"Ah Chen, you can open your eyes!"

Twilight's voice came from my ears, and I obediently opened my eyes. A gentle wind caressed my hair, a calm bay stretched out in front of my eyes, seabirds hovered in the air, and the crystal clear sea was crystal clear and undisturbed.

"This is the lake and the sea," Twilight said, "and this is our secret base from now on, and I call this 'water's edge." ”

I muttered the name in my mouth as I surveyed the place. Since it is surrounded by rocks on three sides, there is only one narrow opening that connects to the sea outside, so the waves outside cannot penetrate at all, forming a wonderful cove that is independent of the world.

"It was just an inconspicuous corner of the coastline, and there was no way in except for the trail I had carved out by chance."

"This is a world forgotten by 'God.'" Twilight said proudly.

"It's a nice place." I nodded, and at the same time inhaled the sea breeze vigorously, but it tasted a little strange.

"And ......," Twilight's voice changed suddenly, "this will be my burial place too!" ”

I turned my head to look at him, and I saw a rotting skeleton crawling with maggots. It was as if I had been hammered to the chest, and I almost lost my breath.

Then I woke up and gasped for air. It turned out to be a dream. It was already clear all around, and there was an empty ceiling in front of me, and I was lying on a bed.

I pushed myself up, where is this?

Out of the corner of his eye, he saw that something was moving, so he turned his head sideways, and a few little sparrows were bouncing on the windowsill, and the sun was shining on their agile backs, and it was a peaceful morning.

At this time, the door of the room opened, and a girl walked in, it was Xiao Lin. Her eyes widened, and even the corners of her eyes were slightly moist: "You've finally woken up!" ”

I was in a trance for a moment, and then a spirit jumped out of bed, grabbed the mirror on the bedside table, and looked at myself desperately. It's okay! It's okay? It still looks like me, and there is nothing weird or deformed on my face, but I was obviously ...... last night

At this time, my feet were weak, and I couldn't exert my strength, which was the feeling of recovering from a serious illness. Xiao Lin thoughtfully handed over bread and water.

"Thank you!" I say.

From Xiao Lin's account, I learned that I had a high fever last night, and the fever came very quickly, and the whole person passed out. Xiao Lin was confused and overwhelmed, and when she calmed down, she found the first aid kit from the drawer, and then fed me antibiotics while helping me stop my nosebleed.

Although her foot was broken, she dragged me to the bedroom and carried me to the bed. The high fever did not subside until dawn, and she was always by my bedside.

I felt so touched that I asked her if she wasn't worried about me turning into a monster?

She muttered, "Of course I'm afraid, but, but, I definitely don't want to live alone, and if you become one of those things, then I don't have the courage to live!" ”

She turned her face away, tears welling up in the corners of her eyes.

I also stood up and walked to the window. A few sparrows fluttered their wings and flew up, but two of them landed again, tilting their heads to look at me as if nothing had happened. On the other hand, beneath the windowsill are a dense mass of dead people, decaying organs, and black blood, more terrifying than any prophesied apocalyptic scenario, beyond the limits of all understanding.

On the first day, the living were still in charge, but today the ruler of the city has changed hands, and it has become a veritable zombie city! I shuddered and clasped my hands, where the future lies? Where do we go from here? Will someone come to our rescue?

The sense of security I used to feel when I watched apocalyptic movies was gone, and I was overwhelmed by a sense of existential urgency and mental pressure. We have spent too much time in the era of peace, the tentacles of survival have been seriously degraded, we are accustomed to separating the individual from the human race as a whole, hedonism and egoism are rampant, until we stand in front of the three forks in the road of racial survival, we will find that a person cannot survive in this empty world.

But......

I glanced at the girl next to me again, and luckily there was a partner with whom I lived and died. The world is so strange, one person obviously can't survive, but two people always feel that they will see the light of day.

"Why, why are you looking at me like that?" Xiao Lin's cheeks suddenly turned crimson.

"No, nothing." I also turned my head in embarrassment.

For the first three days, the water and electricity supply at the commissary was generally normal. We quietly turned on the TV in the commissary and turned it to mute, and as a result, we searched through all the channels, and except for more stations that turned into snowflakes, the stations with pictures were all exactly the same footage from yesterday, and there was nothing new.

At one point, I had a strong premonition that I had to prepare for a rainy day, so I asked Xiao Lin to go through the cabinets with me, and scavenge all the containers that could be used for water—basins, vegetable pots, rice cookers, sinks, all of which came in handy, and we even stuffed the toilet pit tightly with curtains and towels, and then kept releasing water until the toilet was full and the tank was full of water. In the most urgent moments, these small reservoirs may become our life-saving oases.

The hunch was soon fulfilled, and on the fourth day, the power supply was abruptly cut off. On the fifth day, a brown, foul-smelling liquid began to flow from the taps, and on the sixth day, the water and electricity supply stopped completely.

Later, when I analyzed why I had this premonition, I remembered a popular science program I once watched called "The World After the Disappearance of Mankind", which described in detail the various changes that might occur in society, nature, and even the entire planet if all human beings suddenly disappeared one day. In just one year, the human world will be unrecognizable, and in an even shorter time, let's say a week, some basic supplies will be over.

Starting on the seventh day, we only turn on the phone for a short time every day at a fixed time in anticipation of the base station signal that we may receive. When we put the tenth circle on the calendar, Xiao Lin turned on the phone as usual that day, but unlike usual, there was a signal on the signal table in the upper right corner of the phone.

But the phone still couldn't be called, and just when she thought it was a malfunction of the phone and was about to shut it down, the ringtone actually rang!

The profile picture shows her with a middle-aged man.

"Hey! Father? Is it Daddy? Hey, hey......" Xiao Lin shouted excitedly.

"Little ...... Beautiful jade...... Thank goodness you're okay! Xiao Lin's father's tone also sounded quite panicked, "I call you every day, and I know you're okay!" ”

"Dad, where are you?" Xiao Lin said hurriedly. I once heard her say that her father was a reporter for a newspaper.

"I'm ...... Leave me alone, where are you? ”

"I'm in the school commissary, I'm with a senior, and I'm safe for the time being!" Xiao Lin suddenly burst into tears, and the voice of her relatives made her unable to help herself, "Dad, I'm so scared...... I miss you so much, and my mother doesn't know what to do by herself......"

"I've got in touch with Mom, she doesn't matter. Instead, you have to stay in a safe place, I heard that there is already an army searching for survivors, and those who survive will be sent to Eden ......"

"Eden? What Eden? Aren't you at home? ”

"Now...... It's the same everywhere, the disaster can't be controlled, and the whole world is not safe. ”

"Dad, where are you? I want to be with you! Xiao Lin said hurriedly.

"Don't ...... Stay in a safe place, Dad, I ......" Before the words fell, a disconnected sound of "doodoo ......" came from the earpiece.

"Hey! Father! Feed! Daddy......" Xiao Lin cried into the microphone excitedly. I immediately covered her mouth for fear of being heard by the dead outside. Xiao Lin re-dialed her father's number, but there was no signal at all.

The call was like a great miracle of some mysterious power, and a name had been implanted in my mind, Eden......

...... of Eden