The question I wanted to ask suddenly caught in my throat: "It's okay, it's pretty good. Do you have any more? Give me some more."
Xiao Ran's eyes lit up. "I'm glad Brother Ling Xiao likes it. I still have a small jar here. I'll continue brewing after I finish this one."
Gu Lingchuan left carrying the wine jar.
Xiao Ran escorted him to her door.
"Brother Lingchuan, you can come anytime. We're always ready for you."
Gu Lingchuan didn't think much of it, assuming they would prepare more wine for him after he finished drinking, and smiled, "Okay."
However, what Gu Chuan didn't know was that Bai Ling had just witnessed Gu Lingchuan leaving Xiao Ran's room.
Tang Yun, who had become good friends with Bai Ling, was also by her side.
"Am I really wrong? Am I being unreasonable? But I really don't want him to take the risk," Bai Ling asked Tang Yun with red eyes.
"Maybe it's just a misunderstanding. Gu Lingchuan was carrying something when he left, so maybe he just wanted to talk to Xiao Ran about something?"
"But why is he smiling so happily, saying he can come anytime and is ready at any time? What kind of talk is that? He hasn't actually touched me yet." Bai Ling became angrier the more she thought about it.
Two lines of clear tears slid down her cheeks, and then she ran away.
"Hey, wait a minute, let me go ask her," Tang Yun slapped her thigh, unsure whether to pursue Bai Ling first or ask Xiao Ran.
Finally, they went directly to Lin Yu and told him what had just happened.
Lin Yu was also helpless. Gu Lingchuan was very reliable in other matters, but why was he so unreliable when it came to relationships?
But before Lin Yu could find Gu Lingchuan, a sudden change occurred. Despite his close surveillance, a large number of zombies were rushing towards them from the nearest city, Hongchong.
As if they had received some kind of instruction, the target was precisely them.
Although they didn't know what went wrong—how could so many zombies gather together under such tight surveillance—they still reacted quickly.
First, they found Gu Lingchuan and told him what had happened. Then they launched several missiles directly. These were recently acquired through a deal with the military, and they didn't expect to use them so soon.
However, unexpectedly, after launching a few missiles, no further launches were made.
"What's going on?" Lin Yu rushed towards the missile control and launch site.
Upon arrival, I witnessed Lü Ming going berserk, killing the actual operators.
"Lu Ming, what are you doing?"
Lin Yu was met with an attack that caused the earth to shatter.
Lin Yu could only retreat quickly, completely unable to defend himself.
His abilities weren't combat-type, and he didn't bring along any creatures that were stronger than Lin Yu himself for controlling evolutionary beings; they were all patrolling outside the Miracle Survivors Base.
I accidentally tore a gash in my arm.
Gu Lingchuan arrived in time to save him.
"He has become completely deformed."
According to the deciphered message, Lü Ming has become an alien.
“Something’s not right,” Lin Yu said.
Gu Lingchuan nodded. "Everything is too abnormal."
Gu Linchuan quickly subdued Lü Ming and ordered the others to continue launching missiles, but they seemed to be terrified and began to scatter and flee, with no one listening to Gu Linchuan.
Helpless, Gu Lingchuan could only severely injure Lü Ming. Then, he and Lin Yu operated the missile launch control panel together, launching a large number of missiles that crushed the gathered zombies into dust.
The crisis was temporarily resolved, but the survivor base was now in disarray. Bai Ling's willfulness, the disorganization of the others, and even Zheng Guohao's decision to lead his team and many soldiers back to Hua Zhiyuan's side, claiming it was safer there, were all contributing factors.
Lin Yu, Lin An, and Gu Lingchuan gathered together.
"How many people came from the Bluefish Survivor Base?"
"Of the sixteen, three have already been killed by Lü Ming, and the rest have all sustained varying degrees of injury. In addition, I have collected information on the actions of all of us during this period and discovered that, apart from the nineteen of us, everyone else has acted differently than before."
"I suspect they were influenced by something, or the Miracle Survivor Base we returned to wasn't the real Miracle Survivor Base," Lin Yu concluded, making this deduction.
"The problem isn't with them, it's with us." A spinning top appeared in Gu Lingchuan's hand; it was the very same spinning top he had bought in the so-called illusion.
The top spun on the table without stopping at all.
“We haven’t woken up at all. Maybe we’re dreaming, or maybe we’re in a hallucination. But I still don’t dare to do it. I don’t dare to gamble on whether she’s real or not.” Gu Lingchuan stared at the spinning top, somewhat lost in thought.
"That makes sense now. All nineteen of us are still in the Blue Fish Survivor Base, and we were all pulled into a dream world before the apocalypse. But it was so fake that it was hard to fool us. When that dream shattered, it misled us, making us think we had escaped the dream world, but in reality, we never escaped."
"But apart from the nineteen of us, the rest of us weren't at the Blue Fish Survivor Base, so we weren't pulled into the dream world. Therefore, they aren't their true selves, and they always reveal flaws."
“Yes, they’re not real,” Lin Yu’s explanation brought Gu Linchuan back to his senses.
“You can escape by finding the things you least want to do,” Gu Lingchuan said.
"Lin Yu, are you confident you can find out what the other thirteen people besides me least want to do? I suspect we might be in danger in the real world. I suspect the three who died in the dream are really dead. I need to go out and check first."
"No problem," Lin Yu nodded.
Lin An, standing to the side, was extremely shocked. What? They were in a fake world, and he hadn't even realized it?
What is the thing you least want to do?
"Watch how I got out; it might give you some inspiration," Gu Lingchuan said, before finding Bai Ling and Xiao Ran.
"Actually, what I least wanted to do was betray Bai Ling and fall in love with someone else, but I still tried it a little. For example, I let Bai Ling see me coming out of Xiao Ran's room and hurt her. I found that doing this made me more and more clear-headed, as if I was trying to escape this world."
"Brother Chuan, are you going to do something intimate with another woman in front of Sister Bai Ling? Does it have to be so exciting? We could have avoided it." Lin An was incredulous.
Lin Yu slapped Lin An on the head.
"No, I still can't do it." As she spoke, a long sword flew over and pierced through Bai Ling's incredulous face.
Gu Lingchuan caught Bai Ling as she slowly fell to the ground. "I'm sorry, even if it's fake."
He gently kissed Bai Ling's forehead, and then his figure disappeared rapidly. As Bai Ling fell to the ground, Gu Lingchuan vanished completely.
"Damn, Brother Chuan gives me the feeling of a madman. That affectionate look in his eyes, the contrast of that knife strike, so fast and ruthless." Lin An was completely shocked and stood there. He killed her because he didn't want to do anything to betray her. I used to think Brother Xiao was pretty crazy, but now it seems he really is a brother.
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