Doomsday Wonderland

After turning off the engine and taking out the key, Qiao Yuansi sat quietly in the driver's seat for a few minutes before opening the car door.

As she walked behind the car, she raised her hand and lightly ran her fingers across the deformed and collapsed trunk compartment in the center. The car body was warm in the sun, and some of the bends were very sharp, so she carefully avoided them; her fingertips were soon covered with a layer of ash, filling the texture of the skin of her fingertips flatly and dullly.

The back cover collapsed so badly that the compartment could no longer engage the switch and was deformed and twisted together. It seemed impossible to take out some of the camping supplies still inside. Qiao Yuansi smiled slightly when he thought of this, and then slowly took back his hand.

As we approached the teaching building, the flow of people gradually increased. Young students were joking and joking in the sunshine. It was hard to believe that the old world with similar faces was actually dead. Occasionally, a student in class would recognize her and say hello to her, and Qiao Yuansi would smile, nod, and say good morning—no matter whether the person facing her was a normal face or not.

Even if someone suddenly transformed in front of her eyes, she wouldn't be surprised. Not because she was used to seeing it, but because Qiao Yuansi felt that she was not actually here.

Her body walks among shapeshifters, presses elevator buttons, and replies "Have you had breakfast" when faceless colleagues ask "Have you had breakfast?" But in reality, she's not here.

She has been withdrawn from the world of shape-shifters. She doesn’t know where she went, maybe far away; she has long been picked up and blown away by the sea breeze, floating between the gray-blue sky and the sea. .

This building, this school, is just a pantomime stage for people to come and go. Her ears were filled with the laughter of students, the screeching sound of sneakers scraping the floor, and the sound of doors opening and closing. But for the first time, she realized that there was such a quiet and forbearing day in school.

She hung the "travel photos" she had left after sending the letter in the most conspicuous place on the wall of her office, and received several "so beautiful" compliments from visitors. No one expressed surprise at her face in the photo; either they had learned not to show surprise, or the deformity had spread to the point where there were almost no normal people in the school. Which one it was specifically, Qiao Yuanji found that he didn't really care.

Before class, she took out a small box of bird food from her bag, prepared a small bowl of water, and placed it outside the window sill, not knowing when Manmei would come over. Although Manmei can only move around her now, its range of activities is quite wide. In addition, it has its own life to live, so it may not always be by her side.

Speaking of which, the props in the apocalyptic world are really amazing. They actually connected the bird that had no hope of being cured in the end to her life and lived with her; as long as she lives for one day in the future, Manmei will live for one day.

...Fortunately, she left something behind.

Qiao Yuansi made some changes to her course schedule: for the first task of the first class, she asked students to write a paragraph of understanding on a certain topic. It doesn’t need to be very long, it can be as little as a few sentences or as much as one or two hundred words. In fact, she doesn't have to wait to collect the homework. She only needs to wander around the classroom while they are immersed in writing, take a look at what everyone has on their paper, and she will know it in her mind.

The things they wrote down were not high fever nonsense. At least most of them seemed logical and logical at first glance, with subjects, objects, and correlatives. However, they lacked understanding and logic. They could not distinguish between facts and conjectures. They were full of confusion and self-contradiction, but they did not understand it at all. Jue——Looking more, she can even judge from the content of the homework how far this person has deteriorated.

The face of the student with the most serious condition has not changed from beginning to end, and he looks even more stable than her, but the meaning of the content in the homework is completely unrecognizable, and the text itself has been simplified to the point of being incomprehensible; Qiao Yuanji After just a few quick glances, he never dared to approach the female student again.

After she read through everyone's homework, she found that there was only one normal person in this class.

It was an ordinary-looking boy. She had hardly paid much attention to him before, because he always sat quietly in the corner with his head lowered - probably because he was not very eye-catching, other shape-shifters seemed not to have noticed him yet. Not one of the shapeshifters.

Qiao Yuansi read his homework several times and didn't know whether he should take the initiative to say something to him. It's a pity that she doesn't even have anyone she can discuss with now... She thought about it over and over again, and finally decided to observe the situation first.

Fortunately, she was more careful, because she soon discovered that the boy couldn't see the facial changes of the people around him. It wasn't because of his superior acting skills, but because he really couldn't see it - once, he said something to the classmates in the group discussion "Are you eating gum? Give me a piece of gum." Qiao Yuansi stared at the man whose lower half of the face was a reflection of the upper half of his face for a few seconds, not even finding where his mouth was.

When the man said "Yes" and took out the chewing gum from the bag, she had to admit: in the boy's eyes, this shape-shifter not only had a mouth, but also chewed things with that mouth.

Two weeks later, the boy transformed in class.

The same thing happened several times later, and it seemed that compared to the normal people who "could see the deformation", there was a larger proportion of normal people who "couldn't see it" - when he realized this, Qiao Yuanji couldn't help but feel... I was depressed for a few days.

As a minority among the minority, they had to pretend that they could not see the transformation in order to ensure that other transformers would not do anything to them; but while ensuring this, they also pushed away the possibility of finding fellow travelers.

In this case, if there were normal people in the school who could sense the situation, would he dare to contact Qiao Yuansi? Of course I don't dare.

Of course, maybe she shouldn't have touched others in the first place.

In Sakura - before she started school, she also agreed that in her special situation, it was better to live in isolation and avoid being seen by others; the more normal people around her, the more dangerous it would be. Qiao Yuansi understood the truth, but she just didn't expect that being alone among the shape-shifters in silence would be so difficult.

Speaking of which...how long has it been since you left school? It seems to have been a month, right?

On the surface, she was doing everything as usual, preparing for classes and talking in meetings, and no one could tell anything was wrong, but deep down in her mind, she always seemed to be a little dazed. Her time had stopped on the day before school started, so whenever she saw the newspaper date added by another day, she always secretly suspected that there was something wrong with the newspaper.

Others count the dates as moving forward, but she counts the dates as counting down: there are still twelve months and one week, there are still twelve months and six days, there are still twelve months and five days...clear What would happen that day, she didn't know.

Qiao Yuansi later did not dare to recall this period of time; every time she thought of it, she would always be enveloped in an almost terrifying thought, and even breathing would become difficult - was it because she was too distracted during this period? No, it was exposed, which led to the series of changes in the future?

That day, she had nothing to do as usual, and she couldn't stand reading, so she sat alone in the office and looked at the scenery outside the window.

From a week or two ago, Qiao Yuansi found that she had a panic-free life every day: there was not even a normal person left in her class, no one could understand the lessons she prepared, and she could not understand the students' interactions. Homework coming up. During class, she had to let students discuss in groups and comment on each other. In this way, she lost more than half of her work.

I wonder what it’s like in other classes?

Qiao Yuansi thought as he slowly added water to the water box on the windowsill. Manmiao regarded her as a mobile canteen. She would appear at least once or twice at random times every day. When she showed up, she would always look like a hungry ghost. She and Manmiao were connected in life, so she could always see it in a subtle way. The status of the bird.

"Miss Qiao?"

After hearing several knocks on the door, the chair under her body turned around so that she was facing the person coming from the door. At the door was a young girl who looked familiar to her. Her facial features were not only normal, but also very pleasing to the eye. The latter said with a little caution: "I am a student on the waiting list, and I want to ask about the vacancy..."

Oh, yes, that's what happened. No wonder her face looked familiar, as if she had been to the office once before.

Qiao Yuansi bent down, reached out to open the drawer, and asked, "What's your name?"

The question was asked, but she didn't wait for the female student's answer. When she found the folder from the drawer and straightened up again, she found that the latter was still standing blankly, as if she had seen something incomprehensible.

Qiao Yuansi felt something suddenly fall heavily in his chest.

She turned her chair and followed the girl's line of sight, landing on the window sill that she had just blocked - there were graceful bird feed boxes and clean water boxes. Grace was not there, and there was nothing strange about anything. .

...What is she looking at?

The girl raised her eyes again and looked carefully at the "travel photos" hanging on the wall for two seconds. It was definitely not the first time she had seen this photo. Anyone who had been to Qiao Yuansi's office would not have missed it... But her suddenly focused and careful gaze really frightened Qiao Yuansi.

"What's your name?" Qiao Yuansi asked again - this time it was not out of work obligations. She hoped to divert the other party's attention as soon as possible.

"Jin Yan," the girl finally came back to her senses, walked to the table, stopped, and replied in a low voice. "Is that... for feeding the birds?"

Qiao Yuansi held back his pounding heartbeat and replied dryly: "Yes."

She felt that her face might have turned pale. She had never been good at acting. She quickly pretended to check the list, lowered her head and said, "Which class are you waiting for?"

The girl sat down on the visitor's chair and said, "...at ten o'clock on Wednesday morning."

It was obvious that neither of them was thinking about the waiting list; Qiao Yuanji couldn't tell what the other was thinking, but they were both pretending that they were arranging classes here.

Jin Yan is not the first person to see the bird food box, UU Reading www. uukanshu.net The bird food box is placed here every day, and countless shapeshifters have seen it coming and going. Naturally, there is no transformer who can understand why she wants to feed the birds; but their reasoning ability prevents them from establishing any connection between "feeding the birds" and "not transforming", so at most they are just Just say, "You're such a weird person, why do you care what they do?" and then leave it at that.

Could it be that...could it be that Jin Yan...

Qiao Yuansi lowered his head and was so confused that he didn't know how to deal with this situation. She stared at the document, not turning the page for several seconds and not reading anything. At this moment, she heard Jin Yan ask in a low voice: "Well, Miss Qiao, can you take off your face and let me see it?"

Pick, pick your face?

Qiao Yuansi was shocked and suddenly raised his head. She was ready to see a desperate face, but Jin Yan still sat there as she was, with clean facial features and only a hint of anxiety and tension between her brows.

How to answer this? What reason did she have for refusing?

Jin Yan took a deep breath and whispered: "It can't be done, right? I...I understand. I can't do it either, because...I haven't transformed either."