Doomsday Wonderland

The footsteps of the three people hit the road one after another, as if they had been baked into a monotonous and boring state by the long, straight sunlight.

Lin Sanjiu looked at the white dividing lines drawn on the asphalt road, and her eyes followed them; Bohemia, who was walking beside her, was also looking straight into the distance like her. They had just hurried forward for a while, so the puppet master was not far away from them at this time, floating quietly in the silver circle, letting it float forward silently.

In the three footsteps that seemed to never change, the puppeteer said in a low voice: "...Whoever dares to attack casually, I will take off the head of anyone first."

No one would make any rash moves - this was not the first time he had issued a warning.

Lin Sanjiu had seen a lot of weird and weird things in her life, but this was the first time she had seen it like this. She tried her best to keep her head and neck still, but turned her eyes and looked behind a few people with her peripheral vision. Scanned it.

The man was still like a shadow standing up from the ground, following closely behind the three of them. From the fleeting images in his peripheral vision and the glance he had just passed by, Lin Sanjiu knew that following him was a middle-aged man of moderate build: he was wearing a plaid shirt and a pair of Wearing jeans and strong shoulders, he looked like a farmer who had just emerged from a roadside farm.

However, no one knows where he came from or when he emerged.

...He just stared at the people in front of him silently, walking behind them like a shadow.

Obviously, the puppet master had discovered his existence long before they noticed this man - when Lin Sanjiu and two others rushed up from behind, before they could get close to them, the puppet master's voice The order first reached my ears: "Don't touch him!"

Lin Sanjiu was astonished when she heard the puppet master pause for a moment and then said the second sentence: "Follow him and stay away from him. No one can do anything without my order."

In this way, the group of four people continued walking on the road in silence for ten minutes; she had never realized that her steps could be so stiff. Because she had always been vigilant, her back was stiff, and Bohemia walked out with the same hand and foot several times.

"He...is he breathing?" Bohemia finally couldn't bear it anymore and asked in a low voice, "I seemed to hear a little bit, but..."

Lin Sanjiu understood what she heard because she heard it too. The farmer behind him was indeed making slight sounds, one up and down, one long and one short, from his body; but it was more like the sound of air hitting a half-full container than the sound of breathing.

The farmer didn't seem to react to their words. After waiting quietly for a while, they saw that the farmer in the peripheral vision didn't even turn his eyes, and the two became a little bolder. Lin Sanjiu lowered her voice and asked the puppet master: "...Where did this person come from?"

"This person was not there one second, and suddenly appeared the next second."

The puppet master was silent for a few seconds, and then replied in a low voice. He maintained a floating posture and never looked back - but he still seemed to be aware of everything behind him.

"Did you notice anything? Why can't you do something to him?"

This time, the puppeteer didn't answer her question at all. When he spoke again, his deep voice was so deep that no one dared to ignore it: "...See that road sign ahead?"

The sign was still far away from them, and with the eyesight of an evolved person, they could only vaguely see what it said was "There are still 15 miles to Big Bear City."

"I counted to three and we all dispersed and walked in different directions. No matter what happened, we were reunited under that sign in two minutes."

In the peripheral vision, the farmer's face was still expressionless. His thick, sunburned skin hung over his cheekbones and trembled with every step; otherwise, he looked like a dead man.

"...Walk!"

As soon as the number in the puppet master's mouth fell, several people immediately split up and galloped in three different directions - Lin Sanjiu was still running wildly on the straight road, and the other two got off the road separately and disappeared in the blink of an eye. In the farmland and bushes on both sides; the whistling wind blew violently against her cheeks. She squinted her eyes and looked to both sides, and found that apart from the swaying branches and leaves, not even the shadows of the two of them could be seen.

The only thing that still stayed by her side was the gangrene-like footsteps behind her.

She endured the uneasiness in her stomach and quickly glanced back - the farmer also started running after her, and his speed was not slower than her at all; he neither surpassed her nor fell behind, always maintaining the same speed. There was a distance right behind her, like a shadow pressing on the back of her head.

When he started running, the sound of air hitting like breathing became heavier, his face became redder and almost bleeding, and his chest bulged like a breathless frog.

Lin Sanjiu bit her lower lip. Just when she was hesitating whether she should do something or not, she suddenly braked and stopped under the sign with the sharp friction of the soles of her boots. Her speed was astonishing, and she ran straight forward, so before she even took a minute, she arrived at the meeting point - with the shadow behind her that couldn't be shaken off.

The farmer followed her closely and stopped. However, at this moment, Lin Sanjiu heard a crisp "click" from the joints of his leg bones. When she lowered her head, she realized that it was because she stopped too hastily that the farmer failed to withdraw his strength in time - his knees and calves were immediately dislocated by the force of inertia, twisting to both sides one after the other, making her scream at a glance. People couldn't help but want to take a breath; but when they looked up again, the farmer still had a calm expression.

She and this unknown farmer stood face to face on the dry and monotonous road, looking directly at each other for a long time.

She didn't move, and neither did the farmer. The distance between the two was so close that Lin Sanjiu could even clearly see the large pores on the skin of his cheeks.

"Lin Sanjiu,"

From the farmland beside the road, Bohemia's shouts came from far away, and the voice got closer and closer, "He didn't follow, did we—"

Before she finished shouting, she had already arrived. As soon as her eyes fell on the two of them, the second half of the sentence was swallowed back in her throat. Bohemia hurriedly slowed down and circled around the outer edge of the road. He was so cautious that he seemed to have discovered the enemy's bobcat: "...He, he has been following you?"

Lin Sanjiu nodded.

Two minutes passed in a blink of an eye; when a gust of wind suddenly parted the bushes, and the silver-white ring burst out of the grass from the other side of the road, the puppet master stepped back as expected - but he did not come back alone. .

When the two saw the person following him, they were both dumbfounded.

This man was younger than the farmer, probably in his thirties. Because the belt was taken away from his waist, a pair of trousers hung dangling on his hips. The distorted and frightening look of death still vaguely remained in his facial features and texture; even though the puppet master had clearly stated that this man's corpse could no longer stand and could no longer be used as a puppet, he had just lightly He easily followed the silver circle on which the puppet master was riding.

...It was the evolver who died inexplicably on the road last night.

The puppet master's face was extremely gloomy, and his pale fingers kept loosening and clenching under the feathers of his sleeves, as if he was controlling his desire to strike in anger. Originally it was to find out the details of the farmer, but now he recruited an identical guy to follow him - it was not easy for him to control his temper at this moment.

Lin Sanjiu swallowed a sip of saliva, feeling something vaguely understood in her heart; she exchanged glances with the two of them, carefully stepped back from the farmer, and walked to the side of the death evolver. Slowly, she stretched out a hand wrapped in a [Protective Force Field] little by little, and finally landed gently on the shoulder of the evolver.

Sure enough, the corpse that could be put into the [Flat World] before departure can no longer be turned into a card.

...There can only be one explanation for this.

The evolver suddenly twisted his neck and stared at the hand on her shoulder - Lin Sanjiu quickly withdrew his hand, as if he was afraid of getting an electric shock, and whispered: "Guo, it really is... .!"

"Really?" Bohemia understood immediately, "Are they really all fallen species?"

Lin Sanjiu took two steps back and almost bumped into the puppet master's silver circle. She turned back and frowned: "Why are they following us so closely..."

"Don't always think about things with your toenails." The puppet master said coldly. "They stick close to people's backs but don't move, just so that we can take the initiative to attack them."

In other words, unless they know exactly what will happen after attacking the fallen species, it is better to try not to do anything.

"Then if we keep ignoring them, will they... disperse on their own?" Bohemia spoke carefully. When Lin Sanjiu walked away just now, the farmer took a step to the side and was now face to face with her - it seemed that for him, he could follow anyone.

"This question can only be answered by walking around." The puppet master smiled sinisterly and floated a distance forward: "...You still won't follow?"

Big Bear City was only fifteen miles away, and the journey would be over before noon. After knowing that they were fallen species, even though they felt uncomfortable, they were at least able to bear it when they set off again. In silence, the group quickly passed through large tracts of farms and passed through increasingly frequent car ruins. We walked down the "Big Bear City" exit on the highway and finally came to the streets of the city.

The Big Bear Market is a mixture of silence and excitement.

There is almost no noise in the entire city except for the sound of wind. As long as you close your eyes, it feels like you are in a cemetery; when you open your eyes again, you will see thousands and tens of thousands of people, silent and quiet. Wandering down the streets. (To be continued)