After they came out from the apartment, the notification that told them to look for the "new game conference" did not appear. Perhaps the game world was considerate of their tragic death and allowed them to take a breather. "Since we don't know when the next game will start, it shouldn't matter where we go, right?"
Lin Sanjiu thought as she looked across the parking lot and landed her eyes on the building.
Silvan was right. It was obviously a gaming ground.
The building was only two stories high, but it covered a large area. There were only a few cars in the parking lot. All of them were covered with a thick layer of dust. Their tires were all leaking air, and they were piled up in a crooked and shriveled shape.
At this time, the sun was about to set behind the mountains on the horizon. The sky was dyed light purple, burning with a thin line of orange-red, reflecting the blackened bloodstains on the walls of the shopping mall and the side of the door. The bloodstains flickered with a bit of red.
"I suggest we go in," Silvan said as he put his hands in his pockets.
"Why?" Lin Sanjiu didn't understand. Even if they wanted to stay, they didn't have to find a place like this.
"The volunteer just told you to go back to that apartment and look for Ji Shanqing," Silvan reminded her softly, "but he didn't promise you that the next game will be in this area. If we are arranged to go somewhere far away, not only will you be worried, but there is also a more important problem. We don't know where this place is, so we might not be able to find it. "
Lin Sanjiu was stunned. She was so focused on her grand prize's current condition that she forgot that they were randomly placed on the surface by the game world. Even if there was a place nearby, it didn't mean anything to her.
"So, your suggestion is …"
"Since this place is obviously a gaming ground, why don't we go in and wait?" Silvan shrugged. He seemed to think that his suggestion was a little ridiculous. He suddenly broke into a smile, revealing a row of snow-white teeth. "There will be other posthumans who will be brought here to start the game. By then, if we force our way in, it might be a way to stay nearby … Even if it doesn't work, it's still interesting to give it a try."
At the end of his speech, his eyes shone with a bright light.
It was indeed interesting. This game world could manipulate posthumans as it pleased. It could arrange a game for them, and they would have to rush to it without knowing if they were rushing to their death. Now, they were going to play by their own rules and see what the world could do. Whenever Lin Sanjiu thought about Ji Shanqing, who had been taken away, she wished she could shatter the rules, system, and surface of this apocalyptic world, even if it was just to create a path of survival for the few of them.
"Let's go." She made up her mind and strode toward the mall. "I hope it doesn't make us wait too long."
As night fell, the interior of the building was brightly lit; as they approached, the automatic doors slid open smoothly, and everything still seemed to be working smoothly. The two of them stood under the light and listened for a while, then shook their heads at each other.
There seemed to be no one in the mall.
Surprisingly, the interior of the shopping mall was tidy and orderly. Most of the items on the shelves were still in good condition. Lin Sanjiu picked up a packet of "Buttered Rum Coffee" from the promotional shelf. She looked at the production date and realized that she didn't know what year and month she was in, so she put it back.
"It seems like this world is going to die one step at a time," Silvan said as he looked at a notice board at the entrance. Lin Sanjiu leaned over to take a look. The blurred handwriting on the board formed an intermittent sentence: "Recently, South … Rosemary Road … Large … Danger … No Delivery Service."
"Large scale games?
Those games were like an endless meat grinder, grinding all the people here until nothing was left.
Lin Sanjiu looked around and realized that they were standing in the middle of the cashier and the service counter. There were many different product sections in front of them: women's clothing section, accessories, footwear section, household items section … She walked around the area and felt as if she had returned to the days when she needed to shop in the mall. Lin Sanjiu didn't know if it was because of the well-matched lighting or the display design, but she somehow missed the feeling of shopping in the past. Perhaps she wasn't alone. When she looked up, she saw Silvan picking up a magazine and reading it.
"Can you tell what kind of gaming arena this is?" Lin Sanjiu asked as she pulled out a sweater from the shelf and looked at it. It was a little cold at night.
"The facility is complete, and there are no bloodstains. It's hard to tell." He put the magazine back and picked up a box of chocolates. Suddenly, Lin Sanjiu was shocked. Her heart skipped a beat as she thought that something bad had happened. Just when she was about to rush over, Silvan looked up at her with a sincere expression of surprise. "How can candy be made sugar-free?"
"Don't you know?" Lin Sanjiu didn't know whether to laugh or cry. "Other sweeteners have replaced sugar … Wait a minute, were you born in the apocalypse?"
Silvan thought about this question for a while. "Maybe, I'm not sure."
As the two of them talked, they walked deeper into the mall. Some of the goods on the shelves had been taken away. It was as if the mall had been open for a whole day and had not had time to replenish its stock. There was no trace of the emptiness left behind by posthumans.
No matter how she looked at it, this mall was too normal.
This normalcy lasted until late at night. This was the first time Lin Sanjiu had nothing to do since she entered this apocalyptic world. However, she couldn't rest at ease. If she didn't find something to do, she would feel uncomfortable all over. She had been busy preparing dinner, but she had wasted too much time in the seasoning area and burnt the meat pie. Although Silvan ate it with a straight face, he would never accept a second piece of the pie.
"I have an item. It's Caster." As the two of them sat on the sofa and chatted after dinner, he rested his long legs on a small side table. He seemed a little tired as he said softly, "If you are really worried about Ji Shanqing, you can use the Witch to do a divination …"
"I've done enough divination," Lin Sanjiu laughed. "Let's see what will happen tomorrow —"
Before she could finish her sentence, both of them suddenly fell silent. They turned their heads slightly in the same direction. From the direction of the entrance of the mall, they heard a soft rustling sound. It was so soft that it almost went past their ears.
Someone had walked in through the automatic door.
The two of them held their breath for a few seconds, but they didn't hear any footsteps.
A gentle woman's voice suddenly broke the silence.
"I heard that Silvan is here. Is that true?" The voice floated into the air and asked softly, "Is it convenient for you to come out? It's time to pay for your crimes against the Munitions Factory. "
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