Chapter 176 NPC Personality
At this moment, Yan Chu suddenly remembered that she still had a resurrection card.
Since the card can reverse life and death, what kind of state does the "resurrection" it defines mean?
Does becoming human again mean erasing the memory of the zombie period?
Or... is there something wrong with Gu Qinyuan's situation?
No, she had to verify it again.
The underground confinement area of the laboratory was cold and silent.
In the closed room, Yan Chu and the third-level zombie looked at each other.
The third-level zombie was full of questions: "What did you say? Kill me and then resurrect me and turn me into a human...?"
Yan Chu nodded: "It sounds a bit complicated, but I have successfully operated it once. I can ensure that you will not die. However, when you wake up, you will most likely forget everything about your time as a zombie."
The third-level zombie sneered as if hearing a huge joke: "Becoming a weak waste like humans? What a joke! I am not ten thousand times stronger than humans now!"
Yan Chu's eyes darkened, his patience exhausted. Just as he was about to force him to submit, a slightly guilty voice came from the side.
"How about... I try?"
Yan Chu turned around and saw Wang Xiaoer standing in the shadow of the corner.
Although he is only a level two zombie, his degree of humanization is definitely the highest among these zombies.
"Are you willing?" Yan Chu asked in surprise.
The third-level zombies also stared at him in surprise: "What's going on? Are you crazy?"
"I've been following Hu Zi for a while now," Wang Xiaoer said, slowly emerging from the shadows. "I've heard a lot of stories about humans... I don't know why, but I've become interested in what my body used to look like. I want to know what kind of person I was before."
This request was beyond Yan Chu's expectation. She looked at Wang Xiaoer's extremely serious eyes and finally nodded.
"The dying process can be painful."
"It doesn't matter."
Yan Chu took a deep breath and attacked him decisively. After a flash of cold light, Wang Xiaoer's body fell limply.
Yan Chu immediately took out the resurrection card from the card book and activated it.
The soft and majestic golden light emerged again, like a warm tide, completely enveloping Wang Xiaoer.
As the light gradually faded, Wang Xiaoer's chest began to rise and fall, and his skin gradually regained its color.
His eyelids fluttered and he slowly opened his eyes.
The eyes were a little confused at first, but then seemed to be injected with countless fragments of light, rapidly changing and settling, and finally turned into an extremely complex clarity.
Yan Chu's heart nearly leaped into her throat. She cautiously called out tentatively, "Wang Xiaoer?"
The person sitting on the ground heard the sound and slowly turned his head to look at her.
The corners of his mouth twitched, no longer the somewhat stiff expression he had during his zombie period, but a smile that truly belonged to a human being, filled with endless emotion and a hint of bitterness.
"Wang Xiaoer..." He repeated the name in a low voice, then shook his head slightly. Although his voice was hoarse, it was unusually clear. "I remember now. My name is not Wang Xiaoer."
He said word by word:
"My name is Wang Qi, the Qilin."
The level 3 zombie at the side stared at Wang Xiaoer in shock: "You...really turned into a human?"
Wang Xiaoer stood up from the ground and touched his chest: "The core of zombies is in the brain, but the core of humans is here. What a strange feeling."
Yan Chu was stunned.
Wait, not only does he remember his past as a human, but what he just said clearly means...
"You...you remember what happened after you turned into a zombie?!"
Yan Chu's voice trembled slightly due to extreme shock.
Wang Xiaoer looked up at her and nodded firmly.
"I remember everything, from when I was Wang Qi, to when I became a zombie and awakened my superpowers, to when I followed Wang and got the name Wang Xiaoer, until just now... I remember everything clearly."
His pupils suddenly constricted and the blood in his body instantly solidified!
The resurrection card will not erase the memory at all!
So, what exactly happened to Gu Qinyuan's amnesia?
At this moment, Potato, who had been waiting quietly, floated out faintly:
[Master, I actually wanted to tell you before, but the situation was too chaotic and I didn’t have time to explain clearly...]
Yan Chu looked at it in confusion: "What?"
Potato scratched his head:
[In fact, the current soul fluctuations in Gu Qinyuan's body are very different from his previous soul fluctuations.]
It strives to organize language:
[If I must say... this soul fluctuation right now is very... empty, very templated, like an NPC personality temporarily generated based on the original character's data. It only has basic logic, no core data.]
NPC personality?
Yan Chu's eyes flashed, and she suddenly remembered that Gu Qinyuan was also a book traveler like her!
A bold but reasonable guess suddenly popped up in her mind.
Could it be that the moment she killed him, Gu Qinyuan's true soul had already broken away from the constraints of the world of this book and returned to his original real world?
And the one occupying this body now is nothing more than an amnesiac personality that was forcibly inserted by the world consciousness of this world in order to maintain the logic of the plot and fill the vacancy of a key character?
Thinking back to the words he had circled in the book "Journey of the Soul"...
Had Gu Qinyuan guessed a possibility long ago, and therefore left these messages on purpose, telling her in this way that his departure was not the end?
Perhaps he had already anticipated that his soul would be free after his "death", so he used this method to comfort her and say his final goodbye to her?
Yan Chu's heart felt like it was being tightly grasped by an invisible hand, making it feel sore and swollen.
She asked Potato in a hoarse voice, "Which world did Gu Qinyuan's soul originally belong to?"
With a hint of anticipation she wasn't even aware of, she tentatively asked, "Is it the same world as my real world?"
Potato looked away with a vacant look in his eyes:
[Sorry... Master, this is completely beyond my authority and database. I cannot track the coordinates of souls in other worlds...]
Yan Chu was silent for a while, finally took a deep breath and exhaled slowly, as if to expel all the heavy emotions accumulated in his chest.
She shook her head, her eyes gradually becoming clear and firm: "That's enough, knowing this is enough."
Gu Qinyuan broke free from this script that was controlled by the world consciousness and trapped in an infinite cycle, and broke free from all the fate and constraints imposed on him.
He can return to his true home, live a good life as a free man in his real world.
Isn't this the best ending for him?
In this way, she can leave this world with complete peace of mind.
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