Doomsday Paradise

Chapter 1563 Memories of Memories of Memories
Professor Qiao lowered his eyes and slowly turned a silver ring on his finger, as if his mind had returned to a peaceful and distant place.She didn't seem to realize that her own words were like bombs to Wu Yiliu, so she just said in a calm tone: "You asked me just now, when did I become aware of the shapeshifter...then the answer is, 36 years before."

Wu Yiliu looked at her and almost lost the ability to understand the language for a moment.He opened his mouth, but nothing came out.

He repeated Professor Qiao's words in his mind several times, but he still couldn't digest the slightest bit; after a while, he asked in a daze, "What... what?"

36...years?The unit of measurement is the year?
The old lady let out a breath.

"Professor Joe, you say this has happened once...not that it started happening 36 years ago."

This distinction is crucial; Wu Yiliu's overly frightened brain finally started to spin at this moment.As he gradually remembered, the excitement that rose up made him speak at a rapid rate: "You mean, the same problem happened before and was solved, and then there are no more shapeshifters. Right? So, the first time I saw a shapeshifter was when I was 20."

The old lady nodded quietly.

This was like a dose of stimulant, immediately causing Wu Yiliu's face to become hot and red, and even his heartbeat to speed up.

"Then—how did you solve it in the first place? Can their faces really return to normal? What about those shapeshifters? What happened to the shapeshifters 36 years ago?" He was full of doubts. Write it all down, and I'm afraid it will form a book: "What is the cause of the deformation? Why have I never heard of it? Can we solve the problem this time and return people to normal?"

His series of airtight questions caused Professor Qiao to slightly twitch a wry smile.

"I never thought that I would tell others about that experience in my lifetime... So, please allow me to clear my mind first." Even when talking in private, the old lady is as helpful as she is in class. organized.When she was thinking quietly, Wu Yiliu unconsciously held her breath.

"...I was 33 years old that year, and I was just an assistant professor."

As the old lady spoke, she slowly poured two cups of tea for herself and Wu Yiliu.I don't know if it's because the eye sockets are prone to redness when people get old; but the way she lowered her eyes when pouring tea made Wu Yiliu feel that she wasn't thirsty, she just wanted to do something , to calm down my emotions.

"Back then was different from now. It was very common for women in their 30s not to get married and pursue careers. I just moved into this house at that time, and I was doing my favorite teaching job. When I was free, I drank tea and read books alone. I live completely in my own world. Later, I counted the days, and when the accident started, it should have happened to be the time when the school was on holiday... Not only do I like to be alone at ordinary times, but I also like to go hiking and camping during the holidays, away from the crowd , so I didn’t notice the accident for the time being, and the shapeshifter didn’t find me for the time being. It’s precisely because of this that there are subsequent stories.”

Wu Yiliu gave an "um" to indicate that he was listening; while listening to the old lady's memories, Wu Yiliu's eyes wandered around the living room and stopped on one of the bookshelves.On the shelf near the top floor, there was a photo that looked quite old-until now he belatedly realized that the smiling young woman sitting on a rock by the sea was Professor Qiao.

The old lady also caught his gaze, turned her eyes from the photo, and smiled—even though her once plump skin had been wrinkled by age, her smile was still as light and gentle as in the photo , as if the two echoed and echoed through time.

"Yeah, that's me...I think my story really begins on the highway I'm driving back from the mountains."

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For 33-year-old Qiao Yuansi, the world is a smooth, stable and comfortable place.

She is in her prime, full of energy, with a stable job prospect, and an independent and free life. Even with a magnifying glass, she can't pick out a single deficiency.The life unfolding in front of her eyes is like the endless highway ahead at this moment, flat and straight, shining brightly in the afternoon sun.

She likes the scenery on this section of the highway the most: on the left are deep and shallow, rolling green valleys, and on the right beyond the fence is a vast sea of ​​sparkling gold under the cliffs.Whenever walking on this road, most of Qiao Yuansi's attention is not on the road, but on the natural scenery.

This is not a big deal, after driving for a long time, driving becomes a subconscious background operation.Qiao Yuansi drove steadily for a while, turned a corner under the cliff, and then couldn't help being startled.

On the side of the highway ahead, a man is walking slowly.

... a bum?

Several cars in front of her roared past that person one after another, blowing his shawl-length hair into the wind.Just looking at the messy hair, he really looks like a homeless man; his actions are also a bit weird, turning his head all the time, staring very intently at every car passing by him, as if he wanted to stick his head into the car It looks like it.

Don't be the kind of person who will suddenly jump in front of the car and commit suicide, right?Qiao Yuansi was thinking worriedly, and at the same time turned on the turn signal, preparing to stay away from the homeless man and go to the lane in the middle of the road.

It's just that a red car happened to come from behind the middle lane at this time, so she had to wait patiently for it to pass.The homeless man was not far away from her, she had to wait for the red car to pass by, and cut behind it immediately, so she focused all her attention on the red car - when it passed by Qiao Yuansi When she was about to leave, the driver of the red car glanced at her and turned his head again.

It's time to change lanes. Qiao Yuansi confirmed that there was no car coming from the rearview mirror, and quickly changed to the middle lane, just behind the red car; the eccentric tramp quickly drove from her right. It flashed past the window—it was a driveway away, and it was logical that the other party should not be able to see her at all, but she still had a real feeling of being glanced at.

The bum disappeared from the rearview mirror; out of the corner of her eye was the sea beyond the fence, and she adjusted her position uncomfortable.

...still uncomfortable.

It's strange what made her feel so uncomfortable.

Qiao Yuansi turned his attention away from the natural scenery and looked at the road ahead.Then she narrowed her eyes slightly and looked carefully at the road ahead and the red car ahead.

The driver who had glanced at her just now was also looking at her at this moment, and their eyes met on the highway.

The flesh-colored human face was turned 180 degrees, and it seemed to rise from the back of the driver in front, facing Qiao Yuansi directly; its lower part was blocked by the car seat , so only a pair of fuzzy eyebrows and two fuzzy eyes can be seen.

With his sudden scream, Qiao Yuansi subconsciously slammed on the brakes.The car made a screeching sound on the road, and the inertia almost caused her to smash her own steering wheel—she came back to her senses suddenly, and quickly released the brake in shock, trembling amidst the angry horn of the car behind. quickly regained its speed.

... The driver of the red car in front was still looking at her motionlessly.

Is it a mask?Is it a prank?Is she wrong?
There were many possibilities, but none of them could stop her trembling.She gritted her teeth and stepped on the accelerator, and accelerated towards the red car, almost touching the rear of the car——as she got closer and closer, the flesh-colored face became more and more clear: it was nothing else. , a face staring at her from behind.

She couldn't see the lower half of the face, but after a few seconds of meeting each other, the eyes seemed to narrow together, and the center of the cheek slowly puffed up.

...It looked like the driver's face, laughing behind the car seat.

When the red car honked twice suddenly and long, Qiao Yuansi was startled, and immediately realized that his hands were covered in cold sweat.Looking up again, there is a dark head in the car ahead, and that face seems to be just an illusion.

She swallowed hard, slowly distanced herself from the red car, and turned on the turn signal again—this time, she had to turn back to the far right lane, because only there could she make an emergency stop Bring stop.

Her current condition is not suitable for continuing to drive.

As soon as Qiao Yuansi stopped the car, he quickly lay down on the steering wheel and took a deep breath for a while.The red car had already disappeared into the traffic on the expressway at this time, and she couldn't even see it, which made her relax a bit; what's more, being able to turn her face 180 degrees made her appear Hallucinations... Or, is this the so-called supernatural event?

When she was still in shock and out of her mind, she didn't know how long she had stayed on the parking belt.When she felt her heartbeat calm down, she looked up and found a Highway Patrol police car driving behind her and stopped behind her.

If you got a ticket for this kind of thing, it would be really bad luck on top of bad luck.

Qiao Yuansi hurriedly straightened his hair in front of the mirror.Now her face is pale and her eyes are wide open. She doesn't look like she is extremely tired and needs to stop urgently. She really can't think of a suitable excuse to justify her parking behavior.Seeing that the patrolman came to the side and knocked on the window, she took a low breath, opened half of the car window, and forced a smile: "Officer—"

The word "official" turned into another scream, which suddenly filled the car, and the agitation tore through the air.

The patrolman shook his long face that fell to his chest, raised his arm and stretched his hand in through the half-opened car window; Qiao Yuansi shrieked and shrank back under the remaining rationality—but she I forgot that I was still wearing a seat belt.

The policeman's face, which can't be called a face at all, was stuck crookedly on the window glass, watching her from the small black hole representing the eyes, while scratching at her face with his hand stretched into the window, forcefully It made her skin burn and hurt—she only remembered that she was desperately swiping to resist with one hand, and fumbled to unbuckle the seat belt with the other, and everything became a blur in the confusion and fear.

Until there was a muffled sound of "dong", Qiao Yuansi realized that the indomitable hand that seemed to be attracted by his face suddenly disappeared.She didn't understand what happened, so she immediately unbuckled her seat belt and hurriedly climbed over to the passenger seat, only then remembered to look back.

"Ah, I'm scared."

Outside the car window, a strange young man bent down, looked at her and said.His shoulder-length hair fell down and floated in the air.It's the bum.

No, no, Qiao Yuansi quickly corrected himself.His hair is quite messy, and his clothes don't look like what a normal person would wear, but...he has a kind of clear and bright temperament, as if a wild eagle has seen the grassland, which made her realize that he is not a wanderer in the ordinary sense Chinese.

"Is this the first time you've seen these fallen species with deformed faces?" He continued to speak, even though she couldn't understand what he said. "It's strange. Did you just come out of the mountains? Why did you see these monsters for the first time?"

She wiped her face and managed to calm herself down—although she felt that it might be easier to just go crazy now.

"The face is deformed...? So, you have seen it too," she was still trembling slightly, "What is a fallen species? Who are you?"

"It's a long story," the young man smiled at her and said, "In short, I am an evolutionary who was just teleported to this doomsday world four days ago. Why do you have such an expression... Don't get me wrong, I didn't do it, the world you live in has come to an end."

　To be honest, this way of writing made me a little uneasy... Lin Sanjiu "possessed" Wu Yiliu, Wu Yiliu began to recall, and the old lady in Wu Yiliu's memory began to recall again... The evolutionary can also start to recall, repeatedly and endlessly)

Layers of memories are like a rabbit hole within a hole (here cue Alice in Wonderland). This is the first time for me to write this kind of doll-style writing. How effective it is depends on God. Let's face it... Anyway, it's a memoir of matryoshka dolls, let's see which side of the author and readers go crazy first

　
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