Chapter 1: Tearing
Cycle from Yonghe Road onto Rainbow Avenue, then follow the avenue and ride another 500 metres after the ramp ā there is a trail hidden in the grass.
Aside the marked blades of grass, I rode along the long, narrow path with miscanthus grass growing on all sides, and at the end of it was a small cave. Leaning over the cave, it suddenly dawns on you to see a reef-strewn bay......
At 6:15 a.m., I came to this place before school as usual, and it was my secret base with my late friend Twilight, "Water's Edge". I placed a bouquet of small flowers in front of a small homemade grave and made a pilgrimage to the rising sun, praying in my heart for the rest of the dead.
The navy blue sky is covered with the white of the fish's belly, which is intertwined with the sparkling blue waves. Delicate algae flutter among the reefs, and rows of fish skim quickly across the clear water. As the sky grew brighter, my whole heart seemed to slowly rise with the morning.
Suddenly, at the edge of the water-sky border, the sky began to disintegrate, as if it had been torn apart. A deafening cracking sound followed, and the sky was torn apart, and as far as the eye could see, there was a strange scenery......
A strong sea breeze blew in the bay and blew the hem of my school uniform to the sound of hunting, but I felt nothing but a chill in my hands and feet, as if I were standing at the entrance to another world. I was stunned for a moment, left the "water's edge", and rode towards the school. The time was 6:45 a.m.
On the way from the city centre to the school, you pass through a viaduct with a long queue of cars and horns and shouts.
Did something happen?
I rode through the traffic and got off the viaduct. Soon after, I finally came to school with the bell ringing.
During the morning reading time, everyone was talking about the torn sky they saw in the morning, and they lost their interest in reading at all. Some say it's a secret military exercise where a world war is brewing, while others say it's a prelude to an alien invasion that will break into a horde of alien warships from the torn apart......
"That's my a**!" I don't know who yelled, causing the audience to laugh.
Everyone is observing this ordinary world with great interest as a bystander, lest the world be unscrupulously speculated, and they have no idea what the world will become in the near future.
At 7:30, the class leader Su Aaron turned on the TV in the upper left corner of the classroom on time to watch the morning news.
The 17-inch Changhong LCD is playing the same scene as the "water's edge" - the faintly bright sky is deeply torn apart, revealing a long white crack behind it, and the sky is like a blackboard sprinkled with powder, becoming fragmented.
The host's voice came from the TV:
āā¦ā¦ At about 6 o'clock this morning, this spectacle can be observed in many places in the city, some citizens think that it is a military exercise, and some people think that it is some kind of religious enlightenment. ā
The face of a middle-aged professor appeared on TV, explaining in a blunt tone the effects of the solar wind on the atmosphere and its connection to the phenomenon, and the stereotypical appearance was exactly like that of a history teacher.
After listening to the commentary, the audience immediately booed, and Ke Jingfeng, who has always liked to make trouble, said loudly, "It's no fun, but it's better than someone's **." ā
During the lunch break, the campus radio reported on a violent incident in the city, and although the suspect was eventually arrested, several police officers were injured......
In retrospect, this little story was like a tiny crack in the that no one noticed, but it was a huge fallacy that could not be ignored before the collapse. If you could have sensed something from this earlier, maybe survival wouldn't have become so confused.
At half past four in the afternoon, the head teacher Fu Dahai suddenly ran into the classroom and interrupted the class. I was in the middle of a spell lecture when he came in and ordered the television to be turned on.
There was a wail and commotion on the television.
"Oh my God, what the hell is going on here?" The reporter shouted loudly.
As the camera shifts, a chilling image emerges from the other side of the city at the speed of light: hundreds of ragged people tearing and entanglement each other in Pegasus Square in the heart of the city...... The camera is full of ripped off human organs, and dirty blood is spilled everywhere.
The girls in the class screamed as a close-up of a group of "people" tearing their heads with their teeth, all of them bursting out with bruised tendons and twisted limbs, with horrible faces. I was stunned and exclaimed, isn't this a movie?
"It's unbelievable that there are such atrocities in the world......
The journalist seems to be speaking only with his professional habits, and his real voice has long been drowned in a sea of blood.
Suddenly, the camera shook violently, and screams were heard. The reporter looked behind the camera, and the microphone slammed to the ground.
While shaking his head, he ran away...... The camera reclining on the ground only captures his brown leather shoes fading away, and then disappears as if they had been trampled to pieces.
"It's crazy!" When the camera cuts back to the studio, the host looks terrified, "I hope the film crew in front is safe and sound, and we will confirm the nature of this incident to the authorities as soon as possible." In short, until this incident is clear, please stay at home as much as possible, lock the doors and windows, and pay attention to the latest news released by this station......"
The classroom fell silent, or to be precise, the whole school fell silent. For a few seconds, the entire campus was filled with the light and cheerful song of advertisements on the television.
The silence was not broken until the screams rang out on the first floor.
"Wow, aa
The scream was heart-rending, like a needle pricking the eardrum. I got goosebumps and followed the crowd and poked my head out the window.
I saw a few "drunks" break into the school gate, and they frantically pounced on the security guards and school workers who came to stop them, pressing them to the ground and biting them. No matter how much you beg for mercy and shout, it was useless, and the hot blood turned into a cold inorganic liquid the moment it touched the concrete floor.
"Mourning, mourning, zombies......" The classmates next to him snorted and retreated.
I shuddered, yes, zombies, the living dead, ghouls, that thing...... Regardless of the name, the monsters that only appear in the movies are close at hand.
At this moment, the phone in my pocket vibrates. Since it is forbidden to use mobile phones in school, I usually turn it to silent, but now I obviously can't control so much, I took out my phone and saw that it was my father. I hurriedly pressed the answer button.
"Hey, Ah Chen, are you okay over there?" Dad asked. I heard the crash and shouting on the other end, and my father's voice suddenly became staccato and "I...... This way...... It's a mess......"
"Hey, Dad, what's wrong with you?!" I nervously put my phone to my ear, my palms sweaty, and my voice was about to cry.
"Protect well...... Myself! Dad said, "Mom and sister over there...... I...... Go to ......"
The "doodoo......" signal was interrupted.
I was in a state of great fear, as if a piece of my heart had been suddenly ripped out.
I don't know who started to flee first, and in an instant the classroom was in a panic. In fact, the whole campus was the same, there were screams and wheezing everywhere, and everyone was rushing down the stairs to the ground.
I was swept out of the classroom and into the chaotic staircase. Suddenly, hot, noisy, irrational shouts surrounded me like a flood.
Some teachers shouted in the corridor to tell the students to calm down and not go down, but how could the people who were manipulated by the herd mentality and blind survival listen to it, everyone blindly squeezed down, eager to go home, and some people even chose to slide down directly from the handrail of the stairs in order to reach the ground faster.
My heart was also in turmoil, but I instinctively shook my head and said to myself, no, it can't be like this, this is simply suicide.
The second floor of our second year of high school was the fourth floor, and after being crowded to the third floor, I struggled to cut through the crowd and turned back into the hallway.
From the window of the corridor, you can see that the playground is already crowded with those things, and the people who finally rushed out of the playground have become victims before they have time to react.
The thrilling screams seemed to come from the ears, but it was hard to tell if the sound was from a living person or "those things". Covering my ears, I fled into the empty classroom next to me and closed the door deeply.
What to do, what to do, what to do? I was trembling and overwhelmed. Sweat oozed from his back, but his hands and feet were terribly cold.
The classroom in front of me was in a mess, with chalk, rulers, books, and school bags all over the floor. I felt like I was spinning into a river of chaos, and I didn't even know how to breathe in the next second.
At that moment, "Smack!" With a thud, I was slammed into the back, and the impact knocked me to the ground.
Covering my back, I quickly turned behind me to see a girl standing behind the door with a broom, her expression frightened.
"Damn, what are you doing?" I scolded.
"yes, I'm sorry, I thought it was those things......" she said timidly, then limped down beside me. Fear was also written on the girl's face, and a pair of eyes blinked uneasily on her pale face.
"Why don't you leave and stay here?" I asked. As soon as I opened my mouth, I noticed that she was wearing a bandage on her left ankle.
She muttered, "I twisted my foot in gym class yesterday, and Xiaoqian told me to wait for her here, and she went to find someone to help me." ā
I thought to myself, in this case, it's hard to protect yourself, who remembers to help you find someone?
Seeing that I didn't respond, she said angrily, "IāI know what you're thinking, you're thinking I'm abandoned, right?" No way, Xiaoqian is my best friend, she will definitely come to save me. ā
I didn't know how to explain it to her, I just knew that I couldn't sit still. I patted the dust off my body and stood up, clutching my chest and taking three deep breaths. My back was so hot from the blow just now, but my mind was finally cleared up thanks to it.
"Protect well...... Myself! "I remembered my father's words, so I went to the TV and turned on the switch.
"What are you going to do?" She asked, confused.
"I want to determine the scale of this catastrophe first!" I say.