The tremors stopped.
As the echoes faded into the distance, the room was filled with silence like snowflakes.
The heavy or rapid breathing of a few people scratched Lin Sanjiu's eardrums. The place where the instance dungeon had invaded had torn open two parts of the hospital, revealing two scenes that did not belong to this world. The place where Hei Zeji had been standing was now empty. The flowing mud instance dungeon had stopped at the edge of the hospital, unable to move forward.
"Is he really gone?" Bohemia still couldn't believe it.
Every time he met a friend in the uncertain apocalypse, it was like tasting a fleeting bit of honey from a tumbling and boundless sea of bitterness. Every time they parted, Lin Sanjiu thought it might be the last time they parted. She had already — No, rather than saying she had gotten used to it, it would be more accurate to say that she now knew how to separate her emotions.
Regardless of whether the apocalypse was real or not, life was made up of bits and pieces of honey from a sea of bitterness.
"He should leave this place as soon as possible," Bohemia mumbled to herself as she got up, "He is powerful, but he is too stupid. If I wanted to, I could have cheated him out of his pants."
She patted the dust off her dress and looked up. "Huh?" She couldn't help but ask, "Why did they retreat?"
Lin Sanjiu looked around and was stunned. The pocket dimensions, which had been trying to invade the hospital, were now shrinking as if someone was scrubbing them. In just a few seconds, each pocket dimension had shrunk to the size of a fist. Recalling the brief moment before Hei Zeji disappeared, when everyone thought that the flood did not take effect, she could not help but take a deep breath. "Could it be... that the second flood temporarily restored some of the order here?"
Normal teleportation was a process that sometimes lasted for a few minutes. Only the Nocturnal Wanderer and the others who were swallowed by the flood would suddenly disappear. This time, a small part of the order was restored after the teleportation mechanism took effect.
"You're right," Bohemia seemed to look at Lin Sanjiu in a different light for once. "Since the flood has no order and rules, it is possible that it restored some order."
"I don't understand what you guys are talking about," Wei Xing suddenly interrupted. She was like a shadow, trying not to attract attention to herself. Only now did she remind them, "But no matter what, we have to leave now, right?"
The former guard hurriedly nodded.
She was right. When the hospital was in chaos and Lin Sanjiu destroyed a part of the building, the guards were probably in disarray. Now that the flood had restored some order, if they didn't leave before the guards reorganized themselves, they might not have another chance.
However, before she left, Lin Sanjiu had something to do.
"Let me ask you something." She observed Wei Xing's face, which was gradually losing its luster. "… Now that the NPC is gone, and I want to get more Death Points, what should I do?"
Here, hundreds and thousands of white trees lined up one by one, and the dense layers of countless branches formed a jungle. She hadn't forgotten that every branch was heavily laden with the points they needed the most.
"Me? How would I know — "Wei Xing seemed to think that Lin Sanjiu didn't have a reason for her question. Just when he smiled, he froze. She frowned and thought for a moment. Then, she took a deep breath, "Hey, I have heard of it before. That's right, it seems like that fat NPC mentioned it at some point … Strange, when did it happen again … "
"That's not important," Bohemia was getting impatient now. She also had some of Hei Zeji's elegance, "Tell me what the solution is!"
Wei Xing glanced at her, but his words were directed at Lin Sanjiu, "But this solution requires a very important item. I'm afraid you don't have it. If you can't do it, you have to go out and get that item before you come back … But, I won't accompany you then. "
No one wanted to come back after they left this place. Lin Sanjiu suppressed the anxiety rising in her belly and asked, "What item?"
"A harvester that belongs to a dead person. You can use it to get points from the branches." Wei Xing sighed, "Who would carry a dead person's harvester with them? You can exchange it for some information if you hand it to the toll collector. You —"
Before he could finish his sentence, Lin Sanjiu had already pulled Bohemia up. She called Magus and rushed back to the white thicket. Harvesting a dead person's points from a tree was exactly the reverse of harvesting a living person's organs. First, they would cut through the branches and then press the points into the person's body. After all, Lin Sanjiu wasn't an NPC. She didn't know how many points she could get with each harvest. She was like a mouse that had fallen into a rice vat. Since no one was there to stop her, she just kept taking as many points as she could. The hard white branches rattled and swayed as she hit them. It sounded like a hail storm.
As for the most important harvester, didn't Fifty Sails die a long time ago?
When Lin Sanjiu found out that using the harvester of Fifty Sails would give her points back to Fifty Sails, it was like a blow to her head. However, who would have thought that after being cheated by Fifty Sails, she would have a bright future here?
"You really have it?" Wei Xing couldn't believe his eyes. "Unfortunately, I don't need any points for now …"
"No one told me to give it to you. Even if they wanted to give it to you, they would give it to this Gamer first." Bohemia stretched out her arms and hit the steel harvester again and again. Finally, she could not stand it anymore. "Alright, alright, we should have enough points!"
Magus nodded her head vigorously under the cloth.
Lin Sanjiu didn't bother to get points for herself. After all, she was a wanted criminal. Unlike Bohemia, she still had a little bit of luck on her side. She shoved the harvester back into the card bank and patted the former guard who was still in a daze. "Let's go!"
When they pushed the door open, they realized that the guards at the door were like hyenas that had smelled blood. Not only did they refuse to leave, there were even more guards than the last time Lin Sanjiu broke into the room. However, this time, the process of them rushing out was much smoother. The cocoon that they had taken off previously was now stuck at a spot a little further down the corridor. It had not been moved yet.
For the few of them, it could serve as a safe island. While Lin Sanjiu fought off the guards and covered for them, the few of them rushed forward. Even Wei Xing followed behind them and scrambled into the cocoon. After that, Lin Sanjiu used the cocoon as her cover. While she dodged and attacked Puppeteer, she pushed the cocoon to another corridor. As soon as they crawled out of the cocoon, Lin Sanjiu turned it into a card. She grabbed Puppeteer's body by his waist and called out to Puppeteer. Then, she led the other three into the corridor of the hospital.
The best part was that when they left the guards far behind, Lin Sanjiu heard someone remind them, "Don't chase after them! There should be a man and an NPC in there! "
After that, they went around one corner after another and rushed into the toll booth. They pushed aside the NPC on duty and leaped over the counter … Everything happened so fast that it was unbelievable. Bohemia took the lead and jumped out first. Lin Sanjiu then tossed Magus to her. After the former guard fell off the counter with a thud, Lin Sanjiu used the counter as support and jumped out.
When her feet landed on the ground, she turned around to look.
Behind the counter, Wei Xing stood at the toll booth that looked like a small store with a pale face. His hands were pressed against the edge of the counter, and his knuckles were white. The electric fan whirled around her head, feebly disturbing the stuffy, hot air. The light illuminated the top of her head. Her platinum hair seemed to be getting darker and darker, as if it was about to enter the unremarkable, mundane realm of dark brown.
"I …" Wei Xing opened his mouth, but he didn't manage to finish his sentence. After a few seconds, she wiped the corner of her eyes and asked, "Why can't I get out?"
Lin Sanjiu could clearly see that the NPC behind Wei Xing was crawling up while cursing and groping for the phone on the wall. Lin Sanjiu, however, didn't move.
"The reason you could save me in time," she said in a low voice, "is that you saw something that posthumans can't see … That is, the flood."
She knew that Bohemia didn't pull Wei Xing into the garden. Then, the reason why Wei Xing could see the flood was the same as how the fat NPC knew about the flood.
Wei Xing looked at Lin Sanjiu blankly. Her eyes were glistening with tears. Vaguely, she had regained some of the elegance she had when they first met.
"Haven't you looked at yourself in the mirror? Do you still remember what Bohemia said about your average looks? "Lin Sanjiu took out the small mirror from her card and tossed it to Wei Xing. "Take a look."
Wei Xing held the mirror tightly, but she didn't dare to look at it. It was as if the mirror hid the thing that she feared the most. Tears kept falling from her eyes.
Lin Sanjiu sighed softly and said in a low voice, "I hope you won't be disturbed by the flood when you are an NPC."
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