Lin Wenwen went upstairs, back to Dong Xinxin's room. "Do you know how to swim?" she asked Dong Xinxin.
"No…" Dong Xinxin said.
"Why do you want to go to the beach then?" Lin Wenwen asked.
"Going to the beach doesn't mean that you have to swim," said Dong Xinxin, "I'm not going to swim. I just want to see the sea… I heard that you'll feel very different when you see the actual sea."
Lin Wenwen thought for a moment and said, "Hmm, you'll definitely feel different. Sunset at the sea can be so beautiful. On the horizon, the ocean surface glistens with the orange light. I liked to stroll on a beach with bare feet, feeling the soft sands against my feet."
Hearing her description, Dong Xinxin was even more excited.
"We can take the opportunity to practice in the seawater. Running on the beach can be tricky too." What Lin Wenwen was thinking about wasn't the view, but how to use the beach environment to upgrade her exercise. Swimming in the ocean was much more difficult than swimming in a swimming pool after all.
She took a shower, then quickly did the packing. She packed her clothes, cellphone, tablet computer, and the other small tools in a small suitcase.
She carried the suitcase, prepared to go out. But before her hand touched the doorknob, a sharp pain came from her brain, and a series of images flashed across her mind. She saw people, zombies, and many weird-looking creatures.
She buried her forehead in her hands and leaned against the door, her face twisted with pain.
This time, she saw four or five images in her head, much clearer than the one she saw the last time. In three images were countless different kinds of strange-looking creatures running rampant in a deserted city. They bumped into the zombie crowds to bite zombies and climbed onto the buildings to roar at the sky.
In the other two images, she saw Lin Qiao and the others. In another image, she was looking down from a tall fence wall. Under the wall wasn't a crowd of zombies, but massive waves of strange creatures swarming over.
Those images flashed across her mind and disappeared within a blink. The pain faded, leaving her feeling dizzy. Her body suddenly became limp and powerless.
She leaned on the door and slowly sat down on the ground.
"What happened to you?" Dong Xinxin asked her in her mind.
"Don't speak just yet… My head hurts once you talk!" Lin Wenwen said with a frown.
When she heard Dong Xinxin's voice, she felt as if her brain was twitching. It wasn't as painful as before, but still making her very uncomfortable.
Dong Xinxin instantly fell into silence.
Lin Wenwen spent a short while sitting there, thinking about the images she saw and the information contained in them.
The deserted buildings, dark-yellow sky, the wind, the sands… Without a doubt, that was the post-apocalyptic world. Her sister was still wearing Lu Tianyu's skin. She was flying in the sky, sending immense waves of dark fire toward the ground. From the other images, she saw some enormous, strange-looking beasts and some gigantic insects… There were too many of them. They filled up the streets, roads, alleys, and even covered up some buildings.
What were those? She hadn't seen those creatures before. Those creatures were attacking the base. The tall fence wall was just the fence wall of All Beings Base. Her sister was fighting those creatures, surrounded by the dark fire and gunpowder smoke.
Lin Wenwen knew that what she saw hadn't happened it. It would happen in the future, but she didn't know when.
Where were those strange creatures from? Why would they attack the base? What had happened seven years in the future while she wasn't there?
Those images contained so much information, but it was all disordered. She managed to sort out one important message—seven years in the future, the world would be facing another destructive disaster. Those strange creatures would be the ones to generate the disaster.
She couldn't see what would happen next and the result of it all. She didn't know how it would end.
"Xinxin? Xinxin? Are you in there?" While Lin Wenwen was still sitting on the floor, immersed in the shock that those images gave her, the door knocks were heard along with Dong Lijia's voice.
"What took you so long? What are you doing?" As she opened the door, Dong Lijia looked at her and asked.
Lin Wenwen pulled the suitcase toward him to show him.
Dong Lijia paused briefly with surprise, then said, "You're done packing already? Are you really going?"
Lin Wenwen shrugged and said, "You don't have to come with me."
Dong Lijia rolled his eyes and said, "How is that possible? We have to tell Mom and Dad before we leave at least."
Lin Wenwen looked at him and said, "You're the elder brother. Shouldn't you be doing that? Do you need me to go with you again?"
Dong Lijia shrugged, said, "I'll do it. Why do you suddenly want to go to the beach?"
Lin Wenwen leaned against the door frame and said, "Didn't I tell you that your sister wants to go and see the sea? Besides, the sea won't be so beautiful after the apocalypse. Why don't we grasp our last opportunity to take a look at the blue sea and sky?"
"So, you really will go," Dong Lijia nodded, "Get downstairs. I'll go and tell my Dad."
Lin Wenwen came out with her suitcase. By the stairs, she handed the suitcase to the guard, and then went downstairs empty handed. As she went down, Luo Yuanjun immediately came to her and said, "Fat Ball, are you really going with us? We're going to swim. Do you even have the courage to get down into the water?"
He just couldn't help but say mean words to Dong Xinxin.
Lin Wenwen gave him a glare, then asked Dong Xinxin in her mind, 'Why does he always talk to you like this?'
Dong Xinxin snorted and said, "He's always like this, so annoying."
As Lin Wenwen ignored him, Luo Yuanjun got excited, "Oi, why are you so cold now?"
Before, some words like that could infuriate the girl. But, no matter how angry she was, she wouldn't hit him. All she would do was to pop her eyes and make herself look like a globefish.
She was cute that way, actually.
But now, she was so cold and bland. He somehow felt that she might really hit him at some point.
Seriously, that wasn't adorable at all!