Collapse Simulator, why are we drifting apart?

It was the eighth day. Today, Liuying had just woken up from the warm embrace of her dream when she heard a loud sound coming from high in the sky outside the door.

When I opened the door and looked up, I saw spaceships flying above the blue sky. After eight days, people from the company came and brought good news for the survivors.

That is, they have killed the queen insect that destroyed this place. Upon hearing the news, Liuying clenched her fists and looked around in the sky expectantly, hoping to see the familiar figure among them.

But in the end she was disappointed. Fan Mu still did not come back. She bit her lip, summoned the newly repaired Sam, and immediately flew at full speed into the sky and into the universe.

It was over. Sam would no longer stop her from looking for Fanmu, and she could finally go looking for him.

……

After flying at full speed for a day and a half in the boundless sea of ​​stars, she finally arrived back at the place where she had escaped.

At this moment, her calm eyes were shining, and her heartbeat reached an unprecedented speed. She was breathing rapidly and clenching her fists. She felt that the blood in her body was flowing and boiling, and she was extremely hot. She was afraid that she would not find Fan Mu here.

She took a deep breath and managed to calm herself down. Even though she hadn't slept for a day and a night, her spirit reached its peak at this moment. Even with the existence of the radar, she was still concentrating on looking for Fan Mu's figure within her visible field of vision.

But looking at the nothingness before my eyes, there was nothing, nothing at all. On my way back, I didn't encounter even a dead insect or a meteorite.

It was as if this piece of land had been erased by something, and everything was broken down, destroyed, and dissipated.

……

"how come……"

Liuying searched in this universe for a long time. She didn’t know how long or how many days it took, because she didn’t pay attention to it at all. She only knew that she didn’t see the familiar person.

"Miss Liuying, a friendly reminder, this is your fourth time passing this area, and you haven't slept for three days and three nights. Please go to bed early."

"In the last three hours, the system will forcibly take over and release the hypnotic drug."

A warm and overbearing mechanical sound rang out.

"Shut up, shut up, shut up!"

"Because of your obstruction, Fan Mu is here alone, facing those dirty and disgusting bugs. Because of you, I abandoned him for seven whole days. Because of you, he left me. All this is because of you! What else do you want?"

"Didn't you say you would obey my orders?"

"Now I tell you to shut up, understand?"

Liuying was completely furious at this moment. She punched the iron lump in front of her hard. She didn't believe that Fan Mu was dead, and she didn't want to believe it.

In the end, she still didn't let Sam uninstall her because this was the only thing Fan Mu left for her.

"There must be some place I haven't looked for. Besides, after so much time, maybe the great philosopher has found a good place to rest and recuperate, and he will come back when he recovers from his injuries."

She murmured softly, as if she really believed it, and as if she was hypnotizing herself, unwilling to believe it, and continued to search in this empty universe.

……

A long time passed, so long that Liuying slowly opened her eyes and woke up from her dream. She looked at the cockpit in front of her, at a place that was different from her impression, and at the stars twinkling in the distance. She instantly understood what had happened.

The expected rage did not appear. Instead, Liuying sat down with a lonely look in her eyes, lowered her head, buried her deep eyes in her legs, clenched her lower teeth, and clenched her fists so tightly that her nails seemed to be digging into her flesh.

"Why, why can't I find it?"

"Sam, did you find anything?"

"No." Sam created a virtual man in front of her eyes. It was made up of Fan Mu's own image. "While you were asleep, Sam was also looking for it, but apart from occasionally encountering the company's spacecraft, he found nothing."

"According to the detection, there are no living creatures or meteorites nearby."

"That's it..."

Liuying laughed miserably, in this smile there was countless grievances and forcedness, her face was full of haggardness, her lips were cracked, and her face was pale. At this moment, she did not look like a battle-hardened warrior, but more like a patient who was fighting against the disease.

I couldn't control my tears and they flowed down. It wasn't as heavy as rain, but I just couldn't control them.

"Sam, let's go back. I'm tired and I want to go back and have a good sleep!"

She rubbed her eyes with her sleeves, her voice hoarse and full of fatigue, and then she spoke optimistically.

"Perhaps the great philosopher has returned home during the time I was away. Perhaps he is waiting for me at home now..."

"Yes...it must be like this..."

"..."

Fan Mu did not return home as she expected. She looked at the empty room and saw that the note that was pressed on the table when she came out was still in its original place.

There was no expression on Liuying's face, nor was there any loss in her eyes. She just walked quietly into the house, silently tore up the paper, and lay down on the bed tiredly. The whole process was done in one go, but it gave people an inexplicable feeling of sadness.

The sun gradually set and the world fell into a fiery red, as if the flames of war were burning in the clouds. Then the rising moon brought a deserted scene. The flames gradually died down and the world returned to peace. Not even a bug was chirping.

The only sound in the whole world was the wind. Only the wind was wailing and wailing miserably, as if telling everyone what was happening here.

This time, Liuying slept for a day and a night, and slowly woke up the next day. She slowly washed, ate, and then slowly went to look for people in the company, trying to find the last glimmer of hope.

However, this time she was disappointed, even desperate, as she couldn't get any answers. The company did not deny that they were not the ones who solved the problem, but they did not reveal anything else.

The only thing she learned from the company was that a fierce battle took place in that area, and then a small black hole appeared, sucking away everything around it, including the queen insect.

Black hole is not a profound word nowadays, but it is still powerful. Perhaps it is because of her vision. Apart from Ling Shi, she can’t think of anything else to escape from the black hole.

After returning home, Liuying sat on the short roof, just sitting there, saying nothing and making no movements, like a girl who was waiting for her boyfriend at an agreed time.

Waiting for his return.