Doomsday Paradise

Chapter 798 Lost and found

When the dense mountain forest finally appeared in the field of vision again, Lin Sanjiu's footsteps softened as if he suddenly lost his strength, and he half fell and half sat down beside a bush.There was no one in the four fields, only the gusts of wind between the sky and the earth made the forest sea rustle; after looking around, she finally breathed a sigh of relief.

"Are you okay?" Yu Yuan stopped immediately and asked panting.

Lin Sanjiu nodded, and he was also panting heavily and lightly.In fact, only two days had passed since she left here to go to the arsenal; however, after several life-and-death adventures, it felt as if years had passed.

"I really don't understand," she sighed, remembering the members of the arsenal who came to assassinate her that night. "I went to the dream script to find a clue... Why did I bring out that kind of parasite? After a lot of tossing, I still don't know who is going to kill me."

"Someone wants to kill you?" Yu Yuan was startled.

Lin Sanjiu stretched out a hand towards him, and stood up with his pull. "Talk while walking," she patted Yu Yuan on the shoulder and pointed ahead.

The two walked into the forest, and the bushes and bushes were rustlingly separated and closed under their feet, leaving only two faint traces.As he was walking, Yu Yuan suddenly stopped and looked around: "Is this the place where you were attacked?"

"how do you know?"

Probably because Lin Sanjiu was taken aback, he smiled, picked up a branch and gestured a few times: "Although it has been two days, but look... the branches and leaves are broken, and the traces of the grass being stepped on are still there. I can tell."

The traces will remain for so long?

Lin Sanjiu had no experience in outdoor activities, so he could only stare at the broken blades of grass, frowned and nodded.

"I have a special item left here," she also picked up a branch, and moved the bushes back and forth at the place where she last saw [Lovely, keep colorful time] in her memory: "maybe I need your help to find it."

"What item?" Yu Yuan asked as he walked, "What does it look like?"

At that time, 【Lovely, keep the colorful time】turned into a dead leaf and fell on the ground. Since it was urgent and could not be retrieved, she threw it in the forest like this; but just as she finished speaking, the young man immediately Turning his head, the tattoos couldn't hide the dumbfounding expression on his face: "You want to find a leaf in the woods?"

That's not really realistic.

"Fortunately, this mountain forest is just a camouflage projection, and it can be recycled."

While explaining, Lin Sanjiu called out the camouflage control device bought with Exodus.Although she had already developed trust in Yu Yuan, she still didn't close up the entire mountain forest, only adjusted the range to be tens of meters wide around the two of them, and turned the knob lightly.

Standing trees, thick fallen leaves on the ground, clusters of bushes... all quickly twisted and retracted into the ground, and disappeared into the land; amidst the deep green, an empty sandy land became bigger and bigger, like a piece of land. The ever-expanding alopecia areata finally stopped when it reached the edge of the range set by Lin Sanjiu.

Without the projection of the forest, it is much easier to find the target; after the two searched around for a few times, Yu Yuan suddenly called her: "Look, is it that?"

Lin Sanjiu followed the sound, and saw that he was pointing at a small brownish-yellow shadow on the ground in the distance with the branch in his hand, which seemed to be a leaf.

Just as she was about to walk over to take a look, a figure suddenly jumped out of the surrounding woods; a red and white scene flickered in front of her eyes, and rushed towards the brown and yellow shadow on the ground—Lin Sanjiu reacted extremely quickly , A surge of consciousness rushed forward, and before the man picked up the brown-yellow leaves, he knocked them into the air with a "bang".

The man fell on his back to the ground, and the red and white piece suddenly slowed down, revealing its umbrella skirt.She raised her head, revealing a pointed, white-painted chin.

It was Lollipop—or rather, one of the girls named "Lollipop."

"She's from the arsenal!" Lin Sanjiu yelled without looking back, and almost at the same time, together with Lollipop, he threw himself on the leaf on the ground: "Yu Yuan, keep an eye on my surroundings for me!"

After all, the lollipop was close, and before the words fell, it had already rushed to the side of the dead leaves.Lin Sanjiu repeated his old tricks, and once again released a wave of consciousness; at this moment, Lollipop raised his head and glanced at her, and the umbrella skirt on his body began to spin rapidly—several streams of air flowed from the corners of her skirt. The ground rose up, forming several high-speed vortexes around her.

That consciousness force bumped into the air current suddenly, was sucked in, and disintegrated and disappeared in an instant.

Lollipop heaved a sigh of relief, quickly bent down, stretched out his hand from the airflow protection circle, and grabbed the leaf.

After drinking, Lin San broke out in a layer of hot sweat, and a burst of consciousness surged forward, but this time its target was not the lollipop—the consciousness was on the same level as the girl's fingertips. Moment encountered a dead leaf; the finger of the lollipop was slipped by the force of consciousness, and the dead leaf suddenly floated up and landed a few steps away.

"Don't stop me!"

The girl turned her head and screamed, and as soon as she raised her hand, a shadow fell on Lin Sanjiu; the latter paused, immediately opened the [protective force field], and rushed out again.However, in less than half a second, the lollipop had picked up the dead leaf.

As soon as she stood up straight, the shadow dissipated, and Lin Sanjiu didn't even see what it was—maybe it was just a prop to intimidate and stop the enemy.

"Thank you for the special item," Lollipop seemed to have dropped a big stone in his heart, smiled at her lightly, turned around, kicked the ground and rushed forward: "See you again!"

Immediately afterwards, there was a heavy muffled sound of "dong", and she seemed to hit some invisible barrier with her head, and sat down softly along the air in front of her.She had gathered enough strength to run at full speed just now, so the impact was extremely hard, and soon two streams of blood slowly flowed from her nose.

Lin Sanjiu was startled, and quickly stopped in his tracks.She felt around, only to find that the lollipop was surrounded by a transparent barrier; when she looked around, a black cover was slowly protruding from the air, sealing the transparent cabinet up.

"Fortunately." When she was surprised, Yu Yuan quickly walked up from behind, "I stopped it in time."

"You did it? What is it?"

Lin Sanjiu looked at the transparent cabinet, and found that various things were gradually "growing" inside it; a string of light bulbs lit up on the top cover, and metal rods were stretched horizontally in the glass cabinet. A puppet appeared from the opposite glass... She took a closer look, and somehow felt that this thing looked familiar, but couldn't remember what it was: "Is this your ability?"

"No, it's my item, but it has something to do with my ability." Yu Yuan said, staring at the transparent cabinet.

While he was talking, an operation console rose from the outside of the transparent cabinet—when he put his hand on the joystick, Lin Sanjiu suddenly remembered.In order to confirm her guess, she looked up again, and sure enough, she saw a metal claw that had just been stretched out and was still shaking in the glass cabinet.

"Here, isn't this a claw machine?"

"...Yes." Yu Yuan squeezed out a word.

Under the bright light, she could clearly see the faint redness under his tattooed skin—without raising his head, Yu Yuan took out a coin from his pocket; The lights in the claw machine suddenly turned on, as if it came alive all of a sudden.

"It needs coins to activate it," Yu Yuan whispered amidst the ding-ding-dong-dong music, "so I have collected a lot in every world."

Lin Sanjiu looked at the motionless lollipops in the glass cabinet, and didn't even know how to ask: "Then she...you...what are you going to do next?"

【Claw machine】

One of the popular cheating tools in video game halls and casinos, the things you grab will always fall down before reaching the exit.The puppet may still have a chance to catch it. If the machine is filled with ice cream, electronic products or US dollar bills, the metal claw is like paper, and even the act of "grabbing" looks so hypocritical.

Now this game console is being used for robbery.

This special item is intended to create a dynamic balance between the robber and the victim.The victims trapped in the glass cabinet, although incapacitated and temporarily turned into "puppets"; but it does not mean that they have become fish on the robber's chopping board-wanting to grab the victims To get what they want, the robber must have superb claw machine operation skills, spend coins, use the joystick, grab the things little by little and move them to the exit.

PS: Each time this item is used, there are only five chances to catch the doll.After five times, the claw machine must be taken back and the victim regains personal freedom.Of course, if the victim didn't run very far and got trapped, then there would be five more chances to catch the doll.

In the quiet mountain forest, there was a bare sandy land suddenly.Under the background sound of rustling forest sea in the distance, Lin Sanjiu could hear cheerful music ding ding dong dong, and the colorful lights on the claw machine were all in front of his eyes.

"Also... that is to say, you are going to use this metal claw to take the leaf from her hand?" She asked hesitantly.

At this time, Lollipop was still in that posture with its back against the glass wall, and its forehead was already bruised.The lower half of her face was covered with blood, but she couldn't even wipe it off with her hands. Only one pair of eyes could blink and circle.Both of her hands lay motionless on the ground, and one of them was lying with the palm up, a brown-yellow withered leaf—it was "cute, keep colorful time".

"That's right," Yu Yuan exhaled, and reached out to hold the joystick. "Where did this man come from?"

"She was one of the people who attacked me that night, but I don't know why she wanted my special item so much."

As soon as Lin Sanjiu's words fell, there was a sound of "huh" from the glass cabinet; the girl couldn't even move a muscle on her face, only her eyes were round, and she didn't know what she wanted to say. What.

When the metal claw swayed towards the girl, Lin Sanjiu actually started to get a little nervous: "Are you... good at grasping dolls?"

"I bought this claw machine on the black market. Guess how much it cost me?"

When Yu Yuan spoke, the metal claw sank slowly and landed on the palm of the lollipop.Lin Sanjiu's nose was stuck to the glass, staring at the claw—the metal claw slowly closed, scraping the girl's palm like a tickle, scratching across the brown and yellow dead leaves, and finally lifted it up At that time, there was nothing inside.

She looked at the metal claws that were not holding anything and swayed all the way back, and couldn't hide her disappointment: "I can't guess."

"It only cost fifty dragons." Yu Yuan's expression didn't change, he still looked calm, probably because he was used to it being caught empty.

"So little?" Lin Sanjiu couldn't help being surprised, "How can a special item be so cheap?"

"Because no one can catch it." Yu Yuan said while putting in another coin. "I'm not exaggerating. At that time, there was a special product exhibition in a gamified doomsday world. Someone tried thirty or forty times in a row, but they couldn't even catch a doll—an ordinary doll—so they kept putting it until the end. It didn't sell either."

The second time, the metal claw finally caught the dead leaf.However, when he was wandering towards the exit, Lin Sanjiu watched the dead leaf gently fall down from the gap of the metal claw.

She couldn't help sighing as she watched the third coin be inserted into the machine.She didn't want to stare at the metal claw anymore, and asked Yu Yuan, "Then why did you buy it?"

"One reason is because I like to play with catching dolls." Yu Yuan manipulated the metal claws and picked up the dead leaves again; but it didn't take long before he reached into his pocket again and took out the fourth coin . "I'm the kind of person who always thinks that I can catch it next time. Every time I go to the video game hall, I spend a lot of money on the claw machine."

In other words, she still has to be ready to fight again... Lin Sanjiu glanced at the lollipop.The girl's eyes were fixed on the metal claws, and she looked as if she would grab the leaves as soon as she regained her freedom of movement.

"Of course, I can't grab a box of ten yuan ice cream for 40 yuan." Yu Yuan sighed and took out the fifth coin.

"Is there any other reason?" Lin Sanjiu had already given up hope, her whole body was tense, and as soon as the claw machine disappeared, her consciousness would immediately pour out.

"Yes." Yu Yuan replied while manipulating the metal claw: "The ability I developed in the doomsday later made me very suitable for such a special item."

Eh?
Lin Sanjiu was startled, and turned her head to look at him—the metal claws opened at this moment, and the brown and yellow dead leaves slowly fell into the exit under her gaze.Yu Yuan bent down, took out a brown and yellow dead leaf and handed it to her, and said with a smile: "It should be said that as long as it involves mechanical operation, I am naturally more proficient than others."

In a single thought, Ye Zi turned into a card of "Lovely, keep the colorful time" and disappeared from Lin Sanjiu's palm in a flash.

The claw machine disappeared immediately, and the lollipop immediately jumped up from the spot; the two immediately took a step back, only to see her reach out to wipe the blood from her mouth and nose, and cursed in a hoarse voice: "I want Your special item is because I stepped into the sign-in copy you arranged! Because I couldn’t find it, I didn’t sign in with Fire Arm for two days, and Fire Arm was killed this morning—how dare you say that you don’t know why ? No matter what happens today, I must get it!"

Sensing Yu Yuan turning his head to look at him, Lin Sanjiu sighed: "I forgot."

(End of this chapter)