Screaming Cycle

Ji Tuan slammed into a violent spirit and woke up from his coma.

When he opened his eyes, he felt that the surrounding light was very dim, just like the sky before a storm.

Perhaps it was not yet fully awake, Ji Tuan only felt that there seemed to be a swarm of bees dancing in his head, his ears were buzzing, and most of his vision was still blurred.

For a short while, he thought that he had just finished a big game, and he was too tired to sleep, but soon he realized that things were far less simple than he thought.

Because Ji Tuan smelled it, there was a smell of sulfur in the air.

He raised his hand and rubbed his eyes vigorously.

Then, he found himself lying on his back in an unfamiliar alley. As far as his eyes were, there were two dark gray high walls with a leaden sky in the middle, and there were still shards of ashes falling from mid-air like snow flakes. One piece fell on his face, with a residual temperature that was several degrees higher than that of human skin.

-Fuck!

Ji Xuan was completely scared and awakened in an instant.

He rolled over and sat up, then jumped up again, looking around vigilantly.

When he moved, the ashes that fell on his body fluttered up, choking him into a cough.

-What exactly is going on! ?

Ji Lu wondered if he was crazy.

He patted off the dust all over his head, while observing the surrounding environment.

At this moment, he was in a narrow dark alley that only allowed two people to pass side by side.

Whether it is the walls or the ground, there is thick ash everywhere, and in the airtight sky with lead clouds, there are constantly falling like snow flakes of ash with temperature.

Ji Shu's eyes widened.

In a trance, he thought he was dreaming, or he was playing an ancient horror game called "Silent Hill".

But the lingering sulphur smell at the end of the nose and the unique rotten egg smell of hydrogen sulfide told him that this overly realistic sensory experience cannot be simulated by any dream or virtual four-dimensional game.

However, he clearly remembered that he should be dead.

Any flesh and blood body, after encountering such a serious maglev rail car accident, should at least break their legs and hands, and remain severely injured, even if they did not die by chance. After being rescued, they should lie down in the ICU for ten and a half months.

But the fact is that now, not to mention the fatal wound on his body, he hasn't even scratched the oily skin.

This is really weird.

Ji Yu looked down at his dress again.

I wore a set of summer sportswear that was standard on the team. It was clean and free of blood and stains. On my feet were the newly bought sports shoes. It took him a whole month of subsidy. The bow bag, together with the baby bows and arrows in it, are resting on the foot of the wall.

And the only unfamiliar object in his whole body that does not belong to him is a watch on the left bowl.

Ji Shu raised his left hand and studied the watch carefully.

The watch is completely dark. The dial is a long and narrow LCD screen about two centimeters wide. There is no time or text displayed on it. There is only a player's progress bar. The small triangle representing the progress is at the starting point on the far left of the screen. Flashes once every second.

He dragged his finger on the LCD screen, and the small triangles didn't move at all. Obviously, they couldn't be controlled by the touch screen.

"What is this?"

Ji Shu murmured softly.

Then he turned his wrist a few times up and down, and found that although the strap was slender, it turned out to be a complete metal ring, which fits tightly on his skin, and couldn’t find any openings or buckles at all. In short, he would have no idea how to remove it for a while.

For some reason, when he saw this watch, he had a very bad feeling in his heart.

"...This is... too weird, right?"

Ji Lu touched his watch, then squeezed his cheek severely.

"hiss!"

When this paw went down, he took a breath and gritted his teeth in pain.

That's right, this kind of pain that really falls on the flesh is absolutely true! More real than pearls!

He had to accept a cruel reality-he was now in an inexplicable place, the air was full of sulphur smell, and the ashes would fall down in midair.

The most crucial point is this place, he had "seen" it shortly before the accident!

…

Ji Xuan pressed his forehead hard to force himself to calm down, then raised his head, fixedly looking at the ashes dancing in the sky, and pondered for a moment in silence.

He put forward a lot of speculations about the current situation in his heart, and then immediately found out the unreasonable points, and rejected them all, but he could not find a possibility that could convince him.

He didn't raise his hand to brush his bangs until his head was stained again with a thin layer of ash, then bent over and carried his bow bag, opened his legs, and walked towards the exit of the alley.

—In short, no matter what, it won’t help to continue standing here stupidly, just walk around and see the situation!

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After leaving the alley, Ji Xuan quickly realized that his situation was far more treacherous than he expected.

He found himself wandering in a city he knew well.

This is his training place for the World Youth Championship, a large city on the east coast of China.

He can easily recognize the iconic buildings in the city, such as the sailing hotel with a dolphin statue in front of the door he just passed a few minutes ago.

But this city was completely different from what he remembered.

An endless stream of ashes fell from the sky, completely covering the entire city.

The streets, houses, green plants and even vehicles parked on the side of the road are all covered with gray or gray-black debris. Everything outside has lost its original color. As far as the eye can see, there is only a single and absurd thing. Dark gray.

The season thrush walked slowly along the street.

Every step he took, he would leave a footprint on the dust, and then new dust would fall on it.

The sky is very dark, and the visibility is very low with the occlusion of falling dust.

With the eyesight 2.0 of Ji Tuan's naked eyes, it is impossible to distinguish between people and animals 100 meters away, and it is difficult to see the outline of things thousands of meters away.

However, what made him more frightened than these was that he couldn't find anyone in a big city.

No, to be precise, let alone humans, not even a cat or a dog.

Ji Tuan became more flustered as he walked.

He felt that the whole city seemed to have become a dead city, except for him, there was no living thing.

His mobile phone is still in his bow bag, with one-third of the battery left.

He walked all the way, trying to find signals in various open areas, but it was useless at all. Not to mention telephone or network signals, even the built-in offline navigation system cannot be used.

There is no way, Ji Tuan can only rely on his memory to move towards the center of the city.

After about half an hour, he estimated that he should have walked almost two kilometers, and in his vision, there was still a deadly gray street scene.

-Where are the people in this city? Where did everything go?

This question emerged in Ji Lu's heart for the 101st time.

This situation reminded him of the first time he went to Dongying to participate in an international competition two years ago. After the game, he and his teammates played around the participating cities.

At that time, he visited an active volcano in the area. When taking the ropeway car past the fire vent, he smelled the same strange and recognizable smell of sulfur and hydrogen sulfide gas.

Moreover, looking at the sky covered by the lead cloud and the ashes dancing all over the sky, Ji Tuan felt that he was as if he had come to Pompeii, which was destroyed by the legendary volcanic eruption, with only endless ashes in his eyes.

But where is the volcano near this eastern coastal city?

Although Ji Lu is a sports specialty student, his performance in cultural courses may not be considered as good, but he feels that his geography is not so bad that he doesn't even have such basic common sense.

-and many more…

Ji Lu jumped in his heart.

—If these are really volcanic ash...

Ji Yu stretched out his hand, caught a piece of ash that was large as a fingernail, squeezed it on his fingertips and rubbed it, carefully feeling its texture and temperature.

The gray matter is not delicate, it can feel irregular sand-like particles, and it does carry residual temperature, and the temperature in the center is higher than the surface.

—Assuming...just assuming...

He said to himself in his heart.

—Assuming that these are really volcanic ash, would it really replicate the tragedy of Pompeii two thousand years ago, when the people in the city were either evacuated or killed by the poisonous gas and hot ash from the volcanic eruption?

Thinking of this, Ji Yu couldn't help turning around in a circle, looking around vigilantly.

He was really afraid that he would see a corpse lying down on the roadside, covered with solidified mud shells.

Unfortunately, Ji Tuan still underestimated the horror of the city.

Because, he soon saw something that he couldn't understand at all.

That is a dress.

To be correct, it was a very ordinary, short-sleeved dress with chiffon texture, red floral background, wide skirt, and a cat-shaped pin on the neckline. In the midsummer of every year, many young girls always dress like this on the road and become a bright landscape in the city.

There is nothing fuss about a skirt.

The strange thing is that it is just such an ordinary skirt, but it is like a flower covered in ashes, scattered loosely on the street.

Ji Shun slowly approached, squatted down, then stretched out his hand, gently pulled the collar of the red dress, and carefully pulled up a corner, as if he was touching a time bomb that was counting down.

Then in the next second, he jumped up like he had stepped on the switch, let go, and took three steps back in a row.

Large drops of cold sweat slowly slid down his forehead, and he exhausted the endurance of his whole body to control his impulse to scream.

Because, just now, through the neckline of the dress, he saw the shoulder straps of young women, lined with vests.

-what does this mean! ?

-what does this mean! ?

-what does this mean! ?

There was confusion in Ji Shu's mind, as if there were many voices roaring in his ears, all asking the same question repeatedly.

If there is only one skirt, he can still speculate that someone accidentally left it on the street while evacuating the city in a hurry.

But what if there is a vest for the base in the skirt?

He shuddered involuntarily.

In fact, an extremely shocking guess has emerged in Ji Shu's mind. It is unreasonable and unthinkable, but it is most in line with the current situation.

In order to confirm his guess, he had to bite the bullet and stepped forward, once again reaching out to the stacked dresses on the ground.

And this time, Ji Tuan lifted off the hem of the tiers of skirts.

Then he saw a pair of white ladies' stiletto sandals that were covered by the skirt just now.

-Fuck!

At this moment, except for the exclamation in his eyes that was squeezed back into his throat, Ji Lu didn't know how he could react.

His guess is likely to come true!

This is not some clothes that are randomly discarded on the street!

It was their owner who suddenly disappeared without warning when wearing them on his body. The flesh disperses like smoke and dust, leaving only an empty dress here!

Ji Xuan loosened her skirt, stood up, took two steps back, and then turned around in circles a few times like an ant on a hot pot.

He always thinks that his psychological quality is quite good. The more the pressure is, the more calm I can stay, and I rarely get confused because of accidents.

However, in the past nineteen years of his life, all the major transitions he has experienced are normal, and it definitely does not include the fact that he opened his eyes and found himself in an empty city buried in ashes, still A dress that had lost the body supporting it was found on the street.

—No, wait, this kind of thing is totally unreasonable, right?

While trying to persuade himself, Ji Tuan knelt down for the third time to check the red floral skirt.

After having the experience of the previous two sessions and working **** psychological construction, this time he appeared to be quite calm.

In addition to shoes, he found a small handbag under the skirt, which contained only a projection mobile phone and personal IC terminal, as well as some small items that girls often bring when they go out.

At this moment, Ji Yu had to accept the fact that his guess just now was probably true.

After all, no one would have to completely take off all his clothes and shoes when escaping, and even the handbag and the documents in it would be discarded.

So, what happened to the owner of this suit?

The author has something to say:

The background is set for the near future twenty or thirty years later, infinite flow, and the main line of thriller and suspense reasoning, there will be a few horror elements, don't be afraid! (Hey)