It wasn't that Xu Shiqing had a heavy filter. In his eyes, Gu Yi and his group were all more upright than each other. In that chaotic apocalypse, Gu Yi and his group had bottom lines, loyalty, rationality, and ideals.

He found it hard to imagine them being called "crazy".

Especially since the enemy's bottom line was too low, and he had seen so many vicious guys, Xu Shiqing finally understood why the protagonist was the protagonist. After all, it was the end of the world, especially the end of the world. If even those with great luck had questionable character, what would happen to the ordinary people in this world?

Xu Shiqing didn't want to imagine a dark starry sky.

[After the protagonists buried you, they began to search for the truth and the murderer.]

The system read the message sent by the world consciousness and repeated it word for word: "They plowed the entire continent and discovered that the real culprit was powerful and strong. So they lay dormant, developed their own power, and established their own base - the Evergreen Base."

"Is that guy named A still alive?" Xu Shiqing stopped chewing his apple and was horrified: "I beat him up like that, and he's still alive?"

The entire chest cavity is sunken!

He fought with all his might and got hurt! This shouldn't be the case!

[…That’s his clone.] System 021 said, [That guy is considered the final boss. He’s hiding very well. I only just learned the truth now.]

The plots available to the system are derived from a comic book, created by a higher-dimensional world's observation of this world. However, comic book updates are only slightly faster than reality, and the content presented by the "author" often carries certain biases and omissions. For example, Name A, as the hidden final boss, has ample screen time in the comic, but it's only at the very end that it's revealed that he's the boss.

This may be a plot carefully designed by the "author", waiting for the reversal of the ending to surprise the readers, but for Xu Shiqing, it was a smokescreen that was successfully used on him.

At that time, he thought Gu Yi was seriously injured and dying, so he was anxious to take the initiative.

"Damn it." Xu Shiqing was so angry that his teeth itched: "That cartoon misled us..."

The system said that because of Xu Shiqing's participation, the fate point was changed. The originally drawn content did not change, but the author added some shots, making it seem that Xu Shiqing "foresaw" that Gu Yi would be in danger, so he went to deal with the enemy in advance.

This is a difficult paradox to explain. After all, we cannot know whether it is fate (the work) that controls us, or whether we have fulfilled fate (the work) first. However, Xu Shiqing's reference to fate to achieve his own goals can indeed be considered "precognition" by comic standards.

But in reality, this is like Oedipus. The more he tries to escape from fate, the more he falls into the net of fate.

He couldn't help but clench the thing in his hand. The brown paper of the bunch of daisies was squeezed into tiny folds, making a crackling sound, which woke him up and helped him break free from this emotion.

"Don't worry, the 'writers' are just observing and then deducing the plot based on their inspiration and logic." System 021 reassured, "This is a live broadcast. They are all experienced Sherlock Holmes, deducing everything that will happen next."

【Will you feel better if you think this way? 】

Xu Shiqing shook his head slightly. He was not upset about the irresistible force of fate. He was just frustrated that he seemed to have messed up again.

Xu Shiqing didn't care whether his premature removal of Jiaming and subsequent death was the work of fate or not. He was sad that he had hurt his friends because of his wishful fear and worry.

"How many years have passed now?" Xu Shiqing asked, "That guy named A..."

[Ten years.] 021 tightened his voice. [Ten years have passed. Name A died just last year.]

'…' Pupil earthquake jpg.

"Or should we look for someone else?" Xu Shiqing's apple core had already fallen to the ground and rolled aside. "Ten years. Even if I were narcissistic and thought I was the perfect match, I couldn't change those guys' minds!"

"Besides, I'm not!" Xu Shiqing said in shock. "Do you think Gu Yi is still at the age where he would change his mind because of someone?"

That's ten years! Young people in their twenties are still stubborn, and men in their thirties definitely have their own set of ideas - and those are irreversible, especially for someone like Gu Yi.

Xu Shiqing himself is a stubborn person, what qualifications does he have to persuade Gu Yi and the others!

021 typed a string of [……]

[Struggle, struggle a little?] He sent an emoji of a pained mask. [It's mainly because Gu Yi and the others were too ruthless. Now the base is the only one in power... That's not the most serious problem. They discovered that a large base was supporting a research project. You know, weren't you and Jiaming experimental subjects back then? Then Gu Yi and the others exploded.]

It really exploded, and that base was badly targeted.

[The problem is, that project is about how to end the apocalypse...especially the talented people involved!]

After the apocalypse, nearly everyone around the world is scrambling for survival. Education, while not entirely shattered, can be described as utterly devastated. After all, according to systemic data, viruses, radiation, mutations... in these disasters, the first to die, become sick, or mutate are politicians, geniuses, and scientists, followed by highly qualified individuals, and finally, ordinary people.

There's a survivor bias here, but it's already a terrifying probability. If it weren't for the system's assurance that there were no extraterrestrial civilizations involved, Xu Shiqing would have suspected Body X had arrived—see, isn't this more effective than a water droplet blockade?

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