Doomsday Paradise

Chapter 1565 A Small Difference
Qiao Yuansi lowered the brim of his hat, lowered his head and opened the door lock.Ying Shui'an, who was a head taller than her, stood beside her, enveloping her in his own shadow, blocking most of the outside world's sight.

Thanks to this hiking sunhat, she can slightly shield her face when getting out of the car.There are already many shapeshifters in her neighborhood. If any neighbor sees the blushing marks on her face, they will immediately know that she is a target who must use strong methods.

Of course, in her current state, it seems completely meaningless to worry about whether she will be discovered by the shapeshifter.

Qiao Yuansi always claimed to have a clear mind, but at this moment, there seemed to be countless torrents in her head, and all her thoughts were rampaging, churning and confronting; she had finally returned home, but she stood in the hallway thinking for a long time, and couldn't even think of it. What to do next.

She's about to become one of the shapeshifters...?
Seeing her motionless, Ying Shui'an took the key from her hand, put a hand on her back lightly, and led her into the living room—with a natural attitude, as if this was his It's the same as my own home.

When Qiao Yuansi sat on the sofa, she thought about it, and went to get a mirror and put it on the coffee table, facing her face torn by blood-red scratches.Except for the frighteningly large blood spots on the skin, the facial features and shape have not changed; Ying Shui'an also sat down on the sofa next to her and looked at her without saying a word.

"...Why didn't you leave, but came home with me instead?" Qiao Yuansi took a few glances, but he didn't want to look at himself any more, preferring to look at him.

"There are several reasons."

"what?"

She only asked Ying Shui'an to speak directly once, and this person obviously gave up euphemism completely. "Well, first, I want to observe you at a close distance and detect your changes, which can help me understand the world better... I still have a lot of confusion. Second, after you become a fallen species , I plan to kill you, so I can temporarily use your house to rest."

Is this man some kind of robber?

At any other time, Qiao Yuansi would definitely be terrified when she heard these words, but the torture and fright she has suffered today has reached its peak, and she really can't spare the energy to be afraid of Yingshui'an; so she just said numbly: "Yes. Is there anything else?"

He said "several" reasons, so it should be at least more than two, but he didn't know why he stopped and didn't finish.He can even say that he killed himself, and the third reason why he didn't say it, God knows how ugly it is.

Sakura Shuigan rubbed her nose. "Although I didn't need you to take me away just now, you still helped me..."

Qiao Yuansi looked at him and blinked.

"I'll stay and see what I can do to help you." He finally finished speaking dryly.

Qiao Yuansi lowered his head and smiled wryly. "I... If I really become like that, maybe you will kill me, and you will help me."

Ying Shui'an said "hmm" from his nose for a full second—as if he didn't know what to say in this situation, and after a long while he uttered a sentence that didn't seem to be comforting: "Anyway, when I arrive will be here."

Let's talk about fear, Qiao Yuansi is not so afraid now.Listening to his description of the fallen species in other worlds, it seems that they are all a group of creatures that are shrouded in misery and violence and can never escape the darkness.She was about to become that kind of thing... This really prevented her from having much sense of reality, and she even wanted to laugh a little: Maybe she would wake up from the tent sleeping bag as soon as she opened her eyes, and realized that this was all a scene. dream.

Her thoughts drifted away from the fallen species, and she gradually remembered more of what he said, thinking about it, she couldn't help but startled.She didn't know how she thought of it, so she quickly raised her head and asked, "No, you said that the survivors in the doomsday world will either become corrupted species or become evolutionary. So, is it possible for me to...become an evolutionary Woolen cloth?"

When Sakura Shui An raised her eyes, a cold light flashed from under her eyelashes.

"In theory, it's possible."

He tilted his head, his cheeks, neck, and Adam's apple were all dyed half light white and half dark in the skylight under the window, like a plaster sculpture staring at the empty room in a deserted art room after school.Obviously she is still here, when Ying Shui'an looked at her, it seemed that the living room was empty - his expression told Qiao Yuansi the answer one step earlier than his answer.

"It's just that during the four days I've been here, I've seen enough degenerates, normal people, and normal people who are about to become degenerates... but I've never seen a normal person about to evolve. "

Qiao Yuansi closed his eyes, feeling empty in his heart for a moment, as if an anesthetic had been applied to his reaction nerves.She heard herself muttering, "You are in the same room with me, so it won't infect you too?"

Sakura was silent for a few seconds. "I'll be fine. This 'deformation' is not an airborne virus, otherwise you would have been caught."

He paused here, rubbed his hair a little irritably, and said, "I really don't understand why you are still worried about others at this point."

Qiao Yuansi opened his eyes and forced a smile at him. "Maybe it's because I don't turn back if I don't hit the south wall. I always feel that my life won't end like this, and I won't allow it... I suddenly had an idea, which might explain why you haven't seen the local evolution By."

"What is it?"

"Those who have transformed are not considered fallen species." She looked at the ceiling and said, "Therefore, there are no evolutionaries."

Ying Shui'an seemed to be taken aback for a moment.

When he didn't answer, she continued: "You told me that after the end of other worlds, the surviving humans will start to develop two evolutionary directions in order to adapt to the new living environment. One is The fallen species, one is the evolutionary. This is essentially the law of evolution."

The terms and information were new to her, but that didn't mean she couldn't put them under logical analysis.

"If we use this set of prerequisites to examine this world, you will find that you cannot enter. Is this world over? It should be over, otherwise you will not be sent here; but in this end of the world, human beings In fact, there was no pressure to survive at all.”

Ying Shui'an didn't say anything, just leaned forward a little, listening very intently.

"Yes, those people's faces have been deformed, and then? You also said that they are still working and living as before, maintaining the normal operation of human society... They did not destroy the world, and naturally there is no destroyed world to reflect Come here to put pressure on human beings to survive. Without this pressure to survive, life will still be the same as before, so human beings will not have a new direction of development.”

"You mean..." Ying Shui An frowned slightly.

"When people in a world become monsters, the old human world of the past will naturally end. In this sense, it is not wrong to say that the world is ending. But the behavior of monsters is not much different from before. ——I believe that there must be small differences, but from a macro perspective, the monster society is the same as the human society. Horses run and dances. If I also become a monster, I still have to go there next month School works, right?"

On the way home just now, she has observed enough such examples: workers who repair electric wires, owners who run restaurants, truck drivers who deliver goods... From a distance, the only change in them is their faces.

"I understand." Ying Shui An breathed out hoarsely.

Qiao Yuansi nodded. "Or it can be said that the doomsday factor of deformation is more cunning than other radiation and poisonous gas. Because it does not cause social turmoil after it spreads, and people have no pressure to survive, so they will not evolve... …If you don’t evolve, it means you don’t have the ability to resist. Transformation is like a kind of influenza, it will spread more and more widely, and until the world is full of shapeshifters, there will still be no evolvers.”

"In this way, it can indeed explain why I haven't seen a local evolutionary yet." Ying Shui'an raised an eyebrow and asked, "Then why do you think you can be spared?"

"The virus can't kill people [-]%, so why can't I survive with my own resistance?" Qiao Yuansi folded his arms, feeling dissatisfied from nowhere: "Besides, the policeman only Catch me once or twice, and you knock him down. The contact process only takes a few seconds, even if he has poison on his hands, I don't get much poison... Oh, remind me, I'm going to wash it Face."

Qiao Yuansi had never washed his face so seriously in his life.

When she walked back to the living room, her hair and collar were all wet; Ying Shui'an glanced at her, seeming to be a little bit ironic: "Have you finished washing? He didn't rub mud on your face anymore."

"You don't know, what if it's useful?" Qiao Yuansi replied, and sat down to look at his face carefully in the mirror.On the sofa next to her, Ying Shui An was also looking at her; his eyes seemed to carry weight and warmth, and when they passed over her cheeks, it was as if fingers were slowly caressing them.

The blood-red scratches in the mirror looked neither worse nor better.For God knows how long, it was obvious that Qiao Yuansi had no other choice but to wait.

Waiting, but it doesn't mean she is sitting still.

According to the original plan, Qiao Yuansi cleaned the inside and outside of the house once, and even Yingshui Bank was given the task of cleaning the courtyard.She lit a scented candle, cut a handful of flowers and put them in a bottle, then went into the kitchen and made a big table of meals and desserts. Whether it is food or evolution, both have a wolf-like appetite. When Qiao Yuansi is full and comes back from the bath, he is still on the dining table.

"What's going on in your head?" he asked as he ate.

"Hair mask," said Qiao Yuansi, who covered his head, "are you going to eat my plate?"

"You wrap your hair—does it do any good?"

"It's useful," Qiao Yuansi nodded, "Don't worry about when, I'll be decent, so I'm happy."

Evolvers may be people who don't know what politeness is.When she went into the bathroom to wash the hair mask, Sakura Shui An stood by and watched, as if she was watching the monkey bathing herself in the zoo - just looking at it was not enough, after drying, he touched her hair a few times and said : "It's really smoother, you can give me one too."

By the time the two silky-haired heads returned to the living room and sat down to drink tea, it was already 09:30 in the evening.

As long as you don't look in the mirror and you can't see the red marks on your face, everything seems to be the same as before.

According to the old habits, Qiao Yuansi opened the textbooks and handouts for the next semester, and prepared to continue preparing for a while.Ying Shui An has no self-consciousness. After entering the room, she doesn’t regard herself as an outsider at all, and snuggles up on the sofa cushion beside her to watch TV—even though he has been separated from human society for a long time, it does not delay him enjoying sitcoms at all. Occasionally, when I want to change the channel, I still complain, "How come your world hasn't even invented a TV remote control yet."

After a while, he got up and turned off the TV. When he came back, he sat on the coffee table opposite Qiao Yuan Temple.

"Head up," he whispered.

Qiao Yuansi raised his head slowly.

"Hmm...it hasn't changed. What's the matter with you?" Ying Shui An observed her face and asked almost calmly. "It's been 15 minutes since you opened this handout and you haven't turned a page."

Qiao Yuansi opened his mouth.She didn't know until today that there are so many kinds of fears—one kind when she was on the highway, and a completely different kind now.Her world might really be turned into pieces and swept away by the rapids, but she had nothing to do.All her efforts to maintain normality were meaningless.

"I..." she said with trembling lips, and a tear fell. "I can't understand it. This is a lesson I prepared myself, but I...can't understand the content."

　1558 made a small modification and added a sentence, limiting the method of calling the police to landline telephones.After all, it was human society 36 years ago, and the progress bar of science and technology must be adjusted back a bit, so the TV in this chapter, please make up for the old-fashioned TV with a small screen...

Speaking of logic, when I read the old articles, I realized many problems in the early stage. For example, I finally knew why some readers said it was messy... I liked to jump in the early days. The logic of a thing goes from A to B to C. I wrote A and jumped directly to C. By default, everyone can understand that the middle is B.I feel that this problem is much better in the later stage, but at the same time, I also think that everyone who can read it all the way is really not easy, and they are too tolerant to me... Especially after I said that I am not in a good state, the comments in each chapter They are all encouraging me to praise me for my good writing, just like parents who are reluctant to beat their mentally handicapped children...

　
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