Dawn of a New Era

Hedong City seemed to have turned into a pool of stagnant water, and the atmosphere became more and more depressing day by day.

Early the next morning, Chen's father and Chen's mother finally couldn't hold back, called Chen Shouyi, borrowed a tricycle, and went to the vegetable market to continue shopping.

A group of people came there only to find that there were soldiers standing guard everywhere outside the vegetable market, and the atmosphere was solemn.

Walking into the vegetable market, there are pitifully few stalls, and except for one official grain and oil store, where the price has not increased, all vegetables and meat are expensive, more than several times more expensive than before the mutation.

"Why is it so expensive? Who can afford it, and it doesn't look fresh." Mother Chen picked up a Chinese cabbage, and after asking the price, it was nine yuan a catty, and she was speechless.

"I said sister-in-law, it's really not expensive. I bought it wholesale, and it's not much cheaper. I just made hard money."

"But it's not that expensive, it's even higher than the previous price of meat."

A street vendor said impatiently: "If you want to buy cheap, you can buy it in the suburbs. It will be much cheaper there. If you want to buy it in the countryside, it's like you don't need money."

Chen Shouyi frowned slightly, it was not easy to live in a big city, especially in the current situation.

This mutation didn't have much impact on agriculture, or didn't have much impact in a short period of time.

However, Hedong City has a population of tens of millions, and this super-large city itself is based on modern and efficient logistics. Not to mention the vegetables and meat in the surrounding vegetable and meat bases before the mutation, you can reach the city center in a few hours, and the prices in the suburbs and the city center are not much different.

But now the level of logistics has suddenly degraded to not much better than that of the feudal era. From car transportation to tricycles, the cost of logistics has increased by dozens or even hundreds of times. They will all soar.

Although Chen's mother was heartbroken, after a lot of bargaining, she finally bought a lot of Chinese cabbage for eight yuan, and then bought a piece of meat, more than ten catties of eggs, two barrels of oil, and five Bags of twenty-five kilograms of grain before leaving the vegetable market.

"It cost more than 3,000 yuan for this little thing!" Sitting on the tricycle, Chen's mother said heartbrokenly, "The next time I go to buy it, I must go to the countryside to buy it."

"Mom, forget it, let it be more expensive." Chen Shouyi pedaled his tricycle and said aloud, "There are soldiers in the urban area to enforce martial law, so it's still safe. I don't know what's going on in the countryside. In a few days, I'll send it out." The salary should be enough to live on.”

Mother Chen frowned. Just as she was about to speak, she noticed a few pedestrians on the side of the road glancing here and there from time to time. There was greed and covetousness in their eyes, and she immediately swallowed it.

Seeing this, Chen Shouyi glanced coldly. Fortunately, soldiers and policemen could be seen from time to time on the road, and there were no blind people who dared to rob.

In troubled times, heavy codes are used. Except for the first day of the mutation, there were still people who took advantage of the chaos to smash and kill. However, as soldiers took to the streets, after martial law began, especially after killing some chaotic elements on the spot, they used this as a deterrent, and they continued to fight. No one dares to do evil on the streets.

Of course, those evils hidden in the dark are still unstoppable.

In this oppressive atmosphere, life is getting harder every day, and many people are full of fear and confusion about the future.

Coupled with the fact that information has become blocked, you can know the world's affairs without leaving your home, and now you can no longer hear other information except for a few kilometers around. Being in the city is like being trapped on an island.

Nobody knows what's going on out there right now.

In the end the war has begun, or still maintain peace?

Anxiety, panic, uneasiness, under all kinds of stimuli, even a gentle and gentle person may release the demon in his heart in a blink of an eye. During these days, people can be heard everywhere that people have been killed.

...

Chen Shouyi rode a tricycle all the way back to the community, and saw several policemen carrying a corpse that had been wrapped in a body bag onto a specially modified big bucket tricycle, and there were already two corpses on it.

One of them, judging by the size, is still a child, which is obviously a family of three.

Residents in the neighborhood in twos and threes in the distance,

Pointing and pointing in a low voice, not daring to approach from a distance.

"Don't look, bad luck, go!" Mother Chen urged with a disturbed expression.

Chen Shouyi responded, looked away, and continued to pedal the tricycle. Not long after, he came downstairs in the community.

He carried five bags of grain on his shoulders, a piece of pork and two barrels of cooking oil in both hands, and walked up the stairs with Mother Chen.

...

"Mom, brother, you're back, where's dad?" Chen Xingyue asked.

"Your dad has gone to return the tricycle!" Chen's mother said a little uneasy.

"Let me tell you something. The police came just now, and someone died on the ninth floor." Chen Xingyue said.

"When I came here, I saw it outside. The one who died was from our building?" Chen Shouyi said in surprise.

Ten minutes later, Chen Dawei also came back. Hearing the news, he couldn't help sighing: "Do you think people from our building did it?"

He didn't worry much, not to mention that his son was a martial artist, even his daughter was also a martial artist apprentice, it was not enough for ordinary murderers to deal with his family.

"No way, I think the people here are very kind." Mother Chen said.

"Mom, who knows who knows the face but not the heart?" Chen Xingyue curled her lips and said.

...

After eating at noon, Chen Shouyi stayed at home for a while, but he couldn't stay any longer. He was bored at home every day, and he was almost bored.

He walked all the way, and without knowing it, he came near the haunted house.

He suddenly felt something strange, it seemed that something was wrong. There was still hundreds of meters away from the haunted house, but he already felt a faint gloomy feeling. He raised his head and looked in the direction of the haunted house, and it seemed that the light seemed to be a little dark.

Unexpectedly, it was already so serious!

This natural spirit is getting stronger and stronger.

He noticed that there was a thick layer of snow on the cement road in the alley, and there were no other footprints on it except for a few scattered footprints. Obviously, there were very few people coming and going here recently.

Chen Shouyi hesitated for a moment, and was about to walk into the alley to see the haunted house, but he was stopped by soldiers standing guard by the side of the road:

"It's off limits."

He couldn't help but tremble when he heard it, took out his martial artist certificate, and asked, "What happened inside?"

After the inspection, the soldier looked serious, and said, "It is haunted by ghosts, many people have died, and now the people nearby have all been relocated to other places. In order to avoid panic among the nearby people, please don't spread the word."

"Is there no one here to deal with it?" Chen Shouyi asked suspiciously.

"The Investigation Bureau of the Third Type of Affairs came once the day before yesterday, but it still returned without success. Now we can only temporarily isolate it and wait for the final processing."

It is said that they returned in vain, but in fact, one of the two people who went back returned with a pale face, as if greatly frightened, while the other was completely insane.