Doomsday Wonderland

Sakura Mizugan's warning weighed heavily on that period of time.

He only warned her once, and that was enough: she only had a short period of time to recover, so whenever Qiao Yuanji deteriorated, she felt like she would be killed by him at any time.

Her desire to survive when she was deteriorating was extremely strong, so she begged, cursed, lied, coaxed, and cried in every possible way. As long as she could get away, she would not look ugly and could say anything. As for trying to call the police for help, or taking the opportunity to escape from home, she naturally did it - but when facing a determined evolver, all the methods she could use were like foam hitting the rocks, and she was always stuck. Unable to shake the other party at all.

But when Qiao Yuansi was in a stable and sober state, she looked completely different.

There was always one of her eyes or steps that was closely following Ying Shui An; sometimes even if he just got up to take a sip of water, she would follow him to the kitchen, as if if he missed one, Ying Shui An would escape from her. slipping loose in life. She couldn't explain why, but compared to being killed by him, she was more afraid of being left alone at home, with her face gradually deforming.

During this time, her intelligence has not been impaired; it can even be said that she has become smarter in some places. For example, Qiao Yuanji quickly realized the difference in her behavior between the two states, so when she deteriorated, she began to deliberately follow Sakura Mizugan, saying things like she was scared and sad, and let him down his guard. Xing would find another chance to escape - the first time she did this, he was almost fooled.

Qiao Yuanji would never forget that scene for the rest of her life: one day she finally found a chance to sneak out of the house and started the car in fear. When she hurriedly reversed the car out of the garage, she raised her eyes and saw Sakura in the rearview mirror. water shore.

He folded his arms and stood at the back of the car, as if he had been waiting for a long time.

The second their eyes met in the mirror, Qiao Yuansi gritted his teeth and stepped on the accelerator. When the car rushed backwards, it seemed as if it hit a rocky mountain wall with great force - she was thrown forward by the impact, and her forehead hit the steering wheel.

She raised her head dizzily and looked back, just in time to see Sakura Mizugan retract one foot from the deformed trunk of the car. He slowly walked around to the driver's seat, and she suddenly remembered that the car was unlocked, but it was too late, so she had to watch him open the door.

Ying Shui'an bent down, her eyes seemed to hide the sea under the cloudy sky. There was no emotion or anger on his face, and his tone just said a matter-of-fact thing: "Go back with me."

As he finished speaking, a lock of hair fell down from his cheek, swaying in the wind, just like it did when the two first met on the seaside highway a few days ago.

Qiao Yuansi looked at him blankly, and in the waves of coolness, he understood that he had once again woken up a little from his deteriorating state. Obviously her consciousness is still continuous, but often when her mind slips towards the shapeshifter, she doesn't even notice it at all. She has to wait until she is triggered by a certain opportunity, and then she suddenly comes back to her senses and realizes What did I just do?

Seeing that she didn't speak, Ying Shui'an sighed.

"...I will try another way," when he thought Qiao Yuansi would not listen to him, he looked a little tired and softer than before. "You still have time."

When he was led home, Qiao Yuansi kept wiping the tears from his face silently. When the two entered the door, she whispered: "When I was a child, I had a thrush at home...I named her Manmiao."

Ying Shui'an suddenly turned her head and relaxed her brows.

It is precisely because of this sentence that the injured bird in the cardboard box in the living room was named gracefully even though it was suspected to be a male bird. Sakurasui An asked her to talk to Manmei a few words every day and clean and feed it; Qiao Yuanji gradually became less reluctant, and sometimes before leaving, she would gently caress its warm and smooth back feathers with her fingertips. .

All the mirrors were put away by Sakura Mizugan. Everything could fit into such a small ring. It was like a prop in a science fiction novel. Without a mirror, she could only touch her face with her hands sometimes; it felt normal, her nose was still in the center, and there was no extra hole on her forehead.

Sometimes she feels that her home has become a special rehabilitation center, filled with many training courses every day, and Sakura Mizugan is her doctor. If her movements were rough when handling Wanwei, he would do the same thing on her arm and ask her, "Does this hurt you?"; if she couldn't understand a passage in the book, she wouldn't be able to move. - Even if she analyzes, disassembles and reassembles word by word, she must understand it before she can get up to drink water and move around.

"Why do you want to help me?" She asked once after the two of them finished training.

"Anyway, I'm going to spend fourteen months here," Ying Shuigan said without raising his head as he didn't know he was flipping something. "What else can I do? I spank my children on rainy days. I just put too much salt in it." "

Qiao Yuansi burst into laughter, but the little smile quickly dropped from her lips. Her recent state has become more and more stable. Needless to say, Sakura Mizugan can feel it herself - "Qiao Yuanji" has finally returned to Qiao Yuanji's body, firmly nailing the latter's shape. However, as she got better, another layer of shadow gripped her heart more and more deeply.

She has put in so much effort and tried her best to keep herself unchanged, and now she is finally succeeding; but, what happens after she succeeds? This place has irreversibly become a world of shape-shifters. How long can she maintain the status quo, living alone among a sea of ​​shape-shifters? How long will it take for her to be attacked again?

She had never put her fears and worries into words, and Sakura Mizugan had never expressed a similar meaning, so she didn't know if he had thought of the same thing. No, or for him, he didn't think it was something worth worrying about: because he had said more than once that he would not stay here forever, and naturally he would not think about the future. In fourteen months he would leave this world; perhaps in a few weeks he would leave his home.

There is only such a person in the world, and he only exists for such a short period of time.

"There have been more and more evolved people appearing in this world recently." Another sign that her condition has improved is that the scope of the chat between the two has become wider and wider, especially topics related to evolved people. Sakuramizugan continued to fiddle with the small box-like thing in his hand, while saying: "I heard that some evolvers were not careful and ended up being infected and deformed. After deformation, their evolutionary abilities were not retained. Look. I’m going to live here my whole life.”

"Eh?" Qiao Yuansi couldn't help being surprised, "You evolvers are so powerful, how did you get infected?"

Even though Sakura Mizukani never leaves the house, he somehow always gets news about other evolvers. He coughed, suddenly looking a little embarrassed, and said vaguely: "Anyway, I was fooled. Who knows the details... His companion also spoke vaguely. He was probably doing something he couldn't say at that time. thing."

Qiao Yuansi stopped asking. She lowered her head and quietly changed the subject: "What is this on your hand?"

"Oh, it's your picture."

Qiao Yuansi suddenly raised his head. "ah?"

Sakura Mizugan glanced at her from the end of his eyes, as if he wanted to laugh a little, but also as if he wanted to remain serious: "Yes, I took the photo. I won't stay here forever, and you can't become The evolver leaves. After you fully recover, you may be targeted by the shapeshifters again... I have considered this issue, so I have made preparations for you. With this, they should believe that you are one of them in the future. Member."

Qiao Yuansi stared at him blankly for two seconds and suddenly realized: "When did you—did you secretly take a photo of my face when it was deformed?"

"Secretly sounds a bit ugly," he muttered, "You were always open and above board when you transformed."

He had long thought about what he would do in the future... This hidden worry was actually solved like this. Qiao Yuansi was stunned, not knowing whether he should ask to see the photo. She was not afraid of seeing her deformed face, but she was afraid of the future that the photo meant: after a Sakura Suigan left, she would carry this memory alone for the rest of her life, a future where she would be cautious, silent, and isolated among shape-shifters, barely surviving. .

"You don't even have a personal computer yet, so no one will think that this photo has been Photoshopped, which is very convenient." Sakura Mizugan said some unintelligible terms while taking out a few photos from the box and handing them to her. Look, UU Reading www.uukanshu.net said: "I combined the photo of your facial deformation with some landscape photos. You can say that you took the photo when you were traveling. You can send it to a friend or put it in the office... "

Is that what she looks like?

After just one glance, Qiao Yuansi shuddered and felt a sense of nausea. She quickly put the stack of photos under the coffee table. She really couldn't imagine that the person in the photo was actually herself - she felt that she would inevitably have some nightmares tonight.

"Are you leaving soon?" She regained her composure and asked as calmly as possible.

"Yes," Sakura Mizugan said only two words briefly, and then expanded on. "Actually, as long as you stay quiet and low-key, it's easy to survive in this world. People like us are very sensitive to this kind of world, but it's a pity that there are not many such worlds..."

Qiao Yuansi looked at him carefully for a few times, taking a close look at his hair, brows, lips, jaw and Adam's apple before saying, "Then... when will you leave?"

"It's time for you to go back to school the day after tomorrow," Sakura Mizugan lowered her eyes and said softly, "I will leave on that day."