Chapter 1.
"Warning! Warning! A full-scale weirdness is coming. Survivors please take refuge in the middle area immediately!"
"Warning! The survival rate of humans in the Pure Land is zero. Survivors please immediately enter the middle area for refuge!"
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Tang Yu was awakened by a series of shrill alarms. She raised her head from the quilt and stared at the big red exclamation mark floating in front of her with lifeless eyes.
With a series of warning sounds in his ears, Tang Yu closed his eyes, revealing a sickly red color around his eyes.
"Tsk! Why am I having auditory hallucinations?" She waved her hand in the air, trying to get rid of the red exclamation mark that appeared in front of her, but it was obviously of no use.
Tang Yu was too lazy to care about that thing. She rubbed her messy curly hair, put on a loose black sweatshirt, got out of bed and walked towards the bathroom.
There was nothing wrong with the red exclamation mark except that it affected his vision a little, so Tang Yu was in a very good mood.
After all, she had experienced worse hallucinations in the past, but the doctor was right.
This is a disease and needs to be treated!
She washed up slowly and then went to the drawer to look for her medicine.
After taking the medicine with tap water, Tang Yu went to the kitchen and fried himself an egg with a big red exclamation mark in front of him.
Turning on the gas stove, the red and blue flames jumped on the stove mouth, and even Tang Yu's smoky gray eyes were filled with light.
Heat the pan, crack the eggshells, and watch the egg liquid gradually change color in the pan.
Tang Yu was extremely serious throughout the whole process, as if he was not just making a simple breakfast, but completing an extremely sacred task.
However, the eggs lying in the pan are gradually undergoing strange changes, as the egg whites that have turned white due to high temperature gradually begin to turn a bluish-black color.
The surface of the egg yolk in the middle began to twist slightly, as if there were a few worms hidden inside.
If others saw this scene, they would have thrown the pot away. However, Tang Yu, who was standing next to the pot, quietly looked at the thing that could no longer be called a fried egg.
"Hey, you can't stop taking the medicine!"
The hallucinations seemed to be getting worse.
Sprinkle salt and pepper evenly on the "fried egg", and Tang Yu's breakfast is ready.
Carrying his own breakfast, Tang Yu sat down at the dining table, savoring his own work bite by bite, squinting his eyes to savor it for a long time, and finally gave his evaluation.
"It was a little overcooked, too much pepper, and the salt covered up the original flavor of the eggs. I might try adding something else next time."
Tang Yu licked his lips with the tip of his tongue and said, "Can you put some fermented bean curd in it next time?"
Tang Yu was so immersed in this creative idea that she didn't even notice when the red exclamation mark in front of her disappeared.
The shrill warning sound in my ears has disappeared, and what followed was a continuous stream of noisy exclamations, occasionally mixed with strange roars.
Those sounds seemed to be mixed with despair and repression, and were completely different from the sounds that normal humans should make.
Tang Yu was so disturbed by the sound that she couldn't calm down and think. She hesitated whether to take the medicine again, but then stopped the idea.
Taking medicine doesn't feel good, it always makes her dizzy, nauseous and want to vomit.
I forgot where I read in a book, but it said that the best way to overcome mental disorders is to rely on yourself, and taking medicine is only an auxiliary means.
Although the auditory and visual hallucinations seemed to have worsened, Tang Yu felt that as long as he treated it with a normal attitude, it would not affect his normal life at all!
Besides, she has more important things to do.
After breakfast, Tang Yu leaned over to the window and looked at the old mutton soup restaurant across the street.
Tang Yu lives in a third-tier small city. She lives on the first floor of an old residential building in the old city area.
The 50-square-meter single room has old facilities, but it is fully furnished, so it is not inconvenient for her to live alone.
The most important thing is that you can clearly see the scenery opposite through the window of the room.
The mutton soup shop across the street exudes the rich and fragrant aroma of broth every day, and few passers-by can resist the temptation and go in.
There are even diners from other cities who come here to eat.
Tang Yu once went in to drink mutton soup, and the soul-stirring delicious taste made her determined to live here.
She loves food and cooking, and her biggest dream is to become an excellent chef.
The first step towards the dream is to learn from the owner of the mutton soup restaurant!
However, the proprietress of the mutton soup restaurant politely rejected Tang Yu's plan to take him in as a disciple, but Tang Yu stubbornly refused to give up.
She stood by the window day and night, observing the mutton soup restaurant across the street, just to study the secret of the broth.
If she could cook a delicious pot of broth, perhaps she could impress the proprietress and be accepted as her apprentice.
However, through observations in recent days, Tang Yu discovered that the mutton soup restaurant opposite seemed to be in crisis.
The small shop that used to be packed with guests now had no customers coming to drink soup. Tang Yu didn't know if it was because there were no customers, but he felt that the chandeliers in the shop had become dim and bleak.
Perhaps because business is bad, the waiters in the mutton soup restaurant have also disappeared in the past few days.
Only the haggard proprietress was left, still cooking the fragrant broth late at night every day. Tang Yu was deeply moved by her perseverance.
However, Tang Yu smelled that the meat was not mutton. It lacked the unique smell of mutton and had a strange fragrance that he had never smelled before.
It seems that the boss lady’s cooking skills have improved!
Tang Yu, Tang Yu, you have to work hard!
After encouraging himself, Tang Yu turned around and went into the kitchen.
There are plenty of ingredients at home, more than enough to support her in completing experiments again and again.
Based on the taste in his memory and the process he imagined, Tang Yu put the processed mutton and seasonings into the pot. After covering the pot, he moved a small stool and waited attentively by the stove.
The roars and screams in his ears continued, but they were no longer enough to disturb Tang Yu's mind.
The jumping flame on the stove was reflected in her light grey eyes which always looked listless, adding a bit of vitality to her whole appearance.
Sure enough, concentration is the best medicine to cure mental disorders.
Four hours later, Tang Yu was awakened by the cooking timer. She blinked and found that the noise in her ears had stopped, and there was only the gurgling sound in the stew pot.
Looking at the steaming stew pot, Tang Yu's eyes sparkled. She raised her nose and sniffed. Hmm, it seemed a little different from what the boss lady cooked.
By the way, where did the faint smell of blood in the air come from? Could it be that I was hallucinating again?
Tang Yu, who always adhered to the principle of not thinking about something if she didn't understand it, didn't waste her time on it. She opened the lid of the pot with great anticipation.
After the steam dissipated, a pot of something that could barely be called soup appeared before our eyes.
"Hiss, I remember I didn't add soy sauce?" Looking at the pot of black and red broth, Tang Yu was puzzled.
Visually, this pot of soup is really hard to define calmly.
The black, red and unknown things mixed together, rolling and boiling, and occasionally a sticky bubble would appear. The bubble would expand to the extreme and then burst, making a sticky and disgusting "puff" sound.
But if you close your eyes and just smell it, it is still a pot of fragrant broth.
Tang Yu calmly picked up the spoon, scooped a little, put it to his mouth and tasted it.
Well, the soup is fine, but the eyes are the problem.
After accepting his own problem, Tang Yu took a spoon and scooped a bowl of soup. He decided to taste it carefully and think about what needed to be changed.
"Boom! Boom! Boom..."
There was a slow and stiff knock on the door, and the person outside knocked on it patiently.
"Uncle, I haven't finished my medicine yet, so you don't need to send it to me today." Tang Yu shouted to the outside of the door.
The uncle who lived on the same floor with her was a good man. He would send her medicine every once in a while to treat her mental disorder.
But today is not the time to deliver the medicine, and I don’t know if the uncle has remembered it wrong because of his age.
After Tang Yu shouted this, the knocking on the door continued, and it seemed as if they would not stop until the door was opened.
Oh, it seems that the uncle is really old, even his ears don’t work well anymore.
Tang Yu's heart was filled with sympathy, and he went straight to open the door with a bowl of soup.
The old wooden door creaked open, revealing a dim corridor behind it.
The lighting on the first floor has always been poor. Even during the day, we have to rely on the voice-controlled lighting in the corridor to provide light.
But she didn't know if the lighting was out of repair. After Tang Yu opened the door, the lights in the corridor flashed twice and then went out. No matter how hard she stepped, she couldn't make the lights turn on.
She didn't even have time to see clearly the tall figure standing in front of her. She could only see a vague figure standing motionless in front of her.
Tang Yu had no choice but to turn on the indoor lights, trying to let the light from the house out.
But accidents happen all the time, and today all the bad luck happened at the same time. The light bulb in the room flashed twice and then went out with a hiss.
However, Tang Yu took advantage of the flash of light to see the person outside the door clearly. It turned out that it was not the uncle, but the fat aunt who lived next door.
"Huh? Auntie, what's wrong with you? Are you feeling unwell?" Tang Yu looked at the fat auntie who was standing motionless in front of him in surprise.
The fat aunt was wearing her favorite floral cotton dress and had a head of hair-curled curls. She usually smiled happily at everyone she met, but today she didn't say a word.
That familiar face was pale with a hint of blue and black, and its cloudy eyes stared at Tang Yu who was standing at the door without blinking, with a cold look in its eyes.
Seeing that the fat aunt ignored him, Tang Yu scratched his head and searched his mind for the few social terms.
She pried open the door and asked tentatively, "Did something happen to you? Why don't you come in and tell me?"
I learned this from the fat aunt.
As soon as the words fell, the motionless fat aunt moved.
In the dim corridor, the corners of its mouth were stretched straight, and a scarlet arc appeared. It said faintly, "Okay, I'll come in right away."
The sound is like drinking a bowl of ice in the coldest days of winter, which makes one's spine chill.
But such abnormality seemed normal to Tang Yu. She thought she was probably having another attack of the disease.
The fat aunt floated into the room without any movement as if she was stepping on a pulley. Tang Yu held the bowl in one hand and pulled her to sit at the table with the other.
"Look how cold your hands are. It looks like the temperature is going to drop soon. You need to wear more clothes!"
The fat aunt sat at the dining table. The light coming in from the window made her skin look even paler, which reminded Tang Yu of the raw meat he had frozen in the refrigerator.
Tang Yu placed the steaming hot broth in front of the fat aunt and said in a friendly manner: "Have a bowl of hot soup quickly to warm yourself up!"
After hearing Tang Yu's words, the fat aunt's mouth curved even wider.
It's not here to drink soup!
The fat aunt glanced at the bowl of broth and her body trembled slightly.
This soup!
Tang Yu smiled as she watched the fat aunt slowly pick up the bowl of soup with her trembling fat hands. Under her gaze, the fat aunt drank up the bowl of steaming broth.
Mm! It’s a pretty good feeling to watch others enjoy your food!
But she didn't see that under the cover of the light green steam, the fat aunt's round eyes were trembling wildly.
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