Chapter 159: Where the Lights Go Out
During the few days of rest in the elementary school building, Lin Sanjiu sometimes even had the illusion that she had been forgotten by the universe.
It's too quiet, it's too lonely.
The whimpering wind swirled back and forth over the wilderness, becoming the only sound between heaven and earth; When the wind stops, looking out from the roof of the building, there is only an endless piece of dirty green; Sometimes, when I push the door, I will see ugly-looking insects flashing through the corner in a panic, which is frightening.
In addition to the fact that companions can bring a little vitality when they go in and out, there seems to be no one left in the Eden world.
"You can't all have to meet everyone's deadline at the same time, right?" After going out to inspect twice in person, Lin Sanjiu couldn't help but wonder. Originally, when the rabbit brought it up, she didn't have an intuitive feeling - now it was different.
Just yesterday, Lin Sanjiu walked for five hours in one go, covering an area of several hundred square kilometers - but to her secret surprise, there was only a dead silence everywhere. After walking in such a vast area for so long, she only saw two evolutionaries, one of whom still had a corpse that had fallen to the side of the road at some point.
"Sister Lin, our results are not bad, at least we have seen a living person. When we went out a while ago, we often turned around for a day, and we couldn't even see a single person. Error code 517 saw that she was a little embarrassed, and said a word of relief.
There are a total of nine people and one rabbit living in the elementary school building, relying on the method of drawing lots, they are divided into two people and a class on weekdays, except for two caretakers, the rest are scattered far away, looking for food and traces of the evolutionary - although Lin Sanjiu brought out a lot of food from the Garden of Eden, but now there are six more mouths at once, and before the food is finished, it must start foraging early.
Lin Sanjiu was drawn to a group with error code 517, and called back Chu Yan was dazed and lost for a long time before leaving with Spring Sakura Xue with an unhappy face. Rabbit and Bai Xiaoke watched the house, and the rest of the people set off in groups, but as expected, no one brought back any good news.
"We met an evolutionary too, but before we could get closer, the guy ran away." Xue Yu said with a straight face. "It doesn't look like it's going to be a visa officer."
Unlike the usual situation, when they see other evolutionaries, the visa officer often belongs to the group of people who do not avoid and sometimes take the initiative to meet - after all, they are mainly the ones who follow up the transformers to do business, and they all rely on the other party to provide survival materials and combat materials in order to survive in the apocalyptic world.
In the search for food, everyone's luck is not much better; Lin Sanjiu clearly remembered that the evolutionaries living here had figured out a set of survival methods, such as raising animals such as free-range chickens as a source of meat, but when he seriously searched for it, he didn't find anything.
In this way, there is no point in staying here any longer, it seems that he still has to continue to track the [Canine Frisbee] left by the ear guide - in any case, this is the only clue that Lin Sanjiu currently has on hand that may find traces of human activity.
…… It's strange, where have all the people gone? It seems that I haven't even seen a few of the Fallen Seeds.
After discussing it for a while, everyone decided that it was better to choose a day than to hit the day, and set off. After packing up their things, the group left the dilapidated elementary school and hit the road.
Lin Sanjiu, who originally thought that the rabbit would faint with laughter, found that it had no reaction after walking away with the frisbee in his mouth for a while; After asking a few words on the side, she breathed a sigh of relief in her heart - originally, as a pet rabbit that has only lived for less than two years, how would it know how ordinary people tease dogs!
In today's Eden world, this group of people can be regarded as huge. In addition, for such a long time, I have not seen a few evolutionaries, and everyone's vigilance is not too high; Although the two sisters were responsible for the vigilance work on both sides of the team, in fact, everyone chatted while walking, and Xue Ji gave snacks to everyone when they were hungry, and the atmosphere was almost like an outing.
After getting acquainted, the green meat melon, whose temperament suddenly became a lot more active, was talking about the experience of the five of them and the rabbit at this time: "...... At first, the depraved species probably thought that the boss was just an ordinary rabbit and wanted to catch it for meat. We were also tightly surrounded, and we thought that this time it would be over, but we didn't expect the boss to be too powerful......"
Overall, this is a story of a group of five people who accidentally fell into a large group of degenerate species, and were rescued by a rabbit next to them by accident.
"In our hometown, the rabbit is a legendary sacred animal, often capable of defeating a thousand times more enemies than itself......" Green Meat Melon finished telling the story, and then talked about the magical rabbit who didn't know where in the universe: "When we met the boss, we finally believed that it was true!" ”
"Your abilities have evolved?" Lin Sanjiu heard half of it, took out the frisbee in his mouth, and asked softly to the brown-haired rabbit.
Although the rabbits have always been good at fighting, they don't seem to be as omnipotent as they describe.
"Although [All Carrots Are Mine] has indeed evolved once, and now I can absorb the strongest combat abilities of multiple enemies, but to be honest, if I didn't rely on this [Gothic Suit], I am afraid that I would have been unlucky at that time." The rabbit glanced at the people behind him, and also lowered his voice very quietly: "...... Lao Tzu told you the truth, I can trust you, don't tell my little brothers. ”
"Watch out!" Lin Sanjiu scolded it with a smile, and then took the frisbee into his mouth.
And this time, as soon as the frisbee was entered, the small round light that had been facing forward flashed drippingly.
Lin Sanjiu paused, staring at the frisbee and not moving.
If I'm not mistaken, it seems like this means that the destination is almost there.
The people behind also realized that something was wrong, and they all came up for a while; It's just that everyone looks around, and they see that the neighborhood is still a wilderness that is not different from what it was before—if anything, at most there are just a little more ruins of dilapidated buildings, probably into the center of a city.
Since they didn't know whether the good was good or bad ahead, everyone's hearts lifted, slowed down, and slowly followed the flashing lights.
As we walked, the terrain gradually became uneven; It was as if the earth had been pinched up like a piece of paper, squeezed out one by one of huge ridges, lying on the ground, and had to be turned over in order to move on.
Fortunately, they are not tall or steep, and it is not difficult for the Evolver to climb the first ridge.
Lin Sanjiu stood on a high place and looked into the distance. She didn't cast far from her vision before she was blocked by the next ridge; All you can see is the long, red, scar-like strip of land and the orange sunset that looks like it's stuck on the ridge of the mountain.
"This place looks a little disgusting." Bai Xiaoke muttered in silence.
This is probably a disgusting feeling that only girls can experience - when the swollen strips of flesh on people's skin are arranged one by one after being scraped by something, it really makes people feel uncomfortable when they look at it. What's more, when you look at it from a distance, the scattered dark plant bushes are like corpse spots, growing on the earthy red earth.
Lin Sanjiu took a step forward with the frisbee in his mouth.
The next second, even she almost didn't realize it - the lights went out suddenly.
"We're here?" The rabbit asked, stunned. "That guy called the ear guide lives in this tasteless place?"
Lin Sanjiu was also a little dazed.
Didn't you say that the frisbee would only turn off when it was next to the pedestal? She stepped on her feet, walked twice, and the vicinity was empty, and there didn't seem to be any pedestal hidden.
She tried to go forward, but the light was dim; But as soon as you step back and go beyond a certain line, the lights start flashing again, indicating that this is indeed the destination.
"Weird, what can this place have?" She put away the frisbee and hesitated: "Let's take a look separately, everyone be careful, and be sure to stay in each other's line of sight." ”
But unexpectedly, before her words fell, a sudden change occurred - a small black shadow suddenly fell from mid-air with a gust of wind sound of "whirring", and everyone hurriedly scattered in all directions, seeing that thing slammed heavily on the ground, and suddenly filled with ash and dust more than one person high.
Even though they were blinded and coughed, the twin sisters in charge of the guard still reacted quickly subconsciously - they immediately opened a defensive force field in front of everyone.
【Waiting line for popular restaurants during peak periods】
The people who sat on the small stools outside the restaurant, expecting the people to eat inside, quickly got up and left...... I'm afraid most people have experienced this feeling, right? Even if you're hungry and your eyes are green and you can eat all the waiters, you have to wait until the restaurant calls you before you can enter.
The ability developed based on this phenomenon can be said to be the nemesis of the chronic son - no matter how powerful the enemy is, he must wait until the call is called before he can attack. The wait time is random, but increases as the ability increases.
PS: While the enemy is waiting, the ability initiator can't move.
"Dear Evolutionary, your row number is A102, and you still need to wait for twenty-four seconds." A female voice that seemed to be speaking through a guò microphone came from the force field, and the twin sisters breathed a sigh of relief.
24 seconds, that's not a short time!
They couldn't move, but their companions who were blocked behind the force field were free to move - which is why they always had to act with a third party - Sakura Harunoyuki narrowed her eyes and approached the dark shadow.
It was a young man who had passed out in a coma, and it didn't look dangerous.
"Uh......?" The tower-like bearded man let out a brief puzzled voice, "This...... It didn't seem like it was coming at us. ”
"Do you know what's going on?" The rabbit immediately asked majestically.
"yes, this guy should have teleported to this world." Spring Sakurayuki immediately turned his head and replied, "It seems that he was on a relatively high terrain in the previous world, so he fell from mid-air and fell unconscious......"
As he said this, he suddenly realized that his companions were not looking behind him quite right-Haruno-Sakurayuki quickly turned around to find that the unconscious man had disappeared.
Only one mark remained on the ground. R1152