As night falls, the sky is filled with stars, which converge into a spacious Milky Way. The moon is like a small boat, sailing in the Milky Way, from east to west, never stopping.
But the city at night is illuminated as brightly as day by colorful neon lights. Children who have lived in the city since childhood have no idea what the real night is like. Even if they have seen the night when they were young, only the stars and the moon in the sky can understand it. The luminous adults have long been accustomed to the dark night being lit up by humans using electricity.
On the brightly lit road, an RV was driving forward with the traffic. Chiba Cheng slumped in the passenger seat, looking at the high-rise buildings outside, and said: "I didn't expect that I still miss the high-rise buildings. one day."
Maya, who was driving, stared ahead and said, "That's because you are already accustomed to urban life. The occasional few days of country life is novel, but if you stay in the country all the time, most people will not be able to adapt to it, at least not at all." It takes a long time to get used to it.”
"Yes, everyone talks about missing the slow life in the countryside. In fact, they just want to get away from the complicated affairs of the city. They don't have to clock in from nine to five and have never-finished work. Rather than wanting to return to the countryside, It’s better to say that I want to live a carefree and free life.”
寯寷 bⅹшⅹ● С〇寷. "Yes!" Maya thought of her childhood life with her grandmother in the countryside, where she could run around like crazy and not have to worry about no one knowing whose child it was when she walked out of the house. She also didn't have to worry about walking out of the house and there would be cars on the road. You don’t have to worry about bad guys trying to kidnap your children when you step out of your house.
At that time, there were cicadas chirping in the summer, so you could go up the trees to catch cicadas, touch shrimps in the streams, and fish in the rivers; in the autumn, you could go to the fields for peanuts and sweet potatoes, and then collect firewood to roast them; in the winter, you could build snowmen and have snowball fights... .
But I don’t know when I left the countryside and entered the city, abandoning innocence, abandoning simplicity, and hiding purity. What is left is only sleekness, sophistication, and an eye that only cares about money.
"This is probably the law of development, which can never be escaped." Chiba Cheng turned to look at the brightly lit city outside the window, thinking of Obik, and hadn't seen him for a long time because he didn't dare to go.
Obik didn’t want to give up his soba stall, nor did he want to go anywhere else. He could always hear the legend of Obik in the tofu cubes in newspapers and magazines and on the late-night radio, making more and more people know about Hikono Street. Obik has become a new urban legend.
But it's just a legend. People who grew up with scientific education will just laugh when they hear it. No one will take it seriously. When Obik understands this truth, he will take further actions, that is, create victims, so that People believed in his existence.
At that time, TPC will definitely step in to investigate, and then...
Chiba Cheng didn't dare to think about it anymore.
"well!"
Chiba Cheng's sigh made Maya turn her head involuntarily, looking at the somewhat sad Chiba Cheng with her peripheral vision, and asked with concern: "What's wrong?"
She was worried that Chiba Cheng would think of the bad memories caused by Mo Zhi again, and felt that half a month of travel was not enough. She had already begun to plan whether to give herself a longer vacation and take Chiba Cheng to various places around the world. Take a walk and stay away from here, maybe the effect will be better.
"I'm thinking about Obik, do you think he still has a soba stall somewhere and tells his own stories to the customers who come here?"
"It's true that I haven't eaten soba noodles for a long time. Why don't you go find him?"
"Okay, then..." Chiba Cheng was halfway through speaking when the street lights on both sides suddenly went out, making the road instantly dim, leaving only the car lights bringing a little light. No, not only Not only the street lights, but also the buildings on both sides have lost their lights. No, not only these two rows of buildings, but also the buildings further away have lost their lights. It is likely that the entire S1 area has lost power.
The sudden change caused all the cars on the road to turn on their brake lights and increase their speed. The originally smooth road suddenly became blocked, and finally they all stopped on the road, unable to move.
The car was forced to stop, and Maya had time to look around and said in surprise: "Will there be a power outage in the metropolis?"
In her memory, there has never been a power outage in the metropolis. If there is an occasional power failure, the backup route will be switched to ensure the power supply of necessary facilities. It has never been said that all the buildings, street lights, etc. are all out, so that The city was completely plunged into darkness, just like the country nights when I was a child, with only the stars and the moon still shining.
"Maybe..." Chiba Cheng was racking his brains to guess. A bright light suddenly appeared on the right side. When he turned around, he realized that it was a lightning-like light. It was not in the sky, but coming from the ground. , very conspicuous in this dark night.
Maya said doubtfully: "Is that... a short circuit in the underground cable?"
"It should be, that's why I stopped..." Chiba Cheng stopped before he could say the word 'electricity'. He looked at the dark city again, a memory flashed through his mind, and he immediately opened the car door: "Maya, get out of the car quickly."
"Ah? Oh!" Maya quickly got out of the car and was pulled by Chiba Makoto and ran to the side of the road. People in the nearby cars looked at the young couple who abandoned the car and ran away with great surprise. They didn't understand what happened. If there is an emergency, let them not even ask for the car.
"Cheng, what happened?" Maya asked in confusion as she followed Chiba Cheng.
"Maybe it's a monster, no, it's a mutated creature!" Chiba Cheng said in a deep voice, pulling Maya and running towards the place where the electric light flickered in the dark, but before she ran far, the flickering electric light disappeared, letting the earth reappear. Return to darkness.
"It seems that he escaped, should we go there?"
"Go over and have a look!"
"Um!"
Before the two of them reached the place, they saw a street lamp that exploded, and the exposed filaments were burned and melted. It was obvious that this area was affected by a serious abnormal discharge phenomenon, which caused all the electrical appliances connected to it to break.
You don't have to look for where the 'lightning' comes from. You can find it by smelling it with your nose. The collision of electricity and air gives off a burnt smell, which is very unpleasant.
There were several power workers in work clothes standing around, looking at an open power manhole cover from a distance. No one dared to step forward, because 'lightning' was sprayed out from there just now, and it could be felt from a long distance away. I felt a strong numbing sensation, and the two workers who were close to me were still lying on the ground not knowing whether they were alive or dead.
Chiba Cheng ran over and asked, "What happened?"
嗗售售. A worker stammered: "Electricity...electricity...electricity spraying underground!"
"???" Qianye Cheng and Maya had question marks on their foreheads, completely unable to understand what this meant.
