《Last days in Jail》雪血

3、Part III

　　After a long time of hubbub, it turned quiet again after a wet dinner. Our corridor guard told us that all the food became wet, so we could only get vegetables and little bread. It was thankful after all, to us, we understand, every meal may be the last supper. If we don't want to die with sorrow, we should take every second as happy as we could.
　　It was a very busy night. Injuries were a lot more than yesterday, I saw dozens of people running in and out. Some may gone already, gone to the Pure Land. The disaster has been already out of control, we discussed about, what it might be coming next, with all kinds of different oppinions. Only one idea has not be concerned, the disaster, is over.
　　We exactly stayed up the whole night, it's nothing to me, I'm already over 150 years old, I actually wouldn't feel sleepy until it past 5 o'clock in the morning, and easily, I can stay up the whole night. My old pal has a close condition as I have, he's probably at a close age to me, I think. We talked about every disaster we have seen or heard before, even including the meteora crashes, we included all, really, all an ordinay human being could think of.
　　My neighbor asked the guard about the news of the outside world. He told us 24 cities had been flooded, in many parts of Earth, it's still raining, including Chicago, New York, Moscow, London, Paris and Beijing. This sounds like a nightmare, all the famous cities on the world is being flooded, and just think about how many people will die in this disaster. All of us kept silent. We couldn't imagine how big disaster is, and going to be.

　　When the first sunlight came out from the sky line, nobody looked at it. We stayed silent, to give our tribute to the death. Under the sun, there isn't any delight, all there is is sadness. The first one who open his mouth to speek was the guard. He told us we may have our breakfast now. We ate, some with tears, some with sorrow. We hope the disaster could stop, including me, we still want to take a sight of our new world, created by all the human beings together, we are one, one giant on Earth, we don't want to conqure the world, we just want a piece of land, to live happily, to live with warm sunlight, with gentle breezes, with little rain, with peaceful and friendly neighbors. We will accept everybody, every living things to join us. But, will we still have the chance to see a world like this, or, we human beings will just come to an end, by such a disaster. That's something we are all afraid of, but we can't do anything to prevent, we are just fish a fishing net, a tree in front of a saw, a sheep in front of a butcher'sknife.

　　The third part of the avenger, came when my old pal and I had just finish fixing our beds. They were blowed off by the tsunami yesterday. This time, it's eathquake. We feel it immediately when it started, because our beds shook extraordinarily, and at that time, we were just sitting on it. It is strong, the broadcaster told us to hide under our beds, which we've just finished fixing, but just after the sentence, the broadcaster fell off the wall, pulling off a bunch of wires, including the light, so it suddenly became noisy and dark indoor. We could hear the noise of the ground shaking, the noise of guard running, the noise of things falling off, crushing on the floor and a noise like some giant things being teared into parts. In the beginning, we didn't pay attention to that, but then we heard a guard out there shouting,
　　'Run! Run! The ground is cracking!'
　　We were shocked, all of us, I recognized the noise, it's the noise of the ground cracking.
　　The ground shook stronger and stronger, I guess the chaft is coming nearer and nearer, should be already very close to our building. Bigger pieces of roof came down, in the dark, I saw many figures fall down, rapidly there are pieces crashing on my bed, sound of pieces of cement falling on my iron bed is really loud, my ears started feeling uncomfortable. Meanwhile, the chaft is already very near, I wondered how far it can go. But then, my neighbor shouted, as loud as he could, I know, the chaft came in from his room, right across the wall. I saw light, I can see, and that means the wall is teared apart, at least, there should be a big whole in the wall, big enough to let much light come in.
　　The chaft didn't stop moving after coming in, it keeps tearing open the floor, a long chaft become visible soon, across the wall, across the corridor, and sometimes right across someone's room. After this eathquake, I believe this building will probably have a half of it being ruined.

　　We stayed under our beds for a long time, until we can hear exactly hear no sound similar to that. Our guard came through the front door, with a half piece of cloth on his body, he told us we could came out now, the chaft is now at about 1.5 kilometers away. The ruined parts of the building covered the floor, pieces of fallen roofs are everywhere.
　　An hour before bed, we got the newest number of death, covered every part of Earth, 42 hundred million people. Half of the present total population. We don't know what we should say, shall we be happy, or shall we be sad, we couldn't think of anything.