Esseret

behind them! Annie whistled at Ellie, squinted at Edward, and watched his skin turn pink, probably because the pulling of the fishing line made him lose the only fun, so she wanted to admit her mistake and blushed.

"Isn't there a shadow behind us?"

"...Are you kidding me?" Edward retreated a little, "Don't be kidding."

"I don't know what you are worried about." Ellie is holding the basket of sachets, and her skirt is dancing around her, like the afterimage of a butterfly fluttering, giving people a strange illusion, thinking that people are stripped away, time and space are speeding up. Pulling it out, the fruit core was twisted in the black liquid and spit out on the plate. His eyes were no longer the world of life.

"What on earth is this?" He originally wanted to ask "Where did this come from", but it is estimated that there will be no answer.

"Oh? What exactly is this?" Annie took out a cigarette from her bag and drank it without lighting it. "If you don't tell me, how will we know?"

"How would I know!" Edward's voice raised unconsciously. "I said I had no idea what the hell this was..."

This is the Rubik's Cube, the small cube is rotated out of a certain center, forward is equal to backward, there is not much difference between left and right; a color blindness is playing tricks on him, there is no difference in any color, color cannot tell time, and cannot Tip space.The sachets, and the bottles and jars on a board somewhere, kept him in the loop of craft.It is not that he is processing the aroma, but that he is on the production line of the aroma, spinning around in the flowing strip.

"Don't lie to me..." Edward muttered to himself.

"Do you want it or not?" the voice shouted impatiently. "If you don't want to, don't block it."

"What—" Looking back, there was a tall and strong man with dark green eyes, swamps and pools.

"Eric!" Ellie jumped over like a rabbit, shaking her buttocks, "Eric!"

"Oh, hello." He dodged a wanton outstretched hand and took a step back, staring at the undulating waves.

"What?" The eyes looked back at Edward, "What's the matter?"

"No." Edward shook his head, then glanced at the yawning Anne again, "No, it's nothing."

The fish in the water tank hid in the cave of the rockery and began to observe.He never thought about what the person holding the fishing line outside the water tank looked like; he imagined the beautiful creatures he had met in the sea before, and they were not in the wagging team like him, one stayed in the stone cave, the other lurked Bubbles in the seaweed.Those bubbles follow the ripples, sometimes they pass by big fish, and sometimes they are swallowed into their stomachs, realizing a journey.After all, this kind of beauty is self-devouring, decaying in the silent darkness, unrecognizable; the eternal wandering will not leave any traces, and in the end, both of them are just lone rangers who can't find their destination.

29. "People should be wary of things that seem impossible, especially when they sense some kind of omen in their hearts."

The fish did not fly out of the water directly following the line.

Edward first went to the vicinity of the West Market. At the fork in the road, he struggled to turn left or right.If you turn to the left, walk all the way, there is a broken lamp, like human eyes blinking at night, staring at the dark green door opposite; , the betrayer of the soul... He just realized that the two houses stood facing each other in front of him, like a tree with leaves growing on one side and green oozing out from the other end, their roots spread underground, when did they bloom not far away? A huge flower.A gust of wind knocked him to the ground, and his body was hanging upside down on the plant stand. He didn't turn back, he didn't move forward, as if he was trapped here, the land of Esseret.

The giant plants growing strangely underground nourished the spiders in the corner, big and small, and he was also crawling among them.The mesh is so dense that it is as thick as the mucus in the branches. It is accidentally wrapped in and rolled into an amber, just like this small world. People live in a piece of jade, and the cotton in the jade hangs on the sky. Which pair of eyes other than Leiter is playing.

So what should he say?The dark green door didn't know whether he was willing to open it for him, and the brother with his legs crossed on the other side grinned and showed his fangs, telling him something as if he didn't tell him anything, and white smoke spewed out a mist.

Sometimes he doesn't know why the choice at the moment is difficult, and why he makes the choice.Where does this road lead to, and what is the meaning of where it leads.But it must be active, as if this would reduce the possibility of becoming a solidified ornament, the hyperactivity caused by the desire to survive.Then that underground thing, the devil's seed traced back to its source—yes, Edward finally found this thing, a thing that kept him busy, that was the round body of a spider, and it was derived from it as the center of the circle. of spider silk.Prey on plants, or be swallowed by plants, there is no choice, no choice, it's all about intuition.

But intuition can't choose a path for him, or reason stops him before giving him a push.He thought of stopping for a while, there was no need to rush, and he would go to Colin's place to rest for a while.As for the beautiful monster in Dongshi, I don't care about him now.It's fine to let him grind his teeth before meals, maybe he will encounter ghosts and ghosts in the West Market during his walks, wipe out some heat, and burn these flying silks and entangled vines to the ground.

30. “The faces around me look incredibly natural.”

The dark green door is closed tightly, and the window is white on a clear day.The twists and turns of those rooms that can't be seen at a glance, the lines between the lines are all obscure, growing inward, and the outside seems to shrink, and there is no shape.

"Colin—" Edward waited for a while, then knocked on the door unwillingly.A door that seemed to be locked when it was closed, and the inside of the door, the cracks were all stuck with spider webs.He was thinking—the sachet in Edward's hand clenched even tighter.

When he stood in front of the green vine, the ants on the ground got into the small hole in the corner, and the ants on the ground came out one after another.Maybe he wanted to cram his own head into the tiny hole, too.He was always an explorer of the invisible.

"Oh, dear brother." Jesse called out with ulterior motives, and Edward answered casually, with his neck hooked, looking like a child who made a mistake begging for forgiveness.His eyes glanced up, and Jesse's gaze was cast down from above.

"It's Qingzhaohua's business again?" Impatiently.

"Brother!" Edward was so shocked that blood rushed to his face, "This is very important." He lowered his head self-consciously.The sachet in his hand was spread flat and crumpled.

"Oh!" Jesse quickly covered his nose, "Where did you get it!"

"...East City." Edward glanced at Jesse's appearance from time to time, watching him frown as if he was a different person.

"Dongshi, Dongshi..." thoughtfully, "Really. This is very strange."

"What's going on here..." He started to pace and walked back and forth, "Edward—" he hesitated to speak.

"Edward, I'm afraid there is a problem with Qingzhaohua's network." Holding the strange shoulder, "There is some loophole in between-after all, after all..." Staring straight at Edward's wide-eyed eyes, "I don't want to Lie to you, but in fact, the recent relationship between the West Market and the East Market is very bad, so bad that you can't imagine—with a firefight, someone will die, do you understand?"

"Edward, you have been away for so long, and someone died because of this incident."

"The people from the East Market are here to cause trouble. They think that this damn thing came from the West Market—how is this possible! You are responsible for the source of the medicine in the West Market..." He cut his eyes again.

"You, what do you mean?" Edward took a step back.

"You don't have to lie to me, Edward." Jesse's eye sockets were widened, and the eyeballs seemed to leak out and fall into Edward's arguing palm.

"You don't have to lie to me, Edward! I'm dealing with the troubles in Dongshi, but you have to stop in time, understand!"

Edward grinned in disbelief, shaking his neck stiffly.

"Maybe it's a link—you have to think about it!"

Edward pushed away the hand that was holding him, and rushed out the door.

Really bewitched.

31. “What makes me despair is that I need to keep hope.”

Edward was indeed hung upside down on the cross of Eseret with his legs tied.He shouldn't go back to this cursed place, a knife will cut off all connections and logic; if he doesn't do it himself, there will always be something to help him, such as now, the devil's seeds will grow into piranhas He inhaled the caustic venom, the foul-smelling corpse solution—he was not reconciled.

Who is it?The revenge of the whining little fat man?If so, did he really see through my lie and meet Jesse long ago?But the hoarse desperation in his voice was real, the few steps he took to catch up, the few steps back, squatting in the running salt water, including Edward's hope that a hand could pat him on the back to give him some support and comfort ——The lock in his heart is so real, and he never doubts the hardness and sharpness of the steel wire that pries him.The only thing he didn't consider was whether the broken wound needed to be treated with medicine, he didn't think about it at all, he didn't care at all.

Where is Colin at this time?He should have been at home—was he staring at me through the peephole again from behind the door?Watching me wander around like I'm caught between glass, getting tighter and tighter - does he turn sideways when he looks in the mirror to see if there's blood oozing, or does he just pout Blow off the dust on it.

Where are you, Colin!

But what is there to hope for?Ask him, can he understand?Does he understand?He was only a child after all, only a child who was growing rapidly but not yet grown up; even if he