Chapter 5: Cataclysm
Chen Ming locked Zhao Sha in the room and left him to fend for himself, he found a bottle of Moutai from the hotel warehouse, found a room where Zhao Sha's shouts could not be heard, poured himself a glass of wine and took some roasted peanuts, looking at the scenery outside the window, his thoughts began to float in the air, and gradually returned to 10 days ago.
On July 4, 2020, the first day of the catastrophe, the weather was clear and cloudless.
At around 3 o'clock in the afternoon, Jiangxia Airport is very busy, with dozens of planes taking off and landing every hour. Announcements in the departure hall are constantly ringing, either to inform passengers of delays in certain flights or to urge passengers to board.
The lounge seats in the departure hall are already full of passengers waiting for their flight. Some passengers are playing mobile games, their fingers are floating quickly on their mobile phones, almost ghosting, and they even burst out with a sentence or two of cheers when they are excited; Some travelers are chatting with friends, with happy smiles on their faces from time to time; There are also passengers who are talking on their mobile phones, and a few heated arguments break out from time to time......
Chen Ming sat in the waiting hall with a white Bluetooth headset in his ear, and "Zhong Wuyan" was playing in the earphone. His hands clicked quickly on the screen of his mobile phone, and square-shaped Chinese characters appeared on the screen, forming sentences of numb words, which were sent to his daughter-in-law at home in Jiangzhou after Chen Ming clicked send.
Chen Ming: "Little girl, has the baby slept?" ”
Wife: "I'm still playing with toys, I guess it will take a while, but it's fast, and I yawned a lot just now." When will you be back? ”
Chen Ming: "The business trip went well, I will be home tonight, miss me!" ”
Wife: "Hmph, no shame! I took the kids to bed. ”
Chen Ming smiled proudly, he put away his mobile phone, and was just about to stretch his waist and move his body, which felt uncomfortable because of sitting for a long time. Suddenly, a woman who was sitting next to Chen Ming and was talking on the phone leaned towards him abruptly, and then fell motionless on his lap.
Chen Ming was taken aback, he hurriedly helped the woman up and sat down, and then went to check the woman's state, and he was surprised to find that the woman had lost consciousness.
Chen Ming looked up and was about to ask for help from others, when he was horrified to find that there was no one standing in the terminal. Countless people lost consciousness and fell to the ground, their heads bleeding, but not a single one struggled to get up.
All voices in the entire airport were gone, except for the sound of electronic devices, and a terrible sense of fear filled his heart, as if an invisible beast was watching him. Chen Ming felt that he had lost control of his body, he could not move or speak, and an intuition told him that if he spoke, he would also suddenly lose consciousness like everyone else.
More than 5 meters away from Chen Ming, an aunt wearing a flower skirt and a red ribbon with heavy makeup on her face was sitting on a bench watching short videos. The aunt also seemed to realize that something was wrong around her, and she withdrew her gaze from her phone and looked up at her surroundings.
"Ah......h
But within a few seconds, her eyes suddenly turned white, and then her eyes closed, and like everyone else, she also lost consciousness and fell to the ground, the mobile phone in her hand fell to the ground, and slid to Chen Ming's feet and swirled.
The aunt fell not far from Chen Ming's feet, Chen Ming couldn't see the extent of her injuries, only saw the blood slowly seeping out from under her head, dripping all over the ground, and finally completely surrounded Chen Ming's leather shoes.
I don't know how long it took, Chen Ming finally felt that he could control his body again, and he didn't dare to move his feet surrounded by blood. He trembled and slowly stretched out his fingers to touch the neck of the woman in his arms, and only then did his fingers touch the woman's skin, and he pulled his fingers back as violently as if he had touched a hedgehog.
After taking a few deep breaths, he put his hand on the woman's neck artery again and pressed it, and after dozens of seconds, Chen Ming had to admit that the woman had completely lost her pulse and became a corpse.
Chen Ming took a few big breaths again, and just as he wanted to open his mouth to ask if there were still awake people, he hurriedly covered his mouth himself, not making a sound, and he remembered that all the people who spoke seemed to have lost their lives.
Chen Ming carefully placed the woman's body on the chair, then lifted the blood-drenched foot, stepped over the aunt who fell to the ground unconscious, stood up and walked to the guardrail, leaving a plate of bright red footprints. He looked around and found that there were no living people in the entire waiting hall, only a corpse lying on the ground, and he felt as if he had entered the 18th floor of hell.
Chen Ming's heart was full of fear, he didn't know what was going on: an alien attack? Virus attack? Or was it attacked by mysterious weapons from other countries. Thinking of this, Chen Ming hurriedly and carefully hid himself behind a pillar to prevent any possible enemies from seeing him.
Chen Ming looked around, wanting to see the mysterious enemy that might exist, but everything was in vain, and there was nothing unusual around.
Chen Ming thought of his family in Jiangzhou, and he didn't know if something similar had happened at home. He hurriedly took out his mobile phone and sent a message to his wife: "What I said below is very serious, you must do what I say." Don't make any noise from now on, and then go and see if everyone outside the house is dead? ”
After the message was sent, Chen Ming clenched his mobile phone tightly, staring at his mobile phone with his eyes, for fear that he would never receive a reply from his family again.
God bless, after a while, a message from Chen Ming's wife came: "Husband, the road outside is full of people, are they all dead?" What about me and my child? ”
Immediately afterwards, Chen Ming's wife sent a video, the video screen is the atrium in his community, at this time there are many corpses of children and elderly people lying in the atrium, and nothing can be moved.
Chen Ming's face changed, something happened to his family, he had to go back!
He quickly replied to the message: "Hold on and don't speak, don't speak, you will die if you speak." Keep your baby's mouth shut, be careful when eating and drinking, I'll find a way to go back, wait for me at home, I'll definitely go back. ”
Chen Ming's wife: "I'm waiting for you, you must come back." ”
Before he could reply to this message, Chen Ming heard a violent explosion coming from the tarmac, and then there was no signal on his mobile phone. Chen Ming got up and looked, and a plane crashed into the distance, seemingly completely blowing up the cell phone's signal base station.
Chen Ming carried the mobile phone, looking around for a signal, but in the end he found nothing, he put the phone back in his bag and began to ask himself: "What to do, what to do now, what to do?" ”
Chen Ming thought about all the disaster movies he had watched, and at this moment it seemed that he should seek help from the government or seek survivors.
Although Chen Ming had no knowledge of this mysterious mass death, years of scientific education had taught him that everything had a reason, and the most likely reason he could think of now was that an unknown enemy had attacked everyone in a way he had never thought of.
He had to ask for help.
Chen Ming cautiously hid in the waiting hall to the public telephone hall in every waiting hall, he slowly picked up the phone, dialed the police, and the phone rang for a long time and no one answered. Chen Ming dialed many more times in disbelief, but in the end, all he responded to was a blind tone that no one answered.
Unconvinced, Chen Ming quickly dialed various hotlines such as fire alarm, hospital, and telephone inquiries with his fingers on the metal buttons of the phone, but no one answered the call. He didn't care if there was an enemy watching him, he snapped and hung up the phone, and kicked the glass wall of the phone hall a few times with an angry face, is everyone dead?
Chen Ming sat down in disappointment against the telephone hall, looking at the corpses in front of him, he didn't know what he should do, his brain was like paste, and he had lost the ability to think.
I don't know how long he sat on the ground, Chen Ming's stomach gurgled and complained, and then he realized that he had been sitting on the ground for a long time. He looked up and saw that the sun had begun to set in the west, and it was about to usher in a lively night, but unfortunately the excitement was gone.
At this time, Chen Ming had lost his fear of the mysterious enemy, and he just kept telling himself: he must live, he must live, and there are still people waiting for him at home.
Chen Ming got up from the ground, and he walked around the corpses on the ground to a ramen restaurant.
At the time of the accident, it was not a meal, and the store only saw the bodies of a ramen chef and two waiters on the ground.
The hot water in the cauldron in the store is boiling hot under the natural gas, and the white water lotus flowers are constantly churning, and the sound of the water is particularly loud in the silent store.
People die and need to use other people's things, so Chen Ming laboriously dragged the bodies of the three people outside and lined them up one by one, and then returned to the ramen restaurant. I don't know if there are too many corpses, Chen Ming is not surprised, he has completely lost the fear of corpses, only the fear of hunger remains.
He picks up the dough kneaded by the ramen master, rolls it out with a rolling pin, and then cuts it into thin strips. He ordered himself a bowl of ramen, added large pieces of beef to the bowl as if he didn't need money, and finally sprinkled green and white green onions to make a bowl of fragrant beef ramen.
Looking at the fragrant noodles in front of him, Chen Ming couldn't help but wonder: whether his wife and children can still eat such a bowl of noodles normally.
Chen Ming cheered up, he bent his arms and clenched his fists to cheer himself up, and then he carried the finished ramen to the store and ate it slowly. As soon as he took a bite, he heard two light and heavy footsteps coming from the silent east.
Chen Ming had a surprised expression on his face, it was great that there were still other people alive, and he was finally going to meet the survivors.