Ji thrush shuddered violently, waking up from his coma.
When he opened his eyes, he felt that the surrounding light was very dim, just like the sky before a storm.
Maybe it's not fully awake yet, Ji Thrush only feels a swarm of bees dancing in his mind, his ears are buzzing, and most of his vision is still blurry.
For a short moment, he thought that he had just finished a competition and was overtired so he fell asleep, but soon, he realized that things were far from being as simple as he imagined.
For, the thrush smelled it, there was a sulphurous smell in the air.
He raised his hand and rubbed his eyes vigorously.
Then, he found himself lying on his back in an unfamiliar alley. As far as his eyes could see, there were two high dark gray walls, with a sky of lead gray in the middle, and fine ashes constantly falling from midair like flakes of ashes. One piece fell on his face, and it still carried a residual temperature several degrees higher than that of human skin.
— Fuck!
Ji Thrush was completely sober in an instant.
He turned over and sat up, jumped up again, and looked around vigilantly.
As soon as he moved, the ash that fell on his body suddenly rose up, making him choke and cough.
-What exactly is going on!
Ji thrush wondered if he was crazy.
He wiped off the dust all over his head and body while observing the surrounding environment.
At this time, I was in a narrow dark alley that could only allow two people to pass side by side.
Both the walls and the ground were covered with thick ash, and in the lead-enclosed sky, warm ashes continued to fall like snowflakes.
Ji Thrush opened his eyes wide.
In a trance, he thought he was dreaming, or maybe he was playing an ancient horror game called "Silent Hill".
But the lingering sulfur smell at the end of his nose and the unique smell of rotten eggs from hydrogen sulfide told him that this too realistic sensory experience cannot be simulated by any dream or virtual four-dimensional game.
However, he clearly remembered that he should be dead.
Any flesh and blood, after encountering such a serious maglev rail car accident, even if they survived by chance, at least should have broken legs and folded hands, and they should be dying of serious injuries. After being rescued, they should lie in the ICU for ten days and a half months.
But the truth is, let alone fatal wounds on his body, he didn't even scratch a piece of oily skin.
This is just too weird.
Ji thrush looked down at the clothes on his body again.
He was wearing a set of standard summer sportswear for the team, which was clean without any blood or stains; on his feet were the newly bought sneakers, which cost him a whole month's subsidy, and his The bow bag, together with the precious bows and arrows inside, were still placed at the foot of the wall.
And the only strange object in his whole body that does not belong to him is a watch on the left bowl.
Ji Thrush raised his left hand and studied the watch carefully.
The whole body of the watch is pitch black, and the dial is a long and narrow LCD screen with a width of about two centimeters. There is no time or text displayed on it. There is only a progress bar of the player. Flashes once every second.
He dragged his finger on the LCD screen, but the little triangle didn't move at all, obviously it couldn't be controlled by the touch screen.
"What the hell is this?"
Season Thrush grunted softly.
Then he turned his wrist up and down, back and forth, left and right, and found that although the watch strap was slender, it turned out to be a complete metal ring, which fit tightly on his skin without any opening or buckle at all. In other words, he will have no idea how to remove it at all for a while.
For some reason, when he saw this watch, he had a very bad premonition in his heart.
"... This is... too weird, right?"
Ji Thrush touched his watch, then squeezed his cheek hard.
"hiss!"
When the paw came down, he gasped suddenly, and bared his teeth in pain.
That's right, this kind of pain that really falls on the flesh is absolutely real! True than pearls!
He had to accept a cruel reality—he was now in an inexplicable place, the air was full of sulfur smell, and dust would rustle down in midair.
The most important point is that he had "seen" this place not long before the car accident!
…
Ji Thrush pressed his forehead hard, forcing himself to calm down, then raised his head, stared fixedly at the ashes flying in the sky, and thought for a moment in silence.
He put forward many guesses about the current situation in his heart, and then found out the irrationality in them, and denied them all, but he still couldn't find a possibility that could convince him.
It wasn't until his head was covered with a thin layer of dust again that he raised his hand and brushed his bangs, then bent down and put his bow bag on his back, spread his legs, and walked towards the exit of the alley.
—In short, no matter what, it’s useless to continue standing here stupidly. Let’s walk around and see the situation first!
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After leaving the alley, Ji Thrush soon realized that his situation was far more treacherous than he expected.
He found himself wandering in a city he knew well.
This is where his World Youth Championship training center is located, a big city on the eastern coast of Huaguo.
He can easily recognize the iconic buildings in the city, such as the Burj Al Arab with a dolphin statue in front of the door he just passed a few minutes ago.
But this city was completely different from what he remembered.
An endless stream of ash fell from the sky, completely covering the entire city.
The streets, houses, green plants, and even the vehicles parked on the roadside are all covered with gray-white or gray-black debris. Everything outside has lost its original color. As far as the eye can see, only a single and absurd dark gray.
The season-thrush walked slowly down the street.
With every step he took, he would leave a footprint on the accumulated dust, and then new dust would fall on it.
The sky was very dark, and with the cover of falling dust, visibility was very low.
With Ji Thrush's naked-eye 2.0 eyesight, he can't tell the difference between humans and animals a hundred meters away, and it's hard to see the outline of things thousands of meters away.
However, compared to these, what frightened him even more was that he couldn't find anyone in such a huge city.
No, to be precise, let alone a human, there is not even a cat or a dog.
Ji Thrush got more and more flustered as he walked.
He felt that the whole city seemed to be completely dead, and there was no living creature except him.
His phone was still in the bow bag, with one-third of the battery remaining.
He walked all the way, trying to find signals in various open places, but it was useless. Not to mention the phone or network signal, even the built-in offline navigation system cannot be used.
There was no other way, Ji Thrush could only rely on his memory to head towards the center of the city.
After about half an hour, he reckoned that he should have walked almost two kilometers. In his field of vision, there was still a dead and gray street scene.
—What about the people in this city? Where did it all go
This question popped up in Ji Thrush's mind for the one hundred and first time.
This situation reminded him that two years ago, he went to Dongying for the first time to participate in an international competition. After the competition, he and his teammates played around the participating cities by the way.
At that time, he visited a local active volcano. When he took a cable car and passed near the crater, he smelled the same strange and very recognizable smell made of sulfur and hydrogen sulfide gas.
Moreover, looking at the sky covered with lead clouds and the ashes flying all over the sky, Ji Thrush felt as if he had come to the legendary city of Pompeii that was destroyed by a volcanic eruption. All he could see was endless ashes.
But where is the volcano near this eastern coastal city
Although Ji Thrush is a good student in sports, he may not be very good in cultural subjects, but he feels that his geography is not so bad that he doesn't even have such basic common sense.
-wait…
Ji thrush's heart skipped a beat.
—If these are really volcanic ash...
Ji Thrush stretched out his hand, caught a piece of ash the size of a fingernail, rubbed it between his fingertips, and carefully felt its texture and temperature.
The gray matter is not delicate, and irregular sand-like particles can be felt. It does still have a residual temperature, and the temperature in the center is higher than that on the surface.
— assuming… just assuming…
He said to himself in his heart.
——Assuming that these are really volcanic ash, will the tragedy of Pompeii city 2,000 years ago be replicated here? The people in the city were either evacuated, or were killed by the poisonous gas and hot ash of the volcanic eruption
Thinking of this, Ji Thrush couldn't help turning around in a circle, looking around vigilantly.
He was really afraid that he would suddenly see a corpse lying on the side of the road, covered with a solidified mud shell.
It's a pity that Ji Thrush still underestimated the horror of this city.
Because, he soon saw something that he couldn't understand at all.
It was a dress.
To be precise, it was a very ordinary, short-sleeved dress, made of chiffon, with floral red background, wide skirt, and a pin with a kitten pattern on the neckline. Every year in midsummer, there are always many young girls who will dress like this and press down on the road, becoming a beautiful scenery in the city.
A dress is nothing to be fussed about.
Strangely, it was just such an ordinary skirt that was scattered loosely at the intersection of the street like a flower covered in ashes.
Ji Thrush approached slowly, squatted down, then stretched out his hand, gently grabbed the collar of the red skirt, and carefully pulled up a corner, as if what he was touching was a time bomb that was counting down.
Then in the next second, he jumped up as if he had stepped on a switch, let go, and took three steps back.
Big drops of cold sweat slowly slid down his forehead, and he exhausted all his endurance to control his urge to scream.
Because, just now, through the neckline of the dress, he saw the shoulder straps of a young woman, lined with a vest.
-what does that mean!
-what does that mean!
-what does that mean!
Ji Thrush's mind was in chaos, as if there were many voices roaring in his ears, all asking the same question repeatedly.
If there was only one dress, he could have guessed that someone had accidentally left it on the street in a hasty evacuation of the city.
But what if there is a vest inside the skirt
He shivered again involuntarily.
In fact, an extremely terrifying guess has already appeared in Ji Thrush's mind, which is unreasonable and unimaginable, but it is most in line with the current situation.
In order to confirm his conjecture, he had no choice but to bite the bullet and step forward, reaching out to the stacked dresses on the ground again.
But this time, Ji Thrush lifted off the layers of skirts.
Then, he saw a pair of white women's stiletto sandals that were covered by the skirt just now.
— Fuck!
At this moment, Ji Thrush didn't know how to react other than the exclamation that he forced back into his throat.
His guess is likely to come true!
These are not some clothes randomly thrown on the street!
It was their owner who suddenly disappeared without warning while wearing them. The body dissipated like smoke and dust, leaving only an empty dress here!
Ji Thrush let go of her skirt, stood up, took two steps back, and then turned around a few times like an ant on a hot pan.
He has always believed that his psychological quality is quite good. The more stressful you are, the more calm you will be, and you will seldom get out of control due to any accident.
However, in the past nineteen years of his life, all the major transitions he has experienced are normal, and they definitely do not include opening his eyes to find that he is in an empty city buried in ashes. A dress was found in the street without the body that supported it.
— No, wait, this kind of thing is completely unreasonable, right
While trying to convince himself, Ji Thrush squatted down for the third time to check the red floral dress.
With the experience of the previous two rounds, and after working hard to build his mind, he seemed much calmer this time.
In addition to the shoes, he found a small handbag under the hem of the skirt, which contained only a screen-casting mobile phone, a personal IC terminal, and some odds and ends that girls often bring when they go out.
Now, Ji Thrush had to accept the fact that his guess just now was probably true.
After all, no one would take off all clothes and shoes when fleeing for their lives, and even throw away the handbag and the documents inside.
So, the owner of this suit, what happened
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The background is set in the near future 20 or 30 years later, with infinite streams, the main theme is the thriller suspense reasoning department, there will be a little bit of horror elements, don't be afraid! (Hey)