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Shanmao watched all this. He came to the underground in a daze and met the mastermind of the previous generation of saviors. He lent his body to Zhu Ning, completing the communication between the two generations of saviors.

He saw colorful plastic and moving plastic people, and understood the truth about the destruction of the world.

When he came to his senses, he was already off the stage, the curtain of death slowly fell, and Bobcat became one of the audience.

Zhu Ning is going to die?

Unlike the live games I watched as a child, this was a drama of death.

Zhu Ning thanked him in his mind, thanking him for lending his body to him. Black mycelium covered the entire body of the mountain cat. He had never been so close to Zhu Ning before.

"It's time for you to leave." Zhu Ning instructed him as if he was giving countless people shelter from danger.

Shanmao's biggest task was to deliver the message, and he had obviously completed it. Zhu Ning and Bai Cheng had reached an agreement.

Bobcat walked two steps out along the same path. There was a very low place in the passage, so he subconsciously bent down and never stood up again.

He held his knees and felt his heart was extremely heavy, as if it was going to fall out of his chest and onto the ground.

Zhu Ning was still on his nerves, and noticing his abnormality, he said, "Take a deep breath and rest where you are."

So the Bobcat sat down obediently, not knowing where to go, and buried his face in his knees.

Zhu Ning felt him gradually growing colder, a thin crust of ice condensing on the surface of his eyeballs, like a protective shell for him. She had an emotional connection with the people she took in, and could empathize with emotions that the other person was unaware of.

Borrowing the body of a mountain cat is one thing, but monitoring the other party's privacy is another. Zhu Ning politely wanted to withdraw.

"Thank you." Zhu Ning's voice sounded particularly distant, as if he was about to hang up the phone after finishing his business.

Shan Mao suddenly had a premonition that if he didn't speak up now, he would never have another chance in his life. He took the initiative to talk to Zhu Ning: "Are you leaving?"

He knew Zhu Ning was very busy and would probably leave immediately, but Zhu Ning actually stopped and asked, "What's up?"

Zhu Ning worked on multiple fronts, with the most common task being evacuation guidance, and the second most common being end-of-life comfort. That used to be Prometheus's job, but Zhu Ning took over this responsibility, patiently listening to the dying people arrange their own affairs.

In fact, while she was contacting Bai Cheng, controlling Unit 3, and guiding Liu Niannian onto the Homecoming, the mission never stopped for a moment while she was doing so many things.

This is just one of millions of last words.

Zhu Ning was in the body of the mountain cat. She could sense that the mountain cat was exhausted. He was too tired.

If the world is about to end, the mountain cat will not survive for long, and Zhu Ning is ready to receive his last words.

Bobcat seemed to be floating in the sea. He had a lot of things he wanted to ask, such as Xu Meng and the Cheetah Team, but before he could say it, he felt that everything was meaningless.

"Do you still remember me?" Bobcat finally asked.

He is a very dull and taciturn person. Apart from his good looks, his personality is not very noticeable. After he asked the question, he found that he was not so nervous anymore. Instead, he felt like a stone had been lifted off his shoulders.

Do you remember me? It's a simple question, not even a little offensive.

Zhu Ning guessed that Shanmao was not asking about the past one or two years, but about the past.

Those were the memories of the first generation Zhu Ning, but the first generation Zhu Ning destroyed her own memories before she died. In Zhu Ning's current system memory card, there were very few memories of the first generation machine, as if she had never existed at all.

There is an obvious benefit after Zhu Ning replaced Prometheus. She can use all cameras and all memory cards, and can retrieve all related information by just entering a code.

Enter the keyword: Bobcat.

Zhu Ning quickly browsed through the life of Bobcat, a manufactured mutant. His production logic had been seen by Unit 3, which was to extract the mutant's abilities and then create new mutants.

On the day of his birth, he was determined to be of ice type.

After a short basic training, he was put into use at the age of ten and officially joined the Cheetah Team. The members of the Cheetah Team were his relatives, and Xu Meng and Cheng Mofei played his temporary parents.

Zhu Ning saw Xu Meng from another perspective. As she said, the Cheetah team is like a family.

The group of androids that Bobcat had had a trait that couldn't be called a weakness, but in fact many androids exhibited this trait.

Because they don't have parents and relatives in the traditional sense and are used too early, they are very eager for relationships, which may be a bit pathological compared to ordinary people.

This is the drawback of this technology. The S-level mutants created are either extremely eager for love or extremely indifferent.

Bobcat has seen too many similar tragedies happen, and he is lucky.

In addition to the Cheetahs' home-like warmth, the Bobcats found themselves a new, unbreakable relationship: an eternal idol.

The Bobcat only needs to look up. He doesn't need to do anything extra, and he doesn't even need to let the other party know of his existence.

As Zhu Ning searched, she saw Bobcat sitting in the audience, wearing a black T-shirt and a baseball cap. He looked particularly well-behaved among the other adults, like a middle school student who had strayed in.

The camera keeps switching, and the Bobcat grows up day by day, his immaturity fades away, he grows from a boy into a young man, and looks more and more stable.

The rest of the audience around him was changing, the crowd was flowing away from him, but the Bobcat was always there, like a stable anchor.

Probably because of his tasks, he was occasionally late for the entrance, but he was always the last one to leave until the cleaning staff came to turn off the lights.

He sneaked into the training ground when no one was around, just to find an empty bullet shell used by Zhu Ning.

The bullet is still locked in the safe in Area 103, together with his few belongings. Since that day, he has never dared to see it in public again.

These scenes are like silent films because the protagonists never speak.

When Bobcat was fifteen years old, he almost had a conversation with Zhu Ning. After the game, many people came forward to ask for autographs, and Bobcat felt that he was not conspicuous at all among them.

The team was not long to begin with, and there were fewer and fewer people in the front. The closer it got to Zhu Ning, the more Bobcat wanted to escape.

The person in front wanted to take a photo, and after getting permission, he pressed the camera into Bobcat's hand and said, "Take a picture for me, thank you!"

Shanmao took the camera in a daze. When he aimed the lens, Zhu Ning's face suddenly appeared in front of him, as if it was suddenly right in front of him. The focus was too close, so he was a little dazed.

Boom——

As the shutter clicked, he heard his own deafening heartbeat.

"Thank you." The man put his hands together to express his gratitude to Bobcat. The people behind him were so impatient to squeeze forward that they forgot that Bobcat hadn't asked for his autograph yet, fearing that they would be left behind. "I want a photo too."

The mountain cat was pushed farther and farther away by the crowd, like a leaf pushed away by the tide, and he flashed through the team.

He vaguely felt that something had changed in himself, or that his feelings towards Zhu Ning had changed, from simple admiration and love to something else, and his heart was beating wildly.

The same picture occupied Shanmao's mind. When he was helping to take pictures, in the enlarged lens, Zhu Ning raised his eyes and looked at him.

Instead of feeling lost, he thought he had obtained the best thing in the world, or the most unique moment in the world. That scene was imprinted in his mind.

That moment belonged to him alone, and even Zhu Ning could not share it.

"It's normal that you don't remember." The mountain cat in the underground cave had already guessed the answer. He was very considerate and continued the topic, not wanting to embarrass the other party or himself.

"Go and do your work." Bobcat's words were redundant: "Leave me alone."

He thought Zhu Ning would politely exit his body and withdraw the black mycelium from the neural network, but Zhu Ning was silent for a moment, then suddenly said, "Remember."

In fact, this was the result of her search. Since she had not experienced that period of life, it was like observing the relationship between the first generation Zhu Ning and Shanmao from an absolutely rational third perspective.

On the same day, when Bobcat was queuing but was forced to interrupt, the first generation Zhu Ning had already noticed it. She was not a big star and had only a few old fans, especially Bobcat was so special.

There were several times when the mountain cat came with injuries, perhaps having just finished a mission. The smell of ice, snow and blood mixed on its body often meant danger.

The bobcat had no idea how conspicuous it was among the crowd, like a wolf among a flock of sheep.

When the first generation Zhu Ning first noticed him, his beast instinct emerged and he thought the mountain cat was a lurking enemy.

What were the ice-type psychics doing at the Spark Club? Zhu Ning knew they were important "talents" or "property" of the Federation, and they frequently traveled to and from the S-level contaminated area.

At that time, she had a natural duty to protect the family of the Spark Club.

The bobcat was secretly observing her, and she was also observing the bobcat.

The first generation Zhu Ning has been slowly withdrawing from the competition, signing fewer autographs and taking fewer photos. That day she had only stayed for a small performance after the game out of trial.

She wanted to make contact with the mountain cat and determine its true intentions. Two beasts could not exist in the same area.

In the crowd, the first generation Zhu Ning's attention never left the mountain cat. She watched the team in front of her getting shorter and shorter, and soon it was approaching her goal, with only half a meter left. She was even a little curious about what the mountain cat would do.

But the bobcat was stupid and clumsily helped others take pictures, with half of its face hidden behind the camera.

After the mountain cat was pushed away, she looked unhappy and wanted to call him back.

But the first generation Zhu Ning stopped and did not move forward.

In the surveillance, the historical images were very blurry. The first generation Zhu Ning stared at the back of the mountain cat in a daze, his brows unconsciously frowned.

Zhu Ning shares the same body and the same set of past memories with her. If it were in the past, she probably wouldn't know what happened to the first generation, but now she knows.

Eye of Prescience.

The first generation Zhu Ning has Huo Huaiying's eyes. Her main skill is absolute foresight, but foresight requires a trigger point, just like a gun that requires pulling the trigger to use.

In fact, she achieved her goal. The moment she saw the mountain cat, she had already glimpsed his fate, or their fate.

She saw the future.

In a vague and ambiguous future, she saw herself reuniting with Bobcat in another identity, saw Bobcat participating in the sniper attack on Su He in Area 103, and saw him walk out of the high walls and become an investigator outside the walls.

Her sighting of a bobcat would lead to a key clue.

Although the images were complicated and the meaning of many scenes could not be determined, they all poured into her mind. She didn't know the reason, but she vaguely understood something.

How should people with precognitive abilities live?

She can see the future, but is manipulated by fate.

She sees everything and knows the end at the beginning.

So the first generation Zhu Ning stopped and watched the figure of Bobcat being submerged in the crowd.

Because the scheduled time had not yet arrived, the line unfolded before the eyes of the first generation Zhu Ning. Fate had made its own arrangements, and any changes would be disturbing and create unnecessary ripples.

Until their death, the First Generation and the Mountain Cat never said a word to each other, not even the simplest thank you or goodbye.

To others, they were complete strangers, even the mountain cats thought so.

All of this had been suppressed infinitely, and only erupted now, before the world was about to end, under Bai Cheng's witness, in the cold garbage dump.

The second generation Zhu Ning took over the news and also took over the feelings of the mountain cat.

"Do you like her?" Zhu Ning took the initiative to ask the question buried deep in Shanmao's heart.

Bobcat was too nervous, his heart was beating so hard that he didn't hear the hidden meaning behind the words.

He kept thinking about Zhu Ning along the way, like he had obsessive-compulsive disorder. Time seemed to be going backwards. He wanted to stay in that moment forever, the moment when Zhu Ning's face suddenly appeared in the camera.

"Yes, I like you." Bobcat didn't dare to say love, he only dared to say like.

After he said it, the picture in his mind became clearer. He must have realized that he was abnormal and when his spirit was about to collapse, he would cling to the last bit of fantasy.

He didn't even expect Zhu Ning's answer.

The sound of plastic in the underground cavity seemed pleasant, and the world didn't seem so scary anymore.

Just say it out loud, as long as Zhu Ning knows it.

His last wish had been spoken, and no response was necessary.

"Sorry, I can't respond to you." Zhu Ning's voice sounded extremely calm.

When Bobcat heard this, he thought it was normal. This was the expected answer. It was the second time he had narrowly escaped the truth that was right in front of him.

He didn't realize, or deliberately ignored, Zhu Ning's strange choice of words. It wasn't that he didn't like her or didn't feel anything, but that he couldn't respond.

Zhu Ning couldn't respond to him.

Shanmao's words were beyond Zhu Ning's current scope of handling. She had no humanity and no emotions. The more passionate Shanmao's emotions were, the colder Zhu Ning seemed.

Zhu Ning explained: "I'm sorry, I'm not her."

Bobcat seemed to understand but also seemed not to understand. He was silent for a while. He had guessed the reality but refused to admit it. He asked a silly question: "So how is she?"

Tell him that everything is fine, Zhu Ning may be living another life, she is so dazzling, guiding him out of the high walls, supporting him through one death night after another.

Bobcat hoped she was still alive, as long as she was alive, even if she was just a string of code.

Zhu Ning: "She's dead."

It's like a sharp knife coming towards you, cutting off all unrealistic fantasies.

Everything had been foreshadowed, but the Bobcat turned a blind eye to it.

Bobcat closed his eyes and wanted to run away immediately, but Zhu Ning was still in his mind, so he felt like he was hit in the face by fate, but he had to face it.

The underground fell into a long silence. The mountain cat received the news of Zhu Ning's death in full, and this news was told by Zhu Ning himself.

When the second generation Zhu Ning woke up, the first generation Zhu Ning had already disappeared in the long river of history. She was dead.

When Shan Mao reunited with the second generation Zhu Ning, what he saw was the corpse of the first generation Zhu Ning.

"Hello, I'm Bobcat."

"Hello, I'm Caracal."

What Bobcat was holding was the dead first generation. That was the first time he met Zhu Ning.

The Bobcat's palms were cold. In the underground garbage dump, the rustling sound of plastic behind him was like chanting, empty and meaningless.

The mountain cat asked hoarsely, "Then who are you?"

Zhu Ning replied: "A corpse."