Giant Worm World

Chapter 2

In my previous geography class, the teacher once said that City H belongs to the alluvial fan plain area in front of the mountain. There are no volcanoes, earthquakes, floods, or typhoons, and it is basically immune to all natural disasters.But that teacher obviously ignored the possibility of falling from the sky.

Xu Yang rummaged through the abandoned rubble for a long time without gaining anything. After drinking the mineral water bottle in his hand, he looked up at the drowsy sky.

It has been a week since the meteorite fell.At first, people thought it was just a simple accident, but this week, no government or military rescue came. What is even more frightening is that mobile phones, TVs, computers and even old-fashioned radios are all in a state of no signal and no network.On the day when the disaster just happened, we could still watch the emergency news on TV, but now all the channels have become snowflakes.

The impact of the meteorite collapsed the one-story house near Xu Yang and Chu Chen's house, and now the neighbors in the neighborhood are living in simple tents on the nearby flat ground.The good news is that the weather is not too cold now, and it can last for a while.The bad news is that they are basically cut off from the outside world, and they don't know how long it will take for help to arrive.Even more unfortunately, due to the sudden fall of the meteorite, many deaths and injuries were caused.Xu Yang's parents had already returned home from get off work when the disaster happened. His father broke his left leg when the building collapsed to save his mother.In fact, he was lucky. Xu Yang didn't dare to see Chu Chen these days. Chu Chen's grandma unfortunately died in this disaster.

The people around were all in a sad mood. Xu Yang had also walked a little further away in the past few days, and all he saw was this kind of scene.There is no signal everywhere, and places like supermarkets have been looted long ago. Those who are lucky hide in the house and cannot come out, and those who are unlucky sleep on the street like them.Because he has to take care of his father, Xu Yang, he dare not go too far away, so he doesn't know what's going on in further places or other places.

There was an emergency disaster drill in the school before, but Xu Yang didn't listen well at that time.If Xu Yang could do it again, he would definitely take notes.But it's just thinking about it, and it didn't say what to do if there was no rescue.Xu Yang didn't dare to think deeply, isn't it just an ordinary natural disaster, why hasn't any rescue arrived for a week so far.

It's ridiculous to say that Xu Yang put away the bottle. The empty bottles that are usually thrown away are not containers that dare to be thrown away at will in this special period.Crossing the flat ground surrounded by crying from morning to night, Xu Yang saw his tent.

But Xu Yang didn't go in because he saw a familiar figure in an open space.

Xu Yang walked gently behind Chu Chen, and stretched out his hand to pat him, but felt that something was wrong, and his arm froze in the air stupidly.

Chu Chen turned to look at him when he heard the movement, Xu Yang saw Chu Chen's dry lips and bloodshot eyes.Xu Yang felt very uncomfortable, although in terms of appearance, he and Chu Chen were really not that different.He also lives in the same simple outdoors, is also short of food and drink, and is also anxious and anxious all day long, but Chu Chen suffers more than him from the pain of losing a loved one.

Xu Yang withdrew his hand in embarrassment, no matter how much he joked and taunted each other, but now Xu Yang doesn't know what to say, is the condolences going to change?

On the other hand, Chu Chen, as if he had grown up all of a sudden, took out a red worn-out elderly phone from his pocket.After tediously unlocking the screen lock, Chu Chen glanced at the time: "It's past three o'clock in the afternoon."

Xu Yang nodded subconsciously: "Yes, now I don't know if it's morning or afternoon without looking at the time, I've been groggy all the time."

Judging from the standby time, the mobile phone seems to be lagging behind more and more. Smartphones and the like can no longer be turned on as early as the third day, and the only mobile phone that can still be turned on in this area is only in the hands of Chu Chen. This is a super long standby.This is the only relic left by his grandma.

"Brother Xu," Chu Chen rubbed his eyes and stood up, his voice was very hoarse, "I plan to leave here, do you want to come together?"

Xu Yang froze for a moment: "Leave? Where are you going?"

Chu Chen smiled bitterly: "I don't know, anyway, I don't want to stay here anymore. Food and water can last for a while, but I think everyone's energy is almost gone. Rescue is not at all It means that it will come, I am afraid that the negative emotions will spread in a short time, and we still have to save ourselves, why not take a step to see it first."

Xu Yang frowned and said, "In my spare time these days, I went to a place a little further away to see it, and it was all the same."

"Then go to a further place to see," Chu Chen said in a tone of anger, "I don't believe that we were abandoned like this, something must have happened! If this is the case everywhere in City H, then Go to G City in Lin City to have a look, anyway, it’s not far away, two days’ walking is enough.”

Xu Yang was very hesitant, but he didn't dare to keep Chu Chen. After all, he can be said to be alone now, and there is no reason to accompany him with his family to die here and wait for rescue.

Chu Chen patted the dust on his clothes: "Let me just say this, Brother Xu, if you don't want to go, forget it, I know you still have your dad to take care of. I just don't want to stay here anymore, so I won't go find some I'm afraid I'll go crazy when I do things."

Xu Yang looked at the tent in the distance, and then at the ruined wall further away, and said for a long time: "I'll go ask my parents what they mean, anyway, I'm waiting, I want to go out with you. "

"Thank you," Chu Chen said with a chuckle, "The big walnut ruined our home, it's fine if we don't see it."

Big walnut is what they called the meteorite, because at first glance, the meteorite is very round, and the surface is pitted, just like a huge walnut.But no one dared to look closer, because the high temperature caused by the violent friction hadn't dropped for several days. If you got a little closer, you could feel the burning pain of the mucous membrane when you breathed.

Xu Yang thought for a while and said, "Why don't you go with me to meet my parents, and you should follow suit. Anyway, there shouldn't be any danger. You can go outside and have a look."

The two families can't be called neighbors, but they live very close, often visit each other's house to play, and are familiar with each other's family members.Thinking of this, Xu Yang felt a little sad. He thought of Chu Chen's grandma, that kind old man who was dazzled but could make pancakes well.

Just when they were about to go over, they were caught by a startled breath not far away.The two glanced at each other, hesitated for a moment and followed the crowd.Although in the midst of a disaster, it seems that they dare not reveal their fearful emotions. No one has ever screamed loudly. Everyone's sadness and pain are only on their expressions, as if they can escape reality by doing so.

This scream seemed to be the real prelude to the disaster.

"Fuck, what is this..." Chu Chen returned to his startled look.In fact, he can't be blamed. Anyone who sees the burly beast in front of them will say "fuck".

A wet praying mantis was surrounded by people far away in the center. This praying mantis was as big as a car.

"Squeak—" Mantis let out a piercing shriek, as if startled by the crowd of onlookers.Its huge, shiny front legs supported its wet and heavy body, and began to move on the ground with difficulty.

Screams erupted from the crowd again. It was really appalling to see such a thing after the disaster. Many children cried out abruptly, and despair spread all of a sudden.

"How could there be such a big bug? Is there radiation in the meteorite?" said a middle-aged man wearing thick glasses, and wiped his glasses in disbelief.Unfortunately, Mantis didn't disappear with the stain on his glasses.

Fear not only breeds despair, it breeds rage.

"Damn it! No matter what it is, let's shoot it to death!" A strong, shirtless man reached for a shovel, and slowly approached the shovel while holding the shovel tightly.

As soon as the man took the lead, more people joined him, slowly forming a smaller and smaller encirclement with various long-handled iron tools, and kept approaching the mantis.

The mantis instinctively sensed the crisis, and began to spin around impatiently, making piercing screams continuously, and its front claws covered with sharp barbs began to hit the ground again and again.

When people got closer, the praying mantis suddenly shook its wet wings, and the sticky liquid on it was shaken to the surroundings. The man in the lead subconsciously raised his arm to protect his face, and a small piece of mucus was stained on his forearm. Immediately it starts to swell up.

People thought it was the biological mutation caused by the radiation on the meteorite, but they didn't know that under the meteorite... the land under the meteorite had been hollowed out, and in the darkness, huge eggs like milky white marbles were wriggling. With a muffled sound, more and more praying mantises emerged from the eggs with their wet bodies, instinctively wanting to jump out of the ground to escape the high temperature here.

"Fuck!" The burning pain in his arm made the man completely explode in anger. After a curse, he picked up the shovel and rushed over. The sharp edge of the shovel hit the mantis' black triangular head hard.

The scene of the shovel cutting off the praying mantis' head did not appear. Instead, there was a crisp sound of metal colliding. The man's arm was numb from the shock, as if he had hit a hard rock.

"Squeak!" The mantis raised its front paw angrily, and ruthlessly scratched across the man's body.

Screams and cries broke out again from the crowd, but the man's expression froze.The wooden handle of the shovel in his hand broke suddenly, and his body was split in half like this rotten wood, and he fell powerlessly to the ground, blood mixed with internal organs flowing all over the floor.

"Run!" Xu Yang hurriedly pulled Chu Chen who was dumbfounded, trying to take him away from this dangerous place.

The mantis seemed to be instinctively aroused by the killing just now, spread its transparent wings full of veins, and leaped forward a certain distance with a "buzz", the sharp blades on its claws cut the throats of the two men, instantly killing the two men. The head was detached from the neck, and the spurted blood finally reminded the onlookers that they could run away.

When the mantis fell to the ground, he held down a terrified old man. The old man was shaking under the mantis' body: "Help me!! Put it..."

The old man's unfinished words remained in his throat forever. The mantis lowered his head, and cut off the old man's neck with his sharp jaws. Blood sprayed on the mantis' head. The mantis lowered his head, feasting on the old man's corpse, his slender tentacles trembling, It seems to show its happy mood.

"That... what's going on?" Chu Chen was foolishly dragged away by Xu Yang, and asked in a daze.

Xu Yang didn't know what to say, did the scene he saw with his own eyes really happen?It's too unbelievable, right?All of this is just a dream, meteorites, bugs, all dreams... But thinking about it, Xu Yang's steps became faster, with Chu Chen and the crowd behind him who realized later and caused the stampede, Flee quickly from that eerie horror.

"Squeak—" There was another cry of praying mantises behind them, and the people ran even faster.

Stumbling back to his tent along the way, Xu Yang yelled before he entered: "Mom! Take my dad away...Mom!"

Xu Yang screamed out. The tent seemed to have been painted over with red paint. The floor was full of stumps and internal organs. A praying mantis about the same size as before was eating. Judging from the terrified expressions of the two corpses, Xu Yang cried out. It can be barely seen that these are his parents, his parents who were still alive in the tent a few minutes ago.

Seeing the new prey, the mantis trembled its tentacles and poked out from the tent.

It was only then that Xu Yang realized that it was really stupid for him to laugh at the male and female protagonists in horror movies who yell at every turn. Under such circumstances, screaming is a human instinct.

Xu Yang was so frightened that tears came out, and his feet felt weak for a while. He seemed to be able to see from the dark eyes of the mantis that he was about to pee in fear.Xu Yang's scream was like a rallying order, and more and more praying mantis heads emerged from different tents, locking onto him and Chu Chen beside him at the same time.

At the critical moment, Chu Chen slowed down, grabbed Xu Yang's weak wrist instead, and ran away.Chu Chen didn't dare to turn his head to look, and just ran all the way, his heart seemed to be about to pop out of his chest, and he didn't dare to stop.

"Ah!!" Chu Chen tripped over a rock, and rolled around several times with Xu Yang in his arms.Chu Chen didn't dare to delay even after being thrown, and he and Xu Yang helped each other up while crying.

"You didn't hurt your foot, did you?" Chu Chen said, wiping away his physical tears. At the same time, he plucked up the courage to look behind him. There were endless screams. Those who walked slower had already become the prey of the praying mantises. Few people, familiar or unfamiliar, ran past them quickly, each of them was crying or full of horror, and no one looked at them.

Xu Yang sobbed and stomped his feet: "...No...Chu Chen, just...was it true?"

Chu Chen sighed slightly, he also really wanted to find someone, so he grabbed his collar and asked, is this exactly the same plot as in a disaster movie, is it true?But he really didn't have the time to perform, so he could only hold Xu Yang's hand: "Brother Xu, run quickly, hide away before talking about anything else, go!"

When Chu Chen heard the screams erupting not far behind, he dragged Xu Yang and ran away without daring to turn his head. Fortunately, Xu Yang didn't hold him back this time, and he and he were both very fast, and immediately caught up with the leader. fleeing troops.

Frightened all the way from the suburbs to the city, Xu Yang and Chu Chen saw the very eye-catching school library at the entrance of the university in H City.

Chu Chen pulled Xu Yang to change the course: "Go hide in the house!"

The two climbed up the stairs out of the building panting, and a group of people with the same vision as the hero had already surrounded the door. The strong man at the head slammed on the door desperately: "I see someone inside, open the door quickly!"

A muffled voice sounded from inside: "Go back, we don't have anything to eat here."

"We don't want to eat!" The strong man began to kick the door angrily, "Hurry up and open the door for me! There are monsters outside, if you don't open the door, I will smash the door down, and you will die too! Open the door!!"

The glass window on the door reveals a suspicious and thin face: "Don't knock on the door... I can let you in, but there really isn't much to eat..."

"Shut up! Open the door!" the strong man said with his eyes widened.

"They're coming!" A terrified cry came from the last of the line.

Xu Yang looked back and broke out in cold sweat immediately. The huge praying mantis was not only the same size as a car, but also as fast as a car.

"Did you see, open the door quickly! Otherwise, I will smash the door and let you die together!"

It may be that the threatening words of the strong man frightened the people inside. The man opened the door in a panic. The strong man took the brunt of pushing the door open, and the crowd rushed in like a tide.

After the strong man entered, he glared at the people behind him, turned around and walked towards the door uncharacteristically, and took advantage of the opportunity to grab the metal pipe that the people inside might be using for self-defense.

With a muffled sound of "bang", the face that was originally happy to escape was hit hard by the pipe, and the person fell out without even humming, and a group of people were crushed by him, even rolling Fell down the stairs.

"My surname is Wang! What are you doing! We are neighbors!" A middle-aged man saw that the strong man wanted to close the door, and roared angrily.

The strong man had a nervous expression on his face: "I'm sorry brother, it's too late for all to come in, I can only abandon some of them!"

As the strong man's voice fell to the ground, the door representing survival was mercilessly closed.The remaining people were wiped out by the army of praying mantises before they finished yelling and cursing.

The sound of the door being locked seemed to tell the people inside that we were safe.Only then did Xu Yang and Chu Chen lean against the wall helplessly, and sat down as soon as their bodies softened.Just now they ran wildly all the way, and now fear, fatigue and excitement of the aftermath surged up all at once, and the two of them felt that there was no strength in their bodies.

Xu Yang didn't even care about the behavior of the strong man. Perhaps for him, he should be happy to be able to squeeze in before the strong man intends to close the door.

The original owner of the library, a thin middle-aged man in the uniform of an administrator, was full of shock on his face at this moment: "No, what are those... just now? Why are there such big bugs? They, Do they eat people?"

The brawny man seemed to be quite frightened, and his voice changed from the ferocity outside the door: "...who knows..."