A summer thunderstorm brewed over City F.

The lights went out, and the whole city fell into a long darkness. In the apartment, Cassia's suit and school uniform were still not replaced. She sat on the edge of the living room, staring blankly at the darkness outside the floor-to-ceiling window.

The thunderclouds burst out with tangled bright lightning, connecting the tall buildings standing on the ground with the dark night sky. The scenery in the distance rotated in the boy's dark eyes.

The first thunder burst out, illuminating his pale face. Something rang out in the thunder. The thunder rolled over, and the phone ringed quickly.

"Dad, how long will it take for you to get home?" Cassin said.

"Baby!" the man on the other end of the phone shouted anxiously: "What are you doing?! I haven't come back so soon!"

"Yeah, I know." Cassin replied, and another thunder exploded.

Zhang Min shouted in his voice: "I have to wait a while on the road! I guess I can get home at midnight! You have dinner first, there is cooked food in the refrigerator!"

The other end of the phone was noisy, as if there was some turmoil, people shouting, urging, and rustling sounds of heavy rain.

Cassia said: "The power is out and the microwave is not available."

Zhang Min shouted anxiously: "What did you say?! Be louder! I can't hear it!"

Cassia shouted: "Nothing! I'm dead!"

Zhang Min finally heard his voice and smiled and shouted, "Wait for me! Dad is back soon!"

Cassia hung up the phone, went to pick up a glass of water, and sat quietly in the dark home without turning on the refrigerator. She lived in school five days a week and went to high school in F City. She came back on a rare holiday with her adoptive father.

Zhang Min went on a business trip on Thursday and agreed to go out for dinner. Zhang Min finished his business, but when he came back on Friday, he was blocked on the road.

Two hours left to be another new day, Cassia sat in the dark, motionless.

At about twelve o'clock, the call came, and the whole house lit up instantly. Cassia's pupils could not adapt to the sudden light, so they narrowed unnaturally.

He turned on the TV and found that there were snowflakes, rustling, and then turned off. The whimpering sound of an ambulance came from the distance downstairs.

The phone rang again with a desperate urge, and Cassia went over to answer, and the sound on the other side became much smaller.

Zhang Min: "Baby... are you okay?"

Cassia: "In."

Zhang Min's voice could be trembling, and his words were intermittent: "Don't go out, hell, what's going on? Is anyone knocking on the door? Don't open someone knocking on the door."

Cassia replied, "Oh."

Zhang Min gasped for a while, and the other side was very quiet: "I'll wait for me downstairs and enter the city."

Cassia replied, "I understand."

Zhang Min immediately changed his words and said, "No, no, you are at home, yes, pack up, bring all the cards, money and medicine, pack up a few pieces of changing clothes, dad will take you to camp."

"Baby! When I come back, don't open no matter who knocks on the door. I'll get home in ten minutes." Zhang Min said: "Don't open no matter who knocks on the door! Remember!"

Cassin hung up the phone silently, walked into the room, asked nothing, took out his travel bag for school, unzipped, took out the clothes to be washed, and put them into the washing machine. Then he packed up Zhang Min's, and had a few of his own clothes, medical boxes, cigarettes, money and cards.

Zhang Min's □□ and cash are placed in the same drawer, and Cassia also flips into a small box in the drawer, which contains a pair of platinum mobile phone pendants - Capricorn and Cancer.

Cassia tied Capricorn's to his cell phone, hooked the other with her little finger, packed up her things, and sat in the living room.

A shrill scream rang out of the door, and Cassin couldn't help but sit up straight. His eyes were very confused. He turned on the TV, but there was still no signal. Turn off the TV, turned on the switch, and repeated several times, finally letting it open. He slowly got up and walked to the cat on the door and looked out.

The aisle was pitch black and there was nothing to see, so it shouldn't be true.

"Help--" the woman screamed miserably, and the door was pounding, and Cassia's eyebrows were touched by the shocked door, and she retreated a little.

He thought for a while without expression, and when he lowered his head, he saw his sneakers, Zhang Min's military boots, two pairs of flip-flops at the door.

Cassin said: "My dad told me not to open the door."

The aisle was pounding the door wildly, and a wail rang out for a moment later. Cassia stood for a while and bowed to her shoes.

When he knelt on one knee and tied his shoelaces, a ball of sticky blood oozed in through the crack of the door. Cassia looked at it for a moment, moved a little apart and continued to wear shoes.

When he got up, Cassia put his hands on the door handle. It was quiet outside the door and the screams were gone.

Cassia changed her mind again, sat back on the sofa, staring at the door.

In a moment, the rhythmic sound of pounding the door sounded, accompanied by the beast-like cry of "Ho-ho--".

Cassia looked at it expressionlessly, and then the elevator dinged.

"Dad." Cassia said.

Zhang Min's voice roared in the aisle, the fire hydrant glass shattered, the sound of yelling, the sound of impact, Cassin stepped forward and opened the door, and opened a gap to the door with the safety chain. Zhang Min shouted: "Don't come out! Don't come out now!"

Cassia stood at the door and was hit by the ground. A rotten hand reached out outside the door and was dragged out.

Zhang Min said: "Close the door--!"

Cassia closed the door.

The dull sound of heavy objects falling to the ground, and the outside became quiet.

"Dad?" Cassin said.

"It's okay..." Zhang Min said in a trembling voice: "Don't look at the cat's eyes, wait a moment."

Cassin nodded silently. After a while, he couldn't help but look up to the cat's eyes. Zhang Min was hiding something into the safety aisle, wiped his sweat and said, "Baby, you can open the door."

Cassia pulled the insurance chain off and opened the door.

Zhang Min was covered in blood, gasping for a while, her eyes were red, and the two stood face to face.

Zhang Min is 1.8 meters tall, Cassia is only fifteen years old, and is shorter than him, looking up at him.

Zhang Min swallowed his saliva, barely hugged Cassia in front of him, touched his head, and said, "After finally... I saw you, I thought I wouldn't come back this time."

Cassin said nothing, but just answered briefly: "Yes."

Zhang Min: "I love you, baby."

Cassia nodded.

Zhang Min closed the door, leaned against it and panted. Cassin asked, "Have you eaten?"

Zhang Min replied: "I'm afraid I can't eat anymore, all the shops outside are closed, let's go somewhere else."

Cassin said: "I asked you if you had eaten."

Zhang Min shook his head blankly and said tiredly: "Baby, where are you?"

Cassin said: "I'm calling, I'll go and have a hot meal."

Zhang Min immediately realized the danger: "No, we have to leave, have you packed your things? The car is downstairs, leave immediately, leave here."

Cassin said: "Can you drive?"

Zhang Min opened his red eyes and entered the room like a gust of wind. He found a bottle of Red Bull to open it and pour it down, then went into the bathroom, unscrew the shower, and Cassin went inside to search for him for changing clothes.

Zhang Min was twenty-eight years old, studying, serving as a soldier, and traveling around the world to many places. He was young and strong, and his skin was healthy and bronze. He stood under the shower and dripped hot water, naked, and the water flowed down his toned abdominal muscles, like a wild but gentle leopard.

Cassia stood aside and watched quietly.

The hot water made Zhang Min relax a lot. His previous nervousness had subsided and he finally calmed down. He turned his head to look at Cassia and wanted to say something.

Cassin said: "Dad, I love you too."

Zhang Min wanted to wave to him to come and wash together, but when he thought that time was tight, he hurriedly said, "Baby, have the things been packed?"

Cassia shook her head, nodded again, and walked out of the bathroom.

"How is the business?" Cassin asked.

Zhang Min sighed and replied: "It's great. Let's leave the province from the highway in the north, go to another city, and find the eldest brother Wang who was invited to dinner last time. You can drive there for two days."

Cassia asked again: "Where is this."

Zhang Min put on her clothes, changed into a pair of trousers and shirt, hurried out and said, "I don't care."

Cassia: "Where is the company."

Zhang Min was quiet for a moment, then said, "I can't open again. After we leave, we will call them tomorrow and leave."

Zhang Min took the travel bag, held it behind his shoulder with his backhand, opened the door with one hand and held his adopted son with the other. When he stopped at the door, the blood was still there and it had become dry and sticky.

"Don't look, baby." Zhang Min said in a low voice, then put his right hand over Cassia's shoulder, covered his palm in front of his eyebrows, and walked out of the corridor with half hugged him.

Cassia did not struggle, and followed Zhang Min staggeringly, entered the elevator, and went to the underground garage. Zhang Min took Cassia all the way into the car, took a deep breath, set the window of the passenger seat in a dark brown color, asked Cassia to tie the seat belt, and took a blanket to cover him.

"You sleep for a while, and then dad calls you." Zhang Min said.

Cassia nodded, like a cat curled up in a blanket: "Is oil enough?"

Zhang Min looked backwards and turned back for a moment. Cassia consciously came over, and Zhang Min kissed Cassia's face.

Cassin stretched out his hands and hugged Zhang Min's neck, which was quite attached. Zhang Min said, "Let's go." As he said that, he rubbed Cassin's forehead hard, started the car, and rushed out of the apartment building.

City F is like being cleansed by a catastrophe of apocalypse. The dim street lights on the street are on, newspapers flying all over the streets, abandoned vehicles are thrown on the side of the road, and the light boxes of billboards are flashing.

Zhang Min drove along the road through the deserted city area and opened his eyes wide in disbelief. There was no such scene when he entered the city area from the highway. In just one night, the entire F City Park and the streets were empty.

A man wandered on the road.

Zhang Min turned the steering wheel hard, and the brakes made a sharp and sharp sound, but in the end he couldn't turn, and with a loud bang, he shoveled the man crossing the road and flew straight.
To be continued...