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Chapter 37 living corpses
The living dead, a sad existence between the living and the dead.
In this world, there are two known ways to create the living dead.
One is to use witchcraft to force the newly detached soul back into the corpse, just like a bird caught in a cage, it is impossible to flutter out.
The other is that the souls of the dead lose their way and have no choice but to return to the corpse and go home from memory like a lost animal, but the owner of the house is empty and they can only curl up in the abandoned house. I don't want to leave because of my lust for this place.
Either way, it will eventually turn the living dead into truly horrible monsters.
When the living dead were born, even God could not detect the difference between them and the living. Because at that time, there was still vitality in the bodies of the living dead, like shining human beings, and even the doctor did not know what they would become in the next second.
However, when the living dead are stranded in the world for a period of time, many terrible symptoms will gradually appear and will soon be discovered by the people around them.
First of all, the living dead do not eat cooked food, they prefer to eat raw food, or even live food.
This is completely inevitable, because the vitality in the bodies of the living dead passes day by day, and one day it will become an immovable corpse, and only consciousness continues to be active in the decaying corpse.
In order to avoid such a situation, even if the living dead do not know their identity, they will instinctively absorb vitality from living creatures and blood. Perhaps subconsciously, every living dead wants to continue to "live" well.
In addition, if the living dead don't get enough vitality in their food, their bodies will slowly change back to what they looked like when they died, or even decay away at a faster rate.
Second, if the living dead are injured, the healing rate of their wounds will become very slow, and if they do not eat enough, they may never be able to recover.
Third, the living dead will be rejected by all non-human animals and may even be besieged. Under such circumstances, most of the living dead will choose to eat the animals that attack them, because that is the very important food to them.
"generally speaking, the living dead must eat raw meat?" Shen Si and Su Qingxing sat face to face on both sides of the blue wooden table, under which was a very comfortable couch with lazy people of the same color. "the living dead hiding in Huaiyu City and Guizhu High School should not be aware of this, do they?"
"I don't think so." Su Qingxing shook his head. "at least the 33 students and a teacher in Class 4, Grade 2 of Guizhu High School seem to know nothing about it."
Sitting in front of Su Qingxing, contemplation himself is also a dead soul, and he has participated in the Underworld trial with him, which can be regarded as the "person" who knows Su Qingxing best in the human world.
In addition, Mr. Shen is trapped in the house and can't get out, so Su Qingxing just regards meditation as the object of communication. The mission of the Underworld is not a secret, so if you can rely on others to help you accomplish the task better, why not do it?
"your job is to bring their souls back to the Underworld, which should not be too difficult." The blue wooden table in front of the meditation has another mystery. After the table is unfolded to both sides, it reveals the induction cooker and teapot inside.
However, because there was no water and no tea, Shen Si could only take a carton of milk from it and handed it to Su Qingxing, which he specially told the delivery man to bring.
"it's not that simple." Su Qingxing glanced questioningly at the milk and then in contemplation, and finally returned to the question of the living dead. "everyone is still alive, and now the situation is almost the same as that of the living." if you want to take away their souls …. "
"you're going to kill them again!" Su Qingxing's expression quieted down. "I don't like this way of dealing with it."
Kill a living dead person who has not done anything wrong and has always regarded himself as a human being. What's the difference between this kind of thing and "excuse me"?
"what should I do?"
"wait." Su Qingxing obediently drank a sip of milk, "the deaths of more than 30 people are only a number to me, but for each of the relatives and friends of the dead, it is an extremely terrible disaster." The problem is that they do live in some way now. "
"since you are alive, either way, you are not dead." Contemplation quietly looked at Su Qingxing, who was sitting opposite him.
"so we can't do it yet. We have to wait." Su Qingxing put down the milk, "when the time comes, but I will never let them have any chance to hurt human beings!"
"but at that time, it was probably not just Class two or four who were killed in the car accident, so I still needed help."
Su Qingxing said, putting the wooden table in front of him back together and putting a lot of things on the wooden table.
"what is this, information on the living dead?" Contemplation also looked at a lot of things on the table in some bewilderment, and the learned god of death suddenly felt …. Why doesn't he seem to understand the covers of these books?
"." Su Qingxing was silent for a moment. "No, it's today's homework."
"."
"Mr. Shen." Su Qingxing suddenly lit up in front of his eyes, "can you do your high school homework?"
"." Contemplation was silent.
"it's all right, never mind!" Seeing the hesitation of Shen Si, Su Qingxing immediately waved his hand. "there are some homework I can still do."
With that, Su Qingxing opened his exercise book, took out a pen approved for friendly sponsorship in the afternoon, and began to seriously study human assignments and exercises.
Meditation just sat opposite, silently looking at the betrothal who bowed his head to study.
Soft black short hair and ears, Shen Si remembers that Su Qingxing's hair used to be very long. Although the styles of short and long hair are different, they can give people a gentle feeling. When Su Qingxing bowed his head, his eyelashes cast a shadow, and his mouth was saying something silently.
Even in the trial world, meditation seldom takes such a close look at his dear betrothal.
"if you want something to eat, you can buy some after class tomorrow. There is a pot." When Shen Si saw Su Qingxing writing hard, he had a new understanding of his conscientious attitude. He could not help pointing to the wooden table with the induction cooker hidden, and deeply felt that it was necessary to comfort the hard-working betrothed.
"Hmm?" Su Qing, who looked up from the book, tilted her head. "I can't cook."
"it's all right. I can cook it." Meditation points to himself, "A skill that has been specially honed for someone."
"look at it this way." Su Qingxing suddenly thought, "this apartment is quite luxurious."
Su Qingxing did not know who arranged the room, but now that he had got rid of the plight of being surrounded by walls, he had a comfortable nest and a cohabitor who could cook, and immediately felt that it was not a bad thing to travel in the human world.
The room, of course, was rearranged by the lovely snail girl.
He installed the curtains.
He installed the lampshade.
He posted the wallpaper.
The closet, he installed it.
The table, he assembled it.
Big enough to cover a room full of cushions. He bought it.
All the things, Huaiyu City people opened a home customized store, bought.
As a god of death, Shen wants to know that the foothold of every Underworld guide on a business trip in the human world is very simple, as long as he or she asks his confidants to pay a little attention to the approval documents.
However, because of some unsolved problems, Shen Si cannot change the "luxury apartment" where Su Qingxing is staying without authorization. Some small changes may lead to the discovery of some malicious beings. The betrothed of death is not in the temple of death, but acts as a guide to the underworld at the entrance of the underworld.
Therefore, Lord death came up with a new way, that is, to try to make Su Qingxing's place to stay more comfortable.
According to Lord death's original expectation, the people in the home store would deliver the goods to the door before Su Qingxing reached the human world, and then Su Qingxing came to the apartment to see what it had already been decorated, and he didn't need to think too much about other excuses.
But because of the unpredictable traffic jams in the human world, Su Qingxing arrived at the "luxury apartment" one step faster than the delivery man, making death have no choice but to find another way.
In terms of the layout of the apartment, Shen Si tried to overturn the original idea of destroying and rebuilding the whole apartment with the theme of simplicity, quickness and non-exaggeration, and worried that painting and decoration would leave an unpleasant smell in the house. it may also be bad for the health of your own betrothal.
So after thinking about it, Lord death tried to hold back his various plans and renovated this "luxury apartment" in the simplest way.
In addition to these ordinary small furniture, Lord death wanted to book a super big bed, big enough for two people to roll on it without feeling crowded. It's the kind of round one that can be covered with red sheets and quilts and sprinkled with some petals.
However, the Lord of death did not lose his mind and was well aware of the consequences of what he did. At last, he changed his mind and had a whim to customize the cushion that could cover the whole room.
Under such circumstances, no matter how Shen Si and Su Qingxing sleep in this room, they all sleep on the same cushion, and no matter how they can be separated.
In this way.
Rounding up can't be regarded as sleeping in the same bed!
It's a plan!
In fact, Su Qingxing also doubted what Shen Si said, but apart from the reason of "travel benefits", Su Qingxing really did not know who else would help him decorate the room.
It can't be meditation, is it? This gentleman can't even get out of the room.
At the same time, Su Qingxing did not think that anything dangerous would happen around him. After all, no matter what enemies appeared, he could not be kind enough to help him decorate the room, right?
In the case of more and more headaches, Su Qingxing felt that it would be better to believe in the so-called "underworld welfare" for the time being, even if someone really planned something wrong. They may not know much about the existence of Su Qingxing, the guide to the underworld!
While Su Qingxing, a guide from the Underworld with a mysterious monster pedigree, was writing hard at the workbook of a high school sophomore, the ordinary students of Class four, Grade two, were allowed to wander around their neighborhood for a long time. Finally, when the streetlights were on, they returned home in the dark, and then continued to hesitate to walk in.
"click." Before the permission was considered, the door in front of him had already opened, and a figure much taller than him stood inside the anti-theft iron door, holding his arms in his hands, looking angrily at the permission outside the door. "so you are willing to come back, Master Xu!"
"Xu. Promise. " Maybe because of the twins, permission sometimes doesn't like to use the word "sister" to call a promise, even if the other person looks taller and more mature than he or she is.
"you really have a lot of nerve now!" Promise stared, "after school, I was chatting with my friends in the next class for a while, and you just slipped away?"
"Yes, I'm sorry, you've been talking for too long." The permission looked at the iron door which was still closed in front of him, and always felt like a prisoner being interrogated in prison, and the promise was the one who threatened to interrogate the prisoner.
"then you should go straight home, too!" Xu Xu looked very angry. Although she was very tall, she was not as beautiful as her brother and looked more like an average-looking father. "what's the matter with you, permission?" You're not in love, are you? "
"No, absolutely not!" The permit almost jumped up in such a hurry, "there is absolutely no such thing!"
"well, I guess so." Promise still did not open the anti-theft door, "how can a girl like a dwarf like you like a matchstick?"
"promise! You. "
"Nono, is Coco back yet?" Before permission could speak, a soft-sounding voice came out of the house.
"Yes, Mom." Promise a little disappointed to open the security door for the license, "is that our rebellious period has come, and some children who do not want to go back have come back."
"what nonsense!" A beautiful-looking woman who looked like a permit came back from her inner room and glanced at the promise with a slight dissatisfaction, "your brother is not a wild girl like you." I believe there must be a very important reason why Coco rarely comes home late, such as sending a disabled grandmother home and so on. "
"well, he did the right thing anyway, and I'm the one who should not be home every night." Promising to put his hands behind his head, he walked nonchalantly to the living room. "come on in. Mom won't let me have dinner until you come back. I'm starving to death!"
"what are you talking about? it's like Mom and Dad are biased." Mother Xu just read a sentence and immediately took down her schoolbag for permission and urged her son to go to the living room to eat quickly.
At the dinner table sat a tall man reading a newspaper with a straight face similar to that promised by his sister.
For men, the Chinese character face may give people a sense of being correct and down-to-earth. But when a young girl has a Chinese face. The promise of being a party is particularly unhappy.
"all right, come on, eat." Father Xu looked more dignified. As soon as he saw the permission to come home late, he asked solemnly, "permission, what's going on today?"
"I'm sorry, I just think." Permission once said some messy things to his family, for example, his sister promised that she was dead, and now what he was staying at home was actually a ghost, so now he just glanced at his sister who was sitting next to him and promised that he didn't say anything.
"ahem, forget it, let's all eat." Xu's father put away the newspaper. "Mom worked very hard to cook a table of good dishes this time."
"mm-hmm." Permission obediently took the chopsticks.
"Coco, Nono, is everything all right at school today?" Xu's mother, like most parents, asks her two children about their condition at school at dinner.
"mm-hmm." The permission nodded, but the promise did not speak.
"do you have a good time with your classmates? No one will bully you, will you? "
"No, no!" The permit immediately shook his head. "everyone is fine and often helps me." And there are promises, and no one dares to bully me! "
"cut." The promise turned his head with some disdain.
But the next second, the mother Xu gently clicked on her daughter's forehead and said, "be quiet, girl. if you are as clever as Coco, I won't have to worry about you."
"then why don't you give me the same face as permission?" He promised to answer back and began to look through the dishes with chopsticks, but he didn't decide which one to eat for a long time.
"you." Mother Xu was a little angry, but under the comfort of her father Xu calmed down and asked permission, "Coco, is there anything new in school today?"
Mother and sister angry, permission has been buried in the food, there is no intention of mixing, but to shrink themselves to a small, as far as possible to reduce their sense of existence.
It was not until Mother Xu asked a question that she nodded and said, "well, there is a transfer student in the class today."
"Why, isn't it almost summer vacation? Do you want to transfer students at this time? " Mother Xu was a little surprised. "is it a boy or a girl?"
"it's a boy. His name is Su Qingxing." Permit recalled that the young man who patiently listened to his nonsense said, "he is a very nice man and good-looking, and many girls in the class like him very much."
"is it so popular on the first day?" Mother Xu glanced carefully at her grumpy daughter. "is that Nuono, too?". "
"Don't think about it." He promised to smash the chopsticks on the table with a "bang". "my whole life is suitable for a lonely old man, anyway, you still have a precious son to carry on the family line."
"Nono." Mother Xu held up her forehead with a headache.
"I'm full." With the promise, he was ready to turn around and leave.
"wait!" Father Xu glanced at the promised rice bowl. "Why didn't you eat anything just now?" Because you have a bad appetite these days, this table is full of dishes that your brother and sister like to eat! "
"what's good to eat?" Promise glanced at the fish and meat on the table, there was a feeling of nausea, can not help but cover their mouth, "who would want to eat this kind of food, it seems to make people feel unappetizing!"
"Nono?" The whole family knew that she had a bad temper, but she had never seen her lose her temper for no reason.
"Oh, I remember. Is it because my mother forgot that?" Xu's mother suddenly got up and went to the kitchen next to her, then brought a pot of things and walked out. "it's Nono's favorite drunken shrimp. Nuono must be angry because she didn't see this, right?"
Drunken shrimp?
When Xu's mother opened the lid of the glass basin, Xu saw her favorite dish on weekdays, the almost drunken shrimp, and occasionally bounced slightly.
Promise's stomach was barking, and didn't see any food wanted to eat on the table just now, so when saw drunken shrimp, although didn't really want to eat it, the hunger of body seemed more and more obvious, so that promise finally returned to the table and sat down.
"Nono, girls should." When she saw her daughter coming back for dinner, Xu thought her promised anger had dissipated. "forget it, Mom won't say, don't stare at drunken shrimp, you don't feel comfortable eating too much raw cold stomach, eat more other dishes."
But the promise was as if nothing had been heard, staring at the drunken shrimp eating there, ignoring the other dishes on the table.
"Hmm? Is the drunken shrimp so delicious this time? " Looking at the promise to keep eating there, Xu's father was also a little greedy, "it seems that my mother's craftsmanship has improved a lot."
"it's okay, but it's a little heavy, and it's even better if there's no wine and no ingredients." When I promised to stop, there was still a little bottom left in the basin.
"No wine, no ingredients, is that still drunken shrimp?" Father Xu and mother Xu looked at each other.
"I'm going back to my room." After eating drunken shrimp, Xu Xu still felt hungry, but there was nothing she wanted to eat on the table, so she simply patted her ass and went back to her room.
"the child is really getting more and more rude." Father Xu was also angry.
"Mom and Dad. There is something really wrong with the promise. " After the promise to leave, the permission lowered his voice, "there was a real smell of burning just now."
"didn't I tell you not to talk about it?" Father Xu sighed, "the big and small ones are not easy to worry about!"
"Coco, we've already taken Nono to the hospital, haven't we? Even the doctor said Nono was healthy. " Mother Xu patted her son on the shoulder. "you must have had a nightmare that day, so for a moment you couldn't tell whether Nono was in the car or not."
"but."
"all right, stop it."
"Dad, I don't want to go to school tomorrow." Although the permission was afraid, he finally made such a request with the mood of asking his parents for help.
"what nonsense? The final exam is coming soon. Do you want to piss me off? If you don't want to study, go out from your doorstep now! "
Xu's father stared at what was supposed to be a big dinner, but by this time no one wanted to eat any more, so he had to break up in discord.
"Ah!" I don't know how long it took, when there was a girl's scream in the Xu family's bathroom, which made the Xu parents, who had already rested, and their permission to be unable to sleep rushed out of their room.
"what's going on?" Father Xu knocked on the bathroom door anxiously.
"Nono, can Mom come in?" Xu's mother tried the doorknob, but found that the bathroom door had been locked from the inside. "Nono, open the door."
The sound of "rustling" soon came from the bathroom, which made the Xu family outside the door breathe a sigh of relief.
When the bathroom door was opened, they saw the promise in pajamas standing there with dry hair.
"what's going on?" Seeing that his daughter didn't seem to have something to do, father Xu began to be unhappy again.
On the other hand, the promise just handed out her right hand without expression, and everyone looked at a large area of red on the back of her hand and a blister.
"what's going on?" Mother Xu was distressed immediately.
"I don't know." Promise frowned. "I just reached out and tested the temperature of the water. I didn't expect it to be so hot." It's been really bad luck lately! "
"it's all right! Nothing! Lao Xu, go and get the ointment. " While Xu's mother began to deal with the promised burns, she comforted her, "your grandmother always said that you had good or bad luck. This time you have avoided such a big disaster, and now it's okay to run into a bit of bad luck."
"the water is not hot, it's just warm." After father Xu brought the ointment, he tried to test the temperature of the water. "are all your girls so young?"
"Huh." The promise turned its head away.
Xu's mother dealt with the promised scald, but before the family dispersed and went back to Rest, the permit seemed to find that the scald on the back of her sister's hand seemed to be …. Spread?
"what are you looking at?" Promise noticed his brother's line of sight and glanced at him directly. "wake me up at the same time tomorrow, or you'll see it!"
With that, he promised to close the door in front of the permission and threw his brother, who was scared back, out of the door.
After the permit returned to the room, it still failed to close my eyes. Sometimes he doesn't know which one he should believe.
Do you believe that the promise is dead?
Or do you believe in the promise to live?
What answer did he expect? I am allowed to huddle myself in the quilt, but I still seem to be able to smell the familiar smell of burning.
By four or five o'clock, when he was allowed to fall asleep, there seemed to be a promise burn on the back of his hand. He dreamt that the burn mark was getting bigger and bigger!
In the end.
"Ah!" Permission to wake up directly from the dream, obviously still very sleepy, but the alarm clock at the head of the bed seems to have been ringing for a long time, and the window has begun to light up.
The permission reflex jumped out of bed, then rushed out of the door, rushed to the door of my sister's room as usual, and knocked on the door.
"promise, promise!"
"it's so noisy." The promised door opened, looking unhappy. She had not only put on her school uniform, but also had her schoolbag in her hand. "the alarm clock in your room rang for more than ten minutes, and I was woken up, but you just got up now."
"I'm sorry, but these days." Permission said, but subconsciously looked at the back of the promised right hand, and then found that she was wearing gloves?
"promise, your hand."
"I'd love to." Without an explanation, Xu pushed away his brother, who was not prepared for anything. "come on, if you don't go out together, those two will have to nag again."
"mm-hmm."
Promise and license are twins born before and after, not only in appearance, but also in personality.
People who know promise and permission all feel that the character of the brother and sister seems to be reversed. The elder sister promised that he was tall, handsome, bad-tempered and impulsive, and began to play with thugs outside the school when he was in junior high school. Although his grades were not very good after entering high school, he reined in a little bit.
The younger brother's permission is a well-known good boy with good looks, good grades and a good temper. apart from being a little timid and especially afraid of his sister, he doesn't seem to see any other shortcomings.
I don't know if there are too many such remarks around me. promise that have a poor relationship with brother, and hate it when others compare her with younger brother. Every time encounter such a thing, no matter whether the other person is a teacher or an elder, promise to speak ill of each other.
Compared with permission, promise has one advantage, that is, it is very popular among peers. Everyone in Guizhu High School knows that promise is the eldest sister in the school, tall, strong, fierce in fighting, and especially loyal in the face of some things. can chat with anyone.
Perhaps it is the relationship between the twins, it is allowed to know that the elder sister actually does not like the name "Big Sister". She would rather be weak and weak and be a delicate girl who can be relied on and cannot unscrew the soda bottle.
In any case, the permit knew very well that the person my sister promised to hate most was his younger brother.
But I don't know how I feel about this sister. Well, maybe it's annoying, too. It's just that the license has never dared to say so.
Every morning, the permit would go out with his sister and then go to school along the same road. But along the way, two people will not say a word, one before and after, like two strangers.
Only this time, when permission walked behind his sister, he always stared at the gloves he promised to wear on his right hand, and suddenly wanted to know whether the burn on the back of her hand had healed. Or did it spread like the dream he had yesterday?
"permission." A slightly familiar voice suddenly sounded behind the permit.
Permission turned around, only to see Su Qingxing, dressed in civilian clothes, standing behind him.
Su Qingxing did not wear the school uniform of Guizhu High School. when he went to the school to report yesterday, a teacher asked him to fill in the form for buying school uniforms, but after looking at the price of school uniforms and the travel expenses he had on hand, Su Qingxing solemnly gave up.
Clothes are too expensive, money is not enough, and he can only stay in Guizhu High School for a few weeks at most, so buying school uniforms has become a very chicken rib.
But now the time is approaching the summer vacation, so the weather in Huaiyu City in the south is getting hotter and hotter.
Although Su Qingxing could not feel the temperature, he specially told him to wear something when he went out, telling him not to walk around in a sweater on a hot day.
So at this time Su Qingxing wore a simple white lead T-shirt with blue and white-edged five-cent trousers, which looked somewhat sailor-like and inexplicably refreshing.
But.
"transfer student, are you a pupil? How can you go to school in shorts? " Xu Nuo also noticed the Su Qingxing behind. Now he came over from the front and looked up and down at Su Qingxing. "there is a PE class today, and the PE teacher will be furious with you."
"you can't dress like that?" Su Qingxing froze like a bolt from the blue. "my family said it was OK."
When Su Qingxing went out, Shen Si gave him a thumbs-up with a serious expression.
Forgive the two bosses of the Underworld who have never been to school and do not even have a primary school diploma.
"forget it, whatever you want. If I had known I could wear my own clothes without buying school uniforms, I wouldn't have bought them either." Promise and permit wear the standard summer school uniform of Huaiyu City, with a white blue-rimmed short-sleeved shirt and blue trousers at the bottom.
Judging from the color, Su Qingxing is really wearing it right, but the length of the trousers does not meet the requirements.
"what happened to your hand?" Su Qingxing's eyes fell on his right hand, which promised to wear gloves. "are you hurt?"
"transfer students, mind your own business." Xu Xu didn't seem to want to mention the thing of his right hand. He directly carried his schoolbag on one shoulder and turned to walk on to the school. "if you don't leave, you'll be late."
"Su Qingxing, I'm so scared!" I don't know why I had so much courage yesterday to tell Su Qingxing, who met for the first time, so many things.
But after thinking about all the people he knew in the city, he found that he really had no one to talk to, and no one would listen patiently to what he said except strangers.
In fact, 99% of strangers allow permission to see a psychiatrist, and being able to meet Su Qingxing is also a kind of luck.
"are you still worried about yesterday?" Su Qingxing obviously knows why the license is afraid.
Permission nodded, and could not help telling Su Qingxing about the promise of scald yesterday and the dream he had yesterday, and then said in a trance, "I can't tell the difference between dream and reality now." I always thought that the burn on my promised hand had enlarged in front of the Rest, but after having that dream, I began to suspect that what I saw was also a dream. "
"in fact, I think your biggest problem now is that you are too nervous." Su Qingxing has a lot of experience in psychological counseling. "now you can't sleep at night because of this, and you will have nightmares when you finally fall asleep. The next day you look pale and have serious dark circles under your eyes. When I first saw you yesterday, I thought you had just had a serious illness."
"in this way, living this life day after day will only turn your stress and panic into a vicious circle, getting more scared and sleepless day by day." Su Qingxing smiled and tried to calm his permissible mood. "how about self-hypnosis?"
"self-hypnosis?" The permit does not understand what Su Qingxing means.
"Yes, didn't you say that promise and all the students in the class are dead, and that those who live around us can be touched?" Su Qingxing asked gently, "do you think they know they're dead?"
"I may not know." Permission shook his head.
"suppose, what would it be like if you allowed yourself to be a dead body as promised, but still didn't realize your death?"
Su Qingxing's voice echoed in permissive ears.
If he is a promise, how does it feel?
Think you're still alive, but walk with your own body day by day? Permission couldn't help flinching, and it was hard for him to imagine that feeling.
When allowed to be silent, Su Qingxing's own mood did not relax.
Because he knows that change has begun. The promise that she would be scalded by warm water should be because she was cauterized by the high temperature when she died, so she was particularly afraid of temperature.
Thinking in this way, Su Qingxing glanced at the sky. The morning sun has begun to show the temperature of summer, and soon the weather will become hotter and hotter.
"what a terrible season." Su Qingxing could not help murmuring.