The Pentium Era - South to North

Zhang Chen was embarrassed to go to the bathroom to wash his face and brush his teeth. He returned to the room, picked up his backpack and the bag of video tapes, and hurried out.

Out of the corner of his eye, he noticed that Gu Shufang was still standing at the door of the office, looking at him quietly. Zhang Chen did not dare to look over there anymore. He hurriedly ran downstairs like a thief.

Zhang Chen went to the video rental store and returned the video. The boss didn't seem to believe it and asked him, "Have you watched it all?"

Zhang Chen said he had read them all.

The boss was going to return the deposit to him, but Zhang Chen said no, I would like to borrow it tonight. By the way, what time will you close the house?

"One o'clock, two o'clock if you're late," the boss said to him.

"So late?"

"Of course, if I stay open until dawn, there will be people there."

When they arrived at the office, both Liu Ligan and Xiao Wu were there. Zhang Chen asked Liu Ligan strangely: "Why are you here?"

Liu Ligan asked back: "Why did you come here? Master Wu was about to go over to see if you were sick, but I held him back. I said that you probably watched a third-level film and needed to experiment overnight, so you were late. , now that I go there, I will probably meet a strange woman."

"Fuck you, you think everyone is like you!" Zhang Chen scolded.

"Look, I said you can quibble, but your eyes betray you, they are a pair of red and swollen eyes after watching a third-level movie all night." Liu Ligan stood up and said: "Okay, here you go Okay, I can go."

That night, Zhang Chen borrowed ten more movies and fast-forwarded through them. He returned them when he went to work the next morning and borrowed them again at night. Zhang Chen watched them for five days in a row. He felt that he couldn't hold on. I'll be sick if I see the video recorder again.

He brought the video recorder to the office and handed it to Xiao Wu. Xiao Wu asked him puzzledly what he was doing?

"Take it and use it. Don't let me see it again." Zhang Chen and Xiao Wu said, "I feel dizzy when I see it now."

Xiao Wu was overjoyed and shouted: "I'm not dizzy, I can watch martial arts movies at home!"

After dinner, Zhang Chen opened the sketchbook and flipped through the pages, browsing through what he had written down in the past few days. However, his mind kept flashing to Xiao Zhao biting his finger and flipping through it carefully. Zhang Chen couldn't help but smile at the appearance of this sketchbook.

Zhang Chen took out a pen and paper and drew freely, but he couldn't concentrate. He was thinking about other things. He stood up, walked to the door, looked up and saw a few stars, in the bright light of the city, like They are beans that have been soaked in water for a long time, with a layer of white foam and burrs floating on them. They hang weakly in the white night sky, as if they are ready to disappear at any time.

Zhang Chen walked to the parking lot in front, got on his motorcycle, and rode towards the South Bridge. After turning left under the South Bridge and walking forward, it was as if he had entered another world. There were more and more stars above his head. It's getting brighter and brighter, but the surrounding darkness is getting deeper and deeper.

Going forward from this remote road, countless small flying insects gathered in the light of the motorcycle. It seemed that all the flying insects in this dark world were rushing towards this light beam. More and more, the light was shining brightly. The beam of light is filled with gray.

Like raindrops, flying insects hit Zhang Chen's motorcycle helmet and his bare arms. After riding for a while, Zhang Chen had to stop the car and wipe off the traces of flying insects on his helmet with paper towels. When I put it on again, the helmet was blurry and I couldn't see the road ahead clearly.

Zhang Chen took out a bottle of water from the motorcycle storage box, unscrewed it, poured the water on the helmet's goggles, then wiped it with paper, and finally wiped it clean.

Zhang Chen got back on his motorcycle and walked forward as if he was facing the sound of bullets and bullets from small flying insects. Zhang Chen thought of that dream. He was walking fast on the street in the cold wind, and the rain, snow and ice shards were crackling. on the face.

With a "pop" sound, a moth exploded on Zhang Chen's goggles, which startled Zhang Chen. The corpse spot then turned into a black hole on his right eye. Now he can only rely on his left eye. Continuing to move forward, Zhang Chen did not stop the car, but fortunately he was almost at his destination.

Zhang Chen rode to the door of Mr. Xie's factory and turned off the car lights. There was darkness all around. It seemed that even the whistling wind was extinguished along with the car lights. Zhang Chen felt his ears suddenly relax, and then there was the sound of insects. The sound and the sound of frogs came one after another, occupying his auricles again, but this time, the feeling in his ears was orderly and clear.

There was no light in the factory behind him. Zhang Chen looked to the left and was surprised. He saw a piece of light in the distance in the depression on the left. Who would come to this desolate place at this time? In the countryside?

Zhang Chen sat down on the cement floor. There was still the residual warmth left by the sun during the day on the ground. He raised his head and looked at the top of his head. The stars above his head were big and bright. Each one was so full that it looked like it was about to fall down at any time. Zhang Chen didn't know that he was The few ones he saw at the door of the office were submerged. Based on common sense, he knew they must be the brightest ones.

Zhang Chen lit a cigarette, and even this little spark attracted a lot of flying insects. These flying insects must have been staying in the wilderness for a long time. Silly, they bumped into Zhang Chen from time to time. s face.

Zhang Chen couldn't help laughing when he thought of the story about the city mouse and the country mouse. He didn't know what would happen if the little flying insect from Wanghai Tower got here.

Zhang Chen smoked a cigarette and looked at the vast expanse of land in front of him that shone slightly under the starlight. The night covered all the shrubs and weeds in his arms, making the land look even more... The vastness.

Zhang Chen imagined that a road would extend from the end of the world to the end of the world. The street lights on both sides of the road were like zippers, pulling the night apart. The cars coming and going formed a strip of light. This strip of light came from a distance. , passed a place not far away in front of me, then spread towards the distance, and finally disappeared at the end of the world.

Zhang Chen imagined what kind of building should be erected in front of him, so that it could match the vast world and shine like a diamond brooch.

What is next to this light belt cannot be buttons. Buttons are other people's buildings. They will be dotted on both sides of Longkun South Road in the future, but they will not be designed by me, Zhang Chen. What I, Zhang Chen, must design. Standing out from the crowd, shining brightly, becoming the most dazzling one on the edge of this light belt.

Zhang Chen took a deep breath.

He imagined that the building in front of him had dazzling lights and never sleep, with cars coming and going and people coming and going 24 hours a day. Standing here, he could hear the background music in the surrounding square.

Zhang Chen imagined himself standing on the roof of the building, looking here. Can he see himself today? There is also this little spark that lights up and goes out.

It is said that a single spark can start a prairie fire. Who knows that the brilliance of this place in the future will be derived from this single spark today.

Zhang Chen looked to the left and felt doubtful. He saw that the light seemed to be getting bigger and bigger, and it was moving. Zhang Chen thought about it for a long time and couldn't figure it out. There was a low-lying land there. When they came during the day , I haven’t seen any buildings or even traces of human activity.

Zhang Chen walked towards there curiously. The concrete ground under his feet disappeared. He saw a vague road leading there among the weeds. Zhang Chen continued walking, and the ground under his feet became lower and lower. He looked back and looked again. The place where he sat in front of him was already at the same level as his head.

Zhang Chen continued to move forward, and the area of ​​​​bright light became larger and larger. Halfway through, the road disappeared. Zhang Chen turned on the lighter, looked around, and saw no more road.

Zhang Chen looked back and saw that he was far away from where he was sitting in front of him. The bright light in front of him was about dozens of square meters in size. It was blue-green. What on earth was coming from such a large light source?

Zhang Chen decided to move forward to take a closer look. Fortunately, from where he was standing to the bright light, there were knee-high weeds, not bushes. It shouldn't be difficult to walk over, and he was wearing long trousers. pants.

Zhang Chen walked through the grass. The soles of his feet were soft. From time to time, sharp grass blades cut his arms. There was a sharp pain. Zhang Chen simply raised his hands above his head and continued to move forward.

The bright light kept flashing and changing. As he got closer, Zhang Chen stopped, surprised and delighted. He could see clearly that the bright light turned out to be fireflies.

Zhang Chen was stunned. He had never seen so many fireflies gathered together. Tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of fireflies illuminated the depression in front of him very brightly, like a mist of light that filled the air before his eyes.

Zhang Chen stepped forward and walked over. At this time, he was already at the edge of this light mist, with fireflies flying close to his body, not caring at all about this strange visitor.

Zhang Chen lowered his head and looked at himself, and found that his whole body was illuminated by a layer of blue-green light. He felt as if he was transparent. This layer of light on his body was not fixed, but flowing. Flow slowly.

Zhang Chen walked toward the brightest depth. As soon as his feet were empty, he fell into the water with a plop. It turned out that this place was a swamp, covered with a layer of rotten grass.

Zhang Chen scrambled with his hands and feet, and finally caught a handful of solid grass. Zhang Chen pulled it with his hands, but the grass did not loosen. With this handful of grass, he crawled out of the swamp and sat there in shock, his feet Of shoes, one of the left foot is left.

The fireflies were just flying around, paying no attention to what was happening below.