Age of Behemoths

Even at this time when most people are not working, as a young man who has not yet graduated from university and only has work experience like grocery shopping, it is not easy for Shen Yifei to find a job.So, although the fast food restaurant is very busy and tiring, and there is always danger of splashing oil on his arms, but in the case of urgent need for labor, he can work here quickly, and the salary is still good —At least twice as rich as normal.More importantly, Shen Yifei met a special person here...

Even if it is just a fast food restaurant, just a place where people eat and make noise, in this special period, it is still full of people's despair and fear.

Crying or yelling are just the most common and harmless manifestations.Shen Yifei once saw a person who ate a hamburger and forced himself to death. This situation is interesting to say, but if it appears in film and television works, it will only make people think it is a joke.But when you witness it with your own eyes in reality, watching the person lying on the ground vomiting and convulsing a little bit towards death, you really can't feel it is ridiculous at all.

But there are always some positive ones, so that the people around them will not be so negative, such as...their manager Qin Jixun.

Of course, Qin Jixun is not the kind of hot-blooded and active male protagonist in comics. Even when he saw him for the first time, he would think he was the kind of cold and arrogant elite who would make people want to stay away from him. The manager is called Qin Jixun, 28 He is a little taller than Shen Yifei in [-], and the summer uniform of a striped T-shirt and black trousers in a fast food restaurant shows the effect of his height, legs, wide shoulders and narrow waist. Can make people fascinated.He seldom speaks, and Shen Yifei has never seen him smile. His eyebrows are sharp, his eyes are slightly European-style deep-set, his nose is very straight, and the shape of his lips always makes people feel that he is eating something very bitter. s things.

The young female colleagues who persist in working in the store are almost all for him, and now a young male colleague Shen Yifei is added...

On Shen Yifei's second day working in a fast food restaurant, a customer suddenly picked up a plate and beat people around without saying a word.Shen Yifei was bending over to wipe the table. Although he heard someone screaming behind him, before he could stand up and turn around to see what happened, Qin Jixun had already stood up, and his face was bruised by the plate.

It was such an extremely bloody and monotonous process, but when this kind of thing happened to me, it was really very difficult to maintain a normal mind... After that, the armed police patrolling outside came in and took away the crazy person. The manager, who was still a little dizzy from the filming, had his heart beating like a galloping wild horse.

Leaning against the wall of the narrow small kitchen, waiting for the microwave oven to spin, Shen Yifei remembered Qin Jixun's voice on the phone when he asked for leave this morning: "If you are sick, take a good rest at home, don't worry."

It was so simple that it was just a formulaic care, which successfully made Shen Yifei, who was shivering and had a headache at that time, temporarily forget all the discomfort and foolishness.If Qin Jixun said a few more words, Shen Yifei might not need to see a doctor.The second call he received when he came back, Qin Jixun's initiative to call, was an unexpected surprise for Shen Yifei.

He used his tongue to move the big lump of sugar on the left to the right, and he could see the small bump on his cheek from left to right.

Compared with others, the 22-year-old first love is obviously a bit late.Not to mention facing the threat of the end of the world, Shen Yifei couldn't even muster up the courage to confess like those female colleagues.Because their confession failed, they can still keep their jobs and continue to yearn for that person, but they can't be lovers, friends, or colleagues.

But from Shen Yifei's same-sex confession, if it fails (it is inevitable), then what awaits him is only hatred and alienation.He will be forced to leave, and Qin Jixun will probably not be willing to stay with him any longer for an hour longer.Shen Yifei himself didn't want his favorite person to suffer harassment from a person who hates the same sex in the last part of his life.

Shen Yifei is not the kind of person who likes to get it. If he can find someone he likes before the end of the world, he can often see him and work with him. Occasionally, the two of them can have some physical contact and exchange of body temperature (only occasionally Passing by...), he felt that he was lucky enough, and there was no need to ask for more.

Holding the hamburger and returning to his bedroom (which is also the living room, living room, dining room, and others), Shen Yifei felt his head start to feel uncomfortable again.But it was no longer pain, but dizzy and heavy.Shaking his head, putting the hamburger on the bedside table, Shen Yifei picked up the phone again—it's a pity that he didn't understand the recording function of his phone, otherwise, he would definitely record the manager's voice and listen to it repeatedly.

Smacking his lips, the sugar had completely melted in his mouth, with only a little taste of chocolate, and Shen Yifei felt that he was a bit perverted.He put down his phone, grabbed the remote control, and decided to find something to distract himself.

Satellite photos are being broadcast on TV, and the narrator is explaining to the TV audience the changes brought about by the eruption-not just geographically, but also politically.

The announcer's narration is heavy and sad: "From the image alone, the ground is covered by large expanses of tumbling crimson lava. This is a strange sight that shows the magnificence of nature. But everything it brings, at least for human beings and the earth It is not beautiful for the creatures on the earth. It has destroyed a superpower that has established a high degree of civilization, and may destroy other civilizations at any time. Large areas of forests have been destroyed, animals have lost their habitats, and humans have lost home……"

This program aroused Shen Yifei's interest. At least this is what he heard. It was the only time that Chaoting TV used the word "destroy" when talking about the United States in a regular program.Prior to this, the only thing involving the United States on TV was disaster relief, disaster relief, and disaster relief.

The images change, becoming the Pentagon and the Empire State Building, and the narration continues.

"Even if the Pentagon and the Empire State Building are still intact, the country is falling apart, and more and more of the country will be classified as 'uninhabitable' areas, and this area is still expanding. Even if the Yellowstone volcano stops erupting immediately, It will take several years or even more than ten years for this place to return to a state where human beings can survive. People are trying to escape here by all means, and all countries are also trying to find ways to rescue more refugees as soon as possible..."

The image changed again: ports, airports, and the roads leading to them, filled with panicked crowds.

Regarding disaster relief, the Internet has gone crazy, but what people are interested in is not how many civilians were rescued, but other people who were "rescued": corrupt officials who absconded with money, national separatists, traitors, cult members, Every country has people who hid in the United States to escape the sanctions of their own countries.But now, this place is no longer a safe haven.Their original motherland waited with its net open, and it didn't take much effort to let them fall into the net themselves.

Occasionally, there will be some small impulses between countries, but in most cases, the person you want is replaced by the person I want-although the country has not announced it to the public, even ordinary people can understand it. way.

In addition, among all those who can get help, scientific and technological workers are given priority.This is like when Germany was defeated and the former Soviet Union disintegrated, all countries ran to dig scientists.

Shen Yifei ate both hamburgers, and the previous bottle of icicle mineral water had completely turned into ice water, which was just for him to drink medicine, add water and cool down.

Feng Shui takes turns, the emperor takes turns, and history is so uncertain.

The show continues: "The world is in financial turmoil as the dollar, once the world's currency, becomes worthless overnight. The political order also faces a volcanic eruption that spreads across US military bases around the world..."

Throwing the empty mineral water bottle into the trash can, Shen Yifei turned around and turned off the TV, perhaps because of the effect of the medicine, he was getting sleepier and sleepier.He put the phone next to the pillow, and said to Qin Jixun, see you tomorrow. Shen Yifei lay down on the bed and closed his eyes. When he wakes up tomorrow, he can go to work and see the manager.

Shen Yifei closed his eyes, his consciousness entered a relatively static stage, and his perception of the outside world became dull.But the world outside of him will not become static.The weather is getting hotter and people are sweating and feeling excited and impulsive at the same time.

In the dark underground, more mosquitoes took off, and they became bigger and uglier.Rats, or what looked like rats, prowled the streets, pigeons in coops died in their nests, and out of their eggs hatched strange creatures.Many people were admitted to the hospital with headaches, and the doctors thought it was an epidemic of encephalitis.A very small number of people perceive something, but many people still don't know anything.

——Besides magma and volcanic ash, there are other things brought out by the Yellowstone volcano from tens or even hundreds of kilometers underground.

But this time, when humans realized what was happening, it was also too late...

This world, without Shen Yifei noticing it, began to undergo earth-shaking changes!

The green ferns broke through the asphalt pavement, and even smashed the bricks of the sidewalk, covering the ground, and the city disappeared on the surface of the earth, replaced by a piece of natural green.The weather got hotter, but instead of flooding the land, sea levels dropped slightly, as the poles got colder and the air was several times more humid than before.

Animals—of course not rabbits or deer, but those animals that have died out, even only appeared in human imagination, followed Green into the city.There are also those "things" that originally lived in the city, together with the wild beasts, and began to pursue human flesh and blood, after all, human beings are such easy prey.

People used to think that they ruled the nature, but when they faced with all this now, they could only choose to leave!