On August 26, 2018, in the mausoleum city, the dim sky made people feel as if they were about to suffocate, and there were rumbling thunders in the distance from time to time, and gray rain filled the streets of the city.

"This damn weather, it's been raining for a whole month, and if it continues like this, the earth will be flooded." A man in camouflage short-sleeved with one hand in his trouser pocket stands in front of a transparent floor-to-ceiling window, smoking a cigarette and whining. He had been feeling restless for the last few days, but he couldn't say why, maybe it was the weather. "Damn, this cigarette is damp, and it doesn't taste at all when you smoke it." The man raised the half-smoked cigarette in his hand and flicked it lightly, and the cigarette butt flew into the trash can with a bright light in the air.

"Daddy."

A crisp child's voice came from behind the man. The man immediately changed his smiling face and turned his head: "Huh! Girl, you're awake. Come on, come on, dad will take you to pee first. The man stepped on a pair of camouflage flip-flops and ran over with a click.

"Hmm.... Daddy stinks, you smoke again, don't want you to hug, the baby goes to pee on his own. ”

The man's hand, which had just reached mid-air, stopped awkwardly. A cute girl with long hair and big eyes slipped under his arm and ran barefoot. The man withdrew his hand and scratched his head and smiled, looking at his 3-year-old daughter, his face full of happiness. While his daughter was going to the toilet, the man came to the kitchen and prepared to make breakfast for his daughter. "Girl, Dad is going to work soon, can you cook noodles for you today? I'll make you something to eat tomorrow. ”

"yes, okay."

Half an hour later, the father and daughter finished breakfast, and the man changed the little girl's clothes for going out and led the little girl out of the door.

"Dad, it's raining again, I don't want to go to kindergarten, I want to go to my aunt's house to play with my sister."

The man touched his daughter's head dotingly and said, "Okay, I'll ask the teacher for a leave of absence, and then send you to your aunt's house, but you have to be obedient." ”

"Oh yes, that's great." The little girl jumped for joy. The man led his daughter to the underground garage and found his car, a 2015 white Tiggo 3 with manual transmission, which he bought the year his daughter was born to celebrate her birth. Opening the car door, the little girl climbed into the back seat of the car by herself, and the man sat in the cab, lit the fire, put it in gear, refueled, and did it all in one go. The car slowly drove out of the underground garage and into the rain-soaked street.

"Maybe I hit the south wall before I turn back, maybe I see the Yellow River before I die, maybe I want to go all the way to the dark... Feed! ”

"Sister, your mobile phone ringtone is quite good, what song?" The man drove the car and called his cousin with a Bluetooth headset.

"Can you be sung by an Internet celebrity, what is the matter with me? Tide ...... You come down for me! There was a roar of Hedong lion on the other end of the phone, which frightened the steering wheel in the man's hand.

"Uh... That, Xixi didn't go to kindergarten either. It just so happened that my family Yiyi didn't want to go to kindergarten either, and said that she was going to play with Sister Xi. ”

"Oh, okay, then you can send Yiyi over, it just so happens that I am resting today."

"Well, I'm on my way here, and I'll be there soon. Bye! The man hung up the phone and turned back to his daughter and said to his scissorhands: "Aunt and Sister Xixi are both at home, now you are satisfied." ”

"Hmm... Well... Hmmm.." The little girl nodded vigorously.

The distance to my cousin's house was very close, and the man drove to his cousin's neighborhood in less than 5 minutes. Parking the car at the door of Building 7, the man opened the door without an umbrella, picked up his daughter and rushed into the corridor after two or three steps. The father and daughter slowly climbed to the third floor and knocked on the door of their cousin's house. An ordinary middle-aged woman opened the door and poked her head out: "Come on, come in, why don't you have an umbrella?" ”

"Sister, I won't go in, I have to rush to work, Yiyi will be handed over to you." The man shook his head and sent his daughter through the door.

"Hello aunt, where's Sister Xixi?" The little girl greeted the woman politely.

"Yiyi, my sister is playing in it, you can go in and find her by yourself." The woman smiled at the little girl and pointed behind her

"Hmm. Well. Goodbye Dad. The little girl ran into the room without looking back.

"This girl," the man smiled helplessly. "Sister, Yiyi will let you go here, I'll pick her up after work."

"Alright, alright, don't worry. Then I won't keep you, hurry up and go to work, don't be late. The door slammed shut. A cool breeze blew in the hallway, and the man's smile froze on his face.

Downstairs, the man drove to his place of work. His name is Chen Feng, 33 years old this year, his parents died early, he was a soldier for two years when he was young, and now he is an ordinary small clerk in a state-owned enterprise, the salary is not high, and he can't get rich and starve. Three years ago, his wife died of difficult childbirth, leaving behind a lovely daughter. Because he missed his deceased wife, and at the same time in order to prevent his daughter from being bullied, Chen Feng decided to raise his daughter alone. The father and daughter lived together for three years. In the first two years, his daughter was too young to work while taking care of his children, so he resigned and survived the two years with the help of tens of thousands of yuan in savings and relatives and friends. In the third year, my daughter was finally able to go to kindergarten, and he also looked for the job again.

The place where Chen Feng works is about 12 kilometers away from home, and when the weather is good, it only takes about 15-20 minutes to drive, but I don't know what happened this month, and it has been raining for nearly a month. In the past, the rain was transparent, but now this rain is gray like the water that has been washed with a dirty rag, and what is even more strange is that this rain is not regional but global, and it is raining this gray everywhere on the earth. The rain was not heavy, like the autumn rains, and the daily rainfall was less than 0.1 mm. Some so-called experts on TV say that this is because the atmosphere is heavily polluted and causes acid rain, although the pH value is not yet up to the limit of ordinary acid rain, but it is also very close. However, another group of experts came forward and said that the PH value of these gray rains is greater than 5.6, which is not acid rain at all, and acid rain is unlikely to fall globally. This must be an early warning of the end of the world. For a while, rumors were all over the sky, acid rain theory, doomsday theory, and all kinds of strange theories came out. For Chen Feng, none of this has anything to do with him, he just wants to work hard now and raise his daughter with peace of mind. Nothing else has anything to do with him.

The sky was getting darker and darker, and the dark clouds above me seemed to be only a few hundred meters away from me. Chen Feng is halfway to work, and to get to his place of work, he has to pass a two-kilometer road along the embankment of the lake, and on the left side of the road is a large freshwater lake. He looked out the window and casually followed the traffic on the road, because of the rain, it was the rush hour for work, there were a lot of vehicles on the road, although it was not blocked, but it was not fast.

After walking for less than half a minute, suddenly, a blood-red lightning bolt struck the lake fifty meters away in front of him, and the red light and deafening thunder frightened him to brake subconsciously. "Bang, bang, bang......" More than a dozen cars in front of him rear-ended in a row, blocking all the roads horizontally and vertically. I'll go, fortunately, Lao Tzu reacted quickly, scared Lao Tzu, what the hell? Chen Feng opened the car door in shock and walked down.

The lake that had just been struck by lightning was filled with smoke, as if the lake had been boiled by water. The drivers who were stuck in the road got out of the car one after another, and as soon as there were many people, the sound of chattering and discussion rang out, and after a while, it became as noisy as a vegetable market. Chen Feng looked at this group of people who liked to join in the fun and shook his head, except for some smoke, nothing suspicious appeared on the lake. Chen Feng took out his mobile phone and dialed a call, and a few seconds later, the phone was connected, "Hey, leader, I had a car accident here." It's not me, it's someone else, a lot of cars are rear-ended, the road is blocked, I can't get over for a while, maybe I will be a little late. Hey, okay, okay, I'll do it as soon as possible, thank you leader. Hanging up the phone, Chen Feng let out a sigh. Fortunately, this leader is easier to speak, this job is not easy to come by, and he doesn't want to be fired for being late once. But how does this happen? Chen Feng looked left and right, "Sidewalk? No, it's too narrow. Just turn around and go in the wrong direction, and change to another road, although it will take more than ten minutes to detour, it is better than being stuck here, anyway, this is not monitored. Well, that's it. He got into the car and slowly turned around, squeezed and moved for nearly half an hour before getting off the road along the lake embankment, and spent more than ten minutes detouring to another road to the company.

I don't know when, the rain in the sky gradually became heavier, from a continuous drizzle, to a light rain, and gradually increasing.