On December 31, 2026, I was ordered to come to Wangxing Village to collect information and other special tasks. The main road at the entrance of the village www.biquge.info has been blocked by barricades, and I looked to both sides, and the barbed wire fence was deeply embedded in the bushes, they were entangled with branches and leaves, covered with green, and became a part of nature, just standing here quietly, with no end in sight. The comrades who came with me helped me move the barricade at the entrance of the village, but they could not move any further, so I was left alone.

I was standing on the high ground at the entrance of the village. It was morning, and the sky was still faintly covered with traces of the moon, and the golden sunlight had pierced the gray-blue mist and sprinkled it on the small village not far away, as if the smoke of the cooking stove would soon be seen.

However, none of this is possible. The people of the village have long since disappeared. Ten years ago, in the middle of the night, they disappeared into the face of the earth. All that remains is this peaceful little village, with its open doors and cars parked halfway on, with its keys still in place and gently shaking, patiently waiting for their owners to return.

I walked forward, taking a closer look at the houses around me, noting their location and details. The leaders told me that the task was to know all the details of the village, and I guess they also wanted to know what was going on here. After all, according to what I know, everything that happened is probably related to the astronomical observatory that was built here ten years ago.

Astronomical Observatory, two researchers sent by science and technology Cen Xiao and Bai Yuelu. I looked at the files given to me by the leader, two young and bright astrophysicists, and I seemed to be able to see the light of human wisdom shining in their eyes in that small two-inch ID photo. "What did you do?" I don't know, but I will know.

I walked down the flat main road. It has to be said that the village is quite wealthy, the roads are well-built, the small houses have gardens. It should be the middle and upper class who encouraged the use of the "Four Wastelands" and then moved to escape the world. I saw a small bungalow that looked like a village office, and I thought I might be able to find archival materials such as village chronicles, so I walked towards it.

This is a cement bungalow with no features, with a wooden plaque of "Wangxing Village Government" and Spring Festival couplets on both sides of the door. I was a little frightened by the bright red color of the couplets, and reached out to touch it, but there was only a thin layer of floating ash. As if after ten years of isolation, they are still as if they were yesterday, not eroded by wind and rain, wet, wrinkled, air-dried, and exposed to gray-yellow brittle pieces.

Everything is like this. There was no heavy rust, no corrosion, and even some people's lawns were neatly trimmed, as if that moment ten years ago had solidified it all into a picture that would never fade, and I was just an outsider who strayed into the painting.

The chirping of birds is endless, but there is not a single bird to be seen.

As soon as you enter, there is an activity room on the left. The door was ajar, I tried to push, and it opened silently. The light in the room was dim, heavy as sleepy eyes. I wondered if the curtains were closed, and I went to check, but I only saw a gloomy sky outside the window, like a night sky.

At this time, my right ear keenly caught a dull sound, and immediately the alarm bell sounded in my heart, and I dodged behind the door. I listened with bated breath to two footsteps coming from a distance, a slow, dull man of medium stature; The other, more light, should be a woman, or a thin young man. I heard them gradually approaching the door, so I cautiously poked my head out and looked out through the crack in the door...

It was the most amazing moment of my life. To this day I have not been able to describe exactly what I have seen, except to describe it in my barren language:

Through the crack in the door, I saw two humanoid rays of light walking towards the door, trailing a long trail of light behind them, like a star trail captured by a time-lapse photograph. But it wasn't two people, or glowing human bodies, or any entity. It's just light, pure light circulating in the air as if it had a concrete form. Against the backdrop of the dark sky outside the window, I could only see a light as white and not dazzling as a crystal jade.

One of them, which is obviously a male light, stopped, although there are no facial features or everything, from the silhouette I think he should belong to the average build, about 1.73 meters, wearing a middle-aged man's favorite gray/black/brown jacket, and a suit pants with wrinkled trousers, which is probably a village cadre in this office.

The humanoid light spoke, and sure enough, it was a middle-aged man's voice: "Xiaobai, when you come back this time, the village is very happy." When will you discuss the problem of cosmic frequency detection and emission with me, and let us understand science? ”

"Yes, definitely." The humanoid light next to him also spoke, and the voice was a young woman, less than thirty years old. I suspect she might be one of the missing astrophysicists, Shiratsukilu. According to the information in my hand, Bai Yuelu is actually a local, and it is estimated that he is the first doctoral student to come out of the village. It may also explain why the people of this village so easily accepted the proposal of land acquisition to build an observatory.

I looked down and found a bullet case in the corner. Strange, how could there be such a thing here, I picked it up, looked at it carefully, it seemed to be a Type 95 bullet, and I couldn't help but feel a chill in my heart: Could it be that the disappearance of the whole village was related to the military's actions? But I didn't want to think about these old things for the time being, and with a light throw, the bullet casing crossed a small parabola and fell at the feet of the two men.

At that time, I wanted to test their reactions to see if they were intelligent creatures and whether they were aggressive, and then decide whether to make contact with them. However, the two "people" didn't seem to hear the sound of the "bell" echoing in the quiet corridor at all, and then as soon as they raised their feet, the light was instantly extinguished at the door. Only a faint trajectory remained, suspended in mid-air, dimming little by little.

Before I could react to what I saw, the sound of tables and chairs suddenly sounded behind me, and I immediately pulled out my gun and turned around.

Not far in front of me, a few more humanoid lights appeared. The voice of one of the middle-aged women said, "Lao Chen, you tell us the truth, what is the situation?" ”

When one of the male figures spoke, I was startled: Wasn't this the voice of the man who had just been at the door? His voice sounded more tired and hoarse.

"Aunt Mi, don't think about it," he said, "There is a large-scale flu outbreak in our village, and people don't know if it's bird flu SARS or something, so they won't let us run around first." Isolation, quarantine knows? ”

"That's not the way to stop us from going out." Another older female voice chimed in: "Also, Deng Qi and his family disappeared yesterday. I guess I left overnight, and I just wanted to ask her to come together, but when I entered the door, there was no one. It's still there. ”

"Deng Qi's mother's house is in the town, I guess I'm looking for her mother." Aunt Mi said: "Pity us orphans and widows, the man is gone, and the son is not at home. Tell me what this is, the families of the military have asked the army to isolate them. ”

"In short, let's listen to the government, isolate first, and prevent infection." Another tall, thin male figure said.

"Okay, Doctor Xing, whatever you say," Aunt Mi waved her hand, "But if it continues like this in a few days, I can't stand it, I have to go to my son and ask him if he cares about it!" ”

By this time I was completely exposed, holding a gun, speechless by the sight in front of me. But it was as if they didn't see me. Maybe it's just like the image of an ancient army, but it's just a special geological condition that preserves the footage of that time and then plays it out under specific conditions. What I see now is nothing more than the light and shadow left by people ten years ago or more.

The light and shadow in front of me disappeared again. I walked out of the gate of the village government, and the sun was warm. I watched as the arc of the sky disappeared at the end of the mountain, and the white clouds drifted by like silk, and I could even see the different tracks they had drawn as they floated in the air. What I had just witnessed made me feel shocked, overwhelmed, and a little sad and lonely. I don't know what happened to the people here, how they disappeared into the world, and where they ended up. But I think they will come out of the dusty history, go through time, and tell this audience that they can't see, what they've been through in life.

I turned around and walked back to the small flat building of the village government to find out the truth about the incident.