Chapter 61 Chapter 61 But she doesn't care

After the third level, the advantages of lightning abilities finally became apparent. When Si Ruxu brought clean food home for the first time, she only saw cold people huddled together.

They committed suicide, taking their cousin, who was only six or seven years old, with them.

The sky outside was bright, and the sunlight shone through the door frame, casting a small triangular reflection below. Si Ruxu stood in that small shadow and looked inside.

She couldn't feel her breathing, and for a moment, she couldn't even hear her own.

She walked in slowly and stood in front of her relatives who had already become stiff. Her face was covered by her long hair, and her expression could not be seen clearly.

Si Qi turned his head and only saw the wet ends of her hair.

She gently reached out her hand, as she had done countless times before, wanting to wipe away the tears from her eyes, but her hand slipped through, unable to touch Si Ruxu. Only the inexplicable burning sensation at her fingertips told her that this was Si Ruxu's true experience.

"Si Ruxu." Si Qi said softly, "It turns out that you are not sitting upright in the hall either." Her voice was ethereal and fell into the outside world through the screen.

At this time, the night had just passed outside.

Si Ruxu didn't sleep a wink the entire night. The experience above seemed so long ago to her, and the hideous wound had already formed a thick scab.

She was still curious about what Si Qi would think of her and how she would view her past, which was so embarrassing and unbearable.

But to her surprise, Si Qi would follow her around and search for food in the garbage, even if she couldn't see her; and would subconsciously move sideways to block when the psychic attacked her, even if the psychic's attack would still fall on her through her body.

For countless days and nights, he would copy the outline of her sleeping body over and over again, gently and distressedly, and then let out a long sigh. It seemed as if she could really feel the pain she was feeling at that time.

The door of the conference room was opened, and Si Luoheng came in sleepily. For convenience, she and Luo Feng had spent the night in the lounge next to the conference room.

At this moment, Si Luoheng's gaze fell on Si Qi's face on the big screen, and he smiled faintly as if he understood something.

"Maybe it's because she feels that you haven't hurt her at this moment, so she maintains these good intentions. The only person she avoids and doesn't want to interact with is you at this moment."

"Sister, you've met such a good person." Si Luoheng was afraid that the world would not be in chaos.

The sister whom she once admired so much, who was so unattainable and so independent from everyone, seemed to be lost in the crowd overnight, and she was worried, distressed, and powerless.

She couldn't help but want to poke her wound a few more times to see how much pain she could feel.

As expected, Si Ruxu's body shook a few times. Her body, which had been running around for many days, seemed to be unable to bear the burden and was as fragile as a butterfly with broken wings.

The big screen suddenly flashed a few times and turned into a normal page. Si Ruxu's eyes instantly fell on the place where Si Qi had disappeared.

It was not until that person slowly appeared there that my tense nerves finally relaxed.

Si Ruxu was sitting very close to Si Qi. When Si Qi looked up, he saw Si Ruxu's face. She had not yet recovered from the aftermath of the massacre.

Seeing the dark circles under Si Ruxu's eyes and her pale, almost transparent face, her eyes were stained with a hint of worry and heartache. She gently supported Si Ruxu, her words full of tenderness: "Are you okay?"

Only when his fingertips touched the warmth of Si Ruxu's skin did Si Qi come to his senses. This was no longer a massacre.

She withdrew her fingers, along with all the heartache, in Si Ruxu's gaze, which was not sure whether it was gentle or lonely.

It turns out that there really are people who love everything about her past and hate everything about her present.

Si Ruxu turned her head away, not looking at Si Qi, so as to prevent her tears from falling.

She felt so uncomfortable, and this was the last thing she could say right now.

"Are you back?" Luo Fenghe didn't know how long he had been standing at the door, with a few bags of steaming multi-grain pancakes in his hands.

"We came on time, let's have breakfast." Luo Fenghe put the multi-grain pancakes on the table, and went to get a few cans of drinks, placing one on each person's desk.

Then, he raised his eyes and looked at Si Qi a little embarrassedly: "This is all we have at home, and the water is all used up. You have to make do with it for now."

Just as Si Qi was about to nod, a bottle of milk was handed to her from the side. As if knowing that she would not take it, Si Ruxu placed the milk lightly on the table.

Si Qi looked over but ignored it.

She took the can of drink and curled her lips slightly, "It's not aggrieved, and it's not particularly hard to drink."

Actually, there is.

She simply didn't want to eat Si Ruxu's food. She repelled it, really repelled it, absolutely repelled it.

Si Ruxu sat next to Si Qi with a calm expression. She did not take the milk off the table, but her eyes drifted over there intentionally or unintentionally. In her peripheral vision, she saw Si Qi choking on the multi-grain pancake, picking up the drink and taking a sip, then even frowning with disgust.

She really doesn't like drinking carbonated drinks. Before, even if she bought them on a whim, she would let the carbon dioxide out before drinking them.

Si Ruxu sometimes asked her why she bought it even though she didn’t like it. Si Qi said that carbonated drinks were a perfect match for summer.

She always liked to do some strange rituals occasionally, and Si Ruxu would accompany her, sometimes picking up the drinks she had left in the refrigerator that had not been opened for a long time and then replacing them with fresh milk for her.

Maybe late at night, Si Qi prefers to take the lead, and she enjoys it and sinks herself deeply into the pillow, but in life, they are more like roles that take care of each other.

It just so happens that sometimes Si Qi is brave and courageous, and she is rational and mature; sometimes Si Qi is gentle and calm, and she is willful and spoiled.

They don't have fixed personalities, they just change with their moods, and the other party will fill in the gaps in their personalities. They should be a perfect match, if those things that they didn't cherish had never happened.

The breakfast was tasteless, and it seemed that only Si Qi was happy. When she ate, she always gave people the feeling that she would not let the food go to waste.

Si Qi did not mention the massacre, so they did not ask.

Anyway, everyone saw it, and it didn't seem to be a very important matter. Or rather, everyone who should know knew it, except Luo Fenghe. He didn't know, but it was useless to ask, so he didn't tell him.

Si Qi wiped his mouth luxuriously, took the last sip of his drink, then sat up, glanced out the window, and paused.

"Um, what is that?"

It was a sky curtain, exactly the same one used during the Great Purge.

Number of people: Unknown

Mission: Survive

Si Luoheng looked at the three lines of sky curtains and narrowed his eyes. "The massacre has been transported to reality."

She entered the lounge and soon took out a package. "I'll go outside the circle and take a look. You try to gather the people from the several bases together to prevent any conflict."

Si Qi sat in her seat, her already dull and numb brain seemed even more at a loss. She looked at Si Luoheng, whose face, which looked 70% like Si Ruxu, was now tense, and her long and thick eyelashes concealed the expression in her eyes.

She doesn't seem like a nineteen-year-old child, she matures too quickly, too early.

Si Luoheng suddenly turned around and met Si Qi's gaze directly. Si Qi tilted his head as if he was burned, which made Si Luoheng chuckle.

"Si Qi, what role will you play next time you come back? Brother-in-law? Enemy?" She curled the corners of her lips, "I'm looking forward to it."

Si Qi finally raised his eyes and said seriously: "Remember to return home safely."

Si Luoheng was stunned for a moment, then nodded.

Meanwhile, Si Ruxu took some compressed food and put it in her bag. Si Luoheng was still growing, shorter than Si Ruxu, and had a thinner build.

Si Ruxu looked at her only remaining living relative with a complicated expression, "Don't be stubborn. If you have any questions, please contact us immediately. If you... abandon the circle, it won't affect us."

Si Luoheng nodded.

After sending Si Luoheng out, they stood outside the base building. There were already many psychics surrounding them, all of whom were core figures.

"Boss, what's with the words on the skylight? It doesn't seem like it's anything good."

"It won't affect you much, right? Before the sky curtain comes out, your numbers and positions are still the same, and the main mission is to survive. Whatever happens, there's no need to worry."

"By the way, go gather the leaders of the other bases. We need to hold an emergency meeting."

The psychic who had just breathed a sigh of relief tensed up again: "Why hold an emergency meeting if there's nothing going on?"

Luo Fenghe curled his lips gently: "Let's discuss how to keep you alive. Oh, and everyone, be on guard. Don't go out casually. Otherwise, don't look for me if you die."

In the next few days, Luo Fenghe became busy. The leaders of various bases came one after another and were all arranged to stay in the lounge.

That piece of sky seemed to be just a reminder. These days, everything was peaceful, but no one let down their guard. They had all seen the scenes in the massacre. Its survival rate was only one in five thousand, and the basis of survival was Si Qi.

Si Qi was too lazy to face the meaningful looks and conversations from so many people, so he had long since withdrawn to the ninth floor and seldom went out.

If you ignore the fact that Si Ruxu has been staying here all the time, she is actually living a pretty good life.

"Don't you have anything to deal with? Actually, the research institute is quite important." Si Qi glanced at Si Ruxu who was sitting not far from him.

She usually didn't go to see Si Ruxu, but she couldn't help but feel that Si Ruxu kept looking at her. These days, Si Ruxu's life was to eat, read, go out, see her, and then go to sleep.

"Since Luo Heng is not here, there is no point for me to go out. I'll just stay at home until the general meeting." Si Ruxu curled her lips, and there was a little light in her amber eyes.

This was the first time Si Qi spoke to her in these days, although it seemed like he was trying to drive her away.

In fact, Si Qi is more important than her. When she walks on the street, many people will come to her and ask where Si Qi is.

Si Qi is like a reassurance. Luo Fenghe has always assured that Si Qi is in the base, but she has not shown up these days, and many old guys are already dissatisfied.

But no one cares anyway.

Luo Feng and Lu successively sent many people to patrol the boundaries of the circle, and to find some fruits. In the name of the research institute, they asked the other bases to stop hunting wild mutant animals and stop cutting down trees.

There were waves of discontented voices, but because it was a research institute, most of them were suppressed and carried out in an orderly manner.

I've had a lot of free time these days, but...

Si Qi looked at the message from Luo Fenghe on her bracelet and asked her to go to the meeting room. She sat up casually. Si Ruxu next to her also saw the call message on her bracelet and thought that the meeting was about to begin.

"Si Qi!" Si Ruxu's voice came from the side. Si Qi turned her head and saw the other party holding a bottle of milk. He walked towards her and stopped at a position not far from her.

"Can you take me with you?" she asked, handing her the milk in her hand, as if wanting to use it in exchange.

Si Qi didn't say anything, but the next moment, two people appeared in the conference room, still at the same distance, neither far nor near. Si Ruxu clenched the milk bottle in her hand, and then put it away.

Everyone in the conference room had arrived. Si Qi walked around and curled his lips sarcastically.

Haha, they are all old acquaintances.

She sat down a little further away from the main table, while Si Ruxu sat where Si Luoheng usually sat, with almost an entire table between them.

However, his sight always managed to pass over the scattered crowd and bump into them from a distance.

Si Qi lowered his head and didn't look at anyone.

"Isn't the sky curtain outside similar to the one from the previous massacre? Are there any new research results from the institute? Where's Professor Si?"

Someone couldn't help but ask Si Ruxu a question. This Professor Si must be Si Luoheng.

Si Ruxu's eyes were cold, and she answered neither lightly nor seriously, "There is no new progress in the research institute at the moment. Professor Si has his own plans."

In just two sentences, the main point is obviously avoided.

Although the man was indignant, he would not openly confront the institute, so he could only sit down with a lot of anger in his heart.

"Alright, alright."

Luo Fenghe stood up to smooth things over.

"I think everyone has seen the things on the sky. This should be the content of the fourth major purge. This time, the purge will directly descend upon the end of the world."

"Isn't it said that the Great Purge will only begin when all those who entered it are dead? What's going on? Has the Fourth Great Purge ever begun?"

Luo Fenghe concealed the fact that Si Qi had participated in the fourth major purge. He knocked on the table, and the noisy people instantly quieted down.

"No one knows what the fourth major crackdown will be like. That's how major crackdowns are. They get harder as time goes on, don't they?"

"As you all know, we've already survived three major massacres without your participation and dedication. If it continues like before, some people will survive to the end by luck, which might be unfair to others, right?"

"So it's quite normal for Him to change the system of massacres."

There was nothing wrong with that. There was a brief silence in the conference room, with everyone's expressions varying.

Originally, you only needed to ensure your own safety, gain enough power, and rely on a little luck to survive.

Originally, they planned to follow Si Qi during the subsequent large-scale purge, as following her would increase their chances of not dying.

Why did it reform? Was it because He discovered the intention?

But even so, many incomprehensible gazes still fell on Si Qi, as if as long as she could bear it all, there would be no casualties.

"Then your base has gathered us together because you have a plan to deal with this, right?"

"Yes, yes. Your base has the Savior and the research institute as two major supporters. It would be unreasonable not to take some responsibility, right?"

Luo Fenghe curled his lips slightly, waiting for these words. These old guys had no good intentions and wanted to shift the blame onto others right away.

"There is indeed a good method, but we don't know the location of this impending massacre, and everyone is scattered now. If something happens, we won't be able to notify you in time, and there will be no way to provide timely support."

"So I suggest that you move the entire base here, including all the supplies, people with special abilities, and ordinary people in the base." Luo Fenghe smiled innocently.

"The research institute has already moved here. At this critical moment, don't be reluctant to give up that little building. Even the multi-story building of the base director should be placed there."

"After this big crackdown, if you are lucky enough—" Luo Fenghe emphasized the last two words, "if you are lucky enough to be able to return safely and alive, then the house will always be here."

"But regarding supplies, I hope everyone can take them all, otherwise the chances of survival are slim."

After saying that, he sat down by himself, leaving the expressions of those present to change unpredictably.

"Okay, let's move our base here, but I have a question." A woman sitting below stood up and her eyes fell on Si Qi.

Si Qi's heart skipped a beat; someone was coming towards her.

She looked back. The woman looked very aggressive, with long and thin eyebrows. She couldn't be called beautiful, but her bright appearance made her easy to distinguish in the crowd.

"Are you asking me? Go ahead." Under the table, Si Qi's hands were folded together. She leaned back in her chair. Except for her indifferent eyes, all her other organs felt the weight of social interaction.

"What do you think of this massacre?"

As soon as he finished speaking, everyone's eyes turned to look over.

Si Qi lowered her eyes. She hadn't given much thought to this massacre. Or rather, she hadn't thought about the end of the world for a long time.

But the moment the question was asked, an answer already popped into her mind.

"It's a natural disaster." Her voice was calm. "The only way to reduce the population on such a large scale is through a natural disaster."

"Wouldn't it be even more dangerous if we gathered together? If there was a thunderbolt that struck us, wouldn't we all be wiped out?"

Si Qi shook his head.

"That's not the case."

"His original intention was not to exterminate us all, but to tell us something, so He would never let us all die."

"Maybe they want us to find some clues, and use extreme cold, heat, rainstorms, etc. to hinder us while we're looking for them, just like completing the mission."

A man slammed the table and stood up: "What nonsense!" There was contempt on his face, and even the look he gave Si Qi was as if he was looking at something.

Si Qi looked over and asked, "What do you think?"

"If you ask me, this massacre is a form of apocalypse. Just like before, when plants and animals mutated, you guys made such a fuss. I think it's completely unnecessary. We've survived extreme cold and heat countless times."

"You're the only ones who can think of taking supplies and moving the base."

After saying this, the man proudly glanced at everyone in the conference room.

"I think you've been really scared. Si Luoheng isn't here, so how can you trust what these rabble say? You're still calling me the savior of a young girl in her twenties. It's a joke. It would be better to breed more and get more high-level psychics."

When mentioning breeding, Si Qi raised his head and glanced at Si Ruxu.

Si Ruxu's gaze shifted away in panic the moment she bumped into him, leaving only a suspicious red mark on the tip of his ear.

Si Qi:?

How come she seemed completely unaware of how sick it was to pin one's hopes on the next generation, and then apologized for her previous inexplicable thoughts.

On the contrary... on the contrary, I feel a little shy. ?

"However, my son is still young, and at the age of twenty, he's already a sixth-level psychic. I think you two are a perfect match... I brought him here today. Young people should communicate more, right?"

Si Qi ignored the young man who came out from behind the door.

She found it strange that in the end times, when everyone lived one day at a time, how could there still be people who insisted on the hardcore idea of ​​continuing the family line.

When zombies see them, they have to take a detour because it affects their IQ and they are afraid of being poisoned.

Luo Fenghe's jawline was stiff and tense, and the look in his eyes as he looked at the man seemed to be filled with illness.

"Only those who are not leaders can come in." He maintained a decent smile on his lips. The two psychics at the door immediately stopped the young man who was still confidently trying to get in.

The man was stopped at the door and his face turned blue and purple.

Literally, Si Qi subconsciously looked towards Si Ruxu. Her eyelashes were slightly lowered, covering the expression in her eyes. She looked a little obedient. If you ignore the faint smell of lightning in the air.

The next moment, the man fell straight down. He must have been electrocuted.

"You guys!" The fertility-loving base commander's face flushed, his pupils dilated, and veins on his forehead bulged faintly. "Your base's attitude towards guests shows that you don't want to cooperate."

"I don't think your base has understood our meeting rules. No unauthorized persons are allowed in. The contents of our meetings are confidential."

There was a faint burning sensation of fire power in the air. Si Qi raised his eyes and looked at the man in front of him who was about to go berserk. The next moment, his body disappeared here, along with the person on the ground who was electrocuted stiff.

"Okay, let's continue." She glanced around, her eyes devoid of emotion. This farce wasn't enough for her to care about.

The air became a little quieter.

This was the first time that Si Qi teleported someone away in public, and just this one time was enough to cause a huge wave.

Before this, all they knew about this savior was that he could teleport, but there was a huge difference between teleporting and teleporting anything.

No one moved, but Luo Fenghe's supernatural power faintly fluctuated in the air, urging her to say another word.

Si Qi lowered her eyes. She didn't like, nor was it appropriate for her to speak in such an occasion. She would be nervous and at a loss.

"That's it, then. Everyone should discuss it individually when they return to the base. Those who want to merge can bring the people and supplies from the base. Those who don't want to can take protective measures in the base themselves."

Si Ruxu's voice came from the front, cold and calm, nonchalantly, as if she was just making an unimportant suggestion. The lives of those people were all unimportant to her.

"But we can't guarantee what the great purge that will come in the end times will do, and if you think your own power can be stronger than so many bases and research institutes."

Si Qi was stunned for a moment, lowered his head and said nothing more.

Having Si Ruxu was enough, she was never used to such occasions.

Everyone says that those who are open and can express themselves well in front of many people are more likely to seize opportunities and have a better future.

But she just likes to do her own things alone. She has a starry sky that belongs to her alone. Although, few people will understand.

After the meeting, Luo Feng symbolically asked them to stay here for dinner, but no one stayed.

Everyone walked out of the conference room with different expressions. After the door closed, Luo Fenghe stretched and rubbed the dark circles under his eyes.

"Finally, we have sent these ancestors away. By the way, what did you mean when you said she wanted to tell us something? Forget it, let's eat first." Luo Fenghe sat down, and several psychics brought up three meals.

Luo Fenghe opened the lunch box and was greeted by a rich aroma. "Eat it! I've already arranged for them to prepare it. I'm really starving after this meeting."

"Aren't you going to keep them for dinner?"

"Just pretend."

Si Qi opened the lunch box. Inside was a simple dish: some small greens grown at the base, topped with shredded potatoes and sliced ​​meat. She took a big mouthful of rice and swallowed it in a few gulps.

Just as she was about to take another bite, she felt a burning gaze on her, inexplicably scorching. She looked up, and Si Ruxu's eyes fell on the large empty space in her lunch box.

Si Ruxu turned her head to look at Luo Fenghe, who was wolfing down his food. "Captain, don't you know that those who chew their food slowly and thoroughly are more likely to live longer than those who chew and swallow immediately?"

Luo Feng looked over in confusion. He had eaten like this several times before, and Si Ruxu had never said anything to him.

"Oh." He responded and buried his head in eating his meal.

Si Qi paused for a moment holding the chopsticks, but continued to eat slowly, bite by bite.

Si Ruxu has been taking care of her meals for a long time. A long time ago, in order to save time and have time to work part-time and study, she swallowed her meals whole without chewing them.

At the beginning, Si Ruxu would remind her gently, and she would change for a short while, but it wouldn't be long before she would swallow it all in one gulp.

Later, when the two of them had been together for a while and no longer needed to be polite and maintain a gentle image, Si Ruxu's slaps were always faster than she could swallow them.

So this bad habit was completely corrected.

But after the end of the world, food became even harder to obtain, and it was safer to keep food in one's stomach, so most of the time, Si Qi would stuff food into his mouth while fleeing.

She didn't need to taste anything, she just needed to be alive.

But this is always a bit upsetting to the stomach.

Even though he chewed a few more times, Si Qi ate very quickly, one bite after another, and finished a big bowl of rice in more than ten minutes.

Then, she sat down, gathering her thoughts while subconsciously glancing forward to watch Si Ruxu eat. It was a habit, she hadn't even noticed.

Actually, Si Ruxu was very pretty when she ate, neither hurried nor slow, almost pleasing to the eye. However, Si Qi didn't notice that her movements were a little stiff, as if she was trying to maintain them.

Si Ruxu was nervous.

Si Qi didn't notice that Luo Feng, who had also finished eating, pursed his lips when he saw Si Ruxu had eaten like a model. The young couple really were...

"I think." Si Qi finally sorted out his thoughts, his gaze fell on Luo Fenghe again, and he spoke slowly, "The last time I entered the Great Suppression, there were some unexpected things, so He didn't let me pass it, and instead brought the Great Suppression into reality."

"Something I didn't expect..." Si Ruxu lowered her eyes gently. If it was about her, if those things Si Qi didn't expect were about her, then what else could there be.

Is it good or bad.

In this world, apart from Si Qi, no one else can understand her like this.

"How long did you spend in the massacre?" Si Ruxu suddenly looked up and looked at Si Qi.

"I don't know, it seems like a long time." Si Qi's mind flashed with Si Ruxu's childhood and grown-up face, "but the memory of that time seems to have faded after it came out."

It's faded, not forgotten. During the massacre, the loneliness felt by a bystander was not even one ten-thousandth of what those inside experienced, but that was enough to make one feel despair and suffocation.

Moreover, at that time, Si Ruxu, as the first human being, did not have a person named "Si Qi" appear in her childhood, and there were not so many stories to support her to move forward.

Luo Fenghe didn't squat in front of the screen, because there was a small screen in his lounge. He just saw that the atmosphere was not right and returned to his own lounge. He didn't stay up all night. After confirming that Si Qi was not in danger of life, he fell asleep.

But he saw Si Ruxu's childhood face during the massacre, and he looked at the two people who had been silent for too long.

"Since this is about Si Ruxu's massacre, then you two should just speak frankly. If you have any questions, just ask directly."

Si Qi blinked and asked directly?

She couldn't think of anything to ask Si Ruxu, and she felt there was no need. Whatever Si Ruxu said was what it was, and it had little to do with her.

But Luo Fenghe was urging him.

"Hurry up, this massacre is going to kill countless people, and Si Luoheng's life or death is still unknown outside the circle. Don't be so pretentious at this time."

Si Qi looked at Si Ruxu again, with a hint of helplessness in his eyes.

"Do you think I should ask you something?"

Si Ruxu avoided her gaze, and after a while, turned back.

In fact, Si Qi had a lot to ask her, such as when she started planning, why it was her, and whether everything that happened later was true or false.

But she didn't ask any questions.

She doesn't care anymore.

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