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Shelter Area A1, Base 61.

Residents received an emergency evacuation notice, and everyone wanted to enter the shelter. There was a quarantine station at the entrance of the shelter, which was similar to the equipment in the cleaning center, a temporary shed that could detect the concentration of human pollution.

There was a long queue at the entrance of the shelter, with people crowded together. Some of them brought their families with them, and those with children hugged their children. In this era, people generally did not want to have children. Even artificial humans could be created, so natural reproduction was extremely rare.

When the escape began and the crowd gathered together, people realized that there were so many newborns. It was really strange. It seemed that humans had an instinct that nothing could stop them from reproducing.

In such a crowded situation, people who see people with children will actively give way to prevent the children from being squeezed. Parents with children are also afraid of causing trouble, so they hold their children tightly in their arms and make room for other refugees.

"Is this a biological child?" A hand stretched out from the crowd and suddenly started to play with the child. It was a little girl with a ponytail and a dress.

The mother holding the child smiled with a forced smile. "He was adopted from the foster camp. He was originally a newly trained outside investigator, but was eliminated in the first round."

The person who was teasing the child was stunned. Most of the children in the orphanage had a miserable life. Those who were accepted had to work outside the wall, and those who were not accepted were almost all "dealt with". Some were directly killed, and a small number could be adopted by ordinary humans.

The woman probably knew she couldn't hide it, so she answered truthfully.

The man touched the little girl's head, but the little girl turned her head away and buried her face in her mother's arms, with fear in her one big eye.

"She's shy, I'm sorry." She was used to apologizing. She had been apologizing all the way here since she received the news about the shelter, for fear of causing trouble again.

"It's okay, it's okay." He withdrew his hand.

"Why are you pushing so hard?" Suddenly, there was a commotion behind them. The crowd was too close together, like a basin full of water. If anything unusual happened, it would sway from the back to the front like water waves.

People couldn't help but lean forward, and someone yelled, "Who is it?"

There was a man panting and trying to squeeze into the team, swimming upstream like a fish, as if he would die a second earlier if he fell behind.

The armed witcher had to maintain order. She had a very conspicuous green hair. She hit the man in the face with the butt of her rifle and yelled, "Why are you pushing? Line up!"

The man was hit hard by the butt of the gun, and the crowd automatically made way for him, but he still wanted to crawl into the crowd.

"I told you to line up!" The witcher's gun was against his forehead.

The man, however, was not afraid at all. He actually hugged the muzzle of the gun, seemingly unafraid of the bullet that was about to be fired. His face was bleeding from the bullet, and he was holding the muzzle of the gun with bruises and swelling. "Sandstorm! The sandstorm is coming!"

Crowds of people tend to cause chaos, and his voice spread out like ripples, instantly igniting people's panic.

"Is the sandstorm really coming?"

The team at the front was so dense that it was impossible to move. Fear spread, and only two words were repeated: "Sandstorm, sandstorm..."

Everyone was chattering, and the witcher's heartbeat was pounding. They had been on this kind of field mission before and knew the consequences of a crowd getting out of control. In this situation, the dangerous factor had to be immediately suppressed. She grabbed the man by the collar, pulled him out of the team, and dragged him to the back of the team, "Shut up!"

The man laughed, and the witcher changed her mind while holding the man. This man had mental problems and could easily collapse and become a pollutant. She either isolated him solitary or shot him in a corner. She was more inclined to the latter now.

The witcher dragged the man to the end when his feet suddenly trembled.

boom--

There was a loud noise in the distance, as if someone had hit the ground hard. The dense crowd crowded like lambs and collectively fell to the right.

They subconsciously protected their heads and asked, "What happened? An earthquake?"

They trembled, there was no crack in the ground, no bombs in the sky, no enemies and no war.

Lights flickered in the distance, but the vibration lasted less than thirty seconds. Later they realized that because they were too far away from the Kingdom of God, all the sensations were delayed.

The witcher who was dragging the man by the collar stopped. Panic was contagious. Her heart beat faster and she became anxious because witchers were more sensitive than ordinary people. The abnormality came from far away, or to be more precise, from the sky.

The colleagues in charge of maintaining public order all stopped, as if the sheepdogs on the farm were alerted to the presence of wolves. They subconsciously looked up at the sky. They could not see the Kingdom of God from here, but they had a guess in their hearts that something had happened in the Kingdom of God.

People followed the witcher's movements and instinctively looked up into the sky.

The witcher felt that this matter should be stopped and the evacuation process should continue. She should first deal with the man at hand, and then continue to herd people like a sheepdog, driving them into the shelter.

Her mind became more and more tense. At first she thought the danger was in the distant sky, but later she felt it was in the crowd. The hairs on the back of her neck stood up, cold sweat broke out on her forehead, and her heart was trembling instead of beating.

There are pollutants in the crowd.

A guess arose in her mind, and then kept repeating, as if there was some kind of mental contamination. That was the fact. She thought of the warning issued by Area 103, that non-natural humans could hide in the crowd, and Base 61 had never had any problems.

Her first suspect was the man in her hand. He behaved very strangely from beginning to end and was easily infected by his mental disorder. But when she grabbed the man's collar, he just cried and muttered incoherently, like an ordinary person who was scared crazy.

who?

The little girl who retired from the orphanage? Prospective off-site investigators tend to go crazy easily, so they were dealt with.

Her eyes swept over, and the ordinary people looking up at the sky looked the same, like the straight and slender trees in the woods. Suddenly, her gaze fixed on one person.

Just now, when he was teasing the child, I took a closer look at him. He was a very gentle-looking man, wearing a suit and without any luggage. People who came with their families wanted to carry all their valuables with them, but he was the only one with empty hands.

He looked like any other shocked bystander, except for one thing: his mouth was open.

His mouth grew bigger and bigger, tearing apart from the corners, but his lips seemed to be pulled by a force, gradually becoming pointed and blending with the tip of his nose, revealing two rows of human teeth.

It's him!

The green-haired demon hunter found his target, and the first person to react was the little girl. She had been trained in the breeding camp and had an intuition about pollutants. The girl grabbed her mother's collar and yelled, "Mom! Run!"

At this moment, black lines appeared around the man, as if the transformation was finally complete. The mouth that kept stretching and becoming sharper could make out its specific shape. It was a bird's beak.

The flesh-pink beak opened wide, and he let out a sharp roar, piercing straight through the chest of the person opposite him.

Bang--!

The green-haired demon hunter fired a gun. The news of the fall of the Kingdom of God and the disintegration of the Federation came through the earphone. Prometheus must have been offline. Then there was a screaming sound of radio waves in the earphone, but she acted as if she didn't hear it. All she could think about was shooting.

The bullet shot out from the muzzle and landed on something like a shield with a bang. A pair of steel-like wings stretched out, blocking the rain of bullets.

Her heartbeat suddenly slowed down and her pupils suddenly contracted, as if she suddenly understood the cruel truth of the world.

The wings that the man stretched out had bone spurs on them, and the sharp bone spurs pierced a person's neck. The mother who had been holding the child just now had her eyes wide open and blood gushed out. The little girl had already been pushed away.

What is a demon hunter's job? To eliminate pollutants. She joined the city defense team. What is the city defense team's job? To protect civilians.

She used to joke that her job was like a sheepdog's, needing to protect every sheep. Because she had supernatural powers, she was different from ordinary people, having gone from a sheep to a sheepdog. Although many people would consider it a boring job, she took it seriously.

"Hello!" She picked up the headset and wanted to call the captain, but found it was in vain. Most of the team members were just silent. They were stunned for a moment, and the next thing they did was to tear off the headset.

Just like when a company goes bankrupt, the employees' first reaction is to take off their ID cards, and she should do the same, but her hands were shaking and she couldn't do it at all.

The birdman was surrounded by darkness, and black lines fell one by one. The crowd fled in all directions, but the person who was stuck by the black lines stopped in place, with a pair of eyes staring at him from behind.

The little girl didn't leave. She was wearing a light red dress and her face was covered with blood spots. Her eyes were covered with blood, but the hatred in her eyes did not diminish at all.

She was holding a knife in her right hand. Knives were not allowed to be brought into the shelter. It was a knife that was confiscated by the inspectors. People were fleeing, and only the little girl came back.

The green-haired witcher could tell at a glance that she wanted revenge, and it was this look that prevented her from leaving like her other colleagues. She had to stop it all, or at least save the little girl.

She rushed forward without hesitation, like a loyal dog fighting a hungry wolf to protect her flock. Her green hair fluttered as she stepped into the black lines of the polluted area, ignoring the distortion and alienation, firing while shouting, "Go!"

Bang--

The world was plunged into blood.

Unit 03 gasped for breath, and the surface of its eyeballs seemed to be covered with the little girl's blood, the blood of the green witcher. Zhu Ning played historical scenes for her.

She inherited Prometheus's ability to quickly integrate surveillance, as if it were a movie clip.

"I'm sorry, I'm too late." Zhu Ning said.

Unit 3's head was filled with blood, and she felt like vomiting. Zhu Ning had played more than just this moment's clips: the accident at the shelter's entrance, the sudden riot in the hospital lobby, the school's emergency dismissal, the bloodbath on the playground, the mutiny in the prison...

There is only one thing in common: corpses lying everywhere, countless tragic scenes, people shouting at the top of their lungs and wailing in despair.

Things had already happened at the same time. The moment Zhu Ning took over Prometheus's duties, she inherited the other party's memories and also inherited these.

Everything happened so fast like an avalanche, and Zhu Ning's ability to control it was limited. Unlike the support provided outside the wall, no one paid attention to Zhu Ning's warnings inside the wall.

All the non-natural humans hiding in the dark acted at the same time. Zhu Ning understood in an instant that the fall of the Kingdom of God was a secret signal, the perfect opportunity for revival. Su He didn't have to show up. Once the Kingdom of God fell, all the chess pieces hidden in the dark would act immediately.

Zhu Ning unfolded the story in multiple lines. When she received the news, her emotions were not completely destroyed. She only selected some fragments to show to Unit 3, and Zhu Ning at that time even had to force herself to sort it out.

Because it was her duty, she couldn't escape from the engine room at the end of the world.

Unit 3's face looked very ugly, even more painful than the previous experiment. She was not the second-generation Zhu Ning. The second-generation had become emotionally indifferent, and she could perceive fewer emotions than herself. As an ordinary person, her mind could not bear the pain of tens of thousands of people dying at the same time.

Unit 3 asked, "What can you do?"

Her voice was a little cold, even a little sarcastic, as if to say that it would be useless even if you became a god.

Zhu Ning understood the hidden meaning in her words, but in a sense, they were one and the same, so when Unit 03 scolded her, it was actually scolding itself.

"A warning was issued and a mechanical self-defense force was formed, but the effect was not very good."

Su He had planned the lightning attack for a long time, and Zhu Ning took office in a hurry and could only get beaten. Human organizations are currently loose.

Unit 3 subconsciously asked, "Where's Huo Wenxi?"

She always regards Huo Wenxi as her pillar of support. Even if the sky falls, Huo Wenxi can hold it up. Does the commander have a better plan?

"She has just escaped danger and is receiving information at about the same time as you." Zhu Ning replied.

Even Huo Wenxi was not prepared. She had the ability to foresee the future. Zhu Ning didn't know whether she had anticipated this day when she chose to support him in letting the Kingdom of God fall, and when she said that she would share everything with Zhu Ning, or whether she had seen these scenes like herself.

If this was already anticipated, why did Huo Wenxi choose this? After all, the old witch must have warned Huo Wenxi.

Unit 3 took a deep breath, her rationality still not completely washed away. She asked, "Can killing Su He really stop the current situation?"

This is not a replica of the doomsday in District 103. Last time, the core source of pollution could be found, and everything could be stopped by killing the source of pollution. But now the sources of pollution are everywhere, and killing Su He will not help the current situation.

"You know ant lions." Zhu Ning said.

Unit 3's heart sank. This was some basic biological knowledge. Antlions feed on ants. They dig hourglass-shaped traps in the desert. She had seen documentaries about this. Once an ant falls into the trap, it can only slide down in despair. The antlion will vibrate its head to create a sandstorm, making it impossible for the prey to escape. Finally, it injects toxins and turns the prey into food.

Of course she knew what Zhu Ning meant. Su He had already dug a trap, and humans, like weak ants, were already in the process of falling.

With no one to intervene, people just slowly fell to their deaths.

Zhu Ning: "Even if Su He regrets it now, she can't stop it. In this battle against the evolution of all mankind, as the commander-in-chief, she only needs to expand the scale of the game and doesn't need to follow through from start to finish. In the current situation, even if the commander dies, there will be someone else to carry on the execution."

Unit 03 taunted: "Then what's the point of killing her?"

Unit 03 is an independent individual. She is not a puppet controlled by anyone. She has the right to know everything before actually killing Su He.

Zhu Ning's thinking is very cold. If killing Su He is meaningless, why would she create herself?

She thought of the humans who died in Area 103, including Liu Liu who was forced to become a cockroach in the basement of Yongsheng Pharmaceutical, and the bloody and cruel scenes that Zhu Ning played one after another.

The lives Su He has taken have already piled up into a pile of corpses. Number three may be angry about this, but the second generation Zhu Ning should be indifferent to it.

Humans are dying in the tens of thousands. The death toll in Area 103 is just a number in Zhu Ning's eyes now. The grudges and hatreds of the past have become a thing of the past.

"I've obtained intelligence," Zhu Ning said. "I inherited Prometheus's memories and thought all mysteries would be explained. But there's one thing I don't understand. Prometheus doesn't have many records about it. What kind of organization is Yongsheng Pharmaceutical?"

On the surface, it should be a pharmaceutical company. It is also the birthplace of Zhu Ning and the company where Zhu Yao once worked.

But on the other hand, the Recovery Society, the Kingdom of God, and the Cleansing Center all have close ties with this organization.

Su He used the underground laboratory of the Eternal Life Pharmaceutical Foundation to catalyze the evil children in Area 103. There have always been undercover agents from the Eternal Life Pharmaceutical Foundation inside the cleaning center.

Even Zhu Yao's ability to cheat on her husband was due to the tacit approval of Yongsheng Pharmaceutical. Later, when Liu Yu was under surveillance, Zhu Yao returned to Yongsheng Pharmaceutical and began developing the Alpha series because of the support of senior management.

Who were the senior executives back then?

Zhu Ning's understanding of Yongsheng Pharmaceutical is just the tip of the iceberg. This company is extremely large, and the factions within it represent almost all modern factions. It is definitely a super existence that has continued from before the end of the world to the present.

Zhu Ning: "I didn't think much about it, but the part about Yongsheng Pharmaceutical in Prometheus's memory was intentionally deleted, as if it was a taboo that could not be truly recorded."

Being intentionally deleted proved that something was fishy. Unit 3 understood this and asked, "Su He knows?"

Zhu Ning: "At least she knows more than me. After all, she chose such an extreme path."

Zhu Ning read Su He's history. Prometheus once wanted to fight against the Resurrection Society, and this part of the information was inherited by her.

Zhu Ning knew that Su He used to be an executioner, responsible for killing traitors. She could kill a life with just a snap of her fingers. She didn't care about human life at all.

What could possibly lead to the destruction of the world by one person? Is that enough? Su He must be utterly disappointed with human society, preferring to hand the initiative to pollutants rather than let humans take the lead.

Zhu Ning wanted to talk to Su He and have a truly equal exchange of information.

She wanted to know if there was a way to completely eliminate pollution and purify the world.

"What if it failed?" asked Unit 3. Su He is not Pei Shu. She will answer as long as you ask her.

"There's also exploration outside the wall." Zhu Ning had guessed what was on the Homecoming Train. She suspected it was related to Eternal Life Pharmaceuticals, not the current one, but the one before doomsday.

Therefore, Liu Niannian’s responsibilities are very important.

Unit 03 only has 48 hours to kill Su He, and Liu Niannian will only have less time than her, not more.

She made preparations for both scenarios. Unit 03 and Liu Niannian are two parallel lines, so they are the two most important things for her.

Unit 03 can infer Zhu Ning's way of thinking, which is very organized and logical. It is a purely rational version of herself after removing unnecessary emotions, but she actually feels disgusted by this.

Su He and Zhu Ning are both working on realizing two different future paths. Under such a proposition, individual human beings seem so small and insignificant, and their way of thinking requires them to give up some people.

But Unit 03 is not like that. She doesn't care about the collective fate of mankind, or any of those damn ideals and ideologies from the beginning to the end. She has never changed and has always hated grand ideals.

Unit 3 suddenly raised its head and said something completely unrelated: "You created me not to use me, but because you needed me."

If he simply uses her, Zhu Ning only needs to control herself and does not need to give her a soul.

She has other bodies to use and other ways to kill Su He, but Unit 03 suddenly realizes that she is Zhu Ning's mirror and the humanity she lacks.

She can calculate countless plans and can watch humans die indifferently. In order to prevent herself from becoming a real devil, what she needs is the way of thinking of Unit 03 and her true background to remind herself who she really is.

Maybe Zhu Ning just wanted to control her body when she saw it, but then she obviously hesitated and had more ideas.

Zhu Ning didn't answer for a long time in the depths of her brain. Finally, she was defeated, as if her biggest secret had been discovered, and she was the loser in this confrontation.

"Yes, I said I am your system."

It is not Unit 03 that serves Zhu Ning, but Zhu Ning that serves Unit 03.

Unit 03 didn't rely on any special chip to kill Su He. As a defective experimental subject, she was not that powerful. Her real backer was Zhu Ning from the new world.

Unit 3 asked coldly, "So where is Su He?"

Since Zhu Ning created himself, he must know the approximate range where Su He is.