Chapter 22: Noah's Oracle
Chen Guan likes to go to the bookstore across the street on a sunny afternoon, find a place to sit there quietly and turn into the background, and by the way, empty his head, throw away all his worries and pretend that he is a stone. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
He also likes to peek at the bookstore's female clerk, a beautiful girl named Zhang Gongxian.
The girl was always wearing a denim dress and walking between the counters and shelves with a thick stack of new books. Her body can't bear too many books that are too heavy, so she always moves books with heavy steps, which looks pitiful and pitiful, but also so real and charming.
The two actually knew each other, were the same age, and grew up in the same orphanage-like welfare institution. The biggest difference between it and ordinary orphanages is that only abandoned children with disabilities are taken in. Zhang Gongxian in front of her lost her hearing when she was very young, and now she is just twenty years old, and her speech ability has almost disappeared. Aside from the phrases 'hello,' 'thank you,' and 'sorry, I can't hear you,' most of the things that come out of the mouth are squeaky and hard to tell. Like Zhang Gongxian, Chen Guan is also a disabled person, but now he has recovered and returned to a normal person.
Today's weather is perfect for this pretty girl, Zhang Gongxian, who looks dazzling in the afternoon sun on her denim skirt and long black braids. Most people who see this scenery will enter a state of meditation and daze.
'In a daze again? Seeing that his friend was looking at him, Zhang Gongxian greeted him with a sign language, and then walked to the long table where he was holding a few books. "Don't be in a daze when you come to the bookstore, can I introduce a few books to you?"
She gestured and pulled out two books from the large pile of books in her hand. Chen Guan glanced at the title of the book, scratched his head through the beanie, and looked a little embarrassed.
The two books are "The Myth of J" and "The Killing of 8", both of which are Japanese detective novels. The names of the two books make for a very cold joke.
This is obviously just a joke, and Chen Guan is not good at dealing with it. Seeing his embarrassed appearance, Zhang Bowstring on the side covered his mouth and laughed. She tried not to make any noise, and she knew very well that most of the sounds coming out of her mouth were not very pleasant.
Zhang Gongxian likes this kind of joke, and Chen Guan knows it. He knew that the girl in front of him was not as literate and knowledgeable as she looked, and she was not so petty bourgeois. Everyone who is lucky enough to get to know her best will be frightened by her true personality that is so different from her appearance. She's quite a rippling person.
Joking, Zhang Bowstring came to say hello halfway through. As for the other half, she pulled out her phone and looked up the latest hot news in the city, stories about kidnappers, police, fires and superheroes.
Chen Guan glanced at the video, sighed, and said in sign language: "This was reported many days ago, and you only saw it?" ’
'yes, people don't usually use the Internet. Zhang Gongxian played sign language in the appearance of a special little girl, and it looked sweet.
Sign language, like handwriting, has some personal styles similar to 'handwriting' and 'fonts', but most of the differences are not particularly significant. Bowstring is probably the only one in the world that can make this sign language font pleasing to the eye, and just right without making people feel unnatural.
'Chen Guan! Zhang Gongxian's sign language suddenly became a little sharper, as if asking, 'You tell me the truth, is there more and more superhero-like people in our city?' ’
Why do you ask? Chen Guan frowned, "And that person is not a hero, but she is helping to save people in the fire." ’
Zhang Gongxian frowned and put away his phone, then secretly pointed to the corner of the bookstore and pointed to Chen Guan with a man with a full chin and stubble. As soon as Chen Guan saw this person, he immediately lowered his body, hiding the whole person under the table, and at the same time using a small bowstring to cover himself.
Sure enough, I guessed right. Zhang Gongxian said, lifting Chen Guan's beanie with his hand, but he dodged it. 'Let me see your horns. Is that person a superhero like you? ’
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On the day of the fire, Chen Guan encountered the first 'superhero' who did not call himself 'Noah'. The superhero is just a bowstring who understands and prefers to call the woman a 'foreign chick'. Her body has a gray glow similar to her own, but the aperture is much thicker.
More than a month ago, Chen Guan had the same hearing disability as Zhang Gongxian. Unlike the latter's optimistic attitude, Chen Guan has always felt inferior, and he has also worked hard to learn to speak, mastering the most correct pronunciation without borrowing his hearing.
Until one day, he suddenly heard someone calling to him in his head, and he was talking very clearly, not hallucinating. It was a sound he had never heard before, a language he had never heard before, but he knew what it meant.
That voice came from God, maybe it was the God of Christianity, or maybe it was some other god, in short, a transcendent life with very great power. The voice said a lot, and the tone was very written and steady and slow, but the meaning conveyed was very simple. There are only two points.
First, there is a catastrophe that is about to occur, and it is difficult for humanity to resist at present, and many people will die from it. Second, in order to allow more humans to survive the disaster, all those who borrowed their power had to help build underground shelters and stock up on daily necessities.
Just by believing in the first point and committing to do as much as possible in the second point, you will be able to receive strength from God. Chen Guan naturally agreed, so he got the horn of his forehead.
A drill-like thing pierced his skull and stimulated his brain with strange energy. Along with the horns comes the restoration of normal hearing, as well as many special abilities that humans do not possess.
First of all, his muscles become stronger, his bones become stiffer and lighter, his body is more flexible, and his mind is more focused. In addition, he can stand on walls, ceilings, and walk on the ground. No matter where he stepped on, gravity was always under his feet.
In addition, he was able to see a light that was not visible to ordinary people.
The scumbag man pointed by Zhang Gongxian had a faint white halo around him, which only Chen Guan could see. He could also see the light in himself, but it was gray.
Zhang Gongxian said that the man had just accidentally knocked over a stack of books, and she went over to reprimand him. As a result, the man just glared at her, and she squatted on the ground in a daze, sorting out the books scattered all over the ground, her head empty, and she was in a state of extreme fatigue and completely unable to concentrate. It's like being forced to work without sleep for days. I'm in no mood to blame anyone at all.
The strange feeling quickly faded away, and Zhang Bowstring was confused. Seeing Chen Guan running to the bookstore where she worked again and sitting in a daze, she came over and wanted to ask if that person was the 'Noah' in Chen Guan's mouth. She had heard about God.
After all, the two are good friends, Chen Guan can suddenly hear things, and his language ability has recovered very quickly, which is a bit incredible for Zhang Gongxian, a senior deaf-mute person. Under questioning, Chen Guan did not hide that he had encountered the oracle, and confessed all of them in 1510.
The end of the world, Noah's Ark. There were a total of ten people in Shanghai City who heard the oracle, and some of them have died now. These people gathered together under God's guidance to plan their ark plans. Since the crisis they are facing is almost the same as the story of the Ark, the ten of them decided to call themselves Noah after discussion. As for the Ark Project, it is nothing more than to find a real estate developer to cooperate and ask him to come up with funds to buy land to build underground facilities.
It is no fun to build a shelter directly, so you can only disguise it as a super-large underground parking lot first. It's a pity that for more than a month, their work has not progressed much, so they have to contact the underworld kidnapping rich people and show them their magical powers, hoping that they can believe in the doomsday prophecy and fully cooperate with them. Unexpectedly, the police were too capable, although they helped the black boss escape the pursuit, they lost a few people.
God has said that you should not be too ostentatious. One of the ten had tried to turn to the media to tell more people about the apocalyptic prophecy, but he lost his power. Combined with the companions who died at the hands of the police and the 'foreign chick', there should be only five people left in the current Noah.
Chen Guan asked Zhang Gongxian not to provoke the scumbag man in the corner, he was not sure if the man could see the gray light on his body. Before he knew whether the other party was friend or foe, he decided to hide himself. Anyway, let's get out of here.
'I have to go, be careful yourself.' ’
Zhang Gongxian nodded, picked up the two mystery novels and handed them over, "The book is for you, remember to read it." ’
After Chen Guan took the book, he put his hand in his pocket and felt the 'horn' that had been dug from the head of his dead companion. This thing was the source of his own power, and he wasn't quite sure if the horn still had magical powers. If there is, he hopes that Zhang Gongxian can be like himself, recover his hearing and speech skills, and become a normal person. A normal person who needs to wear a hat to cover their forehead. It's just that this is a bit too risky, and he is not very willing to try, what if God does not allow this to happen?
Leaving the bookstore, Chen Guan hailed a taxi and ran directly to the airport.
Today, the scumbag man who suddenly appeared reminded him. Now the video of that foreign chick on the Internet is so popular, many people should have seen it, and there should be some of them who are the same as themselves and the scumbag, have some special powers, and are surrounded by strange lights.
Will these people come to Shanghai after watching the video? It's hard to say. A few days at the airport may be the answer. Things seem to be going even better than his counterpart. As soon as the taxi arrived, just as he was taking out the money to pay, a group of more than a dozen people came out of the airport hall. All of these people's bodies glowed with a faint white light.