He Zhuo rolled his eyes and was about to continue speaking when another voice interrupted.
"He Zhuo, I could hear you making a racket from far away, like you're setting off firecrackers during the New Year, it's so noisy!" Gu Wan pulled Gu Qi and walked quickly closer, her eyes still red from the noise.
He Zhuo: "Hey? Gu Wanwan, why are you crying? It can't be that..."
"Shut up!" Gu Wan's voice was still slightly choked: "I'm worried about Sister Wen Qing and Xing You! Sister Wen Qing's husband... have you forgotten?"
"She was treated badly before the apocalypse, subjected to domestic violence. Now, she opens her eyes, her powers are gone, but her memories have returned, and she's still carrying a child..."
Gu Qi: "Don't think about it anymore. Let's go up and meet up first, then we'll arrange for someone to contact Sister Wen Qing and Xing You."
Shi Xu: "According to my memory, the first wave of the global 'storm' is coming tomorrow night. We don't have much time, so let's go up and meet up to make some plans."
Before the words were even finished, the elevator doors opened with a "ding".
The elevator ascends, and the numbers change.
"bite--"
As soon as the elevator doors opened, He Zhuo was the first to step out.
"Bang bang bang!"
He immediately started banging on the door, his force no less than that of Chi Yanzhou earlier: "Brother Ci! Brother Yan! Open the door! It's us!"
Almost at the same moment he struck the door for the third time, the door was suddenly pulled open from the inside.
Lu Xici held the still-on phone to her ear with one hand, and pushed open the door with the other.
"Nan Nan, wait a moment, A Zhuo and the others have arrived..." He quickly said to the person on the other end of the phone, then looked at his friends at the door.
He Zhuo: "Brothers! What's going on?! Time has reversed when we opened our eyes! Have we triggered some kind of collective rebirth event?"
Shi Xu: "In a rebirth story, someone as talkative as you usually doesn't survive more than two lines in a novel!"
Chi Yanzhou happened to walk back from the balcony: "My grandfather remembers too! Brother Ci, what did Nannan say?"
“Nan Nan and A Ye both ‘remember’.” Lu Xici said into the phone, “Nan Nan, you tell us, everyone is here except for Ji Xian, Chi Yi, Wen Qing, and Luo Xingyou.”
After saying that, he quickly turned on the speakerphone on his phone and placed it flat on the coffee table in the living room.
The next second, a childish voice echoed throughout the living room: "Brothers, sisters."
Immediately afterwards, Lu Nange's reassuring voice rang out: "Good morning, everyone."
"Ah Ye! Mei Bao!" He Zhuo yelled, but Gu Qi grabbed him and held him down.
Gu Wan spoke into the phone, her voice trembling with tears, "A-Ye, Nan-Nan..."
"Brothers and sisters...please listen to me first, the apocalypse will not happen again..."
Lu Nange's words stunned everyone in the living room.
Lu Nange continued, recounting the "simplified version" that she had discussed with the system "Youyou" and that Youyou had agreed to reveal.
"Zhizhi is the 'source of life' that keeps our little world running. You can think of it as the way of heaven, the heavens."
The apocalypse was caused by the corruption of Zhizhi's power by the so-called boss 'Black Overlord'.
In the final moments, we all activated its last primal power.
This primordial power, which embodies the will and life imprint of all of us, led us... on a journey back in time.
We have traveled back to the point in time before this disaster occurred.
Except for those of us who ate the branches and leaves and retained the complete memories of that apocalypse, everyone else's memories of the apocalypse will be 'corrected,' or rather... overwritten.
They won't remember anything related to it.
Therefore, there will be no more apocalypses in the future. We can live normal lives again.
Chi Yanzhou's brows furrowed slightly before relaxing: "What about 'Zhizhi' now?"
Lu Nange: "'Zhizhi' has turned into a seed, and it's with me now. I will take good care of it."
This answer brought a sigh of relief to everyone, but then another, more urgent emotion welled up inside them.
Chi Yanzhou: "Since there's no apocalypse, I'll tell Grandpa, and then we..."
Everyone: "We want to come see you all!"
Gu Wan: "I'll check flights right now! I'll book the earliest tickets! Let's go together!"
He Zhuo: "I'll book the tickets! I guarantee it'll be the fastest! Little sister, A-Ye, wait for your older brothers and sisters!"
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