[Currently, I have less than a thousand words. If you can't wait, go to sleep. I really want to continue writing. Last time, I stopped at 107 words. There were a lot of inconsistencies, but no one asked me about it … You guys are very forgiving.]
Lin Sanjiu swung her [Vibroblade]. The extension design that the Garden of Eden Laboratory had installed on the blade was extended to its maximum. Lin Sanjiu's two-meter-long blade felt empty in the dim light. Lin Sanjiu had no idea whether she had hit the thing or not.
Legend has it that a tall, featureless man would appear from time to time in Europe during the Middle Ages. Even now, there were still occasional witnesses. Those who were followed by the man in the forest or saw him in the middle of the night were said to have disappeared forever.
Of course, this was just a legend. It was not true.
… Because the truth was that it wasn't a man.
The [Ability Polishing Agent] had fallen to the ground when Lin Sanjiu was startled. The bottle rolled back and forth, causing the light to become unstable. Amidst the flickering light, Lin Sanjiu abruptly stopped swinging her blade. The tall man had disappeared.
She was surrounded by the forest and it was pitch black. He could disappear into the forest if he turned around.
Lin Sanjiu didn't know when he would sneak up to her.
She stared at the direction where he disappeared. She quickly crouched down and touched the bottle of Ability Polishing Agent with her trembling fingers. She didn't dare to stay any longer. She turned around and ran back the way she came.
It was not that it was safer to come here, but when she accidentally glanced at the forest on the hillside in the distance, there was an oval white object at the top of every tree.
Even though it didn't have any facial features, it was still a face. Of course, trees didn't have faces.
They were tall men all over the hills, standing shoulder to shoulder, looking at her in silence.
Her [Defense Forcefield] glowed even brighter after she was startled. It lit up her upper body, but her legs were still shrouded in darkness. At this point, she couldn't care less about controlling the intensity of her Higher Consciousness. She activated her [Defense Forcefield] to its maximum and charged forward with all her might, feeling the burning sensation in her lungs.
There was only one main road connecting the Bamboo Forest Mountain Scenic Area and the station square. A few hotels and most of the residential buildings were built on both sides of the main road. Lin Sanjiu ran down the mountain road, past the convenience store, but the cardboard figure was nowhere to be seen. When she was almost at the foot of the hotel, she suddenly braked and stopped.
As she breathed heavily, Lin Sanjiu narrowed her eyes and observed the surroundings. She did not dare to miss the slightest movement.
The lights in the hotel building were all out. The window that Chen He had poked his head out from earlier was still open. However, there was no one in the dark room.
The old cloth shoe, Chen He, and perhaps even more things that were spying on her. They could be anywhere.
In the dark, Lin Sanjiu couldn't see her surroundings with the help of a bottle of sanitizer. Furthermore, her head was throbbing with pain, which seemed to be a sign that her Higher Consciousness was about to deplete.
Without this little bit of protection, she did not know what she would do.
She felt that her breathing was so heavy that she could hear it from another street. However, other than her, everything else seemed to be pretending to be deaf and mute.
"Douglas, I don't know if you have realized it," Lin Sanjiu tried her best to keep her voice calm. As she spoke, she slowly took a step forward. "Actually, you are already dead. You died in the electronics store. I, I can give you a proper burial … "
Her mind was so muddled that she even remembered the lines from the television dramas, "If you want me to give you a proper burial, I can even burn some joss paper for you. Can you rest in peace?"
It was still quiet around her. Lin Sanjiu wondered if Douglas, who was in the hotel building, could hear what she said — if he was still in the hotel.
Lin Sanjiu listened attentively.
The darkness was like a thick fog that covered everything. There was no sound at all. Lin Sanjiu's heart skipped a beat. She took the opportunity to run. She planned to leave this area first no matter what.
However, she did not expect that she would slow down after taking a few steps.
Not far in front of her, there was a small object made of white cloth lying on the ground.
When Lin Sanjiu saw it, she felt as if a huge burden had been lifted off her shoulders. She felt a lot more relaxed.
"Why did you leave it here?" She panted and bent down to pick up the Teru Teru Doll. She did not dare to slow down for even a second, "Forget it, it's good that I can find it!"
With the Teru Teru Doll, she did not have to worry about running out of Higher Consciousness. Lin Sanjiu suddenly had a goal in mind. She dashed back to the train station.
Just as she expected, when she was about to enter the station square, she saw a white light coming from the entrance of the station. The lights in the station were still on!
It became the only lighthouse in the darkness. It was a human instinct to stay close to light. Lin Sanjiu instantly felt more at ease.
She leaped over the ticket gate and deactivated her [Defense Forcefield] the moment she entered the platform. After all, her Higher Consciousness was very precious. If she ran out of it, she might faint on the spot.
The platform seemed to be the same as before. It was quiet and empty. There was a red light on the time display above her. It was only six o'clock in the evening.
Just when Lin Sanjiu was thinking about where to find a ladder to hang the Teru Teru Doll from the ceiling, she suddenly noticed something strange.
"It's not that I'm being paranoid …" She slowly turned her head.
Douglas was standing in the darkness outside the glass wall of the train station. He was looking at her with a smile on his face.
He raised his hand and pointed in the direction of the ticket gate. His smile widened. Then, he nodded at Lin Sanjiu and walked toward the entrance of the platform.
He was wearing his old cloth shoes.
"Douglas wants to come in, just like the group of teachers and students..."
Lin Sanjiu's hair stood on end. For a second or two, her body froze and she couldn't move. At that moment, a strange white light suddenly appeared on the other side of the platform. Then, without any warning, there was a rumbling sound. A train seemed to have sensed that there was someone on the platform. It came out from the darkness on the other side of the tunnel.
Lin Sanjiu stared blankly as the train stopped on the platform. Then, all the carriage doors opened.
The carriage was exactly the same, the green leather seats, the fluorescent lights … She could even feel a gust of cold wind rushing in when the doors opened.
"Should I go?"
Just as the thought rose in her mind, she heard a click from the ticket gate. A humanoid shadow appeared behind the corner and landed on the ground.
"Let's go!"
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