Lin Sanjiu sighed and gave up on her attempt when the first rays of the sun began to rise from the horizon.
One by one, the street lights drifted across the sky and slowly descended toward the horizon. They would not rise again until nightfall. The gigantic airships hovering in the sky were illuminated by the sea of clouds and the rays of the sun. Perhaps, they would fly to their respective destinations soon. Lin Sanjiu looked at the street that was slowly waking up. She rubbed her calf for a while. She wasn't sure if it was her eyes or her muscles that were aching more.
In order to accurately determine Septimus's route, Lin Sanjiu repeated the route several times. However, it didn't take her long to realize that it was impossible to deduce Luther's location.
The reason was simple. After drawing a simple map on a piece of paper, Lin Sanjiu realized that the place where Septimus disappeared was still within the route that he had walked.
"Didn't he disappear because he exceeded the safe distance? Did he go back on his own accord? "
Lin Sanjiu's mind had been wandering around this question for quite some time.
"No," Mrs. Manas thought for a while and refuted, "From what he said, only a complete body can go back on its own accord. Do you remember that on the first day he came to Heaven Underworld, he deliberately walked for a long time so that he could return to Luther's body? If he could go back on his own accord, he wouldn't have to do that. "
"You're right," Lin Sanjiu suddenly remembered. "Also, the resentment he showed when he talked about Marcie seemed to be unintentional."
Now that she thought about it, when she was in Hyperthermal Hell, Marcie had never returned to Luther's body on her own accord. At least, Lin Sanjiu couldn't remember anything like that happening.
But if that was the case, the situation was even more confusing.
Lin Sanjiu spread open the map that she had drawn and stared at it for a long time. She couldn't understand why Septimus would disappear when he was clearly within a safe distance. Furthermore, the circle that they took at night was too small. Lin Sanjiu remembered that Marcie's range of activity was much larger than this circle.
"Could it be that … Luther has been moving all this time?" When she thought of this possibility, the rising sun was spreading warmth across her back and shoulders. "I've thought about it, and this is the only explanation I can think of."
"This can solve one of my doubts."
"For example?"
"Septimus didn't talk about what happened to him after he came out of the dark room. Logically speaking, as soon as he stepped out of the house, he would know Luther's approximate location, but he said that he didn't know. If this is a lie, then it's too fake … If Luther has been moving around, then every time he comes out of the dark room, he would be at a different location. Then, it would make sense that he doesn't know where Luther is. "
A moving Luther would be even more difficult to find.
Lin Sanjiu let out a long sigh.
When she first came to Heaven Underworld, she only had one simple wish, and that was to gather all her former friends and provide them with a safe place to stay.
However, following Yu Yuan's explosion, Luther's personalities' strange behavior, and his other companions' disappearance … this simple wish seemed to be getting more and more distant. Even if there was an old enemy — at least an "enemy" was a relationship that could only be established between people. Now, in this endless apocalyptic world, she had left her friends, companions, and enemies behind. She felt like a kite with a broken string, drifting on the sea, drifting with the waves without any ties or connections.
The sun on her back was warm, but deep inside, there was only darkness and loneliness.
After sitting alone for a while, Lin Sanjiu decided that it was time for her to get rid of this luxury of sadness. She stood up and patted the dust off her body. She laughed self-deprecatingly, "I can meet my best friend in this desolate ruin, but I feel lonely in this prosperous human society … How ironic. Aren't humans supposed to be social animals? "
Lin Sanjiu was afraid that there was no other social animal in the world that had to be so cautious of its own kind. Even though each of them had experienced a world-destroying disaster, in the end, they were still most afraid of other humans.
At this moment, Lin Sanjiu had a deeper understanding of this point.
Her 24-hour life-threatening crisis was not over yet. Based on her calculations, she estimated that she still needed about six more hours. For the sake of safety, Lin Sanjiu avoided the place where the posthumans gathered and the Reconstruction Area centered around the Mokugyo Forum. Outside the Reconstruction Area, weeds and wild vines once again occupied the ruins left by the doomsday.
The traces of the previous human society had long been eroded by nature, which had made a comeback, until there were no traces left. Compared to the surface area of the entire planet, the area that the posthumans had rebuilt was actually very small. This was because they lacked the most important and precious resource — time.
"I just need to spend six hours here." Lin Sanjiu sat on a collapsed wall and thought to herself as she looked at the weeds poking out from the cracks.
After noon, she would immediately return to Mid Mountsburg.
Among the twelve personalities, Bliss was the only one whose location she could confirm. Not only did she have to go back to check on Yu Yuan's condition, she also had to find a way to use Bliss as a breakthrough to find Luther.
Perhaps it was because the sun was shining brightly, or perhaps it was because the life-threatening crisis was almost over, or perhaps it was because she had finally uncovered a clue to the mystery. Regardless of the reason, Lin Sanjiu felt her eyelids starting to feel heavy in the quiet and desolate ruins.
"I haven't slept for two days and three nights," Lin Sanjiu muttered in her head, trying to keep herself awake. "I've been tracking, searching, fighting, and traveling for a long time, but talking to Septimus isn't as tiring as talking to him. I'm so sleepy …"
She could swear that she had only drifted off for a short while.
When she forced her eyelids to open, the sun was still hanging in the same position in the sky. There was only the occasional rustling of the weeds as they were pushed by the wind.
Lin Sanjiu couldn't remember when she had lain down on the wall. Her brain felt like it was being hammered by countless hammers. Fatigue and drowsiness made her veins throb. Just as she was about to push herself up, she suddenly froze.
She heard it.
She heard the breathing of something, rising and falling not far above her head.
Her short hair must have been caught by that person — or that thing — for the roots were now pulled taut, tugging at her scalp slightly.
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