Doomsday Wonderland

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Lin Sanjiu walked around the empty house without turning on the lights. This is a small one-bedroom apartment with a smell that has been stuffy for a long time without air circulation. The mattress in the bedroom is still new, hard and wrapped in plastic film.

She sat on the sofa for a while first, feeling that it was not as comfortable as the material of Exodus. Then she stood up and went to the balcony to look at the night view for a while, but felt that it was not as bright and gorgeous as the blue sky. In modern society, even the night sky is filled with haze, lifeless and barely breathing under the influence of industrial pollution. There was a machine on the balcony. She looked at it several times before realizing it was a washing machine - the appearance of the washing machine had changed so much compared to more than ten years ago.

No matter what, it's a place to stay.

She looked out from the kitchen. Less than ten meters away, she was facing the kitchen of another house. A housewife was cooking in the smoke, her brows were furrowed and her forehead was sweating. She looked like she was suffering and resentful. If you're not happy, why do you do it?

The housewife not far away suddenly threw the frying spoon, turned off the fire, raised her voice and yelled at someone: "Stop playing games! Eat! Eat!"

Lin Sanjiu quietly exited the kitchen and returned to the empty living room. The neighbor's housewife's house was very noisy. Every word she said seemed like she was trying to quarrel, but she didn't. She went back and forth around the quarrel and vented: "Playing games every day, and spending money without a salary increase! Go home. I don’t know how to help!” It became increasingly clear that her dark room was empty.

A string of bicycle bells rang in the distance, someone spat loudly upstairs, someone's TV was playing a not-so-pleasant theme song, and a washing machine nearby was also spinning rumble-perhaps exactly like hers.

Lin Sanjiu sat blankly in the darkness for a while.

An ordinary day for ordinary people seemed different from what she imagined, but she couldn't tell what was different.

She and countless others struggled, resisted, and fought in the torrent of doomsday... The life that she had to grit her teeth to stay alive no matter what, turned out to be in modern society, in front of the TV, in front of the washing machine, in front of the stove and boiler... Did it wear off slowly? Standing outside the human world and looking at the past, my eyes are full of fireworks and trivial matters, and it seems that I am not as stable and happy as I remember.

There were no fallen species, no hostile evolvers, no copies... She didn't know what to do next. Sitting in the dark without turning on the light... It would be nice if the [Ability Polishing Agent] was still there.

Thinking of it, Lin Sanjiu couldn't help but feel refreshed.

By the way, the last time she opened [eBay] to check her wanted advertisement was more than a week ago. Maybe someone left a message for her? Even if there is no news about [Ability Polishing Agent] yet, it would be good to see what other evolvers are selling and buying! Even if she doesn't buy anything, at least she can get some news from the apocalyptic world.

She quickly called out [eBay] and closed her eyes. For the first time, she felt that the shopping interface in front of her was so friendly. Libao likes to use her [eBay] to buy things. Even if it becomes a data object, it cannot be changed. It is as if the things sold to him by others are more interesting than the things he has written. He must be trying to find him, so why not pick him a small gift now and make him happy when he comes to find him - maybe it can calm the child down a little.

There are still very few messages under the request to buy [Ability Polishing Agent], just like a month ago. After scanning it, she opened the list of items for sale; but she had already read several pages, and the items for sale on each page were gray.

This means that all the items on [eBay] are too far away from her and cannot be delivered...?

Then contact someone else and give it a try.

The only two users Lin Sanjiu knew on eBay were Gong Daoyi and the puppet master. It was obvious who to contact. At this moment, she looked at the username "Bumping Little Sesame" and felt that her heart was filled with tenderness and joy - even the cold and thin face in her memory became much gentler and kinder, as if she was really her uncle. of.

"Where are you? I was teleported away."

……Failed to send.

Um?

"Are you still in the lava world? Have you met Bohemia?"

Failed to send.

"Potato Potato, I am Sweet Potato."

Failed to send.

Lin Sanjiu was a little dumbfounded because such a situation had never happened before. Logically speaking, the message transmitted by [eBay] is not affected by distance; every message transmitted is sent to the owner by the resonance generated between the two [eBay]. She randomly clicked on everything that could be clicked on the [eBay] page, but instead of going blank when she opened it, it was dull and unresponsive, as if the special item in her hand had been offline.

She opened her eyes and put the special item back into the card library. She suddenly felt an inexplicable panic - as if she had unknowingly lost herself in a deserted land, and no one knew she was here. She couldn't find her way out either. But this panic only lasted for a short while, and was sorted out by reason: after all, this is a world that has not yet ushered in the end. In this environment, there should not be special items, let alone Is it just out of control now? It is possible that [eBay] will return to normal only at the end of the world, right?

She tried to think back, but she couldn't remember whether Ren Nan used any special items. Judging from her knowledge at that time, she probably wouldn't be able to tell even if she used it... But thinking about it now, the special items on Ren Nan's body were very few. For an experienced evolver, this didn't seem to be possible. Pretty satisfying, right?

When Lin Sanjiu was lost in thought, she heard a faint sound coming from the balcony in the distance - the house was located on the sixth floor, and it was impossible for anyone to hear the voices downstairs clearly; but for an evolution with sharp ears and eyesight, For readers, the intermediary's voice couldn't be clearer: "Yes, it's on the sixth floor... Oh, a lower floor is better. You don't have to wait for the elevator... Yes, the furniture is all new..."

Isn't this agency's business too busy? It’s only been an hour and there’s another customer?

Lin Sanjiu quickly stood up and quietly closed the door. She violently removed the door lock and handle, leaving only a big hole in its place, which could not be closed at all. She took out the [Power of Description] and muttered something for a while, and a new lock slowly "grew" in the door hole. The head and handle barely look like before.

"Fortunately you can still use it, try your best."

She praised [the power of description]. Of course, the fake door lock couldn't be opened with a real key, but she already had a countermeasure for this - when she heard footsteps in the corridor, she quickly stepped on the sofa and jumped onto the empty bookcase in the living room. On the top floor, he climbed up with dexterous hands and feet, hid himself in the corner of the ceiling, and then put a touch of consciousness on the door handle.

"I gave you the consciousness, but you can use it to do things like chickens and dogs," Teacher Yi complained coldly and disappeared again.

"Huh?" The intermediary's voice rang outside the door, "Why is this door lock...oh no, it's nothing. Look, isn't it unlocked?"

Of course I opened it, Lin Sanjiu thought to herself. When she was holding the agent to turn the key, she opened the door with her consciousness.

The agent clicked the light switch several times, but the big light in the center of the living room did not come on. It would definitely not light up. Lin Sanjiu would have unscrewed it when she climbed up; otherwise her limbs would be stuck to the ceiling, hanging in the corner like a big spider. She was afraid of scaring the visitors. die.

"It's okay. The landlord will fix it in due time." He explained to a young couple in a nonchalant manner, and took out his mobile phone to illuminate it.

According to this method, no matter how many visitors come to see the house, they will never find Lin Sanjiu who lives here temporarily. But this is not a long-term solution. She still has to find a way to make a living and get a foothold here first... Wandering outside society all the time, maybe something will go wrong one day. Thinking about it, she no longer has any skills that can help her survive in modern society; otherwise, she should learn how to do what she did in heroic movies in the past, go out at night to help justice, rob the rich and give to the poor - speaking of poverty, She herself happens to be one of the "poor". Isn't it a coincidence?

While she was lost in thought, the couple had already hurriedly looked at the house, UU Reading www.uukanshu.net, with noncommittal expressions on their faces, and they didn't take a fancy to it at first glance.

"If you are satisfied with this community, we have another one..." The agent opened the door and said with a smile. When the couple walked out the door, he was about to follow them when he suddenly looked down at the floor, wiped his feet back and forth like mud, and then looked at the door handle.

Hey, despite his humble appearance, this guy has a very careful heart.

When Lin Sanjiu broke in, she would inevitably break the wood in the door panel; even though she had just cleaned it in the dark, there was still some sawdust and other things scattered on the ground. In addition, even if the fake door lock pretends to be the real owner with a straight face, it is still somewhat different from the real thing...

"You two, you go down first, I suddenly remembered that the landlord told me something," the agent smiled and waved to the couple, "I'll go down as soon as possible, five minutes, five minutes!"

Lin Sanjiu hung in the corner of the ceiling, watching him close the door, raise his phone, and search around the living room - maybe he didn't even know what he was looking for, but he would go back to look at the door lock from time to time. He tried the key several times, but it did nothing to alleviate his doubts.

"That's not right," he murmured, "Where did it come from... the lamp is broken."

The agent straightened up and paused for a moment.

Immediately, he raised his phone and pointed the light at the big light in the living room - the ceiling was suddenly illuminated. Lin Sanjiu happened to be hiding at the blurred junction of light and darkness. At this moment, he was just a hazy human figure in his peripheral vision, leaning on the ceiling.

Before he could turn his head, the intermediary made two gurgling sounds in his throat, and his whole body started to tremble. The light of the mobile phone trembled slightly, and it moved to the corner bit by bit. In the snow-white flashlight light, Lin Sanjiu's heavily smeared face emerged from the gloom, her bloodless lips curled up, and she gave him a stern smile.