Doomsday Wonderland

The stairs down from the attic suddenly became extremely long.

All the sounds from Ayun's room were clearly transmitted to Lin Sanjiu's ears. The anxiety and anger ignited in her heart almost swallowed her up; however, no matter how hard she tried, Running downstairs, the stairs are still endlessly spiraling downwards with no end in sight.

After all, this is the puppet master's memory - a memory that has already happened in history, has been formed, and is just being replayed at this time.

The young man's low and tearful cry was so close that it sounded like it was ringing in her ears: "Why... why?" His voice was whimpering, as if he was being tortured by waves of pain and anger, but in the midst of the In his blank mind, all the boy could say was "why".

When Lin Sanjiu finally landed on the corridor and kicked the door hard, she almost lost her center of gravity because nothing hit her - she watched helplessly as her foot passed through the door panel, and then passed through the door. After pulling it back, the door panel was still intact; the boy's cry and "Why?" still faintly came out from the crack in the door.

Her conscious body was stripped away from her, and her actions could no longer react with the world.

Lin Sanjiu stretched out her hand and let her arm pass through the wooden door without any hindrance. She stared blankly at the door in front of her, her face pale, her brow covered in cold sweat, but her feet seemed to be filled with a thousand pounds of lead, and she could not move a step.

She can go in at any time as long as she wants, but after entering, the fist she swings will pass through Yun Qian's body, and the hand she extends to Ayun will penetrate his arm and fall off.

She didn't dare to go in.

She didn't dare to look.

Her stomach felt like it had been turned over, and Lin Sanjiu felt a wave of nausea. She sat down on the floor with a thump. She said she was sitting, but she had no sense of reality, as if she was just floating in the air. The sounds of crying, cursing, begging, vomiting, and hissing in pain in the air seemed to never end, becoming the only real thing in this space, hitting her soul like a whip.

Lin Sanjiu didn't even notice it, but she was unconsciously whimpering like wolves. At some point, she cried together with Ayun behind the door.

The morning sun shone coldly into the window at the end of the corridor, like the blade of a long knife, shining coldly in the dusty air. The screaming in the room stopped, and there was only deep silence.

The slight squeaking sound of shoes on the wooden floor made Lin Sanjiu raise her head suddenly.

The door creaked open, and Yun Qian slowly emerged from the darkness behind the door.

His usually neat hair was now messy. He obviously knew that he looked a little unnatural now. He stretched out his hands to pull up his clothes and rubbed his face, as if he wanted to wipe away the snake-like smile that was uncontrollable on his face - but Yun Qian has not changed back to the serious executive general before.

...It seems like some disguise has been taken off.

His eyes burned with a strange, contented, almost unhuman light, and he turned back with a hoarse smile: "As long as you behave, they will survive, okay?"

In response to him, there was a "wow" in the room, and a stream of liquid splashed onto the ground - Ayun vomited. After vomiting, the boy no longer looked like a human being, but rather like a shed human skin. He collapsed on the bed, motionless; the sour smell of blood and vomit filled the room, making him sick to his stomach.

A Yun's pale face had no expression at all, and his eyes were dark, as if even his survival instinct had dimmed. Anyone who sees him will probably realize that this young man is determined to die.

"I have seen several children in Jiucheng before, but you are the one with the best quality." Yun Qian looked at him, couldn't help but smile slowly, and exhaled a long breath: "Oh... ...Ayun, I’ve seen your expression like this a lot. Don’t you even think about it, what does I have to do with Nine Cities? Whether the people in this city are dead or alive, what does it have to do with me? Why should I save them?"

When the young man heard this, he finally slowly turned his wooden eyes, but refused to look at Yun Qian, and just stared blankly at the floor.

"If you want me to support a city of trash, you have to give me some benefits." Yun Qian smiled lowly, "Aren't you very willing to sacrifice for the people in your hometown? You have already sacrificed half of your face, and you have to sacrifice a little more. , what does it matter? Do you want to let your father and fellow villagers die before your eyes?"

Ayun suddenly started sobbing - his voice had long been hoarse, and he couldn't even maintain the cry, as if he might die at any time.

Lin Sanjiu stood up silently. She didn't dare to look at Ayun, but just stared at Yun Qian closely. She looked at his Adam's apple rising and falling as he spoke, imagining herself stabbing a knife into it and watching the blood spurt out.

She had never had such an urgent desire to kill someone. She could even feel that her internal organs were aching from this desire.

It's just that now she has been completely turned into a spectator by the data body. She can't do anything, and others can't even see her.

Yun Qian laughed lowly, turned around and left. His voice came from afar: "Think about it carefully. If the lives of one city are not enough, how about adding two of your friends?"

This is the first dark day in the puppet master's memory.

After the effect of Yun Qian's ability disappeared, the young man Ayun propped up his body that was still in severe pain, struggled out of the room, and walked towards the place where Yan Qiu and Gao Lang lived. But what was expected was that both of them disappeared from the spot and were moved to an unknown place, leaving only two messy bedrooms with traces of the fight still remaining.

Overnight, the governor's mansion was empty, and even the servants and nurses who had helped before were gone; replaced by law enforcement officers one after another with expressionless faces and mechanical actions.

The attic where the command post is located has long been tightly protected. Every step A-yun took in the governor's mansion was thoroughly monitored and recorded; at every corner, there was a law enforcer standing, looking indifferently at the wounded young man.

The following days were just numb sunrises and sunsets again and again. It seemed meaningless how many days had passed.

All the evolvers sent out to steal artificial intelligence, except for Brother Gong, all died outside. Yun Qian held a martyrs commemoration ceremony in Jiucheng, and everyone burst into tears. He distributed pension materials to the families of several dead evolvers, officially put engineering AI into the production of livelihood materials, liberated people from work, and reopened the doors of five medical hospitals - amid the prayers and cheers of the masses In the sound, Yun Qian returned to the governor's mansion, smiled and said to the young man Ayun, "With the medical AI, I can finally perform a minor surgery on you."

He said that he actually doesn't really like boys or girls. He likes people who don't have any kind of sexual characteristics.

Yun Qian also liked children with brighter looks, so he put a layer of red lipstick on A-Yun with his own hands, and applied a bright pink around his eyes. Every time he left, the boy would frantically grab everything and wipe it all over his face, but the only thing that could be wiped off was lipstick - the glitter seemed to seep into his skin, no matter how he scrubbed it. , scratching, even if there are bloody marks, it will not fall off at all.

As a young hero who guards the Nine Cities, Ayun occasionally has to show up outside the governor's mansion a few times. But every time he went out, he had to put lipstick and glitter on his face; facing the prying and suspicious eyes of the people, he became increasingly reluctant to go outside - he later became very photophobic, even in the big city Thick curtains had to be drawn during the day; since he only took in a little life-sustaining calories every day, he quickly fell out of shape, and his originally transparent and fair skin gradually lost its vitality and became reddish little by little. As pale as death.

The injury has long since healed, but Ayun has stayed in the governor's residence and has not moved out. Even a blind man could tell that something was wrong - but no one among the people guarding the Nine Cities, those who called him a child, those who had fought and worked together, no one seemed to notice anything was wrong.

The arduous tasks in life have been taken over by artificial intelligence. With law enforcers patrolling outside the city, outside law enforcers will no longer come; Yunshou Nine Cities has never been so prosperous and beautiful.

The endless torture and mutilation of the body seemed to have become numb in the end. Ayun would sometimes sit by the window and look out through the gap in the curtains; pedestrians lazily walked past on the street, and everyone's face showed the contentment of surviving a disaster and regaining happiness.

After watching it for a while, the boy expressionlessly closed the curtains again and sat alone in the darkness that fell again.

If the lives of a city's people were not enough, adding the lives of two friends would be enough.

Yan Qiu and Gao Lang didn't know where they were caught. They never met him again, and even the people in the city didn't see them. Ayun made several attempts to spy, but to no avail.

Lin Sanjiu couldn't do anything, so he just stayed with Ayun. Sometimes she would sit silently with the boy for an entire afternoon, hoping that Ayun, who couldn't even see her, would feel better; however, every time she had to stand up to avoid the pain brought by the night, When she was in pain, she would feel despair.

How long will this kind of life last?

"Silly boy, of course they are still alive."

One day, when the boy finally couldn't help but question, Yun Qian gave a sticky laugh. "Not only are they still alive, but I didn't hide your situation from them... I made it very clear that every day they live now is due to your sacrifice."

Half of the boy's face trembled. "Yan...Yan Qiu, she...?"

"I told her first." Yun Qian looked at him with some satisfaction and reached out to hold his chin. "They are very grateful to you! If it weren't for you, of course I wouldn't keep those two losers - the so-called evolvers are just more troublesome waste."

Looking at the boy who was staring at the ground and refusing to look at him, the chief executive put a little more force on his hands and squeezed his cheeks. "Since you've been so good lately, it's not impossible for you to meet your friends. If you make me happy, I'll make a video call for you."

Ayun shivered violently, and goosebumps appeared on his back. Resisting the lingering urge to vomit, the young man turned pale and whispered: "I... I will try my best to make the chief officer happy."

This is another rule of Yun Qian's, he must always be called the Chief Officer.

...It's just that after that night, six full days passed before Yun Qian seemed to suddenly remember this matter and broke into Ayun's room with a law enforcer - the young man was horrified. Frightened, Yun Qian jumped up and looked at the two of them warily. Yun Qian seemed to get great satisfaction from his fear. He looked at him and admired him for a while, and then slowly asked the law enforcement officer to take out a gun. Something that looks like a camera.

The tape he played seemed to have been filmed in Yan Qiu and Gao Lang's room. Although the two looked haggard and almost lifeless, they were indeed still alive.

"Look, the date is yesterday." Yun Qian sat on the sofa and crossed his legs, "I didn't lie to you, did I?"

Ayun raised his head and glanced at the law enforcer in front of him - a tall and thin humanoid AI wrapped in a black leather jacket. He didn't seem to care about the current situation. He just calmly finished playing the video and turned off the machine with a snap. .

The young man stared at the law enforcer for a long time, then slowly moved his gaze to Yun Qian. (To be continued.)