bookrebus Chapter 777
Chapter 777
However, the area within dozens of nautical miles is within the range of the storm, and it is impossible for them to break through these dozens of nautical miles in a short period of time. They can only try to avoid the eye of the storm.
Therefore, he did not ask the ship to change its course.
The disaster lasted for a day and a night. Apart from some damage to equipment on the deck, there were no casualties.
After the disaster was over, Captain Chen announced that they would set off back to the island.
That night, Zhou Shuwan and Qi Mingyu returned to the dormitory from the cockpit and happened to meet Xue Wuwen in the corridor.
The other party was not surprised to see them, obviously having known that their family also lived on the mothership.
The two looked at each other, their expressions somewhat complicated.
Qi Mingyu saw that she stopped moving, so he turned his head to look in her direction: "What's wrong?"
Zhou Shuwan said softly, "It's our old neighbor."
Just one sentence made Qi Mingyu understand what happened.
Zhou Shuwan looked at Xue Wuwen and smiled faintly: "Sister Xue, long time no see."
She spoke so calmly, as if it was a very common thing for them to each struggle to survive in the apocalypse for ten years and finally meet again in this vast ocean.
Xue Wuwen looked into Qi Mingyu's eyes seriously, and without saying anything, he asked Zhou Shuwan coldly, "Can we talk alone?"
Zhou Shuwan did not refuse. In fact, she also had something to ask the other party.
She said to Qi Mingyu: "Brother Xiaoyu, I will take you back to the dormitory first!"
Qi Mingyu was a little worried and held her hand: "I'll go with you."
Xue Wuwen did not stop him, but said calmly: "Then let's go together."
The three of them walked along the corridor to Xue Wuwen's dormitory.
The dormitory was a bit cramped, with supplies piled under the bed and on the upper bunk, making it look very crowded.
The two children were not in the room.
Xue Wuwen pointed to a chair in the room and said, "Sit down."
After Zhou Shuwan sat down, she glanced around the room and then landed on Xue Wuwen's face: "Sister Xue, where are your two children?"
Xue Wuwen smiled and said, "They are on the 6th floor. Several of my men live there, as well as a few playmates of similar age."
Zhou Shuwan nodded: "Judging from their ages, they were all born before or after the apocalypse, right?"
Xue Wuwen didn't hide anything and said directly: "One of my daughters died in the flood that year, and my son fell ill in the extreme cold and contracted a very serious pneumonia. There was no medicine to cure it, and he eventually passed away.
We were already living at sea at the time, and I felt so lonely that I adopted two children from our village. Over the years, we've relied on each other and have lived a relatively happy life."
Zhou Shuwan had actually thought of this when she saw her two children who were obviously not the same age.
In the last days, children are the group most likely to die young.
She whispered, "Please accept my condolences!"
Xue Wuwen waved his hand, his tone calm, "Actually, I've already passed the most sad stage. After the sadness, I think this ending is not bad. We don't know how many years the apocalypse will last, and there are more and more types of natural disasters, making it difficult to prevent them. Being freed early is a kind of luck!"
When Zhou Shuwan heard this, she couldn't help but think of Grandma Pang.
She turned to look at Qi Mingyu beside her. The latter had a calm expression and seemed unaffected.
Xue Wuwen glanced between the two of them, then chuckled: "Do you have anything you want to ask me?"
Zhou Shuwan was silent for a moment, then spoke directly: "Sister Xue, was it you who set the fire in Dongyuan Community?"
Xue Wuwen didn't shy away from it and admitted directly: "I put it there."
Zhou Shuwan frowned slightly, questioning in her tone, "Why did you do this? If it was just to get revenge on Aunt Zhang, your mother-in-law, there's no need to implicate everyone."
Because of that fire, half of the city was burned, and countless people were displaced, homeless, and died on the way to escape.
Not to mention others, just Zhou Shuwan's third aunt and second uncle's families were also affected by the fire, so they fled in a hurry and were reluctant to take many of the supplies they had worked so hard to store.
Otherwise, they could at least make their way to the new base at their leisure.
With the fair and strict Xiao Xiao as the new base commander, their fate will be better than it is now! Yuxuan, Chunchun and the others may suffer less.
Zhou Shuwan's tone was a little excited, and he looked directly at Xue Wuwen.
Xue Wuwen just looked at her calmly, "What if it wasn't just my mother-in-law who made the mistake? What if the whole community just stood by and watched her die?"
Zhou Shuwan was stunned, obviously not expecting Xue Wuwen to answer like this.
Xue Wuwen fell into a long memory.
When memories are too painful, people are reluctant to recall the past often.
The same is true for Xue Wuwen.
Perhaps it was because he saw his neighbors whom he hadn't seen for a long time, Xue Wuwen opened his heart and recalled the past thoroughly for the first time.
"My mother-in-law, as you know, is extremely selfish and vicious. I still feel sick when I think about the things she forced me to do! But that's nothing. What I hate most is what she did to my two children."
Zhou Shuwan didn't know what to say for a moment.
She had heard that her daughter was thrown into the poisonous water by Aunt Zhang.
But how did her son die?
For a mother, the death of her children is the most painful hurdle in her heart.
As if he could see that she didn't dare to ask, Xue Wuwen smiled faintly and suddenly asked, "Zhou Shuwan, actually, you were also reborn, right?"
As soon as he heard this, Zhou Shuwan and Qi Mingyu were shocked.
Xue Wuwen continued calmly, "Because in my memory, I didn't see you come back early! You came back too late, your father disappeared, and your mother and brother were thrown into the acid rain and burned to death..."
She saw Zhou Shuwan's face change drastically, paused, and then shrugged: "You see, some hatreds can't be forgotten in two lifetimes!"
Qi Mingyu had already reached out and held Zhou Shuwan's hand tightly, silently comforting her.
Zhou Shuwan asked in a hoarse voice, "You can also remember your previous life..."
Xue Wuwen smiled bitterly. "Yes, I can remember! I still remember meeting you that time. You buried your mother and brother and came to live at the base. But I came back too late, too late. I couldn't even save my daughter's life. I lit a fire, wanting to kill everyone I hated, but I never imagined that my long journey of escape would indirectly lead to my son's death... At that moment, I was so hateful that I wanted to drag everyone I saw to be buried with me. I even thought of you. You came back early in your life to protect your parents and your brother. I was so envious of you. At that time, I wanted to bury my son, turn around and kill you..."
Such a light sentence made Zhou Shuwan's hair stand on end.