Doomsday Wonderland Chapter 1568: Absenceispresenc…

"...Sorry, I failed."

After saying these words, the bathroom fell into silence for a moment, except for the almost imperceptible hum of electricity in the lamp, which was so slight that people thought it was their own illusion.

Sakura Mizugan lowered his head and leaned on the edge of the bathtub, and made no sound for several seconds. He has become even thinner than he was a dozen days ago; the skin on his neck under the black hair is as white and thin as a piece of paper, and the neck bones are slightly raised one by one, disappearing into the slightly opened collar of the black T-shirt. inside.

Qiao Yuansi did not raise her hand to touch him, but after glancing at him, it seemed that her fingertips had touched his hard bones, which made her couldn't help but curl her fingers a few times.

"...Every step of my plan was realized, even though it cost more than I imagined."

Sakura Mizugan's speech was still clear, and only his thoughts were scattered and blurred. He didn't know whether it was because of infection or injury - he didn't seem to intend to speak in a way that the person opposite could understand, he just wanted to He wanted to say it, so wherever his thoughts wandered, he said what he said.

"My time is borrowed, and I don't know when I will pay it back." He still buried his head like that. Although he was such a tall man, he was a bit like a child at this time, waiting for someone to show his respect to him. Open arms. "I...I don't mind my life. It's a good thing that a drama that should have ended long ago is dragging on and the content is uninspiring. It's finally over."

What is he talking about? Qiao Yuansi suddenly became inexplicably irritable.

"However, I never thought that what I paid the price for was a dead end."

He snorted lowly and said self-deprecatingly: "Do you know the essence of the doomsday world? It is an endless ridicule. You live, you die, you try your best, you spend all your efforts , you succeed in one moment, but you lose everything... No matter what, you know that in a very far away place, the laughter is always waiting, and will sound whenever there is an opportunity."

His voice trembled slightly, with a tone that Qiao Yuanji had never heard before. She looked at Sakura Mizugan's hand hanging in the bathtub. It was almost as white as porcelain, and no blood could be seen at all. Although the light blue blood vessels were slightly bulging, it looked like she was trying so hard but in vain.

"I found people and got things, only to realize that I couldn't use the things I paid for with my life." He murmured slowly, as if he had been drunk. "No, to be precise... I can use it, but there is a slight discrepancy, which means it is meaningless for me to use it. If it cannot achieve the purpose I want, it cannot save the world, so I cannot save you."

So, after he was seriously injured, he still managed to come back all the way - come back - come back for what?

Are you coming back to see her?

This answer was really incomprehensible to Qiao Yuansi, but it was the only answer she could think of. She didn't know when her hunger had receded by more than half, but she actually gathered enough strength to ask: "Why...are you so persistent in saving me?"

Neither she nor the world needed to be saved, so Sakura Mizugan said that he failed, but she didn't take it seriously; but she had indeed been entangled with this problem for more than ten days, and she didn't add it at this time. He blurted out the question thoughtfully.

When Ying Shui'an moved slightly when he heard the words and slowly raised his head, it seemed that even the air in the bathroom was stirred up with layers of blood red. He leaned on his arm, tilted his head and looked at her for a while, and said with a sigh: "... It's been five months, and I just figured out one thing."

"What?" Qiao Yuansi couldn't help but ask.

“Absence is presence. And there is no stronger, more ever-present form of existence than absence.”

Sakura Mizugan suddenly smiled, the light in his eyes and the corners of his mouth softened, as if he had forgotten that he had said that the Qiao Yuanji in front of him at this moment was not the same person as the Qiao Yuanji in the past, and whispered: "You It was the same feeling back then, right?"

Qiao Yuansi was about to say "I don't understand" - but suddenly stopped. She found that she actually understood such words that were obviously inexplicable, and actually knew what he meant.

"There is such a room that always maintains the same permanence, regardless of the rotation of morning and dusk, or the changing of seasons." Sakura Mizugan closed his eyes and murmured: "...You only need to walk in alone, and then walk out, No matter how short it is, this room will become an empty room from now on."

Yes.

That's it.

When daylight penetrates the curtains, moves around the floor as time goes by, and finally disappears into darkness, then it is a window without daylight, not a window containing the darkness of night.

The warm, smooth, and solid skin touched each other over a large area for a moment, and then suddenly separated. From then on, it was just empty skin, trembling slightly as it pressed against the cold bathtub wall alone.

After absence, there will be no return to the original state; the time after absence becomes waiting.

These... seemed to be thoughts that had settled in Qiao Yuansi's memory at some point. Now that she recalled them again, there were some confusing and subtle details that made her feel like she was recalling a messy dream.

Beyond the vague and inexplicable emotions, she couldn't help but be secretly surprised: She didn't expect that the two of them would have similar feelings despite being so far apart for so long.

But what does this have to do with the question she asked? Qiao Yuanji still couldn't understand.

She was originally waiting for Sakura Mizugan to answer something like "Because I fell in love with you", or "I think you should live how you should live, so I will decide for you" - these are all she has now You can understand things, and you can even decide your next action based on such answers.

But now, Qiao Yuansi doesn't know what to say.

"Then...then you said you found someone, who did you find?" She couldn't understand those illusory things, so she could only ask questions based on some tangible things, "You said you got something, take What else did it arrive?"

Sakura Mizugan's eyes slowly moved across her face~IndoMTL.com~as if instead of fingers - when he looked at her, Qiao Yuanji suddenly felt a strange feeling, but she couldn't describe it. .

"I settled in that small town called Jide." As a result, Sakura Mizugan's story started from another nowhere. "By chance, I saw some old local newspapers. and old magazines. Fortunately, the information in this world is printed on physical objects and preserved...that’s why I saw it."

This time Qiao Yuansi was not agitated, nor was he thinking about how to get out of the bathtub to find food. He just listened silently.

"A year ago, a rumor began to spread among the locals, saying that some people in the local area had turned into monsters with deformed faces, and they still lived in hiding in the small town as normal people. The rumor got worse and worse. The intensity... gradually dissipated more than half a year ago, as if it had never happened."

In the **** smell that filled the room, Ying Shuigan tilted her head slightly, looked at her as if she was not injured and said: "I have searched, and I have never found any records earlier than this. Do you understand its significance? ?"

Qiao Yuansi looked at him blankly.

"...I accidentally found the place where Patient Zero is."