Before hearing the news from Lin Sanjiu, Ji Shanqing's mind seemed to have been buzzing.
He turned his head, looked around, raised his hands, and took steps. Every movement was met with resistance as if he were trapped underwater; his vision was as if he had opened his eyes underwater. Sometimes it seemed clear, but it would suddenly shake.
He got up. His mind and consciousness were floating in the water, unconsciously, being pushed away and pushed away by the waves.
If his sister is no longer in this world... there is no point in him continuing to stand here.
Qing Jiuliu's voice sounded from far away above the water, covering the lake, and not a single word could be heard clearly.
I don’t know how long passed - minutes? How many hours? - before his words suddenly cut through the chaos and clearly reached Ji Shanqing’s ears: "Calm down, don't forget about the flood service
What Shang said!"
What?
Ji Shanqing raised his head in confusion.
Qingjiu Liu's next words stabilized his mind and was the only reason why he really waited for the news about his sister. "There is no place she should go or can go. At the moment, she can only stay in the Karma Museum."
.So what if the space spans? She will still very likely fall back into this world..."
Faced with this inference, Ji Shanqing could naturally find countless refutation points; but he didn't want to think about any of them. He firmly grasped every word of Qing Jiuliu, lowered his head, and said through his nose, "Well
"Sounded.
When he finally received news from his sister, Qingjiuliu gently shook Ji Shanqing's shoulder.
"I knew she couldn't run far," he said in a relaxed tone, as if the person who had been surprised just now was not him. "Let's go, maybe we can find Yu Yuan in that falling stone city before she does.
Woolen cloth."
Although they rushed to Luoshi City as soon as they received the news, because the distance was too far, by the time they arrived, even the setting sun could no longer cover the sky, and the blue-to-purple twilight covered the earth.
; In the twilight, the high and low buildings of Luoshi City looked like the silhouettes of stacks of huge building blocks.
“This place looks quite out of the way,”
Qingjiuru said nonchalantly, "Look, the open space over there... also has an area for spacecraft landing and landing. It should be a public transportation point, right? Not to mention the spaceship, there's not even a person there."
For Ji Shanqing, the place where his sister does not exist is no different from the empty space in the lake where the pixels have been lost; after hearing what Jiu Liu said clearly, he took a quick glance.
"There should have been a spaceship there not long ago...at least an old spaceship." Ji Shanqing said as he continued to move forward, "Can you smell it? There is a special fuel smell in the air.
It’s not gone yet.”
"Does the data body still have a dog's nose?" Kiyokuru praised sincerely.
"Smell is also a kind of data," Ji Shanqing glanced at him.
He didn't care at all as to why those spaceships left; no matter how far they traveled, Rockfall City was always empty, not even a shadow of an Evolver, and it seemed to him that it had nothing to do with him.
Logically speaking, it is unusual for Fallen Stone City to be so empty - this area has not been completely covered by the power of Karma. Although huge rocks are paved in every corner, it is not suitable for people to settle down, but at least it is
There should be some evolvers who extremely avoid the power of Karma and hide in Rockfall City.
But, what’s the point of thinking deeply?
Even if some big demon came to Luoshi City and scared away the evolvers and the spaceship, wouldn't he come in to find Lin Sanjiu?
"When it comes to your sister, you are like a donkey with blindfolds," Qingjiuru commented unceremoniously, "You should calm down and think about it. Understanding the situation in Rockfall City will also be helpful to Xiaojiu..."
Having said that, his feet were no slower than Ji Shanqing's. Lin Sanjiu also told them where Yu Yuan might have landed. Only when they looked at the road signs and looked for the direction, did the two slow down a little.
Slow down.
Before he could take the next step, he suddenly grabbed Ji Shanqing's arm and pulled the latter back.
Before Ji Shanqing had time to ask what was going on, he heard Jiu Liu shouting, "Who's in front?"
His heart skipped a beat and he narrowed his eyes.
The dark night had long since replaced the twilight, and a pale moon was half sunk in the clouds. In the shadowy darkness, it seemed that even the wind had stopped for a while. Seeing no one answered, Qingjiuru asked again, and from the shadow in front
, then hesitantly and slowly the outline of a person emerged.
"I'm just passing by, I'm hiding from someone," the man was still hiding in the dim shadows, keeping his voice low. "You two don't have to worry about me, you can just go your own way... We don't mess with each other.
"
The two looked at each other.
"You are right," Qingjiuliu was very polite. He pulled the anxious and impatient Ji Shanqing beside him and said, "We are not interested in your affairs either. So please leave first."
As he spoke, he gestured to his side - signaling the man to come out and leave from the road.
The figure trapped in the darkness moved when he heard the words. It didn't seem like he was going to come out, but seemed to sink deeper into the shadows. "You don't understand... I can't go any further. I can only stay."
it's here."
"Aren't you hiding from someone?" Qingjiuru raised his eyebrows and asked. "How can you hide if you don't go farther away?"
"Yes... eh, why do you have so many questions to ask?" The dim figure became irritated, "Can't you find another way to go?"
From the perspective of Ji Shanqing, who was eager to find his sister, as long as the person in the shadow did not stand up and block the way, then what intentions he had and what he was doing were all trivial matters that could be ignored; and that is exactly what he did.
——Ji Shanqing flicked Qing Jiuliu's hand away with his backhand, then raised his feet and walked forward without any intention of changing the road: "Let's go quickly, what does he care about?"
He hurried forward a few steps, but suddenly he stopped and turned his head towards the figure in the shadow again.
"You..." Ji Shanqing was a little unsure, and even took a step closer slowly, staring at the figure without blinking. "You are not an evolver... right?"
"I...I don't know what you are talking about." The figure denied in a confused tone.
"You are not an evolver." Ji Shanqing took another step towards him, becoming more and more sure. "I have seen people like you... If you can be called a 'human', you have the ability to evolve.
Product - are you a 'personality'?"
The figure shuddered visibly, and finally emerged from the darkness - he still did not dare to completely expose himself to the stone road under the moonlight, only the upper half of his face poked out, revealing a pair of confused and alert eyes.
.
"You...how do you know?" the man whispered, "Have you ever dealt with us before?"
Although he didn't understand why the twelve personalities appeared at this moment, Ji Shanqing's heart suddenly sank inexplicably.
He thought for a while and asked, "Mother is here too?"
My sister came to Falling Stone City because Yu Yuan might have fallen nearby; could it be that Mather heard the news and caught up with her?
But why are the Twelve Personalities also there?
"So you know Mather?" The man sighed and said, "She should have left a long time ago. She is not stupid, why should she stay? It took a lot of effort to become the final perfect body, and she can leave.
It’s clean... unlike me, I’m still far away from the final perfection, and now it’s really... hard to return home. What should I do?”
Qingjiuru immediately asked: "What do you mean?"
"I can't go back." The man's eyebrows gradually dropped into a figure eight, and as he spoke, he shrank back into the shadows. "I can't go back..."
"Let's get to the point," Qingjiuru urged, "are all of your personalities split from a person named Lu Ze?"
"You and Marcel are old friends? Do you know everything?" The slight suspicion in the man's voice was quickly washed away by his self-pity and self-injury. "Yes, Lu Ze is dead, his body
He's still alive. I and several other personalities have been living in his body because we can't go far... But today, Lu Ze's body was - by - "
He seemed to be desperately searching for a suitable word; stuck for a few seconds, he finally said: "Luze became a part of someone else."
The glances exchanged between Ji Shanqing and Qing Jiuli were enough to make each other understand the surprise and doubt in their hearts.
"I don't know what's going on." The man sounded like he was about to cry or scold, "Originally, Lu Ze's body was empty and had no owner. It was our base camp. If you want to go back, you can
Can go back. But since that person... no, not a human, I don't know what he is... In short, 'Luze' has become a body that belongs to him. In the past, although Luze's ability to split personality was still
I am here, but it has changed beyond recognition; if I go back again, I will become a personality belonging to him... I can feel..."
Ji Shanqing took a deep breath. This was an action his sister often did, and he used this to get closer to her.
"Is his name Orcius?" he heard himself ask almost calmly.
The personality hiding in the shadow didn't even dare to answer "yes", but just nodded vaguely.
"That's why you can't go too far," Ji Shanqing lowered his head and pressed his eyebrows vigorously. The things he had talked about when chatting with his sister before, and the information he had taken into his mind when reading his sister's data were all at this time.
It came up in bits and pieces. "If you exceed the range of activities that your personality can move, you will go directly back to Oasis' body...right?"
"Yes," the personality whispered, "I can only hide on the edge as far away as possible... I hope he won't notice me and take me back by force."
Before the two of them could speak, he said again: "He seemed to be busy dealing with someone, so I hid until now."
At that moment, Ji Shanqing almost suspected that a hollow wind had passed through his chest.
"Where?"
The person who could ask the question was Qing Jiuru - "Is the person he is dealing with a woman? Where is it?"
"I don't know if it's a woman... I left early." The personality hesitated for a moment, walked out of the shadows again, and pointed toward the depths of Falling Stone City. "In that direction..."
"Thanks,"
When Ji Shanqing took off and started running, Qing Jiuliu found his mind and thanked the man. "I haven't asked you your name yet?"
The personality hesitated again. "I'm not an important person... Well, if you must know, my name is Feng Siti."