For three days in a row, everyone lived in peace.

Finally, on the fourth day, some people couldn't resist celebrating and spread the word, planning to hold a carnival dance in the huge square to celebrate the past suffering and end times.

The subtle sweetness that follows hardship is always intoxicating.

It's like a lonely, helpless person walking in the extreme cold, shivering and stiff, but at least that proves you're still alive. When you feel the cold is no longer cold and your body feels warm in the cold, that's when disaster begins.

People focused their attention on food—food that was inexhaustible.

Even after being warned, even knowing it might be a trap, the temptation remained immense, and this suspicion reached its peak after secretly eating the food without discovering any side effects.

The soldiers quickly obeyed their superiors' orders, and after feigning a detour and struggling, they vacated the area where the unusual food had been contained.

Even if the government opens its granaries and increases the distribution of grain, how can plain rice and vegetables, devoid of oil and broth, compare to vibrant fruits and delicious meats?

Brightly colored fruits and golden-yellow fried chicken cutlets fill the air with an irresistible aroma as you walk past the shop entrance.

Some ordinary people who believed in Shiyin secretly came to ask about the consequences of disobeying. Shiyin did not hide anything and told them all the consequences and possible things one by one.

Those who obey the rules keep their doors and windows closed, stay at home, and dare not look at the temptations of the outside world. Those who disobey the rules, after secretly tasting the sweetness, think that the country is making a mountain out of a molehill and become more and more unruly.

As night falls, the full moon hangs high in the sky, and a grand bonfire illuminates half the heavens. Those who choose to be lazy sing and dance around the bonfire.

They had no desire to think about how to return to suffering; all they wanted was to eat their fill and relax happily in this moment, completely unaware that their smiles were filled with depravity and numbness.

Some people had their clothes burned by the fire, but they just smiled and gently extinguished the flames.

There was no pain.

There is no pain here, only comfort and happiness. They cannot feel the burning pain. After extinguishing the flames, they continue to dance hand in hand with the people next to them.

"Are you really not going to stop it?" On the rooftop, after searching through one tall building after another, Kitakami finally found Shion sitting alone on the roof of an abandoned building.

Despite being all alone, Shi Yin seemed quite relaxed and content.

She held a wine glass in her hand, the red wine inside looking enticing. Her legs were dangling over the edge, and she watched with a smile as people danced around the campfire below.

"Isn't this good?" Shi Yin smiled lazily. "It would be great if it were true."

"What, are you and Freya worried I might do something rash?" Shi Yin chuckled as she watched Kitakami Kakeru breathe a sigh of relief and lower his head to text. "Where did you get the electricity and signal?"

“Mr. Helmod installed an independent power circuit signaler on the badges we received. It can conserve power for a short time and restore basic communication.” Kitakami Kawa approached Shion: “Didn’t you know?”

"This doesn't matter to me." Shi Yin reached out and handed over the glass: "Want a sip?"

It was a very simple action, but Shi Yin's gaze was open and honest, while Kita Kiyokawa's ears turned red.

The hesitation lasted only a moment. Kita Kiyokawa reached out and took the wine glass, their fingertips touching. Only at this moment would Kita Kiyokawa feel grateful for the deep darkness of the night in the high-rise building.

"Ugh? So sour! Cough cough." But before Kita Kiyokawa could dwell on it for long, he took a sip and couldn't help but stick out his tongue: "Sure enough, all the dry red wines are sour and astringent."

“It’s sweet.” Shi Yin shook her head: “This is wine, made from ripe grapes.”

"Really?" But the sour taste on his tongue still lingered, and Kitakyoshi took another sip with suspicion.

This time it really was sweet, so sweet it was intoxicating. Even Kita Kiyokawa wondered if his first taste was an illusion.

Bei Qingchuan looked up in confusion, only to see Shi Yin looking at him with a smile in her eyes. He was stunned for a moment before he realized what was happening.

He closed his eyes and thought for a long time. When he opened them again, he didn't look down at the wine glass and took another sip. Sure enough, the taste was different this time.

"Fake?" Kita Kiyokawa asked in surprise.

"A utopian dream must first be a dream before it can be a utopia." Shi Yin stretched. "However, the historical rat utopia experiments had very tragic consequences; the experimental rats quickly became extinct."

"So, that person who looks exactly like you, is that really you?" Kita Kiyokawa still found it hard to believe: "Why did she have to destroy the world... You, you wanted to destroy the world before?"

He really felt that the two people were not the same person.

Although they had the same face and did the same actions, they gave Kita Kiyokawa completely different feelings.

Is it because Shi Yin has been giving up on herself lately, so she's full of resentment and wants to destroy the world with everyone, dragging everyone down with her?

"No, she is the savior." Shi Yin couldn't help but laugh after hearing this. Her smile was bright, but what she said shocked Bei Qingchuan.

“She is the true savior of equality, holding the scales of justice; I am the one with selfish desires.” Shi Yin gently shook her head: “She didn’t lie, and neither did I.”

"Have you ever heard the saying, 'Everyone is equal before death'? The zombie virus that infected everyone else was of the same level, leading all of humanity to evolve, achieve immortality, and save everyone indiscriminately."

"Although my other self is the highest level of zombie, I actually retired the moment the zombie society took shape. Everything after that depends on the zombies evolving on their own."

"The probability of all zombies gaining intelligence and possessing power is 50%. For overly powerful intelligent zombies, intervention is not allowed unless absolutely necessary. Theoretically speaking, this is relatively fair."

Although zombies need to eat human flesh to maintain their vitality, they can barely survive without eating, but they will be more like walking corpses. When their genes are extremely unsuitable for the environment, they will slowly begin to evolve to adapt to it.

At this point, Shi Yin sighed softly.

"But in reality, that ending was far from what I wanted, and the main problem lay with me." Shi Yin pointed to herself: "Even the most powerful of the Seven Deadly Sins will die in the long river of time, and the immortality of the elixir of life also has an end."

"But I will never die, because my original wish was not to die."

Actually, the power formed by this wish and obsession is a bit of a trap. It's like you're sick, and they give you a medicine that only says it can cure your illness, without mentioning any side effects.

You say you "don't want to die," so you can't die.

But you didn't say whether the people around you will die, or whether it's only you who won't die and everyone around you will die. You also didn't say whether you can withstand the mental and emotional toll of not being able to die.

It's simply "can't die".

“I remember you did all this, actually for your family.” Kitakami asked tentatively, “So, if this wish really comes true, what will you do?”

Even if this wish were to come true right now, Tokine would still be unable to die. People around her would come and go, and her parents and relatives would gradually die. This doesn't seem like a good ending.