After the meal, Lin Sanjiu felt even more uncomfortable.
She didn't manage to finish that small bowl of rice because her head started to ache from the cold. After a few mouthfuls, she had no choice but to push the bowl aside. Douglas, on the other hand, didn't mind. He poured the rice into his bowl and finished it in one gulp. His action dispelled the vague suspicion in Lin Sanjiu's heart.
Although she was watching Douglas from the side when he was cooking and didn't notice that he had done anything, her heart was finally at ease. She even felt a little embarrassed about her suspicions just now.
After she stopped eating, her body gradually stopped trembling. It seemed that the thick cotton-padded jacket she had put on was more or less of a help.
"You don't look too good. Do you want to rest?" Douglas wiped his mouth after he finished eating and burped.
"No … I want to look around. Maybe I can meet a few survivors." Lin Sanjiu shivered a few more times after she said that. She quickly jumped on the spot to warm herself up.
Douglas replied with an "oh" and didn't seem to mind, "I have already searched many times. There's no one here! But it's up to you if you want to go. I'm going back to my room to play my game. "
It was said that the first stop he saw on the train wasn't Mausoleum Elementary School. Instead, it was an electronic shopping street. Since he had nothing to do, Douglas packed a bag full of games. It was enough for him to play for 14 months.
Lin Sanjiu was impressed by his open-mindedness. She nodded and prepared to leave.
"Oh, that's right!" the man behind her suddenly called out.
Lin Sanjiu turned around and saw Douglas standing on the staircase leading to the second floor. The shadow covered half of his face.
"Don't go to Bamboo Grove Mountain," he said sternly.
Just when Lin Sanjiu was about to ask why, she heard him say, "That place is too far away. You might not be able to come back even after two days … If something happens, I won't be able to find you."
"Indeed, if Bamboo Grove Mountain isn't far away, there wouldn't be a hotel here." Lin Sanjiu thanked him again after she agreed. After Lin Sanjiu agreed, she thanked him and walked out of the hotel.
Based on what Douglas said, she had only slept for four to five hours, which meant that it was around one or two in the afternoon. However, the sky was dark and the clouds were heavy. There was not a trace of the sun, and everything was covered in a layer of gray. It looked like the eve of a storm, or dusk.
Even though Lin Sanjiu did not plan to go to Bamboo Grove Mountain, she still walked along the path that led to the foot of the mountain. This road had the most shops. Almost half of the convenience stores, snack stalls, and shops selling all kinds of souvenirs were opened on this road. Now, it still retained about seventy to eighty percent of the liveliness it had before the apocalypse.
In order to get rid of the cold, Lin Sanjiu stretched her body as she walked. If someone who didn't know what was going on saw her, they would think that she was very happy. After skipping two similar souvenir stalls, she stopped in front of a convenience store.
Standing on the road, one could see through the glass that the shelves inside had been looted messily and were empty. Everything from cigarettes, alcohol, food, and lighters had been looted. Even the door of the staff room was wide open. From the looks of it, it was left behind by the survivors before Douglas came here.
A cardboard figure of a beautiful air stewardess stood at the entrance of the convenience store. There was a smile on her oval face, and her eyes were looking in the direction of the train station. There was a crooked sign in the store, and the words "Booking Tickets, Chartering Cars, Arranging Itinerary" could still be seen clearly. It seemed that this convenience store also provided some services like a travel agency.
With a casual glance, Lin Sanjiu's eyes fell on a row of untouched items. Her heart skipped a beat, and she immediately walked in.
It was a magazine rack.
As someone who was focused on collecting survival supplies, she naturally wouldn't be interested in newspapers and magazines. However, ever since she read the article about the scientist Le Ben, the word "dark matter" kept popping up in Lin Sanjiu's mind. She couldn't get it out of her head.
"These newspapers and magazines might contain more relevant information." As Lin Sanjiu thought to herself, she threw a few entertainment magazines at the top of the shelf.
"Are there no newspapers?" she muttered to herself. She first picked out all the magazines. Newspapers were timely and comprehensive, which was ideal. However, the newspapers here were just a few tabloid tabloids. They couldn't provide much help.
At the bottom of the shelf, Lin Sanjiu finally found a magazine with a rather old cover. Compared to the other May and June magazines, this one was from the previous December. Its name was "Science and Technology Frontier".
No wonder it couldn't be sold even after half a year.
However, this magazine was what Lin Sanjiu needed the most. She quickly flipped to the table of contents and searched for any words related to dark matter or Le Ben.
She didn't expect that. She really found it.
What's more, the magazine was more fruitful than she had expected. The magazine was published at a time when the theory of music theory was on the brink of collapse. Therefore, it listed the theories that had been published by music theory at length, and noted the refutations from other theorists. Even though Lin Sanjiu couldn't understand many of the terms unique to this world and related professional terms, she finally understood the gist of it.
In the world that Lin Sanjiu was born in, what exactly was dark matter was still a mystery. However, in this world, even though it was still invisible, a series of experiments had confirmed its composition and formation process. They had even begun to study its effects. However, as the leader of this field, Le Ben suddenly claimed that he had discovered a shocking characteristic of dark matter a few years before the apocalypse.
It was corrosive.
Furthermore, this corrosive characteristic only became active in the past few years. Before this, it seemed to have been dormant.
Different substances exposed to high concentrations of dark matter also showed different corrosive processes. The process was very long, but Le Ben was certain that these substances would eventually be assimilated, and they would have 98% of the same composition.
After skipping over the long and complicated explanation, Lin Sanjiu raised her head in a daze and fell into deep thought.
It seemed that this world had indeed been corroded by dark matter. Moreover, in the past few years, it had been assimilated into almost the same substance. However, what exactly was this dark matter, and what kind of effect could it have...
Lin Sanjiu's gaze focused on the fridge. As she was thinking, she stared blankly at her own blurry reflection on the glass door of the fridge.
As she was thinking, Lin Sanjiu suddenly froze, and the hair on her back stood on end.
From the glass door, she could see a blurry human figure standing behind her.
Lin Sanjiu slowly turned around and met the beautiful eyes of the air stewardess.
"Wasn't that thing at the entrance just now?" (To be continued.)
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