387 Ending
◎The body gradually becomes cold◎
Zhu Ning touched a corpse. She quickly withdrew her hand and almost thought it was Lin Xiaofeng for a moment, but the corpse in front of her was obviously an adult. Her eyes were probably gouged out after her death. The blanket covering her was wet with blood, and her eyes were slightly sunken. Utopia retained all the traces of the past.
Huo Huaiying, Zhu Ning's slow brain reacted and realized that this was Huo Huaiying's body.
There was a slight "puffing" sound, and Zhu Ning covered her right eye. Her eyeball was moving under her palm. It was not an illusion, she really heard the sound of the eyeball moving.
Her body was tense, because her heart was filled with great grief over Pei Shu's death, so when she lifted the blanket and looked directly into Huo Huaiying's empty eye sockets, she even mistakenly thought that she was grieving for Huo Huaiying.
Huo Huaiying's eyeballs were in his body. Feeling that its owner was struggling, Zhu Ning directly felt for the first time that the eyes were another entity independent of the brain.
It was as if Huo Huaiying was not dead, and her soul was still churning and moving in Zhu Ning's body. Zhu Ning wanted to retreat, but it was as ridiculous as a fusion machine seeing the raw materials.
Back then, someone also lay on Huo Huaiying's body. She was heartbroken, but had to move forward.
Zhu Ning knew it was Zhu Yao. Perhaps it was the intuition between "mother and daughter". They walked on the same road and heard the call of the same creature.
Zhu Ning heard the sound of waves. She stared blankly into the distance, her brain resonating with the creatures in the distance.
The system is a smooth black substance wrapped around some kind of creature. Chu Qing was once curious about what kind of creature came from Zhu Ning's brain. It seems that she is about to reach the end.
Zhu Ning's spine was burning with flames. Pei Shu's flames were like a dragon bone attached to her body. More than half of her skin was burned, and not a single inch of Zhu Ning's skin was unharmed.
Her first reaction was to flee, as people have instincts when they see an unknown presence, but she felt something else moving within her.
A piece of black debris was once dug out from Pei Shu's body. The surface was smooth and seemed to be made of the same material as Zhu Ning's system.
Now lying in Zhu Ning's palm, the edge is no longer sharp, wriggling slightly, mixing with the ashes on Zhu Ning's fingertips.
…
"So Zhu Ning's other mother is Huo Huaiying?" Chu Qing couldn't help but interrupt Zhu Yao's narration, which at least solved Chu Qing's long-standing doubts.
Zhu Ning's genes were not 100% inherited from Zhu Yao. In a sense, she had no biological father, but she had two mothers, which was rare.
It’s so interesting that Zhu Ning and Huo Wenxi are sisters.
Zhu Yao returned from Utopia with Huo Huaiying's eyes and a giant's heart. He devoted himself to the Alpha series of experiments with great enthusiasm, and finally Zhu Ning was born.
She is the undisputed Alpha Mother.
"What is the heart of Utopia underground like? How did you survive and escape?" Chu Qing had too many questions.
Zhu Yao finished her coffee and stood up again to pour it, her movements still slow and steady. Chu Qing became even more anxious, as she felt the coffee was flowing so slowly that she wanted to help her pour it.
Chu Qing couldn't sit still any longer, so she leaned forward and asked, "Which one of your plans is Zhu Ning or Lu Yuan?"
Zhu Yao returned with two cups of hot coffee and said calmly, "Both."
Chu Qing pondered for a while, and the more he thought about it, the more interesting it became. It was as if he had walked into that period of history from a bystander and was one of the witnesses. He wanted to rush into history and come up with some ideas to make this plan more perfect, but unfortunately, he was just a bystander, and Zhu Yao was only willing to confide in him because she was in a good mood today.
Chu Qing: "So you actually don't know who arrived in Utopia first, Lu Yuan or Zhu Ning?"
Zhu Yao smiled and shook her head. They had been talking for too long. The light in the room gradually dimmed, and most of Zhu Yao's face was hidden in the darkness, making her look even more mysterious.
Chu Qing didn't know what this expression meant. In his eyes, Zhu Yao was not a researcher at all, but a great magician. If she didn't reveal the secret, Chu Qing would never be able to figure out the real answer no matter how hard he tried.
Chu Qing placed his left hand on his right, tapped his fingers a few times, pondered the whole story, and asked a key question, "But aren't you afraid of accidents? How do you know you will succeed?"
Chu Qing was a bit incoherent and adjusted his question. "What I mean is, Prometheus is likely to have regenerated underground. What if something unexpected happens to Zhu Ning's team? Even if Zhu Ning can complete the mission, what if it is Lu Yuan who enters Utopia?"
Chu Qing got to know Lu Yuan from a side perspective. Lu Yuan had always been like an uneducated young lady. She could be a little rebellious within the scope allowed by the Lu family, and the Lu family had always been very permissive of her.
But she seemed to have not left the kingdom of God recently. Chu Qing was very clear about this kind of house arrest, and perhaps Liu Yu's ability had finally awakened.
It was too late. How could Zhu Yao ensure that Lu Yuan had enough ability to enter Utopia? And that he could find the entrance?
Chu Qing said as she sorted out her thoughts, "You need a specific person to lead the way. Whether it's Zhu Ning or Lu Yuan, he doesn't necessarily have to be the most capable, but he must be part of this team."
Chu Qing didn't need Zhu Yao's answer and speculated on her own, "It's like a magic trick that requires a detonator. This person must have been implanted with the relevant idea at a very young age."
Chu Qing didn't know who was in Zhu Ning's team now, so she thought carefully about the people around Lu Yuan.
Zhu Yao interrupted his incoherent speculation and gave an answer generously: "Pei Shu."
Chu Qing was stunned. Zhu Yao actually knew Pei Shu?
Chu Qing knew this person, a fire-type mutant who came back from the Far North. He had scouted several important routes for the Federation. Chu Qing had an experimental subject who was detected by Pei Shu.
Chu Qing heard that Pei Shu had some mental illness and could no longer continue to cheat.
Later, Pei Shu became a running dog of the Lu family, responsible for teaching Lu Yuan.
Chu Qingteng stood up and took two steps on the spot. He looked at Zhu Yao, who was sitting on the sofa drinking coffee with a blanket covering his knees. He was in a very relaxed posture and let him look at him.
Chu Qing didn't care about anything else and immediately turned on the secondary brain. In order to ensure the confidentiality of this conversation, no one was allowed to visit it and even the network was cut off. Chu Qing had to reconnect to the network and quickly entered the main password with his fingers.
During this process, Zhu Yao said nothing and seemed to be indifferent to his behavior.
After a while, Chu Qing shut down the secondary brain network and said in disbelief, "Liu Yu has been to the training camp. How did she implant the idea in Pei Shu's mind?"
This is the information he just found. As a member of the Lu family, some of Liu Yu’s external activities will be recorded, especially some charitable acts.
For a while, Liu Yu was very interested in the orphanage camp. She often went there to donate supplies and even stayed in the camp for a week. This was extremely rare for a chaebol wife. Many people thought that Liu Yu was putting on an act to create a people-friendly image.
It was no coincidence that Liu Yu's life once intersected with Pei Shu's.
Chu Qing found only one or two photos of Liu Yu. They were probably taken secretly by the children in the orphanage. They were not as formal as the photos in the media. Someone took a picture of her blurry silhouette.
Liu Yu was bending over and talking to a child. There was an extremely gentle smile on the corner of her mouth, and her eyes were staring straight into the child's innocent eyes while she spoke.
Chu Qing didn't know who this kid was. It wasn't such a coincidence, and it was definitely not Pei Shu, but there was a high probability that he was also a future investigator outside the wall, one of the candidates back then.
Pei Shu is the tiny intersection of the plan. No one will care about his existence. Even if he comes back from the Far North, he is just an investigator.
The planning started so early.
Chu Qing was incredulous at the crazy actions of these three women. "You didn't give up after returning from Utopia."
Liu Yu's Utopia exploration plan failed, dozens of teammates died in self-destruction, Huo Huaiying died of poisoning, Prometheus put a mental collar on Liu Yu, Zhu Yao took away Huo Huaiying's eye of foresight and found the giant's heart underground.
Liu Yu was forced by Prometheus to return to the wall. She seemed to have resigned herself to her fate and gave birth to child after child for the Lu family. She did everything for the Lu family, attending social dinners, hosting charity events, and playing the role of a typical chaebol wife, just to find an opportunity to achieve her goals.
Despite such a tragic failure, Liu Yu and Zhu Yao did not give up. Zhu Yao returned to Yongsheng Pharmaceutical and carried out the crazy Alpha experiment, creating countless Zhu Nings and selecting the only successful one.
Both lines require a successful detonator. Liu Yu is in the incubation camp, sowing seeds for future investigators outside the wall, and Pei Shu is the one that sprouts.
Pei Shu is the only living person in the Far North. His value is self-evident. Anyone who wants Pei Shu to lead the way must go in that direction.
Pei Shu could lead Lu Yuan to utopia, but the plan was subtly different, and in the end it was Zhu Ning who led the way.
Zhu Ning is also fine, she is plan B, and their goal has been achieved as well.
Chu Qing didn't know what to say. This move was too bold, and too...
Zhu Yao handed out the coffee at the right time, comforting his junior like an elder.
Chu Qing took the coffee and drank it in one gulp. He sorted out his thoughts. Chu Qing was smart enough to keep up with Zhu Yao's pace and said quickly, "You are very similar to a certain existence."
Zhu Yao: "I know, you want to talk about Prometheus."
Chu Qing paused. Of course, he didn't dare to say it directly, but Liu Yu and Zhu Yao's actions were no different from Prometheus. They both saw the future and achieved their goals at all costs.
Zhu Yao asked: "Do you think I'm bad?"
Chu Qing sneered. He was certainly not that naive. He even wanted to applaud Zhu Yao. This was the leader of the Alpha series. Zhu Yao should have such decision-making power.
If you want to defeat the enemy, it is impossible to do so in an open and honest way. All reforms must involve sacrifices. There is no clean path in the world. Of course, you can also use the weapons that the enemy can use.
Zhu Yao laughed and said, "I never said I was a good person."
The hand holding the coffee cup was already covered with wrinkles, as if she was checking to see if there was blood on her hand. If Zhu Yao was pure and kind, she would not have gone so far. The fact that she was still alive now spoke volumes.
A plan that lasts for more than ten years requires great perseverance and patience, and of course, enough ruthlessness to suppress one's own desire to deviate in time during certain moments of indecision.
That's why Chu Qing admires Zhu Yao and is even willing to kneel down and look up to him. Chu Qing believes that he and Zhu Yao are of the same kind, and good and evil are meaningless to him.
Chu Qing thought of a question: "Wait, but why do you say Zhu Ning is a mistake? Because Lu Yuan's path is more correct?"
He was bothered by Zhu Yao's words. What exactly was the mistake? Chu Qing was obsessed with it, as if he was trying to figure it out.
Chu Qing sighed and said, "Also, Zhu Ning's current plan is to kill Prometheus. Aren't you afraid that she will kill you one day?"
Chu Qing and Zhu Ning had never met in person, but they had seen each other through a camera. Zhu Ning had a very strange personality and was not like someone from this era at all. She did not believe in authority or the destiny of mankind. Any huge goal could not be achieved for her. She had a very primitive and rough spirit, and her life creed was "If you kill me, I will kill you," it was that simple.
Chu Qing certainly knew that Zhu Ning was going to kill Prometheus. The laboratories under Prometheus were busy as crazy as ever trying to find the weaknesses of the Alpha experiment, and even wanted to find out from Yongsheng Pharmaceutical.
Chu Qing guessed that if Zhu Ning continued to implement the same values, Zhu Yao would certainly become Zhu Ning's enemy. After all, Zhu Yao's actions were exactly the same as Prometheus'.
Is that why it was said to be a mistake? How accurate was Huo Huaiying's prediction back then? Did Zhu Yao know the direction of her own destiny?
Zhu Yao didn't answer immediately. Chu Qing thought she was thinking, so she waited patiently. For a while, the room was extremely quiet. Zhu Yao's eyes gradually became empty, as if she was staring at a certain place in a trance.
Chu Qing's heart skipped a beat. As a man who couldn't even accept surgery to correct his myopia, he could clearly feel something was wrong with his body. It was a very abnormal beating.
Chu Qing realized that it was not Zhu Yao's eyes that were empty, but her own eyes. Her body became softer and softer, as if her soul was gradually withdrawing. Everything in front of her was getting blurry, and Zhu Yao was staring at her from beginning to end with a gentle smile on his lips.
It was that cup of coffee. Chu Qing's pupils contracted and her eyes fell on the coffee cup. The liquid inside was almost gone.
Chu Qing intended to shorten Zhu Yao's range of action and imprison her in this secret base, but Zhu Yao was a researcher and mixing potions was her expertise, so she had already planned how to escape.
Zhu Yao told herself this story not because she was in a good mood, nor because she had been depressed for too long and had no one to talk to. Zhu Yao just wanted Chu Qing to relax her guard. After all, how much of a threat could a researcher who couldn't even shoot and had to rely on others for protection pose?
She looked harmless.
All of Chu Qing's comments about her were correct. She had extraordinary patience, waiting for the only opportunity to appear, just like a leopard grabbing an antelope's throat and never letting go, and Chu Qing was the one she bit.
When the secret is important enough, Chu Qing will clear the area, not letting anyone get close, and even shut down the internet. When his attention is focused on the story of Utopia, he will naturally ignore the small cup of coffee handed to him by Zhu Yao.
Chu Qing covered his heart with his hands. His heart was beating uncontrollably and had completely lost its rhythm. He was short of oxygen for a moment and couldn't utter a word.
There is a researcher outside the door, and there are usually people monitoring it, but because Chu Qing only wants to keep this secret in his own hands, he is too greedy and does not want a third person to know the secret of Utopia, so there is no one monitoring outside the door, and the monitor is dark.
Secrets come at a price, and Chu Qing is about to pay her own price.
Chu Qing's face turned purple, and he wanted to hold down his secondary brain. Chu Qing still had the emergency pager in his hand, and this was his last chance.
But a slender shadow fell, and Zhu Yao stood in front of him, holding his wrist gently with one hand, preventing his fingers from moving forward an inch. Chu Qing felt a little regretful for a moment. He paid the price for his stubbornness. If he had accepted the transformation of superpowers earlier, he would not have ended up like this. Once alone, he would have no power to fight back.
In the past, Chu Qing would be ecstatic about Zhu Yao's touch, as it meant that the ice in their relationship had been broken and he had finally gained Zhu Yao's trust.
Now it seems that it is not the case at all. It is impossible for Zhu Yao to be tamed.
Bang! Chu Qing's body hit the thick carpet with a dull sound, and Chu Qing's eyes moved with difficulty.
Zhu Yao didn't look at him. She gently picked up the photo on the table. It was a group photo of the departure, taken at Exit F-03 of the north wall. There were six main people in total. The team leader was Liu Yu and the guide was Bai Cheng.
When Zhu Yao picked up this long-lost photo, it was as if she was picking up the history of that year and an unfulfilled wish.
Everyone died, leaving only Zhu Yao alive, living such a painful and difficult life.
She must continue her unfinished business. As her teammates fall one by one, the only thing left for her is for Zhu Yao to pick up the torch and continue forward.
This road lasted for more than ten years, and every step was so difficult. In every blank gap, people would question whether they were working hard enough, but Zhu Yao had to keep going until death.
Zhu Yao didn't say a word, but she had already answered Chu Qing's initial question: What kind of person is Liu Yu?
Beautiful and powerful, she will do anything to achieve her goals and is the mother of the future new world.
Liu Yu is dead, but everything Liu Yu left behind continues.
The last thing Chu Qing saw was Zhu Yao putting on a white coat and taking the magnetic card and sub-computer from his pocket. After swiping the card, the door opened and the pale light outside fell on Zhu Yao, like the light of freedom.
Chu Qing felt a surge of anger in his chest. He wanted to yell at Zhu Yao not to leave, to beg him to stop and continue. But he couldn't. The story wasn't over yet, and even at this point, he still wanted to keep asking.
What was the ending back then, and what was Zhu Yao’s real plan?
Coming back, Chu Qing shouted silently, I can work for you with my life, there is no need to be so ruthless. Chu Qing has looked up to Zhu Yao for many years, she was his enlightenment mentor in entering Yongsheng Pharmaceutical.
Because of Zhu Yao and the Alpha series, Chu Qing became interested in pollutants. He carefully studied all the information left by Zhu Yao and became obsessed with her. All his subsequent research was influenced by Zhu Yao.
But there was no need for Zhu Yao to waste time with him, and she would not even turn around to look at him. With a slight click, the corner of Zhu Yao's clothes disappeared, and the door closed gently, leaving Chu Qing alone in the darkness, his body gradually getting cold.
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