Doomsday Wonderland

After passing overturned cars, collapsed ground, and broken trees blocking the road, Lin Sanjiu arrived at the foot of the city. She raised her head and stared blankly at the line of faded characters above the city gate, feeling as if she had been transported to another doomsday world.

"Yunshou Nine Cities...?"

She had never heard a name like this, and she had never seen a building like this.

Yunshou Nine Cities has a magnificent and unique shape, but its scale is small. The walls on both sides are only a few miles long. It looks somewhat similar to an ancient city, except that a train track is set up in mid-air where the observation tower should be.

There is also a higher inner wall within the outer wall, creating a city-on-city in the air; the city walls are connected by several wide cyan stairs, and the entire city is divided into two floors like a building.

The surface of the city wall has been polished to a fine and smooth surface. From a distance, it seems to be made of gray bricks. Only when you get closer and take a closer look do you realize that this is a weird and strange material - once you put your hand on it, A circle of ripples immediately arose on the surface of the city wall; no matter how small the external force was, it could be rippled and broken down in an instant.

"All the Yunshou City Department must use this kind of city defense material," the puppet master's voice came from behind, shocking Lin Sanjiu, who was lost in thought: "There are a total of seventeen cities in the Yunshou City Department, and nine cities are among them. The smallest and worst one."

Isn’t there such a system as a country?

Lin Sanjiu withdrew her hand in surprise and looked back at the puppet master. The latter's eyes went straight over her head, looking motionlessly at the city in front of him - a lifeless calm, frozen on his pale face, without a trace of fluctuation. Except for the wind occasionally blowing the black hair on his shoulders, it seemed like he was really just a man made of white paper.

The calmer he became, the more uneasy Lin Sanjiu felt.

The puppet master is definitely not a kind-hearted person. He is actually willing to let her go. This is not normal in itself. Although Lin Sanjiu felt slightly guilty for her behavior, she still had to brace herself and be wary of him - after thinking about it, she tentatively asked softly: "Do you want to go in?"

As if he didn't hear it, the puppet master paused for a few seconds, then slowly lowered his head and glanced at her.

This look was still as sinister, cold, and emotionless as before - but as the puppeteer suddenly froze, the look suddenly stopped as if it had been cut off; he backed away as if he had just woken up from a big dream. Halfway through, he glanced at her inexplicably, turned around, and strode towards the gate of "Yunshou Nine Cities".

...In his quick glance, it seemed as if Lin Sanjiu was just a stranger who accidentally blocked his way.

He doesn't recognize me anymore?

Lin Sanjiu was shocked, and before she had time to think about it, she immediately swallowed the greeting in her throat and followed him subconsciously.

The city gate is a lifting metal gate half a meter thick. It has only been raised to half the height, leaving a gap of nearly four meters high, which is enough for pedestrians or vehicles to pass through. It's just that the main road outside has been paralyzed, and the closest means of transportation to the city gate is an old gray train that fell from the top of the city wall and smashed into a ball of iron.

The puppet master's steps were light and fast, like an energetic teenager, who seemed to be about to trot after not being able to walk a few steps. Lin Sanjiu was afraid of losing him, so he couldn't help but quicken his pace and rushed into the city gate.

The metal door was covered with brown and yellow rust, and layers of moss grew thickly in the cracks of the door. Unnamed yellow-green plants grow densely along the city wall, covering the city gate hole with green. Lin Sanjiu had to keep an eye on the puppet master and pay attention to the surrounding environment. He didn't pay attention to the road for a moment, and accidentally stepped into a puddle of water - the city gate was full of puddles of water, green and green. It was all smelly and sticky; she lowered her head and glanced at the wet trousers, and when she raised her head again, she couldn't help but be stunned.

In the blink of an eye, the figure wrapped in black leather in front of him had disappeared.

"Where are the people?"

Lin Sanjiu cursed in a low voice and strode out of the city gate. He looked around, but he couldn't see the puppet master anywhere.

The city gate connects several main thoroughfares in the city. Asphalt pavement, electric crawler tracks, and rough blue brick pavement are close to each other. It looks like several eras are wonderfully mixed together; the houses, shops, and high-rise buildings beside the road , all seemed to be covered with a layer of rust and dust, standing dimly and silently, staring at the outsider Lin Sanjiu.

Lin Sanjiu took a few steps cautiously. Only the cool breeze blew through the fallen leaves and garbage at her feet, but she didn't see anyone for a long time.

The data body intercepted this memory of the puppet master after the end of the world, and then presented it. I wonder what the meaning is? Judging from the puppet master's appearance, once he entered this memory, he lost his independent consciousness of "now" and completely returned to the past...

She thought as she walked forward along an electric track that had stopped moving.

Surrounding the tall city wall of the inner city, crowded residences and shops formed a ring. Occasionally, there was a gap that looked like it had been chewed, and was somehow burnt to a crisp by fire. The outer city is full of the characteristics of a civilian area: every narrow and dark gap between buildings has been exploited, and clotheslines are hung; clothes that have not been collected for an unknown period of time, and ubiquitous Large piles of garbage were mixed and dumped in the deep alleys.

Small hotels that look very cheap, shabby clinics that are suspicious and cure all diseases, low-end chain fast food restaurants everywhere... All the poverty and vitality hustle and bustle have been swept away by the doomsday, leaving only their hollow Black shell.

The strange thing is that there is only one person there——

This thought had just emerged from Lin Sanjiu's mind. The hairs on her back suddenly stood up, and the nerves that had experienced countless life and death tightened suddenly. Her body reacted first, and she jumped out. I got the electric crawler and jumped onto the blue brick sidewalk. Several sharp sounds of breaking wind followed behind her like dense raindrops, hitting the tracks hard, smashing the places where she had just stood, and sending iron filings flying all over the sky.

Lin Sanjiu didn't have time to look back and see who was attacking him, so he kicked up a green sign on the side of the road; as soon as it flew into the air, it was hit in the middle by another attack - when the sign was penetrated , when it fell to the ground with a clang like a piece of scrap metal, Lin Sanjiu had already thrown herself into the narrow dark alley between the buildings, and the attack stopped immediately.

"She has escaped!" Someone shouted loudly in the distance, and it was impossible to tell from which direction it came. "Now that she has entered the alley, boss, what should we do?"

"What to do? What do you think we should do? If we can't stop her, all of us will die!" The man who was called the leader cursed angrily, and the echoes spread in circles: "Go back and call for reinforcements! She Like this, how many people have died under our Yun Shou Jiucheng city, what a fright! No matter what, we can't let her in!"

strangeness--

Lin Sanjiu squatted behind a trash can and couldn't help but feel doubts.

It's just a memory of the puppet master that has been materialized here, but how come it also reacted to her? In this memory, I am clearly a non-existent person - could it be that those data bodies have programmed this place into a self-contained reality?

Then why did these people attack her?

"Don't go down, I say it again, don't go down, street fighting with her is strictly prohibited!" The leader's order tore through the air again and came faintly; this time, Lin Sanjiu heard it clearly. It was as if he was talking while standing in mid-air - in this Yunshou Nine City, the only place where people can be in mid-air is the inner city wall; that is to say, they are sniping at themselves on the heights of the city wall. .

"Seal that area and hit her as soon as she shows up. Don't let her change places. The evolvers will come over soon for reinforcements!" As soon as the other end finished speaking, a more vague response suddenly sounded in the distance. At least there were There were as many as ten people.

Lin Sanjiu was excited and immediately shouted: "Stop! I am also an evolver!"

Her voice was amplified by the echo, UU read a book wwwｗ.uukanshu． net echoed under the city wall in waves. This sentence seemed to surprise those people. After a moment of silence, the leader seemed to have brought a trumpet, and the voice suddenly became clearer and louder: "...you said you are also an evolution?"

"Yes, stop attacking!"

"Which city-state are you from?"

Lin Sanjiu was stagnant and dumbfounded - how did she know what city-states there were here? But thinking about the hasty and simple introduction made by the puppet master just now, she gritted her teeth and shouted: "Seventeen cities! Yun guards the seventeen cities!"

"Turns out he's a friend of Seventeen Cities." The leader seemed slightly relieved, but he hadn't completely let go of his guard yet: "If you don't defend Seventeen Cities, why did you come to Ninth Cities?"

Lin Sanjiu passed the test by luck, and shouted with some joy: "I have a friend from Jiucheng. I am worried about his safety, so I came here to find him!"

If they asked her again about the name of that friend, Lin Sanjiu would be dumbfounded - she only knew the name Puppet Master, but not his real name; but fortunately, they didn't pursue it further. At the end of the day, he just raised his voice and asked: "Are you not injured? We were beaten very hard by some of our brothers just now."

"No," Lin Sanjiu shouted, thinking about what question she should ask next to find out what was happening in this world. When she was thinking about it, she suddenly felt a darkness above her head, as if something was covering her. Sky light.

Lin Sanjiu raised her head suddenly and met several pairs of eyes in the narrow gap between the buildings.

Four or five men and women of different descriptions, cast into shadows by the skylight, were standing on the rooftops on both sides, staring down at her. Seeing that Lin Sanjiu had discovered traces of her group, one of the men He smiled and shouted: "Lao Liu, you don't have to talk nonsense to her anymore. We will take down this law enforcer." (To be continued.)