Doomsday Wonderland Chapter 1558: Memories within memories within memories

Professor Qiao lowered his eyes and slowly turned a silver ring on his finger, as if his mind had returned to a calm and distant place. She didn't seem to realize that her words were nothing more than bombs to Yaichi Liu, and she just said in a calm tone: "You asked me just now, when did I become aware of the shape-shifter...Then the answer is, thirty Six years ago."

Yu Yiliu looked at her, and for a moment he simply lost his ability to understand language. He opened his mouth, but no words came out.

He repeated Professor Qiao's words in his mind several times, but still couldn't digest them at all; after a while, he asked blankly: "What...what?"

Thirty-six years? The unit of measurement is actually year?

The old lady let out a breath.

"Professor Qiao, you said this happened once...not that it started happening thirty-six years ago."

This difference is crucial; Wu Yiyanagi's frightened brain finally started to spin at this time. As he gradually came to his senses, the excitement that arose made him speak rapidly: "You mean, the same problem happened before and was solved, and then there were no longer any shape-shifters. Right? So, it was the first time I saw a shape-shifter when I was twenty years old."

The old lady nodded quietly.

This was like a dose of stimulant. Wu Yiliu's face suddenly turned hot and red, and his heartbeat accelerated.

"Then - how was it solved in the first place? Can their faces really turn back to normal? What about those shape-shifters? What happened to the shape-shifters from thirty-six years ago?" He was filled with satisfaction. If I wrote down all the doubts in my stomach, I'm afraid it could form a book: "What is the cause of deformation? Why have I never heard of it? Can we solve the problem this time and let people return to normal?"

His series of airtight questions caused a wry smile to appear on Professor Qiao's lips.

"I never thought that I would tell others about that experience in my lifetime...So, please allow me to collect my thoughts first." Even when talking in private, the old lady seemed to be in class. Still very organized. While she was thinking quietly, Wu Yiliu unconsciously held her breath.

"...I was thirty-three years old that year, and I was just an assistant professor."

As the old lady spoke, she slowly poured two cups of tea for herself and Yaichi Liu. I don’t know if it’s because people get older and their eyes tend to get red easily; but the way she lowered her eyes when pouring the tea made Yachiyanagi couldn’t help but have a feeling: she wasn’t thirsty, she just wanted to do something. , to calm down your emotions.

"It was different from now. Back then, it was very common for women in their thirties not to get married and pursue careers. I had just moved into this house at that time, doing my favorite teaching job, and was alone when I was free. Drinking tea, reading, and living completely in my own world. Later, I counted the days and found that when the accident happened, it should be during the school holidays... Not only do I like to be alone, I also like to go hiking and camping during holidays. , far away from the crowd, so I didn't notice anything happened for the time being, and the shape-shifter didn't notice me for the time being. It is precisely because of this that the subsequent story came into being."

Wu Yiliu said "hmm" to show that he was listening; while listening to the old lady's memories, Wu Yiliu's eyes wandered around the living room and stopped on one of the bookshelves. On the shelf near the top, there was a photo that looked quite dated - it was only now that he realized belatedly that the smiling young woman sitting on the rock by the sea was Professor Qiao.

The old lady also caught his gaze, turned her eyes from the photo, and smiled - even though age had dried up and wrinkled her once plump skin, her smile was still the same as the one in the photo. Equally light and gentle, as if the two echoed and echoed through time.

"Yeah, that's me... I think the time when my story really begins is when I'm driving back from the mountains on the highway."

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For thirty-three-year-old Qiao Yuansi, the world is a smooth, stable and comfortable place.

She is in her prime, full of energy, has a stable job future, and lives an independent and free life. She can't find a single flaw even with a magnifying glass. The life unfolding before her eyes was like the endless highway ahead, flat and straight, shining brightly in the afternoon sun.

She likes the scenery on this section of the highway best: on the left is a deep, shallow, rolling green valley, and on the right beyond the fence is a vast sparkling golden sea under the cliff. Whenever he walks on this stretch of road, most of Qiao Yuansi's attention is not on the road, but on the natural scenery.

This is not a big deal. After driving for a long time, driving will become a subconscious background operation program. Qiao Yuansi drove smoothly for a while, turned a corner under the cliff, and then couldn't help but be startled.

On the edge of the highway ahead, there is a man walking slowly.

...Is he a homeless person?

Several cars in front of her whizzed past the man one after another, blowing his shoulder-length hair into the wind. Just looking at the messy hair, he does look like a homeless man; his actions are also a bit weird, he keeps turning his head and staring very intently at every car passing him, as if he wants to stick his head into the car. Look inside.

Don't be the kind of person who would suddenly jump in front of a car and commit suicide, right? Qiao Yuansi thought worriedly and turned on the turn signal, preparing to stay away from the homeless man and get into the middle lane of the highway.

But at this moment, a red car happened to come from behind the middle lane, so she had to wait patiently for it to pass. The homeless man was not far away from her. She had to wait for the red car to pass by and then immediately cut behind it, so she focused all her attention on the red car - when it passed by Qiao Yuansi When she arrived, the driver of the red car glanced at her and then turned his head.

It was time to change lanes. Qiao Yuansi checked in the rearview mirror that there was no oncoming car, and quickly changed to the middle lane, right behind the red car; the weird homeless man quickly left her car. She flashed past the car window on the right - there was a lane across it, so logically speaking, the other party shouldn't be able to see her at all, but she still felt like she was being looked at in a real way.

The tramp disappeared from the rearview mirror; her peripheral vision enveloped the sea beyond the fence, and she adjusted her posture uncomfortably.

...still very uncomfortable.

It's strange, what is it that makes her feel so uncomfortable.

Qiao Yuansi withdrew his attention from the natural scenery and looked at the road ahead. Then she narrowed her eyes slightly and looked carefully at the road ahead and the red car in front of her.

The driver who glanced at her just now was also looking at her, and their eyes met on the highway.

The flesh-colored human face was twisted 180 degrees and looked like it was rising from the back of the driver in front. At this time, it was facing Qiao Yuansi; its lower part was covered by The car seat was blocked, so only a pair of blurred eyebrows and two blurred eyes could be seen.

In his sudden scream, Qiao Yuansi subconsciously stepped on the brakes heavily. The car made a screeching noise on the road, and the inertia almost caused her to hit her steering wheel. She suddenly came to her senses, and in shock, she quickly released the brake. Amidst the angry horns of the car behind her, she trembled. The ground picked up its traveling speed again.

...The driver of the red car in front was still looking at her motionless.

Is it a mask? Is it a prank? Did she see it wrong?

There were many possibilities, but none of them could stop her trembling. She gritted her teeth and stepped on the accelerator, accelerating towards the red car, almost touching the back of the car - the originally blurry flesh-colored face, as she got closer and closer, it became clearer and clearer: it was not something else. , a human face staring at her from behind.

She couldn't see the lower part of the person's face, but after their eyes met for a few seconds, the eyes seemed to be narrowed together, and the center of the cheeks slowly bulged.

...It looked like the driver's face, laughing behind the car seat.

When the red car honked its horn twice without warning, Qiao Yuansi was startled, and then he realized that his hands were covered in cold sweat. Looking up again, I saw a dark head in the car in front of me. The face seemed to be just an illusion.

She swallowed hard, slowly distanced herself from the red car, and turned on the turn signal again - this time, she wanted to turn back to the rightmost lane, because only there could she Stop at the emergency stop strip.

Her current condition is not suitable to continue driving.

As soon as Qiao Yuansi parked the car, he quickly leaned on the steering wheel and breathed heavily for a while. The red car had disappeared into the traffic on the highway and was out of sight, which made her relax a little. What's more, being able to turn her face 180 degrees was something that she didn't think no matter how much she thought about it. I had a hallucination...or was this a so-called supernatural event?

When she was in shock and distracted, she didn't know how long she stayed on the parking strip. When she felt her heartbeat calm down, she looked up and saw a Highway Patrol police car driving up behind her and stopping behind her.

If you get a ticket for this kind of thing, it will be really bad luck on top of bad luck.

Qiao Yuansi hurriedly straightened his hair in the mirror. Her face was pale now and her eyes were wide open. She didn't look like she was extremely tired and needed to stop the car urgently. She couldn't think of a suitable excuse to justify her parking behavior. Seeing the patrolman walking to the side and knocking on the window, she took a deep breath, opened the window halfway, and forced a smile: "Officer——"

The word "official" turned into another scream, suddenly filling the car, tearing the air with excitement.

The patrolman shook his long face that fell to his chest, raised his arm and stretched his hand through the half-open window; Qiao Yuanji screamed and shrank back with his remaining rationality—— But she forgot that she was wearing a seat belt.

The patrolman's face, which could not be called a face at all, was crookedly pressed against the car window. He was observing her through the small black holes representing eyes, and at the same time, he used his hand that reached into the car window to scratch her face. , the force pulled her skin so hard that it burned and hurt - she only remembered that she was waving desperately to resist with one hand, and groping to unfasten the seat belt with the other hand. Everything became a blur in the confusion and fear.

Until there was a muffled "dong" sound, Qiao Yuansi realized that the hand that was unyielding and seemed to be attracted by his face suddenly disappeared. She didn't understand what happened, so she immediately unbuckled her seat belt and climbed into the passenger seat in a panic. Only then did she remember to look back.

"Ah, I'm scared."

Out the car window~IndoMTL.com~A strange young man bent down, looked at her and said. His shawl-length hair fell down and floated in the air. It's the homeless man.

No, that’s not right, Qiao Yuansi quickly corrected himself. His hair was quite messy, and his clothes didn't look like what a normal person would wear, but... he had a certain clear and clear temperament, as if a wild eagle had seen the grassland, which made her realize that he was not a wanderer in the ordinary sense. Chinese.

"Is this the first time you've seen these degenerate degenerates with deformed faces?" He continued to speak, even though she couldn't understand what he said. "It's strange. Did you just come out of the mountains? How come you saw these monsters for the first time?"

She wiped her face and managed to calm herself down - although she felt that it might be easier to just go crazy now.

"Facial deformation...? So, you saw it too," her whole body was still trembling slightly, "What is a fallen species? Who are you?"

"It's a long story," the young man smiled at her and said, "In short, I am an evolver who was just transported to this doomsday world four days ago. Why are you looking like this... You Don’t get me wrong, it wasn’t me, the world you live in has come to an end.”