Wedge: Destruction and Salvation
I was in an empty living room, and directly across from me was a widescreen LCD TV hanging on the wall, playing a children's anime show.
Underneath the LCD TV is a low, beautifully styled cabinet. The cabinet is lined with many items, the most conspicuous of which is a framed family photograph of a family of three smiling warmly and brightly.
But now, they're all gone
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My name is Qi You, which sounds a lot like a boy's name, but in fact, I am a girl.
I am thirteen years old this year, studying in Shencheng X3 Junior High School, the first grade of junior high school. To be more precise, a month ago, I was still studying at this middle school.
And now I'm a fighter.
It sounds ridiculous, how could an ordinary middle school girl be involved with a warrior who symbolizes glory and death.
But this is indeed true, just half an hour ago, I killed a "person" with my own hands. The reason for using quotation marks here is because they can no longer be called people.
As for what they are, we haven't studied them thoroughly until now.
They are a kind of demon that should not exist, a terrifying demon that is only aimed at humans.
And we commonly call it: alien lifeforms.
I've watched three anime, Parasite, Subhuman, and Shadow Crocodile, and I'm in a similar situation, but it's just similar. Because in the three anime worlds listed above, what humanity suffers from is only fear, while what humanity in Minecraft faces is destruction, genocide in the true sense of the word.
My eyes moved to the electronic phenotyping device on my wrist, where the countdown was only forty-nine minutes and forty seconds. When this short, less than an hour is over, my world will be destroyed.
Maybe it's just the annihilation of human civilization, if there are no humans on this planet, other creatures will only survive more easily.
I looked out the window laughingly, and the beautiful night view of the city that was supposed to be brightly lit was gone, and only the scattered lights were still dotted in the dark night.
Because the source of this disaster is the city under my feet, the hometown where I have lived since the moment I was born.
More than two months ago, more precisely, sixty-nine days, twenty-three hours, ten and twenty seconds ago.
Seven alien beings have descended into this world, each of which has entered the body of a human being. They are capable of controlling the body and soul of humans, reading human memories, and mimicking everything the host is capable of.
Some alien beings feel that this is a new life, and they cherish the idea of being human, and even more actively and yearning for life than the original owner of this body.
On the other hand, there are also alien beings who use human bodies to do evil.
But none of this matters anymore because they only have a seven-day lifespan. It's even shorter than "ten years of lurking underground in exchange for only one cicada chirping in the summer".
After seven days, they will dissolve into nothingness, while their "seeds" will infect seven nearby humans and complete a split.
Doesn't sound terrible. But if calculated according to the "conditions for the success of the 100% split" -
On the eighth day, they will become forty-nine.
On the fifteenth day, it will be further divided into three hundred and forty-three.
In just twenty-nine days, less than an ordinary month, their total would reach 16,807 days, breaking the 10,000 mark.
In another month, it will reach an exaggerated 40 million, even exceeding the population of some countries.
If it continues for another month, no, it won't take a month, just twenty-one days, and most of the human beings in this world will be "infected", and then another seven days......
All perish.
Not only is it terrifying, but almost no one can face the fact that their relatives and friends will turn into nothingness in the next moment, and they can't face the fact that they have been happily with these "people" for a week, let alone face the same fate as them.
Suicide has become a common thing, just like some people will suddenly become interested in a new career; will suddenly like a strange or familiar person.
Even if a month later, we had made a device capable of recognizing alien lifeforms, but it was too late. The demise of humanity has become a matter of time.
Is this the ultimate law of nature against human beings who have squandered the earth's resources over the years......
When I'm quiet, I often think like this, and I'm sure there are many other people who think the same way.
I also have a secret, a secret that I have buried deep in my heart and that I have never told anyone: I can identify alien life without the need for any instrumentation.
I don't dare tell anyone, because in a way, I'm an anomaly, just like those alien beings, and if discovered, they will face the same fate.
I longed to live more than to die happily, even if it was as long as I am now.
In the same way, under the invasion of alien organisms, the physical fitness and psychological maturity of our human beings are also increasing rapidly, as if the growth cycle has been artificially shortened.
Because of this, I became a warrior at a young age.
Unfortunately, we are fighting a battle that is doomed......
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1 bedroom.
“…… You... You're not kidding me, are you? The young man in front of me looked at me with a strange face, "You mean, my pseudo-apocalyptic novel, which only has a beginning, actually developed on its own, and brought the humanity of that world to destruction. ”
I nodded.
The young man lit a cigarette and smoked urgently, "Did you read the idea of my novel somewhere, and then came running to tease me?" Interesting, I don't think so. Eh, how the hell did you get into my room, you can't be climbing through the window, right? ”
"What's your name? Qi You, yes, show me your ID card. ”
I stared at him in silence for a moment, then suddenly I got up and grabbed his throat with my hand, showing a speed that would be difficult for a normal human to achieve.
"Ahem! Belch... Put... Open me! ”
"Do you believe it this time?"
"You...... You're going crazy! If you don't leave, I'll call the police! ”
"I really want to be arrested by the police, even if I live in a prison in this world for the rest of my life, than in a world where I have no exit."
"It seems...... You still have secondary two diseases, and you are not lightly ill. ”
"Next, I hope you can remember every word I say." I said with all seriousness.
Who would have thought that the young man in front of him actually lit a cigarette again, looked at me, and showed an expression of great interest, as if to say: Come on, please let me see what you, a delusional person with mild neurotic aggravated paranoia, can say.
I really, really wanted to beat him up right away, the kind to die.
But I can't do that, because I still need him to save my world, and besides, I don't have much time.
"Listen, I'll just say it once."
"When you enter my world, it should be the first night of the alien invasion. You will come to my city, because this is where all the calamities begin. ”
"And I want you to find me when you enter that world and explain everything to me. At that time, whether I believe it or not, I will use my ability to identify and find those seven alien beings and kill them. ”
"You don't need to worry about the consequences of killing them, because when they are killed, they immediately turn into nothingness. As long as they do not die naturally due to the end of their life, contagion does not occur. ”
"Please keep this piece of paper safely, it contains my home address and some of my little secrets, so that you can gain my trust. Also, the information on five of the seven alien beings, that was the most detailed information I could get. ”
"Please."
“…… I have to admit that this story you made up is not only wonderful, but it is really difficult for you to be able to write such detailed information. The young man took a long puff of his cigarette and slipped the sheet of paper I had handed him into his pocket, "All right, I'll keep this paper as a keepsake." Now, I should also send you back to the hospital, don't run around in the future, the doctor and your parents will take care of it..."
His voice stopped abruptly, and the whole person disappeared in front of me in an instant.
I smiled with a vengeance, but then turned into a deep apology.
"I'm sorry to get you involved in this dangerous matter, but I have no choice. Please, please save my world. ”
I bent down to where he had disappeared and bowed deeply, and then my body, along with my will, gradually turned into specks of light, blown away by a gust of wind blowing in through the window.
I think they probably went where they were supposed to be.
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