Chapter 1 1. Apocalyptic Simulation Game
The sky is blue, as clear as sapphire.
The open office on the 18th floor of Jinshui Building is spacious and bright, with twenty workstations neatly arranged.
"Su Hong."
In front of the workstation next to the souvenir display cabinet, half of the woman's soft body was pressed against the screen, and her fingers were playing with the light-colored artificial flowers on the table.
Her eyes were like a black pool, and the ripples reflected the figure sitting on the desk.
The man is wearing a shirt and tie, has a slim figure, and is overall clean and refreshing, which makes people feel good about him.
"Are you free this weekend to go shopping with me?"
Su Hong was looking out the window in a trance, when he heard the woman's voice, he turned around and stood up.
"Xue Jing, come here."
Su Hong did not reply to her invitation immediately, but just pulled her in front of him and took a look - the woman had a delicate face, delicate facial features, skin like snow, and reddish cheeks, as if the rising sun was shining on her face, making her look... Extraordinarily moving.
"What...what happened?"
She and Su Hong met a year ago, when she just joined Shengshi Qingsi Advertising Company. As a senior in the company, Su Hong took great care of her. After going back and forth, the two started chatting.
Su Hong wiped his sleeves, looked at his watch, and suddenly said, "It's almost four o'clock."
"What happened at four o'clock?" Xue Jing was a little confused.
The company recently took over the shooting design of Shengshi's urban cultural propaganda documentary. The business is very busy and we often work overtime. We can't get off work until around 7 o'clock at the earliest.
There should be nothing special at 4 o'clock.
Su Hong still didn't answer, just looked out the window.
"Buzz..."
The long sound of the horn echoed in the sky, like the cry of a whale.
It was clearly afternoon time, but the blue and clear sky suddenly dimmed. The wind and clouds suddenly changed, blood mist filled the air, and the lights of nearby buildings became increasingly hazy and bloody.
Roars and screams echoed between the buildings, and a huge black shadow stirred up the blood mist, looming.
Suddenly, a bright and coquettish blood flowed down from the sky, like the blood and tears of mourning and crying in the sky. You could vaguely see the place where the blood light surged. The dark hollow swallowed the sun, and the corona of light could not escape.
This apocalyptic scene is extremely strange and beyond everyone’s understanding.
For a moment, the director, director, and designer in the office all put down their work in unison, looking blankly, looking up at the hole where blood and darkness flowed.
"Su Hong, I... seem a little uncomfortable."
When he came back to his senses, he saw that Xue Jing's eyes had lost their clarity, her expression had become dull, and her cheeks were twitching faintly, as if there were insects crawling inside.
The girl felt a little itchy on her face and reached out her hand to touch her cheek.
The next second, half of her face suddenly collapsed, strands of sticky plasma were pulled out, the flesh was uneven, and the blood-red eyeballs twitched like a parasite.
Crack... The soft flesh fell to the tile floor, and dirty blood splashed in circles.
"I..." the woman stood blankly, "Actually, I like you very much."
"I know." Su Hong's face was calm, as if he was accustomed to this abnormal phenomenon.
"You stand still first and I'll help you pick up your face."
"Oh." The girl stood obediently.
He squatted down and took out a fruit knife from his pocket instead of picking up the rotten meat at his feet.
"Sorry, I don't want to be killed by you again."
After the words fell, Su Hong quickly stood up. The blood outside the window added a bit of bloodlust to his expressionless and stern face.
Cold light flew by, dirty blood splashed, Xue Jing's body collapsed, her aorta and trachea were severed, and her head hung down strangely.
"Su...Hong, don't go..."
The woman lay in a pool of blood and whispered dumbly. Everything had changed, but the only thing that remained unchanged was the blurred love under her eyes.
Su Hong looked on coldly, turned and left.
He knew that this was not love. When the end of the world came, it also turned some people into monsters. People's hearts were distorted and alienated. Loyalty, betrayal, trust... everything became extreme.
"Su Hong, what are you doing?!" A series of changes caused everyone in the office to have a nervous breakdown, and they roared.
Su Hong ignored them, clenched the fruit knife tightly in his right hand, pushed open the glass door of the office, and ran straight to the fire escape.
Passing by the elevator and the people fleeing in panic, he quickly walked down the stairs without even looking at them.
Not long after he left, screams and horrific chewing sounds came from the elevator. Blood overflowed from the cracks in the elevator door, covered the tiles, and flowed onto the concrete stairs of the fire escape.
A pair of terrifying bone claws tore the elevator door apart, and the blood stains on the porcelain bone joints were like twisted tree roots climbing, as if a monster was about to run out from inside.
"Ding-deng-deng..."
The footsteps kept coming, and Su Hong quickly went down from the 18th floor to the 10th floor.
But at this moment, a familiar call came from behind him.
"Su Hong, where are you going-"
Hearing this creepy sound, goosebumps rose all over his body.
Looking up, wet and sticky tentacles quickly jumped down the stair railing, faintly flashing dark red light.
Xue Jing's head shook on it, throwing filth and blood onto his chest, exuding a stench.
"Damn it."
It was obvious that this was also the first time for the man to encounter this situation. He didn't pay attention to the strange head behind him and just ran downstairs.
The tenth floor...the eighth floor...the third floor...the first floor!
He didn't dare to look back, and he didn't hear the woman's call again. He pushed open the two heavy fire doors and ran out quickly.
But the further he walked, the heavier his heart became.
He didn't see anyone on the first floor.
The floor was littered with scattered documents and files, trampled to pieces by panicked footprints.
This Jinshui Building is located in the Chengnan District, the busiest area in Sheng City. On weekdays, you can't even squeeze into the elevator after work, but why has the apocalypse come and no one is there?
He subconsciously looked outside the lobby of the business building.
The spacious glass door was shattered all over the floor. Men and women in professional attire were hung in rows in the square, with their feet off the ground, swaying in the wind like dolls on a sunny day.
Behind them, a four-meter-tall man with a strange beak mask and half his body covered in bandages, wearing a tattered black robe and a bloody sickle on his shoulder, was looking up into the distance.
Looking in the direction of his gaze, a square building that was completely black and covered with thorns stood abruptly. The blood mist that gradually spread out covered the sky. Its grandeur was frightening.
Absolutely no going out!
Su Hong's heart was beating wildly.
With the abyss ahead and hell behind him, does he really want to retreat?
Before he could figure it out, the wet blood stained his shoulders red, like a red flower blooming on his white shirt.
"How about we be together forever..."
Xue Jing's warm voice sounded in his ears, and at some point, tentacles climbed up Su Hong's shoulders.
The woman stared at him lovingly and said nothing.
Immediately afterwards, Su Hong felt severe pain in his shoulder, the tentacles took root in his flesh and blood, and the woman's head completely grew on his shoulder.
His eyes darkened and he lost consciousness.
"Simulation over."
"Survival time: five minutes."
“Evaluation: It’s already great, there’s huge room for improvement.”
"You can bring out a reward from the simulation: the blood-stained dagger and Xue Jing's head."
On the work chair, Su Hong blinked, the blood dissipated, white light once again occupied his field of vision, and the blood-stained LOGO of [Apocalyptic Simulation Game] gradually faded from his retinas.
"Didi." PP News popped up on the taskbar in the lower right corner of the computer.
"...This year's second total solar eclipse in the world will be staged at noon on September 21... The total eclipse belt will span a large land area within the Hua League and the Peninsula, and the longest observable time is expected to be within five minutes... The observable areas are …”
He clicked on his phone, and the lock screen time showed - Wednesday, September 17, 2025, 4:50 pm.
There are still four days until the second total solar eclipse.
Then he looked up and looked out the window. The blue sky was still the same, and the golden sunlight was shining slantly on the office water dispenser table. The years were quiet, as if everything just now was just a nightmare.
But Su Hong knew that in the next month, there would be a third and fourth total solar eclipse...until the apocalypse where the sun was devoured just now appeared in front of him again.
They have to face not only a bleak world, but also monsters of unknown origin, like monsters that suddenly appear from another world.
Before the end of the world comes, there is only one thing he has to do - to use simulation games to prepare for the end of the world in advance and survive.
"Su Hong."
A familiar voice came from not far away. Xue Jing walked over in high heels and stopped in front of the desk.
The woman stood a little cautiously, "Are you free tonight? How about we go have a meal together."
Xiaojiabiyu.
This is the word that came to Su Hong's first thought.
In his youthful years, the girl in front of him was like a shy flower waiting to bloom, and it was really difficult for a man with strong energy to refuse her.
But when he thought of the lingering strange figure in the simulation game, Su Hong quickly stood up and said, "Sorry, Xue Jing, I have something else to do."
"Actually, my resignation procedures are almost completed."
The end of the world is coming, and running away is the most important thing.
There is no need to risk your life for that salary.
The woman's pretty face showed a look of astonishment, "Why..."
Su Hong put his palm on her shoulder, "There are some things you will know in the future."
"But we are still friends, right?"
Xue Jing was in a low mood, the corners of her mouth twitched, and her smile was a little forced.
…
At around six o'clock in the evening, the sky was filled with sunset, and the wine-red afterglow was smeared in the sky.
Su Hong held the cardboard box and stood in the bustling crowd to say goodbye to Xue Jing.
He glanced at the sunset on the horizon and recorded this beautiful scene with his mobile phone.
A month later, the sun was swallowed by the hole and darkness fell, making it difficult to see this beauty again.
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