Chapter 140 140 "The Ending of Being Frozen to Death or Beaten to Death Is Not What She Wants."

Chapter 140 140· “The ending of being frozen to death or beaten to death is not what she wants.”

November 13, 2024, Eastern Time, 3:20 pm - Jing Liu, who is located in Dongguo, should still be doing daily physical training at this time, day after day.

Gentleman time, it was three o'clock in the morning on the 14th the next day.

In this late night, Zou Wanhong curled up her body together and pressed the corners of the quilt tightly, trying to block any heat from escaping from her 'bed' as much as possible. But even so, Zou Wanhong's body could not help but tremble all the time.

The hail outside the window continued to fall from the sky, and the sounds of shattering and collapse came one after another. Through the unrepaired and soundproofed walls, the noise was overwhelming, echoing the snoring in the room.

Quietness is a very luxurious environment.

But at this time, these sounds can no longer affect Zou Wanhong's sleep.

In the past half month, she has become accustomed to these messy sounds, and she is really tired now. When a person is tired, noise cannot hinder the determination to rest.

But low temperature is fine.

It would be nice if the temperature could rise a little higher, Zou Wanhong thought in her extremely chaotic mind. As long as her body wasn't shaking so much, she could guarantee that she could fall asleep instantly.

"Da da da da——"

The cold made Zou Wanhong's mouth tremble uncontrollably, adding another kind of sound to the various sounds in the room.

"Wanhong, are you cold?" Her mother, who was sleeping in the bed next door, suddenly said to Zou Wanhong, "I seem to hear the sound of your teeth chattering?"

"Well, it's a bit cold, mom." In front of her mother, Zou Wanhong had no need to be brave, and she responded softly.

"Then mom will give you a quilt." Zou Wanhong's mother said, and was about to pull down the quilt from her body and hand it to Zou Wanhong.

"No, no, no, no, I can still hold on." Zou Wanhong really needs anything that can be used to keep warm, but there are three people in her family, and everyone has similar quilts and clothes, and they have all reached the critical point.

And the parents who are closer to the wall may feel the temperature lower than themselves.

Once he takes over his mother's quilt, his mother will probably freeze to death.

As for why three people don't sleep together and share all the quilts, firstly, the size of the bed does not allow it, and secondly, the so-called quilts are mostly dirty and worn-out clothes and short quilts that cannot be covered by three people sleeping together, or even because of the gaps. There will be more and less warmth.

"Take it, mom doesn't need it much now." Zou Wanhong's mother's voice was a little vague, as if she was talking in her sleep. "Mom is not only not cold now, she is even a little hot."

"Mom, are you kidding... Even if it's for my own good, don't coax me anymore. I can really persist. Let's sleep. As long as it doesn't hail in the afternoon and the sun comes out, things will be better by then."

Zou Wanhong responded helplessly.

"But mom is really hot now, please take it." Zou Wanhong's mother had already lifted a layer of quilt and threw it towards Zou Wanhong.

"No! Mom! Cover me!" Zou Wanhong was even more helpless. After throwing the quilt back, she turned away from her mother, trying to show her determination and completely dispel the idea of ​​doing this again. think.

They are a family that loves each other.

"Mom didn't lie to you. Mom is really hot. She doesn't want to cover herself, not at all. Mom even wants to take off her clothes. It's so hot... If you don't want me, I'll just throw it on the floor... No more..." As in A whisper-like moan came from behind, accompanied by a rustling sound.

Zou Wanhong's closed brows furrowed tightly. She finally noticed something was wrong and turned to look at her mother with some uneasiness.

A scene that surprised him and couldn't understand him appeared in front of him:

In the dim night, her night-adapted eyes saw that her mother was not just talking. She really started to throw the quilts and clothes on her body layer by layer under the bed, and even started to pull off the layers she was wearing. layers of clothing.

It's just that the movements are not precise, like scratching randomly.

wrong! Zou Wanhong sat up in shock.

It was impossible for anyone to feel the heat in this environment, so his mother's signs were obviously not normal!

Zou Wanhong thought of some reports she had seen - some people who were trapped in snowy mountains and froze to death were nearly naked when found by the rescue team, and had thrown away all their sleeping bags and other thermal equipment.

This is because when a person feels cold for a long time, the muscles that control vasoconstriction will experience fatigue and blood flow problems will occur, causing the person to have the illusion of being very hot. The hypothalamus will also send wrong signals to the body, further deepening this problem. illusion!

Now... maybe, no, this is definitely the case!

Thinking of this, Zou Wanhong became extremely anxious. She immediately stood up and rushed to the bed where her mother was. She touched her mother's body with the back of her cold hand, but she got an even colder response!

"Mom! Mom! Dad! Dad! Get up! Mom is going to freeze to death!" Looking at her mother who was still mumbling that she was very hot and had lost consciousness, Zou Wanhong immediately stood up and shook her father who was sleeping on the bunk above her mother. , shouted with a cry.

At this moment, she no longer cared about how cold she was. Zou Wanhong immediately turned around, threw all the quilts and clothes on her bed onto her mother, and stopped her from pulling her hands.

The coldness of her hands also made Zou Wanhong tremble, and her inner uneasiness became even stronger.

The father who was woken up lowered his head in confusion at first. His eyes had not yet adapted to the darkness of the night. However, when he heard his daughter's cries, he immediately turned over and got out of bed.

"What happened!"

"Mom, she's freezing to death, and she's unconscious!"

After listening to his daughter's description, Zou Wanhong's father's body was shaking, and he didn't know whether it was because of fear or simply coldness. He said to Zou Wanhong:

"It's useless. To save your mother, we must take off those cold things from her body as soon as possible!"

This is not contrary to logic. For people who are about to freeze to death, the treatment method must be to get them out of low-temperature environments and frozen objects as soon as possible.

At this moment, even the intimate clothes on Zou Wanhong's mother probably did not have human body temperature, but were cold.

Continuing to dress will only worsen hypothermia.

"Ah? Then what should I do now! Take off the quilt from Mom and then take off her clothes?" Zou Wanhong said in confusion as her father was her backbone.

"These things... are also cold. It doesn't make sense for your mother to wear them after taking them off! What's more important is to rewarm your mother!"

Zou Wanhong's father paced anxiously and then looked at the center of Area C of the shelter.

At this moment, in the center, a man's emotionless eyes were also looking back at him.

In Area C, although the Autonomous Association is the only organized control group, they are still worried about any accidents and entrust their lives here - after all, they live with everyone. If someone can't think about it, suddenly in the middle of the night Come up here and give it to yourself, there will be no explanation if you die.

Therefore, people in their group are awake at all times, serving as sentries to ensure the safety of others.

In fact, there are many people awake in this room, and there are many people who, like Zou Wanhong, are completely unable to fall asleep in the low temperature of this night. At this moment, they may be paying attention to this place, or they may not care, but they are just more troubled. kind of noise.

The voices of Zou Wanhong's family were no longer restrained, and the sentry could hear them clearly. Seeing Zou Wanhong's father approaching, he stood up suddenly, stretched out his hand to signal to stop, held an iron rod in his hand, and asked coldly:

"Stop where you are, what are you going to do?"

"I mean no harm! Sir! I just want to borrow the sleeping bag from the president of the Autonomous Association so that my wife's body temperature can recover. I can also borrow some hot water or other things that can create heat. Is that okay?"

Zou Wanhong's father immediately raised his hands and said flatteringly.

The core members of the Autonomous Association, in the past half month, actually got the kind of high-end sleeping bag that used to cost thousands of yuan to buy. With this kind of sleeping bag and some extra warm clothes, plus the most central In such a position, they will hardly feel the cold.

"Haha -" Regarding Zou Wanhong's father's request, the sentry seemed to have heard a joke and sneered: "What about your mother's Spring and Autumn Dream? I gave you the sleeping bag. Why should we sleep? Hot water is even funnier, even for us I can’t even get hot water, you still want it?”

"But my wife is really dying! Please, don't you have a lighter? Lend it to me so I can light a fire for my wife!" Zou Wanhong's father could only pray more flatteringly.

Because it controls the materials distributed by the gentry, the Autonomous Association also controls the few kerosene and other things in Area C. Of course, the location used every time is in the middle of Area C. It is euphemistically called that everything in the room is Everyone can enjoy it equally.

Occasionally, I will boil some hot water and cook some hot food. Of course, it has nothing to do with most people in Area C.

When they are lucky, Zou Wanhong and her family can still lick the hot mashed potatoes from the bottom of the pot.

"Fuck you, we are reluctant to use it ourselves, so we give it back to you. Besides, what is borrowing? Borrowing and repaying, why don't you give us something back! Also, why don't you try to get one step closer?"

The sentry cursed and waved the steel rod in his hand, scolding Zou Wanhong's father who was still squirming forward.

"I can make cows and horses for you! Please, save my wife!" Zou Wanhong's father said on his knees.

"Making cows or horses? What are you good for? Is there anything we need to use cows and horses for?"

The dead are the greatest help to us, and the dead are the greatest help to all the rest of us who are alive! With one less person, there will be more food and more quilts! ?

Damn it again, are there not many people dying now? Your family is the only one who is special, but your family is the only one who cannot die? Let’s just leave it at that, no one can save it! "

The sentry cursed unceremoniously.

It is true that people have died all the time in the Dashen C area shelter. The current area C is better than the concentration camp in that it is no longer so crowded and looks empty.

The old, weak, sick and disabled with low body resistance are the ones whose condition deteriorates the fastest after the temperature gradually reaches the lowest temperature of the ice disaster, and the food they eat every day cannot replenish calories.

In addition, the Autonomous Association later even stopped distributing things to these people at all. By now, the old, weak, sick and disabled in Area C have been completely 'cleared'.

The clothes and other things left behind by these people will be redistributed by the Autonomous Association, and with one less mouth to feed, it is indeed the 'biggest help' to them.

Perhaps because his voice was too loud, the people in the Autonomous Association also woke up from their sleep.

"What happened?" the president of the Autonomous Association asked with gloomy eyes, obviously he was not satisfied with being woken up.

After learning what happened from the sentry post, he looked at Zou Wanhong's father like a fool and sneered:

"How dare someone like you covet my sleeping bag? If I'm going to be woken up by you again, I'll beat you until you die before your wife!"

After leaving these cold words, he got back into his sleeping bag, put on earplugs and eye mask, and continued to sleep.

The life and death of Zou Wanhong's family is just an indifferent episode to him.

"The president has already said it, why don't you try to speak louder again? Why don't you guess what the decibel limit I set for you is?" the sentry asked with interest while holding the iron rod.

He didn't have much entertainment, maybe he thought it would be fun to tease Zou Wanhong's father.

"I..." Zou Wanhong's father gritted his teeth. After knowing that this would not work, he returned to his wife and daughter.

"Dad, is Mom really going to die? She can't even speak now, what should I do?" Zou Wanhong covered her mouth, and she didn't dare to speak loudly, so she could only speak like this.

At this time, Zou Wanhong's mother's condition was getting worse and worse. Her whole body was stiff, her heartbeat was weak, and her whole body exuded a stiffness that contained death.

At stake.

"I'll go to area B to see if I can find a doctor!" Zou Wanhong's father clenched his fists and finally said through gritted teeth.

"But we can't go to Area B, right?" Zou Wanhong said hesitantly.

After the beginning of the Calamity Era, there seemed to be gaps between the various divisions.

"But this is our last resort to save your mother. There are doctors and hot water in Area B and Area A. We don't want to live with them, we just want them to save lives! It is the doctor's responsibility to save lives and heal the wounded!

I can't watch your mother die! Wanhong, keep an eye on your mother. If her heart stops, give her artificial respiration and cardiopulmonary resuscitation. I'll be right back! "

As if he had made up his mind, Zou Wanhong's father spoke more and more fluently. After finishing speaking, he ran towards the entrance of Area C.

The sentries who had already picked up the iron bars looked at Zou Wanhong's father leaving. Not only did he put down the iron bars, he even gave Zou Wanhong a thumbs up with a smile: "Awesome."

Zou Wanhong did not dare to talk to him, she remained silent and endured the coldness, staring at her mother, trying hard to maintain his life.

Time passes minute by minute.

Her mother's condition was getting worse, and her heartbeat had stopped completely. Zou Wanhong raised her head and looked in the direction of the entrance. Her father's figure did not appear for a long time.

When she came to Area C, she passed through Areas B and A, so she knew that it would never take so long to go back and forth to Area BC...

Zou Wanhong looked uneasy, and the strength of the CPR on her hands was much reduced.

"In the eyes of the senior officials of Dashen, the people who live in Area A and Area B are barely human beings." At this time, the sentry actually took the initiative to talk to Zou Wanhong.

"It might be useful in the future."

"But most of us guys in Area C can't even be considered human beings, they can only be regarded as beasts, and your stupid father can't be counted among those very few."

"Guess, if an animal breaks into a person's home in the middle of the night and wakes up the person from rest, how would you treat the animal?"

"Don't wait, your father is probably waiting for your mother in heaven."

The sentry said with a smile.

When it gets brighter and the mother's vitality gradually and completely disappears, no matter how hard she presses, her heartbeat will stop.

Zou Wanhong, confused, stood up and walked towards the entrance.

As soon as she reached the stairs, she saw her father's beaten body.

He was like a piece of trash, thrown carelessly into a corner covered with ice, with caked filth piled up next to him.

Zou Wanhong opened her mouth, but no sound came out.

Two in one, 4400 words.