Chapter 1: True Darkness
When Huang Si woke up, it was pitch black in front of him, and he couldn't see anything.
He touched the floor around him, it was the floor, and he lay on the floor.
Then he reached to the left again, and felt a stick, and then groped up, well, his own wooden chair.
Huang Si climbed onto the chair with his hand and stood up, after all, he really couldn't see anything now, and it always made people feel like they were easy to fall.
Have a power outage at home? Huang Si thought to himself.
It's not so dark when the power goes out, and there's no light coming in from the window.
Huang Si glanced at the location of the window in his memory, but still couldn't see anything. This is at odds with the light pollution that is common in cities.
Is it already night? Widespread power outages across the city?
Forget it, let's find your phone and take a picture first.
Huang Si remembers that before he fell unconscious, the phone seemed to be being charged on the table.
He took a few steps in the place he remembered.
Fortunately, it was his own home, and everything was very familiar, Huang Si didn't take long to touch the bedroom, and then touched the mobile phone from the table.
Huang Si put his finger on the fingerprint button on the back of the phone, the phone made a clicking sound, and the screen lit up.
The faint light reflected Huang Si's face, and also illuminated the small space around him, Huang Si held his mobile phone and shook around the room, the bedroom was still the same, nothing abnormal.
He shook his phone again at the window, which was closed, but there was no light.
"It's really unlucky, there was a power outage at night, and I wasn't sleepy at all."
Huang Si glanced at the battery level of the mobile phone, 97%.
His phone didn't last long after he bought it, and the battery was quite durable. That's about a couple of hours of play.
It's just that there seems to be no network signal at all.
Huang Si turned his phone into airplane mode and switched it back again, but there was still no signal.
"The telecom base station is also without power?" Huang thought about it and could only guess like this.
Could it be that there is really a city-wide blackout, which is rare. Huang Sidu is 25 years old, and he has seen a city-wide power outage when he was a child. I haven't seen it since I got older.
"Why didn't the power go out when I went to work?" Huang Si muttered and lay on the bed. "If it's really a city-wide power outage, I hope I won't come to work tomorrow, so I don't have to go to work."
Huang Si graduated from the Department of Computer Science, and after graduation, he relied on his parents to help arrange the formal establishment of a public institution and started technical maintenance work in the network department. If he really wants to stop the electricity for the whole day, of course he can relax.
Without the internet, mobile phones become infun. Huang Si used to play games that were all connected to the Internet, but now that there is no Internet, he can't clear his physical strength or collect food, and his mobile phone has become less attractive.
Leaning on the bed and thinking about it, Huang Si decided to go out for a walk.
"My mother often told me that I didn't exercise enough, so I might as well go for a walk when the power went out."
He relied on the bright light of his mobile phone to walk to the gate, and then found his casual shoes at the gate, and after putting them on, Huang Si stuffed the key into his trouser pocket, opened the door and walked out.
However, just when Huang Si only took half a step out, through the faint light of the mobile phone screen, he saw an extremely terrifying phenomenon.
"Ah!!!!h
A miserable scream broke out, and Huang Si's whole person retreated wildly, because the action was too fast, he lost his balance for a while, and the whole person fell to the ground.
Huang Si sat on the ground, gasping violently, and the first time he came back to his senses, he immediately looked at his left foot.
The left foot is still wearing casual shoes in a decent manner, and there is nothing unusual about it.
Huang Si looked at the dark door again. There was still no light outside the door.
Did he just read it wrong?
Is it the illusion that the light on the phone is too weak?
He had just seen that his left foot had disappeared directly by the door!
It's like being swallowed up by the darkness outside the door......
However, after he stepped back urgently, it now seemed that there was nothing wrong with his feet, and he did not feel the slightest pain in the whole process.
Is it really a delusion?
Huang Si got up from the ground and tried his left foot, which was very solid to the touch, and there was nothing abnormal.
He walked slowly towards the door, and then, suddenly remembering something, picked up an umbrella from the shoe rack by the door.
Huang Si was still a little scared and didn't dare to try it with his body again, he stretched the handle of the folding umbrella, and then held the umbrella and stretched it out towards the dark door.
In Huang Si's horrified sight, the front end of the umbrella disappeared directly as if it were a knife cut.
No, it's not so much vanishing as it is completely submerging into the darkness outside the door, as if swallowed up.
Huang Si hurriedly put the umbrella back.
As if floating from underwater, the front end of the umbrella disappeared and returned to the top of the umbrella.
Finally, an intact umbrella appeared in front of Huang Si.
With a click, the umbrella fell from his hand to the ground.
"What's ...... outside the door" Huang Si looked at the door, his heart was beating fast, he was afraid, and he also had a little inexplicable expectation.
Growing up, as a science student, Huang Si knew the reality of the world inside out.
Science can explain everything, and if it doesn't, it's not perfect enough and the theorems need to be revised.
And all this in front of him really makes him unable to explain it with normal science.
Huang Si closed the door and returned to the room.
In the faint light of the mobile phone, he quickly touched the location of the balcony, the balcony of his house is a closed balcony, and there are almost no open balconies in the new residential area. However, the balcony window is also dark.
On the balcony, Huang Si found a pole to dry his clothes.
He took the pole to the gate, opened it again, and then, with his clothes, lifted the clothes pole and carefully stabbed it out.
Huang Si stabbed the clothes pole diagonally downward.
He didn't feel anything until the bottom of the clothes pole was only one bottom in Huang Si's hand, and he didn't feel that he had touched anything.
Although Huang Si lives on the 5th floor, he ...... Where is the "walkway floor" outside the door?
Underneath the gate, there is nothing.
Then, he retracted the clothes pole and stretched it forward.
If Huang Si remembered correctly, he should have been able to hit the railing of the stairwell by this time.
After shaking the clothes pole a few times, Huang Si still didn't touch anything.
The door was empty.
Huang Si retracted the clothes pole and closed the door.
The interior of his house is still normal, except that there is no light and no electricity. But outside, it seems to be completely isolated, and there is only endless darkness.
Huang Si didn't try it with the window just now, but with the door, because he knew that if there was something outside the door, even if he couldn't see it, at least he could touch it.
But now, it seems that the stairwell outside the door has disappeared along with the floor.
So, could it be that the clothes pole will melt as soon as it enters the darkness, making it impossible to touch objects?
However, just now he accidentally put his left foot into the darkness, and although the part of his left foot that reached into the darkness was not visible, he didn't feel anything unusual.
Normally, if part of your foot is gone, it should be at least half painful, right?
After thinking about it, Huang Si opened the door again, and then tried it with the clothes pole first, and then carefully stroked his fingers along the clothes pole outward.
His fingers gradually moved down the clothes pole into the darkness, and part of his fingertips disappeared into the darkness, no longer visible.
However, there is a sense of touch.
Huang Si's index finger touched the invisible clothes pole in the invisible darkness, and his index finger and the clothes pole should both exist together in the darkness outside, but they can't see it.
Huang Si withdrew his hand and closed the door.
So, is it just that everything outside the door is gone?
Or is it ...... Did he himself and his house disappear from the original world?
This kind of terrifying scene that seems to be like science fiction appeared vividly in front of Huang Si's eyes.
There was a feeling of unreality.
Huang Si pinched himself, it hurt, not a dream.
He turned off his phone and sat down on the couch by the door.
Huang Si rubbed his temples, trying to calm himself down and think about what was going on.
Everything in front of me has a surreal feel.
However, the fact that there was nothing outside the door made Huang Si feel as if it was not so dangerous.
Since there is nothing, then there is no such thing as something terrible. At least, with the door closed, he's safe at home.
He sat on the couch and remembered, by the way, what happened before he fell into this darkness?
Only then did Huang Si recall that it was true that something unusual had happened before, and it was this incident that caused him to fall into a coma. And when he woke up, he found that his home was dark.
Today is July 17th, Huang Si got off work at 5 o'clock because he was working in a public institution, and then because he was close to home, he usually walked home.
After he had dinner in the canteen of the unit, he fed the whole family and was not hungry.
Huang Si walked leisurely, thinking about the game he had recently played, and walked home.
Huang Si usually doesn't care much about people, and every day he thinks about getting home from work early, and when he gets home, he plays games, reads books, and watches videos. To say that it sounds good is to be homely, and to say that it is bad is to be out of touch with society.
He usually doesn't pay much attention to whether there are acquaintances around him when he walks, firstly, he doesn't like to greet people, and secondly, his mind is basically thinking about other things, and he has no time to pay attention to others.
But halfway through the road today, Huang Si suddenly heard someone calling him.
The voice is unfamiliar, even faint.
Huang Si looked back, looked around again, and didn't notice anyone looking at him.
Did you hear it wrong? Huang Si continued.
However, the voice that called him turned out to be stronger and stronger, and it haunted him like a soul.
Huang Si looked around, but still didn't find anyone, but he listened to the sound and quickly walked to the river next to the road.
The voice seemed to be coming from here, and was there anyone hiding in the bushes beside this little ditch to tease him?
Huang Si pushed aside the bushes and looked at the place where the sound came from, but there was no one.
It was strange, but Huang Si saw a book on the ground.
Huang Si is a person who loves to read books, and he can't see anyone spoil books. He looked at the cover of the book, which seemed to be leathery and not dirty, so he reached out and picked it up.
Next, Huang Si opened the book.
"This is a book?"
Huang Si flipped through the book, and it was all white paper.
There is no writing on the cover, and there is white paper inside, is it a handbook that has become more popular recently?
The paper of this book is very good, smooth and white to the touch, and the leather cover looks very high-end, and even has a feeling of leather.
HUANG SI THOUGHT TO HIMSELF: LUCKY, PICK UP A BOOK FOR NOTHING.
And then I picked it up.
Huang Si is usually not short of money, and he doesn't pick things up everywhere, but when he saw the book, he felt an inexplicable sense of joy, as if he was very close, so he unconsciously picked up the book and took it home.
After arriving home, Huang Si put the notebook on the table in the living room, and then prepared to go to the kitchen to make a cup of hot tea, and then bring it to the bedroom to play a game for the night.
However, just as he turned around, his head suddenly felt a sharp pain, as if he had been stabbed by something.
The next thing he did, he fainted in pain.
As soon as I woke up, it was already in this completely dark home.
As soon as Huang Si woke up, he was shocked by the abnormal situation at home, so it was only now that he remembered what happened before.