"Why are you telling me?!"
Bohemia jumped up from her seat. Even though she had lowered her voice, it did not stop her from raising it a few octaves. Her voice was so sharp that she refused to let Lin Sanjiu off the hook. "I've done you a big favor, and this is how you repay me?"
"Aren't you the one who asked me?" Lin Sanjiu scratched her face and answered, "If I didn't explain the situation to you, you would have beaten him up."
Hei Zeji's injuries were still healing slowly. Before his neck recovered, he probably would not wake up for the time being. Even though she knew that he had come back to life and was fine, Lin Sanjiu did not dare to move away from him. Every few seconds, she would lower her head to look at his chin and throat. She was still a little suspicious, afraid that everything was just a figment of her imagination.
"Nonsense, I don't even know who he is!" Bohemia was anxious and angry. She stomped her feet four to five times in just a few sentences, "Why don't you have a mind of your own? Just because I asked you to explain? If I asked you to wash my feet, would you go and get me some water? This is such a useful thing. It can help me solve the problem of my 5-dan life. Why are you telling me?! "
"I never thought that your 5-dan life was a foregone conclusion. It's useless not to tell you …" Lin Sanjiu muttered softly and stopped talking. Even if Bohemia wanted to roast her and eat her, Lin Sanjiu would do her best to sprinkle a layer of salt on herself. Lin Sanjiu remembered that she had picked up one of Bohemia's bracelets. She quickly took it out and said, "This is yours. Oh right, I can give you [The Mountains Remove The Foolish Old Man]. You still have two uses left …"
"What's the use of it now?!"
The NPC rolled his eyes and looked at them. After he regained consciousness, he did not call for help, perhaps because he understood the situation he was in. After Lin Sanjiu comforted Bohemia, she glanced at the NPC. Suddenly, she was not so sure. "Do pocket dimension NPCs have the same desire to live?"
"You guys are pretty good. You even removed his guardianization," the NPC spoke when their eyes met. He was constantly interrupted by heavy and short breathing, as if he had to fight against dizziness at all times. "... But you should know that you are now chickens in a cage, and there is no way out..."
"You motherf * cker! You motherf * cker! You motherf * cker!" Bohemia cursed without turning her head. She then moved closer to Hei Zeji. "When he wakes up, will you tell him that I am his savior?"
This was the apocalyptic version of the "millionaire's benefactor". Just like how many people in a normal society would imagine that they had accidentally saved the life of a millionaire, many posthumans in the apocalypse would also imagine that they could coincidentally save a powerful and influential person. With his help and repayment, their lives would change and they would live a carefree life.
"Definitely," Lin Sanjiu answered. Then, she turned to the NPC and asked, "What do you want to say?"
The NPC took a deep breath, and a cracking sound came from his windpipe. "You are no longer a patient. If someone finds out that she is here with you, she will no longer be a patient... Haven't you thought about it? Of course, the items and abilities that the hospital takes away will only be returned to the patient, not the wanted criminal. Besides, only the patient can be discharged from the hospital... "
Even Bohemia was silent, and turned her eyes to him.
"You are in my hands. How would the others find out that she came in with me?" Lin Sanjiu had thought about this a long time ago, but the fate of her own item was not her main concern.
"We are not stupid," the NPC forced a smile. His pale, fat face was covered with sweat. "Even if I am taken away and the others don't know her identity, we can still use the elimination method... Screen the surviving players who are not discharged from the hospital. If there is anyone missing, they will come in with you."
"Such a big move just for me?" Bohemia's voice trembled a little.
"Do you think what you have done is a light crime?" The NPC leaned against the wall and said, "... Even if the flood does not come, there will not be a second case in the lava world for another 50 years."
Among the millions of creatures in the apocalyptic world, it seemed that only posthumans had the slowest reaction to the "flood". Lin Sanjiu pondered over his words for a few seconds and asked, "Wait a minute, what do you mean? Is the flood going to come here soon? "
She remembered clearly that Puppeteer was accidentally transported away by the flood and found out that there was another apocalyptic world next to the Mushroom Society. But why did the NPC say that the flood had not arrived yet?
The NPC closed his eyes as if he could not stand it anymore. Like a broken flute, only the air was leaking out of his nostrils and mouth.
"It's good that it's here," Bohemia muttered, "Send us away quickly. In this stupid world, whoever wants to stay can stay. "
"You are all wrong." The NPC paused for a moment and said slowly, "The flood is born from an endless place, and it spreads to an endless place at all times. There are no rules in the places it passes through. It may not send you away... "
He had to stop to take a break.
"I don't understand. What will happen if we don't send you away? "Bohemia asked.
"How do you know about the flood?" Lin Sanjiu asked the same question at the same time.
The NPC's face was frighteningly dark. His eyes were half-closed as he smiled. "I sensed it. When you become an existence like me, you will also feel it. Just like how a rabbit can sense the change in the air before a storm, this is a new instinct. As for what will happen when the flood takes you away... "He slowly opened his eyes. His small black eyeballs were buried deep in his layers of fat, like some unknown creature looking out from a deep hole. "Who knows? When that time comes, you might become my colleague. "
Lin Sanjiu couldn't help shuddering.
"Could it be that you guys..." Bohemia started, but his voice gradually became weaker. It seemed that he did not know how to organize her doubts into questions. "You guys... were all killed by the flood..."
"That's not important." The NPC shook his head slightly. "I've said it before. The flood destroys all rules, whether it's against you or against us … Every grain of loose sand has to rack its brains to devour the other grains of loose sand in order to fight for a chance at survival. You'll understand this soon enough."
"Destroy the rules" — Silvan's analysis and speculation about the flood matched the NPC's words almost perfectly. Lin Sanjiu already had the feeling of "loose sand", so when she heard the word from the NPC's mouth, she felt a little unreal.
"Why are you telling us these things?" She frowned and asked, "What do you want?"
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