The appearance of Pingzhang's sister-in-law was like a fire, burning Chen Tongzhong's eyes. His head hurt like a pinprick, and he just wanted to send her away quickly, and then go back to the house to be alone. However, even if the desire was strong, it was only manifested in the usual indifferent tone, and the boredom with her was a slight flick of the arm.

Probably because she was too frightened, Sister-in-law Ping Zhang completely forgot about the mayor standing in front of her, and was in the grief of losing her son and wife, so she didn't realize that he disliked her.

"They also said that the source of infectious diseases may be the coal mine, so from now on, the coal mine will be closed!"

"What?" Hearing this, Chen Tongzhong's eyes finally went dark, and he almost collapsed to the ground.

Even if the son is dead, the wife is gone, and the life outside the two-story building is still going on, these hundreds of people still have to eat and live, how can the coal mine be closed?

The mayor's reaction gave Pingzhang's sister-in-law a reason to vent, and her ventilation report had turned into a call for heaven and earth, which seemed more painful than Chen Tongzhong. She pounded between the two loose balls of big flesh on her chest: "Our family Pingzhang has done a good job in the mine, and he is about to give a salary increase, and now that the mine is gone, isn't he even gone with the original salary?" With the little money earned from the commissary, how will my family live in the future! ”

……

Chen Tongzhong picked up his briefcase again and went to work at the town committee.

Dressed in an old suit and pedaling a Type 28 bicycle, he staggered down the gravel road. He very much hoped that everything that had happened was a nightmare from last night, and when he came home from work today, he would still be able to eat the hot meal brought by his wife, and although his silly son didn't speak, he could occasionally turn his head and look at him.

However, as soon as the faucet turned to the junction leading to the town council, he had to stop.

The road was cut off by two horizontal thistles, and there were really a few soldiers guarding the intersection as described by Pingzhang's sister-in-law. In the attire of these people, Pingzhang's sister-in-law only said that she missed a little, not only did they put white coats on their military uniforms, but also carried rifles on their shoulders.

"You! What do you do? ”

When he was stunned, a soldier strode over and pressed the bicycle faucet. His fierce appearance was no different from the capture of a fugitive, although Chen Tongzhong did not express any intention of breaking through.

"This ...... What's going on here? Why didn't you let it go? Chen Tongzhong asked in astonishment.

The soldier looked at him with his eyes exposed above the mask for a few seconds, convinced that he was just an honest resident, before he reprimanded him in a tone of lesson: "Are you from here?" Why don't you seem to know anything? Two hours ago, the roads around the town committee were all under martial law, waiting for your town mayor to come to investigate, and now the on-site command has sent someone to pick him up. If you don't have anything important to do today, it's better to stay at home honestly. There's a contagion in this town, and it's no fun to get it! ”

"I'm Mayor Mare, please let me go."

Chen Tongzhong was about to answer like this, but the words that came to his lips stopped abruptly, and his two eyes also started to straighten out. Because he caught a glimpse of the soldier wearing a watch on the wrist of his bicycle faucet, with a dark blue case and a black cowhide strap, no hands in the dial, only a circle of threads rotating towards the black dot in the center, which looked like a three-dimensional dynamic visual image and as if it was actually turning.

"This ...... That's it! I'm sorry, I just found out, I'm going home...... Let's go home......"

In response, Chen Tongzhong lowered his head sharply, and quickly inserted his face into the erected collar, for fear of being identified at this time.

The soldier's hand let go of his hand and signaled that he could go, and he quickly turned the car around and kicked back as if fleeing. But since he had found out that the situation was different, of course he would not really go home honestly, and the soldier made it very clear that someone was now going to his two-story building, nominally to pick him up for investigation.

As Heizhang's sister-in-law compared, an army that came from nowhere occupied Natalie's town without warning. Soldiers in white coats carrying rifles were scattered everywhere like soybeans poured out of an overturned dustpan. Residents could no longer leave their homes, and when it was time to start work in the mines, no one could walk through the blockade of the town's paths to the coal yard behind the town.

Chen Tongzhong secretly rejoiced that if it weren't for Pingzhang's sister-in-law who came to ask for help in advance, he would inevitably fall into the hands of these unscrupulous soldiers, and he would never be willing to come into direct contact with them until he figured out their origins.

Avoiding the army stems from a simple question: the Suifenhe City Funeral Parlor has nothing to do with the army, why do the full-time mortician and soldier who collect corpses wear the same watch? And the watch style is so quirky.

Not far from the coal mine behind the town, there is a small field of withered sorghum. Chen Tongzhong hid there until sunset, only to hear the shouting from the town in the distance, but no one chased after him. Those soldiers went to the coal mine in one group, and it was estimated that they thought that there were no people to hide in the desolate sorghum fields, so they did not come to search, and Chen Tongzhong sighed a sigh.

Sitting against a large rock, he recalled the tragic story of his grandfather and father that his grandmother often recounted, and although he did not see it in person, the scene of their tragic death still appeared in front of his eyes from time to time.

Immediately afterwards, he thought of his son's bones that had disappeared, and he couldn't stop feeling sad. He buried his head deep in the crook of his arm and wept silently. The sunset, which seemed to be merciful, sprinkled a round of golden light on his shoulder, but in fact not only did not add the slightest warmth, but also sent the chill of the winter night in advance.

Suddenly, he stopped crying and picked up the briefcase he carried with him to work every day from the ground. In the deepest compartment of this black rectangular leather bag, there is the page of the diary left by Chen He. When his missing son returned, he intuitively thought that the reason was not simple, so he often turned over and looked at the paper, and felt that it was not safe to put it anywhere, so he simply took it with him, so that he would not be left at home and never be able to get it back.

"Maybe when he grows up and stands in the birch forest and counts the fireflies, those shining beetles can replace the stars in the sky and send the aliens from the fairy tale to him and talk to him."

At the end of the diary, Chen He wrote:

"The one Grandpa mentioned, he's grown up, and if aliens really exist, it's time to talk to them. If they are really the protagonists of fairy tales, are they angels or demons? Enigma, everything is a mystery! I think I'll have to find the Dr. Kahesha who explained how computers work to my grandfather, and maybe she's the only one who is the key to solving these mysteries! ”

Chen Tongzhong muttered to himself, glanced nostalgically at the silhouette of Natalie Town fading in the night, and then looked at the coal mine where the figures were swaying not far away. If he can successfully cross that empty field and reach the other side of the coalfield, he can smuggle it into Russia.