Fairy’s Box

There was a buzzing in my ears, the whole building was shaking...is there an earthquake...the sound is so noisy...it seems that someone is shouting...who is it? Don't worry, I'm so tired...

"Rena! Rena!"

Half-dreaming and half-awake, Reina heard someone calling her. For some reason, her body was very uncomfortable, her eyelids were too heavy to lift, and her head felt like a needle stabbing pain.

"Rena, Rena, ah... ahh! Idiot, wake up!"

She struggled to open her eyes, and in front of her was Elena, who was wrapped in a blanket, huddled up, rubbing her hands, and stomping her feet.

It was Elena's voice...

"Wow, my head hurts." Lena raised her upper body and kept rubbing her temples, trying to relieve the pain.

"...Ah!" The snow-haired girl sneezed again, her eyes and nose were all red, she covered her mouth with both hands, while snorting hot air, she said with chattering teeth:

"The door to the bedroom has been open since last night, and there is a cool breeze blowing. When I woke up, it was almost frozen into ice, and Jacqueline disappeared for some reason."

"Ah? It's gone!" The red-haired girl was taken aback and wanted to jump up habitually, but she felt weakness and powerlessness instantly hit her limbs, so that her back softened a little when she straightened up.

"Rena?" Elena was startled, she quickly supported her friend's back, and found that her body was extremely hot, she asked, "Are you actually sick?"

Reina touched her forehead sluggishly, and smiled weakly: "It seems...with a fever."

"I didn't expect..." The snow-haired girl helped her sit up again, fetched a thermos cup, poured a cup of boiling water and handed it over:

"I thought you would never get sick... You said... Jacqueline is so timid, how could it be possible to go out at night, will something happen?"

"Thank you." The red-haired girl took a sip, her spirit was shocked, and she replied casually: "You are too neurotic, maybe she has something important, or maybe she went to the morning exercise."

"You're right, I'm too sensitive." Elena pondered for a while, put the thermos cup beside the bed, walked to the shoe rack in the corner, and put on standard leather boots:

"I'm going to class, do you need to see a doctor?"

"No need... I want to get a good night's sleep, maybe I can get better in the afternoon." Lena frowned, slowly indented into the bed, and said in a trance:

"It's so uncomfortable... It's all Jacqueline's fault... Hmph, don't let me catch you..."

She looks completely burned out, is it really okay... Let's take a look first, if the fever doesn't subside in the afternoon, take her to the hospital.

The snow-haired girl watched her friend get into the bed, hesitated for a moment, but decided to trust her resilience, pushed the door and said at the same time:

"I'll ask for a leave for you, come back to see you at noon, and if the fever hasn't subsided, just go to the hospital with me obediently."

"I know I know..." The red-haired girl covered her face with the sheet and muttered, "It's so long-winded, just like an old woman..."

Poor guy!

Elena was suffocated by this arrogant chest, and almost threw her slippers over. Fortunately, she remembered that she was a patient, so she reluctantly closed the door and decided to record it on the account first, and she would have the opportunity to double it back later.

"Eh? Today...the corridor is so deserted..."

The snow-haired girl suddenly discovered that the corridor had been eerily quiet since she woke up, and now she was walking on the spiral staircase, and there was no one beside her.

She walked to the stairs only to find that the ground was in a mess, and the surroundings were deadly silent.

The garden exit in the distance did not know when it started, but a huge seal was put on it. Several apprentice knights were guarding the door and transporting some items to the carriage.

Elena panicked and rushed to the exit with all her strength. She grabbed the seal and asked, "Hey! What are you doing? Why are you sealing this place?"

Several knights saw her running to this side, and they were all waiting. Among them, a red-haired knight apprentice recognized her: "Elena! Why are you still here?"

"You are... Beverly!? I live here."

"We used the loudspeaker to shout in the middle of the night, didn't you hear it?" Beverley asked with a rather ugly face, suppressing his anger.

"Last night someone played a prank... I kept knocking on the door, and I plugged my ears with earplugs..." Seeing him being so angry, the snow-haired girl shrank her neck and replied weakly.

"I've been knocking on the door..." The red-haired knight suddenly changed color, his face was blue and white, and he suddenly grabbed the collar of the person beside him:

"What did you tell me before? The garden sleeping quarters have all been retreated? Where did this girl come from?"

"Yes, I'm sorry... I did shout one by one, there are too many buildings here... You don't allow us to spread out, and the rooms on each floor are too big, maybe... I accidentally missed it. …”

"Damn, we have to investigate again!" Beverly pushed him out fiercely, then turned into the garden area, and said to the snow-haired girl:

"Elena, I can only trouble you to accompany us to visit the garden area again. You live here, you should be familiar with the way here, right?"

"Yes, it's very familiar. What happened? Why are you... so nervous?" Elena could already smell the sulphur-like danger in the air, and still asked with a bit of luck.

"A very difficult thing happened! It can be said to be a doomsday disaster. In short, this place has been classified as a dangerous restricted area. Later, you must also be transferred to the library, where our people are guarding day and night."

"Apocalyptic disaster... How could it be so sudden..." Elena's eyes darkened, her breathing suddenly became rapid, her calf suddenly became crisp and soft, and she almost fell.

Beverly strode forward, seeing that the girl was chasing very hard, he said to a female knight on the left: "She is too slow, please carry her for a while."

"receive."

The sturdy female knight lightly stretched her arms and carried Elena on her shoulders like a chicken. At the end, she gave the red-haired knight a friendly smile and showed her yellow teeth.

There must be something wrong with this guy's comprehension ability, can't he tell the meaning of memorizing and carrying? ...It is estimated that even the brain has become a muscle... Forget it, don't care about such trivial things at this time!

The snow-haired girl knew the priorities and didn't struggle, she just said hurriedly: "Rena is upstairs! She's sick! And Jacqueline, I haven't seen her since morning."

"Guide the way!"

"It's in front!"

Bang-!

The compound door of the dormitory was directly kicked out. The strong female knight put down Elena first, wrapped the sleeping Rena with the quilt into a roll, and directly carried her shoulders, then turned her head, and looked straight behind her...

"I can run by myself! I will definitely catch up with you!" The snow-haired girl squeezed out a pleasing smile, while rubbing her aching belly.

"Huh!?" The female knight's copper bell-sized eyes stared, and two white breaths spewed from her nostrils at the same time.

"Okay! Don't be angry..." She stepped forward obediently, and let the other party put herself back on her shoulders in a posture against sandbags.

Several knights, along with Elena and Reina, searched the entire garden sleeping area again, and decided to exit from here after confirming that there was no more "living mouth".

"Elena, why did Jacqueline suddenly disappear? Didn't the three of you live together?" When he returned to the garden exit again, Beverley scratched the back of his head, and a tired look flashed in his eyes.

"I don't know..." Elena's expression dimmed a lot in an instant, and she shook her head weakly: "She has always been very timid, probably she was so scared that she forgot to tell us, and then left with the rest."

"I hope nothing happens." The red-haired knight's heart sank, and there was an ominous foreboding.

He forcibly suppressed this thought, stretched out his hand to pick up the snow-haired girl by the waist, and flung it out of the door lightly. After the female knight on the opposite side received it, he directly stuffed it into the carriage...

A few people dug out of the garden sleeping area, no longer talking nonsense, got on the carriage, and walked away in the direction of the Great Library.

On the way, Lena burned in a daze and kept talking nonsense. Elena looked out of the car window while cooling her down with her naturally cold hands.

There are almost no pedestrians on the road, discarded daily necessities, and piles of small animal corpses, looking very miserable...

"How did it become like this overnight? Is it the plague? Are these small animals killed by the plague?"

"No..." Beverly closed his eyes, rested his head on the wall of the car, and said lightly: "Part of it was killed by us, and part of it was the hands of their owners..."

"Why? There must be a reason." The snow-haired girl looked at him calmly.

"Mutation... These small animals, due to some unknown willingness, have a certain chance to mutate, and they will become giants in a short period of time, and they are extremely aggressive, so..."

When the red-haired knight said this, he exhaled laboriously, as if he wanted to concentrate all the fatigue and expel it from the body through this breath.

Elena raised her pretty face, her eyes fixed on the other's eyes, and then he continued: "So you chose to kill them all to avoid future troubles..."

"That's right." Beverley nodded frankly.

The snow-haired girl lowered her neck and grabbed the corners of her clothes at the same time. The knuckles of her fingers showed a blue-white like jade because of the force:

"No matter how precious pets are, they are just some kind of sustenance. As a human being, we should give priority to the safety of the same kind... If it were me, I would make the same choice..."