1745 Lost time and the dove occupying the magpie's nest
Badou De's weak breathing after he fell into coma became the only undercurrent in the silent city road.
After Zhong Qing's words fell, Lin Sanjiu held her breath for a moment. Even though she knew that the other person was wearing a mask, her eyes were still fixed on him - she found that she did not dare to ask. If she asked a moment later, she could
You'll know who the other person is a moment later, right?
A sudden "click" sound came from the bearded throat, breaking the solemn silence. "I, I didn't..."
"I know," Zhong Qing seemed to know what he was going to say. After interrupting him, he said to Lin Sanjiu: "Put him down first. Next, we probably need to talk alone."
Lin Sanjiu only hesitated for a moment. "That's not okay," she glanced at the beard, whose hair was now stripped clean by the dreadlocks, but he still looked like an ordinary person. "It caused this.
None of the people can leave."
"Then you tie him up and give him to Dangzi to watch first." Zhong Qing didn't object, but sighed as if there was nothing he could do to her - this feeling was too familiar, as if it had happened to her before.
When she forces the other party to the point of no return, who is it?
Just when Lin Sanjiu put down his beard, she glanced at the other person with her peripheral vision, and suddenly her heart moved. At this time, the beard still looked like an ordinary person, which meant that there must be something on him; the only thing that had not been searched was the dreadlocks.
There seems to be only one place...
Lin Sanjiu stretched out her hand and wiped the bearded face from top to bottom, and [Flat Space] immediately received a card; when she looked up again, there was no beard on the bearded face, and it was naked and smooth.
On his face, there was an expression of undisguised surprise and doubt, as if he had not expected that his method would be discovered at the last moment.
"Okay," Zhong Qing said with a look on his face that said, "Are you satisfied now?" He waved to Dangzi as if he was his subordinate, "Pick up the things on the ground and go
Batou De is sitting next to us, waiting for us."
As expected, Dirty Pig was like his subordinate, and he obeyed obediently—evolvers who have lived to this day in the Twelve Realms cannot do without some discernment. Lin Sanjiu watched them turning over a tree not far from Batou De.
She sat down on the overturned box and watched Zhong Qing walking towards her step by step; he threw the little blue thing on the ground, stretched out his foot and stepped on it, and it was stepped into the black soil between the cracks of the bricks.
.
The sub-space once again enveloped Lin Sanjiu and Zhong Qing. The two people outside could neither see nor hear them this time.
"Don't worry, we can still get out," Zhong Qing explained, "One of its functions is to create a temporary private space without trapping people."
"You..." She stared at Zhong Qing, but couldn't find the second half of her sentence.
"I really didn't expect that we would meet under such circumstances after so many years." Zhong Qing said slowly and put his hand on his forehead.
"I felt back then that the dimensional rift might not be able to do anything to you. It seems that my feeling was right."
As the thin and almost invisible "skin" gradually left his face, the "green color" disappeared bit by bit; in Lin Sanjiu's unblinking sight, a few soft and smooth strands of hair appeared.
The bangs gently slid down from that face and fell at the corners of his eyes - after so many years, he had not changed at all. Not only did his facial features remain light and elegant, he even maintained the same hairstyle.
She heard herself say in a hoarse voice: "...Si Lu."
"Long time no see." Si Lu smiled at her. For a moment, it seemed that years had passed between the two of them. If Lin Sanjiu turned around, she found that she had returned to the world of meat and vegetables again.
Hungry, sweaty, and running around, looking for the next opportunity to confront or cooperate with Si Lu, I'm afraid she won't be surprised at all.
"You have grown so much and changed so much... I was really surprised when Batou De led you towards me."
In front of Si Lu, she seemed to have turned into her younger self again; she was really like a child at that time.
Who said time can't be turned back? A song, a smell, an old friend, she returned to the time that had left her long ago, when the journey to the end had just begun, filled with ignorance, full and reckless; she was then
, haven’t experienced the later life yet.
Si Lu leaned against the wall and put his hands into his pockets; his shoulders were loose and his hair was soft, as if he would laugh at the next moment and curse something like a sprinting python.
I must be getting old.
When Lin Sanjiu was in a trance, a sentence suddenly blurted out: "If I were at this level when we first met, you would definitely not go against me then, right?"
The next moment, Si Lu actually laughed.
"Even if you are still as powerful as before, I don't want to go against you."
Lin Sanjiu thought about it and was a little stunned. "Didn't I ruin your plan? Aren't you... unhappy with me?"
"Of course not," Si Lu spread his hands, as if what she said was nonsense, "I didn't know you would appear in this place at the beginning. As for ruining my plan... To be honest, this is not the beginning.
Once, I will be mentally prepared when I see you."
Even Lin Sanjiu couldn't hold it back and laughed: "Why do you make me look like a flood?"
"Besides," Si Lu looked at her, as if answering a question she hadn't asked yet: "This was not 'my' plan in the first place... I was just the person chosen to execute this plan."
It wasn't until she heard these words that Lin Sanjiu finally let out the breath that had been trapped in her chest.
Fortunately, God still favors her; after so many years, she finally doesn’t have to meet Si Lu Bingrong when they reunite. Although Si Lu has always been indifferent to others, the time they spent together was short.
, but Lin Sanjiu almost regarded him as a friend - she didn't know whether she was more willing to turn against her past friends, or whether she was less willing to see her past friends deteriorate.
"Great... She whispered as if to explain, "Although you have always been quick to kill and never been soft-hearted, it is still hard for me to imagine why you did such a thing."
Si Lu shook his head and said with a smile: "Your character really hasn't changed much."
"Who selected you to execute the plan?" Lin Sanjiu breathed a sigh of relief, and a series of questions immediately surfaced, "Is it your organization? What is the specific plan? Why did they do this?"
After all the questions were asked, she added belatedly: "Can you tell me?"
"The answer to every question is not allowed to be revealed," Si Lu shrugged.
it is as expected.
"But that doesn't mean I won't tell you." His next words immediately surprised Lin Sanjiu. When she raised her head, she found Si Lu's eyes looking directly at her in the dim city road.
, you can still see the slightly shimmering moist luster.
"……Why?"
Si Lu was definitely not the kind of person who would casually say things he shouldn't have said just because of friendship.
He stood up straight, approached the object that had just set up the subspace, looked at the few people outside, and then slowly said: "You may still remember that when Batou De and the others were talking tonight, I asked a question.
I said at the time that when we investigate the people behind the scenes, we should ask more about what the motives are, and who benefits from mutating ordinary people?"
Lin Sanjiu nodded. "So, you asked knowingly."
Si Lu glanced at her. "No, this is actually a problem that has been bothering me."
"You - you mean, you don't know the motive?"
"Yes, I don't know." Si Lu frowned slightly and said, "I am no longer the little examiner I was when I first met you... Now, given my status within the organization, I actually have a large-scale plan.
It requires me to personally supervise the implementation, and I don’t even know the reasons behind it, which is really rare.”
As expected, he had no intention of hiding it at all; just as Lin Sanjiu expected, this plan was initiated by the organization behind him.
"No wonder..." Lin Sanjiu glanced at the bearded man outside - maybe it's no longer time to call him that. "After I caught that man, he admitted that he was related to the mutation, but he refused to admit it no matter what.
He has a relationship with you."
"He wouldn't dare," Si Lu said flatly. "Being your enemy or being the enemy of the organization represented by me is a good choice."
"What exactly is your organization?" It's funny to say that the two times he dealt with Si Lu were under the shadow of the "organization", but Lin Sanjiu never even knew its name. "Back then, you and Ci
The python refuses to tell anyone..."
Her voice paused slightly. When the word "thorny python" came out, a subtle look crossed Si Lu's face and suddenly grabbed her throat. "thorny python... where is the thorny python? Is he okay?
?”
At least after experiencing the dimensional rift, the thorny python should still be alive.
"disappeared."
Si Lu lowered his head, as if he wanted to take something from his pocket, but when he took his hand out, it was still empty. "It has nothing to do with you that time... He climbed up the level very slowly, probably because he has a weak mind.
So brilliant. He was sent on a mission by his department two years ago and never came back. This is indeed very common in the apocalyptic world."
Lin Sanjiu searched his expression carefully for a while. "But you think...his disappearance is not that simple?"
"The feeling is still very keen." Si Lu smiled without a smile, "Although his thoughts may not change quickly, he is a very reliable friend. If you tell him not to leak it, he will never leak it.
If you ask him to do something, he will help you do it even if he is injured."
Lin Sanjiu waited in silence for him to continue.
"I think...his disappearance may ultimately be blamed on me." Si Lu looked at the people in the city road ahead, as if he was thinking about something, and whispered: "Because I have been
, I have been tortured by an unfounded suspicion... Thorny Python is the only person I have confided my suspicion to. When he disappeared, it happened to be the time when I asked him to do something."
Lin Sanjiu can still clearly think of the thorny python's pair of bright yellow snake eyes. She opened her mouth, but didn't know what to say; in the end she could only ask: "What is your suspicion?"
Si Lu kept looking at the people in front of him - to be precise, he kept looking at the beardless beard. He seemed to have made some kind of determination, although Lin Sanjiu didn't know what it was yet; he bent down and gathered it again.
He picked up the little blue thing and suddenly took a step out.
Both the dreadlocks and the beard looked at him in surprise - judging from the look on his face, the beard had probably never seen Si Lu's true face.
"I have always suspected," he said to Lin Sanjiu behind him without looking back, "that my organization has actually been occupied by others without me noticing."
I don't know if it was because of his face or his words, the bearded man's eyes widened at his approaching steps - the next second, there was blood between his neck.