Feng Jun ran to the man and swayed, but the man was joyfully clutching a lottery ticket, not even glancing at it.
Feng Jun, not giving up, ran over again and swept its fluffy tail against the man’s lower leg.
This time, the man finally noticed it, looking at the fox with surprise, “When did a fox appear here?”
But after just one look, he no longer paid attention, “A fox is a fox, ha ha ha ha ha I won the jackpot! Ten million Pibi! This is ten million!”
Realizing that the man could indeed speak to her, Su Xing quickly ran over, “Big brother, where is this?”
The man frowned, looking at Su Xing, but he did answer her, “This is Happy Town.”
Su Xing felt she hadn’t hit the mark with her question.
After thinking for a moment, she asked again, “Weren’t you just getting married? How did you win the lottery in the blink of an eye?”
“Married?”
The man sounded as if he had heard something hilarious, “I’ve been married for years, what are you talking about?”
Su Xing immediately realized something was wrong.
She had clearly just watched these people’s states change repeatedly, yet the man clearly possessed complete memories.
Was her time stopped, or was the man’s time accelerated, or was there some other reason?
Su Xing wanted to ask something else, but the man had already changed form.
A Beetle car with wings suddenly appeared beside him, and the man’s expression was ecstatic, “After spending half my life’s savings, I finally bought this car!”
Seeing that she was ignored again, Su Xing waved her hand in front of the man’s eyes, “Hey, do you remember me?”
The man’s memory was clearly wiped clean.
He looked bewildered, “Who are you? How did you get here? Never mind, I don’t care. Go away! Don’t hinder my test drive!”
Seeing him impatiently shooing her away, Su Xing, unclear about the situation, slowly walked away, saying to Feng Jun beside her, “Let’s go find Kaka and the others first. They should also have entered this town.”
Su Xing’s guess was correct.
Soon, she met Quinn walking on the street…
No, not Quinn, it should be Quinn from when she was a child.
If it weren’t for his signature white hair, Su Xing wouldn’t have recognized him.
Little Quinn’s eyes lit up as soon as he saw Su Xing, and he rushed over, “Su… Su Xing, are you… are you all right?”
Su Xing nodded, getting straight to the point, “That’s what I should be asking you. What did you encounter after coming here? How did you end up like this?”
“I suddenly returned to the scene of my first visit to an amusement park at six years old. I was very happy and also very confused about why I was there. But after just a couple of sentences, my parents disappeared. I walked on the street for a while, and then I saw you.”
This was similar to her experience, the only difference being that Quinn had become smaller. Su Xing thought of something and immediately asked, “Can you still summon your Phantom?”
Quinn nodded, and with a wave of her hand, a green light flashed, and Rose appeared beside them.
“Yes, but Rose can’t heal my current condition.”
Su Xing breathed a sigh of relief, guessing, “It’s probably because you encountered a childhood fragment, so you became smaller along with it. Let’s go, let’s find the others.”
As they searched, they observed their surroundings.
Currently, it seemed the entire town had several streets, and each street had ten houses.
Judging by Su Xing and Quinn’s situations, it was estimated that each house was inhabited by one person.
“Did you talk to those people?”
Su Xing asked.
Quinn nodded, breathing heavily, “Hmph, yes, the people on my street were constantly changing. They probably thought I spoke too, too, too slowly, and ignored me after a few words. When they changed into their next form, they completely… completely forgot me again.”
Su Xing shook her head, “No, they’re like that with everyone. It’s as if talking to us disturbs their happy time.”
This guess made Quinn think of something, “Indeed, these people, including us, are encountering happy moments in our lives. I remember when I saw this painting, it was like this inside. So, is the purpose of this painting to make us happy?”
Su Xing looked at him in shock, “Has this painting made you crazy? How can making people happy mean forcefully trapping them in memories?”
Quinn also knew what Su Xing said was right, but he still lowered his head and murmured, “But… what if I want to be trapped in memories?”
Hearing his muddled and unaware words, Su Xing’s brows furrowed, “Beautiful memories are indeed touching, but if you’re trapped in memories, who will live your future?”
His state was clearly not right!
Su Xing grew alert.
Beautiful memories were real, but generally, no one would truly get trapped, would they?
Was Quinn unable to pull himself out because he missed the past too much, or was he being influenced by this strange town itself?
No, she had to find the others quickly!
Su Xing suddenly felt a sense of urgency and quickened her pace.
She watched Quinn, both dazed and jogging beside her.
***
Su Xing thought for a moment, “I’ll carry you. Your current efficiency is too slow.”
“Eh?!”
Little Quinn widened her eyes.
At this age, she wasn’t wearing her thick glasses yet, and her watery green eyes were full of surprise as she looked at her.
Her face turned red, and she waved her small hands, backing away.
Su Xing laughed, “Your short legs are too tiring for you to keep up with me right now. It’s better if I carry you. And you look so thin, you can’t be heavy, so don’t refuse.”
Realizing that she might indeed be slowing them down, Quinn finally stopped refusing.
She shyly nodded and extended both her hands to Su Xing, signaling that she could be carried.
This is too cute!
Su Xing almost immediately rushed over and picked up little Quinn, “Quinn, you were too adorable as a child!”
Quinn, blushing with shyness, kept her head up, trying to minimize physical contact with Su Xing.
Hearing this, her ears instantly turned scarlet, “You… you shouldn’t… shouldn’t say that.”
Fearing that she might annoy her, and still needing to find the others, Su Xing bounced the not-so-light weight in her arms and continued walking, looking for her companions.
Finally, on the last street, she found the two child companions, little Kaka and little Evangel, walking together.
Yes, children.
Both of them, like Quinn, had turned into children.
Upon seeing Su Xing, Kaka excitedly trotted over with her small legs, “We finally found you!”
Su Xing carefully placed Quinn on the ground, then bent down with a smile and stroked Kaka’s fluffy little head, “Correction, we found you two.”
Evangel also walked over.
She hadn’t become too small; she looked to be around twelve or thirteen years old.
Evangel was somewhat surprised that Su Xing hadn’t changed, “What was the first scene you encountered? Why didn’t your age change?”
Su Xing already had an answer in mind, but seeing the way the three of them looked, she didn’t quite want to admit it.
She just vaguely said, “Everyone probably randomly encounters things that make them happy. What I encountered happened to be recent events.”
Evangel didn’t argue, only saying, “We just tried to tell one of them that this is actually a painting, but the person didn’t believe it at all. He thought I was talking nonsense and then completely ignored me.”
Kaka added, “And he was super mean! He rudely pushed us. Evangel even wanted to hit him, but she didn’t in the end.”
Evangel shrugged, “A qualified assassin doesn’t act without understanding the situation.”
Su Xing turned, “Whose room is closest here? Let’s go into a house first before we talk.”
Soon, the four came to Kaka’s room.
It was right next door on this street, just a few steps away.
Su Xing asked, “Whose scene is shorter? We’ll stay together today. If it’s still like this tomorrow, the first person to wake up should check on the others to see what they’re like, and if they’re rational.”
The others naturally nodded in agreement.
Evangel said, “Since this is a painting, we might be able to get out by destroying it.”
This provided a new line of thought for Su Xing and the others.
Indeed, since this world was itself a world within a painting, to get out, they didn’t necessarily have to solve the mysteries of these people.
If they could destroy the painting, they should also be able to leave, right?
“How do we destroy it? Burn it?”
Kaka asked, “But none of us can start a fire! Besides, for such a big world, even if we burn it, we probably wouldn’t finish, right?”
Su Xing followed Kaka’s train of thought, “If no one interferes, starting a fire shouldn’t be difficult. But for a painting, burning the paper is one method, and scrubbing off the paint should also be a method.”
Kaka clapped her hands, “Oh yeah! Water would work too!”
“There’s no river in this town,” Evangel poured cold water on the idea at the opportune moment, “And we probably can’t start a fire either.”
Su Xing paused, asking in surprise, “You’ve tried already?”
Evangel shook her head, pulling a few hidden weapons from her black clothes pocket.
“As soon as I regained my freedom, I immediately checked my belongings. Everything except the tinder was still on me.”
Su Xing understood, “So, this world itself repels anything that can cause it damage.”
“Then if we try to make fire by rubbing sticks or something, it should also be hindered.”
Kaka had a sudden idea, “Then let’s try it! I want to know how it will stop us!”
Su Xing curved her lips, “That’s exactly what I was thinking.”
The three stood up.
Kaka looked down and saw Quinn sitting in the chair, motionless.
She pulled Quinn up, “Quinn, why are you just sitting there?”
Quinn froze, wanting to push up her glasses to hide something.
But she forgot that her current appearance meant she wasn’t wearing glasses at all, so she just scratched her head, “It’s nothing, let’s go!”
Outside, Kaka summoned Little Blue and used its first ability to casually charge into the house wall.
They had witnessed Little Blue’s hardness before; it could easily break through even the toughest culture medium glass.
This house, by all accounts, should have been no match.
However, Su Xing had miscalculated.
The moment Little Blue struck the house, the wall of the house softly bent backward, and then, like a trampoline, directly bounced Little Blue away.