Chapter 1: The Mysterious Blue Light
The lights are shining.
"It is expected that there will be strong convective weather with short-term thunderstorms and strong winds in some areas from tonight to tomorrow day, so please prepare for cold and cool down in front of the radio..."
Liu Hao glanced at the dark sky outside the window, changed the radio to a Girls' Generation album, and tapped the accelerator under his feet.
Accompanied by the dynamic and sultry girl's voice, the black SUV moved forward little by little.
As far as the eye can see, full of red taillights.
The exhaust fumes from thousands of cars, large and small, fill the night, making it seem as if the vision is blurred.
Liu Hao took out a cigarette, and the lighter of the lighter looked a little weird on the lenses.
He took a deep puff, filling his lungs with satisfaction, his fingers tapping unconsciously on the steering wheel to the upbeat rhythm of the music.
Tonight's dinner had been scheduled a month ago, otherwise he would never have driven to the city center during the Friday evening rush hour.
Liu Hao is in his Chinese New Year's Eve this year, one meter and eight years old, from the back looks broad-shouldered and broad-backed, tall and straight, a typical northern man, but the huge belly in front suddenly makes the beauty of the picture thin.
However, he has already decided to start losing weight from tomorrow.
He couldn't count how many times there had been such a plan, but this time he was serious.
Seeing that he was about to run for four, all the indicators of the physical examination rushed to light up the red light, reminding him that he could no longer practice himself as willfully as he did in his 20s.
What's more, at this time last year, he finally broke away from the team of single Wang, and married a wife in the envious and jealous eyes of a group of fox friends and dogs, and he was only 28 years old.
The couple has been planning for half a year, and this year they will say that they will have children.
He didn't want to sit on the viewing platform with gray hair at his child's college graduation ceremony.
Thinking of his daughter-in-law, Liu Hao's heart was hot.
Gentle, generous, and in good shape, now that the little life is enjoyable, there is nothing else to ask for, just a child.
There's a cranky thing in my head.
Suddenly, something seemed wrong in the left mirror.
He looked back and saw a dazzling blue light spreading down from the low clouds.
There was no thunderous roar, no deflagration of fire, like the rendering of an ink painting, and the brilliant blue of the eyes fell to the ground like mercury, engulfing everything there.
Buildings, vehicles, people, and Liu Hao himself.
Everything happened very suddenly, except for the sudden explosion of a whistle that quickly fell silent, as if the scene just now was just an illusion.
It's really blue, this is Liu Hao's last thought.
Some are alive, he is dead, some are dead, he is still alive.
Liu Hao didn't know whether he was dead or alive.
The blue light quickly dissipated as it had come.
Liu Hao felt himself float up, through the roof of the car, and floated out of the car.
It's a feeling because he doesn't see with his eyes, unless someone can see everything in a 360-degree range at the same time.
Am I dead? Liu Hao, who gradually floated higher and higher, was full of doubts.
The sky was getting brighter and brighter, as if something was pulling there, dragging Liu Hao higher and higher, and the speed was getting faster and faster.
Everything on the ground is getting smaller, and the harbor and the familiar coastline in the distance are faintly visible, and in a few moments the entire silhouette of the city is in full view.
It's just that the giant advertising screen in the center of the city is no longer a dazzling red.
In fact, everything that was now presented to his perception no longer had the property of color, but was only a mixture of yellow-brown patches of different shades of brightness, wrapped in the familiar scene.
In addition to the color, at the same time, there is also an important friend who has accompanied him for more than 30 years, gravity.
If judged by normal logic, the journey of his life in this life has been forced to press the rest, Liu Hao suddenly felt a little panicked and sad.
knew that he shouldn't be able to go back, but he still struggled unwillingly.
In any case, something must be done at this time, and everything below is his life that he has struggled and cherished for nearly forty years.
The mortgage that is about to be paid off, the new car, the novel that has been chasing for a few years but has been interrupted for a long time, and she is busy running around in a corner of the city below at this time.
His parents died a few years ago, making him an elderly orphan, and now the only person in the world is the tall and delicate woman.
Bright eyes that seem to be talking, thin lips that are always painted with his favorite fruity lip gloss, fair skin that seems a little transparent, hearty laughter when happy, and murmuring when lingering.
Thinking of all this, Liu Hao struggled even more violently.
The property he left behind is not much, but he is worthy of her.
The only pity is that they haven't had time to have a child yet, which seems to represent the only proof that a person stays in this world.
However, at this moment, he couldn't shout or move, so he could only float up passively.
One minute, five minutes, ten minutes......
In the end, Liu Hao reluctantly "calmed down" and seemed to accept his fate.
At this time, he noticed that in addition to himself, there were hundreds of dense light clusters floating around.
The light cluster looked small, like a firefly in the night, but it didn't flicker, it just kept emitting a faint light.
In their eyes, am I also such a small group of light? Liu Hao secretly guessed.
The only surprise was that he saw the colors on these light clusters again.
Except for a few yellow ones at the edges, most of them are blue.
It was getting higher and higher, gradually passing through the low clouds, and all around it was the lightest yellow, so light that it seemed like a miserable white, which made people panic, and always felt that something was about to happen.
Suddenly, a tingling sensation came from the back of his neck, as if he was being targeted by a fierce beast, which made Liu Hao slam violently, even though he no longer had a body.
He watched his surroundings vigilantly, looking for the source of this uneasiness.
As if a wind was blowing, a huge roar came from the depths of the clouds, ten thousand times worse than the roar of a tiger and a dragon, like an iron scraping through glass.
The voice got closer and closer, and the monster finally revealed its true face.
The first thing that poked out of the clouds was a tentacle more than ten meters long, followed by the second and third...... Six tentacles.
Each tentacle was as thick and long as kelp, so soft that it seemed to have no bones.
At the top of the tentacles converged was a large snail-shell-like head, looking like a giant jellyfish, floating in the clouds, seemingly slow but swift as it swooped down on the light that was trembling in fear.
A tentacle sliced past the outermost ball of light, deftly engulfing it and thrusting upwards into its head.
I couldn't see where the monster's mouth was, but the ball of light literally disappeared into its body.
The monster's efficiency is very high, and in just a few minutes, 5 light clusters have become its snacks.
Soul-feeding creatures?
In a trance, Liu Hao remembered that he had read some reports on supernatural themes, and it seemed that similar creatures had been found by chance in different parts of the world, but they had never been captured or confirmed.
I used to think that it was all a fabricated conjecture by the media in order to attract traffic, but now the bloody facts in front of him are proving to him that the monster is real.
Fear spreads, but the Light Troupe can do nothing but passively wait for doom to come.
The monster is still eating at an unhurried pace, as if it is leisurely strolling, as if enjoying a good afternoon tea time.
More than a dozen clusters of light have already disappeared.
Liu Hao was secretly glad that his location was in the middle of the group of lights, and the monster should not be able to take care of him for a while.
While being preyed on, the group of lights is still rising at an increasing speed, hoping to escape in time.
As if to verify the inevitability of Murphy's Law, greater doom has struck.
A few more terrible roars came from behind the side, and two larger monsters emerged from the clouds, and they couldn't wait to reach out their tentacles when they were far away.
Obviously, the first monster was just in a coincidental location, close to the water.
The two smelled the food and came from afar to participate in the feast.
The group of light was completely torn apart, and several monsters used their tentacles as the boundary, dividing the group of light into several piles and dividing the loot.
At this time, there is no so-called safe zone, and whether you can survive it depends on your fate.
Who would have imagined that just a few dozen minutes ago, Liu Hao was still smoking a cigarette in the car, pondering about giving birth.
The ups and downs of life and the strange circumstances made his mind at a loss.