Under the gloomy sky where dark clouds gathered, Lin Sanjiu's eyelashes trembled a few times, and finally she slowly opened her eyes. Apart from the faint smell, there were a few birds chirping from time to time, and the faint sound of unknown metal hitting.
, echoing in the distance. As if she had just woken up from a long dream, it took her a few seconds to get rid of her confusion, and she suddenly got up. Without paying attention, she still held the hand in her hand.
The stack of visas was immediately scattered all over the floor.
What happened to Puppet Master and Bohemia?
Were they sent together?
She didn't have time to pick up the visa, so she looked around cautiously - and soon, her heart slowly sank.
It seems to be a large garbage dump here, with rusty refrigerators, twisted old bicycles, car frames with only one shell left, deflated cans and dirty cloth heads... On the black ground with the reflection of sewage, various objects are scattered.
Garbage piled up endlessly into hills. The place where the puppeteer and Bohemia used to be next to her was empty except for a piece of crumpled plastic paper. It seemed that it was about to rain, and it was dark.
The gray sky pressed down, pressing on her heart.
She stood there silently for a while, with a wry smile.
Could she really be surprised by this?
No matter how many people she met or how many years she spent together, every time she was teleported, the fragile and slender bonds between her and her friends would be completely severed, and then they would be thrown into the wind by fate. They would be scattered in the endless
Deep in the universe, even if our paths, life and death may never intersect again, she will never know.
Lin Sanjiu felt tired.
Now she just wanted to sit back on the ground, and sit like this until the next transmission. She suddenly understood Qingjiu Liu a little bit, and understood why he was always immersed in alcohol and collapsed on the roadside like a puddle of mud... because
To put it bluntly, what's the difference between this teleportation and the next? It's nothing more than trying to get through this life that has been derailed.
...it's better to use alcohol to make life smoother.
Lin Sanjiu picked a place without sewage and sat down again. Anyway, it was so quiet near the garbage dump that no one felt dangerous... She bent down to pick up the visas and flipped through them one by one.
It seems.
After the transmission was completed, all the visas from the previous world were invalidated; many of them still had the name of the puppeteer on them, so it was obviously impossible for them to send her to this world. When Lin Sanjiu quickly
When she finished flipping through the pile of visas, she paused and quickly pulled out one of them.
This is a high-level bearer visa with a line of conspicuous red letters: "Journey Performed".
It seems that although the flood allowed her to teleport in advance, it happened to not invalidate the visa, and it was this visa that brought her to this world. In the "destination" column on the visa, the name filled in was——
“…edible truth?”
Lin Sanjiu frowned and couldn't help but mutter to himself: "What kind of place is this?"
No matter what kind of apocalypse it is, she can't muster the energy now and has no curiosity about the new world. Anyway, she has enough food on her body. She can find a place where no one is around and she can be stable for as long as possible...
"Lin-san-wine-"
A sudden distant cry made her jump up in shock.
That voice is so familiar to her!
"Get your mother out of here!"
The word "give" seemed to be far away, but by the time the word "come" came, the person who made the sound was already less than a few hundred meters away from her, separated only by mountains of garbage one after another.
She hadn't seen the other party's shadow yet. Lin Sanjiu didn't even realize that a surprise smile had appeared on her face. The fatigue, heaviness, loneliness and depression almost all disappeared in an instant.
It's clean.
She hurriedly took a few steps in the direction of the sound and raised her voice in response: "I'm here!"
Along with the shadow of Bohemia, there is also her grunting, dove-like complaining.
"Stop following me, what's wrong with you!"
When the long golden-brown curly hair emerged from behind a mountain of garbage, Lin Sanjiu heard her getting angry at the person behind her: "Who cares to come to this crappy garbage dump of yours? It's dirty and smelly. I'll find him."
Come on, stay away from me!"
“Bohemia!”
The golden-brown fur head lifted up upon hearing the sound, and a pair of shining eyes appeared from between the wooden shelves of the broken sofa. As soon as she saw Lin Sanjiu, her face suddenly lit up with joy, and she sped up and ran.
However, before Lin Sanjiu could see her happiness clearly, it immediately turned into a complaint: "You were teleported here too! Why didn't you hurry up and look for me just now, why were you just standing there? You screamed at the top of my lungs.
They are all mute."
When she woke up and saw nothing around her, who would have thought that she had also been teleported here? So... where is the puppet master?
Before Lin Sanjiu asked, she looked at the man behind her.
The man's appearance was not very pleasing to the eye. He had a huge round belly bulging out of his denim overalls, which made people worry that his belly would explode due to the swelling of his internal organs. His shirt and pants were both dirty and dark.
The cuffs were still stained with engine oil; even though he looked like he was nine months pregnant, his movements were not slow. At this time, he followed Bohemia step by step, his face flushed: "...this
This is private land, I don’t care who you look for? You both need to leave quickly, or I will call the police if you don’t leave!”
"Okay, let's-"
Wait.
Lin Sanjiu was stunned for a moment and didn't say the second half of the sentence.
Police|Police?
"Police?" Bohemia also quickly caught the term, "Oh, it's the one similar to a bodyguard. Can you still afford a bodyguard? If you can, call me. Do you think I'm afraid of my aunt?"
The big-bellied man's expression froze, and he stared at her with doubts on his face: "...Huh?"
"Wait a minute," Lin Sanjiu pulled her behind him, stepped forward and asked, "You mean, the government agencies here can still operate normally?"
The sparse eyebrows of the man with a big belly were wrinkled together, and the bags under his eyes were squeezed by his cheeks. "Why not?...I said, where did you come from?"
"What is this place? Who are you?"
"This is our garbage recycling company's place. No one can enter casually! If you know, leave as soon as possible!"
Bohemia grew up in the Twelve Worlds, and was still ignorant at this time; but an idea that was too good to be true suddenly appeared in Lin Sanjiu's mind: "Do you have a TV or newspaper here?
Yesterday, tell me, what did you do yesterday, and what was written in the news?"
It may be the first time for this big-bellied man to be frightened by a woman younger than him. He couldn't help but take two steps back and became alert: "What kind of medicine have you taken? Are you still mentally disturbed? I really can't leave if you don't leave."
You're welcome!"
This sentence did not intimidate the woman opposite him at all.
Instead, Lin Sanjiu took a step forward and looked him up and down for a while as if he were buying beef in a supermarket. Finally, he smiled with relief: "You really haven't evolved! That's great, you are an ordinary person."
The cheeks of the man with a big belly trembled, and his increasingly nervous expression was evident in his words - very few people can hear someone say to themselves, "You haven't evolved" in their daily lives.
"Yes," Bohemia said uninterestedly from behind, "otherwise I would have beaten him away."
"This is not the Twelve Realms," Lin Sanjiu immediately turned around and explained, "Didn't you realize? Ordinary people living such normal lives can appear outside the Twelve Realms... Hey, this world has not experienced the end of the world yet.
, right?" - This statement may be a bit strange, but the garbage mountain surrounding them does look "fresh".
She said the last sentence to the big-bellied man, but the big-bellied man didn't answer - he staggered a few steps away, turned around and hurried away, shouting as he walked: "I don't care what's wrong with you.
Anyway, don’t come here! Leave quickly!”
"Let us go, I am quite fast." Bohemia muttered. "Why, is this really the world six months before the end of the world? I have never used this kind of visa."
Looking at the man's appearance, Lin Sanjiu actually felt a little nostalgic. Before she encountered the extreme temperature hell, if someone rushed to her and said "the end of the world", she would probably have to do the best thing.
Unexpectedly, the puppet master was so generous and the six-month visas before the end of the world were so expensive. He actually got two of them... I just don’t know where he was teleported to. The two of them are not injured now.
It would be nice to be able to rest in a peaceful world for six months... She couldn't help but sigh when she thought of this.
Seeing the big-bellied man disappearing in a hurry behind several mountains of garbage, she took a good look at Bohemia - although in reality, it might have been only a few minutes ago that the two of them were swallowed up by the flood.
But it felt like we had gone through a long separation, which was almost confusing and unbelievable.
"You have a fish bone in your hair." She thought she said it very kindly, but this sentence made Bohemia suddenly have a long face.
"Pick it out when you see it. What's the use of talking about it?"
This man's hair is like a spider web, and it can catch anything. Lin Sanjiu asked while picking the fish bones: "Did you just find the puppet master?"
"No," Bohemia's hair hurt when she pulled it, and she quickly held the root of her hair: "What if I shout and find out that he is really here?"
"What else can we do! Take him with you."
"Anyway, he's still wearing a saliva towel, so it's not dangerous to go anywhere." Bohemia muttered in a low voice: "...If I hadn't been unable to use it myself, I would have put it on long ago."
As they spoke, the two of them had already walked slowly towards the direction where the man disappeared. In a world where there was no need to worry about copies, fallen species and evolved people, they were like two ordinary people who suddenly had an afternoon free.
That way, not only was there no need to be on alert for the first time, but there was also a sense of happiness that there was nothing to do next.
"Did the puppet master still have a visa on him at that time?" Lin Sanjiu asked as he walked.
"I don't know, I didn't have time to see it, but it seems like it's gone, right?"
She couldn't help but sigh. Being able to find just one person was already something she didn't dare to hope for. She really didn't think that everyone could teleport together.
"Look," she raised her chin, "that person's house is right in front... I hope he will put a few newspapers in his office so that we can get to know this place."
Well, the name of this world really tortured me for a long time. I thought about it for forty or fifty minutes... By the way, the first chapters of several new worlds have this title, and it has become a tradition! (