Chapter 1 [Countdown to Life]
The bleak wind blew, the streets were silent, and all the pedestrians hurried without saying a word. Occasionally, they passed by, and in each other's eyes, they were all on guard.
On the messy streets, there are many cars parked scattered, some quietly parked on the side of the road, but most of them, as if there has been an accident in the process of moving, the strong impact has completely deformed these vehicles, the front of the car is deflated, the body collapses, and completely turned into waste. At first glance, I thought I had entered a scrapped car recycling yard...... But in fact, this is the main road in BJ County.
Scenes like this car accident scene can be found on all the streets of this small county. All are abandoned vehicles.
In addition to the abandoned vehicles, the streets are lined with fresh or decomposed corpses. There are men, women and children. Just lying scattered on the side of the road. Passers-by don't seem to care at all. It can even be seen that some people seem to be searching specifically for the body. When I happened to encounter one or two fresh corpses, my eyes lit up, and I hurriedly ran over and flipped quickly...... But most of the time, after flipping, he was disappointed, pouted, spat on the corpse, and walked away quickly.
The sun is a little cold, and the bleak wind makes this small county town even more weird and bleak.
Suddenly, there was a sound of footsteps, and a figure was running quickly down the street. It was a middle-aged man of about forty years, he was sweating profusely, his face was pale and panicked, there was no one chasing behind him, but he seemed to have encountered something terrible, and he was running wildly.
"Please, lend me a little time, five minutes! It only takes five minutes! My son is in the central area and after passing over, I will double ...... No, quadruple back to you! Please! ”
He ran in a panic as he looked down at a watch on his wrist, and with each look, his face turned paler and paler. He saw the passer-by next to him and shouted loudly.
However, the passer-by frowned, took a step back vigilantly, and looked at him with a cold expression.
"Please, please! …… Lend me five minutes...... No, three minutes, three minutes! ……”
He shouted loudly, and there were a few passers-by around, but everyone looked at him coldly and took two steps back coldly.
The middle-aged man's face changed greatly, he knew that the possibility of others paying attention to him would be very small, in the current world, between people, there is no half trust at all.
"Don't give it to me? You want me dead?! Lao Tzu fought with you!! ”
But no one paid attention to it, but it made the middle-aged man angry, his face became hideous, and after roaring wildly, he pulled out a watermelon knife from his waist and rushed towards the people on the side of the road.
However, the people around him seemed to have expected it a long time ago, and their faces did not change, they looked at him coldly and retreated.
The middle-aged man chased and slashed for a while, but he couldn't catch up with anyone at all, and the despair on his face gradually became stronger.
After running less than 100 meters, he looked down at the black electronic watch on his wrist again, and then the despair on his face reached the extreme.
"No!!"
He let out a scream, then his voice stopped abruptly, and his body fell out of the way because of the inertia of running. Rolling three or four meters on the ground, he turned his back to the sky, his eyes widened, and he didn't move.
He's dead!
The few people around him who were chasing and slashing seemed to be waiting for this time, and when they saw him fall, they immediately rushed out. Up and down his hands, flip up. In just a moment, the man's body was stripped clean, except for the bottom pants and the black watch on his wrist, including the watermelon knife, which had been divided up by these people.
Then, the men guarded each other and quickly left, and in a short time everything was calm again.
The messy streets have not changed except for the addition of a fresh corpse.
In the distance, Ye Xiao witnessed this scene with his own eyes, his face twitched slightly, but then, he tightened the watermelon knife in his hand, buried his head, and sped up a few steps.
He glanced down at his wrist......
On his wrist, there is also a black electronic watch that is the same as that of the middle-aged man. The electronic watch reads '3:53:27' in red. The last digit, at a rate of one jump per second, keeps jumping backwards, like a countdown......
Ye Xiao gritted his teeth, and his already slow pace was a little faster, like a trot......
He knows it's not a 'countdown'...... It's a countdown!
The numbers on it indicate that he has 3 hours, 35 minutes and 27 seconds left in his life...... Once the number on this is cleared, it means that his life has come to an end. Then, like that middle-aged man, he will die inexplicably.
Even though a month had passed, Ye Xiao still had no way to understand what was going on...... When I woke up, the whole world changed. On everyone's wrist, there is an inexplicable black watch. Different times are displayed on it. No one knew what was going on, everyone was baffled.
It seems to be just a cheap electronic watch, and you can buy four or five yuan in the mall for 100 yuan. But when it was discovered that the watch could not be taken off or removed, as if it was growing on the wrist, everyone noticed the abnormality.
Then, there was panic.
He was a high school student who lived on campus, and he still remembered the panic that occurred on campus after waking up that night, when his classmates rushed out of the school building and talked about black electronic watches in a panic...... But who knows what's going on?
All the way up to ...... The first person to clear the countdown to zero appears.
It was their headmaster, fifty or sixty years old, and like everyone else, he had an extra watch on his wrist that he couldn't take off or take it off. But the panic on campus made him urgently issue a notice and assemble to calm the tension of teachers and students...... But in the process, the numbers on his wrists ...... Cleared. Then, under the gaze of thousands of pairs of eyes in the whole school, he fell headlong on the rostrum and stopped breathing......
Everyone was stupid, no one knew what was going on, the teachers rushed to the podium, and the whole scene was chaotic.
At that time, no one thought much about the 'watch', and thought that the old principal had a heart attack...... However, when the second, third, and even fourth person suddenly and inexplicably died, everyone was stupefied. Until one person found an anomaly......
"Watch! …… Their watches! Numbers, numbers are all cleared!! ”
In an instant, everyone fell silent, and they couldn't help but look at the wrist of the dead man...... The bright red and dazzling 6 zeros pierced everyone's eyes.
In an instant, everyone panicked, and fear surrounded everyone.
Ye Xiaoyou remembered that a roommate beside him raised his wrist in horror, this classmate was extremely obese, and he was usually too lazy to exercise, and his body had always been very weak. At that time, the number on his watch was the least among all the people in Ye Xiao's dormitory. And at this moment, it is about to go to zero.
"Not necessarily, not necessarily......" He kept muttering, Ye Xiao noticed him, and his heartbeat suddenly accelerated, staring at the number on the fat man's wrist.
A minute later, when the number on the fat man's wrist jumped to zero, his eyes suddenly bulged, and then without any warning...... Down!
Ye Xiao's heart stopped beating almost instantly, and the cold hairs on his whole body stood up. Unspeakable fear enveloped his whole body.
He raised his hand tremblingly, and the time displayed on his wrist at that time was 64:27:53...... In other words, he only has more than sixty hours to live?
Panicky!
Panic!
It's all messed up, and people whose time is close to zero are roaring wildly, fearful, desperate, and overwhelmed. Then, die.
No one wants to stay in school, although it is not known what is happening. They subconsciously run out, trying to find a way to save themselves.
Ye Xiao also rushed out of the street, and the first thing that came to his mind was his parents.
He frantically took out his phone and wanted to call his parents. But at this moment, a roar sounded, like a thunderbolt of lightning, and everyone raised their heads in shock and looked in the direction of lightning......
It is the direction of the commercial center, between heaven and earth, as if a big hole has suddenly opened, and in the huge hole, a thick light is projected......
It was like a scene from a science fiction movie, which stunned everyone, and the light was extremely strong, and bursts of piercing roars came from it. Faintly, it seems that there are more dark shadows, and they are slowly falling from them. With a wave of shaking mountains......
At this moment, everyone stopped breathing and watched in disbelief, no one knew what was really going on.
Panic, helplessness, panic, despair...... All kinds of negative emotions swallow everyone.
And almost a few seconds after the big hole in the sky appeared, Ye Xiao heard a soft sound coming from his hand, and he was startled and hurriedly looked at it...... I saw a puff of black smoke coming out of the mobile phone in his hand, and the screen was already pitch black.
Broken?
Ye Xiao thought in a daze, and then, a burst of chaotic roaring sounds, echoing in his ears, he raised his head, and was stunned to find that the vehicles that were originally moving in an orderly manner on the street seemed to be out of control at this moment!
Boom Boom!
Vehicles lost control and some collided with each other, and some, even crashed onto the sidewalk, crashed into pedestrians, or crashed into shops on both sides of the street.
Screams, screams, instantly spread throughout the city.
Ye Xiao even saw with his own eyes a truck full of stones, and in the driver's frightened pale scream, it directly crashed into a pale girl on the side of the road whose face was already frightened. The girl he knew, was the recognized school girl of their school, she was standing on the side of the road with her mobile phone blankly, when the truck hit, she was already scared stupid, her hands and feet were weak, and she didn't even have the action to dodge.
Bang! ~
The truck knocked her down mercilessly, and the strong inertia continued to rush out, and the girl's body was rolled under the tires, and in the click, it was crushed from the waist and chest, half of the girl's body was crushed, blood burst out, and the stomach including intestines and other internal organs were all crushed out.
But the truck didn't stop at all, and it dragged out more than ten meters before the truck hit the wall of the store next to it with a bang, knocked out a big hole, and stopped. And the girl had only half of her chest and head left, her eyes widened, and she couldn't die anymore......
That was the first time Ye Xiao had witnessed such a bloody scene with his own eyes, and he vomited with a wow, and the violent vomiting made his brain dizzy for a while......
But things didn't stop there.
The chaotic screams and explosions kept echoing in his ears, Ye Xiao leaned on the telephone pole and vomited in the dark, and some people kept screaming and running past him, and some people fell down beside him, and his brain was dazed for a while.
When it was quiet all around, Ye Xiao raised his head blankly...... The street, which was normal just now, is already full of holes at this moment. The serial impact of the vehicles emitted thick black smoke, some knocked down the telephone poles, the entire front of the car completely deflated, the windows shattered, and the people inside were stuck, some were dead, and some were crying out in heart-rending pain. Others crashed into shops or homes lining the streets.
The whole scene is bloody and brutal, like a scene of the end of the world.
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