Longzu lowered its head, its short dark brown hair fell from its ears, and the shadow covered half of its face.
It became quiet and docile again, sitting on the side of the road without saying a word; except that it was no longer working, it looked like just the most ordinary degenerate species in the blue sky.
"...Our two families lived next to each other at that time,"
After Lin Sanjiu handed over a lighter, Di Mo finally lit up the crude post-apocalyptic cigarette in his hand. He blew out a long puff of white smoke. The smell of low-quality tobacco was so strong that it seemed to be mixed with shredded chili peppers.
It stings the nose and eyes, and even obscures the faint smell of the garbage truck.
"A hand-built iron shed that can be folded up and taken away after removing the nails." He pointed to the parking lot in the distance. "It is separated by cloth curtains, and there are three or four families living there. Can you be so generous as you, in one breath?"
There are very few people who want to buy a house with more than 300 acres among evolved people... let alone us. The shanty town we lived in at that time was a wasteland, but it was always densely packed with at least several hundred households. My family
We live in the same tin shed as his family, separated only by two curtains."
Lin Sanjiu looked at the parking lot and asked after a while: "Are you and its... parents evolved or ordinary people?"
"Farewell parents," Di Mo squinted his eyes and waved his hands for a while, "We don't have a father, we only have a mother." He shook off some cigarette ashes and added: "Not just us, many people born in the Twelve Realms have
No father."
"Why?"
"Why? When did you leave human society?" Di Mo glanced at her in the smoke with some surprise, "I mean... human society has never encountered the end of the world."
Lin Sanjiu thought about it for a while, frowned and said, "I think it must have been at least seven or eight years."
"Oh, as an evolved person, your life has just begun." He held the short end of the cigarette, wishing he could smoke it until every last bit was left: "I didn't understand until I became an adult.
No matter how the Twelve Realms are rebuilt, it will no longer be a normal human society... Family, you say, is the most basic unit of society, right? It has been destroyed long ago."
"You teleport every 14 months, and this place has been slowly turned into a prairie by this fucking rule." Dimo puffed out his smoke, "Evolved men come and go... just like wild animals.
.Although both parties are doing the same thing, the child only grows in the woman's belly. When the child is born nine months later, the father will have already disappeared like a male tiger on the grassland.
.My mother is an ordinary person, and her mother is an evolved person, so when Meihe is transferred away, she will be fostered in my home."
Unconsciously, he replaced "it" with "she".
"Then what?"
The wind blew from the end of the alley, making the plastic bags on the road rustle. For a moment, the only answer to her was silence. Lin Sanjiu turned around and glanced at Di Mo, and found that he was staring blankly at Chang Zhang on the other side of the road.
She fell into some memory; she had to call him again, and Dimo suddenly came back to his senses.
"What? Oh, um... my father is an evolved person, and he kind of raised us for a while. But he never came back after a few years. I don't know if he died or was too lazy to take care of us anymore. Compared to
For Mei and that person, it was pretty good... She had to struggle to survive in the apocalyptic world outside and had to come back to raise her children, which was indeed very difficult."
When he said this, Di Mo glanced at Chang Zhang warily, as if he was afraid that this sentence would irritate it; seeing that the cracked girl didn't respond, he immediately took the words vaguely, as if he was unwilling to go any further.
Li said: "Then, there was nothing else, we just made do with it and survived. Later we all grew up."
Changzu was still looking at the road ground motionless, as if the person in question was not her. Her neatly cut short brown hair was spread out, and the wind blew gently on her face. Suddenly, when she looked around, she saw just a quiet person.
young girl.
The two grew up together, but eventually one of them became a fallen species.
Lin Sanjiu nodded, and just when he was thinking about what to do next, he heard a sharp and painful scream suddenly coming from the end of the alley - his long legs seemed to have been hit by electricity, and they were exposed outside the mask.
His face turned pale.
"What's the sound?" Lin Sanjiu jumped up quickly.
Di Mo cursed secretly, threw away the cigarette butt, and asked the cracked woman in a low voice: "Did you say you wanted to clean the streets for others, so you brought this garbage truck to attack me?"
There was a cold sweat on Changzu's forehead, and he didn't even pay attention to him. He only shivered like a conditioned reflex; the screams that got louder and louder and more painful never stopped, going straight to the bone marrow like an electric drill.
It was hard to imagine what kind of torture the creature that made the sound was going through. Lin Sanjiu hurried a few steps towards the direction of the sound, and happened to meet a man striding towards her.
He is an evolved person at first glance - his muscles are lean and clinging to his frame, and his eyes are as deep as the holes in the skull. He wears a slanted shirt, with one arm exposed, covered with
A piece of strange-shaped tattoo pattern.
Not far behind him, a dark, dog-sized thing was thrashing and rolling; even though the bursts of almost terrifying howls came from it, Lin Sanjiu couldn't identify what it was.
What, because she didn't know any creature that could twist and bend its body back and forth like this.
"What's going on?" The male evolver shouted at her and pointed at a long leg not far away in a very rude manner: "Is that your fallen species?"
Lin Sanjiu's expression darkened involuntarily. Before she could speak, the man raised his voice again: "Why did it take away the garbage truck? Did you know that the guy who was sweeping the street was hiding aside and sleeping? You even took care of it.
I don’t even care, just follow other people’s example and buy whatever degenerate species you want!”
"so sorry!"
Perhaps sensing Lin Sanjiu's sudden anger, Di Mo stepped in front of her and stopped her from approaching the man. "That, that...she was new here and was negligent for a moment. I'm sorry.
, I’m causing trouble for you. Well, just let the street sweeper continue working, and we’ll leave now.”
It was only then that Lin Sanjiu realized that the thing that curled up as big as a dog was actually a degenerate species - it seemed that Changzu must have borrowed the garbage sweeper from it.
The man raised his chin slightly and glanced at him. "Ordinary people?" He licked his lips, as if to talk to ordinary people, he had to do some mental construction first. "Why did it take the garbage truck? It
Why are the sleeves broken?"
Dimo stammered a few words, trying very hard to come up with a reason, but with little success. The man stared at him, raised his eyebrows, and asked: "Did it run out privately? Do you have something on your neck?"
Blood."
"That's really not true. The injury was--it was from her." Di Mo glanced at Lin Sanjiu and hurriedly explained to him: "That's right, because the fallen species are not obedient enough, so I suggested that my
A friend gave it an extra workload...as a lesson, a lesson."
The man's expression finally softened a little and he looked at Lin Sanjiu.
Her eyes had just left the other party's complex and strange tattoo - even though there was not even a word in the tattoo, it was like the advertisement on the balloon boat, leaving a clear sentence in her mind:
"We run these twelve worlds."
Below this sentence were the names of more than a dozen organizations in a row; she didn't recognize most of them, only "Arsenal" and "Biluo Academy" had heard of them.
At this moment, Lin Sanjiu really wished that she was not in the blue sky.
If this was just an ordinary doomsday, she asked herself that there were a hundred ways to teach the man in front of her a lesson; however, Dimo's fingers were still holding her arm tightly, and she could only nod her head reluctantly.
"She is new here, are you new here too?"
The man shouted at Di Mo, "Don't you know how to explain the rules clearly first? If every fallen species is allowed to rest well, the first ones to die will be unevolved people like you!"
Di Mo's apologetic attitude really left people speechless - the man, perhaps for the sake of being an evolved person, didn't embarrass Lin Sanjiu. He finally turned around and walked back, kicking the man away from the garbage bag.
The small degenerate kicked him.
The fallen creature was small and thin, and did not belong to the type of slit woman; after it stopped howling, it hurried over without looking at anyone else, climbed into the roaring green leather car, and drove away quickly.
Already.
"Damn it, no matter how many fallen species, I really feel like I'm a figure." When the episode was over, Di Mo's good attitude just now was gone: "If the fallen species gains power, the one who will die first will definitely be
he."
He paused, but then sighed: "But then again, on that day, the fate of all human beings will probably be much worse than that of the fallen species now."
Lin Sanjiu stared at him for a while and asked softly: "Then what are you going to do with Changzu?"
"Who? Oh," he touched the injury on the back of his head and said with a cold breath, "What should I do? What should I do?"
"Aren't you afraid that it will kill you again?" Lin Sanjiu thought for a moment, "If I force it to agree..."
"It doesn't work," Di Mo waved his hand and turned around: "The fallen species is very persistent, and it will continue to try to kill me - eh? Where are its people?"
Lin Sanjiu was stunned for a moment, and then she realized that the road behind her was empty, and Zhang Zhi had sneaked away without them noticing at any time.
"I know where it works, and it can't run far." Lin Sanjiu said hesitantly. She didn't know, even if she knew where the long foot was, what would happen.
"Don't worry about it." Di Mo breathed out heavily, "If it weren't for a coincidence this time, it wouldn't be able to find me. Let it chase me. I'm in this business, so why don't I know how to hide?"
"Then... let it hunt you forever? Are you going to hide forever?"
Di Mo smiled, which meant he was a little bitter. He groped for a while, not knowing what he was looking for, but finally found nothing and just let out a long sigh.
"You know," he said hoarsely, "in one month, Mei Peipei will be twenty-five years old. She has become a slit girl since she was fourteen years old. Since then, she has
She has been trying to kill me, and I have been running away and hiding from her. I have been living like this for more than ten years, and even if it continues in the future, I have nothing to complain about."
Lin Sanjiu stared at him blankly, not knowing what to say for a moment. The words that finally came out of her mouth seemed a little too cold: "How did she... become a fallen species?"
Di Mo waved his hand again. He seemed reluctant to bring up this topic and was vague both times: "By the way, you saved my life. I really have nothing to repay you, so I will tell you some news."
Bar."
"what news?"
"You have just met the landlord of the circle." He coughed slightly and lowered his voice and said: "He is the waiter of the bar just now."
After a pause, Di Mo shook his head: "I don't know why he must meet the buyer."
