Chapter 89 Cyberabo (Free City) Prey or Master...
This was the first time that Song Qingqing had failed in a mission. She personally did not have many negative emotions. Even before meeting System RE01, she had already thought about how to report and summarize this mission to him.
So after hearing the mission failure announcement, Song Qingqing just sighed softly.
[This mission's data is loading... Confirmed failed, mission rating S.]
Because she was a little confused, after returning to the system space, Song Qingqing sat quietly there, thinking about and reviewing every detail that led to the failure.
Just as Song Qingqing was seriously reviewing and thinking, a tall, snow-white figure stopped silently in front of her. The light in the space was always pale and cold, almost integrated with the system RE01. Song Qingqing raised her head when she noticed the change in light and shadow.
When he met the girl's soft and blank eyes, the slender fingertips hanging by his side trembled slightly, almost imperceptibly, and then quickly returned to calm.
Song Qingqing frowned unconsciously, not knowing if it was an illusion caused by the failure of her mission. She felt that the system, which was originally cold and almost gave off a metallic smell, seemed a little strange.
But she didn't pay much attention to it. After a long sigh of relief, the long draft that had just been quickly typed in her mind finally turned into five words. She said, "Mission failed."
Unlike what Song Qingqing had imagined, which was that the system would react with anger or dissatisfaction, RE01 was very calm. His snow-white eyelashes were slightly closed, and his pale and bloodless thin lips opened slightly in response.
"Yeah." RE01 agreed, then added, almost as if trying to comfort his tasker, "Human nature is inherently foolish and complex."
Song Qingqing looked up at his cold and indifferent handsome face for a long time, and finally asked in a low voice: "Are you comforting me?"
The girl, spoiled in the apocalyptic world, hadn't quite come to terms with it yet. She quietly expressed her dissatisfaction, "I'm human too."
RE01 fell silent.
Song Qingqing, who had finally choked the system, no longer had any negative emotions. She smiled with her eyebrows curved and decided not to bully him anymore. She approached the system while kneeling on the ground, pinched RE01's silver sleeve and shook it, blinking her watery eyes and looking at him.
“Will there be a replay this time?”
RE01 nodded expressionlessly, "What do you want to know? There's no time limit for reviewing S-rank missions..."
He paused and continued, "And you failed this mission."
Song Qingqing curled her lips. It wasn't what she wanted. Thinking of Zhou Zhanyun, who had protected her to an unhealthy degree during that time, she asked about him.
"Brother... No, what happened to Zhou Zhanyun later?"
RE01 did not answer the girl's question immediately. Instead, he lowered his eyes and fixed his gaze on the hand that was holding his sleeve. Several silver-blue streams of data flashed silently and quickly in the depths of his eyes.
Song Qingqing felt that this system was a bit strange, and thought that the system didn't like her behavior of crossing the line, so she prepared to withdraw her hand awkwardly.
Before Song Qingqing withdrew her hand, RE01 spoke.
"Zhou Zhanyun destroyed the mission world."
Song Qingqing:?
After hearing this, Song Qingqing didn't even realize when she had loosened her sleeve. She looked at the system blankly and repeated his words, "ruined...?"
"Or to be more precise," RE01 said calmly, "he simply released an enhanced version of the virus aerosol in the Baige Research Institute."
"You should know that the researcher at the Baige Institute caused your death."
Song Qingqing remained silent, then nodded.
RE01 lowered his eyes slightly, his face seemingly devoid of any emotion. He simply stated the facts, "After extracting all of your blood samples, the Baige Research Institute deceived Zhou Zhanyun, tricking him into coming to the institute with the lie that you were still alive, and then attempting to force him to dissect your body."
"Under the influence of extreme emotions, he acted as I described above, which is completely logical. In fact, when you were alive, Zhou Zhanyun was developing a serum to suppress the virus. After your death, he interrupted all experimental progress and destroyed all existing research results."
"In the post-apocalyptic era, viruses and zombies continue to evolve, extreme weather events become more frequent, and humanity has lost all hope. Ultimately, this mission world has met its due end, a choice made by humanity itself."
Song Qingqing, who was sitting on the ground, said nothing and didn't seem to react much, but the repeated action of her thumb pressing on her index finger revealed her inner unrest.
She lowered her eyes and stared at the pale ground in a daze, her vision a little blurry and uncontrollably.
After a long moment, Song Qingqing asked softly, "Why did the people from the Baige Research Institute want to arrest me? And they also mentioned a name, Song Yuan. Who is he?"
RE01 is a very dedicated problem solver.
"Song Yuan is the father of the body you're carrying on this mission. To keep it alive, he conducted many experiments. The virus that was unleashed by Doomsday might have been his work. Meanwhile, the inhibitory component of the virus is being produced in your body, but that body has the aftereffects of the experiment, a blood coagulation disorder."
"The blood samples extracted by the Baige Research Institute were not sufficient to extract the virus-inhibiting drug. So, this was a choice made by humans themselves."
Just for this reason, just because of this... The system just said that Zhou Zhanyun is already developing the inhibitory serum. With his abilities, he can definitely...
Song Qingqing tried hard to suppress the anger in her heart. She was silent for a long time, and finally she could only say, "I understand."
Until the next mission transmission started, Song Qingqing did not get up and continued to sit there.
RE01, who had opened the system panel not far away, looked calmly at the girl shrouded in a faint light through the fluorescent blue light, and then gently closed his eyes.
......
There was still a heaviness in her head after the transfer of consciousness, and a sharp buzzing sound was echoing, but someone was still calling her in her ears.
"Ms. Song? Song......"
Song Qingqing frowned in pain, raised her hand to cover her temples, and subconsciously replied, "Don't call me."
The man immediately shut up, reacting very quickly and appropriately without expressing any dissatisfaction.
Song Qingqing closed her eyes and took a deep breath. After making sure that there was nothing wrong with her body, she opened her eyes, tilted her head and looked up to see who was calling her, and took in the surrounding environment.
Standing not far from her side was a man with a respectful expression, but after seeing the other person's appearance clearly, Song Qingqing's gaze paused slightly.
Human? Perhaps it would be more accurate to say that this doesn't look like a human, but more like a cyborg imagined by humans in the futuristic world of science fiction.
The tall middle-aged man was dressed as a waiter. What was special about him was that there was a very obvious geometric silver-blue light line at the junction of his ear and cheek, and there was also a barcode and number on his neck.
And judging from the other party's reaction of shutting up immediately just now, it seems that I am a person of high status and probably have a bad temper, otherwise the other party would not have adapted so well.
Noticing that Song Qingqing had been looking at him, the middle-aged waiter stepped forward again, placed his right hand on his chest and saluted, and smiled politely at her, "Miss, are you feeling unwell?"
Song Qingqing shook her head and looked around. It was obvious that this mission was most likely set in a sci-fi future era. However, the room she was in had a particularly girlish feel. Even the special metal plates used in the room were light pink, but it was not abrupt.
After observing the surroundings, Song Qingqing retracted her gaze and asked, "What do you want to say?"
The middle-aged waiter seemed to be accustomed to the temper of the lady he was taking care of, and answered her questions very politely and gently.
"Sir, he has fulfilled your wish, young lady, and has sent back the gift you were waiting for from the Lantes Coast Front."
Gift?
Song Qingqing tried hard not to show her confusion and bewilderment, revealing a look that didn't show much surprise. She propped her chin up and asked nonchalantly, "What gift?"
The waiter smiled and pressed a hidden button on the wall.
Accompanied by the faint sound of mechanical operation, Song Qingqing slowly opened her eyes and stood there in a daze.
Because a huge circular arc appeared out of thin air on the originally flat and traceless ground. At the same time, a huge cylindrical transparent pool slowly rose and appeared in front of her.
After seeing clearly what was inside, Song Qingqing almost couldn't control her emotions.
The waiter didn't seem surprised by the girl's shocked reaction. He patiently smiled and introduced her, "Miss, this is the gift that Master has prepared for you. It's an android mermaid from the coast of Lantes. It may have once been a skilled and beautiful Alpha warrior. But now there's no need to worry about its danger, as Master has had the military overwrite the data code in its brain with a new pet code."
"It will be your new pet."
Song Qingqing left her seat and walked towards the huge cylindrical transparent container, observing her "new electronic pet" through the special glass.
For an Omega girl with no fighting ability, this is undoubtedly an extremely beautiful yet extremely dangerous electronic pet.
He was carefully placed in a transparent and sturdy container by the giver. What was completely different from the gentle and beautiful mermaid in mythology was his fish tail covered with black metal scales. When the water flowed past, an almost imperceptible golden light flowed, and his long and thick golden hair floated freely in the water.
The wheat-colored skin exudes an amazing sense of strength, and the well-defined abdomen is outlined with golden light veins, which spread downward and then connect to the powerful tail.
Under the girl's observation, the electronic pet mermaid with a perfect appearance opened his eyes. They were a pair of cold silver-blue eyes. After taking in the surrounding environment, his pupils instantly switched to the vertical pupils that only deep-sea beasts have in hunting state, with two cold and dangerous silver lines.
Standing in front of him was a girl with fair and translucent skin and a slender and soft figure. Her black hair was loose and fell to her waist, and her clear rosy eyes were looking at him curiously.
The girl, who was so weak that she could be strangled to death by the mermaid's webbed claws, showed no fear at all and gently placed her hand on the cold glass.
While Song Qingqing was observing the mermaid, Triton was also quietly observing his...prey, or rather, master?
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