CH 01: NEW WORLD
"Don't run around! Follow the guide! It's not a place to take pictures. It's dangerous on the edge of the cliff!"
Yi Mingzhi sighs in frustration after shouting to the crowd who has run around and taken pictures. Wipes sweat from his brow as he begins to bring back the disobedient tourist for the third time today.
"Shen Si, wait a minute. I'm going to get someone."
"Okay." A quiet response of the young man called Shen Si, before he led the rest to the shade to wait, the tourists were also happy to rest, they started taking pictures and chatting in the area.
It's hot today. The scorching rays of the sun poured down on the ground as if the floor were about to crack. Shen Si drank the water he had brought with him. A drop of sweat trailed down on his forehead as he tilted his head up. Just then, a click sound resounded, Shen Si looked at where the sound was coming from, the red-faced little girl hurriedly kept her phone hidden and nodded shyly at him.
"Which one is it? But you can't help it, you're just too attractive." A colleague, Lin Qi, patted Shen on the shoulder with a laugh in his voice.
It acknowledges that this has happened more than once.
Shen Si is incredibly handsome, he is tall and thin, and his skin is white. Wearing a white sportswear outfit, the hair exposed under the sun visor, is also white. His whole body glistens in the sun. He looked nothing like a tour guide but more like an artist preparing to go to the show.
Taking off the sun visor down, and Shen fan himself with the hat, "Are you talking about my hair?"
"I didn't expect you to actually dye your hair silver-gray." Lin Qi's stand up helplessly.
After Mr. Shen looked behind him, Yi Mingzhi knew he was back with someone, and he sighed slowly, "Let's keep going, it's not far from the top of the mountain."
"I understand that this year's weather is really unusual, and it's still so hot in the autumn." Lin Qi wiped the sweat from his face. "Hurry up and finish this trip. If you drag it to one or two o'clock, tourists will be suffering from heat stroke."
After saying that, Lin Qi started to call upon the passengers to resume their departure, they tacitly decided to switch positions, and Yi Mingzhi and Shen Si had gestured to follow up. Shen Si was walking at the end to prevent the tourist from being left behind.
Shen Si, Yi Mingzhi and Lin Qi are co-workers at the same travel company, which focuses on travel projects that are not the same as elsewhere, and prefers a slightly steeper mountain range, nicknamed "proximity to nature," because the slightly more difficult, combined with the need for continuous exercise, makes the company's business a bad one every summer.
This year is even more strange, and the company's poor business is hard to see, as it is a fire stove that is still hot in autumn.
At that point, the company was looking at Shen Si, the youngest and best-looking guide in their company, and the company used the most handsome guide as a sign to attract tourists. It didn't really work. Colleagues and Shen joked that if he dyed a white hair, he could go to the show, and who knew that Shen was really coming back the next day with a white hair.
In a white guide uniform, Shen Si looks like a white spirit.
"Everybody keep up! We'll be on the top of the mountain soon!" Lin Qi led the tourists in front.
Behind the crowd, Shen Si looked at the trees, lush and green, and heard the sound of insects listening to the leaves. Not only was it extremely hot, but the trees did not shed leaves according to the season, by this time last year, the leaves on the trees had almost halved.
The leaves are rusting as the wind blows over, but it doesn't bring cool, the weather was still sulky, and there was even a tendency to get hotter and hotter.
Shen Si pulls out his phone and glances at the temperature. It's a shocking temperature indeed.
"It's hot."
"If I had known, I wouldn't have come. I'm a little breathless."
"When will we get to the top of the mountain?"
There were complaints among the tourists, Lin Qi, who was also sweaty from the heat, turned around to appease them, "Don't give up. It's almost there. Just hang on!"
Lin Qi said while pointing at his front, "Did everyone see the pavilion? Over the pavilion is the top of the mountain, and there's cold drinks for sale!"
When a crowd hears a cold drink and their eyes light up, it is not far away from the pavilion. The crowd followed on with Lin Qi to signify that the procession is moving at half speed.
"It's called Wangmei to quench your thirst." Yi Mingzhi sighed and speeded up, not just passengers, even those like him who have visited the mountain countless times when they heard a cold drink. They all have their throats tightened.
It's a terrible day to climb a mountain in this weather.
The passengers and Shen Si both breathed a sigh of relief as they ascended the mountain top. Lin Qi and Shen Si packed three bottles of cold drinks into the passengers. The time was relatively short, and the passengers could take a photo and rest for half an hour. After half an hour, they brought people down the mountain, just to avoid the hottest time of the day.
"Here you go."
Shen Si received a cold drink from Lin Qi, "Thank you."
Lin Qi sighed, standing next to Shen Si and looking at the foot of the mountain, "No matter how many times I climb, I can't help but feel a sigh when I see the landscape."
"This is the miracle of nature!" Yi Ming made a profound conclusion at the side.
After drinking the cold drink, the three men look after the tourists in different places, to prevent them from taking pictures in dangerous places. Every year in the tour group, there are people who run away and get lost.
Just then, Shen turned his head and looked into the sky, and for a moment, he seemed to hear the sound of the broken porcelain, and the broken ceramic fell on the floor into pieces, very crisp and clear.
The birds made a shrill sound, flying out of the forest like crazy, and the animals ran out of the forest like fleeing lives, and the sudden change made everyone stunned, with a strong sense of anxiety in the air, and each breath felt a burning fire.
"Lin Qi! Take the people to safety immediately!" Shen was the first to react.
"Is it......" Yi Mingzhi's face paled white, as a senior guide, he often finds this situation in books.
It's an earthquake!
Shen Si and the others were busy leading people to run beside him, there's an open space over there, running down the hill now is very unwise. Once the rock falls, the consequences are unimaginable. The tourists don't know what's going on, but seeing the faces of the three tour guides, it's not a good thing. They rush to the side, Shen Si and the others maintain order and try not to let them get into chaos.
"Ah, it hurts!" When Shen Si looked back, the little girl who had secretly photographed him climbed up from the ground, her knee was ripped and blood poured out, and she reached out in fear, "Help, Help!"
"Lin Qi, you take the people and go, I'll save her."
"I know. Be careful!" Lin nodded to Shen Si, then continued to be careful to maintain order, Shen Si turned around and ran back to the girl. The girl tried to stand up in a panic, but she couldn't move at all.
Shen Si looked at her wound, then he pulled bandages and medications from the backpack he was carrying to barely staunch the bleeding. Time is running out, and he just picks up the girl. He just about to take her away when suddenly, bang, the whole earth was shaking.
As the girl screeched, Shen Si dragged the girl to a relatively empty place, the earthquake lasted about 10 seconds, the mountains and the animals gradually calmed down, and Shen Si let the girl go, he stood up and looked around.
Fortunately, there is no problem at the top, even the pavilion is still intact but the contents of the small shop were scattered all over the place. The simply-erected paving collapsed in half, and the girl sat dumbfounded, seemingly unresponsive.
"Are you okay?" Shen asked in a whisper.
The girl blinked, she stared at him for a few seconds, then she shook her head vigorously, "I'm fine, thank you!"
Shen Si carried the girl back, and took her to safety at the open area. Yi Mingzhi, who was in an empty area, looked out this way. After seeing Shen, he exclaimed with a long breath, thankfully. He ran over with a bit of dirt on his face, but the whole person still looked just fine.
"It's okay." Yi Mingzhi patted Shen on the shoulder, "Luckily, this was not the main epicenter, and everyone's not hurt."
Shen Si nods, the girl is lying on his back and is in a stable mood, just as they are ready to be rescued in a safe place, a crackle broke into the air, Shen and Yi looked subconsciously into the sky, only to see one dot gradually get bigger, and finally the whole thing hit the top of the mountain.
"Hey! That was a person, isn't it?!"
The person who fell down was dressed in rags and his whole body was covered with wounds. The man sat oddly, he looked carefully around, and paused strangely after seeing Shen Si and the others.
After ten seconds of looking at him, the man lowered his head slowly, and Shen Si heard him sobbing.
The man cried and shouted: "I'm back! I'm finally back!"
Yi Mingzhi looked at him with complete uncertainty, "What do you mean you're back?".
"I care more about something else than not coming back." Shen looked at the sky and looked at the people who were still crying, "He fell from that height and smashed the top of the mountain into a crater."
"And still alive?"
He was stunned. "Yeah, how is he alive?!"
......
In October 2030, a world-wide earthquake broke out and lasted only 10 seconds.
And then, hundreds of thousands of missing people around the world came back, and they were struggling to survive in the infinite world, to survive, until that day, when the infinite world suddenly collapsed, and everyone who was alive was back where they were.
They are still carrying the terrible power of an infinite world, calling themselves survivors, and the world has created organizations that specifically deal with them, and new rules have been created for that purpose.
The new world is here.