Chapter 96: The World is Growing. Originally, it was barely considered that the community and the surrounding area...
The community and surrounding areas were barely sealed off, and all residents were taken away overnight.
Without humans as nutrients, the eye vines expanded much slower.
This creature, which looks like a vine covered with eyes, is temporarily called the eye vine.
Any protective gear will be ineffective as it will be eaten by anything it grows in, including but not limited to humans, rats, and rabbits.
It is not clear where it was swallowed, or whether it simply disappeared - of course, the latter is just a little expectation in people's minds, and the actual possibility is extremely small.
"Actually, it should also include dogs." Yu Qiu said on the other end of the phone.
She remembered that there was an old man living on the first floor. He had a Teddy dog at home, and neither the man nor the dog could escape.
The police officer nodded, then remembered that she couldn't see, and continued to describe the situation at the scene.
"And last night, we discovered that, perhaps due to a lack of energy intake for a long time, the eye vine started devouring things it wouldn't normally eat."
"The potted plants on the balcony, the onions and ginger, the plants in the first-floor flowerbed... For now, we can assume that any food with vitality can be used by the eyevine to gain energy and expand."
"We have already recorded the details of the Eyevine, but..."
He hesitated for a second, as if realizing the absurdity of the statement. "Since seven o'clock this morning, we've discovered a large amount of fallen leaves at the scene. We haven't yet discovered their source."
The police officer held his cell phone and looked towards the residential area in the distance.
To prevent the rapid spread of the eye vine, they were stationed outside the entire residential area for observation.
Originally, there were only ghosts blinking and expanding their territory in that place, but now, fallen leaves fell like raindrops.
It is also like a meteor passing by peacefully, not ostentatious, and so quiet that it is almost silent.
The ground was covered with withered yellow leaves, covering every inch of the steel and concrete gaps.
Rainwater is often nicknamed "rootless water", but no matter how far away the source of the raindrops is, it is very clear that they are the condensation and fall of water in the clouds in the sky.
But this leaf is truly a rootless leaf.
It seemed like they had arrived in just a blink of an eye.
As it should be, it descends into absurdity.
Part of the eye vine wrapped around the base of the building was also gently covered, as if one could vaguely see the shadow of a tree cast on the world.
Distant and eternal, spanning the vast river of time, gently shaking off some fallen leaves.
The police officer was confused and said, "The infrared detection showed that the part of the eye vine covered by the dead leaves disappeared."
It almost disappeared, or you could say it became something like a sculpture, with the temperature and environment converging.
The eye vine also radiates heat, but the eye vine that has always been active is dead under the fallen leaves...?
It should be possible to say so. After all, for a living creature - even an abnormal creature - no longer emitting heat means death.
And the falling leaves have never stopped. In the community, the fallen leaves are getting thicker and thicker, and more and more eye vines are dying.
Yu Qiu hesitated for two seconds and decided to tell what happened in the early morning and what happened in his dream.
…
The memories that followed gradually became confused, and the more I told others about my dream, the more I couldn't distinguish the boundaries.
Yu Qiu always got stuck in the middle of his speech, as if his brain was a circuit with blockages everywhere, or as if some things should not be said out loud.
"I'm not sure..." Yu Qiu murmured, his eyes unconsciously looking out the window.
Although it was clearly a lawn and a white wall, she seemed to see a forest of dead leaves that seemed to stretch endlessly.
At one moment, Yu Qiu suddenly realized this.
——Language is also a kind of power. When it tells things that do not belong to the human world, it is bound to bring them here.
"What are you not sure about? Hello, Yu..." On the other end of the phone, the ignorant police officer was still trying to communicate with her.
Yu Qiu was clearly still healthy, but he seemed to have a high fever. His vision gradually blurred, and his soul struggled to escape from his flesh and blood body.
She saw the blank sky, the empty wind, and the world that was lazily decorated by the Creator.
However, another flash of light like lightning suddenly came, creating a clear line between heaven and earth.
——That should be the sword light.
Yu Qiu had never seen a sword in reality before, let alone the sword light that only existed in fantasy.
But when it came to her, she understood it completely.
And then...what was it?
It seems like someone is talking.
What did you say?
The air finally passed through the long trachea, supporting the weight of Yu Qiu's survival.
Like a baby who just remembered to breathe, she opened her eyes to the sound of her own rapid breathing.
The eyelids slowly opened, revealing the black and white eyeballs, and the stars slowly flowed into the eyes along the arc of the eyes.
Yu Qiu propped herself up and sat up - she didn't even remember when she lay down.
She reached out her hands randomly and felt around but couldn't find her phone. She forgot how much time had passed, and only countless fragmented images remained in her memory.
Ah... So, why are you back in this shop?
Just as I was thinking about whether to go find the owner, a shadow fell.
The cat sat cross-legged in front of her, with the corners of its mouth pointed upwards.
"I really can't tell...you're quite talented."
Just by being exposed to these things, you can temporarily enter the other side of the world through language.
Yu Qiu was speechless for a long time.
To be honest, the shop owner actually gave her a much greater sense of oppression than the cat.
But she was more afraid of the black cat than the shop owner.
Perhaps it was because if she did something not quite right, the owner would be willing to tolerate her - even if this tolerance was not kindness in any social sense, and this cat... Yu Qiu was not sure how kind it was.
Probably as little white as it has on it.
Yu Qiu took a breath, not daring to look directly at the cat, and stared at the stars in the distance.
She finally asked, "What talent?"
The black cat circled around her and slowly hooked the tip of its tail.
It answered the question irrelevantly: "No wonder He agreed to your request."
It said, considering Li An's indescribable goodwill, it is normal for him to ignore the outside world. How could he agree to such a troublesome thing?
Yu Qiu asked cautiously, "Are you referring to the owner?"
In fact, she now wanted to ask if she could leave here. She didn't know how much time had passed and how long the people outside would have to wait for her reply.
"Don't worry about those trivial things. Before the gods open their eyes, the world does not exist, let alone time."
If He does not allow it, everything will remain as it is.
Yu Qiu opened his mouth, and finally asked: "Can I leave?"
Even though there's a cat beside me that doesn't look like a cat, the surroundings still feel empty, as if not even the air is moving. Perhaps places forgotten by the world are always particularly lonely.
The black cat jumped onto the surrounding shelves.
"Why are you in such a hurry to leave? Now that you're here, why don't you go see your senior?"
Maybe one day it will become a part of Li An's work. It will help her get familiar with her future living environment in advance.
senior?
Some scattered and discontinuous images flooded into my mind.
The sword light split the empty world apart, and someone said something.
Forgot.
But the scenes were still clear, as clear as if they were right in front of me.
Yu Qiu opened his eyes wide.
Wait, it’s really right in front of me!
She subconsciously followed the black cat's movement, and her eyes naturally fell on a clay painting in the distance.
…Isn't that exactly the same? So she had actually just entered the upper half of the painting?
"Come on." The black cat's voice came from a distance.
The world turns upside down again.
"Hmm—should I say, 'Welcome to the other world'?"
The cat grumbled.
Yu Qiu could no longer hear what the cat was saying, she could only feel herself "landing".
Even the existence of her true self became blurred, time and space lost their meaning, and she came to the forgotten land of the real world.
What did that person say?
"——A mortal, can he come here?" asked the swordsman holding the stone sword in confusion.
Yu Qiu, Yu Qiu couldn't say a word, she was stunned.
The scene was almost exactly the same as in the dream, an endless forest of dead leaves, the only difference was that there were two more people.
...It should be a person.
The other stranger looked at her curiously and answered the sword cultivator's question: "Maybe. I am more or less a mortal."
Although Zhong Liu already knows her true origins, the modern life of the past few decades has occupied a larger part of her life. Subconsciously, she still thinks of herself as a mortal.
When Yu Qiu finally calmed down, she learned the names of these two people. In Cat's words, they were her two predecessors.
Yu Qiu: "I was brought in by a black cat. Do you know how to get out?"
Although she knew time stood still, she was still a little anxious. Too many things had happened that day, overwhelming her and leaving her bewildered. "Someone is waiting for me outside."
Come in, go out.
Zhong Liu was no longer in a hurry to do what she was about to do. She thought, "I haven't been out yet. In theory, I should leave the same way I came in."
But the cat was sent in, and Zhong Liu was a little scared. She had a hunch that cats were very happy to play tricks on people. Since it was sent in, there was no reason to send it out personally.
Jin Aqing sat cross-legged on the ground, but the dead leaves were not crushed and there was no sound of them breaking.
She looked into the distance thoughtfully, then said, "There is another way, maybe we can try it."
Yu Qiu followed Jin Aqing's gaze and looked in the distance. The sky seemed to have cracked open, and countless dead leaves rolled up and floated upwards, then disappeared through the crack.
The officer's words were still ringing in my ears. "Did you see a lot of dead leaves at the scene before?"
So that's where it came from.
Zhong Liu watched Yu Qiu stumble towards the crack, and saw that the coordination of his hands and feet had not yet recovered.
But it is also true that being able to travel continuously in a very short period of time, even if it causes dizziness and blurred vision, is considered a natural talent.
Jin Aqing stood up and said, "Go on."
Zhong Liu sighed. She had already begun to miss the short period of time she worked in the factory. At least she had two days off a week.
Expanding the boundaries of the world... This kind of work, no matter how you look at it, should have nothing to do with a corporate slave like her.
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Yu Qiu fell from mid-air and landed in the community along with countless dead leaves.
He wasn't injured, but he scared everyone.
As soon as Yu Qiu landed on the ground, he didn't care about anything. He just felt his brain was shaken and his stomach was churning.
She vomited on the spot, but there was nothing in her stomach and she vomited for a long time but it was just dry heaving.
A team of people wearing combat uniforms and exoskeletons carefully sneaked into the community and took her out.
As a result of all these events, Yu Qiu fell asleep as soon as he was put on the stretcher.
Of course she would not know about or be exposed to the other thing.
graduate School.
"What exactly is going on?"
"The Earth, in..." It seemed that even the words were completely absurd. The young researcher opened and closed his mouth several times but couldn't finish his words.
The elderly academician lowered his head and wiped his glasses, as if he had aged several years in an instant.
“—it’s growing.”
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