Chapter 545 Nan Nan, Goodbye!
As Youyou spoke, a semi-transparent virtual screen appeared out of thin air in front of Lu Nange.
Several lines of text were clearly displayed on the screen.
[Congratulations to host 'Lu Nange' (and auxiliary system 'Youyou') for successfully completing the core mission 'Breaking the Apocalypse'! Mission rating: SSS+]
[Task rewards are selectable (choose one of three).]
1. Stay in this world: Continue living in this small world that you fought for and saved.
Together with your family, companions, and other survivors, rebuild your home and usher in a new era for you.
The system will provide a basic reconstruction support data package.
(Note: This world has broken free from the cycle and will develop normally. Superpowers may gradually stabilize or evolve, and the zombie crisis will be gradually resolved.)
2. Return to another world: Leave this small world and return to the peaceful and stable modern world where your soul consciousness was previously 'residing'.
Your identity, memories, and some abilities will be properly arranged, allowing you to begin a new and peaceful life there.
(Note: Most memories related to this world will be obscured to protect the stability of both worlds.)
3. Time Reversal: Utilize the vast energy and permissions accumulated from this mission to rewind the timeline of this world to before the Black Market program invaded and before the car accident involving you and your family occurred.
You will return to that peaceful era, live happily with your family, and avoid all tragedies.
(Note: After the rollback, the hacker program will be marked and isolated, but other unexpected events cannot be guaranteed.)
Lu Nange's gaze lingered on the third option for a long time.
"Yes, yes, if we could go back in time and Blackie hadn't appeared, what would this world be like? Would there still be an apocalypse?"
“Absolutely not.” Youyou answered decisively: “Nannan, you have to understand that this small world is just a normal, stable technological world among countless parallel universes.”
There are no zombies, no superpowers, no natural disasters, and no major catastrophes other than human-caused disasters.
People live ordinary lives, experiencing joy, anger, sorrow, happiness, birth, aging, sickness, and death; this is its true nature.
The invasion of Black King was like a virus forcibly implanted into a healthy body, causing it to have a high fever, ulcerate, and be on the verge of death.
All the pain, sacrifice, and struggle you have experienced... in essence, is a catastrophe imposed on this world that should never have existed.
Lu Nange's throat tightened: "Yes, yes, since the system has determined that it was a success, it's because of the efforts of me and my partners. Can I discuss this with everyone?"
"No, Nan Nan, only you can decide this matter."
If everyone knew this, it could trigger unpredictable paradoxical shocks, or even cause the backtracking process to fail...
Lu Nange closed her eyes, and in her palm, the emerald green seed seemed to pulsate faintly.
She looked up at Lu Beiye, Lu Xici, Chi Yanzhou, He Zhuo, Gu Wan, Wen Qing, Shi Xu, Gu Qi, Chi Yi, Ji Xian, Luo Xingyou...
There are many more faces that survived this catastrophe.
Her gaze swept over the three options again, finally settling on the line "Live happily with family and avoid all tragedies".
These words, like a branding iron with heat, burned into her heart.
Luo Xingyou, Wen Qing, Ji Xian, Sang Xu... all those who lost their loved ones, their homes, and everything else in this apocalypse can regain the ordinary yet precious happiness they deserve.
Those innocent people who were captured for experiments and died in pain and fear will not have to go through that hell.
Zombies will not appear, superpowers will not awaken, and the world will not collapse.
The sun will rise as usual, the sound of reading will fill the schools, the streets will be bustling with traffic, people will worry about daily necessities, strive for promotions and raises, and experience the joys and sorrows of love and marriage...
That's how the world should have been.
An imposed, absurd, and painful nightmare will be completely erased.
She looked up at the floating orb of light.
"Yes, yes, if I choose the third option, to go back in time, will they still remember all of this?"
Youyou: "Nannan, according to the rules, in order to avoid time paradoxes and memory conflicts that lead to confusion of consciousness."
After the rollback, all "apocalyptic memories" related to this "erroneous timeline" will be "blurred" and "dreamlike" by the main system at a security level.
In other words, they will forget everything that happened.
Only a few people might vaguely remember some fragments, some feelings, such as an inexplicable fear of zombies, a deep trust in their companions, or certain fighting instincts.
But these memories will be like a long, hazy dream, lacking detail and logic, and will not affect their normal lives in the new timeline.
Lu Nange listened quietly; perhaps forgetting was also a form of compassion.
Forget the bloodshed, forget the loss, forget the nights when you had to take up arms to protect your loved ones.
Forget the despair of watching helplessly as your companion falls...
"And you, do you have any?" Lu Nange pressed, "And Zhizhi, Gangzi?"
"As for me..." Youyou's sphere of light seemed to brighten a little: "Of course I'll stay in this little world!"
However, after time rewinds, my form of existence will be greatly restricted.
After all, there's no need for something like a 'system' in peacetime.
I'll probably become something like... well, a 'minor manifestation of the world's will' or a 'little hint from fate'?
It might occasionally give you a flash of inspiration when you face a major choice.
Haha, anyway, I'll watch you grow up well in this world!
Its tone carried a subtle hint of reluctance and anticipation.
"Gangzi will turn back into an ordinary, perhaps a particularly intelligent, macaw, living a carefree life in a zoo or in the home of a bird lover."
No more fighting, no more getting hurt. As for Zhizhi…” Youyou’s light dimmed a little.
"If we go back in time to before the Black Tyrant invasion, Zhizhi was one of the 'core elements of life origin'."
It needs to fulfill the responsibility it was born with: to maintain the life cycle and prosperity of that world.
Your meeting, your companionship, and your final sacrifice and salvation... this chapter of your relationship has come to an end.
It won't remember you, and you won't remember it. You'll be like two stars that accidentally brush past each other in the universe, continuing your journeys on your respective orbits.
However, I will keep applying to see if I can get it back to you...
Lu Nange's eyes reddened. She turned her head and glanced at her companions. Images of them fighting side by side along the way flashed through her mind.
Then his gaze fell on the palm of his hand again.
The emerald green seed lay quietly in her palm.
She could almost hear that childish voice echoing in her heart.
[Master, don't be afraid!]
[Zhizhi will always fight alongside you!]
[Zhizhi...I'm here to save you!]
Tears rolled down her cheeks without warning.
When dripped onto the seeds, they are quickly absorbed.
The seed's light seemed to brighten a little more as a result.
a long time.
She slowly raised her head.
The confusion, struggle, pain, and reluctance in her eyes... all the complex emotions have been replaced by calm.
"I've made my choice. I choose the third option: time travel."
The moment she finished speaking, a great light shone forth, gently enveloping her entire being.
A grand and majestic voice resounded in this still space and time.
[Command confirmed.]
[Execution: Small World G-7716, Final Solution for the 'Doomsday Deviation Timeline']
[Option 3: 'Root Cause Analysis']
[Startup: The highest privilege time rule.]
[Scope of retrospection: Global.]
[Memory processing protocol: Start.]
[Start execution——]
The scene before Lu Nange's eyes began to blur and distort, like an oil painting blurred by water droplets.
Lu Beiye's face, Lu Xici's face, Chi Yanzhou's face, everyone's face... all gradually faded away in this gentle emerald green light.
Finally, what came into her view was Youyou's ball of light, gently swaying towards her, as if saying, "Nannan, goodbye."
Then—light engulfed everything, and time began to flow backward.
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