Doomsday Paradise

Chapter 1577 Embark on the Road of Unknown Purpose
"I have no psychological burden to accelerate the deterioration of this world."

"But... I'm old after all. I can't do many things by myself. I need someone who is clear-headed and trustworthy. So, I need you. "

"If you don't want to bury it with your own hands, if you still want to try another way, then I can't break this world by myself. I can only continue to suffer, hoping to see it die in my heart The day ahead."

"Of course, I won't blame you either."

"All the cards are already on the table. Your decision will ultimately be yours to make."

After Wu Yiliu walked out of Professor Qiao's house, the old lady's words before leaving would still come to his mind from time to time.

After the conversation yesterday afternoon, he hadn't slept all night.He tossed and turned on the sofa, moaning and sighing, until it was almost dawn, and he was confused for a while. On the contrary, the 70-year-old Professor Qiao was not too affected. He still got up on time, prepared breakfast, and went to work as usual up.

His weakness, confusion, and contradictions may all be seen by the old lady.But she didn't say much, just said that he was clear-headed and trustworthy... Really?
Would a person with a clear mind not even know whether a shapeshifter is a human being or not?Can a trustworthy person not be able to help but think "it would be fine if I changed shape unknowingly"?
The bus that was supposed to run every 10 minutes didn't come after waiting for half an hour today.Amidst the shapeshifters cursing "it's getting worse and worse", Ya Yiliu simply left.His face was camouflaged, and now he wouldn't show surprise when he was frightened by the shapeshifters, so after walking for an hour, there wasn't even a shapeshifter who gave him a second glance.

Wu Yiliu didn't worry at all that he would be seen by his classmates, and it wasn't because the school was in another direction of the city.If a group of shapeshifters were to surround him to infect him now, he honestly didn't know if he'd be able to put up a fight—he didn't even know if he'd be relieved.

Not knowing whether he was tired from walking or thinking, Wu Yiliu came under the window of a shop, sat down on the street with a "gudong", and took out his mobile phone.The road surface is very dirty, it seems that it has not been cleaned by cleaners for several days; sitting here like a beggar, people will cast strange eyes, but what does it matter?

"Mom," he called out to the unrecognizable face in the video call, "call my dad too."

Even if it could barely be called a face, it twisted and turned, probably smiling at him, and walked away leading the body underneath.

After a while, his father's face that was exactly the same as in memory appeared on the screen of Wu Yiliu's phone.

...is completely deformed.So soon, it has reached the final form where the face can be removed?

Wu Yiliu gently wiped his dry and sore eyes.He didn't know how this conversation was going to go, he just had a sudden urge to see his parents again.

"What's the matter? I want money again." Before he sat down, his father came to a conclusion.

"Aren't you coming home from your long vacation?" asked the unrecognizable face.

"I don't know what you do every day... why don't you go to class, where are you now?" His father seemed to sense something was wrong, and he leaned closer to the camera to look carefully at the background behind him.

"I'm asking you something, are you going home?" Mother's voice asked.

On the screen, a small black hole the size of a thumb suddenly opened up from the center of the so-called face that was distorted and chaotic. Inside the black hole was the face of his mother from the past. place for help. "Are you dumb?"

Wu Yiliu suddenly cut off the communication.

He stared at the phone screen, watched it receive another call request, and let it ring until the other party hung up.A message was sent from my mother's mobile phone number, and the content was only a few words "The signal is broken?"

When he learned about the "paradox of the Ship of Theseus", Wu Yiliu believed that the Ship of Theseus was still the same ship after all the materials were changed; now he can't remember what his basis was at that time.

Looking back now, he realizes that he doesn't even know when the last time he heard his mother speak.What did she say then?Wu Yiliu was willing to pay any price to go back and listen again.The mother who has always been very confident and capable, was she ever confused when she started to change shape?Have you ever been afraid?

When the parents in the distance gradually sank and disappeared, what was he doing at that time, was he keen on chatting with the female classmate who was quietly deformed on the other end of the phone, or was he looking for pirated resources of a certain movie everywhere?
"What are you doing?" The glass door of the store was suddenly pushed open, and a female voice seemed to be full of hatred, and she shouted at him like a machine gun: "What are you doing sitting in front of our window? You are blocking my business! Do you know? Is it bad luck? It’s not good for you to beg for food. You can get it from me. Go far away!”

Wu Yiliu stood up, patted his body, and looked at the woman behind the door.The corners of her eyes and mouth are long and pointed downwards, just like a character in an exaggerated cartoon; the corners of her eyes hang down all the way to her cheeks, and the corners of her mouth divide the entire chin.

"I'm going shopping," he said, pulling open the glass door.The woman immediately took two steps back, even if she changed her shape, she couldn't stop her suspicion: "You? This is a women's clothing store, and there are no clothes for you."

Not only a women's clothing store, but a women's clothing store with almost no business, as depressed as other shops on this street.In this case, it would be even more difficult to refuse his business.

"I know," Wu Yiliu walked sideways past her, not letting her eyes stay on his face for too long.Professor Qiao found him a makeup tool that was more suitable for camouflage, but he couldn't stand to take a closer look. "I bought it for my girlfriend."

The shape-shifting female shopkeeper stopped talking suspiciously, obviously unwilling to let him go, and worried about him coming in, so she followed him wherever he went-he didn't look like a tramp, but it was still unavoidable. He is suspected of being a thief.

Wu Yiliu randomly took out a few clothes and looked at them, but didn't even see the price clearly, so she took two skirts and handed them to her and said, "Wrap these two for me."

Those long, sharp lines hooked upwards, almost unrestricted, and quickly cut the female shopkeeper's forehead and temples—the whole face was cut several times by the raised eyes and mouth. The large lump made the tall hematoma on her forehead clearer.

"What's wrong with your forehead?" When he followed the female shopkeeper to the cashier counter, he asked casually as if he was still thinking about a piece of clothing next to him.

The shopkeeper reached out and touched the hematoma.

"It's unlucky," she complained at the beginning and couldn't stop, "Just the day before yesterday, there was a strange woman who rummaged through her clothes when she walked in. Hey, she didn't even look at the price, just take what she likes. , I thought it was a big deal, but you don't know, it's so high on her shoulders!"

She compared it, and it was indeed very tall, judging from the thickness of at least dozens of pieces.

"As a result, she turned around and was about to leave with that big pile of clothes in her arms! She was about to go out! Oh, can you believe it? This society is really messed up. I yelled at her right away, That woman turned around and looked at me, her eyes were crazy, I think my brain is probably out of order, I heard that madmen have great strength..."

Even this kind of ordinary narration needs Wu Yiliu to guide her back to the track: "She turned around, then what?"

"What do you think she said, she actually said to me, 'You can trade these clothes for your life, how cheap it is', cheap for your legs, I don't even care about this, I will pounce on her and catch her... That madman is so strong It’s so big,” the female shopkeeper became more and more angry, the long lines at the corners of her eyes and mouth were almost uncontrollable, “I didn’t realize what happened when I fell like this, and I was robbed of a lot of clothes!”

Wu Yiliu pretended to click his tongue a few times to express his sympathy. "Did you call the police?"

"I reported it for a fart. I came here and left. I said that I didn't have a lot of money for clothes. Where can I find someone. I said I saw her in the surveillance. They asked me if I knew the name of the girl. I don’t know who’s how to find it? So what, if you walk out, it’s gone—”

Wu Yiliu couldn't bear it any longer, and interrupted her immediately: "Is there surveillance? Can you show me?"

He was afraid that the other party would refuse for God knows why, so he added: "My cousin is from the police force."

I don't know which of the clothes and the cousin played a role. Soon, Wu Yiliu saw the evolutionary for the first time on the monitoring screen.

Professor Qiao's sense of smell for the evolutionary is too sensitive: she was able to locate the evolutionary from a simple angry reply on the local website.

It turns out that an evolutionary is like this... The way she controls her body during actions is really different from that of ordinary people: it seems that every step is paddled on the water, light and fast, as if she can bounce high with a single tiptoe.Of course, shapeshifters should not be able to perceive such subtleties—just as they cannot understand subtle and subtle emotions, they can only understand rough and crude divisions.

"It's not just my family. I heard that there were several shops nearby last week, all of which were visited by her!"

In other words... her base is probably near here.I can't be [-]% sure, but judging from the time distribution of the Evolutionary's crimes, it is more likely that she stayed nearby - I hope he still has time.

Wu Yiliu took a few pictures on the screen, paid with the card Professor Qiao gave him, went out with the bag, and threw the clothes at the corner of the street.It seems that in the next few days, his mission is to inquire about this evolutionary nearby.

Holding up his mobile phone, he went from one nearby store to another and asked people one by one. In order to make people open their mouths, he bought a lot of messy things.When night fell, Wu Yiliu, who had found nothing, finally couldn't bear the exhaustion, and sat down on the steps at the door of a small hotel with neon lights.

Perhaps the evolutionary had already left after collecting the supplies...

Someone tapped him on the shoulder from behind.

"I heard you were looking for me?"

　It’s okay to not talk about it recently... I wonder if I’m going to have a mid-life crisis early, and now my mentality is the same as that of many scumbags on TV. Don’t tell me about age, family, children and other responsibilities. I don’t want to be responsible in my life. I even regret having a cat. If I didn’t have a cat, I’d put away my suitcase and book an airbnb. (), whoever pays the rent is not the one who pays the rent, right?

　
(End of this chapter)