Volume 1 Unheard of Star Names Chapter 4 The Last Madness
"On August 6, 2018, it was originally a blue sky and white clouds, and the sky was clear. I was chatting with the beautiful woman next door in the office building, and who knew it would come like this. That blood moon enveloped the entire land, and the terrifying day we call the Seven Days of Blood arrived. That night, I saw a scene that I will never forget, one that can only be seen on military shows β a real salvo of 10,000 arrows. Countless missiles, as if they don't want money, like monkeys in the sky, dragging their bright white tails, disappearing into the dark curtain of the night sky...... It was a very splendid firework, like the last sacrifice of mankind. βFrom the memoirs of an old man in 2108
Jiang Luo was awakened by the roar outside the window, and the thunderous noise made him mistakenly think that it was going to rain outside, but when he opened the glass window, he saw only a pitch black and a scarlet blood moon.
As soon as he got home, he was very sleepy, slept until now, his stomach was grunting with hunger, he found the bread in the refrigerator and ate a few bites, clicked on his mobile phone and looked, at half past ten in the evening, there were a few unread WeChat messages, which were sent by his mother. There was also an earthquake on his mother's side, but fortunately it wasn't a big problem. Jiang Luo replied to his mother's WeChat, and then clicked on other unread messages, and Diana Nanizi also left him a message, asking him if he was home.
"I went to sleep as soon as I got home, and I just woke up."
As soon as Jiang Luo sent a voice, he received a reply with a sigh, and when he clicked on it, it was Na Nizi's voice full of ridicule:
"Wow, senpai, you're real skin. Didn't wake you up with such a big commotion outside? β
"What do you mean?"
"Senior, aren't you afraid that when you wake up, the sky is dark, there is no light day and night, and the world is changing?"
"Get down to business."
"You can watch the news yourself, it's going to be hilarious......
Jiang Luo opened the browser and popped up dense news-
At seven o'clock in the evening, our country launched the Dongfang surface-to-air intercontinental missile against the invaders...... Oriental Daily.
At eight o'clock in the evening, the United States, the European Union, and the Russian Federation launched separate attacks on the invaders...... Times.
At nine o'clock in the evening, the five great powers launched a second round of attacks against the invaders...... International Alerts.
It turned out that when Jiang Luo was asleep, the high-level officials of various countries launched an offensive against this so-called invader again, but it seemed to have no effect? Those roars are not thunder, they are all missile launches! It should be from the Jiangnan War Zone, which is closest to the magic capital.
"Please try not to go out after 12 o'clock tomorrow noon, at present, the magic city will adopt a strict martial law system, and any behavior of waiting for the opportunity to do evil and fishing in troubled waters will be severely punished. I hope that all citizens will exercise restraint and trust the government and the country that we will resolve the vision in a few days. β
Jiang Luo turned off these live broadcasts without nutrition, and the experts of the major TV stations repeatedly emphasized that our strength was strong after simply analyzing that the enemy was a paper tiger, in short, the victory was in hand and the problem was not big, but Jiang Luo never believed in these experts. When you open the major forums, there are all kinds of arguments, and compared with the public media, these platforms can better reflect the real thoughts of the people. Some pessimists said that the end of the world was inevitable or something, but they were soon banned. There is a post bar called "Doomsday Survival" that Jiang Luo used to visit before, and the suggestion made by the owner of the small bar is very pertinent, so that the bar friends can buy sufficient supplies nearby, according to his internal information, this time things are not so simple, no matter what, you have to maintain your life first.
Before the end of the day, gold rose fivefold! The implications speak for themselves.
Jiang Luo turned off the computer, and his mood was messy. He was tired of ordinary days, and he was at a time when it could be the end of the world, but his mood was not as relaxed as he imagined. The extraordinaryness he was expecting came in a very ordinary posture, and he didn't even have a trace of mood swings, and lived his little life as usual. If Diana hadn't reminded him, he probably wouldn't have cared about the situation out there.
He felt that it had come too suddenly, like a dream.
Call! Jiang Luo let out a deep sigh, closed the curtains, collapsed on the bed again, and fell asleep.
When he woke up, it wasn't dawn outside, no, it should be said that it wouldn't be dawn, it was still the same as yesterday, the dark night sky, the scarlet blood moon.
The weather was colder than last night, seeing that the time was five o'clock in the morning, and the temperature was estimated to be only more than ten degrees, Jiang Luo put on a black coat and went out, and sent a WeChat message to Diana and her parents by the way, asking them to also go to buy supplies and stock up.
Unexpectedly, there was a long queue at the bank's ATM at 5 a.m., and the 24-hour convenience store was jammed, the gas station was full of people filling up the gas, and the police were also on the street yesterday to maintain order. A blood moon seems to have changed the work and rest time of human beings beyond recognition, not surprisingly, those big supermarkets are also open, or they are not closed overnight, the horror is that most of the materials inside have been snapped up, it seems that not only do they have such a consciousness, or that the Chinese people have a sense of crisis.
Although everyone seemed nervous, Jiang Luo hadn't seen anything out of the ordinary happen. It's just that the purchasing power is too amazing.
By the time Jiang Luo bought a few large bags of things and returned home, martial law had begun on the street, and looking out of the window, you could see a few pedestrians, as well as a police and chengguan who took a hundred steps and a post in front of them.
But such harmony and stability seems to exist only at home, and according to a forum post, several large riots have erupted in a country across the ocean, after all, in democracies where everyone has a gun, and in this case, potential criminals have more incentive to commit crimes, so the crime rate has risen sharply. There are even criminals who gather to storm the local government and banks......
Jiang Luo, like most of the people around him, lived in a rented house, going out for ventilation half a day before martial law every day, the sky never changed, people could only know the time from the clock, and some people with poor adaptability even had dizziness and nausea because they couldn't distinguish between day and night. Jiang Luo felt like an extremely long night, but he didn't know how long it would take before dawn. The streets outside look desolate, because the cleaners are also on holiday, so when the wind blows, the garbage on the streets flies with the wind. Even when it wasn't under martial law, there weren't many people on the streets, because crime had begun to occur in recent days, such as a house downstairs, which was said to have been robbed just last night. Blood Moon didn't feel much at first, but as time went on, some of us were so apprehensive that we didn't want to walk around the streets unless we had to, lest we encounter an unwarranted disaster.
In the early morning of the 10th, Jiang Luo was awakened by a gunshot, the gunfire was so close that Jiang Luo lay on the edge of the window and looked down, through the scarlet moonlight, only to see a dark red blood stain on the street not far away, the police car flashed red and blue lights, surrounded by a group of heavily armed policemen, lying a middle-aged man.
Later, I heard that it was a criminal who tried to escape and attack the police, and was shot directly. The sound of a gunshot shattered the peace of the entire neighborhood. There are no salespeople in shopping malls, many small supermarkets are only locked with iron gates during the daytime, banks can't withdraw cash, all kinds of POS machines and online banking are closed, and the whole society seems to be paralyzed. The Internet is also becoming more and more deserted, and only those experts are comforting the people over and over again every day, but everyone does not know the situation in other countries, and even the situation in other parts of the magic capital is not clear. On the same day, there were a number of incidents of smashing and looting in some areas, and even riots broke out within the system, with rioters reportedly attacking the city hall.
At twelve o'clock in the afternoon of the same day, with the roar of tanks, the army entered the city! The mayor announced on television that the magic capital would be subject to military control from now on. Neat tanks and armoured vehicles slowly drove through the city like a torrent of steel, and the troops fired warning shots and shot the rioters who tried to resist the army. The police have also been upgraded from batons and blast shields to armed police-level riot guns. The army took over the city, implemented strict military control, martial law and curfew throughout the city, assisted by the armed police and the army to defend each community, all materials were distributed system, no one was allowed to go out without authorization, they had to report first, and military control was until the problem was solved from above.
On the 12th, Jiang Luo received a WeChat message from Diana, saying that there was a riot in her community, and a resident could not bear the pressure of the end and committed suicide by lighting a gas canister, which resulted in a violent explosion and caused a fire, fortunately in the next building. As for other places, there are even inhabitants who have clashed with the army, causing bloodshed, and if nothing else, there is blood in many parts of the world, and in some places it has even been bloodshed, but there is no accident, and there will be no mercy on any individual or group that tries to challenge military discipline.
The weather is getting drier and colder, and the temperature has dropped to about zero degrees at night, Jiang Luo goes to receive the food distributed on time every day, and then returns home to surf the Internet, and then sleeps. Such days are aimless, and they don't even know when they will end, which makes people desperate.
On the night of the 13th, Jiang Luo heard a woman's scream, followed by a gunshot, and it was estimated that another person who tried to commit a crime was punished. This is not the first time such a thing has happened, and Jiang Luo has become accustomed to it from curiosity and surprise at the beginning. In the apocalyptic atmosphere, many people have lost hope, and it seems that only illegal and criminal things can bring them real excitement, but it is definitely fun at the cost of life. To Jiang Luo's surprise, the beast that was shot this time and tried to force the beautiful woman was actually the honest and wooden security guard brother I had often seen before, which couldn't help but make people sigh that under the multiple conditions of despair, panic, and chaos, people can do anything.
Jiang Luo, who returned to the house, received a video sent by Diana to herself, this little girl is really afraid that the world will not be chaotic, the situation has become more and more severe in recent years, but she can't feel her nervousness at all.
The video is just over a minute long, and it appears to be in a square in the United States, with a scarlet moonlight shining on a white marble statue, and a group of religious fanatics in white robes making strange gestures toward the blood moon in the sky, and chanting the strange incantation of "Gehros". A religious leader stood on the steps in front of the statue and said a lot of what seemed to be a small language, and then a bloody scene ensued, and the religious fanatics actually took out their sharp daggers and began the throat-slitting ritual in unison after shouting "Gehros" three times. Jiang Luo once watched a video of cutting off his head uploaded by a terrorist organization, and the same method was the same, but he cut off his own head...... The entire shot is blood-colored, and the blood-colored moonlight shines on the blood-colored ground......
"What the hell did you send me?"
"Senior, this is what happened yesterday when a friend of mine sent it to me!"
"A bunch of religious fanatics!"
"No, according to my friend, many of them are not religious, just ordinary people...... It seems that the situation is very bad on the American side, and there are many mass suicides like this in Western countries......."