In May 2119 AD, humans began to turn into dolls.

Walking on the street, eating in restaurants, trying on clothes in the mall and just taking off halfway, those poor people's movements stayed in the moment before the change, and the smile on their faces didn't even have time to put away, and they turned into a static humanoid doll.

Without warning, and without a reason.

People are confused, frightened, crazy and desperate.

They held up bright red banners and marched, questioning that it was a terrorist attack by a mysterious organization, or hyping up the invasion of alien civilizations on the Internet, and some people dragged their families to the countryside for refuge...... They did everything they could, but the people around them still turned into dolls one by one.

Gradually, people became numb.

Go to school when you should go to school, go to work when you should go to work, what life should be like, or what it should be.

But the daily TV news adds a link -

After reading the press release, the announcer will use the standard broadcast voice to inform the audience: "If you find that someone around you has become a doll, please call the emergency number 123, and the relevant department will deal with it for you in time......"

The so-called processing is to pack the doll and send it to a scientific research institution.

If scientists can study something, it's fine, if they can't study anything, just wait for the family to claim it, and then whether to bury it or put it in the home as an ornament depends on the family's mood.

Bai Youwei watched the news for a while, and when she saw that the time was almost up, she picked up the remote control and turned off the TV, then pressed the button on the wheelchair and went in the direction of the restaurant.

She has a crippled leg, her parents divorced when she was a child, and they started a new family on their own. Probably because they felt ashamed of their daughter, the couple never lent themselves to spending money on Bai Youwei, letting her live in the most luxurious villa and hiring the most expensive nanny, but they couldn't find time to accompany their daughter.

However, Bai Youwei doesn't care about this.

She had long been accustomed to being alone.

The restaurant clock ticks and ticks, and the minute hand points to 12:10. Bai Youwei eats on time at 12 noon every day, only early and not late, but now there is not a single dish on the table.

The surroundings are quiet and quiet, and the ticking of the clock makes this gorgeous villa even more tranquil.

Bai Youwei waited for a while, and smelled the smell of burning paste wafting from the kitchen.

She adjusted her direction and slid her wheelchair over. The babysitter stood stiffly beside the gas stove with her back to her, her hands in a stir-fry position, but not moving.

The babysitter turned into a doll, just in the square.

It's still the same face, but the material is completely different, the living flesh and blood have become plastic skin, glass beads eyeballs, and chemical fiber hair......

The original nanny at home went back to her hometown for refuge, and the nanny in front of her had only been here for two days, and Bai Youwei hadn't even remembered the other party's name, but now it was like this.

She looked at it for a moment, then slid her wheelchair over, turned off the fire, and called the emergency number 123, as the news said.

The line is busy all the time.

Bai Youwei thought about it and called her mother. The nanny is the person invited by the mother, and should be able to contact the nanny's family.

The phone was connected, and there was a mixture of talking, laughter, and music...... Alone shows her loneliness.

It's harsh.

She made things clear in a few words, and then hung up the phone.

It's quiet inside the house, and it's quiet outside. The scorching sun scorched the earth, the garden pool reflected the sparkling light, and a hibiscus flower drooped with purple flowers and leaves under the scorching sun, everything was sparse and normal, but Bai Youwei knew that the world had long since become abnormal.

……

At two o'clock in the afternoon, the sound of car engines could be heard outside the villa.

Bai Youwei looked through the window and saw a tall man ringing the doorbell.

She thought for a moment, went to the kitchen, got a folding fruit knife, and slid out in her wheelchair.

Through the iron gate, the man's posture was upright, his appearance was cold, and under his long black eyebrows were a pair of deep and quiet pupils.

I vaguely looked familiar, but I couldn't remember where I had seen it.

"You're Vivi?" His voice stagnated slightly, with the rustiness of the first meeting, "I'm Shen Mo, your mother knows that something happened here, let me pick you up." ”

Bai Youwei was stunned.

Shen Mo...... No wonder she felt familiar just now, it turned out to be Uncle Shen's son, and he looked a little similar to Uncle Shen.

I forgot to mention that her mother's current husband is Uncle Shen, so the man in front of her is her nominal stepbrother.

Bai Youwei silently put the fruit knife in her pocket and opened the courtyard door-

Shen Mo looked at the "sister" in front of him.

Pale complexion, long hair floppy, and a long light blue shirt dress that wrapped her from neck to toe. As the name suggests, just looking at her, you can't help but think of words like white, soft, young, and weak.

Looks very well-behaved, not like the stepmother said difficult to get along with.

"Pack your things, I'll send you to Yangzhou." Shen Mo was concise and to the point.

Bai Youwei shook her head: "Don't go." ”

Shen Mo was a little surprised, raised his eyebrows and said: "It's not safe in the city now, all those who can go have been evacuated, you stay here and no one takes care of you, sooner or later you will die." ”

Bai Youwei lowered her head and looked at the delicate lines on her skirt, "Don't go." I'm like this, and it's a dead end to go anywhere. ”

Shen Mo didn't expect her to be so stubborn.

He is not good at persuading people, let alone coaxing children, so he walked directly to the house, "Where do you live?" ”

Bai Youwei stared at him suspiciously, her eyes flashing, "What do you want to do?" ”

Shen Mo ignored her, walked around after entering the house, found her bedroom accurately, and began to pack clothes and daily necessities.

The girl followed up, her expression a little aggrieved.

After Shen Mo finished loading his clothes, he stood in the room and looked around, asking, "Where is the medicine?" ”

Bai Youwei lives in a wheelchair all year round, and medicine is a necessity.

She was silent.

He simply didn't ask.

The room quickly became messy.

Bai Youwei sat in a wheelchair and watched him rummage through the cabinets, her hands clenched, and her voice was very low: "You...... Do you think now that saving a lonely girl is great and great? …… But do you know that you are actually hurting me? ”

Shen Mo stopped, his expression calm.

Bai Youwei took a deep breath and continued, "Have you considered the consequences of forcibly taking me away? …… When I arrived in Yangzhou, I was a woman, still lame, how should I live? Do you know that I even need help with eating and going to the toilet, and I have to wear diapers when I go out, you don't ...... at all"

She inhaled, "You don't understand anything at all!" I'm not going with you! ”

At the end of the voice, his voice was hoarse, with a forbearance cry.

Shen Mo looked at her, was silent for a while, and then lowered his voice: "I really don't understand, but I understand at least one thing - if you stay, you will die faster, leave, and maybe there is hope." ”

Wish?

Bai Youwei's heart was cold.

Even her biological parents don't want to see her, her life is like a walking corpse, and even if the world is business as usual, she has no intention of continuing to live.

She's a hopeless wreck!

Shen Mo walked in front of Bai Youwei, his dark eyes were oppressive, and his tone was calm and firm: "Don't worry, I will send you to Yangzhou safe and sound." ”

Bai Youwei bit her lip.

She didn't have a choice.

Shen Mo pushed Bai Youwei out of the villa and came to the off-road vehicle on the side of the road.

He picked Bai Youwei up from the wheelchair, feeling that she was incredibly light, although thin but not awkward, the girl in his arms was soft.

Her face rested on his chest, a faint fragrant fragrance lingered, and the aroma of milk rose shampoo mixed with the smell of medicine to form a strange incense, which had an indescribable feeling.

Looking at the tense little face, he was a little soft-hearted, and comforted again: "I'll drive faster, I can get there in an hour and a half, and there is someone over there to take care of you, don't worry." ”

Bai Youwei obviously hated his arrogance, and ignored him with a straight face.

Shen Mo smiled, closed the rear door, sat in the driver's seat and turned the key-

It didn't take long for him to realize that he had miscalculated.

The situation was worse than expected, and dolls appeared on almost every road. Although the reason why people turn into dolls is unknown, it is well known that the places where dolls gather are high-risk areas, and everyone avoids such roads as much as possible.

Shen Mo began to detour, and after more than an hour, he finally arrived at the highway intersection.

The highway is not very smooth.

As far as the eye could see, there were all cars, estimated to be sixty or seventy, parked crookedly in the middle of the road, some cars crashed into a ball, and the people in the cars did not know whether they were alive or dead.

At the end of the convoy were many people who, like them, had just arrived at the highway, standing outside the car, craned their necks and looked around, hesitating to move on.

Shen Mo got out of the car to inquire about the situation.

Bai Youwei was lying by the car window and listened to those people discuss:

"What to do? Still not leaving? ”

"Let's go? It's full of dolls in front, how do we get there? ”

"If you don't leave, are you waiting here to die? In the nearest cities, only Yangzhou and Taizhou have no one turned into dolls! ”

"What about other roads, are there dolls on other roads?"

"We're all going to be trapped ...... like this"

"Husband, what should we do?" A long-haired woman whimpered and cried, "It must be the end of the world...... We're all going to die......"

Her husband didn't seem to have an idea, smoking a cigarette irritably, unable to say a word of comfort.

Bai Youwei listened to it for a while, felt that it was not interesting, closed the car window and calmed herself.

Shen Mo returned to the car, and Bai Youwei asked him, "Will you become a doll from here?" ”

Shen Mo thought for a while, "Let's take a look at the situation first, and then find another way." ”

Bai Youwei didn't trust him very much, and whispered: "There are dolls on other roads." ”

At this time, there was movement ahead.

Everyone was surprised, and when they looked up, they saw a blue pickup truck slowly moving forward, with a tentative meaning. Seeing this, several other cars also followed behind slowly, keeping a distance not too close or far.

It looks like someone can't wait.

After all, there are no safe places in the city, there are dolls on almost every road, and if you want to get out of the city, you have to take risks.

The driver of the blue pickup truck was a bald man, holding the steering wheel, carefully driving past several cars with dolls, not finding anything abnormal, and subconsciously speeding up.

When he reached a safe open place, he poked his head out of the car and waved to the people behind him: "This road can be walked!" ”

The atmosphere was uplifted by these words, and the cars behind followed one after another.

Someone smiled and greeted the bald man in front of him: "Dude, thanks to you this time!" ”

The others smiled lightly.

"Looks fine." Shen Mo started the car and followed the convoy.

Bai Youwei was not salty, not light, and let out an "oh".

……

On the highway, cars drove by at turtle speed, and everyone was extremely cautious.

Bai Youwei lay quietly by the car window.

As the car drove along, she saw one humanoid figure after another, like models in a fashion store, with hollow eyes and stiff postures......

Turning his head, there were two dolls sitting in a red car opposite, the driver was a man, and the co-passenger seat was a woman. The woman's belly was high and bulging, apparently pregnant.

Bai Youwei couldn't help but wonder in her heart: Has the child in her womb also become a little doll? Is it also the skin of plastic, the eyeballs of glass beads, and the hair of chemical filaments? What happened to them the moment they turned into dolls? Is it possible that the body cannot move, but the consciousness is awake?

The thought sent her shudders.

She withdrew her gaze and looked at it again.

"Ding! Welcome to the Doll Game! The theme of this game is 'Tortoise and Hare Race', and the rules are as follows:

One, refuse to turn the game into a doll!

Second, the game fails to become a doll!

Third, the game clears the reward doll! ……”

An unfamiliar voice sounded in her ears, the sound quality was as beautiful as heaven, and Bai Youwei froze.

"Hey, did you hear ......" She was about to ask Shen Mo in front of her, but her vision was covered with a layer of light and mist, and in the next moment, the blue sky and white clouds, and the endless green grass!

What's going on?!

Bai Youwei looked at the scene in front of her in amazement.

One second ago, she was sitting in Shen Mo's car, but at this moment she was sitting on the green lawn!

And the same goes for fellow riders! Everyone was stunned to look at the runway on the outskirts of the lawn, where a huge screen banner was prominently hung, and four large characters were printed on it-

Turtles, rabbits, races, runs!