Steel steam and flame

Not hearing the sound of rain, Trinya opened her eyes wide, trying to let her sight directly break through the tent ward and the external obstruction to truly see the situation outside. All that entered my eyes was darkness, and the pain in my orbits after I opened my eyes wide. She raised her unconstrained head and cast her gaze toward the gap in the curtains of the tent ward. A faint light loomed in front of her.

Doubting whether she had seen it wrong, Trinya blinked several times, trying to better adapt to the dim environment. Gradually, but only for a few breaths, the faint light in front of her was indeed captured by her - this hospital may also be a huge tent. At the end of the line of sight, the tent must have been scratched by something. , there is a gap.

When she thought about it, her eyes seemed to be more adapted to the environment, the light became clearer, and a faint red appeared, but it was still dim.

The rainstorm did stop, Trinya confirmed the strange feeling, and then concluded that it was already night. Then she thought about what was going on around her. The unusual quietness brought terror to her, and she wanted to just fall asleep. Maybe it was just the power outage in the hospital and the fact that there were patients all around. But the source of the sound was her own heartbeat and breathing. This fact kept reminding her that the abnormality was the situation at this moment.

After thinking for a few breaths, she decided not to roar, and she had to take action.

Having to get out of this ward, Trinya gathered her little energy and figured out what needed to be done first. Then he moved his body, and the leather straps that bound his body had a different kind of toughness. She moved her hand again and found that there was a slight gap in the leather strap at her wrist.

"It should be possible to pull it out by force." Trinya was not sure, but she could only try to do it. She curled her fingers into a ball as much as possible and began to exert force, trying to pull out her right hand that was bound by the leather strap. But after just one attempt, the part where the wrist connects to the palm started to feel painful, and there were already slight wounds.

This is also a strange feeling. The pain is obviously not strong, not even painful, but it is particularly obvious in the touch. Trinya took note of this situation, then opened her mouth slightly, breathed slowly, and started her second attempt.

When she started to exert force, the dim light around her suddenly became much brighter. Outside the separated curtain, the looming light suddenly surged, giving it the effect of a light red lamp.

A bright red light shone over and fell on Trinya's face. She tilted her head, her eyes still a little uncomfortable. After a few breaths, with the help of this bright light, his own rather strange white body came into view.

Trinya couldn't help but look at it a few more times, and realized that the strange whiteness was because the skin had changed color at some point, adding a large area of ​​pale gray. In areas where the color appears rich, a thin layer of sweat-like viscous liquid is secreted and sticks to the skin.

The next moment, he thought of the man standing at the intersection of the underground waterway, covering his neck. The strange white skin and viscous liquid are the precursors of the situation like that man.

"Your life has come to a fork in the road. The decision on which way to go is actually in your hands. On either side of the fork in the road, you have less than a few hours left in your life..." Doctor Punos' words continued and appeared in Trinya's memory.

The fear and fear suddenly increased, and Trinya couldn't help but began to recite silently, words that she had been reciting for an unknown amount of time: "I don't want to die, if I want to live, I don't want to die, I must live..." "I can't die, it's because I can't die, it's not that I don't want to die..."

"Can't die, can't die..." While he was chanting silently, the corpse of his colleague who fell into the water clearly appeared in his mind again, as if he was right next to him. Her silent words began to be mixed with cries. Although she only saw one body, she knew that everyone in the car was dead except herself.

"Is anyone here? Can anyone come and see if I'm going to die?" Finally, Trinya shouted out, her voice echoing around, but no one answered.

The next moment, when the echo disappeared, multiple "click" sounds appeared, accompanied by violent shaking of the ground. The "click" sound suddenly intensified, objects fell, and the sound of buildings collapsing occurred simultaneously.

"Is this place going to collapse to the ground?" Unexpected expectations appeared in Trinya's head, and with a "boom", she felt herself falling a little distance downwards.

Later, Trinya realized that she seemed to be sitting up at this moment. It was not until the hospital bed tilted forward at a larger angle that she realized that the ground had tilted and was collapsing toward an invisible hole in front of her. The unfixed hospital bed slid forward, and when most of the patients were out of the tented ward, it got stuck on the steps of the corridor and stopped.

At this moment, among the multiple mixed sounds, the sound of a piece of fabric being torn apart stood out. Before Trinya had time to distinguish, the darkness above her head tore open, revealing a dim red night sky. The stars were still the same as before, but the cold moon had a hazy halo of light red.

This momentary scene seemed to stop time, but the next moment, the ground dropped sharply again.

Trinya made a startled sound before she saw a few dozen meters ahead. A huge hole had collapsed in the ground, like a creature's mouth, swallowing up a large number of things that rolled in due to the slope of the ground - tents used as wards. , medical equipment, chairs and tables, as well as other patients who were firmly restrained on the hospital bed, their eyes closed and fell into a deep sleep without waking up.

"Boom!" In a very short period of time, the ground collapsed again, and the tilt angle allowed the hospital bed stuck on the steps to continue sliding.

"Can't die, can't die..." Trinya cried and shouted, but the hospital bed was almost thrown away and fell towards the hole in front that looked terrifying under the red night light. She pulled out her hand again, pain and so on were no longer within the scope of her thoughts.

It only took ten seconds to cover a distance of tens of meters. When the area of ​​​​the cavity expanded towards the surrounding area and encompassed the entire hospital, Trinya finally pulled out her hands. Her palms were covered with bright red and gray blood. . She quickly went to untie the leather straps on her body. But the hospital bed had already fallen, and then turned over in a weightless environment.

With the help of the pale night light, she saw the bottom of the hollow, which was perhaps only forty or fifty meters away from her - a tangled and twisted tree root that was alive and squirming. There is a huge gray-white flower bag growing on the root of the tree, which seems to be slowly unfolding at the moment, revealing the bright red flower core.

The falling Trinya could only block her body with her hands at the last moment, and the instantaneous fall ended. Huge force was transmitted to her body, indescribable pain spread throughout her body, and her vision was swallowed up by darkness.