again, so there was darkness all around, and a blood-red moon hung in the sky. If the people living there didn't Watching the clock marking the marks, I had no idea how many days I had spent.

"I heard from my father that those who can survive until later are already very mentally tough. Those who have collapsed many times, some have gone crazy, some have committed suicide, and some have pounced on their teammates under survival and psychological pressure. Died too."

Mori Ran paused for a while and then said: "My grandma gave birth to me very late. When I was born, the base had already been built, with light and electricity. Although food and water were still not abundant, at least it could support everyone's survival needs. , unlike before..."

Qiao Yu's heart thumped.

"Before?" she asked softly.

Moriran on the screen silently retracted into a snake shape and rolled himself into a ball.

"Abba didn't have a left arm before he first evolved."

She whispered, "I heard that when she took Grandma out of the laboratory and brought her back, the system controlled a big earthquake. The two of them were buried in the ruins for sixteen days. Grandma was eating He survived with that arm."

Qiao Yu shivered suddenly, as if someone had poured cold water on her head on a winter night.

"...So later, grandma made the nutrition cabin by herself! Although the steps and processes were much more troublesome than the garbage system, she still successfully helped dad evolve!" Moriran's tone became brighter again, " After evolving, Abba will be a powerful warrior with sound limbs again!... Lili, don't cry, this is how everyone got here."

Qiao Yu walked over and put his forehead against the edge of the wall-mounted TV. He leaned against Sen Ran through the screen, his shoulders trembling.

“Because at that time, human beings had not yet united and were kept in the dark by the system. Under the tide of zombies and beasts, it was already very difficult to have food, water, and a place to live... to do this. "

Moriran's tone was solemn when she described it. For an intelligent life form like her, receiving the data from the garbage system is equivalent to seeing what happened before.

"Moreover, corpses buried in the ground will continue to be used by the system and become new zombies." Moriran paused, "So many people, including those who know that they are about to die, feel that compared to a Burning the fire to ashes is worse than..."

"It's better to let your comrades reserve more food."

Qiao Yu's tears flowed down completely uncontrollably.

"Well, in short!" Mori recalled that her father forbade her to talk too much, and quickly coughed and added, "In short, everyone's spirit was very fragile at that time. In a world without order, law and moral bottom line, many people People are affected by the environment and do things they would never do in normal life. Everyone is tired inside, and those who can't stand it go crazy."

"And you, at that time, were called the 'Music Witch' because your singing could relieve everyone's self-blame and pain."

Moriran said softly, "The people who survived to the end were under great mental pressure. They survived on the flesh and blood of their comrades. They had seen many tragic scenes of corpses flying everywhere, and they had personally dealt with those who were near death or infected. Relatives and friends who are in pain due to the zombie virus have experienced side by side, betrayal, life and death separation..."

"The Seventh Military Advisor said that they had too many reasons not to live, but under the burden of thousands of farewell blessings and expectations, they knew that the last thing they should do was to take the initiative to die. Once they voluntarily end their lives, it means They have failed the souls of those who have died, so they do not deserve to die and must not die.

"Everyone lived in this state at that time. Only when you sang, they were like believers in the confessional. They could temporarily relax their tense nerves, cry bitterly, and confess themselves. You can cry out to the sky the names of your relatives and comrades-in-arms for your mistakes and sins.

"Abba said that the harder the environment, the more people need art and faith, because they can represent hope and allow people to regroup and continue to live hard."

Moran returned to his human form, stretched out his palm, and pressed it against Qiao Yu's fingertips, which were pinched on the edge of the TV and were white with blood loss, across the screen.

"So, Abba is the captain, the leader, and an existence like the Dinghai Shenzhen. And you are the 'witch' and everyone's spiritual belief."