In front of the small courtyard.

Giant trees growing out of the green belt obscure the sky. Thick roots spread all over the ground, sparse weeds and fungi grow underneath, but there are also faint spots of light shining from the sky.

"I believe, I've always felt like you're going to make a difference here, because that's how I feel."

Xia Xiaoyu, who was standing in the shade of the tree, was draped in points of light, and fine spots of light flashed on her face.

The courtyard wall behind her was crumbling with cracks, and it was only supported by the root system that wound around it to keep it from falling.

The low house in the courtyard is also full of traces of the passage of time, and when you stand outside, you can clearly see the vines and flora covered on it.

“…… You're thinking too much. Lin Ling didn't know how to answer for a while.

"I didn't think much of it, as long as I felt like that."

Xia Xiaoyu, who was smiling, raised her feet and walked into the yard, stepping on the ground and walking in front of the building with plants at any time.

Walk slowly up the almost broken staircase.

Almost half of the walls of the building are close to collapsing, and from the inside, you can clearly see the green vines hanging from the outside.

Time, rain, plants, the erosion of these things has made everything here unrecognizable, and there is almost no trace of the original.

The skin of the wall has fallen off, and Xia Xiaoyu can no longer find the graffiti that she has slid on the wall in the past.

At that time, she didn't know what neat and beautiful it was, and she simply drew her whims in every blank space.

She stood in front of the door, looking at the familiar house number, and was about to knock on the door, but her movements were momentarily stunned.

Knocking turned into pushing, and as she expected, nothing had changed.

It's just that there are more cans that are already empty and plastic buckets full of water.

The memories in his mind were emerging little by little, and Xia Xiaoyu didn't notice that his skin was also falling off little by little, and the exposed blue crystals were appearing in the air.

"Linling, I'm thinking...... What happened that night? ”

Xia Xiaoyu looked at the neat and clean house, touching the empty cans and bed covers that had been cleaned over and over again.

"A meteorite wrapped in aliens falling from the sky? Freaked monsters all over the ground? The humans around me melted into mashed meat one by one? The first mutated father and mother to nibble on each other? ”

Looking at the family photo, which is still yellowed, the gaps in the edges have long been blocked by gel, so that the photo can be preserved until now.

"Anyway, why do I remember this? Shouldn't I wake up from the crystal? ”

The words full of confusion came out of Xia Xiaoyu's mouth, she touched her cheek, and saw the skin falling off her face and her fingertips with only white bones left.

Fine blue crystals protruded from her eye sockets, and the squeezed out eyeballs fell at her feet.

Lin Ling stood outside the door, watching, watching, and did not say a word.

"Oh, I remember, I was already dead."

Xia Xiaoyu looked at his gradually festering skin, his expression was full of doubts, and then it turned into a sudden realization.

She hammered her left hand on her right hand, and the doubts in her heart were solved at this moment.

"I'm waiting in the cave to wait for you."

"I know."

Lin Ling's coat swelled slightly, and her eyes had turned into pitch black, with tiny hexagons faintly flashing in them.

Snow-white fluff spread from her wrists and between her joints, and several bone spurs tore through her tunic and popped out of her left hand.

"I had this idea when I first saw you."

"Huh? That's great so that I don't have to explain it anymore. Xia Xiaoyu, who had completely changed into another shape, folded his hands and pulled two chairs from the side, "I was ready to meet you when I saw you through the children, by the way, do you want something to eat?" ”

Hold a piece of fresh meat from nowhere, tear it open and put it in a can.

The creature named Xia Xiaoyu is still chattering, but the prominent pronunciation has lost its original voice, and it is no longer as clear as it once was.

She motioned to Lin Ling to sit down and enjoy it with anticipation.

Blood-red pieces of flesh spilled out of the can with bright red blood, leaving a glaring mark on the already yellowed glass table.

"What are these?"

The shape of the lump of flesh was exactly the same as the lump of flesh that had been used as bait in the cave, whether it was the pungent smell of blood or the reddish streaks of blood.

"Of course it's humans."

Xia Xiaoyu replied cheerfully with a smile on her face, and pointed to the brown ground with her raised hands, and several human faces appeared on the ground.

They struggled and wailed in pain, but they could not break free from the shackles of the tiles.

"They are so unfortunate that they failed to melt into the matter in the original evolution, and as a result, they are found in both soil and cement, so I simply borrowed a little bit of their body from local materials and used "copying" to use them, and these are delicious to take, do you want to eat them? ”

"So there are humans in the cave?"

"That's right."

Hearing the answer of the thing in front of her, Lin Ling looked at him quietly, and her face was already covered with traces as bright red as bloodshots.

"Aren't you human?"

“？” Xia Xiaoyu tilted her head, and incomprehensible emotions appeared on her face, "Human? Aren't we all of the same kind? Humanity became extinct a long time ago. If I hadn't met you, I would have thought I was the only sane creature in this world. ”

As she spoke, Xia Xiaoyu fed the piece of meat into her mouth, and blood slid down the corner of her mouth.

"Speaking of which, if I hadn't maintained my old habits for this long time, I'm afraid I would have gone crazy a long time ago."

Shark-like fangs chew through the flesh of its mouth little by little.

Adherent blood tendons bounced between her teeth like gummy candy.

"What's wrong with you? Come and sit down and eat together. ”

"......" could no longer find any shadow of the high school girl in the creature in front of her, and all the depression and depression disappeared with the moment her appearance collapsed.

The last fluke has been cut off.

Lin Ling took a deep breath and calmed down.

"May I ask a question first?"

"Huh?" "Xia Xiaoyu" sucked up the blood stains in the can.

"Now are you the human Xia Xiaoyu who doesn't know the height of the sky and the earth and keeps talking, or is it the source of the catastrophe that caused all these disasters and caused the world to be on the verge of destruction?"

Blood-colored limbs emerged from Lin Ling's mechanical arm, and through the small slit, flesh and blood covered the metal shell as if they had come to life.

"So, could you please tell me?"

"Haha, what are you talking about, how can I ......?"

Xia Xiaoyu turned his head and saw the reflection in his mirror the moment before he looked at Lin Ling.

Countless eyes and mouths spread across her face, azure crystals occupying her original sockets, and bony jaws embedded in her mouth, replacing her already festering skin.

She touched her face blankly, and the sound of bones rubbing against her ears reached her ears, but she couldn't feel any touch.

That's right...... Who the hell is you?