Chapter 7: The Sky

"Sister, happy birthday." Ender's voice echoed in the attic on the 5th floor, crisp and a little lonely, but it made Lily feel so happy.

Taking the little thing, Lily looked at her younger brother, who had a hairline rush early:

"Thank you, Ender, thank you, I didn't expect you to make me a birthday present...... Is this a turtle? ”

Lily looked closely at the small thing in her hand, the gears were exposed in some places, the whole was round, there were four limbs sticking out, and a small round head.

“...... It's a doll. Ander was silent for a moment, then corrected.

Lily's smile froze, but she smiled immediately:

"It turned out to be a doll, so it must be a matter of material. But observing simple mechanical movements can be relaxing, and thank you again for the gift, Mr. Ender. ”

As she spoke, Lily stood up, lifted the hem of her dress, and stepped back with her right foot, making a simple ladylike manner.

The etiquette of gentlemen and ladies in the British Empire is prevalent, and even children will want to imitate the adults around them and have such and such manners.

Ander had to get up immediately, and returned to Lily with a slight bow with his hand on his chest, and returned to Lily a gentleman's courtesy, and then he immediately waved his hand, signaling Lily not to bother.

Lily knew that Ender was troublesome, so she didn't continue to insist, and sat back on the ground, holding the "doll" that Ender had assembled with her own hands in one hand, and fiddling with the parts of small things with the other.

"You already know?" Lily suddenly opened her mouth and asked for no reason.

"Well, Sandro and Ariel mentioned it, and Ariel told me again, and I knew it."

Ander easily followed his sister's thoughts.

Lily was referring to the fact that she was leaving tomorrow to find John.

"I see, I was going to tell you tomorrow, but seeing that you're coming to give me a birthday present right now, I think you probably know." Lily explained with a wry smile.

"Sister, it's okay, I'm also worried about Brother John, I think your decision is the right one." Ander cheered up for his sister.

"I have one request, though." Andra picked up Lily's part-to-hand hand.

"What is it?" Lily asked with a smile as she looked at Ender's brown and black eyes.

"It's my birthday in a week, and I want to eat the croquettes you made, sister." Ender smiled brightly.

"......" Lily couldn't help but be silent for a moment, then smiled and stretched, withdrew the hand that was being dragged by Andra, and stretched out her little thumb:

"I promise you, Pull the hook!"

"Retractor." Ander also stretched out his little finger and shook it with Lily's little finger.

"Alright, I guess Lady Lily still wants to enjoy some of her own time, so I won't bother me much."

Achieving his goal, Ander stopped bothering his sister, and he also knew that his sister liked to be here alone.

"Well, our Ender has also grown into a qualified gentleman~" Lily quipped with a smile.

Seeing Ander leave, Lily turned around on the ground again, and once again looked at the rolling and never-ending [Two Points of Fog] outside the window of the orphanage, but her heart was no longer so afraid and helpless.

"Thank you, Ender." Lily smiled and whispered a word of thanks in a voice that only she could hear.

After a pause, Lily said again, "Thank you too, Xiu." ”

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Late at night, in Lily's room, Xiu and Aiden sat in a row opposite Lily, while Lily sat at her desk by herself, looking at the two of them funny, it really looked like the teacher was going to class.

"Lily, dangerous, how ...... Be careful. Aiden's words fluctuated slightly, but the worry was palpable.

Xiu Ze looked worried, looked left and right a few times, she couldn't help it, suddenly got up, came to Lily's side, and reached out to hold Lily's hand.

This grip scared Xiu a lot, and it was cold to the hand, which was simply not the temperature that a living person should have.

"Lily......" Xiu's face was full of distress.

"It's a lie to say not to be nervous, after all, I don't know what's going to happen...... Pray to God, if God really exists. Lily forced a joke.

"It's almost time, Xiu, you go sit back, if you pull me like this, maybe you will also be 'wiped away' together, and we don't know what will happen after that."

"The orphanage can't afford to lose all three of us at the same time." Lily accentuated the tone of her voice at the same time.

Xiudu was about to cry, but she nodded anyway and sat back down on the stool across from Lily.

Looking at the clock in the room to 00:24, Lily also counted down:

“23......22......21......“

3.......2.......1...... At the next moment, Xiu and Aiden subconsciously held each other's hands, because the Lily in their eyes was "wiped away" just like John that day.

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“3…… 2…… 1......" As the countdown to her heart ended, Lily also closed her eyes nervously, but after a while, Lily didn't feel anything, which made Lily smile bitterly in her heart.

Could it be that John's "erasure" was just a probabilistic event? Or is there anything other than 15 years old that I haven't met......

Shaking her head, Lily opened her eyes while shouting Xiu's name, she was about to say that it should be a probability event, but in the next second, she was immediately shocked by the scene in front of her and fell directly backwards from the stool.

She waved her hands wildly, desperately trying to grab something, but the next moment, she felt her entire back hit something with some elasticity, which made Lily stop screaming.

With her heart pounding, she tried to look behind her slowly, but after the first glance, Lily quickly turned her head back and closed her eyes tightly.

She confirmed that she was very high in the air!

But soon, she realized that she was now on a strange, invisible, elastic solid? After all, she didn't feel the weightlessness like riding in an elevator.

After doing two mental builds for herself, Lily took a deep breath and slowly opened her eyes.

What caught my eye was a pair of my own knees, and the endless blue-gray sky behind my knees.

"Sky?" Lily couldn't help but wonder.

Lily hasn't seen the sky since the "wall" suddenly appeared, and to be precise, everyone has never seen the sky again.

After looking at the sky for a few seconds, Lily tried to reach her stool, which she had just fallen from, and there should be a stool in front of her legs.

But Lily, who stretched out her legs, couldn't touch anything, which made Lily wonder, so she looked sideways at her calf.

Nothing?

Lily's head suddenly became like a fight, what the hell is going on? Where did you come out of nowhere?

The "other world" mentioned in John's diary is this world?