The sesame pancake disappeared from the air as abruptly as Bohemia.
Lin Sanjiu squatted on the ground and stared blankly at the circular sewer opening for a few seconds. Finally, he cursed in a low voice and stood up.
"What are you standing up for?" Teacher Yi asked.
At the moment, it seems that there is only one way left to find her companion, and that is to follow her. Otherwise, where will she go to find the hospital that she still doesn't know whether it really exists?
"Even if I have to take the initiative to jump into the crater," Lin Sanjiu said dullly, "I can still find a cleaner crater. It's not like I have no choice."
Judging from the several cases of being swallowed just now, although it will disappear after being dripped with lava, there is a very painful burning process; if the limbs are extended into the ring, they disappear immediately without making a sound.
Comparing the two, of course she wanted to choose a painful and short-term method.
After pouring out all the mineral water, she took a deep breath, closed her eyes, gritted her teeth, and put her fingers into the mouth of the bottle.
One second, two seconds, three seconds...
Nothing happened.
His fingers were still in the mouth of the round bottle, and his skin was wetted by the cool water drops.
Lin Sanjiu opened her eyes, a little dazed. She took out her finger and tried it twice more, but except for making her finger wetter, she still didn't change at all: she was still standing in front of the bathroom mirror, her eyebrows furrowed.
Together; I don't know if it's because I'm too confused or because I haven't looked in the mirror for a long time, but the reflection in the mirror looks a little strange.
She looked up and saw the clock on the mirror read 12:32 PM.
"Strange,"
After confirming that the faucet had a circular water outlet, she opened it and put her hand into the rushing water; the cool tap water hit her skin, making her shiver - but it was just a shiver.
.
"Am I going to put my hand into the sewer opening too?"
Although she knew it didn't make sense logically, Lin Sanjiu still squatted down and tried. By this time, the result was not so unexpected. She waited stupidly for nearly a minute, but neither was swallowed by the lava nor her feet.
Still standing in this bathroom.
I don't know why, but the circular "craters" that swallowed four people in a row and were filled with invisible lava didn't seem to want her very much.
Even after Lin Sanjiu walked out, put the puppet master's ring on her shoulder, and stuck the Bohemian bracelet on her palm, she was still fine, so safe that it was annoying.
"Try it," Teacher Yi reminded her, "can you turn them into cards now?"
Lin Sanjiu subconsciously gave it a try - then she looked at the two cards in her palm and was speechless, not knowing what to say. "It's really okay," she looked around blankly, "but
……Why?"
Naturally, no one among the silent degenerates coming and going on the street would answer her.
"If I can't be swallowed by the crater," she looked at the "people" one after another with the same appearance as usual, and murmured: "But at least I can be swallowed by lava... If the woman didn't lie, there should be all these fallen species in her body.
They are all lava."
As long as she attacks the fallen species, wouldn't she be sent to that hospital?
She thought this was a good idea, but when she mentioned it to Teacher Yi, the latter made a long nasal sound of "hmm", seemingly full of doubts and uncertainties.
"What's wrong?" Lin Sanjiu asked, "Aren't being swallowed by the lava in the water bottle the same as being swallowed by the lava in the fallen species?"
"Logically speaking... it should be the same." Teacher Yi said hesitantly, "But... there is a question you have thought about?"
What Teacher Yi observed was the clue captured by her subconscious mind; and Teacher Yi was able to screen out valuable things from her subconscious, bring it to the surface, and tell Lin Sanjiu. From this point of view, she
It's really useful.
"you say."
"The man and woman just tricked you upstairs. I don't know why they wanted to use their own hands to let you be swallowed by lava... right?" Teacher Yi said while thinking, "No matter what the reason is for them to do this.
, it’s a bit too much to sacrifice the near and the far away. Aren’t you surrounded by fallen species at that time? If you just hit one casually, the lava that erupts will swallow you up. It can be considered that they sent you into the lava with their own hands, so why bother?
I lied to you to go upstairs, but in the end, I stole the chicken but lost the rice?"
Lin Sanjiu hadn't thought about this. In any case, Sesame Pancake and the Bearded Man should at least have a long-range attack method, so that they wouldn't be unable to hit the corrupted creatures around her who didn't know how to hide.
"You mean... after they trick me into the ring for some reason, I will be swallowed up and sent to the hospital; and if the fallen species is hit, although I will also be swallowed up by lava, but with
How will it be different if we compare them in Bohemia?"
"I doubt it." Teacher Yi sighed, "After all, people killed by fallen species are very likely to become fallen species... We can't rule out the possibility that the ring can send you away
Go to the hospital, and the fallen species turns you into a fallen species."
Lin Sanjiu thought for a while and became a little discouraged. "Yes, that man and woman don't want my life... If the magma ejected from the body of the fallen species will turn me into a fallen species, then they may
It is precisely because of this concern that I did not attack the fallen species around me."
In this way, another way was blocked. Looking at the people walking around with calm faces, she just wanted to scratch her scalp.
The ring didn't know why it refused to swallow her, and the risk of attacking the fallen species was too great. What should she do next?
"Anyway," Lin Sanjiu made up her mind after standing there and thinking for a few seconds, "I have to find a map first."
Her eyesight is now darkened, and she can only act based on the information Sesame Pancake told her; assuming that general hospital really exists somewhere, then it must have been built before the apocalypse, and it must be on the map
.
After walking along the streets of Big Bear City for dozens of minutes in the warm sunshine of the afternoon, Lin Sanjiu even had the illusion that she had returned to before the end of the world. These depraved species seemed to have been wound up.
The robots were all doing the same thing as usual: there were men walking on the road carrying briefcases, there were cleaners cleaning up the garbage on the roadside, and there were girls sitting on the chairs at the bus stops listening to music - after a while, unexpectedly,
There really was a bus that slowly drove into the station.
If everyone hadn't been expressionless and silent, I'm afraid any evolver would have thought that this was the world six months before the end. Speaking of which, there was another place in this well-preserved world that Lin Sanjiu couldn't figure out.
: It is obviously full of lava, but lava cannot be absorbed by the [Nostradamus Card].
Wasn't it Lava who destroyed this world? Then how could a fallen species be created with Lava in its body?
"Why is the map so hard to find?"
After searching a gas station and two convenience stores but still finding nothing, Lin Sanjiu couldn't help but sigh and simply sat on a bench by the roadside to rest.
In an era when everyone uses online maps, it is indeed not easy to find a paper map; judging from the ordinary appearance of Big Bear City, it does not seem to be a tourist attraction, which makes finding a map even more difficult.
Lin Sanjiu rubbed her sore calf and was about to get up and continue searching when a man wearing glasses walked over at that moment and sat down beside her without saying a word.
Another fallen species——
Before the thought was finished, the man beside him whispered: "Have you finished registering?"
Lin Sanjiu shook his head and stared at his profile.
This person didn't look like an evolved person. Instead, he looked like an office worker who went out to eat during his lunch break. Of course, it was possible for an evolved person to wear a shirt and trousers like him, but Lin Sanjiu hadn't seen many people.
Hang a work badge around your neck.
Is it a special item?
Her mind raced rapidly for a few seconds, and she sat motionless, tensing her body and replied: "...not yet."
"Then don't waste time," the man raised his wrist and looked at his watch, "it's almost half past two."
Lin Sanjiu glanced at the work badge on his chest. Unfortunately, because of the angle, she couldn't see the words on the badge clearly. She thought about it and didn't ask what would happen at 2:30 or why he needed to register. She just asked
He asked vaguely: "This, the registration place..."
"It's right in the back," the man with glasses said, turning around and pointing his finger across a small lawn behind the bench to an Indian restaurant not far away: "Don't you know? You haven't found it all this time?"
However, the plastic cover of the work badge shone brightly in the sun. Lin Sanjiu glanced at it a few times, but still couldn't be sure whether it was a special item or not - or, in other words, whether this man was an upgraded degenerate.
kind.
"If you can't make it in time for half past two," the man wearing glasses said, he stood up and turned around without giving her a chance to ask more questions. "You'll have to wait for a few more hours."
Seeing his back gradually disappearing at the corner of the street, Lin Sanjiu sat on the bench, her eyebrows furrowing tighter and tighter.
After a few minutes, she jumped up from the bench, crossed the lawn in a few steps, and hurried towards the Indian restaurant. She was so fast that she almost hit a degenerate who appeared out of nowhere——
When I ran closer, I saw that the wooden door was ajar, and there was no light or sound inside.
She wrapped her hand with a [Protective Force Field] and gently pushed the door open.
This restaurant must not have been used for a long time. Even the strong smell unique to Indian restaurants has completely dissipated over time, leaving only the smell of dust and wood. There is a reception desk at the door.
, but there was no receptionist; she slowly approached, looked over, and found a large, thick book spread out on the counter.
On the page that was spread out, there was this line written: "The next round of lava!! Will start at 2:30, please leave your name here to register."
