184 Two-in-One
◎The truth behind the reboot◎
A year ago, Tinder Club.
Shen Xingqiao opened the refrigerator and selected from the colorful drinks. Ye Fei beside him shouted, "You spend five minutes choosing a drink, and the electricity bill is free!"
Shen Xingqiao has a fear of making choices and replied, "Shut up!"
Shen Xingqiao continued to struggle over whether to choose the blue bottle or the red one.
Ye Fei didn't bother to care about her. He sat on the sofa and asked, "Boss, who are you looking for this time?"
Zhu Ning no longer plays in competitions, but she sometimes comes to watch games.
Zhu Ning, or perhaps the first generation Zhu Ning, pondered for a moment. "Number 7, I guess."
Seeing her hesitation, Ye Fei said, "Tsk, there haven't been any good seedlings in recent years."
The Tinder Club has been declining, and the shooting club next door has introduced a battle royale mode, which requires players to hunt real people in a closed arena.
The competition was more exciting, bloody and thrilling, and many wealthy people were the guests of honor.
In comparison, the Tinder Club seemed old-fashioned and outdated, with no audience and no good contestants.
Zhu Ning turned out to be the last glory of the Spark Club. Occasionally, old audiences would come to watch her games, so many people jokingly called her Spark.
Swish——
They were watching a game when the screen suddenly went black and the refrigerator went out of power.
There was a burst of curses from outside, "The power is out again!"
The club's fuses kept blowing lately, often causing the lights to go out at crucial moments. Ye Fei was extremely upset and yelled at Shen Xingqiao, "Hey! Hurry up and get your sister to fix it, or all the customers will run away."
Shen Xingqiao hadn't decided which drink to choose yet. "Shut up! Leave me alone!"
She often quarreled with Ye Fei. The two of them grew in age but not in experience. They argued for a long time over trivial matters, and Zhu Ning was used to it.
Zhu Ning stood up, and Ye Fei asked, "Boss, you don't want to watch anymore?"
Zhu Ning hummed, "Go back and rest. Let me know who wins."
Ye Fei waved at her and said, "Sure, sure."
It was an ordinary day. Zhu Ning was watching the game with Ye Fei and Shen Xingqiao as usual, and that's when the incident happened.
When Zhu Ning stood up, her temples suddenly began to throb, as if a string was tightened in her brain. Her heart beat faster and the hairs on the back of her neck suddenly stood up.
At the same time, a large number of images suddenly flooded into my mind.
She saw...the destruction of Area 103.
In the peaceful and tranquil downtown area, gray-black lines suddenly appeared in the sky. That was the background color of the polluted area. A man stood there blankly, and suddenly his brain exploded, and wriggling tentacles grew out of his skull.
Immediately afterwards, countless human heads exploded like fireworks, pollutants of various forms grew, and a pollution spread without warning.
Those who had degenerated into pollutants ran among the crowd, swinging their arms, biting each other to expand their own kind.
Some people screamed, some people panicked and ran into the pollutants, and then had their necks bitten off.
Companies, schools, and hospitals are all contaminated by humans, spreading faster than a zombie outbreak.
The concrete floor crackled and creaked, as if there had been an earthquake, or as if a giant monster had been trapped underground for years and had torn a hole in the ground.
A strange red light emanated from the ten-meter-wide crack. People stared at it in a daze and even forgot how to escape.
Then a huge tentacle emerged from the ground. The standing tentacle looked like a mountain of flesh that had suddenly grown. The entire Area 103 was shrouded in blood and terror.
All humans in the region were infected, without exception.
Zhu Ning saw a pair of eyes suddenly open, right under her feet. The creepy force crawled up from her back, like a hand pressing on her throat, making her unable to move at all.
"Boss?" Ye Fei's voice came: "Zhu Ning!"
Bang--
From Ye Fei's perspective, Zhu Ning had just stood up and said he didn't want to watch the game anymore, but suddenly he froze in place, his body stiff, his face pale, as if he had seen something extremely terrifying.
Zhu Ning's body began to fall, and she knocked over the popcorn bucket on the table, and the popcorn spilled all over the floor.
Ye Fei quickly grabbed Zhu Ning's body. Zhu Ning knelt on one knee, holding the edge of the table with one hand. His knuckles turned white because he was holding too hard.
"Boss!" Ye Fei asked Shen Xingqiao for help, "Big sister, come here quickly!"
Shen Xingqiao had no time to choose what drink to drink. She walked over quickly and felt that Zhu Ning's body was stiff, as if she was fighting against some huge force. She had followed Zhu Ning for so long and had never seen her like this.
What on earth did she see?
"Zhu Ning?"
Zhu Ning blinked and saw the faces of Shen Xingqiao and Ye Fei. She gripped the edge of the table tightly. The feeling of terror had not yet faded, as if it was sticking wetly to her.
That was the first time Zhu Ning saw the end of the world.
Just like an ant seeing an elephant for the first time, its first reaction is fear, not resistance at all.
Fragile humans were completely frightened by unknown creatures.
Zhu Ning did not explain to Shen Xingqiao and Ye Fei what happened to him that day. In Shen Xingqiao's memory, Zhu Ning just became very silent.
She became less talkative and often lost in thought. She no longer entered polluted areas and lost interest in everything.
Zhu Ning's face looked worse and worse, and Shen Xingqiao wondered what she was trying to do in private.
Shen Xingqiao asked Zhu Ning many times what had happened, but she refused to say anything. Shen Xingqiao and Ye Fei felt as if there was something between Zhu Ning and them.
It was like a transparent barrier that isolated them from the outside world and no one else could touch it.
Later, Zhu Ning suddenly proposed to move to the Beehive. Shen Xingqiao expressed his incomprehension. The Beehive was a slum and there was metal pollution there, although with Zhu Ning's ability, he probably wouldn't be polluted.
But what was she doing there alone?
Zhu Ning is their boss, and they cannot question the boss's decisions.
Zhu Ning said that she needed a private environment to think, and would report the progress to them once she had thought it through.
Afterwards, Zhu Ning moved out of the Spark Club and moved into a narrow room in the Hive. Every week, Zhu Ning would send Shen Xingqiao updates on his situation to reassure her.
Zhu Ning rarely goes out after living in the beehive. She is no different from ordinary residents.
Zhu Ning sat cross-legged on the bed. She suddenly opened her eyes, her face was pale, and her breathing was very heavy.
After she opened her eyes, she fell into a brief confusion. Absolute foreknowledge means experiencing the entire foreknowledge content.
If used excessively, people will not be able to distinguish between reality and premonitions, and they will suffer a complete mental breakdown.
Most people wouldn't use this kind of god-level ability much if they obtained it, but Zhu Ning used it extremely frequently.
She looked up at the clock opposite her and saw the minute moved forward one notch with a crisp click.
It was like the snap of fingers after hypnosis ended, which made Zhu Ning suddenly wake up.
She looked at the notebook on the table, which read the 1693rd time.
What does this mean?
She was even in a trance for a while before she realized that she had just experienced her 1,693rd death.
Zhu Ning took a deep breath and looked through the previous records. She would take notes for every death.
The time of her death was compressed. She died at the final doomsday scene before, but as she tried to prevent the doomsday, the time of her death began to be advanced.
This time she died at the hands of a woman named Su He.
For the first time, the person who killed her has a name. Who is Su He?
Zhu Ning wrote the two words "Su He" in his notebook, with the tip of his pen hovering over the name.
She was like a student eager to find the answer, deducing countless answers.
Zhu Ning checked the clock. Twelve hours had passed in real time. During these twelve hours, she experienced 70 endings and was killed 70 times.
This can't go on any longer, she'll go crazy.
Zhu Ning took out the mental healing agent. She had become dependent on it. Because of her professional qualities as an athlete in the past, she never smoked or drank, and did not touch any addictive substances.
But due to frequent use of her abilities, she actually began to become dependent on mental healing drugs.
Zhu Ning's solar plexus hurts a lot, and the system in his brain is running at high intensity. If this continues, will the system in his brain explode under the weight and he die?
Or will she be trapped in her own precognition, gradually going mad and becoming a madman?
Zhu Ning fell on the bed and looked at the ceiling. Her ability was equivalent to peeking at the endings of different timelines.
Judging from the ending she saw, the end of the world is bound to come, and Zhu Ning's death may be brought forward, but no matter which timeline it is, the end of the world will come as expected.
Zhu Ning felt so frustrated for the first time. A huge monster was right under her feet, but she couldn't stop it.
The thing was breathing underground, as if slowly opening its eyes, right under Zhu Ning.
Zhu Ning was isolated and helpless, with no one to share her thoughts with. What should she do? Should she rush into the cleaning center and announce a massive pollutant?
Perhaps several prominent families at the top of the Federation are well aware of this. It is almost impossible for such a large amount of pollutants to completely avoid existing human detection equipment.
Zhu Ning closed her eyes, took a deep breath, and felt her pulse.
Zhu Ning changed the parameters and used absolute foresight 1694 times. This time she wanted to kill Su He first.
Day 3.
The building manager, Mrs. Wei, came up and met a very strange tenant who had not gone out for a month.
Do you not eat or drink anything? Or do you live solely on nutritional supplements?
Mother Wei was afraid that someone would die in her building, and the beehive houses themselves were already difficult to rent out.
Mother Wei knocked on Zhu Ning's door, "Hey! Open the door! Pay the management fee!"
No one answered.
Mother Wei's heart skipped a beat, thinking that Zhu Ning might have really died in her house, and she knocked on the door even harder.
"Zhu Ning! Open the door!"
Mother Wei still didn't hear the answer, so she took out the landlord's spare key and was about to go in to take a look.
Suddenly, the door was opened from the inside.
Zhu Ning's hair was disheveled and messy, and his face was pale.
Mother Wei had met Zhu Ning once before when she checked in. At that time, Zhu Ning looked very likable and at least clean, unlike now, who looked like a madman.
Mother Wei instinctively shrank her neck and her voice became lower. "...pay the property management fee."
Zhu Ning asked in a hoarse voice, "What day is today?"
Mother Wei was stunned for a moment, "What is that?"
Zhu Ning grabbed Mother Wei's arm and asked again, "What day is it today?"
Mother Wei's arm felt like it was broken from her grip. She cried, "March 7, 1989! What's wrong with you? Are you sick?"
Zhu Ning continued to ask: "Where is this?"
"Beehive!" Mother Wei: "Are you really crazy?"
Zhu Ning was stunned and slowly let go of Wei's mother's arm. She looked at her hands and even forgot who she was at that time.
Mother Wei was still terrified and yelled, trying to get the other tenants to come out and judge the situation, just to build up her courage. "If you're sick, go get treated. I'm telling you, if you broke something, I have to pay for it."
Mother Wei was cursing. Previously, a resident who studied mathematics went crazy and eventually died in the rental house. What was Zhu Ning doing?
Zhu Ning stood in the corridor. Some people curiously stuck their heads out to look, while others whispered to each other what was going on.
The fear in Wei's mother's eyes could not be hidden at all. She looked at her secretly, as if she was wondering if she was crazy.
Zhu Ning felt that her life was in chaos. She couldn't find an anchor or her place in life.
She didn't understand anything Wei's mother said. Wei's mother didn't dare to offend her at this time, and watched her return to her room like a wandering soul.
Zhu Ning closed the door and felt that the world was very strange.
There is a notebook on the table with 2001 deaths written on it.
What death? Why two thousand times?
Where is this?
Zhu Ning felt cold all over. She quickly flipped through her notebook, which recorded countless ways of her death.
She remembered that time in reality was flowing forward very slowly. Her name was Zhu Ning. She traveled from the zombie world. She predicted the end of the world and was making absolute foresight and spying on different endings in order to prevent the end of the world.
Zhu Ning originally wanted to kill Su He, but she got herself involved in another dispute, and this time she was burned alive.
The pain of being burned to death seemed to still linger on her, because in order to fully experience the predicted content, she felt like she had actually been burned to death once.
The injury was so severe that she even forgot who she was when she woke up.
She has reached the critical point. Zhu Ning has always had a very accurate judgment of herself. If she continues, she will definitely lose her mind.
Zhu Ning supported her forehead with her hand, and countless fragments flashed before her eyes, making it impossible for her to tell which ending these fragments belonged to.
Error, error.
They are all wrong, there is no right way.
Zhu Ning predicted this doomsday, but was powerless to stop it, as the doomsday was already approaching.
Every day that passes brings us one day closer to the end of the world.
She looked at her face in the mirror and was a little confused. The person in the mirror looked haggard, none of the high-spirited look she had before. She seemed to have been tortured to death by something and had become so strange that she even felt unfamiliar with her.
Having experienced frequent deaths, personally experiencing all kinds of possibilities, and being killed again and again, Zhu Ning has not collapsed now because of his high mental level.
She suddenly found herself like a clown, or it was a joke played by God on her, forcing her to watch the end of the world come.
In the next few days, Zhu Ning did not use absolute foresight again. She spent seven days doing only one thing: sleeping.
Maybe I should just give up, pretend I know nothing, and move on with the rest of my life.
After all, there is still a year left, and she should take the opportunity to enjoy herself.
In the face of doomsday, she is just an ant.
Seven days later, she went out to buy food, ate some food that humans could chew, drank enough nutritional supplements, and slowly healed her body.
When she walked back into the crowd, people didn't think she was crazy. She was still in her youth, and some people even came up to her and talked to her.
But her eyesight grew dimmer day by day, and she could no longer lead a normal life. She could no longer feel the warmth when basking in the sun, nor could she feel satisfied when eating.
An invisible door has been opened, and once you touch the truth, there is no going back.
How can people remain indifferent to the impending doomsday?
It was even right under her feet, and no one around her knew anything about it.
Zhu Ning stood in the supermarket, and countless people passed by him. They all had a purpose, to buy food, go home to cook, and continue to live an ordinary life.
She felt like a spectator of the world.
Perhaps Zhu Ning's duty was not to bring about change. She was just an observer, observing the end of the world but unable to take any effective action.
Zhu Ning took the ingredients and queued up to pay, replying to Shen Xingqiao's messages while waiting in line. No matter how confused she was, she always insisted on letting Shen Xingqiao know that she was safe.
Shen Xingqiao and Ye Fei became her anchors in this world.
"GAMEOVER!" An electronic sound suddenly came from the side.
Zhu Ning turned around and saw a teenager wearing headphones in the next team. He was playing a competitive game and this line of words appeared on the screen.
"Lost again!" He cursed loudly. He was about to express his passion, but halfway through, he remembered that he was in the crowd and suppressed his anger.
"Hey," he said, "Let's do it again. I'm going to pick a new character this time, a very good one. Don't run away. I want to fight you to my heart's content today."
Zhu Ning froze at these words.
The teenager was so engrossed in playing games that he paid no attention to Zhu Ning standing in front of him.
The team moved, but Zhu Ning didn't move. Someone urged her.
Zhu Ning took the ingredients to pay the bill in a daze. She was still in shock when she got home. She was stewing curry chicken in the evening and didn't even realize that the pot was burnt.
The smoke alarm went off. When Zhu Ning came to his senses, the house was filled with the smell of smoke and the bottoms of the pots were black.
Zhu Ning turned off the gas and felt that he was not hungry.
The only thing in her mind was the words of the gamer boy, so I changed the character this time.
Zhu Ning seemed to be playing a game. His thoughts had been stuck at one point, but suddenly one day he had an epiphany.
She understood that she had chosen the wrong talent. To prevent the end of the world, she needed at least two talents: one was foresight, and the other was devouring.
Zhu Ning does not have the talent for devouring.
One Zhu Ning is not enough, she needs two of herself.
Zhu Ning walked to the desk again. She had written in three notebooks before, all of which were filled with messy notes, because she knew that her mind would be in a mess every time she finished.
This time she took out a new notebook, overturned all previous drills, and started a new deduction.
This time she was very purposeful and only extracted key information.
She is her own God.
She wants to create a new path for herself.
…
A month later.
She called Shen Xingqiao. Generally speaking, Zhu Ning would only tell her the latest news on time during weekends, like a robot.
Shen Xingqiao was surprised to receive Zhu Ning's message at a different time. Before she could even feel happy, Zhu Ning said, "I need a human-machine combined device."
Shen Xingqiao thought she had misheard. Was Zhu Ning's request a bit too much?
"Sister," Shen Xingqiao called Zhu Ning "Sister," "You asked me to infiltrate the cleaning center and get a human-machine combined device. Why didn't you kill me?"
The regular employees of the cleaning center couldn't get in touch with her, so how could she, a wild demon hunter, get it for her?
Zhu Ning added: "It doesn't have to be brand new, used ones will do. There will be demon hunter corpses in the contaminated area."
Shen Xingqiao: “…”
She thought Zhu Ning was crazy. The human-machine combined device had been used by others and was even taken from a corpse. No one knew how it would react after being connected. If Zhu Ning went crazy from then on, she would lose a boss.
Zhu Ning: "Don't worry, I often go crazy."
Shen Xingqiao: “…”
What does that mean? Where has Zhu Ning been lately?
Shen Xingqiao asked: "Why?"
She originally thought that Zhu Ning would not answer, but unexpectedly she actually answered. She began to describe in detail the doomsday she had seen and her own death.
Shen Xingqiao was silent for a long time after hearing this. A normal person would suspect that someone was crazy if he heard someone suddenly tell him that the end of the world was coming.
But Shen Xingqiao didn't think so. First, it was Zhu Ning who was speaking. She trusted Zhu Ning very much, and Zhu Ning had indeed shown a tendency to have this ability before.
Second, it’s not surprising that strange things happen in this world, as this is not a peaceful era.
Shen Xingqiao and Ye Fei began to help Zhu Ning look for the human-machine joint device. Since it was not brand new, they only needed to find out which official demon hunter from the cleaning center had died in the contaminated area.
This is both easy and difficult to find. You have to find someone with the body of a demon hunter who also happens to be equipped with a human-machine combined device during the mission.
Two months later.
Zhu Ning got an old human-machine combined device. Because there was no professional storage box, the device was placed in a small wooden box.
When Zhu Ning opened it, he found that the mycelium inside was stained with the blood of a previous demon hunter and was growing.
Mycelium is growing along the edge of the wooden box, as if a fungus has taken root.
In every respect, Prometheus looked like a living being.
Shen Xingqiao asked uncertainly, "Do you really want to connect this thing to your brain?"
The cleaning center prohibits employees from having private contact with Prometheus, and the device is covered in blood, and the will of the previous demon hunter remains on it. It may have been connected to the other party's nerves.
What if Zhu Ning gets hit and his life is ruined?
Shen Xingqiao asked, "Or I can connect with you two and act as a liaison."
The more Shen Xingqiao talked, the more he felt that this was a solution. "Let me help you."
When Zhu Ning heard this, he looked up at her.
Shen Xingqiao said, "Why are you looking at me? You are worth more than me."
Shen Xingqiao knew very early on that Zhu Ning was more valuable. She was better at shooting and had more powerful superpowers.
If the end of the world really comes, Shen Xingqiao is willing to be cannon fodder for Zhu Ning.
Zhu Ning felt a strange feeling in her heart. She had not considered other people when she made the plan before. She was just a passer-by in this world, but Shen Xingqiao really had feelings for her.
Only then did Zhu Ning realize and feel reluctant to leave.
Zhu Ning shook his head and said, "I'll do it myself."
She couldn't accept Shen Xingqiao's death.
Shen Xingqiao wanted to say more, but Zhu Ning suddenly stepped forward and hugged her. This action came without any warning. Shen Xingqiao was a little surprised and felt that Zhu Ning was in a bad mood today.
It seems like... I am about to die.
Zhu Ning did not tell her his plan in full, but only said that he might lose his memory and asked Shen Xingqiao to remember to take good care of herself.
"Don't interfere with my plans, but take good care of me." Zhu Ning said in a muffled voice.
Shen Xingqiao tutted, "Why are you so busy? You don't let me interfere, and you still want me to take care of you. How can I take care of you?"
Zhu Ning buried his chin in Shen Xingqiao's neck and said softly, "Then I don't care."
Shen Xingqiao laughed. Why is he still acting like a rogue like a child?
Shen Xingqiao didn't understand Zhu Ning's emotions, so he gently touched her head and said, "Okay, I'll take care of you."
She made a promise to Zhu Ning and later fulfilled it.
Zhu Ning had a meal with Shen Xingqiao and the others that day and made some plans. Both of them listened carefully, fearing that anything would be missed.
Ye Fei looked at Zhu Ning worriedly, feeling that she had changed a lot.
She was under too much pressure and looked very haggard, a huge difference from before.
Zhu Ning used to be very flamboyant, and the look in her eyes that occasionally showed her was arrogant, with an expression that said, "I'm the best."
But now Zhu Ning was being pressed down by something. Ye Fei had known her for so long that he could see it.
That day, Zhu Ning didn't think about his own plan, but let himself have fun with them. That was the last time they had fun.
Ye Fei opened a bottle of wine that day. He had stopped competing a long time ago and had always been very self-indulgent. Generally speaking, he was the only one who drank when the three of them had a meal together.
That day, Zhu Ning actually asked him for a glass of wine, "Give me some."
Ye Fei blurted out: "Are you sick? Have you been possessed by someone?"
Shen Xingqiao: "Then give me some too."
Ye Fei thought that there were really strange things in the world. Why were so many people like this today? He seemed to have a premonition of something and felt that something was wrong, but he couldn't tell what was wrong.
Finally, Ye Fei poured a glass of vodka for each of them. Because it was a strong liquor, Ye Fei was worried that Zhu Ning would not be able to get used to it for the first time, so he wanted to make her a glass that was easier to drink.
As a result, Zhu Ning really drank it and finished it in one gulp.
Ye Fei was stunned. It was so strong, but he was not afraid of burning his throat even though he drank it for the first time. He was afraid that something might happen to Zhu Ning, and he was also afraid that Zhu Ning would beat him up.
But Zhu Ningren is so outstanding that she can drink quite well and doesn't get drunk like crazy.
Ye Fei gave her a thumbs up and said, "Boss, you are this."
Ye Fei thought that he would drink with Zhu Ning often in the future. He didn't realize that Zhu Ning had such a talent.
Zhu Ning talked more after drinking and felt much more relaxed. They ate, drank, and started chatting openly again.
We started chatting about everything from the past to the first time we met as children, growing up together, to the daily routine of training and competitions.
They grew up together and are as close as brothers and sisters, so calling him the eldest brother is just a joke.
Ye Fei's face flushed from drinking, and he said something he usually wouldn't dare to say: "I always feel that you are not a child. How could a child have such good skills? Tell me, are you a time traveler?"
Ye Fei had wanted to ask this for a long time. Zhu Ning was a child prodigy, as he could hit the ten-ring mark at the age of eight.
Zhu Ning replied dazedly, "Yes, I traveled through time."
Shen Xingqiao next to him said, "I believe it."
Ye Fei laughed, "Then I believe it too."
They didn't know whether they were talking nonsense or telling the truth, they all said they believed it.
Zhu Ning felt so relaxed for the first time in this world. It turned out that the secret could be told so easily, without any burden and without causing any disaster.
She really wanted to shout out loud, I am a time traveler, I came from the zombie world.
But she didn't say it out loud because she wasn't sure whether the memory was true or not.
That night, the three of them slept on the floor, just like when they were kids camping and had to lie together, with their heads touching each other.
They were all drunk, and the three of them just laughed foolishly and laughed the whole time.
The silly laughter is endless, and I can laugh until the end of the world.
When he woke up the next day, Zhu Ning was gone.
There was a note on the table, pressed under the wine glass, in Zhu Ning's handwriting: "I wish the plan a success."
Ye Fei stared blankly at the note, thinking that this was too cruel.
But he whispered, "I wish the plan success."
Even though he didn't know the entire plan, nor what the outcome would be, he wished it success.
…
The next evening.
Zhu Ning needs to connect to a human-machine joint device. She can no longer use her predictive talent freely. Excessive use of her supernatural powers will lead to madness. Zhu Ning must remain rational.
So she is now equivalent to being blind, this is the last level.
Before using it, she set up an unexpected program in her secondary brain. Once the heart rate disappeared, she would notify Shen Xingqiao and Ye Fei to collect the body.
Although Shen Xingqiao's face would probably look very ugly, this was the only solution Zhu Ning could think of.
No one knows what will happen after using it, so she has to prepare for the worst.
Zhu Ning took a deep breath. If he wanted his plan to succeed, he had to have Prometheus's help.
She placed the device against her temples, and the mycelium pierced the epidermis, instantly connecting to her brain nerves.
That was her first time using a human-machine combined device, and it was a device that a dead person had used before. The thoughts and memories of this demon hunter ran rampant in Zhu Ning's mind.
She felt as if someone had poured mercury into her temples, as if her entire brain had become five or six times heavier. She couldn't lift her head, and her mind felt as if it was being pierced by countless needles.
Her heartbeat began to become irregular and her vision went black for a while.
Her body sank deep into the mattress, as if she were not lying on a mattress but in a swamp, and the swamp was sinking.
Soon she would be drowned in the swamp and suffocated.
The cleaning center's official warning is correct not to use a human-machine combination that has been used by someone else.
Just before she died, she heard a deep voice, "Hello, I am Prometheus."
Zhu Ning opened her closed eyes, the feeling of suffocation faded away, and she took a deep breath.
Who are you? Prometheus asked.
She lay on her back in bed, looked up at the ceiling, and replied, "Hello, Prometheus, I want to make a deal with you."
…
Time continues to move forward.
Today is the last planned day and all deployments will be implemented today.
Zhu Ning got up as usual. After getting up, she sat at the dining table and ate breakfast slowly. This was her last time to have breakfast.
Then he washed the pots and pans carefully and wiped every corner of the house carefully to make sure no traces were left.
She had lived in a mess for so long, and today was the first time she cleaned her room.
Zhu Ning destroyed the human-machine joint device and all his notes, watching them turn into ashes.
The house is spotless, without any unnecessary information except the necessary one I left behind.
She cleared her secondary brain and transferred all the remaining money to Shen Xingqiao. There was only a little left in the account, which she could use to buy a powerful healing agent.
She hasn't paid the property management fees and other miscellaneous expenses for two months. The rent for this house will expire at the end of the month, and theoretically she should pay the rent again.
But Zhu Ning did not pay the rent or deal with any outstanding fees.
It’s all done, all the to-do items have been done, in an orderly manner, and everything is going smoothly.
Before leaving the hive, Zhu Ning glanced in the mirror. There was a woman in a black windbreaker. Her eyes were cold and her face expressionless.
This is the expression of going to die.
Today is the day she died.
Zhu Ning closed the door of the beehive and walked into the garbage dump. The garbage dump was quite close to the beehive and he could walk back home.
Before entering the garbage dump, Zhu Ning pulled up the collar of her windbreaker. When she passed the gate, she deliberately looked in a certain direction.
She knew there was a camera at that location.
Then she walked into the garbage room. It was raining acid rain that day and the whole sky was foggy.
Everything seemed hopeless and depressing.
There are many robots in the garbage room, and the old robot prosthetic eyes can be used as cameras. Zhu Ning put his hands towards those abandoned robots and used his ability to disrupt all available cameras.
This way there won't be any footage of her death.
After doing all this, Zhu Ning carved a sentence in the corner of the wall, which was also the sentence Zhu Ning was most familiar with: The end of the world is coming, you and I are all ants.
She carved very hard, writing every stroke.
Actually, this was the last sentence in the dentist's father's notebook that she had seen in her foresight. It was surprisingly appropriate to use it at this time.
After Zhu Ning finished writing, she sat against the wall. She didn't have a knife or a gun with her when she went out, so she could only use materials available and found a piece of discarded iron.
It was very handy, and the iron sheet was very sharp, enough to cut a person's throat. She gestured on her abdomen, like a butcher preparing to slaughter her lamb.
She actually wanted to kill herself.
In such bad weather, with no familiar people around, no one could help her with death counseling, and she had to die alone.
Zhu Ning opened the system panel.
The system's mechanical voice came: [You are choosing to restart the experimental subject. Please note that restarting the experimental subject will clear all health points and purification points, and clear all talents and system props. Do you want to continue?]
Zhu Ning leaned the back of her head against the wall. What she had spent eleven years building up was going to be destroyed in an instant. No one would not care, but she said, "Yes."
System: [Basic information setup has been completed, basic tasks have been set. Please confirm the following content step by step. Do you want to clear the memory?]
"yes."
System: [Do you want to eliminate individual consciousness?]
This question is more difficult to answer than the previous one. Eliminating individual consciousness means that this version of Zhu Ning will be wiped out.
The Zhu Ning after the restart may not be the Zhu Ning of today.
She said, "Yes."
System: [Basic information confirmation completed. Last question: You still have a chance to stop it. Do you want to restart Alpha series subject No. 0999?]
Zhu Ning felt that things had become simpler at this point. She said softly, "Yes."
Zhu Ning thrust the iron sheet into her abdomen with force. She felt a sharp pain spreading instantly, as if someone was tearing her abdomen apart with force.
She couldn't even hear the system's prompts next. The data stream in her eyes was rolling wildly, and then gradually slowed down.
Finally, the ocean-blue data stream went out.
[Experimental subject restart completed.] The system's cold voice came.
But she could no longer hear.
From an outsider's perspective, she looked like a turned-off computer, her eyes had lost all light, her pulse gradually stopped, she sat there stiffly, and scarlet blood flowed all over the floor.
She was no different from the other scrap robots around her, blending in with the entire garbage room, all just garbage, or corpses.
A life passed away quietly and no one knew about it.
The individual consciousness of the first generation Zhu Ning has died and disappeared in the long river of time.
Time suddenly moved very slowly, the second hand slowed down, and the raindrops dripping from the dilapidated roof slowed down.
Slower and slower, almost to a standstill.
Everything was very quiet, and the garbage dump seemed to have been paused, as if an eye was observing the place again.
Suddenly, Zhu Ning's hand, which was hanging in a pool of blood, moved.
The falling raindrops accelerated, the hands resumed moving, time was gently moved, the flow rate returned to normal, and the observing eyes closed.
At first, Zhu Ning only moved his fingers, and then his whole body seemed to be revived and activated.
She slowly opened her eyes and looked at the world like a newborn baby.
I'm fighting zombies, right? Why am I here?
Zhu Ning's eyelids were heavy. He knew nothing about the world he was in. What the hell was this place?
【The purification system has been reactivated, welcome to use it. 】
There was a very loud voice in her ear, which kept saying some nonsense that Zhu Ning couldn't understand, such as what system? She felt a sharp pain in her abdomen.
She is dying.
At this moment, my mind was occupied by one message: find the vending machine and buy a powerful healing agent.
What is the powerful healing agent and where is the vending machine?
A strong instinct for survival burst out, and she slowly stood up with the help of the wall. Her abdomen was bleeding, and there was a piece of iron embedded in it.
Zhu Ning looked at his abdomen, and as if possessed by a ghost, he stretched out his hand and slowly pulled out the iron piece.
The edge of the iron sheet was irregular and extremely sharp, like a saw, and it cut her a second time when it was pulled out.
With a bang, a piece of blood-stained iron fell at my feet.
Zhu Ning looked at the palm of her hand, which was covered in blood. It was her own blood.
Zhu Ning held onto the wall and walked slowly forward, as if some invisible memory was guiding her.
She found the vending machine and left a bloody handprint on the transparent counter with a snap.
The vending machines in this world are much more complicated than those in her world. Zhu Ning's fingers were shaking all the time, and she spent all her money to buy a powerful healing agent.
A syringe rolled out from the lower window.
Zhu Ning injected the healing agent into her abdomen tremblingly. At first, she was wondering how such a big wound could be healed.
But miraculously, the bleeding in her abdomen really stopped. Is the medical level in this world so advanced?
Zhu Ning leaned against the vending machine. It was still raining. She squinted her eyes and her body was wet by the rain.
The rain washed the blood from her body and swirled into the sewer, as if cleansing her into a brand new person.
Zhu Ning blinked, her eyelashes were too heavy and would be pressed down by the rain as soon as she opened them.
Going home, she thought to herself, she wanted to go home.
Where is her home?
There was some residual information in Zhu Ning's mind, and she had a vague memory that she lived in a beehive.
Zhu Ning held onto the vending machine, took a deep breath, and walked towards home.
She wants to go home.
On that acid rainy day, the dark garbage room was empty, and the robot that usually picked up garbage was not there.
A woman stood up from the garbage dump, took an injection of healing potion, and walked in a certain direction.
Her physical strength was very poor, but her steps were firm, as if she had lived in this world for many years.
Soon, her figure disappeared in the rainy night.
The author has something to say:
I was afraid that the key plot chapters would be beaten, so I posted two chapters together. I owed you one chapter before, and I have time to make it up to you today, Saturday~
Su He seems to have the same name as someone else, so I changed it to Su He.
Thank you to the little angels who voted for me or provided me with nutrient solution between 2023-02-03 19:19:35 and 2023-02-04 21:30:12~
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