Chapter 109 The Answer Perhaps the answer is there.

"So should I go with you?" Li Ming pointed at himself.

“What are the other options?”

Karina looked at him in surprise and muttered, "You know, there's no food in this safe house right now. Not only yours, but also mine. At least I can recharge my batteries by going to the research base."

"You, charging?"

Li Ming's eyes repeatedly moved between the mechanical doll and the dim emergency lights in the safe house. He was deeply puzzled and asked, "Isn't there electricity?"

"This little bit of electricity can only provide us with lighting." Karina sighed.

Li Ming was silent: "...I almost understand."

It seems that Karina's daily electricity consumption is not a small amount. Li Ming randomly thought: The United States should have a special power station for her to use, which can support her long-term activities for 365 days.

This talent...tsk.

Under Li Ming's thoughtful gaze, Karina reluctantly defended herself, "Don't underestimate me. I can also generate electricity with solar energy, not just charge!"

"Can we still see the sun in the outside world now?" Li Ming said softly.

"..." Karina was speechless, "I can only say that it was a coincidence."

The more she thought about it, the more she felt annoyed about how she ended up like this. When she first got this talent, she could still fill her stomach with food, but later on, she became more and more dependent on electricity.

Karina suddenly realized: "Oh, it seems to have started when I loaded a lot of strange combat modules."

Maybe if she uninstalled everything, she could go back to being the carefree little girl she was in the past, but everyone knew she couldn't do that now.

There are only two S-level Apocalypses in the United States.

If Karina wants to have a peaceful life, the pressure will be concentrated on the Black Emperor alone. Karina can't escape from the battlefield.

not to mention……

She had long regarded the shy and quiet boy as her own brother.

Li Ming asked, "Are we going to stay here for one night?"

Karina looked out the window after hearing this.

The snowstorm tonight was still fierce. Huge hailstones hit the glass densely, causing many hidden cracks on the windows that should have been strong.

This was the biggest snowstorm she had encountered since arriving in Antarctica.

"It depends on the situation." Karina said sadly, "If the window is cracked, we have to leave even if we don't want to. But I have to remind you that the nearest safe house is 21 kilometers away from here and it takes 15 minutes. You probably can't survive that period."

"Oh." Li Ming replied calmly.

As soon as he said this answer, Karina looked at him in surprise.

Karina looked at Li Ming, who was squatting beside her with empty hands, and thought for a long time. Then she walked quickly to the container, picked up the winter clothes in the box and threw them to Li Ming, shouting in disgust:

"Please give me some struggle."

Li Ming tilted his head: "Hmm?"

"It's not good to give up your life like this." Karina said seriously, "You have to know that those who can live to this day have been blessed by God. If you die without permission, God will hate you."

"You...are a religious person?" Li Ming was surprised.

"I was an atheist before the disaster, but I became a Christian after the disaster." Karina dragged the sturdy sleeping bag in front of Li Ming and said calmly:

"These days, there are fewer people who don't believe in religion."

"Because gods and angels exist." Li Ming said softly, but after saying this he couldn't help but sigh and said with emotion: "I didn't believe it at first..."

"It seems you have quite a lot of experience."

Karina responded casually. She covered herself with the blanket and sat back next to Li Ming. Right in front of them was a cracked glass window and a violent storm outside the window.

Going out in this weather -

If Karina hadn't had superb brain navigation, she would have been unable to find the way back. Everything was covered in white snow, even the footprints of the previous second would be buried by the snow of the previous second.

Cold and silence have always been the unchanging melody of the polar regions.

"I'm quite grateful for your presence." Karina whispered to herself, "This night is really hard to endure."

As she spoke, the already cracked glass window began to crack open with several obvious cracks, and then the first layer of the three-layer glass was smashed by frost to form a huge gap.

Li Ming watched everything quietly.

He closed his eyes and sighed, "Me too, Karina."

Li Ming was in a state of frustration at this moment, but when he saw the unchanging and eternal paleness of the poles, his heart inexplicably calmed down.

It was as if he had looked out over this empty wilderness countless times.

but……

It feels so good to have someone to talk to.

Li Ming somewhat understood Karina’s idea that “being in human form is enough”, but if he really fell into such a situation, he felt that it might not matter whether he was in human form or not.

"I probably won't be able to sleep today." Li Ming whispered.

This was the second time he couldn't fall asleep since he came to Memory Tide. Although Li Ming was very sorry that he couldn't meet the enthusiastic readers, he really...

I don't really want to know about the comics.

"I definitely can't sleep." Karina shrugged. "If I fall asleep, who will drag you to another safe house?"

“…Don’t give me a princess hug.” Li Ming smiled.

Li Ming was so embarrassed that he almost buried his head in the snow. Although Karina is a robot doll with a golden body ratio and an unusual appearance, she is a woman!

It is a shame for a boy to be carried like a princess by a girl.

Seeing this, Karina complained, "The Black Emperor's reaction wasn't as big as yours. Honestly, why are you still so human in this regard? We are no longer human anymore."

"Huh?" Li Ming was surprised.

"I'm talking about my brother." Karina muttered in frustration, "When no one else treats me as a human being, he is the only one who insists on treating me as a member of the opposite sex."

"Oh, and you who I just met."

Karina finally remembered the people around her and temporarily added Li Ming.

Li Ming didn't know whether to laugh or cry after hearing this.

He asked softly: "Are you missing the Black Emperor?"

Karina was stunned.

She covered her eyes with one hand with a troubled look and murmured softly: "…Is it that obvious?"

"Yeah." Li Ming nodded helplessly, "Because from just now, you have been talking about the Black Emperor. But I obviously didn't mention him deliberately, so that must be the reason why you are missing him."

"well……"

After hearing this, Karina sighed and muttered in shock, "I didn't expect that I... I am really a simple and easy-to-understand woman..."

"By the way, Karina, how old are you this year?" Li Ming suddenly asked.

"28."

"Huh?!" Li Ming was surprised after hearing this, "So you were only 18 years old when the disaster happened?"

Wouldn't that mean he is much smaller than me?

But this is not just a small one. Karina might have been in her senior year of high school at that time...

Li Ming couldn't help but look Karina up and down, but he couldn't find the familiar figure of a senior high school student on the tall and graceful big sister figure robot doll in front of him.

Time is really a butcher's knife.

Karina didn't know whether to laugh or cry when she saw this. On the one hand, she guessed that Li Ming was older than her at that time, and on the other hand, she knocked on Li Ming's stupid head speechlessly.

"I dropped out of high school, and white people just develop earlier than you do."

Karina put her hands on her hips in annoyance and said, "The most important thing is: even if the first talent I awaken is S-44 Mechanical Angel, it doesn't mean that I can't develop normally, okay?"

"oh."

Li Ming touched his stupid head blankly.

But his thoughts wandered to another place: Since 28-year-old Karina could call the Black Emperor "my little brother", it proved that the Black Emperor might not even be 18 years old when the catastrophe occurred...

Oh my god, JAC.

So you are already a senior?

Li Ming smacked his lips secretly. He suddenly thought of something and looked at Karina seriously and said, "Can you tell me more about China? I'm still a little curious."

"Hmm?" Karina shook her head helplessly. "It's okay to say it, but it's useless. These are things of the past, and neither you nor I can change them. Just like the world is heading towards destruction now..."

“Is the world ending?”

"That's right." Karina sighed deeply, her eyes full of disappointment as she said, "There are only a few human bases left. Not long ago, the Valkyrie of Northern Europe also left. Now the Son of God is the only one left in Europe."

"When the Son of God can no longer hold on, the base where the Black Emperor and I are located will become the last paradise for mankind."

The Nordic Valkyrie, the European Son of God, the American Mechanical Angel and the Black Emperor... Li Ming silently confronted these S-level Revelators and the regions they were in.

Karina just said it casually.

She didn't even think of explaining anything, but Li Ming inexplicably felt pain from her words.

Li Ming suddenly thought: The S-level Revelators might be closer than he thought.

Just as the Mechanical Angels would miss the Black Emperor when they were on missions outside for more than a month and a half, the relationship between the S-Class Apocalypses was like that of lonely guardians of civilization who watched over each other.

They witnessed the destruction of their own civilization, and then witnessed the deaths of their colleagues several times.

"I still have to say it." Li Ming insisted.

"All right."

Karina didn't complain too much after hearing this. She said calmly: "There are only two S-level Apocalypses in China. You should at least know them--"

"Huh?" Li Ming was surprised.

"What? You don't even know this?" Kalina asked in surprise, "Then your story about the first year of the disaster is also a lie."

"no."

Li Ming shook his head quickly after hearing this. Just as he was about to explain, he suddenly had a flash of inspiration: Since the world can rewind time, could it have rewinded more than once?

So Li Ming looked at Karina with sharp eyes and said in a very humble tone:

"Please continue—"

"Hmm..." Karina raised her eyebrows after hearing that.

She scratched her hair in confusion and said calmly, "Forget it, just ask. Anyway, there are only two S-level Apocalypses, Tyrant and Omniscient, and I can't grasp the key points of the others."

Li Ming: "What's going on in southern China?"

Karina: "​​It was completely destroyed in the second year of the catastrophe. To be honest, that fog wall is really difficult to deal with."

Li Ming: "Has there appeared a disaster area called 'Blood Moon's Nest'?"

Karina: "What is that?"

Li Ming: "What about the Blood Queen?"

Karina: "What is this?"

Li Ming: “…”

After listening to this, Li Ming seemed to be thinking: "...I almost understand."

This memory fragment is not from the previous episode where Jiang Huai was the protagonist, nor is it the future of this episode where he is the protagonist, but rather a completely new episode in which Li Yixi has not appeared.

But why didn’t Li Yixi show up?

Li Ming's brows knitted together, and he suddenly recalled: Apocalypse Knight once told him, 'The memory tide always likes to record some important events that determine the past and even the future. You will definitely find the truth from its records.'

So Li Ming quietly looked out the window at the snowstorm. At the end of the snowstorm, beyond the glacier, stood a research base.

Maybe there's an answer there.