Chapter 284: Roses of Bitter Winter

Zhao Yi stood at the doorway, resembling a sculpture.

His blank gaze slowly swept across the room, sweeping across those faces pale to the point of being shocking to see... He knew these people, they were all survivors originating from District Three, were neighbors mutually supporting each other inside this building, were companions huddling together for warmth in a foreign land.

But now, they were all like steaming in a sauna, having taken off the thick and heavy bedding originally wrapped on their bodies, leaning closely against each other, faint smiles hanging on the corners of their mouths, seeming like they had fallen asleep peacefully.

Amidst this quiet and peaceful atmosphere, Zhao Yi's dry and cracked lips, trembled slightly parting...

"Boss Xu...?"

"Auntie Li?"

"Uncle... Uncle Xu?"

Zhao Yi tried to call out their names, hoping they could open their eyes, yawn like they just woke up, and then smile asking him why he suddenly came back, busily starting to arrange a welcome dinner for him... The dinner perhaps wouldn't be especially luxurious, but vegetables and meat should both be there, Auntie Xu knew he loved eating stir-fried meat with chili, and would definitely make this dish, Uncle Xu perhaps would pull him to sit at the doorway drinking alcohol, asking him how he had been during this period of time...

No, he had already turned into this ghostly appearance now, they should be startled jumping up, and then he would nervously explain to them, he was actually Zhao Yi...

He didn't know what he was thinking about, only knowing his hands and feet were both unconsciously trembling, the body that was still brimming with strength just now seemed to have fallen into an ice cave... no one responded to him.

Not knowing how long had passed, Zhao Yi then mustered his courage, taking a step walking into the room... He carefully avoided their hands and feet, using his fingertips trembling to begin tentatively probing their Aura, but the result didn't have any accidents appearing.

In a room with such low temperature, as long as one breathed, there would definitely be mist drifting and scattering, and the room at this moment was a patch of dead silence.

They were entirely all frozen to death.

"No... it shouldn't be like this..." Zhao Yi muttered to himself.

He stumbled walking to the place closest to the Brazier. Over there, Xu Chongguo and his wife were currently leaning closely together. At the corners of their eyes, a few teardrops were like diamonds, slightly flickering... A bit closer place, was a tiny figure curled up into a ball.

"...Ling'er... Ling'er??!"

Zhao Yi's voice was incomparably hoarse. His brain was a blank sheet. Like crazy he hugged that figure in his embrace, but what entered his hands was endless icy coldness.

The dry and hoarse roaring sound reverberated inside the dead silent room. Zhao Yi's eyes were already flushing red. He hugged Ling'er's body, like crazy charging out of the room, furiously roaring towards the sky overhead:

"Why... why ah???!!!"

"Why did I survive in the end... yet the ones dead are them??!!"

"What did they do wrong?! They escaped from District Three after nine deaths and one life!! Not easily at all finally having a new life!! What did they do wrong??!!"

Zhao Yi powerlessly fell kneeling onto the pale ground. The Fabric concealing his facial appearance was rolled to a distance by the wind. This monster with its entire body covered in Curse Runes, at this moment was like a child who had lost everything, hoarsely crying and shouting in front of the dead silent and icy cold small building.

At the same time, a figure draped in a White Coat Wearer, walked over from afar resembling a walking corpse. Hearing the angry roar transmitting from here, subconsciously stopped his footsteps.

Dr. Yi seeing Zhao Yi hugging the girl in the snow, slightly blanked out.

"It's him... he is unexpectedly still alive?" Dr. Yi muttered to himself. "Has initially Fusioned with the taboo sea Calamity cells... however without the follow-up Potion to stabilize the body, still will sooner or later collapse and die... every single one is like this... heh heh, every single one is like this..."

Seeming to have heard Dr. Yi's whisper, Zhao Yi kneeling on the ground abruptly raised his head. That pair of eyes covered with Curse Runes instantly locked onto his figure. After seeing Dr. Yi's face clearly, his pupils slightly shrank!

Swoosh——!!

His speed was too fast, to the extent that Dr. Yi only felt his vision blur, a burst of giant force then lifted his whole person up, heavily smashing down beside that young girl's corpse.

"It's you!! You are that scientist!!" Zhao Yi recognized Dr. Yi, just like grabbing onto a life-saving straw. He pointed at Ling'er and the small building behind him. "You... aren't you very formidable?? You can save me alive!! Help me... help me save them back too!! They are all good people! They are merely Ordinary Persons who wanted to live well! They... they..."

Zhao Yi's voice began to stammer. He didn't know what he was saying, only knowing to constantly shake Dr. Yi's shoulders. Drop after drop of tears flowed down on Dr. Yi's cheeks, freezing into ice.

Dr. Yi blankly stared at Ling'er frozen to death beside him, bitterly closing his eyes.

"...I can't save." He hoarsely whispered.

"What did you say??!!"

"I said I can't save!! Do you not understand?!" Root after root of blue veins bulged on Dr. Yi's neck, similarly furiously roaring, "I can't save!! I can't save a f*cking single person!! Do you not understand?!!"

Zhao Yi blanked out. He tremblingly let go of Dr. Yi's shoulders, his whole person stumbling and falling to the ground.

Right at this time, his fingertips seemed to have touched something... in the embrace of Ling'er's corpse, there was a neatly folded Note.

Zhao Yi stiffly took down the Note, slowly unfolding it. A string of crooked fonts appeared before his eyes. The lines of these fonts were all twisted, looking like when writing this passage of words, the person holding the pen should be trembling from freezing...

[Little Yi Brother, are you doing alright?]

[Uncle Xu said, if there's any words I want to say to you, then quickly write it down, otherwise later I might not be able to write... But I'm so cold, my hands are all trembling, I want to warm up a bit and then write... however, Uncle Xu said I must write it now, so my writing is very ugly very ugly, Little Yi Brother you should be able to understand right?]

[Little Yi Brother when can you come back ah? Uncle Xu said you went to a very far place to work, said you earned a lot of money, wait until you come back, then you can buy a new little dress for me... but I don't want a new little dress, I don't want you to be so far from me... I'm afraid you'd be like Grandmother, too far and then can never be found again.]

[Today is so cold ah, Uncle Xu said, the price of Coal outside was argued (crossed out) speculated too high, he said they were eating people, and then led people to go find the people selling Coal to reason with them, as a result got beaten... if Little Yi Brother was here, definitely could win against them beating them right?]

[In the end Uncle Xu only brought a single piece of Coal back. They said, this was exchanged by all of Uncle Xu's savings. Us everyone all gathered together, this way the hot air won't scatter away.]

[Little Yi Brother, the burning red Coal is so pretty, just like roses...]