Volume 2 The first floor. The end of the day Chapter 43. Total solar eclipse
After leaving the door, before walking out of the residential building, I heard the noisy sounds on the street. The entire street was planted with lush yellow jujube trees. Although it was only located on the second floor, I couldn't help but lie on the concrete railing of the passage and look down.
, the street view on the street cannot be seen at all.
Children always yearn for the fantasy world outside the house. The door of the home always blocks them from exploring the unknown, but they forget that it also protects them from danger.
Tang Ling ran out of the residential building happily, ignoring Zhao Fang's shouts behind her, and lay down on the railing, standing on tiptoe and looking down.
There are always more vehicles during holidays than on working days. The clean roads are crowded with cars, moving inch by inch. Pedestrians on the street are paying attention to their own lives, coming and going in a hurry. Vendors are shouting about their products.
Looking left and right, not missing any business opportunities, the little sisters whom I had arranged to go shopping with were looking at their mobile phones and sharing new fun, and suddenly burst into laughter in a strange and tacit understanding.
A beautiful and ordinary day, just like any other day.
"Lingling, what are you looking at?"
Behind her, Zhao Fang watched Tang Ling staring at the street below for a moment, asking curious questions.
"I didn't see anything, grandma."
Tang Ling looked away, smiled at Zhao Fang, and pulled her to the terrace aside.
I didn't notice much when I arrived before, but now it seems that this terrace is quite spacious.
There is nothing on the platform of more than 20 square meters, except for two abandoned lockers one person high placed on the outer wall of the residential building on the far left. Except for the stairs on the side facing the distant sun, the other two sides
They are all cement railings.
Standing on this platform, the dazzling sun is shining in the center. The dazzling light blocks the appearance of the buildings in the distance. The broad flat land nearby has various lines drawn on it. It seems that there are
In the training base of an unknown driving school, the entire cement floor was baked and cracked by the sun, and steaming heat was faintly emitted.
"Grandma, what time is it now?"
Tang Ling asked Zhao Fang beside her.
"Let me see, yo, it's almost eleven o'clock."
After receiving the time, Tang Ling stopped talking and continued to focus on the sun hanging high in the distance.
She wanted to visually observe the changes in the sun for the first time.
"Why does Lingling keep staring at the sun in the distance?"
Seeing Tang Ling looking so focused, Zhao Fang couldn't help but ask curiously.
"Total solar eclipse, I want to see a total solar eclipse."
Tang Ling answered, her eyes still focused on the fierce and dazzling white light in the distance.
I don't know how long I stared at it, but a group of children were playing on the terrace. They were curious about Tang Ling and kept looking at her. Tang Ling turned a blind eye, and Zhao Fang beside her looked at these children and Tang Ling and couldn't laugh or cry.
Later, time passed and the children left. Zhao Fang felt tired. The smell of food wafted from the residential building. Qiu Yanling finally finished her work. When she went out, she saw Zhao Fang chatting with an old man from the neighborhood.
As usual, Tang Ling stood beside her and looked at the sun in the distance.
After letting Zhao Fang go back to the house first, Qiu Yanling looked at Tang Ling's focused and persistent look, squatted beside her and asked softly: "Baby, are you tired?"
"No."
“Haven’t you seen the total solar eclipse yet?”
"No, it's always bright, not dark."
"Well, it's almost twelve o'clock. If we wait until twelve o'clock and we still don't see the total solar eclipse, shall we go home for dinner? We can't go hungry."
Although Qiu Yanling really wanted to stay here with Tang Ling to watch the total solar eclipse, today is Tang Ling's birthday after all, and many guests at home are waiting to celebrate the little protagonist's birthday.
Tang Ling blinked her sour eyes and thought for a while, then nodded.
The process of doing one thing for a long time is very boring, which is okay when the interest is strong. Once the feeling of fatigue begins to invade the brain bit by bit, no matter how strong the color of exploration is, it will be constantly wiped out.
Tang Ling felt tired and wanted to give up this expedition.
After all, her stomach had been growling for quite a while without her realizing it.
"Mom, I think..." Tang Ling turned to Qiu Yanling beside her and said.
"Baby, look!" Before Tang Ling could finish speaking, Qiu Yanling pointed to the sun in the sky and shouted in surprise at Tang Ling.
As her sight shifted, the surrounding scenery gradually darkened, like a city covered with dark clouds on a rainy day. It darkened in an instant. Tang Ling raised her head and looked, and the dazzling circle was being covered with black bit by bit.
Devour until completely coated.
This is the spectacle of a total solar eclipse.
"Wow! How amazing!"
All the passers-by were deeply attracted by this sudden sight. They stopped, looked at the sky in amazement, took pictures with their mobile phones, and kept praising the scene.
Something seems wrong?
The sun, which had been completely eroded by black, began to glow at this moment, and the surrounding area of the black round body began to glow red and spread, dyeing the city scenery with a scarlet color.
The sky never lit up again.
"It's exactly twelve o'clock now."
Qiu Yanling took out her mobile phone and looked at it, preparing to lead Tang Ling beside her home. Before she could speak, there was a commotion downstairs.
No, not just downstairs, but also from all around, far away, near, strange screams began to come from everywhere.
"what happened?"
Listening to the continuous wailing, Qiu Yanling felt a little uneasy. She walked to the railing and looked down, her eyes widening.
There was chaos everywhere.
Every pedestrian's face was filled with panic. They screamed and ran around in panic. The out-of-control car crashed into the shops on the street. With a loud explosion and flying sparks, the sisters who were shopping happily now
They had fallen to the ground, and the products in the shopping bags were scattered all over the floor, covered in blood flowing from their bodies.
These scenes are like the horror scenes in biochemical movies, with the "people" shaking their bodies and knocking down pedestrians one after another. They are like zombies in doomsday movies, opening their mouths and tearing people's flesh and blood mercilessly.
The screams made them even more excited as they lay on the ground and gnawed. The arms that were still shaking with vitality dropped to the ground for a moment, gradually stiffened, and stopped breathing.
The white-collar man in a suit, who may have once been an elite in a certain business district, was now in a mess. The head buried in a corpse was lifted up, and the pieces of meat around his mouth fell to the ground.
There was a clicking sound, with the most primitive animal nature on his face, his chaotic eyeballs turning, his head tilted, and he looked at Qiu Yanling who was checking the situation on the second floor.
Qiu Yanling suddenly squatted on the ground. The fear of being locked by a hunter swept through her whole body. Her body could not stop trembling slightly. She covered her mouth to prevent herself from letting out a fragile scream. She saw a face in the distance.
Tang Ling stared at her in confusion. Qiu Yanling stood up quickly regardless of her fear, pulled Tang Ling and prepared to escape home.
Before she could pull Tang Ling and run into the residential building, Qiu Yanling was frightened by the heartbreaking screams coming from the building. She looked at the familiar figure standing in the dark corridor and couldn't help but wonder.
He called out with certainty: "Tang, Tang Jie?"
The person who answered her was Tang Jie, who slowly turned around and covered his bleeding neck with a ferocious look on his face. He couldn't help but growl from his mouth.
