Lan Lan lay on the soft big bed and rolled around, but couldn't fall asleep.
There are still five weeks left before the Earth qualifying competition begins.
He and his sister took leave, applied for visas, and traveled all the way across the ocean to fly to this country, hoping to enjoy the grand event.
Except for China, other countries are very cooperative with the propaganda work of the United States, and almost take this global ranking competition as the beginning of a new era.
At this moment, Lan Lan was very glad that she listened to her sister and came here a month and a half early. Otherwise, she might not even be able to find a place to stay.
Standing by the window and overlooking the street, pedestrians of different skin colors are walking in and out, and people with trypophobia may feel uncomfortable all over their bodies.
Lan Lan traveled to Wudang Mountain in northern Hubei during the May Day Golden Week. She thought it was already the peak of "dense population", but she didn't expect that the streets of Washington now are even scarier than that!
The promotion work for the Earth Ranking Tournament is really on point!
The family diagonally across the street are also tourists from China. It is said that they booked a room two months ago.
The Lan Lan siblings were lucky enough to have booked the last two rooms, otherwise they would have had to buy a portable tent and make do with it for more than a month.
Lying on the bed, Lan Lan couldn't help but think about it.
“The name of this hotel is very interesting...”
"I heard from my friend Zheng Xiaoshan that Donald, the most powerful person in the United States, is the boss behind this place..."
"Aren't they worried that the upper beam is not straight and the lower beam is crooked? Or is there collusion between government and businessmen?"
Lan Lan's thoughts gradually became empty.
Outside the window, the sun was shining brightly.
It must be late at night in China now, right?
When he and his sister first arrived at the hotel, the receptionist mistook them for a couple and suggested that they share a room.
My sister felt indifferent to this request, and Lan Lan felt like a kitten scratching her heart, wishing she could nod and accept it on the spot.
But at the critical moment, he made the right choice and rejected the receptionist's suggestion with his remaining sense.
Even if Lan Lan doesn't think about himself, he should still consider his sister's reputation!
He also wants to be a person who "can tell others everything he wants".
Lan Lan is a simple sister-controller. He hopes that in the future, he can proudly declare that he is a sister-controller, but he is very affectionate and polite, and he has never done anything out of the ordinary.
Thinking like this, Lan Lan's vision gradually blurred.
When he opened his eyes again, he found himself on the dilapidated streets of America.
Above the sky, a dark sun emits black light, coating the world with a mysterious and dreamy color.
The entire Washington, DC area was reduced to scorched earth.
The world seemed to have been splashed with concentrated sulfuric acid, and the earth that had absorbed the water became dry and cracked.
Dark but tough weird weeds grew everywhere. The trees were not completely dead, but the branches were twisted into the shape of ferocious beast horns. Under the bark, there were terrifying eyes.
The wall of the fast food restaurant had collapsed at some point, as if it had been baptized by artillery fire. Only the bank shrouded in gray haze could vaguely see the afterglow of the past.
"Where's my sister?"
Lan Lan felt a little panicked.
The cold wind howled, and he shrank subconsciously.
He had no doubt that this was a dream.
Ever since I was a child, no dream has ever been as real as it is now.
Whispered sobs came from the concrete house.
The painful cry soaked in sorrow could not last long, and turned into a miserable and short sob.
There were sounds of cracking silk and water bags, and the rich smell of blood like rust suddenly filled the air. The house returned to calm, leaving only the sound of swallowing that made people's hearts tremble.
"Lan Qi! Lan Qi! Where are you?"
Lan Lan screamed like crazy, her eyes were bloodshot, and her canthus was about to burst.
He regretted it!
You shouldn’t come to America to join in the fun!
Growing up, my sister Lan Qi has done so much to take care of herself. Now that I have a job, I still want to repay her, but I didn't expect that something like this happened!
Three dog-shaped creatures, two meters tall and about four meters long, blocked the way from three angles.
The teeth in their mouths are like daggers shining with cold light, and there are even blood and pieces of flesh between the teeth.
From far away, Lan Lan could smell the disgusting smell of blood.
Lan Lan soon discovered that all his escape routes were completely blocked!
His feet were trembling, his teeth could not stop chattering, and all the strength in his body was robbed by fear.
Whoosh!
Three fishy winds are coming!
Lan Lan was just in trance for a moment, and felt no pain anywhere in her body.
"Fuck! You want me to die! I can't survive even if I let you!"
A look of madness filled Lan Lan's eyes.
He used the last of his strength to push the upper half of his body into the mouth of a giant dog, tried his best to reach out his right hand, and grabbed the opponent's throat with all his strength!
The next moment, he was bitten in two, his breath was cut off, and he died quickly.
Before dying, Lan Lan saw a flash of green light.
He had a very strange idea, and he felt so peaceful in his heart that he even surprised himself.
"Do these monsters also have uvula and tonsils? What exactly did I catch?"
…
"ah!"
Lan Lan opened her eyes suddenly, sweating all over her body, and the sheets were soaked with sweat.
After he took two breaths, he realized that the doorbell had been rang.
It looks like it has been ringing for a while.
"Xiaolan, what are you doing in there?" Sister Lan Qi's worried voice came through the door.
The phone also started to vibrate.
Lan Lan walked to the door and was about to open the door, but suddenly realized that there was something extra in her right hand.
From the appearance, it looks like a crescent-shaped jade pendant.
He was certain and certain that he definitely did not have this thing in him!
Changes happen while dreaming!
Thinking of that terrifyingly real dream, Lan Qi's face suddenly changed as her whole body still seemed to be in pain. She quickly opened the door and invited her sister in.
"Sister! I have something very serious to tell you!"
Lan Lan frowned, her sweat-soaked hair sticking to her forehead, showing a serious look.
"Very important! Very important!"
He repeated it again.
After hearing this, Lan Qi no longer planned to educate his younger brother.
The nature of Lan Lan's job is different from that of normal people. As a game guide and comic reviewer, she is quite free and has developed a loose personality.
In Lan Qi's view, his younger brother is just a heartless little fool who is cheerful all day long and almost never talks to him with this attitude.
"You speak, I listen."
Lan Qi found a chair and sat down in a ladylike manner.
She is a middle school chemistry teacher and is very good at listening to what others have to say.
Seeing her sister's posture, Lan Lan didn't show off, and shared all the strange things she had encountered, and even took out the crescent jade pendant.
"..."
Lan Qi was silent for a long time and looked at him with a strange look: "How about we stop watching this earth ranking match and return the tickets at dawn tomorrow."
"I have a best friend who is an attending physician at Qingshan... hospital. Ask her to help you check whether you are under too much mental stress and are hallucinating."
Lan Qi seemed to want to say something else.
Suddenly, heart-rending screams sounded outside the room.
Wails and screams came and went.
These harsh noises soon turned into the sounds of quarrels and fights.
Lan Qi's English listening level is not bad. She can barely understand some of these insults and quarrels with different accents and very fast speech.
"...black sun, man-eating monster..."
"Hell is empty, the devil is all in America!"
"I had the same nightmare! Is this a revelation from God?"
"Hahaha! You, the bastards raised by Bichi, are actually here today!"
"Satan says hello to America!"
"It's all true! America is doomed!"
The two siblings stood by the window and looked out the window.
Above the sky, thick clouds as dark as ink formed an inverse cross shape.
A man has peach-shaped eyes, delicate eyebrows, and brown-black eyes. His gender cannot be discerned, and he is floating in the air.
Regardless of whether he is an alien or not, Lan Lan can at least be sure that this guy is definitely not from Earth!
It has twelve black wings on its back, and its eyes are as black as ink, as if there is an abyss hidden in it.
Around it, countless rubies, purple seals, diamonds, beryls, onyx, jasper, blue amphibole, and green emeralds complement each other.
What's more important is...
Its skin shines with a metallic sheen, and at the joints of its limbs, there are some circuit lines that resemble a mixture of oracle bones and pyramid symbols, which are very conspicuous.