Chapter 1: The Night

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Water capital - Bincheng

Huai County High School

In a restaurant in the county

Dozens of students in blue uniforms were chatting and laughing in the lobby on the first floor of the restaurant, and many of them were talking about what the upcoming university life would be like.

In the corner, a thin boy was drinking with his head down. The boy had a handsome face, wore a pair of rustic and outdated black-rimmed glasses, and his hair was not too long to cover his eyebrows, making it impossible to see his eyes.

The men and women at the dinner table were talking and laughing, and no one noticed the boy's depressed mood at all, and the meal continued, and the boy glanced at the lively and noisy hall, and walked out with a bottle of liquor.

Yes, the boy's name is Zhao Yan, a native of Qinghe Village, Huai County, Zhao Yan did not take the college entrance examination in Zhongyi, and the score obtained can only go to a second-rate university. He wanted to repeat his studies for a year and take the exam again in the lunar year, but his family didn't agree, and he couldn't turn his family around, so Zhao Yan had to study.

This is not something that Zhao Yan is worried about, the thing that annoys Zhao Yan is that Qiu Yun failed the college entrance examination this time, and listening to what his table mate said Qiu Yun is going to a technical school to learn a survival skill, so the two parted ways, which makes Zhao Yan, who admires Qiu Yun, how can he not be depressed?

What made Zhao Yan even more depressed was that Qiuyun's family was under heavy financial pressure, and his family had already booked a family affair for him, the other party was a successful business person, and the two would get married after graduating from Qiuyun Technical School, which was tantamount to a steel knife piercing Zhao Yan's heart.

Thinking of Qiu Yun's reply to himself, Zhao Yan couldn't help but feel a sense of weakness in his heart.

"On one side is you, and on the other side is my parents, how do you let me choose?"

Recalling Qiu Yun's helpless words in his mind, Zhao Yan's heart couldn't help but shrink, and a depression that was about to suffocate enveloped his whole body.

"Ahh

Zhao Yan couldn't help but let out a shout, and the imaginary scene that disturbed everyone did not appear, but a ray of silver-white moonlight shone in through the screen window.

Zhao Yan looked around, only to see that the room with simple facilities was dead silent, he swallowed his saliva and calmed down his violently fluctuating mood, and it took nearly ten minutes for him to regain his calm.

"Another dream...... Zhao Yan shook his head and smiled bitterly, he picked up the cigarette case and lighter on the bedside table, took out a cigarette, and turned on the lighter with a "snap".

A pale cyan flame flashed, and then he brought the lighter closer to the cigarette, and as he took a soft puff, one end of the cigarette lit up with a little spark.

"Whew~"

Zhao Yan extinguished the fire, exhaled softly, and the smoke swirled in the air, condensing into smoke rings, and then dispersed.

The room was quiet, just like this dark night, I don't know how long it took, Zhao Yan finished smoking a cigarette, he just sat quietly on the bed, I don't know how long it took, he said to himself in a low tone: "Qiuyun, is he okay with you?" ”

Zhao Yan's muttering echoed through the empty room, but then dissipated after a moment.

The county seat of Huai County

In the dark night, the long moon is in the sky, the moonlight is like water, the whole Huai County is bathed in a layer of silver light, the county town that should be peaceful and quiet tonight seems a little weird, the garbage cans on both sides of the street are crawling with rats foraging everywhere, these rats are skinny, like hungry wolves looking for food, squeaking rats in the quiet and empty streets seem so harsh.

However, the next scene is creepy, even terrifying.

I saw that the rats who were rummaging around for garbage and foraging for food somehow became irritable, as if they couldn't find enough food, and they chirped impatiently one by one, and even some of the more irritable rats actually attacked the rats around them.

"Twitter!!"

"Twitter!!"

Those rats who attacked their companions completely lost their minds as if they had lost their minds, and frantically bit their companions beside them, and even more frightening was that these rats who had lost their minds for some reason were amazingly powerful and unprecedentedly ferocious, and they actually bit off their companions' necks in one bite, and then began to bite the corpses of their companions, only to see that the companion's body was torn off piece by piece like shredded paper, and then swallowed, and the corpse of the companion was eaten up in just a few dozen strokes. All that's left is a few bones and blood splattered everywhere!

After some biting, the number of rats was directly reduced by half, and the originally dense rat colony instantly became sparse and visible, but what was even more frightening was that these rats that survived the fight were much fatter than before, and they were also more fierce, and there was a bloodthirsty cold light flashing in the small rice-like eyes between their heads, and they were like evil ghosts in the night.

Such a terrifying scene was staged all over Huai County, and the humans who had fallen asleep were unaware of it.

I don't know how long it took, the crescent moon in the sky slowly sank in the west, and the dark night slowly faded, but just as the sky was getting white, swarms of black ants suddenly crawled out of the cracks in the stones on both sides of the street.

The swarms of ants were densely packed and counted, and from a distance, they looked like a black torrent of minced meat scraps pouring down the streets.

Like victorious reapers, they swallowed everything they could, packed and took away everything they could not swallow, and the speed was like a whirlwind, and it only took a few minutes to clean up the battlefield left by the rats, and then returned to the nest like a low tide, and the streets littered with the remains of rat bones were as clean as ever, and even the blood on them was much less.

After the ant colony disappeared, the night returned to an eerie silence again, but it didn't take long for a "buzzing" sound suddenly sounded in the night, and then this "buzzing" sound sounded one after another like thunder and even joined together, like a shocking spring thunder.

Take a closer look, under this "buzzing thunder" is actually a large black cloud floating over, and when the black cloud is close, I am shocked to see what kind of black cloud is this?

This black cloud is a dense and innumerable number of green-headed flies that make the scalp tingle!

The green-headed flies chirped wildly, smelled blood from all over the street, and then rained down like a torrent of rain and swooped down on it.

It didn't take long for the streets that still had the smell of blood to be cleaned, and some of the blood that had accumulated was sucked clean by the flies, as if it hadn't appeared if you hadn't looked closely.

A moment later, the well-fed army of flies flapped their wings and took off, buzzing like thunder for a moment, and then departed like a whirlwind.

I don't know how long it took, the night regained its previous tranquility again, the east of the sky finally glowed with a hint of fish belly white, the quiet night sky finally had a little more noise and vitality, the early sanitation workers and the early shops began to get busy one after another, but what everyone didn't notice was that the faint smell of blood on the street dispersed more quickly in the flow of people.

In an old-fashioned courtyard, Zhao Yan, who was sleeping on the second floor, slowly woke up as the busy figures appeared in the yard one by one.

After he woke up, he looked out the window, only to see that the sky was slightly gray and gray, and he wanted to fall asleep for a while, but the next moment he was suddenly startled and immediately picked up the alarm clock at the head of the bed and looked at it, and found that the time was a little too late.

"It's over, it's almost late. Why did you sleep so hard today, it's not too late to see the sky. Zhao Yan scolded, then quickly got up and dressed, and after a hurry, Zhao Yan dressed up and rushed into the bathroom.

After a storm, Zhao Yan lifted his pants and got up, brushed his teeth and washed his face, but when he was ready to leave, he didn't find that the droplets dripping from the faucet actually contained a trace of eye-catching red.