The story takes place in modern times, it is a small coastal town in the south of the Yangtze River, called "Yunmeng", which is far away from the city of Yeosu, about hundreds of kilometers. Closer to it is the East China Sea, and a group of 'undead' that lurk in the city.

……

There was a slight stinging pain in the back, as if someone was poking themselves with their fingers behind the back. An Xiao also slowly opened his eyes, and the blurred figure in front of him gradually became clear. It turned out to be Professor Qiu, who taught physics, and at this time he was standing in front of him with his hands behind his back, his eyes under the round lenses staring straight at him.

"Sorry! I ......" found the professor standing in front of him, and An Xiao wanted to explain immediately, but the professor raised his hand to signal to stop.

"I don't want to listen to superfluous explanations, if people are not feeling well, go to the hospital to have a look." Although the professor's expression was serious, his tone was very kind. "Let's go, I won't remember you leaving early in this class." With that, the professor turned around and walked towards the podium in the center of the classroom.

An Xiao also understood Professor Yau's temper very well, so he had to silently pack up his books and slowly leave through the back door.

"Alright, now everyone! Let's continue with the lesson, and I just talked about ......"

Hearing the professor's words, Ding Molan also looked up at the podium, but at the moment when her eyes swept over the front drawer, a small reflection caught her attention, and she lay on her desk, stretching her body hard, trying to reach it with her middle fingertips.

"Uh~" As if his whole body had been stretched again, Ding Molan finally reached the reflective object and slowly dragged it out of the drawer.

"Hmmm-" is the sound of a keychain falling to the ground.

Ding Molan bent down to pick it up, and there were a total of 3 keys strung on the metal ring, a copper cross key, and a silver crescent key, which should be the keys to the bicycle lock and the security door respectively, right? Ding Molan thought so, but the shape of the third key was very strange, it was a flattened strip of metal. Ding Molan didn't continue to ponder, put the key in his bag, and concentrated on class.

"It's so cold~"

An Xiaoyi, who walked out of the classroom, hurriedly closed the zipper, but the cold still stimulated every inch of skin on his body through his thin coat.

"I really envy your physique...... " Shinoya said to himself as he left, echoing through the narrow corridor.

Although the air after the rain is cold, it is also very fresh, and the dust in the air falls with the rain, and every breath is so pleasant. Xiao Yi took a breath of heating into his palm, rubbed it again, and walked straight outside the school.

Because Xiao also has some hidden diseases, he chooses to live alone outside the school. Although the rent is not low, fortunately, he has his parents to help him, plus his usual odd jobs, he can barely live a poor life.

In the old town, which is more than a mile away from the school park, there are many apartments built around 90 years ago, and Shino lives here. Although these apartments have a simple and unpretentious appearance, reaching a height of only six floors, they are very safe and sturdy compared to the current new buildings, and there has not been a similar leak in the ceiling for more than 20 years. From the school to the rental office,Xiao also has to turn a few corners,And pass a few traffic lights,And not far from the first traffic light,There is a dim sum room called "Blue Blue Wolf",That's where Xiao also frequents。 Because the shopkeeper is a classmate of Xiaoyi's university, he rarely meets him in school after dividing his major, so Xiaoyi will come over from time to time to help his classmates bring some snacks and catch up with the shopkeeper by the way.

"Wei Qi!" The dim sum room is very small, so a few swivel chairs were nailed in front of the counter at the door, although this is occupying the street, but the neighborhood committee didn't say anything, so most of it acquiesced. And Shino was sitting on the swivel chair in front of the "bar" at this time, calling the boss's name.

"Hello, he's cutting hazelnuts in the back. What do you need? The female clerk greeted her first.

She was wearing a mask and a tall chef's hat, and although she couldn't see her face, it was certain that this girl was definitely not the same person she was when she came last time. Therefore, An Xiao also understands very well what it means behind the frequent turnover of employees in the store.

"Please give me a glass of boiled water." Let's confirm later, Shino thought to himself, smiling and saying what he needed.

"Don't listen to him! Pour him a cappuccino. ”

Wei Qi's shout suddenly came from the back kitchen, probably wearing a mask, and his voice was a little indistinct. The girl was a little stunned, but in the end she obeyed Wei Qi's words and prepared a cup of coffee for Xiao Yi.

"Thank you." Shino took the coffee with a slight apology. The moment he touched the porcelain cup, the temperature rushed to Shinoyi's skin like a flood that burst the embankment, and quickly passed between the flesh and blood of his palm.

"Drink it slowly, it's hot." The female clerk hurriedly reminded her.

"Thank you." But Shino didn't drink it, but kept holding the cup. In the humid and cold air after the rain in the south, it is very comfortable to be able to hold something of such a temperature.

"Hey!" A large, plump hazelnut was thrown at Shino, but Shinoyi didn't open his mouth, just silently watched as the hazelnut deviated from the course and rolled to the ground beside him.

"I'm sorry, I didn't throw it accurately." The man's tone was a little lost, he wiped the cream from his face and walked to Shinoyi in front of the bar.

"If I had to take it with my mouth, I would probably fall to the ground." Shinoya said with a smile, still holding the cup tightly.

"Stop being sarcastic." The man who greeted him was Li Weiqi, who took off his apron and sat down directly across from Xiao Yi. "What's going on at school? I haven't been back in a while. The teachers didn't mention me, did they? ”

"No, but they mentioned your desserts." Shino began to rub the cup in his hand. "Say it's delicious."

"yes, it seems that my desserts get more credit than my attendance." Wei Qi joked, and at the same time looked at the cash register next to him, and saw that the pile of change was only six hundred in total. "So, you're coming to me today? What's the matter? ”

"Well-it's nothing, I'm just here to talk to you." Shinoya suddenly stretched out his hand and pointed to a place in the sky. "Huh?! Look at the heavens. ”

"Huh?" Wei Qi looked in the direction, it was white, and he didn't find anything. "What's wrong? Is there something wrong? ”

"Look at the cloud."

"Huh? Which one? ”

"That's it, you see, that cloud doesn't look like the five hundred dollars I borrowed from you last month?"

“…… Isn't it cloudy today? In order to break the embarrassment, Wei Qi casually took out two egg tarts from the display cabinet, one into his mouth, and the other handed to Xiao Yi.

"Thanks, do you mean you're tight on money?" Shino also took the tart and asked again.

"Hmm~ yes" Wei Qi nodded while chewing on the egg tart, and at the same time took out a piece of cake from the cabinet and prepared to hand it to Xiao Yi.

"Do you want more?"

“…… No. ”

The two continued to make small talk for a while. At this time, the female clerk who was sitting on the side playing with her mobile phone suddenly raised her head, looked at the wall clock, and then stood up and walked towards Wei Qi.

Wei Qi, who was talking, was suddenly held up in the face. "Don't move! There seems to be a little cream at the corner of his mouth that has not been wiped clean. As he spoke, he kissed Wei Qi on the cheek. I'll go and see if the cake is baked. With that, she put on her mask and walked to the back kitchen.

"There's no cream on your face." Shino also picked up his coffee and took a sip. "New girlfriend?"

"yes, she's scared of critters. You know, I have a lot of 'little animals' in that house. Wei Qi explained depressedly. So you can only open a room, you know, the price of the hotel, the money will be repaid to you next month. ”

"I don't understand." Shino said honestly. "How much does a hotel night cost?"

"That's the number." Wei Qi counted two fingers. "Huh? That's right! He suddenly had an idea and excitedly proposed. Don't you also live in an apartment? You must be clean, right? Why don't we switch rooms for the weekend? I can save a lot of money this way. ”

"Forget it, it's so cold, it's hard for me to wash the sheets." Shinoi decisively refused.

As soon as he finished speaking, Shinoya suddenly felt a tightness in his chest.

Something seems to be approaching this side! It feels ...... Is it a ghost?

…… Do you want to stop and take a look first?

Shino thought about it like this, and at the same time drank the coffee that had already cooled down in one go, then deliberately raised his hand to look at his watch and said, "It's not early, I still have to go to work in the store, I'll come to you next time." ”

"It's only five o'clock, huh? Sit a little longer, shall we? ”

"No, the boss has a bad temper, I want to go over earlier." After speaking, Xiao Yi casually swept the bar and broke a small piece from Wei Qi's leftover cake. Then he crouched down and re-tied his shoelaces while placing the cake on the steps in front of the store.

"Then I'm leaving, bye~" Shinoya, who had fastened his shoelaces, stood up and walked towards the intersection.

"Then I won't send it, goodbye." Wei Qi, who was sitting at the bar, waved goodbye to him.

"Come and help me!!" At this time, the female clerk walked out of the back kitchen with a large plate of cakes, and put the cakes into the display cabinet under the bar with Wei Qi.

"Huh? What about people! Gone? Only then did she notice that Xiao was not there, and she got up and looked around, and said with a slightly regretful look. I'm going to give him a bag of cakes......"

"Can the staff in this store give away cakes?" Wei Qi, who was still putting his head down and placing the cake, asked her deliberately.

"Hehe~" The female clerk stuck out her tongue in embarrassment and scratched the chef's hat on her head. "I'm sorry~"

"And kidding." Wei Qi pulled the glass door of the shop window.

"I said, stay with me." Wei Qi reached out and pinched her nose under her mask. "It's all yours."

……

At the mouth of the sewer on the road in front of the store, a fat rat came out, it shook its head, blew its nose, looked around for the source of the aroma, and finally its eyes stopped at the steps of the store, the cake soaked with water on the ground, and it immediately pounced quickly.

At this time, near the intersection not far from here, Xiao also stopped, looked back behind him, and said to himself.

"It should ...... It's almost there, right? ”

Half of the sun slowly sank behind the building, and the sky in the distance began to glow red.

Dusk has arrived.

"Click! Click! Click! Click! Click! ……”

The stagnant water on the ground was inexplicably splashed and turned into a big splash and scattered. It's like a child stepping on rainwater. But what is strange is that nothing stands on top of the stagnant water to exert force, and the splashes seem to appear out of thin air, splashing one after another, and if you look closely, this seems to have a pattern. In this way, the sound of water splashing and hitting the ground hit Wei Qi's dim sum room from far and near.

The fat rat couldn't take away the small piece of cake melted by the rain, so he had to eat on the spot, for the rat that everyone has been shouting about, it is very dangerous to be exposed to the street, of course, it itself understands this truth, but helplessly, the temptation of food in front of it is too great.

"Click!" "Tsk-" A heavy foot stomped on the mouse's side, and accidentally flattened the end of its tail. The pain and fright caused it to scream, and it ran forward like crazy, and accidentally rushed into Wei Qi's dim sum room.

A pitch-black creature ran past the female clerk.

……

"Ahh

Shino also heard the voice, and silently stretched out his left foot, estimating the approximate position.

……

"Click!"

"Click!"

"Smack!"

"Click!"

"Uh-huh?!!!"

You can reach for it and grab it! But her feet were suddenly tied, and the girl who lost her balance couldn't help but fall forward, and in anger, she turned her waist with all her strength, trying to look back in mid-air to see who this person who deliberately stretched out her foot and tripped over herself!

Eyes facing each other......

“！ ......" The girl was stunned, and at the same time, her body was still falling backwards to the road because of the huge inertia.

At the same time, he was stunned, and An Xiaoyi, he did not stop the expected ghost, but tripped over a girl who had never been alive, the other party was wearing a purple turtleneck, a black trench coat, a pair of dark blue skinny jeans and a pair of off-white snow boots.

But the most striking thing is her face, Xiao Yi usually doesn't pay much attention to girls, but the appearance of the girl in front of him touched his heart deeply.

It was the prettiest girl he'd ever seen.

Therefore, Xiao Yi, who was amazed by the girl's beauty, also forgot to reach out to pull her.

Because of this, the girl who was falling towards the road was ...... by an oncoming truck

Crashed into the ......