After a few seconds of silence, the elder brother turned his head and flashed a row of teeth at Lin Sanjiu.
"Yes, and no," he said softly, "We are not what you think of as' Gods'."
He did not continue. There was something in his tone that made Lin Sanjiu feel that even if she continued to ask, he would only stop talking about it.
"If we are not Gods, then what are we?"
Lin Sanjiu gulped and listened to her own heartbeat. Slowly, she asked, "Then … what do you guys want?"
"Let's talk for a while. What do you think this' pocket dimension 'is? "The elder brother stared at her with interest. His round eyes were still staring blankly at her. "I have asked a few people before me, and each of them had a different answer. I am very interested to know what you guys think about pocket dimensions. "
Lin Sanjiu swallowed the "why" that was about to slip out of her mouth. She looked at the elder brother. She pressed her right hand tightly against the edge of the seat. The rough surface of the hemp rope rubbed against her palm as it fell into the darkness below the seat.
"… I've heard of a theory used to explain dungeons, but I don't know if it really happened or if it's just my imagination. When I heard it, I was unconscious due to hallucination. Maybe my subconscious came up with this theory. "
The elder brother repeated the words "subconscious" as if it was a strange word. "What is it?"
"Every pocket dimension is an apocalyptic world that has not grown up," Lin Sanjiu tried to calm herself down. Lin Sanjiu tried her best to keep her voice steady. "They are attached to the apocalyptic world that has already taken shape, just like a small orange wrapped in a big orange."
She thought that the elder brother would be as surprised as she was, but he asked in a daze, "Apocalyptic world?"
Lin Sanjiu jerked her head around and met his round eyes. His black pupils reflected a spot of light in the dim light outside the car. However, his eyes were not moist and vivid like a human's eyes. Instead, they were smooth, flat, and dry like plastic.
She felt a tingling sensation on her back. When she opened her mouth again, her voice was a little hoarse, "What are you?"
She did not use the word "human" in her question.
"Didn't I tell you?" The elder brother smiled. "We are considered 'Gods'."
"Considered …? What do you mean? "
"What about you? What are you? " Instead of answering, he asked, "You should be human, but you are different from the people here — where did you come from?"
Lin Sanjiu was stunned. "Why does he seem to know nothing about the apocalyptic world?"
She turned to look at the window and saw that her brother was still standing outside, as if he was trying to stop her from going out. Lin Guoyun's body was still leaning against the front of the car. Her brother sat in the driver's seat on the right, and the windshield wipers swept across the windshield. Lin Guoyun's body was still leaning against the front of the car. A vague thought surfaced in her mind: It may be a little risky, but it's worth a try.
"I came from another apocalyptic world," Lin Sanjiu said after a few seconds of consideration. She picked a sentence that would attract the most attention. As she spoke, she carefully observed her brother's appearance. "Every time a world collapses, it becomes a doomsday world, just like this one. No one knows how many such places there are … The people living there would be transported from one world to the next after a certain period of time. "
"This … is a doomsday world? Is it also a part of this transportation system? "
His eyes were still as expressionless as before, but other than that, he looked no different from an ordinary person. The veins on the back of his hands were pale green, and there was a short stubble on his chin. Every time he breathed, his chest would rise and fall slowly. Lin Sanjiu couldn't hear his heartbeat, but she guessed that he probably had a heart.
"Didn't you guys … let's call you 'Gods' for now, destroy this world?"
"Destroy?" The brother shook his head when he heard that. He smiled, "Of course not. You got it the other way around. We actually rebuilt some sort of order here. When we first arrived here, this place was a wasteland. "
"Who are you talking about? Are you referring to this planet? Did you come from another planet? "Lin Sanjiu immediately asked a series of questions," How did the original human society here come to an end? "
"I can't answer the first few questions, but I can answer the last one. The indigenous people here were wiped out because of a religious war. Among the followers of a very aggressive religion, something they called 'fundamentalism' gradually became popular. From a small-scale conflict, it gradually evolved into a war between countries. " The brother shrugged his shoulders as if he was joking, "These humans were willing to destroy their own kind for a god that has never shown his face! We were shocked … So, we simply rebuilt a world full of gods. This way, they could worship the gods to their heart's content. "
No wonder the Gods here had to rely on duoluozhong to nurture duoluozhong. They were not the cause of the destruction of this world. Not a single God was! Lin Sanjiu was lost in her thoughts. She couldn't help asking, "How did you guys rebuild this world?"
The brother gave a noncommittal smile.
He was obviously different from the Gods outside the pocket dimension. Lin Sanjiu wanted to ask the Gods outside the pocket dimension what was going on, but she knew very well that he wouldn't answer her. After some thought, she looked at Lin Guoyun's figure outside the window and asked, "What did you guys do in this pocket dimension?"
According to the old man's description, this pocket dimension might not be like this.
"If we want to understand what a pocket dimension is, we can't let posthumans like you end the game so that we can continue our research," he answered vaguely. He answered vaguely and asked, "… Why can't we be teleported away in this world?"
Lin Sanjiu couldn't answer him because she didn't know the answer herself.
However, she let out a long sigh and locked the door on her side. She said, "It's a long story. Even though you don't want to tell me, I can guess your identity. I have interacted with a race like yours before. They are also from this world … "
The brother's face was blank again. He turned to look at Lin Sanjiu and listened attentively without saying a word.
"They call themselves the Souls. From them, I know — "
The next sound was not the words that came out of her mouth, but the sound of the rope suddenly lashing against her brother's cheek. Lin Sanjiu had been waiting for this moment. She used all the strength she could muster when she whipped the rope. Compared to a hand, it was much harder to defend against a whip. The brother was facing her, so he was caught off guard and was hit in the eye.
In that second, Lin Sanjiu's heart almost jumped out of her chest. However, she heaved a sigh of relief when she heard the brother's pained groan. "It's good that you know pain!"
Even though she had lost a lot of her strength, she still had her battle instincts. Taking advantage of the moment when the brother was hit, Lin Sanjiu grabbed the hair at the back of his head and slammed it against the steering wheel. She didn't expect to hurt him, she just wanted to make him lower his head. After a few counterattacks from the brother, she struggled and finally wrapped the rope around his neck. Once the rope was around his neck, Lin Sanjiu immediately pulled back with all her might. Soon, she heard a gurgling sound coming from the brother's throat. His skin turned purple and swollen.
The door behind Lin Sanjiu was pulled by someone, and she heard a dull thud. However, Lin Sanjiu had already locked the door. When the brother realized that he couldn't open the door, he made a detour and rushed to the driver's seat. He pulled the door open.
Even though there was no one behind her, Lin Sanjiu did not turn around and rush out of the taxi. Instead, she exerted more strength. Even though the potato brothers were restricted by the pocket dimension, Lin Sanjiu couldn't compete with the brother because she was in a killing zone. She only managed to resist for a few seconds before the brother was pulled out of the car with the rope.
"Great."
Lin Sanjiu watched as the brother dragged and carried the brother into the rain. Panting, Lin Sanjiu threw herself into the driver's seat. The moment she placed her palms on the seat, she felt her strength surging through her veins like a stream of water. Lin Sanjiu smirked when she saw the brother throwing the man in his arms to the ground and rushing forward. She climbed into the driver's seat and kicked him out of the taxi again.
Lin Sanjiu closed the door and locked the car. Then, she pulled the handbrake, and the taxi's engine roared. Lin Guoyun, who was sitting on the front of the taxi, was flung off the front of the taxi. Under the two yellow beams of light, Lin Guoyun woke up from the fall and struggled to get up. Before the two brothers could react, Lin Sanjiu stepped on the accelerator and drove the car straight toward the man on the ground.
Lin Guoyun was startled. He turned his head, and his face became clearer in the headlights. One of his eyes was empty, and the other was wide open. In the next second, he was caught in the wheel of the car. Lin Sanjiu couldn't see his face anymore.
The car jolted, but Lin Sanjiu did not hesitate. She continued to step on the accelerator. The car rolled over the man's body before it finally stopped.
The car's taillights flashed in the rain, piercing through the night. Behind a long and thick trail of blood, there was a human body with a twisted body.
Everything happened in the blink of an eye. The potato brothers, one standing and one sitting in the rain, could only stare blankly. They had no time to intervene.
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