Chapter 1: Blood Moon
"Wait for me... Wait for me..."At the empty bus stop, a fat young man with a large bag in his hand, panting after the bus passing in front of him. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
The young man was missing the last train in a few seconds, and he could even see the mocking smile on the faces of the passengers turning around in the rear window.
"Bastard, can't you wait a minute, brother?" The fat man muttered and buttoned the mask that was crooked to his ear, and he looked up at the dim sky, "Unlucky haze, unlucky overtime, full moon night, reunion night, it's all in vain!" ”
The unlucky guy who was thrown down by the last train is called Zheng Hao, 28 years old this year, unmarried. He has a short figure, a big face, small eyes, and slightly white skin. After a few years of life after graduating from college, Zheng Hao's only advantage in appearance has also dimmed, and he definitely belongs to the kind that can't be seen in the crowd.
Today is the Mid-Autumn Festival on the 15th day of August in the lunar calendar, which is a day of reunion, because the unit worked overtime and missed the last train, Zheng Hao moved his heavy steps, and finally saw the door of his rental community.
The sweaty fat man breathed a sigh of relief, carrying a large bag and a small bag, and the distance of more than 100 meters from the bus station to the unit building of the community can make the otaku who usually do not do strenuous exercise very tired.
In front of the supermarket in the community, Zheng Hao met his neighbor Xu Qian, who was of medium height, very plump figure, and had no fat on her abdomen. With long hair and a goose egg face, the shawl has a very feminine appearance.
"Zheng Hao, why didn't you go home? Today is the Mid-Autumn Festival. Xu Qian, who was wearing a long-sleeved knit sweater with a light red neckline, carrying a shopping bag in one hand and taking off a pink bunny mask in the other, asked Zheng Hao with a smile.
Zheng Hao hurriedly tore off the army-green mask on his face, and responded a little dryly: "Sister Xu, I didn't catch the last train, I'll go back tomorrow." "The otaku who has never known femininity, facing Xu Qian, who is a young woman, doesn't know where to put his eyes.
"Oh, that's the case, come to our house for dinner in the evening, I'm on a business trip, and I'm at home with your aunt." As if noticing the landing spot of Zheng Hao's gaze, Xu Qian, who had a wisp of red clouds crawling up her cheeks, said casually while moving her steps.
"No, no, I ate at work before I got off work."
"Hehe, too, can you still be a dry cook without food?"
Even if he is no longer sophisticated, Zheng Hao also knows that Xu Qian is saying polite words, how can he, an adult man, casually go to a female neighbor who is not familiar with him to eat, and Xu Qian and her aunt, that is, her mother-in-law, their relationship is not good.
The main reason is that Xu Qian is in her thirties and has not yet given birth to a son and a half daughter to her family, which makes the old woman who lost her husband in her early years and wants to hold her grandson very annoyed.
In the middle of the night, Zheng Hao once heard Xu Qian quarrel with her husband because she had no children, Xu Qian at that time did not have her usual gentle and lovely image at all, and her sharp voice could be heard in the whole community, "It's not that you have been running a car for many years, you have broken your body, and you can't give birth to children, can you blame me?" ”
Back in the one-bedroom apartment he rented, Zheng Hao threw the big bag on the floor, opened the refrigerator and grabbed a bottle of drink, unscrewed the lid and poured most of the bottle, only to let most of the fire in his chest dissipate.
Unpacking a bag of snacks, Zheng Hao took out his mobile phone and told his parents the reason why he couldn't go home for the holiday while eating, and was complained by his parents again without accident.
After making the call, a pack of snacks had been eaten, Zheng Hao stuffed his mobile phone into his shorts pocket, held the remote control, and watched TV leisurely with Erlang's legs crossed.
This time is the time for the news, and almost all the content broadcast on the channel is about the haze that has lasted for many days, the inconvenience it has caused to the people's lives, and the efforts made by government departments.
For example, cracking down on price hikes, restricting the purchase of daily necessities, and ensuring the living standards of residents, so that people do not panic, and our reserves are sufficient.
"It's boring, and the purchase of daily necessities is limited to us civilians." When Zheng Hao went upstairs, he clearly saw the driver of the factory owner in the unit next door moving things for his master from the off-road vehicle to his home.
Bags of rice, flour, cooking oil, and a whole box of refined salt. "There is so much salt, those few people in his family are not allowed to eat it for several years, and they are not afraid of it!" Zheng Hao speculated with some jealousy.
Later, Zheng Hao, who was in an unhappy mood, turned off the TV, opened the second-hand notebook that could not access the Internet, and enjoyed his collection, love action movies from Europe, America and Japan.
Zheng Hao didn't notice that when he turned off the TV, a news subtitle was playing below the screen about a super-powerful solar storm that would arrive on Earth tonight.
After enjoying a few wonderful performances of Sister Cang, Zheng Hao, who was tired for a day, didn't care about communicating with the five girls intimately, so he hurriedly took a hot bath and went to bed early.
A few hours after Zheng Hao fell asleep, the super solar storm mentioned in the news reached Earth. The intensity of the solar storm exceeded scientists' expectations and can be called an unprecedented disaster.
Satellites, space stations, and observation stations in extraterrestrial orbits that represent the highest scientific and technological achievements of mankind for hundreds of years burst out under the impact of super solar ions.
Some of them were torn apart in a few flashes of light, some fell directly into the atmosphere, turned into a meteor and disappeared, and the occasional remnants were never transmitted back to the ground. And the cities that never sleep, which were originally brightly lit, have gradually fallen into darkness.
If there were still people at the extraterrestrial observatory, they would have found that there were puffs of smoke and dust rising from the moon, faintly emitting red light, and even the cosmic dust in extraterrestrial space showed signs of dissipating.
Zheng Hao in his sleep was replacing the actor and Sister Cang, and suddenly a sad cry interrupted Zheng Hao's dream, he was a little confused, what's wrong? Who changed the channel? Romance action movies turn into horror movies? Is it so intoxicating?
The poignant female voice continued to enter Zheng Hao's eardrums, and he got up from the bed and touched the switch of the light, only to find that the light bulb had struck. Zheng Hao had no choice but to put on shorts and walk to the window to see what was going on outside.
At this time, the noise outside was also clear, with the roar of a man, the scream of a woman in pain, and the roar of animals.
The moon, which had not been seen for many days in the night sky, peeked through the faint clouds, and the haze that had lasted for more than a month dissipated in such a short time.
It's just that at this moment, the moon hanging in the air no longer emits a silvery white brilliance, but has turned into a strange blood-red color, and all the scenes at night are like a blood-colored veil under the reflection of this red moon.
Just when Zheng Hao was shocked by the change of the full moon, he only heard a loud bang, and the kitchen window on the fifth floor of the unit opposite his house suddenly shattered.
Countless shattered fragments fell from mid-air with a white shadow, and as soon as the white shadow rolled to the ground, the person stood up and let out a long howl at the blood moon in the sky.
"Oh my god! Isn't this the husky raised by the couple on the fifth floor of the opposite unit? ”
This dog is naturally active, and has chased Zheng Hao several times, but it is not really good at biting, but it also scares the timid fat man enough. It's also too humiliating for a big man to be afraid of dogs.
Every time Zheng Hao walked downstairs and met the couple leading their dog son, Zheng Hao looked at the husky's lively appearance, always itching his teeth and trembling legs. Now, however, he squatted down.
What are you kidding, look at this guy from the fifth floor breaking through the window and falling, and he is full of energy and howls to the sky, like the blue wolf howling the moon.
Zheng Hao didn't dare to guarantee that it would be discovered, whether it would directly break through the aluminum alloy window frame of the balcony on the first floor and jump in, you must know that the window of the kitchen on the fifth floor of the opposite unit is installed with an anti-theft net.