Chapter 5 chapter Five

April 1.Sunday.Night, 22:10. "Oh, why are these stores closed?" Haimei didn't wear her school uniform, she was dressed in an Italian lady's dress bought in Hong Kong, she looked disappointedly at Uniqlo which was closing, and carried an empty shopping bag. "It's all your fault. It took me half an hour to look at the shoes on the third floor, and I completely forgot the time!" Ding Zi didn't carry her shopping bag, but in it was a pair of Pingguo jeans that she just bought for 699 yuan. . On the sixth floor of Future Dream Mall, all the shops have been closed, except for the salespersons who are eager to close.

"Okay, it's my fault. Go home. You have to go to school tomorrow morning. If you're late, you'll be miserable." Two months later, the college entrance examination will be held. Taking advantage of today's Sunday, Haimei ran out without telling her mother. "Ding Zi, when will your father come back from America?" "Oh - next month, he called home last night and said he brought me an iPhone 4S." Ding Zi raised his eyebrows.She was wearing a Japanese brand of sportswear, and the Nikes on her feet were bought at a specialty store with Haimei.They are both only eighteen years old and in their third year of high school at the same school.Ding Zi wears the hairstyle of a twenty-five-year-old woman, with straight long hair hanging down to her shoulders, which often makes men of different ages look back.Although she still has the loli accent of a high school student, her eyes are mature beyond her age. If she puts on a seductive dress and puts on the right makeup, many young women will be envious and jealous.She and Haimei often go out as a couple, and there are rumors of their same-sex love in the class.

The school is next to the Future Dream Building. In the past few years, all the old houses nearby have been demolished, and high-end commercial housing worth tens of thousands of yuan per square meter has been built. Most of the students are children of wealthy families.Haimei lives in a mansion worth tens of millions, even though her father is only a small section chief in the district government. "Wow, awesome! If only my dad could go to America more often." Ding Zi walked down the escalator and looked down at the atrium six floors down, feeling dizzy for the first time. "When we get into college, we will go to the United States to play together. My dad has many friends in California." She forced herself to pull herself together, shook her beautiful long hair, grabbed Haimei's hand, and said lightly, "Do you want to Go to America to study? Let’s go together.”

"Honey, I'm so loving, give me a kiss!" "Die! Be careful to fall!" Like a flirting couple, the two girls took the escalator down to the fifth floor.Ding Zi turned her head to the outside, looked at the spacious atrium and the colorful shops opposite, sighed silently, but was caught by Haimei: "Honey, you seem unhappy? Are you there?" "Oh, no." Ding Zi forced a smile, but looked up upstairs involuntarily, "Go down quickly." Go up the escalator from the fifth floor down to the fourth floor, and a boy in black clothes and pants comes up in the opposite direction.He was a few meters below the sight of the two girls, looking up at them as they left after a long time.He looked no more than eighteen or nineteen years old, with a thin circle of fluff growing around his mouth, and his long and thick black hair showed that he would not be a good student, especially his pair of sharp eyes, which did not look like a high school student at all.But he is not like that kind of little hooligan, there is no trace of frivolity in his body, and the black clothes look more like he is engaged in art work.

In an instant, Ding Zi has decided that this young man is by no means an ordinary person.She forgot when and where she was, and even her best friend Haimei beside her, and looked straight at the boy's eyes full of haze. Finally, her escalator was halfway down and his escalator was halfway up.He and she, face to face, at the same altitude, separated by two narrow handrails, can touch each other's noses as long as they turn their heads to the middle side. The four eyes met and passed each other.Ding Zi turned her head to look at the boy's back going upwards.He didn't look back.

April 1.Sunday.Night, 22:19. When Ding Zi was still obstinately looking back at the boy's back, the escalator under her feet shook.She heard Haimi's scream, but fortunately she was holding onto the handrail tightly, otherwise she would have rolled down immediately. It was the second shaking that brought Ding Zi back to her senses. She squatted down and grabbed hold of the handrail, pulled Haimei, and shouted: "Be careful!" The entire Future Dream Building was shaking, and the escalator continued to run down, but they dared not run to the fourth floor, for fear that they would be shaken and fly out together.

All the lights started to flicker, and amid Haimi's screams, the escalator under her feet stopped running. April 1.Sunday.Night, 22:20. The violent shaking stopped, but continued to sink rapidly.Amidst the vibrations and loud noises, the relative position of Ding Zi and the fourth floor did not change, but her heart felt floating upwards, and even the tips of her hair rose upwards... Could it be that the entire Future Dream Building is sinking rapidly?The whole mall turned into a huge high-speed descending elevator? Things kept falling from upstairs, including chandeliers, merchandise, furniture, and dancing and screaming people!Is it the audience at the cinema on the ninth floor?Some people did not fall directly to the ground floor, but hit the escalator on the fifth or sixth floor, which is probably worse than falling to the bottom.

Haimei broke free from Ding Zi's hand, stepped on the stopped escalator, and ran down by herself. "Don't run!" Just as Ding Zi yelled, the escalator under her feet suddenly broke! Haimei ran down desperately, and survived the catastrophe and ran to the fourth floor. When she turned around, she was separated from Ding Zi by an abyss. The unlucky Ding Zi stayed on the escalator, the world was suspended under her feet, half of the escalator was like a broken suspension bridge.With her life hanging by a thread, she didn't have the guts to stand up, but when she was about to slide down like an autumn leaf in the wind, a hand grabbed her firmly.

Ding Zi saw the eyes flying by like meteors.The light dimmed all of a sudden, and it was impossible to see that face clearly. When it was turned on again, she had already been lifted up two feet.One hand firmly supported her waist, and the other was wrapped around her chest.She clings to him without resistance, becoming a part of him at his disposal. The boy's hand was as hard as an iron ring. When she looked directly into his eyes again, all the lights in the Future Dream Building were extinguished, and there were screams coming and going from all around. It is conceivable that on the violently shaking escalator, the teenager turned around and saw that the descending escalator was broken in two, and she was on the edge of the abyss of doom, so she turned over and jumped directly to the descending escalator.

The hero saves the beauty. The darkness continued, the shaking and sinking had ceased.Ding Zi was lying in the arms of a strange boy, smelling the adolescence in the hair in his collar, listening to the drum-like heartbeat in his chest, and heavy breathing, a ridiculous thought flashed in his mind - if at this moment Just freeze until the end of the world. Suddenly, the hand wrapped around her chest came down to the position near her buttocks, which made her feel a little uneasy. Even if she had those beautiful feelings, she couldn't bear it...but she was worried that if she resisted, would the two of you be together? Falling into the abyss in the darkness together?

Soon her worry became superfluous, the boy reached into his trouser pocket and took out his mobile phone to illuminate his surroundings.The small mobile phone screen can't shine very far, but this little light, like a star in the dark night, makes them confirm that they are still alive in the world. The phone turned to Ding Zi, and she saw the screen of the Northern Lights. With his other hand around her waist, he turned around carefully, and led her to lie face down together.On the crumbling and broken escalator, the two of them didn't even say an interjection, they stood shoulder to shoulder knowingly, climbing up with both hands and feet, and with a little more effort, they would fall down with both people and the ladder. As long as she leaned on the young man's shoulder, she felt extremely at ease, believing that she would survive. It took a minute of slow climbing before the two of them got off the damn escalator.Panting heavily, the boy collapsed in the corridor on the fifth floor, stretched his limbs and roared. Ding Zi took out his iPhone 4, besides illuminating him who was lying on his back, he also wanted to call Haimei - but there was no signal. "You...you...do you still have a signal?" This was the first sentence she said to him.She regretted not even asking his name, and directly using "you" seemed impolite and upbringing. The boy didn't speak, he lay on the ground and shook his head, his pale face was shrouded in the light of the phone screen, as if he came from another world. Suddenly, a glass lampshade fell from upstairs, causing him to turn over and jump up. If he was half a second late, his head would be smashed to pieces.Ding Zi was still in shock, the boy had already held her hand and ran to the depths of the shopping mall, probably because he was afraid that he would be hit by something or someone falling from it if he got close to the railing of the atrium. She still didn't resist at all, and a layer of hot sweat dripped from the palms that were tightly held by him. There was a mess under my feet, I would trip over something from time to time, and there was glass shards all over the floor. With two mobile phones, I couldn't see the whole picture of the surroundings, so I could only walk forward like a blind man feeling an elephant. Sure enough, Ding Zi stepped on a spherical object. Before her body lost her balance, a thought flashed through her--stepped on a human head! The screams penetrated the entire atrium, drawing different echoes from each floor of the mall.She subconsciously propped herself up to the ground, but she touched a hard thigh.That was not the boy's leg, motionless, as stiff as iron, more like a dead person.The other hand touched a hard, smooth shoulder almost overlapping the leg—either two wretched corpses, or a man dismembered. Ding Zi let out a second terrible scream. What frightened her even more was that the entire ground was covered with corpses, all of them with mutilated limbs, as stiff as a stone, but there was almost no trace of blood! Finally, a light from the mobile phone revealed a white arm on the ground.Only then did Ding Zi's almost shattered heart recover—it turned out to be a fallen mannequin wearing fashionable and expensive women's clothing! The boy pulled her up, and she curled up in his arms. The mobile phones of the two of them illuminated the devastated ground, as if they had come to a slaughterhouse without blood. Only then did he hear his first words, but he said to himself: "This day has finally come?" After Youyou finished speaking, he glanced at Ding Zi, the corners of his mouth slightly raised. Not daring to look into his eyes anymore, just when she was about to shout "Hai Mei" loudly, a few lights flickered from the corner of her eyes. The two turned their heads at the same time, the light from the mobile phone illuminated an open elevator, and several people crawled out of it one by one. When the last man climbed out, he took another look into the elevator and ran out in panic.There were terrified cries from the elevator.Ding Zi hesitated and ran up to help, only to find that the elevator stopped between the two floors, with the cables in the stairwell exposed, and people in the elevator had to climb out through a narrow gap. Another woman's head protruded from the gap, Ding Zi hurriedly lowered down and grabbed her hand, and the young man also got down to help.Seeing that the young woman was about to climb out, the cable in the elevator shaft snapped before their very eyes! The entire elevator descended rapidly, and the poor woman's lower body was still in the elevator. The horrific screams and the sound of some kind of liquid splashing echoed in the future dream building. A few seconds later, he opened his eyes again and used his mobile phone to illuminate the empty elevator shaft and the mutilated upper body. Ding Zi vomited the dinner in his stomach all over the floor.