The subway is the foundation of the city, like the sea of people, the whistling metal carriages, flowing the goals, dreams and survival of countless people in the city.

Xu Yanduo's client was late today, but she couldn't leave casually because the agreed location was here. So she had to stand on the edge of the surging crowd under the pressure of her high heels, trying to keep herself against the wall, away from the rhinoceros crowds. At the same time, she maintains a lady's standing posture, she doesn't know when the customer will appear, so be sure to maintain a perfect posture and protect from all sides.

I hate crowded places. Xu Yanduo muttered in her heart, she swiped her mobile phone Weibo a few times, and then began to feel bored.

I noticed that the person was standing stiffly just because he was like himself, but the difference was that he would smooth his hair and look left and right, but the person was like a sentry standing guard, always looking in one direction, and did not understand. Xu Yanduo looked in that direction curiously, and found that he couldn't see anyone except the decorative wall of the subway that reflected the lights beautifully.

But the man still didn't move, and the boring waste of time made Xu Yanduo can't help but start thinking crankily, is this person mentally a little problematic? Or, in fact, he is a bodyguard? Who is being monitored in the shadows? Xu Yanduo simply admires his imagination, maybe he should be a screenwriter or something. When she later learned the truth, she stopped watching TV series for a long time, because the reality was far more thrilling than TV series.

Xu Yanduo began to suspect that this person probably had a mental problem, because he had stared at him for so long, and this person didn't notice it at all...... Yes! The customer is calling!

"Ahh......h

Xu Yanduo replied to the customer with a smile on his face, while unconsciously watching the person suddenly turn around and walk in the direction outside the subway station.

"Ten minutes left, right? It's okay, I'll wait for you at the subway station......"

The man walked a few steps against the crowd and suddenly hugged an oncoming man.

Huh? The man was waiting for the man? Well? Something seems to be wrong. Xu Yanduo's attention gradually shifted from his mobile phone to the two people not far away. The man she had seen before hugged the oncoming man hard, and the latter froze in place with a stunned expression, and then the man from before quickly continued to walk forward, while the man who was being held slowly lowered his head and looked at his chest......

Then he fell to his knees and fell to the ground.

Xu Yanduo seemed to see some liquid squirting out of the chest of the man who fell to the ground......

In the crowd, there was a piercing scream, and then like a stone smashed into the water, the ripples of fear spread rapidly, screaming, panicking, pushing, running, falling to the ground, struggling......

Chaos blasts through the city's bustling subway stations, pushing every human being who struggles to stay glamorous to the brink of a gaffe. The crowd that used to come and go like a tide turned into a mess, rampage in all directions. Run! Run! The instinct for survival prompted some people to scream and run, pushing away all the people in the vicinity as they ran. Others shouted "kill and set fire" and fled from the subway ticket gates in the chaos, using the fear of everyone to escape a three-dollar subway ticket.

Xu Yanduo was pulled by her hair and pushed to the ground, the high heels on her right foot were gone, she tried to get up, huddled in the corner of the wall with her head in her arms, and in the surging screams by her ears, she thought in panic and firmly:

I hate crowded places!

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Sun Mei hated her son a little, no, very much. She never thought it would be so tiring to be a mother, especially when you have a son who is so alive and jumping to the point of suspected ADHD. Now children are not old enough to go to elementary school, so they often ask their mothers to take them around to play. I especially like places with a lot of people, and then, run wild!

More than once, after Sun Mei let go of her hand, her son would rush into the crowd like a jumping hare and disappear into the crowd, leaving Sun Mei painfully and nervously chasing behind her, making her call her son's name in the crowd anxiously and even almost frantically, and finally found that the child was not far away and looked at her with a smile. Whenever this happens, Sun Mei is angry and her brain hurts, and she can't beat the child in a place with so many people, and she is laughed at. But she was really tired, why can't a child stay where he is like a doll, why does he have to jump up and down, why does he torture me like this, why do I still want this son? Sun Mei sat down on the bench resting in the subway station, and questions burst out in her mind, and a meter away from her, her son began to look restlessly left and right again.

"Don't run around! Otherwise I don't want you! Sun Mei issued habitual intimidation, even though she knew it was ineffective.

The subway is so crowded that it is reminiscent of schools of fish at the bottom of the sea, swarming in one direction in one direction and then turning away. On the same bench, there was another girl with long hair, wearing sunglasses, and Sun Mei saw that her nervous hands kept clenching the pants on her knees, and her joints were a little white. Sun Mei was a little curious, and even wanted to ask, but from the bottom of her heart, she knew that this was just a way for her to escape from reality and divert attention: to pay attention to things that had nothing to do with her.

One step away, there was a rope attached to Sun Mei's hand on the small schoolbag that his son was carrying, and suddenly the rope tightened, Sun Mei's arm was pulled painfully, and his son wanted to run away again. She looked up and saw her son standing at the end of the rope looking at her with a grin. That damn smug smile again! Sun Mei's mind exploded, she ripped off the rope on her wrist and fell to the ground with hatred.

The girl next to her jumped to her feet.

Sun Mei looked at her in disbelief. The eyes through the sunglasses also stared back at her for a few seconds, and the girl sat back in silence. Sun Mei is really uncomfortable now, this person is so nervous, is he trying to do something wrong? She pretended to look at the girl's whole body casually, and suddenly noticed that the corner of the shoulder bag she was carrying had been cut. If you look closely, it turns out to be the sharp edge of a kitchen knife, silently separating the leather bag through a crooked gap. Sun Mei felt that her brain was a little knotted, what should she do now? Pretend you don't see anything, or talk to this person? Or should she be a messenger of justice and go to the police? If this person is just a housewife who bought a kitchen knife on the way home, will he be nosy and hurt others?

The knots in Sun Mei's mind were tangled one by one, but when she turned her head and saw a blank space on the ground, her mind suddenly went blank.

The rope that held his son's backpack was missing.

Obviously, at such a critical juncture, she actually felt a kind of relief...... No more chasing that little devil around the streets, no more tiredness, maybe, he was just taken away, and I don't have to spend time on this little ghost anymore? I can live a relaxing life of shopping and beauty again!?

"Don't come...... No...... Come here, ......" The sudden murmur of the girl next to her interrupted Sun Mei's train of thought again, she looked at it carefully, the girl was slowly standing up, except for the white hand, the whole body trembled, the eyes behind the sunglasses stared ahead, Sun Mei couldn't help but follow her line of sight, except for groups of people coming and going, she couldn't tell what she saw. Wait a minute...... Someone there seems to have fallen?

"Ahh―――――――h

Sun Mei was frightened and jumped up and ran a few steps away, and when she turned back, she found that there were people in the crowd screaming, and for a while panic spread like a virus in the crowd, screaming and roaring one after another, and the eyes of people who didn't know the situation were full of confusion and horror.

The school of fish was in disarray, and the tiny fish were bumping into each other directionlessly, their heads bleeding, crazy and miserable.

Sun Mei was hit by a running man and almost fell, and she instinctively shouted her son's name, "Yangyang!! ”

Except for the frenzied screams and the diffuse chaos, no one responded to her.

"Yangyang!! Did you see my son? Who saw a child? Yangyang-!! Sun Mei shouted her son's name like crazy, pushing away every stranger who blocked her view. She heard screams, saw an old man on crutches being pushed to the ground, and saw someone stomp on the crook of the faller's knee, and the bones cracked and cracked. The chaos of what she saw and heard intensified her uncontrollable fear, which she had never been so afraid before...... Until I saw my son standing in the corner!

"Yangyang! Yangyang, don't move! Sun Mei rushed forward desperately, uncaring about those who hit her while running...... When he fell to his knees and hugged the child in his arms, his nerves, which were almost crazy, regained a trace of reason. She couldn't believe that she had thought about throwing away her own flesh and blood, this was her child, a new life that she had conceived from her body after a thousand pains! No matter what strange woman or hellish scene is, even if the sky falls, as long as there is a son in his arms, nothing matters anymore.

"Don't be afraid, don't be afraid, Mommy is here." Sun Mei suppressed her trembling voice and kissed her son on the cheek.

"I'm not afraid." Yang Yang's immature voice was so clear, "I knew that my mother would definitely come to me." ”

Everything lost its voice in an instant, and Sun Mei's heart was only left with her son's words, which lasted for a long time.

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Lao Du sat at the subway entrance, which was the 100th day he slept at the subway entrance. A few months ago, he lost his last job on the construction site, but he didn't get the pay he deserved, and with a sore leg, Lao Du finally decided to sleep in the subway entrance for a few days. This sleep lasted three months. The iron gate inside the subway is locked every night, but the subway entrance is still much more sheltered from the wind than on the road. Every morning, the crowd of people at work rush in and out of the subway like a herd of horses, and the sound of footsteps on the steps will directly wake up Lao Du. He happily used this as a natural alarm clock, got up, walked a little to the flower and bird market, bought some expired bouquets and small items, placed them at the subway entrance, and mixed up the money for three meals a day.

"Click!"

"Ahh

Lao Du's eyes opened a slit and saw that the small object he was spreading out on the subway stairs had been stepped on. He immediately widened his eyes and stood up, "You don't look when you walk!" ”

The man's expression was a little at a loss, and he took out the wallet from his pocket, "I'm sorry I didn't pay attention to my feet, how much is this thing, I'll give it." ”

"This, thirty." Lao Du looked at the man and pointed to a vulgar little hairpin on the ground.

The action of taking money from the wallet came to an abrupt end, "Boss, be kind in business, this thing is not worth the price." And it is not legal to occupy the subway sidewalk to set up a stall. ”

Lao Du grabbed the man's neat shirt and sprayed a vicious breath on the other party's face, "Don't think that we homeless people are easy to bully, don't think about leaving if you don't pay me this money today!" It's a big deal to fight with you, I don't have anything anyway! ”

That's right, I'm left with nothing anyway, hunger, cold nights, I've long brewed my hideous face, and I can go out and fight hard for a penny. What do you rich people who go up and down the subway every day understand, anyway, you at least have a place to live, what's the big deal with giving me some money.

There was an impasse between the homeless man and the shirt man, which also attracted a few passers-by who stopped to observe. The man in the shirt glanced at the subway station, as if he was hesitating to hurry, when suddenly his gaze swept to another object on the stall.

"How much does this cost?"

Lao Du couldn't react for a while, the man pointed to his stall, lowered his head, and was stunned for a few seconds before replying, five, fifty!

"In this way, boss, I will pay you thirty, and this one will be sold to me together, cheaper, two for a total of fifty, how about it?"

Before noon, Lao Du earned fifty yuan from the stall, and this unprecedented wealth made him a little unbelievable. He sat on the stairs of the subway entrance, counting the five bills in his hand over and over again, and something called hope slowly rose in his heart. People say that everything is difficult at the beginning, I can make fifty today, and I can make a hundred tomorrow, right! That's right! I'll put things out a little more, and if someone still steps on it, I can cheat again, and these little white-collar workers at work will not dare to fight with a homeless man like me, yes, as long as they let each of them pay me a little, and soon I won't have to sleep at the subway entrance.

I'm so smart!

Lao Du's eyes lit up, and he moved the things on his stall out little by little, and then tilted his head and thought about it, putting the most expensive and beautiful things in front of him, so that if he was stepped on, the price that could be cheated would be ruthless. Almost half of the subway steps are occupied by Lao Du's stalls. He crouched by the wall, staring with interest at every frowning passer-by who carefully bypassed the stalls.

Hurry up! Step on one! yes, you guy who walks and looks at your phone...... Tut! You, you talking on the phone while walking......

Click......

Lao Du Ru band bounced out and grabbed the woman who hadn't reacted yet.

"You've stepped on my stall!"

The female white-collar worker looked at her grabbed arm in surprise, and then looked at the stall along her high heels, "Ah, I'm sorry, I ...... I ......"

"What am I! You have to pay me money, otherwise you don't want to leave today, I'll die with you and believe it or not! ”

Seeing the horror on the woman's face, Lao Du felt that the blood that had not been seen for a long time was boiling, "Otherwise, you can buy this broken one, or don't go, I ......"

Before he finished speaking, a person suddenly rushed out of the subway and pushed everyone all the way up the steps, stepped on Lao Du's stall, and ran out!

Lao Du didn't react for a while, should he chase that guy, or continue to stare at the woman in front of him, he just opened his mouth to shout, and was slammed down.

Second, third, fourth, five, six, seven, eight...... Like a scene from a zombie movie, more and more people rushed out of the subway in a panic, screaming, shouting each other's names, throwing their armor and rushing left and right across the subway stairs.

"Don't! Don't step on it! Ahhh Lao Du frantically looked at the hairpins that were trampled to pieces on the ground, the bouquets of flowers that were crushed into mud, and struggled to stop the crowd that was running wildly, and then he was knocked down on the steps. A knock out of his face made Old Du sober in an instant, and he no longer tried to stop anyone with his roar, despite the hooves of the crazy horses, but tried to reach out and pull his things back from under the feet of others.

Yes!! Who's leather shoes stepped on his fingers, Lao Du let out a miserable scream, instinctively curled up to the side, no longer struggling to stop the crowd. The secretion of adrenaline suddenly made Lao Du think of one thing! He hesitated for a moment, then reached out again......

Yes! Ahhhhh

This is the subway entrance, if I am stepped on and kicked badly, the subway company will definitely compensate me for money, yes, the subway company is rich......

This was the last thing that the homeless old Du thought of before he fainted.