Doomsday Wonderland - Chapter 238

Chapter 238: House of Refinery (2)

"Why?"

When she heard the woman beside her counting down from 10, Lin Sanjiu suddenly had an intuition about what was happening . She had learned her lesson . Even though she was still thinking about the situation, she hastily pointed at the man before the end of the countdown . It didn't really matter who she thought was Derik . As long as she chose someone, even if she was wrong, only the one who recognized him or herself as Derik would stay to attack her . If she was lucky, both people would disappear into the darkness .

This was also the reason why she found the situation very hard to understand .

The man she pointed at showed his expressionless face and lowered his head . Then, he turned and disappeared into the darkness . Simultaneously, the woman giggled and changed into a dark shadow which was heading fast toward Lin Sanjiu .

Sure enough, things unfolded the same way as before . After a few short minutes, Lin Sanjiu had developed an instinct to deal with these people . She twisted, stooped and dodged the attacks artfully, in an experienced manner as she went with the flow . They didn't attack her in any sort of unexpected manner .

At first, Lin Sanjiu thought that Derik was trying to use a huge-crowd strategy, so she was puzzled . However, from the looks of things, it wasn't the case . "Why did he need me to 'identify Derik'? No, no, if he wanted to use a huge-crowd strategy, he didn't need to ask her to differentiate between the people in the groups . He could have just got the few hundred people to rush at me at once?"

Since there was a limited space, if they just crowded around her all at the same time, she would already be badly injured .

The exact scenario occurred once again . Different groups of people appeared before Lin Sanjiu asking her to guess which of them was Derik . In order to reduce the number of people, Lin Sanjiu just made random choices . She managed to actually make the right guess a couple of time . However, most of her guesses were wrong . The number of people were quickly reduced to about 30 to 40 people .

After fighting with a crowd like a huge ocean, Lin Sanjiu didn't fret over that 30 or 40 people . After their numbers dropped, their attack wasn't really that impressive .

Just as Lin Sanjiu thought about this, she noticed something flashing at the edge of her scanning radius . She suddenly felt the alarm bells in her mind ringing . "Dodge!" Mrs . Manas' sharp voice exploded .

Lin Sanjiu didn't have time to think too much . She instinctively leaped up and used the momentum to propel herself forward . Before she landed, she grabbed a grim-looking man . She gripped his collar and threw him backward .

A black flower which had suddenly sneaked close to her swallowed the man soundlessly . It wasn't a true flower, but it seemed to be created by the darkness around them . A few streaks of silver light seemed to twist around the darkness, creating the petals of the flower . When the person's shoulder touched the stamen of the flower, it opened up and the man's body slid into the dark opening .

The flash that Lin Sanjiu saw was the streaks of light from the flower .

"This is an ability?" Lin Sanjiu was shocked and thought to herself . "Why, why would they suddenly develop abilities?"

A withered young girl, about the age of ten, held onto the black flower's roots with her two skinny hands . She stared at Lin Sanjiu creepily . She threw the flower and it started spinning toward Lin Sanjiu . It was apparently the girl's ability .

"Are these people all posthumans?" Lin Sanjiu evaded the attack in a very unsightly manner . She looked at the few dozen people left . She ran toward an empty spot because she could see quite a few people' hands glowing . They were obviously preparing to use their ability .

Lin Sanjiu inhaled deeply . She didn't care to conserve her higher consciousness right now . She activated her [No coincidence . No story] . With her current condition, she was using her higher consciousness like a fuel each time she activated her active ability . It expended her higher consciousness very quickly . Furthermore, if she entered that state like when she was in Oasis, she would have no chance of survival .

However, she had to live through this before she could think about revival .

Since she had already started using her ability, she also decisively decided to use her [Defence Forcefield] . With two layers of protection, she took a large risk and rushed directly at the few people . She didn't know which of them activated an ability . Her abdomen hurt slightly, and almost half of her abdominal muscles which had already developed were consumed . Meanwhile, she activated her [Mosaic Censorship] and turned the few people into smoke immediately .

The subsequent battle was a very tough one . While Lin Sanjiu fought off her foes, Mrs . Manas monitored the expenditure of her higher consciousness very strictly . Every now and then, Mrs . Manas would tell her to stop her attacks so that she could recover some of her higher consciousness .

If she continued fighting, Lin Sanjiu knew that it would be a little tough, but she had the confidence that she could kill all of them . However, the people attacking her stopped again .

Once again, the people started asking her to identify Derik . This time, she only had five seconds . Lin Sanjiu didn't know if she was imagining things but she felt that the speed of them talking and disappearing into the darkness seemed to be faster . It was so fast that she couldn't really keep up with them . She could only try her best to fend off the attacks while she made her choices .

When the number fell from 38 to 19, she only had one correct guess . When it fell from 19 to 9, she didn't even make a single correct guess . When the number fell from 9 to 3, Lin Sanjiu had already used up a large amount of her higher consciousness . Her foot bones, tibia, and all the muscles and bones above her kneecap disappeared completed . At that moment, she was legless and was just floating in the air .

The three people who were left had incredible combat capabilities and their abilities were unfathomably powerful . Lin Sanjiu didn't know where they were hiding before and why they didn't attack her earlier .

Lin Sanjiu quickly understood this mystery . They didn't fight for long, and the people stopped . Then, they faced Lin Sanjiu and asked the said the same familiar words, "Guess which of us is Derik?"

Without much consideration, Lin Sanjiu made a random choice . A vague thought appeared in her mind .

Two people disappeared into the darkness . The remaining person suddenly became shorter . Like an ice cream melting in summer, it just suddenly became short . After that, his appearance became something like clay . An invisible hand sculpted the person's face and gradually the person began to look like Derik .

This was the first time she had seen Derik since she entered this place .

"Hi! Oh boy, you really are a strange fellow," Derik laughed when his appearance stabilized and he observed Lin Sanjiu .

"I understand!" Lin Sanjiu couldn't help shouting to Mrs . Manas as she had a sudden eureka moment .