Chapter 1814
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Lin Sanjiu lowered her head. The place where her feet used to be was now filled with clouds of gray smoke. Many tiny black threads were still floating in the air, like broken leaves swaying in the waves of a river.
When she stopped moving, she realized that her entire body was immersed in the thick smoke. Even when she raised her arms, she couldn't see her hands. She could only see ripples of gray smoke.
She didn't dare to move. It was impossible for anyone to keep an accurate sense of direction in such an environment. Along the way, she relied on Mrs. Manas's [Higher Consciousness Scan] from time to time to pinpoint the correct direction.
Lin Sanjiu's mind was silent for a few seconds. She didn't say anything, and the voice of the figure on the red brick wall didn't ring out either. The land under the smoke was far from silent. Insects were crawling in the bushes, and there were sounds of things being blown by the wind. There was the sound of water dripping, and there was even the sound of someone shuffling in the distance.
The deepest part of the smoke was supposed to be a dead zone, but it wasn't completely devoid of life.
"Mrs. Manas" had been urging her to move since the beginning. She stood there for a few seconds, but "Mrs. Manas" didn't say a word. She was like a person who knew that she had accidentally given herself away and was holding her breath, waiting for the next step.
"What should I do?
What's going on? How could that thing replace Mrs. Manas? "
For the first time, Lin Sanjiu felt her own arrogance. She had only experienced the apocalyptic world for about ten years, but she already thought that she could categorize the dangers in the apocalyptic world and deal with them with ease. Now that she had ventured into the depths of the apocalyptic world, she realized that the posthumans who lived on the surface of the world might have only seen a corner of it compared to the endless phenomena in the apocalyptic world.
"Mrs. Manas …?" she called out.
Before she could confirm that Mrs. Manas was fine, she didn't dare to move forward. She felt that her left foot was still firmly planted on the ground, and her toes were pointing in the right direction. As long as she didn't move, she wouldn't miss the right direction.
There was still no response in his mind.
Lin Sanjiu raised her hand. This time, she didn't throw out the whirlpool but the [Tornado Whip] that she had been holding back. The small tornado roared and tore through the smokescreen. It rolled toward the red brick wall. However, the moment before it hit the wall, the tornado suddenly loosened its momentum and dissipated as if it had leaped into the air.
She heaved a sigh of relief. She had been worried that the tornado would be too powerful and she would not be able to release the wind in time. She would hit something that she was not supposed to hit and cause trouble.
Of course, using a small tornado to blow away the smoke was much more effective than using a whirlpool. At that moment, the red brick wall, which was more than ten meters in front and behind her, was clearly visible to her. For a few seconds, there was not even a wisp of smoke remaining on the wall.
Why was this red brick wall so long? What was it used for?
Each of the humanoid figures in the cracks on the wall looked the same as before. They raised their heads and waved their hands. Their knees were high, and their postures were all different. However, there was one thing that had changed.
When Lin Sanjiu threw the iron rod and smashed the head of the humanoid that was facing her, half of its body had a long and deep scar. It didn't even look like a human anymore. Right now, the humanoid figure was three meters away from her right.
"Did the wall move, or did I move?"
"Why are you looking at them again?" The thin voice of the humanoid figure on the red brick wall rang in Lin Sanjiu's mind once again. It probed, "Didn't I tell you? You might be affected if you look at the red brick figures too much …"
It was just like the conversation that Mrs. Manas had just said. Mrs. Manas's tone was supposed to be heavy and worried, but it sounded like she was trying to trick Lin Sanjiu into believing her. She didn't even put in the effort to pretend.
"This thing keeps telling me not to look at the red brick wall. It keeps urging me to leave … Why?"
Lin Sanjiu's forehead was drenched in sweat. She looked around and realized that the iron rod she had thrown was still at the feet of the cracked humanoid figure. In other words, it was three meters away from her.
Lin Sanjiu was a little dumbfounded.
The red brick wall couldn't be trusted, but she had collected the iron rods herself. There were more than ten of them in a big bundle. It couldn't be any more ordinary. The humanoid figure was formed by the cracks. How could it leave the red brick wall and move the iron rod away?
In other words, she was the one who moved the iron rod?
"No, I didn't move at all …" Lin Sanjiu mumbled to herself. She felt anxious and confused, but the steam dissipated in the smoke that was gathering again.
She couldn't tell who Mrs. Manas was, and she couldn't tell who moved either. Everything was jumbled together like a haze that had crawled into her brain. She couldn't make any sense of it. Lin Sanjiu was at a loss. She wished she could dig her left foot into the ground to stabilize herself. She scanned the humanoid figure a few times. It was as if she wanted to use her gaze to peel off the layer of disguise and see the truth.
"Stop looking at the red brick wall. Keep walking …" the voice in her head said softly.
"Keep walking?"
Lin Sanjiu broke out in a cold sweat. She gritted her teeth and didn't reply. She forced herself to find a clue in her messy thoughts.
She remembered that when she threw the iron rod, the mouth of the humanoid figure was closed. When she looked forward, she saw that the mouth of the next humanoid figure was open.
According to Lin Sanjiu's conjecture, when she walked next to the humanoid figure with its mouth open, she could hear the humanoid talking. The humanoid figures had been following Lin Sanjiu all the way here. When the humanoid figure with its mouth open, Lin Sanjiu could hear it repeating the conversation of a posthuman working group. If she was the one who moved, why didn't she hear the humanoid figure's voice?
Not only that, the mouth of the humanoid figure in front of her was also open, but there was no sound coming from it. Lin Sanjiu glanced at the humanoid figure one last time before the haze closed. The humanoid figure's right hand was raised high in front of its body, and its left hand was waved high behind it. It looked exactly like a character in a shadow play.
"I've been wanting to ask you since a while ago."
The soft voice in her head that pretended to be Teacher Cheng asked in a bashful tone, "Have you noticed that your walking posture has become very strange?"
Lin Sanjiu couldn't hold back the sudden surge of anger. She sneered and said, "Do you think I will fall for your trick? I know that I haven't moved. "
The voice paused for a moment as if it was trying its best to stifle a laugh. If she broke through the haze now, would she see the humanoid figure on the red brick wall covering its mouth and nose to stifle its laughter?
It was the thought of "breaking through the haze" that made Lin Sanjiu's right fingertips twitch.
She had her right hand raised high in front of her body, and her left hand was waved high behind her. It looked exactly like a character in a shadow play.
Lin Sanjiu wanted to bring Buttface to the doctor in the morning. That stupid thing refused to drink water and insisted on causing urethritis. She had to spend her mother's meager money!
(End of chapter)
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