Blue Star, a beautiful planet, human beings explored all continents in the Age of Discovery more than 1,500 years ago, and formed an alliance, and then further developed, it was the establishment of the world's highest coalition government, the establishment of the police inspector and the dispute arbitration court to maintain the safety of all people's lives, since then the concept of the country has disappeared, replaced by the same goal of all mankind, but due to geographical relations, under the alliance government, or divided into continental, each state has some unique laws and regulations.

The year in which the Supreme Union government was formed, was called the New Era.

Now, it's the year 1106 of the New Era.

In the Dongzhou area, it is summer.

"It's so hot."

In mid-July, the hottest time of the year has arrived, and even if you are hiding in the shade of a tree, you can still feel the heat wave blowing in your face.

After having lunch in summer, autumn and winter, I hurried back to the company, and it was not until I stepped into the air-conditioned office that the feeling of heat gradually faded.

Most of her colleagues took advantage of this time to lie on the table to take a nap, she took a glass of water, returned to her seat, and was about to sit down when her phone suddenly vibrate.

Landline, and a number that I don't recognize.

An ominous premonition inexplicably rose in his heart, Xia Qiudong looked left and right, came to the corridor outside, and answered the phone.

"Hello? Is it the Summer, Autumn and Winter lady? ”

"Yes, may I ask you?"

She was a little puzzled, since she knew her name, it meant that it should not be an advertisement, could it be that a treasure store wanted to praise it? But I haven't bought anything for more than half a month.

"Ms. Xia, you have a younger brother named Xia Ren, right?"

This question directly made Xia Qiudong's heart tremble for no reason.

“…… Well. ”

The foreboding became stronger and stronger, and she replied a little reluctantly.

"We are here at the Third People's Hospital, and we regret to inform you that your brother's condition suddenly deteriorated during the follow-up consultation, and we have tried our best to save him, but we still have not been able to save his life......

"Smack!"

The mobile phone fell to the cold floor, Xia Qiudong's head was stunned, and tears instantly welled up.

She wished it was a scam call, but it wasn't.

Xia Qiudong didn't know how she came to the hospital, and there was only one thought in her heart.

"Impossible."

Xia Ren has always behaved very normally, never told her about her illness, and before she went to work in the morning, her brother said that he would go to the library to check the materials.

The morning was fine,

It's fine in the morning.

"Where's my brother?"

Xia Qiudong held back his crying and asked.

A young doctor led her to the basement, and at the end of the hallway, the words "morgue" were very prominent.

Step by step, she began to resist, unwilling to continue walking.

She tried to force herself to calm down, but she couldn't stop the tears.

The doctor sighed and felt very uncomfortable.

"Xia Ren was diagnosed with interstitial chordoma two years ago, and when he was diagnosed, he had undergone malignant transformation, and there was basically no cure, this kind of patient usually died within a year, he voluntarily gave up treatment, but he would still come for a follow-up examination every few months, I don't know how he persevered until now, and I didn't expect him to tell his relatives ......"

The young doctor pulled out the key, only to find that the door of the morgue was unlocked, and as soon as she pushed it open, the cold air spilled through the crack in the door, and she shivered with cold.

Staff members would never make such a low-level mistake in normal times.

She walked quickly into the morgue and looked at the empty bed inside, stunned.

"The body is gone!"

……

……

"It's so hot—"

The sun had begun to set, the clouds on the horizon were as red as blood, and the streets were crowded with pedestrians in the scorching heat of mid-July.

Xia Ren didn't know how long he had been walking, he was weak and weak to the extreme, but he couldn't sweat a drop in such a hot weather.

"Where should I go?"

He suddenly stopped where he was, his consciousness a little confused.

"That's right, go home."

He figured something out, and his eyes cleared up a little.

"But where is home?"

He had a puzzled expression, as if his thoughts had suddenly stopped running somewhere, and he couldn't get there.

Suddenly, his head seemed to have been struck by a heavy hammer, and his vision suddenly blurred, and in a trance, he saw a huge shadow in the distance hovering in the sky, and countless tentacle-like tissues were climbing and wriggling among the towering buildings, as if looking for something.

I almost fell, but I managed to hold on.

When Xia Ren looked up again, he could only see a round of orange-red sunset slowly sinking into the building.

"Hallucinations?"

"But why are you hallucinating?"

"Come to think of it, I have a tumor in my head."

"Who am I?"

"I'm Xia Ren."

It was as if the floodgates were gently twisted open at some angle, and with his questions, more memories emerged, but every time they reached a key point, they broke off abruptly again. Large tracts of fragmented information collide with each other in the mind, and it is never possible to spell out a complete memory.

He knew he was going home, but he didn't know where it was;

He knew that his name was Xia Ren, but he didn't know who Xia Ren was and what position he had in society.

"Anyway, why am I here?"

The dull pain in my head continued, and it was a very bad feeling.

"The world is coming to an end."

A faint voice sounded in his ears, accompanied by a very good smell of the girl.

Xia Ren turned his head and saw a young and beautiful girl standing beside him, her face almost close to her ear, and her movements were intimate.

She has a delicate face, about 20 years old, about 1.65 meters tall, wearing a white dress, revealing two white slender calves, and a pair of red high heels on her feet. The afterglow of the setting sun was falling, and at such a close distance, Xia Ren could see the soft and slender fuzz on her face, as if it had been plated with a layer of golden light.

Stunned, Xia Ren took two steps back, and then asked, "What's the matter with the world coming to an end?" ”

"It's literal."

The girl smiled and didn't explain too much about the issue, but took the initiative to ask, "Do you want to rent a house?" ”

"No, I don't."

Xia Ren subconsciously shook his head.

He has a home, and he wants to go home.

"But ......"

The girl blinked.

"You don't think there's anywhere to go back."

Xia Ren wanted to refute, but when the words came to his lips, he suddenly fell silent.

He's going home, and the problem is, he's forgotten where his home is.

"Our house has been empty, if you don't mind, you can go and live first."

The girl invited.

"Our house?"

Xia Ren repeated, "Who are you?" ”

"I'm Zhao Mingyue."

The girl smiled miserably, "You forgot." ”

Xia Ren thought hard about his relationship with her for a long time, but ...... I really can't think of it.

He felt more and more that Zhao Mingyue was very mysterious, and he couldn't understand a word of what the other party said, such as "The world is going to be finished", no matter who listens to it, he will feel inexplicably wonderful.

Xia Ren stared at the girl's face, I don't know if it was an illusion, there seemed to be an indissoluble sadness in her eyes, just like ...... Someone just died.

"Come with me."

Zhao Mingyue said, walking in front.

She really has nowhere to go now, and she is really beautiful, Xia Ren can't think of a reason to refuse.

"Jingwan Community."

The two of them didn't go far, and when they entered the gate of a community, these four words automatically popped up in Xia Ren's mind.

I have the impression that this community is not too far from my home, and it can be reached in about 20 minutes by foot.

But he still couldn't remember where his home was.

"If you have time to walk around the neighborhood, you can probably remember it."

The loss of some of his memories didn't seem to make him feel much anxious, and Xia Ren vaguely felt that his current state should be a little abnormal.

This community was built relatively early, and the buildings next to it look relatively old, following Zhao Mingyue's footsteps all the way, most of the people I met were elderly people.

They stopped in front of a seven-storey building, where the safety awareness of the residents is not too high, of course, it may also be the aging of the facilities, in short, the door of the corridor is open, the slightly dim sunlight obliquely shines into the entrance of the building, dividing the space into two distinct layers, inside is a rich shadow that seems to be indissolvable, the wall skin is peeling, the layers of small advertisements are squeezed together, messy, with the dusk sunset, this entrance always gives people a bad premonition.

Just when Xia Ren concentrated his energy to see the scene inside, he suddenly found that at the junction of shadow and light, the darkness seemed to be boiling, stretching out thin silk threads that twisted wildly, and were spreading along the wall in his direction.

"The room is on the fifth floor."

Zhao Mingyue turned around and said to Xia Ren.

Xia Ren was excited, his consciousness came to his senses, and when he looked again, everything was back to normal.

"Is it another hallucination?"

"Are you alright, your face looks pale."

Zhao Mingyue said with concern.

Xia Ren realized that the other party's skin was also very white.

The kind of white that seems to be the opposite of the darkness.

"It's okay, let's go up."

After she finished speaking, she didn't ask Xia Ren's opinion, and walked up the stairs by herself.

It's all here, you can't go back, and there is nowhere to go back, he looked at the junction of light and shadow again, and although he had doubts in his heart, he could only keep up.

"This is our house."

Zhao Mingyue stood in front of the door and introduced to Xia Ren: "Although no one has lived in it for a long time, it is still clean, and there are my things in the bedroom, you can just clean up by yourself." ”

"You're not going to live with me?"

Xia Ren blurted out.

After asking this sentence, he felt that something was wrong, but looking at Zhao Mingyue's expression, he didn't seem to be angry.

"What is the relationship between me and you?"

Zhao Mingyue didn't answer this question, just raised her head and looked behind Xia Ren.

"Is there anything behind me?"

Xia Ren turned his head, and when his gaze moved halfway, he was stunned.

An old lady didn't know when she stood behind her, she was hunched up, her face was full of wrinkles, her gray hair covered most of her face, her sunken eye sockets, a pair of cloudy eyes were staring at her with compassion, and the old lady's lips were buzzing, as if she wanted to say something.

Eye contact, and an inexplicable cool air gradually climbed down Xia Ren's spinal cord.

At this moment, with a "click", Zhao Mingyue suddenly opened the door, and in an instant a cold wind blew out of the room, the old lady's eyes widened, as if she saw something terrible, her eyes were full of incredulity, and then she opened the door on the opposite side with a posture that did not match her age, and slipped in.

"Alright."

Zhao Mingyue stuffed a bunch of keys into Xia Ren's hand.

"Good luck."

She then walked downstairs without explaining anything.

Xia Ren came back to his senses from the terrifying scene just now, and he was the only one left in the empty corridor.

If it weren't for the fact that the touch of the key in his hand was so real, he would even have to wonder if Zhao Mingyue had ever appeared.

There was a rancid smell wafting through the air, and when you sniffed it closely, you couldn't smell anything.

When I turned around, the door was open, the curtains of the balcony were tightly drawn, the cold air was constantly overflowing, and there was no light in the room.

"How did she open the door?"

Looking at the thick layer of dust on the doorknob, Xia Ren hesitated to go in.

"It's already here anyway......"

He comforted himself, and then he made the decision he regretted the most.

Just as his left foot stepped into the door frame, a clear text unfolded in his mind.

[The distorted dream will eventually wake up, or fall into eternal silence.] Ten thousand people will not die, but one person will not escape......]