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Mai didn't know when she walked to the side quietly.He should have also noticed the process of Little Red Riding Hood's sudden appearance and disappearance, and he was also watching the intersection at this time. "You've seen that thing before?" he asked.

Lu You looked down at Mai Mai and found a thoughtful expression on his face, "...you have seen it too?"

"I've seen it once before. She suddenly appeared in the room at night and asked me if I could play with her... I was not in a good mood at the time, so I told her not to bother me, and she left." Maimai rarely spoke for such a long time. Then, "You too?"

"I met you in the aquarium the day I first came here." Lu You said.He thought about it, and told Xiaomai the guess that "Little Red Riding Hood is the embodiment of amusement park consciousness".Mai Mai nodded slightly, "It's similar to the guide in the project... the guide of the entire amusement park?" He whispered to himself, "What does she want to do?"

"Did she mention 'grandma' to you?" Lu You asked, "She said she was going to deliver food to grandma, what else...would it be troublesome if grandma was eaten by wolves?" He recalled Little Red Riding Hood that night, and then thought A different detail, "She didn't take the basket today."

Wheat seemed a little surprised. "Little Red Riding Hood?" he repeated, probably realizing now that it was referring to the fairy tale character and not just because she was wearing a red cape with a hood. "What basket?"

It turned out that the two of them encountered different situations.All Mai Mai saw was a rather weird little girl, who didn't say the lines in the fairy tale, and didn't take candy from the basket to leave him.

At that time, Lu You took one eyeball candy from Little Red Riding Hood and put it in his pocket. The next day, he lost it together with his coat in the last pool of rafting in the canyon; are gone.At that time, he didn't understand the rules of food refreshing and disappearing, but after he knew it, he was sure: those sugars are really not normal food.

"Eyeballs... Shi Yu often gives away these things to people." Mai Mai said suddenly, "Didn't you see her in the past few days?"

indeed so.The woman who likes to wander around and will stop to watch the eating scene of the amusement park devouring the dead, recently her sense of existence seems to have suddenly decreased, and she has not been seen recently.I didn't notice this before because the scene was already chaotic enough, but now that I think about it... she wasn't among the people who set fire and reveled, and she wasn't among the people who were destroying and chasing and killing everywhere. Such a calm performance was indeed very abnormal.

Lu You just checked the map, because the number of people has decreased a lot, he has a little impression of the locations of the remaining survivors.Shi Yu was staying in her candy store, and it seemed that she hadn't moved for several days.The people she sheltered—or those who were taken in as "toys"—all fled from her immediately after the accident.She was the only one left there now.

Aware of this situation, Maimai immediately wanted to go to the candy store to see what was wrong with Shigure—he seemed more worried about Shigure's behavior than Shigure now, and then he would suddenly explode and go crazy .But he couldn't leave the restaurant alone, so he had to endure it, and was going to wait for the other two people who were wandering outside to return.

What they didn't expect was that when it was nearly dusk, Shi Yu came back with Zhuang Xiao and Yin Yu.

Looking at the expressions of the two men, one can tell that this is definitely not the result of their initiative to invite.Shi Yu was still wearing the clothes that Lu You wore when he saw her last time, with a childish happy smile on his face, and when he was not talking, he still looked quite normal.

She entered the restaurant, unaware of the suddenly tense atmosphere due to her arrival, looked around, ran to the freezer to get a box of ice cream, and then——was worried about what would happen with Lu You The same - walked over as if familiar.

Yin Yu didn't look sideways after entering the door, and came directly to sit next to Lu You, regardless of the messy blood and gray stains on his clothes, exuding a burnt smell from the fire.Lu You took a paper towel and wiped his dirty face, but it didn't seem to get much clean after wiping... He still looked like he had just left the battlefield.Zhuang Xiao went to wash his hands first, but when he came back after cleaning, Shi Yu had already taken the seat next to Mai Mai, so he could only sit at the table behind him.

Among other things, there were mostly empty seats in the restaurant. As a result, the five of them had to huddle together in a corner, creating a very weird feeling of turbulent undercurrents.Shigure turned a blind eye to Makoto's black face that was about to squeeze into the glass in order to avoid contact with her body, and opened the lid of the ice cream box while looking outside. "A lot of people died." She said lightly, "When will we be like them?"

"Who told you 'we'—you can just curse yourself." Zhuang Xiao put his arms on the back of the chair and turned his head, and said behind her, "I have planned my life after leaving for 30 years, Neither dead nor mad is intended to be done here."

Shigure's full and bright red lips curled up.It was a clearly mocking smile. "30 years? No, no, don't think too much - three seconds is almost enough." She poked the spoon into the chocolate layer on top of the ice cream, roughly dug out a large piece, and slowly Qie Xiao, "You don't really think that you can go back to your normal life after boarding the train with your pass?"

Her eyes withdrew from the window and fell on Lu You.The woman's slender and beautiful eyes revealed a hint of cunning, "In reality, we players are already dead."

Zhuang Xiao sighed. "Here it goes again." He muttered, "Are you still using this reason to persuade others not to think about leaving and stay in the amusement park to 'continue this eternal day of happiness'?" He raised two fingers of both hands, He bent over and made a gesture of double quotation marks, "Then it's no wonder that after so long, you haven't managed to fool even a single person."

His tone did not fluctuate, and it seemed that this was not the first time he heard Shigure's remarks.Lu You understood why Shiyu stared at him - he was the only one who hadn't heard of this statement, and felt a little curious, so he asked questions cooperatively to keep the topic going. "You think we're all dead?" He looked at Shi Yu, "Then why do we have to die here again before being eaten by the amusement park?"

He thought he would hear some complete theory, but Shi Yu opened his mouth and said, "How do I know that?" She ate a piece of ice cream with a smile, and seemed to be very amused by Lu You's blank expression, "Maybe this is what it is Standard procedure, right?—die outside, come in as a sacrifice, die a second time inside, complete the sacrifice and be eaten?”

I don't know if it was a coincidence, but she used a word related to "God", and then turned her face to look at Yin Yu, "Well... have you asked me that too?"

"Yes." Yin Yu said calmly, "I still remember the answer you gave last time, you said 'because the amusement park is happy'."

Shi Yu laughed so hard that he almost choked on the hazelnuts in the ice cream. "So I'm kind of humorous." She said happily, licking the cream on her lips, "but...the point is not that. I think we died before we came in because of the 'loop' and 'resurrection' ah."

The woman raised her hand and pointed out the window with a spoon.Outside the window is the dusk when the sun is setting-the usual time for newcomers to arrive.In some cultures, this is also the time of the Enchantment when the gates of the two worlds open.The amusement park always maintains the season of late summer and early autumn, and the sky in the morning and evening is exactly the same every day.Only today, the sky reflects the fire that burns on the ground, and the black smoke born from the act of destruction becomes a new decoration.

"Time that will not pass..." she said softly, "Before the appearance of the evil spirit, people in the amusement park can easily obtain eternal life; after the appearance of the evil spirit, the person with the seal has a chance to reverse death once a day. What is consumed will be replenished, and what is destroyed will be restored. Don’t you think this is too extravagant? It’s just a monster that feeds on human flesh and blood, why does it have such powerful power and give its food such preferential treatment?”

In the gradually dim light, the woman's beautiful face seemed to exude a lifeless spirit, making it difficult to distinguish between ghosts and ghosts. "Why do people return to the way they were when they first came in after resurrection?" In the sudden silence, only her voice was talking to herself, "Because, the amusement park doesn't want you to find out... there is no way to truly Get old, or grow up."

"Everything here is just a recurring dream, just a dream created by this monster..."

Lu You suddenly noticed a contradiction.But before he could say it, Wheat spoke first. "Resurrection is a new rule only after the appearance of evil spirits." Perhaps because of being poked in some kind of painful foot, Mai Mai's voice at this moment was particularly gloomy, "Where are the previous players?"

Shi Yu smiled and winked at him. "They didn't live long enough to see changes in aging or growth," she said slyly.

Mai Mai was silent for a while, and wanted to say something more, but was cut off by Shi Yu in advance. "Okay, I didn't come here for a debate, I just came here to provide a warning. If you don't believe it, you can do whatever you want." She quickly ate up the ice cream in two or three bites, burped a little, and put The rubbish was left on the table, and she stood up, "Stop staring at me, why don't you leave now." She glared at Yin Yu, as if she was aggrieved, "I know you don't welcome me."

"So you know it yourself, miss?" Zhuang said with a smile, "Speaking of which, you seem to be clear-headed today? It's rare."

"...Yeah." Shi Yu showed a subtle smile, "Because I'm just alone today... It's such an annoying feeling. I hate being sober." She whispered something incomprehensible, passing by the table, it seemed He was muttering to an existence that was elsewhere at the moment, "I'm really worried that she will lose... when will she come back..."

Lu You put his hand on Yin Yu's shoulder and turned to look at her. "Do you think what we see of each other now is hallucination?" he asked.He had already pinched his hand secretly under the table just now, and it felt very real... However, it was the same situation in the previous world. In fact, the dream world of the game has several layers of reality.

Although based on his intuition, observed situations, and systematic reactions, he doesn't feel that this world is repeating that setting, and Shigure's words can't be completely taken seriously, but even if it's just a little bit possible... that kind of reality is hard to imagine. He really didn't want to experience it again.

Shi Yu stopped, stared at him for a while, then suddenly bent his lips, shot out with lightning speed, crossed the barrier named "Yin Yu", and stroked Lu You's hand ——The original target was probably his face, but with a little more distance, Yin Yu would have to react before she pulled back.

"I think we are all walking dead, and we can only live in this eternal day." She said with a smile, "Stay here."

The woman in the bright red dress left the restaurant and disappeared into the twilight that gradually merged.Regarding her visit and "warning", Zhuang Xiao summed it up in five words, "Anyway, I don't believe it".But although his words were firm and unwavering, he seemed to be escaping from something in his actions. He didn't visit his girls, and he didn't wait until it was completely dark to have a quick meal before pulling Wheat out again. It's said to continue patrolling.

Lu You and Mai Mai are usually silent when they are together, but Yin Yu can finally increase their communication.In the past few days, they haven't had much chance to be intimate, and they don't even spend much time simply staying together.After it was completely dark, they stood on the corridor by the water—avoiding the place where the girl jumped off today—looking at the misty water and the still flickering fire in the distance.

"Will those facilities be restored tomorrow?" Lu You murmured.This was originally a fixed rule in amusement parks, but now that more and more food trucks have problems, even this has become uncertain.

"If it recovers, it means that the amusement park is still far away from collapse." Yin Yu said, "If it doesn't recover, we will demolish it together tomorrow. Maybe we will go out after the demolition is completed." He touched Lu You's shoulder, "Don't worry, it won't be chaotic forever."

Are you worried?Actually no.Lu You moved a little closer to Yin Yu, absorbing his body heat to keep warm. "Do you think Shigure's guess is true?" He asked in a low voice, "The one who will die if we leave?"

——In fact, when he heard Shi Yu say that, the first thing that came to him was not fear, but relief.After all, for him and this person, the death of a world is not the complete end... Moreover, he had been avoiding one thing before.

The task this time is to "escape".After leaving the amusement park, his mission is complete, and he has no extra points that can be exchanged for survival time.When he promised Yin Yu to accompany him, he had an unspeakable guilt—the promise was time-limited.Thinking of the scene when the world had to part in the last time, he still felt uncomfortable.

If this time can be the end of sync...

Yin Yu hugged his shoulders to bring him closer, these movements of his can always bring a sense of calmness and composure. "If it's true, would you want to stay here?" he asked slowly.Lu You thought for a while, then shook his head.Yin Yu's hand lightly squeezed his shoulder. "Me too," he said.

There was a moment of silence.They looked at the reflected lights of the lake.Most of them are pitch-black, with only one or two faint lights, but they are more conspicuous than all the darkness superimposed.Tonight, the smell of smoke and blood is mixed with the fog, which is more uncomfortable than before.

Lu You felt that Yin Yu's hand holding his shoulder tightened slightly. "About that guess," he said suddenly, "before I..."

He couldn't finish his sentence, and was interrupted by an abnormal noise from the restaurant door—the two people who had gone out to patrol had come back now.When the two of them hurried over, the corpse dragged back by Zhuang Xiao and Mai Mai had already stuck to the steps of the door and was gradually sinking, while the card that Mai Mai was holding was slowly turning transparent The nothingness, just in time for them to see the last.

There's red on the card -- at least two stamps.

"What's wrong?" Lu You asked anxiously.The two people who deliberately dragged the corpse back had very gloomy expressions.

"This person hid for the whole day and only came out at night. He didn't use today's chance of resurrection." Zhuang Xiao said in a low voice, "Before he died, he begged us not to kill him after he was resurrected..."

"He didn't come back to life." Wheat continued.

He let go of his fingers.The card with the stamp on it flickered slightly between his fingers, and then disappeared completely.

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