The elevator door opened in an old abandoned building.
Half of the roof collapsed, and the pillars that fell from the second floor were shattered into a pile of stones on the ground. Electric wires and vines were intertwined and hung in the air. The skylight shone through the holes, making the dust particles shine, as if
A crooked beam of light is trying to prop up the ruins that are about to collapse.
The former guard jumped out first, jumped over the broken bricks and rubble blocking the elevator door, stopped in a small open space, and looked around for a few times. When he heard the three people behind him also exiting the elevator, he hurriedly
He stepped aside a little, turned around and smiled at a few people, his face wrinkled layer by layer because he couldn't help but be so happy: "I saw it, the door is on the right."
As the npc said, this abandoned building sits on a hillside outside Big Bear City, and can take in most of the city that has been repeatedly swallowed by Lava. All players who have left the Lava game must follow the trail behind the old building.
Go up the hillside and get off the highway. It stands to reason that in the green mountains after that highway, it is no longer the world of lava! - As for whether the stretch of green mountains is the doomsday world, what is the end of the world on this planet?
It seems that no one can tell how many apocalyptic worlds there are.
A group of four people walked silently along the hillside to the road. Bohemia pulled the clothes down from her head and muttered under the cloth: "I suddenly had an idea."
"What?"
"The foreign evolvers all landed in a certain area of the doomsday world precisely because they have visas, right?" Bohemia pulled off her clothes and her voice suddenly became clear. Her arms seemed to have snakes coming out of them.
It looked like a hole came out of the big sleeves, and he pulled it on and put on the dress: "Because we don't have a visa, wherever we go, we enter the world. So we won't leave, okay? We are on this road.
Set up camp."
While Lin Sanjiu was thinking about this idea, she heard the puppet master suddenly say: "Okay."
"Okay?" She turned her head and glanced at him, "Do you still need to rest for a while to recover from your injuries?"
The puppeteer met her gaze calmly, and a soft and gentle smile broke out on half of his face, like some kind of night flower suddenly blooming under the dim moonlight. "No," he said slowly, "Yes.
you need to."
"But I don't have any injuries on my body -" Before she could finish her words, Lin Sanjiu was stepped on the heel of her shoe so hard by Bohemia that a layer of skin on her foot was almost torn off; before she had time to understand, she heard
The puppet master smiled: "It will be there soon, don't worry."
...Okay, we decided to set up camp anyway.
Fortunately, if she camped on the road, she could also think of a way outside Big Bear City to see if she could find out about Doctor Cat and finish the last thing.
Camping on the road near the lava!! exit is definitely not a good idea. After some discussion, the group decided to walk some distance along the road and wait until Big Bear City was out of sight. This was not really a plan.
It was just a step to take a look. As soon as he finished speaking, Lin Sanjiu's eyes fell on the former guard.
"You should have somewhere to go, right?" She didn't want the other party to know which direction her group would go. "We saved your life and brought you out. We have done our best to be benevolent, and it's time to part ways."
For a person who is not in the right state, she also knows that the grace of saving her life cannot even make a splash.
The former guard withdrew his gaze from the towering green hills on the other side of the road.
"Of course, of course," he was stunned for a few seconds before he seemed to digest her words and nodded repeatedly, "I'm so grateful that I can't say enough. I'll leave now. Have a good trip!"
...the pleasure is astonishing.
Seeing that he turned around and walked away, Lin Sanjiu thought for a while and signaled the two Bohemians to stay and not move. He caught up a few steps and walked beside the former guard. He smiled and said: "It's a friendship after all.
I'll give it to you, after all, we haven't had the chance to have a good chat."
The former guard looked at her and blinked. "Okay, welcome."
Although this man was unpredictable, she knew that the former guard was definitely not a fool. He was so smart that he seemed to always be able to detect when he should do something to maximize his chances of survival.
Lin Sanjiu first chatted with him about her experiences in the hospital. Seeing that he gradually started to talk, she asked tentatively: "By the way, what do you think of Wei Xing?"
"That's stupid." The former guard said without thinking.
"Too stupid? Isn't it true that I am mistaken for my cleverness?"
"Of course not, I have a very keen sense of people." He laughed softly a few times, "Not only people, but anything related to people, I am very sensitive. Some people survive by force, and some people rely on force to survive.
The brain survives, and I... I rely on people to survive."
Then how could you still be deceived by that man and woman?
Lin Sanjiu was about to ask this question when he suddenly swallowed it back. To be precise, he was deceived into becoming a guard by the NPC, and the NPC was probably no longer a human being; when the man and the woman said that they were his teammates
At that time, he did act as if he believed them. In fact, who knew whether he believed them or not?
"Even if she never talked to me much..." The former guard didn't pay attention to her momentary distraction and continued: "I said, did she end up like this because of a man? It's the most vulgar story.
.”
This time, Lin Sanjiu was seriously surprised.
She even almost groped her body to see if a bug had been placed - otherwise, how could he have guessed that Wei Xing's experience did involve a man? You know, until the last moment, Wei Xing,
Not even a related word was mentioned.
"She... did ask me for something before she died, and it was related to a man. I'm going to do it after I settle down." She said rather reluctantly, "But I... don't know what happened between them.
relation."
"I'll just say it!" the former guard clapped his hands and said happily: "I don't have any evidence. Once I say it, you can listen and there is no need to pursue it... I just feel that she is not doing this unscrupulously for herself. Most people want to be discharged from the hospital.
It was to live a better life, but when she saw that she could no longer be discharged from the hospital, she immediately wanted to die, which showed that her purpose was not that life at all. She wanted to be discharged because there was something she wanted outside the hospital -
—Or people?”
Lin Sanjiu could only stare at him, not knowing what to say.
"What she wants is not freedom or anything like that." The former guard has always been cautious around a few people. It is rare that he dares to speak openly like this - maybe it is also because there is only one Lin Sanjiu beside him.
That's all.
"It's not like men can't feel it. A woman who has been admired by the opposite sex all her life will naturally have an attitude when facing other men, which is different from ordinary women... Even if I have never seen her good-looking, I
You can also tell from her attitude that her former beauty was absolutely amazing."
"So what?"
"It's a bit hard to explain. What I mean is that for someone like her who has internalized her appearance for a long time, beauty is definitely more important than freedom and so on. Because beauty has become her personality.
Part of it... you know what I mean? It involves her 'being'."
The former guard seemed to have difficulty converting his vague feelings into logical words. He frowned and said: "What a person pursues is inseparable from what kind of person he is.
Do you agree? So I think that what she pursues should be related to her beauty to some extent... But this thing is more important than her life and her beauty, let alone a person you meet by chance.
Passersby."
"That's why you thought of..." Lin Sanjiu hadn't thought of this word for about eight hundred years: "Love?"
"She looks like that kind of silly woman," the former guard couldn't help but laugh, as if this was funny and interesting. "Without the cover of her beauty, her face can't stop the moth's stupidity.
Come on. Hey, you said she wanted to die because she didn't want that man to see her turning into an ordinary NPC, or because she felt that even if they met, she wouldn't know who the other person was, and it would be like saying goodbye forever, so she
…?”
Lin Sanjiu didn't want to talk any more.
She pretended to be attracted by something, and looked at the Big Bear City not far below the highway for a while, without responding to the words of the former guard. The latter was quiet for a while, then suddenly said "Hey" and murmured to himself with a smile.
: "You definitely don't want to think too deeply about it, I've made you uncomfortable."
Just from the brief interaction with Wei Xing and the few words they talked about afterwards, the former guard had already grasped the core of Wei Xing... What about her? What about Bohemia? Where is the puppet master?
Lin Sanjiu swallowed her throat and changed her topic. "Why do you feel that there is no elevator in the guide you have read?"
"Ahem, it's not about feeling. I guessed it." The former guard touched his collar, and the pendant formed a square shape under his clothes. "The strategy they showed me must be incomplete...
Really, you can meet bullies everywhere. They deliberately cut off part of the elevator, probably because of my nickname."
"Your nickname?"
"Do you still remember, the red-faced man said that everyone in the Players Club will create a name for themselves?" The former guard played with the pendant under his clothes and said with some nostalgia: "My nickname is not chosen by myself.
, they shouted and screamed, and it continued.”
For some reason, Lin Sanjiu's hair stood up one by one, as if she had a premonition that the cold wind was about to hit her skin. This person's fighting power was not as strong as hers, not to mention that there were puppet masters and Bohemia Road behind her in the distance.
It was quiet and peaceful, with only the wind carrying the scent of the mountains and forests blowing between the two of them - but she felt that she had just glanced into some bottomless black well, and her hands and feet felt a little weak for a moment.
"My name is 'Elevator Man'." The former guard said slowly and took out the pendant: "Because I always like to look at it, this souvenir I got from the game..."
The last time she saw this transparent cube, Lin Sanjiu remembered that inside the pendant was a scene inside an elevator, with several men and women groping around on the elevator door reflected in it - they were probably looking for a way out.
This time, several people in the pendant were gone, leaving only the last woman and a few half-eaten corpses on the ground. There were piles of human feces in the corner, and even the mutilated corpses were soaked in
in the urine.
"Will it always... show the situation in that game simultaneously?" It was only now that Lin Sanjiu faced this seemingly unimportant detail for the first time - when everyone first heard the word "souvenir"
, no one thought more about why they wanted to take this kind of souvenir?
…Who would want to see something like this?
"Well, yes." The former guard held the pendant in his hand without raising his head, looking at it with all his concentration, as if it was playing the most interesting TV series; the flesh on his cheeks was slowly growing with his smile.