Doomsday Wonderland

The sesame pancake disappeared from the air as abruptly as Bohemia.

Lin Sanjiu squatted on the ground and stared blankly at the circular sewer opening for a few seconds. Finally, he cursed in a low voice and stood up.

"What are you standing up for?" Teacher Yi asked.

At the moment, it seems that there is only one way left to find his companions, and that is to follow them. Otherwise, where would she go to find that hospital that she still didn't know existed?

"Even if I have to take the initiative to jump into the crater," Lin Sanjiu said dullly, "I can still find a cleaner crater. It's not like I have no choice."

Judging from the several cases of being swallowed just now, although it will disappear after being dripped with lava, there will be a very painful burning process; if the limbs are extended into the ring, they will disappear immediately without making a sound. Comparing the two, of course she wanted to choose a painful and short-term method.

After pouring out all the mineral water, she took a deep breath, closed her eyes, gritted her teeth, and put her fingers into the mouth of the bottle.

One second, two seconds, three seconds...

Nothing happened.

His fingers were still in the round mouth of the bottle, and his skin was wetted by the cool water drops.

Lin Sanjiu opened her eyes, a little confused. She took out her fingers and tried twice more, but apart from making her fingers wetter, she still didn't change at all: she was still standing in front of the bathroom mirror, her eyebrows tightly knitted together; she didn't know whether it was because she was too doubtful or it had been a long time. I have never looked in the mirror, and the reflection in the mirror looks strange.

She looked up and saw the clock on the mirror read 12:32 PM.

"Strange,"

After confirming that the faucet had a circular water outlet, she opened it and put her hand into the rushing water; the cool tap water hit her skin, making her shudder - but it was just a shudder. .

"Am I going to put my hand into the sewer opening too?"

Although she knew it didn't make sense logically, Lin Sanjiu still squatted down and tried; by this time, the result was not so unexpected. She waited stupidly for nearly a minute, but neither was swallowed by lava nor her feet. Still standing in this bathroom.

For some reason, the circular "craters" that swallowed four people in a row and were filled with invisible lava didn't seem to want her very much.

Even after Lin Sanjiu walked out, put the puppet master's ring on her shoulder and stuck the Bohemian bracelet on her palm, she was still fine and unnervingly safe.

"Try it," Teacher Yi reminded her, "Can you turn them into cards now?"

Lin Sanjiu subconsciously tried it - then she looked at the two cards in her palm and was speechless, not knowing what to say. "It's true," she looked around blankly, "but...why?"

Naturally, no one among the silent degenerates coming and going on the street would answer her.

"If I can't be swallowed by the crater," she looked at the "people" one after another with the same appearance as usual, and murmured: "But at least I can be swallowed by lava... If the woman didn't lie, there should be all these fallen species in her body. It’s all about lava.”

As long as she attacks the fallen species, wouldn't she be sent to that hospital?

She thought this was a good idea, but when she mentioned it to Teacher Yi, the latter made a long nasal sound, seemingly full of doubts and uncertainties.

"What's wrong?" Lin Sanjiu asked, "Aren't being swallowed by the lava in the water bottle the same as being swallowed by the lava in the fallen species?"

"Logically speaking... it should be the same." Teacher Yi said hesitantly, "But... there is one question you have thought about?"

What Teacher Yi observed were clues captured by her subconscious mind; Teacher Yi was able to filter out valuable things from her subconscious mind, bring them to the surface, and tell Lin Sanjiu. In this regard, she is very useful.

"you say."

"The man and woman just tricked you upstairs. I don't know why they wanted to use their own hands to let you be swallowed by lava... right?" Teacher Yi said while thinking, "No matter what the reason is for them to do this , it’s a bit too much to sacrifice the near and the far. Aren’t you surrounded by fallen species at that time? As long as you hit one casually, the erupted magma will swallow you up. It’s considered that they sent you into the lava with their own hands, so why bother? I lied to you to go upstairs, but in the end, I stole the chicken but lost the rice?"

Lin Sanjiu had never thought about this. In any case, Sesame Pancake and the Bearded Man should at least have a long-range attack method, so that they won't be able to hit the degenerates around her who don't know how to hide.

"You mean... after they trick me into the ring for some reason, I will be swallowed up and sent to the hospital; and if I hit the fallen species, although I will also be swallowed up by lava, but with How will it be different if we compare them in Bohemia?"

"I doubt it." Teacher Yi sighed, "After all, people killed by fallen species are very likely to become fallen species... We can't rule out the possibility that the ring can send you Go to the hospital and the Fallen will turn you into a Fallen."

Lin Sanjiu thought for a while and felt a little discouraged. "Yes, that man and woman did not want my life... If the magma ejected from the body of the fallen species would turn me into a fallen species, then maybe they did not attack me because they were worried about this. The fallen species."

In this way, another method is blocked. Looking at the calm-looking people walking around, she just wanted to scratch her scalp.

The ring didn't know why it refused to swallow her, and the risk of attacking the fallen species was too great. What should she do next?

"Anyway," Lin Sanjiu made up her mind after standing there and thinking for a few seconds, "I have to find a map first."

Her eyesight is now darkened, and she can only act based on the information Sesame Pancake told her; assuming that general hospital really exists somewhere, then it must have been built before the apocalypse, and it must be on the map .

After walking along the streets of Big Bear City for dozens of minutes in the warm sunshine of the afternoon, Lin Sanjiu even had the illusion that she was back before the end of the world. These degenerates seemed to be wind-up robots, and they were all doing exactly the same things as usual: there were men walking on the road carrying briefcases, there were cleaners cleaning up the garbage on the roadside, and there were people sitting at bus stops. The girl listening to music on the chair - after a while, a bus actually drove slowly into the station.

If everyone hadn't been expressionless and silent, I'm afraid any evolver would have thought this was the world six months before the end. Speaking of which, there is another thing about this well-preserved world that Lin Sanjiu can't figure out: it is obviously full of lava, but lava cannot be absorbed by the [Nostradamus Card].

Wasn't it Lava who destroyed this world? So how can we create a fallen species with lava in its body?

"Why is the map so hard to find?"

After searching a gas station and two convenience stores but still finding nothing, Lin Sanjiu couldn't help but sigh and simply sat on a bench by the roadside to rest.

In an era when everyone uses online maps, it is indeed not easy to find a paper map; judging from the ordinary appearance of Big Bear City, it does not seem to be a tourist attraction, which makes it even harder to find a map. . Lin Sanjiu rubbed her sore calf and was about to get up and continue searching when a man wearing glasses walked over at that moment and sat down beside her without saying a word.

Another fallen species——

Before this thought could be finished, the man beside him whispered: "Have you finished registering?"

Lin Sanjiu turned her head and stared at his side face.

This person didn't look like an evolved person. Instead, he looked like an office worker who went out to eat during his lunch break. Of course, it was possible for an evolved person to wear a shirt and trousers like him, but Lin Sanjiu hadn't seen many people. Hang a badge around your neck.

Is it a special item?

Her mind raced rapidly for a few seconds, and she sat motionless, tensing her body and replied: "...not yet."

"Then don't waste time," the man raised his wrist and looked at his watch, "it's almost half past two."

Lin Sanjiu glanced at the work badge on his chest. Unfortunately, due to the angle, she couldn't see the words on the work badge clearly. She thought for a while, but did not ask what would happen at 2:30 or why she needed to register. She only asked vaguely: "This, the registration place..."

"Right in the back, UU read www.uukanshu.net" The man wearing glasses turned around after saying this, and pointed his finger across a small lawn behind the bench to an Indian restaurant not far away: "Don't you know? You Haven’t found it yet?”

However, the plastic cover of the work badge shone brightly in the sunlight. Lin Sanjiu glanced at it a few times, but still couldn't be sure whether it was a special item or not - or, in other words, whether this man was an upgraded degenerate. kind.

"If you can't make it to half past two," the man with glasses said, he stood up and turned around without giving her a chance to ask more questions. "You'll have to wait for a few more hours."

Seeing his back gradually disappearing at the corner of the street, Lin Sanjiu sat on the bench, her eyebrows furrowing tighter and tighter.

After a few minutes, she jumped up from the bench, crossed the lawn in a few steps, and hurried towards the Indian restaurant. She was so fast that she almost hit a degenerate who appeared out of nowhere—— When I ran closer, I saw that the wooden door was ajar, and there was no light or sound inside.

She wrapped her hand with a [Protective Force Field] and gently pushed the door open.

This restaurant must have not been used for a long time. Even the strong smell unique to Indian restaurants has completely dissipated over time, leaving only the smell of dust and wood. There was a reception desk at the door, but there was no receptionist. She slowly approached, looked over, and found a large, thick book spread out on the desk.

On the page that was spread out, there was this line written: "The next round of lava!! It will start at 2:30, please leave your name here to register."