In the gift shop, Su Mingan looked at the dazzling array of dolls on the shelves.
Resources were scarce in the city, and Su Mingan could not find a Barbie doll. All she saw were rather bloated, rough cloth dolls. Su Mingan tried her best to pick a cute one, with a pink bow, a milky white lace skirt, and scarlet round shoes.
At this time, a group of female students' voices came from the door of the gift shop: "Ah! Brother Wen Sheng is here!"
Su Mingan turned around holding the pink doll and met the eyes of dozens of female students.
They were shocked. For a moment, both sides seemed to be stunned, and the atmosphere was somewhat stagnant.
Su Mingan looked down at the cute pink doll in his arms and suddenly realized something.
"...Brother Wensheng actually has such a hobby." Jiang Xiaoshan looked shocked.
"Did we accidentally run into something?" Jiang Yunmeng whispered while pulling someone else's hand: "Let's leave quickly..."
"Oh, I didn't expect that Brother Wen Sheng also has a lovely side." Qiao Qiao covered her mouth.
Su Mingan paid the bill without changing his expression, came out holding the rag doll, and faced the group of people at the door.
"What happened?" Su Mingan asked.
"Tao Meng suddenly disappeared today, and we are all looking for Tao Meng." Although Jiang Yunmeng was explaining, her eyes were fixed on Su Mingan's doll. All the other female students also stared at the doll in Su Mingan's hand.
Su Mingan remembered Tao Meng, a little girl with a loud voice. If Tao Meng disappeared, it was probably caused by the aliens in the city.
He suggested to search together. So he was assigned to a group with Jiang Xiaoshan, and the two of them searched nearby together.
The afternoon sun is dazzling and it stings my body a bit.
Su Mingan held a big pink doll and walked forward among the ruins.
The pale and skinny people were gnawing on black bread. Many were still kneeling on the ground, digging and moving the bricks and stones from yesterday's air raid, and kept calling out the names of their loved ones.
"Mom, Mom—are you down there? Answer me, please, please—!"
“Grandma, grandma!”
“Where are you!!”
Street advertisements showing luxury goods from big cities contrasted sharply with the bodies of people starving to death on the streets, as if the city had been dead for a long time.
Jiang Xiaoshan, with pigtails, walked in front and helped Su Mingan move away the wooden blocks that were blocking the way.
"Tao Meng is a very serious person." Jiang Xiaoshan said, "She always stays up till the last minute to memorize the lessons. She also helps me with dictation. I look at her notes for many parts. Her notes are so good and complete, just like a tutorial book. She is really hardworking and usually gets up at five in the morning to memorize the lessons."
"The college entrance examination is tomorrow," said Su Mingan.
"Yeah." Jiang Xiaoshan said, "Her relatives died because of the lack of resources in the city. I can see that she wants to take the college entrance examination more than anyone else. She doesn't want the tragedy of her relatives to happen again. The college entrance examination is tomorrow, and I can't understand why she suddenly disappeared."
Just a few words, but they outline the heavy grief of a young girl. All her relatives died due to lack of resources. How desperate and powerless this is.
Looking around this desolate and miserable city, Su Mingan watched it all.
What exactly caused all this?
In a closed world, belief becomes a factor of formulation, leading to the emergence of a strange phenomenon of "culture determines biology". It seems incredible, but it is very reasonable. In order to maintain this easily recognized class distinction, people work very hard.
This led to -
No matter how many words of advice you give, they are not as effective as a command from the gods.
No matter how many wars you start to resist, they are not as good as a look from God.
"Where do you think Tao Meng will go?" Su Mingan said.
"There was no blood in her room. We guessed that she ran out quietly." Jiang Xiaoshan said: "Did she go somewhere to memorize the lessons? It would be great if that was the case."
How she wished that Tao Meng had just gone somewhere to memorize her lessons and nothing had happened to her.
"Even if there is no bloodstain in Tao Meng's room, it is possible that she was killed by the alien species in the city. To kill people, the alien species may only need to attack the brain." Su Mingan said.
"No! It definitely wasn't done by the aliens in the city!" Jiang Xiaoshan suddenly shouted.
"Huh?" Su Mingan didn't know why she was suddenly so excited.
"Yes, that must be the case. Tao Meng once told us that she died of starvation at the age of 22. Before that, nothing would have happened to her." Jiang Xiaoshan was stunned for a moment, then immediately adjusted her expression and whispered to comfort herself: "Although I don't know why she starved to death at the age of 22, she must be fine now."
Su Mingan said: "If she can pass the college entrance examination, it is unlikely that she will starve to death when she is 22 years old. Will there be a great famine in the future?"
"The death outcome arranged by the gods...can we still defy it? Maybe there will really be famine in the future." Jiang Xiaoshan smiled bitterly.
Su Mingan pondered over human beings' blind faith, and held the doll in his hand tighter and tighter.
And at this moment——
“Hula—hula—”
He heard a gust of wind.
He instantly became alert and looked up at the source of the sound, but suddenly saw -
A blooming blood flower.
The bright red blood flower bloomed in the center of his vision, and then quickly fell down - it was a body falling from the sky like a flying bird, and the white clothes on the body were like the wings of a white bird, flying freely in the dancing winter wind.
Someone jumped off the building.
The moment he realized this, Su Mingan was already too late to catch the man.
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