Chen Xiao pushed open the glass door of the company, walked through the corridor, and saw Lao Wang sitting in his own place smoking a cigarette with a solemn expression.

There was no one else in the office, and as soon as Chen Xiao came in, Lao Wang saw him: "Chen Xiao? ”

Chen Xiao walked over and asked, "Lao Wang, what about the others?" ”

"I don't know." Lao Wang shook his head and said, "When I woke up in the morning, I didn't see anyone. ”

"What's going on?"

"I don't know."

The two stared dryly.

Lao Wang took out a cigarette and said, "Do you want one?" ”

"You know I don't smoke."

"Let's have one."

Chen Xiao hesitated in his heart and still took Lao Wang's cigarette, lit it and took a puff, swallowed the cigarette into his lungs, and then exhaled it from his nose.

"Do you have a plan?" Lao Wang asked.

Chen Xiao shook his head.

"It's so weird, it feels counterintuitive." Lao Wang said strangely.

Chen Xiao took a puff, flicked the cigarette ash and said, "I also feel this way, like ...... It's like you're immersed in a VR game. ”

"Do you think we're in a dream?" Lao Wang said suddenly.

With the last experience, Chen Xiao knew that this place was definitely not as simple as a dream, but he couldn't say anything more specific: "I'll slap you, see if you hurt, it definitely doesn't hurt." ”

"Smack!" As soon as Chen Xiao's words fell, Lao Wang slapped him in the face.

Feeling the hot pain, Lao Wang scolded: "We are really not fucking in a dream." ”

Chen Xiao was not surprised by this result: "Although we are not in a dream, I am sure that we are not in the real world, this is another space." Now I'm a little confused, are we entering into this world in the flesh, or are we just entering the consciousness? ”

"What you say is like something that only God can do." Lao Wang paused and said.

"The two of us still don't know what happened, and we hope to meet someone else to exchange clues."

Lao Wang said: "Let's go out for a walk, maybe there will be a harvest." ”

"Hmm." Chen Xiao agreed, took a deep breath and snuffed out the cigarette: "We just have a care together." ”

After saying that, the two got up and prepared to leave.

The elevator had stopped when the power ran out, and Chen Xiao and Lao Wang walked down the stairs together.

Lao Wang faced Chen Xiao, turned his back to the door of the exit on the first floor, and said while pushing the door: "You say..."

Before he finished speaking, a black shadow flashed outside the door, and Lao Wang's figure disappeared at the door at once, leaving only the empty door to shake back and forth.

Before Chen Xiao could come back to his senses, he heard a terrible cry coming from the hall, and he hurriedly ran over.

After seeing the scene in the hall clearly, Chen Xiao showed a frightened expression, and was suddenly too frightened to move.

In front of his eyes, there was a hideous-looking large praying mantis, taller than an adult, about 2 meters, a green shell, deep and black, its sickle-like forelimbs, a full 3 meters long, the head was the same as a real praying mantis, and the huge compound eyes were full of serrations of different lengths.

The forelimbs of the humanoid praying mantis clamped Wang tightly like a hacksaw, and the four rows of sharp teeth bent inward in the arm staggered into Wang's flesh and blood.

Lao Wang wailed in pain under the humanoid mantis, his hands fiddling to break free, but his strength was obviously insignificant compared to the humanoid mantis. His hands were puzzled by the fangs of the mantis's forelimbs, but his instinct for survival forced him to struggle in oblivion.

The humanoid praying mantis bit Lao Wang's neck, and Lao Wang's miserable screams spread throughout the building.

The hall was sprayed with blood. Lao Wang, who was still alive just now, was silent in a blink of an eye.

Lao Wang hadn't completely swallowed his breath, his mouth was constantly blistering with blood, and his throat made a ho-ho sound, staring at Chen Xiao, as if to say, "Save me...... I don't want to die yet......"

Chen Xiao's head buzzed.

Growing so big, it was the first time he saw a living person die in front of him.

"Weird." Chen Xiao's mouth trembled, his legs were weak, and he couldn't move.

After a while, he forced himself to overcome his psychological discomfort, grabbed a fire extinguisher, and smashed it at the humanoid praying mantis.

"Bang!"

The humanoid mantis swept away Chen Xiao very angrily. Chen Xiao slammed into the wall, and his stomach churned.

The praying mantis-like humanoid creature ignored Chen Xiao and continued to gnaw frantically at Lao Wang's corpse, gnawing off half of Lao Wang's head after a while. The sound of flesh and bone separating kept coming.

A fishy smell made Chen Xiao's stomach churn, and he clearly saw that the humanoid praying mantis was immersed in the excitement of hunting.

Holding back the feeling of nausea, Chen Xiao emphasized that he must calm down: "The more you encounter a big event, the more you can't panic." ”

He picked up the fire extinguisher on the ground again, pulled out the safety bolt, and sprayed it at the man-like praying mantis.

The humanoid mantis was completely enraged and rushed towards Chen Xiao, who hurriedly dodged.

Flashing to the side, Chen Xiao saw that Lao Wang had been torn apart, so he resolutely abandoned it, opened the door, and ran out.

The humanoid praying mantis heard him and sprang over, slamming headfirst into the transparent door.

The glass of the gate is all safety glass, which can withstand violent vibrations or impacts without breaking, trapping the humanoid praying mantis in and spinning in place.

Chen Xiao, who escaped with his life, panicked and ran into a street alley.

Recalling the tragic image of Lao Wang's death, he finally couldn't bear it anymore, and threw it up while holding on to the electric pole.

cough cough cough ......

After Chen Xiao vomited, he looked around and saw a sports lottery store with the door open.

He took a closer look and found that it was a boxy room, with no compartments in it, and all the scenes were unobstructed, and it was safe to hide inside.

Chen Xiao opened the door and walked in, locked the door, pulled down the roller shutter, and then curled up in the room shivering, not daring to go out: "Why is this happening?" ”

In the face of such a bloody and terrifying weirdness, a strong sense of powerlessness made him chagrined.

"Blood red."

Familiar panels came into view, empty columns and transparent boxes as if to mock his incompetence.

"What the hell is that?" Chen Xiao flinched, fear growing in his heart.

He stared at the white wall in a daze,

Time passed unexpectedly slowly.

Chen Xiao turned his head and saw a pile of scratch cards on the counter, he stood up and walked to the back of the counter, fumbled for a while, and used a knife to pry the cabinet open little by little.

Six piles of scratch tickets were taken out by him, and he was bored and wanted to find something to do to pass the time.

He sat down in a chair, pulled out a coin, took out a scratch ticket from it, and scratched it carefully.

There is no doubt that there is no reward for the first scratch.

Chen Xiao kept scraping down with patience, and scraped two piles of scratch tickets with different ways of playing in a row. At most, he only scratched twenty yuan once, and more than half of them were not rewarded, and a small part was five yuan.

He mechanically scraped one after another, tirelessly.

With his head stuffy, he scratched the fourth wad of scratch tickets, and when the sixteenth one was scratched, Chen Xiao was stunned for a moment: "Two hundred thousand? ”

This is a kind of scratch ticket called "Lucky Red Envelope", according to the rules, if you scratch out the "Fu" character symbol, you can get the corresponding bonus below the symbol.

At this moment, after the scratch film on Chen Xiao's hand was scratched, there was a line of ¥200,000 under the word "Fu", which was very eye-catching.

That's pretty much the biggest prize for scratch tickets.

If it was in the real world that he had won such a big prize, Chen Xiao would definitely be so happy that he couldn't sleep, but in the current environment, Chen Xiao didn't have the slightest joy at all.

On the contrary, after scratching the jackpot, all the scratches that have not been scratched are boring, and there is no intention to scratch them again.

He crouched in the corner in a daze, or slept wrapped in a newspaper.

Time seems to pass day by day, and Chen Xiao lives like a year. It was as if he was locked up in a small dark room, with no one to talk to, no entertainment. The silence of the environment was wearing down his patience every moment.

He even hallucinated.

Chen Xiao turned his head and actually saw the blue sky, with white clouds drifting.

Large areas of rice paddies are dyed golden.

Chen Xiao stood up and walked along the ridges that crisscrossed the fields, the warm wind blowing his haggard face.

Heaven and earth were filled with only the fragrance of wind blowing rice, and he was alone, so he let go of his footsteps and began to run.

All the way forward.

Suddenly, there was no space under his feet.

At the end of the ridge is an abyss, and the darkness is bottomless.

Chen Xiao fell in, and a real sense of falling hit him, making him suddenly sober up: "Ah! ”

He was standing in the doorway, a stone's throw from the closed door.

The contents of the schoolbag had been eaten, and Chen Xiao felt that his physical strength was constantly draining, and he couldn't do anything to lift his spirits. This is a very bad sign.

Realizing this, Chen Xiao knew that he couldn't continue to stay like this no matter what.

Judging by the level of hunger he was, he had spent about three or four days in this cramped space, and the world still showed no end in sight.

All the food has already been eaten, and consuming it like this pointlessly will surely make the situation worse.

Chen Xiao took out the fruit knife, and the smooth surface of the fruit knife reflected his tired and decadent face.

This closed, dark environment is really torturous.

He didn't know how the hell had come by these days, and his mind had become muddy.

Chen Xiao's face was ruthless, holding the handle of the knife in one hand and the blade in the other.

The cold light flashed, and the fruit knife slashed roughly in the palm of his hand, bursting out a string of bloodstains, the intense pain stimulated his nerves, and made his spirit collapse all of a sudden, at this moment he really felt that he was still alive, not an illusion.

Chen Xiao smeared the blood stains on his lips: "The weak have no right to negotiate, they cowered in one place, it doesn't help, I want to become stronger." ”

He took a deep breath and opened the roller shutter with all his strength, and walked out of the dreary room without looking back.