Chapter 1: The Sunset
June 2019 - Guangjiang County, Z Province -
The setting sun strives to shine its last rays on the earth, as if to bring people the last peace and tranquility. Hurried pedestrians couldn't help but glance at the wonderful sunset. For the sunset itself, this is enough, although it is short-lived, it has already brought beauty to this world, and it can go with peace of mind. It inspected every part of the city with satisfaction, the golden light flowing slowly, and when it reached the last corner of the city, it stopped, as if in horror it wanted to retract its last rays of light, but it was too late, and like a Muslim who had taken off his robes, the sunlight quickly changed from holy gold to resentful blood red. But the dark green glass was enough to withstand the faint sunlight. Except for the occasional flash of red light and the sound of "tick, tick, tick" dripping water from nowhere, all that remained in the small room was deathly silence and darkness.
At this time, if you look at this side from the opposite building, you must not see anything, but if you take the telescope and observe carefully, the person who has not been able to bear it will probably vomit on the spot There are three corpses in the room, two men and one woman, all in different places, the woman's head is in the basin of the sink, some broken glass passes under her skull, and blood keeps coming out of his mouth one by one, like a fountain. The slender tongue drooped in the open mouth. Blood flowed, and the dark red was gradually replaced by milky white brain. Drop by drop, slowly increasing, and finally the tongue that was left was all down... His face was still full of dying horror, and fresh blood was flowing down the sink, hitting the floor and slowly merging with the large pool of blood. In the corner next to this altar of bloodstains, there was a person, Zhang Qiansheng, his mouth was unconsciously slightly open, and his empty eyes were looking at the scene in front of him, he really didn't expect that things would get to this point, and he didn't expect that in just five minutes, three big living people, two of whom were still professional thugs, would almost become a pile of minced meat under him, and he didn't expect that thirty minutes ago, his girlfriend was forcibly taken away by others and sold to other places, and he was locked up with a blue nose and swollen face, waiting to be taken alive.
Of course, there were many more things he didn't expect, and at the age of 8, Zhang Yuansheng thought that he would become an inventor. He firmly believes that he can change the world, and while other children are still confused about who they will become when they grow up, Zhang has a clear idea of what he wants to do in the future. At that time he was building an aerospace ship capable of going to Earth orbit, and of course his ship was not completed. Peers of the same age regarded him as the object of ridicule, and the teacher also advised him not to think nonsense all day long, students should focus on learning, this dream finally ended in a "heart-to-heart talk" between Zhang Qiansheng and his parents, and insisted on a slap print on the left side of his face, and then Zhang Qiansheng went through his bland 25 years, general high school, undergraduate, graduate school entrance examination and finally dragged the relationship through the back door to become a civil servant, before the long-suppressed dream in his heart became a fantasy, Zhang Yuansheng ignored the opposition of his family, quit the career establishment, and took his savings to do business with friends, As a result, he was tricked by his best "Brother Cao", and the so-called best friend also fell into the ground. In order to turn over, he mortgaged everything to borrow from the bank, took the family's money, and finally had to borrow loan sharks again. In an instant, he became a lonely man, except for those who asked for accounts, everyone ignored him, his parents said that he didn't have his son, his relatives regarded him as a plague god, and even the classmates who borrowed money from his ass before did not forget to step on a few feet, but his girlfriend Xiaoye has been accompanying him, and took out all the money to help him pay off his debts, and this is his only hope to live. "It's all over" There are only these few words in my head, just a few minutes ago, the "Sister Yan" who took the lead slapped him and left a sentence, saying that let Zhang Qian come to life and die to order a "show", and he wanted to call his girlfriend over there to bring him to him and let the two strong men xx, Zhang Qiansheng completely broke out, at that time he only felt congested and his eyes were dark, and then he woke up to this scene. In the past, when he was particularly excited or nervous, this situation also appeared, Zhang Yuansheng thought that it was his intermittent amnesia caused by too low blood sugar, but now it seems not so simple, but the matter has come to this, there is no point in digging deeper, he just wants to think now, how to end all this pain quickly, and leave this hellish world.
After sitting for about ten minutes, Zhang Qisheng took out a pack of cigarettes from the pocket of the corpse, lit it and smoked two puffs, sobered up a lot, stood up slowly, went to the sink to wash his face, looked in the mirror, and found that there was almost no blood on his body, and his whole body was intact. I couldn't help but shake my head, it seems that I can go out directly, then go to the house, after all, it is a place where I have lived and been happy, and it can be regarded as a fallen leaf to return to the roots.
Walked downstairs and took a taxi casually, looking at the people coming and going on the street, the students were still playing in groups, the office workers were still dragging their tired bodies to the company to catch up with the company to pull a little more performance before the end of the month, the young people like him were still vigorous and had infinite expectations for the future, the old people were still playing chess under the crooked neck jujube tree with the street lamp, he wanted to tell the driver to drive slowly, but the driver laughed and joked with his colleagues on the radio and said that he was going to hurry up and his wife was still waiting at home, The world didn't seem any different because of his imminent departure.
When he arrived at home, although he didn't turn on the light, Zhang Yuansheng skillfully took out his bottle of sleeping pills that had been hidden for a long time from the closet, about 60 pills, enough for an adult to die three or four times, and it is strange to say that Zhang Yuansheng never thought of himself as a person who was afraid of death, and even thought that death was a way to another world when he was a child, and faintly had a little expectation of death. When he was desperate, he thought of many ways to die, but none of them were suicide, since the world is ruthless, so whether it is to die with the enemy or to kill himself, so with his character, why choose the latter? But while he thought so, he deceived himself and secretly praised Valium tablets. In fact, no matter what people think, sometimes they act the opposite, because no one can rebel against the deepest subconscious of oneself, this soul that is not controlled by the brain and cannot be perceived, actually dominates everything about you.
Walked to the edge of the pool and poured a large glass of water, and sat back on the edge of the bed, Zhang Qisheng wanted to sit like this, and sat like this all the time. He had never felt so meaningful and interesting to sit on the edge of his bed as he was now, and he breathed greedily into the dusty air, as if he had smelled the best smell in the world. But he knew in his heart that time was running out for him, and once those people found them, it would be a luxury to even want to die.
Alas, after letting out a lament in this life, Zhang Yuansheng raised his neck, swallowed the medicine in two bites, and then slowly tasted the tap water in the cup. After putting on the yellow jacket given by Xiao Ye in the wardrobe, he lay quietly on the bed, waiting for death to come
At the same time, on a star about 800 light-years away from Earth, a group of filamentous consciousness bodies are rapidly manipulating a tube-shaped wave-emitting device, and the precise orientation of this device happens to be Earth.