Chapter 62 Two Chapters in One
She's safe.
Was this the false identity Prometheus had given her? To make up for the lie Zhu Ning had told?
No, it's impossible. The cleaning center will be very careful in their investigation, collecting evidence from multiple sources and cross-comparing them. If any link here doesn't match, Yue Kaiyuan will definitely be able to see it. Prometheus can't do that.
This is her real experience, or to be more precise, the real experience of the original owner.
She seemed to be looking at herself in another parallel universe.
If there is such a thing as a parallel universe, Zhu Ning in this universe was judged to be a defective product since childhood and grew up in an orphanage with difficulty.
Zhu Ning grew up in a single-parent family. Her mother was a strong woman who was too busy with work to take care of her. Later, when she discovered that she had a talent for shooting, she threw her into a training camp without saying a word.
Similarly, they all have excellent shooting talents and were discovered very early.
Then they will stand out in the field of shooting and win their own honor.
The original owner's personality, way of doing things, and talents are exactly the same as mine.
Zhu Ning sat on the chair, and the person opposite him seemed not to be Yue Kaiyuan, but another self.
The two Zhu Nings are exactly the same, they are looking at each other across a gap in time and space.
They are so alike they could be the same person.
When Zhu Ning fired a gun using the original owner's body for the first time, he felt that this body was very compatible with his own, almost like the original one.
Zhu Ning is a professional athlete, and training is all about developing one's muscle memory.
Zhu Ning fired without any hindrance, every muscle was functioning perfectly. At that moment, she thought that the original owner must have been a gun player before.
And it must reach the level of professional competitions. Ordinary players do not have such good physical fitness.
So she was not afraid to say in front of Li Nianchuan that she was a shooting athlete.
But Zhu Ning was very confused. How did the original owner die? Was she involved in anything?
She lived her life for a month, but none of her old acquaintances from the club came to see her, and there was no trace of the club at home.
Just as she had thought before, her house was very clean, as if someone had deliberately cleaned it to remove all traces.
Fire, Prometheus, what is the relationship between the club and Prometheus?
There was a camera watching her, and Yue Kaiyuan was also watching her from the opposite side. Zhu Ning was in turmoil, but she didn't show any flaws on the surface.
Generally speaking, when someone talks to you and then lists their life story first, it is either to test Zhu Ning or has only one very clear purpose - to show off their sense of power.
I can retrieve your information and check your life clearly, including where you went to elementary school, who your deskmate was, and when you joined the club.
So you'd better be honest and don't lie.
This is good for both of us.
This is probably what Yue Kaiyuan meant. Many people will feel pressured.
Zhu Ning looked up at Yue Kaiyuan and asked, "Is there any problem with this?"
She was very calm and composed, as if what Yue Kaiyuan asked were some very common questions. If someone came to review your life, a normal person would not have any big reaction.
Because this is how you live your life normally.
Yue Kaiyuan's eyes never left Zhu Ning: "This explains some of my doubts."
"Your shooting talent and your extraordinary calmness all have their answers. I guess there might be some people like this," Yue Kaiyuan looked directly at Zhu Ning and said slowly, "They are born to be the best hunters."
In nature, all animals can actually be roughly divided into two categories: predators and prey.
Zhu Ning's performance proved that she was a natural predator.
It has nothing to do with the environment she is in. She can survive to the end no matter what world it is.
Zhu Ning: "Thank you."
There is no trace of modesty on her face, and she always just says thank you when she receives compliments.
For her, life consists of shooting. Training and playing competitions are part of her life, and standing on the podium and accepting everyone's praise with ease is also a part of life.
She will not be ashamed or humbled by it.
Yue Kaiyuan probably didn't expect Zhu Ning to be so frank, but seeing that she had always had a provocative look on her face since she was young, he could understand. Yue Kaiyuan asked: "I have a question. What is your reason for joining the cleaning center?"
Why give up being a professional shooter and join a cleaning center?
Zhu Ning said without hesitation: "Because I love money."
Although she didn't know the income from professional competitions, she felt that the cleaning center would definitely make more money than playing in professional competitions.
Because the risk and income of all jobs are proportional.
Zhu Ning's behavioral logic was self-consistent from beginning to end. Even when the mission was most urgent, she still remembered to ask Xuan Qing for twenty times the bonus.
Behind the big screen, in an invisible place, there was a screen. Xuan Qing and Lu Qiqin were watching from behind, and Fang Ying followed behind with documents in her arms.
Zhu Ning's eyes were enlarged to the extreme, occupying the entire screen.
People's pupils change when they lie, but Zhu Ning's pupils didn't change at all. She was telling the truth.
Yue Kaiyuan was obviously well prepared. He clicked on a screen, which showed the entire process of Zhu Ning purifying the aquarium.
"Because your performance was so wonderful, I watched this video over and over again 19 times." Yue Kaiyuan turned on slow playback when watching it, not missing any frame or any detail.
So Prometheus had no way to provide her with any cover.
Yue Kaiyuan clicked the play button in front of Zhu Ning. He used the fast-forward mode at four times the speed.
When Zhu Ning watched the video, it was like watching a game replay. She felt that she was very careful, but it was difficult not to leave any loopholes.
Everything she does is subject to scrutiny by everyone.
Yue Kaiyuan pressed the pause button. The picture started to become blurry after Zhu Ning entered the mechanical jellyfish museum, and a mechanical tentacle climbed onto her helmet.
Her helmet cracked under the immense pressure, spiderweb patterns forming on the lens.
The water in the Mechanical Jellyfish Museum is black, and the high-definition images are not very clear, like a first-person horror movie.
The entire purification process was very strange. Zhu Ning stopped where he was after seeing the giant mechanical jellyfish, looking as if he was frightened by the giant creature.
Because Lin Xiaofeng was transparent and did not appear in the camera at all.
"I have some questions." Yue Kaiyuan paused the video and asked, "How do you purify pollution sources?"
This is also a controversial point among everyone. Zhu Ning did not use weapons or special powers, and the contaminated area behind did not seem to be purified.
But it is like a pollution source losing its vitality.
Zhu Ning himself wasn't quite sure, "Did I save her?"
Yue Kaiyuan’s face froze.
Outside the glass wall, Xuanqing laughed out loud, Lu Qiqin looked very unhappy, and Fang Ying next to him coughed lightly.
Lu Qiqin: "She thinks she's a Bodhisattva? Why doesn't the Bodhisattva stand up and do it for her?"
Yue Kaiyuan: "Can you explain it more clearly?"
Zhu Ning: "The training course taught us about the formation of pollution sources. New pollution sources created within six hours are internally unstable, and we can intervene manually. But they only mentioned it briefly at the time, without much explanation. I only got the general idea."
Zhu Ning: "Later, I suspected I was contaminated. My teammates said that being contaminated could turn me into a pollutant, or I could become a mutant. I wondered what the difference was between the two, and whether the contaminated area was reversible."
"The source of pollution has control over the polluted area. I am trying to let Lin Xiaofeng regain control."
Xuan Qing listened carefully and approved of Zhu Ning's approach. "This method is theoretically feasible, but demon hunters rarely use it in real action. If there weren't any invisible people in the mechanical jellyfish aquarium that day, our standard approach would be to crush them with force."
In the eyes of most demon hunters, pollutants are no longer human, but more like a kind of "demon", and no one wants to understand the reasons for the formation of "demon".
If it can be blown up, then blow it up. This is also the most efficient way.
At the time, Zhu Ning needed to purify the polluted area to buy a chance for the Grey Eagle team to breathe, and it was actually very logical for her to do so.
Xuan Qing's words were transmitted to Yue Kaiyuan through the headset. Yue Kaiyuan asked, "Are you so sure that you will succeed?"
Zhu Ning: "In that situation, I didn't have a choice, right?"
Time is urgent, Zhu Ning must take a gamble.
Yue Kaiyuan: "Have you considered the consequences of losing the bet?"
Zhu Ning: "Let's all die there together."
This was not an unacceptable consequence for Zhu Ning. In the wasteland world, the contaminated areas gave you time to slowly solve the problem. The zombie world was even more cruel. Most of the time, there were only five minutes from the time you discovered the danger to the time you had to deal with it.
You must make a decision now, or you will all die.
Zhu Ning's ability to live so long was partly due to gambling. In fact, she believes that in a doomsday world, survival rates are related to personal qualities, but not as much as people think.
The greater probability is luck.
Just like other animals in the animal world, their survival depends half on fate.
If you lose the bet, you die; if you win, you live.
A very worthwhile gamble.
Zhu Ning answered quickly without any hesitation, as if dying together was no big deal.
Yue Kaiyuan: "Are you so arrogant as to decide the lives of other teammates?"
This is a trap question.
Zhu Ning: "I don't think so. They agreed with my plan. I think I'm better than AI. I'd rather leave my life to my teammates in a critical moment than to AI."
Yue Kaiyuan labeled Zhu Ning in his heart as someone who rejects smart technology, has an adventurous spirit, and is unwilling to stand still.
I heard that Zhu Ning carries two lucky cards with her, maybe she really likes gambling in private.
Yue Kaiyuan: "Will you feel guilty if you fail?"
Zhu Ning: "Why should I feel guilty?"
Yue Kaiyuan: "You don't feel guilty?"
Zhu Ning: "Seriously, would it be better to let AI decide who lives and who dies? Because humans can't make their own choices, they'd rather hand over power than bear the consequences of failure. Is this progress?"
The situation at that time was that the A-level program was activated, and the worst result had been preset. Zhu Ning could not defeat such a huge mechanical jellyfish, so there was no problem as long as her actions were effective.
Playing professional games, she often has to face success and failure. Success is of course good, but failure must also be experienced.
If she fails, she must admit it.
Yue Kaiyuan: "When you were doing this, did you already assume that Lin Xiaofeng would be able to do it?"
The conversation began to resemble a psychological consultation, and Zhu Ning admitted, "Yes."
Although it was a risk, Zhu Ning felt that the probability of success was very high at the time.
Yue Kaiyuan: "Why? Lin Xiaofeng is only ten years old, right?"
Even if most people gamble, they won't put all their chips on a little girl.
Zhu Ning did not answer this question immediately. She seemed to be back in the mechanical jellyfish museum. She could feel Lin Xiaofeng hugging her neck tightly, and she was hugging herself tightly.
Zhu Ning raised his eyes: "Because I have expectations for humans."
This was the only time Zhu Ning showed a gentle expression during this conversation.
Maybe she had just arrived in the wasteland world, and she felt that humans were not hopeless. If Su Qingqing could break through the constraints of genes, Lin Xiaofeng might be able to do it too. Human evolution will not stop.
I have expectations for humanity.
This is the truth.
Xuan Qing outside was watching Zhu Ning quietly, and Lu Qiqin next to him didn't say anything sarcastic. They had been dealing with pollutants for a long time, and it was difficult for them to feel optimistic.
Zhu Ning may not have come into contact with S-level pollutants, so he can say some very naive words and have some unrealistic fantasies.
But no matter what their position is, no one wants to deny that the future of mankind is optimistic.
Countless idealists have come forward one after another, they have ignited flames, and firmly believe that they can light up the night sky.
Don't deny ideals and innocence, it's too cruel.
Yue Kaiyuan: "What happened next? Where did Lin Xiaofeng go?"
There is no footage of this part in the video. In fact, Lin Xiaofeng never appeared from beginning to end. Zhu Ning was just talking to the air.
Zhu Ning: "Then I was dispersed."
The next scene became even more blurry, with countless black shadows flashing before her eyes. Zhu Ning's expression was distorted by pain, and she seemed to be in the drum of a washing machine, being swung up quickly.
Her head must have hit the wall, and she couldn't stand up at that time, and was very dazed.
Later, when she stood up, she paused. Yue Kaiyuan calculated that she only had thirty seconds.
Zhu Ning didn't say anything for thirty seconds. He looked very dazed and stunned, as if he had just been hit by a club and was trying to calm down.
What can you do in thirty seconds?
Where could she hide Lin Xiaofeng?
When she came out, she was checked by the inspection department and nothing unusual was found, and there was no transparent person attached to her body.
Clean and tidy.
Yue Kaiyuan: "Where do you think Lin Xiaofeng is? Was he bombed?"
Zhu Ning: "Yeah."
Yue Kaiyuan just stared into Zhu Ning's eyes. Her expression was calm, her pupils did not change, and her heart rate remained the same.
But Yue Kaiyuan couldn't tell whether this statement was true or not. Zhu Ning's answer was too short and the data might not have been collected accurately.
Zhu Ning looked directly into Yue Kaiyuan's eyes and said, "I don't think a little girl who just lost her parents and killed other people in the aquarium would voluntarily follow me."
Zhu Ning was telling the truth.
Because this is the fact, Lin Xiaofeng did not go with her voluntarily. To be precise, he was taken away by her by force.
Yue Kaiyuan had a headset on his ear, and the polygraph technician outside said, "Tell the truth."
Yue Kaiyuan judged in his heart that Lin Xiaofeng probably did not go with Zhu Ning voluntarily.
They studied the thirty-second video repeatedly and found that Zhu Ning's performance was normal. Technically speaking, thirty seconds could not remove a source of pollution.
It seems that Lin Xiaofeng has nothing to do with her.
Yue Kaiyuan: "You did a great job. You made the right choice at the right time."
Zhu Ning: "Thank you?"
Yue Kaiyuan: "I have a few more questions."
The interrogation is not over. One of the tactics of interrogation is to keep prolonging the time and then make you mentally collapse.
They had only been going for forty minutes.
Yue Kaiyuan continued to play, and this time the perspective was richer because it was supplemented by the perspectives of the other eight cameras.
The video shows Zhu Ning leading a team of four through the corridor. They are about to go to the Mechanical Jellyfish Pavilion to support the Grey Eagle Team.
In the video, Zhu Ning suddenly turned around and shot the invisible man who broke her arm.
If you look at it with some prejudice, it seems like Zhu Ning has some ability to foresee danger.
"How did you do that?" Yue Kaiyuan asked.
Zhu Ning: "Breathe."
Yue Kaiyuan: "What?"
Zhu Ning: "The invisible man has breathing sounds. I can hear it when he approaches me."
The invisible man was only twenty centimeters away from her when he was about to break her arm. She had been injected with genetic drugs, and her breathing sounded normal.
And Zhu Ning really heard it at that time.
The truth.
Yue Kaiyuan continued playing the video, "Where is this?"
The video shows a mechanical jellyfish pool with thousands of jellyfish people twitching their tentacles behind a green screen.
Zhu Ning fired a shot at one of them, and the jellyfish was instantly blown away.
In this place, Zhu Ning used her metal manipulation talent. She had to ensure that the metal manipulation was working at the same time when the bullet landed on the jellyfish man's face.
Otherwise, if there is a time error, it will be easily noticed.
Judging from the current video, she should not have left any flaws.
Sure enough, this Yue Kaiyuan was something. He came here like a fly smelling the smell of blood, and was able to accurately find all the suspicious points. The two suspicious points he found were where Zhu Ning used his talent.
Zhu Ning remained calm: "I don't understand what you mean."
Judging from the video, she just fired a shot.
Then the jellyfish man's entire face became sunken, like a crumpled metal can.
Can a bullet have this effect on a mechanical jellyfish head? Now that all the jellyfish people are dead, no one can verify it.
As long as Zhu Ning insisted that this was the damage caused by the bullet, that would be enough.
Yue Kaiyuan: "I suspect you used your metal manipulation ability here."
Zhu Ning was silent for a second. Yue Kaiyuan's gaze remained fixed on her, not shifting an inch.
He had always had a gentle and polite smile on his face, but at this moment it suddenly gave her endless pressure.
Zhu Ning remained motionless. She raised her eyes and asked, "Excuse me, are you targeting me?"
Yue Kaiyuan frowned: "Why do you ask that?"
Zhu Ning: "Although I don't understand your work, I do know one thing: if you have prejudice and preconceptions, you won't be able to find the truth."
Yue Kaiyuan had been tempting her. If anyone had guessed what superpower she used, they wouldn't have guessed the metal power so quickly.
Moreover, Yue Kaiyuan was very confident. He had pre-assumed that Zhu Ning would be able to control metal.
They simply knew the answer first and then worked backwards to find the solution.
Zhu Ning asked back, "Are you looking for someone who can use metal-related abilities?"
Yue Kaiyuan's expression this time was very subtle. He actually controlled his expression very well, but from the subtle changes, it seemed that he was already wavering.
Zhu Ning found his weakness.
Zhu Ning continued: "What happened? What did this person do?"
The positions were changed, and all the cameras were aimed at Zhu Ning, analyzing her pupil changes, detecting her heart rate, and observing her subtle expressions.
They would record it and play it over and over again countless times.
Zhu Ning was clearly the one being interrogated, but now the positions were reversed and Yue Kaiyuan was being subtly questioned.
Yue Kaiyuan was one of the few people who felt the pressure. He was a talented person with a spirit value of 1200. No, I heard that his spirit value had increased again.
This means that their mental value is far superior to others. Their mental strength is a crushing blow to others, but she can maintain absolute rationality and calmness.
All the instruments are just decorations.
Outside the mirror, Xuan Qing was looking at Zhu Ning.
Lu Qiqin said beside him: "She seems to be fine."
Looks like.
Lu Qiqin: "She shouldn't be the person they're looking for."
Someone has been looking for someone at the cleaning center these days, and they are looking for someone with metal-type abilities.
It is impossible to find someone without leaving traces. Xuan Qing has always known that there are a few dishonest "rats" in the cleaning center, but this time their mission is very strange.
Because there is only one metal-type ability in the cleaning center, they are looking for a potential metal-type ability controller.
This person hid his strength, ambushed in the cleaning center, and threatened the interests of Yongsheng Pharmaceutical, otherwise he would not have gone to such great lengths to find him.
The first person Xuan Qing suspected at that time was Zhu Ning, as there were many suspicious points about her.
Lu Qiqin: "If I were that person, I would definitely be very low-key."
If a normal person had offended a huge pharmaceutical company or wanted to hide her special abilities, she would definitely act very cautiously and preferably without any personality.
There is no temper, no personality, and nothing memorable about someone like Xu Meng.
But Zhu Ning was different. She was very high-profile from the beginning and took Li Nianchuan and two cleaners to the sewer to purify the pollution source.
The Cleaner did the work of the Witcher and became famous and remembered by everyone.
After that, he showed his top shooting talent in training and dominated the forum.
After entering the aquarium, he independently purified the two pollution sources, the mermaid aquarium and the jellyfish aquarium.
He even directly bypassed Prometheus to lead the team. Among the eight people in the team, five were witchers who did not obey the Cleaners, and there was even a sense of discrimination.
They all obeyed Zhu Ning's command.
Afterwards, the three lines ran in parallel, and they achieved an impossible ending, where the mortality rate inferred by Prometheus did not come true.
Now Zhu Ning continues to dominate the screen, and her deeds have been summarized and posted on the forum. She is definitely a well-deserved forum celebrity.
Some people even started to become her fans and compiled photos and videos of Zhu Ning.
She was so high-profile as never before, and didn't look like she was here to be an undercover agent or carry out some secret mission. If you didn't know her, you would think she was here to be a star at the cleaning center.
Xuan Qing always felt that something was wrong with Zhu Ning, but he couldn't detect anything obviously wrong at the moment.
The inspection department's initial check found nothing unusual.
There was nothing unusual in the data collection, and she even got some good news: her mental level had increased.
Now Yue Kaiyuan came to interrogate him. Yue Kaiyuan then continued to talk about several doubts about the mission, and Zhu Ning answered them one by one.
A total of eight people came out for this mission, three of whom were injured too seriously to be able to be interrogated and searched for the time being.
The remaining five people accepted this process and submitted their task reports as well. After cross-comparison, no flaws were found.
This information is perfect, without a single doubt that can be discovered.
And everyone else will be given an additional question, asking what you think of Zhu Ning and what your impression of him is.
Several members of the Grey Eagle team showed ashamed expressions, and at the same time admitted that Zhu Ning was very strong.
“She’s very powerful.”
"I think it's very extraordinary. If it weren't for her, I would have died in there."
"She might go far in the future. I think she's very suitable for the First Military Region."
Chu Ling’s answer was: “Zhu Ning is very cute!”
Xu Meng was the only one left, and she was silent for a long time. Yue Kaiyuan thought that Xu Meng might not have a good impression of Zhu Ning, and he thought he would hear something different here.
But after a moment of silence, Xu Meng said, "He's a good teammate."
Xu Meng's words disappointed Yue Kaiyuan.
But is Zhu Ning really that clean?
In the interrogation room, Yue Kaiyuan bombarded Zhu Ning with questions for an hour. She answered every question, but what was infuriating was that she was very relaxed.
Yue Kaiyuan was finally at his wit's end. He glanced at the camera opposite and gave Xuan Qing a signal.
He couldn't identify this person.
Unless Zhu Ning reveals more flaws, it seems that Yue Kaiyuan has no way to deal with it at the moment.
The power of adjudication is given to Xuanqing.
Xuan Qing was silent for thirty seconds, then said in a deep voice, "She's safe."
There is no point in wasting time, Xuanqing’s style has always been decisive.
Yue Kaiyuan stood up and shook hands with Zhu Ning to express his gratitude for her cooperation. Zhu Ning also shook hands back to express her gratitude for her hard work.
The hypocritical social etiquette of adults is very obvious to them.
Xuan Qing was too lazy to read any more. She had a lot of things to deal with. There were mice at home and she had to find a way to catch them all.
She also has to keep an eye on the interrogation and research of the invisible man.
Xuan Qing took two steps outside and suddenly said to Fang Ying, "By the way, send her the twenty times bonus quickly. I'm afraid she'll tear down the center."
Fang Ying was stunned holding the document, realizing that Xuan Qing was joking. "I rarely hear ministers joke."
Lu Qiqin's reaction was even greater, and he twitched his arm: "That sounds scary."
Xuan Qing didn't say anything more to Fang Ying. No matter who Zhu Ning belonged to, it was obvious that she had brought new vitality to the cleaning center.
Maybe it can muddy the waters at the cleaning center.
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