"The way he died is a little strange," Lin Sanjiu suppressed the chill in her heart and stared at the corpse on the ground. Perhaps, it would be more accurate to call it a leather bag. "If you want to kill someone, just kill him. Why do you have to resort to such unnecessary actions?"
Mrs. Manas couldn't answer this question.
"Besides, since he's dead and his heart has been removed, what we saw just now …" Lin Sanjiu couldn't figure it out no matter how hard she thought about it. She shook her head and said, "When he took the book from my hand, his fingers were firm and strong. It doesn't look like an empty shell."
"An empty shell..."
Lin Sanjiu's thoughts suddenly paused when she heard that word. It was as if she was trying to recall something. However, this feeling quickly disappeared. Lin Sanjiu's mind was once again immersed in the strange situation before her.
"Maybe someone like Luther, who has the ability to shapeshift, knew that he was dead, so he disguised himself as an appraiser to swindle us?" The more Mrs. Manas analyzed the situation, the more hopeless she felt. She sighed and said, "It seems like we can't get the book back."
Lin Sanjiu thought about the disappearance of the book and the fact that she had no money in her pocket. Her heart sank. Even the empty leather bag in front of her didn't seem so strange anymore.
"But, the young man left in front of us openly. But, where did the person who disguised himself as an appraiser come from? The only entrance to this house is through the living room … "Lin Sanjiu suddenly slapped her forehead and screamed," Ah! " Then, she turned around and dashed toward the window.
The window wasn't big, and it was blocked by an iron mesh. Therefore, it became a blind spot for Lin Sanjiu. Lin Sanjiu reached out and pulled the iron mesh. Sure enough, she easily removed it. She threw it on the ground and stuck her head out of the window.
When she saw what was outside, both she and Mrs. Manas were dumbfounded.
"No wonder the wind kept howling in the house. No wonder the windows were sealed with iron mesh."
It turned out that there was a bottomless abyss outside the window.
If they stuck their head out of the window, they could see that the foundation of the house was built on a cliff. If they looked down the cliff, they would sink into the dark abyss. Lin Sanjiu could only see a few wisps of fog in the darkness. If she looked around, she would find that this house wasn't the only one on the cliff. Many of the neighbors also had their windows open above the abyss. One of them even hung their laundry outside the window.
It seemed. The residents here seemed to think that it was normal for there to be a cliff outside their house.
Lin Sanjiu was shocked to see a man close the window after he finished smoking a cigarette. It was as if the abyss beneath his feet didn't exist, and he wouldn't even have a corpse left if he fell into it.
"… This …" She stuttered as she stared at the pitch-black crack in the ground that seemed to be hiding some giant beast. She looked at it carefully for a while in disbelief and finally saw some clues.
"It seems. There was a residential building first, and then there was the abyss. "
The only thing that could prove her conjecture was that there were some ruins on the other side of the crack. Lin Sanjiu looked at the ruins for a long time and finally realized that it was a high-rise building that had been split in half. Due to the passage of time, the remaining half of the building had been severely weathered.
"So, the other half of the building was split in half along with the ground?" Lin Sanjiu mumbled to herself.
Such a terrifying attack. It must have happened during the battle with the extraterrestrial creature, Red Nautilus. After so many years had passed since the end of the war, the people here had developed new cities and technologies in the wasteland. Even the people who lived above the abyss did not take it seriously anymore.
While Lin Sanjiu was amazed, she couldn't help thinking that there was no hope of getting her book back.
If the person who disguised himself as the appraiser risked falling into the abyss by climbing the wall to escape, he must have prepared a corresponding escape route for Lin Sanjiu to find him.
Letting out a long sigh, she couldn't help but stare blankly for a moment.
The appraisal master's way of death was too strange. It was such a peculiar method of killing. "This might be a clue in the future." When Lin Sanjiu thought of this, even though she was reluctant, she still converted his body into a card and stored it in her card library.
"Although it's a little late this time. But every time you arrive in a new world, you bring in a corpse. "Mrs. Manas didn't know whether to laugh or cry." What kind of curse did you encounter? "
"A corpse came in, and a Special Item came out. This deal is not worth it." She smiled bitterly.
One special item was nothing. After she restored her card library, she had no choice but to give up. He had found all the Special Items from before. Even without this one, there were still many others.
However, what worried her was that such a thing had happened during the first appraisal. She really didn't know what to do next.
"Come to think of it, it's quite strange." Mrs. Manas suddenly said, "That person killed an appraiser, but he could only cheat you of one book. The cost is too high. Even if he wants to do the same thing again, how can he be sure that you, the victim, won't be waiting for him here?"
"Maybe his plan is to change locations every time he kills someone," Lin Sanjiu said gloomily.
"Then, do you think that the young man just now is in cahoots with this swindler?" Mrs. Manas asked.
Lin Sanjiu thought for a moment. She couldn't be sure, so she decided to try her luck and returned to the basement of the building. However, as expected, she waited for a while, but she didn't see the skinny teenager again.
"Well, I guess I'm unlucky," Lin Sanjiu smiled bitterly again. "Now, how can I earn money?"
Lin Sanjiu had intended to say this to Mrs. Manas, but perhaps she was in a bad mood, she blurted it out unknowingly. Just as her voice faded into the air, a person who was about to walk past her stopped. He paused and looked at Lin Sanjiu from head to toe.
This was a man who, for some reason, had legs and feet that looked like goat's legs and hooves.
Lin Sanjiu noticed his gaze and quickly sized him up. However, the man's upper body was covered by a robe. Other than the fact that he was a man, Lin Sanjiu couldn't tell anything else.
"Are you short of money?" the goat hooves asked in a deep voice. Lin Sanjiu felt as if there was a train rolling through her throat.
"I have a job, do you want to do it?" (To be continued.)
PS:
"Thank you, Liuli Dixu's protective charm ~ ~ ~ The rest of you don't have to vote for me. I'm serious. I'll fight anyone who votes for me …"
"Recently, my mom doesn't love me very much. Eight out of ten comments I want to reply to are rejected. What the hell?"
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