Chapter Ninety-Five: After the Game Disappeared (The End) (End of Main Text)
[Reading Reminder: The viewpoints of the main and supporting characters in this chapter are inspired by the internet and do not represent the author's personal stance.]
"A father who claims to be fair, dividing the family property 80% (eldest son) and 20% (youngest daughter), readily spends tens of thousands to arrange for his son to transfer schools, yet is unwilling to spend a few thousand on tuition for his daughter to go to university, and even says he doesn't have a mother who favors sons over daughters... Life itself is an absurd drama," Yun Ting said expressionlessly.
"This crappy world doesn't sound like there's anything worth staying for," Zhao Jun said casually, wiping away his tears. "Are you sure it's okay to talk like that? Are you sure our conversation won't be overheard?"
Yun Xin stated, "If there are any extreme remarks, it must be due to hereditary depression."
“I think I understand why Xiao Wei values you so much.” Zhao Jun looked at the ceiling of the interrogation room and said softly, “In the future I see, you and Xiao Wei don’t know each other. But in reality, no matter how I try to seduce you, Xiao Wei will not leave you.”
"If you want, you can easily destroy the uncertainties that could lead to human extinction."
"But I'm really curious, how much of your affection for Xiao Wei is truly genuine?"
Yun Xin countered, "Do I look like the kind of person who would sacrifice their own feelings for the greater good?"
Zhao Jun was speechless.
"From the very beginning, I only allow people I like to stay by my side, and I won't even have contact with people I don't like," Yun Xin stated her position seriously.
Zhao Jun stared blankly at Yun Xin, his feelings instantly becoming very complicated.
Outside the interrogation room.
After a long pause, someone finally blurted out, "It doesn't look like they're going in to persuade Zhao Jun; it looks more like they're going in to join an evil organization..."
The Second Saint, Ge Xi, said, "Superpowers have no effect on Zhao Jun. We can only use words to get closer to him. Yun Xin did the right thing; it was all to get information out of him."
The others, "..."
This seems to go beyond just platitudes.
The head of the special rescue department glared and said aggressively, "The information you couldn't get out of them, they've gotten out of them! What more do you want?"
Xiao Wei... Xiao Wei is temporarily distracted.
My mind was filled with the phrase, "From the very beginning, I only allowed people I liked to stay by my side, and I wouldn't even touch people I didn't like"—a sentence that played on repeat for over ten times before I was still not awake.
This is a two-way rush!
This is what sweet love is all about!
Xiao Wei was overjoyed and wished she could rush in, pick up Yun Xin, and spin her around.
Amid the discussion, the interrogation room door was flung open.
Yun Xin came out, gave a brief report on the situation, and said, "Zhao Jun is the fourth saint. He saw the future, so he orchestrated this himself, deliberately pushing his spiritual attribute to 10 to end the evolution game ahead of schedule."
"He deserves to die!" someone muttered a curse.
For the past two weeks, everyone has suffered from the scorching heat. Many people have also suffered from heatstroke and have been rushed to the hospital for treatment.
All of this is because of Zhao Jun.
If the evolution game were still ongoing, and people continued to grind for attributes, more people would survive.
Zhao Jun, with his own hands, destroyed the only hope for ordinary people to survive. From then on, the probability of ordinary people surviving the high temperatures was infinitesimally close to zero.
"Is he willing to atone for his crimes by revealing what he foresaw in the future?" the police chief asked.
Yun Xin shook her head, "He neither agreed nor disagreed. He just stared blankly, not saying a word." The head of the special rescue department said, "It was so hard to get him to talk, this is a breakthrough! We'll have to keep at it."
The police chief glanced at Yun Xin, his expression unreadable.
Yunxin: ?
The police officer next to her was extremely enthusiastic, pulling her to sit down beside him, saying, "Since you're already here, why don't you do some filing before you leave?"
Good citizen Yun Xin did not shirk her responsibilities and fully cooperated with the police.
After the filing was completed and they left the police station, Xiao Wei pulled Yun Xin aside to talk.
“This…” Ge Xi, the second saint, was speechless.
"Ignore him, he's just in love." The person in charge waved his hand and said calmly.
Ge Xi, “…”
Good heavens!
The First Saint, Yun Xin, saves people as fate dictates, and her main characteristic is a free and easygoing attitude.
The third saint, Xiao Wei, appears shrewd and capable, but is actually obsessed with love.
The Fourth Saint, Zhao Jun, is definitely a villain; he can always cause trouble even when there's nothing wrong with him.
With this configuration, the fact that humanity hasn't gone extinct is truly thanks to the blessings of our ancestors!
In the corner, Xiao Wei released his grip and murmured, "What you said in the interrogation room just now... is it true?"
Yun Xin was slightly taken aback. She had said so much in the interrogation room. "Which sentence?"
"I only allow people I like to stay by my side, and I won't even touch people I don't like." Xiao Wei remembered it clearly and immediately repeated it.
"It's true." Yun Xin chuckled. "You've been by my side for so long, shouldn't you know best?"
Xiao Wei's eyes shone like stars.
He had stayed for a long time, but he lacked confidence. He had always believed that as long as he yielded, Tingting wouldn't abandon him. As for anything else… he dared not think about it.
He feared that excessive greed would ruin the life he cherished.
Besides, he is happy, and he can continue living like that, unchanged.
Looking at Xiao Wei, Yun Xin seemed to understand his concerns. She said seriously, "When I say I like someone, I really mean it. You know I would never force myself or make myself feel wronged."
Fireworks lit up Xiao Wei's heart!
He couldn't say anything, so he hugged Yunxin tightly, lifted her high in the air, and spun her around.
Yunxin let him go crazy.
She knew in her heart that without Xiao Wei, she would have no attachment to this world and would have chosen to give up long ago.
Yunxin took a day off specifically to go to the police station to speak with Zhao Jun. The next day, she went to work at the swimming pool as usual.
"What's wrong? Why didn't you come to work yesterday?" Huang Xinfang asked with concern.
"They went to the police station," Yun Xin briefly described what had happened.
Huang Xinfang's expression immediately turned strange.
"What's wrong?" Yunxin asked, puzzled.
“The memories of my dead body suddenly attacked me,” Huang Xinfang replied blankly.
Yunxin didn't understand.
Huang Xinfang thought that everyone present was like family, so there was nothing to hide and she shared her unpleasant experience. "I like surfing the internet and reading novels online. Many years ago, it was popular for a prodigal son to return to his former life and for a pure, kind-hearted female lead who had no romantic experience to be a couple."
"A man who doesn't respect himself is like rotten cabbage. After watching too many of these stories, a group of women started to question life itself: why should a pure female lead be paired with a male lead who lacks self-respect? This couple is completely mismatched!"
"The female lead is a virgin, so it's not unreasonable for her to ask for a virgin male lead, right? The female lead doesn't even have a crush on anyone, so it's not unreasonable for her to ask for a clean romantic history, right? This gave rise to a label called 'double clean,' which specifically refers to two virgins who have no exes and no romantic history, and a fairytale-like love."
"A few years later, a group of people suddenly jumped out and said that this word objectifies women and is disrespectful to women. They shouted, why can't girls have exes? Why can't girls have romantic experiences? They insisted on abolishing this word."
"I just don't understand, why are women so eager to see themselves in these requirements when they're clearly directed at men?"
“If I say I like rich people, will anyone in this era jump out and say I'm materialistic and look down on the poor? Normal people know that women shouldn't marry into poverty. So if I say I'm picky about my partner and require him to have no romantic history or exes, otherwise I'd rather never marry, how is that such a heinous crime? Isn't it just a personal preference?”
“I’m not forcing all girls to have the same fetish as me or to marry a husband like me! I just hope that when I state my criteria for choosing a partner, people can view it normally, instead of chasing after me and condemning me as if I’ve done something outrageous.”
"I'm willing to respect and understand other people's preferences, so why aren't other people willing to understand and respect me? Men can rightfully choose a wife like this, so why can't women?"
"But online, you can't even mention it. If you do, you'll get attacked by 'avant-garde people who refuse to objectify women'."
Yun Xin remained silent.
“And there’s something even more outrageous. Some people say she respects personal orientation, but she just thinks the term ‘double purity’ sounds awful and insists on changing it… If she thinks a word that’s conventionally used and has a specific meaning doesn’t sound good, then everyone else has to follow suit. Whether it’s insulting or not is entirely up to her to decide. And she keeps saying she’ll change it, but she never says what it should be. It’s always unacceptable, and she never offers any solutions. Last time I saw how strict the wording control was, they even avoided using the names of emperors from past dynasties!” Huang Xinfang became more and more furious as she spoke.
“Some people, I think, are going to extremes! They think that every normal sentence someone says has a hidden meaning.”
"For example, with the suffocating parenting methods of the previous generation, how many of the new generation can honestly say they had a happy childhood?"
“Every time I talk about the mind-numbing things my mom, aunt, and other aunts do, someone jumps out and accuses me of belittling women… God knows I’m just telling the truth.”
"The older generation had a higher proportion of men with more education, which resulted in men being more reasonable than women. This isn't a gender gap, it's a gap in education level!!"
"If women with only a primary school education are more capable than men with a university degree, what a waste of talent the country is to prevent them from receiving education!"
"The worst part is that no matter how much you criticize and refute, the environment remains just as cruel. If you bring it up, you're accused of disrespecting women; if you bring it up, you'll be accused of gender discrimination and you'll be chased and scolded."
"Perhaps this is an absurd world in itself. When the vast majority of people behave strangely, normal people become outcasts and targets."
Finally, Huang Xinfang concluded.
Yun Xin smiled and said, "I'll tell you something interesting."
"What?" Huang Xinfang was still lost in her own thoughts, her emotions fluctuating greatly, and she was stunned when she heard this.
“Throughout history, even murderers and rapists have been allowed to marry, have children, and leave behind descendants before serving their sentences. So no matter what kind of male genes they have, they will be passed down,” Yun Xin said slowly.
"The current mainstream aesthetic is white, youthful, and thin. After generations of human selection, it will inevitably lead to women being petite and thin."
"In fact, in the earliest matriarchal societies, what was valued was a strong, robust, fertile, and hardworking woman. Women were not necessarily inferior to men."
Huang Xinfang was suddenly horrified, and goosebumps rose all over her body.
“But all of this is hearsay. Some of these things are from a long time ago and can no longer be verified.” Yun Xin changed the subject and said in a relaxed tone, “I understood from the beginning that I could not change the environment, nor could I change others. The only thing I could decide was my own future.”
After that, the perceived temperature rose day by day, and even the air became scorching hot. With each breath, my lungs felt like they were being burned.
As temperatures rise, the body's metabolism speeds up, and you can easily sweat profusely if you're not careful, leading to dehydration.
Ambulances shuttled back and forth through the city, too busy to stop. But the hospitals were already overflowing... and many patients stopped breathing on their way to the hospital.
Gradually, people realized that this was an exam that could only be taken by the individual and could not be taken by someone else. Anyone who failed the exam would be ruthlessly eliminated.
This is the survival of the fittest in nature.
Reality is cruel.
In addition, excessively high temperatures have caused glaciers to melt, sea levels to rise, and human habitation areas to shrink significantly... but fortunately, water sources have not dried up.
People were constantly eliminated, and their corpses piled up, forming small mountains.
Because it was summer, in order to avoid the spread of the plague, these people were eventually cremated together.
The fire raged for over a month, and the three-month-long heatwave finally ended. By then, the Federation's population was less than 30% of its peak. Moreover, over 80% of the survivors were superhumans.
Humans have always considered themselves the masters of the Earth, but they do not realize that one day when oil and coal resources are exhausted and no alternative resources are found in time, they will be just like other living beings, helpless due to the sudden change in the planet's temperature.
Thankfully, all the suffering is now behind us.
Humanity ultimately triumphed over the crisis and overcame the difficulties.
Next, humanity will enter a new era and begin a new chapter.
(End of this chapter)
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