Doomsday Allure

The weather forecast for the past two years has basically no other effect except cheating.

Before Wei Buzheng went out to deliver the goods, he clearly reported that there would be no precipitation in the whole of Wuza province within the foreseeable half month, but on the way back, there was heavy rain, road collapse, landslides, mudslides, and all kinds of accidents happened one after another. , so when Wei Buzheng returned to Jiman, it was already 30:[-] pm on NO.[-], a whole week later than the expected return time.

He returned to the unit exhausted, and when he parked the car and waited for the electric retractable door to open, he saw the eye-catching big red paper on the bulletin board.

He has good eyesight, and from a distance of thirty meters, he can still read the writing on the big red paper clearly:

notification

After repeated research and discussion, the company leaders decided that the following employees will stop working from October 10st, and they can go through the resignation procedures from the day the notice is issued. The salary and bonus will be calculated according to full attendance this month:

Wu Yida, Luo Yubo, Guo Ming, Liwei, Indisputable

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There are about forty people on the list, and seeing his own name at a glance, Wei Buzheng no longer pays attention to the list, but skips directly to the final part of the explanation: After the above-mentioned personnel see the notice, please go to the financial room to settle the salary and bonus as soon as possible And the dismissal compensation, the settlement will be completed before September 9, and the overdue will not wait.

After the salary and compensation are settled, please hand over the dormitory key to the company office within one week, thank you for your cooperation!

Personnel Department of Shengya International Trading Company

2 ** 8.9.20

In other words, the second day after Wei Buzheng escorted the car to deliver the goods, the list of dismissed personnel had already been decided, and Wei Buzheng knew that the company had a third layoff plan, which was on the day he went to deliver the goods.

The leaders of the company have really thoroughly implemented the vigorous and resolute work style.

Thinking so, Wei Buzheng drove the car into the parking lot without any fluctuation on his face, and went directly to the office next to him to hand in the car keys.

Ignoring the sympathetic, regretful or gloating gazes of several people in the office, he put his backpack on his shoulders and ran to the fourth floor of Building [-] where the financial office is located.

Chief Luo Ke of the Finance Office is in his 40s, holding a teacup and sighing about his precarious position. When he saw Wei Buzheng coming in, he sighed and opened the drawer: "Xiao Wei is back? Sit down."

Wei Buzheng nodded, pulled a chair and sat down.

He didn't talk much in the first place, and when he encountered this kind of thing today, he didn't even want to open his mouth.

Chief Luo put two kraft paper bags and salary slips in front of him, pointed to the particularly bulging file bag and said, "Here are your salary and bonus for this month, as well as your quarterly bonus for the third quarter."

Then, he pointed to the relatively deflated file bag: "This is the compensation for dismissal, [-], put it in your bag, the most for others is [-], your section chief feels sorry for you, Manager Luo also feels sorry, and gave you special approval."

According to normal circumstances, Wei Buzheng's dismissal compensation for three months should be [-].

"Thank you." Wei Buzheng signed the salary statement, opened the envelope and threw it in without opening the envelope and file bag, "I'm leaving."

Chief Luo stood up to see him off: "Xiao Wei, Manager Luo said that if the situation gets better, he will be the first to contact you when you come back to work."

Wei Buzheng smiled, but didn't answer.

Zhongzhou is four thousand kilometers away from here, once he leaves, it is impossible for him to come back.

Walking out of the financial room, he saw two young men, a man and a woman, standing at the entrance of the personnel department. The girl's eyes turned red when she saw Wei Buzheng. When Wei Buzheng walked up to them, the girl whispered: "Xiaowei, I heard My uncle said, Manager Luo really wants to keep you, but if you can't, you should go find him."

Wei Buzheng smiled: "No, I just want to go back to my hometown."

The young man said: "Now the whole world is like this. You have some qualifications in our company. When you go back to your hometown, you have nothing. Can you find a job?"

Wei Buzheng said: "Anyone who has hands and feet will never die of hunger. Sister Liu, Brother Su, goodbye. If you have a chance to go to Zhongzhou, welcome to my house."

Xiao Liu wiped away his tears and nodded: "Okay, just don't forget us when the time comes."

Brother Su sighed: "Then take care of yourself."

They are not in the same office as Wei Buzheng, but they have been working as colleagues for several years. Wei Buzheng is righteous and capable. Friends are very uncomfortable.

The staff dormitory and the company are in a large yard, but there is a wall in the middle, connected by a small door.

The dormitory building is an old three-story red brick building, all of which have a layout of one bedroom, one living room and one bathroom. They live in single workers like Wei Buzheng who are originally from other places. Wei Buzheng's dormitory is on the west end of the second floor.

There are twenty dormitories on one floor. More than four years ago, when Wei Buzheng came to Shengya for an internship, the building was as lively as a market when it was off-duty time.

The year before last, the company fired a group of people, and the building became quieter; last year, another group was fired, and the building became deserted; today, it feels like a ghost building.

Wei Buzheng entered the house, tapped the switch, and there was electricity.

In the summer five years ago, almost all types of natural disasters experienced in human history occurred simultaneously all over the world, such as earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanic eruptions, typhoons, torrential rains, floods, forest fires, etc., Huaxia Kingdom Earthquakes, rainstorms and floods have occurred in neighboring countries. Uza province has experienced heavy rain for two consecutive weeks, and a 7.6-magnitude earthquake occurred in the central region. Since then, power outages have become the norm.

Uza Province is located in the northwest plateau, with plenty of sunlight and abundant wind resources. In the past 30 years, the main sources of electricity supply have been solar and wind power generation. However, after the global catastrophe five years ago, no matter what kind of material All of the solar power generation facilities wear out very quickly, and it is not a surprise but a miracle that they can last for more than one year.

The fate of wind power facilities is even worse. It can be used for half a year is the limit, so now it is rare to use wind power to generate electricity.

The traditional coal power generation has shrunk with the depletion of coal resources as early as 30 years ago. Now, the few remaining coal power plants only supply the capital and very few cities with important military and industrial facilities.

Nuclear power generation has almost become a banned word now. As long as it appears in the public media, it will inevitably attract criticism from the public. The huge disaster caused by the simultaneous leakage of several famous nuclear power plants in the world 20 years ago is still vivid in my mind. There are more than [-] million people in the world. Human beings are directly disabled and deformed by nuclear leakage, and countless people suffer from disabilities and malignant diseases caused indirectly. Deformed people caused by nuclear radiation can be seen everywhere in all regions of the world. It is impossible to eliminate it in the foreseeable future. Therefore, even if the economic development stagnates due to insufficient electricity, the governments of various countries have not dared to continue to build nuclear power plants despite the displeasure of the world.

In the past hundreds of years, most areas of human society have to rely on electricity as energy for basic operations. The serious shortage of electricity is one of the direct reasons why a large number of enterprises have poor performance and have to lay off a large number of employees.

Wei Buzheng threw his bag on the sofa, stripped himself naked and walked into the bathroom.

Half an hour later, he came out of the bathroom, refreshed, his hair and body were dry, he threw himself on the bed, pulled the quilt away, and went to sleep.

Four years ago, he graduated from the Vehicle Engineering Department of Wuda University and came to Shengya International Trading Company, which is located in a small border town in the northwest of Huaxia Country. Including the time of internship, Wei Buzheng has been with the company for more than four years.

He has outstanding ability, hard work and hard work. In the first year of his employment, he took the top spot in the company's trading performance, and has maintained this honor ever since.

His salary has risen the fastest, and his bonus has ranked first in the company for four years.

However, compared with a 70-year-old company and local people with backgrounds in the company, his qualifications are nothing. He has now been fired, while several local peers with much lower salaries and bonuses than him are still stable. sit on post.

Disappointment is inevitable, but Wei Buzheng is not particularly angry or unwilling. He has done a good job, and the company has not treated him badly. He has graduated for a little over four years. He sends money to his grandparents on time every month, and he has saved more than 100 Ten thousand.

And since five years ago, large-scale natural disasters of a scale and type beyond the imagination of experts occurred frequently all over the world. Similar things are happening in every place he knows. The dozen or so people who stayed with him in Uza A classmate, he was the only one left last year.

At the moment when jobs are gold-plated and silver-plated, it is unbelievable in the eyes of many people that he, a foreigner without any background, can persist in a company like Shengya until today before being fired.

Compared with the friendship of an ordinary outsider, family affection and interests must be more important, Wei Buzheng can think about it.

A night without dreams.

When I woke up in the morning, the power went out, I washed up briefly and was about to go down to eat, when I suddenly remembered that I had been fired.

Wei Buzheng put down his room card, put his hands in his pockets, and leaned on the desk to look at his room.

All furniture and electrical appliances except computers and mobile phones are provided by the company, and only two sets of bedding and clothes belong to him.

But even so, it would not be easy to take them all away. The shipping fee is too expensive. He will definitely not be able to find a job for a long time in the future. He doesn't want to waste a penny.

But if you don't take it away, you will need a sum of money to buy it after returning to Zhongzhou.

Quickly weighing the pros and cons in his mind, Wei Buzheng opened the closet, rummaged through it, picked out a few sets of clothes that he thought were the most worth bringing and threw them on the bed, folded them and put them in a travel bag.

Just as he put the two leather jackets in, he suddenly heard a strange "rustling" sound outside the window.

He ran over and opened the window, only to find that it wasn't raining, but... blowing sand?Or... a sandstorm?

Wei Buzheng was very puzzled.

This can not blame him for making a fuss, because this phenomenon should not belong to Jiman, or Uza Province.

Due to the blind pursuit of economic development in Huaxia country in the past few years, the environmental damage has been very serious. Although the whole country has actively responded to the call of the country in the past 30 years and planted trees to remedy the situation, the apparent environment has improved greatly, but the evil consequences that have accumulated for hundreds of years must be fully digested. It will take quite a while.

However, Uza Province is far away from the center of economic development, and it is one of the most economically backward regions in Huaxia Country. He didn't return to Zhongzhou or other economically developed areas in the inland. Apart from his own very special reasons, there was also a factor of being greedy for the beautiful scenery and good air here.

With Jiman as the center, within a radius of 60 kilometers, the forest coverage rate exceeds 1000%. On the opposite side of the border, Sam Country is close to Huaxia Country, with a million square kilometers and the Uqila Mountains in the south, are completely covered in forests. Among them, the desert closest to Jiman is [-] kilometers away to the west. Wei Buzheng has never heard of sand blowing weather in Jiman, and it is so severe. According to his visual inspection, the visibility outside is at most [-] meters.

An ominous premonition suddenly surged in his heart, Wei Buzheng decided to pack up and leave quickly, but just as he lifted his foot to go back to the bed, an indescribable feeling started from his lower abdomen and spread to his whole body in an instant. Passed a scene that he was very familiar with.

He didn't care about closing the window, he stepped back on the bed, sat down against the head of the bed, closed his eyes, adjusted his breathing rate, took a deep breath, took a deep breath, didn't think about anything, it will pass soon, soon...

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I don't know how long it took, the weird feeling of being hot and cold, starving and overfed, and making him weak at the same time gradually subsided, and the intermittent landscape images in my mind didn't know when. also dissipated.

Wei Buzheng was like a sick man tied to the back of a car and dragged to run a standard marathon. He was sore all over. He lay on the bed, struggling to breathe.

He glanced at the quartz clock hanging above the TV, the hour and minute hands coincided in the middle of 6 and 7.

This is absolute nonsense.

He remembers very clearly that when he got up it was [-]:[-], and when he was folding his clothes and suddenly got up to look out the window, at most half an hour had passed, and looking out the window now, it was still abnormally dim in the sand blowing weather, Rather than the real feeling of dusk or night, so it is absolutely impossible for him to experience a bout of illness for nearly twelve hours.

He raised his left hand with great difficulty and looked at his watch. The hour and minute hands seemed to be participating in the Olympic trapeze contest, each running faster than the other.

Wei Buzheng let go of his hands and decided not to worry about time anymore. Anyway, he doesn't have to go to work now, and he still has seven days to use this dormitory, so he might as well just sleep.

Because of some distinctive features, he was criticized by the people around him since he was a child, and he has cultivated a temper that is not to be surprised or humiliated.

As for the symptoms just now, since he went to Uda to go to college eight years ago, he has had them from time to time, and he is used to it.

It’s just that the frequency of his seizures in the past was very low, once every few months, and the degree was not so severe. The weird feeling usually disappeared automatically after about half an hour, and he didn’t feel any discomfort after it disappeared. On the contrary, sometimes He will also feel very comfortable, the relaxed and refreshing feeling of soaking in hot water after taking a sauna.

But since five years ago, during the earthquake, he had a big seizure, and it has become more frequent since then, three or four times a month.

The attack process is also significantly prolonged, each time taking one or two hours, and after each attack, the body's sense of comfort is more obvious.

The strange traits he had since he was a child have also become stronger with the increase in the number of seizures, but they are still useless. If outsiders know about him, they will only think him weird or ominous.

Because I have experienced it many times before, Wei Buzheng didn't take it as a big deal this time. Isn't it just that the seizure was more severe than usual, and after the seizure, it was not comfortable but exhausted?It doesn't matter, as soon as you wake up, everything will pass.

With such a cold and open-minded mood, Wei Buzheng soon fell asleep.

The landscape image that would appear in his mind every time he had a seizure reappeared in his dream, and he floated like a hot air balloon over the endless, unbelievably beautiful garden until he woke up again.

Ordinarily, having this kind of dream, people should be more tired after waking up, but Wei Buzheng felt refreshed all over, feeling as light as a swallow, much stronger than the comfort he felt after his illness before.

He got up happily and went to the window.

After the attack yesterday, he was too tired to move at all, so the windows were kept open, but he didn't feel cold. This is the Northwest Plateau, and this season, the temperature at night is only about five degrees.

There is no sand and dust in the room, and it is still as clean as before. The sky has returned to Jiman's original blue sky, like white clouds, but there are still thick dust and sand left in the houses, trees and some corners.

Wei Buzheng didn't feel hungry, he went to wash up out of habit, and after he came out, he continued to pack according to yesterday's steps.

The 75-liter large-capacity field travel backpack quickly emptied more than half of the clothes in the hanging closet, and the 10-liter small carry-on bag still had room for wallets, razors, thermos cups and chargers.

With a small bag on his chest and a big bag behind him, he stepped back out of the room, made sure that no important items were missing, put his baseball cap on his head, turned and went downstairs.

At the entrance of the dormitory building, he met the director of the company's office and handed him the key directly. At the same time, he learned from him that today is October 10th.

Wei Buzheng was taken aback.

This means that his seizure time hit a record high this time, and he spent at least five days completely unconscious.

The reason why he thinks so is because he doesn't believe that he will sleep for more than one day after the attack. He usually suffers from back pain after sleeping for more than ten hours, but now he feels refreshed and can't be better.

This is not good news.

It was as if he fell into a coma suddenly, and it lasted for several days. This time, he happened to be alone in the dormitory, and there was no accident. What if he had an attack outside one day?Also, if he had such an attack after returning to his hometown, wouldn't he scare his grandparents to death?

But it's useless to worry about this now, and he can't solve it, can he?

Wei Buzheng simply put the matter behind him, walked out of the company, and came to the bank where he usually deposits money.

The bank also has no electricity.

This is why many units have changed the original salary bonus directly into the bank. The reason for the convenient and safe operation of the card is to start distributing cash again. The power outage has caused many card readers to be unusable. If you do not bring cash, you may enter the third party. I couldn't buy anything in the mall five times.

The staff handled the deposit for Wei Buzheng by handwriting.

After putting away the deposit slip, Wei Buzheng came out of the bank, hailed a taxi, and went straight to the coach station.