Doomsday Wonderland

Latest website: Lin Sanjiu vaguely understood why Qiaotense's face turned bitter.

No matter how wealthy people are, a spaceship is definitely one of the most important assets; and the most core part of a spaceship that cannot be lost during a business trip is undoubtedly its launch system - generally speaking, it is related to The cockpit is connected.

However, at this time, the cockpit of the spacecraft was in a situation that no spacecraft manufacturer had ever expected.

Soon after Lin Sanjiu entered the cockpit, she realized that her initial impression was unexpectedly accurate: what was filled here was not just a room full of billowing dark clouds; it was a real storm, thick and accumulated, He was moving heavily between steps, just on the edge of a roaring explosion.

In the room separated by the door, both the temperature and the air pressure have truly dropped, and it is definitely not a psychological effect. Lin Sanjiu recalled the sluggish feeling before the storm, as if her face was covered with a layer of wet cloth, and she tried hard to take a breath under the wet cloth.

She squinted her eyes and found that there was a layer of cold sweat on the walls and on the bridge, covered with thin droplets of water; when dark clouds rolled in from the corners, she even heard a faint sound. The rumble sounded like a small thunder and lightning was brewing.

In a room full of precision instruments, a storm is coming.

"What...what's going on?"

When Lin Sanjiu walked up a few steps, the puppet master had already turned his chair again, with his back to her, and still didn't speak. His wet black hair stuck to his pale neck, and even the leather and metal decorations on his body were wet. His whole person looked like he had just stepped out of the rain—if he had stepped out at all.

"Is that... the dungeon of City in the Rain?" Lin Sanjiu stood a step or two behind him and tried to speak as softly as possible, "Doesn't it mean that after leaving the dungeon world, I won't..."

The puppeteer didn't move or answer. Except for turning his chair slightly at first, he seemed completely unaware that Lin Sanjiu was beside him.

"Consciousness," Teacher Yi suddenly murmured in the depths of her mind. .

Although there were only a few words, Lin Sanjiu captured her meaning - it was an extremely vague feeling. The vagueness was like when a person walks on the shore of a lake, the water in the depths of the lake stirs slightly; It was a signal that would not be picked up by the five senses, but she still noticed it.

It turned out that after improving her consciousness several times, she could now vaguely feel the movements of the great witch.

But even if the great witch made any movement, he remained like a statue and didn't seem to hear it at all.

Judging from the time, she should have responded to her doubts. While thinking about what the great witch might have said, Lin Sanjiu looked around, then removed the card from a folding chair and sat down beside him silently.

The closer she got to the puppeteer, the thicker the clouds and mist before the storm became; after she sat down, the dark clouds even covered her calves, still lingering around her knees and loosening loosely.

Lin Sanjiu suddenly came up with an almost baseless guess.

There is a small number of puppet masters who are always ready to break away from their own existence - whether it is death, becoming a data body, or becoming a copy, as long as they are no longer a puppet master. As he gradually transformed into a dark city under the storm, that small piece of puppet master probably accepted and even embraced the fate of becoming a copy with relief and gratitude.

Perhaps it was for this reason that the copy did not completely let go of him.

Although Lin Sanjiu couldn't figure out how that side effect was left deep in his body - there were too many things in this world that she didn't understand.

The top priority is to stabilize his condition first.

Where to start? Could it be that the reason why he suddenly fell into the current state was because he couldn't find Gong Daoyi?

But that doesn't seem right... When she talked to the puppet master on eBay, she already knew that he had not found Gong Daichi. Although his mood at that time could not be said to be very good, it was not to this point. .

Not being able to find Gong Daoyi would certainly disappoint him, but on top of that, there was another incident... The two of them broke off communication, but it only took a day, and what happened during this period...

She watched the rain slowly slide down the puppet master's face and neck. Several gleams of water shone on the black leather, soaking in the dull, wet feathers.

Lin Sanjiu bent down, lowered his body, put his elbows on his legs, and asked softly: "What ability do you need from Qiaotans...?"

The puppet master's eyelashes seemed to be about to blink, but stopped after a slight tremble. The glitter at the corner of his eye tore into a deep red patch, as if the skin was suddenly cut open by sharp glitter.

Lin Sanjiu suddenly understood.

When she was snatched alive from the flying platform onto the spacecraft, the spacecraft did not slow down at all - a spacecraft had just pounced on her head high in the sky, and before she could even see the color of the spacecraft clearly, the next second she was It was sucked up, so even with her skill, she didn't have time to defend herself.

"One Hundred Thousand Worlds Transfer Dream" occupies an extremely vast area of ​​​​the sea, and is one of the most popular and busiest areas nearby; when the spaceship pounced from high altitude, it did not even stop, and accurately moved from countless places to the sea. Lin Sanjiu was found on the flying platform - at that distance, even if the spacecraft had a detection system, it was impossible to see everyone's facial features clearly; let alone when they were flying at high speed.

But it did. In other words, someone on the spaceship did this.

This ability to track and distinguish targets undoubtedly belongs to Qiao Tans - this is the only reason Lin Sanjiu can think of why the puppet master would keep him by his side: because he wants to use Qiao Tans' Ability to find Gong Daoyi.

"Is it...not even Qiaotense found him?" Lin Sanjiu saw that the puppet master didn't answer a word, so he could only follow his intuition and guessing, and said softly: "It's okay, it doesn't matter if he can't find him. I Still here, I won’t leave as long as you need me… you know that.”

Under the pale skin gripped by the black leather collar, the almost imperceptible Adam's apple moved slightly; but no matter what the puppet master wanted to say, it dissipated before it could take shape.

Sometimes, she felt as if the puppet master was falling bit by bit into the dark abyss, and the only thin thread that could hold him back was "revenge" - this feeling had obviously been gone for a while. It had not appeared before, but at this moment Lin Sanjiu noticed its existence again.

"I will help you," Lin Sanjiu whispered, "Don't you believe me? Even if he is not interested in me, I will help you find him..."

As if enduring some kind of pain in his body, some kind of force that was repelling his own body, the puppet master suddenly closed his eyes tightly.

"Tell me," any movement from him would give Lin Sanjiu hope. She was most afraid of the puppet master being completely closed off. "If there's anything I don't know, you can tell me..."

The puppeteer slowly turned his head.

"Jotense said he couldn't find this person." His voice was as dry as his eyes. Every word was rubbed and crushed against each other, as if it was trying to break free from the narrow throat, otherwise it would disappear. .

"I don't understand," Lin Sanjiu said softly, "Even if he is not in this world right now, it doesn't mean you won't be able to find him next time..."

"You don't understand." The puppet master looked away again and said in a low voice: "When he started tracking, we were still standing on a land with no strangeness. When he came to the conclusion, where we were But everything has been covered by the power of Karma..."

Lin Sanjiu fell silent, and for a moment it seemed as if her heart had sunk into the dark clouds beneath her feet.

"You...you were touched by the power of Karma?"

The puppeteer didn't speak or move. His silence was enough for her to get a positive answer.

"Are you worried..." Lin Sanjiu understood now, "Your karma will be..."

She didn't finish her sentence.

Speaking of which, my growing up experience may be different from that of most Chinese children. Since elementary school, I have decided by myself what books to read, what interest classes to take, which school to go to or not to go to, what clothes to wear, what games to make, what friends to make, what time to get up... Throughout my entire study life, my mother asked me I asked "Have you finished your homework?" no more than five times (certainly not because I was self-conscious, who wants to do homework as a child). Every semester, the teacher's comment on me was "free and undisciplined". Looking back now, I think this formative experience was valuable, even though it was far from perfect.