A summer thunderstorm is brewing over the f city.

The lights went out, and the whole city was plunged into a long darkness. In the apartment, Cassia had not changed his school uniform. He sat on the edge of the living room, staring at the darkness outside the floor-to-ceiling windows.

A tangled bright lightning flashed from the thundercloud, connecting the tall buildings standing on the ground with the dark night sky, and the distant scenery swirled in the dark eyes of the young man.

The first explosion of thunder bloomed, illuminating his pale face, something rang in the thunder, the thunder rolled past, and the phone rang rapidly.

"Dad, how long will it take for you to get home?" Jue Ming said.

"Baby!" The man on the other end of the phone shouted anxiously, "What are you doing?! I didn't come back so soon!"

"Well, I see." Jue Ming replied, and another thunderbolt exploded.

Zhang Min's voice shouted: "I have to delay on the road for a while! It is estimated that I won't be home until midnight! You have dinner first, there is cooked food in the refrigerator!"

The other end of the phone was noisy and chaotic, as if there was some turmoil, people scolding, urging, and the rushing sound of torrential rain.

Cassia said: "The power is out, and the microwave oven can't be used."

Zhang Min shouted anxiously, "What did you say?! Louder! I can't hear you!"

Jue Ming said loudly: "Nothing! Hang up!"

Zhang Min finally heard his voice and shouted with a smile, "Wait for me! Dad will be back soon!"

Cassia hung up the phone, went to pick up a glass of water, did not open the refrigerator, and sat quietly in the dark home. Live on campus five days a week, study high school in F city, and come back for a rare vacation to reunite with my adoptive father.

Zhang Min went on a business trip abroad on Thursday and agreed to go out for dinner. After Zhang Min finished his work, he was blocked on the road when he rushed back on Friday.

In two hours it was a new day, and Cassia sat in the dark, motionless.

At twelve o'clock, the call came, and the whole house lit up in an instant. Cassia's pupils couldn't adapt to the sudden light and narrowed unnaturally.

He turned on the TV, it was full of snow, rustling, and then turned off. The whining of an ambulance could be heard in the distance downstairs.

The phone rang again urgently, and Cassia went to pick it up, and the voice over there was much quieter.

Zhang Min: "Baby...Are you all right?"

Cassia: "Yes."

Zhang Min's voice was trembling, and the words were intermittent: "Don't go out, damn it, what's going on? Did someone knock on the door? Don't open the door if someone knocks."

Jue Ming replied: "Oh."

Zhang Min gasped for a while, but it was very quiet there: "Wait for me downstairs, I'm entering the city."

Jue Ming replied: "I know."

Zhang Min immediately changed his words: "No, no, you are at home, um, pack up, take your card, money, and medicine with you, pack up a few changes of clothes, and Dad will take you to camp."

"Baby! When I get back, don't open the door no matter who knocks on it. I still have ten minutes to get home." Zhang Min said, "Don't open the door if anyone knocks! Remember!"

Cassia hung up the phone silently, walked into the room, and without asking anything, took out the travel bag he used to live in, unzipped it, pulled out the clothes to be washed, and put them in the washing machine. Then he packed up Zhang Min's, along with several pieces of his own clothes, medicine box, cigarettes, money and cards.

Zhang Min's sex and cash were placed in a drawer, and Cassia also found a small box in the drawer, which contained a pair of platinum mobile phone pendants - Capricornus and Cancer.

Cassia tethered the Capricornus to his mobile phone, the other hooked it with his little finger, packed up his things, and sat in the living room waiting.

There was a shrill scream outside the door, and Cassia sat up involuntarily. His eyes were very dazed, he turned on the TV, still no signal, turned off the TV, turned it on and off, repeated several times, and finally left it on. Slowly got up, walked to the cat on the door and looked out.

It was pitch black in the aisle, and nothing could be seen, which logically shouldn't be right.

"Help—" the woman screamed miserably, slamming the door, Cassia's eyebrows were touched by the shaking door, and she stepped back.

He thought for a while with no expression on his face, and when he looked down, he saw that there were neatly lined up by the door: his own sneakers, Zhang Min's military boots, and two pairs of flip-flops.

Cassia said: "My dad told me not to open the door for others."

The door slammed frantically in the aisle, and a moment later there was a wail, and Cassia stood for a while, bowing and putting on her shoes.

When he knelt down on one knee to tie his shoelaces, a cloud of viscous blood seeped in from under the crack of the door. Cassia watched for a moment, moved away a little, and continued to put on his shoes.

When he put on his shoes and got up, Cassia put his hand on the doorknob.

Cassia changed his mind again and sat back on the sofa, staring at the door.

A moment later, there was a rhythmic pounding on the door, accompanied by a beast-like cry of "Ho-ho".

Cassia looked blankly, and then the elevator dinged.

"Dad." Jue Ming said.

Zhang Min's voice roared in the aisle, the fire hydrant glass shattered, shouted, and crashed. Cassia stepped forward to open the door and opened the door with the safety chain. Zhang Min shouted: "Don't Come out! Don't come out now!"

Cassia stood at the door, was hit by the ground, a rotten hand reached out and scratched, and was dragged out.

Zhang Min said, "Close the door—!"

Cassia closed the door.

The dull sound of heavy objects falling to the ground made it quiet outside.

"Dad?" Jue Ming said.

"It's alright..." Zhang Min said in a trembling voice, "Don't look at the cat's eye, just wait."

Cassia nodded silently, and after a while, he couldn't help but leaned over to the cat's eye to see that Zhang Min was hiding something in the safety aisle, wiped his sweat, and said, "Baby, you can open the door."

Cassia dropped the safety chain and opened the door.

Zhang Min was covered in blood, and stared at him gasping for breath, his eyes were red, and the two stood face to face.

Zhang Min is 1.8 meters tall, and Cassia is only fifteen years old. He is shorter than him and looks up at him.

Zhang Min swallowed his saliva, hugged Cassia in front of him, touched his head, and said, "Finally... I saw you, and I thought I would not be able to come back this time."

Cassia didn't say anything, just answered briefly: "Yeah."

Zhang Min: "I love you, baby."

Cassia nodded.

Zhang Min closed the door, leaned on the door and gasped, and asked, "Have you eaten yet?"

Zhang Min replied, "I'm afraid I won't be able to eat it. The shops outside are all closed. Let's go another day."

Jue Ming said: "I asked if you had eaten."

Zhang Min shook his head blankly, and said tiredly, "How about you, baby?"

Jue Ming said: "I'm calling, I'm going to make a hot meal."

Zhang Min immediately realized the danger: "No, we have to go, have you packed everything? The car is downstairs, go immediately and get out of here."

Cassia said, "Can you drive?"

Zhang Min opened his red eyes and entered the room like a gust of wind. He found a bottle of Red Bull, opened it and poured it. Then he went into the bathroom, twisted the shower, and Cassia went inside to rummage for him to change his clothes.

Zhang Min is 28 years old. He has studied and been a soldier. He has traveled to many places. He is young and strong. His skin is healthy and bronze. The water, naked and naked, flows down his toned abdominal muscles, like a wild but gentle leopard.

Cassia stood aside and watched silently.

The hot water made Zhang Min relax a lot, the nervousness that had previously subsided, and finally calmed down. He turned his head to look at Cassia, wanting to say something.

Cassia said: "Dad, I love you too."

Zhang Min wanted to beckon him to come over and wash together, but thinking that time was running out, he hurriedly said, "Baby, have you packed your things?"

Cassia shook his head, nodded again, and walked out of the bathroom.

"How is the business?" Jue Ming asked.

Zhang Min sighed and replied, "Very good. Let's go out of the province from the north highway and go to other cities to find the big brother Wang who invited him to dinner last time. We can drive there in two days."

Jue Ming asked again, "Where is it?"

Zhang Min put on his clothes, changed into a pair of trousers and a shirt, and came out in a hurry, saying, "I can't take it anymore."

Cassia: "Where's the company?"

Zhang Min was silent for a moment, and then said, "I can't open it again. After we leave, I'll call them tomorrow and go."

Zhang Min took the travel bag, slung it over his shoulder, opened the door with one hand, and held his adopted son with the other. When he stopped at the door, the pool of blood was still there, it had become dry and sticky.

"Don't look, baby." Zhang Min whispered, then wrapped his right hand around Cassia's shoulder, put his palm in front of his eyebrows, and walked out of the corridor in a half hug.

Cassia didn't struggle, and staggered along with Zhang Min, got into the elevator, and got off the underground garage. Zhang Min took Cassia into the car all the way, took a deep breath, and set the passenger's window to dark brown. Let Cassia fasten his seat belt and get a blanket to cover him.

"Sleep for a while, then Dad will call you." Zhang Min said.

Cassia nodded, like a cat curled up in a blanket: "Is there enough oil?"

Zhang Min reversed the car and looked back, then turned to the side after a moment, Cassia consciously leaned over, Zhang Min kissed Cassia's face.

Cassia stretched out his arms and hugged Zhang Min's neck, a bit of attachment. Zhang Min said, "Let's go." Then he rubbed Cassia's forehead, started the car, and galloped out of the apartment building.

City F is like being cleaned by an apocalyptic catastrophe. The street lights are dimly lit, newspapers are flying all over the streets, and abandoned vehicles are thrown on the side of the road, and the light boxes of the billboards are flickering.

Zhang Min drove along the road through the barren urban area, and his eyes widened in disbelief. There was no such scene when he entered the urban area from the expressway. In just one night, the entire F City Park and the streets were actually empty.

There was a man wandering the road.

Zhang Min slammed the steering wheel, and the brakes made a harsh, high-pitched sound, but after all, he couldn't turn in time, and with a loud bang, the man who was crossing the road was shoveled straight into the air.

Cassia opened his eyes immediately and woke up.

Zhang Min said, "It's okay... I'll get out of the car and have a look." As he said that, he unfastened his seat belt, but Jue Ming grabbed his sleeve with one hand.

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I saw that the knocked over "corpse" not far from the road supported the ground again and stood up staggeringly.

Zhang Min gasped and fastened his seat belt, bypassed the living dead, and continued to drive all the way.

When the car passed the blockade, the police motioned Zhang Min to roll down the car window, and looked into the car with a flashlight, showing Jue Ming's handsome face.

"Are you injured?" the policeman asked. "I was scratched and bitten to go to the infirmary next door to be bandaged."

"No." Zhang Min couldn't help but shudder: "What happened?"

"Surge of Rabies." The policeman said, "You didn't listen to the radio?"

Zhang Min shook his head, he and Cassia looked as usual, not like people who were sick.

The police asked: "What about you, take out your ID card and see, what are you doing? Where is your home?"

Zhang Min said: "He is my son, adopted son, and I am his guardian."

A policewoman came over and waved, "I'll look into your eyes."

Cassia's pupils were not adapted to the light, so they shrank slightly. The police commented: "Very beautiful boy, where is your mother? Why don't you say anything? Are you feeling unwell? What's your name?"

Zhang Min said, "Baby? Tell uncle your name."

"Caesar," he said.

Zhang Min smiled embarrassedly: "Children don't like to talk, his mother..."

Jue Ming suddenly said: "I don't have a mother."

Zhang Min was very embarrassed, but the police nodded understandingly, made a gesture, and let him go.

The number of living people finally increased gradually, Zhang Min's breathing was still a little trembling, and a long queue of convoys formed on the way out of the expressway. There are cars on the front, back, left and right, and many car owners roll down the windows from time to time and curse.

Zhang Min finally breathed a sigh of relief.

There are still 200 meters from the high-speed toll station, and four dazzling incandescent lamps illuminate the intersection as if it were daylight. There was a quarrel in the distance, and the loudspeaker's announcement:

"Citizens, please be patient, you need to be scanned and inspected when passing through the border..."

It looks like he won't be able to get out for a while. There are armed police everywhere, so there shouldn't be too much of a problem. Zhang Min has been driving for nearly 15 hours.

Jue Ming leaned in front of the car window and looked out, was called, and looked back at Zhang Min in confusion.

Zhang Min said, "Sleep a little longer and be obedient."

Jue Ming shook his head, Zhang Min followed his gaze and looked out, and said, "Dad take a break, and the car in front of you will leave and call me."

Cassia nodded, Zhang Min took off his jacket and covered himself in front of him, leaned on the driver's seat, and closed his eyes.

Jue Ming looked out of the window, lightning flashed one after another in the dark sky, and under the highway intersection, the end of the wilderness connected the heaven and the earth.

There was another jeep parked next to their car, staggered a little, and Cassia was sitting facing the side window of the jeep's rear seat.

A woman sat there and turned to look at Cassia with a smile.

Cassia pressed one hand on the car window, and the rain started again, and the crystal rain dripped down the glass.

After an unknown amount of time, the woman behind the jeep window on the opposite side disappeared.

Immediately afterwards, a stream of blood splashed on the car window, and a shrill scream came out. One hand grabbed the car window, and a bloody handprint was drawn.

Zhang Min was suddenly awakened, and the police shouted from outside.

"what happened!"

"Open the door—!"

"The people inside put their hands on their heads and get out of the car—!"

Cassia looked around and saw that the driver's seat of the jeep was pulled away, and several policemen pressed the owner to the ground.

The father and son watched this scene quietly.

Police towed the owner of the biting car away, with blood dripping from the car and washed into the curb by the rain. The half-corpse of the woman who had previously smiled at Cassia hung out of the car and was bitten beyond recognition by her teeth.

Jue Ming said, "Mr. Xiao."

Zhang Min: "..."

The deceased was a teacher in Cassia School. Jue Ming waved at her, Zhang Min said, "Don't look out, go, baby."

The congested motorcade moved again, and Cassia looked at the team of lights with scattered eyes.

When it was finally their turn to pass the customs, the two were taken to a lit hut where several doctors sat.

"Where to go?" one asked.

Zhang Min replied, going to S city.

"Undressed."

Zhang Min took off his coat and trousers, and a few people glanced at it. Zhang Min put it on, and then undressed Jue Ming.

"Come here for an injection." Another nurse said.

The needle tube of the vaccine is very thin. After the injection, Zhang Min asked, "What kind of serum is this?"

A doctor raised his eyes and said, "There is also an outbreak of rabies where you are going. It is recommended to go to the northwest. Do you have any relatives in the northwest?"

"President Zhang!" A doctor in charge found Zhang Min.

Zhang Min hurriedly shook hands with him, Cassia walked to the car, Zhang Min said, "Is it an epidemic?"

The doctor in charge whispered, "I'm not sure, can Mr. Zhang mobilize some medicinal materials to support him?"

Zhang Min smiled wryly and shook his head. The employees have all left. What medicinal herbs are mobilized? Zhang Min's hometown is in the countryside not far from here. He was discharged from the army a few years ago, and he came to the provincial capital to start a business without any relatives or reasons. He started a small-scale medicinal material company based on the traditional Chinese medicine skills handed down by his father during his lifetime. He has business dealings with several large hospitals in the provincial capital, and the doctor in charge in front of him is the one who has received his red envelopes.

Zhang Min said: "There's not much stock, and I'm planning to go to other places to purchase goods. Not only did I just come back, the goods haven't arrived yet, and the deposit has already been paid..." As he said, he touched the pocket of his coat with one hand, but couldn't find anything.

Cassia came over and handed out a pack of cigarettes. Zhang Min didn't know whether to laugh or cry, thinking that fortunately, Jue Ming had brought a cigarette.

The doctor in charge took it, Zhang Min lit him a cigarette, and asked, "Is there a vaccine already?"

The supervisor said: "The effect is not yet clear, but it is harmless to the human body. Let's take an injection first, and we need to be careful."

Zhang Min nodded, and the doctor in charge added, "Listen to the radio. Although this epidemic is raging, it has not reached the scale of SARS, so it should get better."

Zhang Min said, "Let's go, you must pay attention to your own safety." After saying goodbye to the doctor, he got on the car and left the highway intersection.Depart for the city of s.

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