Chapter 52#
Death#
Mo Xuzhi walked to a place he didn’t even know.
He had previously looked at the floor plan of the park, but the route inside Shiyuan should have been modified, so the route didn’t match at all.
It wasn’t a big problem; he was just looking for a place to wait for death. Any place was the same.
He had checked before that because of the terrain, even if there was snow here, it wouldn’t be very thick, at least it wouldn’t bury him.
He kept walking.
Not knowing where he had walked, Mo Xuzhi struggled to raise his hand to block the constantly blowing snowflakes and squinted his eyes.
He saw a high peak directly opposite him, covered with thick snow, and a large pavilion on the right, which should be a place for tourists to rest in Shiyuan. It was too far away, and he didn’t know if anyone was there.
This place wasn’t quite suitable.
Mo Xuzhi continued to walk slowly.
His steps became slower and slower, and from time to time he had to stop and bend over for a while.
He had sweated before, and now when the cold wind blew, his whole body was bone-chillingly cold, and the pain in his lungs became even sharper.
He was about to lose the ability to think.
A ringtone sounded in the wind and snow.
It was a very familiar sound—a WeChat video call.
Usually, the only person who liked to make video calls to him was Wang Zhifeng.
Mo Xuzhi’s vision gradually blurred. Even after putting on glasses, there was no improvement. He couldn’t see the content on his phone at all. His brain was in a state of chaos, and he didn’t realize the consequences of doing so. He only clicked to answer based on memory.
“Mo Xuzhi, I saw a very nice shop in Guwu District. You can see the snow on the mountain from there, and we can go and play. The snow there is very beautiful and not heavy. We can…”
“Mo Xuzhi, where are you??”
Luo Wenyun sat in the air-conditioned lounge of the production team. It was clearly a comfortable temperature that could make people feel warm, but he broke out in a cold sweat all over his body in an instant.
He saw the snowflakes on the head of the person under the constantly shaking camera, and the pure white background behind him.
It was a continuous, frightening snow.
Today is March 14th.
“Oh, it’s you.”
Mo Xuzhi seemed to have completely missed Luo Wenyun’s emotions and only lifted his feet to continue walking, his expression looking a bit disappointed.
“Mo Xuzhi, tell me, where are you now?” Bloodshots gradually covered his eyes. Luo Wenyun’s eyes were red as he asked, “Didn’t you say you were going to play games at home with a friend today? Why did you go out!”
Luo Wenyun almost shouted the last sentence, and the voice was so loud that people outside the lounge could hear it. Other people stopped and left quickly after seeing Luo Wenyun’s manager.
“I heard the snow in Rongcheng is very heavy, so I wanted to come and see.”
Mo Xuzhi stopped again. He crouched down and could no longer hold his phone steadily.
The phone fell to the ground, and a drop of red fell on the edge of the camera, staining half of the interface red.
The camera kept flipping. Luo Wenyun first saw the leaden gray sky with fluttering heavy snow, and then he heard a slight sound, and the screen within his line of sight instantly turned half red.
“Mo Xuzhi, what’s wrong with you?”
Luo Wenyun stood up, “Say something… Mo Xuzhi, anything is fine, say something.”
“…This is my first time seeing heavy snow.”
Mo Xuzhi stood up again. He picked up his phone and whispered as if talking to himself,
“It’s as beautiful as they said. It’s just a pity I won’t have the chance to build a rocket snowman with them.”
At that time, the automatic variable loading device developed by him and his colleagues went up with the rocket.
The mission was completed beautifully, and the astronauts also stole the limelight. Everyone was praising them, saying they were proud of them.
He and his colleagues had agreed to build a snowman holding a rocket when winter came and put it in the cold storage room of the institute, or get a refrigerated display case to put the snowman in the most conspicuous place in the institute.
“Mo Xuzhi, what is that on your mouth?”
The voice on the opposite side was too low, combined with the howling wind, Luo Wenyun didn’t hear what Mo Xuzhi said, only saw his slightly moving lips stained with dark red, forming a sharp contrast with his pale skin.
“This?”
Mo Xuzhi wiped his mouth. His hand, which was blown cold, felt a little warm. He looked down at the back of his hand and saw a patch of red blood.
So it was bleeding.
His body had been frozen numb, and he didn’t notice it at all.
“What exactly happened on your side?”
Luo Wenyun’s voice gradually became hoarse. He said, “Mo Xuzhi, live well for me. I’m coming to find you right now!”
“Mo Xuzhi—Go to hell—!”
A loud shout came from the phone. Luo Wenyun saw Mo Xuzhi turn his head.
The voice came from afar. It should be someone on the pavilion shouting at the mountain. The voice circled in this world, and the echo came back again and again, lingering for a long time.
Then there was a moment of silence, and the fluttering snowflakes seemed to be frozen.
First a slight sound, then a gradually increasing rumbling sound.
Luo Wenyun’s pupils dilated instantly.
Behind Mo Xuzhi, there were waves of snow rolling down from the mountain peak.
He saw Mo Xuzhi turn his head and take a look.
That look was very flat, so flat that he could hardly see any emotion in it, as if it were a bit unexpected, yet with realization, and then returned to calm.
“Mo Xuzhi! Run!!”
Luo Wenyun’s hoarse roar came from the phone, but Mo Xuzhi still didn’t move.
“Luo Wenyun,” he said, “I can’t run anymore.”
He was just standing there now, and all his strength was exhausted. Every breath was a painful torment.
The sky was full of heavy snow.
The rumbling sound approached, and finally a piece of pure white covered everything.
The camera turned to darkness.
Under the heavy snow, the phone kept making sounds, and the heat emitted by the phone melted the snowflakes.
The snow water soaked the phone, and the call was unilaterally cut off.
“Bang—”
The lounge door was opened with great force. The staff who had been paying attention to the situation here were startled by this sudden sound.
“Is it with Mo…”
The manager stood aside. After seeing Luo Wenyun come out, he was about to speak, but he saw the other person run out directly.
He was stunned for a moment, then looked into the lounge and found that Luo Wenyun had taken nothing except his phone. His coat and all other things were on the table.
He remembered that when Luo Wenyun went out, he was only wearing a thin shirt.
Taking the coat and some other things, the manager also hurriedly chased after him.
Thinking of the speed at which Luo Wenyun ran out, he didn’t run to the garage but went directly to the exit of the theater.
He had just reached the exit of the theater when he saw the black nanny car driving out quickly.
He waved quickly and then got into the car.
As soon as he got into the car, the vehicle instantly accelerated to the maximum.
He heard Luo Wenyun making a phone call.
“Is this the Rongcheng Public Security? I am Luo Wenyun, I want to report…”
He spoke too fast, and the manager didn’t even have time to cover his mouth.
Although he didn’t know what happened, can this police report be made so casually!
“…I don’t know exactly where it is, but an avalanche did occur. I saw it… I was video calling him at the time, I saw it with my own eyes.”
Avalanche?
The manager’s eyes widened instantly. He looked at the assistant sitting aside, and the assistant shook her head, indicating that she didn’t know either.
The manager had a bad feeling and leaned forward to ask the driver: “Where are we going?”
The driver replied: “To the airport.”
The manager wanted to smoke a cigarette to calm down.
“…At that time, I didn’t have time to think much and forgot to take a screenshot, but I saw mountains over there, not particularly high. There were other people over there too. Someone was speaking loudly…”
Luo Wenyun’s voice stopped.
He couldn’t speak anymore.
He didn’t know what he thought of. The assistant and the manager saw his hands shaking uncontrollably. He lowered his head, and his whole pupils dilated, looking inexplicably frightening.
“Sir, hello sir, can you hear me?”
A voice came from the phone in his hand. The manager pushed him and found that he still didn’t have any movement, so he took over his phone.
“There was a bit of an accident. I am Luo Wenyun’s manager… We are in Beijing now… Okay, okay, thank you very much.”
Luo Wenyun didn’t recover even after the manager hung up the phone.
He originally wanted to say that someone shouting loudly triggered the avalanche, but at that moment, he thought of the content of what the shouting person had shouted.
This matter might have been facilitated by him.
He thought that he could not only complete the plot and no longer be controlled but also avoid this death ending by not letting Mo Xuzhi go to a place with snow today.
He was the one who let Mo Xuzhi act in a scene with him, and he was the one who single-handedly brought about Mo Xuzhi’s withdrawal from the circle, thus attracting countless curses.
If he hadn’t let Mo Xuzhi play this scene with him this time, then there would have been no subsequent cyberbullying, and so many people wouldn’t have hated Mo Xuzhi so much.
If he hadn’t done these things, perhaps in that place, no one would have shouted loudly.
And there would have been no avalanche.
Mo Xuzhi would have come back safely.
Luo Wenyun buried his head deep in the crook of his arm.
“Brother Luo, we’ve arrived at the airport.”
The driver turned around and called again, “Brother Luo?”
Luo Wenyun snapped back to his senses.
He looked out the window and saw the silhouette of the airport. Regardless of any other matters, as soon as the manager flipped through the mask and hat for him, he immediately opened the car door.
After passing the security check, he almost rushed into the airport terminal.
There was a very long queue at the ticket office. Luo Wenyun took one look and changed the route to the VIP special service area.
“Hello sir, how can I help you…”
The service staff just showed a professional smile and was about to speak when she was interrupted directly by Luo Wenyun. He put both hands on the counter, staring dead at her, and said: “I want a ticket to Rongcheng, the faster the departure the better, any cabin is fine, it must be fast.”
The service staff looked up and saw that face that could only be seen on TV. She couldn’t help but feel a surge of excitement in her heart, but then she heard what Luo Wenyun said, and her excited mood immediately calmed down.
She smiled apologetically and said: “Sorry, Mr. Luo, the heavy snow in Rongcheng has affected the flight. Flights from 9:00 am today to 6:00 am tomorrow have been canceled. If you don’t mind, you can leave your contact information. If there are any changes, I will contact you as soon as possible, or you can book a flight after 6:00 pm tomorrow. This is the fastest flight at present.”