Xiao Chen's words were no less than a bombshell, which made the hairs on the back of my neck stand up, but Xiao Chen didn't say much, but turned around and began to sort out the potion bottle on his fume hood, as if he didn't intend to stop me from leaving.

"You...... Really let's go? I looked at Xiao Chen with some disbelief, and I couldn't believe how quickly he had changed.

"You'll be back anyway, I don't need to stop you." Xiao Chen said lazily.

I was startled, turned my head to look at Xiao Chen's cramped and dimly lit laboratory, no matter how I thought, I had no desire to return to this ghost place.

"What do you mean?"

Xiao Chen stopped, tilted his head slightly, glanced at me obliquely, and said:

"Don't forget the book "Zombie World" written in your hand, if the God Game really starts, my world will be very different. Besides, I guess you don't know the books in the hands of the other six teams, right? ”

Hearing Xiao Chen's words, my brain was also a little clearer, Xiao Chen's words were right, although I remember that there were six other people who also got a book like me, but to be honest, I didn't have time to see what the book in other people's hands was at that time.

"Do you ...... You know? ”

"Yes, I know." Xiao Chen said lightly, as if he had no feelings, "And I still know a lot of things that you don't know." Many people live in this world as a blind man, and he cannot see the truth before his eyes. ”

"You ......"

"Forget it, Chen Dongqing, let's go." I wanted to say a word or two, but I felt my elbow being pulled, and when I looked sideways, I saw Cao Hongli tugging at my elbow, glaring at me.

"Teacher Cao......" I looked at the homeroom teacher in front of me, and finally dismissed the question in my stomach, but turned back and took a final look at Xiao Chen, and walked to the exit of his house.

In the last scene before turning around, I saw Xiao Chen still standing in front of his fume hood lined with various unknown chemicals, and the tip of his right finger clamped a piece labeled NH3· The brown bottle of H2O turned slowly.

At that moment, I actually had the illusion that in this dimly lit laboratory, his thin, straight body actually seemed so lonely and lonely......

How many years has he been alone in this lab?

After leaving Xiao Chen's laboratory, I found that the outside was the aisle of an ordinary cheap old apartment, the walls were whitewashed with faded latex paint, the walls had cracked in some places, revealing the steel bars inside, and the walls were covered with psoriasis and graffiti letters painted with spray paint, and the apartment seemed to be unequipped with an elevator, so simple and rough that it looked like a tube building in Shanghai in the last century in an old movie.

When I walked to the entrance of the building, I found that Brother Tong and Han Shaofeng were already waiting there, and both of them looked happy for the rest of their lives.

"Fuck, that shitty guy is a lunatic!" Brother Tong was scolding in the entrance of the building, and he put his foot on the dilapidated old wall, scraping off some yellow wall powder particles.

"Brother Tong, forget it, it's not cost-effective to be angry for that kind of person." Han Shaofeng responded to the side.

Seeing us, Han Shaofeng and Brother Tong fell silent.

Although Cao Hongli didn't perform well just now, after all, she is still the oldest among all of us, although she is only twenty-five or sixteen years old, and she has just graduated from college not long ago, but compared to Brother Tong and Han Shaofeng, Cao Hongli's identity and age are still there, so they didn't dare to do anything out of the ordinary for a while.

"You're all right, are you? Chen Dongqing, Jiang Xueqing? Cao Hongli looked at me and Jiang Xueqing with some concern, the main reason was that we were both students in her class, and of course she cared about us the most. As for Tong Xinyi, this little girl is now so frightened that her face is pale, and she just looks at a group of us blankly, not knowing what to do.

"We're fine." Jiang Xueqing and I replied almost in unison.

Cao Hongli breathed a sigh of relief, looked at us with a somewhat gloomy look in his eyes and said, "Chen Dongqing, Jiang Xueqing, are you very disappointed with my performance just now, teacher?" ”

I immediately shook my head, and at this time I found that Jiang Xueqing was also shaking her head like me, but her eyes kept staring at the ground.

Cao Hongli's eyes suddenly turned red, and then he cried, hugged me and Jiang Xueqing, and the whole person seemed to have lost his strength, soft, and convulsions.

"The teacher is really useless...... I was so frightened by that person just now that I didn't dare to move...... And said things that shouldn't have been said...... I'm not qualified to be your teacher at all......"

I have never seen Cao Hongli so depressed and weak, in my impression, she has always been our class vigorous and resolute, hot and courageous class teacher, at this moment I feel that although Cao Hongli is our class teacher, but the usual strictness is forcibly pretended, in fact, she is still a girl who has just graduated from college and has not much experience.

I swallowed and whispered:

"Teacher, we won't blame you, it's that man named Xiao Chen is too dangerous, anyone who encounters this kind of thing will panic, I really don't blame you......" I persuaded Cao Hongli, Cao Hongli wiped the tears from the corners of his eyes, and his eyes were still red like sunset.

"Chen Dongqing, you really scared me just now, the teacher really didn't expect you to be such a courageous student, compared to you, my teacher really has no face to go now." Cao Hongli said with some self-pity.

I shook my head and said:

"Teacher, forget it, it's all over, let's go first. Now that I've encountered so many things, my head is dizzy, so let's go out first. ”

Jiang Xueqing and Tong Xinyi stood aside and looked at me. I saw Tong Xinyi, because I was a neighbor with her, and this little girl would meet me every evening, so now I am also her most familiar person, and of course she is also close to me.

"Brother Dongqing...... What the hell will happen to us? Are we going to die? Tong Xinyi's eyes widened and she looked at me with some concern.

I reluctantly smiled and said:

"Xinyi, I'll send you back later. When you see your mom and dad, it won't be anything. ”

Although I persuaded Tong Xinyi, I felt unbearable for a while, Tong Xinyi was only fifteen or sixteen years old, and it was too ruthless to involve such a girl in such a cruel thing.

It was probably because I mentioned the idea of going home, and the expressions of the other people became anxious. I saw Han Shaofeng look at Jiang Xueqing, and after a moment of hesitation, he suddenly said:

"Xueqing, is he Chen Dongqing who is in the same class as you?"

Jiang Xueqing glanced at Han Shaofeng, there were not too many emotional fluctuations in her eyes, she nodded.

"Han Shaofeng." Han Shaofeng withdrew his gaze from Jiang Xueqing's face, then looked at me, barely squeezed out a smile, stretched out his hand to me, and said, "My parents and Xueqing's parents are cooperative enterprises, and I also knew Jiang Xueqing since childhood. There is also this one, this is Brother Tong...... Tong Qiang. ”

Tong Qiang, this name that makes students frightened and turn around in school, it's not the first time I've heard it, but today I saw that this person was easily broken down by Xiao Chen, which was really eye-opening.

Although it was not a complete stranger, but it was not a friendship, everyone was worried because of the previous experience, so we went downstairs in silence and walked out of the dilapidated old apartment along the entrance of the building.

Outside, it was windy and windy, as if it was going to rain, and the sky was gray. Outside the apartment is a development area that I am not too unfamiliar with, with a few old and dilapidated mansions and a few vacant lots that have been demolished and are being built. I have a little impression of this area, it seems to be a suburban area in the south of the city, which means that I am still in the original city, and I can't help but breathe a sigh of relief when I think of this, and the shocking image in my mind has gradually faded.

"What the hell is that?" Suddenly, I heard Brother Tong's scolding voice, and I turned my head to see him looking at the sky with a shocked face, his mouth wide open enough to hold two eggs.

I also followed Brother Tong's line of sight and soon froze.

What's that? In the middle of the sky, in the gap where several dark clouds meet, there are actually two things like ancient Egyptian pyramids poking down, these two pyramids are symmetrical up and down, the lower one is facing the sky, the top is facing the ground, the two "pyramids" are pointed to the point, as if they are kissing and hanging in the sky.

That thing reminds me of the shocking picture of the alien spaceship landing on Earth in "Independence Day", I thought that kind of picture could only be seen in movies, but now seeing such a spectacular scene with my own eyes, the whole person is terrified, and goosebumps suddenly appear on my body.

"It's so big......" I heard Cao Hongli's stunned voice. Indeed, the ancient monster body in the sky, if you really want to take it down and calculate the volume, it is also a few kilometers long, maybe more than that.

"It's true...... Hell, it really wasn't me dreaming......" Han Shaofeng's muttering voice came, and we all looked at the sky dumbfounded, "What is that?" Is it an alien spaceship? Is the end of the world coming? ”

When I heard the word "end of the world", my heart sank. Is it really the end of the world? No way...... I suddenly had the illusion that I had traveled into a science fiction movie, but the scene in front of me was so real that it was absolutely impossible for me to be wrong.

At this time, the first thing I thought of was my dad, if it was really the end of the world, how would my dad be now?

I didn't think much of it, so I just picked up the phone I had stolen and dialed my dad's phone number.

Seeing my actions, others, including Cao Hongli, followed suit, picked up their mobile phones and began to call their loved ones.

Dad's phone was soon on, and the sound of a car horn sounding on his other end seemed to be on the street.

"Hey, who?" Dad's heavy, familiar voice sounded like he was fine, which made me feel a lot more relieved.

"Daddy!" I cried out in surprise.

"Dongqing? How do you call me...... Whose number do you use? Dad's confused voice came.

"Oh...... I borrowed it from my classmate. I casually made an excuse to prevaricate, "Dad, are you ...... now?" Where is it? Are you okay now? ”

"I'm fine, I'm at work. What's wrong? Something can't be wrong, right? You said. Dad's voice grew heavy.

"No...... Just call and ask...... By the way, will you come back in the evening? ”

"As before, I'm on duty tonight, and I'm not coming back, so you can settle dinner yourself." Because his father was lame, he worked as a security guard for Jiang Xueqing's father's company, so he often couldn't go home at night.

"Okay." I hurriedly agreed, "That's right, Dad...... Well, can you see the sky over there, that scene in the sky...... Did you see that? ”

"A heavenly sight? What sight? I can't see anything in the sky when I look out from here. Dad had a confused voice, and he didn't seem to see anything at what he meant.

"No, can't you see that pyramid-like thing in the sky? Do you take a look at it again? I said eagerly.

After about ten seconds of silence on the other side of the phone, Dad's voice came back again:

"What is there in the sky, what do you want to say, Dongqing? You're really inexplicable today, is something wrong? Dad's voice was full of doubt, and I didn't know how to respond.

"No, no, no...... Maybe I'm wrong, that's it, Dad, I'll eat by myself first, I'll leave some for you, you can come back and eat it hot then. ”

Unexpectedly, when I heard my words, there was laughter from my father's end:

"You thing, what's wrong today? It's like you've grown up all of a sudden, and you care about me so much? Hehe. ”

Dad's words made me stunned and fell into deep thought, I grew up? In fact, I just do things according to my instincts, and maybe when people encounter a crisis such as the end of the world, the first thing they think of is their own relatives.

When I turned off my phone, several people around me had finished calling one after another.

I saw Cao Hongli with my heart written on my face and asked:

"Teacher Cao, have you contacted your family?"

Cao Hongli looked at me with a sigh of relief, and his face calmed down a lot:

"Well, the fight is through, it looks like nothing is going on at home, but they all say they can't see that thing in the sky, what's going on?"

"My family is also ......" Jiang Xueqing also hung up her mobile phone and said in a cold voice on the side.

"It's the same on my side."

"Hmm...... That's what my family says......"

"It all looks the same......"

The six of them all finished calling one after another, but the answer they got was that there was nothing wrong with the family, and surprisingly unanimous, the person on the other end of the phone said that they couldn't see the strange scene in the sky, and they didn't know if it was only limited to the sky area where we were, or if only we could see it.

"Probably...... It's a mirage, right? Cao Hongli speculated, "I've seen it in the North Bund before. Anyway, you're fine, and the teacher is much more at ease. ”

Although Cao Hongli's explanation makes sense, it is very reluctant. Is it really a mirage? If it's a mirage, it's impossible for others to see it, right?

I was nervous. Everyone also looked at the terrifying scene in the middle of the sky, and did not speak for a long time.

"That...... Have any of you thought of anything? Or what are the ideas? Cao Hongli looked at us and asked.

Facing Cao Hongli's eyes, a few of us exchanged glances, but in the end, everyone shook their heads and didn't say anything.

Cao Hongli sighed and said, "Then let's do it, you give the phone number to the teacher and me, and you also add each other's phone numbers to avoid any situation." Although the teacher is not very clear about the situation like you, the teacher will find a way to investigate it, so you should go home first. It's not safe to be outside during the Chinese New Year, if you encounter danger, contact your family or teachers, and if there is any emergency, go to the police immediately. ”

"Well, okay, Mr. Cao, thank you for your concern." I thanked Cao Hongli for reminding her, and now she is the oldest of the six of us, so naturally I have to listen to her, even Brother Tong.

Because everyone was clueless, and they were very nervous and anxious to go home, in the end, after a brief discussion, everyone added each other's phone numbers. Because of this opportunity, I actually got Jiang Xueqing's phone number. In normal times, it would be absolutely impossible. When Jiang Xueqing twitched and told me her phone number in a calm voice, I felt that there was a hot blood flowing in my heart.

My mobile phone was secretly bought behind my father's back, and Jiang Xueqing was actually the first number deposited in my mobile phone, which really surprised me.

After each of them wrote down the numbers, I hesitated, calmed my beating heart, and was about to ask Jiang Xueqing if she wanted to go back together, so I had the courage to ask her how to go home. But before I asked, Han Shaofeng stepped forward and said:

"Don't bother, I know Jiang Xueqing's address, and I'll just let my driver take me and Xueqing, and Brother Tong together."

Han Shaofeng also specially emphasized the four words he and Xueqing, which made me feel a little uncomfortable.

Faced with Han Shaofeng's invitation to be in the same car, Jiang Xueqing didn't refuse anything, just glanced at me and said:

"I'll go with Han Shaofeng. You can just go home by yourself. ”

I couldn't help but feel a little lost when I heard Jiang Xueqing's words, especially when I saw her and Han Shaofeng standing together, I suddenly felt that they were the right people and talented women......

"Okay, then I'll go by myself. Go on your own. I smiled, nodded, and then turned around to say hello to Tong Xinyi and left together. Tong Xinyi lives next door to my house, and we are neighbors, so naturally we go back together, as for Cao Hongli, we are not on the way, so we can only take another car back.

Before parting, Cao Hongli repeatedly told us not to talk about today's events casually, because no one will believe this kind of thing, and it will only make our parents worry. And Cao Hongli also told us not to go out these days as much as possible to protect ourselves.

In this way, the six of us were separated, on the way home, Tong Xinyi sat next to me, this little girl had a calm face, full of apprehension, but because the driver was in the driver's seat, she didn't speak.

It wasn't until I got out of the car that Tong Xinyi followed me and asked me with a heavy heart:

"Brother Dongqing...... Are we all going to die? ”

I was taken aback and said to Tong Xinyi:

"Don't talk nonsense. What can happen? We're all going to be fine. ”

"But...... What we just saw is true, right? What the hell is wrong with us? And that God game......"

"Okay, don't think too much, it's going to be fine, go home and take a shower first, get some sleep, and I guess there will be nothing to do when I wake up tomorrow." Maybe we were kidnapped to play a prank and then escaped, I heard my grandfather say that there are some psychedelic drugs that can make people hallucinate, I guess the man named Xiao Chen has something to do with this matter, you see so many experimental drugs in his house, no matter how you look at it, how can a person have such a laboratory? I guess there might be psychedelic drugs or something in there......" Although I don't even believe in this statement, but at the moment it is the only explanation that barely makes sense, under my explanation, although Tong Xinyi did not cry out in fright, but the worry on her face has not diminished at all.

Although it was hard for me to accept what the woman named Miyoko told her about the god game, the memory at that time was so clear that I could even recall all the details of the time when I was in the unrestricted free space, and it definitely didn't feel like it was caused by some kind of psychedelic drug, and the others also saw the scene when I was teleported to Xiao Chen's laboratory, indicating that the woman named Miyoko really had god-like abilities. Otherwise, space teleportation and so on can only happen in science fiction movies and novels.

In addition, I was also worried that Xiao Chen's person would be unfavorable to me and others, but I quickly felt at ease, because that Xiao Chen didn't know the address, phone number and real name of the six of us, and the previous meeting at his house should be the last time, and I am afraid that unless we take the initiative to find him, we will never meet him again.

After temporarily persuading Tong Xinyi, she and I went home separately. Childlike and pleasant, I am also heavy-footed, and my heart is filled with countless doubts.

In particular, the book called "Zombie World" that I still hold in my hand makes me very uneasy. Because this book is the best proof that I have ever spent time in unrestricted free space......

Sitting on the bed in my own room, I flipped through this book called "Zombie World" and read it countless times, especially the record of that memory of Gao Tianfeng in it made me feel creepy, and the more I looked at it, the more I felt as if there was an eye above my head staring at me, which made me feel uncomfortable.

Zombie World ......

Zombie world, what does it mean exactly? Could it be that there are zombies in our world? But on the way home, where did I see any zombies? Not a single one...... Is this book just a prank? Was it all a prank or a play on a stage?

And, why is this "Zombie World" in my hands...... And the person named Miyoko also said that the person who got the book was the captain...... But why am I the captain...... I don't have any ability, I'm just an ordinary high school student......

I pondered and meditated, but I couldn't come up with a reason until I was getting sleepy, my hands were weak, and the Zombie World in my hand fell under the bed and woke me up.

Zombie World ...... Corpse......

I clapped my hands suddenly, then quickly bent down and fell to the floor, crawled under the bed, and removed a cardboard box that I had been sitting under my bed for a long time.

I almost trembled as I pulled out the broken box, and after tearing open the note on the box, I carefully took out a book from the box that I had been sealing for a long, long time......

Inside the box was a black book bound in thread, written in three lines of "Footsteps", which was a relic given to me by my grandfather before he died.

What is recorded in this is the secret experience he has accumulated over the years of being a Taoist priest and studying Gu arts, I once turned this book a few times when I was bored, but then I didn't take care of this book anymore. And today, I found the book again.

I carefully took the Footbook out of the box and flipped to the table of contents page.

"Xingjiaolu" is divided into four volumes and nine articles, namely "Gu Scroll", "Medicine Scroll", "Technique Scroll" and "Epidemic Scroll", and when I opened the first part of "Gu Scroll", I finally saw the terrifying description of my grandfather I had seen in my memory about using Gu worm plague to refine living people into zombies, so as to manipulate human flesh to create a plague disaster:

"In the twenty-second year of Jian'an, the epidemic of war, there is the pain of zombies in every family, and there is crying in the room. or die with the door closed, or lose the family. ”

On the paper, the words are clear, exactly as I remembered.

A terrible conjecture popped into my mind...... Could it be that Miyoko's so-called way of conquering "Zombie World" is not an outdated game of slashing and killing zombie kings in the zombie world with a gun like in the novel, but a crazy game that requires me to create zombies by myself and become a zombie boss to conquer all mankind?

In this way, I spent the whole night at home rummaging through the "Footlog" that my grandfather had left me, while looking out the window at the sky or opening my phone to take a look. What disturbed me was that even in the middle of the night, the huge double pyramid in the sky did not disappear, it hung in the middle of the sky, even though the moon was rising in the east and setting in the west, but the two pyramids in the sky seemed to hover in the sky, just hanging there motionless. It's as if God's eyes are looking down on the earth.

The next day, my dad was still at work, and I was alone at home, because it was the last few days before the winter vacation, and I was idle and had nothing to do. Originally, I wanted to go to see Tong Xinyi's situation, but Tong Xinyi went out to visit relatives' houses, and I was bored at home playing with my mobile phone to pass the time. In the afternoon, there was a knock on the door. I cautiously went out to open the door and asked hesitantly:

"Who?"

Looking through the doorway, I saw Xiao Chen, who had a depressed face, standing outside the door wearing a big black windbreaker, and a pair of eyes with dark circles were looking straight at me through the doorway.

"It's me, open the door." Xiao Chen said lightly.

"You...... How did I find my home? I was shocked, but I didn't open the door.

"I drove behind you yesterday and followed you." Xiao Chen stood outside the door, unabashedly authentic.

I was taken aback, but quickly calmed down again:

"You followed me to my house...... Wait, but you don't know which floor I live on, do you? How do you know the room number I am staying in? My vigilance suddenly rose.

Xiao Chen said lightly:

"Yesterday when I borrowed your "Zombie World", I smeared the back of the book with a strong antimony-manganese halophosphate activated calcium halophosphate phosphor, so after returning the book to you, your fingertips will naturally be stained with fluorescent powder, and when you unscrew the doorknob at home, your doorknob will also be stained with phosphor, and I only need to use a violet lamp to detect the doorknob to determine where you live."

I was taken aback again, and hurriedly looked down at my fingers, and of course I couldn't see anything, because I had already washed my hands last night.

"You...... What are you looking for me? Didn't you say let's go back? What exactly do you want? ”

"I lied to you." Xiao Chen said lightly, "I deliberately let you go. ”

My heart began to pound, and I pressed my back against the door, and asked in a low voice:

"Deliberately letting us go? What do you mean? What is your purpose? ”

"Gather intelligence." Xiao Chen said lightly, "The six people are scattered separately, and they can get more useful information than if they were tied together as a team. In one night, I think you should be familiar with the current state of our world, so I came to you to gather information. Of course, on the other hand, it is also due to your eagerness to go home. ”

I never thought that Xiao Chen had already calculated to this point, and Xiao Chen's every word stimulated my nerves and subverted my thinking.

"Then why are you stalking me...... Don't track other people? ”

"Because from the conversation and eye contact between you yesterday, you and the other five people know each other more or less, which means that you are the bond that maintains those six people, as long as you follow you and determine your location, the names, contact information and addresses of other people will naturally be known."

Open. My heart throbbed again, and I even had a full sense of powerlessness, I didn't expect Xiao Chen, a man, to actually calculate me and others step by step, from beginning to end, after living for so many years, I have never been calculated like this, and I have never met someone as insidious as Xiao Chen.

"Alright, open the door. I've come to you because I want to tell you something. Xiao Chen said lightly.

"Open the door?" I swallowed, "Are you kidding?" Who will open the door for you? I'll be a fool if I open the door for you, what do you want to do to me, you ****...... I'll tell you, I'll count to three, and if you don't leave, I'll call the police! With that, I really took out my mobile phone and pressed the three keys of 110 nervously, ready to call the police at any time. I also specially pressed the sound of the keys to the maximum, so that Xiao Chen outside the door could also hear it clearly.

"Yes. That's it. Xiao Chen's faint voice came from outside the door, but there was still a bit of disdain in his voice.

Just when I wondered how Xiao Chen's answer voice could be so indifferent, I suddenly heard the sound of unlocking from outside the door, I was startled, and I was about to turn around, but I found that there was nothing behind me - the security door that I was leaning on was actually opened outward, and Xiao Chen stood at the door, looking at me calmly, as if nothing had happened.

I looked at the open door like a wooden man, and Xiao Chen standing at the door of the house, my brain could hardly think.

"You...... How did you open the door to my house? It's impossible, my house is a security door, and you don't have the key to my house, how can you ......"

In the face of my questioning, Xiao Chen raised his right hand preparedly, and I saw that there was a thin roll of silver-white paper in his right hand.

"It's a piece of tin foil. The texture of metal tin is soft, easy to bend and deformable, and it only takes four sheets of tin foil to fold into a strip to open the door lock of most ordinary homes. ”

Xiao Chen explained idly, his expression was calm as if he was reciting a "Brahmana Sutra".