Chapter 3 Week 2: Escape from Hong Kong

Kenny crawled desperately in the grass in the dark night and heavy rain, trying to escape from the wrecked and overturned car. After climbing for a long time, my physical strength and will finally collapsed.He lay on his stomach softly, buried his head and face in the haystack and wept bitterly. The whole body was wet, and it was impossible to distinguish whether it was rain, sweat or blood.The wound on the left upper arm and thigh that had been shot by the machine gun gave off a burning sensation—the pain in the body began to invade only after the adrenaline subsided. Kenny's mind went blank for a while.It wasn't until the tears were almost dry that he slowly organized, what happened thirty minutes ago...

All because of two weeks ago. On the evening of July 22, 201X, Hong Kong "shut down".Power and drinking water were suddenly cut off; all city functions were paralyzed; the government disappeared somewhere; looting began to appear in the market... Panic gradually spread. In the first week, there was no sign of recovery. Kenny, like many elites in Central, except for cursing the incompetence of the government and complaining about the losses caused by not being able to work, has no greater sense of crisis in his mind. "This is Hong Kong, it's impossible to just abandon it like this!"

For Kenny, this "impossibility" was more deeply imprinted in his mind.When you are an investment banker earning eight figures a year in commissions, how powerful and invincible you feel.In your world, absolutely nothing will happen beyond common sense. But a few days later, when Kenny found out that no amount of money could buy food and water, and he had to live in a mansion worth over 100 million yuan in West Kowloon without food, cracks began to appear in his original strong belief. ——Maybe, something more serious than we imagined really happened... Kenny, who has excellent grades since he was a child, sneers at all books that have no practical value. He never reads science fiction or movies. "Big Shutdown" doesn't remind him of zombies, aliens or nuclear war crises.All he knows is that there is a big problem in Hong Kong now.

No, I have to leave, I have to escape from Hong Kong.This was the most natural conclusion Kenny came to.Anyway, it's not the first time in his life.More than 30 years ago, when he was a primary school student, he and his family joined the immigrant army because of the future of Hong Kong.It sounds like "immigration", but it is actually not very different from fleeing. Kenny has no family yet, but his younger brother who lives downstairs in the same building is married and has a son. Kenny went down to find his brother and found that they had already packed their luggage.It turned out that everyone had the same idea.

"The airport and the terminal must not be in operation. Just drive back to the mainland by yourself!" My brother suggested. The four set off on Kenny's Chinese and Hong Kong license plate "Mering".While driving, Kenny was already thinking about which mainland friends he should ask for help.The communications in Hong Kong have all been cut off, and now I can’t get in touch at all, so I have to wait until I pass the customs... When the car was halfway, it began to rain heavily.There are no street lights, and the road visibility at night is very low.It shouldn't be far from the pass, but Kenny hasn't seen the lights yet.

——Did the blackout even affect the other side of the border? The nephew had been sticking his face to the window and looking out, then suddenly said: "Dad, there are many empty cars..." "My lord is already very annoying, don't talk nonsense!" The sister-in-law scolded him. At this time, in the dark distance ahead, Kenny vaguely saw the flashing light spots.The car windows received penetrating blows one after another. Before Kenny knew what was going on, the blood sprayed by the brother sitting next to him had splashed on his face. He turned the steering wheel instinctively.The tire lost control due to wet slippery, shoveled on the grass beside the road, and flipped sideways.The violent shooting still did not let go of "Ming Zhi", which lasted for about ten seconds until the car remained silent.

It took a few seconds for Kenny to be sure that he survived miraculously.The younger brother, his wife and nephew have all been shot into a humanoid shape.He resisted the huge mental shock, slowly climbed out of the smoking car, and kept crawling in the dark grass, desperately staying away from death and danger... Kenny rested now, and staggered to his feet.A very strong feeling of suffocation flooded my heart.Not only because of the tragic loss of a loved one, but also because of knowing a shocking fact: not only is Hong Kong at a standstill internally, but the border is also blocked!And use such means!It is a complete "shutdown"!

"No! There must be a way...you must go...you must live..." Kenny whimpered and rummaged through his pockets for what was left.The wallet is still there, with three black credit cards and a large stack of banknotes inside. It is usually a talisman, but it has become a complete waste at this time.Wet rotting cigars and matches.and also…… Kenny touched something in his pocket, his eyes lit up.He trudged to the side of the road, sat and waited. After about an hour, after the rain stopped, car lights appeared at the end of the road. Kenny rushed out and used his body to stop the seven-person car that was going to the border.

"Don't go! Shoot and kill as soon as you get close! The border is closed! I have—" Kenny's body was hit by a seven-person car.The car didn't slow down at all, and was still heading towards the checkpoint. Dying Kenny was lying on the side of the road, still clutching the thing in his hand, which was the key to a yacht. Kenny's whole body seemed to be falling apart.At that moment, he didn't feel any pain, but imagined that he was in the middle of the sea under the sun, driving away freely on the yacht—although, the yacht was not actually his, but was just lent to him by a big guest.

Moments before he died, Kenny heard the distant barrage of machine gun fire for the second time. Two days later, Kenny, the big guest, tried to escape the port with his family on a yacht. As a result, just before entering the open sea, the boat was blown to pieces and sank into the deep seabed. Hong Kong has become an inescapable prison.