Chapter 15: Is there anyone?
"It's hot."
Not a few steps into the community, weighing nine catties, he felt a heat wave coming, and the hot wind whistled and hit his face.
The weather forecast is only 26 degrees Celsius, why is it so hot?
The window of the entrance security booth is ajar, and there are spread out visitor registers on the table, which seem to be useless, and there are some indiscriminate graffiti of unknown meaning, most of which are rarely used, and next to the register is a pile of old newspapers and a crooked drinking glass, and the security guard is missing.
There is only one narrow passage along the gate, so you can only walk.
Weighing nine catties, he wiped the sweat on his face, this prosthesis was inevitably too realistic, and the sweat flowed down in large pieces, and some of them dripped into his eyes, which was spicy to the eyes.
It's getting hotter and hotter, sweating is raining down, and the water in the body is constantly being evaporated.
She was very skeptical that if she continued to walk like this, she would not be able to return to the hospital smoothly if she walked around here and walked out and became a walking dried corpse crisp, scaring the flowers and plants on the side of the road.
It's also possible to be packed up and sent straight to the museum.
The hot wind was blowing, and there was the roar of the engine of a large transport truck passing by outside the block, intermittently fast and slow, that was the only source of noise, and there was silence all around, and no one was seen after walking for a long time.
The dusty houses were close together, and the doors were closed.
After checking the map before coming, the house rented by the truck driver Li Xiangdong is located in a landfill on the northern outskirts of Jingchu City, which is also the largest slum in Jingchu.
Jingchu City is a relatively prosperous city in the old land, but even so, the city cannot change the dilapidated old land.
The city's largest garbage dump, the northern suburbs, is built on a collapsed pit, and nearly a third of the city's garbage is sent to the dump.
At first, the scavengers set up camp along the edge of the pit for convenience, but later the government funded the construction of cheap rental houses here, and the more people gathered, the living conditions became worse and worse, and gradually spontaneously formed a slum relatively isolated from the urban area.
Completely different from Beizhai in the northern suburbs, where people and snakes are mixed and dangerous gangsters are concentrated, most of the people living here are ordinary people and homeless scavengers from difficult families.
Rows of square houses are densely packed together, and the nearest place between the houses is less than five centimeters apart.
The landfill behind the complex is the source of livelihood for most of the landfill's residents.
Weighing nine pounds, he looked around in wonder, "Why is there no one?" ”
The landfill is extremely densely populated, with 40,000 people living in the landfill according to official statistics, and the actual permanent population should be even higher.
A 100-square-meter room is likely to be crowded with dozens of people, where did all these people go?
Even if all the young people go out to work and go to school, it is not like there is no one left.
The houses that weighed nine pounds were all locked, the doors were closed, and no one answered even when she knocked on a few houses.
"Anyone?"
Her voice stood out in the dead silence.
Heavy Jiujin glanced at the interface of the personal terminal, there was no signal, and even the symbol of 'emergency call only' was gone.
The landfill is close to the wasteland, which is considered to be on the edge of the city, and the poor signal is understandable, but it is unusual for emergency calls to not work.
Li Xiangdong's home is in Room 48, 7th Floor, Unit 1, Building 1, District D, but it's useless to just know the house number.
The houses here are too densely distributed, the passages are narrow, there are many steps, and the whole ring is a large labyrinth, even if you hold the house number given by the truck driver and weigh nine pounds and turn for more than 20 minutes, you still can't find the house.
She has some of the remaining memories of the driver in her mind, but it is like watching a movie clip, and just because she has seen it does not mean that she can know the deep meaning of every picture in the movie, let alone remember every detail.
I don't know how many times I have turned, but I still haven't seen a single figure, as if she is the only one left in the whole world, and all that accompanies her is the sound of footsteps.
"Dead guide."
"Are you there?"
There was no response to the continuous calls.
Something seems wrong.
Weighing nine pounds along the way, she turned left and went straight because of the continuous rain, because the road under her feet was slippery because of the continuous rain, she walked carefully, and there was a bad smell of burnt paste in the air.
Weighing nine pounds, with a vague memory, he finally found a crooked street sign with D written on it.
Suppressing the feeling that something was wrong in her heart, she just wanted to quickly find the truck driver's home and leave with her four-legged plush pet to fulfill the driver's last wish.
The sky gradually darkened, and the darkness pressed down.
"How long have I been gone and it's getting dark?" Weighing nine pounds and wondering about the time, the watch clearly displayed '13:13', it was noon.
There was a strange smell approaching between the snorts, it was the breath of the dead spirit, and the weight of nine catties suddenly stopped, and he turned his head sharply to look at the guard, and there was nothing behind him except the dusty house.
It makes people nervous even more: "This place is so weird. He muttered in confusion, not noticing anyone approaching.
After turning around, a pair of dark eyes stared at her, face to face nose, cold breath almost on her face.
Weighing nine pounds, he jumped backwards in fright, and then he saw that an old woman was standing in front of him.
"Do you see my grandson?"
“......”
The doors of the nearby houses were all opened at some point, and some people were looking around, some people were talking in low voices, and the sound of laughter and laughter continued.
The originally quiet area became lively in the blink of an eye, and there were suddenly pedestrians on the road, sweeping away the previous dead silence.
weighed nine pounds, but touched his arm, and the sweat was obviously hot like rain, but at this moment, his hair stood up, and all the goosebumps stood up.
Take a deep breath, mom, it's scared to death!
"Do you see my grandson?"
The old woman asked all the way and walked away, and no one answered her.
"It's best if her grandson dies."
"You think this old woman can't be crazy, she doesn't do anything every day and just looks for her grandson everywhere."
"Maybe it's really crazy, that's not right, it's all retribution."
"It's not retribution, you deserve it."
"Actually, she is quite pitiful, she lost her husband at an early age, took her eldest son alone, and left such a child after her son and daughter-in-law died in a garbage dump."
"You pity her, then you go and help her find her grandson, I think it's her grandson who was born bad and killed his parents, and it's best to die outside."
"Hmph, don't let me see that little cub, kill him and I'll eliminate harm for the people."
......
"How many people died in that fire, if it weren't for her grandson, would so many people have died?"
"That's it, I don't pity this kind of person, if she can discipline her grandson well, she won't kill so many people."
A few residents gathered together, and between the words, they wanted to dig out the pair of ancestors and grandchildren in their mouths and whip them a few times.
Weighing nine catties, he was confused, and when he turned his head, he saw one of the residents holding a newspaper in his hand and waving, "Look at today's news, a special report was specially published, hundreds of people died, and they caused evil, do you think such people deserve to die?" ”
The nine-pound gaze is fixed on the right side of the top of the newspaper page, and it is impressively written August 21, 2052.
Wasn't that twelve years ago?