Duck

Her voice was soft, as if she were talking to herself. Her eyes flickered, as though she were recalling something.

"Big Sister, where exactly are you now... Why haven't you come to find Sie yet..."

During this time, countless negative emotions had tangled together and weighed on her heart.

Fear, sorrow, grief...

In the end, they had all turned into endless loneliness.

"Anyone will do... Please, someone come talk to me. Otherwise, Sie won't be able to hold on much longer."

As soon as she finished speaking, a voice suddenly rang out in Sie's heart.

Oh? Sie, do you hate talking to me that much?

"No, that's not it."

Sie hurriedly shook her head. She knew that the appearance of this voice meant her other personality had come out again.

Although she did not know why her other personality had appeared at this moment, Sie knew that she was actually helping her.

Every day, she would always appear on time, chat with her for a while, and give her a little hope to keep living.

But now, even her voice had become much lower.

It seemed that she, too, had been affected by the loneliness lingering in Sie's heart.

That made sense. After all, they were the same person, inseparable from one another. It was only natural for them to affect each other.

Sie raised her head and blankly gazed at the void above her, unable to stop herself from thinking.

—If only I could get out.

—Or at least, if someone could come chat with me...

At that moment, it was as if the heavens had truly heard her prayer.

In an instant, a long crack split open in the space above, and some unknown black object was thrown out.

What was that?

Sie rose from the ground, her watery eyes opening wide.

When she saw the object's outline and appearance clearly, her heart skipped a beat.

Her hands clenched tightly around the hem of her skirt.

Th-That was her toy box!

Almost instinctively, Sie started running toward where the black shadow had fallen.

Tap, tap, tap...

Her footsteps were hurried.

A few minutes later, she arrived at a shattered floating slab, panting heavily.

Wiping away the fine sweat on her forehead, Sie's face was slightly flushed as her restless gaze swept across the area.

Twisted Imaginary shadows, chaotic spatial vortices, violent energy fluctuations...

Every one of those signs showed that this place was about to collapse.

But where was the toy box?

She had clearly seen it fall here.

Sie was frantic. Her steps quickened as her eyes swept back and forth across the area.

Finally, in some hidden nook, she found what she had been looking for.

—An overturned suitcase lay quietly behind a massive reef.

That was her toy box!

It seemed to be calling to her!

Chapter 18: Duck

There it was!

Sie's heart leaped with joy.

She had just lifted her foot and was about to run over when her entire body was suddenly hit by a sensation of weightlessness.

"Ah!"

Sie's cry and a thunderous roar rang out at the same time.

Rumble!

The slab had actually collapsed at this moment!

The powerful suction churned the slab fragments into a vortex, trying to drag her down into the depths of the Sea of Quantum.

No!

Sie's face turned pale. If she fell again, she would probably return to that endless void.

She did not want to return to that place that could erase even a person's existence.

She stretched out one hand and flailed wildly through the air, trying to grab hold of something. She looked like a fish out of water.

But she failed to grasp anything.

There was no gravity in the Sea of Quantum, yet some inexplicable force in its depths was pulling everything down.

"Help, save me—"

Sie cried out desperately.

At that critical moment, a violent red light suddenly erupted from her body, sweeping away the surrounding slab fragments and blasting them all into dust.

Crash!