Time goes back more than an hour.
"I always feel like this place doesn't look like a serious place to any extent..."
In the middle of a ruined hall, Bai Zhi put his feet on the old coffee table in front of him and sat on the sofa with his head half raised and looking at the sky.
Like everyone else, he also came to this dark world of ruins when darkness fell.
In this dark ruined world, there are hungry monsters that eat each other everywhere. In addition to their numerical advantage, the strength of these monsters mutated from humans is extremely weak, but their numbers are endless. .
At this point, Li Changsheng had doubts in his heart. He was completely unable to understand where these countless monsters came from, and he had no idea what the meaning of their existence was.
- But in fact, the first question he was wondering about could be answered as long as he raised his head and looked at the sky.
It is estimated that few people have not seen rain, a common weather change in daily life, but Bai Zhi is certain that few people have seen what he saw in front of him.
… Above their heads, people are being “laid down.”
Meaning literally.
Just like it was raining, thousands of panicked humans fell from the sky, and then quickly mutated into hungry monsters in the air, and finally fell into the ruins to kill each other.
No... In other words, the dome above their heads at this time cannot be called the sky.
The night vision ability provided by [Pluto] plus the long-distance field of view bonus allows Bai Zhi to see the scene above his head quite clearly through a long distance.
Far above their dome, there is a large group of squirming muscles with a rather disgusting color, which expands and contracts quite regularly as time goes by. These things cover the entire sky, continuous and layered. The stacks spread far and wide in all directions, wrapping up the entire ruins.
And in the center of these disgusting muscles, there is a deep black hole. The humans who were thrown here entered here from that black hole.
With Bai Zhi's eyesight, he could clearly see that the humans who had just fallen here were caught here without even knowing what happened.
Some people carry briefcases and look like they are on their way to work, some people wear home clothes and hold an egg in their hands and look like they are having breakfast, and some people are holding a mouse in their hands and look like they are playing games. … He can see all the various aspects of the world there.
The expressions on these human faces were at first confusion of not knowing what was happening, then panic when they saw themselves falling, then indescribable fear when they saw changes happening to themselves... and finally they fell into this A piece of ruins, killing each other here as hungry monsters.
Even among the humans who were thrown here in a steady stream, Bai Zhi saw many people who clearly did not come from the same world based on their decorations.
Hundreds, thousands, thousands, densely packed.
"By the way, speaking of which, you haven't told me yet, where exactly is this place?"
Turning his head, Bai Zhi looked at a fist-sized alien figure sitting on the sofa.
Not long after falling into this dark world of ruins, this figure who claimed to be the former acting manager of this restaurant came to him.
If you want to ask who is most familiar with this place, then it is only the other party.
"Here? This is a restaurant."
Looking back from above, a pair of terrifying compound eyes like bees looked at him.
"How did you trigger the restaurant mechanism? Why did you come to a place like this for no reason?"
"You ask me, who should I ask?"
Rolling his eyes, Bai Zhi looked away from above, then turned his head to look at the other person.
"Speak clearly, don't ask for the Riddler. Who doesn't know this is a restaurant or something? It's just that the restaurant was fine before, how did it become like this?"
"…because we are no longer at the original point in time."
After a moment of silence, the figure answered.
"What you're seeing now is what it was like a long time ago when the restaurant was destroyed."
"Time travel?"
Suddenly feeling interested, Bai Zhi sat up from the sofa.
"Does your restaurant still have this ability?"
"Only within the scope of the restaurant."
The other party shook his head slightly.
"Time-type abilities are the most mysterious. They can only act on a single object, and there are very strict restrictions... You should have come into contact with something with this type of power."
"Like this comb?"
After thinking for a while, Bai Zhi took out the [Comb of Time] with several broken teeth from his backpack.
"...More or less. In short, you must be fully prepared and careful when facing a being who possesses this kind of power."
The tentacle rolled up the comb and put it in front of his eyes. After looking at it, the other party returned the comb.
"Like some strange existences, they can directly travel back to your past and kill you when you were born. In that case, your existence is equivalent to being directly erased."
"… That's pretty scary."
After a moment of thinking, Bai Zhi nodded with a look of deep understanding.
"By the way, since this is the situation when this restaurant was destroyed, what happened to this situation?"
Bai Zhi pointed at the sky.
"Since this restaurant has been destroyed, why bother throwing so many people into the ruins to kill each other?"
"… pollute."
"What?"
"They want to make this restaurant their own thing."
He raised his head and looked at the sky. A certain former store manager had a blank expression on his face.
"Catch humans from other worlds here, and use the deaths of these humans to achieve the purpose of gradually distorting this restaurant. The things that come from billions of billions of humans devouring each other are enough. This goal was achieved.”
"Were they successful?"
Recalling the restaurant from before, Bai Zhi raised his eyebrows slightly.
At this time, he suddenly understood the origin of the densely packed corpses in the corridor full of bugs when he was exploring with Yanhuo Fengyue.
"..."
—The other party didn’t answer.
Volume One: The Gap between Illusion and Reality: Chapter 694 Chapter 685: The Thing Behind the Door
Although the other party did not answer this question, Bai Zhi had already guessed the answer to this question.
In their era, the restaurant had reopened, but the other party had been transformed into such a non-human and ghostly appearance that he wandered around the restaurant forever. The answer to the question of whether the restaurant was contaminated or not, In fact, it is quite obvious.
"Forget it, let's not talk about those sad things, let's talk about something happy."
After thinking for a moment, Bai Zhi spoke.
"It's not good to be unable to call you like this all the time. How about I give you a name? What do you think of the name Xiao Xiaobai?"
"Why not call me Xiaobai?"
The other party gave him an expressionless look.
"Oh, because Xiaobai is a dog."
"..."
"Xiao Xiaobai, tell me something about your time?"
"Please don't call me such a stupid name."
"Okay Xiaobai, no problem Xiaobai."
"...I'm just the acting store manager in a restaurant. What important things do you think I can know?"
Xiao Xiaobai's face was expressionless.
"And in my current situation, many memories have been blurred and lost. If it weren't for you, I would still be in that nightmare-like state of chaos."
"It doesn't matter, let's focus on the key points."
Bai Zhi waved his hand casually.
"For example, what was your restaurant that was destroyed by something, what kind of enemies you faced, and what was that disgusting muscle wall above... You shouldn't forget these memories, right?"
"… have no idea."
"have no idea?"
"I don't know who the enemy is, and I don't know what destroyed the restaurant. The disaster struck so suddenly."
Xiao Xiaobai spoke calmly.
"We resisted, but we didn't even know who our opponent was. The strength comparison between the two sides was too great... Then, we were eaten."
"Is it that damn thing above your head?"
Bai Yan raised his head and glanced at the sky.
"Your restaurant was swallowed whole by that thing?"
"I'm talking about us getting eaten."
Xiao Xiaobai turned his head and looked at him. There was no emotion in his bee-like compound eyes.
"Want to see? The scene after we were eaten."
"What's the meaning?"
Bai Zhi frowned slightly.
"The meaning is very simple. After this restaurant was destroyed, everyone in the restaurant at that time, including the chef and me, the acting manager, were all eaten by some kind of horrible thing."
Xiao Xiaobai's face was expressionless.
"Things that are eaten disappear from your life forever. Emotions, memories, reason, and names. As more and more things are lost, all kinds of horrible things begin to happen to them... That It’s a hell-like scene.”
"Then what?"
Looking at Xiao Xiaobai in front of him, Bai Zhi raised his eyebrows slightly.
"Then? In order to survive, and also to replenish what they had lost, a dozen people, including me, ate everything the others gave them into their stomachs, and no scraps were left."
Looking up at him, Xiao Xiaobai spoke quietly.
"If you don't hurry up and get out of here, you will be eaten too."
… … … … … … … … …
"...What's behind the iron gate?"
Bai Zhi raised his head and looked at the huge black wall in front of him, narrowed his eyes slightly, and asked Xiao Xiaobai sitting on his shoulder.
In this dark field, Shadow Guard is at home like a fish in water. He does not need to spend too much time exploring to find the right path. Shadow Guard is competent enough for such a simple job. After the shadow guard found this place, he teleported here with Xiao Xiaobai.
So compared to others, he is the fastest one.
"Although the restaurant itself has been completely contaminated, some of the restaurant's unique mechanisms still exist."
Looking at the huge iron door in front of him, Xiao Xiaobai's expression looked slightly complicated.
"Behind the iron gate is a fixed time zone. This time zone will only exist at this point in time. No matter whether the time is a little forward or a little back, it will not appear. It only exists at this time."
"What's the meaning?"
“… Simply put, it’s a refrigerator.”
"???"
"Some ingredients can only exist at a specific point in time, such as [Snapshot Fish]. This kind of fish will only appear at a specific time, and will cease to exist one second ago or one second later. … This place is specifically designed to store this type of food.”
"...So you guys built such a tall thing just to use it as a refrigerator?"
Inexplicably, Bai Zhi suddenly felt a toothache.
After the other party's explanation, he quickly understood how to use this "refrigerator". The refrigerator would only appear at a specific time, and the ingredients would only appear at a specific time, so they would Those ingredients are stored in this refrigerator.
If you want to use ingredients, just use the restaurant's power to travel through time to this moment and open the refrigerator... Crazy!
What is the difference between this approach and using nuclear bombs to kill mosquitoes
"...Customers are God, honesty is the basis, and we operate on a small budget."
After a moment of silence, Xiao Xiaobai spoke calmly.