Chapter 1: Heresy Emerges
Weak human beings can never guess whether the capricious God sometimes brings an apocalyptic disaster to mankind to help mankind accelerate the progress of science and technology, or whether he is tired of human greed and wants to make mankind disappear from the world completely!
But I have to say that from a historical point of view, since the atomic nuclear energy replaced the steam age, mankind has entered a period of calm, this stage seems to be basically no epoch-making products, the only interstellar migration theory has been handed down since the last century, but in this technological explosion there is still no actual progress.
Perhaps there is a real need for a change in the world to force humanity to change, and frankly it has been stable for too long.
There is a village more than 200 kilometers northwest of the capital, and it is the National Day, and the villagers are busy harvesting corn at home. At this time, it is about five o'clock in the afternoon, and as usual, the sun does not go down until about six o'clock. But now there was a mist in the yellow cornfield, and the mist was faintly black, slowly getting thicker and thicker. The farmers didn't think much about the sudden appearance of the strange fog, anyway, they were next to Beijing and were used to the frequent haze weather. Everyone hurriedly packed up their farm tools and hurried home while they could see the way.
Twenty-six-year-old Liu Huangqiang used to work in a brick factory not far from the village, but the factory was closed down due to national environmental protection policies. Before he could find a job, he had to follow his mother to the field to break corn.
At this time, my mother also began to urge: "Hurry up and pack up your things and go home, leave the corn alone, just pile it in the ground, anyway, no one will steal it in such a fog, let's come back tomorrow morning to install it."
Liu Huangqiang, who couldn't stand the dry corn leaves and choking air, hurriedly picked up the clothes by the canal and ran towards the electric tricycle.
Not far from his own cornfield is the cornfield of Uncle Wang, the neighbor in front of the house, and Uncle Wang and his wife are still loading corn on the electric car. Liu Huangqiang's mother shouted; "Brother Wang, my sister-in-law hasn't gone home yet, and I can't see the road for a while."
"Immediately, immediately, there are a few bags of corn left, let your sister-in-law take your car back first." Uncle Wang wiped the sweat from his head, smiled, turned around, and said to Aunt Li, who was picking up corn in the bag; "You go back to cooking first, it's not too early, I'll go back after filling these bags myself."
"That's fine, I'll go back to cooking first, and you drive slower on your own road." Aunt Li slowly straightened up and bent her body all afternoon.
On the way, the mother and Aunt Li chatted about the market of corn this year, sighing. Discussing the possible price of vegetables next year, there was nothing to do all the way.
When I got home, it was already dark and I couldn't see it. After eating, my mother used to watch the news for a while. Liu Huangqiang leaned against the wall on the kang and played with his mobile phone.
Suddenly, there was a news on TV that talked about today's black fog. Mother hurriedly asked Liu Huangqiang to sit up and watch.
"There is a sudden wide range of strange black haze weather across the country, and it may continue to spread in the next few days, and the relevant departments are urgently looking for the source, and in recent days, the general public is also requested to minimize going out, and friends who have something to do ...... should also pay attention to wearing dust protective gear."
"It seems that this environmental protection problem is really serious, the state shut down our brick factory seems to be the right one, this is not managed, people will not be able to breathe." Liu Huangqiang said with emotion.
"This matter is in the hands of the state, let's take back that bit of corn from early tomorrow, and this year will be over." Mother said with a yawn. "Your dad is in the south of the village to pack the cabbage for Lao Li's family, I don't know if it's finished, it's more than eight o'clock, and I don't know how to come back for dinner, you call him and ask"
Liu Huangqiang picked up his mobile phone and was just about to dial the number, when the loudspeaker in the village suddenly rang. At first, a piece of opera was played, but it was mixed with a young girl's voice: "Uncle! You put a song with a higher pitch, play this." "Poof", a piercing sound of plugging in the line, probably plugged in her mobile phone, and a heart-rending song was released, which startled Liu Huangqiang's mother.
"If you die, you have to love, if you don't drip, you won't be happy~~~".
"Who's girl, so bluffing, why are you playing this wolf howling song in the middle of the night?" Liu Huangqiang said casually and continued to call his father.
"Sorry, the phone you are calling is off, please call again later. so
y, the......" Liu Huangqiang hung up the phone, "My dad's mobile phone was turned off, and he didn't get through".
"I guess it's out of power, wait a little longer, it's estimated that I'll be back soon." Mother looked at the old clock hanging on the wall, which had no second hand.
The song played on the loop by the loudspeaker for a long time and did not stop, and Liu Huangqiang, who was a little irritable when he listened, stood up: "Mom, I'll go out and see what's going on outside."
As soon as I got out of the yard, there was a knock on the door outside.
The father, who was covered in mud and still had blood on his head, came back pushing an electric car with a broken plastic shell.
The mother also heard the sound of the door being slammed, and pressed the yard lamp in the house, and the yellow faint light illuminated the father a little embarrassed.
"What's wrong with you, you fell into a ditch while riding a bike or got into a fight with someone else, people are okay." The mother asked, confused, worried and anxious.
My father was about to speak, when another man followed behind the door.
"Brother Liu Sheng, did you see your brother Wang on the way back, I cooked a meal for him, thinking that he had forgotten the time by chatting with someone again, but he didn't see him come back now, and no one answered the phone call, don't what's wrong?" At that time, Aunt Li, who came back with the car, walked in anxiously and worriedly and asked her father.
"Don't worry, sister-in-law, the fog is too big outside, you see that I fell several times on the way back, and the fog is thick and I can't see the road at all, it is estimated that the eldest brother is lost and looking for the sound to go to other villages, and when the fog clears tomorrow morning, he will definitely come back, the eldest brother is so big that nothing can happen, don't worry." Father said comfortingly.
Sure enough, when I listened closely, several nearby villages were also playing all kinds of harsh sounds.
Aunt Li put a little snack: "Hey~ Your eldest brother is really good, he is not in a hurry to clean up the broken corn, and he will not come back in a hurry if he is so late, which makes people die in a hurry." Okay, you guys get busy first, and I'll go to the intersection to meet him. After saying that, he hurriedly went out.
The father gave the mother a look and told her to come into the house.
Liu Huangqiang took the broken electric car in his father's hand and pushed it into the corner and put it away, then went into the kitchen to get hot water for his father, and took it to the house for his father to wash up.
After that, my mother didn't ask in a hurry, but quietly wiped my father's back, and then went to the kitchen to help my father heat up. Liu Huangqiang saw that the atmosphere was not quite right, and he didn't dare to speak, so he helped dry the water on the ground with a cloth, brought dishes and chopsticks to his father, and sat quietly on the kang against the wall to play with his mobile phone.
After eating, everything was cleaned up, and it was almost ten o'clock in the evening. After everyone got into the bed, the father breathed a sigh of relief before saying the first puzzling words, but the mother and son were very surprised.
"I actually met Lao Wang, and my injury today has something to do with him. Lao Wang estimated that something had happened......".
It turned out that a few minutes after Liu Huangqiang's father finished loading the dishes for Lao Li's house, the black fog was as thick as getting into the ink, he couldn't see his five fingers, he couldn't see anything, and he finally touched the car, and the lights of the electric car couldn't shine on the ground at all, and he couldn't walk at this time. At this time, Lao Li took out a charged flashlight from his cart loaded with vegetables and handed it to his father.
"You take this flashlight, this fog is weird, I haven't seen this kind of black fog when I grow so big, I won't leave you to eat here with me, this is 200 yuan for loading the car today, you are not far from home, go back early so that the family can rest assured."
My father took the money and a flashlight and thanked him repeatedly. I'm afraid that my family is waiting to worry. I rode the car and hurried away. But as soon as he walked to the section of the road near his house today, a black shadow suddenly hit his father fiercely. My father's car was crooked, and the light of the flashlight hit the head of the black shadow. The old king ran madly to the west with his head covered in blood. My father was also hit and fell into a ditch about a meter deep on the side of the road. He hit his head on a tree by the ditch. Fortunately, the knock was not too serious, and one hand covered the hairy head. One hand fumbled for a lost flashlight. I touched it for a long time and didn't touch anything
Arrive. I had to struggle to climb the ditch and return to the road, but fortunately the electric car did not fall, and slowly groped and carefully helped up, but there was no strong flashlight, I couldn't see the road, and my father didn't dare to walk around. Because this section of the road is full of high and low fields, and in some places it is even more than three meters deep.
When he was anxious and didn't know what to do, suddenly a voice sounded in the village. I was happy in my heart, with the memory of walking this road for half a lifetime. After pushing for more than ten minutes, my eyes suddenly lit up. When I entered the village, I could see the road in the dim street lights, although they were not very bright. Looking at the old street lamp, my father actually had an inexplicable sense of security. The joy of getting out of a hellish predicament made my father ignore a serious and abnormal problem. At this time, my father told me all the ins and outs. Still didn't realize something was wrong.
"Li Er Monkey is really not authentic, what's wrong with staying for one night in such fog, it's okay to come back when it's dawn." Liu Huangqiang was indignant.
"Don't talk nonsense, people hire you to work, and people don't get close to you, why don't they stay overnight, and besides, the shed he built in his field is only one room, and his daughter-in-law still lives with him." The father turned over and said, "Okay, I'll be back safely anyway, I'll take back the corn early tomorrow, don't think about anything else." Go to bed early, it's been a tiring day."