Lin Sanjiu stood up slowly and glanced around again.
That's right... but a small forest of about a dozen trees just happens to enclose an open space in the center. The crown of the trees and branches and leaves above the head form a huge "wellhead", and the skylight falls from the "wellhead"; such a forest is not
As is common, the more she looked at it, the more certain she was that she was right, and everything was the same as last time.
You can't find two identical leaves in nature, but you can find two identical woods?
Apart from the fact that someone had set a trap, Lin Sanjiu couldn't find any other explanation.
But how did the person who set the trap know that she would rush out from this direction of the town at this moment? Or was the target someone else and he was just unlucky?
Ever since I entered this place, there has been one mystery upon another. Trying to find the answer within the mystery is like trying to dig a tunnel through the mountain with tree branches.
Her repeated efforts to call out the card just now finally succeeded; but unfortunately, what she called out was just an ordinary long coat, not even a special item.
Lin Sanjiu, who wanted nothing, had no choice but to approach the edge of the woods as calmly as possible. A step or two away was the grassland outside the woods. The woods were not far from the town. If she could rush out and run faster, she should
Being able to return to the town within ten seconds - even though her evolutionary abilities are dormant, a skinny camel is bigger than a horse. After all, she has not completely become an ordinary person.
The question is, can I go out?
Lin Sanjiu thought to herself and tentatively walked out of the forest.
Even she herself did not expect that she would take this step smoothly; the woods behind her were like any woods in the world, silent and indifferent, allowing her to rush into the grassland - what she had just thought in her mind
There were several reactions prepared for different situations, but none of them were used.
Even if everything was an illusion at this moment, Lin Sanjiu had to struggle to the end in the illusion. She rushed all the way to the intersection of the town, and then she dared to slow down again; she stepped behind a truck on the side of the road and looked out.
After scanning, I found that the grove was still sitting far away in the grassland, and there was nothing strange about it.
Lin Sanjiu retracted her head and let out a breath of surprise. She quickly put on the long coat, pulled the zipper under her chin, and put the hood on. When there was no other way, this was even a reluctant act.
Qiang completed the disguise.
Just as she was about to continue walking into the town, she paused and looked outside the truck again.
...The grove is a little closer than before.
The branches and leaves trembled and swayed, the crown of the tree undulated, and the entire grove was moving up and down, as if there were countless tiny winds pushing them from all directions. Only when one's eyes move to the roots of the trees, one will find,
It wasn't the wind that started blowing on the grassland, it was the tree in the front that stood up and lifted off the ground.
There is an extra pair of human feet under the tree.
It was as if someone was wearing a tree-shaped stage suit, with only one pair of feet exposed, and it was dragging a group of trees behind it on the ground; as it walked, the tree sat down, as if it wanted to rest for a while.
The feet disappeared.
After a second or two, the tree lifted up, people's feet took small steps again, and the forest rustled towards the town.
Then... what is that?
When Lin Sanjiu thought that she had just rushed out from the feet of the pair of people, she even felt a little inexplicable nausea. At this moment, her field of vision was suddenly blocked by a truck door that was pushed open.
A driver jumped out of the car and slammed the door. He seemed to notice her gaze. He turned his head and saw the small forest heading towards the town.
His back paused for half a second, and when he turned around, his face looked as normal as if a tree was born to grow human feet.
Before crossing the dirt road, the truck driver glanced at Lin Sanjiu and said, "Is that your friend? Here to see you?"
Lin Sanjiu was shocked and didn't know how to digest this sentence, but the truck driver had already walked away without taking it seriously.
This sentence contained a message, just like the previous conversation with the red T-shirt - only, this time she could almost feel the shape of the message through the words, and could even feel that it was crucial. What was it?
No, that's not right, it's more than just a message.
She held on to this idea in her heart and did not dare to let go. She quickly dodged back behind the car and glanced around a few times.
Since the truck driver can think that Xiao Shulin is here to find her, it means that Xiao Shulin can walk into the town, right?
This was already the edge of the town, and there were only a few buildings nearby. No matter which direction she walked, she might be caught by the woods from a distance. Lin Sanjiu looked at the back of the truck driver, and suddenly became wise and shouted.
Called him: "Hey, wait for me!"
As she strode towards the bewildered truck driver, in her peripheral vision, the woods were still swaying towards the town, getting closer.
The truck driver was tall and fat, and Lin Sanjiu was standing next to him, so she could use him to block her. She was dressed differently now, and if she had a companion by her side, she might be able to cover up a bit; she wasn't just sneaking in front of the grove.
Go, she still has to evade the search of the red T-shirt.
"Brother," she said with a smile as much as she could, "what a coincidence, I want to go in this direction too, can we go together?"
The people here were very friendly - at least on the surface they were friendly - Lin Sanjiu guessed he wouldn't refuse.
"That's fine, but isn't your friend here to see you?" The truck driver hesitated, "Why don't you wait here?"
Lin Sanjiu swallowed back the reflexive question "What is that?" She had many questions, but unfortunately none of them seemed to be able to ask.
"No, no wait," she said vaguely, "let's go now."
The truck driver didn't seem to realize that when the two of them were walking, Lin Sanjiu kept herself tightly hidden within the outline of his body, not even daring to shake his hand wider than his.
Across the dirt road is a small farm in the distance. In a large low fence, many chickens are walking around, picking food on the ground; behind there is a row of fences, a few pigs, and a cow standing in the shadow under the eaves.
, watching numbly as the two approached the fence.
Lin Sanjiu quietly glanced back over the truck driver's shoulder, but couldn't help but be startled: the grove was gone.
It only took ten seconds. The forest was not moving very fast. How could it suddenly disappear from outside the town?
The truck driver obviously noticed her actions. "Ah, I understand." He patted his forehead and said, "Old acquaintances may not necessarily be friends... What, did you have conflicts before?"
Where did it go?
Lin Sanjiu was full of doubts and didn't bother to answer him for a moment. The truck driver didn't care either and continued to himself: "Hey, I understand you too. In a place like a symposium, you will meet a lot of familiar faces.
Not to mention you."
She was startled and almost stopped.
Is the symposium real?
What does "not to mention you" mean?
Lin Sanjiu felt like a blind person was trying to figure out the shape of an elephant. She had figured out the shape of many parts of the elephant's body. As long as she put them together, she could get the answer - for the red T-shirt, the truck driver
If she did, the moving grove would stir and spin in her mind, causing her to even feel a little trance-like.
She looked back and saw that there were only a few scattered pedestrians on the dirt road in the town; on the grassland, the small woods seemed to have never existed.
"This symposium..." Lin Sanjiu pondered and asked in a low voice, "Did you see any new people?"
"Yes, I don't know what happened today. Besides you, there is a new person who is looking for a place to stay. Normally, I don't see anyone in years."
Lin Sanjiu thought to herself that she had just been lucky enough to meet a truck driver who had seen the fat man, and then she heard that her luck had taken a turn.
"It's a pity," the truck driver said, "I haven't seen him yet, so I don't know what he is like."
Then how do you know there is something new here——
At the same time this question surfaced, it was as if a bolt of lightning struck, illuminating all the broken details and clues in her mind: water stains on the stone road, fat and ugly people, trapped people
Mr. Puppeteer, the red T-shirt said that the symposium is very long and you are not afraid of being absent for a while. "Old acquaintances may not necessarily make you friends"...
Almost all the dots were connected by a line, and no matter how surprising the connected shape was, she had to accept the answer. Once she had the answer, she looked back and saw that everything was so clear and simple, which made her feel ashamed that she had not.
Think of it earlier.
Lin Sanjiu knew why the puppet master was arrested.
I have recently become obsessed with a Japanese dessert, a small bowl with several glutinous rice daifuku on the top, a layer of red bean paste in the middle, and matcha ice cream at the bottom. In the whole box, only the red bean paste is sweet, and the sticky glutinous beans are a little sweet.
It's clear and bitter, and after one spoonful, the various textures and flavors are intertwined, rich and harmonious. It's so delicious that I keep eating one box after another... and each box has low calories, only 250 calories. One box a day is not a big deal.
As for what it's called, I don't know, I can't read Japanese...