goodbye

The sandstorm had been approaching the North Wall for over eleven hours. The first front had been completely routed, and the fourteen vanguard task forces dispatched had lost contact. People had no idea where the core source of the sandstorm's pollution was.

This disaster was different from the one in Area 103, and was even more massive. It was also the first time in recorded history that this generation had directly confronted a true ancient creature from outside the wall.

This is the type of strange and powerful creatures that people faced before retreating behind the walls.

That day, everyone had a strange intuition that the world belonged to pollutants, not humans, or that this was the world's revenge on humans.

When Bai Cheng pressed the pause button, people mistakenly believed that he had avoided the disaster on his own.

The support troops stopped sending troops to the North Wall and were preparing to evacuate. Some soldiers chose to stay at the North Wall and insist on coexisting with the last front of humanity. In less than fifteen minutes, the North Wall would be completely defeated.

Huo Wenxi knew the news, but remained motionless.

Qin Yun has left, and the resistance army has long been disappointed with Huo Wenxi. They have concluded that Huo Wenxi is seriously mentally polluted and has lost his command ability.

Huo Wenxi was the only one left in the empty old office. She chose not to communicate with anyone, but just stared ahead.

There is an electronic screen in the rebels' office for work reporting. Huo Wenxi is very familiar with this scene. When the abnormal event investigation team holds a meeting, the team members need to report their investigation reports. There is also such a screen, a long table and dozens of chairs. In the past, her team members would fill the entire office, but now she is the only one.

There was an ocean of consciousness in her head, waves crashing on the shore and sounds hitting her eardrums.

Huo Wenxi stared at the screen like a real fortune teller, waiting for what was bound to happen.

The Precognitive Department has the ability to see the future, but also has a curse.

Sure enough, after a while, the electronic screen that had been off suddenly lit up. The light in the room was dim, so the light from the electronic screen instantly shone on Huo Wenxi's face.

It was a pure white page, like a newly opened document, with only a blinking cursor.

The cursor flashed twice, and three words popped up: "Team Leader Huo."

Huo Wenxi was waiting for this moment, so he was not surprised that Zhu Ning invaded the rebel system.

She was communicating with herself in the form of text. In the end, Zhu Ning was really like a computer.

Huo Wenxi's hands trembled unconsciously. She subconsciously wanted to touch a cigarette but stopped herself and could only rub the dried blood scabs between her fingers.

Huo Wenxi: "I've been waiting for you to come back."

She deliberately spoke in a light-hearted manner, wanting to treat this as a very ordinary work report. Zhu Ning found evidence and reported it to her, Huo Wenxi analyzed the clues and gave new instructions to Zhu Ning. This has always been their way of getting along.

The typing sound effect is not turned off, so when the text appears on the screen, there is a mechanical sound.

"I came to say goodbye to you."

Huo Wenxi was the last stop on her journey. Because she was most reluctant to leave Huo Wenxi, she came to see her last.

Huo Wenxi's hands trembled. She suspected that Zhu Ning appeared this time just to type on the screen and communicate in the form of text. He did not show up and did not make any sound because he did not want to make Huo Wenxi sad.

The ice-blue light hit her face, and that was the only contact between Zhu Ning and her.

Huo Wenxi knew that everything was bound to happen. She tried her best to control her emotions and said, "I know."

Words appeared on the screen one after another, like Zhu Ning's inner confession: "Before I left the wall, I only thought about revenge. I never imagined that one day I would have this ability, to destroy or save."

Huo Wenxi asked, "What does that feel like?"

The light on the screen stopped, and Zhu Ning lost most of her emotions, forcing her to try hard to perceive.

Finally, two words appeared on the screen: "Lonely."

It's not the pain but the loneliness.

Alone at the end of the desolate world, time seemed too long for her, and there was no one like her around.

Zhu Ning understood Bai Cheng. Her brain was buried alive underground, but her consciousness was extremely clear, and she existed like this for hundreds of years.

"I saw the results of the pre-apocalyptic reporter's investigation and met the savior of the previous generation."

"I look for new evidence again and again, trying to prove that Su He is wrong, but she is always right." Another line of words appeared on the screen.

Huo Wenxi has the ability to foresee the future. She has seen these scenes. She saw Zhu Ning struggling in vain, but could only bow to fate. She saw that every new evidence Zhu Ning found was leading him to the end.

"If everything is going to be destroyed, what's the point of saving it?"

Huo Wenxi was silent, she couldn't answer this question.

"Before Unit 03 died, I was ready to sacrifice myself. It seemed so simple to me."

Sliding down into the abyss smoothly without any hindrance may even seem like a temptation.

Having a suitable name sounds great yet simple. After death, the rest of the things have nothing to do with Zhu Ning.

Until Unit 3 was buried, Zhu Ning felt a faint signal in the blur. It was Unit 3 telling her through death.

The world will eventually perish, and even Zhu Ning cannot create a world that will never be polluted.

As long as the polluting system exists, pollution will never disappear.

The fish-headed man who missed the last bus, Wang Qinqian who was only 40 centimeters warm, and Bai Cheng who could only survive by eating plastic.

If the system is not changed, the emergence of several saviors will be meaningless, and mankind will always go down the same wrong path again and again.

"There is a document left by Mu Han on the Homecoming. She left behind images of the old world before its demise."

Zhu Ning seemed to be reporting on his work, and a yellowed and blurry image appeared on the screen.

People fished in the river, took photos in front of the stadium, and wore graffiti on their faces while attending concerts. That was the old world without large-scale pollution.

The people in these photos look very vivid before the sandstorm is about to sweep in.

Of course, there is also the words left by Mu Han: Don’t forget history.

The people of God's kingdom have forgotten history, so they repeat the wrong history over and over again.

But now that the kingdom of God has fallen and Prometheus is dead, it is not completely hopeless. They still have the possibility of rebuilding on the ruins, however slim it is.

"The first generation machine told me that if I could change time, I would not change the past, but the future."

Zhu Ning used to think that the key point was the ability to control time, but when Unit 03 died, she realized that the key point was the last sentence, which was to change the future.

Humanity needs to try again within a limited time and with the warnings of past history.

"Now I know," Zhu Ning said, "You are the future."

Huo Wenxi is the commander. Her greatest strength is not her intuition, but her command. She convinces people and makes them follow her.

Huo Wenxi possesses all the qualities of an outstanding leader in past history. She was born into the Huo family and has been close to the center of power since childhood.

District 103’s public speeches have inspired many people. In the apocalyptic era, when everyone knows that the world will eventually end, people only have the desire to live with the guidance of people like Huo Wenxi.

Humanity needs leaders.

"Not just you, all of you."

Huo Wenxi, the rebels, the demon hunters who died on the first battlefield, the corpses of generations who died, the future belongs to them.

Zhu Ning is facing a difficult problem, which she cannot solve by herself. This is the answer that the first generation Zhu Ning, the second generation Zhu Ning, Unit 03 and she who is in the far north came up with together.

"So this isn't a sacrifice. You can think of it as a bet between you and me." Words appeared on the screen.

This sentence reminded Huo Wenxi of her first private interview with Zhu Ning in the interrogation room, and also reminded her of her alliance with Zhu Ning in the Noble Queen Shop.

Whenever Zhu Ning has a plan in mind and wants to recruit someone to join him, he will ask for a bet.

Huo Wenxi knew her little tricks very well, and always fell into her traps, asking, "What are you betting on?"

"Bet once that the survivors will learn their lesson and the exploiters won't come back. Bet you can guarantee all of this."

"I bet you'll change the system and create a truly new world."

Su He was wrong. Zhu Ning was not the new world. The new world was created by everyone together.

A world with as little mutation, oppression and pollution as possible.

Zhu Ning could only purify, like cutting weeds on the ground and clearing garbage. She was not the one actually responsible for planting, and whether there was a harvest or not had nothing to do with her.

The room became very quiet for a while, and Huo Wenxi did not answer for a long time, because when she was arrested by Prometheus's men and thought she was about to die, she had seen countless futures.

Huo Wenxi covered his eyes and gently rubbed his palms as he felt the wriggling tentacles flipping over.

She took a deep breath and said after a long pause, "You have to let me create a real utopia."

"Yes." Zhu Ning said, "Don't feel pressured. You are a better commander than Prometheus."

Zhu Ning originally wanted to tease Huo Wenxi, but the other party did not laugh.

"After today, the pollution will temporarily disappear. I will delay the arrival of the end of the world just like Bai Cheng did back then. People can live for a while longer. Don't ask me how long. It could be a few decades, or even a hundred years, but not too long. Only a generation or two. You don't have much time left."

"At the same time, the sky door will open, and the sky will no longer be a curtain. People can break out of the blue sky and find new ways out."

Huo Wenxi: "What if there's no new way out? What if we go out and find the corpses of giants floating outside as well? We're just maggots in a pit of corpses. What if the outside world perishes as well? The world of giants is long dead, and we're the survivors?"

"Then live on." Words appeared on the screen one by one: "Even if you know the road ahead is death, you must live on."

Huo Wenxi understood Zhu Ning's words. Her absence made every word on the screen seem like an oracle.

Huo Wenxi: "I didn't see the moment of success."

There is no definite ending to this matter. It is not about moving towards an accurate picture after calculation, but a vague and unclear future.

There is a high probability that Huo Wenxi will fail, and humans may still become extinct after trying it.

She seemed to understand why Huo Jinsheng couldn't see Zhu Ning's fate. When Huo Wenxi reached this moment, she couldn't see it clearly either. It was too huge.

Huo Wenxi has always been a guide, she is here to guide people forward, but now she is like a lost lamb. She even hopes for a moment that Zhu Ning will deceive her and promise her a false future, so that Huo Wenxi can use this lie to support herself to move forward.

But Zhu Ning would not lie.

"Neither do I." The light on the screen paused before continuing, "But in the era before superpowers, before humans relied on contaminated spores as a universal resource, they lived on illusory hopes."

When humans did not have powerful weapons or external forces, they had a strong spirit.

Huo Wenxi: "So you're asking me to move towards an empty goal."

"Yes."

If this undertaking is a marathon, Zhu Ning is almost at the finish line, but Huo Wenxi is not yet.

She could only run around and around, and her destination might be despair, but Huo Wenxi had to lead the team forward. She shared Zhu Ning's loneliness in another form.

"Remember? We formed an alliance, an alliance that will not betray. I will be responsible for clearing obstacles, and you will be responsible for leading the team."

Huo Wenxi: "What if I fail?"

“Pollution will come back, but next time there will be no savior for humanity.”

That’s why it’s a gamble, there are wins and losses, and losing means true destruction.

Huo Wenxi didn't know exactly how Zhu Ning was going to accomplish all this, so he asked, "What about you?"

"I will accompany you in another form."

Huo Wenxi: "I can't refuse, right?"

"You have to clean up my mess for the last time."

When Huo Wenxi met Zhu Ning, he was there to clean up her mess, time and time again, from providing post-disaster guidance for District 103 to finding supplies after going outside the wall. The more trouble Zhu Ning caused, the more complicated Huo Wenxi's subsequent work became, and she never refused Zhu Ning.

It seemed that Huo Wenxi was commanding Zhu Ning, but in fact, Zhu Ning was also commanding Huo Wenxi in return.

Everything was about to end. Huo Wenxi had a premonition that this would be the last time she would speak to Zhu Ning.

As Zhu Ning said goodbye along the way, Huo Wenxi's reaction was the calmest. Perhaps she knew the secret that Zhu Ning had died a long time ago, and was not as panicked as Liu Niannian.

"Zhu Ning, what do you really want?" Huo Wenxi asked.

The cursor on the screen was blinking. This was a very simple question, but it ran slower than other questions.

“Beef noodles.”

The cursor flashed again. "Coke."

Huo Wenxi covered his eyes, and liquid dripped from between his fingers.

"You've already helped me achieve that."

Huo Wenxi couldn't tell whether Zhu Ning had nothing to ask for or was simply comforting herself. Everything she said was the answer Huo Wenxi had completed.

Zhu Ning has done everything he wanted to do: revenge, experiencing the world, and even understanding true freedom in the end.

"Are you crying?"

Huo Wenxi replied hoarsely, "No."

"You're a bit duplicitous."

It was clearly just a line of text, but Huo Wenxi could feel a little bit of Zhu Ning's emotions and imagine that the real Zhu Ning was sitting opposite her.

She wondered what the death of Unit 03 had brought to Zhu Ning, as if an emotionless robot had come into contact with human emotions for the first time.

If Zhu Ning was staging the last drama, letting everyone watch the protagonist's death, then now the curtain of death was slowly closing.

Huo Wenxi closed her eyes and saw countless images rushing towards her. She had seen these fragments before, and Zhu Ning's words seemed like a clue that connected them together.

Everything she saw was happening step by step.

…

The edge of the Far North.

"Liar." Lin Xiaofeng whispered.

The white bones condensed into a wall, like a hunting circle, facing the dark sky not far away. Bai Cheng stood in front of Lin Xiaofeng, becoming the last line of defense blocking her.

Black sky, white snow, flying red plastic bags, these are what Lin Xiaofeng faced.

She clearly didn't see Zhu Ning, but she had a very simple understanding that Zhu Ning had deceived her.

Lin Xiaofeng walked forward woodenly. A hand appeared in front of her chest. Bai Cheng blocked her way. She was not the Bai Cheng that Lin Xiaofeng knew, but a cold substitute, a stranger.

Bai Cheng still abided by the agreement with Zhu Ning to protect Lin Xiaofeng from danger. No matter which Bai Cheng she was, the agreement was valid.

Although it was just a guess before, seeing Bai Cheng's eyes, Lin Xiaofeng suddenly wanted to retreat, "She won't come back?"

Bai Cheng just remained silent.

Bai Cheng can feel the signals released by the main brain. Bai Cheng once controlled the shadows scattered everywhere in this way eighty years ago. Countless Bai Chengs share the same brain. After the great pollution, they can only transmit to the main brain unilaterally. Now the main brain is contacting them.

This is the first time in eighty years that all Bai Chengs have connected together, and all Bai Chengs have met Zhu Ning.

Bai Cheng looked at Lin Xiaofeng, who was wearing a tattered protective suit. A long trail of footprints was left in the snow behind her, which were the traces she left when she was looking for Zhu Ning.

Lin Xiaofeng stood at the end of the footprints. He raised his head stubbornly and asked again, "Doesn't she want me anymore?"

Bai Cheng didn't know how to explain all this to Lin Xiaofeng. She was not good at dealing with humans, and even less good at dealing with little girls. The only thing she knew was to protect the child as much as possible.

Bai Cheng didn't respond, didn't object, and didn't say anything, but that was enough to explain something.

Bai Cheng picked up Lin Xiaofeng. Lin Xiaofeng was only ten years old, and her body was so light that she looked like a kitten in the hands of the undead.

People are really strange. They seem to be able to remain rational before being touched, but as soon as someone touches you or comforts you, your emotions collapse like dominoes.

When Lin Xiaofeng was picked up by Bai Cheng, she was like a kitten with its fur suddenly standing up. Tears flowed uncontrollably, and she yelled at the black moon in the sky: "Liar! You lied to me!"

"Wait for me to come back." Zhu Ning said this before entering the Far North.

Why? Lin Xiaofeng is still alive, she is still playing the role of anchor, why should Zhu Ning break her promise first?

Lin Xiaofeng realized that Zhu Ning would not come back, and that sending herself to the human-headed mammoth was the last time they would see each other.

At that time, they all knew what was in the Far North. It was the nothingness that would deprive the five senses, the place where Captain Pei Shu died, the last stop of this journey, and an existence more terrifying than death.

No one knew all this and would still go in without hesitation, but Zhu Ning was responsible for too many lives, including Xu Meng, Song Zhizhang, the people who died in District 103, and Pei Shu who died not long ago.

Pei Shu's ashes were still on Lin Xiaofeng's body. She didn't even know if they were Pei Shu's ashes. She just picked up the ashes of the dead in the place of death.

Lin Xiaofeng couldn't stop her. She knew Zhu Ning had to go. She would rather die in the Far North than live outside.

Lin Xiaofeng understood Zhu Ning. Not only could she not stop her, she had to support her in entering the Far North. But she thought there would be a miracle, like the time he saved her in the aquarium and the time he killed Bao Ruiming.

But in the end there was no miracle.

No matter what form Zhu Ning lives in later, the Zhu Ning who rescued her from the aquarium is no longer there.

Bai Cheng felt the strength of Lin Xiaofeng's struggle. Her special ability was great strength, which could easily tear herself apart. Bai Cheng did not retreat, but hugged Lin Xiaofeng tightly. The wall of bones behind her was ready to move, and she didn't mind using her bones to condense into a new cage.

Lin Xiaofeng's hands were on Bai Cheng's shoulders, in a pushing posture. He only needed a slight push to break free from his control, but at this moment he suddenly released his strength.

She was raised well by Zhu Ning and Song Zhizhang, and knew what she could and could not do, and would never hurt others because of her own pain.

So she forced herself to suppress her instinct, while another kind of sadness surged in her heart.

Zhu Ning left an indelible mark on her, forcing her to consider Zhu Ning's shadow before making any choice. Zhu Ning tamed her and then abandoned her.

"baby--"

Lin Xiaofeng was stunned. Every new Bai Cheng had to learn to speak from scratch. Their voices were mechanical and they spoke these two words unskillfully.

Tears suddenly accumulated in Lin Xiaofeng's eyes, condensed into frost, and pierced into her eyeballs like a sharp sword.

"baby."

This was the first time Zhu Ning had called him that since she had killed Bao Ruiming. She was full of energy, as if she had won a battle, and she shouted in his ear, "Baby!"

She asked Lin Xiaofeng to be her employee, saying that she wanted to work to pay off her debts. Lin Xiaofeng was her number one employee.

It was Zhu Ning who helped Lin Xiaofeng break away from her past life and become a true treasure in someone's hand.

As if playing a game of whisper, Zhu Ning passed the voice to Bai Cheng's main brain, the main brain passed it to Bai Cheng in front of him, and Bai Cheng then told it to Lin Xiaofeng.

One person after another, they all convey the same message.

Zhu Ning was calling her.

Zhu Ning’s only regret was that he had no channel to contact Lin Xiaofeng directly and could only use such roundabout means.

Zhu Ning knew how to comfort her, how to control her, and how to calm her down.

Love comes at a price. Only Zhu Ning can easily know his most vulnerable spot, so he has no choice but to surrender.

The slime in the distant sky was spreading rapidly, like water being released from a floodgate. The black moon covered the entire sky, and its edges were like black asphalt.

Zhu Ning is going to devour the world.

Lin Xiaofeng looked over Bai Cheng's shoulder. The black mucus condensed like accumulated oil. There seemed to be a dividing line in the sky. The black mucus stretched out a huge tentacle, like a finger hanging from the sky. Her body was so huge, but so gentle in Lin Xiaofeng's eyes.

The giant reached out his hand and carefully touched the tiny human.

Darkness was reflected in Lin Xiaofeng's eyes, that was Zhu Ning's shadow.

Time seemed to stop. Lin Xiaofeng held her breath and let the black mucus touch the tip of her nose. It did not have the coldness and despair of the Far North. It even felt a little warm, just like Zhu Ning.

She instinctively wanted to bury her face in Zhu Ning's palm.

The next moment, the black mucus instantly submerged Lin Xiaofeng's body. Wherever it went was extreme darkness. There was no light, no sound, and everything was swallowed up mercilessly.

The surviving creatures near the North looked toward the north vigilantly, the mutated deer-headed men pricked up their ears, the trees stretched out their branches, and the leaves stood up and looked into the distance.

Zhu Ning devoured the brain of Prometheus and mastered the nerves of the giant. The black neural network unfolded like branching trees, just like finding the veins of a human body. The nerves connected the bones and muscles, drawing a complete outline of the giant.

On that day, not only humans, but all living things reacted almost in unison, just like the mass extinction recorded in mythology. Everyone was equal in the face of darkness.

Flocks of birds were flying, the monster's pollutants were running southward, and the lone witcher who had not been rescued tried to contact the inside of the wall but found that the communication was interrupted.

Square doors opened in the air, and wriggling maggots continued to fall from the doors. In front of one of the doors, a flying car was hovering with a pink ball of yarn hanging on the roof.

The ball of yarn swayed and was immediately swallowed by darkness.

The speed was getting faster and faster, like black ink covering everything. The flying fishing line floating in the air was broken up, the gorgeous scenery was shattered, and the terrifying group of water droplets were annihilated in an instant.

On the moving Homecoming train, Liu Niannian was trapped at the bottom of the boat. As the Homecoming train was carrying her forward, the boat became more and more crowded, as if it wanted to squeeze her to death with one hand and suffocate her in the boat.

She should have run away, but she lay motionless and quiet at the bottom of the boat.

Just then she heard the sound of water, and at first she thought it was the sound of waves, as there had been sea in the last section of the Homecoming, but then the sound seemed more ethereal and like a ferocious monster devouring everything.

Liu Niannian looked out from the seam of the boat and saw that what was flowing in the carriage was not bright red blood, but black mucus.

Those things stretched out countless tentacles and rushed towards Liu Niannian the moment they saw her.

Liu Niannian's pupils dilated, but strangely, she didn't feel scared at all. Instead, she felt a strange sense of security. The black slime running towards her filled the bottom of the boat, as if giving her a strong hug.

The witchers at the front of the train leaned on the windows and watched. From their perspective, it was hard to tell whether the Homecoming Express was heading towards the darkness on its own initiative or was forced to be enveloped by it.

Just like a sudden disaster, people don't have time to think about anything during a disaster.

Outside the north wall, the first battlefield.

The sandstorm became more and more severe, with visibility less than half a meter. People felt that the tentacle monster in the center of the sandstorm was becoming more and more powerful.

Countless deep pits were bombed out on the ground, with corpses everywhere. The mushroom cloud and dust floating in the sky merged into one.

A minute ago, they used up their last trump card and the first battlefield was completely lost.

The scout spotted something approaching in the distance and shouted, "North, watch out north, new contaminants are approaching, repeat..."

But he didn't finish his words, because what was coming was so fast that it could be seen with the naked eye without the need for scouts ahead.

Their first reaction was that there were new pollutants. Some people had predicted that in this case, the pollution would have a chain reaction and would likely attract other pollutants nearby.

The first battle was a crushing defeat and could not withstand a second attack.

People are like ants in front of the sandstorm. The sand and dust mixed together like a huge monster, and the black slime coming from afar was even larger. When the two sides collided, it was like two rivers of different colors converging.

However, it was not a fair fight at all, because the next second, people could clearly see the darkness gradually swallowing them up, and the darkness advanced an inch while the dust retreated an inch.

The undead army in the sandstorm suddenly stopped.

The demon hunters who were searching for the source of pollution in the sandstorm had a closer perspective. They clearly saw dancing tentacles in the blurry sand and dust, but the tentacles were trembling at this time, as if walking in the fog, but they found that the enemy was behind them.

The black mucus wrapped around every grain of sand, as if it were a pair of fine teeth gradually gnawing at it.

All the demon hunters had seen the video of Area 103’s victory and had seen this scene before, but it was not so...shocking.

The scale was even larger than that time, beyond the imagination of ordinary people. No matter whether Zhu Ning was a demon or a true god, she chose to devour everything.

So the onlookers could only watch, like countless creatures looking up, and no one even wanted to retreat because it was all happening so fast.

The whole world seemed to be doused with gasoline, and the black slime was like a fire that could sweep across the world immediately with just a spark.

They had never seen a black fire, a flame like pitch, devouring the pollutants and the soldiers.

The witchers simply opened their mouths wide and were engulfed by darkness.

The intelligence network was completely paralyzed. Zhu Ning's voice disappeared at some point. The human-machine joint device supporting them went out, and the connection between humans was completely cut off.

After entering the darkness, your five senses are deprived, but you don’t feel despair just because your senses are gone. It’s as if someone has just temporarily anesthetized you and allowed you to have a good sleep.

The darkness surpassed the north wall and then climbed towards the high walls of the human survivors' base. Those tall walls were like islands in front of the darkness, and the black slime was like rapidly rising sea water.

Those inside the wall and into the underground shelter trembled, not knowing what the future would hold.

The people from the Resurrection Society smiled exaggeratedly at the black slime. The mutant holding a baseball bat whistled and rode his motorcycle into the darkness.

At that time, everyone thought it was an unprecedented destruction.

In Area 82, Su He sat next to the corpse of Unit 03. Beside her were ruins made of broken bodies. Su He's red windbreaker stood out among them.

She tried to speak to Unit-3, but there were no signs of life under the stone.

The steel dome of Area 82 was opened. Su He sat on the ruins and looked up at the sky, like a frog in a well.

The sandstorm entered Area 82. As the sand poured in, Su He could already see the black tide.

Zhu Ning devoured the world. She melted the world into one source of pollution. She could easily push down high walls. If Zhu Ning wanted, she could let humans die in the darkness.

Did Zhu Ning choose to save or destroy?

In the end, Su He realized that she didn't care about this at all. She wanted the destruction of the world, and if she couldn't do that, then she wanted the destruction of herself.

This was all led by her, and Su He achieved what he had wanted all his life.

There have been so many destroyers in human history, but none of them could do what she did today.

The huge black slime looked to her like the black cloud produced by a bomb, like the magnificent fireworks at a celebration, or like the spectacular lava erupting from a volcano.

Su He curled the corners of her mouth and hummed softly. She opened her arms to the darkness and walked into it as if embracing an old friend.

The black tide did not stay on her for even a second, flowing past quickly, as if submerging a red stone.

In the rebel office, Huo Wenxi had already heard the alarm in the corridor. She saw the darkness on the street, from the sky to the ground, all dyed black.

The scene in Huo Wenxi's mind and reality completely overlapped. The screen in front of him was still bright, but he was no longer typing. It was soon Huo Wenxi's turn to type on the building.

Huo Wenxi didn't know what Zhu Ning did, nor did she want to know. Facing all this, Huo Wenxi only had one last question: "Do you have anything else to say?"

Zhu Ning had heard the last words of many people, but only Huo Wenxi was listening to Zhu Ning's last words in return.

The cursor flickered. "Goodbye."

Huo Wenxi looked at the two words and thought of the first time Zhu Ning said hello to the world. She said hello to the world, and this time she said goodbye to the world.

Like a programmed machine, from power on to power off.

Zhu Ning's conversation with Huo Wenxi on the electronic screen was like an article, with words densely packed together, as if someone writing a diary late at night deleted their own words. The invisible delete key was pressed, the first word disappeared, then a word, then a sentence. Zhu Ning deleted every word she wrote, and the evidence of her existence was swallowed up line by line.

Until the last word is deleted, the flashing cursor never lights up again and the screen goes out.

The world fell into darkness.