dramatic death

The anti-theft door is automatically locked after a slight electric current sound.

At 19:03, Yin Tong returned home.

It was dusk, and the outlines of furniture could be vaguely discerned in the unlit room.Yin Tong leaned against the door and slid on the floor of the entrance, the cold winter air drilled into his bones through the cold tiles, crawled into his limbs and bones, and he couldn't help shivering from the cold.

His rapid breathing echoed in the room.

At 19:03, Yin Tong thought, I was 18 minutes late.

A severe headache hit his temple, noisy tinnitus filled every inch of the air, restlessness stepped on the rational steps and approached the edge of restraint step by step, Yintong seemed to have two selves in front of him, one curled up in a place without a ray of light One stood up, tremblingly grabbed the vase on the shoe cabinet, and flung it out desperately.

The clear shattering sound of porcelain exploded in his mind, and Yin Tong circled his knees and unconsciously stared at the smooth ground a few steps away, as if seeing fragments of a vase appearing and disappearing in his vision.

He always has hallucinations like this.

Ever since he nearly stabbed a kid in Central Park two years ago, he's been seeing weird things every now and then.The overwhelming dusk is always the main dish in the hallucination, the lingering bloody smell is the indelible ingredient, the dirty and rotting corpse is the occasional dessert, and the other self in the hallucination becomes Chef's mischievous easter eggs.

He can often see another self in hallucinations.

Sometimes the opponent appeared in the form of a child, dragging a rabbit doll with a severed head to hide in the crowd; sometimes the opponent appeared in the appearance of a teenager, standing expressionlessly in a dark corner with downcast eyelashes.

Sometimes his appearance is clear, and the familiar facial features are like a virtual image carved in a mirror; sometimes his figure is blurred, and he looks like a hideous monster from a distance.

Yintong knew that there was a problem with his mental state, but he couldn't find any solution.

Just like at this moment, when he raised his head, following the small noise, he could see the greedy beast in the living room.

The gloomy field of vision was covered with messy snowflakes, and there were blunt pains in his temples, and Yintong tried to stand up while supporting the wall, but his fingers sank into a wet and cold mud, like digging into A piece of sticky carrion.

The stench of blood floated in the air, and something was making strange noises in the narrow gap between the sofa and the coffee table.It knelt on the ground, hunched over, its skinny fingers bent into claws, slowly and mechanically scratching the corpse on the ground.

It is eating.

It bent its waist and almost lay on the dilapidated corpse, stuffing the bloody pieces of meat into its mouth, and retching uncomfortably from its throat.It had been hungry for so long that it didn't even realize that the food had fallen into its shrunken stomach. The bloody smell floating in the air was like a glass of mellow wine, bewitching it to gobble it up.

— eat it.

It heard someone whispering softly.

— Eat it, this is your food.

Yin Tong stood up and moved half a step forward.

The monster that was eating stopped, and the fine pieces of meat overflowed his fingers along with the smelly saliva, and fell on the corpse, making a sticky soft sound.

It turned its head and looked in Yintong's direction.

A biting chill climbed up Yin Tong's spine, he stood up straight while supporting the wet wall, and slowly moved two steps forward.

He didn't look back, he didn't run away, he was deeply aware that everything he saw was nothing more than a disgusting hallucination, and all he needed to do was turn on the lights in the living room.

His heart was beating with overload, every step was like stepping on a piece of soft meat, the broken limbs and arms all over the ground gradually outlined clear shadows in the darkness, he was like stepping on a clay pot of a Gu person Here, there are lingering corpses everywhere, and the air is full of innocent souls who died in vain.

They shouted.

"hungry"

The moonlight blew through the French windows at the end of the living room, and the cold silver light fell, and the executioner by the sofa moved.

It looked like a dying old man, with a hunched back, stood up staggeringly, and walked towards Yintong step by step on the mud-like carrion.The thick bloody smell from the rubbing of the clothes poured over the sky, and Yin Tong heard the sound of his rapid breathing like a broken bellows, and his knee joints creaked in motion.The figure of the executioner looked like a terrifying beast in the darkness. Only four fingers were left on its skinny hand, convulsing as if trying to grab Yintong's neck.

— There is no escape.

In the dark, he had this idea, and the biting chill penetrated into his limbs and bones, like an innocent soul caressing his back, pushing him to stagger forward.

Then there was a "pop".

light is on.

Pale floor tiles extend from Yintong's feet to the cold floor-to-ceiling windows, receiving the soft moonlight silently. The empty living room is clean and tidy, the fabric sofa sleeps under the light, and the fruit in the fruit plate is still stained with glistening water.

There were no monsters, no corpses, his house was clean, and the minty scent of freshener still lingered in the air.

Yin Tong moved forward a few steps, staggered and knelt down in front of the sofa with weak feet.He comforted himself repeatedly in his heart that "these are all hallucinations", but he was almost unable to tell what was an hallucination and what was the status quo.

The twitching stomach was like an apple churned up by a juicer, and layers of sour water rolled into the throat.He vomited with his empty stomach, and the dazzling light turned into a phantom in front of his eyes, swaying and showing bloodstains continuously.

He seemed to be still trapped in hallucinations, and seemed to have fallen into a terrible nightmare.

The biting cold wind kept hitting the closed French windows, and the noise roared in his ears.Yin Tong relieved his strength, panted and sat on the edge of the sofa, looking up at the dazzling lights above his head.

The light and shadow in the field of vision blurred into pieces, and the wind outside the window intensified, as if a heavy rain was about to fall.

Then, suddenly, the lights went out, and the bustling Central City fell into a dark abyss. He saw bright red sand gushing out from the mobile terminal on his wrist, like a dying spring, leaving only a few tiny sprays.

There was loud thunder outside the window, and something splashed on the balcony, making a slight but intensive "click".

It's raining.

……

At the same time, the lakeside community.

Nie Shuang stopped his fingers poking the light screen frantically, and let out a short exclamation in the dark bed.

"what?"

The sudden light fell to the ground along with his exclamation, and the sultry bed was lifted, and Nie Shuangshuang rolled out of bed relying on the reflexes he had cultivated for many years. Before he had time to run three steps, he was grabbed Stay on the pajama collar.

"I'm strangling me, Dong Xiaotian, help me!!!"

"Help?" The perpetrator behind him smiled strangely, "No one will come to save you even if you yell for breaking your throat."

Nie Shuang rolled his eyes, realizing that he had mistaken the person, and immediately gained a bit of backbone.He pulled his collar and kicked his legs to escape from Dong Tiantian's claws. He raised his eyebrows and raised his chin with a domineering expression.

"What are you doing? Didn't you see that your Grandpa Nie is busy?!"

Dong Tiantian raised his eyebrows: "Teacher Wen, look at this kid..."

Nie Shuangshuang's expression changed suddenly, and he turned around suddenly, and found that the bedroom door was wide open, and the corridor was empty, but there was no sign of Wen Qiu.

Dong Tiantian had already collapsed on the bed laughing, and Nie Shuang gnashed his teeth and rolled onto the bed, screaming as he rode on his stomach.The young man looked energetic with every frown and smile, Dong Tiantian let him quarrel for a while, stretched out his hand to pinch his waist, and successfully extinguished the little animal's arrogance.

"What were you doing before I came in? You didn't write your homework, and Teacher Wen caught you. Be careful and go to the campus daily again tomorrow."

"What's the matter with me?" Nie Shuang yelled aggrievedly, covering his waist, "Didn't you ask me to track the dessert house of A3206 in real time before! I'm doing business!"

Dong Tiantian smiled: "What did you find?"

Nie Shuang twitched her lips, turned on the light screen, tapped out the surveillance video of the afternoon, and enlarged a picture.

"Although there are traces of secondary modification at the scene, there is obviously a strange pattern in this place. I invaded the city surveillance, do you still remember the explosion in the afternoon?"

Dong Tiantian: "The promotion of Hakoniwa Online?"

Nie Shuangshuang: "Yes, I found that there are traces of large-scale modification in the city surveillance system. Only those monsters from the Academy of Sciences can modify so many city surveillance systems in a short period of time. the Academy of Sciences."

Nie Shuangshuang opened the picture.

The pictures captured from the city surveillance on the light screen are constantly improving in clarity. Nie Shuangshuang looked at Dong Tiantian's serious expression, and was about to try to make a fool of this person's identity, but heard his guardian read out the other person's name directly.

"Wen Qi?"

Nie Shuang pouted and asked reluctantly, "How do you know?"

Dong Tiantian glanced at him: "The Wen family has two children in this generation. The eldest, Wen He, died in the line of duty during the third Hakoniwa experiment; the second, Wen Qi, is currently working in the Academy of Sciences."

Dong Tiantian still didn't say a word, he could know these two purely because of Yintong, after all, Mr. Xiaoyin was considered half son of Wen's family before he entered school with them and became brothers and sisters.

It's a pity that even Wen's family failed to take Yintong out of that place.

Nie Shuang shrugged his shoulders, and he said: "...All right, since you know everything, I won't introduce it. Anyway, that's not what I want to tell you."

"I suspected that Wen Qi had arrived at the commercial street this afternoon, so I stepped on the back door of the Academy of Sciences to browse their database. There is a string of numbers on the newly logged-in data today. I tried it. It should not be a code word."

"What number?" Dong Tiantian asked.

"I just logged in again and found that the number is decreasing in real time, so I made a small program based on its appearance at that time." Nie Shuangshuang moved the light screen in front of Dong Tiantian, and the mechanical numbers on the screen were moving at a speed visible to the naked eye. Decrease, "It's 95:37:16 now."

"I suspect it's a countdown."