Chapter 48 Chapter Two

Many people will suspect that I am dead when they see me. Actually, I'm still alive. I just can't see the sun, and even a little sunlight on my skin could kill me instantly.In my short memory, there is no day, only night. Eternal night. Regardless of spring, summer, autumn and winter, whether in China or Japan, thick black cloth curtains are always hung at home, and all windows are sealed with iron bars.If it weren't for worrying about the turbidity and humidity of the air, I think I would be more suitable to live in the basement. Some customers once said that my house is like a funeral home. If they observe me closely, they will be more sure of their judgment.

Yes, it's because of my complexion, which has no trace of blood at all, and is as white as milk.But I've never been intimidated by myself, even when I'm alone in the bathroom mirror.I will grin my mouth and show my teeth, and show my dull eyes on purpose. Horror film directors will definitely want to ask me to make a movie—unfortunately, I can’t stand the strong light on the set. My mother said that if I go to make a movie, half of the performance will die. Because some dark secret is buried deep in my veins - I'm not human.I am born different from you.You are all strange creatures, busy living in the world, you have to learn all kinds of useless knowledge when you are young, and when you grow up, you have to tell insincere lies every day, praise others in your mouth, but in your heart. Thinking about bullying the other's mother.

Just like my dad. I think he is dead.But I'm not very sad, I know he has other women outside, and I know that eight out of ten things he said to his mother are not true.I don't think my mother likes him, or she just pretends to like him, especially when there are outsiders around, such as grandparents—in fact, I don't like them very much, although when I was in China, every once in a while Every two weeks, I will video call them once.I pretended to miss them very much, pretended to be in good health, happy and studying hard-God knows which school would dare to accept me, a child who can't see the sun!

I'm just a boy of seven, but sometimes I feel like I'm seventy. April 1.Sunday.Night, 22:19. When this moment came, I thought I would only live to be seven years old. My mother took me to the Future Dream Building and entered the second basement of Calfort Supermarket. Suddenly my heart beat faster, and the familiar feeling reappeared, just like the eve of the Japanese earthquake and tsunami a year ago.I've seen it - the ground shakes violently, the shelves fall over, and the glass comes down and cuts customers' heads in half.I also heard many people crying for help, there was blood and corpses everywhere, the faces of those real dead people—the customers and security guards I saw when I walked into the supermarket just now, they were all about to die tragically, Just a few minutes or tens of minutes later.And the whole building was falling rapidly, taking the last twenty or so survivors, deep underground...Suddenly, a young man in a supermarket uniform grabbed me and handed me back to my mother.

Mom bowed very gratefully—I could see in Mom's eyes some sympathy and pity for this young Chinese man, and maybe something else. But I saw in the eyes of this Chinese: "It's so beautiful...it looks like...no...she's Japanese...don't think about it..." Later, a tall Westerner came over and scolded the Chinese, although I couldn't understand a word.I saw a sentence in the eyes of this Chinese: "I will kill you!" However, I have seen this kind of inner thoughts a lot, and it may not be true that they will kill people. A minute later, my mother was leading me to line up at the cashier when there was a world-destroying earthquake.

My mother was desperately protecting me, and I didn't have to open my eyes to know what was going on around me—what I had seen minutes before.Once again I predicted disaster accurately, only this time it was the end of the world. After the first violent shock, a Chinese man in a supermarket uniform came and gave us flashlights—he didn't want his eyes to be seen, and I had seen his secret. He actually killed someone. In the locker room not far away, he strangled the tall and fat Westerner with a belt. Yes, I can see the secrets in other people's eyes, which is often called mind reading.

This is also my secret, and my mother doesn't know it either. I like the end of the world, and I like this building buried one or two hundred meters deep underground, because it is always dark here. Do you understand?I am a boy who cannot see the sun. As long as I live on the ground, there is always the possibility of encountering danger.I could only hide at home and sleep during the day—protected by thick black curtains, and only had the chance to go outside at night, counting the fuzzy stars in the city’s polluted night sky.My mother was forced to develop the habit of sleeping during the day and working at night, lying in front of the computer every night and translating Chinese into Japanese until dawn—I can only imagine the dawn, the purple east gradually brightening the red skyline, until the white light gradually enveloped The earth, the birds singing joyfully in the trees, the rays of the rising sun piercing my skin and taking my life.

No, in fact, children are very afraid of death.I don't want to be in the sun!Even if it's just a centimeter of sunlight. Only in the end of the world, only in this dark place, can I be completely safe, and my mother finally doesn't have to worry about me anymore. I have friends in the underground, such as Tao Ye, who has a good relationship with my mother. Whenever there is any problem, he is always the first to come to help.Hey, one of the best things he did for me was at Tommy Bear Fun World on the 5th floor! You'll think I'm always talking in an adult voice, sounding overly mature - but I'm a seven year old boy.On the second day after the end of the world, I dragged my mother to the fifth floor and broke into this world full of various amusement machines.I like to play "Sniper III" the most, drop two coins into the coin slot, pick up a sniper gun and point it at the screen, and kill all the bad guys!

Unfortunately, Professor Wu and Zhou Xuan cut off the power supply of Tommy Bear, and I could only watch "Sniper III", "Time Warrior II", "Jungle Adventure Vehicle", "Crazy Cowboy"... I cried, Crying like all children, a room full of toys and game consoles are piled up in front of you, but you can't play, so let people live?I begged my mother to turn on the power, but was sternly refused.I focused on Tao Ye, because I saw from his eyes that he liked my mother, and every time he was around her, he was both happy and nervous.Although, I know he just killed someone, but he's not a bad guy.

I stalked Tao Ye, got into his arms to make love, and made some deals with him—created opportunities for him to meet my mother, told him what my mother liked, and several times I disappeared on purpose so that Tao Ye could take him. Let me return to my mother, so that he will be more dependent on my mother. Finally, Tao Ye made an exception and helped me once.It was his turn to patrol upstairs, secretly turned on the power of Tommy Bear's Happy World, and got some game coins-haha!I played like crazy that night!Eliminate more than a hundred bad guys with a sniper gun, smash dozens of zombies with balls, grab a dozen toys from the "moving castle", and have never had so much fun!

Besides Tao Ye, I also have a killer friend. His name is Xiaoguang, and he often secretly plays CS games with me. He is a peerless master. Every time he shoots and kills those villains, it makes me feel comfortable. This is the nature of all boys. Xiaoguang told me privately that he sneaked into the Future Dream Building to carry out a killer mission, and the people he wanted to kill were among us survivors.I stared into his eyes and everything he said was true.I like the word killer, it sounds cool and powerful.Get rid of all the bad guys!yeah!Just like Ultraman Tiga! On the third basement floor, I have a good friend named X.None of you know who he is, neither do Tao Ye and Xiaoguang, but he does exist. Once, I slipped away from my mother in the middle of the night—because I was used to the routine of sleeping during the day and moving at night.My mother quickly adjusted, but I could only pretend to be asleep. After I was sure that my mother was asleep, I was free. If the human race had not been destroyed, if the earth had continued to turn, I would still be shut up at home, behind bars of windows and thick black curtains, like a prisoner in a dungeon. For me, there is no freedom without the end of the world. I wandered alone in the dimly lit building, avoiding the people patrolling at night, and came to the parking lot on the third floor underground.There was a Ferrari parked in the corner, the windows smashed in by blocks of concrete, and I could easily climb in.Although I can't drive the car, it feels good to hold the steering wheel-every little boy loves cars, and my dark little room is filled with hundreds of toy cars, as well as classic Transformers. Suddenly, a strong fishy smell came from the car window. I can bear the rancid smell, but I can't stand this smell.A gigantic bear popped up in front of me, opened its mouth and bit me, it seems that the little boy is its favorite supper. Just as it was about to tear me to pieces, a figure appeared behind the bear and hit it in the waist with a stick.It roared and got out of the car window, but was hit again—it wasn't some powerful iron rod, but an ordinary tattered bamboo pole.The bear was stunned for a moment, saw the person holding the stick in front of him clearly, and then ran away with his tail between his legs. X, my good friend, he saved me. He lifted me out of the car window, touched my head, and told me not to run around.Compared with other people's reactions when they first saw me, he was not intimidated by my pale complexion.He also told me that the animal was not a bear, but a large dog.I didn't predict this danger, probably destined to be rescued by X. X is a good guy, I promise! Well, besides the X that you don't know about, I have a friend who's more insidious and a partner in one of the most exciting games I've ever played at the end of the world. But he is a real ghost. So, I can't tell anyone about his existence, including my mother. On the third day of the end of the world, I escaped from my mother again and wandered among the many shops on the seventh floor.I came to a store that sold model cars and airplanes, and here was my favorite remote-controlled helicopter.But the samples in the window were not equipped with batteries. I searched the store for a long time and saw a collapsed ruin with many cardboard boxes beside it. Suddenly a strange sound came from it. I was taken aback.It was originally a small room, but it collapsed in the earthquake and was tightly pressed by cement blocks, leaving only a few dark gaps exposed. There are ghosts inside! When I was sure that the sound was coming from here, I carefully put my ear on it. "Help!" It was really a voice from within, weak and inarticulate, it seemed to be a man's voice. I said to one of the gaps, "Who are you?" After about half a minute, I heard an echo: "My God! Finally someone came to save me! Get me out quickly! Please!" "I want to know who you are." "Son! I am a strong uncle, please save me!" He recognized me as a child, and I had to press my ear against the ruins to catch every word he said.I replied unhurriedly: "Okay, are you hungry now?" "Very hungry! But I want some water first!" water?I have a bottle with me, but how do I give it to him?After thinking for a long time, I finally found a few straws, stretched one end of the straws, and connected them into a long straw. I thought it would fit into the gap, and if I was lucky, it would be delivered to his mouth. I unscrewed the cap of the mineral water bottle, put one end of this extra-long straw in, and stuffed the other end into the gap in the ruins. Half a minute later, I felt my hands trembling obviously, and the water in the bottle was slowly decreasing, and I was entering the deep part of the ruins through the straw... Yay!success!I couldn't even mention how happy I was, if I didn't still hold the water bottle in my hand, I would be dancing around right away. Ha ha!In the blink of an eye, the entire bottle of water was sucked clean.I stuck my ear to the ruins, quietly waiting for the echo of the ghost. I've been hungry and thirsty for three days, guess it will take some time to digest?Sure enough, after several minutes, I heard a faint voice: "Thank... thank you... please save me..." "Okay, let's play a game first, shall we?" "what?" I was so excited that I even forgot about the remote control helicopter: "You must be able to play house?" "you--" "Play with me, I'll bring you some food, what do you like to eat?" I looked at the small gap in the ruins and said confidently, "Well, have you ever eaten Pocky?" "Child, how old are you?" "Seven years old." That's my favorite food. I've already bought more than a dozen packs from the supermarket and hid it in the shop on the third floor. "Don't you like Pocky?" "I've... been hungry for three days..." "But apart from Pocky, there doesn't seem to be anything for you to eat." That's right, only the thin and long chocolate biscuit bar can be stuffed into his mouth through the gap. "Are your parents there?" My friend lost his patience. "Go to them and let them rescue me!" "I don't have a father anymore, only a mother." "What's going on outside? An earthquake?" "The end of the world." "Don't...don't be kidding..." "Really! No one will come to rescue you, except me. As long as you are willing to play house with me." I happily said to a gap, "My name is Zhengtai." "Good boy, give me some Po—" "Pocky!" "Yes, give me some of this, and I'll play house with you!" "Great!" I ran back to the third floor excitedly. Fortunately, my mother was still sleeping. I quietly took out two packs of Pocky and sneaked back to the seventh floor. play house!Ha ha!Finally able to play house! I've never played Jiajia - I don't even have a single friend in China or Japan.Because I'm a nocturnal animal, who's kid is still playing outside in the middle of the night?Occasionally, I go to the night playground several times. I want to play games with Chinese children. They cry when they see my face.So, I can only play games alone, play Plants vs. Zombies, or look at the moon alone. Hey, how I want to have a kid to play with me. When I was locked up at home alone, I fantasized about a good friend——his name is Xiao Ming, he is the same age as me, he is Chinese, he is slightly taller than me, and of course his face is much rosier than mine. Just a healthy and sunny little boy.Although I still can't play with him in the sun: playing football, playing with model airplanes, pulling girls' pigtails... But at least I can play video games with him, play hide-and-seek at home, play Transformers together, and watch Tom&Jerry together ... Now, you are my Xiao Ming! The happiest time at the end of the world is to sneak away from my mother every night, take a bottle of water and two packs of Pocky chocolate biscuit bars, go to the ruins of the model shop on the seventh floor, and play house with my Xiao Ming. Xiao Ming seems to like me very much, he said: "Since I was born, no one has really regarded me as a friend." He also said that he was in his thirties and was a "freelance property lender" by profession. For this reason, he had been in prison more than a dozen times, had four teeth knocked out, his nose bridge was broken twice, his ribs were broken three times, and he was knocked out. A leg was cut off once, a little finger was cut off, and someone stabbed his neck forcibly... But he survived tenaciously, and nothing could make him give up his desire to live. That's right, "freelance property loan brokers," aka thieves as you usually call them. On a night of lightning and thunder, Xiao Ming chose the Future Dream Building, took the elevator to the seventh floor, and hid in the model shop. After the security patrol passed, he could boldly come out and steal the treasures in the mall.As for the escape route, he has already checked it out. Through a secret passage, he can easily enter the Future Dream Hotel, put on a decent suit, and carry a large luggage bag full of stolen goods, and then he can go out in a fair manner. . April 1.Sunday.Night, 22:19. When Xiao Ming hid by the wall of the model shop, waiting for the darkness to come, the real darkness overwhelmed him... Fortunately, the ruins were not compacted, and there were still a few small gaps, otherwise he would have been buried alive Choked to death. Hehe, don't believe all of the above, we are playing house.Of course I played the policeman, and Xiao Ming had to play the thief-our play house was the process of the police interrogating the thief. He kept begging me to find other people, or dig up the ruins with tools like shovels, but I always said: "Let's talk about it this time, Xiao Ming." However, I never told anyone about his existence, even my mother and Tao Ye knew nothing about it. I knew that if he was rescued from being buried in the rubble, I would lose my best friend forever. Sorry, I'm a black-bellied gentleman. I still know many secrets that you don't know, but I didn't tell them, some of them are just because I'm too lazy to tell, or I don't think it has anything to do with me. For example, the hair-washing girl named Ah Xiang looks like a teenager, but she is actually an adult.I can see the secret in her eyes - she likes Zhou Xuan, but dare not say it, she is afraid that Zhou Xuan will look down on her, or be ridiculed by everyone. There is also Yang Bing, the security guard of the shopping mall. The survivors trusted him as a policeman, but he was actually the one who killed Guo Xiaojun.But I don't want to inform Zhou Xuan or Tao Ye, because everyone hates the dead man, and Yang Bing just did something that everyone wanted to do. White-collar Xu Pengfei also has a secret—he hid a woman in the hairdressing shop on the eighth floor, just like I hid Xiao Ming in the model shop on the seventh floor.He was also thinking about how to bully other girls - as long as he didn't get close to my mother, otherwise I'd let Tao Ye break his leg. There is only one person's eyes, I can't see anything at all, I can't see clearly like a dark ocean, he is the owner of this building - Luo Haoran.Therefore, I was very afraid of him. On the fourth night, when Yang Bing, A Xiang, and many seriously injured died, I also felt fear.That night, I didn't slip away from my mother, but she quietly left me, crying in the corridor outside.I climbed onto the counter to peek at my mother, but I saw Tao Ye.He put his fingers into his mother's mouth and carried her to his room. I didn't dare to follow in, curled up in the corner.After waiting for a long time, my mother bent over and touched it back, with a special smell on her body.She fell asleep next to me again, specifically to see if I was asleep, but luckily I was very good at pretending to be asleep. The next day, we were having breakfast at Starbucks, and I noticed the way my mother looked at Tao Ye—she liked this Chinese man. If my mother can be happy, I will be happy for her too. This afternoon, while my mother was not paying attention, I went up to the seventh floor to play house with Xiao Ming.In fact, I was also worried that if I didn't feed him last night, I would die of starvation or thirst today. Fortunately, my Xiao Ming is still alive, but this time he ate very fast. He said that he would not give up the hope of escape. As a professional thief, he naturally carried a lot of tools with him: screwdrivers, pointed pliers, wrenches... Xiao Ming kept using the screwdriver to drill the bricks in front of him. He also talked about a movie, The story of a man escaping by digging through a prison wall with a small tool. Xiao Ming is really a person who can imagine. After playing house with him, I thought of another friend——X. Hey, I haven't seen him for two days.I walked through the escape route and came to the basement level.At the back of the supermarket shelf, X is playing a game with a group of cats and dogs.I happily joined their game until the sound of footsteps approaching. Across two rows of shelves, I saw Tao Ye walking over. It must be my mother who told him to come and look for me.Suddenly, a Caucasian dog rushed out and jumped on him. Just when I was about to scream, X rushed over quickly, and drove the big dog away with only one yell.Tao Ye was so frightened that his face paled, and I happened to be in front of him, and he immediately grabbed me and fled back upstairs. That night, mother sneaked into Tao Ye's room. I guessed it would take a long time for her to come out, so I boldly escaped to the seventh floor again, took Pocky and water, and played house with my friend Xiao Ming. Xiao Ming was in a bad mood, but he still cooperated with me to complete the game.Finally, he said viciously: "When I first met you, I regarded you as a little angel, but now I know you are a little devil." Feeling a little frightened, I left him and ran away. Strangely, a picture appeared in front of my eyes - many people in red uniforms and helmets, trying to make a drilling head go deep into the ground... subconsciously raised my head, looked at the dome of the ninth floor in the dark, and ran up . When I came to the cinema on the ninth floor, a certain voice kept echoing in my ears, leading me through a narrow passage.There was a weak wind blowing overhead, and I carefully illuminated the ceiling with a flashlight, and found several deep cracks and gaps. Suddenly, something fell from a narrow gap. It's a bottle of mineral water!There is a layer of plastic paper on the outside, and three lines of Chinese are printed in bold fonts-although my Chinese is more fluent than Japanese, but after all, I am only seven years old, I can only recognize the simplest Chinese characters, and I can’t understand it. what. Something else fell.I picked it up and saw it was a small plastic jar, which contained several packs of pills, a miniature walkie-talkie, and an electronic thermometer. The tiny walkie-talkie kept flashing red lights, presumably as long as you press it, you can talk to someone.I smashed the walkie-talkie to the ground, and then moved the reinforced concrete block and smashed it down until it was completely smashed. I fell to the ground exhausted, only then did I understand what the prophecy I saw was that the earth was not destroyed, and people were trying their best to rescue us, even approaching the ninth floor.Rescuers on the ground sent food and water down the pipes, thinking we were dying of hunger and thirst.And that miniature walkie-talkie is for us to get in touch with rescuers. There is no such thing as the end of the world, we were all fooled by Professor Wu! I cried.When I think that I will be sent back to the ground, and live a life of being imprisoned in a dark room, or that I will still be afraid of being exposed to the sun, or that no one wants to be my friend-I am already Game Over! No, I can't let other people know about it, let alone rescuers find us.It's better if they give up halfway.After digging for many days, they still couldn't dig out half a living person. The final conclusion is that everyone in the underground is dead, and there is no need for the rescue team to risk their lives to dig down. Yes, I would rather starve to death underground than be rescued by them! I drank all the mineral water, put the smashed walkie-talkie, those medicines and thermometers, and the plastic paper with words into the small jar, and then threw it into the toilet on the ninth floor. I don't think anyone is going to find food in the toilet. Back in the room on the third floor, my mother came back in a hurry just as I fell asleep, it was really dangerous! Not long after, there were cries outside.Mom put on her clothes, went out for a while, and then came back with a person.I continued to pretend to be asleep, peeping with one eye open—it seemed to be the woman named Mo Xinger, trembling all over.Mom took off all of Mo Xing'er's clothes, and wiped her body carefully with a towel.Ah, this is the first time I've seen a woman's body, but it's so dark that I can't see anything clearly. After tossing like this until early morning, Mo Xing'er declined her mother's persuasion, and left here alone. I didn't sleep well all night, so I fell asleep in a daze.I had a dream, dreaming that I was rescued on the ground, but it happened to be exposed to the sun.I saw the sun for the first time, the scorching light blinded my eyes, burned my whole body, and turned into a ball of ashes in a blink of an eye... When I woke up from the nightmare, the whole building was plunged into darkness, filled with The pungent stench makes it difficult to breathe.Tao Ye and my mother were by my side, and we moved to the eighth floor together.They said the fuel was running out, the food and water were running out, and the cats and dogs were killing each other—Mum didn't dare to say any more.She thought I didn't know what death was, but I knew very well that death was turning into a corpse, unable to move or speak, unable to feel anything until completely disappearing from the world. I know death is approaching us. Still, the hope of survival lies overhead.If I'm willing to take them to the cinema on the ninth floor, maybe I can find new things, such as a miniature walkie-talkie.As long as the signal is sent out, the rescue team can confirm our position and rescue us earlier. However, I don't want to escape, I want to stay underground forever in the end of the world, and I won't tell them this secret. That night, my mother and Tao Ye no longer avoided in front of me. They hugged each other tightly, as if they were about to merge into one person.And I wisely pretended to be asleep. On the seventh day, in the early morning, my mother fell asleep, but Tao Ye didn't know where she went. I thought of my good friend Xiao Ming - don't let him starve to death!I picked up the last pack of Pocky and the last bottle of mineral water, and quietly went down to the model shop on the seventh floor. Yet as soon as I lit the darkened shop with my flashlight and scanned the models of cars and airplanes, I had a strange feeling.In an instant, a terrible picture flashed in front of my eyes, prompting me to turn around and flee outside. A hand has grabbed my ankle! I fell to the ground, and no matter how hard I pushed forward with both hands, I still felt that I was being dragged back by one hand-like the scene often seen in horror movies, where a child is dragged from the floor by a demon. "Help!" I couldn't help shouting loudly, and then I shouted again in Japanese. I didn't know where the flashlight flew to. In the darkness of the entire seventh floor, I was dragged to the deepest part of the model shop.Two hands grabbed me, from my legs to my waist, all the way up my back, and finally grabbed my neck. "Xiao Ming! Don't!" My throat was choked, and I couldn't make any sound. I could only call out to my best friend in my heart, begging him not to hurt me. Xiao Ming said that he was digging with a screwdriver every day. It turned out that it was not our fantasy of playing house, but the reality!He finally broke through the last brick, as he always said "Andy". I think he is going to kill me. Just when I was about to pass out, the flashlight came on, and then I heard a man's scream.Then, I was held in my mother's arms. She was trembling all over, touched my face in a panic, said "I'm sorry" repeatedly in Japanese, and at the same time stained my face with blood.I understood that it was neither my blood nor my mother's blood.Don't dare to look back at Xiao Ming's body, my best friend was killed by my mother to save my life. She carried me back to the shop on the eighth floor, no one came to help us, everyone just wanted to save their own lives.My mother didn't scold me like she used to. She probably felt that we were all dying and that we would never have a chance to love me again.She wiped the blood off my face and kissed my face with tears. We stayed up until night in the dark, cold, hungry, and stuffy, when we heard a loud noise upstairs. Tao Ye led us up to the cinema on the ninth floor, but the ceiling collapsed.Mom desperately covered me with her body, pressing me down almost intact. When I was buried and about to suffocate, I suddenly thought of Xiao Ming. I really wanted to have a straw delivered to my mouth, preferably a long Pocky. We were rescued. The only thing that makes me happy is that it is night instead of day. When I was rescued from the ground, what I saw was not the sun, but lights under the night sky.Mom did her best to cover my face so my skin wouldn't get irritated by the flash. In the hospital where we were treated, my mother and I were in the same ward.She specifically requested that thick black curtains be installed so that no sunlight could penetrate.A Chinese police officer named Ye Xiao came to inquire about the situation.Mom didn't tell the truth, and she didn't tell the truth about me.And I don't want them to know what happened underground, especially I don't want the police to know about Xiao Ming's existence. So, I quietly walked out of the ward without telling my mother, and told Police Officer Ye Xiao a bunch of nonsense about zombies killing people. Believe it or not, at least someone will. Today, at five in the morning, my grandparents flew from Japan to visit me.Of course they liked me very much, and I pretended to like them, even though I hated them both.Grandpa and grandma said something to mom.When they left the ward, Mom was like a statue, sitting motionless on the bed, her nails digging deep into the sheets. I know why she's so scared. Because, I know all my mother's secrets. Not just the Chinese named Tao Ye. There's an even bigger secret - she killed my dad.