Doomsday Wonderland

The elevator door opened in an old abandoned building.

Half of the roof collapsed, and the pillars that fell from the second floor shattered into a pile of rocks on the ground. Electric wires and vines were tangled and hanging in the air. The skylight shines down from the hole, making the dust grains shine brightly, like a crooked beam of light trying to prop up the ruins that are about to collapse.

The former guard jumped out first, jumped over the broken bricks and rubble blocking the elevator door, stopped in a small open space, and looked around for a few times. Hearing that the three people behind him had also exited the elevator, he quickly stepped aside, turned around and smiled at a few people, his face wrinkled layer by layer because he couldn't help but be so happy: "I saw it, the door is on the right."

As the NPC said, this abandoned building sits on a hillside outside Big Bear City, and can take in most of the city that has been repeatedly swallowed by Lava. All players who have left the lava game must follow the door behind the old building and walk down the hill to a highway. It stands to reason that in the green mountains behind that highway, it is no longer Lava! ! The world - As for whether that stretch of green mountains is a doomsday world, no one seems to be able to tell how many doomsday worlds there are on this planet.

A group of four people walked silently along the hillside to the road. Bohemia pulled the clothes down from her head and muttered under the cloth: "I suddenly had an idea."

"What?"

"The foreign evolvers all landed in a certain doomsday world precisely because they had visas, right?" Bohemia pulled off her clothes and her voice suddenly became clear. Her arms came out of the big sleeves like snakes coming out of holes. She pulled the dress and put it on: "Because we don't have visas, wherever we go, we enter the world. Then we won't leave, okay? ?We camped on this road."

While Lin Sanjiu was thinking about this idea, she heard the puppet master suddenly say: "Okay."

"Okay?" She turned to look at him specifically, "Do you still need to rest for a while to recover from your injuries?"

The puppet master met her gaze calmly, and a soft and gentle smile broke out on half of his face, like some kind of night flower suddenly blooming under the dim moonlight. "No," he said slowly, "you do."

"But I don't have any injuries on my body -" Before she could finish her words, Lin Sanjiu was stepped hard on the heel of her shoe by Bohemia, and a layer of the skin on her foot was almost torn off; before she had time to understand, she heard The puppet master smiled: "It will be there soon, don't worry."

...Okay, we decided to set up camp anyway.

Fortunately, if she camped on the road, she could also think of a way outside Big Bear City to see if she could get news about Doctor Cat and finish the last thing.

In Lava! ! It was never a good idea to camp on the road near the exit; the group discussed it for a while and decided to walk some distance along the road and wait until Big Bear City was out of sight. This couldn't be called a plan, it was just a step-by-step plan. As soon as he finished speaking, Lin Sanjiu's eyes fell on the former guard.

"You should have somewhere to go, right?" She didn't want the other party to know which direction her group would go. "We saved your life and brought you out. We have done our best and it's time to part ways."

For a person who is not in the right state, she also knows that the grace of saving her life cannot even make a splash.

The former guard withdrew his gaze from the towering green hills on the other side of the road.

"Of course, of course," he was stunned for a few seconds before he seemed to digest her words and nodded repeatedly, "I'm so grateful that I can't say enough. I'll leave now. Have a good trip, everyone!"

...the pleasure is astonishing.

Seeing that he turned around and left, Lin Sanjiu thought for a moment and signaled the two Bohemians to stay and not move. He caught up a few steps and walked beside the former guard. He smiled and said, "It's a friendship after all. I’ll give it to you, after all, we’ve never had a chance to have a good chat.”

The former guard looked at her and blinked. "Okay, welcome."

Although this man was unpredictable, she knew that the former guard was definitely not a fool. He is so smart that he always seems to be aware of when he should do something to maximize his chances of survival. Lin Sanjiu first chatted with him about his experience in the hospital. Seeing that he gradually started to talk, he asked tentatively: "By the way, what do you think of Wei Xing?"

"That's stupid," the former guard said without thinking.

"Too stupid? Isn't it true that I am mistaken for my cleverness?"

"Of course not, I have a very keen sense of people." He chuckled a few times, "Not just people, I am very sensitive to anything related to people. Some people survive by force, and some people rely on force to survive. The mind survives, and I... I rely on people to survive."

Then why would you still be deceived by that man and woman?

Lin Sanjiu was about to ask this question when she suddenly swallowed it back. To be precise, he was deceived into becoming a guard by the NPC, and I'm afraid the NPC can no longer be regarded as a human being; when the man and woman said that they were his teammates, he did act as if he believed them. In fact, he Believe it or not, who knows except himself?

"Even if she never talked to me much..." The former guard didn't pay attention to her momentary distraction and continued: "I mean, did she end up like this because of a man? It's the most vulgar story. ."

This time, Lin Sanjiu was completely surprised.

She even almost groped her body to see if a listening device had been placed - otherwise, how could he have guessed that Wei Xing's experience did involve a man? You know, Wei Xing didn't even mention a word about it until the last moment.

"She... did ask me for something before she died. It's related to a man. I'm going to do it after I settle down." She said rather reluctantly, "But I... don't know what happened between them. relation."

"I'll just say it!" The former guard clapped his hands and said happily: "I don't have any evidence. Once I say it, you can listen and there is no need to pursue it... I just feel that she is not doing this unscrupulously for herself. Most people want to be discharged from the hospital. It was to live a better life, but when she saw that she could no longer be discharged from the hospital, she immediately wanted to die, which showed that her purpose was not that life at all. She wanted to be discharged because there was something she wanted outside the hospital - —Or people?”

Lin Sanjiu could only stare at him, not knowing what to say.

"What she wants is not freedom or anything." The former guard has always been cautious around a few people. It is rare that he dares to speak openly like this - maybe it is also because there is only one Lin Sanjiu beside him. That’s all.

"It's not like men can't feel it. A woman who has been admired by stars of the opposite sex her whole life will naturally have an attitude when facing other men, which is different from ordinary women... Even if I have never seen her good-looking, I You can also tell from her attitude that her former beauty was absolutely stunning.”

"so what?"

"It's a bit hard to explain. What I mean is that for someone like her who has internalized her appearance for a long time, beauty is definitely more important than freedom and so on. Because beauty has become her personality. Part of it... you know what I mean? It involves her 'being'."

The former guard seemed to have difficulty converting his vague feelings into logical words. He frowned and said, "What a person pursues is inseparable from what kind of person he is. Do you agree? So I think that what she pursues should be related to her beauty to some extent... But this thing is more important than her life and her beauty, let alone your chance encounter. A passerby."

"That's why you thought of..." Lin Sanjiu hadn't thought of this word for about eight hundred years: "Love?"

"She looks like that kind of silly woman," the former guard couldn't help laughing, as if this was funny and interesting. "Without the cover of beauty, there is no way to stop the stupid look on her face. Hey, you said, she wants to die because she doesn't want that man to see her turning into an ordinary NPC, or does she think it's okay to see her? After meeting each other, she doesn’t know who the other person is anymore, it’s like saying goodbye forever, so...?”

Lin Sanjiu didn't want to talk any more.

She pretended to be attracted by something and looked at the Big Bear City not far below the highway for a while, without responding to the former guard's words. The latter was quiet for a while, then suddenly said "Hey!" and murmured to himself with a smile: "You must not want to think too deeply, I made you uncomfortable."

Just from the brief interaction with Wei Xing and the few words they talked about afterwards, the former guard had already grasped the core of Wei Xing... What about her? What about Bohemia? What about the puppeteer?

Lin Sanjiu swallowed and changed her words. "Why is there no elevator part in the guide you've read? Do you also feel it?"

"Ahem, it's not about feeling. I guessed it." The former guard touched his collar, and the pendant formed a square shape under his clothes. "The guide they showed me must be incomplete... Really, you can meet bullies wherever you go. They deliberately cut off part of the elevator, probably because of my nickname."

"Your nickname?"

"Do you still remember that the red-faced man said that everyone in the Players Club would create a name for themselves?" The former guard played with the pendant under his clothes and said with some nostalgia: "I didn't choose my nickname. , it was they who shouted, and it continued.”

For some reason, Lin Sanjiu's hair stood up one by one, as if he had a premonition that the cold wind was about to hit his skin. This person's fighting power is not as strong as hers, not to mention that there are puppet masters and Bohemia in the distance behind her; the road is calm and peaceful, only the wind with the smell of the mountains and forests blows between them - but she feels that she I just took a peek into a bottomless black well, and my hands and feet felt a little weak for a moment.

"My name is 'Elevator Man'. UU Reading www.uukanｓhu.net" the former guard said slowly, taking out the pendant: "Because I always like to look at it, this souvenir I got from the game..."

The last time she saw this transparent cube, Lin Sanjiu remembered that the pendant showed a scene inside an elevator, with several men and women groping around on the elevator door reflected in it - they were probably looking for a way out.

This time, several people in the pendant were gone, leaving only the last woman and a few half-eaten corpses on the ground. Human feces was piled in the corner, and even the mutilated corpses were soaked in urine.

"It will always... show the situation in that game simultaneously?" It was only now that Lin Sanjiu faced this seemingly unimportant detail for the first time - when everyone first heard the word "souvenir" , no one even thought about it, why should we take this kind of souvenir?

…Who would want to see something like this?

"Well, yes." The former guard held the pendant in his hand without raising his head, looking at it with all his concentration, as if it was playing the most interesting TV series; the flesh on his cheeks was slowly growing with his smile. Drum up slowly. doomsday paradise