In The End Place, the vast majority of people could not last more than ten years before becoming complete and utter Madmen. Those who endured beyond twenty years were even rarer.
Yun Yao had lived here for a hundred years. The longest-lasting person she had seen had only barely endured for thirty-four years before their consciousness descended into chaos.
—Among those people, Lin Qin was an exception.
Unlike everyone else, she had no need to live. A hundred years ago, Yun Yao had seen her sitting inside the train, and a hundred years later, she was still sitting there.
"Wouldn't that make her a living fossil? Doesn't she move?"
Unable to hold herself back, Tian Huo spoke up.
Although she had spent three years here, this was the first time she had learned of someone who remained in one place without moving for such a long time.
"No, she reacts to the outside world. It's just that her reactions are terrible. She seems to possess some kind of automatic defense mechanism."
Looking at the Gloomy Girl who had buried her entire face in her knees, Yun Yao's voice carried a faint note of wariness.
"No matter who it is, as long as they come within half a meter of her, they will suffer an indiscriminate attack. In order to explore that mechanism, I died at her hands over a thousand times."
"...Indiscriminate attacks?"
Bai Zhi raised an eyebrow slightly and turned to look at Yun Yao beside him.
"Yes, and the ways people die are all bizarre."
Yun Yao nodded.
"Some had their heads severed outright, some were cut into a thousand pieces in an instant, and others rotted all over... There was rarely any repetition in the way they died. We didn't even know where her attacks came from