Shi Yin didn't know whose voice it was; she couldn't tell if it was male or female.
However, Tokine's initial wish came true.
I don't want to die.
In a daze, Shi Yin saw many worlds that were exactly the same as her own, saw things that looked like tree branches, and saw the time before everything happened.
Shi Yin seemed to see a scene where nothing had happened yet, and she wanted to go back to that place.
Then, she really went back.
Carrying memories and power.
Stockpiling goods, gathering family, waiting, protecting... all done in one go. Shi Yin unexpectedly discovers that there is another version of herself in this world. Shi Yin immediately realizes that this may be a so-called parallel world.
Fortunately, Shi Yin believed in herself. They explained the situation to their parents, and although it was really outrageous, the family still accepted their second daughter.
The result, of course, was still failure.
However, after the death of her other self, Shion obtained the energy core of that other self and unexpectedly discovered that absorbing her own power could directly double her strength.
It's important to understand that even when absorbing the power of a crystal core, one's abilities will still increase slowly.
The second time, the third time, the fourth time... the hundredth time...
Nearly desperate.
Countless times, Shi Yin sat in the ruins, surrounded by menacing zombies. The intelligent zombie leader looked down at her as if mocking her incompetence.
Shi Yin knew that she was just an ordinary person.
Even their wishes are quite ordinary.
All I wanted was for my family to eat together and live a peaceful life.
She lacked the ability to manage a battle group, so Shi Huaiyuan and her eldest sister helped her; she lacked the ability to lead a team, so her brothers-in-law gave her advice; she was also not good at calculating profits and doing business, so her second sister took on this responsibility.
But that won't do, because they will all die, die very early, and in the end she will be all alone.
Moreover, they will all die in front of her, die for her.
Shi Yin learned to observe people's hearts, to strategize, to be one step ahead in the game, and to lead and manage a team.
She discovered that the more rational and seemingly cruel the choice, the more likely it is to save the majority of people. She also discovered that even if a minority of people are saved, they will suffer a mental breakdown due to the collapse of human society. She realized that she not only had to save people, but also had to preserve human society, otherwise everything would be for naught.
But Shi Yin also realized that "she" was no good.
Every time she jumps to a new world, it's a world she hasn't experienced, a world she'll never truly empathize with or understand. These new worlds are more emotional, more passionate, and will give their all for what they want to do.
That's good.
But we can't do that; it would ruin her plans.
Therefore, every time she jumps to another world, Tokine will find an opportunity to kill "herself" as soon as possible.
For power, for the plan.
She wanted to recruit others to help her rescue her family, thus achieving her goal indirectly. She was determined to win, for this damned fate, for her wish.
Shi Yin still remembers the very beginning, when only she and her father were left to wander. Even though it was just the two of them, Shi Huaiyuan always seemed more optimistic than her, and even secretly drove her up the mountain.
Towering mountains and sheer cliffs—even zombies find it too tiring.
Therefore, they successfully reached the summit.
There were no zombies to be seen here, only a sea of clouds and leaves rippling in the breeze. In a daze, Shi Yin thought she had returned to the time before the apocalypse, as if they were just tourists who would be able to take a car home after descending the mountain.
Chu Ning would definitely complain that they didn't take her on the trip, but she couldn't put down her work. She would grumble a few words, but then she would beam with joy because of the little gift Shi Huaiyuan brought.
"Dad, do you love this world?" Shi Yin suddenly asked at that moment.
“Of course I love it. Look at this green tree and sea of clouds. I always wanted to come here when I was working, but I didn’t have time during the summer and winter vacations because there were too many people. I didn’t want to see people crammed together. Now I can see it.” Shi Huaiyuan stood on the mountaintop and hugged Shi Yin. “Besides, without this world, how would I have met you all that your mother had?”
Shion: "Do you love it very much?"
Shi Huaiyuan: "I love it very much."
He loves you, but why is the world so cruel?
When Shi Yin sat on the ruins once again, she asked the question that had been on her mind.
"Who are you."
No one answered, as if the sounds that came after Shion's death were just hallucinations she imagined.
The intelligent zombies had surrounded her and were determined to catch her, but Shi Yin was calm. She felt that this was the calmest she had ever been.
This time, Shi Yin chose to perish together with the enemy.
It's not about perishing together with zombies, it's about perishing with the Earth.
Didn't you want to invade Earth?
If I can't win, then let's not play at all!
This time, the blue water sphere turned into grayish fragments.
But Shi Yin did not really die. She saw a huge tree with countless dense branches on its huge trunk, reaching straight into the sky and stretching to the horizon.
However, a strange dark red patch spread upwards from the middle of the tree trunk, visibly covering branch after branch.
In Shi Yin's eyes, these countless branches were parallel worlds from different Earths. The normal world and world lines were pale gold, but the dark red area had the same aura as the zombies.
"It seems that blowing up this tree will solve the problem once and for all," Shi Yin concluded.
Calm down! Let's talk this out.
No, what kind of nice family would blow up a tree on their first meeting?
"Are you alive?"
Are you dead?
“Yes.” Shi Yin said matter-of-factly.
[...]
You know what, it actually seems to be true.
"Who exactly are you?" Shi Yin asked.
You always call me Mother Earth, saying I gave birth to you? I thought you understood the moment you saw me.
"Do you really want me to curse you? You gave birth to us, and then accepted the things that destroyed everything we had?"
Having been reborn over 100 times, Shi Yin was quite experienced and could tell at a glance that the tree was not resisting the dark red substance on its body at all, and that the dark red substance was developing very smoothly.
[I told you the first time, history cannot be changed. You were clearly chosen by the new world, so why are you incompatible with them?]
These zombies are essentially humans with mutated genes. Apart from the low-level zombies that were failed experiments, the other zombies, while different in appearance from humans, possess intelligence equal to humans and additional strength; it's just that their appearance is not accepted by your generation of humans.
"You seem to welcome them quite a bit." Shi Yin's expression was already very unpleasant.
It's not that I welcome them; you've repeated this so many times, you should understand my helplessness. You possess almost cheating conceptual power, yet you still couldn't succeed, did you?
All I need to do is survive as a resident of this planet. You should understand that dinosaurs, your ape ancestors, you yourselves, and even zombies, are all just cycles of evolution.
"Survival or destruction is your concern; I only need to exist."
Having been reborn more than a hundred times, Shi Yin now possesses almost overwhelming power.
But so what? In the end, Tokine survived by an overwhelming margin.
"Then let's all die together, let's all stop playing around." Shi Yin clenched her fist: "No one should have an easy time."
"...It's not that there's no room for negotiation, but don't be impulsive."
Wait, what's wrong with this person?
You're always flipping the table, aren't you?
"How about this, I won't side with either of you. Fair competition, okay?"
"No, you have to stand on my side and resist this dark red substance."
Turning into these zombies doesn't really mean any loss; it's pretty much the same. It just requires a period of time to repeat the transition from feudal to modern society.
"Then let's all stop playing..."
I'm on your side!
The world is starting to regret bringing Shion over to meet them personally. If only they had known, they should have let Shion keep trying and then given up when she was desperate.
It's just a few tree branches that got blown off, what a waste.
Well, you can't say that. What if Shi Yin goes completely mad, goes to a parallel world, and blows up the Earth, leaving it bald?
This situation has occurred before in the universe.
It has survived for so long, outliving all its other brothers and sisters in the solar system, and is the only one with life, Earth, so it doesn't want to be reborn.
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