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Chapter 9 as you wish

Doomsday is coming 松本清张 2163Words 2018-03-22
Although it was an unbelievable scene before them, people gradually returned to the real world. The missile did not explode! The missile detonating device that fully demonstrates the modern high level of science and technology has failed! Miracles are given by God.The priests picked up the Bible again from the ground and preached to the Christian believers who were constantly gathering.The Bible has never been so radiant and revered as it is now, and the pastor's words have never been so beautiful and charming. Believers have seen the miracles created by Jesus Christ with their own eyes, and their whole body and mind have been deeply immersed in the love of Jesus Christ.

"Lord, you have raised us up, and we will always follow you..." "Lord who has opened up the way to eternal life for us, you have enabled us to defeat death, you have given us peace of mind, and you have helped us gain infinite strength, we will always pray for you, our Lord..." On the bell tower of the church, bells rang one after another, ten times more enthusiastically and a hundred times louder than Christmas bells... The bells of the temple are not to be outdone.However, it changed the monotonous and steady rhythm of the past, and replaced it with violent and loud, almost frantic percussion.

The monks took up the rosary again and taught Zen to Buddhist believers.The reason why the missile did not explode was because the doom had not yet come, and all the people in the world wanted to celebrate, and continued to bear the burden of humiliation in order to achieve transcendence. In the majestic temple, incense is lingering and sutras are heard loudly. Hundreds of thousands of Buddhists kneel down devoutly to the feet of Sakyamuni who saved them from death... At the same time, the sheng and drums were beating together in the shrine, and people chanted the sacrificial oration to the beat of the drums.

Religion makes people abandon politics, reject science, shut the door of modern civilization, and bring them back to the realm of illusion... It's a different story on the street. People are singing and dancing wildly in crowds and groups to celebrate their own regeneration.The beer was foaming and spraying everywhere.Whether they are acquaintances or strangers, they hug each other tightly and dance a dance that no one can name. Everything in the past seems to be a nightmare that will never happen again. However, there was a heartbreaking and tragic scene in front of the basement.A large number of corpses were dragged out from it.Some of them died from suffocation, some from crowding, some from fighting, and some from suicide.

There are many more suicides on the streets.Some hanged themselves, some fell to their deaths, some committed suicide, some took poison... Those unfortunate people, they don't know that there will be a resurrection today.These innocent people lost their lives by declaring the imminent missiles out of humanitarian reasons.Fate sometimes teases human beings like this. Some stood in front of radios and televisions.But neither the radio nor the TV had any picture.People want to know the truth from it, listen to the voice of the government authorities, and see the sympathy and congratulations from people all over the world to the suffering Japanese people.But they were disappointed.Is it due to the launch of the missile that produced an abnormal electromagnetic phenomenon in the atmosphere?Is it that radio and television have been left in a state of unmanaged chaos?No one can answer.But one thing is real and indisputable, that is, they are still alive.This is enough!

Over time, civilization and rationality began to return to people's heads.Those who were still messing around just now felt deep regret and shame.Some of them even felt that it would be better if the nuclear missile actually went off, but now they are doomed to spend the rest of their lives in regret and shame. Those who have been to the gates of hell can know themselves more clearly.The artists have also woken up, and they are also deeply ashamed and painful for their wavering and shrinking just now.But the joy of life inspired their courage again, and the threat of death gave them inspiration for art.At this moment, they are all pouring all their efforts into creating what they think is the most popular work in their lives...

To live is to be happy.In this regard, Sachiko Togami and Kihisa Kimura, like others, gained a new experience. When the two of them embraced each other tightly, lay on the bed, and waited quietly for the death to come, suddenly, from outside the window, people's ecstatic cheers and the earth-shaking bells of churches and monasteries came from outside the window. "what is that?" Kikuo opened his eyes. "People are all crazy about the imminent death, only we, still maintain rationality, maintain eternal love..." Sachiko lay in Kikuo's arms full of tenderness, life and death were irrelevant to her.

But the continuous cheers finally made Kikuo unable to hold back.He opened the window and looked down. "We are saved!" Excited shouts erupted from the crowd. "what's up?" Kikuo scratched his throat and asked loudly. "Don't you know?" A passer-by raised his head and waved his hands excitedly at him. "The missile has fallen, but it didn't explode! We turned the corner and escaped from death! Now everyone is going to see that big guy buried in the ground, you should go too..." Kikuo turned around and looked at Sachiko excitedly, "Sachiko, did you hear that!"

"I can't believe it. Maybe it's a rumour?" This sudden good news really confused Sachiko. "But look at the streets, there are people dancing and having fun everywhere." "So... is it true?" "By the way, look at your watch, what time is it now..." It's already three twenty in the afternoon!A full eleven minutes past the scheduled explosion time! All at once they stood up with infinite excitement. "So, our lives were really saved." "Isn't it just a dream..." Sachiko bit her lip hard, feeling a pain.Everything in front of me is clearly reality.

"It's true, it's really saved!" "Ah, let's have a really grand and warm wedding. The tragedy is over, and from now on we want to realize our ideals, we want to build a happy life, we want to have children..." "Let's pray." "Yes, let's pray to God together..." They opened their arms and hugged each other tightly, immersed in infinite happiness... More and more people are flocking to the streets from their homes, from underground, from shelters, and from subway corridors.People's emotions reached a climax.The whole of Tokyo was filled with warm and festive atmosphere.

People are boiling.They sang and danced, gathered together, and passed from street to street.It is like a small spring in the forest rushing into a small river, then flowing into a big river, and finally entering the vast ocean.Tokyo at this moment has also become a sea of ​​joy... At this time, another black spot appeared from the horizon, shining with metallic light under the sunlight, approaching people quietly and at the same time irresistibly, at an octagonal angle of 20 degrees... (full text)
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