Doomsday Wonderland

Of course, the main force in the interrogation can only be Bohemia. The big pink-haired boy dragged the two old people together with an eager look on his face. In the process, they tried to release an evolutionary ability at her. Unfortunately, his old age was severely weakened, and it hit Bohemia as if Like a gust of breeze, whatever effect it had, it was gone in the blink of an eye.

This attack seemed to have exhausted all their strength, and when Bohemia continued to fiddle with them, both of them lowered their heads and remained silent.

Bohemia was beaten even more unceremoniously; she found a branch, slapped the two sagging wrinkled faces back and forth a few times, and shouted: "Hey! Can you hear me?"

In the blink of an eye, they lost their gender, and their faces became even more skewed. It was hard to believe that the same species could change so much. One of them smacked his toothless mouth and said vaguely: "I'm just old... There's nothing wrong with my ears."

Lin Sanjiu, another waning old man, couldn't help but feel envious when he heard this. Her ears are very hard to use, and sometimes she needs the teacher to repeat it in her mind before she can understand what others said.

"Wait a minute," she raised a hand tremblingly, "there's something strange about me... Where are the other ants?"

Logically speaking, if the queen ant is knocked down, shouldn't those ants rush back to save her? But it was quiet in the jungle. Except for the heavy humming made by the queen ant struggling from time to time, there was no sign of other ants.

The other old man exhaled mockingly, blowing his loose lips. Judging by the length of the sparse hair that remained, it appeared to be a woman.

"Do you think..." she said slowly, "this is the only nest?"

Bohemia was stunned, and suddenly squatted down next to her: "What do you mean?"

"To fight against so many mushroom cities... we need... more than one queen ant." She spoke quite clearly, "When this queen falls... we and other worker ants will defect to other nests... "

She smiled with all her strength and whispered: "At that time, the person who destroyed the previous ant nest will become the enemy of all ants..."

"Am I afraid of you?" Bohemia snorted and pricked her several times with a branch: "If you have the ability, ask them to come now and bring their special items with them."

Lin Sanjiu was reminded by her and took out the pack of cigarettes from his trouser pocket. His fingers trembled and he failed to hold it, letting it fall to the ground with a clatter: "Here you go."

She already has enough items. Among the eight items obtained from the Lake Tour dungeon, there are still five items that have not been used - of course, if her [Flat World] can get it back smoothly.

Bohemia's eyes lit up, she stretched out her hand to grab it, muttered "It's a pity it's not silver", and then she put it into her pocket unceremoniously: "Yes, you also know that the crow feeds back!"

This word seemed to be used in the wrong place, but Lin Sanjiu didn't have the strength to point it out.

"Stop talking so much nonsense," Bohemia focused his attention on the two old men again, "Tell me, why did the evolvers stop teleporting after joining you and the mushrooms?"

The two old men lowered their heads, and someone snorted from their nostrils.

"No, that's not right," Bohemia suddenly remembered something and corrected herself: "It's not just about stopping the teleportation. You seem to be able to teleport as you like... I remember that the Mushroom City often sends people to the Twelve Realms. Promote it. What the hell is going on? How did you do it?"

"Ah," the woman opened her mouth, and the place where her front teeth used to be was dark. "This is not something we are responsible for..."

"What nonsense!" Bohemia was on the verge of losing her patience. "Which one of you two is the original evolver?"

"Me." Another man said dyingly, his attitude was quite cooperative - Lin Sanjiu could understand why. When a person has matured like this, they let go of their attachment to many things; not because they can see clearly, but because they are too tired. The feeling of exhaustion when life is about to run out makes people unable to raise any interest in resistance, and they just want to wait for the absolute darkness to hit.

"How did you stop teleporting?" Bohemia asked again: "Don't say you don't know how they did it, at least you know what happened to you, right?"

After the old man told his experience intermittently and vaguely, Lin Sanjiu and Bohemia were stunned. When they came to their senses, the two couldn't help but look at each other.

If they hadn't believed that he had lost the strength to lie long ago, they might have thought that the old man was teasing them.

No matter what the puppet master was planning, he couldn't find the answer he was looking for in these words - No, wait - Lin Sanjiu suddenly felt excited, feeling that he had vaguely discovered something key.

He wouldn't have--

She went through the old man's words twice in her mind and asked in a low voice: "You said... whenever the 14 months is about to end, you will be taken by someone and keep moving forward?"

The old man breathed out "ah" from under his loose lips, which was regarded as affirmation.

"Go to a certain point, come back again...and you won't be teleported for the next 14 months?"

This time, he didn't even bother to breathe, but he didn't mean to deny it.

In the past few days, the puppeteer has also been moving forward. This couldn't be just a coincidence - but could the key to stopping teleportation lie in "just keep walking"? How is this possible?

"I see."

These four cool words fell on her shoulders like broken ice, making her tremble. Only then did she realize that the puppet master had been standing behind her at some point. Turning her head with difficulty, she saw that the toes of a pair of black leather boots were facing her back, and the thick leather was tightly wrapped around the owner's legs. Before she could raise her head to speak, the puppeteer spoke calmly: "...Roasting your eyeballs doesn't count as killing you."

The old man Lin Sanjiu turned his head calmly.

When trying to get something out of a puppeteer's mouth, it's equally important to persevere and quit when the time comes.

Hesitating between fear and curiosity for a long time, Bohemia plucked up the courage and asked in a low voice: "That... sir, he only said to keep walking. He didn't say anything else, and he didn't say where to go."

"I know."

Bohemia regained her courage.

Lin Sanjiu glanced at the huge, motionless shadow in the distance with her peripheral vision, wondering if the queen ant was already dead - she could obviously have dealt with the queen and her men on her own, but because of the puppet master She was impatient to wait. Not only was she stabbed by him, but she was also beaten with Ant-Man. Now she was in a situation where she was so old that she could only sit on the ground and catch her breath. She was really unhappy.

"'From the oldest to the youngest'?" She did not forget to ask, "What did the great witch say?"

"It's unqualified and can't be used." The puppet master actually answered the question directly. As he spoke, he took a few steps in the direction of Bohemia, as if he was suppressing great anger, and it was obvious that he did not want to continue this topic.

"So... do you understand what this 'keep walking' thing is about?" Lin Sanjiu asked carefully.

The puppeteer said nothing. The sound of creaking leather passed between the two people; the cold, almost strong aroma rushed past Lin Sanjiu, following his footsteps, and stopped in front of the two old men.

"The torrent of time... never stops." He clasped his hands, stood straight, just lowered his eyes, and said softly.

What's the meaning?

The two old men did not move, still half sitting and half lying leaning against each other, their heads tilted to one side, and the rise and fall of their chests was imperceptible. After a few seconds, Lin Sanjiu secretly felt that something was wrong - when she opened her dim eyes and took a closer look, she found that the chests of the two people had stopped moving, and they had quietly stopped breathing.

The baby's cry gradually weakened and could no longer be heard. Bohemia glanced at the baby who was not far away, with a look on her face. She almost jumped up in shock: "He, they..."

The puppeteer remained motionless.

"What's wrong?" Lin Sanjiu asked, her voice full of weakness and exhaustion.

"They are not human beings -" Bohemia seemed to be biting her tongue, "Those babies are not human beings -"

What does it mean to not be a human being?

"They have deformed, and their human shapes are no longer visible. They are huddled together," her description ability was obviously average, and she could not understand by gesticulating with her hands: "They are much smaller, some have grown tails, and they are still shrinking... …”

"You two are in luck. UUReadingwww.uukanｋshu.net" The puppet master turned his head slightly, disgust and ridicule were stinging: "Why, you think [the torrent of time] just makes people smaller or older?" ? Is such a thing worthy of being called precious?"

Lin Sanjiu had many things to ask - but whether it was an illusion or not, she seemed to be older and weaker than before.

"[The torrent of time] is disordered time, but it is still time." The puppeteer smiled slowly, "It will bring a person to the end of the life cycle first... No matter it is the beginning, It doesn’t matter if it’s the end that’s about to end. Then, time will return to normal speed and flow slowly through you... until your life is gone.”

In other words - those babies have all regressed into their embryonic form? Lin Sanjiu glanced at the two old men in front of him in surprise and doubt, and understood why they died suddenly; the puppet master didn't do anything at all, it was just that their life cycle had come to an end.

"I..." Bohemia touched her face blankly. The arrogant young face was only pale at the moment: "I... last time I died at this age?"

"Probably," the puppet master rarely looked at her directly, "your five lives were quite interesting."

"We...could we also..." Lin Sanjiu was too hoarse to say the last part of his sentence.

"It depends on whether your death comes first or whether the effect disappears first." The puppet master's tone was calm, "When I used the item, I didn't go for you, I didn't even think about you. This is not a breach of the precept. If you die because of this, it would be an unexpected surprise. Speaking of which, do you know how I got the [Torrent of Time]?"

Does it matter?

"While you were lying on the ground pretending to be dead, I was already teleported away." The puppet master said softly.