24 hours to save the world

November 7, 2045 9:00 am——

"Good morning."

After washing up, Zhu Shijiu pushed open his sister's room and greeted Li Hua who had just woken up in the room.

Perhaps because Li Hua usually got up around noon when he had no classes in the morning at school, Zhu Shijiu saw Li Hua in a listless state as soon as he stepped back from the door, with messy hair, drooping eyelids, and exhausted.

"Morning." Li Hua looked at Zhu Shijiu who was also in a bad mood when he pushed the door in, and couldn't help but twitched his mouth, "Brother Zhu, didn't you sleep all night?"

Zhu Shijiu's state was almost the same as Li Hua's, and it could be seen at a glance.

Zhu Shijiu yawned: "I guess so."

In fact, he had been suffering from insomnia until four o'clock in the morning before he fell asleep, and was awakened by nightmares several times in the middle of the night, which led to his poor mental state. Compared with the amount of sleep he got every day at school, it was equivalent to not sleeping all night.

"What time is it now?"

Li Hua picked up his phone and looked at it. It was a little after nine in the morning.

He rubbed his tired body and got out of bed: "Brother Zhu, the Jiangcheng you dreamed of being destroyed seemed to be at ten in the morning?"

Zhu Shijiu nodded: "Only one hour from now."

"Where are your uncle and aunt?" Li Hua walked to the door of the room and looked outside carefully.

Zhu Shijiu shrugged: "They went to work."

"You are really generous. You let your parents go to work like this. If it were me, I would definitely tell them." Li Hua said, but halfway through he thought of his family, but he didn't tell them.

Zhu Shijiu said rationally: "Without evidence, do you think they will believe me? That's you. If I hadn't said anything about Lao Zhang, you probably wouldn't believe me either."

Li Hua casually put his arm around Zhu Shijiu's shoulders: "How could that be! We are good friends!"

"Get lost, stop talking nonsense."

9:26--

After they washed up, they went to the dining table to eat the rice porridge and egg pancakes prepared by their parents.

Both of them were obviously absent-minded. Li Hua was still in a state of half-belief. He showed a certain degree of trust in Zhu Shijiu's "dream", but he still had doubts in his heart, and finally some worries.

As time went by, Zhu Shijiu became more and more anxious.

"Brother Zhu."

When the two of them finished their breakfast while browsing their phones, Zhu Shijiu, who was full of irritability, was about to take Li Hua's dishes to the kitchen sink to wash the dishes, but heard Li Hua's slightly erratic voice.

Zhu Shijiu looked at Li Hua: "What's wrong?"

"...Uh, nothing." Li Hua hesitated for a long time, but finally said nothing.

Zhu Shijiu felt somewhat puzzled, and then thought about it, maybe his anxious mood affected Li Hua. Anyone who knew that a city with millions of people would be destroyed in half an hour would definitely feel uneasy.

He shook his head and went to the kitchen to put all the dishes in the sink.

Li Hua walked to the window and looked at the clear sky outside the window. There was no sign of the end of the world.

Unlike Zhu Shijiu, who had experienced the nightmare of the end of the world, he did not have a very practical concept of "the end of the world", so the sense of urgency was not as serious as Zhu Shijiu.

But he still believed in his heart that there was such a possibility, otherwise he would not have fled Jiangcheng with Zhu Shijiu overnight.

And he called Zhu Shijiu just now, not because of anxiety.

He had a question.

"Why is it 10 o'clock?" Li Hua muttered to himself standing by the window.

"Yes, why is it 10 o'clock?" Zhu Shijiu's voice came from behind, "As far as this time is concerned, it is really too coincidental, not a minute more or less, it is exactly 10 o'clock. Although I didn't get the exact second in my dream, this time is still too worrying." Zhu Shijiu walked to Li Hua and looked at the sky outside the window together. Li Hua asked: "You didn't wash the dishes? How about I help?" Zhu Shijiu was speechless for a long time: "Who has the heart to wash dishes now?" The result will be known in half an hour, he just put all the dishes and chopsticks in the sink to soak. Li Hua turned back to the topic: "Are you sure it was 10 o'clock in your dream?" "Yes, I happened to check the time in my dream, and it was this time." Zhu Shijiu was very sure. "If it is really this time, it may not be a natural disaster, but a man-made one." Li Hua guessed. Zhu Shijiu actually had a worse guess in his heart. Li Hua had not seen the doomsday, so his guesses were basically in the direction that was more in line with realistic logic and modern science. However, the blue light in his memory was so impressive. The spectacular scene of the whole world turning blue when he was dying made him feel that it was not even a scene that human technology could create.

If it was a missile, the light produced by that level of explosion would at least make the world as dazzling as the sun, but in the memory, apart from the shock wave and heat like an explosion, the rest was like the whole sky was instantly covered by a layer of blue gauze - this was the most appropriate description Zhu Shijiu could think of.

The two stood by the window and made random guesses, talking about this and that.

Time unknowingly came to 9:55 -

"Brother Zhu." Li Hua suddenly said, "What if it's not just Jiangcheng that is destroyed, what are your plans?"

"Not just Jiangcheng?" Zhu Shijiu asked, "...what do you mean?"

"As you said at the beginning, if it is really the end of the world, what will you do?"

Zhu Shijiu shook his head and laughed: "What can I do? Wait for death."

His answer was very calm, but it made Li Hua frown.

"Brother Zhu, have you ever thought of a possibility?"

"What?"

"Did you really just 'dream' of the end of the world?" Li Hua's calm words concealed anxiety, which made Zhu Shijiu stunned for a moment and didn't speak.

Li Hua continued: "I did have insomnia last night and thought a lot. Although I haven't seen the scene you described, through your description, I think you may not just simply 'dream' of the end of the world."

"You mean..." Zhu Shijiu's face showed a trace of solemnity. He actually understood what Li Hua wanted to say. Neither of them was stupid.

To be honest, Zhu Shijiu himself had a deeper understanding of his "dream", but he didn't mention it to Li Hua. He thought Li Hua would not think about that, but he did not expect that in the last few minutes before 10 o'clock, Li Hua took the initiative to talk about this topic.

Li Hua looked at Zhu Shijiu deeply and said, "That may not be a dream, but a reality you have already experienced once."

Zhu Shijiu did not speak.

"Alas..."

Li Hua looked at the sky and said generously. This was a rare serious moment in his life.

"If that is the case... Although you may think that I am no different from the first round and the second round, in my eyes, I only have one life."

9:59--

In the last minute, Li Hua did not expect to get an answer from Zhu Shijiu, but just talked to himself.

"Brother Zhu, if you can really go back to the game, I hope you can tell me everything again next time. As long as you throw the "prophecy" result in front of me, I will still believe you like yesterday."

Zhu Shijiu answered seriously: "If I can do it again, I will."

The last ten seconds countdown.

Ten...

Nine...

Eight...

Seven...

Suddenly, Li Hua wanted to play a joke: "Oh, by the way, tell me a message for next week."

"What?"

Six...

Five...

"Hide the things in the third box under the bed at home."

Four...

Zhu Shijiu was stunned: "...What do you mean?"

Three...

Two...

One...

Li Hua did not answer.

10:00!

The time has come.

Suddenly, all of Zhu Shijiu's sight was dyed blue in an instant!

Everything he saw turned into different shades of blue! And the source of this blue was the sky.

Neither of them saw the explosion far away in Jiangcheng, but as Zhu Shijiu described, the sky seemed to be covered with a layer of blue gauze.

Ten seconds later, Zhu Shijiu suddenly felt a little unwell.

Li Hua beside him suddenly cursed!

"Fuck... I'm bleeding from the nose!" Li Hua touched his nose, his hands were covered in blood. Zhu Shijiu looked at Li Hua and was stunned.

Because it wasn't just a nosebleed.

In Zhu Shijiu's eyes, blood began to ooze out of Li Hua's eyes, nose, and ears! Although all he saw was blue... he could tell that it was indeed blood.

Another ten seconds passed, and blood began to ooze out of Li Hua's pores! This horrifying scene made Zhu Shijiu unable to help but touch his nose.

The result was a warm hand.

——Blood! Damn! It's blood!

Then, Zhu Shijiu felt a sharp pain!

From the depths of the soul, the pain of every cell collapsing was like a tidal wave! Zhu Shijiu had never felt this feeling in his life.

Compared to the last time he was killed in half a second by the shock wave and high heat, this time the death was like a slow slicing.

It was as if the whole person was being broken down and crushed by some unknown force!

"Ahhhhhhh!!!"

Li Hua and Zhu Shijiu couldn't help but wail and fell to the ground one after another.

Zhu Shijiu could also faintly hear the wail and screams from the neighbors, the next building, and even the entire residential area from outside the window!

Everyone suffered the same beyond-limit pain at the same time.

Under this pain, Zhu Shijiu only lasted for two seconds before he collapsed.

He wailed helplessly, unable to think of anything in his head. The endless pain destroyed almost all of Zhu Shijiu's other thoughts. Even as time passed by second by second, even the so-called "pain" disappeared from Zhu Shijiu's mind.

After an unknown amount of time, Zhu Shijiu's wail came to an abrupt end.

...

The third round begins.