Chapter 1651: Unexpected During Negotiation
When Lin Sanjiu turned at the sound of the voice, she paused for a mont, surprised to see her own reflection in the appliance store’s window. It looked so unfamiliar.
She had spent so long inside the mories of Wu Yiliu and the others that this was the first ti she was seeing herself again after coming out. It felt strange, almost like returning to her hotown after many years away and unexpectedly eting an old childhood friend. The sense of familiarity only slowly resurfaced after the shadow of ti had faded away.
‘What exactly are these moirs?’ she wondered. If she went through two or three more of them, would she still be able to rember who she was?
If the purpose of these moirs was to make people lose themselves, it didn’t quite make sense—they didn’t seem to have any “malicious intent” to actively harm. The sense of disorientation was probably just a side effect. This only made her more puzzled about the nature of this s.p.a.ce.
“What is this place?” Lin Sanjiu asked, looking at a speaker. “And what are these moirs?”
She didn’t get a response from the speaker. Instead, as soon as she asked her question, a voice ca out of the bustling, hurried crowd behind her. “Why are you asking ?”
Lin Sanjiu imdiately spun around. Her gaze quickly landed on a man carrying a briefcase, striding purposefully forward. He looked nothing like the man she had heard earlier. While checking his watch, his mouth moved, speaking with the other man’s voice. “Don’t try to fool . If you don’t know what this place is, how did you get here?”
As the office worker walked past her, the latter half of his sentence was spoken by a street musician in a black s.h.i. rt.
It turned out that the man’s voice could co from any direction, any person, making it impossible for her to locate him.
“You saw our s.p.a.ces.h.i. p, didn’t you?” Lin Sanjiu’s eyes darted from one pa.s.serby to another on the street, unsure who would respond next. Regardless of age or gender, every voice that ca back was that of the man in the flip-flops.
For a mont, no one answered. People simply walked by, busy making phone calls, listening to music, and sipping drinks. Lin Sanjiu squinted, adding, “I already told you, I an no harm. Our s.p.a.ces.h.i. p accidentally entered this place. All I want now is to find my friends and leave.”
A young woman hailing a cab suddenly let out a snort. Then, a beauty salon employee handing out flyers across the street spoke up. “Look at that; you’re already lying to .”
“What lie?” Lin Sanjiu asked, confused, striding towards the employee.
Before she could get closer, an old woman with a grandchild chid in from behind her, “You didn’t co here with the s.p.a.ces.h.i. p. You think I don’t know? You and that other one… let’s just call him a person, though he sohow managed to form a body out of thin air. The two of you entered before the s.p.a.ces.h.i. p. A while later, the s.p.a.ces.h.i. p followed and appeared. So how is it ‘your’ s.h.i. p?”
It was indeed a complicated situation to explain. Lin Sanjiu and “let’s just call him a person,” Yu Yuan, had both left the s.p.a.ces.h.i. p earlier, exploring the remnants of the Mother Queen in s.p.a.ce. That’s why they entered this strange s.p.a.ce before the Exodus, which had been pulled in by the Great Deluge.
She tried explaining, but her efforts only earned her a dismissive sniff from a nearby street vendor. Although more people were becoming aware of the Great Deluge’s existence, it seed this person had never heard of it—making the whole situation even harder to explain and believe.
Lin Sanjiu swallowed her frustration.
Most likely, both Yu Yuan and the grand prize were also trapped in different moirs. With an ocean of moirs, countless and vast, the only way to rescue them in ti was to catch that man in flip-flops.
He had control over the moirs, and this city must be one of them. But why was he lingering here, engaging her in conversation?
He could easily summon another moir to whisk him away without Lin Sanjiu noticing. Once he left, how would she ever find him again?
The reason that man didn’t leave was probably because there was only one possible explanation: this urban mory was special to him. He couldn’t leave it.
Could it be sothing like a command center or a c.o.c.kpit?
When Lin Sanjiu first fell into this s.p.a.ce, she had landed in a forested area. She had walked for a while in the dark, feeling that her s.p.a.cesuit was too c.u.mberso in this gravity environnt, and had put it away. It was only after that when she triggered Wu Yiliu’s mory.
As for the grand prize, he had piloted Exodus in after her and clearly ended up in this urban area—evidenced by the s.h.i. p’s presence as his trace. He wasn’t on the s.h.i. p now; maybe he had thought his sister was sowhere in the city streets and left the s.h.i. p to search for her. Although she didn’t yet know where Yu Yuan was, he had likely landed in a different area as well.
The three of them had entered one after another, only to be separated far apart, as if it had been done deliberately.
If that man had been sitting here the whole ti, monitoring them through so ans and sending them to different locations, it all made sense.
“You really don’t have any other choice but to trust ,” Lin Sanjiu said, keeping her tone as calm as possible. “I won’t leave this urban area, and it looks like you won’t either. As for your combat capabilities… I don’t think you have enough power to take down. If you did, you would’ve already attacked . Right now, I’m like a big fish bone stuck in your throat—you can’t swallow , and you can’t spit out.”
The crowd on the street continued bustling by, but no one answered her.
“What are you going to do with ? As long as I don’t trigger any mories, the moir itself isn’t dangerous. You can keep trapped here, but I won’t be hard. However, the longer I stay here, the more destructive the thods I’ll resort to for getting out. That will only make things worse for your territory. If you let us reunite, all it takes is a small risk, trusting just once, and you can rid yourself of this troubleso interruption… No risk, no reward, right?”
Lin Sanjiu waited for a response, longer this ti.
Amid the bustling crowd, it sounded like soone had sighed. She couldn’t tell who it was, as the sigh quickly dissipated.
“I don’t know what this Great Deluge you ntioned is, or if it’s even real,” the flyer-handing shop clerk beside Lin Sanjiu said in a low voice.
“All I know is, after so many years, you’re the first group to break in here. You don’t understand… Even if I wanted to take a risk and believe you, it would be completely pointless for you.”
The shop clerk’s expression remained unchanged, but there was a hint of a bitter smile in his voice.
“Because… I don’t know how to leave either.”
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