Doomsday Wonderland

Except that it is larger than ordinary government offices, the "City Hall" does not seem to be out of the ordinary at first glance.

The room was several degrees darker than outside. In the foyer with no lights on, only the daylight that finally squeezed in barely floated on the marble floor tiles, illuminating the blurry reflections of people. The foyer was as big as a tennis court, but there were no facilities. It was empty, except for the There was a standing sign at the door of the glass door that read "City Hall welcomes you today."

Lin Sanjiu looked at the notice board and hesitated for a few seconds. What do you mean, there are still days when you are not welcome?

She looked out through the glass door. It didn't look like anyone was coming for a moment, and then she slowly entered the foyer of Nuoda with the temple.

A few dozen meters away, facing the glass door is a white wall with a few lines of red slogans posted on the white wall - "Abide by laws and regulations, follow the arrangements of municipal personnel, and remember to smile when inappropriate."

"Isn't this city hall a doomsday factor?"

Lin Sanjiu muttered, seeing a row of glass windows and desks at the left end of the hall, he walked over. Fortunately, the small apocalyptic world models in the Karma Museum are all in an "inactivated" state, otherwise walking in this dark and silent hall would be a bit scary.

When there was a gentle tapping sound of heels suddenly coming from behind her, she hurriedly turned around and realized that the puppet master had summoned the spirit at some point and put the temple away. Except for the first sound of landing, even the leather was silent when he walked on the marble floor tiles. Under the crow feather cloak, the whole person seemed like a thick black cloud, quietly floating through the evening night.

"Do you also want to see the video left by Siba'an in person?" Lin Sanjiu was very happy, "Actually, I see that you two are quite harmonious when working together..."

The puppeteer glanced at her. She couldn't finish her words, so she quickly turned around and said without embarrassment, "It would be great if we called that person just now, and he could explain to us what's going on here."

The puppet master walked past Lin Sanjiu without looking away, as if he didn't want to waste any more energy on her.

"Maybe someone can come," Lin Sanjiu was still chatting.

In fact, half of what he said was sincere: when they approached the office cubicles behind the row of glass windows, Lin Sanjiu found that the desks behind them were as empty as the hall, with hangings behind every glass window. There was a sign saying "Please wait for office staff."

You would really have to panic if an "office worker" appeared - as soon as you heard it, you knew that it must be part of the original apocalyptic world.

As for the "Convenience Bulletin Board", Lin Sanjiu didn't see it anywhere.

"Could it be at the other end of the hall," she murmured, looking across the hall. There was a corridor connected to the other end, which seemed to be filled with offices. At the end of the corridor was an elevator room and an escalator.

"The public bulletin board shouldn't be in the office." Lin Sanjiu looked around and couldn't help but feel a little anxious, "Then who lied to me?"

"Someone is coming." The puppet master suddenly said in a low voice.

Before he finished speaking, Lin Sanjiu also heard it; when the glass door was pushed open, a gust of wind rushed into the air, followed by two "dah" sounds, as if the person was wearing shoes with very thin heels, or maybe It has a pair of extremely small feet.

As the two watched, a pig walked in through the glass door.

It turned its head towards the two of them, and its small, black eyes with long pink eyelashes blinked a few times like a human. "Ah," the long pig's mouth opened, and a voice that was no different from human speech came out. "Someone is here."

It stands to reason that Lin Sanjiu, who has come into contact with rabbits and cat doctors, should not be surprised by "animals speaking human language", but she still felt the hairs on her arms stand up - it was not that she was afraid or wary. , the feeling was hard to describe, as if... as if she had seen something extremely unnatural, as if she had seen bean sprouts emerging from the skin of a person's knees, which made her whole body feel uncomfortable for a moment.

The discomfort quickly dissipated; Lin Sanjiu coughed and asked: "...Fallen species?"

"Don't be nervous. We high-level ones can completely control ourselves and will not antagonize others casually."

The pink-white pig stands like a human, with a row of breasts (not shown in brackets) on its round belly, and only a circle of cloth around its crotch. Standing on its two hind legs, it seemed to move freely; when it hung its two front hooves and clattered towards the two of them, a forest even appeared on the upturned pig's face. Sanjiu had an expression that could only be called a smile.

For a moment, she didn't know which was more surprising: the existence of the pig-shaped fallen species itself, or the fact that it walked over calmly and calmly after seeing the puppet master?

I'm afraid the puppet master didn't expect that one day he wouldn't be able to scare even a pig; neither of them moved, they just stared at the white pig getting closer and closer until it stopped in front of the glass showcase.

It landed one of its front hooves on the stand in front of the window and exhaled a breath from its huge black nostrils.

"You came a few minutes early," it said, looking at the two of them with one small eye. "Did you see the electronic clock on the wall? The time in the city hall is different from that outside. It's only 3:25 in the afternoon here. "

"So what?" Lin Sanjiu asked warily.

"Why don't you know anything?" Pig asked, half smiling, half as a lesson: "You don't know anything, what are you here for?"

Anyone who dares to speak to a puppet master in such a tone—whether it’s a human, a pig, or a fallen species—has long since been so broken that he can’t even compete for the position of puppet. However, this is the Karma Museum after all; Lin Sanjiu hurriedly pressed the puppet master's arm, hinting him not to be impulsive. He took a step forward, stood between the pig and the puppet master, and then asked : "We are here to see the public notice board. Do you know where it is?"

She didn't have to look back, she could feel the air behind her becoming twisted and heavy.

The bright black pig eyes passed Lin Sanjiu and flashed past the puppet master; it seemed to finally feel something, calmed down a little, and said with a smile: "Ahem, of course I know. You don't have to worry, just Like I said, wait another five minutes until the city hall opens at 3:30, and you will naturally see the public notice board."

Although its attitude was slightly better, Lin Sanjiu still pressed one hand on the puppet master's cloak and did not dare to relax. "Working?" she asked urgently, "Shouldn't this just be a model apocalyptic world? Can this city hall still function?"

"It's a model apocalypse," Pig said, still smiling. "A model apocalypse doesn't mean it's a dead place made of wood. Things other than dangerous factors can still be run."

Lin Sanjiu remembered the huge sphinx that slowly turned its head toward her when she first arrived.

The pig seemed to be very interested and knocked on the glass window. "Office workers will no longer appear behind glass windows. As soon as 3:30, this piece of glass window will turn into a screen. It is very advanced and the latest technology. You can see the convenient bulletin board from the projection screen. The content. UU Reading www.uukanshu.net What do you want to see it do? Are you a flood service provider?"

"Can only flood service providers watch it?" Lin Sanjiu asked rhetorically.

"What's your attitude?" The corners of the pig's grinning mouth suddenly tightened, and the smile disappeared. The long pig's mouth opened and closed and said, "I'm asking questions to help you, do you understand?"

It looked at the puppet master again, and its tone softened a bit again. But to say that it is as respectful and taboo as others is absolutely impossible.

"Because there are the most flood service providers nearby, this is the gathering place for them to wait for customers. They are close to the water tower and discovered that the public bulletin board can be used to publish news, so they will come over to take a look from time to time, and gradually it has become a news channel that they only use... ...You are obviously not a service provider and have no experience at all. I am kindly trying to teach you but you are still full of suspicion. This is not a sign of ignorance."

Even Lin Sanjiu, who had such a good temper, was a little angry.

But she didn't have time to say anything more. The time on the electronic watch jumped to three-thirty in the afternoon - just as the pig said, the entire glass window turned into a screen; hundreds of messages scrolled tightly from the screen. stand up.