virus

Chapter 39
It was still dark, there were a few stars hanging in the sky, and there was no one in the cemetery. I climbed over the wall and sneaked close to the rows of gloomy tombstones.Finally, I came to a tombstone with a photo of Xiangxiang inlaid on the tombstone, and she smiled at me in the photo.I opened the box I brought, and inside the box, Xiangxiang's head was sleeping peacefully.

Perhaps because of the Queen's power, Xiangxiang's head seems to have been supported by some kind of miracle. It has been more than a month, there is no change at all, and it is intact. I decided to bury her and let her return to the land. I would like to see things that run counter to the laws of nature again.Death is death, and death is the disappearance of soul and body.

Life doesn't need to last forever.

I have made a choice.

After what happened these days, I have completely eliminated my fear of graves, and it seems that I have become proficient at digging graves. I used tools to skillfully pry open the marble cover under Xiangxiang's tombstone. In such a small space, this is Xiangxiang's "underground palace".Her urn is placed in the middle of the "underground palace".I gently lifted Xiangxiang's head out of the box and put it next to her urn, let her head return to her body.

I quickly ran to the next flower bed and dug a lot of soil, returned to Xiangxiang's tomb, and poured the soil into the small "underground palace".The black mountain mud, like fine sand, slipped down from between my fingers and covered Xiangxiang's face, first her hair, then her ears, then her mouth, and finally her eyes and nose. I looked at Xiangxiang's face. The last time I saw her face, she was so quiet, and the fragrance was still wafting.As the last handful of dirt left my fingers, Xiangxiang's head was completely covered.

Rest in peace, my Xiangxiang.

I know, I'll never see her again.

I stood up and cleaned Xiangxiang's tomb again so that others could not see that I had touched it.Then, I kissed Xiangxiang in the photo inlaid on the tombstone.

The birdsong in the surrounding woods began, predicting that the sky would soon be white.I took another look at Xiangxiang's tombstone, goodbye, Xiangxiang.

I left the cemetery.

I was walking in the muddy field outside the cemetery. The rapeseed flowers were blooming and golden, and I seemed to smell the fragrance of Xiangxiang again.I stayed here all the time. After 8 o'clock, the inside and outside of the cemetery suddenly became very lively. There is only one Qingming Festival a year, and many people come to the cemetery to pay homage to their dead relatives.I saw a lot of white smoke from burning paper money slowly rising from the cemetery outside.

I am standing in the field of rapeseed flowers now, thinking about everything that has happened since the winter solstice. Now it is clear, and everything is like a nightmare.Everything should be over, Ye Xiao has already told me that in the past month, there have been no unprovoked suicides in this city, including all over the country, like the frequent occurrences in the past two months.The appalling "virus" is gone and no one will die because she's got what she wanted.

Yes, I thought, the nightmare is over.

At 10:[-] a.m., I followed a bus full of people returning home after sweeping graves back to the city.

I smell the city again.I still have to take the subway for a few more stops. I got down to the subway station and waited on the platform. After a while, a subway came quickly. Looking inside the window, I could see that the train was full of people.The car stopped, and I walked towards the nearest car door. The door opened, and many people poured out.Suddenly, among these oncoming men and women, I saw a face.

A face of incomparable beauty.

—Queen.

The head I dug out of the ground, this perfect head is firmly placed on the body of a perfect woman, there is no trace on the neck.That's right, the property has been returned to its original owner, her full name is Alut Xiaozhi.

She saw me and smiled at me.

I stood there without moving, and then the doors of the train closed and it drove away quickly.The platform was empty, there was no one around, just me and her.

"Hello." She said to me proactively.She was wearing a white dress, the style is the one in the popular color window of Huaihai Road, just like many girls in their early 20s on the road.

I was a little embarrassed and speechless, I didn't know how to call her, should I call her Queen, or Xiaozhi?I just said lightly: "This world is really small."

"Yes, are you all right?"

"Good, How about you?"

"I told you, I'm working for an internet company now," she replied with a smile.

"Oh, everything will be fine." I said something inexplicable.

At this time, another subway came into the station, and I thought I should go, so I said to her, "Goodbye."

"See you again if you are destined."

I walked into the train, there were a lot of people, I squeezed at the door of the train, and looked at her who was still standing on the platform through the window.She was perfect and she was still looking at me and waving at me and I was waving at her.The train moved slowly, faster and faster, leading me into a dark tunnel.

I looked out the car window, my eyes wide open in the darkness.

I am no longer afraid of the dark.

(End of this chapter)