Doomsday Wonderland

"What’s wrong with you?"

The Killing Hotel seemed to notice Lin Sanjiu's absent-mindedness and turned around to ask.

They just took advantage of the fact that the Expanded Giant had not yet freed up its hands, and sneaked into the dungeons that dispersed in twos and threes. They followed the crowd and walked out. After a while, they had already left Youhu Park far behind. If you turn your head and look at it at this time, you will only see a small palm-sized forest on the horizon, as if someone wanted to draw a park on the earthy yellow canvas and stopped painting after just one corner.

"Is it because you haven't found any friends?" Killing Hotel said, "Go out and make another one."

Lin Sanjiu shook her head. She simply didn't know where to start in order to make a copy realize what friends and partners meant to her - that was probably an impossible task. Even if the replica creature still retains some of its humanity, the replica itself is extremely difficult to empathize with humans.

She was like a ghost now, her feet never touched the ground with every step she took. She was trapped in someone's dream, and she couldn't get out no matter how hard she pounced.

She obviously fell with him, and she obviously followed the clues to find him. Why couldn't she find the person she should have been able to find?

This line is broken. In the vast world, where should she go next?

"No...I'm not thinking about him." Lin Sanjiu whispered, "I'm very troubled right now..."

Even without mentioning the puppet master, her troubles and worries were gradually growing. "When we were walking out of the crowd just now...I saw another familiar person."

"Who?"

"I have no idea."

Lin Sanjiu said in a daze: "The shadow of that person passed from the corner of my eye in a flash. When I looked back, I found that no one had just left nearby, but the people walking around me were all copies I didn't recognize. "

This was already the second time; she mentally listed all the copies she had met one by one, and compared them with the shadows in her peripheral vision, they all seemed different.

"Perhaps it's the copy you participated in in the Karma Museum?" Killing Hotel said. "Only the copy of the Karma Museum exists in this space. I don't know about other apocalyptic worlds, and I haven't seen them. Sometimes I even suspect that it is There aren’t really other worlds.”

...To have this kind of illusion is so luxurious that it makes people jealous.

"Of course." After sighing for a moment or two, Lin Sanjiu finally found a glimmer of light in the vast world and said, "We may not have to run around and die in various apocalyptic worlds soon."

The Killing Hotel didn't seem to care much about human teleportation, and she didn't mention the vaccine. She continued: "I have only participated in three dungeons in the Karma Museum. Meeting an old friend in a foreign land, Lucky Wanderer Lottery Point, Confused Big Palace. Even the simulation copy I participated in in the Grand Palace of Confusion, I have thought about it, and it doesn’t feel like..."

Kill Inn shrugged. "No matter who it is, or whether you are overly concerned, at least one thing is that that person is definitely not following up now."

This is probably true.

After walking along the dungeons for a while, the two of them saw that they were far enough away from the Lake Park, so they turned to the west - because the Killing Hotel said, "There is a place to the west where there is no one, because it corresponds to the Karma Museum." There happens to be no copy in that land."

Sure enough, as he said, the further west you go, the sparser the traces of the copy, and no one can be seen for a while. At this moment, there is only an empty flat terrain in the front, back, left and right, stretching far away, undisturbed by any footsteps.

Lin Sanjiu nodded. After a few seconds, a thought broke through her heavy melancholy and emerged clearly.

"You mean...this space corresponds to the Karma Museum? There is no copy space there, and there is none here?" When Killing Hotel responded with a yes, she became even more confused: "But you can't move around freely here? ?"

"We can only go where there are copies."

Killing Hotel explained, "This range is tens to hundreds of kilometers in radius... For example, from our current location, I know that there is a land corresponding to the Karma Museum a few kilometers to the southeast. There is a copy, so we can also walk from here to the southeast several kilometers away. Each copy is like a point, and drawing a circle with it as the center, we can only enter from one circle to another, with the middle It cannot exist apart from the circle.”

Lin Sanjiu stared blankly at the direction he was pointing, and then at the increasingly empty land to the west. "Then... there is no copy in the west?"

"Yes, it corresponds to a large area of ​​land in the Karma Museum that has no dungeons, so in this space, dungeons cannot pass through, just like it is our restricted area. If I keep walking to the west, I will not be able to go back halfway. You've moved forward, but that doesn't matter. A place where no copy can enter is your safest hiding place."

It was safe for a while, but there was no way out - if she wanted to find someone, she had to go out.

As Killing Hotel spoke, he lowered his head and wiped the tip of his nose. "We are indeed more advanced than you, but we are only advanced tools that exist to devour low-level creatures. As tools, there is no freedom."

Even in the space created by the copies themselves, the chains that bound them were only slightly loosened.

"I have seen a copy that can move around freely," Lin Sanjiu said, half persuading and half comforting, "That guy can do it, maybe you guys have a chance too?"

The Killing Hotel was not surprised. He just waved his hand and said, "If you can move around freely, you will be restricted in other aspects."

Lin Sanjiu thought for a while and changed her words. "I understand... So you held a symposium and gathered at that location specifically?"

"You think quickly," Killing Hotel praised her, "Yes, that location is very special. According to our geographical distribution in the apocalyptic world, that location happens to be the intersection point that most copies can reach. We have to be close enough to use copy channels to communicate and hold symposiums.”

Hearing this, Lin Sanjiu couldn't help but look up and take a closer look at the sky that looked like a map of the planet. Now that she was reminded, she realized that there was more land on the map and less ocean.

The two of them discussed a few more words while walking: For example, when the Killing Hotel cannot be walked anymore, it happens to be a "marking point". In which direction Lin Sanjiu needs to continue walking in order to get out of the sight of the "marking point"; when When she was temporarily sheltered from the limelight, how should she inquire about the situation at the Killing Hotel, etc.

"I know too little," she sighed abruptly, the words slipping out almost subconsciously.

Lin Sanjiu knew very well that a drama was currently being performed on the stage formed by this space. From the moment she fell down from the puppeteer, the scene began to turn its gears and move forward slowly; but the curtain on the stage had not yet opened to her.

All her efforts in the audience have only barely raised a corner of the curtain. She is watching the actors' footsteps, skirts and hair, and a few words, trying to use them to restore the content of the entire play. .

"Why did the Lake Tour dungeon set a trap for me?" she murmured. "How did he know that I was following him all the way? What if I didn't go to the town at all? Also, how did he know that I was looking for the doll? Master? What’s the point of catching me? If you want to ask questions, you won’t be able to finish them all.”

Killing Inn turned to look at the way they came. "The questions don't matter. As long as you're out, it doesn't matter if you don't have answers."

"But I have a vague feeling that if I don't figure everything out, I'm afraid I won't be able to find my friend."

Lin Sanjiu wiped her face and felt a strange and strong tiredness. Her so-called "evolver's body" now has an incomparable content of active ingredients. After experiencing so many accidents and adventures, she is naturally tired.

After a pause, Killing Hotel turned around again.

"What's wrong?" Lin Sanjiu also turned around and looked.

Behind him is still a land that is so quiet that it is almost solid.

"It seems like there are copies following us," Killing Hotel said with a frown, "but I can't tell."

"Can't tell? Why?" Lin Sanjiu stopped, leaning on her toes and stretching her neck. She tried hard but still couldn't see anything.

"If there really is a copy later, its weight is too light, lighter than yours." Killing Hotel murmured, "The 'character' we created itself is also formed from the energy of the copy. So we can feel each other's 'weight of presence'."

"Perhaps a certain copy deliberately——"

"No, although we can adjust the appearance of the 'character', the 'existence weight' is equivalent to... equivalent to density. This is innate, and the weight is as heavy as it should be. It doesn't matter if it turns into a needle, no It will make me confused." Killing Hotel shook his head and said, "I must have made a mistake. It's strange, how come today's unexplainable weird things happen one after another..."

No matter how much Lin Sanjiu knew, she could always find that there were more things in this space that she didn't know.

Words such as "weight of existence" and "very light" somehow got stuck in her thoughts, like a mouse that was accidentally trapped and rushed back and forth several times.

He had already walked out of the Killing Hotel for several steps, and turned back to look at her blankly.

"Why don't you leave?"

Lin Sanjiu opened her mouth, turned around and looked in the direction she was looking, and then looked at the Killing Hotel. She was trying to catch the slippery, darting thoughts in her head like a fish—and when she finally got her thoughts straight, she grabbed Kill Inn's arm.

However, things in the world are so coincidental sometimes.

Her words had already taken shape and were about to roll off the tip of her tongue when a figure suddenly appeared on the ground in front of the two of them.

Both of them were silent for a moment. The figure moved very fast; they stared at the figure, which gradually stretched and enlarged from the size of a fingernail, and the face appeared clearly in their field of vision - it was a man they had never seen before, of medium height. , thin and white, as if he was just a passerby.

However, Killing Hotel and Lin Sanjiu both paused for a few seconds. No one spoke or moved.

When the man was only a hundred meters away from them, Killing Hotel suddenly shuddered.

Lin Sanjiu also understood.

It turns out that’s the case, no wonder…

Wait, does this mean she is in danger now?

Almost as soon as her idea was formed, the Killing Hotel happened to raise its hand, and the dilapidated motel suddenly appeared from between heaven and earth.

"You are in danger," his face was a little pale, and he seemed to have another sentence left, but he had no time to say it - because when he saw the motel, the man suddenly ducked and accelerated towards them, or in other words, He rushed towards Lin Sanjiu.

Killing Hotel only said four words, UU reading wwwｗ. uukanshu． netｔThe face of a man that he had never seen before was about to fall on his shoulder.

With no time to say anything, Lin Sanjiu suddenly threw herself to the side and rolled into the parking lot of the Sunset Hotel. She felt something suddenly hit behind her, but no sound was made. Instead, she was quickly twisted - —The voices of the Killing Hotel rang out from all directions. At this time, they no longer sounded like humans, but like a real copy.

"Don't do this nonsense, get away!"

Lin Sanjiu hurriedly jumped up from the ground, took a few steps back to the red drink vending machine on the first floor of the hotel, and stared at the two figures outside the parking lot.

The back of the Killing Hotel was blocking the front. The man looked over his shoulder and was staring at Lin Sanjiu under the hotel. It seemed as if his pupils were about to burn up - a human being who could be caught by just a hair's breadth, but he happened to be like this. At the critical moment, he hid in another copy.

"I was careless,"

Lin Sanjiu looked at the man and murmured: "You really fooled everyone with this move, Youhu Park."