Doomsday Paradise

Chapter 1566 Sakura Shui'an's Decision
In the next few days, Qiao Yuansi felt as if he was having a long dream in a trance.

Call it a dream, she can remember clearly what happened in the past few days; say it was not a dream, but she felt as if she was "not in the same place"—her self seemed to be pulled out of the body. After pulling away for the most part, the person who owns her body is no longer Qiao Yuansi.

No, no, it was as if an outsider had taken over her body; to be more precise, her ego began to deform before Qiao Yuansi's face deformed.

On the night when she found that she couldn't understand her lesson plans, Qiao Yuansi could hardly describe her feeling in words.The neighbors can turn into monsters, the world can end, but without her intelligence, she doesn't know who she is or how to live.The foundation of 33 years of life was built, and suddenly it all collapsed and shattered; she buried her face in her arms and cried silently for an unknown amount of time before she was finally persuaded by Sakura Shui An to put down the lecture notes and go to bed, before falling asleep , There is still a vague hope in my heart that "maybe it will be fine after a night of sleep".

After waking up the next day, she felt no pain at all.

Ying Shui An seemed to have not slept all night.As soon as he heard Qiao Yuansi's footsteps, he immediately sat up from the sofa, followed her around the room with his eyes.

When she was about to enter the kitchen to prepare breakfast, Ying Shui An stopped her, spread her textbooks on the dining table, and asked, "Do you understand?"

Qiao Yuansi stared at the page for a while. "I know every word... It's so hard to understand the meaning of the words lined up together. What are they talking about?"

"Then read slowly, sentence by sentence."

Qiao Yuansi couldn't help but rolled his eyes and lowered his head again.She forced herself to read slowly for a few minutes before she managed to understand a sentence or two; this progress made her irritable, pushed the table to stand up and said: "What's the use of looking at this thing? I'm hungry, I don't want to Look."

Sakura Shui An didn't speak.He sat at the other end of the dining table, watched her enter the kitchen, and watched her prepare breakfast for one person; he didn't speak again until she finished eating slowly.

"The red marks on your face have lessened." He said calmly.

"Oh," Qiao Yuansi was reminded that there were red marks on his face, touched it, and said, "I don't think it's a big deal, it should disappear completely in two days."

"You still think you won't change shape?"

"No," Qiao Yuansi waved his hand, feeling that this statement is really ridiculous: "I am a big living person, and my face suddenly deformed, why? Is there any scientific reason to explain it, there is no, so it is impossible thing."

Sakura Shui An's expression was as if he heard some unbearable stupid words suddenly, staring at her and frowning. "……what?"

It's hard to explain why, but Qiao Yuansi suddenly felt as if his foot had been stepped on, and the thorns all over his body stood up, ready to defend himself. "What, what?" She stared at him warily, and said challengingly, "Those transformations, the end of the world, are you the only one talking about it? The morning news? It was published in the newspaper? Why didn't I see?"

Sakura Shui An wiped her face, as if she couldn't believe the current situation. "You have forgotten the facts that you have seen with your own eyes?"

"There must be an explanation for what I saw," Qiao Yuansi said, "I've been hiking and camping for so long, and I'm tired from driving, so I may be wrong. And let's take a step back, so what if it's deformed? I don't eat as usual. Sleeping to live? I have become a monster, and the school will still pay me my salary. Don’t talk about this anymore, it upsets me, I don’t want to hear it.”

When she stood up to collect the plate, she thought of another thing and warned him: "Don't talk nonsense when you go out, or they will catch you and I will ignore you."

Ying Shui'an's eyebrows twitched slightly, and he immediately raised his eyes, as if stunned by these words for a moment.

Even though Qiao Yuansi was bothering him now, when he met his eyes, he couldn't help being startled - the color in his eyes was too clean and distinct, as if a small piece of blue sky was frozen on the snow field.She suddenly remembered that when she saw him for the first time yesterday, she felt like a wild eagle gliding across a high mountain... How did she come up with this metaphor?Did she think of it?
She dropped the plate on the table with a "bang", clutched the back of the chair tightly, and gradually walked over with the memories of yesterday.

She didn't forget what happened yesterday; but she really couldn't remember just now—the memory of yesterday seemed to have turned into some old letters that had been put away, they were still there, just sitting far away in the drawer, easily forgotten Don't cross your mind.

"Don't give me the textbook," Qiao Yuansi said in a hoarse voice, still hanging his head, "That may be too difficult for me... There are some general education textbooks, please give me that."

Before she finished her last word, Ying Shui An jumped up to look for the book.He seemed to be afraid that his movements would be slow, and at this point Qiao Yuansi would slip away from the body again, and quickly put a stack of books with the word "tongshi" in front of her.

Qiao Yuansi's whole body was trembling inexplicably, and she flipped through several books one after another. The frustration and frustration that she couldn't read or understand became more and more intense; when the tears came to her eyes, Yingshui An suddenly relaxed. Taking a deep breath, he knelt down in front of her and said in a low voice, "It's fine if you're sad, it's fine if you're sad."

"……What's the meaning?"

"Listen to me," Ying Shui'an's tone was a little eager, "Those red marks are starting to change your mind and personality. I don't know how those red marks take effect, but maybe we can reverse it. Hold it back."

"How to suppress it?" Qiao Yuansi didn't realize that he was crying until he saw water drops falling on his hand.

"...By alleviating the symptoms it causes." Ying Shui'an said softly like a doctor comforting a child: "If you think these are still too difficult, you can do some simple thinking exercises with me. You As I said, the virus can’t kill [-]% of people, so why can’t you survive with your resistance?”

During the thinking training, Qiao Yuansi's face in the mirror was clean again, without a trace of blood left.

It was strange to say that her intelligence hadn't deteriorated, and she was still doing math problems very fast, but after a while, she even started to get wrong answers to elementary school thinking questions again and again.She soon didn't want to do it anymore, but Ying Shui'an refused to let her go - despite his tall and thin body, his strength was astonishingly terrifying, he didn't look like a human being, but rather like a construction crane.

After being held down by Qiao Yuansi, he was still very patient, and asked again: "...Among the examples I gave above, which one is the truth?"

She couldn't answer, so he repeated it again.The two went back and forth, back and forth like a seesaw, even Qiao Yuansi could feel that her state also went up and down in this repeated seesaw, good times and bad times - but there was a little cherry water Kishi was right: as long as she kept jockeying for ground the way she trained, her rate of deterioration would be temporarily curbed.

The "deformation" factor is like a living creature. After realizing that this position is not easy to grab, it slowly loosens its grip.After a whole afternoon, Qiao Yuansi did not deteriorate again; the two of them waited anxiously until the evening, and finally breathed a sigh of relief - they finally got through the next day.

On the third day, Qiao Yuansi's condition was still the same as yesterday.The two of them did the thinking training for another half morning, and it seemed that everything was gradually getting better; Ying Shui'an also looked more and more happy, and his eyes were shining brightly.If a bird hadn't bumped into her glass that afternoon, no one would have noticed the problem.

It was an unknown, quite beautiful bird, with a tan body and a pointed black tail feathers; it had bruised somewhere, fluttered a few times and still couldn't fly.When Yingshui'an heard the sound and stood up, Qiao Yuansi ordered: "Throw it into the big trash can in the community."

Sakura Shui An turned around and glanced at her. "It's not dead yet."

"That's dying too," Qiao Yuansi waved his hand, "Throw it away quickly."

Sakura Shui An almost smiled at her softly.

When Qiao Yuansi lowered his head again, he suddenly felt a hand grabbing her collar, and lifted her up fiercely, and Ying Shui An lifted her up on the spot.He dragged her to the door, his actions could even be called rough, and said, "You pick it up."

"Why?" Qiao Yuansi asked angrily, pulling back his arm vigorously.

"Because you are not that kind of person." Sakura Shui An said simply.

A big and small bird would startle Qiao Yuansi every time it fluttered its wings, and she was naturally very unhappy - if she didn't dare to mess with Yingshui'an, she would not want to bring this bird into the house.She sat down on the sofa with the bird in her arms, and the coffee table in front of her happened to be the mirror she had placed there before. As soon as she sat down, she happened to see her face in the mirror flickering.It was as if a wave of the sea was hitting from under the skin, curling up and down, and passing by in a flash.

She was frozen all over.

Ying Shui An was standing on the aisle behind her, and she should have seen the image in the mirror, but she didn't speak.For a while, apart from the fluttering sound of the bird's wings, there was only a dead silence in the living room.

"Why... I haven't deteriorated," Qiao Yuansi said hoarsely, "Why..."

The footsteps of Ying Shui An approached from behind.When he stood behind the sofa and bent down, Qiao Yuansi felt a warm hand slide into his neck, gently pinching her neck.Her throat was pressing against his knuckles, making her feel for the first time that her throat was so fragile.

"To be honest," Ying Shui'an said slowly, with a calm tone. "I thought about it the day before yesterday, since this world can still function normally, even if you are deformed, I don't actually need to kill you, and there may be nothing wrong with letting you live with other monsters in this world. But now... I've changed my mind."

Qiao Yuansi's teeth were chattering slightly, and he didn't even dare to move the bird in his arms.

Evolvers are far scarier than shapeshifters.

"I don't like what you're becoming. If you can't hold on, I might as well kill you now."

　I didn't expect it after so long!Feels like progress is a bit slower than I thought...

　
(End of this chapter)