Liu Wang stood in the elevator and moved downward with it. Surrounded by a group of office workers who have to get up early in the morning and go out.

He counted eight people in the elevator. Except for him, there were six people with their heads bowed, immersed in their own world. There is also an old man in a wheelchair.

Perhaps, if there is a sudden power outage, the elevator should still be as bright as an incandescent lamp, right?

Liu Wang came back to his senses and noticed that in fact, the people who were riding the elevator with him had become shadows.

No wonder no one looked at him from the moment he walked into the elevator.

In this case, wouldn't it be stupid if you didn't take out your phone and just stood like this?

So he also took out his phone from his pocket and switched back and forth between the main interface and the taskbar. As long as everyone keeps their heads down, the atmosphere will not be so awkward, and their existence will not seem so weird.

Out of the elevator and the entrance of the stairs, some people went to the left, some people went to the right, some people went to the east, some people went to the west, only Liu Wang stood in place, not knowing which wave of people to go with.

Later, groups of people came out of the elevator, and they also walked in their own directions, with clear goals and quick actions.

Only Liu Wang was still standing there, like a door god.

Where is my goal, and where is my direction?

I don't know if it's an illusion, but he feels that time flies very slowly, and every minute and second seems to be as long and tormenting as if a century has passed.

On the road in the community, there were some figures running in a hurry, and Liu Wang guessed that they must have overslept. In the past, when he was in junior high school and elementary school, if he accidentally overslept, he would run like crazy, desperate like them.

But that's not because he loves to learn, and those who are running don't necessarily love their work. But they had to run, they had to be driven by time.

Liu Wang was surprised to find that there was a young man who was running and holding his mobile phone to read a novel, which must have been practiced, and he was also a master.

He himself can't run now, so he can only walk slowly on the road.

The figures that flashed past him left him far behind. Liu Wang couldn't see their faces clearly, not because of how fast they ran, but because they had turned into transparent shadows.

Perhaps he walked too slowly, and the wind in his ears became slow and gentle, and those who used to walk normally on the street seemed to him to be running.

Each and every one of them was running, running from one place to another, from one time to another.

They never stopped, nor did they look around while running. So Liu Wang is always ignored by everyone.

Gradually, he stopped looking forward, but chose to bow his head like them.

Because he walks very slowly, he looks at his phone while walking, and he doesn't feel uncomfortable with his eyes at all. On the contrary, it is very pleasant.

If he didn't, he wouldn't know where to focus his eyes. The streets were full of people who had turned into shadows, and he could not find the location of any of his facial features on their cheeks, as if a layer of matte tape had been applied to their faces.

Looking at their blurred cheeks all the time will make Liu Wang feel a little crazy. If he accidentally saw their eyes, he would feel uncomfortable again, and immediately panicked and looked away.

Because he knew that they weren't looking at themselves at all, they were just looking at the air behind them.

After a long time, Liu Wang felt that his eyes were very tired and he was about to be unable to open them.

He sat down on a haystack on the side of the road, next to a cleaner dressed in orange.

The cleaner turned the phone sideways and took it, bent over, his eyes buried in the screen, and played a standard game posture.

Liu Wang closed his eyes and rested for a while. I heard the sound of a crackling game fight.

He turned his head to look at the cleaner. The corners of the man's mouth kept twitching, and he looked scolding, but Liu Wang couldn't hear his voice.

Just like all the other people who turned into shadows, their voices seemed to be swallowed by a black hole, and they couldn't reach Liu Wang's ears. He believes it wasn't his ears that were wrong.

When he opened his eyes again, he found that the sunlight was dimming little by little, and there was suddenly a trace of impurities in the originally pure and transparent air, like wisps of dark purple smoke.

The nightmare in his mind and reality met in an instant, and he looked up, and sure enough, he found the daunting black sun in the sky.

Could it be that he accidentally fell asleep while resting on the haystack? Liu Wang pinched his cheek with his hand.

It hurts, it's not a dream.

Unlike the last time, this time there was no one chasing him, his breath was not short, and he did not have that fierce sense of urgency in his heart. But the oppressive feeling of the black sun is exactly the same.

He felt that he could not sit in one place for long periods of time, and he was afraid that the heavy feeling of depression would make him unable to stand up again.

But the other people on the street didn't seem to be aware of the sudden change in the sky, and they should still keep their heads down and run.

Perhaps, they can't see the changes in this world at all, they only have the square inch screen in front of them, which is their world and their everything.

Liu Wang continued to walk on the strange street. Those dark purple smoke weaved through the crowd, growing stronger and stronger.

He passed by a restaurant and noticed that there was a lot of dark purple smoke gathered there. On the side of the restaurant near the main road, there was a private room that was full of people. Oh no, it should be said, full of shadows.

The table is full of colorful dishes, and around the table is a circle of colorful glowing bricks.

Some of them place glowing bricks on the table in front of them, then put a variety of dishes into their own small plates, and then eat to themselves while looking at the screen.

Some people keep holding glowing bricks in their hands, and every time the waiter serves a dish, they will take a picture of it first, as if this way they can keep the dish as their own, and then send it to the circle of friends one by one.

There are also some more sociable people, who stand up, walk past everyone, and say a few words to everyone. Liu Wang originally thought that they would hold wine glasses and salute them one by one, but they didn't expect them to hold their mobile phones and add them one by one.

He looked at the time, it was still early, and he was not hungry, so it was better to go shopping again.