Chapter 4: Seeing the Light

"We have just come to the conclusion that from now on you will never see the light. According to the footage captured by the satellite, the unknown rays cover a total of 3 time zones, and you will be in the sun again in 2 hours and 11 minutes. So you only have 2 hours, and if within 2 hours you can't find a way to avoid the light altogether, then you will disappear from this world. ”

"This, this, how is this possible!" I wondered if I had misheard.

On the other end of the phone, Director Lin continued: "Everything is what we have seen with our own eyes, we have contacted the embassies in various places, originally wanted them to help compatriots everywhere evacuate, but they can't see anything, so everything is still up to you." ”

He asked helplessly, "Will you still come to save us?" ”

Director Lin replied with a positive word "yes", but his words were not finished, and there was another sentence at the end, "It's just that the current situation is grim, and we may not be able to arrange people to rescue you in a short period of time." According to our calculations, there are a total of 37 space-time spaces in which the Earth's orbit overlaps with that ray. In the next 9 days, the whole world will be covered by this unknown ray, and we must first ensure that the 900 million compatriots who have not been affected by the ray first, so we will ...... in a short time."

Before Director Lin could finish his words, the video communication was disconnected because the mobile phone battery was too low.

"Ding!" The mobile phone in his hand trembled slightly, and he knew from the road that the mobile phone was out of battery and was about to turn off.

He fumbled and stuffed his phone back into his pocket, and looked at the skeleton woman in front of him helplessly.

On the other side, Director Lin began to arrange in an orderly manner: "Dr. Chen, you take them to continue to study the video to see if it is possible to find anything from the video." Academician Li, you and I will go to the information center together. Xiao Zhang, you also stay, and report anything to me in time. ”

In the office, the No. 3 machine played the video from the International Astronomical Association repeatedly, and when Director Lin went out, there was still a small section of the video progress bar left.

In the picture, a ray of hopeful sunlight shines from the dim sky to the earth.

The skeletons on the ground seemed to feel the light, too, as they stopped screaming in fear and raised their heads in unison.

I saw them looking up at the sunlit sky, stretching out their arms and assuming a hugging pose.

No one could tell what the skeletons' faces were.

But it is not difficult to see from their posture that they have overcome their fears at this time.

They seemed to see hope, and the light in heaven was their hope.

Immediately after that, the slanting sun returned to the sky, and beams of light that seemed to be full of hope fell on the world.

In the blink of an eye, a slanted light hit the face of a Frenchwoman on the side of the road.

The woman was about 30 years old, with maroon hair, and although she was white, the contours of her face had a hint of the softness of an oriental woman.

She was dressed in a long white floral dress with a little girl's hand at the hem. The girl's name is Nina, and she is the youngest daughter of a French woman.

The 7 people who were watching the video at this time all clenched their fists, and they all wanted to do one thing and do the same thing now.

It's to break through the screen of machine 3 and jump in, jump in and tell the little girl, tell the people who don't know the truth, tell them.

"Run, run, get out of that damn light."

But the video is just a video after all, and no matter what the 7 people think and do, they can't change the fact that it has already happened.

They could only watch as the damn sunlight passed through the French woman's body, then onto her sweet little daughter's face, through the little girl's body, and finally into the empty earth.

There was no shadow of the mother and daughter on the ground, for their bodies were gone.

After a few moments, the whole city was illuminated by the slanting sun.

I saw that all the lives were the same as the pair of law ** women, and they disappeared the moment they touched the sun.

It's like the whole world can't tolerate a trace of darkness. In the blink of an eye, all the beings who tried to obscure the light vanished without a trace, along with the shadows they left on the ground.

Until they completely dissipated, they didn't even have time to let go of the hands that remained in a hugging position.

"Is what he said true?" I understood this sentence from Lu, because she didn't speak English, but not very authentic Chongqing dialect.

From the road, he asked with some surprise, "Can you speak Chinese?" ”

"A little."

"Then you just..."

The skeleton woman interrupted Cong's words and continued to ask, "Is what he said true?" ”

Nodding from the road.

The rain had stopped, but the sound of water droplets could still be heard.

"Tick!"

"Tick!"

"Tick!"

I don't know why, from the road's ears suddenly became extremely sharp.

His eyes couldn't see anything, but he could clearly distinguish the difference between the three voices.

The first "tick" is the sound of rain dripping from the parasol behind you.

The second "tick" is the sound of rain dripping from the white ribbon around the skeletal woman's waist.

The third "tick" is the sound of tears spilling from the corners of the skeletal woman's eyes, slashing across her cheeks and finally dripping from her chin to the ground.

Not only that, but he could hear the sound of the tears rubbing against her skin as they slid across her face, and he could hear the sound of the tears running into her neck and colliding with her sweat.

At this moment, Conglu's mood was extremely complicated, and he never dreamed that one day he would be able to hear the same effect as vision through his ears.

The skeletal woman burst into tears.

"Don't cry, I'm most afraid of women crying."

It's okay not to say it, but when he said this, the skeleton woman cried even more sadly.

"Woo! ~~~Mmmmmmmmmmmmmm......mm

It is said that women are made of water, and I don't know if I will cry like this, if I will cry myself!

"Don't cry, I didn't do anything to you!"

"Woo! ~~~Mmmmmmmmmmmmmm......mm

"Don't cry, can't I kneel for you!"

"Woo! ~~~Mmmmmmmmmmmmmm......mm

"I beg you!"

After about ten minutes, the skeletal woman finally stopped crying.

She wiped the tears from her face with her right hand, and then said to Conglu with her eyes shaking, "Are we going to die?" ”

Conglu was afraid that she would cry again, and comforted: "No! We're not going to die. ”

Immediately, he stood up and walked over to the woman. There was still a trace of fear in the woman's eyes, and she knew from the road that she was not afraid of herself, but she was not used to the way she was now.

The right hand from the road stretched out for a long time before the woman pulled him to his feet.

Holding the woman's soft but cold hand, there was a ripple in his heart, and the eyes looking at the woman also had a little more pity.

"Come with me."

The woman did not let go, nor did she ask where she was to be taken from the road.

Maybe it was Lu's body temperature that made her feel a little reassured, and from the sound of her breathing, Lu Neng could feel that her mood had eased a lot.

In the dark, he took the woman's hand from the road and walked to the parking lot.

His steps were fast, as if he could see the road under his feet.

After ten minutes, the woman's tense emotions gradually relaxed, and her originally cold hands gradually warmed.

"You! ~Can you see? As soon as the mood relaxed, the doubts in the woman's heart naturally wanted to be answered.

Conglu replied naturally, "I can't see it." ”

"Invisible! So how do you see the road? ”

"I'm listening."

The woman was a little surprised, and thought, "Is this the listening and arguing position in martial arts movies?" ”

In fact, I don't know what's going on from the road.

As he stepped on the ground, he could hear a sound coming from under his feet, followed by a 360-degree spread around his feet.

He can hear subtle changes in sound as it comes into contact with nearby objects, and can distinguish the traces left by sound as it penetrates different objects.

What Conglu couldn't believe the most was that his brain would edit those sounds into a picture.

Although the style of painting is a little strange, he can see everything in front of him clearly through these images, and even the images in his mind are much clearer than what he used to see with his eyes.

"Get in the car."

"Cars? Where is the car? ”

The questions raised by the woman were not answered one by one, not because he thought she was annoying, but because he didn't know what was going on.

Starting the car, he helped the woman fasten her seat belt from the side of the road, and when he approached her, he smelled a faint smell of perfume, although he didn't know what brand it was, but the smell felt somewhat familiar to him.

The woman's face was slightly flushed, and although he couldn't see her blush from the road, he could hear the woman's heart beating slightly faster.

"Where is this going?" The woman asked softly.

"Epidemic prevention center."

While talking back, take out the phone from the road and put it on the automatic charging pad.

The woman was a little puzzled and said, "This is not a virus, what's the use of going there?" ”

Grinning from the road.

"Haven't you studied history?"

The woman turned her head to look at the side face of the skeleton from the road, failed to overcome the fear in her heart and turned her head back, and stomped her foot in some anger.

"Haven't you studied a language?"

From the road, he knew that she wanted to say that he couldn't speak, and he didn't have the same knowledge as a woman, so he just stepped on the accelerator and said with concern by the way: "Sit firmly and hold firm."