Doomsday Paradise

Chapter 1561 Escape and Companions

After jumping on the first bus that came into sight as if fleeing for his life, Yayiliu sat in the car for two full hours.

He huddled in the last row, occupied the seat next to him with his schoolbag, pulled down his hat and pretended to be asleep.Liebers knew where he lived in the on-campus dormitory. After he ran away, he probably went to wait in the dormitory building; but he couldn't hide on the bus all the time, when the driver with deformed face looked back several times When he was there, he knew it was time to get out of the car.

Should I go home?
He staggered out of the car, thinking in a daze.During the last video call, the two faces of his parents in the camera expanded wider and bigger in front of his eyes, as if two slowly fermented and puffed up dough, finally when they met each other's faces The glue blends together.When his mother asked him "what's the matter with you?", her mouth drew a flesh｜wave, which shook his father's face as well.

After that, he never contacted the family again.

No matter what was wrong with the world, his parents were safe in a way: they were with most people, they became the same kind, and he didn't have to worry about them anymore.What he has to worry about is himself, the lonely alien.

Wu Yiliu really doesn't know where in this world he can stay.

No matter where he's going next, though, he's got to have money on him.When he went out today, he only took two banknotes with him; besides textbooks and notes, he didn't even bring the water bottle he always carried in his backpack, let alone chargers and a change of clothes.

It's okay not to go back to the dormitory, but what if Liebers is waiting for him?What if he notified others?If the dormitory has become an urn waiting for him...how can he not be found?
Would the shape-shifting ones, even strangers at first, cooperate?Or, only when there are normal people around, will they surround them like zombies in movies?

Worried, Wu Yiliu was distracted, and his eyes stayed on the road sign ahead for a while, only to realize that the place where he got off was a block he had never been to before.He looked at the street signs around him and turned around in place, trying to find out the general direction of the school—when he turned his head inadvertently, his hairs stood on end.

...More than ten minutes have passed, but the bus is still parked a few streets away, motionless.Through the front window glass, you can still see the outline of the driver, lying on the steering wheel, as if frozen.

Slow down, turn around slowly, don't run!
Wu Yiliu heard the screams and warnings in his head, but almost tripped and fell on the road.He hurriedly stabilized his body, lowered his head, and pretended that there was nothing unusual, and walked forward quickly—among the passers-by on the road, the faces with twisted pigtails hugged the normal faces, as if sucked in by a vacuum cleaner. The face is on the phone, a pair of mother and daughter with very normal appearance... There are too many people, too many faces, I don't know which one will suddenly peel off the face and reveal the inhuman true face; and every face Every pair of eyes on his face seemed to peep at him quietly when he passed by.

After two streets, Wu Yiliu glanced back at the corner.

The bus slowly slowed down and stopped tens of meters behind him.

His hair stood on end.

He didn't know how long the car followed him, and how long the driver stared at him—was the driver suspicious of him?
The instinct of escape quickly took over his reaction; Wu Yiliu hurriedly rushed to the opposite side of the road, beckoned and jumped into a taxi he stopped, and reported the name of the school—the bus was big and slow to turn around , couldn't catch up with this taxi; after he looked back several times, he found that the bus had finally disappeared from his field of vision, and he let out a sigh of relief, cold sweat bursting out of the pores on his back.

Those shape-shifting people will react to normal people who don't change shape... Looking at it now, including Libers who asked him to have dinner with him at that time, it may be because he noticed his unchanging appearance that he took the initiative to approach him .Transfigured people will follow, observe, and test; if they are exposed like the woman in the restaurant, then all the nearby transfigured people will surround them as if they were called upon...

Panic and helplessness are panic and helplessness, but Wu Yiliu can't give up thinking.He repeatedly reviewed the information he had collected so far in his mind, hoping to give himself as much advantage in action as possible - the more information he got, the safer he would be, but it was still not enough.After thinking for a while, he boldly asked, "Master, did you take off your face today?"

"It can't be picked yet," the driver's almost brisk voice came from the driver's seat, "wait for a few more days, soon."

So, it's a program?From facial deformation, gradually developed to finally be able to take off the face?
Obviously, in this process, facial deformation does not happen all the time. Thanks to the fact that they look the same as normal people when they are not deformed, this leaves a little room for normal people like him to survive.

He didn't dare to look at the back of the driver's head, so he nodded calmly and asked, "Do you have any plans then?"

"What do you mean?" The driver didn't seem to understand, and said, "I will go to work as usual."

Wu Yiliu wanted to know what would happen to these shapeshifters in the end, but he couldn't think of a suitable way to ask.He still has more questions, and he doesn't know if he can ask them - if there is some information that everyone knows, if he asks, it is tantamount to being exposed.

Unexpectedly, the taxi|driver continued talking. "How is the situation in your school? I heard that there are a lot of stubborn people in the school who should have been cleaned up long ago."

Whether it was spying or chatting, Wu Yiliu was a little confused; his normal face had already caused him too much trouble. "There are some suspicious ones," he said vaguely, "but most of the students are... good."

Should the word "good" be used here?

He began to doubt himself only after he had spoken, but the driver didn't investigate further. "It's a good thing that you don't take off your face. Those who hide in the corner will take it lightly when they see it. My son's head teacher caught his father-in-law in this way."

His voice was clear and his tone was normal, as if he was just talking about a household matter.

"... Tell me about it?" Wu Yiliu said in a steady voice.

"The class teacher is amazing, very vigilant. He said that when his father-in-law said he was sick and would not go out for a while, he became suspicious, so every time he went to see him, he never took off his face. When he was next to his wife and his mother-in-law, he looked at their faces and pretended to be surprised. His father-in-law fell for it... and took him to the hut, and he recruited them all. I heard that The old man was so excited at the time, he thought he had found a companion." The driver laughed dryly at the end of his speech.

What happened to the old man?

This question must never be asked... All shapeshifters seem to know the answer.

Wu Yiliu sat in a puddle of cold sweat, almost numbly watching the streets outside, telephone poles, shops and pedestrians backing away. For a moment, there seemed to be nothing left in his mind.He didn't know what he said, but when the car stopped by the side gate of the school, he was shocked and came back to his senses.

... These shapeshifters are not only still sane, they have even secretly started hunting for normal people.

Perhaps because of his good acting skills, Wu Yiliu was a little surprised that he was able to get out of the car with his whole body—it wasn't until the taxi really drove away that he suddenly felt his legs go limp.He wiped his face heavily, and before entering the school, he turned a corner to a nearby stationery store and bought a bottle of glue and some flesh-colored band-aids.

Hiding in a corner where no one was around, he carefully glued half of his eye up.The glue was not very strong, and he had to keep it on all the time so as not to open his eyes completely; in addition to "pressing" half of the eyelid with glue, he also pursed his lips and pasted it with a flesh-colored patch. On top—so that, at first glance, it looked as if half of his eye had shrunk and his mouth had disappeared.

Of course, as long as you get close, you will find that his face cannot withstand scrutiny; but he has always covered his face with a hat and lowered his head to avoid people, and he can barely change to this point, which can probably guarantee temporary safety.

Although the modifications were made, Wu Yiliu still did not rush into the dormitory building.He found a hiding place nearby and watched the people coming in and out of the gate for half an hour.No one seemed to be waiting downstairs, but he really dared not say that Liebers was not waiting upstairs.

He could feel himself getting more and more anxious and uneasy—he was afraid that he would make some irrational decision when he was emotional, so he quickly stood up with his head down, turned around and walked towards the library.Behind the library is a large area of ​​grass and woods, which is relatively sparsely populated and naturally safer.

Just as he was walking far away to the library gate, Wu Yiliu raised his head inadvertently, and happened to see the old lady in the logic class coming out of the gate, holding a stack of books and documents, and slowly descending the stairs.The reason why she can be recognized at a glance is because her face is still as usual and her expression is still calm.

Thinking about it carefully, it seemed that he had never seen any change in the old lady's face.

Naturally, this in itself meant nothing; naturally, Wu Yiliu would not make the mistake of trusting Liebers again.His gaze stayed on her face for two seconds, and then he was about to pretend he didn't see her and continue walking - but in such a short two seconds, the old lady saw him first.

When her eyes fell on Wu Yiliu's face, she clearly widened her eyes and took a low breath.

This surprise was extremely subtle and fleeting, if it wasn't for Wu Yiliu who hadn't completely retracted his gaze, he might not have noticed it at all.However, although his eyes saw it, his brain did not react for a while, and his feet continued to move forward; the old lady also did not call him out, as if realizing that he had made a big mistake, She quickly turned her head away as if she didn't see him.

That homeroom teacher just pretended to be surprised——

and many more.

Wu Yiliu stopped abruptly and turned around hastily, just in time to see the back of the old lady who was about to leave in a hurry.

He strode up and patted her lightly on the shoulder—the old lady seemed to have been prepared for this moment, when she turned her head, her face was so pale that there was not even a trace of blood left , her lips were trembling faintly, she had never looked so hopelessly old.

But Wu Yiliu was almost on the verge of crying because of this despair.

"Professor," he called out in a low voice, frightened and expectant for a moment, his heart beating so loudly that he couldn't hear anything.Except for this sound, he became dumb and couldn't say anything.

The old lady looked at him, and the fear on her face gradually dissipated.She looked carefully at Wu Yiliu's mouth, and the latter realized that the flesh-colored patch had loosened a little because he spoke in agitation—before he could react, the old lady reached out and took the flesh-colored patch The cloth is reattached.

"I knew it," her voice was extremely low, still unable to control the trembling caused by excitement, "I knew it, you are definitely not one of them."

　Well, I don't seem to have anything to share today... My appetite has recovered a lot in the past two weeks, aka, and I have started to gain weight...

　
(End of this chapter)