Chapter 22 Chapter 22 The last trace of extreme cold...

The last trace of snow left by the extreme cold was swept away by the sunlight. Si Qi looked from afar and saw a silver gate rising from the barren land, shining with metallic luster in the daytime.

She was wrapped in clothes, leaving footprints on the wet ground step by step, until the door of the institute opened in front of her, and the cold air mixed with the smell of machinery rushed towards her.

The anthropomorphic machine glanced at Si Ruxu several times. A few black and white traces flashed across the face on the screen. Then, a woman's voice came from the machine, "Come in, follow it."

Si Qi held Si Ruxu's hand, and they passed through layers of steel folds, stopping at a valve. The valve slowly opened, and the sound of high heels approached from afar. A woman in a red dress approached gracefully. She curved her amorous fox eyes and opened her red lips slightly: "What is it that is worth the two of you coming all the way here to find me?"

"My friend's...power core is broken. I heard it can be repaired here. I want... please, save her."

Asking for help in the apocalypse is not uncommon, but she rarely does it. After Si Qi finished speaking, the tips of his ears felt hot, and he hurriedly added, "Any price is fine, I can pay it."

The woman tilted her head and looked at Si Qi, as if evaluating her value. After a long moment, she curved her lips and smiled, "I have everything I need, but you..."

Her intriguing smile fell on Si Qi, and two slender white fingers lifted Si Qi's chin gently and ambiguously, and there was the scent of jasmine in her breath.

"Give yourself to me for research, and I can save her."

Before Si Qi could come to her senses, Si Ruxu grabbed Si Qi's hand and took her back a few steps. He cast a vigilant look at the woman and rejected her in an almost unquestionable tone: "No."

"Oh? Even if your superpower core shatters day by day and shatters until you die, that's not okay?" The woman withdrew her hand. The tenderness in her eyes disappeared, leaving only shrewd calculation and a respectable smile. "Little sister, don't you care about your own life?"

Si Ruxu frowned slightly. She looked at the person in front of her calmly, her voice cold and clear, without showing any fear.

"It doesn't matter if I die alone, but Si Qi, there's a being that even you're interested in. If you leave her here for your experiments, there will be no hope for humanity."

Si Ruxu pulled Si Qi and prepared to go out, but Si Qi stopped where he was, without moving, with his head down and not saying a word.

"Si Qi, let's go home."

When she was being hunted by the base, when she knew that her superpower core was broken and her life was coming to an end, and when she decided to give up on repairing it, she did not panic for a moment. But now, when she looked at Si Qichen's profile in the dark, her heart suddenly tightened, and the uneasy pain seemed to numb her whole heart bit by bit.

"I promise you." Si Qi pried open Si Ruxu's fingers one by one, looked at the woman in the red dress, and spoke word by word.

"Si Qi!" Si Ruxu grabbed Si Qi's hand again, his tone hurried and heavy, "I said, I don't need you to save me. Only if you survive the end of the world will there be hope. Do you understand?"

"I don't understand." Si Qi's tone was very calm. She raised her pair of dark eyes and looked at Si Ruxu. "Si Ruxu, I'm different from you. I don't miss home at all, and I don't like my old world at all."

That childhood with leaking rain all night and no sunlight, that gloomy, inferior, timid and helpless teenager, and that young man who lost his loved one and was left alone to struggle between life and death.

The world has never given her much kindness. She doesn't like the world, she likes Si Ruxu, so Si Ruxu ranks ahead of everyone else.

"Then what do you like? Tell me." Si Ruxu was so angry that her voice trembled a little. She spoke without restraint and poked Si Qi's soft spot with a chuckle. "You don't like me, do you?"

Si Qi's heart suddenly felt a sharp pain. She lowered her head, restraining herself from showing any pleading expression. She did not beg Si Ruxu to stop talking.

"Si Qi, I hope you understand that we are just partners. The premise of our cooperation is to end the apocalypse. Other than that, we have no relationship."

Her heart felt as if a piece was being torn out. Si Qi put her trembling hands behind her back and clutched her clothes tightly. After several breaths, she looked up and looked straight into those amber eyes.

"Well, go on."

Her voice was very soft, and all the hidden pain was hidden in her calm eyes. Si Ruxu fell silent for no reason.

She seldom quarreled with Si Qi, even in the past, they always communicated more than argued. Looking at that face, which was the same as in her memory, but thinner, she felt like something was stuck in her throat, unable to move up or down, and it hurt because of the cutting of flesh.

She missed Si Qi's gaze and stood there, not saying a word, but not compromising either.

"Si Ruxu." Si Qi sighed, "What if studying me can lead to a way to end the apocalypse? Instead of searching aimlessly, why not hand me over to the research institute... The chances of fulfilling your wish will be much better, right?"

Si Ruxu stood there, her light-colored windbreaker fluttering with the airflow from the air-conditioning vent. A hint of struggle flashed in her amber eyes. The metallic sheen reflected dots of shadows on her cold profile, and her whole body seemed to be enveloped in a sticky dark color.

No, she doesn't want to, she would rather die.

She tried to find a reason to refute Si Qi's words, but it was so difficult. What reason should she use to tell Si Qi that she didn't want her to go?

The woman chuckled, breaking the smell of gunpowder in the air. She fanned the air with her hands and said, "Oh, if you don't speak up, are you two going to start a fight in this shabby little house of mine?"

"How about we both take a step back? If you enter the research laboratory of the institute and kill 10,000 mutated zombies within one day, I will help this friend repair it." She looked at Si Qi, her eyes full of composure and determination.

Si Qi nodded without waiting for Si Ruxu to speak, "That's good."

The air was still so thick that it was difficult to breathe. Si Ruxu followed Si Qi until they entered a big door. There was a screen installed on the door, and through the screen, one could get a glimpse of the scene behind the door.

There are mutated zombies with many heads and hands, inexplicable species with half of their bodies twisted, people with fangs in their mouths and eyes all over their bodies, and flying monsters with wings covered with hands.

"These are all failed creations. The institute has been troubled by how to deal with them." The woman pretended to be very embarrassed and looked at Si Qi. "But their energy cores are all top-level seventh-level. I hope you can help me deal with them and bring back their energy cores."

"Hold on for one day, survive, and kill ten thousand, and I'll save her."

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