Chapter 1 The end of eternal life, the last grace
"December 12, 2022 (clear)
The sky is sunny and cloudless, which is a rare good weather in the winter in the north.
My name is Wu Ze, and my name is Wu. Ze is the "ze" of "ze by the common people".
The reason why I came to Tangcheng this time is quite funny.
Five years ago, she and I met on the Internet. It took a full year from first acquaintance to mutual understanding and then to falling in love.
And today is the day that she and I have agreed to meet.
But what I never expected was that, standing at the agreed place, I waited for her for a long time, but I didn't wait for the woman I was familiar with.
Some are just strangers, and... still strangers.
I stood in the crowd, standing there blankly like a fool, and frantically dialing the other party's phone like a madman.
However, what came from the other end of the phone was only one sentence without any emotion:
"Hello, the phone you dialed has been turned off, please call again later..."
Listening to the constant coming and going, I immediately had the urge to smash it to the ground.
But when I raised the phone high, I gently put it down again.
Yes, I gave up.
Not for anything else, just because of a more practical reason.
I'm out of money.
After throwing this phone away, my empty pockets no longer have the power to buy another one.
In order to come to this Tangcheng where she lives, I brought all my belongings with me, but unfortunately I had to help others.
And that person was also very rude. Except for the mobile phone in my hand, all the other belongings were taken away by that person.
Yes, I was patronized by thieves.
Even now, I still can't understand when that unknown guy stole all my belongings from the backpack on my chest.
I originally had a mobile phone that could be used to pay, but what's even more unfortunate is that my salary for this month has not been paid yet.
The bank card was empty and cleaner than my pocket.
So, its existence still leaves me penniless.
Fantasy made me desperate, but reality gave me a hard blow.
Standing in this huge crowd, watching the people coming and going, all my fantasies were shattered in an instant!
Such a clear reality tells me deeply...
Online dating is really as unreliable as the legend says! !
This was my tragic first love.
But do you think this is the end?
No, this is not over yet!
Because something even more unreliable will happen in front of my eyes later.
And the occurrence of this incident completely shattered my understanding of the world..."
…
In the closed room, Wu Ze put down the ballpoint pen in his hand and completed the final writing.
But when he just put down the ballpoint pen in his hand, he suddenly picked it up and suspended it in mid-air.
Looking at the fur notebook on the table, he took a deep breath and wrote the last line:
"Finally, I hope I still have tomorrow, and I hope the world can return to its original state."
After writing the last word, Wu Ze slumped directly on the chair.
His eyes stared up at the darkening roof for a long time.
At this time, there was only a blank left in his mind, and he didn't know what to think about at all.
It wasn't until about fifteen minutes later that a "guck" sound sounded, and Wu Ze's blank brain was awakened by hunger.
After Wu Ze came back to his senses, he picked up a bag of instant noodles on the table and started to chew on it.
While chewing, he looked at the only fur notebook on the table, and finally closed it gently and solemnly put it into his backpack.
This fur notebook can be said to be Wu Ze's last financial possession, and it is also the only thing he can find in this room.
The room was a single-room rental house, with only a small window on all sides except the door.
Not long ago, Wu Ze came here in a panic. While using the steel wire bed in the room to prop up the door, he also found this not shabby but dusty notebook in the corner.
Therefore, in line with the principle that if I pick it up, it is mine, Wu Ze took it for his own use without thinking.
Wu Ze finished the bag of instant noodles and his hunger was relieved.
Wu Ze closed his eyes and kept replaying everything that happened half a day ago in his mind. He still felt that it was so unreal and he was suddenly in a dream.
But reality is reality, and it does not depend on his wishes. He thinks it is a dream, but this is reality, an indisputable reality.
Therefore, this notebook became his place of catharsis.
After writing about his grievances and complaints, Wu Ze felt much better.
Those realities that he could not accept began to be slowly accepted by him.
There was no way, everything was true, he had to accept it even if he didn't want to.
Raising his hand and summoning an extremely ordinary token, Wu Ze couldn't help but rub his brows vigorously.
…
Six hours ago, without any warning, the heaven and earth were shaken. A huge golden light pillar rose from the northern sky and earth, straight into the sky like a golden waterfall.
At the same time, in the south of the entire world, a black light pillar rose into the sky like a golden light pillar, covering most of the southern sky in the blink of an eye.
The twin pillars soared into the sky. After a few seconds, the golden light pillar arrived from north to south, while the black light pillar arrived from south to north.
In the end, the vast golden and black colors gathered together in the sky, and the two colors mixed and turned into black and gray chaos, covering the entire world.
Even the sun's rays were completely cut off by this chaotic color at this moment.
The sky and the earth turned dark, and darkness fell instantly.
The crowds on the ground stopped one after another, looked up at the sky, and questioned, and the noisy voices soon became one:
"Huh? What's going on? What is this? Even the sun is covered."
"Hey, don't you understand this? This is called 'Tengu Eclipse', also known as 'Total Solar Eclipse'. This is a wonder of heaven and earth, don't miss it!!"
"This is your aunt's head! What the hell kind of total solar eclipse is this? Can your 'total solar eclipse' swallow even the sky?"
"No, no, then tell me what's going on?
What is it if it's not a 'total solar eclipse'?
Return it to my family. If the sun belongs to my family, I will prevent you from seeing the sun for the rest of your life! ! "
"..."
The voices of discussion, doubts, and arguments merged into one, and finally turned into a chaotic sound.
But before people could reach a conclusion from the discussion, suddenly a voice like the voice of heaven sounded directly from everyone’s hearts:
"Hengsheng Calendar: Twelve generations, one billion and two thousand four hundred years, the heaven and the earth are destroyed, reincarnation is coming, respect the meaning of eternity, and finally the grace of heaven is opened..."
"Origin restriction lifted...complete!"
"Life restriction lifted...complete!"
"Soul restriction lifted...complete!"
"The apocalypse is successful, and finally God's grace begins to arrive..."
As this sound of heavenly sound ended, an endless rain of black and gray light suddenly poured down from the sky above the entire world, washing down towards the entire sky and earth, all falling on the crowd.
Wu Ze was no exception, but the moment he came into contact with this black and gray light rain, Wu Ze felt his eyes go dark and completely lost consciousness.
But Wu Ze didn't know that the next moment he lost consciousness, a stream of cyan light fell from the sky, hidden in the black and gray light rain, and sank into Wu Ze's eyebrows, blending with him. One body.
And when Wu Ze woke up again, the world had completely changed into a different look.
The sky was dark, and the Haoyang that originally illuminated the entire world had lost its trace.
Wu Ze slowly climbed up from the cold ground. Looking at the people on the ground, he couldn't help but feel a deep sense of confusion.
"I'll go~! Is it true or false? Or was I just dreaming?"
Wu Ze whispered and looked around. Looking at the dead silent world, a chill grew in his heart for no reason.
"No, it can't be right? Could it be that what I heard before was not an illusion, but reality?"
After carefully looking around and muttering something, Wu Ze began to choose a direction at random and tiptoed towards the distance.
He wanted to leave this place, this place that seemed like a dream.
And for those people on the roadside who are still unconscious or dead...
Wu Ze simply chose to ignore it.
Now that it's time like this, he doesn't have the time to care about other people's lives.
Anyway, everything here is very abnormal, and his intuition tells him that it is better to leave here as soon as possible.
However, just when Wu Ze had just taken a few steps, that heavenly voice that no one could refuse resounded in Wu Ze's heart again:
"Finally, God's grace has arrived, the origin has awakened, the origin of the world has opened up, and vitality has descended..."
As soon as he said this, Wu Zezhi suddenly felt a cold breath passing through his body.
At that moment, Wu Ze couldn't help but shudder.
"Hi~! What's going on? Why is it so cold?"
"Oh, let me go~! I must have encountered something dirty, right?"
Wu Ze muttered to himself, without thinking, and continued walking towards the street at a brisk pace.
Although he is also an atheist, the silent world at present, under the dim sky, and the crowd of corpses staggering on the roadside.
All of them were conveying a very bad atmosphere of terror to Wu Ze.
Living in such a world, even if Wu Ze is an atheist, he will still feel an inexplicable fear.
Moreover, this fear cannot be stopped even if he wants to.
And, and, the voice that sounded in his heart like the sound of heaven before...
As he thought about it, Wu Ze walked more and more urgently, faster and faster.
A minute later, Wu Ze walked down the street and came to a brightly lit store door.
It was at this time that the sound of hunger came from Wu Ze's stomach.
Looking at the empty store through the glass at the door, Wu Ze hesitated for a moment, then walked gently towards the door.
There is no way, he is too hungry! He needed to eat something to soothe his tummy.
Stepping through the door, Wu Ze carefully looked at the store, which was only two rooms in size.
Looking at the clerk and customers lying on the ground, he breathed a sigh of relief.
"Huh~! It's okay, it's okay. I just feel sorry for the shop owner. If Jiang Hu comes to your rescue, I won't be polite."
While muttering under his breath, Wu Ze swept several bags of instant noodles on the shelf into his backpack.
He didn't take much, just a few bags of instant noodles.
Other than that, Wu Ze did not move anything else.
Because these are enough, no more will be enough.
As a human being, you cannot have no bottom line at all.
With a soft sound of "stab", Wu Ze opened a bag of instant noodles and put it into his mouth.
He chewed hard and turned to exit the store.
But at this moment, a low roar suddenly reached his ears.
Wu Ze's body suddenly froze, and his whole body froze in place.
