V. Anger
Perhaps sensing Pi Min's gaze, the man in front of him suddenly grinned, revealing an extremely bright smile. As this smile bloomed, the oppressive feeling brought by the identity filter vanished instantly.
Pi Min felt as if she had returned to that time.
Once the memories were stirred, they could no longer be suppressed. She recalled the beautiful moments of the past, as well as the pain, confusion, and hesitation she experienced.
The anger that had been barely suppressed instantly reignited, and even the gaze she gave the man opposite her involuntarily carried a hint of murderous intent.
Do you know how hard it was for me to support you back then? Now that we've broken up, you're telling me you're a lifelong dependent?
Although she tried her best to suppress it, anyone with ears could hear the anger in her tone.
The man in front of him immediately backed down and apologized repeatedly: "I'm sorry, I didn't know. I really didn't know that ordinary people like you need money to live."
"Don't you know that food, drink, and even basic necessities cost money?"
The man scratched his head awkwardly: "I don't know. I was told from birth that the whole earth belongs to me, so why would I need money?"
Pi Min was both amused and exasperated: "So how did you live before you met me?"
"Before coming to the dungeon, I had staff with me. In order to explore the dungeon, I ditched all my staff and only brought my assistant robot, but the assistant robot still managed to handle everything for me. Later, the assistant robot broke down, and then I met you."
"I really didn't know that life was so difficult for ordinary people like you. If I had known earlier..."
The man looked utterly annoyed.
"I'm not afraid to tell you this, but I used to think that everyone on Earth, including you, was mine. Later I learned that intelligent beings have their own will and are not private property."
Pi Min chuckled and asked, "So, you banished all of humanity out of rage and shame?"
"No, I wasn't angry or embarrassed."
The man, who was already embarrassed, became even more embarrassed. After a long silence, he finally spoke again.
"If I said I was saving all of humanity, would you believe me?" It's an absurd statement, but the tone of voice is surprisingly convincing.
Pi Min was amused by him, and immediately retorted coldly, "Salvation? It's more like persecution! How can you expect me to believe that?"
After she finished speaking, she looked up at the boundless universe outside the window. Heaven knows how many deadly dangers were hidden in the seemingly dazzling sea of stars before her.
In less than half a day, she could feel the deep malice this 'cosmic drifting game' harbored towards humanity. Based on her years of experience reading post-apocalyptic survival novels, she knew that humans exiled to the universe with their fragile homes were destined to have only one in ten survive.
"Do you even know what you're doing? You're committing an atrocity!"
The man opposite him did not argue, but just gave a bitter smile.
Pain, exhaustion, and sorrow filled his eyes, but Pi Min, preoccupied with resentment, paid no attention.
At this moment, she is unable to extricate herself from the terrible fact that her ex-boyfriend is an inhuman madman.
After a long while, he took a deep breath and came back to his senses from the overwhelming feeling of suffocation.
Her immediate priority was to cut ties with this madman; she didn't want to have anything to do with an anti-human lunatic.
Having made up her mind, she raised her chin and reached out her hand to the man without hesitation.
"Give me my money back!"
"What money?"
"Of course it's the money I used to support you! And the compensation you paid for damaging my property during that time. I didn't originally intend for you to pay it back. Since you are the ultimate beneficiary, this money should be just a drop in the ocean for you."
"Do you really have to do this?" This man, who could send all of humanity to their deaths without hesitation, looked hurt at this moment.
Pi Min coldly raised her chin: "Since we've broken up, we still need to settle the score."
To her surprise, upon hearing the word "breakup," the man in front of her jumped up in shock, looking utterly incredulous: "Breakup? Who broke up with you?"
Pi Min was completely baffled by him and laughed, "You didn't break up. Who was it that was crying and complaining about being dumped on a live stream before?"
The man opposite him hurriedly explained, "I was just acting, it was just an excuse, nothing more! I know you didn't mean what you said back then, you were afraid I would really die if I stayed in the dungeon. The harsher you scolded me back then, the more you cared about me."
For a moment, Pi Min was dazed by the sincere look in the man's eyes.
Did she care? Yes, she did care about him at one time.
In the period immediately following his departure, she even suffered from insomnia.
I'm worried about his condition, and whether he's eating and drinking well.
Every day felt like an eternity as they waited for news from him.
She thought that even if he didn't plan to come back, he would at least send her a message to let her know if he was alright.
Little did I know that this parting would end without any further contact.
The long three months were more than enough for her to experience all five painful stages.
Denial, anger, negotiation, frustration, acceptance.
She had already put an end to this relationship in her heart. She never dreamed that the man she had marked as her ex-boyfriend would reappear, and not only that, he would cause such a huge uproar.
The most terrifying thing was that it was done in her name. She couldn't even imagine what would happen to her if her identity were exposed.
She had indeed cared about him, but clearly, the man before her didn't care about her at all. If he had cared about her even a little, he wouldn't have let her end up in this situation.
Her heart was filled with bitterness, but she showed no sign of it on her face. She simply stared coldly at the man in front of her and said indifferently, "Isn't it too late for you to come back now? If you really cared about this relationship, why didn't you do it sooner?"
"I have my own unavoidable difficulties."
"As the master of the earth, who could possibly cause you such distress?"
The man in front of her hesitated, wanting to explain, but in the end he just closed his eyes in pain.
Pimin shook her head with a wry smile and continued tending to the red Eden that Miss Tyrannosaurus Rex had just given her.
"The unspoken rule in the adult world is that if couples don't contact each other for a period of time, they've essentially broken up. Think back, how long has it been since we last contacted each other?"
"Three months, two weeks, four days, eight hours, forty-three minutes, and twenty-five seconds."
Is it true or false?
Pi Min paused, her hand hovering over the flower petals. She wore the expression of an old woman on the subway looking at her phone, then quickly opened her personal terminal and started calculating the time based on historical messages. While she couldn't pinpoint the exact second, the time was indeed correct.
Realizing that the man in front of her had indeed calculated the time of their separation so precisely, she was at a loss for words.
Could this guy in front of me really be a hopeless romantic?
Perhaps sensing the softening in her eyes, the man immediately began to shower her with sweet words: "Do you know? Every single second I'm away from you, I'm thinking of you."
Unfortunately, Pimin had already recovered from his brief shock.
It's fake, a scam. If they really wanted to see each other, how could they have resisted meeting for so long?
"It's so easy to just use a quantum computer to set a timer. Give up! No matter how you try to justify yourself, I will never forgive you! It's over between us!"
"Here, take this back." She grabbed the jade cufflink from the table and threw it hard at the man in front of her.
The man didn't take it, letting the cufflink fall to the ground and roll into an unseen corner. What was priceless in the eyes of ordinary people was not even worthy of his glance.
Seeing his reaction, Pi Min felt even more that everything she had done before was a joke.
"If you had told me earlier how valuable this thing was, we might not have broken up. Do you know how desperate I was back then?"
The man's condition at the time was more akin to poisoning than illness.
The cause of his illness was that he came to a world that did not belong to him. The terrible environment of the underground city caused his precious body's immune system to overreact.
In layman's terms, because the external environment is so harsh, the immune system goes berserk, attacking its own tissues indiscriminately. To survive, it needs to take special immunosuppressants regularly; a complete cure requires surgery.
"Your surgery was an astronomical sum for me at the time. As a garbage collector, even if I didn't eat or drink for a hundred years, I still couldn't afford it. I even considered selling my organs..."
Recalling the pain and despair of that time, Pi Min still can't help but tremble.
"Do you know what I was feeling when I sent you away?" She glared menacingly at the man before her, tears welling in her eyes. "Did you find it fun to toy with other people's feelings?"
Upon hearing her accusation, the man hurriedly shook his head repeatedly, denying it, saying, "I didn't, I didn't toy with your feelings. I was sincere towards you, I just really enjoyed being taken care of by you. In my memory, you always had such a beautiful smile, I really didn't know you were going through such a difficult time back then."
Pi Min wiped away her tears and glared at her fiercely: "So, in the end, it's my fault again. You're already suffering enough from being sick, do you expect me to cry in front of you every day?"
"I'm sorry, I'm so sorry! It's all my fault, I'll accept whatever punishment you want."
Pi Min scoffed and shook his head: "I have no interest in hitting or punishing you. You can leave now."
Unfortunately, the man stood still, unmoved even when Pi Min gave him a disdainful look.
“I won’t leave unless you agree to come home with me! I came here to take you home. Didn’t you say you wanted to stand in the sunlight, watching the clouds drift by and the sun rise and set? You also said you wanted to stand in the woods, watching the birds return to their nests and the plants grow. As long as you’re willing to come home with me, I can give you whatever you want.”
Upon hearing his words, Pi Min initially just sneered, but eventually couldn't help but burst out laughing.
"why are you laughing?"
She shook her head, feeling increasingly unfamiliar with the man before her: "You're really something. You used being dumped by me as an excuse to expel all of humanity, but now you want to single me out. Do you think that's appropriate?"
Seeing that the man in front of her didn't respond, she continued, "Do you know the difference between a human and a beast?"
The man remained silent, only looking at her with a hurt expression.
Pi Min ignored the pain in his eyes and continued, "The biggest difference between humans and beasts is that humans have mirror neurons, which allow them to empathize with the pain of others. Why do you think that after you did such a heinous thing, I can still pretend nothing happened and go home with you as if nothing has happened?"
She suddenly raised her hand, laughing exaggeratedly, and began clapping as if no one else was around.
"The world is being destroyed, and they are in love, oh ho!"
Her eyes suddenly turned cold.
"No, I'm not an animal, I can't do it!"
"I'd rather you stay than go with me."
Her eyes flashed with a fierce light, and she suddenly swung a new type of alloy leg bone from the corner of the wall, smashing it hard against the man's head in front of her.
It wasn't for nothing that she endured the disgust and argued with him for so long; she finally got her chance.
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