Chapter 1 "We Never Died"
The streets are full of monotonous gray-white concrete.
This street in the center of the city was completely decorated with no consideration for its appearance, perhaps it was too unbearable for some people to paint blood-red graffiti on the walls of white flowers.
The doodles look like children's drawings of small children, but next to each doodle is a puzzling string of words:
"We've never died."
No one knows how the graffiti appeared out of thin air in one night, just as a mysterious organization lurking on the dark side of the city went out and worked all night in the dark, and overnight, the city was dyed in strange colors.
As if deliberately, on the second night of the graffiti, a message spread across the city.
"Did you watch the news yesterday? Some experts have determined that there was another prehistoric civilization before the emergence of humans. ”
The two nurses talked to each other in their spare time, "I also saw that some people said that the creatures of the last civilization are not dead yet, and they plan to come back and fight for territory with us!" ”
"Huh? It's been tens of thousands of years, how can it be still alive? ”
The nurses are timid, but when they encounter this kind of topic, the excitement after the horror makes them want to stop, "So, does this really have anything to do with the graffiti outside?" ”
"Those graffiti are said to have been left behind by the rabid admirers of the previous era! Hey, I don't understand, it's not easy for us to develop so far, why do people always want to go back? ”
"And 'we never died,' that's scary!"
The two nurses were chatting, and they were suddenly poked in the sharp eyes, and then they suddenly saw a tall man standing next to them.
"Ahh Scared me, sorry sorry......" The nurse said, "You are Mr. Zhou Xinyi, I'll take you to the ward......"
After a nurse led Zhou Xinyi away, the remaining little nurses dared to ask, "Who is that?" Familiar with hospitals? ”
"That's Mr. Zhou, a poor man," replied the old nurse at the hospital, "his parents died unexpectedly, and his sister was seriously ill, and he was all hanging on to the new equipment he had developed." ”
Not only did the hospital corridor smell of disinfectant water, but also the bitter medicine fermenting in the sweltering air.
The nurse took Zhou Xinyi to the deepest ward of the intensive care unit and handed him the examination report of the day.
"Mr. Zhou, your sister's condition is already very unoptimistic," the nurse said in a tone that did not arouse public outrage as much as possible, "and if the operation is not performed today, the probability of survival is less than ten percent." ”
As she spoke, she took out the hospital bill, "You sign it, and you can arrange surgery tonight." ”
The man in front of him numbly signed his name, and after a long time, he hesitated to ask, "What is the success rate of the operation?" ”
The nurse replied, "The doctor said...... About thirty percent. ”
She couldn't bear it, "In fact, to be able to perform the operation, it already depends on the technology obtained by the hospital from the light curtain, and we are not familiar with this technology, so it is more difficult......
"Anyway, we will do everything we can to save your sister's life, please take care of your health."
He nodded, acting calmly, "I see, thank you." ”
After the nurse pushed his sister's bed into the operating room, Zhou Xinyi stayed in the ward alone for a long time.
His sister has survived to this day thanks to the new technology brought by the light curtain.
Less than two years ago, a conspicuous golden spot suddenly appeared in the sky above a small city, and the spot expanded in ten minutes, turning into an optical barrier in the shape of an eggshell, enveloping a large area of the city.
It was a natural disaster without warning, the light curtain cut off all signals, and the outside world had no means to prevent the disaster from coming, and finally when the light curtain naturally dispersed, the residents who were wrapped in it suffered more than a million casualties.
That was the first time the Light Curtain had arrived, breaking into the gathering place of humanity with a crushing victory, and no one could explain the origin of the Light Curtain, let alone prevent or predict its arrival.
Humanity was defeated, and in order to disguise their powerlessness, officials began to block news about the light curtain in various ways, trying to trick people into forgetting about a big creature that would wake them up even if they dreamed.
The turn of events was also dramatic, and after continuous research, it was suddenly discovered that most of the resources left behind by the light curtain could be an excellent aid to human research.
Adhering to the attitude of "accept it if you can't kill it", the light curtain was once whitewashed, and from a demon feared by everyone, it became a hero who promoted the development of human science.
I have to admit that Zhou Xinyi's sister Zhou Congee relied on these new technologies to survive.
His parents died hastily due to a landslide, and his sister was diagnosed with the disease in the same year.
In a few years, he spent a total of 2.6 million yuan on hospital maintenance.
Loans, labor, and even going to war-torn areas to join the army, he did almost all the work he could think of, and used all kinds of means, but fortunately, he was lucky and physically strong enough to plug this huge hole.
To this day, he has dedicated all the meaning of his life to the man who was lying in the hospital bed.
Zhou Xinyi didn't know how long he had been standing alone in the ward, his expression was numb, but his heart was beating violently.
He knew he should go to the door of the operating room and wait for the final result, but unfortunately, he was too tired.
He was so tired that he didn't want to straighten his back anymore, and he didn't want to witness his final fate for years of years.
Finally, the door of the ward was opened again, and Zhou Xinyi knew that the operation would not end so soon, but he was still attracted by this movement.
Walking through the door was a dark-haired woman with a star-like dark green in her eyes, and she walked in unscrupulously, opening the window of the ward.
Zhou Xinyi noticed that she was dressed very unusually, she was wearing a simple modern dress, but she was carrying a white bone long sword around her waist, and she was wearing a half-length leather trench coat, which concealed the long sword faintly.
Zhou Xinyi didn't care if the sword was a model or a real thing, he looked at the woman's outfit and felt a strong disobedience.
It is obviously a modern costume, but the shape and style of the clothes are something he has never seen before, as if it does not belong to this era, and there is a strong sense of separation from reality.
Even the light makeup on the face has a kind of demonic rule that does not belong to this country.
The woman raised her slender eyes and swept around the ward, "It seems that this room is the least occupied...... It's over early, and it's good to finish early. ”
She said to Zhou Xinyi, "Can you go out?" ”
Zhou Xinyi stood still, "I'm sorry, but this is my sister's hospital room." ”
"Forget it," she muttered quietly, "I'm sorry for you anyway." ”
With that, the woman pulled out a jar of red spray paint from the pocket of her trench coat and shook it, spraying a small dragon with wings on the white walls of the hospital.
Then, write the familiar string of words next to Xiaolong:
"We've never died."
What is this, a prank?
This action really surprised the onlookers in the room.
Zhou Xinyi looked at the words on the wall in surprise, could it be that this woman is the culprit of the graffiti?
No, even if she were, she was just one of them, it must be a huge organization, otherwise it wouldn't have been possible to paint the whole city with graffiti overnight.
Zhou Xinyi only hesitated for a moment, then asked, "What exactly do you want to express?" ”
He thought that the woman would not answer him, but the woman scratched her hair and said casually, "Who knows, maybe it's just to pretend to be a force." ”
"Huh?"
The doorknob was interrupted again by the sound of the two of them twisting, and Zhou Xinyi watched as the woman jumped from the window and disappeared like a ghost after falling to the ground.
The nurse opened the door and saw Zhou Xinyi, whose hair was disheveled.
"Why does it smell of paint...... Ah, Mr. Zhou, this wall? You did it?! ”
"No, it's a long story," seeing the nurse's reaction, Zhou Xinyi instinctively had an ominous premonition, "What are you looking for me?" ”
The expression on the nurse's face also sank, "Your sister's operation is over. ”
She bowed deeply, "We did our best, and I ask you to mourn and be good." ”
Zhou Xinyi didn't know how he had seen his sister's body, and walked out of the hospital by himself.
When he recalls his situation, he is already on his way to his next place of work.
Oh yes, my sister is gone, he doesn't need to work anymore.
He was in better shape than he expected, he was able to think, he could walk, and he was even in the mood to have a glass of wine.
The death of his sister was a blow to him, but it was also a relief.
Now, Zhou Xinyi has no point in working hard, and he doesn't plan to go home, but wanders the streets aimlessly.
What's next for him? What else could he do?
Everywhere he went, there was glaring red graffiti and the string of eye-catching words, those unexplained words surrounded the city streets like a spell, and when Zhou Xinyi came back to his senses, he had kicked it uncontrollably.
"The last civilized man?"
He sneered, "How can you still be alive for tens of thousands of years?!" It's long gone! ”
"Never dead...... If you have the ability, you can resurrect my healthy sister for me?! ”
"Why are you alive when my sister has to get an incurable disease?!"
Zhou Xinyi gave birth to some nameless fires, and on the deserted streets, he could only vent his anger on these stone walls that could not speak.
Finally, he remembered the eccentric brunette woman.
The graffiti left by the woman almost wronged him, and in the end, he paid the hospital 400 yuan for painting the wall to extinguish the hospital's anger.
He remembered the woman's incoherent answer, and his brain, which had become numb, suddenly became angry again.
If you can see her again, you have to ask for money.
He looked up with a look of anger, and his eyes were a little sharper, and only then did he see the graffiti on the wall with two shoe prints.
Very familiar, but the drawing skills cannot be complimented.
It took him a long time to conclude that this was not the antique that his family had collected a few years ago.