Doomsday Paradise

Chapter 1877 The bracelet that crushes the sternum

On Bohemia's wrist, there is an opal bracelet.

Mixed in dozens of jingling and complicated jewelry, this transparent green bracelet is not eye-catching; in fact, even if it is very eye-catching, the puppeteer will naturally not care about a miscellaneous fish or a broken body around him. wearing something.

Therefore, he couldn't tell from which day the bracelet gradually turned red.

It's as if someone injected bright red blood into the opal, and every day, the blood red spreads and expands; every time the green stone is devoured, Bohemia's complexion becomes paler.

Every day, she draws a thin mark with the tip of a pen along the boundary line between blood red and translucent green.After drawing four or five marks, she and the puppeteer could see that the remaining green on the bracelet would be completely replaced by blood red in about fifteen days.

That night, they stopped in a sandy field.

When the bonfire jumps, it flickers on and off, and the orange-red sparks float under the dark blue sky like a dream floating in the night.Beside the campfire, neither the people nor the puppets moved, only the long shadows cast on the sand by the flames were swaying gently.

Bohemia sat cross-legged on the ground, hesitatingly and cautiously glanced at the puppeteer.

"My lord, I have something I want to tell you..." She twirled the half-red and half-green bracelet in her hand, lowered her head and said, "This...is something I found in the endless mountains and forests of Lava... "

The puppeteer didn't make a sound, as if he didn't hear.

He didn't respond, but Bohemia continued as if he had some kind of permission: "I was lucky at the time, it was perfect for me, because one of its functions is to predict the wearer's remaining Natural lifespan..."

After life is divided into five segments, each segment becomes a new natural life span.The past four lives have no meaning to Bohemia - she doesn't even feel that they are hers - the only fifth life that really belongs to her is now only half a month left.

"The end of this life is coming sooner than I thought..." She said in a low voice, it didn't sound like she was afraid, but rather confused. "That's right, even if the upper limit of life expectancy is more than 200 years old, how many people can live to the upper limit?"

"Speak the key."

The puppeteer's gloomy and cold voice startled Bohemia and pulled her back from the trance.

She clutched the bracelet tightly, her knuckles turned white.

Bohemia took a deep breath, and when she raised her head, her eyes were wet and bright, like a pair of blood rubies soaked in water.

The pink on her lips, the frizzy golden-brown hair floating in the air, the embroidery patterns on the cuffs and skirt corners... all seemed to be vibrated by a common string, sparkling like water waves.

Once the water wave breaks, she will break too.

"My lord...after fifteen days, can you put away this bracelet and give it to Lin Sanjiu?"

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Lin Sanjiu had never seen any stone that could turn red so close to blood.

It was hard and cold against her palm, as if a hole had been opened in her palm, and all her blood poured and fell into the stone bracelet, leaving behind her empty, dry body.

No wonder it looked so much like a clotted blood.

She wanted to hold the bracelet tightly to protect it, but also wanted to crush it until it was reduced to powder.

Lin Sanjiu pressed it to her chest, and unknowingly bowed like a shrimp on the ground; it wasn't enough, even though the stone bracelet hurt her sternum, she still felt that it wasn't enough—if she kept pushing herself harder, it would break herself Will she feel better if she squeezes her skin, crushes her breastbone, and presses the bracelet all the way into her flesh and blood?

I will.

From the wind in the distance, there came intermittent and strange sounds, which didn't seem to be made by humans, but more like the howling and whimpering of wolves.

In the chaos, something soft landed on her face - that was the last detail that Lin Sanjiu remembered, and before she realized what happened, she fell into a darkness of relief and happiness inside.

I don't know how long it has passed, when she regained her sanity again, she opened her eyes, but felt that her eyelashes and eyelids were lightly pressed, and only then did she realize that there was still a soft cloth covering her eyes.

For a few seconds, Lin Sanjiu's mind was in a trance due to lack of oxygen, but his mood was very calm, and he didn't remember what she was clutching in front of her chest.

She didn't have the strength to get up, and she didn't want to reach out to remove the soft cloth on her face. She felt that the world had melted, and it seemed that she had melted, turning into a puddle of water on the gray hard floor tiles, shapeless.

"Are you awake?" The puppeteer's voice was flat, hoarse and cool.

"Bohemia," Lin Sanjiu recalled, and said in a low voice, "Bohemia..."

"If you want to listen to me, then shut up."

Lin Sanjiu didn't make a sound anymore—her mind was in chaos at the moment, she didn't know what the puppeteer was going to say, and she didn't know what he had to say, but someone gave her an order, and she obeyed.

"Think about it with your brain, if you just leave you a relic, she will have a lot of rubbish on her body." Through the soft darkness brought by a piece of fabric, only the voice of the puppeteer floated in the melting world . "So I asked her why she gave you this bracelet."

why?
"What... what do you mean?" Lin Sanjiu was startled by his own voice.She took off the cloth on her face, but still didn't dare to raise her eyes, staring at the floor tiles and asked, "How did she answer you?"

The puppeteer said in a low voice: "She said, this is very important to her. She said that you will understand in the future, and asks you to keep things safe."

Lin Sanjiu got up from the ground, and when he sat down, he was already out of breath. "What will I understand? What is the meaning of preservation?"

"How do I know, I seem to be here to help you out?" The iron gray light flashed slightly in the corner of the puppeteer's eyes.He slowed down his voice again, and said: "No. 15 days ago, her clothes, special items, jewelry... were all piled up on the ground as they were, except for one person inside."

Lin Sanjiu was startled. "Missing? No body? Would she—maybe she didn't—"

The puppeteer turned his head away and remained silent.

Lin Sanjiu's voice gradually fell, and finally he still didn't finish the sentence.After all, Bohemia was a life disturbed by the great flood; she didn't know what it meant just because there were no corpses.

She just didn't expect that in the Lava world, she thought it was just a two-month farewell... The two months to satisfy the wish of the gift bag and give him time to be alone... dragged on for several years, and finally broke off All her hopes of meeting Bohemia again.

In the play-by-play copy, the scene when everyone was laying the floor in the kitchen was still so clear; as soon as she stretched out her hand, she seemed to be able to touch Bohemian's thick hair, which was pressing hot on her arm .

"Give you."

She didn't know how long she was in a daze, until a small thing was thrown into her hand.

"The garbage she left on the ground is all inside."

After a while, the puppeteer said again: "Recover your strength...don't sit here and drag me down."

In a trance, Lin Sanjiu carded the bracelet and the storage key together and put it away.There were only a few lines of words on the bracelet's card, and she didn't see anything except the function mentioned by Bohemia, and naturally she couldn't figure out what significance it had to Bohemia— — Even after death, Lin Sanjiu should be kept safe.

She really wanted to have a little hope, but she dared not have hope.

She also wants to touch Boho's hair again.

　When I planned the plot, I didn’t expect Schrödinger’s Bohemia to appear... To be honest, I felt uncomfortable writing this chapter...

　
(End of this chapter)