Doomsday Wonderland

"You know the answer," is not a question, but a statement full of affirmation. The middle-aged gentleman stared at Lin Sanjiu closely and slowly put his hand into his trouser pocket: "...What is it?"

Lin Sanjiu glanced at the half-sunken blue swan boat in the distance, then turned her gaze away with a cold expression.

"There is no need to be so guarded," she looked at his trouser pocket. "Once Zaopeng dies, there will only be four people left here. According to the conditions given in the copy, we can all survive."

Phoebe's hand paused, as if he was surprised and a little suspicious.

"You...are you willing to tell us? Tell your enemies?" He seemed very unable to understand this, and quickly thought of a new possibility: "I understand, we can't verify that what you are telling is the truth, you Whatever you say is fine.”

"I'm different from you."

Lin Sanjiu snorted softly: "You have been thinking about attacking me after you release the dungeon, so you think I take it seriously? I don't care what happens after you release the dungeon, because no matter how many times you come, Personally, I can still beat you back."

The middle-aged gentleman seemed to be at a loss for words for a moment - after a few seconds, he asked as if he had just swallowed something hard: "So... what does a strong ship look like?"

"Let them gather the boats together first," Lin Sanjiu gestured to the two people in the distance, "This will make it easier for us to find them one by one."

"Looking for...what?"

"Trash, or stains."

This answer was obviously beyond Phoebe's expectation - after Natasha and the round-faced man got closer and heard her repeat this sentence again, they all had the same doubts.

"What garbage are you looking for?" Natasha asked, looking at her feet.

"When I was traveling on the boat, I found that these pedal boats can be roughly divided into two types." Lin Sanjiu got into a new boat, turned around and kicked the boat that he had just left, and it really started Shaky and labored. "...No, it's not the difference between old and new, it's the difference between clean or not."

The other three just looked straight at her. A howl echoed from time to time on the lake, drifting and intermittent. It sounded more like the sound of the cold wind passing through the cracks on a winter night, but not like a human being.

"The loudspeaker said that the method of identification is very simple. After guessing the answer, I found that it is indeed very simple." Lin Sanjiu returned to the yellow duck boat she had boarded once before, bent down and picked up one from the foot of the seat. He waved the drink cup towards them: "Look."

This is a thin, soft plastic cup, like a milk tea cup; there is a straw inserted into the seal, and half of it slips out.

"The pedal boat has no doors. In order to facilitate the entry and exit of tourists, there are only seats and pedals inside. There is almost no place to catch garbage." Lin Sanjiu gestured to a few people. "We have all thought of this before. If something is missing, it means that it may have sunk to the bottom; but none of us have considered the opposite direction - if there is something missing on the ship, it just means that it has not sunk to the bottom."

"Trash...?" the round-faced man muttered.

"Yes. Apart from it, I have also seen plastic bottles, paper towels and other garbage on other ships, although I can't remember which ships they were." After Lin Sanjiu said this, he threw the drink cup in. in the water. Everyone's eyes were attracted to it; the transparent plastic cup floated on the lake, swaying in the water waves, and showed no sign of sinking for a while.

"When I realized this, I also considered another possibility." Lin Sanjiu stared at the plastic cup. "The bottom of the lake is full of garbage and corpses. Is it possible that when the copy picked up the sunken ship, Is the garbage at the bottom of the lake just stuck in the boat?”

"Tissues," Natasha raised her head suddenly, "Which ship did you see the tissues on? The tissues couldn't have floated in from the bottom of the lake - they would have been soaked in the lake water -"

"This plastic cup can't be from the bottom of the lake." The round-faced man stared at the plastic cup on the water with a very eager look. "It is lighter than water. The only possibility of sinking is that water seeped into the cup. Inside. But there is nothing in this plastic cup..."

"Keep looking," Lin Sanjiu waved to them, "We can't rule out the possibility that the water has dried up. But now we know that we should look for boats with 'too much stuff' - whether it's garbage or it looks a little sticky. Be it gooey juice stains, anything that looks like it hasn’t been soaked in water is our target!”

"There are not many unsinkable ships now," the middle-aged gentleman said in conclusion. "It shouldn't take more than ten minutes for us to start heading back."

"What if we find more than four ships?" Natasha raised an eyebrow.

This possibility is very high. After all, some garbage may indeed have floated into the boat from the bottom of the lake, and it is difficult to tell whether plastic bags and the like have been soaked in water. Lin Sanjiu looked around the crowd and said in a more serious tone. : "Then we can put all the boats in a row and drag them forward. Because there can only be one person on a boat, so if someone's boat starts to sink, the other three people must cooperate to change it. On the next ship.”

The three people who originally belonged to the same group looked stunned when they heard this sentence.

"Remember, from now on, we must cooperate fully and help each other, otherwise anyone may become the next morning friend." Lin Sanjiu paused and raised his voice: "Do you understand?"

Even though they all belong to the same organization in the Twelve Worlds, UU Kanshu www.uukanshu.net, they still live in perennial fear of survival and scarcity of materials - and the greater the scarcity, the more people feel that "only everyone else is dead." , I can survive." This concept has been deeply rooted in the bones of evolutionists, and sometimes even blinds them, making it difficult for people to accept that humans are actually a species that must cooperate to survive.

Although several people nodded, when Lin Sanjiu stepped into another ship, she couldn't help but feel a little uneasy. Natasha followed closely behind her, not giving up her question yet: "Well, you said you saw the tissue -"

Before she could finish speaking, a sharp sound cut off the second half of her sentence. Lin Sanjiu only had time to turn her head, when her vision was flashed by white-hot fire and everything was blurred - there was a loud "bang", accompanied by a burst of water hitting her body like a torrential rain, and a ship broke. The pedal boat, which was broken into several pieces, jumped high into the air.

Several people were soaked again in an instant and turned their heads in a daze.

Zaopeng stood on the sunken blue swan, and the lake water had just covered her waist. On her shoulders, at some point, there was a pure black cylinder - Lin Sanjiu didn't know what kind of weapon it was, but she knew she wouldn't like the answer.

"Son of a bitch, if I can't survive, none of you will survive!" she roared.

First of all, I would like to apologize to everyone. Judging from domestic time, I probably haven’t updated for two days because I was jet lagged and felt sleepy and tired as if I had been drugged... I ended up sleeping for 17 hours at a stretch. ...Yes, seventeen hours...I also felt a little scary when I woke up...counting the jet lag, it was exactly one day. But now I have found the time to update! It should be around this time, before noon