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◎Eye of Prescience?◎

[The ninth-generation purification system is being installed... 100% complete...]

[Main Mission: Purify the Homeland, Completion 15%]

[Testing the subject's morphology...]

[The shape is not growing enough, please adjust it immediately...]

Zhu Ning fell silent as she listened to the system announcement. She was now like a computer spirit, probably having eaten the contaminated spores from the Mold City, which had accelerated the system's update speed.

Why the ninth generation? Were you using the eighth generation before?

What about before that? Who was using the other seven versions? She might not be the only Alpha experiment subject still alive.

After the system made the announcement, it became quiet. Zhu Ning opened the system panel and found that it had indeed been upgraded.

The overall functions have not changed, and the system panel is simpler than before, which reminds Zhu Ning of the philosophy of a certain technology company from her era: the simpler the better.

Health, purification, and luck values ​​have all been cancelled, which means she can use her talents at will?

That's not right. Zhu Ning is stronger than before, and the energy she consumes is also huge. The contaminated spores she swallowed are most likely her food. After all, it is very difficult for her to maintain her own operation.

The complex data disappeared, replaced by a single data bar with a very simple naming method: life, followed by the data of 20%.

Health: 20%

This is consistent with her perception of her remaining life span, and she looks like she will die very young.

This data bar seems to fluctuate. It is estimated that the consumption of talent will decrease, or eating contaminated spores will increase. I can only experiment next time.

After swallowing so much pollutants, the main mission is only 15%. How is it calculated? However, Zhu Ning is not interested in this shocking mission at all.

She opened the talent panel. Her old talents were still there, with one new one and one upgraded one.

[Moldy Fingers: Can make any object or creature moldy, can eliminate mold on objects or creatures.]

Zhu Ning: “…”

Huh? This talent didn't sound very honorable, but based on Zhu Ning's experience, she should be able to use it the same way the Pollution Source did when he was alive.

I'll find some time to try it.

One of her upgraded talents was originally an ant spider's spider silk, but now, probably because she swallowed 0056, the two identical skills have been merged.

[Invisible Silk Thread: Can cut through hard objects, can stick to surfaces, can pick up objects from a distance, and can use the silk thread to gain leverage to travel.]

It reminded Zhu Ning of a protagonist in a superhero movie who was bitten by a spider.

Unfortunately, she did not inherit 0056's two-dimensional ability. Perhaps that was his original form and not a talent.

Her system had not only been repaired, but also upgraded, so she should be able to add points freely after swallowing pollutants in the future.

Many contaminated items and talents have lost their ratings and classifications, becoming a unified list of abilities. Her list used to list the functions at different levels, but that has now been cancelled.

The usage has hardly changed, with some minor details changed. I haven't tried it, so I don't know if the effect has changed.

What is more noteworthy is actually another page. She added a brand new page.

The situation shown above is simpler, Eye of Prescience, development level 2%

Eye of Prescience?

The first generation of Zhu Ning was restarted because of insufficient system memory. The main skill was changed to foresight, and Zhu Ning herself chose devouring. After the upgrade, devouring and foresight were no longer conflicting options, and she even had the possibility of unlocking another talent.

Zhu Ning was silent for a while. If the first generation Zhu Ning got this system, she should not need to restart.

But unfortunately, the first generation was unable to prevent the end of Area 103, and accordingly could not enter the zombie city.

Or maybe the end of Area 103 was just a "test" for Zhu Yao, and only the subjects who passed the test would have the opportunity to enter the zombie city.

The predictive ability was only 2%, and Zhu Ning couldn't tell the difference.

Zhu Ning searched the system but didn't find any monitoring or self-destruct devices, but it was possible that they were installed, but she didn't know.

Zhu Ning still couldn't understand Zhu Yao's attitude. Was she just here to deliver equipment?

Zhu Ning closed the system panel. Because his legs had only grown to the level of his thighs, he was still lying on Lin Xiaofeng's body.

The remaining half of the leg can only grow slowly. Zhu Ning is like a plant, the body bag is a huge flowerpot, and Lin Xiaofeng is the gardener walking with the flowerpot on his back.

Zhu Ning was thinking again, how could she die? She wouldn't die if her body was cut into pieces, and she wouldn't die immediately if her system was pierced.

As for the traditional human weakness, the heart, her heart is the pollutant under Area 103, a red wriggling tentacle. She doesn't think this thing can be killed easily.

So is Zhu Ning equivalent to "immortality"?

Zhu Ning's gaze stopped at the column "Life: 20%". She could only die naturally after her lifespan reached its end, so this number might be fixed.

Unless Zhu Yao has other arrangements, or Zhu Ning finds a solution to break through this point.

Zhu Ning has always been open-minded. Her goal is to kill Prometheus for revenge, and everything else is up to her.

No. 0056 died without leaving any trace, as if he had never been there. Zhu Ning had previously encountered an abandoned test product in the company's contaminated area, which was Alpha series No. 0057. This No. 0056 happened to be adjacent to its number. Was it a coincidence?

Zhu Ning was thinking about something. Lin Xiaofeng carried Zhu Ning on his back. She dared not move and watched the blood-red contaminated spores gather on Zhu Ning's body.

From Lin Xiaofeng's perspective, it seemed as if the contaminated spores were coming towards her.

Lin Xiaofeng became Zhu Ning's... bowl for eating. She carefully supported Zhu Ning's body, fearing that something might happen to him while he was "eating".

After all the contaminated spores were absorbed, the mold city revealed its true appearance: decayed and old. Mold still grew on the walls, but it was not as exaggerated as the pollutants, but just normal mold spots.

If you look carefully at the mold spots on the ground and use a little imagination, you can seem to see that there was once a body lying here, and the doctor really died in this place.

Lin Xiaofeng walked downstairs carrying Zhu Ning on his back. The dilapidated apartment building was crumbling. As soon as he stepped out of the door, a scorching heat hit him in the face.

The fire on Moon Street had just been extinguished, and there were traces of burns everywhere. Pei Shu sat on the curb at the opposite corner of the street, his elbows supporting his knees. He took off his protective helmet and put it aside. He didn't feel the heat even sitting in the fire, and he looked dejected.

Pei Shu was breathing fresh air. There was nothing special about the pollution-free air, but maybe it was a psychological effect that made people feel light and not so heavy.

After being purified, the sky became very bright, completely different from the sky in the world inside the wall, as if it was higher and farther away.

From Pei Shu's aesthetic point of view, the outside of the wall is really more beautiful than the inside of the wall.

Pei Shu saw Zhu Ning coming out and asked, "Have you finished eating?"

Pei Shu seemed to be watching someone eat, so he waited quietly below without urging anyone, but if new pursuers arrived, he would block them.

Zhu Ning frowned, feeling that Pei Shu inexplicably had a pitiful aura.

Even more pitiful than Pei Shu was Qi Xueliu. She knelt on one knee on the side of the road, hugging Du Yiqi's body. Qi Xueliu pulled out the blue ring of the human-machine joint device, but there was a blue thread in Du Yiqi's eyeballs.

Ordinary people have red bloodshot eyes, but Du Yiqi has blue bloodshot eyes, which move gently on the whites of his eyes.

This is the real mycelium man. He has been invaded for so long that even his nerves belong to Prometheus.

Du Yiqi sensed Zhu Ning's arrival and her eyes turned away, but there was no light in them.

Logically speaking, when a person is about to die, Du Yiqi will definitely look at Qi Xueliu, an acquaintance, rather than Zhu Ning, an enemy.

Zhu Ning knew that the person looking at her was not Du Yiqi, but Prometheus.

0056 was killed by the pollution source too quickly, without even a last word before his death. In the first fight between the two, Zhu Ning barely won, but this may be insignificant to Prometheus, as it was just the consumption of a handy weapon.

Zhu Ning guessed that Prometheus had something to say to him.

The blue thread in Du Yiqi's eyes grew thicker and thicker, "You...will..."

What would happen? Regret? Death? Prometheus wouldn't be so childish as to say such harsh words, would he?

"Recognize... me..." Du Yiqi's voice was hoarse. After saying this, the blue threads in his eyeballs slowly disappeared, as if they were absorbed.

Prometheus completely relaxed his control over Du Yiqi, and as a result, Du Yiqi also lost her life. In the last moment of her life, she died as a puppet, delivering a last word.

Du Yiqi died with his eyes open. His burned eyeballs seemed to be popping out and he kept looking in Zhu Ning's direction.

Lin Xiaofeng felt uncomfortable being stared at and turned his head away silently. Zhu Ning thought about what Prometheus said, he would not leave any useless information.

What's the meaning?

Sooner or later, Zhu Ning will agree with Prometheus's philosophy? What is his philosophy? Working for humans?

Zhu Ning realized that he actually knew very little about Prometheus. He had only really communicated with him once, so he didn't know what he was.

If it is considered a pollutant, then why are they loyal to the Federation and willing to be slaves?

Is he keeping humans in captivity?

Qi Xueliu silently covered Du Yiqi's eyelids and closed her eyes. She was holding a corpse, and even the atmosphere around her was sad.

Zhu Ning didn't know this man at all. Lin Xiaofeng knew what Zhu Ning wanted to do and walked up to Pei Shu and stood in front of him.

Zhu Ning was lying on top of a little girl who wasn't very tall. He asked, "Teacher Pei, I have a question."

Pei Shu: "You say."

Zhu Ning actually asked, "Has the mold on us disappeared?"

When she received the gift, she thought she would have to manually remove the mold from her other teammates, but when she raised her hand, she found that her skin had returned to normal.

Not only her, but also the mold on Lin Xiaofeng, Pei Shuqi Xueliu, and even Du Yiqi's bodies disappeared.

Zhu Ning: "I wanted to ask you last time, about that zombie incident. After we killed the source of the pollution, we also recovered our memories."

Was entering the contaminated area just an illusion? Would killing the source of the contamination restore the area to its original state? But why wouldn't the injuries sustained be restored?

Pei Shu had been feeling sad for some reason, but when he heard Zhu Ning's question, his perfect answer skill kicked in. He said, "In a polluted area, the pollution source's ability to harm you will be logically consistent. For example, if its damage is to cause mold, then if you become completely moldy, you will die."

"After the pollution source dies, the impact of the pollution disappears, so the damage you inflict should be consistent with real-world logic. In reality, people may contract mold diseases, but they won't be covered in mold all over their bodies, leaving not even a single piece of intact skin."

Pei Shu paused, "You can think of this as a world of rules."

Zhu Ning roughly understood that entering the contaminated area requires complying with the rules of the pollution source. In reality, one must comply with the real rules. The power that affects you will disappear, and the strange damage will also disappear.

But the rules of physical damage apply regardless of the world, so it can be brought out.

Similarly, after leaving the wall, some of her talents may not be very effective in some polluted areas because Zhu Ning is not the one who makes the rules.

But if Zhu Ning opens her own contaminated area, she can maximize her talent and even control it at will.

Zhu Ning: "The two worlds I encountered outside the wall both had rules to follow."

Is it because I haven't traveled far that I haven't encountered the ruleless world that Pei Shu talked about?

Pei Shu knew what she was asking and said, "Your current situation is similar to my first three years as an investigator. Back then, I also thought all regions had patterns. In my third year, I encountered a chaotic world for the first time. I initially thought it was an accident, with only one or two exceptions. But the further I went, the more I realized that this might be the norm."

Pei Shu did not describe in detail what he encountered, and Zhu Ning did not ask further questions, fearing that Pei Shu was in a bad mental state.

Pei Shu: "Do you think there's a pattern to the incidents involving the evil children in District 103?"

There is a pattern, which Zhu Ning figured out on his own, but he cannot crack it through the pattern.

Pei Shu: "This situation happens outside the wall. There may be patterns, but we can't find them, or if we do find them, we can't use them. Everything is empty and meaningless."

That is a terrible situation. The survivors will become nihilists, but why did Pei Shu choose to cheat?

Zhu Ning: "So what I encountered earlier basically follows a pattern?"

After all, this place is quite close to the base of human survivors and has not reached a truly abandoned place.

Pei Shu: "It depends on the probability."

Zhu Ning was silent for a moment. If she really encountered a more difficult contaminated area in the future, these skills of hers would probably not be enough.

Zhu Ning: "I'll ask you this every time I finish an area. Are you still following me?"

Pei Shu said without hesitation: "Follow, I'm afraid you won't be able to find Bai Cheng."

Pei Shu said this, dusted off his legs and stood up. They still hadn't found a teammate. If what Bai Cheng said was true, they would need to pick up the next Bai Cheng before they could get back on the road.

Lin Xiaofeng: "Pick up Sister Bai!"

She seldom spoke. Zhu Ning guessed that she liked Bai Cheng very much and touched her head.

Pei Shu asked, "Captain, where are we going next?"

Zhu Ning was used to Pei Shu calling him that, so he said, "Let's go back to Songshan Temple and rest. A lot of my things are still there."

Medical kit, weapons, car, and the notebook she brought with her. Zhu Ning just wanted to sleep now. She wanted to find a chance to grow her legs. It was not very convenient to walk without legs.

Judging from her growth rate, it should take about another day.

Zhu Ning: "After I've rested, the next step is to find a base station. I need to contact Huo Wenxi."

It was a very reasonable arrangement, so Pei Shu agreed and asked, "What about her then?"

Pei Shu looked in the direction of Qi Xueliu. Qi Xueliu was holding Du Yiqi and lowered her head, so her expression could not be seen clearly.

Qi Xueliu? Zhu Ning was puzzled. This person was from the Federation, not hers.

The author has something to say:

Ning Bao’s new system is probably a basic page information, then an alienation panel, a new page of the Eye of Foresight, and then a talent list. You can imagine it freely, it’s very simple (simple)!

It's not much different from the previous one, with some basic details updated. After each mission, you will be upgraded after obtaining the corresponding elements. I've attached it below, you can take a look if you want to review it~

Ninth generation purification system list:

Name: Zhu Ning

Number: Alpha Series 0999

Age: 19

Alienation direction: Devour

Alienation degree: Complete

Life: 20% (This is a data bar shape~)

Eye of Prescience: Development Level 2%

Test results of the experimental subject: (a scan image, a black cube in the head, a wriggling tentacle in the heart, and nothing under the thighs) Please debug immediately

Ability List:

[Rotten Fish Head: By repeatedly using mental pollution on people or pollutants, you can increase your movement speed when escaping, increasing it by one to four times.]

[Danger Prediction: Can predict danger 2 minutes later]

[The Pigman's guillotine can kill a mission target once within 24 hours. It is always accurate and will definitely hit the target. However, it cannot guarantee a kill.]

[Metal Manipulation: Able to manipulate metal objects within a distance of 20 meters]

[Master key: can open any door]

[Three-dimensional defensive space: It can form a 2x2x2 three-dimensional defensive space. You are the only owner of this space. All people and objects entering must obtain your permission.]

[Blank Card: You can put any item into the card, but it can only hold one item]

[Copy Machine: Can copy items]

[Liquid manipulation: can manipulate liquids with a volume of one cubic meter]

[Invisibility item: Use it to gain invisibility skills]

[Dentist's drill: The high-speed rotating drill is a sharp tool for drilling hard objects, sharper than any existing dagger drill]

[Gravity Ignore: Can be effective within 30 meters]

[Skin Hardening: When used, the skin will be hardened, and the body will be covered with a layer of white hard film.]

[Memory Reading: Requires contact with the subject's head to read any of their memories]

[Puppet Control: The controlled object is like your puppet]

[Rotten Sheep's Head: Can inflict mental pollution on others, causing them to lose their sense of time and suffer a mental breakdown. Can also impose mental suggestion on others, causing them to follow your instructions invisibly, such as inducing suicide. Unable to control creatures beyond the user's dimension of existence.]

[God's Perspective: Open this perspective to overlook the surrounding terrain. No buildings can block your view. The visual range is 30 meters.]

[Corrosive Potion: Corrosive to objects and the human body]

[Passive Combat Mode: When the system determines that the subject is unable to move, it will automatically take over control and stop automatically after escaping danger.]

[Power Reducer: Affects the opponent's power performance]

[Mimicry: Level 1 mimicry can imitate the user's appearance, making them mistakenly think they are of the same species, achieving a realistic effect. Level 2 mimicry can imitate the user's abilities. Please note that mimicry does not mean copying.]

[Moldy Fingers: 1. Can make any object or creature moldy. 2. Can eliminate mold from objects or creatures.]

[Invisible silk thread: 1. Can cut through hard objects, 2. Can stick to the surface of objects and pick up objects remotely, 3. Can use the silk thread to gain momentum to travel.]

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