In the next few days, Lin Sanjiu tried her best to fill up her time with all kinds of trivial matters.
She bought a lot of repair tools and raw materials and worked with Yu Yuan to repair the damage in the spaceship. Of course, Yu Yuan was the one who did most of the work. In addition, she scrubbed the cell over and over again until the whole room began to be filled with the strong smell of bleach. Every time she went out to check in, it would take her most of the day because she often spent the afternoon on the black market or the Mokugyo forum. After she had done everything she needed to do, she would spend the rest of her time learning how to fly a flying machine.
However, no matter how busy she was during the day, she still had to return to her room and face the [Hello? Sister].
She mustered up her courage a few times, but she never made the call. Once, she had already woken up the machine, but before the call was connected, she suddenly turned it into a card. Ever since she left the Data Stream Library, she had not contacted Ji Shanqing. The longer she waited, the harder and more daunting it was for her to contact him.
Under the soft light in the room, the smooth surface of the communication device reflected her wet hair and her face, which was staring at the device in a daze.
"The grand prize must be worried," she thought. "He doesn't know that I haven't turned the communication device into a card for the past few days. He must be waiting for me to call him. If I really call him..."
While she was struggling with her doubts, a knock on the door interrupted her thoughts.
"Come in," Lin Sanjiu rubbed her hair with a towel and tossed the device aside. When Yu Yuan walked in, she was a little grateful that he had temporarily diverted her attention. "What's wrong? You're still awake?"
"I can't sleep," Yu Yuan said as he sat down on another chair. The black tattoo on his face was a stark contrast to his fair skin. "Maybe I'm not used to being rich all of a sudden."
Before she threw the man out of the room, Lin Sanjiu searched him from head to toe. Finally, she experienced the thrill of robbing someone. She found three powerful Special Items and all the red crystals she had paid for Exodus. This was definitely not the first time this house purchase scam had been carried out, and the man's wealth was obviously not limited to this. He probably had more assets hidden somewhere in the Twelve Worlds Centrum, but it had nothing to do with Lin Sanjiu.
To thank Yu Yuan, she gave him a special item and half of the red crystals. Woyu got the glove, but she kept the [Power of Description] for herself.
Lin Sanjiu pushed the communicator aside and smiled at him, "Is there anything you want to buy?"
"Visa." Yu Yuan's gaze followed the communicator to the other end of the table. He paused and turned back. "You haven't contacted your brother?"
"No." Lin Sanjiu did not want to dwell on this topic any longer. She nodded, "You're right. It's better to buy a visa for the Twelve Worlds as soon as possible —"
However, before she could finish her sentence, he interrupted her, "No, I don't want to go to the Twelve Worlds."
"Where is that?" She couldn't help but be startled.
Yu Yuan frowned slightly, and he looked a little uneasy. He had always handled things with ease, so it was rare for him to show such an expression that even his tattoo couldn't hide.
Lin Sanjiu pursed her lips and did not say anything. Under her gaze, Yu Yuan sighed and said in a low voice, "I hope you know that I didn't mean to spy on you."
"What do you mean?"
"The next world I want to go to," the young man said slowly, "is the Salvation of God. Or the Olympics. "
She would never have guessed that Yu Yuan would want to go to the world she had just left. Had she not told him enough about the dangers of the Salvation of God when she spoke of it to him?
"Wh … Why?"
Yu Yuan rubbed his face and suddenly exhaled a breath of air nervously.
"You didn't tell me the details of your separation from your brother, but I can guess it," he said in a low voice. His hands were clasped tightly together, and his eyes were fixed on his shoes. "You said that you left the atmosphere of the Salvation of God and went to the Olympics. You spent a total of 14 months in these two apocalyptic worlds, but when you were teleported away, he … he stayed there, right? "
Lin Sanjiu was shocked. It was too late when she tried to control her expression. Yu Yuan's bright eyes had already shifted to her. "He went to the other world with you, but he still stayed after 14 months. Is that —" He took a deep breath and steadied his breath, "Is that right?"
Lin Sanjiu stared at him without blinking. She couldn't remember when she had given herself away.
"You trust me very much, so sometimes you will unintentionally reveal some clues," Yu Yuan said with a bitter smile. Yu Yuan laughed bitterly. "In this kind of situation, I'm also … very apologetic to find out what you don't want to tell others. But if it wasn't important, I wouldn't have mentioned it … I would have pretended that I didn't know. "
He was too good at keeping his distance, so it was hard for Lin Sanjiu to reject him.
Lin Sanjiu ran her fingers through her hair and pushed the wet strands to the back of her head. Then, she sighed softly. "I don't want to lie to you," she said in a low voice, "Yes, he stayed after 14 months. He … he isn't my biological brother. I don't even know if I should call him 'brother' … "
"So that's how it is!" Yu Yuan leaned forward eagerly and said softly, "I … I also want to stay like him!"
"The place he stayed is not the Twelve Worlds Centrum. You might not like it there, and you might not want to pay the same price as him … "
"You don't understand." Yu Yuan suddenly closed his eyes and leaned back in his chair. "Ever since I met you, I have been living in fear … This feeling has been getting stronger and stronger recently."
Lin Sanjiu raised her head and blinked. "Why?"
"Because of that woman." Yu Yuan lowered his head and looked at his fingertips. "The woman who asked me to bring you a note."
'Nüwa? What happened to her? '
"I have only told you half of the story. Now, it's time to tell you the other half," the young man murmured. His expression became absent-minded, as if he was suddenly captured by a passing dream. "I heard her talking to someone else. It was a very vague and ambiguous conversation. For a period of time, I wasn't even sure if I was dreaming … It wasn't until I met you that I realized what she said could really happen. Since I really met you like she said, then other things might also happen … "
Lin Sanjiu did not rush him. Under the spotlight on the other side of the table, the communication device glowed softly in her peripheral vision.
"The Great Flood is coming."
'The Great Flood?'
Yu Yuan closed his eyes gently, his eyelashes trembling slightly. What he said next was obviously a retelling of a part of the story.
"They are germs that have attached themselves to the planet. They are like tumors that spread throughout the universe. The apocalypse that every world ushers in cannot be considered an apocalypse. It can only be considered a disaster because there are always survivors. The ability to evolve is the 'resistance' produced by the germs. They escaped the initial antibiotics and became some kind of superbug … "
His memory was very good. He could even recall some of Nüwa's gentle and cold tone. Lin Sanjiu shuddered when she heard it. It was as if a long-forgotten nightmare had placed its cold fingers on her skin again.
"Then, a very young man asked her, 'Aren't you also a human?' But his tone wasn't harsh, and it didn't sound like a question … "Yu Yuan shook his head." She said … I was born as a human, but I will not die as a human. This is just a vessel for her spirit … "
"Then, she mentioned the Great Flood." The young man took a few deep breaths. It seemed that repeating the conversation had exhausted him a lot of energy. "She said … a Great Flood is coming. When that time comes, not a single superbug will survive. That will be the real apocalypse for humanity. "
"What … what kind of Great Flood?" Lin Sanjiu asked blankly. Of course, Nüwa wasn't referring to a literal Great Flood.
"I don't know. I vaguely remember she said something about the universe, but I don't understand the rest, and I can't remember it. " Yu Yuan buried his face in his hands and said in a low voice, "When I first met you, I didn't think that much. But every day that passed, the conversation would surface in my mind … until I couldn't sit still and couldn't think of anything else. You can laugh at me for being paranoid and cowardly, but let me tell you, that woman … she is different. "
He raised his head and stared at the communication device. "She said she is not a human, and I believe her. Inside that human shell, there's a different kind of creature. "
After a long time, Lin Sanjiu found her voice again.
"Do you think …" She asked hoarsely, "Soon, we will lose all the apocalyptic worlds?"
Yu Yuan nodded silently.
"If we can escape from the apocalypse, we might be able to escape from the Great Flood. Actually, I suggest you do the same thing. "He clenched his fists so tightly that his knuckles turned white. "We, the superbugs, can only be found in the apocalyptic worlds. If we never enter the apocalyptic worlds again, the Great Flood might not affect us. You said that we can escape from the atmosphere of the Salvation of God. That's the place. We can stay there! "
After Yu Yuan left, Lin Sanjiu didn't move from her spot for a whole 30 minutes.
No matter what kind of experiment Nüwa had conducted on humans, she might have completed it. Or, Nüwa felt that there was no need to continue.
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