Chapter 1: The First Dawn
The abyss descended, and the last remaining human beings survived behind the walls
Twilight City, Hongrui Road, Tiandi Logistics Park.
In the dark of night, from time to time, trucks full of goods will drive by, carrying heavy noise.
"Crunch..."
A truck loaded with goods pulled up on the side of the road.
"Hey, boy, what else to eat." The truck driver poked his head out of the cab and shouted at the food stall across the road.
Hearing the shouting, Chu Xiao hurriedly stood up from the back of the modified tricycle and shouted loudly: "Xiaolongbao, fried skewers, fried noodles." ”
"A drawer of xiaolongbao, hurry up and fill it."
"Okay."
Chu Xiao Mali packed a drawer of xiaolongbao into a plastic bag, and ran to the truck with xiaolongbao.
"Here, six bucks." Chu Xiao carried the xiaolongbao and said loudly.
The driver took out the change from his pocket and asked, "It's the middle of the night, and you're still setting up a stall." You're also working hard. ”
"It's all the same, it's all for life, when you save enough money, you can have a good rest." Chu Xiao replied with a smile.
"Hahaha, it's not easy... Come on, your money. ”
"Okay, go slowly." Chu Xiao took the money and replied.
Truck starts.
Chu Xiao also returned to his booth again.
He put the money in his hand into the cash box.
As soon as he raised his head, Chu Xiao's pupils dilated slightly.
……
Because, he saw a little girl sitting in the back of the truck, on the rows of tall goods.
Only seven or eight years old.
She held a blue rabbit doll in her hand, her back to Chu Xiao, and sat on the other side of the carriage.
As the truck drove away, Chu Xiao's gaze also moved.
Then, Chu Xiao ran a few steps and shouted: "Master, stop, there is a child on the roof of your car, it's too dangerous." ”
"Stop."
It's a pity that the driver, the master, didn't hear the slightest movement at all, and still drove forward by himself.
The truck turned a corner and disappeared from Chu Xiao's sight.
…….
As soon as the car turned a corner and disappeared from his view...
That little girl, vulture.
She turned her head suddenly.
No, to be precise, it was her head that turned one hundred and eighty degrees, and her immature neck seemed to be twisted into a twist....
Her face was pale, as pale as a dead man.
In the eyes, there are no eyes, they are hollow, and they are bottomless.
The girl..... Looking in the direction of the first dawn....
……
"Yes, yes, the license plate number is...... A little girl on the roof of the car, too dangerous. ”
"Hurry up, comrade policeman."
Chu Xiao held the mobile phone and gasped for breath.
....
Chu Xiao, who returned to the stall, wiped the sweat from his forehead, sat on the bench with his ass, and turned on his mobile phone again.
Four o'clock in the morning
The sky was still dark, and the cold moonlight hung in the inky sky......
A vague voice, like a whimper, like something..... With some kind of melody, beat, it sounded in the logistics park.......
"My sister carried the doll on her back and went to the garden to see the cherry blossoms."
"The doll is crying and calling for its mother, and the birds in the trees are laughing haha."
“……”
"Once upon a time, I also had a home and my dear parents, and one day my father was drunk."
“....”
"Ahh
In the logistics park, a terrible scream pierced the inky night.
Then, you can hear exclamations, shouts, nervous movements.......
Almost at the same time
"Thorn" "Thorn"
It seems that the voltage is unstable, and the street lights on both sides of the road begin to flicker on and off, as if they may go out at any time.
After a bang, the street lights never came on again.
The whole road was plunged into darkness.
Not even the moonlight can illuminate this street.....
……
At the same time, there is also the sound of crisp footsteps.
"Click" "Click"
Voice, behind the dawn...... Rang.....
.....
……..
There is someone behind you. Someone, away from you.... Getting closer and closer....
Don't look .... Come on.....
……
In the darkness, there was only the song, the noise in the logistics park, and that.... Footsteps...
Chu Xiao, who was playing with his mobile phone, finally realized it, raised his head, and looked left and right.
The streets are flooded with black, and nothing can be seen.
"Smack."
The footsteps stopped, and the owner of this voice, it seems, has stood behind Chu Xiao...
Chu Xiao, who heard the voice, was a little confused, and looked back at the back, the same dark street, there was nothing.
"Strange, is it an auditory hallucination?"
Behind it, there's nothing...
Chu Xiao played with the mobile phone intently, and the person who didn't exist behind him didn't make the slightest movement.
The whole world seems to be a lot quieter.....
……
I don't know how long this eerie silence lasted.
Half an hour? An hour?
Chu Xiao has a move.
He stood up and stretched.
"It's five o'clock, it's time to go home." Chu Xiao began to pack his things and prepare to go home.
Everything, cleaned up.
Chu Xiao sat in the driver's seat, twisted the handlebar, started the small three wheels, and slowly moved forward.
Merely..
In the back of the tricycle ...
Sitting one, little girl ....
The ballad sounded again as the tricycle advanced.
But, this time, no one could hear it......
"Once upon a time, I also had a home and my dear parents, and one day my father was drunk."
"Picked up the axe and walked to Mom, Daddy, Daddy, cut a lot of ....."
"And then, Daddy looked at me and raised his axe........."
"In the end, I became a little doll..."
To the rhythm of the song, the little girl's body swings with the rabbit doll.....
…….
"Yo, Chuxiao, it's here." Aunt Wang, who sells breakfast at the intersection, greeted Chu Xiao warmly.
"Auntie, here are four egg scones." Chu Xiao stopped the car and shouted.
Aunt Wang's hands kept moving, and she asked with a smile: "You are alone, why do you eat so much." ”
"Hey, my parents haven't eaten either, my sister has to get up early to go to school today, so I'll buy her some. After all, she loves your egg scones. ”
Hearing Chu Xiao's words, Aunt Wang's hand paused and did not speak again.
"Thank you, Deller." Chu Xiao took the egg scramble, thanked him, and left.
"Tsk, what a good child, why did you get this disease. Alas. ”
Aunt looked at Chu Xiao's back and sighed.
…….
"Strange, what's wrong today? Do you always feel like someone is following you? ”
Chu Xiao looked back, but behind him, there was nothing......
He shook his head in confusion.
He drove the small three-wheeled left turn into a small alley, and in the depths of the alley, where the sun could not shine, a dilapidated house in the shadows appeared in front of him.
Open the gate and ride the little trike into the yard.
The yard is not big, the ground is full of withered yellow fallen leaves, no one cleans it, and it adds a bit of desolation.
Only, in a corner of the courtyard, there are red roses blooming one after another, which are very charming.
This rose was planted by my mother.
……
Through the window, you can see the light in the room and several figures.
Chu Xiao got off the tricycle, looked at the lighted house, and frowned.
He stepped into the room.
"Really, it's already dawning, so why turn on the lights. It doesn't cost anything to pay for electricity. ”
With that, Chu Xiao turned off the lights.
The lights went out, and the room became much darker.
"Alright, it's good to come back, ready to eat."
Mom came out of the kitchen with a meal on her face with a smile on her face.
Mom's height is not too low, only about 1.6 meters.
"Well, thank you, Mom."
"By the way, Mom, I bought my sister her favorite egg scones, tell her to get up and eat something, and it's time to go to school soon."
Mother handed Chu Xiao a pair of chopsticks and said with a smile: "My sister has already gone to school, she can't eat." ”
"Oh"
Chu Xiao took the dishes and chopsticks, a little helpless and a little lost.
Immediately, he took out the egg scones, and since my sister couldn't eat them, I could only help her digest them reluctantly.
Whew...... Chu Xiao gulped on egg scones.
Oh, it smells so good!
As for the father .... He's still sleeping in his bedroom...
Usually my mother gets up early to prepare breakfast for the family...
Chu Xiao was gobbling up her meal, and her mother was sitting opposite, her hands not stopping.
She was knitting a sweater, and the rod needle in her hand was shuttling through the yarn...
The work in hand is non-stop.
From time to time, I looked up at the beginning of the meal, and my eyes were full of love.
Although the room is very dim, the house is a little dilapidated. But where there are parents, there is home.
Very warm and reassuring.
"Bang bang!"
There was a knock on the door.
At the same time, outside the house, the ballad came again....
“……”