The bell rang at six o'clock in the afternoon, and the tall buildings, flowers and trees slowly dissipated like foam. The bright moonlight illuminates the city like the day.

Someone fell hard from mid-air, someone suddenly fell to the ground, and someone lifted their pants in embarrassment.

People laughed and exposed each other's shortcomings, and the scene was warm and lively.

"I don't know where the houses have gone."

"Maybe the house needs a vacation."

"Then we need to take a vacation!"

"Today is the Water Carnival, and it looks like it's preparing for the carnival."

"This year's carnival has not been out of the process, saying that it is to keep the mystery, which is really godly!"

"The carnival usually starts at seven o'clock, and now it's six o'clock, and it's really time to prepare."

"I heard that there is a big water carnival here, so I came from other cities, so why don't we get to know each other!"

Such a self-familiar conversation makes the somewhat tense atmosphere harmonious. People began to introduce themselves to each other, names, occupations, ages, specialties, hobbies, and humorous jokes.

I didn't bother to listen to their conversation, I looked down at the watch on my wrist, it was six and five o'clock, and the "safe house" was supposed to appear.

Suddenly, the whole city shook violently, and ten meters away from me, the soil cracked, and a small green bud poked out its head and grew slowly.

"What's that?" Su Nuannuan watched intently as the little bud gradually grew into a towering tree, for fear of missing something unusual.

"It's even more magical than the disappearance of the building, I've spent 19 years here at the carnival, and it's the first time I've encountered such a big pomp!"

I nodded in agreement, this big tree that can hold 100 people is the safe house tonight. The big tree will appear in a fixed place every time, and this one is the closest to the city center.

"Look! It's a tree! "People gathered under the tree and looked in amazement at the big tree growing out of thin air, ten meters long in radius, with vines falling.

"What a big tree!"

"Like magic! It's amazing! ”

"It's not wrong to come this way, I'm going to bring my friends with me next year!"

Immediately after that, many fruits bore on the tree, and the fruit fell to the ground and bounced off the ground, as light and elastic as a ball.

Of the nine cities, only this one is free of monsters.

There are ten of these trees in the city, and theoretically there are a thousand people who can survive tonight.

"The ball fell from the tree, do you want to play?" One person picks up the fruit and shoots it in the air, and more and more people pick up the fruit on the ground and start a slightly childish game.

I looked down at my watch again, and it was 6:30 and it was time to start.

"What is this?" Su Nuannuan looked down and saw the clear spring gushing out of the ground, and asked to herself, "Can you drink it?" ”

I opened my mouth and didn't know what to say, theoretically, can I drink, taste? Probably choked.

"Sweet! It's so refreshing! Su Nuannuan picked up the water in the spring, tasted it, and shouted happily.

I took two steps back without revealing it, and opened up the distance between me and Su Nuannuan. I can't remember how I reacted when I first encountered the spring. But it's definitely not like Su Nuannuan just tastes it.

Su Nuannuan obviously didn't take the "doomsday" I wrote down to heart, after all, everything still seemed so harmonious, and there was no danger. Everyone's experience is the same, losing their wallets, losing their homes and identities, and since everyone is the same, it's not a problem.

After ten minutes, the surface of the water slowly submerged under the soles of the feet, and the clean water washed away all the dirt.

"I seem to have turned white!" Su Nuannuan stretched out her hand and found that the place where she had touched the clear spring had become white, translucent and shiny.

"Oh my God! The scars on my feet are gone! This year, this is a bloody investment! ”

"That's amazing! It feels like a huge pool to make! ”

"There should be a freestyle swimming competition this year!"

"It's almost seven o'clock, why hasn't the host shown up yet? There's not even a description of the event! Isn't it a bit mysterious? ”

There was a lot of speculation about what would happen next, and there were also people who talked about the annual carnival events in the past.

The fruit of the fallen tree was suspended on the water, and a stranger's proposal was heard in the distance: "Does anyone want to have a gorgeous water volleyball?" ”

Everyone's eyes quickly gathered into the distance, and I was once attracted by the confident light emanating from them, and I also wanted to be like them, and I also thought about a question: Why are they so powerful in the same compulsory education?

Then, I came up with an answer that didn't count as an answer. We all wish that other people could circle around us, but there is only one sun.

Su Nuannuan watched more and more people surround her, standing on tiptoe and looking over with interest.

I pulled Su Nuannuan's sleeve, pointed to the tree, and motioned for her to climb up the tree to see.

When night comes, most people gather in the center of the city, and no one cares what is happening at the edge of the city. I guess there are a few trees on the edge, someone is climbing.

It took me about a month to climb the tree smoothly, and I hated the feeling of my skin gradually turning white and sagging in the water.

Standing on the first branch and looking down, Su Nuannuan was pulling the vine turtle forward quickly, to be exact, standing still.

I shook my head helplessly and sighed, so I could only pick a stronger vine again, return to the tree, tie Su Nuannuan firmly behind me, and drag her up.

"I'm sorry, I don't have the strength in my hands." Su Nuannuan tugged at my clothes a little shyly, "Actually, water volleyball is nothing to look at, why don't we go down!" ”

Go down? Of course I can't go down, I shook my head and refused.

When I passed by the first branch, the vine in my hand also came to an end. Stepping on the branches, I carefully selected new vines, and tonight, I had to climb to the top.

"Still going up? It's so high! Su Nuannuan stood on the branch and looked down, so frightened that she almost jumped up, "It's okay here, you can see it." ”

I shook my head and pointed to the twig at the top, indicating that there wasn't enough here.

A tree has a total of five branches, the first can bear forty people, the second twenty-five, the third twenty, the fourth ten, and the last five people.

After choosing the vines, I took Su Nuannuan and continued to set off, and when I climbed to the second branch, I saw that there were still a few trees hanging above that had not fallen fruit, so I walked over and picked the fruit, and smashed it hard against the protrusion of the trunk, and the fruit was immediately deflated.

"I'm going to pierce this...... Fruit? ”

Although Su Nuannuan was puzzled, she still followed my example, plucked all the fruits that could be picked on the branches, and then pierced them.

When the time reached seven o'clock, Su Nuannuan sat on the top branch with her legs weak, and from here she could clearly see the whole city.

At some point, a high wall was erected at the edge, just as high as the first branch, and the whole city was covered with clear spring water, like a huge pool.

The moon in the water is like a white jade plate, without the slightest blemish.

I pulled up the three vines from the fifth branch and rolled them up and placed them on the branch, leaving only one firmly coiled in my hand.

Skillfully doing all this, I sat down on a branch to rest, and by the way began to watch free performances.

The water below was crystal clear, just below the waist of an adult woman. People who indulge in "water volleyball" end their blood and revelry, slowly feel tired and start looking for a place to rest.

The city seems to have turned into a sea with no end in sight.

Then they realized that there was no place in the city to stop and rest, and that the water was still growing!

Someone stepped on the spring with their feet and tried to block it, but the spring was still flowing and could not be stopped.

"Why is the water still rising?"

"Shall we go out first?"

"Does anyone know what's going on right now?"

"What about the person in charge? Where is the person in charge of the carnival? ”

There was a lot of talk, eager to know what would happen next. Some people began to walk towards the edge of the city, wanting to see what was happening on the edge and whether they could get out.

"It's still a long way from the edge of the city, and it looks like there are people standing on the trees! Let's go to the trees and have a look! You might even be able to see it in the distance! ”

Some of them pulled up the vines under the trees and began to climb up, feeling uneasy about the current situation. It's like, a real-life version of a boiled frog in warm water.

"The clouds, the water doesn't stop, does it?" Su Nuannuan's face turned pale and asked tremblingly.

I guess she finally understood the meaning of the word "future" in my words, but I didn't know what kind of answer she wanted to hear, so I could only nod and tell her the truth.

"Do you want to tell them and let them climb up too?" Su Nuannuan's voice trembled uncontrollably.

I shook my head and rejected her offer. She probably instinctively felt scared and sad at the thought that the city she had lived in for so long would be flooded, just like I used to do.

Tonight, only a thousand people will survive at most out of tens of thousands of people, who do you want to save?

Perhaps, surviving is the beginning of all misfortune.

"Today is the end of the world?" Su Nuannuan said to herself hesitantly, she looked down at the slowly rising water, and the people who were standing in the water and frolicking without noticing the danger.

"Cloud, I want to tell them!"

Su Nuannuan hesitated for a moment, but mustered up the courage to confess her truest thoughts to me.

There was a determination in her eyes that I wouldn't refuse. In this regard, I can only let her go, and then think about another thing carefully, it turns out that the first reaction of normal people when they hear that danger is coming is - tell the others to run away.

In this way, I used to be barely a normal person.

"Hey! The people below! Can you hear me! Su Nuannuan knelt on the branch and shouted down hard.

"The water will continue to rise! Come on! ”

All that responded to her was the cool night breeze. She thought she was loud, but to me, her voice was very weak and a little crying, just like an extra mosquito in her ear.

"Why can't they hear me?" Su Nuannuan turned her head to ask me, tears rolling back and forth in her eyes.

It seemed to me that she was cowardly and unaware. Before the water rose, I was so scared that I couldn't even speak out loud.

This is completely different from me, who cherishes words like gold.

Su Nuannuan looked at the fourth branch below, then looked at the vine in my hand, and said with self-reproach: "I can't go down, I don't dare to go down......"

This is the truth, if she goes down by herself, she will fall to her death first. I leaned over and waited for her next sentence.

She would say, "You're so good, can you go down and tell them?" Just go down and tell them, please, please!

Or do you regret that you don't exercise more, if only I were as strong as you, I would definitely be able to pull more people up!

However, she was silent for a while, staring at the climber, brewing emotions, and shouting with all her might: "The water will not stop!" Come on! ”

Over and over again, the voice grew hoarse, and the pale little face turned red from too much exertion.

The man in warm yellow short-sleeved shirt under the tree looked up and seemed to hear, but from the angle below, he could not see what was happening on the fifth branch.

I saw that the man slowly let go of the vine in his hand and returned to the tree, and said to the girl beside him worriedly: "I just heard someone say that the water will not stop!" I'll take you up first! It doesn't matter if it stops or not, it's always okay to stand on a high place. ”

Su Nuannuan breathed a sigh of relief, and said with joy on her face: "Someone heard it, the water hasn't reached his chest yet, and he still has time to climb up!" ”