It's mid-spring, noon, in Mayflower Community.
Chen Chang was leaning on the table writing furiously, with Lao Gao piled up with A4 papers full of words on his left hand. The strong aroma of Lao Ganma's chili-fried pork in the kitchen could not distract him at all.
On one side of the desk, various books such as "Black Holes and Curved Space-Time", "Super Hybrid Rice Breeding and Cultivation", "Feast of the Elements", "The Universe in a Nutshell", "Meditations on Second Philosophy", "Sophistry" etc. , falling one after another, each book has rough edges due to excessive reading.
Boom, boom, the door was knocked.
"Chen Chang, open the door and remember to wear a mask."
Mother Chen shouted in the kitchen.
Chen Chang agreed, put on a mask, opened the door, and found two Dabai standing at the door.
Dabai on the left turned around and revealed the name on his back, which was Miss Property Guan.
Miss Guan tapped the plum blossom watch on her wrist, "In an hour, your building will start doing nucleic acid..."
Chen Chang frowned. He didn't want to see anyone, but he still responded to the call.
The two Dabais went downstairs, and Dabai who came with them whispered, "This young man looks like he is only in his early twenties, but he looks like a fifty-year-old man."
Miss Guan lowered her voice, "Their family is in a special situation. The young man doesn't like to talk or interact with others.
But the people are quite nice. Last time there was a power outage in the community, the electrician who came was a bad guy and couldn't solve the problem even after half a day.
In the end, the young man pointed out the key points in a few words and solved the problem quickly.
The strange thing is that the young man got good grades but did not go to college. The teachers at school came and tried to persuade me many times, but to no avail. "
Dabai, who came with him, said, "It's such a pity. His parents don't care?"
Miss Guan said, "It's pitiful to say that his family was originally a family of five, but one of them would leave every two or three years. Within seven or eight years, only mother and son were left. Grandpa and grandma were only over fifty when they left. "
Dabai, who came with him, took a breath of air, "The feng shui of his family is probably... I know a gentleman. This is the most accurate..."
The conversation between the two Dabai entered the realm of the extraordinary, and lunch at Chen Chang's house was also served.
Laoganma stir-fried pork with chili, leek and eggs, stir-fried cabbage, and a piece of loofah egg soup.
Although they are all home-cooked dishes, they are cooked properly, with bright color and fragrant aroma.
Although the two of them were eating, Chen's mother kept putting vegetables in Chen's bowl.
The two of them ate without any conversation. After the silence lasted for more than ten minutes, Chen Chang stopped his chopsticks and said, "It's Qingming Festival in a few days, and I want to go back to Huji."
Mother Chen was startled, "The epidemic situation is not stable, let's wait and see next year. It's just a tomb, so just sacrifice it from a distance. Don't think too much, you promised mom that you will forget all the unhappy things."
As soon as Chen's mother finished speaking, scenes that had appeared countless times in nightmares appeared before Chen Chang's eyes frame by frame like a movie reel.
The bowl of rice was quickly emptied, leaving only the sound of chopsticks and bowl tapping. Chen Chang was still unaware of it.
Mother Chen stood up and hugged Chen Chang gently.
Chen Chang came back to his senses, rubbed his face, and gently stroked Chen's mother's back, "Mom, I'm fine, I just miss my grandparents and dad a little bit."
As soon as he finished speaking, the cloudless sky outside the window seemed to be covered with a layer of black cloth, and the sounds of cars, people, and horns on the road suddenly stopped.
As if struck by lightning, Chen Chang pushed his mother away and stared at her.
There was no expression on the mother's thin face. She looked at him calmly and said in a deep voice, "Have you ever thought that the sum of the interior angles of a triangle is not necessarily equal to 180 degrees..."
Chen Chang burst into tears immediately. He grabbed the water glass, walked quickly to the window, and poured half the cup of tea out the window.
When he walked to the window, the previously blue sky had become extremely dark, and the sun seemed to be covered with a layer of gray.
A gray-haired short-tailed pigeon hovered in the air, and a long queue of people doing nucleic acid tests downstairs looked like greedy snakes that were down.
The only ones who could move were Chen Chang, Chen's mother, and the half cup of tea.
The tea was suspended in the air, spreading out drop by drop, and instantly gathered into a huge water curtain, sealing the window.
The next moment, a green vine as thick as a thumb emerged from the water curtain and reached towards Chen's mother from afar.
Mother Chen still spoke calmly, "...Have you ever thought that there is no superposition state in the double-slit interference experiment..."
Chen Chang rushed ahead of Lu Teng and hugged his mother tightly.
The green vine was like a living thing, forcing its way out of the gap between the two of them, only tying down Mother Chen.
Chen Chang pulled out a nylon rope from his arms, tied his mother and himself together at the waist, and let the green vines drag him and his mother toward the water curtain.
Mother Chen was still talking, "...Have you ever thought that Schrödinger's cat would actually exist..."
Mother Chen's back touched the water curtain, and the nylon rope wrapped around her waist immediately turned into powder and floated in the air.
Chen's mother was slowly dragged into the water curtain, but Chen Chang was blocked outside the water curtain like impurities blocked by a filter.
Chen Chang screamed and cursed, watching his mother being dragged into it little by little.
Just like dragging grandpa away by the sand lake, dragging grandma away by the bathtub, dragging father away by the artificial lake on Beijiang campus.
He had no fear, only deep... despair.
Seeing that the only bridge of Chen's mother's nose that was exposed outside the water curtain was slowly sinking into the water, Chen Chang took out a jumping knife, ejected the blade, slapped, and stabbed the tip of the knife into his neck, cutting the artery back and forth with determination.
Plasma spurted out, steaming.
He fell limply to the ground, a relaxed expression on his face.
The nightmare that has haunted me for a lifetime is finally coming to an end.
Just when his consciousness was about to disappear, the water curtain rippled, and another green vine poked out, much thinner than the previous one.
The green vine just poked out of the water curtain and froze in mid-air, as if hesitating.
After a few breaths, the green vine finally reached towards Chen Chang. The ripples in the water curtain intensified, and the pigeon suspended in mid-air actually blinked.
It took Xiteng a full twenty seconds to wrap around the ring finger of Chen Chang's left hand and slowly drag him into the water curtain.
As Chen Chang was dragged in, the water curtain rippled as if a pot was boiling.
When Chen Chang was completely submerged in the water curtain, with a bang, the water curtain exploded and turned into fine tea droplets, slowly falling down.
The pigeons flew away, and the streets were filled with people again. The loudspeaker downstairs shouted again, "Those on the eighth and ninth floors, come down for nucleic acid testing. Keep a distance of one meter, line up in an orderly manner, and open the health code in advance..."
