Chapter 1 The Tortoise and the Hare

In May 2119 AD, humans began to turn into dolls.

Walking on the street, eating in a restaurant, and halfway through fitting clothes in the shopping mall, those poor people's movements stopped at a moment before changing, and the smiles on their faces didn't even have time to put it away, and they turned into a static humanoid doll.

There was no warning, let alone a reason.

People wonder, fear, madness and despair.

They held up bright red banners to demonstrate, questioning that this was a terrorist attack by a mysterious organization, or exaggerating the invasion of alien civilizations on the Internet, and some people took their families and took refuge in the countryside... They did everything they could do things, but the people around him still turned into dolls one by one.

Gradually, people become numb.

Those who should go to school go to school, those who should go to work go to work, what should life be like, or what should be.

However, the daily TV news has added a link——

After reading the press release, the announcer will tell the audience in a standard voice: "If you find that someone around you has turned into a doll, please call 123 for emergency, and the relevant department will deal with it for you in time..."

The so-called processing is to pack the dolls and send them to scientific research institutions.

It’s okay if the scientists can research something, but if they can’t research anything, they will wait for the family to claim it, and then whether to bury it or put it at home as a decoration depends entirely on the mood of the family.

Bai Youwei watched the news for a while, saw that the time was almost up, picked up the remote control to turn off the TV, then pressed the button on the wheelchair, and headed towards the restaurant.

Her legs were disabled, her parents divorced since she was a child, and each formed a new family. Probably because they felt ashamed of their daughter, the couple never relentlessly spent money on Bai Youwei, letting her live in the most luxurious villa and hiring the most expensive nanny, but they couldn't spare time to spend with their daughter.

However, Bai Youwei didn't care about it.

She is used to being alone.

The restaurant clock is ticking, and the minute hand points to 12:10. Bai Youwei eats on time at 12 noon every day, not too late, but now there is not a single dish on the table.

The surroundings are very quiet, and the ticking of the clock makes this gorgeous villa even more quiet.

Bai Youwei waited for a while, and smelled a burning smell coming from the kitchen.

She adjusted the direction and slid the wheelchair over. With her back to her, the nanny stood stiffly next to the gas stove. Her hands were in the cooking posture, but there was no movement.

The nanny turned into a doll, just now.

It is still the same face, but the materials are completely different. Living flesh and blood have become plastic skin, glass bead eyeballs, and chemical fiber hair...

The original nanny in the family had gone back to her hometown to take refuge, and the nanny in front of her had only been here for two days, and Bai Youwei hadn't even memorized the other person's name, but now she is like this.

She stared blankly for a while, then slid the wheelchair over, turned off the fire, and dialed the emergency number 123 according to the news.

Always busy.

Bai Youwei thought about it and called her mother. The nanny is someone hired by the mother, and it should be possible to contact the nanny's family.

When the phone was connected, there were mixed voices, laughter, and music... which alone showed her loneliness.

It's harsh.

She made things clear in a few words, then hung up the phone.

It's quiet inside the house, and it's also quiet outside. The scorching sun scorched the earth, the pool in the garden reflected the sparkling light, and a hibiscus flower drooped its purple leaves under the scorching sun. Everything was loose and normal, but Bai Youwei knew that this world had long since become abnormal.

...

At two o'clock in the afternoon, the sound of a car engine came from outside the villa.

Through the window, Bai Youwei saw a tall man ringing the doorbell.

She thought for a moment, went to the kitchen to get a pocket fruit knife, and slid the wheelchair out.

Across the iron gate, the man's figure was tall and straight, with a stern appearance, and a pair of deep and quiet pupils under his thick black eyebrows.

It's vaguely familiar, but I can't remember where I saw it.

"You are Weiwei?" The voice stagnated slightly, with the unfamiliarity of meeting for the first time, "I am Shen Mo, your mother knows that something happened here, let me pick you up."

Bai Youwei was stunned.

Shen Mo... No wonder she felt familiar just now, it turned out to be Uncle Shen's son, he looks somewhat similar to Uncle Shen.

I forgot to mention that Uncle Shen is her mother's good friend and business partner. In fact, Bai Youwei thinks that the name "spare tire" is more appropriate.

Bai Youwei put the fruit knife in his pocket silently, and opened the courtyard door——

Shen Mo looked at the girl in front of him.

Pale complexion, long loose hair, a light blue long shirt dress wraps her from neck to feet. As the name suggests, just looking at her, one can't help but think of such words as soft, young, and weak.

She looks very well-behaved, not as difficult to get along with as Aunt Wang said.

"Pack up your things and I'll take you to Yangzhou." Shen Mo said concisely.

Bai Youwei shook her head: "No."

Shen Mo was a little surprised, raised his eyebrows and said: "The city is not safe now, and all those who can walk have been evacuated. If you stay here and no one takes care of you, you will die sooner or later."

Bai Youwei lowered her head and looked at the delicate lines on her skirt, "No. With me like this, going anywhere is a dead end."

Shen Mo didn't expect her to be so stubborn.

He is not good at persuading people, let alone coaxing children, so he walked directly into the house, "Where do you live?"

Bai Youwei stared at him suspiciously, her eyes flickering, "What do you want to do?"

Shen Mo ignored her, walked around after entering the house, found her bedroom without any mistake, and started packing clothes and daily necessities.

The girl followed in with a slightly aggrieved expression.

Shen Mo finished packing his clothes, stood in the room, looked around, and asked, "Where's the medicine?"

Bai Youwei lives in a wheelchair all year round, and medicine is a necessity.

She was silent.

He simply stopped asking.

The room quickly became untidy.

Bai Youwei sat in a wheelchair and watched him rummaging through boxes and boxes, her hands were clenched tightly, and her voice was very low: "You...do you now feel that you are great and great for saving a helpless girl?... But you know I don't know, you are actually hurting me."

Shen Mo stopped with a calm expression.

Bai Youwei took a deep breath, and continued: "Have you considered the consequences of forcibly taking me away?... When I arrived in Yangzhou, I was a woman and a cripple. How should I live? Do you know that I have to be helped to eat and go to the bathroom, and I have to go to the toilet to get out of the house?" You have to wear diapers for a long distance, you don't even..."

She inhaled, "You don't understand anything at all! I won't go with you!"

At the end of the speech, the voice was hoarse, with a forbearance of crying.

Shen Mo looked at her, was silent for a while, then lowered his voice: "I really don't understand, but I understand at least one thing - if you stay, you will die faster, if you leave, there may be hope."

hope?

Bai Youwei felt cold in her heart.

Even her biological parents do not want to see her, her life is like a walking dead, even if the world is as usual, she has no intention of continuing to live.

She is a hopeless wretch!

Shen Mo walked in front of Bai Youwei, his dark eyes were oppressive, and his tone was calm but firm: "Don't worry, I will send you to Yangzhou safe and sound."

Bai Youwei bit her lip.

She has no choice.

Shen Mo pushed Bai Youwei out of the villa and came to the off-road vehicle on the side of the road.

He picked Bai Youwei up from the wheelchair, feeling that she was incredibly light, although she was thin, she was not crumpled, and the girl in his arms was soft.

Her face leaned against his chest, a faint fragrance lingered, the aroma of milk rose shampoo mixed with the smell of medicine, forming a strange fragrance, with an indescribable feeling.

Looking at the tense little face, he actually softened his heart, and comforted him again: "I'll drive faster, I'll be there in an hour and a half, there are people taking care of you over there, don't worry."

Bai Youwei obviously hated his tyranny and ignored him with a straight face.

Shen Mo smiled, closed the rear door, sat in the driver's seat and turned the key——

Before long, he found that he had miscalculated.

The situation is more serious than expected, and dolls appear on almost every road. Although the reason why people turn into dolls is unknown, it is well known that places where dolls appear together are high-risk areas, and everyone will avoid such roads as much as possible when traveling.

Shen Mo started to make a detour, and after more than an hour of detour, he finally arrived at the intersection of the highway.

The highway is not smooth either.

As far as the eye could see, there were all cars, estimated to be sixty or seventy, parked crookedly in the middle of the road, some cars crashed into a ball, and the people in the cars were dead or alive.

At the end of the convoy, there were many people who had just arrived on the highway like them. Those people stood outside the car, stretched their necks, and hesitated to move on.

Shen Mo got out of the car to inquire about the situation.

Bai Youwei lay on the side of the car window, listening to those people talking:

"What should I do? Should I go or not?"

"Let's go? There are dolls in front, how do we get there?"

"If you don't leave, are you waiting to die here? In the nearest cities, only Yangzhou and Taizhou have no one turned into a doll!"

"What about other roads? Are there dolls on other roads?"

"If this continues, we will all be trapped to death..."

"Honey, what should we do?" A long-haired woman whimpered and cried, "It must be the end of the world...we're all going to die..."

Her husband didn't seem to have any idea either, he was smoking a cigarette impatiently, unable to say a word of comfort.

Bai Youwei listened for a while, and felt that it was meaningless, so she closed the car window to be quiet.

When Shen Mo returned to the car, Bai Youwei asked him: "Will I become a doll if I go from here?"

Shen Mo thought for a while, "Look at the situation first, if it doesn't work, then find another way."

Bai Youwei didn't trust him very much, she whispered: "There are dolls in other roads."

At this time, there was movement ahead.

Everyone was surprised. Looking up, they saw a blue pickup truck driving forward slowly, with a tentative meaning. Seeing this, several other cars followed slowly, keeping a distance not too close or too far.

Looks like someone just can't wait.

After all, there is no safe place in the city. There are dolls on almost every road. If you want to go out of the city, you must take risks.

The driver of the blue pickup truck was a bald and strong man. He held the steering wheel and carefully drove past several cars with dolls.

When he reached a safe open place, he poked his head out of the car and waved to the people behind: "This road can be walked!"

The atmosphere was excited by these words, and the cars behind followed one after another.

Someone smiled and greeted the bald man in front of him: "Dude, thanks to you this time!"

The others also showed relaxed smiles.

"It seems to be fine." Shen Mo started the car and followed the convoy.

Bai Youwei let out an indifferent "Oh".

...

On the highway, cars passed by at a slow speed, and everyone was extremely cautious.

Bai Youwei lay quietly by the car window.

As the car moved forward, she saw humanoid dolls one after another. They were like models in a fashion store, with empty eyes and stiff postures...

Turning around, there are two dolls sitting in a red car on the opposite side. The driver is a man, and the passenger is a woman. The woman's belly was swollen high, obviously a pregnant woman.

Bai Youwei couldn't help thinking: Did the child in her stomach also become a little doll? Is it also plastic skin, glass bead eyeballs, and chemical fiber hair? What happened to them when they turned into dolls? Is it possible that the body cannot move, but the consciousness is awake?

The thought made her shudder.

She withdrew her gaze and stopped looking.

"Ding! Welcome to the doll game! The theme of this game is 'The Tortoise and the Hare', and the rules are as follows:

One, refuse to turn games into dolls!

Two, the game fails and becomes a doll!

Three, game clearance reward dolls! ..."

An unfamiliar voice sounded beside her ears, the sound quality was as beautiful as the sounds of nature, and Bai Youwei was stunned.

"Hey, did you hear..." She was about to ask Shen Mo in front of her, but a layer of mist appeared in her vision, and the next moment, there was blue sky and white clouds, and endless green grass!

what happened? !

Bai Youwei looked at the scene in front of her in astonishment.

A second ago she was still sitting in Shen Mo's car, but at this moment she was sitting on the green lawn!

And so are fellow riders! Everyone stared dumbfounded at the runway outside the lawn, where a huge banner hung conspicuously, with four extremely exaggerated characters printed on it——

Turtle, rabbit, race, run!

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