"There are many different kinds of goods on the round shelves on the right side of the shop. There is a long box containing the 'Essential Wilderness Survival Supplies'. Open it. "
After the four leaves disappeared, Lin Sanjiu lay on the platform with her back straight. Her muscles were starting to ache from the tension she had exerted. To try her best to forget the discomfort, she recalled the instructions she gave to the round leaves. She had noticed the 'Essential Wilderness Survival Supplies' when she visited the shop a few times in the past. She remembered that the contents of the boxes were clearly stated, and there was an accelerant and a lighter inside. It seemed to be something left behind before the apocalypse. It had been sitting in the shop for a long time without being sold.
As long as she opened it, it wouldn't be difficult to set the fire.
"The round leaves should be able to do that … right?"
The sun was slowly moving toward the middle of the sky. The strong sunlight illuminated the sky with a translucent blue. Lin Sanjiu had no choice but to squint her eyes. Her face and body were warm from the sun, but the warmth only made her feel more uncomfortable. As time passed, her heart was in her throat.
After all, those were just four tea leaves … Did she really have too much hope for the tea leaves?
Ever since the boy put the head in the box, she hadn't heard anything noteworthy. Moving objects, opening and closing doors, and muffled footsteps could be heard for a while, but it was hard to tell what was going on in the shop from the sound alone. After the noise, the shop became quiet. Occasionally, she could hear the boy sniffing from afar. He seemed to be at the back of the shop. Since there weren't any customers after so long, it seemed like he had closed the shop.
"Is there a gap under the door?" Lin Sanjiu thought worriedly. "The brothers are much fatter than the other round leaves. Can they fit in?
Also, why didn't the boy contact the other personalities after he killed "Lin Sanjiu"? Why did he leave a corpse in the shop? What was he trying to do?
More importantly, it was almost afternoon. Would the Leaves reincarnate before they could set the fire?
The more she thought about it, the more worried she became. Just as she was lost in her thoughts, she heard a crisp clang from her earpiece. Her heart skipped a beat. It sounded like a box had fallen on the ground.
The tea leaves must have dropped by accident!
She waited a moment in suspense, and sure enough, she heard a blur of footsteps approaching, and the boy came up to the cupboard where the heads were kept. "Who is it?" he asked in a loud voice.
Through the earpiece, the shop was silent.
The boy seemed to pass by softly, and then there was an indistinct murmur.
She subconsciously held her breath, not daring to let go of any sound. She was afraid that she would hear Round Tea Leaf shriek. She tensed up and waited for a while, only to hear the boy mumble, "It didn't hang properly?" It sounded like he was fiddling with the shelves.
Relief and disappointment flooded his heart at the same time.
The round tea leaves were not discovered, but they obviously did not succeed either. Lured out by the noise, the boy must have hung the box back, and the round tea leaves would have to try again. But they were slow and stiff, and there was no time for them to start again.
Lin Sanjiu narrowed her eyes. Through the shadow of her eyelashes, she could barely make out the bright light source in the center of the sky.
She did not know when, but it was already noon.
"Mrs. Manas, when did I go for tea?" she asked in her mind.
Lin Sanjiu had used up too much of her higher consciousness a few days ago, and she had only just recovered today. Mrs. Manas could finally respond to her call, "Let me think … It should be after 12 o'clock. You went for tea not long after you signed in. Even though you strolled around for a while, I'm sure it wouldn't be after 12: 30 p.m. "
Lin Sanjiu let out a sigh of relief.
Time was running out … The four round tea leaves would be reincarnated in a while.
"What should we do now?" Mrs. Manas asked bitterly, "Let's not talk about whether we can see those four guys or not. The time limit for the physical projection is almost up … If the corpses suddenly disappeared from the shop, it would definitely arouse suspicion. But it's different if there's a fire. If there's a fire, the boy will definitely think that someone went in. Then, the disappearance of the corpses will be easy to explain. "
Of course, Lin Sanjiu knew this very well. She controlled her breathing and bit her lip tightly.
Could it be that all her efforts were going to go to waste?
The earpiece fell silent again. The boy seemed to have returned to the back of the shop. She still remembered the long and narrow walkway at the back of the shop and the courtyard where the aircraft were parked. She felt that the actual size of the shop was much bigger than it looked.
"Forget it," she said to Mrs. Manas silently, "If there's really no other way, I'll cut off the projection while he's not in the shop —"
Before she could finish her thought, a soft "pa" sounded in her earpiece, cutting off her unfinished words. Lin Sanjiu shuddered. She quickly pricked up her ears and concentrated on listening to the slightest sound coming from the earpiece.
Although the shop was still relatively quiet, there was an indescribable, vigorous, and extremely invasive sound that gradually spread into the ears of the customers. It was like the sound of a tidal wave or the sound of a gust of wind. Every now and then, it would cause something to explode with a low, crisp sound. Soon, Lin Sanjiu could feel it in the cupboard where the human heads were placed. It was the unique, scorching silence when flames licked and devoured the surrounding objects.
"They did it!"
Lin Sanjiu's heart raced. She immediately sat up and raised her hand to turn off the projection. She was still in disbelief. "They actually did it!"
Lin Sanjiu stored the projector back into her card and quickly put on a mask. She ran toward the exit of the rooftop, "Maybe I still have time to fetch Boss and the others —"
"There's no time," Mrs. Manas suddenly reminded her in a low voice, "It's time."
Lin Sanjiu was stunned. She stopped in the corridor, "... What time is it?"
After humans rebuilt their society, they also restored part of their way of life. She walked a few steps along the corridor of the hotel. When she looked up, her gaze fell on the clock on the wall.
"12: 43," she stood in the corridor, feeling a little lost, "They … they have reincarnated."
Mrs. Manas did not speak for a long time.
Mrs. Manas came from Lin Sanjiu's subconscious. She was the combination of her emotions, memories, experiences, and thoughts that she had suppressed. Compared to Lin Sanjiu herself, Mrs. Manas could feel how lonely she was right now.
"They come and go, gather and disperse," Lin Sanjiu laughed bitterly. She comforted Mrs. Manas softly, "It's actually very normal. I'm used to it."
She returned to her room and changed her clothes. Then, she quietly left the hotel through the back door. She knew what she had to do now. Since "Lin Sanjiu" was dead, she had to make use of this time to rush to the orangery to carry out the next step of her plan. Over there, Exodus had been waiting for her for a few days.
"Didn't they want to reincarnate as well?" Lin Sanjiu tried to strike up a conversation. "They think it's very tiring to accompany me. Well, I seem to have ordered them to do quite a lot of things. "
Lin Sanjiu guessed that it must be very strenuous for them to do anything with their short, round, limbless, and limbless bodies.
Mrs. Manas let out a soft sigh when she boarded the shuttle station of a large spaceship.
"This kind of tea leaves is really … weird," Lin Sanjiu bought a ticket and walked into the sky tunnel with the crowd. Beside her, there were a few other large airships hovering in the sky. The bellies of the ships were as large as whales, peeking out from the clouds. She looked at the clouds drifting past outside the sky tunnel and felt a little envious. "What's the point of only being able to accompany them for five days? Now that they're gone, I feel even more lonely, don't I? "
"Let's go back to that round teahouse after we solve the problem," Mrs. Manas suggested. "Maybe we can find a way to meet them again … Of course, that is, if the shop owner didn't teleport away."
Lin Sanjiu agreed inwardly. She also felt that she was being a little unreasonable. After all, she had gone through so many life-and-death situations during the apocalypse. She couldn't be weak just because of a few tea leaves.
As she walked, she forced herself to reconsider the current situation and what she should do. Even after walking for a while, the sky tunnel still hadn't come to an end.
"Is the tunnel so long?" Lin Sanjiu mumbled as she looked around. Both sides of the tunnel were transparent. Lin Sanjiu had no idea what kind of material the tunnel was made of. If she stood at the edge of the tunnel and looked down, she would see that Black's Market was like a beehive of countless bees.
"It is very long," a posthuman who walked past her seemed to have heard her muttering. He raised his voice and answered, "You can tell by looking at the spaceship parked in the clouds. We are still some distance away from the spaceship."
"Are they all parked at the same altitude?" Lin Sanjiu raised her head and asked.
The middle-aged man with a long travel bag seemed to be very willing to talk to someone, "Yes! Is this your first time riding on this kind of spaceship? This is the largest spaceship provided by Nocturnal Wanderer. It can fly the furthest and has the highest level of traffic in the sky. You know that, right? Different models of spaceships can fly at different altitudes … We have to plan our flight plan carefully so that we won't have any accidents. I like spaceships very much. If you have any questions, just ask me. "
He seemed to be expecting Lin Sanjiu to ask him more questions, but Lin Sanjiu disappointed him.
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