Chapter 178 is already a cycle.

There are countless extraordinary people, and those who can be called "extraordinary" must have extraordinary strengths.

Gu Heng—in fact, he can be considered a remarkable person—not because he listened to the powerful and wealthy and simply slept with An Rushi as instructed. This guy indeed possessed many extraordinary qualities, far beyond what you could imagine.

For example, in Eoubs' routine work, if you want to create a plan for a control task, he can do it for you without terminal access, including filtering records and budgeting the action; if you want to ask the research department for a decent forbidden item, he can create a population directory that best meets compatibility requirements without relying on any equipment; if you want to find some usable junk from the recycling room or get early access, he can also plan it out for you. Basically, anything you can think of, as long as it's not too outrageous, he can do it for you.

And these are just basic operations.

Gu Heng's true strength lies in his ability to predict the macroscopic future and his compatible constitution that connects his mind to an infinite number of life forms—therefore, even for some seemingly boastful, absurd, or strange requests, he can satisfy them to the greatest extent possible.

For example, what if you tell him before you go to Siberia that you want to become a tough guy in this infected area and kill all the other operatives?

If it were someone else, like Carlos or Pandora, they would most likely reply with "Cure your cerebral palsy first" and then consider whether that statement is practical. But Gu Heng wouldn't directly reject you. He would first help you predict how likely this hypothesis is in all future nodes. If the threshold is more than half, he would devise a very appropriate plan for you—a plan that makes you think, "Holy crap, am I really going to become a god?" just by looking at it, and then help you accomplish it.

In detail... he'll have you first use all your advantages to build relationships with higher-ups, then follow that line to become familiar with the research department—every year there are several extremely dangerous implantation experiments—he'll help you select the safest and most powerful forbidden substance. After a successful implantation, you'll happen to join a branch annihilation operation, giving you another opportunity to upgrade your authority and rank. After that, various unexpected opportunities will arise to advance the plan.

Of course, this is only under the premise that the future is promising and the compatibility is not a problem at all. If this is simply not feasible, Gu Heng will tell you to stop dreaming and tell you roughly what price you would have to pay to make it a reality.

To put it bluntly, every decision and action he makes is the best conclusion reached after reviewing tens of thousands of future outcomes.

Gu Heng is such a person in the Eoubs circle. Although his combat record is almost zero and his physical fitness is only slightly better than that of ordinary people, he is a person who makes the powerful feel that "this dog can do anything", "is very obedient and knows how to please us", and "even if he can't do it, he will give considerable suggestions". He can be called an absolute planner.

Therefore, in this joint operation with such a high mortality rate, when Yu Yu and others proposed to participate, the first person Gore thought of as reinforcement was Gu Heng.

On the other hand, An Ru Shi... this person who didn't live a particularly glamorous life from the very beginning, naturally has her own "unusual" aspects.

Of course, her physical characteristics will only be mentioned later.

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Siberia, Krasnoyarsk Krai.

A010 Core Infection Area Base.

An Ru sensed the mental link notification, turned around and recognized the other person at a glance, so she relaxed her guard and walked straight towards him.

Gu Heng didn't say much, but invited her to come up, then started the car and drove deeper into the neighborhood.

"How did you get here? Aren't the drop locations random?" An Ru asked as soon as she arrived.

“There’s a fifth-generation version of my body nearby. Although I just died recently, it’s still usable.” Gu Heng’s answer was… quite strange, but it was the truth, and he spoke in a very casual tone.

"Ah... I see. No wonder I suddenly found a link that connected with me." She muttered, as if she suddenly remembered something. "Speaking of which, you didn't have to come directly to me, did you? After all, this space is so chaotic, it's inevitable that one of us might run into an accident."

"So before I found you, I first blocked out all the 'me' thoughts that were at risk of death and located at different points in time, and let them take the risk first," Gu Heng replied as he sped up.

Upon hearing this, An, in the passenger seat, couldn't help but turn around and look at the other person: "Um... how many 'those' do you mean?"

"Three thousand four hundred and fifty-eight."

"Hey? Is it really that outrageous? You're making me want to quit halfway through." An Ru Shi pinched her brow and said half-jokingly.

“There are even more outrageous ones.” Gu Heng naturally understood what the other person meant. Even if he didn’t know, he could see it in advance through prediction. He smiled and replied, “Just to avoid risks, why would I need so many lives? More than three thousand. As long as there is enough time and the predictions are more specific, I can even find the source of the spread of the 2407 infection.”

“Yeah, even if you spend a few thousand more nodes’ lives, you can still save the world.” An Ru Shi complained as she opened the front storage compartment, took out eight 300cc syringes, rolled up her sleeve, and injected herself. “I need to finish all these special medicines before I can reach my full potential. Tell me, where should we go next?”

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