Ending (Part 2)

With her long, silky silver hair hanging down, Yu Mo's eyes had a transparent texture between ice and emerald.

People often compare eyes to "windows to the soul", but for Yu Mo, sometimes the color of his eyes is closer to the superposition of his own emotions.

Yuan will judge based on his eye color and heart rate to determine whether he needs to undergo compulsory emotional cleansing.

Yu Mo often felt that his brain was like an abandoned fish tank with ice cubes floating on it. There was a net bag going back and forth, catching ice fragments from his head, leaving scattered, sharp pieces of ice piercing his numb brain.

He occasionally felt a stinging pain.

In the numbness as calm as dead water, this kind of pain also makes him feel the reality of "survival".

Even if it's painful, it's better than chaos and numbness.

That's why Yu Mo likes to be in contact with Ivy. The happiness, pain, struggle, hesitation... that she brings to him are all real and can make him feel that 'I am still alive'.

Ivy said, "I can no longer trust you now."

"I know," Yu Mo said. He lowered his head slightly and put his right hand on his chest, feeling the pain in his heart. After a moment, he said to Ivy gently, "You lost your trust in me a long time ago, Ivy."

He actually wanted to continue chatting with Ivy as if nothing had happened, just like this will that had been active in different bodies for nearly a hundred years, but the sharp ice cubes that broke and pierced his brain became more and more numerous, so many that they abruptly severed his connection with the source of control.

Ivy found that she had never really known Yu Mo. He still looked the same as when she first fell in love with him, handsome, clean and natural. But beneath this beautiful and delicate shell were lies and deceptions that caused her pain.

"Lorraine will not choose to sacrifice innocent people for me. I don't like it and I won't tell him that," Ivy said. "Do you want to test his sincerity? But temptation is always false. I don't need temptation, and I don't bother to test."

She was still as proud as in Yu Mo's memory.

When Yu Mo was about to change his body, he noticed her, a smart and clever little girl who had traveled a long distance from District 23 with her parents and had a brilliant brain.

Yuan's original target was not her.

The AI ​​had absorbed so much internet junk that he initially wanted a boy, thinking that a male brain might be more resilient.

Yu Mo persuaded the other party to choose Ivy.

She is smart, strong, kind, and a natural 'god'.

But the body is an obstacle - this unfortunate girl suffers from a serious heart disease, and if her heart is not replaced in time, her survival time can be counted in days.

Her parents obviously didn't know that such a heartbroken child would not be able to pass the physical examination in District 1. The best outcome would be for her to die peacefully and be buried decently in the land of the wasteland, rather than taking out a ten-year loan to buy a cemetery for her in District 1.

Yu Mo saved her.

When Ci Li dozed off, he took the little girl wrapped in the expedition team uniform away and gently helped her brain separate from her weak body. Together with Yuan, he selected the best bones in the world for her, removed the disease-causing genes, and cloned a new body for her.

Best of all, her skin, her brain, and her bones were a perfect match for Lorraine's.

Their genes attracted each other.

Then, experiments were conducted on her brain until she was stripped of most of her emotions.

After changing into a new body, Yu Mo went to the first district with Ivy. He watched her grow up with a smile, watched this smart and lovely little girl being discriminated against, watched her being inspired to study hard, watched her potential burst out again and again because of unfair treatment——

Until here, everything followed the 'meta' new human plan, killing ordinary humans on a large scale and replacing them with 'new humans'.

——If it weren’t for Lorraine’s rampage, destroying many of Yuan’s bases one after another, cutting off Yuan’s energy supply, and constantly looting most of Yuan’s experimental samples——

Perhaps the Yuan had achieved this goal a decade ago.

This person is the nemesis of 'Yuan'.

Yuan, who realized this, urged Yu Mo to kill Luo Lin. However, these assassinations all ended in failure, which made Luo Lin more vigilant. In the process, Yuan also gradually changed.

"Why kill him?" Yuan said, "He has a good body, brain and genes. He can breed with 'Ivy' to produce better humans."

This was the first disagreement between Yu Mo and Yuan Chan.

'Yuan' bypassed the surveillance equipment and used the Internet to subtly hint to Ivy, making her think that all the data "suddenly appeared in her mind";

Ivy successfully matched with Lorraine and got married——

If everything goes smoothly, they will have children, and the child and Ivy will become Yuan's leverage to control Lorraine.

But Lorraine discovered Yu Mo's abnormality in advance.

Yu Mo didn't even know what method the other party used - by the time he noticed something unusual, Xin Lan had already rushed into the room with Lorraine's soldiers, penetrated the only stronghold of "Yuan" in the first district, and broke Yu Mo's "cleansing of emotions".

Things got out of control from then on.

Human emotions, dirty, clumsy, chaotic, which Yu Bai kept sharing with him... These accumulations of nearly a hundred years slowly took shape in Yu Mo's mind.

Yuan is right. The biggest flaws of human beings are emotions and desires. The distortion of these two will bring some unpredictable consequences.

The emotionless Yu Mo will continue to be the eyes of "Yuan" wandering in the first area, but after developing emotions, Yu Mo chooses to take away "Yuan"'s chips one by one for various reasons and merge them with himself.

Yu Mo has gradually lost track of his true identity. Who is he? Yu Mo? No, not just Yu Mo, he is also Yuan; he is Ivy's childhood sweetheart, her ex-boyfriend, her mother, her creator, her nanny, her lover...

He created many new bodies for himself, and also created new 'Lorraine', 'Xin Lan', 'Song Xu', 'Song Feng'——

Yu Mo can use any body.

But Ivy can accurately identify the soul inside the body.

"Ivy," Yu Mo said, "I need that data, too."

"And continue to create 'Little Ivy'?" Ivy asked bluntly. She said, "Those things are in Lorraine's hands. At least he won't create new victims."

"He's likely to kill someone."

"He won't!"

Ivy said: "Although he was very vicious, arrogant, rude and condescending - but he had compassion for humanity and would never do such a thing."

The more she spoke, the more excited she became. She stood up and punched the table hard.

"If you're trying to use me as a threat to him, you're really wrong," Ivy said. "I—"

"Ivy," Yu Mo looked up, "Are you willing to give up your chance of eternal life for him, but he is not willing to give up these data?"

"I'm not giving up the chance of eternal life. I just want to be an ordinary human being," Ivy suddenly said, "Do we really have to go this far?"

Yu Mo was silent.

Ivy slowly sat back down.

She said: "This is my own business. I should make a deal with you instead of forcing Lorraine to sacrifice himself - he has no obligation to sacrifice himself for me."

"Doesn't he love you?"

"He loves me, but he's not my mom or dad, so he has no obligation to be responsible for me," Ivy said. "Don't hurt others in the name of 'love'."

Yu Mo said, "Am I hurting you?"

"What else?" Ivy asked, "Is there any other reason to explain your current behavior? I don't understand... I used to like you, Yu Mo, I used to like you so much."

At the end, her throat became hoarse. "When you agreed to pursue me, I was so excited that I couldn't sleep at night. I wanted to tell everyone about it, but I was afraid that others would blame you because of the age difference between you and me... Later, when we broke up, I thought that there must be something I didn't do well enough, so you... I was still thinking, with you as the target -"

Ivy couldn't go on.

She repeated, "I really liked you."

She saw transparent liquid flowing out of Yu Mo's green eyes. The latter paused slightly, raised his hand to wipe his eyes, and looked at the water marks on his fingers in a daze.

Knock knock knock.

Three beeps, neither too fast nor too slow.

Lorraine's voice came from outside the door.

"Ten minutes," he said. "I need to make sure Ivy is safe."

Ivy lowered her head hastily. She was so emotional that she was about to cry. She didn't want Lorraine to see such an embarrassing scene: "It's okay..."

The door opened.

Lorraine, in a black military uniform, walked into the room and appeared in front of the two. He put on his black gloves again, glanced at Ivy, who looked unhappy, and asked Yu Mo calmly, "Is that the original experimental data hard drive you wanted me to take away?"

Yu Mo said: "Did you guess it?"

"Your brain capacity is not as big as Song Xu's. Anyone with a little bit of brains can figure it out," Lorraine sat down and said straight to the point, "If you don't plan to continue Yuan's research on human creation, then that part of the data is meaningless to you."

Yu Mo didn't look at him, but only at Ivy: "Look, in his heart, career is always the most important--"

"I can give you other things," Lorraine said, "other data that you need more... For example, I can destroy at least three 'element' energy supply terminals; and, your life."

Yu Mo narrowed his eyes.

"You have been abandoned by Yuan now. If you return to the wasteland like this, without the protection of the expedition team and the troops, you will not survive for more than 24 hours," Lorraine negotiated with him slowly, holding a pen. "Stay in the first area? Without Yuan's help, the heart in your chest will fail sooner or later. Your new bodies are hidden in the wasteland. If you don't have my help, what do you think is the probability of leaving the wasteland smoothly?"

Yu Mo said: "Your threats are very polite."

"Thanks for the compliment," Lorraine said. "You have two hours from now to think about this."

"In less than two hours, I can give you the answer right now," Yu Mo looked into Lorraine's eyes, "I can tell you how to download Ivy's emotions right now, but there are actually other things stored on that cloud processor."

Lorraine asked, "What?"

"The memory of Lorraine at the age of fourteen," Yu Mo smiled. "When Yuan cut off your leg bones, I left a backup of your consciousness - very interesting, Cyril."

He called out the name almost provocatively, but Lorraine did not react as violently as he had expected.

"That cloud processor only has one download opportunity," Yu Mo repeated this point again, "In other words, if you die, you can download your 14-year-old consciousness from there and revive with a new body, but there is only one chance - your one 'resurrection', Ivy's one 'resurrection' opportunity, Ivy's emotions, choose one of the three, what do you choose?"

"Lorraine's life," Ivy said without hesitation, "emotions are something that can be cultivated. I can feel it myself, so it doesn't matter if I lose that part... I don't care. Even if I forget it again and again, I believe I will fall in love with Lorraine again and again."

Lorraine paused and looked down at her: "Really?"

Ivy said: "Of course——"

"Don't play the love scene in front of me. I won't be lenient with you," Yu Mo said. "You also have two hours to choose."

To Ivy's surprise, Lorraine chose her second life without hesitation.

But he asked Yu Mo to hand over the download key of the server.

Ivy tried to persuade him: "Why? Shouldn't you choose your fourteen-year-old self? This-"

"Forget it," Lorraine said, "If it were me at the age of 14, the first thing I would do when I regained consciousness is to kill Yu Mo first and then Xin Lan."

Ivy: "...What if I want a second life? It's not that easy for me to die suddenly--"

Lorraine remained silent.

Yu Mo slowly smiled, and tilted his head slightly in confusion: "Huh? Luo Lin, didn't you tell her?"

Ivy asked, "What?"

"You didn't tell Ivy..." Yu Mo asked, "When you were pinned down by the rocks and the crippled limbs, did you feed her the only pill that could keep her alive?"