September 22, 200× 9:25 PM

Things always turn out unexpectedly.

None of the dozen or so people in the supermarket would have thought about what would happen next.

It's a very ordinary place. In fact, it's somewhat ironic to call this store, which is less than 300 square meters in total, a "supermarket". Admittedly, it can't be compared to the big shopping malls in the city, but the store is relatively well stocked, so it is already a very good store in this remote suburb.

The shop was generally quiet. More than a dozen customers who don't know each other silently choose what they need. Only one woman was carrying a shopping basket and tapping on her mobile phone.

"No, I told you, if you eat too much sugar, you'll get tooth decay." She lowered her voice and tried to use a serious tone. "Do you want to go to the dentist again?" After pausing to listen for a moment, she shook her head helplessly, "Okay, just a packet of chocolate and chips — but you'll have to promise me to brush my teeth every day." What the...... Feed...... Oh, son, the signal is so bad here. Forget it, I'll talk about it when I get back. ”

She tucked her phone into her handbag and picked up snacks on the shelves.

At half past nine, the gentle and sweet voice of the female clerk came from the small loudspeaker in the supermarket: "Hello customers. The supermarket will close in 15 minutes, so please select the goods you want to buy as soon as possible and pay at the cashier. We look forward to welcoming you again tomorrow. ”

After hearing the notification, customers sped up their purchases. After a while, more than a dozen people came to the cashier one after another, queuing up to pay.

"Let it, let it." A rugged man with a stubble on his face buzzed from behind, unceremoniously pushed aside the people in line, walked straight to a pair of men and women who were about to put the goods on the cash register, and threw the bags of food he grabbed in his hand in front of the female cashier: "Count with me first, I have something urgent." ”

Pushed out of the way was a fashionably dressed young girl, and she was about to say something, when her boyfriend gently pulled her clothes and motioned for her not to speak. The girl gave her boyfriend a blank look and turned her face in anger. The female cashier naturally felt that it was out of order, but after glancing at the big man with a meaty face, she didn't dare to say anything, so she had to pick up the bargain and sweep the price with those bags of things. The male clerk next to him watched all this helplessly.

That's when the unexpected happened.

There was a loud bang, and the glass door of the supermarket was slammed open. A sweaty, panting man stumbled in. The female cashier closest to him saw what he was holding at a glance, "Ah! The ground screamed.

"Don't move! You—all of you are not allowed to move! The man raised his pistol and screamed wildly, a shrill sound that filled the space. Everybody's in place! ”

The dozen or so people in the supermarket were all stunned, none of them had ever experienced such a thing, and none of them dared to act rashly. The gangster didn't seem to have time to take control of the situation any further, and he looked back in horror as he raised his gun. Suddenly, he pointed his gun at the male clerk by the door and shouted, "Close the door!" Quick, lock the roller shutter door! ”

"Okay, okay......" The male clerk was already pale with fright, and he didn't dare to resist at all. He trembled to the door, picked up an iron hook leaning against the door, pulled down the roller shutter door on the top with a "bang" and locked it, then consciously threw away the iron hook, raised his hands, and looked at the man with the gun with trepidation.

The man seemed a little relieved when he saw that the iron shutter door had indeed been closed, and his expression was much more relaxed than at first, but he still held his gun and raised it at the male clerk: "You go, stand with them." ”

The male clerk obediently complied and stood next to the female cashier.

Now, all the people in the supermarket were concentrated in front of the man with the gun, and the man finally let out a long breath and said in his harsh, unpleasant voice: "Don't look at me like that, I'm not the robber you imagined." No robber would be stupid enough to lock himself in a closed shop. ”

He paused, then said, "Now, listen, I'm going to tell you something—I guess none of you know that something so big is going on out there. ”

No one moved, and no one accosted anyone.

The man's expression was neurotic: "Hear me clearly - there is now an outbreak of a terrible virus outside that has never been seen before!" The virus is spreading at an alarming rate. About ten minutes ago, almost the entire city was infected by the virus. I survived because I fled to this outskirts before I was infected by the virus—" he swallowed and glared at the crowd in front of him, "I know by the way you look at you that you're not infected, which means that this area is still pure. But I know it won't be long...... This will also be invaded...... So, do you understand? We're staying in this supermarket right now and waiting for help! Don't try to get out! You don't know that people who are infected by this virus will ......"

Table tennis! With a muffled sound, the man with the gun shook twice and fell down in a daze. Behind him, stood a young man with dyed red hair, dressed like a hippie, or rather a street thug. At this moment, he held a blood-stained wine bottle in his hand, stared at the man lying on the ground in a daze, and saw the blood slowly pouring out of the back of the man's head, and he raised his head and looked at us in dismay.

"Hey, good job, boy!" The rugged man standing in front rushed over, crouched down and seized the gun from the unconscious man's hand, and said to the red-haired young man, "You have subdued this madman!" ”

The people behind all rushed over, and everyone was relieved to see that the gangsters had passed out. The mother who bought the snacks clutched her chest with palpitations: "Oh my God, it's terrible, I really didn't expect to encounter this kind of thing again in my life!" ”

Everyone was noisy and gossiping. The fashion girl's boyfriend shook his head and sighed: "This is a madman, full of neurotics!" But the question is, where did his gun come from? ”

"Maybe he went and did something else before he came here." A middle-aged woman with a fat figure said with a frown.

"Maybe that gun is just a toy gun." Fashion girl said.

"No, it's a real gun." The big man pinched the pistol and glanced at the girl who spoke, "And I checked, there are indeed bullets." ”

Everyone took a breath of cool air, frightened by the danger just now. A middle-aged uncle with glasses said, "Anyway, call the police immediately." ”

"Yes, yes." Only then did everyone come to their senses and unanimously agreed. The female clerk hurriedly walked to the counter and grabbed the telephone receiver.

"Hey, wait a minute." Dahan put the gun on the counter and squinted at the female clerk who was about to call the police, "Whether you want to call the police, or what to do with this madman on the ground, that's your business." But until then, open the door and I'm going out - I said, I'm in a hurry. ”

"Ah...... Right. The female clerk also realized that everyone was still locked up here, and she nodded at the male clerk, "You open the door." ”

The male clerk nodded mechanically, took out the key from his trouser bag, and was about to squat down to open the ground lock of the roller shutter door, when he heard a woman's voice from behind: "Wait, don't be busy opening it." ”

The male clerk turned his head blankly and found that everyone's gaze was in the same direction as his, staring at the fat woman who spoke.

"What do you mean?" The big man stared at her.

The fat woman was dressed out of place, and it was only early autumn, but she was wearing a black wool coat with a cashmere scarf around her neck, and she looked like she had just returned from a trip to northern Norway and had not yet been able to adjust her outfit in time. At this moment, she found that everyone's eyes were focused on her, which made her feel a little uncomfortable. Dahan raised his voice again and asked, "Why don't you open the door in a hurry?" ”

The fat woman hesitated and said, "I have a kind of ...... Bad premonition. ”

Dahan stared at her for two seconds, snorted disdainfully, turned around and muttered, "It's another neurosis." Then he said to the male clerk squatting at the door, "Ignore her, open the door!" ”

The male clerk hesitated for a moment, inserted the key into the lock hole, rotated it, and the lock opened with a "snap". He pulled the shutter door open half a man's height with a "whoosh", revealing the darkness of the night outside. The male clerk squatted and turned his head to the customers and said, "Okay, the door is open, everyone can go out ......"

Before he finished speaking, suddenly, in front of everyone's eyes, the male clerk was suddenly dragged out by something outside. The roller shutter door that he had been holding with his hands. It collapsed again with a "bang", and with a "snap", the ground lock locked the roller shutter door again.

It was almost a blink of an eye, and the people behind didn't even see what was going on before they realized that the male clerk was gone. Everyone was so shocked that they couldn't react, and they were even more shocked that something happened. They heard the heart-rending screams of the male clerk outside the door, as well as the loud crash of his desperate struggle against the iron shutter door. The two voices intertwine to form a terrifying noise mixed with endless horror and fear, which makes the listener feel creepy and heartbroken.

After about half a minute, it was quiet outside the door, and nothing could be heard. As the people in the supermarket looked at each other in shock, another scream cut through the silence, it was the fashionable girl, who pointed to the door with a pale face and cried out in horror: "Blood—blood!" ”

All eyes followed hers, and a chill rose from their backs.

Where the male clerk had been dragged out just now, a stream of blood was slowly seeping through the crack in the roller shutter door.

"Ahh The rest of the room, including the big man, was stunned and stiffened.

The air inside the supermarket froze for about a minute. At this moment, it seemed that everyone realized something in a moment, and after they looked at each other a few times, they all looked at the man who was lying on the ground and passed out, and remembered what he had just said. The middle-aged man with glasses was the first to step forward, squatting down and shaking the man's body, shouting, "Hey, how are you?" Wake up! ”

No response. The middle-aged man turned his body over, and his heart trembled - he didn't expect that the blood flowing from the back of the man's head had soaked all the front of his body, and there was a large pool of blood on the ground. The middle-aged man put his finger in front of the man's nose and tried it, and his heart chuckled and froze.

A young man behind him asked, "How's it going?" He ......"

The middle-aged man with glasses turned around, looked at the dozen people behind him, and said in a low voice, "He's dead." ”

For some reason, the moment I heard this, I immediately felt a chill of fear in my heart, as if someone was whispering to me in my ear: The nightmare has begun.