Night gradually fell, and it was almost twelve o'clock in the morning, Xu Zhixin stood by the window, staring out the window. Hold a cigarette in your left hand and slowly put it in your mouth. With his right hand, he took a blue lighter out of his pocket and lit the cigarette in his mouth. Then he took a deep breath and slowly exhaled the smoke from his lungs. Puffs of smoke slowly drifted out of the window and faded into the air.

Sunan turned his head to look at Xu Zhixin by the window, and his lips moved slightly: "It's been so long, and they haven't come back, why don't we go to Zhangjiajie now and see if there is anything unusual?" ”

Xu Zhixin took the cigarette from his mouth, put it in his hand, and opened his lips slightly: "I think it's better to forget it, it's too weird there, if the two of us disappear there, it will definitely be discovered by the people in the hotel." In this way, there may be more people involved, so let's wait here. They're fast, and if nothing else, they'll be back tonight or tomorrow. ”

After hearing this, Sunan felt that there was some reason, nodded slightly, lit a cigarette, and smoked. After he took two puffs, something suddenly came to mind in his mind, and then he said, "Brother Zhixin!" Otherwise, don't you know the scope of the barrier, let's just stand outside the barrier and see what's going on inside. If there is really any abnormality, we have to take precautions. ”

Xu Zhixin turned around and walked to the sofa and threw the cigarette butt into the ashtray. Slowly sitting on the sofa, looking at Sunan, his face was a little worried: "Brother Nan! Do you have to go? ”

Sunan turned his head to look at him and said with a serious face: "Hmm! If I don't look at the situation, I always feel unsure. ”

Xu Zhixin opened his mouth and said: "Okay! Then let's go! ”

After a few puffs in a row, Sunan threw the cigarette butt into the ashtray and stood up from the sofa. Xu Zhixin also stood up and walked to the table across the bed. Stretching out his right hand to pick up the dark red box, the two of them walked out the door. They walked briskly out of the hotel and headed straight to the right. After walking for two or three minutes, the two of them came to the intersection of the road that intersected with Zhangjia Street.

As soon as Sunan stepped into the road with his right foot, Xu Zhixin pulled him back. With an anxious face, he said, "Brother Nan! Come back! ”

After Sunan was pulled back by him, he turned his head to look at him, his face full of puzzlement: "Brother Zhixin! What's wrong? Not going to go? ”

Xu Zhixin looked at him, his face was solemn, and he said with some concern: "If you take two steps further, you will enter the range of that enchantment." ”

Sunan's face changed slightly, and he said in surprise: "You mean that the scope of the enchantment has become larger?" ”

Xu Zhixin nodded slightly, the uneasiness in his heart became stronger and stronger, and he said with some panic in his eyes: "Hmm! The barrier has expanded here, and at this rate of expansion, within a month, the whole of Nanjing will be shrouded in this barrier. With that, Nanjing will be cut off from the outside world, and we have to go back quickly, leave the hotel, and find a hotel farther away. ”

Then the two turned around and walked towards the hotel, and Su Nan said as he walked, "Is this enchantment expanding all the time?" ”

Xu Zhixin frowned, and after some thought, he spoke: "During the day, I deliberately looked at it, and everything in the enchantment seemed relatively ordinary. I stared at the barrier for a while, and the barrier at night is a little different from the daytime, and at night the evil spirit is more vigorous, and it has a tendency to expand outward, and it seems that this barrier only expands outward at night. ”

Sunan was puzzled: "In this way, this enchantment is to expand outward while everyone is at home, so that the people here can enter the enchantment unconsciously." Then disappear unconsciously, according to what you said, within a month, this Nanjing will be an empty city. ”

Xu Zhixin's face suddenly sank, and he blurted out: "Brother Nan! I'm afraid this enchantment isn't as simple as we thought, and I have a bad hunch. ”

Sunan stopped and asked, "What hunch?" ”

Xu Zhixin also stopped and said softly: "I estimate that this enchantment will be centered on the Zhangjia Building, spreading out to all sides until the entire world is wrapped in it. In this way, there will be no living creatures in the whole world. If I am right, it will accomplish such a feat on December 21 next year. Then the Mayan prophecy came true, and the end of the world would come. ”

After hearing this, Sunan looked surprised and said: "It's so serious, if it's really like this, we can't do anything!" ”

Xu Zhixin opened his lips slightly and said, "Yes!" For now, let's change the place we live, and at this rate, maybe we will expand to a hotel tomorrow. I hope they will come back soon, or we will be driven out of Nanjing. ”

The two walked quickly towards the hotel, and suddenly Sunan said, "Should I inform the owner of the hotel?" Tell him about the situation and let everyone leave? ”

Xu Zhixin shook his head and said: "It's useless, they won't believe it, if they say it, they will definitely think that the two of us are crazy, not to mention that there are so many people around, forget it." ”

For ordinary people, it's another normal morning. At this time, on the top of Changbai Mountain, five people stood in the courtyard outside the hall, and the door of the building was closed. After a night's rest, Zhang Yan and Su Lei have fully recovered. And Zhang Ju also recovered almost completely, and the five of them were in good spirits and flew towards the foot of Changbai Mountain.

They were extremely fast, all the way south, crossed the Yellow River, and in a blink of an eye the group was in the air outside Nanjing. Zhang Yan suddenly stopped, looked at Nanjing City, and said with emotion in his heart: "Nanjing has become so big, and now I don't know the high-rise buildings at all." The scene of leaving home is still vivid, just like yesterday, and the banks of the Qinhuai River are no longer what they were back then. Before you know it, it's going to be 2,000 years. I used to fantasize about going home in many ways, but I didn't expect it to be like this now. ”

Everyone also stopped, looking ahead, and suddenly Su Lei stretched out his right hand, pointed to the direction of Zhangjia Street in Nanjing, and said with a strange face: "Look there, the evil spirit is surging, it can't be Zhangjia Street, right?" ”

Zhang Ju nodded slightly and said, "That's it!" Two seniors, let's go to the hotel to meet the other two seniors first, and then make plans. ”

After a while, the five of them arrived at the door of the hotel where they were staying before, and Xu Yuling suddenly said, "Do you think the surroundings are strange?" ”

Su Lei looked at the road in front of him and said, "There is a dead silence around here, there is no living thing!" ”

When Zhang Ju heard this, he remembered the scene of Zhangjia Street in his mind, and blurted out: "Let's go to the hotel to have a look!" ”

He ran towards the hotel before he could finish speaking, and they walked into the lobby, where the lights were still on, even though it was already dawn. Behind the service desk, there was no waiter, and even the dog, who often slept on the sofa, was nowhere to be seen at this time. His face sank, and he turned and ran upstairs.

Seeing this, everyone also followed him, and as soon as he took two steps, he saw Xu Yuling and Su Ce walking towards the elevator. He shouted, "Don't take the elevator, take the stairs safely!" ”

Time passed minute by minute, and after a while, the five of them came to the door of the room before leaving. The door was closed, Zhang Ju stretched out his right hand and pressed the doorbell, but there was no response, and then he pressed it four or five times. There was no reaction at all, Xu Yuling and Su Ce's faces were solemn, their mood sank to the bottom, and their eyes were full of uneasiness.

Zhang Ju turned his head to look at Xu Yuling, opened his mouth slightly and said, "Yuling, you call your uncle first to see the situation!" ”

Xu Yuling quickly took out her mobile phone from her pocket, dialed Xu Zhixin's mobile phone number, and there was a beeping sound in her hand. When she heard this, her face changed slightly.

About two or three kilometers to the west, there is a hotel where Xu Zhixin and Sunan have not slept all night. The two sat on the couch in the room, smoking cigarettes. Sunan opened his mouth slightly and said: "Brother Zhixin, it's dawn this day, they haven't come back yet, they won't have to wait until tomorrow, right?" ”

Xu Zhixin slowly spit out the smoke ring, and after exhaling all the smoke in his lungs, he said: "Now we are in a dilemma, we can only wait, even if they don't come back until a month later, we can only wait!" ”

Suddenly, Xu Zhixin's mobile phone on his left rang, and he stretched out his left hand and picked it up. When he looked at it, it was Xu Yuling's phone, he smiled, turned his head to Sunan and said, "They're back!" ”

Then he answered the phone and said into the phone: "Yuling! Are you back? ”

She listened to the voice and blurted out, "Daddy! Where are you? Uncle Su is with you, right? ”

Xu Zhixin paused for a moment and said into the phone: "We're together, don't worry." You come here first, it's weird over there, the barrier has expanded to that hotel. I hung up the phone and sent you the address. ”

Then he hung up the phone, and in about a minute, Xu Yuling's mobile phone rang with the ringtone of text messages. She opened the text message and looked at the address. Then he looked up at them, his lips moved slightly, and said, "They are all right, they have gone to another hotel, this is the address, let's hurry over." Listen to my dad, this place has been covered by the enchantment, I'll get out of here quickly! ”

The five of them then left the hotel and walked towards the address. A few minutes later, they came to the front of the hotel. Zhang Ju turned his head to look behind him, which was at least five or six kilometers away from Zhangjia Street. He wondered in his heart, "Could it be that wherever the barrier goes, all living things will disappear?" The scene of the hotel is no different from the apartments around Zhangjia Street, and this Nanjing is estimated to not last long! ”

Xu Yuling dialed Xu Zhixin's phone, and then said into the phone: "Dad! Which room are you in, we're already downstairs! ”

Xu Zhixin was a little surprised and said: "So fast, you wait, I'll come down immediately!" ”

A few minutes later, the figures of Xu Zhixin and Sunan appeared in the eyes of the five of them. Sunan looked at Su Lei, his face was surprised and happy, and he walked over to him quickly and said, "Old patriarch, you are finally here!" ”

Su Lei looked at him and laughed at himself a little: "I haven't seen you for decades, you are old, and I am still like this, I say that the years are ruthless!" Alas! ”

Sunan smiled slightly: "The old patriarch is too worried, since God has made you like this, then obey the destiny of heaven!" ”

Su Ce looked at them and said to Sunan with a puzzled expression: "Dad! So you already knew that the old patriarch was still alive? ”

Sunan nodded, remembering the scene in Lishan back then, and said, "Yes!" That was many years ago. ”

Xu Yuling walked quickly to Xu Zhixin's side, held his arm, and said with a concerned face; "Daddy! I thought you were the same as Zhang Xiaoyan and them, and disappeared! ”

Xu Zhixin touched her head lightly and said softly: "Silly child, how could something happen to me!" ”

Sunan looked at Zhang Yan next to Su Lei, his mind turned, and he said to him: "This is the old patriarch of the Zhang family, right?" ”

Zhang Yan nodded and smiled slightly: "Hmm! It was really gratifying to see the Zhang family and the Su family as before. ”

Xu Zhixin looked at them and said, "Don't stand here, let's go to the house and talk!" ”

The crowd nodded and walked towards the hotel. The group of them got on the elevator, and Sunan reached out and pressed the button on the twenty-third floor. After a while, the elevator reached the twenty-third floor. After stepping out of the elevator, there is an aisle in front of you, and to the right of the aisle is a window. They walked to the left, and after a few meters, another aisle appeared in front of them.

Zhang Ji and they followed Sunan and Xu Zhixin to the right, and after a while they came to the front of the hotel. Sunan took out the room card from his pocket, swiped it, opened the door, and everyone walked in. It was a suite, and what came to them was a double bed. The quilt on the bed is neatly folded, and there is a TV cabinet on the opposite side of the bed, and a TV of more than 30 inches is placed on the cabinet.

They walked through the aisle between the bed and the TV, and a circular arch appeared in front of them, and they passed through the archway to another room. In the middle of this room was a wooden table with a red square on which an ashtray with many cigarette butts filled the room.

Next to the ashtray, there was a teapot, and around the teapot were four or five cups. In front of the other three walls, a black leather sofa encloses the table in the middle. Xu Yuling looked surprised and said, "Dad! I didn't expect you to stay in such a luxurious hotel, it is much better than the one we stayed in before! ”

Xu Zhixin smiled slightly: "Thanks to your Uncle Su, the Su family and the Zhang family are both local tyrants!" ”

Sunan Lao blushed, and said a little embarrassed: "Brother Zhixin, where is it, such a room is convenient for us to sit together and discuss." Let's sit down and discuss what we should do next! ”

A group of seven people sat on the sofa one after another, and Xu Zhixin was the first to speak: "We made a new discovery last night, and that enchantment will slowly expand outward every night. The hotel we stayed in before was already wrapped in that barrier. You've been there, so you already know what's going on! ”

Everyone nodded, and Zhang Ju spoke: "Now that the development of the situation has completely exceeded our imagination, I don't know if Patriarch Zhang and Patriarch Su have any way." ”

Zhang Yan looked at him, reached out and touched the things in his arms, frowned and said: "For today's plan, I can only go to explore Zhangjiajie first, and then the five of you will stay here, and I will go with A Lei." ”

Su Ce opened his mouth and said: "Senior, I'll go with you, we are all zombies, so we won't be afraid of that enchantment." ”

Zhang Ju also spoke: "Su Ce is right, I will also go with you, there are many people who take care of each other." ”

Su Lei shook his head and said: "You stay here, if I can't come back with Brother Yan, you have only one choice, that is, to leave Nanjing, the three of you go back to Changbai Mountain, we can't be wiped out here." ”

Zhang Ju immediately spoke: "But ......"

Zhang Yan waved his hand and said: "If you are obedient, just stay here, if we can't come back, you leave Nanjing immediately, don't care about things here." ”

As soon as he finished speaking, he stretched out his right hand and took out an ancient bronze box from his bosom. Zhang Ju looked at the box with a surprised expression, and his eyes were full of doubts: "Old patriarch, why is the box in your hand?" It was supposed to be in Beijing, but then it disappeared! ”