dry man, dry soul

Chapter 60 Lonely Island Playground

The ferris wheel has background music.The soothing background music is melodious, as if all the horrible things never happened.Those romantic love stories say that when reaching the top of the Ferris wheel, the kissing people can be together forever, but for the explorer, the story is often worried that when reaching the top of the Ferris wheel, they will fall straight down?

The wind blew, and the Ferris wheel shook slightly.

The two children do not reveal anything about them anymore.Chi Jiang and Shen Yu could only temporarily give up asking about the original matter.Shen Yu continued to observe the following, and kept thinking about how to get through the door safely.

At such a high level, Shen Yu not only observed the situation of the entire island playground, but also observed the clown below.

The clown who is most likely not human has turned into an extremely small dot at this moment.He holds a lot of balloons in his hands, and he is still very eye-catching in the exaggerated playground under various lights.

It can be said that even when there are people coming and going, most tourists will notice such clowns immediately.

"Balloons are the proof for playing peek-a-boo." Shen Yu had a vague guess about this playground in his heart.This kind of speculation is completely malicious, and it will make people shudder to say it.

Yet most of the time human malice is just that scary.Under the bright and beautiful appearance, there are too many places where dirt is hidden.At the last moment, he didn't want to say such a guess.He still hopes to speculate on this playground in a good direction.

So he changed the subject and focused on the book he didn't find: "I don't know where the "Spells of All Souls" we are looking for is."

Chi will not know.

The two children had no intention of answering.

The two slowly sat on the Ferris wheel here, and Qiao Jiu at the other end followed Xiao Qiao Jiu to the "crowd" of the shopping mall.

There is a huge children's world in the square of the mall.This playground is about a temporary entertainment place for children when parents go shopping.This children's world is closed, only for children, and no adults are allowed to enter.On the edge of this small children's world, another space has been opened up for parents accompanying their children to rest.

The children's playground is mainly a variety of trampolines, slides, bouncy balls and other simple amusement facilities to exercise children's jumping and balance ability.Children can enjoy playing with the companions they meet for the first time here.

It is true that most of the people who come to this playground are families.If there are parents who want to shop here, but the children don't want to shop with their parents, then it is naturally suitable to play here.

Qiao Jiu has seen such small worlds in many large shopping malls.In some places, the small weather is called "naughty castle".Dedicated to the happy castle where children can be naughty.

In the current state of the playground, there shouldn't be any children in it.

But to Qiao Jiu's surprise, when she came here, she found a large group of children here.Down to five or six years old, up to fourteen or five years old.This child is fourteen or fifteen years old, and his height is already very tall, beyond the definition of a "minor", but he is still in this small world, poking his head out of various hidden places in the small world to observe Qiao Jiu.

The enthusiastic child greeted her, the indifferent one stared darkly at her.

The creepiest thing was that all the kids took a balloon for no apparent reason.Everyone's balloon seems to be different.

When there are too many people, there will be constant chattering.The children were noisy: "There is a new person coming!" "If you are not a child, can you play peek-a-boo together?" She can help us deal with adults in the future." "But those adults are so annoying."

Their voices were sandwiched together, so Qiao Jiu had to work hard to distinguish what they were talking about.

Some children don't know why they like to scream especially, and they screamed and made strange noises.

Qiao Jiu: "..." Don't say that the adults are so annoying, she is a little afraid of the cubs now.

A child came out.

She was tall, but not particularly tall.It is about 1 meters.With a ball head tied, her face is very delicate.She said to all the children: "There are not many new members now. We can choose the right ones from the adults. They are different, they are not people of this world."

"If they qualify, we have a new family."

A boy's voice followed her words: "If you are not qualified, replace it."

Qiao Jiu approached: "..." These children really talk to themselves, deciding her future without authorization.

Little Qiao Jiu didn't think there was anything wrong with what her companions said.

She happily ran to her companions, and turned her head and shouted to the adult Qiao Jiu: "Let's play peek-a-boo!"

This small shopping mall seems to be regarded as the "territory" of these children.All the horrible creatures outside, no matter whether they were flying in the sky or running on the ground, none of them entered the shopping mall.

From a biological point of view, this means that they are afraid of the mall, afraid of these children.

Human beings can't beat the creatures outside, and the creatures outside can't beat these children.Qiao Jiu, as a person who doesn't have much fighting skills and only has 40 strength, decided to cooperate with them: "How do we play hide and seek? Who will be responsible for finding whom to hide?"

The little girl with the ball head walked up to Qiao Jiu.Qiao Jiu is outside the small world, and the little girl is inside the small world.She raised her chin slightly, with a kind of reserved arrogance: "Draw the ball. Everyone here has a number, and you are number 136. Whoever gets drawn is responsible for catching. Those who come back here within the specified time , You win. If you are caught or you don’t come back here, you also lose. If you catch more than 30 people, you win, and the limit is half an hour, and the limit is limited to the mall.”

Qiao Jiu thought about it, observed the whole small world, and finally nodded: "Yes."

In other words, not being discovered means losing, but being caught means losing.If you lose, you have to stay completely.Judging from the current situation of this playground, it is definitely not a good thing to stay.

She depends on how they want to play the game.

Soon a child took out a large box.He wrote a 136 with a ping pong ball and stuffed it in, and then quickly took out one.The number above is 47.

Kid 47 stood up.Wearing glasses and denim overalls, he looked like he could read a book.He took off his own eyes and covered them with the blindfold brought by the head of the ball.

"Count to sixty!"

As soon as the words fell, the children in the entire small world collectively let go of the balloons in their hands, rushed out of the small world happily, and rushed towards the mall in all directions.

Qiao Jiu originally wanted to see the child again, but was infected by the atmosphere, and quickly ran towards the safe passage of the mall.She was glad that she was not wearing high heels to explore, otherwise the mission would definitely fail.

"One, two, three..." No. 47 standing in the small world kept counting, while the rest of the children ran in all directions at the fastest speed, without the slightest hesitation, and they didn't even intend to turn around.

Qiao Jiu thought that no matter how much these children ran within one minute, they would not be able to run 1 meters.She quickly walked up from the safe passage, and decided to find a room that could be locked.She locked herself in so she wouldn't get caught anyway.

While she was maintaining this thought, a child quickly walked past her.

The child turned to look at her, showing an arrogant, disdainful and self-satisfied smile, before Qiao Jiu's eyes turned into a puddle of black sticky objects.His head and body gradually dissolved, and then quickly slid upwards in the form of liquid.

Qiao Jiu: "..."

[Sanity: 84/41, judgment failed. 】

[Sanity [1-10]: 10, judgment sanity -10. 】

This process, which seemed like a normal human being being corroded by concentrated sulfuric acid, caused Qiao Jiu's perception to collapse.For a moment, she felt that she was extremely weak, so weak that she had no ability to resist the abnormal power.

This game is one-sided carnage.No human being can do it. When playing hide-and-seek, lock yourself in a space where no liquid can enter.

What was even more frightening was that she thought at this moment: If these children were said to have been human replicas, then where did so many human children go?Was it swallowed by this black sticky object?That's what she heard before, substitute.

With the same appearance, the same DNA, if they also have the same memory, after replacing humans, will they gradually spread and replace all humans?

The panic in Qiao Jiu's heart could not be suppressed at all, and it completely occupied her mind and devoured her rationality.She felt as if her own skin was melting, and scratched frantically.Itching, redness and pain all over the body and extremities.She is going to be devoured!She is going to be devoured!

The loss of sanity made her run up like crazy.She has no purpose, only knows to keep running forward.It seemed that as long as she ran fast enough, No. 47 behind would not catch her.

Number 47 in the lobby on the first floor: "...sixty."

After the numbers were reported, he took off his blindfold and put on his glasses again.At this moment, his eyes were no longer black and white, but black as ink.If Qiao Jiu is still downstairs, maybe he needs to make a rational decision again.

How lively the whole shopping mall was before, how quiet it is now.

Humans gasp, non-humans don't.

No. 47 showed a slight smile and began to search for people from the first floor.To be precise, it was searching for a pool of black mud like him.If there is a camera following his line of sight to shoot, you will definitely be able to see various weird perspectives.Those perspectives are perspectives that humans cannot enter, and whenever he finds a guy represented by a number, he will inevitably say: "I found you."

Everyone who is found will be extremely happy.

Wait until Qiao Jiu regains his senses.She stood trembling on the rooftop of the shopping mall.She didn't know how she got up there.The rooftop of the shopping mall is not a place for tourists to climb up and play.

Qiao Jiu stepped on the fairly flat roof and looked in other directions of the playground.Compared with so many children in the mall, there is really no one to be found outside the mall.

She took the flashlight out of her bag and pointed it toward the sky.

Only 31 sanity left.If this continues, she will go crazy.She will be completely left in this world.