86 Notebook
◎Is this the true face of the system?◎
Zhu Ning left. She put on her black helmet, climbed into the car and left. Pei Shu could only see Zhu Ning's back.
Pei Shu had seen Zhu Ning's back twice. She had gotten rid of him in the same way in Yixue.
Pei Shu leaned against the broken car body, looking at the direction Zhu Ning left. He had a cigarette in his mouth, but he didn't move.
Until Zhu Ning's back could no longer be seen, the cigarette ash accumulated into a line and fell to the ground with a plop like a broken incense stick.
Pei Shucai narrowed his eyes, put out his cigarette, and didn't light a new one.
He said he would kill Zhu Ning. That was a threat from the big tycoons to ordinary people. Don't provoke things you can't afford to provoke, or you might get killed in the end.
So you have to be a good boy, put away your little thoughts, and hide your sharp fangs.
This kind of deterrence is generally very effective because it really works. Pei Shu will kill these people in the end. He does what he says.
But he still remembered how Zhu Ning answered him.
Zhu Ning looked at him calmly and said, "Then you might have to act quickly. I will grow up, Teacher Pei."
She is not afraid of the Lu family, nor will she hide her edge. She can express her ambitions to Pei Shu freely.
Even if they really come to that point one day, Zhu Ning will not back down, but Pei Shu must act quickly, otherwise when Zhu Ning grows up and reaches a certain level, it will be difficult for him to do so.
Pei Shu's words were a deterrent and intimidation, but Zhu Ning responded with provocation.
He seemed to understand why such a person would offend Yongsheng Pharmaceutical, and also understood why so many eyes were staring at her, inquiring, hostile, and suspicious.
She seemed like an alien in this world. Pei Shu laughed and said, Zhu Ning is so arrogant.
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It was dawn when Zhu Ning returned home.
The Noble Queen Store was the safest place Zhu Ning had found, where she could be sure that Eternal Life Pharmaceuticals would not monitor her.
If you automatically avoid those gazes when you go to Liu Niannian's house, then entering the Noble Queen's store is more like a kind of isolation. It is isolated from the prying eyes of the outside world and is a self-contained place.
The back door was open, and I happened to catch the ducks from the Queen's Store getting off work. They punched in and out of the back door like office workers.
Zhu Ning paused strangely after parking the car, feeling that her biological clock was not normal. She had almost integrated into the nightlife of the Queen's Inn.
A handsome man saw Zhu Ning, nudged his companion, and asked in a low voice, "Hey, is she keeping Boss Song?"
"It seems so." Another person showed an admiring look after seeing Zhu Ning.
Respect, that is respect for the predecessors.
Zhu Ning: “…”
So, from the employees' perspective, Zhu Ning was supporting Song Zhizhang? Sounds pretty cool, right?
Zhu Ning felt like she was home when she returned to the Queen's Store. The neon lights were turned off and there were people cleaning the store. When they saw Zhu Ning, they all greeted her.
It makes her seem like the real boss here.
Zhu Ning walked towards the basement. The holographic stripper in the corridor was still dancing. He was tireless and had just danced until his pants dropped.
Zhu Ning felt a little uncomfortable when he first saw him, but now he feels very close to him.
She felt that if she lived in the brothel for another two years, her entire aesthetic sense would be distorted.
It was six o'clock in the morning. Zhu Ning pushed open a door at the end of the corridor. As soon as he returned home, he heard a noise coming from the bathroom and a toothbrush floating in the air.
Lin Xiaofeng got up and was brushing her teeth.
For a moment, Zhu Ning felt as if she had gone to another world. In fact, she had only been away for one night. The day before, she was also here brushing her teeth with Lin Xiaofeng. Now this matter seemed very far away from her.
Lin Xiaofeng put down her toothbrush after seeing Zhu Ning, then thought that Zhu Ning would not be able to see her if she put down the toothbrush, so she took a red hat and put it on.
The red hat floated to Zhu Ning's side, and Zhu Ning asked, "Why are you up so early?"
Lin Xiaofeng replied gloomily: "My family won't let me sleep in."
Zhu Ning grew up under the casual education of Ms. Zhu Yao, and felt that this rule was simply inhumane.
"You can sleep as long as you want in the future," said Zhu Ning.
Lin Xiaofeng nodded and asked, "Are you hurt?"
There was a powerful healing patch on Zhu Ning's forehead. After she tore it off, the wound had healed without even leaving a trace. It was indeed the Lu family's black technology that could heal and remove scars all at once.
Zhu Ning: "No, I'm fine."
Lin Xiaofeng said "oh". She didn't know what happened to Zhu Ning, nor did she know where she went. From Lin Xiaofeng's perspective, Zhu Ning was still there before she went to bed last night, and when she woke up, Zhu Ning was still there.
But she always felt that Zhu Ning was very tired, so she asked, "Do you want to rest?"
Zhu Ning cleaned herself up carefully when she came out of Liu Niannian's house. There was no blood on her body and she changed into clean clothes. But Lin Xiaofeng was very sensitive and she could feel Zhu Ning's emotions.
Zhu Ning: "I'll go later. Where's Song Zhizhang?"
As soon as she finished speaking, Song Zhizhang came in pushing a food cart. He was still wearing the purple sweater that Zhu Ning was familiar with.
This time, the breakfast prepared for Lin Xiaofeng was very large, and some nutritional supplements were also prepared.
The first thing Song Zhizhang said when he saw Zhu Ning was, "You smell like cigarettes."
Zhu Ning: “…”
Why does she feel like she is now like a foolish scumbag who was caught by his original wife?
Song Zhizhang didn't ask where Zhu Ning had been or what he had been doing, but instead asked, "Want to have breakfast?"
Zhu Ning really felt like she was home this time. Song Zhizhang was like a walking little cotton-padded jacket.
The three of them sat at the dining table. Before, Song Zhizhang watched Zhu Ning eat, and now he also sat down to eat. His movements were very natural, as if they were family.
Zhu Ning noticed that Song Zhizhang had prepared some nutritional supplements and asked, "Is this for Xiaofeng?"
Song Zhizhang hummed, "I ran a test on her while you were away. Regular food is very inefficient in replenishing nutrients, and nutritional supplements provide a more comprehensive supplement. However, I haven't cut off her normal diet. Maintaining a sense of chewing will improve her mental state."
Most people in this world who can afford normal grains will choose to eat normally instead of taking nutritional supplements.
When people eat more food, they will be closer to natural human habits, which will ensure mental health.
People who drink nutritional supplements for a long time will easily become depressed and eventually suffer a mental collapse and become polluted. Song Zhizhang even thought of this.
Song Zhizhang: "I'll adjust the formula in a few days."
Lin Xiaofeng is not an ordinary human being, and the nutritional elements she needs are different from those of normal people.
Zhu Ning: “…”
She now felt even more guilty because when she was away, Song Zhizhang knew Lin Xiaofeng's eating habits very well.
Zhu Ning ate her breakfast, but she couldn't taste it, just chewing it mechanically. She was in a completely safe nest, and the tension in her heart had relaxed, making her less inclined to talk to anyone.
Song Zhizhang glanced at her and said, "People who stay in polluted areas for a long time need to adjust to the time difference. It's easy for you to lose track of time."
Because the speed within the polluted area is different, and the speed in each polluted area is also different, you actually only go in for an hour, but it actually feels like several days.
This intensity will gradually interfere with people's cognition, so many demon hunters and cleaners do not live long.
Moreover, if you carry out a mission for a long time, some changes to the human body may even be difficult to detect. There was a demon hunter who had been working very efficiently and made a lot of money. He was going to spend his old age in peace.
But one day he suddenly went crazy at home and ended up killing his family.
After investigation, it was found that he had not encountered any source of pollution, nor was he mentally polluted. He was just worn out by the job of a witcher day after day, and finally he went crazy.
It is based on this consideration that cleaning centers are required to take at least seven days off after completing their tasks.
Song Zhizhang: "How long will your vacation be this time?"
Zhu Ning: "Eleven days."
The mechanical oceanarium was a large-scale undertaking and the losses were severe, so Zhu Ning's vacation was also longer.
Song Zhizhang: "You still have nine days to rest."
It only took Zhu Ning two days, so she could take her time.
Zhu Ning uttered an "oh" and was forced to go to bed by Song Zhizhang after dinner. His original words were: "Don't pollute my shop."
If Zhu Ning is not in a good mental state and gets infected, the whole store will be in trouble.
Zhu Ning did not refuse. After having breakfast, she lay down on the bed and fell asleep. Her current mental state was not suitable for doing anything else, only sleeping.
Otherwise, she might die suddenly before being killed by the enemy.
Once she enters sleep mode, it is koala mode and no one can wake her up. Song Zhizhang prepared mental healing agents and nutrients for her to replenish during sleep.
She woke up once and it was already eleven o'clock in the evening.
It was quiet outside. Song Zhizhang should have taken Lin Xiaofeng to sleep. Zhu Ning found that he was torn apart from the life of an ordinary person.
She became like Zhu Yao, who always missed her children's growth. Zhu Yao was also so busy back then. Many times when she came back, Zhu Ning was already asleep. There was a time when they only saw each other a few times a week.
Zhu Ning fell asleep for a while, but couldn't fall asleep again until three o'clock in the morning. She felt a little clearer at this time.
Late at night is the business hours of the Queen's Store. Song Zhizhang went upstairs to manage the store. The soundproofing of this room is very good, and Zhu Ning can't hear the noise from upstairs.
She stared at the ceiling for a long time, her brain starting to work slowly as she reviewed the entire mission.
She learned more during this mission. It was her first time to come into contact with Genesis Technology. As long as she mentioned it to Liu Niannian, she should be able to find Bao Ruiming's whereabouts.
It was the first time Pei Shu came into contact with someone who had been outside the wall, and he provided her with some information.
This was her first encounter with a high-level alien species, and she learned more about pollutants.
This was the first time Zhu Ning learned about the mysterious department of the cleaning center, the Abnormal Investigation Team. Although she had never dealt with them, her instinct told her that it would be best not to deal with them.
Her biggest gain was Gao Zijian's father's notebook.
[The notebook has been released successfully] The system prompt sounded.
Zhu Ning had an extra notebook in his hand. When he encountered the alien, Zhu Ning put the blank cards into it without even having time to read it.
Zhu Ning turned on the bedside lamp, leaned against the headboard, and studied carefully in the orange light.
The notebook has a black leather cover, which is very old. The edges are curled and the leather surface is starting to peel off. I feel black debris on my hands.
There was a yellowed label on the cover of the notebook. The writing on the label was old and could barely be recognized as a person's name.
Gao Yingcheng.
Is this Gao Zijian's father's name? Zhu Ning wrote it down. He could look for information about this researcher when he investigated Yongsheng Pharmaceutical later.
This is the truth, the information that Prometheus wants to tell himself, information that he must let Zhu Ning know even if it means alarming the Abnormal Events Team.
Zhu Ning took a deep breath, opened his notebook, and was stunned.
After all, it was a researcher's notebook. She thought she would see some research data, or professional knowledge that laymen could not understand, or encrypted text that would give her a headache.
She was prepared that the information would be very complex and difficult to understand, and might require some means to decipher.
But she didn't expect the content to be so straightforward, so straightforward that even a three-year-old child could understand it.
The contents of the notebook are sketches.
The first page was a picture of a brain, which Zhu Ning was familiar with because she had just undergone this examination and had studied it carefully with Dr. Fu. However, the brain scan taken by the medical department of the cleaning center was normal; it was just an ordinary brain.
And what she held in her hand now was a brain drawn with a black sketch pen.
Zhu Ning frowned. The structure of the brain was very complex. She seldom saw anyone draw a brain. The brain pictures drawn by professionals were very realistic, but at this moment, the brain with ravines and grooves looked a bit scary.
Because in the center of the brain, there is a cube shadow.
Page 2, Brain.
Page 3, Brain.
Page 4, Brain...
As it flipped, the cube shadow grew larger and larger, from the initial size of a sesame seed to the size of a thumbnail.
One cubic centimeter in size, two cubic centimeters, three cubic centimeters... Finally, the black cube shadow swallowed up the entire brain, and the black lines occupied the entire page.
A whole notebook is filled with these.
The repetitive black brain was like mental pollution at this moment, and when Zhu Ning closed his eyes, all he saw was the shadow of a black cube, as if not only the notebook but also Zhu Ning was swallowed up.
She could imagine Gao Yingcheng sitting at the old desk in the dark and depressing room, with his back to his son. No matter how Gao Zijian called him, he would not turn around and was drawing on his notebook like crazy.
There was only one thing under his pen, that was his brain, and his brushstrokes became deeper and deeper, and the strength of his painting became heavier and heavier. Wherever the tip of the pen passed, it was like a scalpel cutting through paper.
He vigorously outlined the shadow of the cube in the middle, darkening it, darkening it, and thickening it until it broke through.
The paper seemed to retain Gao Yingcheng's breath, crazy, desperate, and finally pushing himself into a dead end.
This is... what's in my head?
Is this the true face of the system?
Zhu Ning had undergone a checkup before and was mentally prepared, but at this moment he seemed to have suffered a mental pollution. Although he had drunk the Lu family's highly effective mental healing agent, the wounds in his brain that had been healed began to ache slightly.
She felt a strange sensation in her brain, not painful, but stuffy and bloated.
It seems...something is growing.
She didn't know if it was because of the notebook or the aftereffects of mental pollution, but she had an illusion that the things in her head were growing.
It is madly expanding its territory, extending its tentacles little by little, and the shadow area is getting bigger and bigger.
That thing will eventually eat your brain, just like what is described in the notebook.
With a puff—
The sketch pen pierced the paper, and that thing would also pierce her head.
Zhu Ning felt a chill on her back. She had never been so panicked before. She meant the kind of panic that came from the inside out. She opened the last page of her notes with trembling hands.
There was no brain this time. The last page was very dirty. The handwriting on the previous page was printed on the back. It was all marks left by the pen tip, as if a knife had been slashed here madly, leaving horrific scars.
The last page contained only one sentence, a sentence Zhu Ning was very familiar with:
The end of the world is coming, and you and I are all ants.
The author has something to say:
Thank you to the little angels who voted for me or provided nutrient solution between 2022-10-11 11:29:01 and 2022-10-12 11:19:32~
Thanks to the little angels who cast mines: Amber, several demolition masters, and eating one every day;
Thanks to the little angels who irrigated the nutrient solution: Jingying Chenbi and Lieyanshao (20 bottles); Busipo, Lin Huanhuan, Luoluo, Bupaobouyu, Mujiu, Pretty Sister, Achu Girl, Jiang Yushi, and Tenglegeteng (10 bottles); Luo Yunxi 1995 and Liangbaikai (1 bottle);
Thank you very much for your support. I will continue to work hard!
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