Chapter 1: Purple Rain
In a quiet village surrounded by mountains on three sides and facing the sea on one side, it can be said that it is extremely difficult to get in touch with the outside world.
Leaving the land is one to climb over three mountains and cross an endless desert, where the road is difficult and difficult to discern, and it is said that if you are lucky, it will take only a month, and if you are bad, it will take even longer.
If you turn to the waterway, it is relatively convenient, and it will take dozens of days to travel. One of the strange things is that when you take a boat, whether it's from the south or the north, you will enter a windless area after a night of travel. Whether it is spring, summer, autumn or winter, it is always in a windless state, and there are many reefs around, and the risk factor is extremely high.
Even though the place is so remote and isolated, it has been a common occurrence in the past 100 years that with the soaring technology of the outside world, planes crashed and ships shipwrecked here. But it has also accelerated the development of local science and technology.
It was as if the place had been abandoned by God, and it was as if it had been taken care of.
For this village, which has a history of many years, it is divided into five small villages, and the five small villages are managed by a village chief. Its scientific and technological level is also quite superb, which is due to the discovery and rise of people in the past generations, and the novelty of foreign things. There is also the spirit of going out of the village and learning from the outside.
And just tonight, the moon wheel was unusually huge, emitting a faint pale moonlight, as if it was covered by a huge transparent film, and it looked weak.
The mountain path looms.
On the back side of the Garan Mountains in the south, halfway up the mountain, a retro jeep, covered with layers of loess ash next to its wheels, seemed to have gone through a lot of hardship, and then stumbled towards the village.
The headlights seemed to be affected by the faint pale moonlight, like an old man looking for a way, moving slowly.
In the car that had been driving for several days and nights, Chen Aier, a middle-aged male driver who was yawning, was slightly familiar with the nearby mountains. Even though I haven't seen it for ten years, it hasn't changed much in general.
Al, who was in the driver's seat, was tired but still energetic, and said:
"It's been 10 years, and our village doesn't know what's going on. This mountain road is still difficult to walk, and you can hardly see the road ahead. ”
Al looked at the road illuminated by the faint lights in front of him, and familiarly operated the steering wheel.
"It's not easy to come back after we've been walking for a long time, but it's much better than when we went out."
Thoughtfully.
A middle-aged woman sitting in the passenger seat, Al's wife, looked ahead and replied:
"Didn't you say that there was a very serious landslide three months ago? When the village chief contacted us, he said that it was Lingshan in the east, and he said that there was purple rain, which was strange when I thought about it."
Al's wife looked at the gloomy surroundings.
"The roads here have basically been rerouted, and it's a bit hard to discern, is this still where we were born and raised? Be careful when you drive. Worriedly, he told Al, who was driving, to drive carefully.
And a tired and sleepy teenager sitting in the back seat of the car was their son Chen Tianyun, slightly thin, with black hair that was eye-high, and his messy hair basically covered his right eye, and his eyes seemed to have lost his mind. The skin looked pale again, a single white long-sleeved shirt, straight-leg denim, sitting lazily in the back seat of the car, and thinking it was a drug addict if he didn't look closely.
Tianyun recalled the phone call from home more than ten days ago, and his mother asked anxiously about the other end of the phone. How could this happen? The voice of an old man who answered on the other side said that the phenomenon was very strange, and many people had passed out, so you should come back with Al and have a look! Such a conversation.
It seems like something terrible is going on over there.
Tianyun looked out the car window, the dark forest, leaning against the car window with his hand on his face and didn't say a word.
Suddenly, the phone in his pocket beeped, and he took out his phone casually, and glanced at the phone prompt that the signal had been restored. I thought back to the beginning of the mountain, the signal was restored one by one, but there was no signal before, it seems that it is close to the village.
As the car slowly moved forward into the other side of the mountainside, I felt that the aura around me had changed, as if I had passed through a layer of intangible.
Obviously, the surrounding trees and flowers are basically nothing unusual, but the atmosphere is slightly dark and weird, which can't help but make people shiver.
"We're almost there, that's where we lived, when you were only five years old, and your mother kept proposing that we go out to live in the outside world, so that you could get a better education, although the education level in our village is not bad, but your mother has always wanted to go to the outside world. Say the outside world is bigger. Now we're back. I haven't seen your grandfather for ten years, and I still have fellow villagers. ”
Al suddenly babbled, trying to warm up the atmosphere.
"When the time comes, you have to say hello well, and don't be like you used to see no one who won't scream." Tianyun's father looked ahead from time to time, and from time to time to his son.
Tianyun's mother interrupted him and said:
"What do you say? You see how smart and clever our son is now, it's just that our son doesn't like to talk much. ”
As he spoke, he turned his head to look at the back seat.
"Tianyun, do you remember the little girl named Zhang Xiaoshi who used to play with you and lived next door to our village? People are beautiful now, and they look beautiful. ”
As he spoke, he took out his phone from his bag and rummaged through the photos, as if to hint at something.
Tianyun reached out to turn off the phone screen, said "no", and then ignored his mother, and looked out the car window again.
His mother is still very worried about her son's relationship with the opposite sex, and now she no longer has contact with the opposite sex. The doctor said that it was a psychological disorder, and that more contact with the opposite sex was needed to overcome this disorder, which made his mother have to sigh.
As the road flattened and the speed of the car increased, the trees were falling backwards outside the window. Driven Tianyun to recall that when he was five years old, he had a few friends who played very well, one of them was Xiaoshi, her lovely smile was crooked at all times, her eyes were bright and bright, and she was small and exquisite, and she looked like a beautiful embryo. You don't have to think about it to know how beautiful you are growing up. Recalling the naughty act of dipping chalk dust on his fingers and applying it to the other person's face in elementary school, Tianyun smiled inadvertently.
Suddenly, the car shook, and Tianyun came back to his senses in his thoughts.
The car seemed to have hit something and looked ahead. Tianyun's parents had already gotten out of the car to check what was in front of the front of the car. The thing in front of it reflected a dazzling purple light in the faint moonlight.
"What is this? Glass? Jewel? Crystal? ”
Tianyun's father frowned in confusion and looked at it carefully, but he didn't touch it with his hand.
When Tianyun opened the car door to see what it was, he found that halfway up the mountain in the distance, by the faint moonlight, there seemed to be a person standing under the tree, and he seemed to be looking at this side, a dark shadow. Tianyun wiped his eyes and looked carefully at the black shadow in the distance, but the black shadow suddenly disappeared? Tianyun wondered if he was tired from traveling in the past few days and hallucinated, who would appear in such a gloomy place at this point in time.
Tianyun retracted his gaze to see what had been hit in front of the car.
It turned out to be a huge piece, nearly two or three meters high, resembling a crystal-like lens thing, purple in color. The soil around the crystal is wavy and extremely loose, with a few small cracks nearby.
It looked like it had come out of the ground not long ago, or maybe it had been caused by a landslide three months earlier, exposing the thing deep in the mountain. Tianyun thought as he touched the surface of the crystal with his hand.
Suddenly, a chill hit him, and Tianyun naturally reflexively withdrew his hand.
Amethyst seemed to have undergone some changes, and Tianyun naturally took a few steps back when he saw this. There seems to be a yellow spot of light behind the amethyst?
A view from behind the amethyst.
The golden lights illuminated a large village, and the three mountains in front of it were like a natural funnel, and the village was located in the center of this great funnel.
The lights in the village are exceptionally bright compared to the night, and the dazzling can be compared to the city night under the neon lights. Unlike the night in the city, there is a dead silence, as if it didn't exist.
The sound of the mountains squirming next to it seemed to be out of step with the showy silence of the village.
Tianyun's father looked excitedly at the big village in the distance and said:
"We're here!"
Tianyun's mother also had a hard time suppressing her excitement, and she was about to burst into tears. After all, I haven't been back for ten years, and I've traveled a long way along the way, and at this moment, the fatigue along the way seems to dissipate with the breeze. Everyone seemed to have forgotten about the huge purple crystal that stood in the way.
"We used to live in such a horrible and eerie place?" Tianyun looked at his parents questioningly and pointed to the large village in the distance.
Accustomed to seeing the neon city at night, Tianyun is still a little uncomfortable with this, but he can't say that he has a sense of belonging.
"It wasn't like this before, it used to be more lively than the city outside!" Saying that, Tianyun's father recalled the lights in the past, and everyone's enthusiasm was like a sea.
"I heard that it rained and it became like this."
"A rain?"
"Yes! A rain makes this like this."
"What kind of rain was that?"
"An incredible rain."
Tianyun's father took out a shovel from the trunk and cleaned up some weeds, branches, and gravel next to the purple crystal: "You can go here, I can clean it up, and the car should be able to pass." ”
I don't know how many roads I used this shovel to open up along the way, and Tianyun's mother also cleaned up the rubble together.
Suddenly, the clouds in the sky were dense, and a gust of wind blew past Tianyun, Tianyun almost couldn't stand, the moonlight was even darker, and the lighting of the headlights seemed to change, and the brightness was lower.
Tianyun's parents noticed something was wrong, this rapidly descending air current, it seemed that it was about to rain heavily? Why is it raining heavily at this time?
At this time, a puff of smoke wafted out, purple in color. The sky clouds looked like the source of the smoke drifting out, and it was the purple crystal that emanated from it. How so? What appeared to be a purple crystal was dissolving, turning into purple smoke billowing in. Tianyun looked at the hand that had just touched the purple crystal, his thumb rubbing back and forth on the tips of the other four fingers, and the coldness on his hand didn't seem to dissipate.
Tianyun's parents quickly cleaned up the road.
"Hurry up and get in the car, as if something terrible is coming. Go into the village as fast as possible," Tianyun's father said, clearing the road.
As the wind around them hit the trio, Tianyun's father put the shovel back in the trunk.
The three of them hurriedly got into the car, "bang", closed the door, and when the car was started, the three of them looked at each other. That huge purple crystal that stood in the way had disappeared? All that remained was a large purple cloud that slowly rose up and swept towards the sky, leaving a large black crater.
Then there was a thunderclap, and Tianyun's father skillfully operated the car and drove towards the entrance of the village.
Suddenly, the clouds in the sky merged with purple smoke and merged into a purple cloud. Suspended above the village. It was about to overwhelm the village, and thunder rumbled in the purple clouds. At this time, the demonic wind was everywhere, and the domestic animals in the village instantly shivered and hid in the corner, as if some demon was coming to devour them.
The people of the village noticed the strange thing, and they all went back to their homes, closed the doors and windows, and put the bricks that had been prepared in the corners of the walls beside the doors and windows, and then piled them up little by little. Do you want to close the doors and windows with stones? Then some people sighed:
"Here we go again, it's the third time"
The doors were locked and closed, and some of them looked out the window while laying bricks, and said:
"Purple rain!"
And those who were sleeping soundly in the bed by the corner seemed more peaceful.
Then it rained, like a flood of beasts. The rain was raging in the wind, revelry, like a giant beast, ready to invade the land.
Every drop of rain carries purple smoke, like a purple rain.
A very surprising phenomenon, this purple rain falls but does not touch the ground! Drill where you fall, and you can seep into the pit when you encounter it, and it will not stay anywhere on the surface.
Even if the umbrella or other object is passed through directly, it has no effect on the umbrella or other object, as if it were nothing.
Someone in the village once reached out to pick it up, and the purple rain that he received stayed in his palm for a long time, and then it also seeped into his hand, and the terrible thing was that the person who came into contact with the purple rain would immediately faint to death, how to call without any reaction.
Therefore, lying in the corner of the hospital or far away from the window, there were hundreds of people who had fainted due to the purple rain, and the people who accompanied them looked miserable. And domestic animals, such as dogs, when they encounter purple rain, they will go crazy and irritable until they are exhausted and faint.
Every purple rain will make a lot of people faint and make a lot of other creatures crazy.
Tianyun's father saw that purple rain was about to fall in the sky.
"That's what they say, purple rain. What a spectacle! We need to hurry," Tianyun's father said to his wife, speeding up the car as well.
A rain that is impossible to appreciate, find a place to shelter from the rain before it hits them.
Tianyun saw the purple rain shining through the moonlight and exclaimed: "How beautiful! ”
Tianyun's mother heard Tianyun say this and responded: "But this is fatal." ”
Tianyun's father then shouted: "Everyone, hurry up, before the rain falls to the ground, we have to find a place to hide from the rain, this car is not made of stones, it can't stop the rain." ”
Then the horsepower was increased, the clutch stepped to the bottom, and the steering wheel was operated.
Although the appearance of this car is a jeep, but that is only the appearance, it was long ago by Tianyun's father, a fanatical car enthusiast, with his own enthusiasm and hands-on ability, modified like a top racing car configuration, the motor alone cost millions.
The horsepower is full, and the tail is lit with nitrogen dioxide and sprays blue flames. Hold on tightly to the steering wheel and head straight all the way.
Until the entrance of the village, with the help of a slope over the guardrail, he drifted on the ground one by one, aimed at a warehouse gate, and once again galloped away with full horsepower.