For three days, I have been in a daze, I don't know what day it is, and I don't know how we returned to Nancheng from western Sichuan, all the way I slept groggily in the car, in fact, I didn't really fall asleep once, because as soon as I closed my eyes, my mind turned over and over with Ling Kai, and those memories were like giant hands tearing at my nerves, making my already dead heart often painful.

"With my body, with the spirit of the witch, sacrifice heaven and earth, open the spell of the witch spirit, for thousands of years, never give up!"

Suddenly, this familiar sentence came to my ears, as if the amplification shook my eardrum in severe pain, the numb nerves were finally awakened by stimulation, opened my eyes, looked at the shaking car body and the blue sky and white clouds outside the window, the blank brain finally slowly came back to my senses, I sat up suddenly, looked blankly at the familiar scene outside the car window and asked, "We have returned to Nancheng?" ”

Qin Rui, who was driving, glanced back at me, a trace of surprise flashed in his eyes, as if he didn't expect me to wake up at this time, but he only nodded and didn't answer.

I understand his pain of losing his lover, especially his lover is still victimized by the person I love, so it is normal for him to treat me without a good face, and naturally I will not worry about these things with him in my heart. After tidying up my hair and clothes a little, I picked up my mobile phone and dialed Shen Yi's number, I haven't seen her for a long time, and I don't know how her body is recovering. Besides, I only have the urge to get drunk now, and it would be best if she could accompany me.

However, I felt a little strange that the outgoing calls were like a stone in the sea, and I thought that she might be busy or asleep, but I didn't think much about it.

Half an hour later, we finally gradually drove into the southern city area, I took a nap and woke up again, sat slightly upright and looked at the front window, my eyes suddenly sank, pointed to the red city in my field of vision and asked, "What is that?" ”

Qin Rui, who didn't seem to be concentrating on driving, was interrupted by my voice, and also looked at the strange place, and after a short stunned moment, he immediately parked the car on the side of the road.

We both got out of the car together, looking up, but we were stunned by what lay ahead.

The city is still the same city, but it is shrouded in a red mist in the sky, the fog is very strange, with the color of blood, like a light flowing water moving slowly, but it has not moved out of the scope of the southern city, as if trapped by an enchantment that we cannot see with the naked eye, condensed but not dispersed, extremely strange.

The sky outside the southern city is still sunny and sunny, but the sky inside the city is as dark as the eve of a storm, and it is no longer clear whether it is day or evening, which makes people feel depressed for no reason.

At this moment, we are standing on the viaduct into the city, there should be a lot of traffic on and off the bridge, and there is not a single car driving on the highway where it is difficult to commute to work in the past.

"What's going on?" Qin Rui was also a little surprised, he reached out and took out his mobile phone and seemed to be calling someone's number, but unfortunately, like me, the phone was still unanswered, as if the two of us were creatures isolated from space, and it felt indescribably strange.

I frowned, my mind moved slightly, and the sun and moon rushed out of the wooden box in a dazzling light, and after understanding what I meant, I rushed to the red southern city in front of me with a roar.

After watching the sun and moon Guanghua quickly melt into the red mist, I could only wait quietly, I didn't want to make useless speculation before figuring out the truth, but Qin Rui was obviously a little anxious, flipped out his phone and kept sliding, I knew that he might be looking for a news report about Nancheng, judging from the change in his expression, obviously no information was found, this is too abnormal, I vaguely feel that things may be beyond our imagination, during the time we left Nancheng, Something earth-shattering must have happened, but why hasn't any information been revealed?

When I was thinking nonsense, the phone suddenly rang, startling me, picked it up and looked, the word "Wu Yue" displayed on the screen made me breathe a sigh of relief, took the phone, and whispered, "Hey, Mr. Wu." ”

"Why do you still call me Mr. Wu?" On the other end of the phone, his voice was clearly smiling, soft and gentle like a spring breeze.

My depressed mood relaxed a little because of his relaxed tone, and I asked him, "Are you in Nancheng?" ”

"Of course."

"That's ......,"

Before I could ask, Wu Yue had already solved my doubts, "In the middle of the night last year, there was a red haze in Nancheng for some reason

The city is under siege, and the smog is clearly poisonous, so the mayor has ordered a temporary lockdown of the entire city and requested medical support. In order not to cause panic among the people, this message should not have been blocked and could not be transmitted. ”

Red haze?

I've heard about the smog, but I didn't expect there to be a red poisonous haze, which feels weird. But as Wu Yue said, since the situation is so serious, the news will naturally be blocked from the outside world, otherwise there will be more incidents caused by panic among the people. Thinking of this, I couldn't help but ask, "Then we ......." ”

"Where are you now?"

"On the viaduct."

"Don't move there, I'll send someone to fetch you."

I'm a little curious, since the red haze is poisonous, how did he send someone to pick us up? Besides, if he comes to take us into the city, won't we be poisoned?

However, I didn't have a chance to ask, because he had already hung up the phone, I had to talk to Qin Rui about the situation, he was also shocked when he heard the words "red haze", but finally didn't look at the phone like crazy, we waited quietly for more than forty minutes before we saw an army green off-road vehicle driving out of the city, speeding towards the viaduct.

I looked at the red fog city, and still found no trace of the sun and moon brilliance, and I was a little anxious, but I was relieved that it was an ancient strange soldier, and it should not have an accident.

We were greeted by a tall, thin man, with dark skin and a very heavy complexion, and a pair of cold eyes swept over me, and I felt that the cold was very uncomfortable.

Although I had never seen him, for some reason, I always felt that his voice was a little familiar, as if I had heard it somewhere, and I had been thinking about it since I got in the car, but I had no impression of it, so I had to give up.

Before entering the city, the thin and tall man threw us two masks, which had a strong smell of potion on them, which felt a little pungent, Qin Rui couldn't help asking, "What is this?" ”

"If you don't want to be poisoned, put it on." The thin and tall man didn't reply coldly, Qin Rui and I looked at each other, and could only obediently put on a mask, the strange thing is that the thin and tall man didn't wear it, and he didn't seem to be afraid of those red mist.

After entering the city, I felt a strong atmosphere of the dead city, the doors and windows of all the houses were tightly closed, and there was no one on the road.

But then I thought, since the masks we wear can effectively prevent poisoning, it shouldn't be without human flow, right? I wanted to ask, but when I saw the thin and tall cold face in the car's internal mirror, I swallowed all the questions back into my stomach and decided that it would be better to ask Wu Yue.

The car was moving very slowly, obviously there was still some resistance to the red haze, I looked at the quiet world outside the car window, those high-rise buildings seemed to have become static sculptures, giving people a very unreal feeling, there were no vehicles and pedestrians on the dark highway, we seemed to be in another time and space, that feeling was very tight, and there was no interest in talking at all.

However, I was still particularly curious that tall and thin people could be safe and sound in the red haze without wearing a mask, and glanced at him from time to time, and finally angered him after several times, and glanced back at me coldly, his gaze was indescribably cold, as if countless knives could fly out, I had to withdraw my gaze, but I did not stop doubting him in my heart.

The car finally stopped in a newly built rich community in Xicheng, the thin and tall one got out of the car directly, ignoring us at all, Qin Rui and I had to trot a few steps to keep up with his pace, until we reached a villa at the end of the community before stopping, glanced at us lightly before taking out the electronic button to slowly open the iron door, and walked in with us.

The yard is very large, the wide swimming pool is rippling, reflecting the whole yard as if it is shrouded in a layer of floating blue light, revealing an indescribable sense of tranquility, my eyes swept over the swimming pool and fell on the small flower garden on the right hand, which is full of black flowers, the petals are layered a bit like the shape of the nine roses, but these flowers are not nine roses, I was a little surprised in my heart, I couldn't help but stop and smell it, the smell was very weird, I suddenly remembered that these flowers turned out to be black mandalas, hurriedly took a few steps back, and his face was slightly pale.

The legendary mandalas are inseparable from death and disaster, not to mention that these black mandala varieties are very rare, and ordinary soil cannot make them live at all, so I can't imagine how the mandalas here are cultivated, and they are still blooming so luxuriantly, giving people a mysterious and weird feeling, and I can't tell the shock in my heart.

( = Old Song)