Chapter 850: 850
Pieces after pieces of snowflakes fluttered down the sky . They glinted and glittered fantastically, and caught the light from the morning sun before melting away . The scenery in Mid Mountsburg was as spectacular as always . It was a mixture of natural green and pure white . The air was cold and the wind bit strongly . Lin Sanjiu pulled her collar up and hid her face underneath the shadow of her hat . After she walked for a while and ascertained that her distance was safe, she stopped and glanced at Bliss’s convention center .
The window display at the right end of the fourth floor was the “signal” both Bliss and she had agreed on . Different colors represented different meanings . If it was glowing yellow, it meant that Bliss was inside the building . If it was blue, it meant that she had found Yu Yuan, and if it was red, it meant that she had returned after having found Yu Yuan’s corpse .
Right now, the window display remained grayed out which meant Bliss had not made any progress yet .
“No news is good news,” Lin Sanjiu consoled herself . Then, she turned around and walked away . “Let’s give her some more time…”
Right now, she needed nothing but only food, warmth, and sleep . Due to her hunger and exhaustion, her ten fingernails had taken on the unwholesome gray phosphorescence, and people were pulling themselves away from her . When she passed by a window, she looked up and was shocked by her own reflection . Her complexion was as pale as a ghost while her lips were bloodless, and there were two heavy eyebags sitting below her bloodshot eyes . If she were to stand beside a drug addict, nobody would be able to tell the difference .
By the time she got back to Exodus, she was already on the verge of passing out . She had no idea how she finished her meal or when she threw herself on the bed . Silas had turned off all the lights and shut all the windows . Her room was so dark that it seemed as if it were a little box floating around in the depth of the universe . She slipped into a deep slumber as soon as she touched the bed . She could not tell how long she had been sleeping or where she was . As her dreams pulled her down with an inexorable force, many faces flitted across her eyes .
She felt she was screaming although she did not know why . She stretched her arm to reach out for the people beside her, but her fingers found air . The apocalypse was coming, and everybody was running helter-skelter for their life . Bliss, Yu Yuan, Ji Shanqing, Puppeteer, and Magus, who was holding the cat doctor…She kept screaming and screaming, pleading for them to wait for her to figure out a way to save them, but they soon vanished out of her sight .
When Lin Sanjiu cracked her eyes opened, her chest heaved up and down in labored breaths . She ran her fingers across her face and found tears at the corner of her eyes .
Just as she fumbled to get up and was about to call her [Ability Polishing Agent] because it was too dark, she suddenly realized that she had returned to Exodus . She clapped her hands and a night light beside her feet lit up .
Cupping a handful of warm water, she splashed it all over her face . It did wake her up a little, but her brain was still fuzzy as if it was filled with fog . As Silas adjusted the light to a comfortable level, she watched her own reflection in the mirror, falling into thought .
“Silas,” she said, her voice hoarse and still laced with exhaustion, “What time is it now?”
“You have been sleeping for 4 hours and 20 minutes . There are still another 13 hours to go before your next check-in . ”
‘I just slept for 4 hours and 20 minutes . No wonder I still feel so sleepy . ’
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When people were asleep, they usually went through several cycles, one of which was called “rapid eye movement”, otherwise known as REM sleep . It was the phase where dreams were created . Some of the researchers felt that REM sleep was especially crucial as it was the phase where brain activity increased and learning was promoted . If somebody woke up during REM sleep, their brain would go into a hypersensitive state and demonstrate fascinating creativity in certain areas .
Lin Sanjiu remembered being pulled out of her sleep by a paroxysmal wave of anxiety and fear . She woke up not because of a nightmare, but because she forced herself to . Anyway, she doubted if there were any nightmares that were more brutal than her real life . The dream she had just now helped her understand several things, several things that she had to do, and she had to jot them down as soon as possible . Otherwise, she would forget everything the next day when she woke up if she allowed herself to continue sleeping .
“Silas,” she ordered, “Pull up a memorandum for me . ”
A ding rang out and a memorandum appeared in the mirror . “First, try to find a way to return to the Astral Plane and look for Magus . ” As she spoke, she paced back and forth in front of the hand basin . “Find someone like Bohemia and have him pull me into the Astral Plane . ”
Just like how animals always often acted atypically before an earthquake, if a pocket dimension became sentient because it wanted to run away from the deluge, she was certain that Nüwa must not be the only one who knew about the deluge . In the Astral Plane, news usually spread a lot faster . Besides, the inhabitants there were one stronger than the last, so if she wanted to know more about the deluge, the Astral Plane would be her best bet .
Besides, she had to inform Bohemia and J7 about the deluge as well .
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“Second, find a Consular Officer to issue me a visa to Coconut Island, and hire someone to return Lucy’s corpse back to her hometown . ” It was not difficult to get these two things done since all she needed was money . If she was able to hire a suitable Consular Officer, then she could solve the problem of being separated from her friends every time . However, was there any way to bribe a Consular Officer?
After all, they were at the top level of the chain . They lacked nothing and feared none .
Lin Sanjiu remembered that she seemed to have come up with a solution to this problem when she was in the dream . However, the answer had fallen so deep into her psyche that she could not pull it out no matter how hard she tried .
“Third, contact the grand prize . ” Even though she was reluctant to do so, she had to tell Ji Shanqing about the deluge . Of course, it went without saying that she must first think about what to say as well as the solution if something went sideways before she contacted him .
“Fourth, find Silvan . Then, get him to look for Puppeteer using his network . Also, remind me to publish an advertisement with the title: ‘A ton of pending confectionaries waiting to be claimed’ . ” She knew a lot of friends, but only a handful of them was powerful . If she wanted to get rid of those personalities and get Luther back, she had to gather all of them no matter what it took .
It seemed easy at face value, but right now, her enemy was hiding in the dark . She did not even know how Luther’s personalities looked like and how many of them there were . Worst of all, the personalities could vanish from her sight at any time . She could not track them, so she could not ask them anything . She could only think of other ways to slowly discover their identities .
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“Oh yeah, I almost forgot . This is the most important, so remember to jot it down clearly . ” Even though she was drawing her vowels out, it would be fortunate if Silas was able to catch every word she said .
“Fifth, almost half of what Septimus said is bullsh*t . ”
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