Everything happened so fast that Lin Sanjiu almost choked on the words "Hei Zeji" that were stuck in her throat. She was caught off guard by the sudden turn of events. Then, Lin Sanjiu extended her hypersensory perception to every nook and cranny within a radius of more than ten meters around her. The flow of the air, the swaying of the leaves, the falling dust on the covers of the books … Everything was clearly reflected in her sensory world.
However, the corner where Raven Jiang disappeared was dead silent.
She couldn't even hear his breathing, heartbeat, or body temperature. When he disappeared, there wasn't even the sound of the mop falling to the ground. From afar, it was as if there was only a dark hole behind the wall.
Lin Sanjiu thought for a moment and walked back into the bookstore as slowly as possible. She maintained the maximum range of her hypersensory.
Her body tensed up as her blood flowed faster. The wound on the back of her head, which had yet to heal completely, was still pricking her scalp. When she approached the corner, she craned her neck and looked behind the wall. Behind the wall was another small hall filled with bookshelves. The first bookshelf was labeled "Psychology".
There wasn't a mop anywhere.
"I'm a hundred percent sure," Lin Sanjiu spoke to Mrs. Manas out of habit when there was no one around, "When we walked into this bookstore, there wasn't a single person inside … Damn it, there isn't a single person inside now!"
Mrs. Manas did not answer. Lin Sanjiu's heart skipped a beat. She jerked her head toward the second floor, "There's a sound!"
Her reaction was faster than a bullet. She knew where the escalator was, so she didn't have to waste time looking for it. With a twist of her body and a burst of speed, she had already turned into a shadow and rushed to the center of the escalator. After dashing past a few bookshelves, she stopped in front of a counter full of "Star Wars" models. She saw Raven Jiang's mop hanging crookedly on the corner of the counter. It was sliding down because it wasn't stable.
Lin Sanjiu grabbed the wooden mop and felt it. She could feel a faint warmth on her fingertips.
He was still here a second ago and had just let go of the mop!
Even though Lin Sanjiu didn't know why Raven Jiang treasured the mop so much, the fact that he had thrown it away was enough to tell her that he was in a bad situation.
Lin Sanjiu quickly turned the mop into a card. She held it and listened carefully for a while.
The same thing happened again. Every bone in her body was screaming that there was no one else in the bookstore except for her.
This was the instinct and experience that she had gained from many years of fighting. She knew that there was no way she could be wrong. But where and how did Raven Jiang leave the mop there?
As she kept her hypersensory activated, she lowered her head to look at the card. Surprisingly, the mop had nothing to do with a Special Item.
Wooden pole mop
It was an old-fashioned traditional mop with a wooden pole and a circle of cloth strips tied to it. The cloth was dirty. If she didn't wash it, it would dirty the floor.
The only thing special about it was a line of small words at the bottom of the description: "Tainted with Master Crow Jiang's aura."
… What good would it do if a mop was stained with his breath?
Just as she was putting the card into the card bank, her ears caught a very subtle sound. The sound was so soft that if it was not for the sudden tremble of her hypersensory, she would not have been able to tell which direction to go.
When Lin Sanjiu rushed out of the bookstore's backdoor, she looked around and realized that she was standing on a narrow street. Compared to the spacious and beautiful shopping street, this place was much more economical and simple. There were a few light trucks parked on the side of the street. Each of them had the name of a different shop printed on them.
Regardless of the source of the sound, it had already disappeared.
Perhaps it was because she had taken too long to rush down from the second floor of the bookstore. Even though it was only a few seconds, it was enough for her to lose track of the source of the sound.
"Could it be that the owner of the arm was attracted to me because I called for Hei Zeji?"
Lin Sanjiu thought for a while. She knew that she wouldn't be able to find Raven Jiang if she didn't get some help. Taking a deep breath, she activated her [No Coincidence Book].
"Ah, I haven't used it for a long time," Mrs. Manas sighed.
It wasn't enough for her to activate the ability. She had to do something else. She thought for a while and picked a random direction. As she walked, she called out to Hei Zeji, "Hei Zeji? Is that you? Are you nearby? "
Unfortunately, Hei Zeji didn't answer her. Lin Sanjiu then recalled why she rarely used her [No Coincidence Book] ability. It could indeed weave different fates together and make coincidences happen. However, to the user of the ability, there was no guarantee that the coincidences would be good or bad.
Before Lin Sanjiu's left foot touched the ground, she suddenly felt that something was amiss. She turned to her right and was stunned. When her mother gave birth to her, she had indeed been given two shoulders. Now that she looked at it again, she realized that the right shoulder was missing — the right arm and the right side of the body had disappeared without a trace, just like Raven River. There was only a ring of faint black mist that floated along the contours of the missing body.
It was as if the right half of her body had been cut off in an instant. Lin Sanjiu tried to extend her right hand, but her brain didn't respond at all. It was as if her brain had given her an empty abyss.
"What's going on?" Mrs. Manas exclaimed. Lin Sanjiu couldn't help but stagger. She only lost her balance for a split second, and her entire body was involuntarily "sucked" toward her right. She was now on an empty sidewalk. Even if she wanted to resist, there was nothing she could do. In a split second, her vision went black.
When she regained her sight, she realized that she was "lying" on top of a person. Everything around her was pitch-black. She wanted to move, but she realized that it was impossible. She couldn't even release her higher consciousness. Even though her body had returned to her, she had lost all sense of it. It was as if it was just an appendage of her consciousness. It was as if she was paralyzed except for her brain.
"What's going on?" Mrs. Manas's voice and another unfamiliar voice spoke at the same time. After Mrs. Manas immediately shut her mouth, the unfamiliar voice continued to mutter to itself, "How did this woman get in here?"
Lin Sanjiu "lay" motionless. As her vision swayed and fell, she realized that her head had been moved by someone. It seemed that the person on top of her was struggling to get up. Then, in the darkness, a pair of legs stood up and entered her field of vision.
"Is that your companion?"
Lin Sanjiu had no idea who the voice was asking, but she didn't get any reply.
"What is this place? What's wrong with my body? "
Even though Lin Sanjiu's mind was filled with these questions, she couldn't utter a single word. She could only watch as the person next to her took a step closer and squatted down beside her. In the darkness where she couldn't even see her fingers, a face that seemed to be spat out by a black mist revealed itself. It was a face that Lin Sanjiu had never seen before.
It was a girl with a tense look on her face.
Be it the ponytail that was combed close to her scalp, the skin that was stretched across her bones because she was too skinny, and even her thin, downward-pouting mouth, she gave off the impression that she had never relaxed in her life. She was the kind of girl who always wore a serious face and kept to herself in university.
Lin Sanjiu saw the person in the girl's hand the second time she looked at him.
She had wrapped her skinny arm around Crow Jiang's neck. Crow Jiang, who was half a head taller than her, was "hung" on her arm as if she was trying to subdue a big dog. Crow Jiang's body was hanging limply beside her. His eyes were wide open as he stared fixedly at Lin Sanjiu. Apparently, he was in the same state as Lin Sanjiu.
"Is this person Bonnie Bunny?"
Lin Sanjiu stared back at them. Unfortunately, both of them couldn't even move their eyebrows. They couldn't communicate with each other through their round eyes.
"It's hard enough for me to carry him alone …" The girl frowned. She felt as if her temples were being pulled, "No, I have to figure out how you got in here …"
Like many people who had lived alone for too long, the girl seemed to have developed the habit of muttering to herself no matter what she was thinking. She was the only one who could move in the dark. She grabbed Lin Sanjiu's collar and pulled her up with some difficulty. "Why are you as tall as a man?"
The girl was at most 1.65 meters tall. After she pulled Lin Sanjiu up, she and Crow Jiang each sat on the girl's left and right. They looked like two skinny hunters hunting two dead deer.
"Let's go. I have a lot of questions to ask you," she mumbled. After she found her bearings, the thick darkness in front of her immediately faded away. The fog dispersed, revealing the scenery outside. Lin Sanjiu could tell at a glance that the street outside was still a part of the business district she had just arrived at. When she looked again, she realized that the street outside wasn't the street that she had "fallen" into. The few light trucks looked like a few small boxes.
The skinny girl carried the two incapacitated bodies on her shoulders. She stepped out of the black fog and stepped onto the red brick pavement. In the air not far away from the other side, a thick cloud of black mist suddenly appeared, stirring to welcome her arrival.
"Feet …"
The skinny girl stood between the two clouds of black fog that looked like a portal. Even though it was very strenuous for her to do so, she still turned her head to look at the lower body of the two people. Due to their height, Lin Sanjiu and Crow Jiang's ankles were dragging on the ground. They were still immersed in the darkness.
The skinny girl hesitated for a moment and told herself, "This won't do."
As soon as she said that, she shook her shoulder. Crow Jiang slid down from her shoulder and fell to the ground with a loud thud. The dull thud was very clear, but he couldn't even make a sound. The skinny girl was only carrying Lin Sanjiu. After checking the distance between them, she pushed Lin Sanjiu a few steps back with great difficulty. When Lin Sanjiu had retreated from the waist down into the darkness, the skinny girl laid Lin Sanjiu flat on the brick floor. She grabbed both of Lin Sanjiu's arms as if she was going to drag Lin Sanjiu from one cloud of fog to another.
[Why bother?]
[If the skinny girl had taken another step, she could have carried both Crow Jiang and herself into the next cloud of fog. Why bother dragging them one by one?]
Lin Sanjiu was a piece of dead meat. She allowed the skinny girl to drag her. Her vision shifted backward as she heard the rustling sound. Lin Sanjiu's thighs had retreated from the darkness, followed by her calves. Judging from her position, her head would enter the darkness again before her feet came out.
[Oh right, did she say feet …?]
Subconsciously, Lin Sanjiu replayed the skinny girl's actions between the two clouds of fog in her mind.
"I know!"
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