Chapter 39
Xia Qingxue let out a cry of anger and grief. She had reacted from her fear and shock and was about to rush over to search the rock crevice. Even though she knew that Ke Xiaoxiao could not be saved, and even if she went, she could do nothing.
The rock crevice was too narrow. Even the thinnest Ke Xiaoxiao could only be dragged away by the spider.
Xia Yu and Wei Yunlang quickly grabbed Xia Qingxue and advised her not to go over. It was too dangerous there, especially when there was a bomb next to them that could explode at any time.
“Xiaoxiao, Xiaoxiao…” Xia Qingxue tightly covered her mouth and finally gave up, but she couldn’t stop her tears. Although Ke Xiaoxiao had her flaws, she was one of the few friends who had gone through life and death with her in this dangerous world.
Xia Qingxue’s cries reached Xia Weishuang’s ears. She suddenly realized that perhaps others were right, and she was wrong.
A chaotic ringing sound came from Xia Weishuang’s ears. Sang Lu gently caressed her cheek, so greedy, so gentle. “Look at me, only look at me.”
Xia Weishuang took a step back and suddenly felt a little ridiculous. She was really too ridiculous.
“Sang Lu,” Xia Weishuang asked, “do you know what you’re doing?”
She didn’t even have to ask her why she was doing it, because it was too obvious. At this time, Sang Lu’s needs were too obvious.
“I know,” Sang Lu replied with a smile.
“Then…” The sunlight came from behind Sang Lu, and Xia Weishuang’s face was shrouded in shadow. “What if I still don’t meet your request?”
Sang Lu paused and said, “I will eliminate, everyone, who snatches you away.”
“Everyone?” Xia Weishuang gripped her wrist tightly, stopping her cold fingers from touching her. She smiled as if she were crying and asked, “Including who? My family, my friends?”
Sang Lu smiled and tacitly agreed with Xia Weishuang’s guess.
“Sis…” After noticing Xia Weishuang and Sang Lu, Xia Qingxue called out to Xia Weishuang in terror, “Sis, she’s not Sister Sang Lu! She’s very dangerous!”
Xia Weishuang’s heart turned cold bit by bit.
She held onto her last hope and said, “Then have you ever thought about what I would do after you do this? If I still can’t just look at you alone—Sang Lu, I’m not an object without thoughts. Have you ever thought that I would hate you?”
Before today, Xia Weishuang didn’t know that this question had also been troubling Sang Lu, but today, Sang Lu had found the answer on her own.
She looked at Xia Weishuang and held her shoulders tightly. “Saving you, helping you, hugging you, kissing you, tolerating others—it’s all for you, to make you like me more and more. This way, Ashuang will forever, belong to me, only look at me, and never be separated again.”
Everything she did had only one purpose. The cunning predator tried to use a gentle disguise to obtain everything from its prey, to please her, to protect her, to lure her… but when the predator realized that this could not satisfy itself, it was not stingy about tearing off all its disguises.
She was a ruthless and cunning carnivore, living according to her own desires.
The smile on Sang Lu’s face became more and more exaggerated. Her eyes were filled with a stubborn excitement and the cruelty of a predator. “If Ashuang can’t do it, it’s okay. It’s okay if you hate me, because there’s still a final, perfect solution.”
She took Xia Weishuang’s hand, raised it to her face, and Sang Lu pressed her cheek against it. She was as beautiful as a soul-snatching demon. Her red lips curved, and she said with a smile, “I will eat Ashuang, and we will never, be separated.”
Just like that group of small fish, they will eventually become one.
Body and soul, all become one.
Xia Weishuang’s heart fell into an abyss. She let out a gasp like a dying person.
“Sang Lu, do you like me?”
Sang Lu blinked gently. “I like, Shuangshuang, the most. I like her the most…” But as she spoke, she herself seemed a little confused, as if she couldn’t understand her own emotions well. So Sang Lu continued, “I want to get Shuangshuang. I want her very, very much. This is liking.”
Xia Weishuang was almost out of breath. “Sang Lu, are you really… Sang Lu?”
This time, the monster in front of her answered, “I don’t know.”
She even asked with great interest, “I can be, or I can not be. Do you want me to be?”
August 19, 2021, 4:23 PM.
On the 10th day of the zombie outbreak, and the 6th day of her reunion with “Sang Lu,” Xia Weishuang’s beautiful dream was shattered.
She took a step back, but was immediately pulled forward by Sang Lu’s hand. Xia Weishuang almost bumped into Sang Lu’s arms. At this moment, Xia Weishuang actually felt an unprecedented sense of resistance.
She’s not Sang Lu, she’s not… at least, not the Sang Lu she loved.
Not long ago, Xia Weishuang was still thinking that she could move out with Sang Lu alone tomorrow. She thought that she would live with Sang Lu in this messy world, even if her personality had changed drastically, even if she made countless people fear her.
It’s okay. She would be with her, as long as she was still her Sang Lu, as long as her soul had not changed.
But what if, even her soul had changed?
She thought she was sick, but in fact, she was not. The monster in front of her was powerful, cruel, and extremely healthy. It had always been just Xia Weishuang’s wishful thinking. This woman with Sang Lu’s appearance did not need a human’s self-pity at all.
The human who was willing to be deceived by herself would eventually have to face reality.
And she would also have to pay an extremely painful price.
Xia Weishuang’s gaze moved to the crack in the rock wall. The intense emotions made her feel a wave of pain, from her stomach, from her brain. But before she could linger for another moment, she was forced by Sang Lu to move her gaze back.
“Look at me… only look at me.” Sang Lu cupped Xia Weishuang’s face, forcing her to look at her. Her lips curved, and her black hair hung by her face, beautiful and strange.
Xia Weishuang sadly found that she didn’t even know what other name to use to refer to the woman in front of her… she still called her Sang Lu, but now, this was a name to remind herself.
“I can’t just look at you,” Xia Weishuang forced herself to break free from the pain that was almost crushing her and said. “I need to move to survive.”
So the next second, Sang Lu’s expression changed subtly, and an unprecedented sense of crisis enveloped Xia Weishuang.
She actually began to feel fear.
That’s right. After breaking away from her self-deceiving filter, Xia Weishuang finally observed Sang Lu from a real perspective.
She, or rather, everyone before today, had thought that Sang Lu would at least not hurt Xia Weishuang. But today, Sang Lu had ruthlessly shattered everyone’s assumptions.
Sang Lu would kill Xia Weishuang. It was not a lie, because she had now abandoned all her disguises.
Xia Weishuang couldn’t help but tremble. When she realized that the monster in front of her really wanted to eat her, all her fantasies vanished.
She felt pain, wanted to cry, wanted to scream, wanted to vent without any regard.
But she couldn’t. Little Xue was still here.
She only had Little Xue left. She absolutely, absolutely, absolutely could not let anything happen to Little Xue again.
Xia Weishuang bit her tongue hard, until she tasted a faint taste of rust. The pain allowed her to break free from the chaos of her trembling.
Xia Weishuang forced a smile, forcing herself to look directly into Sang Lu’s terrifying eyes. In the past, she couldn’t read the emotions in these eyes. Now she understood, it was just that she hadn’t recognized reality.
“Sang Lu, you still prefer that I satisfy your wishes from the bottom of my heart, right? Otherwise, you actually don’t have to do so much.”
Xia Weishuang said, “So, it’s not the last step yet.”
Sang Lu seemed to be persuaded by her. She tilted her head and asked, “Ashuang, will you only belong to me, only look at me, only like me?”
Although her emotions were so intense that she felt nauseous, Xia Weishuang was still forcing herself to smile. How ridiculous. After the powerful monster had abandoned its disguise, it was the weak human’s turn to disguise themselves.
“I will,” Xia Weishuang even took the initiative to hold her hand in return, trembling slightly. She said, “I will do it, but I still have some things to deal with. Sang Lu, you have to give me time.”
Sang Lu didn’t speak anymore. She looked down at Xia Weishuang, and the curve of her lips seemed a little ironic.
She seemed a little curious about what Xia Weishuang was going to do, or perhaps, she just wanted to see how the person in front of her was struggling in her death throes.
Xia Weishuang took two steps back. Seeing that Sang Lu didn’t react, she tentatively turned and walked towards Xia Qingxue.
Wei Yunlang looked at Xia Weishuang and Sang Lu with a very grave expression, his hands in a posture ready to act at any time, so that he could react in time if Sang Lu hurt someone.
“Don’t move,” Xia Weishuang warned.
At this moment, all of them were in danger.
Xia Weishuang quickly walked in front of Xia Qingxue. Xia Qingxue excitedly reached out to grab her, but Xia Weishuang heard a strange sound. She suddenly turned around and stood in front of Xia Qingxue.
“Sang Lu!”
Xia Weishuang gritted her teeth and said, “Are you going back on your word? She’s my sister!”
Sang Lu had rolled up a tree. The danger Xia Weishuang had foreseen actually came from Sang Lu.
She only felt that everything was so ironic now. She had thought that with Sang Lu at the top of the mountain, the one who brought danger would not be so dangerous.
The tree that Sang Lu was holding stopped in mid-air. She folded her hands and said to Xia Weishuang, “She will snatch you away. If I kill her, she won’t.”
Xia Weishuang’s temples throbbed, and her vision went black. “Sang Lu, I said I need time. If you go back on your word, I’ll jump down the mountain and let the zombies eat me!”
This seemed to have successfully threatened Sang Lu, so she slowly put down the tree and said with a terrifying smile, “Alright.”
She was like a god of death, making people extremely scared, but also helpless.
Xia Qingxue was just a child who had not yet entered society. The sudden change of events left her at a loss. She was worried about Xia Weishuang, but she had to ask Xia Weishuang for help. “Sis, what should we do?”
Xia Weishuang did not directly answer Xia Qingxue, but said to Sang Lu, “Tomorrow I will leave them, leave everyone.”
This reply seemed to satisfy Sang Lu very much. She actually showed a “sweet” expression, but the words she said were filled with a cunning hypocrisy. “Shuangshuang is so good.”
Xia Weishuang clenched her fists and said, “So now, give me time.”
Sang Lu tacitly agreed.
The survivors of the disaster walked down the mountain in silence. When they got into the car, Xia Weishuang’s expression was indifferent. She said to Xia Qingxue, “Get out. Go to the car in the back.”
Xia Qingxue gripped the back of the car tightly and said, “No, I won’t! Don’t think I don’t know what you’re trying to do!”