Chapter 1: Meteor Showers
CD City, Sichuan Province, China
June 2017
The national college entrance examination has finally come to an end.
"Let's break up completely, really, we're not possible anymore. I'm sorry, natural, I thought about it for a long time ... Don't look for me again... Toot beet..."
Boom... The sound of the phone falling and hitting the floor scared Zhuo Tianran a little from the wooden flute.
He ignored the mobile phone on the floor, looked up at the ceiling, and muttered, "Is it really over? Didn't you say that it will last a lifetime? Why can't you hold on anymore? Why did you break up with me a month before the college entrance examination, and why are you going to come back today? Is the graduation season really the breakup season?"
Countless reasons have emerged from Zhuo Tiantian's brain. With a splitting headache, Zhuo Tianran let out a long howl, and his trembling right hand tugged at the necklace hanging on his chest. The heavens seemed to sense something, and at this time, there were bursts of thunder outside the house...
Jingle bells... Jingle bells... The stubborn phone rang. Zhuo Tianran slowly bent down and picked up the phone and put it to his ear.
"Mom!"
"How's it going, how do you feel?"
"That's it, just play as usual"
"Oh, that's good, that's good..."
After a few words of greeting with his mother, Zhuo Tianran hung up the phone, he stared at the wallpaper on his phone, which was a photo of him and his girlfriend when they traveled to Beijing. The tears finally broke the embankment, and the image printed in his eyes on the mobile phone screen became more and more blurry and dazzling...
A month later, Zhuo Tianran's high school classmates got together.
Come, come, eat, eat, and there was a commotion in the private room. Unlike the bustle of his classmates, Zhuo Tianran sat alone in the corner and drank as if he didn't want to do it.
"What's the matter? My great old squad leader, you have something on your mind, you tell me, I'll help you solve it," the visitor smiled with a wine glass. Naturally, someone still noticed Zhuo Tiantian in the corner.
"It's okay, it's just that I did a bad job, and I'm a little depressed" Zhuo Tianran said helplessly.
"Eh, old squad leader, what are you doing, look at me, I don't worry about anything, if you want to be like me, you must first have thick skin, and then you must be able to resist in your heart" The person who came patted Zhuo Tianran's shoulder and clinked glasses with him.
After the meal was full and the wine was almost drunk, the ten men and women, a total of ten people, left the hotel and walked to the Internet café after settling the bill.
It was already dark, and it was rare that there were a few stars in the night sky in the distance.
"I said, old squad leader, why didn't your Fluttershy come over?" someone said to Zhuo Tianran, who was smiling from alcohol.
Naturally, this person didn't know the inside story, and he actually said such a thing.
That's how the embarrassing situation is created...
Of course, most people knew what was going on, and those in the know hurriedly pulled the person who spoke away.
Of course, the embarrassment was only temporary, and the class reunion was full of laughter and laughter. Zhuo Tianran is also very cooperative, talking and playing with everyone.
"Look, Meteor, everyone close your eyes and make a wish, bless us to be admitted to our ideal university in the college entrance examination," a classmate shouted. Everyone also saw a streamer in the distant sky.
"I'm going, no, everyone run, the meteorite has fallen!" someone shouted, and naturally many people were running.
"No, why are there so many?"
Zhuo Tianran's group of people quickly ran to the supermarket next to it. Fortunately, they ran fast and hid in the supermarket and looked out through the glass.
The meteor shower is as spectacular as a swarm of artillery shells attacking land targets. The rumble of huge meteorites hitting land, the sound of air raid sirens ... Someone cried, someone ran around?, and suddenly the sky was full of fire...
"Ahh
There are also people who are directly flattened by a huge meteorite as huge as a mountain
"The end of the world?"
"Fuck little Japan or the United States sneaking up on us?"
"Mom, I want Mom..."
...
"Nima, call the police!" one of Zhuo Tianran's group shouted.
"Don't panic, this may be a meteor shower hitting the earth, everyone follow me into the supermarket, don't go near the window, don't crowd, just like in the school fire drill, don't worry, we will definitely be safe" Zhuo Tianran immediately instructed everyone to look at the innermost part of the supermarket.
However, suddenly, a rumbling sound came from outside the supermarket, and suddenly the supermarket fell into darkness after daylight. The crowd screamed in fright, and some people began to run in a crowd.
"Don't panic, it may be that the meteor shower has destroyed the nearby electricity, everyone turn on the flashlight function of their mobile phones, slowly move towards me, don't run indiscriminately, so as not to have a stampede!"
When everyone heard this, they hurriedly did what Zhuo Tianran said, because everyone is greedy for life and afraid of death, and they can't come nonsense at a critical time.
In the dark, countless bright lights illuminated by mobile phone flashlights slowly concentrated, and no one dared to slack off. Zhuo Tiantian calculated, plus himself a total of thirteen people. Three of them don't belong to Zhuo Tianran's group, but they are quite familiar, and they are actually from the same school as Zhuo Tianran. It seems that they are in the same situation, they all came out for dinner after the college entrance examination.
Everyone gathered together, and the minutes and seconds passed, and the fire and rumble outside were not over.
"This meteor shower is quite long-lasting!"
Cold, I don't know who suddenly came up with such a sentence in the dark. I don't know if this sentence has the effect of relieving tension or aggravating the thriller. After a while, there was a whisper of conversation in the crowd.
"I said, did you just see a meteor shower?" said a second fool
"Aren't you talking nonsense?"
"Don't care about the details, I'm just making everyone happy."
"Come on, the persistence of your meteor shower just now scared us to no good, you can accumulate some virtues..."
"Friend, don't worry about these details," the two fools explained
"Hmph" immediately caused a group of people to snort coldly
"Wait, guys, the meteor shower outside seems to have stopped," one person said
"yes, stopped"
"Can we get out?"
"Are we safe?"
"Don't worry, just to be on the safe side, let's wait a little longer," Zhuo Tianran said
Everyone agreed
After about two minutes, there was still no movement outside.
"Everyone, I'll go out and have a look first, and I'll call everyone out after it's safe."
Before Zhuo Tianran finished speaking, a rumbling sound came, illuminating the entire supermarket, and everyone was shocked.
"Nima, is there any end?" The person who can say such things is naturally the second fool just now.
Everyone had the urge to stuff cotton into the mouth of this second fool.
The sound of explosions continued to sound around the supermarket, and half a minute passed without stopping.
"Damn, these meteorites won't have been falling near this supermarket all the time since just now," the second fool spoke again.
"You Erdan, shut your crow's mouth!" Naturally, there were people who knew him, and it seemed that among the thirteen people in the supermarket, Zhuo Tianran couldn't name the other three people from the outside class.
The loud sound of "boom" touched everyone's nerves. The earth was shaking, mixed with the sounds of people shouting for help, and it really looked like the end of the world.
As the minutes passed, the frequency of the explosions slowly decreased. The tension of the crowd was finally relieved.
"I have good news and bad news to tell everyone," Zhuo Tianran knew that he couldn't hide it
"Old squad leader, you say, we are not afraid"
"What's the good news? What's the bad news?"
"Bad news first, good news first. ”
"The bad news is that we can't seem to get out for the time being, we're surrounded by craters," Zhuo said truthfully.
"Oh my mother... I knew I wouldn't be out for dinner today, unlucky!"
"Oh my God..."
"Woo, I'm scared...", finally a girl cried.
"Don't worry, everyone, isn't there any good news here..."Zhuo Tianran hurriedly comforted everyone.
"What's the good news, there's an exit for us to get out?" someone shouted anxiously
"Not really, but the good news I'm talking about is pretty much the same as what you said," Zhuo Tianran said to the speaker. He cleared his throat and continued, "We are trapped here, fortunately it is not a remote area, I believe that someone will come to rescue us tomorrow, and we are trapped in the supermarket, there is everything to eat here, everyone will not go hungry"
The group naturally understood Zhuo Tiantian's meaning, and he was comforting and encouraging everyone.
So some people also chimed in, "Yes, we can't drop the chain, and we should work together to tide over the difficulties at the critical moment"
Some boys started to help the girls, some people were looking for exits, and a few people with backpacks actually started to pack a lot of food from the supermarket shelves into their backpacks.
Zhuo Tianran didn't care so much, and began to stuff things into his oversized schoolbag, only to see that he stuffed everything, milk, bread, mineral water, instant noodles... Even rope cutters ... Zhuo Tianran felt that these things could be used
In the second half of the night, a total of thirteen of them couldn't take care of that much, so they found seven or eight tents in the supermarket to huddle together and sleep. In this tense atmosphere, they could even sleep, and it was no wonder that everyone had been frightened so much this day, and their minds and bodies were extremely tired.