Flowers

This emphasis seemed to strike everyone's heart, and then it was replaced by the sound of a car whistling. The camera showed a hovercraft speeding between high-rise buildings. There were an old man and a young man in the car. The older woman said to her companion in a deep voice:

"Hurry up, don't look back!"

"What happened? Why are you so flustered?"

The woman looked to be over fifty years old. Her hair was black, but the temples were already frosted white. Her steel-blue eyes were just like her overall temperament, calm, solemn, and sharp.

The young person in the driver's seat next to her was less than 20 years old, and could even be called a "girl". She had short flame blue hair that reached her ears. Compared to the seriousness of the middle-aged woman, she had a frivolous attitude and was chewing gum while steering.

Both roles were played by well-known and talented artists. Through special effects makeup, their facial features became somewhat similar. The audience speculated that they were playing a mother and daughter.

The woman didn't say anything, but the speed of the hover car was skyrocketing at the critical point, as if something was chasing it from behind, making the audience's hearts hang in the air.

The camera zoomed out and took in a wide angle of the rear of their car. The sky was gray and a thunderstorm was brewing among the clouds. Spider-web-like white lightning appeared from time to time, making the atmosphere even more solemn.

At the same time, the camera used montage techniques to cut to a little girl's hand. She was holding a pink balloon, and the background seemed to be the square at the beginning.

It is worth noting that there is a dark pink sore on the back of the girl's hand, which looks like it was bitten by an insect. She is very itchy, so she scratches it from time to time.

On one side is the nervous sound of racing cars, and on the other side is the hustle and bustle of a bustling city. The two constantly alternate, giving people a sense of foreboding.

Accompanied by a roar of thunder and lightning, heavy rain fell.

"What's that in front?... Damn, who is throwing debris on the overhead lane?"

The blue-haired daughter suddenly saw something pink flash by in the air ahead and she slammed the brakes.

The rain curtain and the dim weather blocked my vision. Under the glaring light, I could vaguely see that the pink thing was some kind of creature, flying up and down. The hovercraft was about to crash into it as it lost control.

The girl was so angry that she started to curse, but the woman's pupils shrank slightly, and she suddenly pulled the brakes for her. The hovercraft instantly changed from slowing down to accelerating and rushed towards the creature!

"Mom, what are you doing?!"

"Bang!!"

"Ah!" Many audience members were startled by the sudden impact. This violent collision seemed like a symbol in the music, pushing the whole piece to a climax.

In the square, the little girl accidentally loosened the string of the balloon while scratching the back of her hand. The pink balloon slowly floated up. The child's pure pupils were like a mirror, reflecting the pink dot of the balloon.

Then, the tiny dot began to multiply and spread like a blooming flower.

"Hmm? A balloon that blooms? ...What about the car-racing plot?"

Some people were still a little confused and murmured, but the next moment, everyone present felt a chill that penetrated into their bones.

That is not the scene reflected by the eyes, but the "flowers" blooming in the eyes themselves!

"ah--"

"ah!"

The screams in the trailer and the screams of people being frightened in reality overlapped for a moment, and the square in the picture suddenly became chaotic.

The camera moves upwards, taking in the whole body of the little girl. Pink "flowers" burst out from her eyes. If you don't consider the occasion, the scene might even be somewhat beautiful, but a closer look reveals it to be eerie and creepy.

She opened her mouth in horror and wanted to call for her mother, but the scream that came out of her throat became fragmented, and pink flowers and black and red flesh and blood came out, and her skin turned gray and dry.

"What the hell, what is this?! A virus?"

“Ahhhh how scary!”

"Oh my god, this is so scary, is this person infected by some virus or bacteria?"

The girl lost consciousness and her cry for help turned into opening her mouth and biting the arm of her mother beside her.

Her mother lowered her head. There were no pupils in her eyes, only two pale pink flower shapes, and flesh buds began to grow on her fingers.

Not only the mother and daughter, but the entire square was in turmoil. The people who were bitten quickly began to mutate and turned into bloodthirsty monsters.

Apparently, this virus is extremely contagious and can be spread through saliva!

The originally beautiful scene was filled with chaos and screams, and some couples in the audience were so scared that they hugged each other tightly.

Now the audience knows what the mother and daughter duo on the other line ran into - it was this kind of monster!

Looking down from the sky, the white square seems to have turned into a petri dish, and the spreading pink and red are the hyphae in the dish. The pink virus, red blood, and the original pink balloons and red roses are mixed together, making it difficult to distinguish them.

The camera cuts back to the rainstorm, and the daughter is frightened by her mother's actions: "What are you doing?!"

She forcefully took back control of the hovercraft, and the pink thing was knocked to the ground.

The daughter lowered the hovercraft and pointed the headlights at something still on the ground in the rain. The mother did not stop her. The windshield wipers were still running, and the daughter finally saw what it was, her eyes widened: "Fuck!"

——Like the audience outside the screen, at this moment, only the national curse can express the shock in my heart.

It was a person with gray-pink skin, and even wore dirty clothes. His, or "its" skin was rotten and damaged in many places, but countless beautiful pink flowers were blooming in the damaged places.

What grew on its back were not actually ordinary wings, but branches in its body that broke through its chest and lungs, pushing out two ribs and lungs, forming a soaring shape.

The well-informed audience rubbed their arms in horror: "It's just like the 'Blood Eagle' punishment in the ancient legend of the last star calendar..."

After the daughter cursed, she said, "What on earth is this? Did you know this a long time ago?!"

Amid the sound of the overwhelming rain, the mother whispered, "This is why I asked you to drive faster. You wouldn't believe it unless you saw it with your own eyes."

"Hurry up, the only way to survive is to go outside. Our city has fallen, and it's full of zombies."

Accompanied by the word "zombie", the camera returns to the square.

The infected people have died, but they did not fall down. Instead, they stood in strange postures, with gray eyes, rotten skin, and walked slowly and unconsciously with flowers on their heads.

Without explanation, all the audience immediately understood the meaning of "zombie". The human body turned into flower mud, controlled by the virus to hunt, like a walking corpse.

The gray-pink zombie army, thirsting for fresh flesh and blood, walked out of the square and poured into the streets, buildings, schools, hospitals...

Boom, the heavy rain is about to fall here. The two narrative lines are actually different places in time and space on the same timeline.

Inside the car, the daughter's lips turned white with fear, her throat moved twice, and she gritted her teeth to drive the hovercraft to start.

However, at this moment.

The zombies on the ground actually moved!

It had been hit and then fell from a great height, with half of its body shattered into pieces. But even so, it had not lost its ability to move!

"Oh my god!" The daughter was horrified. The monster pounced towards the car window, its mouth opened at an angle beyond human limits, revealing a mouth full of fangs covered with blood, which filled the screen.

The scene ends with the sharp scream of the zombies, and then falls into darkness.

“Ah? …Ah …It’s over.”

"Oh yeah, this is just a preview, less than a minute..."

The audience in the square seemed to have just woken up from a dream and made a slight commotion.

The screen went black for two seconds, and in the silence, the female voice that was in the background sounded.

She narrated slowly: "...But later, we realized that the peaceful daily life was a past that we could never go back to."

Blood was splattered in the pure black, forming words, and several frames appeared in order:

Pink is coming, disaster, zombies, horror, doomsday, so stay tuned.

The trailer for Shang Jingyan's new film "Pink Coming" swept all major social platforms with unstoppable momentum as soon as it was released.

In just 50 seconds, it brings a unique shock to people, as if they were caught in a world where doomsday is approaching.

According to media reports, when the trailer was broadcast in Baiyujing Square, the noise level in the square dropped significantly in decibels, because most people were attracted and stopped to watch; and when the trailer ended, there was a small peak in the decibels, which was because people could not help but discuss it.

[Oh my god, why is it "stay tuned" again without telling me the exact release date? I can't wait to buy a ticket! ]

[I feel that this film is very suitable for watching in a movie theater with many people, which makes it more immersive. Moreover, it will definitely be fun if it is made into a game! ]

[This zombie is very much like the evolution of the parasite in the previous "Infinite Heartbeat", and has become even scarier...]

[Ahhh, I'm so anxious. Why did the trailer end right there? What should I do if that zombie pounces on me?! ]

This first trailer did not show how to deal with zombies, and many viewers are paying attention to this.

Looking at the cast list, the mother and daughter are the protagonists. How can they escape from the predicament?

And a day later, Shang Jingyan released the second trailer.

This trailer is more interesting, showing the scene after the zombie tide has broken out.

The radio was broadcasting on the empty streets with only zombies roaming around, telling people what to do, such as stockpiling food, finding handy weapons, living in high places as much as possible, etc.

The survivors hid in the house and listened. The main character shown was a supporting character who was suspected to be the protagonist. She made a trap, apparently to ambush the zombies.

In the Shang Jingyan fan forum, many posts were seriously analyzed, referring to the Alliance's "Earthquake First Aid Manual" and "Tsunami First Aid Manual" and other materials, and finally concluded: If the pink doomsday in the movie comes, we need to prepare xxxx...

[Don't Like Sugar] also posted a thread that night, titled: [Analyze the zombies and predict how to fight.]

[…From the trailer, we can’t tell the specific form of virus transmission. We only know that it can be infected through saliva bites. But where did the virus come from in the first place? It seems that the feature film will reveal it. Obviously, compared with the previous parasites, the pink virus is more dangerous. ]

[The infected zombies have extremely strong mobility, and I don’t know if you’ve noticed, they are even divided into different types. Look here, [screenshot] This is the zombie tide square in the first trailer. Most of them are just ordinary human corpses, but you can tell that some have wings, like the "blood eagle"; some have tails; and some are very strangely crawling on all fours...]

[I believe that different forms have different combat capabilities. The blood eagle zombie that attacked the protagonist and her daughter was hit by a car and half of its body was smashed, but it was still able to move. It was terrifying.]

[However, I think it won't be too difficult to wipe them out, otherwise the gap between their combat power and that of humans will be too great... According to my guess, zombies probably have a "core weakness" that can be killed completely by hitting it. It's either the heart or the head.]

The author's analysis is as logical as ever, which makes people marvel, especially the analysis of the core points at the end.

After expressing their feelings, the forum friends made the usual joke:

[Original poster, why is your IP still in the purple mist? Are you waiting for the "Light Years" show to end and prepare to ask for autographs (dog head)]

[I don't write Xi Nan Xi, but it's still there. Have you two met in person? 】

[When will the OP admit that he is a fan 233]

Faced with these replies, [Don't Like Sugar] remained aloof and did not respond.

In the purple mist.

X71 flipped through the forum posts: [Everyone is so smart, they even figured out that zombies have a core weakness! ]

"Headshot kills" is a classic setting for zombies, and Shang Jingyan continues the tradition of the previous life. This is also very helpful for players to aim in the game, if there are any subsequent derivatives.

[These hoarding posts are also very interesting. ] Shang Jingyan read them with great interest.

X71 also registered a small account and joined more than a dozen fan groups, clearly becoming Shang Jingyan's number one fanatical fan.

Shang Jingyan said: With such powerful data processing capabilities, you use it to chat at the same time?

But it was also because of X71 that Shang Jingyan discovered that the enthusiasm of the interstellar audiences in discussing "Pink Coming" this time exceeded her expectations.

She thought about it for a moment before she understood why.

Human beings are inherently contradictory creatures. We are "afraid of but want to watch" horror movies. The same is true in real life. Who hasn't stared at the stairs while daydreaming, imagining how they would save passers-by if they fell down?

Imaginations about the end of humanity have been numerous in every era.

The "spread of the virus leading to the advent of the doomsday" is closer to life than the previous "the advent of the infinite game" and it is easier to start a heated discussion based on it.

There have been stories about disasters and doomsday in StarCraft before. For example, Hua Feitian is very good at wasteland stories.

However, most of them are very "positive", like official fire prevention propaganda films, and none of them exaggerate how scary the disaster is like Shang Jingyan's.

After the second trailer was released, people instantly got into the story and wondered what they would do if they were in the situation now.

There is more or less a bit of hoarding in people's genes. For example, in Shang Jingyan's previous life, a doomsday novel has even developed a branch called "hoarding", which tells the story of the protagonist hoarding a lot of supplies for various reasons when the doomsday comes, and using this method to build a base and survive the doomsday.

Shang Jingyan felt that according to the current momentum, this school of thought would make a comeback soon.

She put away her laptop, looked up at the sky, and said to herself silently: "Just think of this as a disaster education for everyone in advance..."

The shadow of the brain worm is like a dark cloud, weighing heavily on the sky, and there's no telling when heavy rain will pour down.

At present, Shang Jingyan still lives in the villa of the show.

The program crew is dismantling the equipment in the villa and program area. These equipment took a month to build, so it is impossible to clean them up in a day or two.

Shang Jingyan put his hands in his pockets, walked out of the villa area in the drifting snow, and boarded the public suspended train.

After all, it is a planet. Even though she has been here for such a long time, she has not visited all the attractions, so the scenery along the way is still fresh to her.

Shang Jingyan's destination was the hospital. She wanted to go for a follow-up check to see if the sequelae of falling into the water had fully recovered and whether she could attend the celebration banquet and cocktail party.

[Hey, I didn't notice it's already the weekend.] She noticed the time on the public screen, and X71 agreed, [Yes, yes, the next episode of "Infinite Heartbeat" will be aired soon.]

During the broadcast of "Light Years", although "Infinity" was resumed, it failed to be updated weekly. After all, the leading actress was still in the variety show, and she, the dream builder, unfortunately fell into trouble, so she could only save on her inventory.

After careful calculation, the copy of "Forest Singer" is about to reach the exciting point. Shang Jingyan adjusted his sitting position and prepared to watch it to kill time on the train.

When writing this, I remembered an old fanfiction meme, flower vomiting syndrome (?)