On the map, the tracking point belonging to Chang Gu was getting closer, but not as fast as before.
001 detected that he was bringing quite a few people with him, and even if he was not moving fast, they would definitely arrive at the door within half an hour.
"There are still a lot of people outside entering Sifang City. What should we do if we meet them?" Qin Lou looked at their movements. It would be bad if we bumped into them.
"I can create a passage that blocks everyone. Just go there and wait for them to arrive, host." Suddenly, 001 appeared in Shi Jiu's mind.
"Should... I go?" Shi Jiu asked.
"Yes, host, this is something you have to solve. No one else can participate." 001's voice was no longer as playful and lively as before, but seemed particularly cold at this moment.
Shi Jiu's heart beat violently twice, and he couldn't help but turn his head to look at Qin Lou, "001, after this is over, this mission will be completed..."
001 stopped talking, and the answer was given in silence.
"Qin Lou, go to the city and settle the others first. Don't let them come out. I'll take care of the gate."
Shi Jiu's condition returned to normal, as if this time he was just dealing with a bad customer who would be blacklisted.
Just when Qin Lou was about to suggest going with her, she had already explained the situation to the others, assigned them other tasks, and left.
Qin Lou was left alone there, frowning, his right hand touching his heart, as if... he had a bad premonition, and the fragments that had been suppressed in his heart began to loosen again.
001 also noticed the data fluctuations from Qinlou, but it no longer had time to deal with it and was urgently building a shielding channel.
"Hey, 001, it's been so long, and this is all you can do?"
After the passage was constructed, a vast white space was formed. Only Shi Jiu, 001 and their flower were left at the door. Soon they saw Chang Gu and a ball of black mist around him.
001, holding a flower pot on his head, looked at the other person carefully and taunted him without hesitation, "Hey, who is this? You've become a traitor and you don't even have a physical body anymore. Tell me your name first?"
As it said this, it circled around Shi Jiu twice. Its smug look made the other party so angry that the black fog dissipated a lot.
"I'm your grandfather! 233!" However, Black Mist wasn't easy to deal with. He quickly calmed down and said in a sinister tone, "I think this is your mission. I don't know if you can get back to headquarters if you ruin it. You've already used up all your points, right?"
"You!" 001, having been caught in a weak spot, stopped talking. "233, why bother? What's the point of being a traitor? Look at you now, you're so shabby. I'll definitely take you back and punish you!"
"Hmph, wait until you catch me first." 233 stopped talking and quickly possessed Chang Gu. Soon, a huge zombie appeared. It was more than twice the size of a normal zombie, its body was pitch black, and it had supernatural powers in its hands.
Chang Gu hadn't spoken a word since he arrived, and had been fiddling with something behind the black fog.
But before Shi Jiu could see clearly, Zombie 233 whipped a branch at her, and she subconsciously blocked it with the mace in her hand.
"001! Is my current defense still there?!" Shi Jiu shouted. The strength of the zombie opposite her was several times stronger than what she had encountered before. Her hands were numb from the shock when she was resisting.
"Okay! There are zombies behind us, host, be careful!" 001 can only convert energy to Shi Jiu on the side, and cannot go on the field unless it dismantles the entity itself like 233, so now it can only be on guard against whether they have any backup plans and stable shielding channels.
"Hey! 001, this is your host, right? What will happen to your mission if she dies?" 233, who turned into a zombie, grinned with an ugly big mouth, smiled evilly, and attacked with several zombies behind him.
"What a disgusting thing! I won't die even if you die!" Shi Jiu slapped a zombie that was close to him away, and kicked 233's body directly, kicking it several meters away. However, when he saw it get up again, he couldn't help but curse.
"You're not really going to ask me to headshot them, are you?" This technique seemed a bit too difficult. "Honestly, why are all these zombies wood-type? Are you guys also partial to this stuff? You only have wood-type abilities?!"
At this time, Qin Lou was working with other employees to settle the people in the city. Although the situation had not yet affected those inside, the people inside probably didn't know what had happened.
When Wei Qu was about to do something, he suddenly felt a familiar breath, just like the one he had felt in the amusement park before, appearing again.
"Why is this happening? What exactly is it?" He thought for a long time, but still couldn't remember where he had felt this breath.
"Wei Qu, are you okay?" Wang Yue, who was standing next to him, saw that he looked unwell and handed him a tissue. "You're sweating in this situation, are you okay?"
"I..." Wei Qu had just taken the tissue when he suddenly thought of his long-lost good friend Tian Xiu. He seemed to have the ability of wood...
In an instant, he suddenly remembered what this breath was. It was Tian Xiu's supernatural breath!
He didn't see the boss at the scene, so he immediately found Butler Qin and said in a trembling tone of disbelief who the owner of the breath was.
"Butler Qin, this aura is definitely Tian Xiu's, but he was drowned in the zombie swarm a long time ago. I tried to go back and find him in the end, but I didn't even find any remains." This is also Wei Qu's pain, so he would take crazy revenge later.
"I also noticed this aura on the first day at the amusement park, but it was fleeting and I didn't think much about it at the time. But today, this aura lingered for a particularly long time and was very complex." This was also the reason why Wei Qu was shocked.
After all, even if people with special abilities have special auras, Wei Qu and Tian Xiu are better friends, so he remembers it more clearly. However, this aura seems a little different from what he remembers.
After listening to his story, Qin Lou remembered that Shi Jiu had just gone out alone and had not returned yet. Seeing Wei Qu's expectant eyes, he asked him cruelly.
"What do you think the probability is... that he is still human?"
This sentence made Wei Qu silent for a moment. Qin Lou's words brought Wei Qu, who originally wanted to escape from reality, back to the present.
"He's outside, right? Even if he's turned into a zombie, I still want to give him a ride."
After all... we got here together...
Qin Lou looked up at the sky, which seemed to be about to rain and storm, and said, "Let's go and take a look at the door."
In the shielded passage at the door, Shi Jiu took the opportunity to glance at Chang Gu while the zombies were still not getting up. This guy hadn't said a word the whole time, which was too abnormal.
Just happened to meet his vicious eyes, and he was holding a launcher in his hand?
"001! This guy is trying to cause trouble!" Although he didn't know what was in the launcher, Shi Jiu instinctively felt something was wrong. 001 also discovered that the contents were from the same source as the toxin on the dried meat.
"Host, he wants to release the source of pollution!" 001 shouted hurriedly, but Shi Jiu repeatedly went up to try to snatch the things in his hand, but was stopped by the zombies who came up one after another.
"Shi Jiu, you can't stop me. Who made you ruin my previous plan? I just wanted to capture some people to study the crystal core, but you captured all my people. I had no choice but to study mutant animals. What? Is the dried meat delicious?"
Chang Gu looked at Shi Jiu who kept rushing towards him but couldn't get close to him. The big zombie successfully protected him, and he couldn't help laughing.
"Do you know what those mutant animals eat to produce so much dried meat? Superpowers, what a wonderful thing." His hand gently stroked the bottle in the launcher, the liquid inside was extracted by him with great difficulty.
"Originally, I wanted to secretly study the crystal core and try to crack the secret of superpowers, so that I could become a great hero of the end of the world! But your appearance has made all my previous efforts go to waste!"
Chang Gu's dream was shattered. He studied the crystal core for a long time and finally found that the extract of the crystal core could make his superpowers grow rapidly, but it also had a significant side effect, which was that the probability of turning into a zombie was extremely high.
Just when he was hesitating whether to continue, 233 appeared. It promised that it would never turn into a zombie, but after Shi Jiu appeared, the crystal core no longer flowed smoothly to his side, so he took a different approach at the suggestion of 233.
Later, he kidnapped many researchers and people with special abilities to conduct experiments, and even persuaded many people to follow him. The senior leaders of several bases in City B agreed, but unexpectedly, only Yan Ping was left.
He built a secret base beneath the Anhe base. The reason for the large amount of dried meat was all thanks to the mutant animals. After eating the meat with super powers, they mutated again. With just a little bit of meat, they could continue to mutate, so they were able to transport out so much dried meat.
He wants the crystal core, so he must let these pollution sources appear again, so that they will speed up the process of turning into zombies, and finally he can complete the harvest.
"You were responsible for that earlier gathering of zombies, weren't you? You wanted to wipe out all of them in one go and get the crystal cores. How does it feel when your plan failed?"
Shi Jiu fought for a long time, looking at the tattered zombie in front of him, still trying to protect Chang Gu, he felt more and more annoyed, and finally he couldn't help it, stared at the zombie 233, and when the opportunity came, he rushed forward and shot it in the head.
"Bang—" Gululu's head rolled to Chang Gu's feet. The dark eye sockets made people feel cold in their hearts.
"You're such a hero! You have this technology, but instead of researching how to solve the pollution problem, you've actually extracted the pollutants. But what about the other things besides the pollutants?"
Shi Jiu looked at Chang Gu looking at the bottle in his hand with an infatuated look and an air of superiority, and his fists became really hard.
"Other things..." Chang Gu's brain seemed to short-circuit for a moment. Yes, besides these other things... it seemed that they were taken away by 233...?
He looked down and saw a black mist floating out from 233, and everything was connected into one line.
"No, I really just wanted to study superpowers at first. I wanted to find out if there was a solution to the apocalypse from the crystal core..."
When did he change? Did he discover that the extract inside could enhance his superpowers, but a lot of strange substances also appeared? Did he discover that he had superpowers and wanted to use the extract to enhance his powers, but after experimenting, he found that the probability of turning into a zombie was too high. But the appearance of 233 allowed him to realize this wish and become a high-level superpower user?
In the end, he seemed to have done a lot of things based on 233's suggestions...
Shi Jiu saw that he looked distraught and stared at 233 next to him. It seemed that this guy was the ultimate mastermind behind the scene.
The black mist didn't seem surprised at all, floating in the air. "Chang Gu, hurry up and get started. Once you're done, you can come with me to the Spacetime Administration. What are you still thinking about?"
Chang Gu's eyes, which had been clear-headed, became sinister again. "Yes! As long as I finish this, I won't stay here anymore. Let this world continue to rot and stink!"
Why does he care about this world? Why doesn't he pursue a better world to live in?
So Chang Gu no longer thought about his previous dreams. Now he had only one goal, which was to destroy the world!
233 looked at the struggling 001 with pride. All the energy that Changgu had extracted before was used to enrich itself. Just now, it took the opportunity to sneak attack the shielding channel of 001, and it believed that it would be broken soon.
"001, are you okay?!" Shi Jiu clearly felt that the energy in his body was getting less and less. He could only grit his teeth and go up again, trying to get rid of Chang Gu, but 233, who had no physical body, was also interfering with 001, and now the channel was becoming more and more fragile.
"The passage is about to fail, host, be careful!" 001 finally couldn't hold on any longer, and the white space immediately shattered. 233 took this opportunity to control the zombies and rush towards Shi Jiu.
Shi Jiu only had time to block with the mace in his hand, but the opponent's strength was much greater than before. Even though he reduced a lot of the force, he still flew backwards.
"careful!"
The expected pain did not come, but he fell into a warm embrace. Shi Jiu looked up and found that Qin Lou caught him.
"Why did you come out?" Shi Jiu quickly broke free from his arms and saw Wei Qu behind him.
001 and 233 next to them were not invisible either, and their true forms were revealed. 233 didn't care when he saw the two ordinary humans, but instead was suspicious about 001's energy. It just broke the barrier?
"Who are they?" Qin Lou looked at Chang Gu, a red light flashing in his eyes.
"Ahem, the mastermind behind the apocalypse." Even with defensive measures, Shi Jiu still felt some pain in his chest.
"They all have the aura of Tian Xiu, where are the others?" Wei Qu's supernatural powers were also ready, and his feeling became clearer after he came out.
"Are you talking about... him?" 233 heard Wei Qu's question and thought in a good mood about the main force of their underground base who could accomplish great things. With this in mind, he should be allowed to show up.
The black fog transformed into a mirror, on which was revealed a huge glass container filled with a green solution. Inside, there was a person with tubes inserted into his body. The first time Shi Jiu saw the situation above, she suddenly remembered the premonition scene that Jiang Xiao had told her before.
But, at that time, it seemed like... I saw Zhao Jin, so why now... it's a man?
Seeing his friend become like this, Wei Qu felt like a thousand arrows piercing his heart. He once again felt that even if Tian Xiu had turned into a zombie, he should have taken him away with him, at least to give him a decent death. Now...
"What did you do to him!!!" Wei Qu shouted loudly.
"This is your friend. I really appreciate your friend's contribution...of his wood-type supernatural powers." 233 laughed. So many things were thanks to supernatural powers. It was he who discovered that this person had supernatural powers that were different from those of ordinary people. He used all of them to cultivate mutant animals and plants, so that it would be possible to feed them to super mutant animals or plants that could grow crystal nuclei.
The mutant plants that appeared in City F before were cultivated by them with great difficulty, but unfortunately Shi Jiu got them first.
At this time, Shi Jiu also recovered. He stared at the thing in Chang Gu's hand, whispered a few words to Qin Lou, and took advantage of their inattention to attack Chang Gu's vital point.
At this moment, 233 suddenly gave the order.
"Chang Gu, hit that thing up!"
Chang Gu was always alert, waiting for 233's order to launch this thing into the sky. Facing Shi Jiu's attack, he was naturally prepared.
"Qin Lou!"
Before Shi Jiu arrived, the bottle was launched out in the blink of an eye, but Qin Lou behind him also seized the opportunity and used his spatial ability to freeze the bottle immediately. The next second, it was in Qin Lou's hand.
Seeing that nothing in the bottle spilled out, Shi Jiu breathed a sigh of relief, but then he heard the sound of 233.
"You don't think that if we stop it, it won't spread, do you? How naive." 233 smiled strangely. Everyone looked at the bottle in Qin Lou's hand. The black liquid inside was constantly falling, but they couldn't see how it came out.
001 watched as the pollution value in the background continued to rise. If this continued, all its previous efforts would be in vain!
"Host, if this thing runs out, everyone in the world will turn into zombies!" 001 shouted from the side, and their mission will fail!
When Shi Jiu heard what 001 said, she gritted her teeth and looked at 233 in the air. If this mission failed, she would not be able to go home, and this place would become a hell on earth. Even 001 would not be able to solve so many problems.
"Then what else can we do?!" Shi Jiu asked unwillingly.
"I..." 001's voice was filled with frustration, "I have no points left, and the crystal core progress bar hasn't reached its limit yet. I... there's nothing I can do for now."
Shi Jiu walked up to Qin Lou and asked, "You are holding this bottle, are you okay?"
Qin Lou shook his head. "I don't feel anything. Who are they?"
Shi Jiu hesitated for a moment, but at the last moment, he still told the details of the situation.
"They are the root cause of the beginning and worsening of this apocalypse."
Shi Jiu was able to piece together some things from the fragmented conversation with 001.
"I still feel sorry that I couldn't save the world,"
After 233 sent out the bottle, it covered a large area opposite them with a layer of black fog. Now 001 had no way to do anything. Wei Qu had already known that his friend had been enslaved, and was now chopping at the black fog, but it was of no avail.
"Why should you apologize? This is not your fault." Qin Lou walked to her side and looked at Chang Gu who was hidden in the distance. The tip of his tongue couldn't help but touch his back teeth. He didn't expect that he would see this guy again once again.
The white light in his hand condensed little by little, and slowly turned black in a place where Shi Jiu couldn't see. 001 was frantically looking for a way to break it, and also sensed the changes in Qin Lou. The seal on his side had been broken long ago, and now all his memories should have been restored. Just looking at his movements, it seemed that he was going to use a big move to take him away.
"But..." Her mission was to solve this problem, but now she couldn't complete the mission.
After the shielding tunnel was broken, voices could be heard from time to time not far away. Even now, many people are still rushing here, just wanting to come here and live a good life. Now...
"001, is there any other way? Where is the progress bar you just mentioned?" Shi Jiu didn't want to wait to die like this.
"It's already 88% now, but I won't have a chance to operate until it reaches 90%." 001 also felt very unwilling. If it failed like this, it might not even have a chance to go back and could only fend for itself in the turbulence.
When it thought of this, it hated the traitor 233 to death. It was a pity that it was now hidden in the black fog, just waiting for the end of this world.
"Only 2% off?" Shi Jiu muttered. Qin Lou's hidden hand was already as black as ink. His spatial ability utilized the memories of his past life. He could quickly eliminate the person on the other side and forcibly seal the bottle. However, doing so might require sacrificing something...
For example, your own life.
"Boss, if your mission is completed, will you still remember me?"
Just when Shi Jiu was trying every possible way to increase the progress bar, Qin Lou next to him suddenly said something strange.
"Of course, why do you ask?" Shi Jiu suddenly saw him raise his right hand. The fingers on it had disappeared, forming a black vortex. The surrounding space was distorted as if it was sucked in.
"Your hand..." Shi Jiu was stunned, and 001's voice sounded in his ears.
"Host, if there is no other way, then sacrifice his life..."
"What nonsense are you talking about!"
Shi Jiu simply couldn't accept such a rescue. Suddenly, something flashed through his mind, and he immediately took out a crystal clear crystal core from his arms. It was the one he had obtained from the mutated plant before.
“001, hurry!”
When 001 saw the crystal core, he immediately put it into his own crystal core library. The progress bar immediately rose to 90%, and it could exercise all-round control!
233 immediately noticed the change in the situation in the black fog and flashed out.
"001, I really underestimated you." 233 felt that if he didn't stop them, he might really be captured by 001 and taken back to the Space-Time Administration. How could he bear this?
The next second, 233 set its sights on Shi Jiu who was still on the ground. As long as she died, 001's mission would probably fail, so it used all its strength and endless black fog rushed towards Shi Jiu.
"Host, give me fifteen seconds!" 001 frantically controlled this space. After the progress bar reached 90%, it had the power to control the crystal core of the entire world, directly transforming it into energy and converging it into the city. It no longer needed to be bought and sold.
Everywhere she looked was black fog, and she could feel the other party's malicious intent. The reward for reaching level 9 came in handy here.
[Invincible defense has been activated, the duration is fifteen seconds, the space you are in is static, but you can move during this period.]
A bright golden light bloomed on the spot, and a thin barrier resisted the invasion of the black fog.
"Host, in fifteen seconds, the mission will be over and you can go home. Otherwise..." After 001 saw that the props had taken effect and 233 was imprisoned, he immediately threw out a box and forcibly collected the black mist of 233.
Finally, this traitor has been dealt with! 001, because it was Shi Jiu, was also unrestricted. The small branch fluttered to the box and collected the traitor. This time, he could redeem more points when he returned to headquarters.
When Shi Jiu heard what 001 said, the heavy stone that had been weighing on her heart was finally put down. She just looked at Qin Lou, who was frozen beside her, and his hand.
"001, is his hand okay?"
001 thought about what would happen after the end and waved his leaves, "It's okay. When you return, everything here will return to normal."
"What about memories? Will they still remember me?"
"I don't think so."
Shi Jiu felt relieved after hearing what it said. As long as everything returned to normal afterwards, it didn't matter whether he remembered it or not.
Time was passing, and when there were only a few seconds left, she stood on tiptoe and tried her best to face Qin Lou. She was about to leave. If she would never remember him in the future, she decided to be willful.
Countdown five seconds.
She leaned in close to look at Qin Lou, close enough that she could clearly see her reflection in his pupils.
Countdown three seconds.
"Xiao Qin, I think I should... like you..."
One second countdown.
She recalled the dream she had in the small dark room. She looked at Qin Lou lying on the ground. He was dying at that time, and only his trembling eyelashes proved that he was still alive.
Time's up.
A gentle kiss fell on the corner of his eye, with a hint of pity and joy.
Crystal tears ran down her cheeks and sank into her collar.
"goodbye."
At this moment, 001's fifteen-second program was completed, and the space collapsed instantly. Looking around, everything in the world disappeared, without a trace left.
[The program has been started, the virtual space has been recovered successfully. Congratulations to the task executor: 001 for completing the task. Points are being calculated...]
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"Jiujiu, Jiujiu, are you okay?" Shi's mother was shouting anxiously beside the bed.
"Slow down, your daughter just regained consciousness. It's useless to call her now, isn't it?" Shi's father quickly called the doctor over.
After tossing and turning for a long time, Shi Jiu finally recovered. Looking at the white ceiling and the white quilt covering his body, he felt nauseous.
"This... is this a hospital?" It took her a long time to react, but her head was still dizzy and uncomfortable.
"Jiujiu, just have a good rest first. It will be fine when you wake up. It will be fine when you wake up..." Shi's mother said happily.
A few days later, after Shi Jiu was discharged from the hospital after undergoing multiple examinations, he went shopping with his friends after being bored for a week.
"Jiujiu, you scared me to death. I even received a call from your mother that day, saying that you had been in a car accident and had a mild concussion. I thought it was a scam call and was so scared that I quickly downloaded an anti-fraud software." The friend said while holding Shi Jiu's hand while shopping.
"Ah." Shi Jiu was still a little slow. Ever since the car accident, she always felt that there was something she had forgotten deep in her mind. Whenever she tried hard to think about it, her head would always hurt. So she had not been in a very good mood recently.
If her good friend hadn't come over today and her mother hadn't seen her distracted, she probably wouldn't have come out.
"You are so lucky. The truck hit you and you only got a mild concussion. Luckily, nothing happened. Otherwise, I would have lost you, my little darling." The friend held her hand tightly, still a little scared.
"It's okay. I'm lucky." Shi Jiu felt that she was very lucky. Although she couldn't remember how she was hit before, she was thankful that she could be discharged from the hospital safely.
As they were walking around, they found a newly opened flower shop in front of them. The flowers displayed outside were colorful, and there was a sign on the door saying that they were only displaying flowers and not selling them.
"Wow, these flowers aren't dyed, are they? They're all colorful. And the owner is so unique, displaying so many and yet he won't sell them?!" My friend instantly became interested, "Jiujiu, shall we go take a look?"
As he said this, he wanted to pull Shi Jiu over, but found that Shi Jiu was staring at the flowers in a daze.
"Jiujiu, what's wrong with you?"
Shi Jiu shook his head and followed. These flowers looked so familiar...
The crisp sound of wind chimes rang out, and when they stepped into the flower shop, they found that the entire flower shop was filled with colorful flowers.
"This flower shop... is really interesting, ah! Jiujiu, look, there's a super handsome guy!" When the friend was looking at the flowers, a man approached in front of him. His straight suit showed his gentlemanly temperament, and his cold and stern face gave people a feeling of keeping away from strangers.
Shi Jiu looked at the cold man in front of her, and felt like something was breaking out of her head. An indescribable sense of familiarity filled her heart.
"Who are you……"
"Hello, I'm the owner of this flower shop, my name is Qin Lou."
Suddenly, the man's eyes became very gentle, and the coldness on his face melted away as if encountering a spring breeze. He raised a bouquet of colorful flowers in front of her with a gentle smile.
"Boss, long time no see."
The author has something to say:
Woohoo, I finally got the ending. I'm so moved. I've been coding all day today and finally finished this story. I'm also very grateful to the little angels who have been with me until now. You have given me a lot of encouragement and support. I'll take a day off tomorrow. The extra chapter will be updated the day after tomorrow. Many reasons that have not been revealed yet, Jiujiu's love after returning to reality, and what happened with 001, are all in the extra chapter~
I will hold a lucky draw to give back to everyone. I love you guys~
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