In a dark and damp room, Gao Chang was lying quietly on the bed alone, with his left foot wrapped in some tattered strips of cloth and placed outside the quilt. When he went out to look for food a few days ago, he accidentally stepped on a sharp steel bar, which almost pierced through his foot.
This is not a serious injury in normal times. It would be almost fine after a trip to the hospital, having anti-inflammatory tablets, getting a tetanus shot, and then staying in bed for a month. But now, let alone the hospital, there is no place to even find anti-inflammatory medicine.
A few months ago, a strange natural phenomenon occurred in the sky. The golden sunlight that had been shining on the earth for millions of years suddenly turned blue. when exposed to this kind of light for a long time, whether humans or animals, they become extremely manic and destructive. And they remained in this manic state until their lives were exhausted.
With the current level of medicine, it is impossible to explain this phenomenon, let alone find a solution. Therefore, as long as the skin is exposed to blue sunlight and causes lesions, there is basically only a dead end.
As soon as the blue sunlight appeared, many people died, and for those who were lucky enough to survive, finding a source of food became a big problem.
In order to avoid being exposed to the sun, everyone had no choice but to stay in bed during the day and go out at night. Productivity could not keep up. Some people were desperately hoarding goods, and there were also some people who began to rob. The society soon began to become chaotic, and the market economy was paralyzed. Soon, this originally prosperous and lively big city has also turned into a dead city.
Many people from the city flocked to the countryside and those who could seek refuge with relatives did so, even if there were many crises along the way. Not only did they have to avoid the sun and travel at night, but they also had to find a place to hide before dawn and avoid attacks from their own kind and frenzied animals from time to time. The world became more and more chaotic, and women and children did not dare to walk at night without a few adult men to accompany them.
Gao Chang used to be from the countryside, but he had a tough life, and all his relatives had died. People in the village didn’t like him, and he didn’t like their village either. After finishing the college entrance examination, he sold his land and house and joined the ant army1(蚁族, Yǐ zú) It refers to a low-income and poorly-housed group including ordinary citizens, migrant workers, college graduates, and technical school graduates who live in crowded groups in cities. in the city.
Cities of today are not completely inhospitable. Under the blue sunlight, the city’s green belts began to grow wildly and soon occupied the roads and overpasses. The roots of a few banyan trees in front of Gao Chang’s community penetrated through their entire residential area.
But this also has the advantage of blocking the sunlight from getting into the house, and the bamboo mats and blankets that used to be hung on the windows and balconies have gradually been removed.
The plants could also be a source of food. Tree roots, leaves, and bark can all be eaten. Sometimes they can dig a few earthworms in the ground. They are big, fat, and nutritious, but they taste quite disgusting when eaten.
But there is also a certain danger in foraging. Some cats, dogs, and mice in the city have become extremely ferocious after being exposed to sunlight, and somehow, some of them seem to survive in a manic state. They shuttled through the streets and alleys, attacking all living creatures that could move, and some even learned to eat human flesh.
So now very few people will go out alone to forage for food. There are not many people left in the residential area. Everyone is very familiar with each other and would make an appointment to meet every day and go out of the community gate together when collecting food. Also, take turns to let out the wind2(放风, Fàngfēng) to go out for some fresh air and relax to avoid being attacked by wild animals unprepared. Those pet cats and dogs in the past are more ferocious than wild animals now.
A few days ago, when Gao Chang went out to forage with others, he was besieged by several rats and ran back from outside. On the way, he accidentally stepped on a broken steel bar, and the wound soon began to become inflamed.
His body seemed to have started to have a fever again. He had been having high fevers repeatedly in the past two days. This time he felt worse than the previous times. Gao Chang felt that he was probably going to die.
They say that before people die, their whole life will flash before their eyes, just like watching a movie. Gao Chang wanted to watch this legendary movie but unfortunately, his situation was different from others. There was no free movie to watch, so he had to run his hazy brain and think about what he had experienced in his life
When Gao Chang was born, his mother died during childbirth, and when he was three years old, his father also died. Their old Gao family line was originally very thin and for several generations, there was only one child in the family. Now even in Gao Chang’s generation, it is still a single-child family. However, his parents died too early, which gave Gao Chang a reputation as someone with a hard fate3(命硬, Mìng yìng) It refers to a superstitious belief that a person‘s birth date is bad because of which his relatives will die.. While carrying the blame for someone who killed his parents, he managed to live to the age of seventeen when his grandmother, his only last living relative, also died.
This firmly established his reputation as a broom star4(扫把星, sàobǎxīng) bearer of ill luck. No one in the village wanted to deal with him, for fear that they would accidentally be infected with misfortune. This is no laughing matter. Other broom stars just spread bad luck, but Gao Chang spreads death just like a seductive little ghost by Lord Yama5(阎王爷, Yán wángyé) Lord of Hell‘s side.
Gao Chang also didn’t like the people in his village either. Everyone there bullied the soft and feared the hard6(欺软怕硬, Qīruǎnpàyìng) bully the weak, fear the strong. In his childhood, he was often bullied by the children and ignored by the adults in the village. Later Gao Chang finally came to realize the truth. It turned out that the adults were afraid of him. They wished that he would move out of the village and leave there quickly.
So he found a solution. If anyone dared to make things difficult for him, Gao Chang would move a stool to sit in front of their house and howl all his grievances for half a day7(老半天, lǎo bàntiān) for a very long period of time. No one could persuade him otherwise. Damn it8(他娘的, tā niáng de) “This mother is” is a vulgar expression commonly used to express strong anger, dissatisfaction, or surprise, equivalent to “fuck you”, let’s see if they are afraid of death or not? From then on, no one dared to bully him anymore.
As soon as the college entrance examination was over, Gao Chang sold his house and land and moved to the city. From then on, he began his happy college life. Unlike people in the village, no one in the city ever thought he had a hard fate. He lived on campus for several years and Gao Chang had no conflicts in the dormitory. Life was quite peaceful.
Gao Chang began wandering between the dormitory buildings in the first half of his freshman year, specializing in selling cosmetics and skin care products. His business was quite good. Whether it was for girls or boys, he sold them all. Girls have more varieties, while boys mostly just buy facial cleansers. Of course, there were also a few boys who had bought lipstick and foundation from him.
Thinking about it now, those few years were really smooth sailing, and he even started dating the department flower9(系花, xì huā) the most beautiful female student recognized or elected by everyone in each department of a university. Life was good after graduation. If there was anything good about living in the city, it was freedom. Too much freedom. No one there had enough energy to spend investigating the eighteen generations of his ancestors. They didn’t care if his family was a single pass10(单传,dānchuán)For several generations there was only one son to carry on the family line. or whether you were a father killer or mother killer.
So basically Gao Chang felt that he didn’t have many regrets in his life. If he had to say, then there were one or two.
One was when he was in high school. In his second year of high school, one day when classmate11(同学, tóngxué) A general term for students in school Gao Chang was returning home from his evening self-study, a little black dog came out of nowhere and followed him all the way to the village. Gao Chang who was still an adolescent boy at that time was feeling soft-hearted12(心软, xīnruǎn) to be easily moved and feel sympathy or pity, so he brought it into his courtyard and made a bag of milk powder that he was usually reluctant to drink.
The puppy had a very good relationship with him. Every morning it would get up before dawn and follow Gao Chang on the mountain road for half an hour to go to school. Every time it would wait until Gao Chang entered the school gates before reluctantly stopping on the hillside. In the evening, when Gao Chang finished his self-study, he could still see the puppy waiting there. Under the dim illumination of the flashlight, one person and one dog walk together to the village.
For Gao Chang, who has been alone since childhood, this puppy was a rare companion. Over time, they almost became like a brother13(兄弟, xiōng dì) it refers to a male sibling but it can also refer to people who are like-minded, with deep friendship. If Gao Chang buys two buns, one of them will inevitably end up in the belly of this puppy.
But the good times did not last long. Not long after, SARS came. Although the little puppy did not die, it became sick at this juncture and developed a high fever. At that time, Gao Chang’s grandma had not yet passed away, so she went up to the mountain to collect herbs, boil them, and feed them to the puppy, but it didn’t feel better.
Soon everyone in their village heard that Gao Chang’s puppy had a fever. The village chief approached Grandma Gao and asked her to get rid of the sick dog, and Grandma also agreed. That evening, Grandma explained to Gao Chang that they had no idea what kind of disease this puppy had. People in the village were afraid of it, so it was best to send it away. If it was lucky, it could survive on its own but if it stayed in the village sooner or later it would be beaten to death by those people.
Gao Chang felt that what his grandmother said was right, and he knew that their family had no status in the village. He didn’t want to embarrass his grandmother because of this matter, so he agreed.
That day, he personally sent the puppy to a barren mountain far away and did not allow it to follow him on his way back. The puppy was very obedient, but his two wet eyes made Gao Chang’s heart feel uncomfortable. This feeling was probably guilt. He really was feeling very guilty. He didn’t even feel so guilty when he took the virginity of the department flower.
To be honest, the girl looked quite open-minded in that regard, who knew that she was still a virgin? They had slept together in a daze, while he too was a virgin. As a result, that night was quite tasteless and they broke up peacefully a few days later.
But Gao Chang couldn’t tell her that he was still a virgin, and it was not because he lacked that skill, but it was just that his technology was not yet mature enough ah. He can’t tell her that in fact, you are a virgin and I am also a virgin, and that neither of us had suffered a loss.
Anyway, because of this matter, Gao Chang has been under the control of that woman for the past few years. The department flower of the past did not do well in this city. She did not get married and her job was not stable. She has moved more than 20 times in the past five or six years and every time she called Gao Chang to come over and help. Gao Chang also for the sake of being old classmates did not refuse.
Ever since something went wrong with the sun, their city quickly became chaotic. There was no cell phone signal and the network was paralyzed. Gao Chang couldn’t contact her and the city’s bus system was also suspended. He had to walk over on his own two legs. It took two nights to make a round trip, but still, no one was found.
In this city that has lost its order, it was hard for Gao Chang to imagine how a young woman could survive and what kind of things she would encounter.
After living in the same city for so many years, they have seen all the ups and downs that the other person has experienced with their own eyes. Although there were no longer any romantic feelings between them, they still felt sympathy for each other to some extent.
At 7:30 in the afternoon, someone pushed open the door to Gao Chang’s room, groped in the dark, and placed a jar of water on the bedside table. Then he spoke in a loud voice, “Gao Chang, Gao Chang”. Seeing that no one answered, he touched the person on the bed, and when he touched him, he was cold.
After a while, several people entered the room together, wrapped him in sheets, and buried him in the flowerbed of their community.
A washboard was inserted into the soil in front to use it as a tombstone. on the top were some crooked Chinese characters scratched out with a fruit knife: “Gao Chang, male, 28 years old.”
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