250 Volume 1 End
◎Zhu Ning greeted the world◎
Area 103 Port.
The port is now open, but the attitudes of other regions towards Area 103 are very polarized. Some regions refuse to resume trade and shipping routes with Area 103 in order to express their stance to the Kingdom of God.
Only some areas are friendly areas of Area 103, and they accept people from Area 103 unconditionally. The port has been very crowded these two days. Some people have post-apocalyptic syndrome and left Area 103 as soon as they got the pass.
There were also rebel forces entering, and Huo Wenxi was in charge of that part. Zhu Ning hadn't even come into contact with many of the rebels.
Zhu Ning had only caused a mess. A true revolution would require a long time and bloodshed, and Zhu Ning had already decided to go on a long journey.
Her speeder car was parked at the harbor. It had been acquired by Huo Wenxi. Its body was bulletproof, and when fully closed, it formed a sealed space. Its automatic oxygen supply could sustain a person for ten hours. Zhu Ning plugged in the luxury car's navigation system. As soon as she turned it on, a gentle electronic female voice said, "Hello, Zhu Ning. The intelligent program has been activated."
Zhu Ning had wanted to buy a four-wheeled vehicle before, and this time she finally had one. She was nostalgic and still liked her previous car navigation.
The trunk was full of supplies. Zhu Ning urgently made up for her survival knowledge outside the wall. However, the outside world was complicated and there was little that could be learned from words. Zhu Ning needed an experienced guide to teach her step by step.
She learns quickly, so it shouldn't be difficult.
Sitting in the back seat of the car was Lin Xiaofeng. She was transparent and no one could see her. She huddled quietly in the corner, looking at the world curiously.
Lin Xiaofeng had been "training" with Song Zhizhang, who had devised a way to strengthen her defenses. Zhu Ning still couldn't define Lin Xiaofeng's "species," and wondered if she could find her own kind outside the walls.
The accident calculated by the first generation Zhu Ning and Prometheus was Lin Xiaofeng. Xu Meng, the Cheetah Team, Huo Wenxi and Song Zhizhang were all contacted after careful calculation, except Lin Xiaofeng. She was a "little monster" brought out from the contaminated area on a whim, a monster like Zhu Ning.
Lin Xiaofeng is the only close connection that Zhu Ning has established with the world. Compared to protecting Lin Xiaofeng like a delicate flower, Zhu Ning would rather take her with him on adventures.
The person Huo Wenxi arranged for Zhu Ning was not in Area 103, so Zhu Ning needed to pick her up first. Her name was Bai Cheng, and she was a top bounty hunter outside the wall. She first went out of the wall at the age of thirteen. She was a genius among bounty hunters, specializing in finding contaminated items or helping someone enter dangerous areas to look for clues. She had led investigators outside the wall before.
It is difficult to find a suitable guide. Huo Wenxi found Bai Cheng from the gray area. Zhu Ning had seen her photos. She had bangs, short hair, and sharp lines, like a sharp knife. The oppressive feeling could be felt through the screen.
Huo Wenxi said that Bai Cheng owed her a favor, although she didn't know what it was.
But Bai Cheng said that he had never been to the coordinates given by Zhu Ning, and needed another guide who had been nearby to intervene, and suggested that Zhu Ning increase the number of teammates. To be cruel, the more people there are to go out of the wall, the better, because someone can be responsible for "dying" to judge which road is wrong.
When Zhu Ning heard this, she really wanted to reject Huo Wenxi's recommendation. She didn't want too many companions now. Protecting people other than Lin Xiaofeng would put a lot of psychological pressure on her.
But Huo Wenxi dispelled Zhu Ning's thoughts with just one sentence. He held a cigarette in his mouth and said nonchalantly, "One of Bai Cheng's special abilities is that he is undead."
Undead? Such a rare ability. No wonder she dared to cheat at the age of thirteen. He didn't know how it worked. Zhu Ning was even curious why she hadn't been captured by the Eternal Life Pharmaceutical Company for research.
Huo Wenxi really understood her. She never talked to Zhu Ning, but would meet her needs. The person she chose for Zhu Ning was the most suitable one. Bai Cheng would never die, and the tragedy of her companions' sacrifice would not happen again.
Moreover, Huo Wenxi said that one of the superpowers was Bai Cheng, so he should have multiple superpowers.
Zhu Ning agreed. It would be a waste if she didn't have such a great teammate. Bai Cheng sent a list. As far as she knew, no one had approached the coordinates Zhu Ning gave. The nearest island was Aurora Island. She knew of only three people who had been there and returned alive.
But Bai Cheng said there was little hope, because these three people were either running dogs for the Federation or for the chaebols. They had lived outside the wall for too long and generally had serious psychological trauma. Now that they had finally started to enjoy a good life, no one wanted to go out and take risks.
Zhu Ning looked at the three names sent by Bai Cheng, and he actually knew one of them, who had been Zhu Ning's cheap teacher twice - Pei Shu.
Zhu Ning told Bai Cheng not to worry, she would go and invite him, and it didn’t matter whether he came or not, Zhu Ning could kidnap him.
"You're alone," the security officer checked the information. "Are you traveling?"
Zhu Ning: "Yes."
There was nothing wrong with the identity arranged by Huo Wenxi. The security officer made a gesture to Zhu Ning, which was a common gesture in their port, a light touch on the forehead, a bit like a salute.
"I wish you a safe journey."
The port security team wishes everyone a safe journey. Zhu Ning said to the security officer, "I wish you a happy life too."
The security officer smiled and returned the ID to Zhu Ning without saying anything else. He then checked another car. Zhu Ning rolled up the window, stepped on the accelerator, and drove out of the port as if he was rushing off a cliff and flew into the air.
It's like riding a roller coaster, bouncing out suddenly, which is very exciting.
As the flying car took off into the air, the pendant hanging on Zhu Ning's neck flew up due to weightlessness, and the blood-red contaminated spores looked like a crystal clear gem under the refraction of sunlight.
Zhu Ning always carries "Xu Meng" with him wherever he goes.
If it was the Zhu Ning of the past, she would definitely exclaim, but she is much more mature now and can only smile silently.
Excluding the time when he was washed away by the underground river, this was the first time that Zhu Ning officially walked out of Area 103. The view in front of him suddenly opened up. Because he was closer to the sky, bright light fell down, and Area 103 was left behind.
Looking from mid-air, you can see a few scattered human survivor bases in the distance. I don’t know which one they are exactly. From a bird’s-eye view, the bases look like a beehive.
Each human base is like a separate small cell in a honeycomb. Some of them look very gray and dilapidated, probably because they have been completely polluted and fallen.
Some are still lit, flashing lights, proving to the world that the area is operational.
Zhu Ning's car drove away, and a brand new road unfolded before his eyes.
…
Red Sea Resort.
Daju, Xie Jiazu and Shanmao gathered here. This was the first time the Cheetah team had gathered in nine years, and it had been ten years since they last came to the Red Sea Resort.
The Red Sea Resort is half abandoned. It used to be a popular tourist attraction, but now it is rarely visited. They rented the same villa as before.
Xie Jiazu was barbecuing, Shanmao was cutting apples, and Daju was doing nothing. He was relaxing after a long time and just wanted to enjoy the service.
Daju looked at the sky. The steel dome had been evacuated. The sky was blue and the clouds were white. Just seeing the sky made him feel pretty good.
There was no sadness between them, and they were not shy about mentioning Xu Meng and Cheng Mofei. Daju raised her glass in the air, as if clinking glasses with invisible souls. "The Cheetah Team is reunited," she said softly.
It was a very childish sentence, and she didn't dare say it out loud, but after she said it, she really felt like she was reunited.
Daju chuckled, finished his wine, and stood there in the wind for a while. He thought that the weather was very good today, and good weather made people happy.
Daju got up and walked over to Xie Jiazu and Shanmao. Shanmao had a habit of cutting apples into bunny shapes. Daju greedily took a piece and ate it, mumbling, "Hey, traitor, what are you going to do next? Still want to be an official?"
Xie Jiazu: "No, I can't be one. I don't have the talent."
He coughed lightly, as if announcing something important, "I found a new job."
Daju asked: "What do you do?"
Xie Jiazu: "A cemetery keeper, in the funeral industry."
Daju frowned, thinking he had misheard. He didn't know what Xie Jiazu's ambitions were, but there were too many deaths after the war, and the funeral home couldn't burn all the bodies. Many people were still queuing up, and Xie Jiazu actually chose to go into this business.
Xie Jiazu couldn't get over the hurdle in his heart. Daju didn't know what was wrong with him. It must have been very uncomfortable to be an undercover agent for a long time. If Daju remembered correctly, Xie Jiazu seemed to like Xu Meng very much, but Daju also remembered that Xie Jiazu had been urging Cheng Mofei to pursue Xu Meng. Men are really hard to understand. Daju was too lazy to guess.
Daju didn't comment and asked Shanmao, "What about you? Have you thought it through? Do you really want to be an investigator?"
Bobcat received an invitation from an investigator outside the wall. They only recruit truly strong people, and Bobcat's special abilities are very popular everywhere.
The mountain cat is very obedient, experienced, and has a high spirit level. He has confirmed that he agrees to go out of the wall.
That's outside the wall, it's so dangerous. When someone dies, not to mention leaving a last word or a corpse, no one knows exactly where they died. Maybe the bobcat died outside, and it would take several years for Big Orange to find out.
Bobcat: “Yes.”
There is a shortage of investigators outside the wall. They all say that as long as they find the truth behind the fall of the world, they can truly purify the world.
In the past two years, the federal government's investigation activities outside the wall have almost been suspended because the returns are too low and the investment is too high. However, since Zhu Ning successfully purified Area 103, they seem to have seen new hope. The official movements are unclear, and many outstanding psychics and investigators have been organized by the public to restart the investigation plan outside the wall and continue to look for the source of the pollution.
Bobcat wants to go out and try it.
Daju clicked his tongue, feeling that the career choices of these two people were more outrageous than the other. Xie Jiazu dealt with corpses, and Bobcat went wherever there was danger. Neither of them was worry-free.
Now they don't know whether Zhu Ning is dead or alive. If Zhu Ning is dead, they will all be very sad. If he is still alive, they won't deliberately contact him. After the captain's death, Zhu Ning's relationship with the Cheetah team has faded, and they will probably stop communicating over time.
Big Orange can understand that the fate between people is so impermanent, but the mountain cat is like a big dog forgotten in the corner, feeling a little lost.
Bobcat asked, "What about you?"
Although Bobcat is not good at talking, he also cares about his teammates. After Xu Meng's death, Daju has been subconsciously replacing Xu Meng's duties, wanting to bring the Cheetah team together, and has only recently started to rest.
Where's Daju? What does she want to do?
Daju took the skewers handed to him by Xie Jiazu and blurted out, "Of course I sleep!"
She wanted to rest, sleep until she woke up naturally, eat the most delicious food in the world, and then lie there lazily basking in the sun. She didn't want to do anything in the near future and would deal with the future later.
Just kidding, after experiencing the end of the world, Daju should seize the time and enjoy life.
…
Cleaning center building.
Huo Wenxi stood by the window, smoking and watching the traffic below Area 103. Zhu Ning should have gone far away.
Zhu Ning and Huo Wenxi came to a fork in the road. They had the same common goal, but the specific paths they needed to take were different. Huo Wenxi needed to stay in District 103 to do something.
These things may not be made public, but Huo Wenxi is a member of the Huo family and understands the rules of the world. She is very adaptable to the world after turning off the lights.
Huo Wenxi must ensure that he does not go astray. The independence of District 103 is equivalent to declaring war on the Kingdom of God. Either District 103 will be destroyed or the Kingdom of God will fall. District 103, which should have been destroyed, stood up again after the war, and now it is the turn of the Kingdom of God.
Huo Wenxi looked straight ahead. She wanted to ensure that if anything happened to Zhu Ning, she would be able to give her absolute protection. No matter how big a mess Zhu Ning made, she would be able to clean it up. They had a tacit understanding that one of them would go out and explore the world while the other would stay put to guard her.
Ding Dong——
Suddenly, Huo Wenxi's secondary brain dinged, and Zhu Ning sent her a message: A farewell gift for you.
A gift? Huo Wenxi held a cigarette in one hand and swiped his brain with the other, trying to see what Zhu Ning had given him.
Suddenly, a new message popped up on the page above her secondary brain: "Breaking news, Zhu Ning is still alive!"
All the media went crazy, different news media and software began to push continuously, and the forum exploded all of a sudden.
The titles are all exaggerated, "Demon? True God? Where is the future of mankind going?"
Will District 103 become the first independent district?
More major reports are released, "Alpha series experiments declared successful, can humans purify the world?"
Huo Wenxi raised his eyebrows. The culprit must be Zhu Ning. She really gave Huo Wenxi a gift, and Zhu Ning played a joke on everyone before leaving.
Zhu Ning did something very simple. She promised Huo Wenxi that she needed to prove to the world that she was still alive. She didn't even need to hold a press conference. She just updated her online account.
She has an online account, which she never uses and has never sent any messages in it. However, many "believers" follow her, and some passers-by also follow her. Her number of followers has exceeded one million.
Ding-ling-ling——
Many people received the same push message. Zhu Ning sent the first post after creating his account.
The photo shows Zhu Ning standing under the 103 District Building, which looks like a travel check-in picture. Zhu Ning gave the camera a very provocative smile. The background includes blue sky and white clouds, as well as the billboard of that day. This photo does not look like a report of Zhu Ning's safety, but more like a provocative declaration of war.
Zhu Ning's tweet contained only one line of text, very simple. Many intelligent creatures or smart communication products will automatically pop up the first sentence after turning on their devices:
Hello, world.
Zhu Ning greeted the world.
[Volume 1: The End is Near, End]
The author has something to say:
The end of the first volume is approaching!
Next, Zhu Ning will embark on a new journey with new teammates, but his original teammates will continue to participate in this story in a different way, just not on the same journey. I won't spoil too much. Ning Bao is a social expert and knows too many people. I can't meet them all. If I did, it would be too cumbersome. It's like visiting relatives during the Spring Festival (not really). We will see them later!
The following are some thoughts after the first volume is finished.
First of all, I'm so grateful to you all! I want to kowtow to you! I'm truly lucky to have the best readers in the world. Thank you for your patience when I was having a rough time. Thank you for not criticizing me but for your gentle encouragement. I've felt so much kindness online, more than I ever have in real life. I'm also very grateful that you like this story. When no one was reading it early on, I just wanted to finish writing a few polluted areas and then be done with it. Because of your love, I was able to slowly expand my worldview and write my complete setting for everyone to see.
The structure of the first volume is one copy and one main line, which progresses step by step, and the world view is laid out bit by bit. When I was writing, I hoped that when you read the later part, your first impression of the previous part would be overturned. For example, the first chapter is about traveling through the zombie world and system settings. The more information you know, the different feelings you will have when you go back to read the old chapters. I hope your reading experience is good.
The style of the polluted areas is to lose sanity. Since the entire world is built on sanity, I chose a micro-scare mode. This section had to create an atmosphere of sanity loss to make the overall world work. Many of the pollution stories are based on real-life experiences: working overtime and missing the last bus, crying in the subway station, and having a constant, inexplicable fear of having my hand suddenly pressed into the red-hot pot while eating hot pot. When I was writing the house dungeon, there was actually a boxing match downstairs in the middle of the night. I wanted to move out, but I couldn't get my deposit and rent back. I felt trapped in the house and nearly had a mental breakdown. I don't know why, but after graduation, I moved four times to noisy houses. It was like being hounded by the noise. It was also a dungeon that made my hair stand on end when I wrote it. I was afraid of the glass breaking at the aquarium, so I created the aquarium section. The mermaid aquarium dungeon is amazing. It's the experience of being forced into a blind date, and all my relatives thought I was ungrateful and didn't marry him. I felt like it was a very personal and niche experience, and I didn't write it out loud, but I was surprised to find that readers in the comments section shared the same fear!
There was also the time I washed clothes in a public washing machine and found a stranger's yellowed tooth wrapped inside. I never knew it was so terrifying to see a tooth appear in such an everyday scene where it shouldn't be. When I first graduated and started working, I encountered a bizarre company. Many of the company's rules felt like a bunch of weird stories. Back then, I was broke, and I realized that warmth has its limits. Wang Qinqian is only 40 centimeters, but I have more warmth than her, 80 centimeters (a strange sense of pride)! I also have some unrealistic anxieties. From the details of life, I always feel like someone is trying to replace me, like there's another me in the world. The disgusting cockroach man story comes from a time when I opened the hotel carpet on a business trip and a cockroach flew out...
It can be said that these fantasies are microcosms of the author's unlucky daily life. Later, I was diagnosed with a mental illness, and then I realized that my constant and inexplicable excessive worry is a disease... But it was also a blessing in disguise, and I wrote some inexplicable fantasies?
Some readers think that the logic of my early copies is not rigorous enough, and I am not experienced enough, so I really did not do this part perfectly. I wanted to stop and revise it, but that would take a lot of time, which is not fair to the readers who follow the update. I will wait until the whole text is finished, or I will revise it bit by bit when I have time!
Two important supporting characters died in this volume, one is Xu Meng and the other is Song Zhizhang. They were characters that I had already determined would die when I first created the story. When I wrote about Xu Meng's death, I felt very uncomfortable writing about myself. It might be difficult to recreate the impact of Xu Meng's death on readers, so Song Zhizhang's death was handled more lightly and ended abruptly. His torture point was triggered after Ning Bao returned to the Noble Queen's Inn. These are two different knife methods. If other characters die later, I will try to change to a third way of dealing with them (not really).
During the serialization process, there are many readers who like these two characters, and I like them too. However, compared to a happy ending, I care more about the rationality of the story and the integrity of the characters. They will be more three-dimensional and have more arcs after death. They must die in order to inspire Ning Bao and the protagonist's hatred for Prometheus, and lay the groundwork until the moment when Prometheus's true face is revealed. It also points out a very clear line for the heroine in the second volume, that is, the spark kills the fire thief.
This book's worldview means that some supporting characters won't make it to the end. I can only guarantee the heroine's survival, as written on the character list. Zhu Ning is the only absolute protagonist, and I'm focusing on her absolute feelings. Other supporting characters may also leave in the future, so if you're concerned about this, please avoid it immediately. My personal aesthetic is that because I can't be sure whether a character will die, I cherish them while they're still alive and enjoy the momentary happiness. If you like a character, enjoy it as much as you can, because I might kill them...
All the obvious foreshadowings in the first volume have been recovered, and some have not been recovered. The next volume is called The Fall of the Kingdom of God. There will be no grave post mission in the second volume. The two biggest problems that need to be solved are the story of the Kingdom of God and the world outside the wall.
There are still some lines that have not been expanded, such as Ms. Zhu Yao's line, Prometheus' line, Liu Niannian's Kingdom of God line, the truth behind the world's loss, etc. The main body of the second volume is to kill Prometheus.
There are also polluted areas outside the wall that need to be fought through. The structure of the main line + copy is still maintained, and the style is kept consistent as much as possible, but the scope of the polluted area will be larger, such as a zombie town, a city covered with mold, a mutated forest, sea or swamp.
Before I started writing, I always thought that writing a long novel was like running a marathon. It would be very intense at the beginning but exhausting in the middle. But after experiencing it, the most accurate metaphor for me is like a novice pilot flying a plane. At first, he just wants to fly the plane into the sky. As long as it flies, he is victorious. The moment he is in the sky is very cool, but when he waits for the stable flight, he starts to panic. He turns around and finds that there is a plane full of passengers behind him and he is responsible for them. He encounters all kinds of turbulence along the way. When he is almost at his destination, he finds that the most difficult part is landing the plane. He cannot fall off a cliff or have a bad ending. The only requirement left is to keep it steady. I can't let you down.
Fortunately, I finally landed. Not perfectly, but at least I didn't crash. I'm quite satisfied with it. I hope I didn't hit you (Amen).
This book began serialization last July, but I actually started conceiving and writing it in May. It's been a year now, and the writing and work are really tiring. I need to take a break before starting the second volume. I'll be back on June 1st. I need to sort out the outline for the second volume and save some drafts so that your follow-up experience will be better. Thank you for liking this story! See you next volume!
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