super future

Chapter 1 001-There is no doomsday in the dream of a man in crisis (please collect it)

In 2023, the end of July.

Xia Guoguang, Nanshen City, Guangdong Province, a certain urban village community.

It was almost midnight, and except for some people drinking in food stalls or barbecue shops, there was almost no activity in the community, and it was quiet and peaceful.

Zhang Shoucheng came out of the 24-hour convenience store downstairs and bought some food and beer, intending to comfort himself.

I returned to my rented house and turned on the lights. The house was clean and tidy, or rather, too clean. The living room was empty except for the newly bought cat toilet, cat bowl, and cat nest - he was a cat slave.

Apart from the bed, wardrobe, computer and desk, there was basically no furniture in the bedroom. It was neat and clean, but empty.

He rented this house just two days ago and moved in today. The walls were repainted white by the landlord and he mopped the floor several times. In addition, moving during the day kept him busy almost all day and he didn't even eat. So after finishing my work, I went downstairs to get something to eat and drink to reward myself.

There is no dining table at home, so we can only do it on the computer table.

The computer is placed in the bedroom, next to the window. You can see the homes of residents in other buildings at a glance outside the window because the buildings are very close. But at this time, few houses had lights on, and most of them were asleep.

This is a village in the city, populated by migrant workers, who have to go to work tomorrow.

After taking a few random bites of food and downing half a can of cold beer, Zhang Shoucheng let out a long sigh and stared out the dark window in ecstasy. He could see nothing but scattered lights. There were no twinkling stars in the city, even if there were, It will also be hidden in dense buildings.

Those who are asleep and those who are not asleep are probably all happy, just like myself.

Zhang Shoucheng couldn't help but think back to when he was young. At that time, like most young people in the community today, he and his girlfriend came to Nanshen from the mainland to work, earn money, and live together. Life is not rich, but very happy.

However, when one reaches middle age, everything changes.

2023 is probably the year when his bad luck breaks out. Zhang Shoucheng has experienced all the mid-life crises you can think of.

Several consecutive years of epidemics destroyed his career, and it has not improved since then. His income has dropped sharply, which has led to family breakdown and divorce. His elderly father was suddenly diagnosed with gastric cancer a few months ago.

Unemployment, divorce, the Master is seriously ill.
  Fortunately, his father was not in a late stage and recovered well after surgical resection. He was optimistically expected to live for at least five years. There were many cases of this kind of disease in his village, and his father was confident about this.

Unfortunately, his wife, not long after the divorce, found a new partner. I heard that the other party's family was quite wealthy, and he was a second-generation rich man.

Everything seems to have gone back to more than 10 years ago, when he went out to explore alone, alone, alone
  Drinking is not to drown his sorrows, Zhang Shoucheng just wants to sigh about this fucked up life.

He is optimistic by nature and refuses to admit defeat. It’s no big deal, it’s just a matter of starting over.

But life, his life, was so fucked up.

After eating a few more bites and finishing a can of beer, Zhang Shoucheng felt better in his stomach and his mood recovered a little. Two cats wandered at his feet, longing for food on his table.

They moved out with him. His ex-wife didn't like them and only wanted her own blue shorts. There were only two native cats with him, an orange cat and a civet cat. The orange cat was orange and white, and the civet cat was a rare Chinese sparrow cat. They were both underage.

One is called Radish and the other is called Carrot. Just like their names, native cats are worthless.

Sometimes, Zhang Shoucheng was quite envious of them. As long as they had a master, they could eat and drink without worries, unlike his master, who was middle-aged and exhausted. Maybe, this is a middle-aged frustrated man who is picking up the road again and reorganizing the script of his life, but the world has finally turned in a strange direction.

After eating and drinking, Zhang Shoucheng was cleaning up the trash when suddenly it was dawn. A little closer to midnight, the sky is bright and the sky is as bright and white as a screen, flickering with all kinds of blurry lights and shadows, just like having 1000 degrees of myopia and watching a movie without glasses.

Although Zhang Shoucheng is short-sighted, he wears glasses. At this moment, he is carrying the garbage he packed and looking at the sky outside the window in surprise.

"What is going on? Have aliens invaded the earth?" At this moment, Zhang Shoucheng suddenly had this strange idea in his mind.

Soon, the sky was filled with dense cracks, the sky curtain exploded, and countless light spots poured down like the Milky Way.

"It's not the end of the world, is it? I'm just in a mid-life crisis. There's no need to destroy the world!" Looking at the rapidly falling pieces of light as large and small as the sand in the Ganges River, Zhang Shoucheng had an unpleasant association in his heart. It was like an alien. People have sent barrage to clean up the earth. It is a real barrage.

The expected roar did not appear. The light rain fell to the ground like meteors, and like the breeze entering the room, it quietly blended in and was silent.

They fell into the ground, got into the buildings, and disappeared among the trees and flowers, making no sound.

Suddenly, Zhang Shoucheng felt that the brightness outside the window suddenly increased, and a fist-sized light spot was getting closer and closer to him. By the time he realized it, the light spot had passed through the window and hit him on the head.

Zhang Shoucheng didn't feel anything, his vision went dark, he fell to the ground, and he didn't know what was going on.

"I haven't even slept in the house I just rented." Before he passed out, Zhang Shoucheng had only this thought.

The room was suddenly filled with light, and the two little ones were so frightened that they crawled under the bed and trembled.

It seemed that in just a millisecond, the light faded away, and the sky outside the window returned to normal. Only Zhang Shoucheng was left lying alone on the ground. The two kittens waited for a short while, and ran out happily without seeming to sense any danger. I want to rub against the master, but I can't get close. The distance of more than ten centimeters seems to be separated by an invisible wall.

Time passed quietly when Zhang Shoucheng was unconscious.

The world outside the house had begun to undergo turbulent changes, but he had no idea.

Two days later, the two kittens finished eating the cat food in the bowl and began to starve. But soon, the problem was solved. They used their paws to dig out the bag of cat food. It was a large 10 kilogram bag they bought, which was enough for them to eat for many days. Cats are very smart animals. When they are full, they will not overstuff themselves and bloat themselves to death.

After a few days, the bottle of water that came with the cat bowl was also finished, and they drank from the basin of water in the toilet, which Zhang Shoucheng had put there to flush the toilet. Rental houses in urban villages generally do not have toilets. Need to rinse with water.

About ten days later, the door was opened, and two people wearing sealed protective suits whose appearance could not be seen came in. They entered the room and took instruments to test for a while. The two scared kittens hid under the bed again. The two of them took a look, but did not catch them. They just scanned the bottom of the bed for a while with instruments. It seemed that nothing was found. After taking a look at Zhang Shoucheng who fell on the ground, they went out.

There were voices outside the door.

Soon, several more people came in, pushing a sophisticated and expensive-looking instrument into the room and stopping next to the unconscious Zhang Shoucheng. One of them was holding a testing device connected to the instrument, and seemed to want to test Zhang Shoucheng's body. However, when the device was more than 10 centimeters away from Zhang Shoucheng, it could not get closer. He felt that he had been holding the device forward. Progressively, but just can't touch Zhang Shoucheng's body.

In this space of more than 10 centimeters, it seems as if a whole world is hidden.

After working hard for a long time and trying many methods to no avail, several people discussed for a while, installed several micro-devices in the corner of the room, and then left one after another, leaving only a young woman who seemed to be the team leader. He carefully packed up the scattered cat food and changed it into a bag. Then I cleaned the cat bowl, put cat food and water back in, tidied the cat toilet, cleaned up the cat excrement in other parts of the room, cleaned the room, and finally took a bottle of odor removal product and pointed it at the ground and The air sprayed for a while before leaving the rental house.

In the following days, she would come here every day, cleaning and taking care of pets like a janitor.

(End of this chapter)