As long as Lin Sanjiu kept moving, the "melting" process did not seem to have a chance to begin.
This was what she discovered half a minute after she ran away from the crowd of people. Another thought surfaced in her mind at the same time. "Humans are really the same kind of animals as apes."
After her feet had turned into a boulder, it was harder than she had imagined to move her leg muscles and leap forward like a kangaroo. She could not stand steadily, and she did not dare to break a corner of the building. On top of that, she was dragging a boulder that weighed dozens of kilograms, let alone speed. The reason why she could "run" for such a long time was that she used the strength of her arms to climb and hang from the buildings. Like an ape, she traversed half of the street.
The crowd of people scattered the moment they saw Lin Sanjiu. It was as if they had no intention of chasing after her. When Lin Sanjiu continued to exercise, the people in the city would come and go with their own business. Whenever she stopped, people would slow down and turn their heads to look at her.
Lin Sanjiu took a deep breath. She could feel the muscles on both her arms trembling uncontrollably. Even a posthuman's muscles would be sore after a long period of high-intensity movements. She had almost fallen off the roof just now because of a slip of her grip.
She was now lying on the roof of a butcher's shop. Looking down from the edge of the stone roof, she could see the red ribs on the table below her. Lin Sanjiu had only rested for two seconds when a man who had just bought some meat stopped in his tracks. He turned his head slowly and looked at her.
"I can't let my guard down!"
Lin Sanjiu cursed in her heart. She struggled to lift her upper body and dragged the boulder forward. As she expected, the man lowered his head again and walked to the corner of the street with the meat in his hand.
'This is not the way … '
Lin Sanjiu kept her [No Coincidence, No Story] active, but she could not tell whether it was effective or not. In the world she was in, everything that had happened and had yet to happen depended on a single thought of the Veda. Taking her feet as an example, [The Mountains Remove The Foolish Old Man], which could change the course of events, could not reverse the course of events at all. This was because, other than herself, all the Veda knew that this was not a fixed course of events. If they wanted to, they could change it at any time.
It wasn't the only Special Item that had lost its effectiveness. [Pygmalion Choker], [Battle Item], [Empty-handed Kleptomaniac], [Tornado Whip] … Everything that Kieran had analyzed before had lost its effectiveness, becoming mere decorations.
She had to rely on someone or something that had not been analyzed before to have a chance to fight back. Lin Sanjiu had no idea where her grand prize and the others had gone. She would not be able to find them anytime soon. While she was trying her best to recall if she had kept anything in the Olympics, she leaped into the air and dashed toward another house. Before the rock fell, she grabbed the edge of the roof with both hands and struggled to flip herself up.
"Hey!" An old man knocked on the wall with a wooden pole and yelled at her, "Don't climb on my roof!"
Apart from the few items that she had taken from Hegel, she had given them to the grand prize and Maxin. Other than that, she had only obtained a pocket dimension recording device called [Cutie Duo, Keep the Fun Time] from the furniture graveyard. However, it was useless here. Lin Sanjiu almost bit her lower lip in her anxiety and regret. "Wait, furniture graveyard?"
"What did you think of?" Mrs. Manas couldn't help asking.
"Furniture graveyard!" Lin Sanjiu shouted. "I went to the furniture graveyard!"
Before Mrs. Manas could ask, "So what?", Lin Sanjiu, who had just steadied herself on the roof, took out a card. "Every two … no, three seconds, push me with your Higher Consciousness!" Lin Sanjiu instructed Mrs. Manas as she knelt on the ground. Then, she deactivated her card.
The slender girl appeared out of thin air, and landed with a thud on the roof of the stone house, stirring up a cloud of dust. The bones in her limbs, which were not covered by flesh and skin, were broken by the impact, and rolled over the ground with a clatter, reflecting the blue sky and the sun.
Even though Lin Sanjiu had covered her eyes, Reah's face was still as frightened as when she died in the furniture graveyard. Her expression was slightly twisted. She did not know that she had seen the sun again.
"Why did you call her out — Ah!" Mrs. Manas suddenly understood what was going on.
Reah was a merchant of Special Items, so it was impossible for her to have nothing on her. "Sorry," Lin Sanjiu apologized in her heart. She did not dare to waste any more time. She lowered her head and hurriedly checked her clothes. She prayed that Lu Ye would have something suitable on her, but just as she touched her thin black choker, Mrs. Manas shouted, "Three seconds!"
As soon as Lin Sanjiu hugged the girl's lifeless body, she felt a force pushing her away. The spot where she was kneeling a moment ago was stretched out as if it was sticky. Finally, the force let go of her pants.
"Quick!" Mrs. Manas urged.
After posthumans obtained a storage device, they would usually stuff their Special Items into the storage device instead of fusing them with other items. However, Reah was an exception. Lin Sanjiu found a few Special Items from her belt buckle, ring, and even the bird tattoo on her chest. However, before she could look at them, Mrs. Manas had already pushed her away a few more times.
"Get off this roof first," Mrs. Manas said anxiously. "They are going to gather again."
Lin Sanjiu's heart skipped a beat. She quickly put Reah's lifeless body away and stood up. She found that more and more people had gathered below the stone house. The men and women in robes and headscarves raised their faces and looked at her silently, as if they were waiting for an opportunity to attack.
"Okay, I'm going down now," Lin Sanjiu answered quickly. She placed her hands on the roof and prepared to jump down. The next house was not only far away, but it was also made of straw and wood, so it definitely could not support the large rock on her feet.
Coincidentally, perhaps the effect of [No Coincidence, No Story] was used on such meaningless things. As soon as she left the roof and was still falling from the sky, a small shadow suddenly fluttered in the blue sky in the distance.
The shadow was extremely fast. As it flapped its wings, it turned into a white paper crane in Lin Sanjiu's vision.
"This must be from Puppeteer and the others!"
Lin Sanjiu shuddered. She twisted her body in midair and reached for the paper crane.
Just as her fingertips were about to touch the paper crane, she saw a huge shadow pouncing at her from the corner of her eye. Lin Sanjiu froze, and the paper crane brushed past Lin Sanjiu's fingertips and fell heavily to the ground.
She did not even have the time to check if the rock under her feet was damaged. She looked up and saw a —
Dragon's head.
It wasn't a typical traditional Chinese dragon, but no one would mistake it for anything else. Its head was covered in scales, and its two long whiskers floated in the air. A pair of yellowish reptilian eyes stared straight at Lin Sanjiu, fixated on her. In its slightly opened mouth, the paper crane was struggling, as if it wanted to pass on the message before it was torn to pieces, even though the sound that came out was close to breaking.
"Hello?"
Lin Sanjiu did not expect that the person who sent her the message was not Puppeteer or her grand prize, but the highest god.
"Your brother and I are at —"
Just as the paper crane uttered those few words, the rest of the sentence turned into the sound of paper being torn to shreds. The lightbulb-like yellow eyes were still staring at Lin Sanjiu. The dragon opened and closed its mouth and tore the paper crane into pieces before swallowing it. It was still staring at Lin Sanjiu, and its head began to shrink back. Lin Sanjiu turned around and realized that the dragon's head had occupied half the alleyway.
Just as abruptly as it came, the dragon disappeared around the corner of the alleyway in a flash.
'Where is it? Why did it disappear at the most crucial moment? ' 'Is this also the effect of [No Coincidence, No Story]? '
"Is there really a dragon?" Mrs. Manas stammered, "And it was analyzed by the Veda?"
Now was not the time to be perplexed by this.
"Did you see where the paper crane came from?" Lin Sanjiu asked as she dragged the rock forward.
"In the sky."
"Nonsense!"
"Then why did you ask? If you didn't look up, I wouldn't have known! "Mrs. Manas seemed to be frustrated by her repeated failures.
She swallowed the anger in her throat and summoned Lu Ye's body again. She carried it on her shoulder. After the ordeal, the girl had lost a lot of bones, and she was left with only a paper-thin torso. Even though Lin Sanjiu felt sorry for Mrs. Manas, she still encouraged herself and prayed in her heart. She reached her hand into the pocket of Lu Ye's body. When she pulled her hand out, she found something inside the pocket. She pulled for a while, but she could not reach the top of the pocket. It looked like a tent.
A faint, distant sound was getting closer and closer. Gradually, it became a loud flapping sound in the sky. Lin Sanjiu had heard this sound before. It was the sound of a paper crane flapping its wings. However, this sound was a little too loud, and her ears were ringing.
Lin Sanjiu looked up from the shadow that hung over her head. Her mouth was slightly agape.
Countless paper cranes, densely packed and stacked on top of her head like the densest and largest swarm of bees, were floating above her head, blocking out the sky and the sun. Not only the sun, but even the blue sky was blocked by the paper cranes. When the paper cranes swooped down at her at the same time, it was a thrilling sight.
However, the most thrilling moment had just begun.
Like a predator that had sensed the scent of its prey, the dragon suddenly raised its gigantic head out of nowhere. This time, it was accompanied by many of its companions. One by one, the dragon heads rose from the ground, overturned many houses, and plunged straight into the air. With a sweep of their tails and a gape of their mouths, they could wipe out a large number of helpless paper cranes. However, even if there was only one paper crane left, the sender would have achieved his goal.
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