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Woo——

An Chi heard the roar of the Homecoming train. The sound of the wheels rubbing against the rails seemed so harsh in the sandstorm, but An Chi knew that only the Homecoming train outside the wall could make such a sound.

Their cars were blown by the wind, like small boats drifting in a storm.

An Chi was unsure of where he was, and subconsciously followed the train's movements, like a hound following the scent of its prey.

Suddenly, something seemed to fall from a high altitude, and it was still squirming after hitting the windshield. An Chi thought it was garbage outside the wall, but after the wipers started, they ran over its body, bursting out disgusting juice.

maggots.

Liu Niannian lives in God's kingdom, where the land is so clean. She has seen disgusting pollutants, but rarely sees real insects.

Maggots fell from the sky like rain, the wipers turned faster, and the car body glass was immediately covered with a mess.

Liu Niannian looked up at the sky. The sky was a dirty yellow color, and the clouds above were very strange, like the outline of a brain, standing still in the strong wind, as if they were layers of another world.

But just beneath the yellow background there are several square shapes.

Liu Niannian took out a telescope from his backpack, quickly adjusted the lens and finally saw the abnormality in the sky. The sky was like yellow wallpaper, covering the world they were in, and above the wallpaper, several doors actually opened.

The door frame was square, and the door looked like an ordinary bedroom door. The door handle had been turned to open a gap, and white maggots were wriggling in the gap and falling down with crackling sounds, like caterpillars falling from a poplar tree.

"What is this?" Liu Niannian asked what An Chi wanted to ask.

"Air gate." Zhu Ning said.

Liu Niannian didn't dare to stare at the maggots for a long time. There were at least dozens of doors in the sky, as if the sky had opened dozens of eyes.

Zhu Ning: "The air gate can enter the brain."

The first time Liu Niannian cheated on her husband, she asked, "Is this normal?"

If Zhu Ning knew what the sky door was, did that prove that it was normal for this thing to be like a scenic spot?

"It's not normal." Zhu Ning's voice was flat. "The world is changing at an accelerating rate."

Zhu Ning was not sure how many sky doors there were, but there had been no reports of large-scale sky door cases over the years. In fact, there were no relevant records until after Zhu Ning entered.

Zhu Ning's flying car was parked in front of the door he opened. Pei Shuzeng had knitted a pink plush pendant and hung it on the roof of the car. It was a mascot he made for the team outside the wall.

Later, Zhu Ning entered Utopia. People didn't dare to move the car, for fear that Zhu Ning would return through the air gate. The nearby teams would resupply the flying car within a safe range, so the car was most likely still in the same place.

The flying car has become a landmark, but now these doors seem to have been newly opened. The corpse is dying. Zhu Ning at the end of the world can feel the changes more deeply, and the shadow of the female giant behind him is getting bigger and bigger.

The world is changing rapidly. Polluted areas are devouring and connecting with each other. Doors in the sky are opening one by one. The group of deadly water droplets is expanding, exceeding the original boundary and heading south. Sandstorms are raging, and it is unknown whether the flying fishing line is still in place.

Human beings are so insignificant in the face of such changes. The extinction-level doomsday will come sooner or later. Su He is just speeding up everything in advance.

After the pollution outbreak, humans have figured out a way to live in peace with the polluted world. That is, every time they enter a polluted area, the first principle is to look for patterns. As long as they find the corresponding rules, they can survive.

But now the rules are broken, and the world is about to enter a stage of illogicality.

An Chi felt it more deeply than Liu Niannian. They had once tried to find some rules in this dangerous world to increase their chances of survival, but now even the rules were about to disappear.

If the world is in complete chaos, there is no point in struggling. Even efforts will have no direction and all sacrifices will be in vain.

What is more terrifying than death is extreme chaos.

Woo——

While An Chi was hesitating, a green train rushed out from the sandstorm. Liu Niannian had never seen what a Homecoming train looked like before, but he recognized it at a glance. This was the Homecoming train.

The Homecoming passed by the flying train. Liu Niannian saw the rear of the train. The iron plate of the mysterious carriage was shaking. Zhu Ning had seen the meat of the golden apple snail coming out of it, which almost swallowed Zhu Ning who was walking on the top of the train.

They exchanged a brief glance with the passengers on the flying cars. The first car was packed with investigators in black protective suits, who looked like identical copy-pasted people. Surrounding them were previous generation psychics who had died eighty years ago. Those people were kneeling on the ground, their necks pierced by a strange black spear, filling the entire car with a solemn religious atmosphere.

The surviving passengers leaned against the windows, probably seeing the flying car moving outside the window. After hesitating for a moment, they waved towards the car, like a friendly gesture when meeting colleagues, meaning to get on the car quickly, or maybe it had no meaning at all, just to show that there were people here.

Anchi saw his shoulder badge, which showed that he was an investigator of the Raven Team.

The front of the train roared past, and this time they only looked at each other for three seconds. The carriages behind them poured out like a long dragon, and they saw other passengers, strange shapes of pollutants in the hard seat car, and corpses lying in coffins in the sleeper car.

The Homecoming was packed with people, and pollutants and humans alike were treated equally.

When An Chi saw the shadow of the Homecoming, he finally found an idea, as if he saw light in the fog.

The rules of the world are collapsing, but the Homecoming is at least still maintaining the old order, which is the order that only human civilization has.

But the car was still drifting. This kind of weather was not suitable for driving at all, let alone accurately catching up with a high-speed train.

An Chi quickly changed gears and spread the wings of the car. She was racing with the Homecoming, and the number of maggot corpses on the car body was increasing.

They might not be able to catch the Homecoming, and there is only one chance. If they miss it this time, they don't know when they will see it again.

An Chi gripped the steering wheel tightly, like a drowning person gripping his or her swimming ring. She looked at the chaos in front of her and felt that everything was ridiculous. At such an important moment, what was the point of this?

An Chi recalled the witcher waving at her on the locomotive, and suddenly realized that Zhu Ning chose her to be Liu Niannian's driver because she could do it.

Zhu Ning replaced Prometheus. She had the eye of foresight. With Zhu Ning's calculations, An Chi could reach this step.

The dragon slayer will become an evil dragon. Will Zhu Ning gradually become another Prometheus?

An Chi looked through Liu Niannian's eyes and tried to see Zhu Ning in her mind, and at the same time compared her with the Zhu Ning she met in the shelter. The memory of Zhu Ning left on An Chi was actually very short. She remembered that Zhu Ning had messy hair and was very loyal. Her team was small but very cohesive. Everyone would unconditionally trust the captain in the face of mental pollution, even if the orders given by Zhu Ning were so incredible.

An Chi once wanted to join Zhu Ning's team. She longed for the team atmosphere and the captain's personal charm.

But that Zhu Ning had disappeared.

The captain that An Chi wanted to follow had also died in the Far North.

When An Chi walked out of the high walls for the first time, she thought the world would definitely get better, pollution would decrease year by year, and humans would overcome everything. When An Chi saw Zhu Ning for the first time, she thought she would make it happen.

An Chi's grip on the steering wheel gradually loosened. "Every one of my teammates asks, but they've never asked, why did you cheat?"

In the rushing dust, Liu Niannian's back was pressed against the back of the chair when An Chi turned. She had to grab the armrest and try her best to control the water mist on the car.

Liu Niannian looked at An Chi in confusion. An Chi's eyes were bright and he was staring straight ahead, not even having time to look at him.

Liu Niannian was silent for a moment, "I want to save my friend."

An Chi asked: "Even if she is a demon?"

Liu Niannian said without hesitation, "Even if she is a demon."

Everyone, including An Chi, couldn't help but hesitate, wondering if they had become the devil's pawns.

But this is not a problem for Liu Niannian.

An Chi said gently, "It really sounds like a fairy tale answer."

It fits Liu Niannian's image very well, a noble lady traveling through a sandstorm, under the pressure of heavy death, just wanting to save her friends.

Liu Niannian had never experienced the hardships of adventure, the death of teammates, or real chaos and disorder.

Liu Niannian is a brand new person outside the wall.

"What about you?" Liu Niannian asked, "Why did you agree to take me to the car?"

Liu Niannian has not forgotten Pei Shu. He is extremely reluctant to leave the prison, and it would be very dangerous to take her out.

"Because I'm looking for death." An Chi said that she was going to die anyway. It was a matter of dying on the first battlefield of the sandstorm or dying outside the wall.

All the people with special abilities who walked out of the high walls back then, whether they were bounty hunters or investigators outside the walls, spent their entire lives searching for death, which was an inevitable outcome.

An Chi suspected that pollution would drive people crazy and implant a tendency towards self-destruction in everyone, so no matter how normal and gentle they looked, they would eventually seek the same destination.

Before Zhu Ning found her, An Chi had already signed up for the suicide squad. She had already received her own death acceptance notice, and she and her dead teammates would meet at the finish line of death.

Zhu Ning simply arranged another script for her.

Liu Niannian didn't quite understand, but she thought of Liu Yu. It was Liu Yu who was sitting in the driver's seat of the speeding car back then, and now it was An Chi, whom she had just met. There was the same madness in their eyes. Now the images of the two people overlapped strangely in her eyes, even though she was not familiar with An Chi.

"Every year, we should go out and see the world," Liu Yu once said.

As soon as An Chi finished speaking, the driver's window was opened, and sand and strong wind poured in. Liu Niannian looked at An Chi in surprise, not sure what she was going to do, but she instinctively wanted to stop her.

An Chi's right hand firmly grasped the steering wheel, but his left hand stretched out of the window. The muscles in his arm were tense, and in the blink of an eye, it expanded rapidly like a huge tree.

Anchi's ability is to become gigantic and possess enormous strength.

If you look from outside the car, it looks like a flying car swaying in the air suddenly stretches out a giant arm, twenty-five meters long and four and a half meters wide. With a bang, the huge palm touches the ground, as if finding a fulcrum for the flying car that is swaying like a kite.

Liu Niannian's back was pressed tightly against the chair. She had never expected that An Chi, who looked so peaceful, would do such an extreme thing. She reacted immediately and the mist quickly wrapped around An Chi's arms.

But Liu Niannian's package speed is not that fast. Once the flying car takes off from the ground, it will be more difficult to mobilize groundwater.

The veins on An Chi's arms bulged, and the car was thrown like a shot put, a hundred meters away under the huge force.

Liu Niannian's heart was hanging in the air. For a moment, she was as close to the air gate above her head. Maggots fell from the car with a crackling sound. She opened her mouth wide, and her heart had not yet retracted into her chest when she felt the car take off for the second time.

The shadow of the Homecoming train appeared again in the yellow sand. An Chi used his arm as a fulcrum and drove his car to catch up with the tail of the Homecoming train. Liu Niannian understood that An Chi was going to throw her on the train.

The car door on the right side of Liu Niannianian popped open, and her body suddenly lost weight. She wanted to grab An Chi's hand. An Chi put one hand on Liu Niannian's shoulder and pushed her hard.

Like someone standing on the edge of a rooftop, Liu Niannian felt a sense of emptiness on her back, and the water ball followed its owner and wrapped around her falling body.

At that moment, the distance between her and An Chi was pulled very far. There was a square air door in the sky, and the flying car looked extremely small in it. An Chi's giant arms supported the ground, and together they looked like a brand new monster, or like a weird oil painting, with a flying car growing on one arm and the background being an air door with maggots falling from it.

Liu Niannian widened his eyes. Yellow sand was sweeping in, maggots were crawling all over the body of the flying car, and the monster was running in the sandstorm.

An Chi, who was sitting inside the flying car, just waved to Liu Niannian, as if a taxi driver was taking a passenger to the destination, or as if her mother was taking her to the school gate when she was a child and told her to go to school quickly.

Bang--

Liu Niannian's body hit the roof of the high-speed Guixiang train. Her back rubbed against the iron carriage and she was thrown from the front to the back of the train. She wanted to grab An Chi's hand but only grabbed the connection between the train carriages.

Liu Niannian's body was hanging at the rear of the carriage, sticking to the cold iron sheet of the car. The cold chill from inside the carriage seeped in, and the car body was squirming, trying to get rid of Liu Niannian immediately.

But Liu Niannian couldn't care less at the moment. She tried her best to look up, trying to find the direction of An Chi, but she only saw the last scene, the speeding car was swallowed by yellow sand and maggots.

Liu Niannian could no longer see An Chi.

…

"Zhu Ning must die."

Qin Yun found Huo Wenxi, who went from being an undercover agent lurking beside Su He to being Su He's messenger.

Huo Wenxi dismissed everyone else, leaving only the two of them in the reporting office.

Huo Wenxi gives people a sense of oppression, which is completely different from Su He's temperament. She has no lethality, just sitting there quietly. Huo Wenxi has the eye of foresight, making you feel naked in front of her, and her past and present life are known to her.

Qin Yun conveyed Su He's words, and the key point he extracted was only one: let Zhu Ning become the core source of pollution and then kill her. Zhu Ning must die.

But Huo Wenxi was indifferent to this, as if she had already foreseen it before she entered this door.

Qin Yun didn't know how people with the Eye of Prescience worked. If Huo Wenxi already knew everything, why did he still want to see him?

Is it to verify history?

Can a person with the Eye of Prescience only watch events unfold towards a predetermined outcome? Qin Yun put himself in their shoes and felt that such a life would be extremely terrifying.

Qin Yun brought up the topic and asked, "What are you going to do?"

Huo Wenxi didn't reply for a long time and looked up at the ceiling. Qin Yun didn't know Huo Wenxi, but he had seen her public speech in District 103. She had a unique charm that made her followers willing to die for her, and all those who followed her to death believed that Huo Wenxi would sacrifice herself for the same purpose.

Huo Wenxi is a person who observes the direction of history. Such a person has absolute rationality. Qin Yun wondered how much weight Zhu Ning holds in Huo Wenxi's heart?

Huo Wenxi stared at the ceiling without blinking, feeling that the ceiling was surprisingly low, as if it was about to press down on her face.

"Have you met another Zhu Ning?" Huo Wenxi suddenly asked.

Qin Yun nodded, "Hmm... looks like a chip man, not a human."

Huo Wenxi smiled, and Qin Yun couldn't guess what this smile meant.

Huo Wenxi continued to ask: "How is she?"

Qin Yun thought for a moment before answering, "Like everyone else who went to kill Su He, she collapsed."

Qin Yun had seen too many assassins who wanted to kill Su He. They were full of passion and thought they were the terminators who could kill Su He, but all of them had the same end, which was to be crushed by Su He.

And when they faced Su Heshi, the last expression on their faces was despair and collapse.

Qin Yun almost went down this path herself. If Unit 03 had not suddenly appeared to interrupt her, and if Su He had not intentionally given her a way out and allowed her to meet Huo Wenxi, Qin Yun would have died a very tragic death.

Qin Yun almost went crazy when facing Su He. Her hands were shaking all the time and she still couldn't stop shaking. This was the oppressive feeling of Su He.

Before she left, Unit 3's expression was distorted. She leaned against Song Zhizhang's body, wanting to cry and laugh at the same time. Later, she found that she could do nothing. She was like an ant in Su He's hands. Qin Yun could empathize with Unit 3.

"Zhu Ning is dead." Huo Wenxi said, staring at the ceiling.

Qin Yun thought for a moment that he had misheard. There was someone walking hurriedly outside the office, drowning out the words.

Was Huo Wenxi referring to the fact that Zhu Ning would definitely die in the future? All prophets spoke in mysterious ways, and they usually couldn't figure out the exact time period in which an event would occur.

Or did Zhu Ning die in the Far North?

Qin Yun pondered this possibility. Who was still alive? Was it Zhu Ning's remaining consciousness?

Huo Wenxi: "I have witnessed many people die."

Qin Yun was a little puzzled and felt that Huo Wenxi's mental state was not normal. She was looking at something but her eyes were not focused.

Huo Wenxi: "The demon hunters who died in Area 103, the warriors who died because of my call. They were inspired by me and called upon by me to go to the battlefield."

Huo Wenxi has been accumulating lives on his shoulders. Every step he takes means another dead person on his shoulders.

"My best investigative team was completely wiped out because of my selfish instinct to seek profit and avoid harm."

Zhuang Lin and the entire investigation team, the team brought along by Huo Wenxi, died because of Huo Wenxi's intuition.

Huo Wenxi muttered to himself, "I told Zhu Ning that he didn't have to be held responsible for the deaths, because there has never been a single battle in history where soldiers were held responsible. Only the commander should be held accountable."

Huo Wenxi paused and said, "I am the one who should be held responsible."

Huo Wenxi not only saw those who had died, but also those who would die in the future. She stood in the torrent of history, a river made of the blood of the dead.

Huo Wenxi said that he would still take responsibility for Zhu Ning, but Zhu Ning no longer wanted it.

"I have always been worried that Zhu Ning would become an emotionless demon, and I even made a lot of preparations for this." Huo Wenxi recalled the past when Zhuang Lin was still alive. He knew what he had been worrying about for a long time.

What Huo Wenxi fears most is that Zhu Ning will lose his humanity.

"Later I found that such worries were unnecessary, because Zhu Ning listened to me very much." Huo Wenxi spoke slowly, as if he was carefully chewing on his past memories. According to Huo Wenxi's narration, Zhu Ning was not a real god or a devil, but more like an obedient child.

It is hard for others to imagine that Zhu Ning, who has such great power, would actually listen to Huo Wenxi. Huo Wenxi does not have any offensive abilities, and her only means of self-defense is shooting. If she leaves her assistant, she can easily be assassinated.

But Zhu Ning was still very obedient and followed her instructions blindly.

Because they agreed to form an alliance, and even if one of them died, the other would not betray.

If Zhu Ning is now a string of cold data, then her alliance with Huo Wenxi is like the original code.

All Huo Wenxi needs to do is give her an instruction.

"I told her to look for news, and she would bring it back to me. I told her to move forward, and she would never move backward. I told her to enter Utopia, and she entered Utopia. She followed my orders and headed straight for the Far North." Huo Wenxi paused, his eyes becoming extremely complicated. This time Qin Yun was not wrong. It was a huge sadness, a rare sadness in Huo Wenxi.

"If I tell her to die, she will die." Huo Wenxi seemed to surrender and whispered, "Su He's judgment is correct."