Doomsday Wonderland

Chapter 2385 The city beyond the onion

…yesterday?

Lin Sanjiu sat on the sofa, clasped his hands, unable to recover in a daze.

Now every ordinary person on the farm is a witness to the original incident. They should be very clear that it was a few weeks ago that the evolutionaries broke into the farm and killed all the pig-shaped degenerates.

She was sure that it wasn't that the underground farm was attacked again yesterday—not to mention that besides her, there might never be another evolutionary who would attack the farm; even if there were, how many "Mr. Pigs" could be killed? Naturally, it cannot be called "Mr. Pig died heroically in battle yesterday".

The underground farm had only been attacked once, and it was her.

That is to say, the incident of Lin Sanjiu's destruction of the farm was indeed discussed on the radio as if it happened just yesterday; it seemed that ordinary people on the farm had accepted the statement in the radio.

No wonder the calm on the farm is almost dull...

If ordinary people think that the "farm attack" just happened yesterday, the management is actively dealing with it, and life will soon return to normal, there will be no troubles—they are still waiting for the pigs to take care of them.

But how?

How could it be impossible for those who experienced it to remember what had happened?

There is only one answer that Lin Sanjiu can come up with.

It was the answer in her heart that made her feel uncomfortable all over, as if her hands and feet were being pricked by countless needles, and she couldn't sit still for a while; she took two deep breaths, and finally stood up abruptly.

If she thinks about it by herself, it will inevitably become more and more chaotic; she needs to talk to someone with a clear mind now to discuss a plan or method... Qing Jiuliu and Yu Yuan are probably asleep, and the gift bag is a data body, so they are still awake, right?

Libao also has a room dedicated to him, but most of the time, he prefers to stay by Lin Sanjiu's side. Lin Sanjiu first went back to his room to look, but did not find Ji Shanqing; then he knocked on the door of his room and found that there was no one there either.

"Shales?" Lin Sanjiu called out, "Do you have any interaction records left by Ji Shanqing in your system?"

"The last interaction record of 'Ji Shanqing' was that he asked me where there is a vacuum cleaner."

That should have happened not long after I came back from the beach... Li Bao was still busy asking everyone to clean up the sand on the boat. Since there is no record, let a paper crane look for him—

"But," said Salles suddenly.

Lin Sanjiu stopped his hands and raised his head subconsciously.

The PA system was installed close to the ceiling, and sometimes she would mistook Shales for a person and automatically looked up at the ceiling as he spoke.

Shales' voice was very soft, almost like a person muttering to himself, and buzzed a few words.

It seems that he only heard half of it clearly... Lin Sanjiu waited for a while before asking again: "What? Say it again."

"Okay," said Shales.

Lin Sanjiu stood where he was, listening to Shales repeat the words word by word.

It’s not just repetition; Shales added a lot of content and added a lot of details. What he said was well-founded and clear. Lin Sanjiu nodded and thought while listening. When Shales finally finished speaking, he also let out a long breath.

She had never thought about this issue carefully before... Although she didn't want to admit it, she had to say that despite the fact that Occidentus regarded human life as nothing, he was right in at least one thing.

If Shales hadn't mentioned it, she would not have taken the initiative to recall it for a while.

"However, you don't need to turn on all the speakers on the ship, right?" Lin Sanjiu shook his head, listening to the faint echoes in the depths of the corridor, he said, "What you said makes sense, and it's true. But it's okay to wait until tomorrow morning? The whole ship suddenly sounded an announcement, and someone must have been woken up by you."

Salles didn't answer.

Lin Sanjiu looked at the paper crane in his hand, and while recalling what Occidentus said at the beginning, he gently threw it into the air. "I'm at the viewing platform," the paper crane wrapped around these words, and disappeared into the depths of the corridor.

How long has she been in the doomsday world? Has it been ten years?

Lin Sanjiu walked into the viewing platform, stood in the center of the hall, stared at the dark blue night sky outside the window, and fell into a daze.

For more than ten years, every time she looked up at the sky, she never thought about it. She thinks she knows what is on the planet, because she has driven a spaceship, penetrated the atmosphere, entered the universe, and seen the dark space with her own eyes.

But... she actually didn't know. she wants to know.

Lin Sanjiu's chest felt faintly hot, and he couldn't help taking a low breath.

Not enough, such a world is not enough. She wants to rise high into the sky, cross the clouds, and keep her gaze upward; she wants to know what kind of world exists beyond the night sky and above the universe—is the doomsday world just a reflection of it? a corner?

Isn't there a wider and more wonderful world, and more kinds of unimaginable legendary life—

"elder sister?"

Lin Sanjiu turned around and saw a figure standing at the entrance of the viewing platform.

"Why didn't you turn on the light?"

As Libao said, he turned on the light—soft light suddenly flooded into the room, illuminating his somewhat puzzled face. Rarely, he also seemed a little out of mind, as if a part of his mind had been separated, and he was thinking about something in the depths.

Lin Sanjiu smiled. "You heard that too?"

"Well, was that broadcast sent by my sister?" Li Bao said, sitting on the sofa like a wandering spirit, and said, "I... I have never found relevant information in the database, but the data itself is not a group with ambitions, and they may have never looked up..."

Lin Sanjiu walked over and gently held his hand. Ji Shanqing, who used to care about nothing but her, now had his ten fingers trembling slightly in her hands because of a kind of excitement that he couldn't understand.

"Orcius' words were not his fantasies,"

Ji Shanqing suddenly said, "It's just that we have never analyzed it in depth. Sister, you are right. If the universe we live in today is an onion, then what is on top of the onion? What is outside the onion? How can an onion exist alone? If the 'onion' universe that contains the doomsday world is just one of many 'onions', there is a store outside it, and a city outside that store..."

Lin Sanjiu was startled.

The burning heat in the chest slowly sank, like the ash heap after the bonfire burned out, only occasionally lit up during breathing, still unwilling to be silent.

"Wait a minute," she interrupted the gift package, saying word by word, "I don't remember what Shales said about the onion and the shop..."

Ji Shanqing was not surprised. "I know, it was my sister who said it."

"What? Wait, do you think—by the way, you just said that I sent the broadcast?"

"Isn't it?" The gift bag was also stunned.

"That's what Salles said, not me."

Wait, did Sally say that?

Lin Sanjiu felt as if she had been doused with a handful of snow water in her pocket in her sleep. Before she had the chance to experience the wonderful dream, she had fallen out and fell back into the depressing reality before it had time to unfold.

Li Bao opened his mouth slightly, even he didn't know what to say for a moment.

In addition to the loss, a layer of icy cold fear gradually appeared.

"The broadcast you heard just now... Doesn't it sound very friendly and trustworthy?" Lin Sanjiu stared at the gift bag and asked in a low voice: "Don't think about whose voice it is, just think about how it makes you feel."

"Yes," Ji Shanqing nodded, and said, "Actually...I can't even remember whose voice it was."

So did Lin Sanjiu.

At that time, she took it for granted that it was Shales' voice, but now that she thinks about it, she is not even sure whether it is a man or a woman; she only knows that the voice is calm, firm, kind and steady... As long as she listens with full attention, all the confusion in life will disappear.

"I think I know what's going on..." Lin Sanjiu took a deep breath and whispered. "Do you know why I called you here?"

Ji Shanqing has no consciousness, can't see the information contained in the "plasticine space", and it is time-consuming to interpret; she smiled bitterly, first said "don't ask me for now, where did I get the information", and then described the underground farms she saw one by one, without missing any details.

"You should understand now?"

Ji Shanqing frowned and nodded slightly.

"Let me tidy up... the underground farm that had an accident a few weeks ago is still barely maintaining peace, because they still think that the evolutionary attack happened yesterday, and they are still waiting for the pigs to be re-managed." He speculated, "In other words, in the past few weeks, every day, they thought that the attack happened 'yesterday'."

Lin Sanjiu closed his eyes and exhaled.

"I don't think their memory has been tampered with, because even the copy of Ah Quan can't delete the memories of hundreds of thousands of people at once... the workload is too great." Li Bao said in a deep voice, "If you don't start from memory, there is only one possibility."

Lin Sanjiu nodded and said, "Broadcast."

"The ability of the person who sent out the broadcast is really amazing. Under his repeated indoctrination, ordinary people would not even believe what they saw and heard with their own eyes, but instead believed him completely."

…Lin Sanjiu only knows one person who possesses this ability. It is precisely because he has planted a belief system in the minds of ordinary people that the underground farm can operate efficiently and rigorously, taking the lives of an unknown number of people.

Compared to before, his ability seems to have taken a big step forward.

"After you discovered this, sister... the radio suddenly sounded on our spaceship." He whispered, "It's hard for me to believe that this is just a coincidence."

"Although I don't understand why, nor how he entered the spacecraft's broadcasting system, there are still too many unresolved doubts. But there is one thing, I don't think it's wrong..."

Lin Sanjiu turned his head, looked at the night outside the window, and said in a low voice, "The person who made us suddenly think of 'the world above the world' just now should be the eight-headed virtue."

The content of this chapter has been thought out a long time ago, but I was a little uncertain about how to express it, so I overturned it halfway through writing and started over again, which led to a long delay...The writing of these two chapters is not so unfamiliar, and I gradually regained my feeling. When I start exercising again and get back on track, I should be in a qualified state that can meet the ending.

PS: This chapter is not too confusing, right? Are you clear?