Doomsday Wonderland - Chapter 108

Chapter 108
Lin Sanjiu could still remember the first day of Hyperthermal Hell clearly .


She could still remember the sticky sensation between her fingers when her hands were covered in her ex-boyfriend’s blood and how she couldn’t wash away the bloodstain under her nails no matter how hard she tried . She remembered the heat wave which lunged at her when she stepped into the carpark . She could remember how her heart raced the first time she saw a duoluozhong . It was as clear to her as yesterday .
"14 months passed so quickly . " She knew that she was dreaming yet she was still lucid, so she couldn’t help lamenting .
Everything around her looked so realistic that Lin Sanjiu doubted if she was really dreaming . She looked around her but she couldn’t tell how large this place was . The darkness around her seemed to extend forever, with no boundary . The only eye-catching thing in this space was the large white cube not far from her . It was about her height and horizontally, it could probably fit three to four people . On the upward face, she could see the black words: Hyperthermal Hell .
This was the dice that Luther mentioned about .
When Lin Sanjiu stepped forward, she suddenly thought of Luther . [How is Luther and Marcie now? 12 should have already taken on his corporeal form . With such a scary person like 12 beside them, will they still have peaceful days ahead?]
Thinking about her old companions, she couldn’t help think about her new companions . [Have B . Rabbit and the others received their visas? If so, which world will they go?]
In these 14 months, Lin Sanjiu met so many people, companions, enemies, and acquaintances… Yet, in the end, she didn’t expect that she would continue alone .
Knowing that she will wake up from her dream alone in a new world, she sighed softly . For a split second, she suddenly felt a lingering attachment toward Hyperthermal Hell .

"Alright, I have to go . " Lin Sanjiu said as if to encourage herself, as she rubbed her hands and walked forward .
The large dice in front of her suddenly started vibrating as if it were alive . Shortly after, it shot to the sky as if it were tossed by an invisible hand . In the darkness, it grew smaller and smaller, rotating as it disappeared upward .
Even though she knew that the dice would not fall on her, she couldn’t help stepping backward . She looked upward as the white dice spun . Every now and then, she could see a line of word appearing . The dice gradually appeared larger and larger until it landed on the ground soundlessly .


She rushed forward and looked at the words facing her, her heart was pounding .
The next world was simply named, "Garden of Eden" .

Lin Sanjiu was a little taken aback . That name didn’t seem suitable for an apocalyptic world . With the names like Hyperthermal Hell, Whiteout Blizzard, and Black Death City, she could imagine what sort of world they were . But Garden of Eden . . .
Just as she was feeling puzzled, she felt a sudden exhaustion from deep within her consciousness . It quickly enveloped her mind and she suddenly felt that she could no longer keep her eyes opened . She felt as though she hasn’t slept for many days so she didn’t even have a chance to resist . Darkness quickly crept into her consciousness .
Lin Sanjiu did not know how long she slept . Before she could open her eyes, the first thing Lin Sanjiu noticed was the refreshing breeze brushing across her exposed skin . The breeze was gentle and did not carry even a grain of sand . It was cooling, and she even felt a little cold compared to where she once was .
She already left Hyperthermal Hell . Her body sent this information to her brain before she was even fully awake . She felt as if her entire body was soaked in a pool of cold water . How long has it been since the temperature around her was a normal 20-odd degree? She couldn’t imagine that this temperature could feel this cooling…
Lin Sanjiu rubbed her eyes as she propped herself up with one arm . When she opened her eyes, she was dumbfounded . If Garden of Eden meant this, Lin Sanjiu wished that all the New Worlds she encounters in the future would have such a nice, peaceful sounding name!
Even before Hyperthermal Hell descended on her homeworld, she had never seen such a clean, beautiful city .
[Wait . This is a city, right?] Lin Sanjiu was a little unsure . This place was novel to her and felt exactly like a foreign world . The ‘city’ was filled with conch-shaped buildings, with flowing lines and structure . They were about 70 to 80 stories high and were in a row of three to five . Meanwhile, the residential houses were two to three stories tall and were all covered by thick greenery that their structures were not very visible .

She saw a dark black tall tower in the distance . The oddly shaped building stood like a guardian overlooking the entire city .



There were travelators on what Lin Sanjiu assumed were sidewalks and they looked rather comfortable to stand on . She saw a mother and her two children on a travelator . They chatted and laughed as they were quickly transported to some location . Not far from her, she saw a young man digging out a large handful of sparkling bright things from what seemed to be a vending machine and putting them directly into his mouth . As she looked further, she saw that everyone seemed rather serene and natural .

[Didn’t Luther say that we would be sent to another doomed world? Could Luther’s information be wrong?]

If she thought about it carefully, Luther and Marcie had only experienced two worlds . Perhaps, they only had some incomplete information…
Comparing herself to the residents in the city, Lin Sanjiu tugged at her shirt awkward and dusted off the sand on her body . When she felt that she had pretty much tidied up herself, she walked toward the city . The young man who was eating, looked at her for a second . His expression remained unchanged as he lowered his head and grabbed another handful of sparkling, red little balls and continued eating .
Next, Lin Sanjiu heard an unexpected "thud" as she hit her head against something . She looked up, feeling a little confused . There was nothing in front of her .
[What is it?] Lin Sanjiu’s nose hurt so much that she almost felt tears . She stretched out her hand with uncertainty and touched a screen of some sort, it was hard and transparent— was it glass?
She reacted on hindsight . [Why is there a screen of glass here?]
Lin Sanjiu used her hands to feel the screen of glass and realized that it was very large, she wondered who would even install a wall of glass here . The young man who was chewing on the little balls looked at her again .
Stepping forward from her previous spot to the glass, she was now very near to the man . "Hey, hi . It’s my first time here so I’m not quite familiar…"

The young man seemed to understand her . He crooked his head and observed her for a while before he pointed toward her back .
[Is the entrance behind?]

Lin Sanjiu quickly turned behind and was stunned . She took a quite a few seconds before she could comprehend the situation in front of her .

Purgatory probably looked like this .
From where she stood till the edge of the horizon, she could see a boundless land of black soil . The plants which dotted the landscape were not a lovely bright green but a murky greenish black . They were like the skin of a dying old man .
Heavy lead-gray clouds hung from the sky, making the sky seem so much closer to the ground . It was as if the sky was pressing down on the earth, exerting a gloomy pressure on a person’s heart .
There was naturally no one living among the decrepit ruins of collapsed buildings . Occasionally, something the size of a human head would crawl out from the ground . It was a beetle of some sort whose appearance would give a teenage girl nightmares for a week . It stared at Lin Sanjiu with its large pair of red compound eyes and quickly furrowed into the ground again .
Even though Lin Sanjiu had already seen quite a lot of disgusting creatures living at the bottom of the ocean, she couldn’t help shuddering as goosebumps appeared on her skin .
[What’s wrong with this world?]
She turned back quickly . Just as she was about to shout, she realized the young man eating the small round balls was nowhere to be seen . Lin Sanjiu scanned her surroundings and found no one around her . She hit the glass screen while she shouted loudly, "Hey! Is anyone around? Can anyone tell me where the entrance is?"
No one answered her . She searched around the glass screen trying to find the edge of the screen in front of her . But she quickly became disappointed .

This clean, beautiful city seemed to be enclosed in a glass globe . She could not feel the top edge of the glass nor any gap near the ground . Worst of all, she was outside its protection .
At this point, even an idiot could tell what was going on . Some sort of scary disaster surely devastated this world and wiped out a majority of the population and habitable land . However, the technical expertise of the residents here was higher than that of Hyperthermal Hell . This probably resulted in the creation of this "snow globe city" to protect the remaining human population .

The problem here was figuring out what that disaster was .
Lin Sanjiu knocked on the glass and continued shouting . Eventually, she sighed and stopped after no one responded to her . It was impossible for her to smash this protective glass . Even though the material was a lot like glass, it was nothing like the glass she knew, because the material was so strong that she found no hope .
"Come on! You could at least hang a banner around here to tell us, newcomers, what’s going on outside!"
She wondered if her large mood fluctuation even affected her body as she began to feel a little tired . She turned and walked toward the vast stretch of black land . However, she had only walked a few steps when she saw four or five more of those head-sized beetles . She swallowed her disgust and walked aimlessly for a short while . Suddenly, without any warning, she felt an uncomfortable sensation of gastric juice in her stomach . She began vomiting the very next second and expelled that little amount of half-digested food in her stomach .
At the same time, she felt more and more dispirited, as her steps got heavy-laden .

"Plop . " Lin Sanjiu’s entire body felt weak as she fell to the ground . The black soil on the ground landed on her body following the impact . Before she lost consciousness, she suddenly understood what the ‘snow globe’ was shielding those people from .
It was radiation .