When the tour guide asked Lin Sanjiu to repeat that line of words, her mouth slowly fell open.
Her fear of the duoluozhong subsided visibly, and a new fear rose in her heart. "Are you kidding me?" Panicking, she threw the cloth cover away and asked with a trembling voice, "So, you mean, what you just destroyed was an exhibit?"
"I saved your life," Lin Sanjiu thought to herself.
"Do you know this place?" she asked, "What's so interesting about a duoluozhong? Why would anyone want to visit a duoluozhong?"
Even if someone were to pay her to look at it, she would not want to look at it, let alone experience it. Not far away, under the glass cover, there was a huge thing full of holes. It had become a forbidden zone for her. She did not even want to look at it.
"I don't know what the 'Experience Hall' is for," the tour guide said as she pulled Lin Sanjiu along.
As the tour guide spoke, she pulled Lin Sanjiu along and gestured for her to follow her to the center of the lobby. After the two "wooden walls" were gone, the white wall on the opposite side became a screen. They could walk around it from both sides. "But I know there are all kinds of exhibitions in the Twelve Worlds Centrum. It's not strange to see a duoluozhong exhibit here."
The tour guide sighed anxiously, "To be able to exhibit such a dangerous duoluozhong in Walkabout Among the Clouds, I wonder how much effort it took to collect these duoluozhong from other worlds. These exhibits must be very expensive! What if someone finds out that we killed an exhibit? How are we going to pay for it? We have to leave before anyone finds out. "
Lin Sanjiu bent her knees and followed behind the tour guide. She hopped forward and said, "Since it's such an expensive exhibit, why didn't you keep a close eye on it? Why did you let it escape?"
Lin Sanjiu's words reminded the tour guide that there were still a few duoluozhong that had escaped from the glass cover. She shuddered. Without any hesitation, she quickly went around the screen and dove into the dark red cloth cover. She was determined to leave the crime scene as soon as possible.
The gigantic duoluozhong behind them was standing on a round platform inside the glass enclosure. As if it "saw" them trying to escape, it stuck close to the glass enclosure and opened all the fleshy tubes on its body like a suction cup. The subcutaneous contact between the black holes trembled and bulged, revealing countless needle-like pockmarks. Even though Lin Sanjiu had only glanced at the duoluozhong from the corner of her eye, she could feel the bread she had eaten for lunch rushing up her throat.
"Who knows? A few of them came out at the same time. There must be something wrong with their workflow …" the tour guide said in a low voice.
The two of them tried their best to move forward carefully between the exhibits covered in crimson cloth that almost touched the ceiling. From time to time, they would stop to listen for any movements. The entire floor of the building had been opened up. Screens, which were commonly seen in art exhibitions, were erected, forming several interconnected corridors. Without a doubt, this made it even more difficult to detect the presence of the duoluozhong.
Lin Sanjiu and Lin Sanjiu could be sure of one thing. After the duoluozhong exploded, the other duoluozhong seemed to be frightened and retreated far away from them. They had no idea where they went.
They had been walking for a few minutes, but there were no more illusionary traps around them. There was no sound that didn't belong to them either. It seemed like the duoluozhong didn't dare to attack them anymore.
"You are too optimistic," the tour guide grumbled. She had torn a long piece of cloth and held it in her hand. When she walked, she would sweep it in front of her to prevent herself from stepping into an illusionary trap. Even though it was a little clumsy, it was very useful.
"Duoluozhong have always bullied the weak and feared the strong," Lin Sanjiu said. She couldn't help thinking that her new self seemed to have a lot in common with the duoluozhong. "Why would they stay when they know that we are not to be trifled with? The windows here are open, and there are stairs connecting the upper and lower floors. If we turn around and leave, there are plenty of fresh people waiting for us outside. "
Lin Sanjiu was reminding the tour guide as well as the duoluozhong that might still be lingering in the exhibition hall. As long as they left the exhibition hall and didn't come looking for her, Lin Sanjiu didn't care what they were doing outside.
"You are right," the tour guide still didn't relax. Her voice was filled with worry, "I have to think about which organization I should report to … Why are the organizers of the exhibition so careless?"
"Wait a minute," Lin Sanjiu suddenly called out to her. "I saw a display stand that the duoluozhong must have escaped from."
The glass display stand that Lin Sanjiu noticed was located at the end of the corridor on the right. It was still covered by a crimson cover. If Lin Sanjiu took a closer look, she would notice that the cover was crooked and there was a slit in the middle. It was as if someone had crawled out from the slit.
A narrow glass cover peeked out from the slit. It looked dark under the shadows. The glass tube was soundproof. If Lin Sanjiu closed her eyes and didn't look at the exhibit, she would think that there were only the two of them in the silent hall.
"Let's go and have a look," Lin Sanjiu said as she turned around and leaped over to the glass cover.
Not long ago, she was the one who wouldn't let go of the tour guide. Now, the tour guide was the one who wouldn't let go of her. Even though the tour guide was puzzled and reluctant, she still followed Lin Sanjiu to the front of the display stand.
To prevent herself from seeing something that would give her nightmares, the tour guide turned her head away and closed her eyes. She pulled the cover with all her might and pulled it to the ground. Under the dim light from the spotlights, the cylindrical glass tube that was exactly the same as the one before was no longer dim.
No one expected that there would be a person on the display stand inside the glass tube.
The moment the cover fell to the ground, the woman with a straight back took a small step back. She looked at Lin Sanjiu without blinking, as if she was guarding against the person outside.
"Huh?"
Despite her fear, the tour guide couldn't help but exclaim in surprise. She peeked through the slit in her eyelids. "Isn't this the exhibition hall for duoluozhong?"
Inside the glass tube was a tall, slender, and clear-eyed woman. If it weren't for the fact that she seemed to have gone through a lot of torture, she would have been a radiant beauty. However, her face was yellowish, her lips were chapped, and her expression was one of panic and wariness. She looked more miserable than beautiful.
"Who are you?" Her voice couldn't pass through the glass tube, but Lin Sanjiu could roughly understand what she was trying to say based on the movement of her lips. The woman looked at the metal chain on Lin Sanjiu's body. Obviously, she misunderstood. She immediately looked at the tour guide and asked, "Do you want to buy me too?"
"Also?"
"Are you being kept here for sale?" the tour guide asked hesitantly. "But, how is that possible? Buying and selling human beings is a taboo in Walkabout Above the Clouds."
Looking at the tour guide's lips, the woman frowned. She didn't seem to understand the situation.
"Aren't you here to buy people? I'm in Walkabout Above the Clouds? "she mouthed," No wonder they hid us among the duoluozhong and sold us … "
"Do you know that everyone here is a duoluozhong?" Lin Sanjiu asked as she knocked on the glass with her higher consciousness.
Apparently, the woman didn't know Lin Sanjiu's identity, but she still nodded. "I know. Ever since I was captured, I have been sold and transported here and there together with the real duoluozhong under the name of a duoluozhong … There were a few times when I was very close to them. "
In order to let the two of them understand, she spoke very slowly. When she said that, she shuddered and a disgusted expression appeared on her face.
"What do you mean by 'sold under the name of a duoluozhong'?" The tour guide looked as if she wanted to leave, but she couldn't resist the urge to find out more. Even though she looked hesitant, she still couldn't help asking. However, as soon as the question came out of her mouth, a look of regret appeared on her face. This was obviously against her way of survival.
While she was speaking, Lin Sanjiu had already hopped to the back of the glass tube. There was a small sign hanging on the other side of the glass tube. It seemed that the sign was on every glass tube. Lin Sanjiu guessed that the duoluozhong was too big, so it blocked the sign.
She lowered her head and looked at the sign for a few seconds.
The answer to the tour guide's question was clearly written on the sign.
"Miss Bee," Lin Sanjiu called out to her softly and said slowly, "According to the description on the sign, there is a duoluozhong in this booth that can disguise itself as a human and is very good at lying and acting."
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