The agreement between Lin Sanjiu and the duoluozhong was reached very quickly.
In order to let Lin Sanjiu leave with peace of mind, the duoluozhong agreed to return to the glass tube and would only come out after five minutes. Naturally, Lin Sanjiu did not dare to bet everything on the duoluozhong. Not long after it disappeared into the red cloth, Lin Sanjiu came up with a safer plan. She could leave the exhibition hall without the duoluozhong noticing her.
Like many other buildings, the water and electricity pipes in the Purple Nation Building had not survived the apocalypse and the passage of time. They were no longer usable. The light now came from the newly installed iron light racks. The black light racks on the ceiling covered the entire floor horizontally and vertically.
Not only was it too slow, but the duoluozhong would also be able to figure out where she was going. Lin Sanjiu tried her best not to make any noise. She realized that she could use her Higher Consciousness to hang herself on the light racks and escape from the ceiling. Once she was on the ceiling, her vision would not be blocked by the screens, and she would be able to find the exit very quickly. The duoluozhong really could not be trusted. The direction of the exit that it told her was indeed a lie.
While Lin Sanjiu was experimenting with how to use her Higher Consciousness to pull herself up to the ceiling, the tour guide — or rather, the duoluozhong with the tour guide inside — was lying behind the glass tube, staring at Lin Sanjiu with the black hole on its face. The duoluozhong stopped bumping into the glass tube and seemed to be watching her closely.
"I'm sorry," Lin Sanjiu did not dare to look at it. She lowered her head and mumbled, "This situation is beyond my ability. If there were no duoluozhong, I could still wait for you to come out. Or, if you have returned to your own body, we could escape together. What do you want me to do now? I can't even move. Am I supposed to use my life to block it and create an opportunity for you? I'm sure you understand my difficulties, right? "
Lin Sanjiu said that to comfort herself. She did not even lift her head, so the tour guide could not read her lips.
The duoluozhong in the glass tube suddenly took two steps back and circled around the display stand. Its two long arms kept hitting the glass tube, making muffled noises. It looked like a trapped beast that knew it was about to be slaughtered and was desperately looking for an exit.
"I don't know what that duoluozhong is going to do to you," Lin Sanjiu said before she pulled herself into the air, "Maybe it will let you go since we are both duoluozhong …"
The duoluozhong giggled from the glass booth behind her. It must have heard her.
Even if the duoluozhong would let the tour guide go, it would never let her human body go. The soft and fragile human body was now lying motionlessly under the round table, waiting for its unknown fate. If the tour guide could never return to her own body and became a duoluozhong, would she still be the tour guide?
These questions were no longer important.
Of course, the duoluozhong would not keep its word. Before five minutes were up, a flat head slowly poked out from the red cloth. A black dot appeared on the white half-arc eye. The black dot circled around and stayed in the direction of the tour guide for a few seconds before disappearing.
A pair of limbs that seemed to belong to a man crawled out from behind the red cloth. The duoluozhong, which looked like a shriveled rat but was as big as a truck, slowly approached the glass tube of the tour guide. In the silent hall, the only sound that could be heard was the pitch-black duoluozhong banging its head against the glass. Even though it did not look like a human, anyone could tell that the duoluozhong was drowning in fear and anger.
"What?" The flat rat rubbed its voice and pretended to speak, "You don't want me to touch your body? Are you afraid that I will hurt your body? "
The black duoluozhong that was pretending to be the tour guide could not utter a single word. Just like "Yao Han," it had become a silent pantomime of despair.
"Actually, the trick to returning to a human body is very simple," the flat rat sounded like it was smiling, "But … I just don't want to tell you. Oh, you can't hear me either. What a pity. "
As it spoke, it lifted one of its hands that belonged to a man and placed it on the base of the round platform. It was not lying when it said that it knew the structure of the exhibition platform very well. It did not even look at it. With a light press, the door of the round platform opened.
Another black dot appeared on the white eye. The black dot slid to the edge of the white arc and stopped at the gap of the door.
"Oh, what a beautiful lady," it said sweetly, "You are so young when I look at you closely. Your body must be very elastic and tight, and your blood must be very hot … "
However, before it really entered the room, the flat rat suddenly laughed again. "You can't be careless. For example, that woman just now, did she really go far? Why didn't she make a sound when she escaped? What if she was going to attack me when I touched you? I have to figure it out first before I can reunite with you. "
As it spoke, it lowered its flat head and moved closer to the ground. Following the sound of inhalation, two black holes that looked like nostrils appeared beside the white arc eye. Obviously, the scent that Lin Sanjiu left behind had exposed her. The flat rat raised its head and looked at the ceiling.
Apart from the black light rack, there was nothing else on the ceiling.
"So, she went up to the ceiling. It seems like she really ran away … There is no hiding place on the ceiling, let alone an ambush. It is very suitable for her to escape, "the flat rat said with a smile," How are you feeling? Your companions have left you, haven't they? Do you regret that you should have left her behind when you could? "
Naturally, the tour guide couldn't answer a single word. The black duoluozhong suddenly raised its head, and the black hole suddenly expanded a few times as if it was roaring silently.
The flat rat was indeed very cautious. It watched the tour guide's despair without moving an inch. After a few seconds, it carefully listened to the surroundings before it slowly raised a hand. That hand stretched out from the wrinkled skin and sparse fur under its body. It seemed to have no end as it kept extending into the round platform.
"Here, don't be afraid. I will pull your body out first. Even if your nerves break, you won't return to your own body. You can stand on the platform and watch what I'm going to do to your body … "
"What are you going to do?"
The flat rat was so happy that he was trembling. "Oh, that's a lot. I —" It suddenly stopped.
Once it realized that something was wrong, it quickly twisted its body and shouted with a sharp voice, "Who's there?"
"I've only been gone for five minutes. Have you already forgotten my voice?"
As the flat rat spoke, Lin Sanjiu stuck her head out from behind the platform. She seemed to have used her Higher Consciousness to open the red cloth. Her entire body was hidden behind the red cloth, leaving only her head outside.
"Don't worry," Lin Sanjiu said gently as Flat Rat suddenly screamed, "I still want to know what you are going to do to the tour guide's body. I can use it as a reference. I'm quite a coward. I don't dare to fight a big duoluozhong like you, but … there is a motionless young man under the round platform. That should be your human body, right? "
"When I went to the supermarket to buy groceries in the afternoon, I accidentally hit the heel of an old lady with my shopping cart. I was so ashamed of myself. Her daughter is a nice person, so she generously forgave me. When I went home at night, I accidentally hit my own heel. It happened to be my right foot, and the position was exactly the same. How should I put it? Isn't karma a little too fast? If only it could be so accurate in other aspects … "
(End of Chapter)
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