Falling, falling, falling...
Zhou Jinru's body has been in a state of weightlessness that continues to fall, and he can't even control himself.
"Am I dreaming?"
He was thinking, but he couldn't speak, couldn't move.
"Olivia..."
"Olivia..."
"Olivia, do you understand now that you were wrong?"
There was a roar in his ears, and Zhou Jinru found that he could move. He held the wall with one hand and covered his forehead with the other hand, trying to restore the ability to think in his blank mind.
"Take care of her, got it, Olivia."
He opened his eyes and found himself standing in an abandoned office. There were messes everywhere, a corner of the rotten desk was missing, and everything he looked at was covered with cobwebs and dust.
Zhou Jinru looked at the unfamiliar environment around him warily. He raised his hand and found that his right hand was still bandaged with gauze. Why was he suddenly in this place?
There were also several "Olivia" sounds echoing in his ears. It was a woman's low and sad voice, lingering in the office, and dissipated without a trace after he opened his eyes.
"Olivia is Helmer, so the sentence "take care of her" refers to the white-faced owl or Ifrit? The person who spoke should be...Seria?"
Zhou Jinru was stunned. Could it be that Silver Fox had secretly done something to bring him here in order to find Seria's family of four?
He picked up the rusty iron bar that fell on the ground. It seemed that this thing was a clothes hanger a long time ago?
Slowly lifting the tangled cobwebs, Zhou Jinru used a little light from outside to see a portrait of a woman, embedded deeply in the wall. The sides of the frame were rubbed smooth, as if someone often stood here and watched quietly. Looking at the portrait lasted the whole day.
"Olivia Hummer, she is an excellent researcher, a consummate friend, a wonderful family member, my..."
The last few words were crossed out, and Zhou Jinru couldn't tell them clearly. His eyes were fixed on the numbers below the portrait, marking the years of her birth and death.
When he saw this, he instantly realized that this was not his world, because Silver Fox had been secretly protecting Seria's family of four, and they were all still alive.
"Am I already in Wei Na's dream? She actually had this kind of dream. No wonder she can't distinguish between reality and illusion. If it were me, I would have gone crazy."
Zhou Jinru held the rusty clothes hanger and walked to the door of the office. He fiddled with it a few times and poked open the rotten door. A ray of setting sun hung on his body. Even though he was wearing a thick coat, he still couldn't feel the warmth.
This was a ruin, an abandoned city. The devastated scene deeply touched his heart. The cold wind wandered among the swaying buildings, and the whining sound sounded terrible. The deserted streets, The slightest sound can be carried far, far away.
He stood there, looking far into the distance, and vaguely saw a trace of fireworks. His heart suddenly moved. Where there were fireworks, there were living people. Maybe he could go there and see what was going on.
"Humans are social animals. This is true. I'm not one of those middle-class people. It's nice to post someone in the news, then go to the Danmaku website to watch videos, and find people to brag about in chat groups."
He didn't know why, but standing there, he felt a trace of freedom from his body and mind.
He carried the rusty clothes hanger, smeared some black ash on his face, climbed down from upstairs, and stood on the ground. The biting cold was unbearable. It got in through the gaps in his clothes and consumed his heat. It was obvious that Now it is an environment where dripping water turns into ice.
"Since I am in Vina's dream, where is Vina now?"
Zhou Jinru glanced at the direction of the fireworks and moved forward close to the wall, carefully alerting every corner. From time to time, he deployed his talents to check if there were any sources of emotion nearby. However, all his caution was in vain. At least when he passed this area, not only was there no one, Not even a living thing.
"What's going on, I'm in an apocalyptic era?"
His brows furrowed deeper and deeper into a frown, and he said in his heart that Wei Na’s dream was too outrageous, it was not good to think about anything, but she chose to think about such horrible things, and when she woke up from the dream, she must give her a good treatment. Psychological counseling, I have random thoughts all day long.
This happened to him when he was in college. There were always roommates who were unreasonably worried, afraid of this and that. Later, it turned out that they were just idle, so they took him to the toilet, oh, no, it was just a beating on Summoner's Rift and everything would be fine. .
Not long after, he came to the vicinity of the smoke, and was shocked and speechless. It turned out that it was not a firework at all, but a huge air outlet, and billowing heat waves spewed out from the mouth of the pipe!
There is no doubt that this is an artificial creation, and it is still working faithfully, indicating that there must be a settlement nearby!
"Does Victoria have something similar? Such an exquisite thing appeared in Vina's dream. What has she experienced this year?"
While Zhou Jinru was thinking, he used his talent to look for anyone alive who could communicate. A few minutes later, he stood in front of a demolished building, threw away the rusty clothes hanger in his hand, and slowly raised his hands.
Because there are four drone turrets locked on him!
"who are you?"
A dull sound came from one of the drones. It was the voice of a man, not an electronic synthesizer, but a real living person.
What should I shout at this time?
A polite greeting?
Pleading for help?
neither.
He immediately threw himself to the ground and shouted loudly: "Help! Help! Help!"
Nothing can touch people's hearts more than these three words, especially in such an environment, where everyone is so precious and a person who is shouting for help.
"Humph, another fugitive, so lucky."
A disdainful voice came from the drone.
Zhou Jinru was lying on the ground. He knew that the other party had agreed with his explanation and labeled him a "fugitive".
For nearly ten minutes, five tightly packed armed men appeared in front of him, pointing various weapons at him.
"Turn around!"
one of them shouted in a low voice.
Zhou Jinru followed his advice and turned around. Immediately a cloth bag was put over his head, covering his sight.
The left and right arms were firmly grasped, and Zhou Jinru was dragged forward. After a while, he felt like he was being taken into the elevator and kept descending. However, the emotions of the five people around him basically did not fluctuate. They were concerned about the so-called " The Runaways” seem to be used to it.
I don't know how much time passed, but he was pushed and the bag was pulled off, and his vision gradually recovered.
Zhou Jinru looked around and saw that it seemed to be a disinfection room. He had seen similar facilities outside St. Martin's.
Sure enough, a minute later, he walked out of the disinfection room, exuding a pungent smell, and the people who greeted him were several powerful staff members. When the two leading people saw him, business smiles appeared on their faces. , just like a salesman.
"Name."
"Aguang."
"The codename doesn't matter, Aguang is a really good name."
One staff member looked at him with a smile, while another put his arm around his shoulder.
"In our evacuation center, as long as you work hard, you can have enough food. Brother Aguang, I think you are strong, so you must be very capable, right?"
Refuge center.
Zhou Jinru silently wrote down the name. He guessed well. This place was indeed a shelter that housed a lot of people. It was also a time when there was a shortage of labor.
"Origin Stone Skills."
Just as he was thinking about the question, the staff member responsible for recording suddenly asked. His expression was slightly dull, as if he had heard the term for the first time.
The other party looked at the silent Zhou Jinru, made a mark on the record board, and consoled him: "Even if you don't have Origin Stone skills, it's not a shame. Many people here don't have them. As long as you have the strength, you can definitely eat enough. "
Zhou Jinru nodded, with a painful and unwilling expression on his face, as if he had remembered something sad, so the staff who were moving forward stopped asking any more questions.
"What exactly is going on? Is Wei Na's dream so real? She is a shelter and a fugitive. Is there anyone who records the Origin Stone skills? Can her brain really handle so much information?"
He was initially unsure whether his previous judgment was correct. This might not be Vina's dream, it was too real...
Several staff members sent him to a simple residence, Datongpu, with soft mats on the floor. It was still working hours, so there was no one in the residence.
"Brother Aguang, your situation will be further reviewed and we will try to pass it as soon as possible so that you can be assigned a job. Before that, you can use this temporary ID card to go to the cafeteria to eat. Of course, the treatment will definitely not be as good as those who have already obtained a job. , please be considerate, the resources in the shelter are limited.”
After saying this, several staff members left. Zhou Jinru held the magnetic card and sat on the mattress alone, stroking the rough fabric with his fingers. He could even see the tiny fluff with his eyesight.
"This is not a dream. Such delicate objects will not appear in a person's dream. I..."
He looked at his hands, his fingers gradually became illusory, and he realized in his heart that it was time to wake up.
His whole body was buried deep in the water, and he felt himself sinking continuously. Until he opened his eyes again and his fingers touched the soft and warm body, he knew that he was back.
Turning her head, Wei Na opened her eyes and looked at him quietly.
Zhou Jinru wiped his face, unable to hide his fatigue. He felt that he was not asleep at all, but that he had experienced a bad adventure.
"Doctor, what's wrong with you?"
"I had a dream, a bad dream."
He looked down at his left hand. There was no magnetic card, nothing. It was just a dream after all.
Hearing Zhou Jinru say it was a dream, Wei Na was a little nervous and asked: "What dream?"
"I went to a very desolate place and saw a huge vent and some kind of shelter. I finally woke up after getting identification."
"how so?"
Vina murmured, and she immediately got up from the bed, put on her clothes and ran outside.
Zhou Jinru next to her grabbed her arm: "Where are you going in the middle of the night?"
"Doctor, we can't sleep together anymore, we have to separate!"
"Calm down!"
"I can't calm down!"
Wei Na turned her face, her originally calm face was gradually taken over by fear, her lips trembled: "I will kill you."
"Maybe it's not your fault? Let's return to Rhode Island. Doctor Kelsey must have a solution!"
"I can't leave!"
Wei Na roared, she pushed Zhou Jinru's body away hard, opened the door and ran outside.
Zhou Jinru stood at the door, looking at the direction in which she disappeared, and sighed helplessly.
"in argument?"
Silver Fox looked at him quietly from the side.
Zhou Jinru shook his head: "No, except for a little accident. You can't believe it. I just entered her nightmare. It is indeed a nightmare, a terrible nightmare."
"Oh, tell me?"
Silver Fox raised an eyebrow.
Zhou Jinru asked, "Aren't you going to sleep?"
"It's hard to sleep alone."
Zhou Jinru pulled a pillow from the bed: "Shall I lend you another one?"
Silver Fox snorted: "That's my pillow too. You eat and use my stuff, you're cruel to me, and you want me to warm the bed. Am I raising a pretty boy or an old man?"
"ha."
Zhou Jinru walked up to Yinhu, stretched out his hand and pinched her chin: "Young pretty boy, you are still an uncle, don't you just like me who is so despicable and shameless?"
Snapped.
After slapping the man's paw away, Silver Fox stepped on the cold floor with his bare feet and said angrily: "Come here, let me test your spirit. You are really not suitable for this style."
"Thanks."
Zhou Jinru followed Silver Fox with his clothes on. He recalled everything that happened before. Unlike waking up from a dream and gradually losing the memory of the dream, he clearly remembered every picture, every detail, and experienced the real method again. A time travel.
After struggling for nearly two hours, Zhou Jinru was bored and biting a black pen, lying on the bed and looking at the silver fox recording the data, and asked: "Is there any problem?"
"Yes, you have a serious mental problem. You are about to die. It is in the advanced stage and there is no way to save it."
"Then it's no problem."
Since he is mentally fine, there is something wrong with Wei Na, but why did he only have a problem today after sleeping with her for so many days?
Silver Fox rolled his eyes: "How do I know? How about you get the little lion back and try sleeping with her again?"
"It's not necessary. This kind of thing that can't be found for a reason should be left to professionals to handle."
Zhou Jinru got out of bed, took out his notebook, and took notes carefully. The pen tip kept sliding, and soon he filled the page.
"You go and rest. I'll go back after I finish writing. Don't worry, I know what's going on."
"Who worries about you?"
Kick, kick, kick.
That was the sound of Silver Fox's drooping slippers. She hurried downstairs, leaving Zhou Jinru alone sitting in front of the case writing.
For a long time, he wrote three words on a blank piece of paper, then drew a stroke, circled it and put a question mark.
collector?
At this time, the sky was hazy, and the neon lights of St. Martin's night were gradually dimming. The golden sunlight shone on his face, dispelling the last bit of confusion.
