Doomsday Paradise

Chapter 1921
When the skin of the lake water suddenly met, the icy coldness quickly dissipated and warmed up, enveloping Lin Sanjiu's every step.

The toes are sunken deep into the lake sand, and on the black crystal-like waves, there are thousands of reflections of cool stars and white moons shining.

During the day, the vivid summer blooms too much, and at night it seems that it is about to turn from full bloom to decay; the flowers, leaves, vines and grasses are stained with dew, floating in the mist of the lake with a strong breath, and suddenly shattered together with the water waves—not far away , a figure broke through the lake, emerged from the pouring broken silver, and returned to the night.

He raised his head and took a deep breath. On the black hair and skin, the luster of water droplets slipped through the shadows.The waves of the lake swayed, pushing him like a piece of pale moonlight that just fell.

"Don't swim too far," Lin Sanjiu said softly, "I'm afraid I won't be able to keep up with you."

The boy wiped his face and turned to smile at her. "There is a large piece of lotus leaves in the middle of the lake. We made them ourselves, and put them in the lake in summer to let them float."

"Did you do it yourself?" Lin Sanjiu asked softly.

"...Because Yan Qiu said, it would be great if I could dance on the lake." He looked back at the middle of the lake and murmured.

When he was young, his voice was not as clear as the gift bag, it was a little low and cold, and it could only vaguely make people hear the shadow of a puppeteer.

"We found the materials and designed their linkage...Come on, let me show you?"

In the mist, his voice was both familiar and unfamiliar, like a dream scattered in someone's consciousness, and the dream was like foam in the shaking of the water, and it disappeared in a flash.

Lin Sanjiu followed in a daze.

She felt as if she heard the siren's singing, and she couldn't even get up to think about it; the moonlight was too dim, and if she closed her eyes, she seemed to be sinking into a warm, dark dream.

Lin Sanjiu's water quality was mediocre, and after finally jumping over, it was he who reached out and grabbed her arm, and then dragged her from the water to the lotus leaf.The heat from the alcohol could not withstand the cool night, the two of them shivered a few times shoulder to shoulder, and couldn't help laughing.

The lotus leaves under my feet looked like real ones. I don’t know how many leaves are connected, covering half of the lake; when I stepped on it, Lin Sanjiu realized that the "lotus leaves" are tough and elastic, and I don’t know how to make them. It floats in the lake and is as solid as the ground.

Ayun gently hummed a song she had never heard before.

His drunkenness was loose and light, enveloping him like a layer of moonlight, illuminating his expression and attitude, and casting a dark shadow between his actions and deeds.

"For a long time, no one has danced here..." He stopped humming, as if suddenly having an idea, and glanced at her.When he glanced at people with the corners of his eyes, it made her feel like she had seen a bit of the future. "Would you? I can take you... come, you take this foot with me."

Lin Sanjiu never thought that one day she would be led to dance by this person in front of her.

Moreover, he was leading her into the lake.

The lotus leaf seems to have been waiting for a long time, and even if she stepped on it with a little unfamiliar footsteps, it came back to life one after another.I don't know if He Ye memorized the dance steps, or her footsteps are following He Ye; although Lin Sanjiu gasped several times, the toes she was led to step out of were always able to be touched by He Ye who slid across the water. Ye Ge caught it firmly.

Ayun seemed very proud of his work and laughed a few times at her reaction.He let go of Lin Sanjiu's hand, and hummed the song again; the spirit of wine floated lightly in the clouds, and the lotus leaves swirled around, carrying the two people far and near, on the surface of the black crystal-like lake There were countless ripples.

Perhaps there is no better way to cherish such a moonlit night in the world.

Before tomorrow's daylight illuminates Yunshou Jiucheng, at least he still has such a free night.

Rather than talking about dancing, it’s more like he’s playing. Sometimes he turns around or hops lightly, just like stepping on the flowing clouds, walking far away from the misty lake mist.

"... Ah Yun?" Lin Sanjiu called out from afar.

"There is also a way," his voice came from the distant lake: "Stop this night forever."

Lin Sanjiu's heart sank suddenly.

"The things that bothered him that night were so trivial that people can't remember them clearly." It was still the voice of a boy, but it seemed to be gradually getting lower and cooler with each word. "Why bother? He has been hollowed out long ago, like a dark hole, which can never stop the past from passing in like the wind. People live...not that people pass through time, but time penetrates people .”

Lin Sanjiu felt a sudden turn of her feet and almost lost her footing, only then did she realize that the lotus leaves had moved; the lotus leaves scattered around her on the lake with their footsteps seemed to have heard it. The call to go home, along with the lotus leaves under her feet, was rapidly receding towards the center of the lake, pulling her towards the center of the lake together.

"There is a way, and you should know it well." The puppeteer's voice said calmly, "Leaving such a night that you saw, maybe even a day or two in that summer...it's not the worst for him ending."

Lin Sanjiu was carried by the lotus leaves under her feet, getting farther and farther away from the source of the sound in the lake mist.

"You are not a puppeteer..." She kept scanning the blades that were flying across the lake at night, and said, "You are the copy he is about to form."

"...Yes, and no."

No, she wasn't the only one who was retreating; the voice of the puppeteer seemed to be walking away as well.The distance between the two was getting bigger and bigger, and Lin Sanjiu felt that it was almost half a lake away.

But she was still fine, and there was no sign of imminent harm, so she really couldn't figure out what the other party was going to do——

A thought made her shudder, and she suddenly reacted.

It was for that!
Lin Sanjiu didn't care what the other party said, so he raised his foot and jumped on a receding lotus leaf not far away.It's like jumping from one moving car to another, the difference is probably that the lotus leaf in the dark is far less stable and easy to grasp than a car; Lin Sanjiu staggered and almost lost his balance several times He stopped and fell into the lake.

She didn't even have the space to keep her center of gravity stable before continuing to move forward, because even if there was only a slight delay, the distance she gained in one go would be pulled back again by the retreating lotus leaf.Lin Sanjiu was anxious and urgent, and looked up at the countless lotus leaves on the lake in the distance that were receding towards her on the waves and brushing past her. Wait! It's not your decision, you don't have the right to—"

Another lotus leaf jumped, and the lake in front of my eyes suddenly returned to darkness.

Without even thinking about it, Lin Sanjiu jumped into the icy lake.

Will she be held in the depths of the lake and unable to get out like she was when she visited the lake park, and she didn't even come to her mind at all.Because she knew what mistake she had made, and she also knew what the puppeteer—let's call him a puppeteer—was planning to do, and she had no time.

Even she might be too late.

At a speed that even he didn't expect, Lin Sanjiu swam back to the shore again, stepped on the heavy and cold steps, and staggered up to the grassland on the lake bank.In the starlight, which was lighter than the lake fog, Ayun was standing beside the heavy locomotive lying on the grass.

He bent down and reached out with a hand, about to grab the arm of the plastic model.

... Lin Sanjiu grabbed the key items in his hand, repeatedly preventing the dungeon from finally taking shape, causing it to go back several times; if he takes back all the lost parts at once, does it mean that the dungeon can be completed immediately?

"Stop," Lin Sanjiu hissed, "Please!"

Ayun looked back at her.

It seemed that he waited for her for a moment, and he continued to reach out to hold the arm of the plastic model with unspeakable disappointment.

Lin Sanjiu threw out all the consciousness that could be squeezed out.

In this dungeon space, she was severely suppressed, even if it was the consciousness that was thrown out with all her strength, it just sent the young man's hand flying and lifted it into the air.

Even though it was only a short chance, she still opened her mouth and bit it tightly.

Lin Sanjiu knew that it was useless to pounce on the key items on the ground; there were four items in total, and it would be a difficult task to snatch all of them from the young man's fingertips in one go without letting him touch one.

So her target is that boy.

When Lin Sanjiu jumped onto the boy, with a muffled "gudong", the two of them rolled down on the grass together.She pressed his arm firmly with both hands, subconsciously still remembering that the puppeteer doesn't like to get too close to people - she just propped herself up on her knees on the ground, and she didn't even have time to see anything clearly. The earth trembled suddenly.

It seemed as if the entire dungeon had been shattered and avalanche, but within a few moments, everything in the field of vision turned into a pitch-black torrential rain, pouring down on it.

　I finished writing after a long sleep... Although I feel very ashamed, I still feel that the quality of writing is better when I am not tired?
　
(End of this chapter)