…… There was an instant silence in the air, and a long few seconds passed in shock.

The carpet was empty, and not even a single mark was left on the place where the pair of black cloth shoes had stepped on just now.

Look at the way the old woman was stretched and sucked up just now, she seemed to be sticking to the ceiling at this time; Just looking up, the ceiling was naturally empty: a large living person had disappeared from this floor in the blink of an eye.

Kiyokuru blinked, his long eyelashes flickering a few times.

If it weren't for the fact that his body from the neck down was still as unconscious as a stone, he would have thought he had just had a dream...... With a blank look, he turned his eyes in the direction of Ji Shanqing, and then he was stunned.

At this time, the gift bag was looking at Chao Qingjiu behind him, and his face seemed incredible; His lips opened, and he was about to say something, but there was a sudden blow to his stomach—and before a look of surprise could fully emerge, he immediately wrinkled a small face in pain.

Qing Jiuliu suddenly had a thrill and turned his head suddenly.

Not far behind him, Lin Sanjiu was standing next to the entrance railing of the swimming pool, pinching his nose in one hand and holding a card in the other. Her lips were pursed tightly, as if she was afraid of leaking a trace of air, her face flushed, and her forehead was already bruised.

Obviously, she had been holding her breath for a while.

"You're recovering?" Kiyokuru immediately blurted out.

"When you breathe, you get depression", so it stands to reason that if you don't breathe, you should be able to get rid of the effects of depression for a while - but even if he can figure this out, he still has a stomach full of questions: "Is this ...... What's going on? If you have thought of this solution, why do you recover now? And also...... What about the old woman? ”

Lin Sanjiu pinched his nose and shook his head vigorously, not knowing what she meant; Throwing a pen and paper on the ground with a flick of her hand, she tapped a few times in the direction of the hallway, and then turned her hand around her face a few times.

Kiyokuru looked at her confusedly. Although I didn't know the situation yet, the atmosphere had quietly relaxed a lot.

Even for evolutionaries, they can't breathe for long, so every second is very painful and precious; Lin Sanjiu obviously didn't quite believe that she could open her mouth to speak without inhaling air - she quickly pointed to the hallway again, desperately circling around her face; This time, she also added a gesture of covering her mouth with her hand on her face flushed.

Kiyokuru lifted his neck tired, and simply lay on the floor - he looked like a dog watching humans do stupid things, still with a blank face.

The green tendons on Lin Sanjiu's forehead jumped a few times - just when she was secretly anxious, she finally let out an "ah" and finally saved her: "I understand!" ”

Without waiting for Qing Jiuliu to turn his head and ask, the gift bag hurriedly stacked and shouted into the corridor: "Thorn map!" Thorn Figure, you come in! ”

There was a pause in the hallway, and a voice came: "...... I don't go in. ”

Lin Sanjiu closed his eyes, as if he was desperately trying to control himself.

"You come in! It's okay now, I don't lie to you! ”

"Are you alright?" Thorn muttered a few words, as if asking for the opinion of the communication box; After a few seconds, he raised his voice and asked, "What about the old woman?" ”

The gift bag stuck in the shell, and avoided answering: "Don't worry, it's safe now!" Come on in, we need your help. ”

…… After a long period of what seemed to be ten years, a pair of bright yellow eyes cautiously poked out from behind the corner of the hallway. His eyes turned from side to side, and he saw that there was no shadow of the old woman around, and finally gradually rose again, revealing a long face full of suspicion.

"How can you help?"

"You go and cover my sister's nose and mouth, Lin Daqiang, and don't let her breathe." Gift pack hurriedly said.

Qing Jiuliu also reacted at this time, and hurriedly added: "If you still want to fight with her, at least wait until -"

Thorn Tu interrupted him with a wave of his hand, a little embarrassed: "Oh no, that's actually a misunderstanding, she can still continue to be a candidate." ”

"Okay, whatever, you hurry up and ......" The gift bag didn't finish a sentence, and took another beating.

Thorn Tu frowned and glanced at Lin Sanjiu, obviously still not wanting to walk in; After thinking about it, he suddenly waved his hand in her direction - as if he felt something, Lin Sanjiu quickly put his hand down, and almost immediately, the skin on her face appeared dented by something that had been pressed down, and the tip of her nose was a little flattened.

"This is the tip of [the shy python]'s tail," Thorn explained to the other two, "I didn't make any effort. ”

Lin Sanjiu seemed to have finally calmed down, and hurriedly rushed to the side of the pen and paper; She held a card in her left hand, pressed the paper, and scribbled line after line with her right hand, and because she was in such a hurry, the tip of the pen even scratched the paper in a few places.

When he finished writing a paragraph, Lin Sanjiu stretched out his arm, approached Qingjiuliu's side, and pushed the paper and card out together.

“…… I heard you say that one of her consequences is 'schizophrenia', does it mean that she caused the end of this world? So I took the plunge and gave it a try. Qing Jiuliu read this, raised his eyes and looked at Ji Shanqing, and seeing the latter's serious face, he turned his head again and said, "Eh, the gift package said, that old lady must see the target with her own eyes to launch, so she shouldn't be ...... Ah, okay, okay, I'll keep reading. ”

He rested his chin on a slip of paper like a snake that couldn't move.

"I just called out the [Nostradamus Card] - it is designed to absorb the doomsday factor - and if the old lady did create the doomsday, then I might be able to use this card to put her away."

…… Reading this, Qing Jiuliu's voice paused, and he stared at the second half of the words that penetrated the back of the paper: "I didn't expect that she was really put away by me!" ”

The messy scribbled handwriting was followed by a large exclamation mark; When Lin Sanjiu wrote this sentence, his mood was obviously also unstable - the color of the exclamation point was so dark that it was almost shocking.

Kiyokuru slowly raised his eyes to look at the card next to the note, his mouth open; On that battery icon, it now says "23%".

…… The old woman is in this card?

Several people were speechless for a while, and the air was so quiet that they could smell their breath - several pairs of eyes were staring at the [Nostradamus Card], and for a long time, no one made a sound.

Lin Sanjiu grabbed the note, wrote another paragraph in a smug manner, and pushed it back again with an expressionless face - her face was now rolled by the snake's tail, and her face was pressed flat and flat, even if she wanted to make expressions, it was difficult to communicate, and she could only communicate through text.

"What did she have to see with her own eyes? Didn't you first suspect that she had created the end times? ”

After reading it for a long time, he remembered that when he was talking to Ji Shanqing, he specially lowered his voice; And Lin Sanjiu, who was standing in the distance, was still immersed in the effects of depression at that time, and he must have just happened not to hear it.

At the thought of this, he couldn't help but exhale heavily—fortunately she didn't hear it!

"There are indeed doubts here, but now it is clear that the end of this world is indeed man-made." Kiyokuru couldn't help but glance at the card again and asked, "Leave this alone...... Didn't you tell me you couldn't card a living thing? ”

"Since she can be put away by the card," the gift bag on the side suddenly spoke, "that means she's not alive!" ”

Lin Sanjiu subconsciously wanted to nod, but he couldn't move his neck, and then he remembered that the python was still wrapped around his face, so he had to blink a pair of eyes that were exposed quickly.

"That's all right," said Libao breathlessly, "there are so many things wrong with that old lady that I can barely feel her weight and body temperature when she sits on top of me—and besides, what living person can be held like that and not die?" ”

"If she's not a living person, what is she? Fallen seeds? ”

At some point, Thorn Tu also walked over from behind the corner, he was still holding the communication box in his hand, and the screen with a small pixel was lit up with the interested face of Number 46.

If anyone present could guess what the old woman was, I'm afraid it was only Lin Sanjiu.

After all, when she was at Ruyue Station, she had once been something similar to the old woman.

In fact, at the moment when the old woman was absorbed by the card, Lin Sanjiu stared blankly at the card in his hand, and a conjecture had vaguely floated in his heart.

…… This old woman can't be something that someone built with consciousness, right?

Now that I think about it, this speculation is really not impossible.

First of all, the old woman must meet both the conditions of "inanimate creature" and "doomsday factor" before she can be absorbed by the [Nostradamus Card]; At this point, the Soul Clan is a good counterexample.

And the doomsday factor is already obvious, it must be the evolutionary ability she has demonstrated; So, what "non-living creatures" can have the evolutionary abilities of an evolutionary?

Although Lin Sanjiu, who was a consciousness, could not use her evolutionary ability when she was at Ruyue Station, it was basically because her abilities were based on her physical body; Once the physical basis is changed, whether she becomes a conscious body or an old hen, her abilities are nullified.

But what if someone's evolutionary abilities are completely decoupled from the physical body?

Once I think of this, the rest is logical: the old woman's [conceptual collision] is actually the ability of the master behind her, not her own - the image of the "old woman" itself is probably just a created consciousness.

And unlike Lin Sanjiu in Ruyue Station, the consciousness of the "old woman" has obviously been carefully constructed: she is like a motor vehicle on the battlefield, almost giving up all the parts that can be discarded, just to carry the most powerful weapon.

What Lin Sanjiu cares about the most is that the old woman is such a big person, but after being absorbed, it only occupies 23% of the card capacity - does this mean that the consciousness that constitutes the old woman is actually only a little bit?

In other words, there is a person who has turned the whole world into a madman, and then sent an image that he constructed with a wisp of consciousness and returned here......

All kinds of thoughts flowed through Lin Sanjiu's brain like a stream, and although there were still many questions, her thoughts were finally interrupted by a glance thrown by No. 46.

Lin Sanjiu lowered his eyelids and didn't write down the thoughts just now, but just wrote a sentence on the paper: "No, I have to breathe." ”

It's a fact: if she doesn't breathe, she feels like her brain is going to explode.

As Thorn Tu waved his hand, the [shy python] quickly moved its tail, and Lin Sanjiu immediately gasped for breath; The cool happiness of the water did not last long as the fresh air flowed into her chest, and her expression quickly became significantly gloomy again, and her expression stiffened.

The "depression" inflicted on her by the old woman was at a stage where it had developed to a very severe level and was only a few steps away from death; Therefore, as soon as the depression returned, Lin Sanjiu's thoughts immediately slowed down and became heavy as if he had fallen into a thousand pounds of burden, and he only looked at his hands blankly, forgetting even the question he had just thought about for a while.

Seeing that her face gradually ceased to be red, she looked as if she wanted to hide away immediately; [Shy Python] immediately entangled Lin Sanjiu's mouth and nose again, and dragged her back a few steps.

After his breathing stopped, nearly a minute passed before Lin Sanjiu picked up the pen again.

"Why didn't you remember to choke your breath earlier?" Kiyokuru asked a little blankly.

"Because the depression is so severe, I can't afford to help myself," Lin Sanjiu bowed his head and wrote, "Although I thought that I wouldn't have depression if I didn't breathe, I couldn't even do such a simple thing." ”

"Then you-"

"Didn't the old woman want me to kill myself?" She quickly left lines of ink on the paper with a pen: "I thought, then I should just use this method to die; If the depression is gone, forget it, if it doesn't go away, I'll die - when I can't hold it anymore, I'm ready to jump into the water. ”

The goodie bag gasped.

Lin Sanjiu glanced at him, then reached out and touched the [Nostradamus Card] on the ground, and wrote on the paper: "...... The doomsday factor absorbed by this card can be released by me again; Maybe I can rely on this method to replace the effect on all of us. ”

When Qing Jiuliu read this sentence, the gift bag almost cried - he had been beaten for so long that his nose and face were so swollen that he couldn't stand it; He couldn't even stay still, he could only roll over and over like a ball—and his eyes turned red at the sight of hope.

Lin Sanjiu didn't delay his work anymore, and pinched the [Nostradamus Card].

As soon as her mind moved, two rows of identical subtitles appeared in the air next to her fingers.

When Ji Shanqing and Qing Jiuliu saw these two rows of subtitles, they couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief and smiled-maybe they were lucky, and there were a few less serious consequences in the subtitles that came out for the first time; For example, "hungry", "three days of sleep", and so on.

"Sister, sister, give it to me first, give it to me first!" The gift bag fell to the ground for a moment, his eyes swept over the subtitles, and he jumped up again: "I'm going crazy!" ”

Lin Sanjiu sighed, casually chose a condition and quickly clicked twice; As soon as her words fell, Giftbag's short ear-length hair suddenly grew slowly, and he hung down his chest smoothly and obediently—this time, he looked like a little girl at all.

Ji Shanqing was stunned, as if he still didn't believe it, and waited vigilantly for a while. When he was sure that the inexplicable force finally stopped beating him, his face lit up - only when he looked up again, he found that Lin Sanjiu's eyebrows were tightly furrowed, and the subtitles had disappeared from the air.

"What's wrong?"

Lin Sanjiu slowly raised his hand and showed them the [Nostradamus Card]. The number on that battery has dropped from 23% to 16% all of a sudden.

When the lively thorn map on the side had not yet reacted, No. 46 in the communication box let out an "oops".

"Oops." Lin Sanjiu grabbed a pen and paper and wrote, "...... Each time you cast Concept Collision, 7% is consumed from the card. This means that one of the four of us cannot recover. ”

(Thank you for the monthly pass and tip, the testimonial is not visible now, what should I do?) Where can I write it? (To be continued.) )