Doomsday Paradise

Chapter 1567 A short life intersection
Yingshui'an's warning weighed heavily on that period of time.

He only warned her once, and that was enough: there was only such a short period of time left for her to recover, so whenever Qiao Yuansi deteriorated, she would feel that she would be killed by him at any time.

When she was deteriorating, her desire to survive was extremely strong, so she begged and scolded him in every possible way, lied and coaxed, snarled and cried, as long as she could get away, she would not find it ugly in any way, and she could say anything.As for trying to call the police for help, or taking the opportunity to escape from home, she naturally did not do much—it's just that when facing a determined evolutionary, all the methods she can use are like foam hitting a rock, always Failed to shake the other side.

But when Qiao Yuansi was stable and sober, she looked different.

One of her eyes or steps is always following Yingshui'an closely; sometimes even if he just gets up to take a sip of water, she will follow to the kitchen, as if as long as one of them is not caught, Yingshui'an will follow her from her. slipping loose in my life.She couldn't tell why, but compared to being killed by him, she was more afraid of the scene where she was sitting at home alone with her face gradually deformed.

During this time, her intelligence has not been impaired; it may even be said that she has become more intelligent in some places.For example, Qiao Yuansi quickly realized the difference in her behavior in the two states, so when she deteriorated, she began to deliberately follow Ying Shui'an, saying that she was scared, sad, etc., to relax his vigilance Xing looked for another chance to escape—the first time she did this, he was almost fooled.

Qiao Yuansi would never forget that scene for the rest of her life: one day she finally found a chance to sneak out of the house and started the car in fear. When she reversed the car in a hurry to get out of the garage, she raised her eyes and saw Sakura in the rearview mirror. waterfront.

He folded his arms and stood at the rear of the car, as if he had been waiting for a long time.

The second their eyes met in the mirror, Qiao Yuansi gritted his teeth and stepped on the accelerator.When the car backed sharply, it seemed as if it had hit a rocky mountain wall with tremendous force—she was thrown forward by the impact, and her forehead hit the steering wheel.

She raised her head in a daze, and looked back, just in time to see Ying Shui'an retracting one foot from the deformed car trunk.He slowly walked around to the driver's seat, and she suddenly remembered that the car was unlocked, but it was too late, so she had to watch him open the door.

Ying Shui An bent down, his eyes seemed to hide the sea under the cloudy sky.There was no joy or anger on his face, his tone was just saying a matter of course: "Come back with me."

When the voice fell, a lock of hair also slipped from his cheek and was blown swaying by the wind, just like when the two first met on the seaside highway a few days ago.

Qiao Yuansi stared at him blankly, and in a burst of coolness, he realized that he had woken up a little bit from his deteriorating state again.Obviously, her sanity is still continuous, but often when her mind slips towards the shape-shifter, she won't even notice it at all. She has to wait until she is triggered by a certain opportunity, and then she will suddenly come back to her senses and realize What did I just do.

Seeing that she didn't speak, Ying Shui An sighed.

"...I'll try another way," when he thought Qiao Yuansi wouldn't listen to him, he looked a little more tired and soft than before. "You still have time."

When he led him home, Qiao Yuansi silently wiped away the tears on his face.When the two entered the door, she whispered: "When I was a child, my family raised a thrush...I named her Man Miao at that time."

Ying Shui'an suddenly turned her head, her brows loosened.

It is precisely because of this sentence that the injured bird in the cardboard box in the living room, although suspected to be a male bird, was still named Man Miao.Ying Shui'an asked her to talk to Man Miao every day, to clean and feed it; Qiao Yuansi gradually became less unwilling, and sometimes before leaving, he would gently stroke its warm and smooth back feathers with his fingertips .

The mirrors were all put away by Ying Shui An, and everything could be stuffed into such a small ring, it was like a prop in a science fiction novel.Without a mirror, she can only touch her face with her hands sometimes; it feels normal, the nose is still in the center, and there is no extra hole in the forehead.

Sometimes she feels that her home has become a special rehabilitation center, filled with many training courses every day, and Sakura Shui An is her doctor.If her movements are rough when dealing with gracefulness, he will do the same thing on her arm and ask her, "does it hurt?"; if she can't understand a passage in the book, she shouldn't even think about moving. That's it - even if she analyzes, disassembles and reassembles word by word, she must figure it out before she can get up to drink water and move around.

"Why are you helping me?" she asked once the two finished training.

"Anyway, I'm going to live here for fourteen months." Ying Shui'an was tossing something around, without raising his head, and said, "What's not to do? Beat the children on rainy days, I just have too much time to spare. "

Qiao Yuansi burst into laughter, but the little smile quickly dropped the corner of her mouth.Her recent state has become more and more stable, which needless to be said by Ying Shui'an, she can feel it herself - "Qiao Yuansi" finally returned to Qiao Yuansi's body, firmly nailing the latter's shape.However, as she got better, another shadow gripped her heart more and more deeply.

She has put in so much effort, desperately trying to keep herself the same, and now she is finally going to succeed; but, what happens after she succeeds?This place has irreversibly become a world of shapeshifters. How long can she maintain the status quo while living alone among the ocean of shapeshifters?How long will it be before she suffers the same attack again?
She never put her fears and worries into words, and Sakura Shui An never expressed anything similar, so she didn't know if he thought the same thing.No, or as far as he is concerned, he doesn't think it is something to worry about: because he has said more than once that he will not stay here forever, and naturally he will not think about the future.In fourteen months he would be gone from this world; in a few weeks, perhaps, from his own home.

There is only one such person in the world, and he only exists for such a short period of time.

"Recently, there are more and more evolutionaries appearing in this world." Another sign of her improvement is that the scope of chatting between the two has become wider and wider, especially the topics related to evolution often appear.While continuing to fiddle with the small box-like thing in his hand, Ying Shui An said: "I heard that some evolutionists were not careful, and they were infected and deformed. After transformation, the evolution ability was not preserved. See I’m here to live my whole life.”

"Eh?" Qiao Yuansi couldn't help being taken aback, "You evolutionists are so powerful, how did you get infected?"

Don't look at Yingshui's gate, but somehow you can always get news from other evolutionists.He coughed, and suddenly looked a little embarrassed, and said vaguely: "Anyway, he was tricked, who knows the details... His companion also spoke vaguely, probably what he was doing at that time is difficult to talk about." thing."

Qiao Yuansi stopped asking.She lowered her head and changed the subject in a low voice: "What is this in your hand?"

"Oh, it's your picture."

Qiao Yuansi raised his head abruptly. "what?"

Ying Shui'an glanced at her from the end of her eyes, and seemed to want to laugh a little, but also seemed to keep a serious look: "Yes, I took a photo. I won't stay here forever, and you can't become The evolutionary left. After you fully recover, you may be targeted by shapeshifters again... I have considered this issue, so I have already prepared for you. With this, they should believe that you are their one member."

Qiao Yuansi stared at him in a daze for two seconds, and suddenly realized: "When did you——you secretly take a photo of my face deformed?"

"Sneaky is kind of ugly," he muttered. "When you were always out of shape, you were aboveboard and didn't avoid me."

He had long thought about what he would do in the future... This hidden worry was actually resolved in this way.Qiao Yuansi was stunned, wondering if he should ask to see the photos.She is not afraid of seeing her deformed face, but she is afraid of the future that the photos represent: a future where she is cautious, silent and isolated, barely surviving among the deformed people. .

"You don't even have a personal computer yet, no one would think that this photo has been PS, which is very convenient." Ying Shui'an said something she didn't understand, and took out a few photos from the box and handed them to her Look, say: "I combined the photos of your facial deformation with some landscape photos. You can say that you took the photos when you were traveling. You can send them to friends or put them in the office..."

Is that what she looks like?

With just a glance, Qiao Yuansi shuddered, feeling sick to his stomach.She quickly put the stack of photos on the coffee table.It was really hard for her to imagine that the person in the photo was herself—she felt that she was going to have some nightmares tonight.

"Then are you leaving soon?" She regained her emotions and asked as calmly as possible.

"Yeah," Ying Shui'an only said two words briefly, and the conversation extended. "Actually, as long as you keep a low profile, this world is easy to survive. People like us are very sensitive to this kind of world, but it's a pity that there are not many such worlds..."

Qiao Yuansi took a closer look at him, carefully examined his hair, eyebrows, lips, jaw and Adam's apple, and said, "Then... when are you leaving?"

"The day after tomorrow is the time for you to go back to school." Ying Shui'an lowered his eyes and said softly, "I will leave on that day."

　It's over, I found that it would take a long time to write out all the plots I expected... By the time it's finished, you may no longer know whose story this book is about...

　
(End of this chapter)