"When I'm talking to you, you can raise your head," he whispered to the person behind him as he walked, "and you have to look ahead to know where we are going?"
"Yes, yes, I'm sorry," Lin Sanjiu said, carefully glancing at his side face, as if she was wondering if he was angry, "I will follow you carefully and never run around."
Yu Yuan pinched the bridge of his nose again.
"Don't look at me with that look," he sighed very tiredly, pointed at Qingjiu Liu who was leading the way, and said, "...you look at the road."
Obviously, it is a great burden for him that his friend suddenly becomes his slave; especially when that friend always demands himself as a good slave - Lin Sanjiu is such a good slave
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In other words, he is such a good slave on the surface.
"Let her go in front of you," the puppeteer said suddenly without looking back, "She fell at the end because she wanted to run away."
As expected of someone who has turned living people into his property for many years, he has much more experience. Yu Yuan sighed again, there was no surprise on his face, only fatigue.
He stretched out his arm without looking, and sure enough, he grabbed Lin Sanjiu's shoulder that was about to slide out. This time, Yu Yuan also got a little angry: "You go to the middle!"
At this time, Qing Jiu stayed in front to lead the way, and a few people formed a loose team; the puppet master's dark shadow seemed to have torn a narrow and long gap in the hall, walking not far away but not close to Qing Jiu.
Next to Jiu Liu, birds and beasts were scattered everywhere they passed. In two or three minutes, except for the six of them, the only ones they saw were the distant shadows of other evolvers.
Pina didn't know whether it was because it was not yet time to join the company, or because she was worried about Lin Sanjiu, or because she wanted to see more people in this line of work that she usually didn't see, so she still hesitantly followed the team at the end.
"Didn't I tell you," Qingjiu Liu was almost dumbfounded, "As soon as we pass through the exit, we can immediately remove the effect for you..."
"No, no,"
Lin Sanjiu, who could not resist his master with force, was pushed into the middle of several people by Yu Yuan, and was clamped in front and back, but he was still very obedient: "I have no request, no need to show me any special favors, I am very satisfied, very satisfied."
Happily, if I have an afterlife, I am still willing to be a slave of the Yu family."
A hint of despair appeared on Yu Yuan's face.
"How far is it?" He didn't even want to respond to Lin Sanjiu and only asked Qing Jiuliu.
"Very soon," Qing Jiuliu said, raising his head again and quickly taking a look at the ceiling of the gambling hall. Yuan Xiangxi also raised his head due to his actions, and looked back and forth at the ceiling several times, because he didn't care about what was going on.
, and accidentally stepped on the puppet master's foot - after Yu Yuan stretched out his hand and caught Yuan Xiangxi from mid-air, the ghost in white slid down to the ground and muttered: "This is not necessary... Well,
Qingjiu Liu, what are you looking at?"
After pushing open the door at the end of the corridor on the right side of the casino, Qingjiuru looked back again for a few seconds and didn't answer, but gradually frowned.
He is also a human being, but the emotions he generates are so contagious that they are almost aggressive; just looking at his expression makes people feel like they will fall involuntarily, being teased like a string, and interacting with him.
Synchronized resonance - even the puppet master couldn't help but have some doubts at this moment.
"What's wrong?" Yu Yuan asked.
"I'm wondering if the dungeon has discovered..." Qingjiuru didn't finish his words, as if he didn't want to put the thoughts in his mind into words and let them echo in the air of the dungeon.
Everyone following him looked solemn. Even if no one said anything, the same worry still weighed on everyone's heart.
Qingjiu Liu shook his head. "Let's go," he motioned to the puppet master to take out the exit pass and said, "After passing this door, you can remove the effect on Lin Sanjiu. From this door onwards, the power of the copy cannot be controlled.
The area is similar to a construction site with unfinished construction... When you pass through this area, you will leave the instance, so only people with exit passes and their property can walk through this door."
"What about you?" Slave Lin Sanjiu also remembered to ask.
Just as Qingjiuru was about to open his mouth to answer, he remembered something and quickly glanced at the casino hall behind him. The answer that came to his lips was changed to: "Let's go there first and then talk."
Behind the door he pushed open, there was a space that had no resemblance to a casino - without any lights, decorations or carpets; the empty rough cement walls stretched out into the distance as if there was no end, until they were in sight.
The end disappears into a dot.
The puppeteer was the first to walk through the door and stopped a few steps away.
Qingjiuru took a deep breath and walked through the door - the worries that had been lingering in the hearts of everyone finally did not come true; he took this step smoothly and soon stood beside the puppet master.
It seemed that even Qingjiu Liu himself couldn't believe it.
"Come in," his expression was not bright and cheerful, as if he did not dare to let himself rest assured and was still secretly preparing for disappointment.
With some uncertainty, Yuan Xiangxi stretched out his feet to test the concrete floor, like a wild deer about to cross the road. Feeling reassured, he quickly dove in.
Naturally, Yu Yuan would not go in until Lin Sanjiu did. Pina stood behind the two of them, stretched her neck and looked behind the door, losing interest in going in.
"Well..." She didn't dare to speak loudly, especially because she didn't want to draw the puppet master's attention to herself, so she walked carefully to Lin Sanjiu and said, "I think I'll just send you here...
…”
"Are you really not going to leave?" Lin Sanjiu looked at Yu Yuan, not daring to let him hear her next words, so she spoke softly: "What's the difference between you staying and me being a slave of the Yu family?
...Oh, otherwise I would run away with you..."
Yu Yuan couldn't help but raise his head, as if looking for salvation in the sky.
"If you are too embarrassed to do something to your slave," the puppet master said coldly to Yu Yuan through the door, "I am very willing to help you."
This sentence was like a double play button. In just a few seconds, the process that could have dragged on for a long time was fast-forwarded to completion: Lin Sanjiu quickly entered the door without saying a word, and was captured by the great witch.
After holding her in place with her strength, Yu Yuan walked in and pulled off the [Federal Flag] from her body.
Lin Sanjiu suddenly became excited and reacted as if waking up from a dream. With a breath, he relaxed his shoulders.
When she raised her head, Pina had not left yet, still standing by the door; seeing the [Confederate Flag] being torn off, it seemed that Pina had finally breathed a sigh of relief.
"Pina," Lin Sanjiu called out immediately, "I can give you the federal flag right now—"
"Let's go," Pina waved her hands repeatedly. "I can see that your friends really take care of you. I won't go with you..."
Qingjiuru slowly walked over and leaned against the wall beside the door.
Not only Lin Sanjiu, but everyone's eyes were attracted by his footsteps; Pina and everyone else had the same misunderstanding, blushed, looked at the floor, and stammered: "You, you
There’s no need to specifically persuade me…”
Qingjiuru put his hands in his trouser pockets. Rather than saying that he looked lazy, it was better to say that he was in a daze.
"Qingjiu Liu?" Lin Sanjiu called out - she was still waiting for him to persuade Pina. "What are you thinking about?"
"Ah?" Qingjiureu was startled for a moment, as if he had just regained consciousness. He frowned and said slowly: "No...it's okay, I'm just a little..."
Halfway through his words, he suddenly bent down and his hair fell down, revealing a section of his slender neck.
"What's wrong with you?" Lin Sanjiu was startled and rushed forward, but she didn't know what to do.
"It's okay," Qing Jiuliu's words were almost squeezed out from between his teeth. His breath and voice sounded like his internal organs were constantly grinding and twisting before being sent out of his throat. It sounded trembling. "Go...go forward."
,Yes, just move forward first...I'm fine, I just need to think carefully about how to go..."
How to go?
Lin Sanjiu looked back and saw that the empty and rough concrete space behind him stretched straight forward - even a blind man could walk straight without thinking.
Is it because there is another road ahead?
After she asked this simple question, Qing Jiuliu didn't respond. He stood up straight again, looked across the crowd, and cast his eyes blankly into the cement space in the distance, as if he didn't hear Lin Sanjiu's question.
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Even Pina was stunned. She stood by the door, holding on to the door frame with one hand, as if she didn't know whether she should turn around and leave.
"Let's go," he whispered, "I know, it's right in front... it should be right in front."
"Should?" The puppet master's two words pierced into the air like ice spikes.
"Is it..." Yu Yuan turned around and glanced in the direction of the dungeon casino and asked.
Qing Jiuliu turned a deaf ear to the voices around him - it was as if all his energy was focused on an elusive question in his mind, so much so that for a brief moment, Lin Sanjiu even doubted that he was even a member of his team.
The existence of human beings has been forgotten.
From his appearance, it seems that there is indeed nothing wrong with his body... So what's wrong?
Just taking two or three slow and heavy steps forward, Qingjiu Liu suddenly tilted his body, unable to support himself, and fell to the ground - "Qing Jiu Liu!" Lin Sanjiu screamed in surprise and hurriedly
She reached out to pull him, "What's wrong with you?"
Qingjiu Liu was half sitting and half kneeling, with his head lowered, and the knuckles of his fingers that were holding on to his clothes turned white.
After several seconds of long silence, when Qing Jiuliu finally slowly raised his head, Lin Sanjiu made eye contact with him, and she couldn't help but feel weak on her feet and fell down next to him.
His fear... was so powerful and contagious that her whole body trembled uncontrollably.
"I don't know how to get out," Qingjiuru raised his face, and his words seemed like the dark wind passing through the empty cave. "I can't imagine...how I can leave the copy."
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This chapter is so damn... The process of writing updates is a process where I die once, and I am still dying every day.