Doomsday Paradise

Chapter 219 The Truth Part 1
"So... what's going on here?"

When Lou Qin stumbled and sat on the steps in front of the station, panting and asking this sentence, the Lou brothers and sisters seemed to have never been so miserable.

At the beginning, the two were high-spirited and nonchalant on the train, but they had long been smeared with dust, blood, and scars; the clothes of the brother and sister were all hung in rags, and they looked like street bums. One had lost a shoe and was bare with a dusty foot; the other's hair was blown off, and his face was covered in black ash because the explosion was too close, and his facial features could not be seen clearly.

After resting for more than an hour, the two people who were in pain all over their bodies finally gradually recovered a little hearing.

"Hey, how could he be my brother?" Louqin spat out a few mouthfuls of dirt from her mouth, her little face under the plaster and blood stains was full of doubts—she had just recovered her hearing, and she was not very old. Ling Guang, the voice is still high: "Normal people twist their necks 180 degrees, wouldn't they die a long time ago?"

Lou Ye glanced at her, both innocent and wronged: "I just heard you say 180°, it's all messed up... When did I do such a thing, you should twist me and see!"

"It's true, if you don't believe me ask Lin Sanjiu—"

Lin Sanjiu was feeling sorry for the consciousness she had cultivated so hard, and was pulled back to her senses when she heard the words. When she looked up, the two children were looking up and waiting for her to explain, and they felt a little guilty.

Although the real Lou brothers and sisters were successfully rescued, to be honest, luck accounted for a large proportion——in the so-called truth she deduced, there are still many doubts that have not been clarified.

But the two children are not stupid, maybe after listening to her speculation and confirming each other, they can restore the truth to the whole thing.

Lin Sanjiu thought for a while, organized his thoughts, and began to write on his "bones".The Lou brothers and sisters all knew that this time it must not be able to explain clearly in a dozen words, so they were very patient. While cleaning their wounds, they glanced at her from time to time, for fear of missing some words.

"The person who turned his head 180 degrees must not be a living person; what we saw at that time was indeed a ghost." Although the consciousness has been consumed a lot, fortunately, after these days of practice, the consciousness He was so flexible as if he had become a part of Lin Sanjiu's body, and he finished writing this sentence in the blink of an eye.

"Huh, but I haven't let go of my surveillance on him," Lou Qin pointed at her elder brother, who listened blankly with his mouth open: "I didn't see when someone changed! Besides, there is no one of my own." With cooperation, how can Yin Ling come and go without a trace?"

"Did you forget that there is a problem with that building itself?" After Lin Sanjiu finished writing this sentence, she suddenly felt that there were some places that were difficult to explain, and now she planned to go through the matter from the beginning-many of which she herself did not understand. What was figured out was just enough for the brother and sister to make up for each other.

"I think the key lies in the residential buildings—for some reason, all the residential buildings in this area have turned into ghosts, but they can't move at ordinary times. So when we first entered the building, we had already become its target It's gone." The first point written by Lin Sanjiu was not difficult to imagine after experiencing the scene of the deformation of the building, and the Lou brothers and sisters nodded upon seeing it.

"I don't know how this kind of building ghost usually, uh, 'hunts'," Lin Sanjiu thought about his words, and continued to write: "But you two are obviously hard nuts to crack."

After this period of time, Lin Sanjiu also figured out some rules in Ruyue Station.

Unlike other places, the Corrupted Species here cannot kill directly—the so-called Corrupted Species are ghosts formed for various reasons after ordinary people have been eroded by dark matter. They can only kill the same People who have been eroded by dark matter start.

It is actually not difficult to meet this requirement; any outsider, as long as he still breathes the air and drinks the water here, he will be slowly eroded through—not to mention that the ghosts can speed up this process.

But the Lou brothers and sisters are different.When the two brothers and sisters entered the building, except for a pair of eyes, almost no part of their body was eroded; no matter what the quality is, at least they are covered with equipment from head to toe. It is said that there is a tiny dark matter filter device in the nasal cavity. It is undoubtedly unlikely to attack them by killing Lin Sanjiu.

The biggest difference between residential buildings and other ghosts is that they cannot move.If you can't take the initiative to find prey, every prey that comes to your door is extremely precious, so this building flexibly uses a curve to save the country.

Having equipment does not mean that it is foolproof——all subsequent actions of the "residential building" must have been based on this speculation, and the Lou brothers and sisters do have a weakness: the place that cannot be covered by the clothes will be affected. less than protection.

As for Lin Sanjiu in the conscious body, it was like a piece of wax sticking to the dinner plate. It could neither be eaten nor thrown away. Apart from being a little in the way, it was not included in the target range at all.

"Could it be that... the way to use dark matter to corrode us is to find a ghost to pretend to be us?" Lou Qin seemed to understand a little bit, but still didn't seem to understand.

"I understand what she means, you are so stupid." Lou Ye did not forget to reply to his sister, "One pretended to be you, the other pretended to be me, and the two teams approached us in two places at close range... No matter what It's much easier to start!"

Lin Sanjiu nodded his head up and down to express his agreement - what's more, Lou Qin also mentioned one point: Once frightened in Kisaragi Station, the invasion of dark matter will become very easy.And the weird situation some time ago has indeed succeeded in causing the two brothers and sisters to be in a state of panic all day long. Even Lou Qin said that she must have been corroded by dark matter long ago.

"Pretending to be your stuff, I guess it's the person who died in the building before." Lin Sanjiu wrote another sentence, although she had no basis for this part, it was all speculation: "Maybe it's like being attached to the belly of a big fish." Like the little fish on the ocean, they must also rely on residential buildings for these new ghosts to 'survive'."

As for whether they were evolutionaries, whether they were able to become the Lou brothers and sisters because of their past abilities... these questions, if they don't go back to the residential building, I'm afraid they will never be answered.

"I understand this part." A deep gash was drawn on Louqin's face. She reached out to touch it, but unexpectedly she only took a breath of air, her mind was still on the mystery of the residential building: " But sometimes it’s a human, and sometimes it’s a fallen species, I still don’t understand.”

This place is too complicated, even Lin Sanjiu can't tell - she thought about it, and just wrote: "I think that residential building confuses us in a way of 'building blocks'."

"Building blocks?" The two children stared at the words in disbelief. "What do you mean?"

If all the conjectures were written out, it would be too many and messy, and it might not be able to explain clearly until tomorrow—not to mention, there are many places where two children are needed to make up her conjectures.Thinking of this, Lin Sanjiu wrote: "You two respectively recount what happened to you after entering the building."

The two children looked at each other and talked about their experiences.

And just as Lin Sanjiu expected, there was a wonderful fork in these two experiences from the very beginning.

"After my brother's prank, we are looking for a house in that corridor..." Lou Qin just started, but was interrupted by Lou Ye: "Wait a minute! I don't know about that prank or something." Did I tell you, I didn't do it!"

"You forgot what you did yourself? Besides, when did you tell me—"

Seeing that there was going to be chaos, Lin Sanjiu quickly wrote "Don't worry about it, keep talking", and then the two children calmed down temporarily.

"It's strange to say that every house is dilapidated, but the one my brother found is so beautiful... So we moved in. In the middle of the night, because of some noise, Lin Sanjiu, why don't you go out? Did you check the situation, but I never came back, so I woke up my brother to find you. Unexpectedly, he went there for several hours. I searched for you all by myself, but I didn’t see anyone, so I had to stay alone in the room Wait here..." When Lou Qin talked about this experience again, she trembled as if she had returned to that weird night again. "It's a good thing you came back later."

…While Lou Qin was waiting for her brother and Lin Sanjiu to return to their room, Lin Sanjiu found no one there after going back, so she found the lobby on the first floor all the way, and finally met a pair of Lou brothers and sisters at the elevator entrance on the 15th floor .

When she wrote down this paragraph, Lou Qin's eyes widened when she heard about it for the first time.

Louye was holding back his words and couldn't speak, his face was wrinkled. Seeing that Lin Sanjiu finally signaled him to speak, he let out a sigh of relief and said like a cannonball: "So there was a problem from the beginning! I I didn’t do that kind of prank. I settled down in that beautiful house, and Aqin found the house... By the way, I didn’t see Lin Sanjiu at that time. Aqin told me to go around Take a look at the environment and be back in a while."

Speaking of this, he also realized that the people around him were definitely not alive, and his face turned pale: "...I haven't seen you back since then, we went out to look for you, just in time to see an elevator coming up, and the door opened It's you."

Unexpectedly, Lin Sanjiu's experience and Lou Ye's experience were connected here - Lin Sanjiu felt that he had one less doubt, so he hurriedly told himself that when he heard the sound of the toilet flushing in the bathroom, he happened to be bumped into by Lou Ye I wrote down the passage about seeing Louqin's dead body and flying upstairs again, and the two children were taken aback for a while.

"Ah, that means, the timeline is like this—" Lou Ye said while making gestures on the ground. "We entered two houses at the same time, and Lin Sanjiu went out afterwards, and found no one in the house to look for us; around this time, Fake Louqin told me to look for you, and then met you in the elevator , you went back to the house where I was staying with us. During this period of time, after going out in the false building, Aqin searched for us by herself, but she didn't find us... It wasn't until Lin Sanjiu and you flew up that you found us. I met the real Ah Qin."

Although there are still twists and turns, at least this paragraph has been sorted out.

"No wonder..." Lou Qin's face was also a little pale, "I felt a little strange in the corridor at the time, and I even looked at the angle of the corner of the wall... because no matter what I think, if I twist the neck of a living person That seems a bit impossible...and my brother has never had a special item worn on his chest. It turns out that he has not been my brother since then."

"But how did that residential building achieve this?" Lou Ye asked. "When Aqin was looking for someone, why did she miss our floor?"

"She didn't miss it... When we escaped, we actually saw its tricks—or it should be said, part of its tricks." Lin Sanjiu wrote, "Speaking of it, it couldn't be simpler: the inside of the building Every room and every corridor is like small building blocks, which can be flexibly and freely arranged and reorganized.”

"For example, at the time of the prank, when the real Lou Ye turned a corner and walked into another corridor alone, this corridor has actually been removed and replaced by another corridor with a fake Lou Ye. I'm afraid It was the fallen species whose neck was twisted when it died. It didn't slow down for a while, and then there was a trick, so it hurriedly used the excuse of joking to fool it... and the technique of "adjusting building blocks" has been used many times, and it has almost been tried and tested. , but it confuses us all around.”

Louye recalled it for a while, and found that he hardly noticed anything wrong when he walked into the corridor, so he opened his mouth in a daze.

Lin Sanjiu solved the first doubt in his heart, and became more confident in his speculation, so he signaled the brother and sister to continue talking—the experience of the two seems to be like two lines drawn by hand, sometimes intersecting, Sometimes they are far away, and there are many different places in the middle, which really answered many questions for Lin Sanjiu.

The two of them had almost finished speaking, Lin Sanjiu stopped to think for a while, and then sighed inwardly.

Although it's a bit strange to say that, this residential building can be called the most cunning opponent she has ever met after coming to Kisaragi Station.

In almost every key point, the residential building was able to be one step ahead of them - setting traps to confuse people, causing the fallen species to release smoke bombs... If Lin Sanjiu hadn't been in the half-bystander position all the time , I'm afraid they have been tricked by now and killed each other in the residential building.

"Now we can sort out the truth and falsehood at each time point." Lin Sanjiu felt relieved after writing this sentence.

　Sincerely thank you for Xiaobaiqiang's safety talisman, Shizhou Fengyun's safety talisman, susulu's evaluation ticket, Dark Night Ice's sachet, and Nausicaa's safety talisman!Hit it with your whole hand as a token of thanks.

　
(End of this chapter)