The gateway to the western mountains is a wide high-speed locomotive roadway. About fifty kilometres from the city of Dessa, there is a gentle, low, mountainous area where a path diverges from the high-speed motorway to a small col on the edge of the mountain not far away. In the small mountain pass, there was originally a small town with a small population, and the name of the town was Laidian, which is where the protagonist of this book, Hao Yi, was born.

On weekdays, although the population of the town is not large, it is not very prosperous, but because there are often all kinds of pedestrians passing by here to stop and rest, it can be regarded as bustling with people coming and going, and it is quite lively.

However, at this moment, this small town called Laidian is not at all what it used to be. The whole col is like a dead valley, and there is not the slightest sound of people, cars, or even dogs barking. A gloomy and low-hanging dark cloud slowly coiled over the town, with gusts of gloomy wind, whizzing through the deserted streets.

All the houses seemed to be empty shells, with doors and windows closed and no one smelling of popularity. On the street, broken locomotives are lying crookedly on the road, and even the garbage trucks responsible for cleaning and cleaning are also turning over on the side of the road, stinky garbage of all kinds is scattered all over the ground, allowing dense flies and bed bugs to dance wildly.

At the junction of the high-speed locomotive lane in the small town of the mountain pass, a huge freight locomotive fell sideways in the middle of the road, and a huge warning sign was stuck straight in front of the wreckage of the locomotive. On the warning sign, a white skeleton stands out, and the two blood-red letters below read "Do not enter". Everything seems to tell passers-by that the town has been abandoned for some reason.

"Crunch ......" A cloud of billowing smoke and dust flew in the distance, accompanied by a sudden braking movement, and the figure of a bull brand locomotive covered in scarlet paint and with a cautious head turned on the front of the locomotive slowly emerged from the smoke and dust.

"I'm X!" The roof window of the locomotive opened, and Haoyi, who was still dressed in a suit and leather shoes and a crooked tie, drilled out, looked at the strange town in the mountain col in the distance with a surprised face, subconsciously scolded, and hurriedly shrank in again, carefully checking the navigator. Seeing that the place name displayed above clearly wrote the three words "Laidian Town", Haoyi's heart suddenly sank, and he hurriedly got off the train, ran two steps quickly, and came to the broken freight locomotive, staring at the two big characters of the blood-red cautious man on the skull warning sign with wide eyes.

"Is there a mistake?" Haoyi never dreamed that the hometown he had worked so hard to find would be the one in front of him. The lifeless town of Laidian seems to be telling others that it must have experienced a nightmarish disaster to make the people of the town still abandon their homes. Thinking of this, Haoyi's heart suddenly became cold, and he opened his mouth wide and froze in place.

"Buzz!" After a long time, Haoyi, who was still a little unrelenting, decided to go in to see what was going on, turned around and got into the Bull brand locomotive, hurriedly started the engine, kicked off a puff of smoke and dust, whistling around the broken freight locomotive in the middle of the road, and speeding straight towards the mountain pass.

After entering the town, the streets that have always been clean and tidy can be seen everywhere with some broken locomotive wreckage and various household garbage, and from time to time you can also see some strange animal feces. The buildings on both sides of the street are also in dilapidation, and the roof windows of some houses are clearly opened, and there seems to be a faint trace of dark red marks at the entrance. A wisp of dusk wind whistled by, rolling up the confetti of fallen leaves on the ground, and dancing wildly in the middle of a messy road. Other than that, there was no other sound, not even the barking of pet dogs.

The whole town seemed to have suffered some kind of calamity, and in the bitter and wailing cold wind, shivering, a heart-stopping sense of desolation penetrated into Hao Yi's heart without hindrance, making him frown tightly.

The roof of the Bull locomotive has long been opened, and Huo Ran has been turned into an open-top classic car. Slowly driving on the dirty streets, Haoyi's heart became colder and colder.

It seems that the town has been abandoned for at least a long time. Let's not talk about what the reason is, the residents of the town gave up their homes in a hurry. At present, it is obviously impossible for Haoyi to find his parents in this small town. Perhaps they had already migrated with the townspeople, or perhaps they had gone to join their relatives elsewhere. All in all, Haoyi can only be empty and happy.

"Hey!" Looking at his hometown after years of absence, it turned into such a dilapidated and desolate appearance, Haoyi, who was holding the steering wheel of the locomotive, couldn't help but let out a long sigh.

However, just as he was about to turn around and leave the apparently deserted abandoned town, not far from the front of the car, there was a large pool of dark red liquid, which glowed with an eerie glow in the afterglow of the setting sun. Haoyi's eyes lit up, and he suddenly subconsciously stepped on the brakes, and squinted his eyes to look at the dark red weird liquid on the ground from afar.

"Is it blood? Not like it? Smelling the smell of blood faintly wafting in the air, Hao Yi's brows couldn't help but wrinkle, and a cloud of doubt rose in his heart. Looking up and looking around, seeing that it was still surprisingly quiet, Hao Yi's heart suddenly flashed a trace of uneasiness, subconsciously opened the car door, got out of the car and walked towards the strange pool of liquid in the distance.

After walking to the front, a strong fishy smell came to his nose, and Haoyi's brows furrowed even tighter. When I tried it, I don't know what kind of creature's blood it was, although it was already cold, but judging from the degree of dryness of the bloodstains, it was obviously left behind in the recent past.

"Phew! What the hell? Hao Yi habitually put his blood-stained fingers on the tip of his tongue, and a disgusting taste suddenly stimulated his taste buds and made him sick to his stomach for a while.

"Is this the blood of a zombie, fucking it? A real-life version of Resident Evil? Hao Yi unconsciously came up with the plot he had seen in the movie before, frowning and whispering to himself.

"Smack!" At this moment, a tattered waste newspaper was wrapped in a gust of wind, and it hit Hao Yi's forehead impartially, which made Hao Yi stunned, and subconsciously reached out to grab the newspaper and wanted to float away with the wind.

"On August 6, the town has fallen into a collective panic, and many residents have begun to evacuate the town spontaneously......" On the scrap newspaper, the front page headline was a few bloody words that read "Panic Caused by Mysterious Monsters", and below was a piece of news that shocked Haoyi.

The news probably means that a few months ago, a mysterious giant monster suddenly appeared in the town. This monster often goes out by day, slamming into doors and windows in the middle of the night while people are asleep, and then brutally killing innocent humans in a panic. No one could describe what the monster looked like, because anyone who had seen it face-to-face would have already become food in the monster's belly or a cold corpse.

There should have been a small police station in the town, although this newspaper did not report on how those small strips who were only armed with pistols and batons dealt with the monster, but from the words of the newspaper, Hao Yi could clearly feel the panic that this monster brought to the town. Obviously, it must be the monster that even those little strips can't deal with, that forced the townspeople to flee their homes for so long.

"Isn't it just a monster? Won't you go to Desa City to bring some rescuers? What are the big guys in the city doing? A bunch of useless things! Hao Yi pursed his lips and muttered disdainfully, and casually threw away the waste newspaper. In his opinion, this is a man-eating monster at best, and in front of the police and the army, which are equipped with all kinds of powerful and advanced weapons, such a monster cannot become a climate.

"Well, could it be a worm?" After standing up from the ground, Hao Yi's heart flashed again, and on the way here, a strange and mysterious cold light, a thought involuntarily popped out.

"No, the Poole Star Zone is not a very remote star zone, at least the St. Proli Star Zone has not appeared so far, and the phenomenon of alien insects attacking civilians is on a large scale!" Haoyi then shook his head and denied his thoughts, and his heart was a little chaotic.

"No, I need to go home and see!" Standing calm for a moment in the cold wind of dusk, smelling the fishy and disgusting smell between his snorts, Haoyi made up his mind that he must find his hometown in person, at least to see if his parents have safely evacuated here with the other residents, and he is relieved.

After making up his mind, Hao Yi turned around and hurriedly jumped into the Bull classic car, started the engine with a hum, and drove down the street to the depths of the town again. And the further you drive in, the more shocking the scene seems to become. Next to the garbage cans in the dead corners of some streets, the remains of some dead cats and dead dogs are scattered on the ground, and the flies and bedbugs are flying all over the sky, which actually adds a bit of cautious atmosphere. From time to time, there were pools of dried black and red blood on the sidewalks, and occasionally some fragments of torn human clothes, scattered by the raging cold wind.

Haoyi's attention was no longer on these scenes that were only available in horror movies, but while slowly driving the locomotive, he squinted his eyes and carefully identified the houses on both sides of the street and the house numbers at the door. Although his childhood memories have been blurred, and he can only remember the general appearance of the two-story small house in his hometown, Haoyi still vaguely remembers the house number of his house.

"No. 90, No. 92, No. 94 in Ding'an District! Well, wait, number 94! That's right, it's number 94! After wandering aimlessly around the desolate town for nearly an hour, the sunset behind him was already hanging on the hill on the horizon in the distance, and in the dim light, Haoyi suddenly found the vaguely familiar house number.

"That's right, this is it!" Haoyi hurriedly stopped and jumped down, and saw that in front of the door of the inconspicuous two-story small bungalow in front of him, there was a large pit that sank deep. Maybe Hao Yi may remember the house number and the appearance of the old house, but he will definitely not remember this large pit. When he was very young, his father often told him about the vision of "thunder and thunder" that happened when he was born. The pit in front of me, for some reason, has not been filled in after so many years. Maybe it's my father's intention, or maybe it's the rest of the town, who want to remember something.

finally found his long-lost hometown, but Haoyi was not happy at all. Because his eyes were immediately attracted by the broken door of the old house.

The door that was originally a thin and light civil automatic door opened a big hole more than one person high at this moment. Inside the big hole, there was a black forest, and there seemed to be a faint gust of wind whistling out.