What is it like to live alone on earth where human beings have completely disappeared? Are the remains of human society a precious legacy to you or a death-hunting devil? On the day after everything is about to begin, you are still like an innocent child, knowing nothing.

Zhang Sirui.

The first thing you wake up is to touch the phone beside the bed in a daze.

Without thinking, you instinctively open the social software on your phone and review the memorials famous for the latest updates like every modern person in the 22nd century. You browse WeChat for a while and find that there is no update. Then, you open Weibo casually, but the latest updates are still at around 5 a.m. on July 31.

You were puzzled, and then you looked through Douyin, Tieba, and foreign video websites one after another, but they didn't update them. You thought there was something wrong with your mobile phone network, and it was not until you opened the live broadcast software that you suddenly sat up and sweated from your forehead.

There are still many live broadcast rooms open all night long in the live broadcast software, but, without exception, the cameras in each room capture a lonely chair.

The live broadcast room is all open, but no one is broadcasting.

You can't understand all this.

A puppy whimper scared you. At the foot of the bed was a border herder about six months old, lying, as if she had been awakened by you, looking at you in confusion. You were even more confused than it - you lost your memory and couldn't remember everything.

Maybe it was hitting your head yesterday, or maybe it was post-traumatic stress disorder, and you were confused about the current situation.

Then, you saw the cowhide letter paper pressed with a wallet on the bedside.

“keep    calm   and     carry    on.”

"Your name is Zhang Sirui..."

You learned the whole story from the letter. The date on your phone was August 1st, and all this happened yesterday. You looked through your wallet and there were some change in it, including your bank card and ID card. The ID clearly stated "Zhang Sirui", but the photo was scratched. It may be because of trying to use your ID card to pry your neighbor's door to save the dog.

This makes you unable to recognize your appearance. You look at the innocent puppy at the foot of the bed, "It's all your fault." You said.

You got out of bed, walked to the bathroom, and looked at yourself in the mirror.

My beard is unshaven, my hair is messy, and my white shirt is covered with yellow sweat stains. I am so sloppy that I don’t look like a promising young man in my twenties. You are extremely unfamiliar with the people in the mirror. You are still recalling the contents of the letter in your mind, and a drop of cold horror falls into my heart and gradually becomes bleed.

What's wrong with this world?

Then, it took you more than an hour to repeat the stupid way you wrote in the letter: you called everyone in your mobile address book and searched through social networks around the world, so that you could believe that this was true little by little.

The puppy named Sunday barked, and your stomach also rumbling. It was already eleven o'clock and you both hadn't eaten yet.

You opened Dianping again and found that there was a convenience store near the community. You decided to take your puppy to buy something to eat.

"Maybe this is a prank, you can see people when you go out for a walk-"

You think so.

Your fantasy is shattered.

Even more.

Because when you walked out of the door, you raised your head inadvertently.

You remember the last line of words in the letter.

"Also, remember to look up."

——Above the blue sky, in the middle of your retina, a row of shocking red countdowns are suspended.

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9999996721…

At that moment, your scalp was tingling.

The end numbers shrink at a rate of one point per second, which makes you clearly realize that this is a countdown. You close your eyes over and over again, remind yourself that it is a delusion. But whenever you look back at the sky, that countdown is as clearly visible as the sun and the stars, as if it was born in your retina - which reminds you of the trembling Tomoko in the science fiction novel "The Three-Body" I read a few years ago.

You have been lost for a long time, and when you come back to your senses, you force yourself to stop thinking about it.

You are trying to find traces of humanity, but there are no people in the entire community, the entire street, and the dazzling array of shops. In such a big world, the only one who accompanies you is the border collie puppy following behind you.

You stopped in front of the convenience store and asked a few words, "Is anyone?" The sausages in front of the cashier have been burnt, and the sausage machine also vaguely exudes a burnt smell of short circuit. You hesitate and walked into the counter and unplugged the sausage machine.

You were already hungry, and took a bag of potato chips and coke from the shelves and feasted on it. You didn't forget to remove a can of ham meat for your puppy. Then you put a bag of instant noodles for dinner. You thought about it, took out a hundred dollars from your wallet and placed it carefully in front of the cashier.

When you got home, you drank cold coke and read the letters you left yesterday in front of your desk in the living room. After thinking for a long time, you flipped the letters and wrote them on the blank back:

“I now…

1. Alone.

2. Can't contact anyone.

3. I don’t know what happened.

4. I don’t know what will happen next.

5. I was so scared that I even felt like I was living my life.

6. I feel that it is better to die than to survive alone.

7…”

You put down your pen, sighed, staring at the string of Bentley keys placed on the table. After a while, you grabbed the keys, rushed out of the door, ran straight to the underground garage, pressed the remote control switch to find the Bentley, drove back to the convenience store I had just been to, and stuffed them into the car in a random manner. Before leaving, you didn't forget to put the 100 yuan placed in front of the cashier back into your pocket.

When you returned home panting, you looked at the various snacks and daily necessities piled on the ground, and sat down at the desk and picked up the pen.

"but……

1. Eating and drinking in the short term will not be a problem.

2. No need to go to work.

3. Have a pet.

4. No need to spend a penny on food, clothing, housing and transportation.

5. You can also drive a Bentley.

6. You can watch the chair live broadcast to play.

7…”

"7, I'm still alive."

You put down your pen and breathed a sigh of relief. You began to think about your next plan.

The most important thing is of course to figure out what happened. You don’t have to worry about eating and drinking, but this is just the most basic survival need. Even after half a day, the feeling of loneliness has made you very uncomfortable. Try to encourage yourself: you have a lot to do, you have to find other human beings, and find a way to restore your memory. Since you no longer need to live the nine-to-five life mentioned in the letter, you should take this opportunity to drive the Bentley around. There must be many interesting things to do in the world. By the way, there are Rola, what is your lover like? Is she still in this world? Is she a foreigner? She must be beautiful, you have to find the relevant memories. By the way, do you have a real estate in Xiangjiang City? There should be more clues there...

Under constant psychological hints, you briefly pull out of fear and anxiety, hold the quiet and well-behaved puppy, and begin to fantasize about a bright future.

For social terrorists, you are living the life they dream of! You can go to "collect" a luxurious manor with spring seasons, and raise many cute cats and dogs, fish, hunt, and live a noble life every day... By the way, there is also the newly launched PS50. Weibo has been rumored a few days ago. As long as you get one, there are countless high-quality console games, which can be played for the rest of your life... Maybe, this scene like "Trumen's World" is a great opportunity for you, and you can experience a completely different life...

All your beautiful fantasies broke down in less than half a day.

That night, you drank two cans of beer and half a bottle of McAllen, who had left yesterday, with instant instant noodles and pickled pepper chicken feet. During the half-drunk and half-awake, Sunday, who had been sleeping at his feet, suddenly woke up and barked outside the door. You were puzzled, thinking it smelled someone outside the door, and just opened the door, Sunday rushed into the safe passage next to it like an arrow. You chased it all the way down to the underground garage. The next moment, the sky shook and the earth moved.

You held Sunday and leaned against the wall in great horror, thinking that an earthquake had occurred. There were loud noises on the upstairs, and as the earth moved, countless bricks and stones began to shatter, and the entire underground garage was filled with smoke and dust.

After a few minutes, everything became quiet. When you carried Sunday back to the ground along the safety corridor, you realized that the puppy's natural alertness saved your life.

The entire community has turned into ruins. Your parents' house is not spared. The supplies you saved up in one day have been buried by all the collapsed bricks and stones.
Chapter completed!