non-human reincarnation

"Those..." Chen Liangjun found himself trembling when he spoke, and had to clear his throat before he said, "What are those?"

"Beaked sparrow, also known as vampire sparrow," Cheng Yan forced himself to look away from Chi Wu, explaining, "likes to eat blood."

Xu Huachi murmured: "No wonder, no wonder he... he fucked his whole body..."

"Why can't you go out?" Xiao Xiaobai lost his soul again, and sat on the ground in a daze. "He just went out of the store. Why did something happen? I was also outside the store just now."

Cheng Yan squatted down, looked carefully at the doors of the shopping mall, turned sideways, and found that the top of the sign that once said "Don't buy, don't touch, at your own risk", the open sign has changed to close.

"Time," Cheng Yan said, "11:30 is the closing time."

"Does it mean that the store is closed?" Xiao Xiaobai faltered, "No, I definitely can't go out. I'd rather die inside than go out and be sucked dry."

They were silent for a long time, until the lights in the yard became darker and darker, and the lights in the house became thick and bright.

No. 267 is a tireless machine, standing at the cash register from beginning to end, Cheng Yan glanced at the clock on the wall, it was 57:[-].

"It's going to cross zero." Cheng Yan said lightly.

Piao Piao was unhappy: "Is another salesperson going to disappear?" She asked Cheng Yan, "Can we prevent them from disappearing?"

Ju Xu's death left them without any desire to discuss, and even felt that life would be easy if they could just sit in a daze on the wicker chairs in the shopping mall.

"Why is the first ladder like this?" Xu Huachi raised his head and covered his eyes with his hands, "Isn't it the easiest one? Why did everyone die?"

Chen Liangjun wiped his face vigorously: "It's him who is disobedient, Cheng Yan has told him not to go out."

"If his situation is different to mine, I can't do it either," Piao Piao said in a low voice, "I lose my spiritual energy a little bit, and my strength is getting weaker and weaker. It's no different from waiting to die. It's better to die, he said Maybe every step I take, I have to be careful not to consume too much mental energy, and I have no clue how to escape from this ladder, and finally find that I am different from others, and there is no corresponding salesman..."

She propped her chin, her eyes were red: "It's too sad to think about it."

"Thousands of ways vary from person to person, so there's no need to be so pessimistic." Cheng Yan raised his head and looked at the second hand that was moving conscientiously.

11:59:58

11:59:59

12:00:00

The minute hand swung past the number 12. At the same time, No. 267 standing at the front desk walked mechanically, returned to the shelf, and melted itself into it.

On the other side, No. 167 appeared and stood between the shelves. The badge on her chest fell off, and like the previous waiter, it slowly melted and penetrated into the ground.

"She..." Xiao Xiaobai pointed, "She's gone too!"

"Whose 167 belongs to?" Chen Liangjun asked.

Xiao Xiaobai hurriedly said: "It's not me!"

Bi Fuying took a deep breath, as if someone had poured cold water on her head, her voice trembling: "It's me."

"Disappear once in half an hour."

They didn't have time to wait, Cheng Yan thought for a second, then got up: "You wait for me here."

"I'll go too!" Chi Wu grabbed Cheng Yan's clothes, "Don't leave me here."

Cheng Yan walked a little further, and said to the air, "I want to leave the shopping center."

The number 767 that belonged to him slowly came out of the shelf and walked up to him steadily: "Sir, do you want to leave?"

"Yes, I'm going out."

No. 767 smiled and said, "Sir, choose a doll and you can leave the store."

"Where is the doll?" Cheng Yan asked her.

No. 767 walked through the shelf and stood in front of the wooden table in the hall. It was originally a decorative table with several zoo guidebooks and animal encyclopedias on it. 767 slowly took out seven dolls from the bamboo basket, one Next to each other, placed on those books, very neat.

"If you want to leave, please choose one of them." No. 767

Said, "Six of the dolls contain Portkeys, and besides that, please know that from now on the time in our shop will be doubled."

"What do you mean by double passage?" Piao Piao asked.

No. 767 did not answer.

Cheng Yan: "Time passes by twice, and spiritual energy also passes by double."

As soon as Xiao Xiaobai collapsed, he held onto the edge of the table: "Does she really want us all to be trapped inside?"

"Seven people, six keys." Cheng Yan propped his hands on both sides of the wooden table, and looked down at the dolls, "It means that one person can't get the key and will be kept inside."

He touched the first doll to the last: "Which one to choose?"

Piao Piao grabbed his hand: "No! If you choose one without a key..."

Cheng Yan suddenly laughed, withdrew his hand and turned to ask Chi Wu: "Would you choose one for me?"

"Ah?" Chi Wu looked at him, "I'll choose for you?"

"I have to choose, you are so unlucky, whichever one you choose, I just don't take it." Cheng Yan said.

Chi Wu: "Okay, then I will help you choose."

Seeing that Chi Wu was about to make a move, Cheng Yan quickly patted the back of his hand: "Don't pollute the six with keys into those without keys."

"He hit me," Chi Wu whimpered and held his paw, "Obviously he asked me to choose..."

"I beg you two, please stop for a while, the most important thing now is how do we get out?" Chen Liangjun asked, "It's double the time now!"

Cheng Yan's footsteps swayed: "Then you will come first?"

Chen Liangjun lost his arrogance in an instant, and honestly confessed: "I really don't dare, but I really want to live. I saw Ju Xu's appearance, I don't want to, I really don't want to be like him."

"Don't choose," Xiao Xiaobai grabbed Cheng Yan's clothes, "Let's think about it again."

They returned to the rest area, Piao Piao asked: "Are you all right? Do you feel any pain or fatigue?" He asked Xiao Xiaobai and Cheng Yan, "You two's injuries..."

"I'm fine." Cheng Yan said.

Chi Wu touched his nose, looked around, and said, "I want to go to the toilet..."

"But there's no place for you to go to the toilet here." Piao Piao wondered, "You don't want to hold back anymore."

"But the time is doubled, I'm in a hurry..." Chi Wu pursed his lips and looked at Cheng Yan, "Will you accompany me?"

Cheng Yan had a look of "I really can't do anything about you": "Let's go, let me see if I can open the drink bottle for you to use."

They walked away, and Chi Wu whispered: "Now there are six salesmen left, and there are exactly six keys among the six dolls."

Cheng Yan hooked his lips and smiled: "Six badges."

They both stopped at the same time, and a familiar tacit understanding flowed in the air, as if as long as one of them said a word at random, the other could complete the other word.

And it is difficult to classify this tacit understanding as the same nature of smart people, more, it is a kind of cooperation.

As if born with it.

But it seemed to be full of long waits.

"Why do you say that it is impossible for us to pass the same ladder in the future?" Cheng Yan asked suddenly.

Chi Wu closed his eyelids very slowly: "It's just a matter of probability, it's not that coincidental."

"You're lying." Cheng Yan said.

Chi Wu looked up at him, but because of his height, he could only raise his neck: "Who will tell the truth when there are still people eavesdropping."

Bi Fuying in the distance: "..."

Cheng Yan gave up asking, and said, "If the method we just mentioned is feasible, I still want clues."

Chi Wu knocked on the aluminum shelf a total of twelve times.

"I think it's also it," Cheng Yan said, "Let's go, I have to draw a doll."

"Draw it," Chi Wu yawned, "Anyway, it's not my fault that I lost the key."

Cheng Yan raised his eyebrows, and took out two plastic bottles from the bag: "Did you forget something?"

Chi Wu took the plastic bottle, twisted the cap, but couldn't open it, Cheng Yan took it from his hand, twisted it two or three times, and the cap was separated from the bottle body, he tilted the bottle body curiously, splashed Out of one

Some liquid.

"There is no food in the ladder, but water can," Chi Wu said, "There is water in the pool we came in."

"Drink it." Cheng Yan gave him the mineral water bottle, "After drinking it, let's settle it inside, otherwise I won't be able to explain to others."

Chi Wu squinted his eyes, and really lowered his head to touch his belt: "Okay."

Cheng Yan was not threatened at all, leaning against the door frame, folded his arms in front of his chest: "Take it out."

"Oh." Chi Wu's mineral water bottle tilted, his hands trembled into Parkinson's, and he sprinkled it on Cheng Yan's feet, then turned his head and left.

Cheng Yan laughed at the spot, looked down at his leather-covered military boots, and followed behind him.

"Why did you go there for so long?" Piao Piao asked, "If you don't come back, I'm going to look for you."

Chi Wu spat out his lower lip and hummed aggrievedly: "Next time, don't ask Cheng Yan to follow me."

With the "wow, disgusting" expressions on their faces, they concluded that Cheng Yan was messing with Chi Wu again.

Cheng Yan had already given up on explaining the matter of pinching the fog and chirping, and carried out the image of a scumbag to the end: "Clean up and get ready to go out."

Chen Liangjun and Xu Huachi said in unison: "Is there a way to get out?!"

Bi Fuying, who had heard all the conversations between Cheng Yan and Chi Wu, stood up silently, waiting for everyone to leave.

"Come on." Cheng Yan led them to the cash register, "First summon your respective waiters, and think about magic spells."

Everyone nodded seriously, so nervous that they didn't understand Cheng Yan's joke.

"Then start with the first one, number 167." Cheng Yan said.

According to what Cheng Yan said, they summoned their waiters.

Cheng Yan pointed to Xu Huachi and Chen Liangjun: "Well, whoever you two are, go find a hammer in the cloth bag you packed earlier."

Xiao Xiaobai: "What are you looking for?!"

"Oh," Cheng Yan said, "I mean, find a big inflatable hammer."

Knowing that he could go out, Xu Huachi relaxed, and asked Cheng Yan: "Have you not remembered our name yet?"

"No, I should have remembered half of it. Your surname is Chen." Cheng Yan patted the doll's head, "The main reason is that your names are too mediocre. Since it is a new world, why not give yourself a new name, Goudan or Tie Zhu is not bad, it sounds like he will definitely be able to live up to the ninth step of the ladder."

Xu Huachi: "You——"

"It makes sense." Chi Wu nodded in agreement.

Chen Liangjun: "Fuck..."

Chi Wu looked at Cheng Yan: "Otherwise your name will be Cheng Xiu'e."

Cheng Yan: "?" Xiu'er?

"Okay, stop joking," Xiao Xiaobai said, "Let's talk after we go out."

The half-arm-long inflatable toy hammer was brought, Cheng Yan rubbed his neck, and said to his No. 767: "I want to hear the rules of dolls again."

No. 767 approached, and before he had time to speak, Cheng Yan said "good luck", and took the hammer head and hammered No. 767 to the wooden table.

767 pounced on him, knocking down the little raccoon doll on the edge.

The little raccoon fell to the ground, Cheng Yan poked it with the hammer, and saw the zipper appear out of nowhere under the little raccoon's buttocks, he turned the hammer upside down, squatted on the ground and pulled the zipper bit by bit, finally saw the pp cotton leak When he came out, he used the mouth of the plastic bottle to hook up the strap on the little raccoon's head, and the big windmill spun.

bang.

A key floated out of the cotton and fell to the ground.

"Okay." Cheng Yan picked up the key, "Let's go."

Chen Liangjun grabbed his arm: "But there are only six keys here, you only got yours, and you don't care about us?"

"It's not that I won't give you the key, but we only need one key."

Cheng Yan straightened up: "You take off the badges on their bodies and put them on yours."