'Please, it must work. '
Lin Sanjiu rushed into the security room. After Caster followed her, she kicked the door shut. When her gaze swept around the room, her heart almost froze. The fluorescent-lit room was small and narrow, with a shelf against the wall, a coat-rack, a chair, and nothing else.
"Damn it," Lin Sanjiu cursed. She recalled the label she saw before she entered the room. It did say "security room", but why wasn't the most important thing in there?
"You are just like a tree," Caster suddenly muttered behind Lin Sanjiu. Lin Sanjiu was startled by Caster's words. Lin Sanjiu did not have the time to listen to what it was going to say next. She hurriedly threw a wave of Higher Consciousness toward the door. The invisible and colorless energy quickly spread and expanded at the door, wrapping around the entire door like mucus. Just then, a dull thud came from outside, but it was quickly cut off by the Higher Consciousness barrier.
When the room quieted down, Caster's words flowed into Lin Sanjiu's ears again.
"Vines, weeds, fruits, flowers, mushrooms, squirrels, birds … In your life, they are always growing, crawling, and resting on your body or under your feet. You see them coming, blooming, chirping, growing, and watching them wither, leave, and be blown away by the wind."
Lin Sanjiu gave Caster a stern look. "Are you writing a poem or a divination?"
"Divination," Witch answered after finding the time.
"I didn't ask you to do that."
"I know."
"Then why are you still talking? I'm busy. "
"That's what I do," Caster could at least speak human language when it didn't involve divination. "When a divination appears in my mind, I will say it, regardless of time or place."
Lin Sanjiu found that she didn't have any other way to deal with Caster other than to let Caster speak. "Go ahead," Lin Sanjiu admitted defeat. She scanned the room again. Suddenly, her eyes twitched. Behind the coat rack, there wasn't a white wall, but a door that was painted the same color. Her heart skipped a beat, and she hurriedly went to find the doorknob. With a tug, she pulled open the locked door.
Witch was still talking behind him amidst the crisp clanking sounds of the lock core parts falling to the ground.
"Everything will come to an end …"
I don't need you to say anything. After Lin Sanjiu walked into the door, she fumbled for the light switch and pressed it. Before the light came on, she realized that she had made the right bet.
"Even if you have a long journey, there is no exception …"
The lights that suddenly lit up reflected light spots on the dozen or so screens in front of them, making the little red dots at the bottom of the monitors dim. Lin Sanjiu walked over and pressed on one of the red dots on the screen. The screen immediately lit up. In the black and white video, there were rows of shelves and aisles. There was a timer on the top right, which was the current time.
"Are you saying that I will live a long life?" Lin Sanjiu asked as she turned on all the screens.
"Hmm, I don't see any signs of your lifelines being interrupted," Caster replied. "But fate is unpredictable —"
"Thank you for your auspicious words," Lin Sanjiu interrupted Witch. She turned on the main screen, found the mouse, and tried to familiarize herself with the operation. The feeling was surreal. She had forgotten when was the last time she touched a normal computer with a Microsoft operating system installed. She first looked at the time. It was 3: 15 in the afternoon.
"When you reach the end of your journey, it will also be the beginning of a new life for you."
Lin Sanjiu's hand paused on the mouse. She turned around and looked at Caster.
"What new life?" She thought for a moment. Without waiting for Caster to answer, she suddenly asked, "Why would you do a divination for me?"
Caster looked at her and did not say anything.
"Don't tell me that you would do that for everyone you see?" Lin Sanjiu turned her head and looked at the monitors. She slowly pulled back the time bar of a certain area by half an hour. One of the monitors was obscured by the thick fog and dust. Obviously, it was the place where Silvan and Lin Sanjiu were fighting. However, Lin Sanjiu had covered the door with her Higher Consciousness, so no sound could enter.
From the reflection on the screen, Caster shook her head.
"You are Silvan's item," Lin Sanjiu muttered as she watched the changing images on the screen. She watched the posthumans who had entered the game walk back to the cashier counter and watched the volunteers clap their hands as they appeared. "He wanted you to pass a message for him … He didn't ask you to do a divination for me, did he?"
Even without Caster shaking her head, Lin Sanjiu already knew the answer to her question. Why would Silvan do something so senseless at a time like this?
"In other words, the target of your divination is only Silvan," Lin Sanjiu said slowly, "If I'm wrong, just tell me."
Caster grunted as if she was suffering from constipation. It didn't sound like she had agreed to Lin Sanjiu's request, but more like she couldn't say a word.
"But you said that 'a divination about me suddenly appeared in my mind'. Is it because we have been together for a long time, or is it because … your divination is related to Silvan? " Lin Sanjiu's hands moved mechanically. One by one, she pulled back the surveillance footage of the entire mall to half an hour ago, which was when the game had just started. Lin Sanjiu's mind was completely focused on Caster's upcoming answer.
"It's … it's because it's related to my master," Caster answered with great difficulty. She was like a chicken that had its neck grabbed.
Lin Sanjiu pressed the pause button and turned around to look at Caster.
"At the end of my life, a new life will start because of me," Lin Sanjiu repeated in a low voice. She didn't finish her sentence. "I … I don't understand."
She was already acquainted with Silvan now. Why did she wait until the end of her life before she started a new life for Silvan? How did she start it? What did she mean by start it? She could understand giving birth, but what was the nature of starting it? Besides, did the new life really refer to Silvan?
"The end of a line is connected to the beginning of another line, and it is impossible to find a suitable position in the torrent of time." Caster's words seemed to be getting harder to understand. "But they intertwine with each other and appear on each other's line one after another …"
Did this mean that she and Silvan only saw each other once in a while? Come to think of it, who wasn't she?
Lin Sanjiu was a little anxious. Since she couldn't figure it out, she decided not to think about it anymore. Seeing that Caster had gone silent, Lin Sanjiu turned back to the surveillance footage.
As she searched through the screens one by one, Silvan's words echoed in the depths of her memory. She didn't understand it before. She couldn't find any similarities between her and Silvan, so how did they become "twins"? However, after listening to Caster's words, she felt her heart palpitate. It was as if the thick fog had been blown away by the wind, revealing the deep strait ahead.
She soon found her target.
Van appeared alone on one of the screens. Judging from the time, she should have asked Lin Sanjiu and Kieran to check the racks on the walkway while she went to intercept the D2 "frontline".
"Mrs. Manas," Lin Sanjiu pushed away her thoughts about Silvan and said softly, "Please record all the routes that Van took."
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