Just when Lin Sanjiu thought that she was so unlucky that the man would remember everything she bought, the man groped his way back to the aircraft. He bent down and gave it a pat before he turned around.
He revealed a clean, smooth-featured face.
Lin Sanjiu could barely see half of the man's face from where she was hiding in the bushes. The grass rustled and swayed in front of her eyes, blurring the man's face. His face, unlike his voice, did not seem as young as she had imagined; but how old he was she could not judge at the moment.
In just a short moment, he moved his face away, leaving the back of his head covered in thick hair in her field of vision.
He clapped his hands in satisfaction and walked back to where he came from. After a while, his figure became smaller and smaller among the rocks in the distance. Lin Sanjiu glanced back at the clearing and followed him stealthily.
No matter how skilled a posthuman was, there was no way they could move stealthily in the bushes. Fortunately, after Lin Sanjiu learned about hypersensory from Hei Zeji, she found a better way to move stealthily. She followed the swaying of the grass, and her body was as light as the wind blowing over the mountaintop. Every step she took made a sound, but just like the mountains, the sky, and the forest, she was just a part of nature.
The man did not notice her, even though Lin Sanjiu was very close to him at times.
He was always a few dozen meters ahead of her. His steps were brisk, and his shoulders were loose. He hummed a broken song as he walked, and his back looked unguarded. There were a few times when he turned a corner, and Lin Sanjiu had to hide behind a rock or a tree. However, when she came out again, the man would always be in her line of sight. He was walking leisurely down the mountain.
The closer they got to Mid Mountsburg, the more aircraft there were in the sky. Some of them flew across the land like birds, and some of them floated like whales, casting a huge shadow over the town. The two of them walked into the town one after another. Lin Sanjiu immediately deactivated her hypersensory and blended into the crowd of posthumans. She followed the man nonchalantly while praying that he would not board any flying device. Otherwise, she would be at her wit's end.
The strange man seemed to have never been to Mid Mountian Town before, and he was very interested in this strange snow-covered town. There were a few times when Lin Sanjiu thought that she had been discovered. He bought a handful of "popping candies" from the vending machine and stood at the entrance of Bliss for a while. In the end, he seemed to have thought of something funny and walked away with a chuckle. Lin Sanjiu didn't know what to make of it.
If Lin Sanjiu had not seen him with her own eyes, she would have thought that he was just an ordinary posthuman.
Perhaps God had heard her prayers, for the man wandered to the other end of the town after he was done with his stroll. It was the highest point in the town. There was a long winding staircase dug out of the mountain. At the end of the staircase was a wide platform covered with wooden planks. The people on the platform looked like black dots. Lin Sanjiu could barely make out their movements when they raised their heads to look at the blue sky from time to time.
Lin Sanjiu heaved a sigh of relief. While the man was climbing the staircase, she hid in the shadow of a corner and quickly took off her mask. Then, she put on a new one. She quickly took off her shirt and put on another denim jacket. She waited for a few minutes before she walked toward the staircase.
The "landing pad" that she and Yu Yuan had built at the top of the mountain was actually inspired by this wooden platform. It was the sky bus stop in Mid Mountian Town. Lin Sanjiu had always thought that the bus stop was only used to travel between Mid Mountian Town and the central station. However, she found out that the bus stop could also stop at Black's Market and a few other stops. She couldn't help sighing when she thought about how many times she had run to Black's Market with her legs.
When she walked up to the wooden platform, the man was sitting on a bench with his legs stretched out. He was enjoying the last rays of the evening sun. He did not notice Lin Sanjiu at all.
With Lin Sanjiu's current skills, not many people would be able to notice her, not to mention that she had changed her mask several times along the way. She walked to a corner of the wooden rooftop and chose a spot where she could see the entire rooftop. Then, she crossed her arms and stood there.
"This man found my aircraft out of nowhere, but he didn't steal it or snatch it from me. Now, he is sitting here like a normal person waiting for the bus …" Lin Sanjiu couldn't figure this out no matter how she thought about it.
As dusk gradually closed in, the setting sun shone through the wooden canopy on the rooftop, leaving long golden-red fingers on the ground, caressing the man's face. His thick, brown-black hair was cut short, revealing a bit of green stubble at the back of his head. He had a high nose bridge, but it was a meaty nose. At first glance, he was a young man with a pleasant-looking face. However, when Lin Sanjiu looked at him more carefully, she could see that he was no longer as young as he looked.
The thing that bothered Lin Sanjiu the most was his eyes.
His eyes were hidden in the shadow cast by his arched brows, and they glowed dimly. His pupils were so big and black that there seemed to be two dark holes under his arched brows. Most of the time, he did not blink at all, like a reptile. Occasionally, he would roll his eyes and show a sliver of white.
Lin Sanjiu couldn't look at him for too long, and she didn't want to. She retracted her gaze and stared at her fingernails for a while. Finally, she heard the rumbling sound of the skybus engine.
Even though it was a skybus, it was very different from the public transportation vehicles in the Munitions Factory. Every part of the skybus was modified to accommodate more passengers, not to make it faster or safer. It hovered in the air outside the rooftop, its tail spewing strong gusts of wind into the distance. Lin Sanjiu covered her eyebrows with one hand as if she was shielding herself from the sun. Then, she followed the man onto the skybus.
He didn't even notice that the stranger behind him had been following him all the way.
Lin Sanjiu was even more careful when she paid for the ticket. She didn't use red crystals. Instead, she took out a few Rontes that were commonly used in the Heaven Underworld. She purposely changed her pace, squared her shoulders, and hunched her waist. She stood not far away from the man, just behind the driver's seat. It was the only seat in the entire skybus.
"We are about to take off," the driver yelled through the speakers, "Hold tight!"
As the roar of the engine intensified, the skybus slowly left the rooftop like an old man who had eaten too much. However, as soon as it rose into the air, its body suddenly tilted to one side, causing everyone in the bus to stumble and tumble to the ground. The driver's angry voice rang out from the loudspeaker, "How can you stand like that? There should be a similar number of people on both sides for balance. Hurry up and go to the right side! "
"How crude is this skybus?"
Just as the thought crossed Lin Sanjiu's mind, she saw the driver waving his hand at her, gesturing for her to stand on the other side. "It would be weird if I don't move …" Lin Sanjiu looked up at the man, gritted her teeth, and walked over. He didn't stand properly just now, so he grabbed the windowsill and straightened his body. When he saw someone approaching, he smiled at her, "This is the first time I've seen such a crude aircraft."
"Oh, oh, yes."
Lin Sanjiu didn't expect that he would take the initiative to talk to her, so she was caught off guard. She didn't want him to remember her mask, so she pretended that she didn't want to talk to the stranger and turned her head to look out of the window. The skybus had completely left the ground. As far as the eye could see, the sky was filled with the rays of the setting sun. Another large aircraft was approaching, casting a huge shadow over the sky. Lin Sanjiu looked at the aircraft flying back and forth in the sky. After a while, she stole a glance at the stranger from the corner of her eye.
He had just moved his gaze away from the ground.
"What's on the ground?"
Lin Sanjiu was instantly suspicious, but she couldn't lower her head to look at the ground. She was afraid that she would expose the fact that she had been staring at him. She endured it for a while before she felt the man suddenly turn around and walk to the back of the skybus. A few seconds after he left, Lin Sanjiu looked at the ground casually.
Other than shoe prints and dust stains, there was nothing on the ground.
The stranger had indeed stared at the ground for a while … Even though she couldn't tell how long he had been looking, she was certain that it wasn't an unintentional glance. His gaze lingered on the ground for some time, which was why she caught it.
She raised her head and looked. The back of the man's head, which was covered with short, dark brown hair, was standing in the middle of a few passengers at the back of the skybus. He reached out his hand and grabbed the handrail. Lin Sanjiu immediately lowered her head and looked at the ground carefully.
She found a blade of grass on her trousers.
It was a long blade of grass. The top of the blade of grass had turned yellow due to the dryness, and it was stuck in the crease of her trousers. The blade of grass looked very familiar because the top of the mountain was covered with weeds that looked exactly the same.
Lin Sanjiu cursed inwardly. She leaped forward and dashed to the back of the skybus. She knocked away a few posthumans with her shoulder, causing them to grumble and curse angrily. After the passengers made way for her, she plunged into the space at the back of the skybus. She looked around and was stunned.
The man had disappeared.
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