"Liu Yan, what about your fellow soldier?"

Liu Yan, who was immersed in revising the drawings, turned a deaf ear, until the girls next door laughed and asked the third time, Liu Yan raised his head and glanced at them.

A girl said: "Didn't you plan to find a job here?"

"Meng Feng..." Liu Yan took the eraser and wiped it gently on the perspective view: "His parents told him to go home, so he left. He left last month, and your reflex arc is really long."

"It's a pity." Another girl smiled and said, "Such a handsome soldier, no wonder no one is waiting for you to have dinner."

Liu Yan glanced at them and teased, "Who is in love with him? I can give you his phone number, please." As he spoke, he blew the rubber shavings away, as if In driving away a stubborn memory in his mind.

The bell rang, get out of class was over, and students poured out of the classroom.

A ray of blazing summer sunlight poured in from the spotless glass windows, and the huge classroom was empty. Liu Yan sat alone in the last row, sorting out the product renderings in his hand.

This is a month and 12 days after he broke up, the anniversary of his love with Meng Feng.

Seven years ago, Liu Yan and Meng Feng, Zhuma, whom he had known since childhood, were in the third year of high school in Z City, and they confessed and fell in love. After the college entrance examination, Meng Feng joined the army, and Liu Yan was admitted to a university. Liu Yan still remembers the oath they made during their student days. After going their separate ways, they still kept in touch with each other and looked forward to being together again on the day of graduation and discharge.

Liu Yan was sent to Germany as an exchange student due to his excellent grades in the second year of university. He was far away in a foreign country, but he still did not forget his former lover. Postgraduate students are recommended after returning home. In the year of second grade, Meng Feng finally retired from the army and came to S city where Liu Yan was studying. When we met again, there was no surging emotion and no intense night. Meng Feng hugged Liu Yan and slept peacefully all night.

Liu Yan didn't move, but fell asleep all night. Looking at the ceiling, he felt that something was different.

Meng Feng lived in S city and planned to find a job to live with Liu Yan. However, he ran around and his education was too low, so he couldn't find a satisfactory job. In the end, he left.

Liu Yan did not interfere with Meng Feng's choice. When he closed the door, Meng Feng was outside the door, and Liu Yan was in the door, they both knew in their hearts that they were no longer the high school lovers they were seven years ago. Time is the sharpest knife, and it has been sloppy for many years, and the disconnected past was finally mercilessly cut in half when we met again.

In the blink of an eye, time leaked through the cracks of the fingers, like fine sand powder, without any trace, people are no longer the people they used to be, and love is not the love it used to be. You can't blame alien love, let alone each other's lives, no one can blame them. That's right, everything comes from you.

Seven years later, one month and 12 days after the breakup, Liu Yan was sitting alone in the classroom, suddenly feeling an indescribable feeling.

"Liu Yan!" A classmate probed from the front door: "The tutor is waiting for you, why don't you go?"

Liu Yan woke up like a dream, quickly packed up the drawings, and went to the office.

"I read the design." The head of the department said, "There are many small problems, but no major problems."

Liu Yan put down the drawings, took the coffee handed over by the dean of the department, looked at the bookshelf while drinking, and asked, "Can I borrow some books to go back and have a look?"

"Of course you can." Liu Yan's mentor is a fifty-year-old man with a good demeanor, sitting at the desk and drinking coffee: "Your design is very focused on use, with a strong Icelandic style. , but ergonomics is your weakness, and it's just horrible."

Liu Yan laughed self-deprecatingly: "When I was in class at the Bauhaus, I always did a terrible job of man-machine, teacher, what is this?"

Liu Yan took out a book on the shelf: "Zombie Survival Manual". Couldn't help laughing.

The dean of the department liked Liu Yan very much and explained with a smile: "Did you know that the U.S. Department of Defense released a warning guide online in May. "

Liu Yan casually flipped through the book, not knowing whether to laugh or cry: "Is it true? I'll borrow it and take a look."

"I have written all your comments on product revisions in the USB flash drive." The department head said, "Don't forget your homework while reading."

Liu Yan said helplessly: "Okay."

Liu Yan shoved the USB flash drive into his pocket, took out his laptop, took out his mobile phone and made a call at home, but no one answered.

Today is Friday, Liu Yan is planning to go home, go back to the dormitory to pack up, and watch the webcast with his dormitory friends.

"Cui Xiaokun, are you going home this week?" Liu Yan asked.

"No, what?" the roommate said, "Are you going to go back?"

Liu Yan: "Pick up a girl?"

Cui Xiaokun: "No - if you have something to say, what do you want to invite brother to do?"

Liu Yan said with a smile: "Can I borrow the car for a while, come back tomorrow night and fill up your gas."

"Go away!" Cui Xiaokun said angrily.

After a while, the car key flashed and flew. Cui Xiaokun was a graduate student in the Department of Automation next door. He bought a second-hand car. Liu Yan took the key and said, "Thanks, I don't want to go to the station to take the bus."

Cui Xiaokun took off his headphones: "Hey, Liu Yan, are you sure you really want to go home?"

Liu Yan buried his head and dialed the phone: "What?"

Cui Xiaokun clicked on a video news and motioned, "Look."

"Another wave of rabies broke out in Z city this summer. The relevant departments urge the public not to go out at home and wait for the community hospital to notify the injection of a new type of vaccine..."

Liu Yan frowned and asked, "When did it happen?"

Cui Xiaokun raised his chin, picked up the cup and drank some water: "The news broadcast repeatedly this morning, isn't your mother a doctor?"

Liu Yan's family is a single-parent family. Growing up with his mother, he was keenly aware of the abnormality.

"Don't go out?" Liu Yan's eyebrows twitched.

"The authorities sprayed disinfectant water in most communities, evacuated people in the city center, prohibited unrelated people from entering and leaving public places such as hospitals, and the subway was temporarily suspended..."

Liu Yan called her mother's cell phone, and the line was always busy. She should be working overtime at this time. No wonder no one answered the phone at home.

"I'll go first." Liu Yan said.

"Good luck, don't be bitten by the dog." Cui Xiaokun said lazily.

Liu Yan opened the car door, threw the computer and clothes into the back seat, and threw the book borrowed from the tutor on the passenger seat, reversed the car, and set off.

am 12:00 s city highway intersection.

Liu Yan took out his wallet, paid the fee, connected the Bluetooth to the car speaker, pressed the automatic redial button, and the jeep hit the highway.

The highway from s city to z city is empty and endless, the midsummer sun is blazing, and the sky at the end of the road is a dazzling blue.

On the road from City Z towards City S, there was a long queue, and vehicles of various shapes kept pressing the lama.

pm 3:30 Last stretch of highway.

The phone was finally connected, and Liu Yan said, "Mom!"

"Yan Yan... Yan Yan..." The voice of the woman on the other end of the phone was anxious.

Liu Yan immediately drove the car to the roadside stop, the phone was noisy, mixed with the whining wind one after another, the woman said: "Yan Yan—"

Liu Yan stopped the car and shouted, "Mom! Are you alright!"

The woman said: "Don't go home, listen to mom, don't go home first, ah, mom is fine, mom loves you, Yan Yan..."

Liu Yan: "What happened at home?! Are you in the hospital or at home? Why didn't you answer the phone at home?"

"Yan Yan, stay at school, mother is safe and will call you..."

"Mom loves you, Yan Yan..."

The phone rustled and hung up.

Liu Yan sat blankly in the driver's seat and turned off the phone when he called again.

Liu Yan was silent for a moment, and then dialed Meng Feng's number. His mobile phone number has been deleted from his phone book, but that number has not been changed for five years. Perhaps its traces will never be erased from his heart.

Meng Feng's phone line was also busy, Liu Yan made a reverse turn, turned around and got off the expressway, jumping in the queue and waiting in the traffic going back to S City.

pm 3:40 Freeway U-turn.

Liu Yan reversed the car again, drove on the expressway, and continued to move forward in the direction of Z City.

The car radio sounded.

"The rabies phenomenon in City Z has been initially controlled, and the municipal hospital is organizing rescue and treatment. The government appeals to all citizens who are out of town, please do not go home for the time being, so as not to cause traffic jams... Here's a weather forecast for you..."

pm 7:30 At the end of the highway, get off the z-city bend.

A round of crimson burning clouds in the sky, bright as if stained with blood, everything was business as usual.

Liu Yan paid attention to both sides of the road while driving. The sun went down, the street lights were on in the urban area, and there were few vehicles. He should have heard the announcement on the radio and went home.

The internet was congested, it was almost impossible to log in, and the cell phone signal was intermittent and unsustainable.

9:50 pm

The further you drive towards the city center, the fewer pedestrians. Liu Yan's home is not far from the city center. The entertainment venues and supermarkets along the road are closed, and people are walking in twos and threes.

Three police cars were parked at the intersection, blocking the roadblock. Liu Yan was startled and immediately stepped on the brakes.

The lights at the top of the police car flickered, but no sound was heard. Liu Yan got out of the car and looked at it from a distance for a while. No one was seen, and he couldn't help but feel extremely puzzled.

Where did the police go?

Liu Yan resolutely got into the car, pulled on his seat belt, stepped on the accelerator, knocked over the barricade, and drove along the long street.

Most of the buildings on both sides were dark and lit, and a few balconies were still lit. Liu Yan closed the car door and ran to the apartment building where he lived. The security guard at the front desk was no longer there.

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Liu Yan fell into a panic of confusion, raised his head, and turned around several times: "Is there anyone?!"

No one answered, Liu Yan ran into the lobby, slammed on the elevator, the lights turned pale, and stopped on the ninth floor with a ding.

Liu Yan rushed out of the aisle with a gust of wind and took out the key to open the door. The house was messy. It should be because his mother was hurriedly called to work overtime and did not clean up properly.

Liu Yan took a deep breath for a moment, pulled out a box of iced milk from the refrigerator and poured it in. He went out and rang the neighbors' doorbells one by one. After a circle, no one opened the door. Liu Yan took a few steps back and peeped through the crack of the lower door. lit.

Liu Yan stood there for a while, swallowed, and went home to pack some clothes, a blanket, and dug out the first aid kit under the cabinet. When he went out, the lights on all floors of the building flickered and then went out.

The elevator stopped, and the entire downtown area was plunged into darkness, only the street lights of the independent lines were still on.

Liu Yan opened the curtains and glanced out. The electricity was cut off all around, and only another neighborhood in the distance was still brightly lit. He took the Swiss Army Knife and the emergency light, and with the emergency light in one hand, pushed the fire exit and quickly went downstairs.

The footsteps of "flapping, fluttering" came from the corridor.

Liu Yan breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Is there anyone?!"

He hurried down the corner: "What the hell is going on?!"

The corridor was dark, and Liu Yan took the emergency light and looked down the stairs. Immediately, the blood in his whole body coagulated, and the sense of fear climbed from his back to his scalp, causing bursts of numbness.

Under the corner of the fifth floor, stood a security guard with a sallow complexion and a gut-wrenching stomach. His cloudy eyes rolled up and the whites of his eyes were facing the strong light.

This is a dream, it must be a dream.

Liu Yan took a step back subconsciously.

The guard dragged his bowels and let out a whimper.

"You... Mr. Huang?" Liu Yan's voice trembled.

The security guard went up the stairs one step at a time. Liu Yan unscrewed the doorknob on the side of the stairwell with a trembling hand and slowly pulled it open. When the security guard was halfway up, Liu Yan rushed into the aisle, slammed the door of the stairwell, and his back Leaning against the door, gasping for breath.

With the banging sound of the door, Liu Yan screamed in horror, holding the door handle tightly.

"Is there anyone—!" Liu Yan shouted hysterically.

The door handle was pressed down slightly, Liu Yan retracted his hand like an electric shock, looked at the door in fear, and slowly stepped back until his back was against the fire cabinet.

With a clatter, Liu Yan smashed through the fire cabinet and grabbed the axe inside.

Zombies? ! Zombies? ! Liu Yan's only thought: The world is crazy, if the world is okay, then I am crazy.

When the door handle was turned all the way, Liu Yan shouted again, ran away, found another fire escape, and stumbled in.

The emergency lights flickered in the sultry passage, Liu Yan was sweating profusely, his shirt was soaked wet, he broke through the door on the first floor and ran out of the street. The scene in front of him was like a basin of ice water pouring him from head to toe.

The lights in the car were still on.

A man in a police uniform with protruding eyes hung on his face, leaned over his car window and touched it slowly, as if to open the door.

In the distance, five more zombies walked slowly in the garden in the city center.

Liu Yan couldn't help shaking violently, slowly put down his things, and turned the emergency light toward the street. The zombie policeman found the light source, turned around, and walked towards him slowly.

"Ah—" Liu Yan shivered, raised the fire axe, rushed forward, slashed its head, and the viscous blood spilled out, and then kicked it away with his feet.

The zombie twitched on the ground and struggled to get up. Liu Yan couldn't help but step back and stumbled on the steps. There were scattered zombies in civilian clothes from all directions, walking towards the door of the building.

Liu Yan quickly packed his things and rushed into the car. When the door was closed, a zombie squeezed over and his arm was stuck on the side of the car door. Liu Yan kicked the car door hard, knocking the heavy corpse open a little, and then closed the car door heavily. The car reversed rapidly, the bones muffled, and then several zombies were hit and run over from them.

Liu Yan hit the car several times, and finally wiped the police car that was serving as a roadblock and swept out of the way. He was dazed and didn't know where he was driving.

He caught a glimpse of the flickering on the screen of the mobile phone, and it was an unfamiliar call, which he answered.

"Finally answered the phone!" Meng Feng's voice sounded anxiously: "Where are you?!"

Liu Yan shouted: "Damn it! What's going on!"

Meng Feng: "There is a virus in this city! Don't come back, stay at your school, you know?! I'll go over and take you away right away!"

Liu Yan: "I'm already close to home."

On the other end of the phone and this end, there are rapid gasps.

Meng Feng: "Which street!"

Liu Yan: "I have a car, you can tell me a place, and I'll find you."

Meng Feng: "Don't fool around! You will become a zombie!"

Liu Yan: "I don't know where this is! You are..."

Liu Yan suddenly saw the end of the road, one person rushed out of the corner, followed by a few zombies, and immediately stepped on the accelerator, the front wheels of the jeep idling, and then rushed out with a slam, the headlights brightened.

Liu Yan honked his horn violently, Meng Feng raised his hand to cover his eyes, hurried towards the front of the car, jumped up in style, his military boots slammed on the front cover of the car, stepped on the roof a few steps, turned over and landed behind the car, Liu Yan went Before the momentum subsided, four zombies were knocked into the air, and they suddenly leaned forward.

Immediately afterwards, Liu Yan reversed the car quickly, opened the door, Meng Feng got into the car, fastened his seat belt, and sat in the passenger seat, bowing and breathing.

Liu Yan turned on the ceiling light: "Why are you here?"

Meng Feng gasped: "No one answered your cell phone and home phone calls. When you called your school, they said you went home."

Liu Yan nodded tiredly.

Meng Feng: "Although we agreed at that time, we would never meet again after we broke up, but I think we are still friends. I can't think of whom to go to, because I'm still afraid that something will happen to you."

Liu Yan's eyes were a little wet, he turned the steering wheel and drove into another road.

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