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The evening descended on the city somehow unnoticed. Lights, billboards and cars lit up the streets with white and red lanterns.
   I glanced at my watch. The end of the working day, it's time to get ready for home. Today is Friday, you can go and early, only it is strange that the cleaning lady arriving at this time does not knock on the door. Maybe late, anything can happen.
   I turn off the computer and the light in the office and go out into the corridor. Dark and empty and quiet. Lamps are not all burning, and the silence as if no one is here anymore.
   I go down to the security desk, hand over the key. But there is no one here. Although the monitors work, and you can see that the cameras too.
   And ok. I put the key on the table, in a bunch of similar to my keys, sign for the fact that I passed it and go out into the yard. Everything is as usual, I press the button to open the door, but it does not work. I pull the door. Closed. What the hell?
   Returning back to the checkpoint. Still no one. Knocking in the rest room. Silence. I quietly open the door, but there is nobody there. Here is a pancake. Okay, I'll go look at the other floors.
   Having passed the second floor I find no one. Third, again, no one. The same story with the fourth. Where is all that? I scream, "Is there anyone here"? Silence. I called my friend who works in this building on the phone. No beeps, no answer that the subscriber is not available, or that he is busy. Nothing at all. I call a friend, but the same thing. I am recruiting a friend, again the same nonsense. What happens then?
   I look at my watch, it’s already eighteen hours, forty-five minutes. That is, since I closed the office, forty-five minutes have passed. And not a soul!? I do not understand anything.
   I return to the security desk again, but there is still no one there. Damn you. We had to try to open the gate for cars with a button before. Finding the remote, press open. No effect Yes, you're kidding.
   I go out again and think how can I get out of here then? And to hell with you, climb over the fence. Having reached the top edge of the fence, I’m supposedly hitting the wall. Trying to climb again. Bam! Again! I do not give up, make another attempt. I do it in another place, a failure. Then in another. But everything repeats. It starts to scare me. Yes, and behind the lattice fence no one. Cars, people, birds. No one at all!
   Peering through the windows of houses. I'm trying to even see someone. But even there the picture does not change. Five minutes look intently. Everything is unchanged. The light in the apartments does not turn off and does not turn on. Everything seemed to be frozen. What kind of jokes?
   I run back to the office, turn on the computer and try to get online. But there is no network. I check all connections, wires. Everything is in place. But the signal is not detected. Turn on the other computers, nothing again. I went downstairs, I took the first keys from the office. I open the door of one of them, and go online from there. There is no network. I try the phone, but it does not work either. I go to another office, but the familiar image on the monitor says that there is no network. With the phone is the same.
   Meanwhile, the clock is already twenty hours. Attempts to climb over the fence were unsuccessful. Nowhere at all. The entire perimeter is surrounded by a wall. Items that I threw over the fence, also bounced back. From the office window on the top floor I look at the road. She is empty. There is nobody there. The streets are silent and immovable. Even the wind does not sway on the foliage of the trees. Where I am?
   Pinching myself, I understand that it hurts. So this is not a dream. Okay, you need to collect your thoughts. For sure! Fire alarm. I find the nearest alert button and breaking the glass, click on it. Sounds a shrill signal. Five minutes, ten, fifteen. But what the hell! There is not anyone. She keeps screaming and screaming. This is already starting to bother. And suddenly she fell silent.
   I already was glad that someone had turned it off, but nobody was guarding again, as was the case on all floors. Climbing up to the roof, I look into the distance. But the world around is empty. I throw a pebble up, which now hits something on top and falls down. I'm already hungry. By the way, it's strange that electricity works. I thought. And everything went out. Nice After eating a few cookies and drinking water, I think what should I do. Figure out how to get out of here. For these thoughts and various tricks and ways, almost four hours have passed.
   Five minutes to midnight. My phone is silent. And what should he react to? There is no network. Suddenly from the window I see an approaching black dot. Very large, about the size of two windows. She pulls in all the frozen picture behind the fence, then the fence and paving slabs flies into her huge maw, the building slowly begins to shrink. Not! I do not want to go there!
   I run out through the back door to the street and cling to the fence, and I see that from all sides this point absorbs everything. Headlifting back to my floor, she pursues me devouring the stairs and doors, as well as the standing deathly pale flowers on the windowsill. I see one single place where she has not yet reached. My office has already disappeared into oblivion. the corridor is also dominated by this madness. I twist my head in all directions. The ring is compressed. The remaining space was heard a scream that echoed, but somewhere not here. The phone fell out of the hand, which displayed the time and date, March fifteenth, twenty-three hours, fifty-nine minutes.