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On the TV screen, Liancheng TV's morning news was broadcasting the threat of riots at midnight yesterday.

There were many people at the scene, and it was very chaotic. The reporter who rushed to the scene couldn't even move too far forward. In the picture, three or four people were like crazy, shouting and cursing at a certain window of a house, and holding up

Threatening with something.

Later, someone suddenly threw something in his hand, and the thing hit the outer wall of the house, bursting out with a dazzling fire.

The person taking the photo shook his hand, and someone nearby exclaimed, "I'm crazy! It's really a gasoline bomb!"

The scene was chaotic, but not only were those people not afraid, they even threw petrol bombs at the police several times, which affected many people. In the end, the police had to dispatch armed police to subdue the other party with force.

You Xi looked at the reporter's photo of someone's face after being subdued. The whites of his eyes were also abnormally red. Even though he was subdued, he still had distortion and resentment, without any fear or regret.

She frowned little by little.

Liancheng is not a coastal city. Just as she guessed, a global apocalyptic disaster will not only be a latent threat in one city.

It's the same wherever she goes. She may be lucky and go to a city with better conditions, but she may be unlucky and go to a city with worse conditions.

You Xi turned her head, and the computer screen was stuck on the file photo she had found for more than an hour - it was a photo taken at a seaside construction site when someone went to visit a construction worker crowd fight incident.

Because of the angle, the mountain behind was also partially brought in when shooting.

There is a trail hidden among the woods in front of the mountain, which is slightly exposed. The direction of the trail winds towards the mountain. At the intersection of the trail, there is a small green sign with a sign of a drainage outlet and the drainage port drawn on it.

The serial number of the port.

The photo is not very big to begin with. Due to the blocking of branches and leaves and the color, even if ordinary people see this photo, they will not notice the brand behind it.

The fragmented and clueless messages were pieced together.

The mountain sewer, which has been in disrepair for a long time, is actually right behind the seaside construction site, and there is a gentle upward slope that can be reached directly by walking.

The interview was recorded in writing. Someone mentioned the daily life of the construction workers during this reporter's return visit, saying that because the gentle slope upward is relatively hidden, they always like to hide there to play cards and gamble money after rest. But everyone

They are both good-natured and well-connected people, but I don’t know why things suddenly turned out like this this time.

You Xi's judgment is that those people could not be sure of the circumstances under which they had entered the sewer, and perhaps it was at that time that the same incident as the undersea tunnel happened.

Sewers are no better than subway tunnels in that they will spread the news of the accident immediately, so when an organization sent people to investigate and blocked and blurred the focus, they never thought that the bug had spread.

A construction worker suddenly behaved in an abnormal mood. The girl who lost control of her mood smelled wet. At about the same time in Liancheng, the city where she lived, there were people who lost control of their mood and started riots.

And the commotion and arguments she heard yesterday...

Does this mean that they have all been infected by black worms?

Normal people suddenly lose control because of something, the angry part of their emotions is amplified, their restraint and rationality no longer exist, they become extremely aggressive, and they even need external force (electric shock batons) to forcibly calm down.

To put it simply, the part that belongs to humans has weakened, and the part that belongs to the primitive beasts has strengthened.

This should be the negative change caused by the black microworms parasitizing the human body. By comparing the time of the two news and the time when the girl was injured and lost control of her emotions, it can be roughly judged that the incubation period is about three days.

Some people do have parasites in their bodies, mostly due to unhygienic diet. They usually enter the body through the mouth and nose.

Just thinking about an insect like this that enters the human body through blood and can change mood makes one's whole body hairy.

She estimated that this was just an initial change, and it was unclear whether it would worsen or have other changes later on.

From the attitude and behavior of the police just now, we can know that the senior officials of the relevant departments in Hairu City have already known about and dealt with this incident, but for fear of causing panic or other reasons, they have temporarily blocked all information.

Therefore, the problems in Hairu City are not only the undersea tunnels, but also the mountain sewers. There may be more. The same applies to other cities. Nowhere is safe.

You Xi looked at the time and saw that there were still 6 hours until the end of the peace period.

This is already the case during the peace period. What will happen when the peace period ends?

Will the people in Hairucheng who have been parasitized but are still in the incubation period break out at the same time?

The hemotropism of black nematodes is what makes them scary, but it is also a limitation of its parasitic conditions. Only people who meet the two requirements of carrying black worms (eggs) and bleeding wounds are likely to be parasitized.

Therefore, the number of this group of people should not be too large, but once it breaks out at the same time, it will be enough to cause panic.

It’s just...it doesn’t seem to be as difficult as the intermediate world.

At this time, You Xi had no idea that this disaster would come roaring in a way that she could not expect.

Today is a cloudy day, and the sky above Hairu City is covered with dense clouds. Gray-black clouds pile up in the sky, giving a heavy and oppressive feeling.

The temperature dropped from 15 or 6 degrees yesterday to 7 or 8 degrees, and it seemed like a heavy rain was coming.

At noon, the rain did not come, but the wind came.

The strong wind blew so hard that people couldn't open their eyes, and pedestrians on the road were shivering from the cold. Some people couldn't stand it anymore, so they saw a small cafe in front of them and walked quickly to try to get in and take shelter from the wind.

However, just as the man opened the door of the coffee shop, there was a sudden thud and he fell to the ground.

The waiter in the cafe happened to see this scene. He ran out without knowing why and tried to help the person up.

But as soon as he pulled the man's head off, he found that his face was covered in blood, his forehead was broken by something unknown, and the blood was still gushing out.

The waiter was frightened and his reaction was a little slow. He noticed something next to him. It was not until he reached out to pick up the egg-sized object that he realized that the cold and hard object was actually a hailstone!?

hail!?

He looked up tremblingly, just in time to see a hailstone bigger than the one in his hand falling on his head.

There was a bang, and the waiter fell to the ground without even wailing. Blood flowed out from his cheek lying on the ground and spread on the road where hail kept falling...

The same thing happens in every corner of Hairu City.

During lunch time, even in windy weather, there are many people outside.

Employees who go to eat together near the company, students who come out of the classroom and run to the cafeteria, elementary school students who are picked up by their grandparents to go home for dinner, migrant workers who are going to find a place to sit during their lunch break...

When the first hailstone fell in front of their feet, almost everyone did not react.

This is - glass bead?

Haicheng is like spring all year round. It rains often and there are many typhoons, but there has never been snow or hail, let alone such large hail.

"Is it hail?" A boy picked up a hailstone as big as a glass bead and played with it on his fingertips with a curious expression on his face. "Damn it, it's so big, so icy -"

However, when he raised his head to show the hailstone to his friend, he found that his friend was staring at him with blood on his head, and then fell to the ground silently.

"Help, help, help -" the boy yelled in a panic, but when he looked up and looked around, he was horrified to find that people around him were constantly being hit by hailstones. Some people could still scream and escape, and some could not even scream.

It fell to the ground without any sound.

He forced his weak legs to move, rushed to the bottom of the nearest stairs, and looked at everything in front of him tremblingly, thinking that he was in a nightmare.

Many of the hailstones that fell on the ground were immersed in blood, and the thick smell of blood filled the air. The smell of blood was so strong and so close that it caused some creatures that were originally dormant to wake up in advance...

In the Internet cafe box, You Xi had just finished lunch.

Before lunch, she used [Instant Cleansing Oil] again, wondering if those black bugs would spread outwards if there were no wounds and she was in the same room with a girl.

Fortunately, no abnormalities were found after use, which further verified the hemotactic characteristics of black microscopic worms.

After lunch, she noticed that the temperature had dropped. Because her physical fitness had improved, she did not feel very cold. When she was considering whether to pick up a light short down jacket from the Star House warehouse, she suddenly heard a soft tapping sound on the glass window.

.

She turned her head and looked at the window. The two sliding glass windows in the box were closed tightly, and the blinds were down. Because the light was dim, the lamp on the computer desk was on.

Her first reaction was that the group that was looking for her had found her?

But soon, she shook her head. If they really found her, they would have broken down the door by now and wouldn't have thrown stones at the glass window of the room where she was.

"Pop -" There was another crisp sound on the glass window, and then the crackling sound became denser. At first glance, it sounded like someone was throwing countless pebbles at her glass window at the same time.

You Xi walked to the window and opened the blinds. She was more cautious and was afraid of being seen, so she did not stand directly in front of the glass, but stood sideways in front of the wall next to the glass window.

Outside the glass is a gloomy sky, and transparent beads of different sizes knock on the glass window from time to time, making crisp sounds.

hail?

Just as You Xi thought about it, he heard a heavy "bang", a big hole was smashed out of the glass in front of him, and a hailstone the size of a tennis ball smashed into the room and rolled to the ground.

She looked at the hailstone, her eyes widened in shock, and she felt terrified. If she hadn't been cautious and stood sideways by the wall just now, she would have been hit by this hailstone.

Due to the acceleration of gravity, even she would be injured internally by this hailstone!

She immediately looked at the street downstairs, and sure enough, there was chaos downstairs, and people on the street were fleeing in all directions.

However, the panic became more and more chaotic. Some people panicked and hid under the cloth awnings of shops along the street. Within a short time, they were knocked down by the hail that penetrated the awnings.

Someone accidentally bumped into each other and all fell down. One of them was directly hit in the eye by the hail, and blood flowed out of the hole. His limbs twitched in pain, and the people next to him screamed in a different tone, but they were shocked by the tragic scene in front of him.

My legs were so weak from fear that I couldn't stand up, so I could only move my body by crawling and rolling in a panic.

There were also people who were protecting the children around them. They had an idea and hid under a car parked on the roadside to avoid the disaster...

Of course, more people hid in the building in time, panting and trembling as they looked at the hailstones still falling outside, thankful that they had saved their lives.

But they didn't know that everything had just begun.

Many years later, some people recalled the beginning and called this hailstorm the starting point of the end of the world.

At the same time that day, the same giant hail fell in several coastal cities in this country. Some people were killed and many others were injured.

The hail lasted for more than 20 minutes at the shortest and nearly an hour at the longest. A large number of houses, cars and farmland were destroyed.
To be continued...