In the darkness, Lu Ye's voice was still very fresh and crisp, with the unique texture of a young girl. But her tone was a bit hesitant, and she slowly spoke: "He is a fat man, tall and big, with fair skin.
That one. I was a little far away at the time, and if it weren’t for his special shape, I probably wouldn’t have recognized him.”
Lin Sanjiu's whole body went limp and she almost fell to the ground.
Not the puppet master! What Luye saw was not the puppet master——
She breathed out heavily, buried her face in her hands, and wiped it hard. For a moment, she almost wanted to say thank you to Lu Ye. "It's okay, it's okay," Lin Sanjiu said vaguely.
Said, "It's better if it's not him... Polva, oh, it's the fat white man's body you saw, that one doesn't matter."
"Huh? What do you mean it doesn't matter?"
"That's his ability," Lin Sanjiu couldn't reveal Poterva's evolutionary ability casually, so she could only say vaguely, "Just seeing the body doesn't mean he's dead."
There was silence for a moment in the darkness.
After a while, Lu Ye made a sound again. Her voice was very soft, and she seemed to speak every word carefully: "Really? If I were you... I might not jump to conclusions so quickly.
.”
What's the meaning?
Lin Sanjiu was stunned and put down her hand. "Why?"
Lu Ye hesitated for a few seconds, but did not answer her. "Forget it," she just said hastily, as if she didn't want to discuss it any more. "Go and see for yourself. Nothing I say will work better. The more important issue now is
Yes, what on earth is going on in this ghost place?"
Lin Sanjiu had a vague idea about this furniture cemetery.
She has crawled through the space under the furniture twice, and each time she crawled for a long time without climbing out; now Lu Ye crawled in from under a bed, but met her in the space under a dining table. There was
Is it impossible that the spaces under all furniture are connected to each other?
Only in this way can this seemingly boundless space be explained.
"So, is the real passage under the furniture?" Luye asked sharply, perhaps because he was inexplicably involved in a disaster. "Then what about the exit? How to find the exit?"
This question made Lin Sanjiu frown. After a while, she sighed slightly.
"I think there may be no exit here." She said a little lowly. "In the past, the Supreme God used this place as a competition venue, so he would naturally leave a way for the players to survive...but now his goal is just to
If you want to catch us, how can you leave us an exit?"
"None of this has to do with me!" Luye suddenly became irritated, "I was just collecting special items, but so many people died - yes, I was negligent and didn't notice you. But then
So what, I don’t even know what you are doing! Can’t you let me go?”
Merchants of special items often have problems with the "source of purchase" and cannot withstand the magnifying glass of morality - just like Gong Daichi back then. If you just collect things by yourself, I'm afraid you can't treat it as a business at all.
Lin Sanjiu listened quietly to her tantrum. When she calmed down a little, she said softly: "The one who won't let you go is the Supreme God."
Luye shut his mouth for a moment. After a while, a sniffing sound came from the darkness.
"How old are you?"
"Fifteen." Lu Ye replied with a nasal voice. "What does it have to do with you?"
"How many years have you lived in the apocalypse?" Lin Sanjiu thought that when she was still in middle school, she herself was probably just as disgusting and full of thorns.
"It's been four or five years, I must have it." Lu Ye's voice was a little numb, "I have figured out a method, and it is not difficult to stay alive."
"Have you always been alone?"
"Nonsense, who is not?" She suddenly laughed, without any smile. "I have long forgotten the appearance of my parents. I used to have a family photo on my body, and I remember I was holding one in my arms.
Puppy. Then I met an organ dealer...I ran away and lost the photo, but I got a scar on my belly."
Her voice was very calm, and Lin Sanjiu just nodded silently. The apocalypse is always filled with such stories, and no one is more miserable than the other. After a few seconds, Lin Sanjiu said in a low voice: "I am not."
"What?"
"I'm not alone." Lin Sanjiu wiped his face and listened quietly to the pitch-black silence. "I'm very lucky. I always have friends who are brave enough to fight with me. They can put their lives on the line.
Give it to me, and I can leave my life to them. Even though they come and go... we can't help it. But I am indeed much luckier than you."
"What on earth are you going to say?" Luye raised his voice. "What you are saying now is really too lazy to listen to."
Lin Sanjiu smiled bitterly, "What I want to say is, maybe this is not in line with your usual style, but sometimes, people cannot fight alone. You can be suspicious, you can be vigilant, but I still hope that you can
Come with me to find my companions and find a way out together."
Lu Ye was silent for a while.
"You need my help, right?" Her tone was cool, full of suspicion and vague ridicule.
Lin Sanjiu just nodded, but then remembered that she couldn't see. "Yes, I need you very much. I hope you can take me to find Polva's body. You also need my help... right?"
Let’s get out of here together.”
There was only silence in response to her.
Lu Ye never spoke. But after a while, the rustling sound of clothes gradually emerged in the darkness. Lin Sanjiu listened to the subtle noises made by her clothes. Just when she was trying to identify what Lu Ye was doing, she just heard
I heard the girl's voice from not far away: "Let's go then, why are you hanging around?"
Lin Sanjiu breathed a long sigh of relief and followed immediately.
"I trust you this time, don't let me down." Luye did not forget to warn her while crawling. After the warning, the little girl thought of her own job again: "Although we have cooperated temporarily, but
If you want something special, you still have to buy it from me. I won’t lend it out."
"Okay, of course."
There was just one more person around, but the darkness seemed to have completely lost its ability to make people feel scared. Lin Sanjiu's guess seemed to be right, this dark space didn't always seem to be the same size. Sometimes it looked like
It was as narrow as a long coffee table, so the two had to walk one behind the other; sometimes it was as spacious as a kingsize bed, enough for them to roll around side by side. The two chatted a few words from time to time, and even
The long and heavy time just now seemed to speed up in an instant, and three or four minutes passed in the blink of an eye.
When Lin Sanjiu saw a faint patch of darkness in front of her that was slightly lighter in color, she finally felt relieved.
"You crawled in from under the same bed. Logically speaking, we should also get out from under the same bed, right?" Lin Sanjiu pondered for a while, "If so, it means that the passage under the furniture is one section at a time.
, it may be interrupted...for example, the one we just walked through is connected from a bed to under the dining table."
"That should be it." Lu Ye's vague shadow nodded, "This is the first time I've gotten under furniture, and I don't know. Is this your second time?"
"Last time I didn't go very far before I was scared out of my mind." After Lin Sanjiu answered, she suddenly felt her eyebrows subconsciously frowning. She reached out and touched the center of her eyebrows, and gently smoothed the area with her fingers.
skin.
"Oh, by the way, that little preserved egg who doesn't know whether he is a human or a ghost." Lu Ye said this very easily, "I have seen everything in the apocalypse, but I have never seen a ghost."
"Then you try to apply for a visa at Ruyue Station," Lin Sanjiu also joked. "Have been there once, and the fear will remain in your bones forever. You will also become a frightened bird in the future."
The girl laughed loudly - this was the first time Lin Sanjiu heard her laugh so happily since the two got acquainted.
After walking a few more steps, she could already vaguely see the vague furniture legs outside. Lin Sanjiu felt that her guess was right: outside the dining table where she got in, there were several tall cabinets blocking her way.
, there is no gap between the cabinet and the floor. The outside of this bed is also occupied by several large wine racks, vases, and some other sundries. The cement floor can barely accommodate two separate ones.
foot.
They are all things that cannot be drilled into the bottom, cutting off the "passage under the furniture".
Lin Sanjiu was the first to crawl out, and there was no place for Lu Ye to stand. She said, "Wait a minute," and picked up a surprisingly heavy large vase and piled it on the bed;
Even though one vase was taken away, the space cleared was still pitifully small.
"Be careful when you move," Lu Ye's voice came from the darkness under the bed, "I remember there was a pretty good-looking screen, and I walked over from behind that screen. Your friend's body should be
Just in that direction."
"I saw it," Lin Sanjiu threw another dining chair behind her, and finally cleared a place that was almost big enough for the second person to stand. She was already sweating - if it weren't for the fact that these things were not right
, the things she could collect were limited, and she really wished she could put away all the furniture. She shouted, "Come out!" and then walked towards the screen.
This screen is indeed beautiful. Even in the darkness, one can still feel its thin and silky texture. Lin Sanjiu glanced behind the screen and slowly turned his head.
Lu Ye's two thin arms had just reached out from under the bed, and she was still holding a matchbox in one hand. She quickly exposed half of her body, patted the ashes on her body, and glanced up at Lin Sanjiu.
"What's the matter?" the girl asked briskly.
"You...it's you behind the screen." Lin Sanjiu said dryly.
The furniture cemetery suddenly became quiet.
In the darkness, the girl's expression gradually solidified. Her eyes were still very dark, flashing with confusion and...a slight hint of sadness.
"what are you talking about?"
"Your body is behind the screen." Lin Sanjiu repeated it again. She looked at Lu Ye's arms, and every word was spit out from her throat: "Your arms..."
Following her gaze, Luye lowered his head mechanically and looked at his arm. On her slender right arm, a long strip of skin and flesh was missing, and the thin muscles bloomed in the crack, revealing the bones.
Color, but not a drop of blood. Leaving the darkness under the bed, they finally saw the wound.
The girl raised her head and met Lin Sanjiu's eyes.
"I...am I dead?" Luye curled up a little bit and put a trembling hand into her clothes. "No," after groping for a while, she suddenly laughed, with a thick nasal voice, "I
There are no scars on my stomach."
She lowered her head and wiped her eyes. The girl - or rather, the corpse carrying the girl's consciousness, slowly bent down, slowly fell to the ground, and slowly let out a whimper.
"By the way... I'm dead." Her shoulders twitched, but no sound of water came from her nose or throat. "I... was eaten."
