Lucy's body had been eaten very neatly.
Lin Sanjiu could recognize her at first glance because the girl's head was untouched. It was as good as when she was alive. She was lying in a pool of blood that had already dried up. Her sleeves and trousers had been carefully rolled up. Her white and slender limbs, which should have been exposed, were now only exposed four white and slender bones.
The flesh on her limbs had been stripped clean, but Lucy was too skinny. Lin Sanjiu was afraid that there wouldn't be a lot of flesh on her body.
Slowly, Lin Sanjiu sat down beside the body. It was only then that she realized that Lucy had a heart-shaped face. The girl's eyelashes were short, and her skin was gray as if it had been painted with a layer of dust. Even though there was no color on her face, it seemed that the girl could open her eyes and run away at any time.
"Dead people will wander around," Lin Sanjiu suddenly said. "That's what Eggy told me."
The soft footsteps approached and stopped on the other side of the corpse. Lucy's face emerged from the darkness. She lowered her head and looked at the face of the body that was identical to her own. She looked dazed and confused. She reached out her hand and touched the face of the body.
"It's been four or five years," the other "Deer Leaf" who could not bleed said in a low voice. "I always thought I would find a way to stop the teleportation … because my mother always said I had a good idea and a quick mind. I've forgotten what she looked like, but I can't forget what she said. I always thought that one day, I would be able to defeat the apocalypse. "
Her fingers gently stroked her other self's face, then wandered to her shoulders and arms. The white bones rustled under her fingers.
"I've been struggling for four to five years," Lucy chuckled. "It's all a waste of effort. If I knew this would happen, I would have died from the beginning. At the very least, I'll be able to die with my parents and Little Bubble. "
Lin Sanjiu looked down at the girl lying quietly on the ground. She did not say a word.
"Am I really dead?" the "Lucy" suddenly asked. Her voice was faint. "If I die, how can I touch my own body?"
"Before you met us," Lin Sanjiu said softly, "the highest god had created more than a dozen 'me'. Each of them had my memory and believed that they were me. The only difference between me and you is that I wasn't dead at that time. "
She seemed to be in a daze, as if she hadn't heard or was at a loss.
Lin Sanjiu stretched out her hand and took the matchbox from "Deer"'s hand. The girl was still in a daze, as if she did not notice Lin Sanjiu's actions. With a click, a weak flame jumped up from the stick and lit up the night sky.
This time, the firelight was much closer, and Lin Sanjiu could finally see "Deer Leaf"'s face clearly. There were patches of livor mortis on her chin and cheeks, and the two Deer Leaves were wearing different clothes. The corpse on the ground was wearing a T-shirt that fit her body, while the "Deer Leaf" in front of her was wearing a man's shirt that was obviously too big for her, so she had to roll up her sleeves.
Apparently, this was the corpse of a male posthuman, and someone had carelessly "rewritten" it to look like Deer Leaf.
Why didn't she just let her own corpse crawl up and speak?
That was because Deer Leaf's legs had already turned into bones.
When Lin Sanjiu's finger was burned by the match, she waved her hand and extinguished the flame. Darkness once again enveloped the two of them. Lin Sanjiu had only used a bandage to stabilize the broken bones in her hand. When she waved her hand, she felt as if she had been hit by a hammer. Just as Lin Sanjiu sucked in a breath of cold air, "He … Why did he want me to stand up and wander around?"
Lin Sanjiu couldn't answer this question.
"Deer Leaf" raised her arm and stared at the dried wound on her arm. She forced a smile and said to Lin Sanjiu, "Look, a piece of this body has been eaten. It's not bleeding, so I think it's also a corpse. I … I won't grow any bigger, right? "
Lin Sanjiu didn't know how to answer.
She couldn't even sigh. She placed her uninjured hand on the shoulder of "Deer Leaf" and asked softly, "Which world is your hometown?"
In the shadows, the girl's figure became indistinct. She lowered her head and said, "… The bamboo forest."
"I will take this with me." Lin Sanjiu gestured to the corpse and said softly, "If there's a chance, I will bring your body back to the bamboo forest. I will bring it home."
The girl curled up like a small animal on the verge of death and nodded.
With a thought, "Deer Leaf's" body disappeared from her hand and turned into a hard card. Lin Sanjiu stored the card into her card. Just when she was about to ask "Deer Leaf" how she died, she didn't expect "Deer Leaf" to suddenly stand up.
"What are you doing here?" The young girl asked cautiously, "Let me tell you, I don't know what happened between you and that naked pervert, and I don't want to be dragged into it. I only have two more months before I can teleport! I'm leaving. You guys have dragged me into so much trouble. I need to find the exit! "
Lin Sanjiu was stunned, and she didn't know how to react. By the time she jumped up, "Deer Leaf" had already disappeared behind the screen in a blur. Lin Sanjiu wanted to shout, but she swallowed the words "You're already dead" before they left her lips.
She listened to the footsteps of "Deer Leaf" quickly weakening and disappearing into the night. She felt that something was stuck in her throat. What happened after she met "Deer Leaf" could not be remembered at all in the brain of the corpse. The young girl's thoughts went back to the time before they met. It was probably Deer Leaf's mental state before she died.
It was like … like a CD.
Deer Leaf's death seemed to have decided the limit of the CD's storage capacity. No matter which CD it was copied to, it would only contain Deer Leaf's short 15 years of memory. The things that happened after her death would be erased after a short period of time because there was no place to put them, including the memory that she was already dead.
Deer Leaf didn't even know that she was dead. She continued to search for the exit in this furniture graveyard. She couldn't find it no matter how long she searched.
"The bamboo forest." Lin Sanjiu wiped her face and looked at the direction where the corpse that thought she was Deer Leaf disappeared. "The bamboo forest …" Lin Sanjiu mumbled. She retracted her gaze and looked at the large pile of furniture behind the screen.
"Deer Leaf" said that Polva's corpse was in the direction where the screen was.
Deer Leaf must have seen it before she died. If she saw Polva's body, chose a direction from where the body was and walked down, and then somehow lost her life behind the screen, this inference would be more in line with the logic of a person's actions. In other words, Lin Sanjiu had to go against the direction that Deer Leaf had chosen and look for Polva herself.
In the end, she lost her life behind the screen …
When Lin Sanjiu thought of this, she couldn't help shuddering. She looked around, but whether it was the screen or the various pieces of furniture around her, they all remained silent and motionless. She couldn't see anything out of the ordinary, except for the dark puddle of blood on the cement floor.
In the end, she lost her life behind the screen …
Lin Sanjiu was now standing next to the screen. There were furniture everywhere behind the screen. Lin Sanjiu had to check if Deer Leaf had left any traces behind and where she came from. She wouldn't be able to leave anytime soon. When she thought of this, cold sweat broke out on her back. She quickly took a few steps forward and leaned against a large wardrobe.
Lin Sanjiu listened quietly for a while. There was no sound around her. It was as if the furniture was holding its breath.
She took a few deep breaths, took out the matchbox again, and waved it in the air. There were less than ten matches left in the box. Not only did she have to use them sparingly, she also had to use them carefully. When she lit a match in the dark, the weak light could only illuminate a small space. Outside this dim space, it would be even darker than before. It was so dark that it could swallow her consciousness.
Holding a match in her hand, Lin Sanjiu quickly looked around at the furniture around her, which had been dyed a dim yellow.
The light from the match was dim, as if it could be extinguished at any time. Lin Sanjiu looked around absent-mindedly. There were so many questions in her head that she felt her ears were buzzing. However, her luck was not bad. Even under such circumstances, she still found a small footprint. It happened to step on a light-colored sofa, clearly pointing in the direction that Lu Ye came from.
Lin Sanjiu blew out the match before it burned her hand. She tore a piece of sofa cover and wrapped it around the stick. Then, she placed it on the cement floor in the middle of the sofa. After leaving the mark, Lin Sanjiu stepped on the large sofa. The sofa's cushion was very soft. Her feet sank deep into the sofa, up to her calves.
Then, she couldn't pull her feet out.
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