"Have you ever been afraid of wearing a sweater when you are alone at home during the winter?"
In the short time it took to put on the thick sweater but not to poke his head out of the collar, there was only the shadow of the sweater in front of him. Apart from that, he could not see anything. This meant that even if someone was standing next to him, he would not be aware of it at all.
Lin Sanjiu had never imagined that she would be so scared while she was putting on the sweater.
About twenty minutes ago, she had just gotten off the train.
From the train station, she looked into the distance. Bamboo Grove Mountain towered over the white fog in the distance. She could only make out the green silhouette of the mountain.
There was quite a distance between the train station and Bamboo Grove Mountain. There were a lot of businesses that relied on tourist attractions to make a living. There were a few old motorcycles lying on the ground in front of the train station. There were a few convenience stores and kiosks that were half-opened. They seemed to have been ransacked and there wasn't much left. A few new hotels stood side by side among a group of low-rise residential buildings. They were very eye-catching.
It looked like a very ordinary tourist attraction in a small city.
The strange situation at Mausoleum Elementary School had left a deep impression on Lin Sanjiu's mind. She cautiously walked around the train station. When she saw that there was no one around, she heaved a sigh of relief.
After she relaxed a little, the coldness in the air became even more pronounced. She even felt a slight pain on her skin.
"I need to find some clothes quickly. It's so cold that I can't think straight," Lin Sanjiu grumbled softly as she rubbed her arms. The material of the orange-red vest she was wearing was very poor. It was thin and airtight. When she put it on, it would be cold in winter and hot in summer. As Lin Sanjiu thought about it, she randomly picked a residential building and ran over.
It was an old-fashioned red-brick building. There was a large iron gate on the first floor. However, in the hands of a Posthuman, the iron gate was no different from a plastic one. Lin Sanjiu activated her [Mosaic Censorship] a few times and blew open a few doors. Finally, she successfully broke into one of the houses.
The floor was yellowed, the space was cramped, and there were a few clotheslines in the living room. All these indicated that the family's financial situation wasn't good.
There were a lot of freshly washed clothes hanging on the clothesline. They were already dry. Lin Sanjiu didn't expect to find her target the moment she entered the house. She quickly walked forward and looked around. However, she was immediately disappointed.
"This family is washing their summer clothes …?" she muttered to herself in confusion.
There were either singlets or shorts hanging on the clothesline. She felt cold just by looking at them.
She looked around. The dirty and messy environment made her lose interest in searching for clothes in the bedroom. She turned around and went to the neighbor's house.
After the same few attacks, the broken lock fell to the ground with a clatter, and the echo reverberated back and forth in the corridor. The echoes echoed in the corridor. Without a lock, the door opened with a creak.
"This house looks much cleaner and more comfortable. At least, there are no clothes strewn all over the place." Lin Sanjiu walked into the house and went straight to the bedroom. Sure enough, she found two large, clean wardrobes.
One of them kept the summer clothes while the other kept the winter clothes. It was a very organized arrangement. However, Lin Sanjiu soon couldn't help sighing.
She flipped through several of them. They were all typical clothes for the elderly. There were both men's and women's, and they were several sizes too big for her. The thickest coats were printed with large patches of red and green peonies. It seemed that they had lived here before. It was an elderly couple.
As a woman who used to have good taste in clothes, Lin Sanjiu instinctively didn't want to wear them.
However, his two arms were soaked in the cold wind and felt like they were going to turn numb …
"Forget it, forget it." She immediately made up her mind and took off her vest. "Keeping warm is the most important thing … If you see other clothes later, you can change them."
She had wanted to store a few more clothes in the card, but she gave up on that idea. After searching for a long time, she found a black sweater that was the most conventional. She quickly put her arms into it and tried to put her head in as well.
She lowered her eyes and was about to pull the sweater over her head. Suddenly, she caught a glimpse of a pair of feet wearing old-fashioned cloth shoes under the edge of the sweater.
The tip of the old-fashioned cloth shoes was pointing directly at her Ambergris boots.
The person who was standing right next to her was —
Lin Sanjiu's arms were still trapped in the sleeves of the sweater. Her upper body was completely vulnerable and defenseless. Her scream was stuck in her throat, and she couldn't make it out. She quickly took a few steps back. She exerted some force in her arms and the black sweater was instantly torn into two.
Lin Sanjiu regained her sight, but she frowned. There was no one else in the room. There was only a pair of green cloth shoes on the floor. However, when she entered the room, she didn't remember seeing this pair of shoes.
… This kind of feeling was really annoying.
"What the hell is this world?" She had been here for less than a day, but the number of scares she received was almost as many as the number of times she received in the previous two worlds combined. "It's fine that there's no one here, but why is it so eerie …"
Even with Lin Sanjiu's courage, which had been honed by many life-threatening situations, she couldn't take it anymore. She casually grabbed the thickest coat she had and wrapped it around herself. She instinctively walked around the pair of old-fashioned cloth shoes and rushed to the door.
She stopped in front of the door.
This was the house of an elderly couple. Naturally, there were some old items in the house.
Hanging beside the door was a simple calendar that Lin Sanjiu had not seen for a few years. The old couple seemed to have torn off a page of the calendar every day, leaving a thick tear on the page.
That wasn't a big deal, but there was one thing that she couldn't ignore.
The date on the top page of the calendar was "May 30th, Saturday".
Lin Sanjiu reached out to touch it. There wasn't a lot of dust on it. It couldn't be more than a month old.
"It's summer now?"
Lin Sanjiu looked down at the thick floral cotton jacket she was wearing.
It wasn't unusual for the temperature to change in an apocalyptic world. However, other than Mausoleum Elementary School, everything else in this world was normal. This change in temperature was definitely not the cause of the apocalypse. It was hard to imagine the reason for the sudden drop in temperature.
Lin Sanjiu didn't want to stay in this house any longer. The doubt in her mind only flashed past for a moment. She quickly ran into the corridor and left through the main entrance of the residential building. Even though it was foggy outside, the hazy sunlight still made her heave a sigh of relief.
"Now, let's find a safe place to settle down first," she encouraged herself. "Fourteen months, it will be over soon …"
The figure in the floral cotton jacket pondered for a moment before she headed toward the location of the few hotels. Inside the room, the pair of old-fashioned cloth shoes had changed direction. The tips of the shoes were pointing straight at the door. (To be continued.)
PS:
Thank you to my in-law's lollipop, Pi Si's lollipop (As expected, it's June 1st, it's suitable for a young author like me), Li Ningbing's review ticket, Xiao... Yue (Why are you hesitating!) Ya Ya's pink ticket (Oh my god, there are so many pink tickets, I'm embarrassed to take them all), 2 pink tickets for rolling forward 999 degrees (Let me laugh at the names), another inky safety charm, pink ticket for the most annoying name, and a safety charm for life in a bottle ~!
[The list of thanks seems long, but it's just because I talk too much...]
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[The title and the epilogue are both terrible. I feel sorry for the gloomy text … But isn't this chapter scary? If I have to give it a score, I'll give it a 4 out of 10.]
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