Doomsday Wonderland

In the next few days, Qiao Yuansi felt as if he was in a trance and having a long dream.

Call it a dream, she could remember clearly what happened in the past few days; say it was not a dream, but she felt as if she was "no longer where she was" - her self seemed to have been pulled out of her body After withdrawing most of it, the person who owns her body is no longer Qiao Yuansi.

No, no, it was like an outsider had taken over her body; to be more precise, her self began to deform before Qiao Yuanji's face deformed.

The night she realized she couldn't understand her lesson plan, Qiao Yuanji could hardly describe her feelings in words. Neighbors can become monsters, and the world can end, but if she loses her intelligence, she doesn't know who she is and how she can survive. The foundation she had built for thirty-three years suddenly collapsed and shattered. She buried her face in her arms and cried silently for an unknown amount of time before she was finally persuaded by Sakura Mizugan to put down her lecture notes and go to bed. Before falling asleep, there was still a vague hope in my heart that "maybe it will be better after a sleep".

When she got up the next day, she felt no pain at all.

Sakuramizugan seemed to have been awake all night. As soon as he heard Qiao Yuansi's footsteps, he sat up from the sofa and followed her around the room with his eyes.

When she was about to enter the kitchen to prepare breakfast, Sakura Mizugan stopped her, spread her textbooks on the dining table, and asked, "Do you understand?"

Qiao Yuanji stared at the page for a while. "I know every word...it's so hard to understand what they mean when they are put together. What does this mean?"

"Then read slowly and read sentence by sentence."

Qiao Yuansi couldn't help but rolled his eyes and buried his head again. She forced herself to read slowly for several minutes before barely understanding a sentence or two. This progress only made her irritated. She pushed the table and stood up and said, "What's the use of reading this? I'm hungry. I don't want to." Saw it."

Ying Shui'an didn't speak. He sat at the other end of the dining table and watched her enter the kitchen and watch her prepare breakfast for one person; he didn't speak again until she slowly finished eating.

"The red marks on your face have lessened." He said calmly.

"Oh," Qiao Yuansi was reminded that there was still a red mark on his face. He touched it and then said, "I don't think it's a big deal. It should be completely gone in two days."

"You still think you can't transform?"

"No," Qiao Yuansi waved his hand, feeling that this statement was really ridiculous: "I am a living person, and my face suddenly deformed. Why? Is there any scientific reason to explain it? There is no such thing, so it is impossible. thing."

Sakura Mizugan's expression was as if he suddenly heard something unbearably stupid, and his brows furrowed as he stared at her. "……What?"

It's hard to explain why, but Qiao Yuansi suddenly felt as if his feet had been stepped on, all the thorns on his body stood up, and he was ready to defend himself. "What," she stared at him with vigilance and said challengingly: "Those transformations, the end of the world, you are the only one talking about it, right? Did it appear on the morning news? Did it appear in the newspaper? Why didn't I? see?"

Sakura Mizugan wiped his face, as if he couldn't believe the situation. "Have you forgotten the facts that you have seen with your own eyes?"

"There must be an explanation for what I saw," Qiao Yuanji said. "I have been hiking and camping for so long and I am tired from driving. It is possible that I saw it wrong. And to say the least, what if I am deformed? I still eat as usual. Sleeping to live? I have become a monster, and the school will still pay me my salary. Stop talking about this, it makes me upset, and I don’t want to hear it."

When she stood up to collect the plates, she thought of another thing and warned him: "Don't talk nonsense when you go out, otherwise I won't care about you if they catch you."

Sakura Mizugan's eyebrows twitched slightly, and she immediately raised her eyes, as if she was stung by these words and was momentarily confused.

Even though Qiao Yuansi was bothering him now, he couldn't help but be startled when his eyes met - the color in his eyes was too clean and clear, as if a small piece of blue sky had been frozen on the snowfield. She suddenly remembered that when she first saw him yesterday, she thought he was like a wild eagle flying across the mountains... How did she come up with this metaphor? Did she think of it?

She dropped the plate on the table with a clang, clutched the back of the chair tightly, and gradually the memories of yesterday came back to her.

She had not forgotten what happened yesterday; but she really couldn't remember it just now - the memory of yesterday seemed to have turned into some old letters that had been put away. They were still there, but they were just sitting far away in the drawer, easily discarded. Doesn't cross my mind.

"Don't give me the textbook," Qiao Yuanji said hoarsely, still hanging his head, "That one may be too difficult for me... There are some general reading books, please give me that."

Before she could finish the last word, Ying Shuigan jumped up and went to find a book. He seemed to be afraid that if he moved too slowly, Qiao Yuansi would slip away from this body again, so he quickly placed a stack of books with the word "General Knowledge" in front of her.

Qiao Yuansi's whole body was trembling slightly for no reason. She flipped through several books in succession, and the frustration and frustration that she couldn't read or understand became more and more intense. When tears came to her eyes, Ying Shuigan suddenly relaxed. After taking a breath, he knelt down in front of her and whispered: "It's okay if you feel sad, it's okay if you feel sad."

"……What's the meaning?"

"Listen to me," Sakura Mizugan's tone was a little anxious, "Those red marks are making your mind and personality begin to change. I don't know how those red marks take effect, but maybe we can reverse it. Suppress it."

"How to suppress it?" Qiao Yuansi didn't realize he was crying until he saw water dripping on his hands.

"...By alleviating the symptoms it causes." Sakura Mizugan said softly like a doctor comforting a child: "If you feel that these are still too difficult, just do some simple thinking training with me. You yourself As I said, the virus can’t kill 100% of people, so why can’t you survive it with resistance?”

While doing the thinking training, Qiao Yuansi's face in the mirror was clean again, with no trace of blood left.

It's strange to say that her intelligence has not deteriorated and she is still very fast at solving math problems. But after a while, she started to answer elementary school-level thinking questions incorrectly. She soon became unwilling to do it anymore, but Sakura Mizugan wouldn't let her go - even though he was tall and thin, his strength was astonishingly terrifying. He didn't look like a human at all, but more like a construction crane.

After Qiao Yuansi held him down, he was still very patient and asked: "...Which of the examples I gave above is the truth?"

When she couldn't answer, he repeated it again. The two of them went back and forth, like a see-saw, and even Qiao Yuanji herself could feel that her state was also advancing and retreating, good and bad, in this back-and-forth tug of war - but there was a little bit of sakura. Kishi was right: as long as she kept fighting for position through training, her rate of deterioration would be temporarily arrested.

The "transformation" factor was like a living creature. After realizing that this position was not easy to grab, it slowly loosened its grip. For a full afternoon, Qiao Yuansi's condition did not deteriorate again; the two of them waited anxiously until the evening, and finally breathed a sigh of relief - finally getting through the next day.

On the third day, Qiao Yuansi's condition was still similar to yesterday. The two did another half-morning mental training, and everything seemed to be gradually getting better; Sakura Mizugan looked more and more happy, and his eyes were shining. If a bird hadn't hit her window that afternoon, no one would have noticed.

It was an unknown, quite beautiful bird, with a chubby body of tawny color and pointed black tail feathers. It was injured somewhere, and after fluttering a few times, it still couldn't fly. When Ying Shui'an stood up after hearing the sound, Qiao Yuanji said: "Throw it into the big trash can in the community."

Sakura Mizugan turned around and glanced at her. "It's not dead yet."

"That's almost dead," Qiao Yuansi waved his hand, "Throw it away quickly."

Sakura Mizugan smiled at her almost tenderly.

When Qiao Yuansi lowered her head again, she suddenly felt a hand grabbing her collar, and with a strong lift, she was lifted up by Ying Shuigan. He dragged her to the door, his movements could even be called rough, and said, "Pick it back up."

"Why?" Qiao Yuansi pulled his arm back hard and asked angrily.

"Because you are not that kind of person." Sakura Mizugan said simply.

A big and small bird would startle Qiao Yuansi every time it flapped its wings, and she was naturally very unhappy - if she hadn't dared to offend Ying Shui'an, UU Reading www.uukanｓhu.net would not have wanted to send this bird to her. Birds come into the house. She held the bird and sat down on the sofa. The mirror she had placed there before happened to be on the coffee table in front of her. As soon as she sat down, she saw her face in the mirror swaying. It was as if a wave of waves had hit his face, curling up and down, and passing by in a flash.

She was frozen all over.

Sakura Mizugan stood on the aisle behind her. He probably saw the image in the mirror, but he didn't speak. For a moment, except for the flapping sound of the bird flapping its wings, there was only dead silence in the living room.

"Why... I haven't gotten worse," Qiao Yuansi said hoarsely, "Why..."

Sakura Mizugan's footsteps approached from behind. When he stood behind the sofa and bent down, Qiao Yuansi felt a warm hand slide into his neck and gently pinched her neck. Her throat was pressing against his knuckles, and it was the first time she felt that her throat was such a fragile thing.

"I'll tell you the truth," Sakura Mizugan said slowly and calmly. "I thought about it the day before yesterday. Since this world can still function normally, there is no need for me to kill you even if you are deformed. There may be nothing wrong with letting you live well in this world with other monsters. But now...I have changed my mind."

Qiao Yuansi's teeth were chattering slightly, and he didn't even dare to move the bird in his arms.

Evolutionaries are far scarier than shapeshifters.

"I don't like what you're turning into. If you can't survive this, I might as well kill you now."

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I didn’t expect it to take so long! It feels like the progress is a little slower than I thought...