Desperate Night.

Chapter 2 002 Ghost Shadow

Faced with Hong's questions, the girl was completely unable to react and she didn't know which question to answer first.

She stood there blankly, the medicine box in her hand shaking so violently that it seemed like the medicine would fall out at any moment.

Click.

The door was pushed open again, from the outside.

A middle-aged woman in a dirty white coat walked in. She had yellow skin, black hair, and a pair of black-framed glasses. She was the woman who looked like a doctor.

"Let me answer your question. Don't embarrass Yiyi. She's been sick before, and she's had a shock. Her speech and brain aren't working properly."

The woman walked to the bed and placed a light grey kettle in her hand on the wooden bedside table.

"We don't know how you got here. Last night, Yiyi went out to look for firewood and accidentally found you in a dirt pit, and then dragged you back."

"When we found you, you were unconscious. It seemed that you had no external injuries, but you were unconscious and had a fever. Yiyi fed you a lot of filtered water and waited for a whole night before you woke up."

At this point, the woman let out a breath.

"Then let's talk about this place. This is Baiqiu Village. It is surrounded by deep mountains. The only connection with the outside world is an old road in the west."

She paused.

"I'm the village doctor, my last name is Xu. Her name is Lin Yiyi, she's an orphan, and she lives here alone. There's no other important information. Okay, I've said what I need to say, now it's your turn. Tell me, who are you, how did you get here, and why are you here?"

"Can I call you Doctor Xu?" Yu Hong sorted out the situation, endured the pain in his throat, and said in a low voice.

Seeing the other party nod, he continued.

"My name is Yu Hong. I was just sleeping at home, and then..." He recounted his previous feelings in detail.

"I don't know how I got here. I..." He raised his hand with difficulty and covered his forehead.

"How old are you?" Dr. Xu suddenly asked.

"Twenty. Twenty-seven." Yu Hong spoke reflexively.

"That's enough. You can't go back anyway. In today's world, no matter where you come from or how you got here, if you don't have a car, you will die if you go out. I guess you will have to stay here for a long time." Doctor Xu said lightly.

"??? No car? Can I borrow someone's car to take me to the nearest station? I'll pay for it!" Yu Hong was a little confused.

"Station?" This time it was Doctor Xu's turn to be confused. "What the hell are you talking about? Where is the station? Who drives you these days? There are all kinds of monsters out there. If you go out alone, you're courting death."

"Monster?!" Yu Hong was stunned.

"What monster?" He suspected that the other party was acting or had mental problems.

But when he saw Dr. Xu looking at him as if he were a fool, Yu Hong felt something was wrong.

He felt a little nervous.

He is just an ordinary office worker. No one would be willing to spend a lot of money to hire an actor of this level to deceive themselves, right? ? ?

"It's over. He is indeed a fool." Doctor Xu raised his head with a helpless expression.

"A fool matches a fool. You two are amazing."

She glanced out the window.

"It's still early. You'll know when it gets dark. I'm leaving first. Yiyi, please keep an eye on him and don't let him open the door at night."

"Okay," the little stutterer nodded quickly.

Seeing Dr. Xu open the door and leave, the little stutterer called out quickly.

"Yaoyao! Sister!" she called anxiously.

"." Doctor Xu heard the voice, turned around and looked at Yu Hong, then understood.

She took out a mercury thermometer from her pocket and put it into Yu Hong's mouth.

"Take your temperature."

After waiting for a while, she pulled out the thermometer and looked at it.

"38.5. I can't die."

"It's my fault." The little stutterer quickly handed the medicine box in his hand to the other party for him to see.

The mold stains on the medicine also made Dr. Xu frown.

"Yiyi, I don't have much medicine left. The post office only goes to the city once a month."

After hearing this, the little stutterer suddenly became anxious. He looked left and right, and soon found something like a sweet potato from the cabinet in the corner and handed it to the other party.

"Change, this, change the medicine!"

Dr. Xu shook his head and said it was not enough.

Then the little stutterer went to look for it somewhere else.

The two men bargained, and the sound continued to reach Yu Hong's ears.

He sounded groggy and listless, and soon fell into sleep again.

The pain in his throat, the dizziness in his head, and the weakness all over his body made it impossible for him to get up.

The body's instinctive self-healing mechanism enables him to quickly recover his strength through sleep.

Time flies.

I don't know how much time has passed. Maybe one hour, maybe three hours. Time has no measure for a drowsy person.

Yu Hong slowly woke up from his coma.

He felt sore all over, weak and powerless, and his throat seemed to be blocked by something, as if there was a large obstruction, and he was unable to make a sound.

Opening his eyes, he struggled to stand up from the bed and looked around.

The room fell silent.

This small square bedroom has walls and ceiling made of light yellow wood.

The ground was black mud, flat and dry, with even green grass growing in some corners.

Yu Hong slowly turned sideways, put his legs on the edge of the bed, and then lowered them little by little until they touched the ground.

The solid feeling of being grounded made him feel inexplicably relieved.

He looked down at himself.

He was wearing an off-white short-sleeved T-shirt with a cartoon tiger head tattooed on the chest and some yellow stains. His pants were cream-colored casual pants, but they looked very wrinkled at this moment.

The big toes on both sides of the gray socks were torn, and two big toes covered with black mud protruded out.

"What is this?" He looked at the back of his hand and saw a black mark on the back of his right hand.

The mark looked like an ancient seal. On the square seal was a lump of muddy stuff. There were no patterns or words on it. At first glance, it looked like a birthmark.

But Yu Hong clearly remembered that he did not have such a big birthmark on his body, let alone on the conspicuous back of his right hand.

I rubbed the mark with my hand, but it didn't hurt or itch.

He tried to wipe it off, but found that it couldn't be wiped off, so he gave up temporarily.

After checking his body again to make sure there were no external injuries, Yu Hong touched the stubble on his chin and tilted his head to look toward the window.

The window was on the right side of the bed, in a square shape, and was nailed shut with horizontal wooden boards inside and outside, very tightly. It was like a defense against mental illness, and there was a sense of uneasiness in the mess.

There was a dim light outside the window, slanting in and leaving a dull yellow patch beside the bed.

Yu Hong took a breath and felt that the air was strange, with an indescribable burnt smell.

He walked a few steps and came to the door. He saw a thick stack of old newspapers at the foot of the wooden door.

After a pause, he bent down, picked up the stack of newspapers with difficulty, and looked at the top one.

《Highest alert: Major black disasters have hit various parts of the country in recent days》

The huge headline took up almost half of the newspaper.

Here are the details.

'.The frequent occurrence of black disasters and the weakness of the response departments have posed a huge threat to the lives and safety of the people. Faced with the severe situation, the National Disaster Prevention Committee urgently established the Emergency Management Department, launched a rapid response to the areas severely affected by black disasters, and fully organized rescue work.'

Yu Hong frowned and turned to the back.

A photo of the bustling scene of rescue work in the disaster area appeared before him.

This is a gray ruin of a building. People wearing heavy protective clothing are carrying stretchers and carrying out charred bodies from it.

"Black disaster?" He had never heard of this term.

Then he turned to the newspaper below.

"A major insect plague is coming. How should we respond?"

"Food is scarce, water is difficult to drink, and the national rescue team is doing its best to rescue tens of thousands of people from their plight"

"Suspected biochemical leak, Yiguan City urgently blocked and built a car wall"

"Experts have something to say about dealing with black ticks"

The first Hope City is officially completed, with 10,000 people moving in

Amid the rustling sound of flipping pages, Yu Hong's expression became more and more solemn the more he looked.

In addition to the strangeness of these titles, the more important point is
He suddenly realized that these newspapers were not in any of the languages ​​he had learned before, not Chinese, not English, not French, Spanish, Russian, etc.

Rather, it was a completely unfamiliar, other language.

"What the hell!"

Yu Hong put down the newspaper and looked at the date.

'January 2020, 1'.

I can recognize languages ​​and characters that I have never seen before.
This strange feeling made him feel a little uncomfortable.

Putting the newspaper back to its place, Yu Hong glanced at the door in front of him.

The door was gray-black with two square patterns, one large and one small. The door handle was white with some paint peeling off, revealing the black metal underneath.

He reached out and grasped the handle. The cool, hard touch gave him a thrill, and then he twisted it gently.

Click.

The door is open.

There are three gray stone steps outside the door.

Outside, there is a dilapidated gravel road.

Across the road was a small, dark bungalow with its door open.

Gray and white walls and black rotten tiles.

The bungalow was only three meters high, with red slogans painted on the outer wall, but the content was so blurry that no one could tell.

There were stones and yellow dead leaves remaining on the tilted tiles, which rolled and made a slight noise when the wind blew.

When Yu Hong walked out the door, he realized that he was not wearing any shoes, only tattered gray socks.

It also feels uncomfortable and hurts my feet when I step on the gravel ground.

So he just stood there and didn't move.

Look around.

There is a gravel road outside the door, with stone-walled and tiled houses lined up on both sides.

These tile houses are very old, with mold and stains all over the walls. Some of them have red slogans, such as "Happy life, happiness and peace", "One person's insurance, the whole family is safe", "Fireproof, insect-proof and moisture-proof".
The gravel road was a little dark, and the sunlight was blocked by the house, with only a little bit slanting in through the doors and windows.

This is because these houses are relatively short.

He looked around.

The tiled houses were lined up like people, of similar heights, dilapidated, with leaky doors and windows. Most of the black wooden doors were open, and there was no one inside, with only the whistling sound of the wind.

He raised his head and turned around, looking towards the house where he was.

Sure enough, although the place where I live is also a tiled house, it is different from the others.

Thick black and yellow wooden strips were nailed outside the doors and windows, the gaps were stuffed with thick cloth, and the threshold of the door was higher than that of other houses.

"This place" Yu Hong felt an inexplicable sense of foreboding in his heart.

Click.

Suddenly, a faint sound was heard from the far right.

It looked like shoes stepping on gravel.

He hurriedly looked in the direction of the sound.

He saw a house on the right side of the road. Through the open door, there was a blurry person in white standing in the shadows, looking at him.

From a distance, he seemed to see the other person laughing and smiling at him.

"What a joke!" Yu Hong frowned and ignored the other party.

Although he wanted to find someone to ask about the situation, the other person looked a little crazy and abnormal, which made him feel uncomfortable.

So he decided to find someone else.

Turning his head, he no longer looked over there, but scanned the rest of the tiled houses one by one, trying to find anyone in the other houses.

Unfortunately, after looking around, I didn't see any other people.

So he could only turn around and look in the direction of the man in white.

Just this one look made his heart sink.

The man in white was no longer in the room he had just been in.

Instead, he appeared in another room which was much closer to him.

She was standing in the shadow inside the door, smiling at him.

In just a dozen seconds, they were at least dozens of meters closer.

The strangest thing was that even though the distance was so much closer, he still couldn't see the other person's face. He could only barely see that the other person was smiling, had very white skin, and was a man.

I didn't hear any sound of the other person running, so how did he manage to cross such a long distance in such a short time?

Yu Hong began to feel uneasy.

He took a breath, turned his head, looked in other directions, and then looked back at the man in white.

It only took a second.

But it's this second.

The man in white was no longer in the room he had just been in. Instead, he disappeared again and appeared in the room diagonally opposite, less than ten meters away from him.

The other person was still in the shadow inside the door, still standing still, smiling at him.

"Fuck!" Yu Hong was horrified and slowly backed away.

What made him even more strange was that even at such a close distance, he couldn't see the other person's facial features clearly even though he was not nearsighted!

Thinking back to what had just happened, he didn't dare blink at all, but just slowly backed away.

Then, he retreated into the door and slowly closed it while staring at the other person.

slowly.

The door was only wide enough for an arm.

Yu Hong tried hard not to blink, but his eyes became more and more sore and uncomfortable, and tears began to accumulate in the corners of his eyes, more and more.

He can't hold on any longer.

(End of this chapter)