As the time approaches noon, the sun reaches its highest intensity throughout the day.
Lucifer doesn't like sunlight, which is the same as those unknown mimetic creatures hiding in the dark. If exposed to sunlight for a while, he will die.
As a last resort, they once again entered a place without sunlight and walked back to the subway station.
The security door always opens and closes automatically. The security inspector I saw not long ago had dull eyes, made no movement, and would not stop talking.
Tang Rou walked in, and the gate automatically opened with a beeping sound, and then kept opening and closing automatically as if it had been in disrepair. It looked very strange.
If you don’t buy a ticket, no one will stop you.
Lucifer took the subway for the first time.
There was no one in the empty carriage. After Tang Rou got up, she was about to find a place to sit down, but she was pulled up by the sea rabbit who was following her. The two of them stood in the corner, holding on to the armrest.
As the train passed through the tunnel, the wind suddenly became very strong.
The picture in front of me went dark for a while, and the lights in the car suddenly dimmed as if there was a bad connection.
Tang Rou did not panic, because the moment the lights disappeared, the young man had already taken a step forward and held her in his arms/
Very strange.
Cold was her first feeling.
The boy's embrace was not warm, but it gave her a sense of security.
In contrast, the environment suddenly became cold and cold.
My back felt cold, as if I had fallen into an ice cave.
The train rumbled overhead, cutting through the long black tunnel as it passed through. The roar echoed from all directions, making her unable to hear anything except this deafening noise.
After an unknown amount of time, the train pulled out of the tunnel and the scene in front of me became brighter.
Tang Rou squinted her eyes. Even if she couldn't see clearly, she could still see that the carriage that was empty a second ago was suddenly filled with people.
Some are sleeping, some are standing, some are holding briefcases, some are applying makeup stiffly, and some are reading and memorizing words.
There were many different kinds of passengers in the car, and they looked just like normal people, except that there was a thick, dark water stain under their feet.
The same thing is that they all have numb expressions and empty eyes, like dummies.
It's not an illusion, the temperature of the cabin dropped, as if the cooling mode was turned on.
A layer of white mist climbed on the glass window, and the temperature difference between the inside and outside of the car was huge.
Tang Rou's scalp was numb, and she suddenly felt that someone was looking at her.
He quietly glanced sideways and saw a pair of cold, empty eyes in the reflection on the glass window.
The man looked like an office worker, wearing a soaked shirt stained with unknown liquid. He tilted his head stiffly, looked at Tang Rou's back, moved his mouth, and slowly tore a long and narrow scarlet gash in his lower jaw, extending to his ear.
, looks extremely scary.
It is ready to attack, like a carnivore preparing to prey, and will shoot out its blood-sucking mouthparts from the terrifying gap at any time.
Tang Rou couldn't help but get closer to Sea Rabbit, subconsciously grabbed the corner of his clothes and looked through the young man's thin shoulders.
Lucifer held her hand and asked doubtfully, "What's wrong?"
"It seems like someone is watching me."
He turned around, and the man immediately looked away, avoiding eye contact with him.
The young man looked back thoughtfully, his expression calm.
He even said in her ear, "Rou, last time we came out, you took me to eat coconut cake, drink that sweet... milk tea, and ice cream, Rou, can we go eat later?"
"
"..." Tang Rou met the amber eyes that were so close.
His expression was extremely serious, as if he didn't think there was anything wrong with being as leisurely as if he were on vacation.
But isn’t the current situation very strange?
Tang Rou answered with difficulty, "...Okay."
The music of the train arriving at the station ding-dong-ding-dong sounded, and the mechanical female voice sweetly announced the stop location, like a business district.
The "men and women" on the subway slowly dragged their mucus-covered bodies off the train.
Tang Rou and Sea Bunny blended into the crowd of "people" and left the subway station. Everyone here behaved like normal humans, going to and from work, clocking in on the subway, and even the coffee shop was full of people.
After leaving the escalator and reaching the ground, it turned out to be a large business district.
Most of the people around him behaved very sluggishly, moving slowly and dragging water around their bodies.
They hate the sun very much. When the sun is shining brightly in the afternoon, there are almost no people on the street, but shopping malls are filled with all kinds of living men and women standing behind the glass windows.
Sea Bunny was in a good mood. Like those anthropomorphic creatures, he also hated the sun. He pulled Tang Rou into the largest commercial plaza as if nothing had happened. He was completely on the same page as her frightened scalp-numbing mood.
He was immersed in the mood of vacation and said to Tang Rou, "The coconut crisps we had last time were delicious...the red oil hot pot was also good, does Rou still want to eat it?"
Tang Rou's mind was not on him. She looked around and said perfunctorily, "Okay, you decide."
Lucifer added, "How about we go shopping for clothes after this is over? I also want to go shopping with Rou."
Tang Rou said perfunctorily again, "Okay, as long as you are happy."
The atmosphere was silent for a while.
Lucifer pursed his lips, not knowing what he was thinking.
He was very much like a girlfriend who took her boyfriend out shopping, but was hurt by her boyfriend's perfunctory attitude.
But he wasn't angry either. After a while, he became happy again and his eyes lit up, "Rou, what is that?"
Tang Rou followed the direction of his finger and saw a huge dilapidated billboard.
Her vision was blurry, so she stretched out her hand to hold the boy's finger and read the words clearly with his eyes.
It's actually a movie.
Looking down, Tang Rou's scalp suddenly felt numb when she saw the release date.
"What's wrong?"
Tang Rou pondered for a while and said softly, "That's an old movie."
"Old movies? Is it the kind that Rou and Sister Aslan watch?"
When he was in the laboratory, Lucifer often saw her hiding with Atherland, blushing and watching something with headphones on. After asking several times, Atherland mysteriously said that he was watching a movie, which caused Sea Hare to
I've always been curious.
He wanted to know what it was that made the owner laugh and scream, and make him and Sister Aslan beat each other excitedly.
Thinking of this, she was ready to make a move, so she took Tang Rou's hand and said, "Rou, I want to go see it too, shall we go?"
Tang Rou was in a trance and didn't know what she was thinking.
Hearing this, he nodded and looked a little solemn.
"Then let's do what I just said, okay?"
Tang Rou said absently, "Okay."
But my mind is on another channel entirely.
The movie poster shows that the movie currently in theaters was a box office hit that was a hit ten years ago.
The huge poster shows the premiere date, which was ten years ago.
In ten years, will there be any visible changes in the world?
Tang Rou looked around.
In recent decades, there haven't been many landmark developments in technology across the ages, so it's hard to tell the difference between the city of ten years ago and the city of now.
The movie poster looks very worn, yellowed and faded, with signs of weather and weather.
The subway station is also in disrepair, causing the doors to open and close as if they are broken.
Including the elevator handrails and rubber roller belts, they are full of cracks and appear to have not been repaired or replaced for many years.
Everything proves that this city is not the city in the fantasy world ten years ago, but a real city that has experienced ten years of desolation, but still has water supply and electricity, and is running normally on the surface.
No, even better.
There is almost no garbage on the ground in this city. In addition to a certain natural sense of dilapidation, even the air quality has improved a lot.
But what happened to this city ten years ago? Why were all the humans in this city replaced by this wet, numb-looking mimic creature?