Chapter 143: Daydreamers must not be found guilty...

"Xia! There seems to be someone in front!"

The teddy bear's voice suddenly rang out. Cecilia wanted to speed up, but her weak legs couldn't do it.

These days, except for necessary rest, they have been walking, and walking aimlessly.

Of the Garden of Eden they knew nothing.

Without direction and goal, not only did they fail to find the forbidden fruit, they didn't even encounter an area with people.

According to the teddy bear's description, this place is like a desert, without even a green plant, let alone food.

She saved and saved the food she secretly brought with her, but it was almost finished.

Not only do they not have enough to eat, but they also have to stay exposed to the sun, sleep on the ground at night, and travel hard during the day. It can be said that their life is like that of an ascetic monk.

Now, I finally met a living person.

"How far is it?"

Her cracked lips opened and closed repeatedly, and dry sounds came out from them. She hadn't had any water for a long time.

"I estimate that we are less than 30 meters away. The other side should have seen us. He seems to be speeding up... Wait, there is something wrong with him!"

As Cecia's eyes, the teddy bear did its duty. It squinted and tried to look far away.

As the distance between the two sides shortened, the strange appearance became clearer and clearer, and it was much more terrifying than the crow they had encountered before.

Compared to humans, the other party is more like a robot, but not a complete machine.

The flesh and blood on the body are connected to the mechanical exoskeleton, and the two are inseparable. In addition to the necessary limbs, many mechanical arms are extended, and seven or eight legs are running underneath, making it faster and faster.

There were things like wires on his head, connecting his facial features. His chest was completely opened, but there were no internal organs inside. Instead, there was a deformed girl.

The girl's body was abnormally compressed, as if it was forced into the other person's chest cavity, with only her head and upper body exposed, which was a terrifying sight.

"Thea, run! That's a monster!"

After seeing the other person's true face, the teddy bear immediately shouted a warning, but Cecilia did not turn around and run away. Instead, she continued to walk straight forward.

"Listen to me! That person is not a human being at all. He is covered with all kinds of machinery. There is also a person stuffed inside his body. Maybe he killed him!"

The teddy bear fumbled to describe the man's appearance, almost describing him as a demon crawling out of hell.

But Cecilia remained unmoved.

As if possessed, he kept getting closer to the other person.

"That's a player. The person inside him is not dead, and he's also a player."

She affirmed, moving step by step, "If we get close to him, we might be able to get information. But if we run away, we'll starve to death in a few days."

When the teddy bear said that there was a creature approaching, Cecia used the team application -

[Dear player, do you want to team up with players "Lin Ke" and "Lin Yue"? ]

Although I don't know why he turned into a machine, the two people in front of him are indeed players.

"But... Thea, be careful!"

Before the teddy bear could finish its words, it suddenly yelled loudly, and Cecilia had no time to react. She felt a pain in her raised right foot, lost her balance, and fell to the ground.

Wilbert, who was holding her arm tightly, was naturally implicated and fell to the ground with her.

"A stone suddenly appeared in front of you! I'm sure it wasn't there before, and this desert has always been bare, and there has never been a stone!"

What a weird thing...

Cecilia supported herself on the ground and tried to get up, but her arm was still held tightly by Wilbert. Every time she was about to get up, she would be dragged down by his weight.

"release."

She couldn't stand it any longer and wrote on the palm of her hand, but Wilbert held it tighter.

In desperation, she quickly slid her fingertips and painstakingly explained a long list:

"I'm not going to abandon you and walk away alone, but in the current situation, you're holding me and I can't get up. Let go for a while, and when I stand up, I'll grab you as soon as possible, okay?"

Unfortunately, Wilbert didn't respond and was unwilling to let go anyway.

…

In that case, it's not her fault.

Cecia used all her strength to pry the other's hands apart, forcing the two to separate. She supported herself on the ground with one hand and stood up neatly.

Wilbert, who was forced to separate, sat on the ground helplessly, like a poor abandoned child.

"Xia! He's getting closer, you're less than five meters away!"

The teddy bear's terrified voice came from her ears. She pulled Wilbert up according to the position she remembered and handed his arm to him, asking him to hold it tightly.

"You, too, are players?"

A strange mechanical voice sounded not far away. It didn't sound fluent, and only a few words popped out intermittently.

“Yes, we are players.”

She made no secret of her identity and asked, "Is there any area around here where I can get the forbidden fruit?"

"Forbidden fruit, there is forbidden fruit, I won't tell you."

A stumbling mechanical sound was heard, followed by the creaking sound of gears. The opponent's mechanical arm seemed to be extending rapidly, pointing directly at her face with the sound of wind.

"Front! Get out of the way!"

Hearing the voice of the teddy bear, Cecia took out an axe from the system backpack and chopped towards the place where the voice came from.

But strangely, she didn't cut anything.

The next second, pain came from her shoulder. She felt like she was clamped by something. The huge force lifted her upwards and her shoulder was almost torn apart.

"It, a section of its robotic arm suddenly disappeared!"

Teddy Bear's voice was filled with disbelief, "And Thea! A cage suddenly appeared around us, and now we're locked up!"

What kind of ability is this?

Cecia frowned and secretly put her fingers into Wilbert's palm.

It seems that we can't win by fighting openly, so we can only think of other ways...

"Now, answer, the question, of mine."

The robot walked to the cage, but didn't hurt them directly, "Where are you from, the forbidden fruit?"

"Can you speak normally?"

She sneered and scratched her ear, "I'm sorry, I'm uneducated and can't understand what the robot is saying."

"I say, you, forbidden fruit..."

Unexpectedly, the other party had a good temper. She successfully delayed time and discussed countermeasures with Wilbert.

While the robot was off guard, she immediately took out her [Word Speaker] and shouted at it, "Let Wilbert regain his hearing for five seconds!"

This was the result of her previous attempts at the loudspeaker - if what she wanted to achieve was too difficult, she could add a short time frame and perhaps succeed.

Sure enough, she heard Wilbert's difficult voice.

“Ahem…”

After being silent for too long, he cleared his throat and said, "You are a patient, you must obey the doctor's orders. The one next to you is the new doctor Cecia, you must listen to her..."

He stopped talking before he could finish. When the time limit of the Word Spirit Loudspeaker was up, without the aid of hearing, the tone of his speech became strange, and the inaccurate pronunciation made it impossible to recognize the content.

Fortunately, this is enough.

Wilbert's ID card's active ability [Psychological Counseling] has been activated. The person on the other side has been selected as a patient. Now he has lost all negative thoughts, becomes sunny and optimistic, and obediently follows the doctor's instructions.

"I'm sorry. I shouldn't have. Let go now."

That weird mechanical sound came from the front again, and one could even hear his guilt.

"Thea, he put the cage away!"

Observe the surrounding conditions and report in real time.

"I'm sorry, I don't want to hurt. But I want to know the information. My sister is unconscious and scared..."

Through the robot's intermittent words, Cecilia barely restored the truth of the whole incident.

The robot's name is "Lin Ke", and the girl embedded in his body is named "Lin Yue". They are siblings who were inexplicably pulled into a copy and designated as [lovers] by the gods.

Lin Ke was lucky enough to recover his vision the first time he used the forbidden fruit. However, Lin Yue was not so lucky. What she recovered was her useless sense of smell.

According to Lin Ke, the area they just entered was completely dominated by robots, who had great malice towards the sinners. His eyes could see things, and he saw everything through the gaps.

Those images stimulated his nerves, and the great fear triggered his passive ability.

[ID Card "Daydreamer"]

[Every 24 hours, you can trigger the ability to make your wish come true during the day, which lasts for one hour. During the activation of the ability, your thoughts can change the surrounding environment and things, and even other creatures. Moreover, after the duration of the ability ends, the changed things will not return to their original state. 】

[Note: Creatures that know the details of this ability are immune to it.]

After his wish came true, all he could think about was escaping - running away from there with his sister!

We absolutely, absolutely cannot let them discover the sinner's identity!

When he regained consciousness, his body had been affected by his ability, and he had transformed from an ordinary human boy into a bizarre cyborg, just like the demons he had seen.

In addition to restored vision, other senses such as hearing and touch can also be simulated through machinery. However, this is not "restoration" and therefore does not count as mission completion.

Perhaps because of his overly strong desire to protect him, his sister Lin Yue was stuffed into his chest. She had lost all her senses, so it was difficult for her to respond to the outside world, and now she was even more motionless.

If he hadn't been able to see the condition of his teammates, he would probably have thought Lin Yue was dead.

After he changed into this appearance, the robots seemed to think he was one of their own kind and did not conduct any inspection on him. They even revealed a lot of important information.

He escaped from that area with basically no effort... no, to be more precise, he walked out openly.

"Can you take me to that area, or tell me in which direction?"

Cecia asked bluntly.

Although according to Lin Ke's description, that place is as horrible as hell for sinners, but as long as she can get the forbidden fruit, she will go there no matter what kind of mountains of swords and seas of fire.

"No, no, don't go."

Lin Ke said three words of rejection in a row, and his resistance was evident in his words.

"Horrible, there are no people there, they are scary."

Relying on the power of the machine, Lin Ke could only simulate some of the senses and it was difficult for him to speak a complete sentence.

The two sides talked for a long time, but Cecia still didn't understand what happened exactly. She only knew that it was horrible and the criminals were having a miserable time there.

"You want, forbidden fruit, I know, something else."