Doomsday Wonderland - Chapter 301

Chapter 301: The Final Chapter of Doomsday Wonderland, This Is

"Hey, stop sleeping . Our boss came to the company just now . "

Through her drowsiness, Lin Sanjiu heard a familiar voice drifting from somewhere very far away . She felt someone nudging her . Lin Sanjiu opened her eyes in a daze . She blinked and froze for a few seconds . It was only then that her brain processed that murky voice .

The computer in front of her was in standby mode, and the window screensaver had been changing non-stop . It was now showing a picture of a large peony she had already seen for over a year . Lin Sanjiu rubbed her eyes .

She felt her eyelids under her fingers . Her arms felt slightly numb . She could also feel the poor blood circulation in her legs which stemmed from her long sitting time . These realistic sensations gradually grew clearer as her drowsiness and confusion faded .

"You're a pro . You must have had a deep sleep . We found you sleeping even after we came back from lunch . " The colleague, who was speaking to her, stuck his face out from the adjacent cubicle . He flashed an ambiguous smile, "You didn't sleep well last night? What did you do?"

Lin Sanjiu opened her pair of amber eyes and stared at him blankly . This particular male colleague of her was exceptionally sweet to all the females in their office . To put it in another way, he was a little frivolous . Sometimes, the way he spoke was also—

"Wait, where am I?"

Lin Sanjiu shuddered . While she took a very quick glance around, she suddenly jolted up from her chair as if she had been electrocuted . . .

Unfortunately, she didn't feel the firm, familiar muscles in her legs support her . Instead, her body felt very heavy, as if it wasn't listening to her . She accidentally hit the corner of her cabinet with her shin . It hurt so much that she even took a deep breath .

"Ugh…"

The pain instantly made her mind a lot clearer . She noticed her male colleague's surprised expression from the corner of her eyes . "It's nothing . I think I just had a dream," she muttered .

"It was a dream, right?" Lin Sanjiu thought to herself, feeling a little uncertain, despite her answer .

The tall, rich, handsome boyfriend that she killed, the desiccated bodies in Hyperthermal Hell, the scary-looking duoluozhongs, her companions with their different appearances and characters… Since the perceived sense of time is different in a dream compared to reality, in her dream, it felt as though a couple of years had already passed . She even had a "what-is-this-year" feeling . Lin Sanjiu slowly returned to her seat again . She sat in a daze for some time before she laughed at herself .

That dream was as if it was another part of her life . However, when she woke up, she was still just a lowly office employee in a big city .

"What's this? I'm really quite imaginative…" she shook her mouse and her screen lit up again with the desktop picture of a grass field with blue skies and white clouds . "If I write this dream down, I think I can have a novel . "

Her dream faded into the background, as she came back to reality . She started worrying about the mundane things in her life once more, "Oh, I think I need to hand in some report and data this afternoon . "

Shaking her head, Lin Sanjiu opened her folder in a well-practiced manner . She stared blankly at the screen for a while before she started typing noisily on her keyboard .

Apart from her exceptionally realistic and eventful dream, this was an uninteresting day for Lin Sanjiu . There wasn't even anything worth mentioning . When it was almost the end of her workday, her slightly outdated iPhone suddenly lit up .

"Don't forget, you have a blind date with that doctor tonight . Do you need me to bring some cosmetics over for you?"

The person who messaged her was Zhu Mei .

Lin Sanjiu looked at that name, and her hand froze as she fell into a daze . After a few seconds, she replied, "Okay, please bring some mascara for me . "

It was as if she could see the image of Zhu Mei dried-up corpse from her dream clearly in front of her . . .

"It's such a bother . Why did I dream of something so irksome?"

Lin Saniiu sighed and locked her computer . When her screen turned black, she saw a reflection of a large, snow-white face .  A pair of hollow black eyes were staring back at Lin Sanjiu .

She should have screamed when she saw that . However, Lin Sanjiu scared herself with her instinctive reaction . She stood up and lunged her body forward . Balancing her body on one leg, she kicked backward with her other leg . The chair she was sitting on rolled backward and hit the person behind her directly .

"Ouch! What are you doing?"

The slightly frivolous male colleague held his abdomen . He exaggerated his movements and voice, "I just wanted to see who you were messaging . Do you really have to… Ouch…"

Lin Sanjiu was a little stunned . She looked down at herself . Her calf muscles, which she barely trained since she was usually desk bounded, were starting to ache from this sudden burst of activity .

"Sorry, you scared me," she smiled at the male colleague and tried to sound as friendly as possible .

She felt as if there was something in the depths of her mind disturbing her and it made her feel very uneasy . After watching her male colleague grumbling as he packed his things and then left, Lin Sanjiu took a deep breath . She bent over and started tidying her desk . She switched off her computer and decided to tell Zhu Mei about her own unusual behavior when they met later .

The best thing about this company she was working in was that everyone could leave on time . Almost everyone would leave on the dot unless their team leader requested for them to stay . As she was distracted, after Lin Sanjiu took ten minutes to pack up her things, she realized that she was the only person left in the office .

As they had an electronic door lock, the last person could lock the office door after entering a password . It reduced the hassle of handling keys . Lin Sanjiu tapped the device with her employee card and her fingers hovered over the combination keypad for a moment . However, she just couldn't remember the password .

"Come on . What's wrong with me today…"

After she called her colleague and got the password, she finally took the lift downstairs . Zhu Mei was carrying a large paper bag and was already waiting for her . She certainly brought more than a tube of mascara .

Her best friend was so eager to see her get married soon that she seemed to be even more anxious than Lin Sanjiu . The restaurant for the date had an elegant atmosphere . They reached it 30 minutes early . After Zhu Mei gave her a makeover, Lin Sanjiu almost couldn't recognize herself .

"I feel rather uneasy today…" After the two of them sat down, Lin Sanjiu said softly to Zhu Mei while they waited for the doctor . "I had a dream this afternoon—"

"Hi! Doctor Chen . We're here!"

Before she could complete her sentence, Zhu Mei stood up suddenly and waved her arms at a young man standing not far from them . Zhu Mei only noticed what Lin Sanjiu had said before after Doctor Chen sat down and they introduced themselves . "What's your dream about? Doctor Chen, she was saying that she had a dream . "

Looking at the plump man in front of her, Lin Sanjiu forced a smile, "It's nothing . I just dreamt that it was the end of the world . "

"That's interesting!" Doctor Chen seemed pleased with Lin Sanjiu's looks . His smile widened and he started rambling, "Dreams help to fulfill human needs . Maybe, you have some needs that can only be satisfied in an end-world scenario . . . I went to Germany for a one-year overseas exchange during my university years . I learned quite a lot about psychology…"

Maintaining a polite smile, Lin Sanjiu felt as if her face was going stiff .

To be honest, Doctor Chen could hold a rather interesting conversation . He didn't seem like a bad person… However, as time went by, Lin Sanjiu felt like she was on tenterhooks . She felt as though she had forgotten something very important . Her thoughts had long drifted off . After a while, the two other people noticed this . Zhu Mei even pinched Lin Sanjiu lightly under the table .

"Excuse me, I need to use the restroom," Lin Sanjiu said hurriedly . Then, she left her table as if she needed to escape .

"What's wrong with me today?" she couldn't help asking herself while she sat on top of a toilet bowl cover, lost in thought .

"What if something suddenly attacks me when I'm so unfocused . Huh? What attack?!"

Lin Sanjiu scratched her hair . She found this worrying thought hilarious .

After she sat in the toilet for some time, as if trying to escape the current situation . She gradually calmed herself . Seeing that she had stayed in the toilet for quite some time, Lin Sanjiu stood up, "I shouldn't leave Zhu Mei there alone . It must be awkward…" she mumbled to herself as she opened the cubicle door .

However, her body stopped without any reason .

Following which, it was as if her body was acting on its own . Lin Sanjiu couldn't explain her own actions . She took out her phone and activated her camera . Then, she squatted and slipped her phone through the gap of the door and took a photo with the camera while she looked upward .

She pulled back her hand . The photo on her screen was a little blurred . It showed the bottom part of a basin and there was nothing unusual .

"Luckily, there isn't anyone around . I am sure someone would think I'm a pervert . " She shook her head and laughed before she placing her phone back into her pocket .

Even though she had composed herself, the second half of the dinner date did not go as well as they had hoped . Doctor Chen probably noticed that his date was preoccupied so they ate silently for the next ten over minutes . Zhu Mei tried to make their conversation more lively but she knew that the blind date was a failure . Doctor Chen wiped his lips and called for the waiter .

"Let me pay for this meal . Keep your wallets, ladies," he said in a rather gentlemanly manner . He turned to the waiter and asked, "How much is the bill?"

"It is $382, sir . " The very young waiter looked at the bill in his hand and asked, "Would you like to pay by credit or cash?"

"Um, cash . " Doctor Chen smiled at Lin Sanjiu, "I'm a person that just can't get used to mobile payments, I feel more at ease when I bring cash around . "

Lin Sanjiu nodded politely . She watched him as he took a few pieces of blue paper currency from his wallet .

He was holding money currency from Kisaragi Station World .