Date: February 1970, exact date unknown.

Location: Yingzhou.

The snow is still falling, and the street lamps on the side of the street are a little dim because they have fallen into disrepair. Dressed in a shabby padded jacket, Tokizaki Kiyoshi walked down the street, looking from the top road to the other side, the whole city was brightly lit, and it seemed out of place here.

Obviously, the economic situation is going to be very good, but isn't it necessary to have more manpower? But he still didn't get a job. Possible... I've been blacklisted by the city.

In this case, Tokizaki Kiyomitsu obviously smelled something wrong, and the speed of development in the past few years has been too fast. The financial industry seems to have no bottleneck and has been rising. To confirm his thoughts, he made a decision.

A decision he regretted until now. The company went bankrupt, everything was gone, and fortunately there was not much debt owed.

Endure the eyes of the people around you and go to other well-developed companies for interviews.

"I'm sorry, but you don't meet my company's recruitment needs."

"If you don't hire you, please ask for another master."

"Yo! Isn't this Tokizaki? Let me tell you, old schoolmate, you can't get along in this city now! This kind of good form can be made like that by you, and I admire you a lot. ”

"Security guard or cleaner? I don't think you're going to have anything else to do with that. ”

...

The family property has been sold, and Tokizaki and his wife return to live in the old house on the mountain. The wife is ordinary, but she is a standard good wife, but unfortunately they don't have children yet. Back at home, the exhaled air turns into a white mist that slowly dissipates.

"Got a job?"

Looking up at his wife, the eyes full of hope pierced his heart, and he pulled out a smile helplessly, "No, it looks like the city has swept me into the garbage heap." ”

"It's okay! It's a big deal, let's change the city, just like we used to be new here. Let's eat first. ”

Tokisaki Kiyomitsu nodded, he didn't want to tell his wife that now is not like before, the difficulty of starting from scratch...

Lying in bed, but unable to sleep, he already wanted to settle down in middle age, but he didn't expect this kind of encounter. The company's bankruptcy kept squeezing his nerves, and sometimes he had to take sleeping pills to fall asleep.

This is by no means normal for a person in his forties. Tomorrow, if you can't find a job, you'll be ready to move to another city. Thinking like this, Tokizaki Kiyomitsu closed his eyelids downward, but inadvertently through the gap in the curtains... I saw a flash of white light.

Obsessed, he got up and woke up his wife beside him, "What's wrong?" What happened? ”

Qingguang, who put on her clothes again, kissed her forehead, "I can't sleep and want to go outside, you can rest early, don't wait for me." ”

"Be careful, the ground is slippery, remember to come back early." The little hand under the quilt, the white grip between the finger bones, the husband got up in the middle of the night and said that he was going for a walk, he felt wrong when he thought about it, could it be... She didn't dare to think about it, but as a traditional Yingzhou woman, she could only follow her husband's wishes.

"Yes."

"Click-bang."

The door was closed, and she nested in the quilt, without that kind of warmth around her, and kept blessing Qingguang in the bottom of her heart. Just don't have any surprises.

"Huh~" Qingguang stood in front of the door and let out a mouthful of white mist, the moonlight was just right, but the temperature in the air was definitely not flattering. During the day, it was already below zero, and now... The snow that melted on the road turned to ice.

He didn't know why he had to see where the thing had fallen. But in the bottom of his heart, he just wanted to go, and the cold wind in the air made him shiver. Find the general direction and head to your destination!

Even on the road, it is extremely difficult to walk, let alone the mountain road, and even a drunken lazy person will not come out in such weather. The whole road is very deserted, and my mind is always thinking of myths and legends...

Quite exciting!

Bite the bullet and continue to walk towards the darkness ahead, you have already reached the halfway point, and you will never give up halfway... How long has it been gone? Half an hour or an hour? Obviously, his view of time is very accurate.

Looking back from this direction, the old mansion is completely invisible, and the city that was originally brightly lit has begun to fall silent.

Move your frozen stiff face and continue walking upward, not even a few steps away... He seemed to hear a voice! It's like two people talking... But Kiyomitsu didn't understand it at all, it wasn't Japanese, English, or Chinese.

Doesn't sound like the language of any country on the planet! The strange tone made Qingguang very uncomfortable, and he carefully lay on the cold rock, stretching out his head to look down.

！！！

Two beings that are clearly not terrestrial species! With a lizard-like head and a human body!

The goosebumps all over my body came and went, and they were by no means frozen... His face was pale, and the two creatures knew at a glance that they were not to be messed with.

Or do you sneak back?

Make up your mind that you want to turn around and make it slide slowly. Suddenly, the two lizardmen seemed to be arguing loudly, and there was a tendency to fight without saying a word!

Qingguang doesn't want to care about these messy things now, as for the white light? To hell with it! He just wants to go home!

"Boom! Bang! ----”

The lizardmen are fighting! The kind of power that is not at all human beings can have shook the mountain faintly. It's like a mythical demon! Kiyomitsu straightened up and ran down the mountain! The speed is exactly the same as when he was younger!

You're going to die here! Those two monsters, the aftermath of the inadvertent fight can crush him a hundred times! Such a matter should be left to the Self-Defense Forces to solve!

As soon as I was halfway up the mountain, the shaking was gone. Qingguang looked behind him in shock... Except for the snow that was still falling, and the half moon in the sky, there was nothing.

Blinked, it was all an illusion just now? Impossible, non-existent! "Go home! Yes, go home! Kiyomitsu shouted out to sober up his somewhat mushy head.

Spit out a white mist and run in the direction of the old mansion in my memory... There seemed to be an object like ice crystals on the other side of the mountain, which flew over and smashed directly in front of Qingguang not far away.

The silver light flashed, and Qingguang's eyes were about to be blinded!

A lot of images flashed in front of my eyes, from when I was very young in my mother's arms... The company went bankrupt and failed the interview by myself... The scene where two lizardmen fight... in another city of their own.

The group was newly established, his worth doubled, and his wife gave birth to a son to him... The economic bubble of the nineties... The rise of the consortium... In 1997, his son and daughter-in-law had a daughter, and he had a granddaughter...

"It's called Kurumi..."

The screen jumps again... Countless tiny cracks in the sky... Electromagnetic pulse... Countless natural disasters... And all kinds of strange, huge insects devouring flesh and blood!

A girl with heterochromatic eyes and two guns! Behind it is a huge golden clock!

Human civilization collapsed in an instant!

...

When he came back to his senses, the eastern sky began to turn faintly white, and there was a broken ice crystal-like object on his right hand...

In less than half a month, a company named Shizaki officially settled in the city next door.