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Snap——
Zhu Ning's shadow projected on the ruins of the Kingdom of God fluctuated, like a TV without a signal, and the next step was to show a snowy screen.
"Left rear side." Zhu Ning suddenly reminded: "Be careful."
Liu Niannian looked subconsciously and saw a bloody hand reaching out from the ruins, followed by a mutilated head, with cold eyes staring at her. A gun muzzle also appeared, with a red light seeping from the edge of the muzzle, like a blood-red eye in the dust, aimed at Liu Niannian.
There are enemies.
Before Liu Niannian could react to who the other person was and why he wanted to kill her, her instinct had already taken over. She took a half step back in fear, frowning.
The light from the gun barrel aimed at her suddenly stopped, as if it was pinched by a hand. The person's pupils widened, his face twisted, revealing an extremely painful expression.
The next moment, there was a cracking sound, and a huge blood mist bloomed. The attacker was blown into a bloody flower.
Liu Niannian's heart contracted violently, and she clearly felt that she had just used her ability. This was not the first time she had used it. She had controlled the flow of her own blood and the fall of the kingdom of God.
But this time it was so real, it only took a second, she didn't even have to "control" it, and soon the enemy was blown to pieces.
Liu Niannian was breathing rapidly, unable to believe what he had done.
"Very good. Don't get excited. Breathe slowly." Zhu Ning's voice was a little fragmented, probably because the signal was unstable. "That's why I came here."
The collapse of a powerful psychic forms a contaminated area, and Zhu Ning needs to deal with this contaminated area.
Liu Niannian carefully experienced the feeling at that moment, as if there had been an invisible shackle around her neck all along and she had never lived seriously. Now she was living.
"Who was that just now?" Liu Niannian asked.
"The remnants of the First Military Region." Zhu Ning responded quickly. When the Kingdom of God fell, the First Military Region was right below.
"Why?" Liu Niannian didn't understand. Hadn't the Kingdom of God fallen? The Federation had already collapsed. Why would the people of the First Military Region want to kill him?
"Soldiers have inertia." Zhu Ning's voice was flat. This was not uncommon in human history. The organization they supported had already perished, but the soldiers were still carrying out the orders of the previous dynasty.
In the eyes of the soldier who just died, Liu Niannian was a traitor, so they would kill the traitor if they had the chance.
"Leave first." Zhu Ning said.
There were rustling sounds all around. The dust formed after the fall of the Kingdom of God became the best barrier, but there will always be a moment when the dust settles.
Zhu Ning is not the only one who thinks of looking for Liu Niannian. She is the mother of the new world, with pure bloodline and powerful superpowers. The superpowers in Liu Niannian are cumulative. If Liu Yu passes them to her, he will die immediately. It is equivalent to having the energy of several generations in her.
Even if he didn't want to kill her, he would want to use her.
If it cannot be used, then destroy it. At least destruction will not allow the enemy to succeed.
Liu Niannian did not hesitate and carried the unconscious Liao Xianglin on her back. After her superpowers awakened, they transformed her physical fitness. She could feel her arm muscles tense, and every step she took was powerful.
Zhu Ning also realized that Liu Niannian was a perfect new human, and this was not a problem for her.
"Left." Liu Niannian heard Zhu Ning's reminder. While she was running, the small flying device kept following her ears, as if a group of bees were following her. Zhu Ning's projection had been retracted.
There were gunshots behind her. Just as Zhu Ning said, there was more than one person who wanted to kill her. She encountered four enemies along the way, but before they could make a move, she had already taken action.
Zhu Ning reminded: "You don't have to let all of a person's blood burst. You can crush the heart, or block the trachea with blood. There are many ways for humans to die."
Liu Niannian guessed that Zhu Ning was once proficient in using water-based abilities, so she temporarily replaced Pei Shu and became her teacher.
"Control the water molecules in the air to slow down the bullet."
This was a more delicate matter, and after she did so, she watched the bullet coming towards her spin slower and slower.
By the time he had killed four or five people, Liu Niannian had already mastered the technique, as if those people were not humans at all, but just cattle, sheep and other livestock.
She has no moral burden and if she collapses into pollutants, she will surely devour the ruins of District 2.
"stop."
Liu Niannian ran following Zhu Ning's instructions, not knowing where his destination was. He stopped suddenly, hearing the sound of rapid breathing and seeing a lot of people's blood on his body.
Liu Niannian adjusted her breathing. She didn't feel tired, but instead felt refreshed, as if she had exercised. She supported Liao Xianglin's body, and Zhu Ning had already issued the next instruction: "Take a step back, under your feet."
Liu Niannian moved his right foot and found a box under his feet. After the crash of the Kingdom of God, there were many resources and equipment in the ruins, and what Liu Niannian was stepping on was... a storage box for a human-machine joint device.
She had seen it several times. The box looked to be made of velvet and was used to limit Prometheus's abilities. Now, what was limiting Prometheus was also limiting Zhu Ning.
Liu Niannian carefully set Liao Xianglin down. Was Zhu Ning asking her to find a human-machine hybrid device? She opened the thin box, revealing a black ring. Black mycelium on the back spread out, forming a spider web in the corner of the box. The mycelium was alive, wriggling visibly.
"Put it on."
Liu Niannian looked around. The dust was like thick fog. It was much better now than at the beginning, but visibility was still not high.
There were no other enemies pursuing, and the sound came from a tiny reconnaissance device.
Wearing a human-machine joint device? Did Zhu Ning want to have a more "intimate" connection with him?
Liu Niannian was a citizen of the Kingdom of God before, so she certainly knew what it meant to connect to this thing. It meant that you were handing over control of your body. Long-term connection might even turn you into a mycelium person, unable to resist the influence of the subconscious.
"Are you scared?" Zhu Ning's voice now really sounded like the whisper of a devil.
If we think rationally, when Zhu Ning already has such powerful abilities, we should not add weight to the other party. Humans have always been worried that they must limit the power of others in order to keep the world balanced.
Someone else might wonder if Zhu Ning came to her just to get a mycelium man.
Zhu Ningyuan is at the end of the world and needs a useful body, and Liu Niannian is the first choice. She is capable but ignorant enough. This ignorance does not mean that she is stupid, but that she has been controlled by the Kingdom of God for most of her life and has not experienced the truly cruel world outside the wall.
What will happen if Zhu Ning controls Liu Niannian?
Zhu Ning didn't say anything more. Her real body was staring at Liu Niannian in the closed machine room. Her red skirt fluttered in the wind, making her look like a naive girl. In contrast, Zhu Ning looked so unlike a human.
Liu Niannian touched the human-machine combined device, and the mycelium instinctively wrapped around her fingertips, as if it couldn't wait to eat her.
Zhu Ning waited quietly for her choice. It was normal for Liu Niannian to throw away the human-machine combined device and leave, but she was not a normal person.
Liu Niannian took a deep breath, and the next second, the black ring stuck to his solar plexus.
There was no need for any explanation or prelude. Living things had instincts. The hyphae suddenly pierced into the thin skin of the temple. Liu Niannian felt a sharp pain and her world was filled with tinnitus, as if she had entered a vacuum world. The sound suddenly disappeared, and the hyphae extended downwards and quickly groped for the neural network. The black hyphae rotated and tightly grasped her neural network.
Liu Niannian felt like vomiting and the world was spinning, as if his soul was thrown up and then fell into the abyss, fluctuating back and forth in this extreme feeling of weightlessness.
"It seems that you are not used to the access, just like me." Zhu Ning's voice sounded. In fact, it became the only sound in Liu Niannian's world. It was not coming from the outside world, but from inside her head. She blinked and felt her eyelids extremely heavy. Then she found that her five senses were changing, and the visual neural network was also requisitioned. She suddenly saw Zhu Ning.
It was not a shadow cast by a reconnaissance plane, but the real Zhu Ning.
The mycelium connected them and she entered Zhu Ning's computer room.
Liu Niannian opened his neural network. Unlike Prometheus, Zhu Ning opened his own security defense wall.
They can now understand each other's thoughts and emotions without speaking, and if they want to communicate, all they need is a thought.
To put it more romantically, it was as if they were pulled into a world where only each other existed.
It was a pitch-black space with mycelium spreading underfoot, and Zhu Ning was waiting for her at the end.
Here they are clean, there is no blood on Liu Niannian and no mycelium on Zhu Ning.
Zhu Ning was wearing a black protective suit with tears and wounds on his body, and he still maintained the state before entering the Far North. Liu Niannian guessed that this was Zhu Ning's "soul" itself, because she could see that a part of Zhu Ning was being swallowed by the darkness, as if it would gradually disappear into the extreme darkness.
Zhu Ning looked very lonely, and his eyes were cold. She was right, there was not much time left for Zhu Ning.
"Do you trust me so much?" Zhu Ning asked.
"I said I was going to save you." Liu Niannian actually smiled. The smile looked very innocent to Zhu Ning, like a promise that only a child could make.
She wanted to save Zhu Ning, and that was her new goal.
Zhu Ning was silent. Liu Niannian's love and hate were too intense. She hated someone so much that she wanted to kill her thousands of times, but she also wanted to give her her heart to someone she loved.
There is nothing wrong with this. Perhaps this is the quality that Liu Yu wants to protect, and it is also the reason why Pei Shu has always stayed in the Lu family.
"You have to go out of the wall." Zhu Ning gave the order.
"Okay." Liu Niannian agreed without hesitation: "I can complete your task."
Zhu Ning fell silent again, thinking of the first time he asked Liu Niannian to go to work. At that time, the little princess was full of enthusiasm, as if her life was ignited.
Lu Yuan is disappearing, and Liu Niannian's body is reviving. Zhu Ning hasn't seen such a little princess for a long time. She is more lively every second than the previous one.
Liu Niannian asked, "Do I have a guide?"
"Me." Zhu Ning replied.
The problem Liu Niannian faced was the same as Zhu Ning's at that time. She knew nothing before she went out of the wall and learned as she went. Pei Shu and Bai Cheng taught her a lot. Zhu Ning could pass on this experience to Liu Niannian.
Liu Niannian can walk the same path that Zhu Ning has walked, but she can try to avoid the difficulties she has encountered.
"I'll be in your head," Zhu Ning said. "I'll also requisition a suitable body."
Liu Niannian was actually very happy because it meant that Zhu Ning could not be separated from her, like her exclusive AI.
"Code name Nian Gao?" Zhu Ning asked. She remembered that this was the code name the eldest lady gave herself.
When Liu Niannian heard the familiar tone, she smiled subconsciously. She felt that Zhu Ning had definitely not completely lost her humanity and there were still some remnants of her personality.
Zhu Ning said expressionlessly, "The mission has entered the Homecoming Train."
Liu Niannian asked, "What place is that?"
Zhu Ning: "A safe. There might be information on it."
Liu Niannian caught the key word and asked, "Maybe?"
Possibility means yes and no, why look for something uncertain?
"The Federation has sent many investigators there. There are pollutants, information, and sealed monsters. That place is very suitable for your ability." Zhu Ning had always wanted a water-based ability user when he went there last time, and Liu Niannian is top-notch in the water-based field.
"Can this save you?" Liu Niannian didn't understand, she only cared about this part.
"Maybe." Zhu Ning gave an ambiguous answer. This was not a lie. If there was any information to save the world buried on it, Zhu Ning would also be saved.
"Okay, I'll listen to you." Liu Niannian had no doubts.
Zhu Ning: "I will find a way to contact the nearby outsider investigators to provide you with support. Until then, you will have a teammate."
Liu Niannian still thought she was alone, with only Zhu Ning in her mind, so she asked curiously, "Do you know him?"
"I know her," Zhu Ning said, "I don't trust many people, but she's probably someone I can trust."
"Okay," Liu Niannian, who was already used to following instructions, asked, "What's her name?"
Liu Niannian wanted to know the information about his teammates in advance so that he could make plans early.
"An Chi," Zhu Ning said, "some people call her the gentle giant."
Zhu Ning met her in the shelter outside the wall. They once worked together to hunt down a can. An Chi suggested that they could work together if there was a chance in the future.
Liu Niannian felt that this nickname was very gentle. If An Chi was someone Zhu Ning trusted, Liu Niannian would also believe him.
"Blink." Zhu Ning snapped his fingers like a hypnotist.
Liu Niannian's eyelashes trembled. The black space was still in her mind, but her consciousness was in reality, as if there was an independent space of Zhu Ning in her mind.
"Keep running, there is someone behind you." Zhu Ning said.
Liu Niannian took action immediately. She was becoming more and more skilled. Zhu Ning said, "I'll find a place for you to settle Liao Xianglin."
Liu Niannian discovered that Zhu Ning was more... advanced than herself. She could anticipate her needs in advance and find solutions.
Liu Niannian asked, "Shelter?"
Zhu Ning shook his head: "It's too far, and too troublesome."
Liu Niannian asked, "Are you multitasking like a computer now?"
Zhu Ning didn't hide it: "Among the multiple tasks, two are the most important, and you are one of them."
Liu Niannian curled the corners of his mouth, feeling that he had made the right bet. He was actually one of the two most important things.
Zhu Ning planned a route for her in her mind. Liu Niannian avoided pursuit all the way, stepping over corpses all the way. When Zhu Ning called for a stop for the second time, she was able to stop cleanly and neatly.
It is more desolate here and the visibility is higher. It is probably because we have run out of the ruins of the kingdom of God.
Liu Niannian stepped on the land of the second district. She felt the ground beneath her feet thoughtfully. This was the real escape. She was no longer in the kingdom of God.
Liu Niannian took every step very carefully. It was the first time for a free person to walk, but it didn't feel real. She was afraid that she would be caught back at any time. She took a deep breath, as if the air was not air, but freedom. She exhaled and her chest was filled with freedom.
Zhu Ning: "There's a city defense mecha about a hundred meters ahead."
Liu Niannian saw a three-meter-tall robot. Liu Niannian knew that this kind of equipment should have been locked inside the wall of the second area. When encountering danger, Prometheus would take unified control. This was a special city defender of the second area.
Most of the mechas were destroyed, and the surface of the remaining one was also damaged. Prometheus made some efforts, but before he could control anything, he was quickly swallowed by Zhu Ning and took over all control.
With a click, the hatch on the surface of the mecha popped open, revealing the blue seat inside.
The mecha has a manual driving mode, that is the cockpit. Liu Niannian understood what Zhu Ning meant. The shelter was too far away and occupied by different forces, and they would not be willing to let extra people in.
The mecha's safety program is still functioning, and there is nutrient solution inside, making it very suitable for people to take shelter alone.
If the world can be saved, you just need to survive for a few days. If the world cannot be saved, there is no point in hiding in a shelter.
Liu Niannian hesitated for a while and put the unconscious Liao Xianglin into the cockpit. She had not yet woken up, so Liu Niannian did not have to face the farewell scene.
Liu Niannian looked at Liao Xianglin and thought of her mother. If Liu Yu were still alive, she would probably be around this age. Liu Niannian could protect her mother's friends.
If Aunt Liao woke up and found herself in a mecha control room, I wonder if she would be scared.
With a click, she closed the hatch, and the cold steel reflected Liu Niannian's face.
Some of the scabs and blood on her face had fallen off, revealing her original skin, as if peeling off a crisp shell. Her facial features had not changed. What was strange was that on her left temple, black mycelium spread to the end of her left eye, with a small tail hanging down to her cheekbone. Her face was covered in red, white and black, as if it were some kind of ritual of a primitive tribe.
The mycelium twitched slightly under her gaze, this was the mark Zhu Ning had left on her.
"Do you think it's too ugly?" Zhu Ning asked.
"No," Liu Niannian shook his head slightly, "It's cool, like a tattoo."
Liu Niannian has always needed to protect her face. That was the only requirement of the Lu family for her. Only in this way could she save face when she went out. But it is not important now.
Liu Niannian looked in the mirror in the reflected light of the mecha, silently bidding farewell to Liao Xianglin and also to his past self.
"Next you should find a hazmat suit and a flying car. I'll calculate a route."
Zhu Ning paused and said, "The weather is bad, you have to go against the wind."
The demon hunters still outside the wall were rushing inside. Zhu Ning helped hundreds of teams return home, and she was about to send Liu Niannian out of the wall and continue heading north.
The world is collapsing, and Zhu Ning needs someone to explore outside the wall.
Liu Niannian had some idea, but not much. She knew there was a sandstorm outside, and she didn't understand how difficult it was to go against the wind, but she was not afraid. This was the biggest adventure of her life.
Liu Niannian had only one question: "Will you always be with me?"
"Yes."
Liu Niannian breathed a sigh of relief. She knew Zhu Ning kept his word. She climbed over the rubble and headed towards the path Zhu Ning pointed to. "Can you really control me?"
Zhu Ning explained, "I'm losing my humanity. To avoid becoming another Prometheus, I've set some standards for myself. I try not to control others. If I really need to control others, robots and experimental subjects without individual consciousness are my priority, followed by mycelium humans who have been controlled for years, and finally humans with individual consciousness."
To be honest, Zhu Ning now has no moral barriers to manipulating other people's minds, which is a dangerous signal.
It's only a matter of time before she becomes an insensitive demon.
It's like a mudslide happening, with mud and sand flowing down, and soon there will be a collapse.
Zhu Ning even sets standards based on rational considerations, similar to a patient with emotional deficiency who knows that certain things cannot be done.
"Oh." Liu Niannian didn't care. She herself had no morals and didn't care much about what Zhu Ning did. A bird that broke out of the cage was eager for adventure, even if it could fly one more meter.
If Zhu Ning has to use himself when necessary, then use him.
Liu Niannian asked curiously, "What is the second most important thing you do?"
Zhu Ning just mentioned two things, but didn't mention the second one.
"Find a useful body." Zhu Ning said, "I can't keep randomly controlling others like this."
The laboratory that Prometheus once controlled was opened to her. At the same time, the doors of several bases were opened. Zhu Ning seemed to be facing a dazzling array of weapons and was choosing a suitable gun.
Zhu Ning devoured Prometheus, and inherited all of his memories in a short time. The database was huge, and copying the data also took time.
However, the laboratory involved too much confidential information, which took up some of her time. When Zhu Ning was distracted by doing too many things, her computing speed would slow down.
She opened one of the laboratories and the researchers inside stopped their work. Now that the Federation has collapsed, the experimental projects that have been carried out are not that important. After all, it is the end of the world and no one wants to continue working.
Zhu Ning originally had no pressure in multi-threaded control. She remembered that Prometheus had controlled 0056, and wanted to find a similar experimental subject to facilitate her work.
But suddenly, Zhu Ning at the end of the world paused.
Liu Niannian keenly sensed Zhu Ning's strangeness and asked, "What's wrong?"
Zhu Ning did not answer. Multiple cameras adjusted their angles and pointed at a "coffin" in a laboratory. The coffin was transparent, and a woman lay quietly inside. Her body was soaked in nutrient solution, with several wires extending from the back of her head, and under her chest was a mechanical heart that had stopped functioning.
She had a face exactly like Zhu Ning's, with her eyes closed, as if she was in a deep sleep, just needing a wake-up button.
Prometheus once came to hunt her down. Zhu Ning remembered that assault very clearly. Qi Xueliu led the team, and in the team was Levi, who had a human face and a dog body.
At the gate of Songshan Temple, 0056's invisible thread cut Zhu Ning in half. Bai Cheng and Pei Shu attracted fire to buy time. Lin Xiaofeng took the opportunity to rescue Zhu Ning's upper body, while Prometheus took away Zhu Ning's lower limbs in an attempt to extract some information for research.
Later, the researchers restored Zhu Ning's body, but they soon discovered that without Zhu Yao, they could not break through the core of the Alpha series experiments. Without system access and the Eye of Prescience, they only had a useless body.
Now this body is sleeping quietly, as if waiting for Zhu Ning's arrival.
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