Doomsday Paradise

Chapter 1569 Burning to Ashes
No, no... This is too reckless, how is it possible?
Qiao Yuansi also knew that he must be very stupid and suspicious now that he could only stare blankly at Jin Yan.The door of the office was wide open, and the deformed people in the corridor outside were coming and going, chatting and laughing endlessly, and no one suspected whether there was a suspicion and temptation going on in the office just a short distance away.

Didn't Jin Yan already see the picture of her hanging on the wall?Why do you dare to draw such a conclusion?Unless she's trying to lure a snake out of her hole on purpose, right?

But if Jin Yan had already deformed, she should never have noticed something strange from the bird food box.To come to the conclusion that "transformers can't feed birds", there must first be a premise that "transformers lack compassion"; Very normal human being.

To discover from the bird food box that Qiao Yuansi is not a shapeshifter, two things are required: one is a clear understanding of the nature of shapeshifters; the other is a simple but complete logic.Shapeshifters don't have these two things—at least for now, she has observed so many shapeshifters, and hasn't found a counterexample for the time being.

According to the inference drawn from this thinking...then the possibility of Jin Yan being a shapeshifter is not very high.

Qiao Yuansi swallowed dryly, but was still unable to speak.The female student on the opposite side was also staring at her; the former's face was getting whiter and paler, as if a layer of cement had been gradually poured into it, it was so stiff and frozen that he couldn't even lift his eyebrows, but people could still see her Growing fear.Jin Yan lowered her head, and quickly withdrew her hand that was originally resting on the table, but was trembling uncontrollably at this moment.

Qiao Yuansi suddenly understood.

Isn't she the same?
I don't know how many times, she felt that she couldn't bear the feeling of suffocation for even one more second; she wished to grab those normal people who hadn't transformed at that time, shake their collars, and point to the deformed faces , Tell them to open their eyes and take a good look.

It's enough to wake up a companion, even if she is discovered and overwhelmed by the crowd, she at least shouted before disappearing.If it fails, then all of this will end, and she no longer has to endure in silence—the new world has only started two months ago, she is only 33 years old, and she already doesn't know how to live the rest of her life.

Presumably Jin Yan felt the same way, right?

She tried to keep her voice steady, breaking the silence that seemed to last too long in the room.

"...Didn't you see my photo?" Even though Qiao Yuansi could empathize with Jin Yan, she didn't dare to admit it rashly, so she asked the safest question.

Jin Yan lowered her eyelids. "Miss Qiao... Is this a test you set up? Are you using the bird food box to attract people who have not changed their shape to come to you?"

Qiao Yuansi was taken aback.

"My father is a photographer... I know that photos can be modified by cropping and combining negatives. In fact, the teachers in the photography department must also know. Are you not afraid that they will be suspicious?" Jin Yanyue said in a lower voice, even It was a bit difficult for Qiao Yuansi to hear clearly.She couldn't help but glanced at the door, Jin Yan was probably afraid of being heard by people passing by.

"I went to attend one of your classes before... I've been skeptical since then... Besides, who needs to hang up photos of their own facial deformations? I think it should only be normal people."

"Since you're so sure, what are you afraid of?" Qiao Yuansi's heart was pounding, but he still didn't admit it.

Jin Yan closed her eyes and took a deep breath.

"Because I don't know, what is the purpose of you setting up this...test." When she replied, she also closed her eyes tightly, as if she had completely given up. "Miss Qiao, why do you want to find other normal people?"

The more normal people around her, the more dangerous she is.The more normal people, the more dangerous... In the back of Qiao Yuansi's mind, this sentence was echoing repeatedly; but she put down her pen at some point, reached across the table, and grabbed Jin Yan's shoulder.

"This is not a place to talk," Qiao Yuansi said with a trembling airflow from his lips, "follow me."

…Among the distorted faces of the vast ocean, Qiao Yuansi felt as if he must have been blessed by the heavens in the first week when he and Jin Yan found each other.

Once there is a companion, everything is different at once: human beings are probably such creatures that when they are connected, one plus one is greater than two.For the sake of safety, Jin Yan did not wait for her class in the end; but it didn't matter, because Jin Yan said that the reason why she insisted on scheduling this class was just to observe Qiao Yuansi more.

"Miss Qiao, I really don't know what supports you," Jin Yan would say sometimes.

As for the fact that the old world has come to an end, Jin Yan doesn't seem to take it seriously - rather, she thinks it's just Qiao Yuansi's way of looking at the world and expressing his feelings; without talking about the past , Qiao Yuansi mentioned it twice, seeing that she didn't take it to heart, she just let it go.After all, what difference does it make to their lives whether they accept it or not?

Compared with before, the general framework of their living environment has not changed, but in many respects there has been a subtle and chaotic deterioration.After becoming a precarious marginalized person, Qiao Yuansi observed the world around him half out of curiosity and half out of compulsion: In addition to the gradual increase of negligence and deceit, perfunctory crudeness, inferiority and absurdity, the law and order seems to be slowly changing. Too bad, some of the sensational news and stories always made her suspect that evolution was the cause of the disaster.

As a heterogeneous person hidden among shapeshifters and an ordinary person living in the doomsday world, Qiao Yuansi clearly realizes that her future life will only get worse and worse slowly and little by little—if she is lucky enough if.

If she's unlucky, the world might turn into something she can't recognize overnight; one day, she will be grabbed by this world and burnt to ashes the morning she steps out of the house .

Later, Qiao Yuansi found out that it was not morning when she was burned to ashes.

On the day of the tenth month from the end, after Qiao Yuansi entered the house, he received a message from Jin Yan on his answering machine. "Miss Qiao," the latter's voice was slightly agitated, "don't be angry, I know you don't approve of me doing this...but I'm [-]% sure this time, I found another A deformed normal person!"

Qiao Yuansi's heart immediately hung up.Jin Yan is clear-headed and smart, but she is still young, sometimes she can be said to be brave or reckless; plus she met Qiao Yuansi the first time she came into contact with others. Encouraged by this kind of success, she always felt I can still find another Qiao Yuan Temple.

"Don't worry, I haven't said a word to him about your existence. We made an appointment to meet at the park next to the school at seven o'clock tonight, and then I will carefully observe and consider him..."

seven o 'clock?
Qiao Yuansi raised his wrist and looked at his watch, hurriedly grabbed the hat and scarf hanging by the door, turned around and rushed out the door.

Jin Yan did think about it.At this moment, the season has gradually entered winter, and the park at seven o'clock has already been completely dark.Under the orange streetlights one after another, the park was sparsely populated, and the view was wide and extending in all directions. If something unexpected happened, Jin Yan would have a chance to escape.

Qiao Yuansi, who was searching around, stopped hurriedly when he saw two figures on the bench in the distance, and sat down on the edge of the flower bed.Under the shade of the trees, she lowered her hat, raised her scarf, and fixed her eyes on the couple who looked like a couple—the boy was older than Jin Yan, and looked strange, not like a student. Looks like it's already at work.

Qiao Yuansi sat and observed from a distance for a while, and gradually let go of half of his heart.At such a distance, she couldn't hear anything; but from the atmosphere and body movements of the interaction between the two, it seemed that everything was going smoothly.The two chatted for a short time. After ten minutes, they nodded to each other, and the boy stood up first and left.

Fortunately, the other half of her heart also let go.Qiao Yuansi followed here only to ensure Jin Yan's safety, and now seeing that the boy left first and Jin Yan was still fine, she finally breathed a sigh of relief—after thinking about it, she stood up and followed the boy from a distance.

The boy didn't seem to realize that he was being followed; the two of them walked quietly in the dim light, one behind the other.There were very few people in the park, only a man with the appearance of an office worker walked past them. After a while, a female employee in a red company uniform walked by; The girl walked over, and another middle-aged man in a blue company uniform walked over.

... Are there few people?

When Qiao Yuansi stopped suddenly, turned around and rushed back, in the corner of her vision, the boy walked towards the gate of the park without looking back.

On that dark and cold winter evening, the scenes in my memory became as old and unreal as a black and white movie.

Qiao Yuansi remembered that he was running back desperately all the way. Although the distance was only two or three minutes, it seemed that he would never run to the end.But Jin Yan suddenly appeared in front of her eyes as if suddenly: Jin Yan was still sitting on the bench as it was, with her head lowered at some point, her long hair covering her side face.

Beside Jin Yan, the office worker man, the two girls wearing work badges, the female employee in the red uniform, and the middle-aged man in the blue uniform are standing in a circle at this moment, placing the people on the bench The girls surrounded.They turned their heads one after another when they heard the sound of Qiao Yuansi's stumbling and suddenly stopping footsteps.

Each one is a human face.

Qiao Yuansi was in a trance, unaware of their gaze, just staring at Jin Yan.

Jin Yan finally turned her head slowly.

Thick blood-red scratches crawled out from the corners of her eyes, as if bloodstains had torn the ground, crawled across her face, and tore her face into several pieces.Her tears fell one after another, but they couldn't wash away even a little bit of the blood on her face.

Qiao Yuansi gasped, and let out a small sound from her throat. By the time she hurriedly covered her mouth with her hands, it was already too late.As if hearing some signal, the group of company employees walked towards her step by step.

"Sure enough, there is another one." Someone said something.

　I apologize for dragging on for too long... In other words, if in the next few chapters, every character suddenly starts to win 1000 million bonuses in an illogical way, meets Lee Dong Wook by chance and begins to fall in love (?), wakes up and becomes Natalie Portman or something, I hope you just pretend you didn't see it, okay?

Why, because a bird hit the glass of my house yesterday...

There was a loud "boom", fortunately the little bird was fine, but it seemed to hit hard, jumped to the edge of the balcony, and shook its head a few times as if it was knocked out (I'm Natalie the dog slow), took a break before flying away.Later, when I looked at the glass, two small feathers were stuck to it, and a piece of bird's saliva was splashed... just think about how hard it was to hit!I feel sorry for it and wonder if I have a superpower that can be realized by writing whatever I write... So, this, please bear with me in the future, ah.

　
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