Chapter 53
Dr. Adrian was watching a video. A surveillance video. A camera-following video. The main character was a woman. She was neatly dressed, clutching a handbag, and strolling leisurely—a rare sight in the apocalypse. She walked, stopping and starting, as if she were walking through a city street rather than a ruined ruin. She turned around a corner—it was the woman who called herself "Chen Meng."
"Did you notice? She always turns at right angles. She looks left and right at intersections. At the first intersection, she stopped for 28 seconds. 27 seconds, 22 seconds, 15 seconds."
——The length of a red light.
"She stopped in the middle of the road. It's a feature of H City. There's a waiting area in the middle of a wide road, isn't there?"
Dr. Adrian tapped the keyboard, replacing the video background with a city model. City H twelve years ago (location display: District X).
The woman walked through the streets, turned, and waited.
Fits perfectly.
The video is dated May 18, 2049.
Three years ago.
Chen Meng is walking in H City twelve years ago, a time when Chen Hua hadn't died, the watchtower hadn't collapsed, creatures hadn't mutated, and the apocalypse hadn't arrived. Chen Meng is an ordinary white-collar worker living an ordinary life.
Behind Dr. Adrian, a shadowy figure sneered sarcastically:
"You just discovered it now?"
"How could you have been such a fool"
If Chen Mengzhou were here, she would find that the shadow was similar to Chu Li's projection. The difference was that the shadow behind Dr. Adrian was Chu Nianqing.
Chu Nianqing talked to himself.
"If you look at the surveillance footage from the past few days, you'll find something interesting."
"Even though she's left Utopia, even though she's lost her memory of that time... she still retains her habits from then."
"Knowing that Zhao Jun had problems, why did you let him do nothing? That's because..."
"name."
"There's a rule in Utopia: if you don't know someone's name, they're insignificant to you, like an NPC. You can erase them from your world without leaving any trace. But if you know their name... whether they tell you voluntarily or you know it for some other reason, you can't erase them. They're a 'visitor' to your world."
"Visitors can come and go freely, but once the distance between you and the visitor reaches a certain point in time and space, the connection will be severed. If you want to preserve it permanently... there's another identity you can use."
——Relatives.
"Family members require blood ties. Or contractual ties, or... a sexual exchange."
"If any one of these conditions is met, you will be permanently bound to the other party."
"Zhao Jun's case is a bit special. He used a pseudonym, or rather, part of his real name. The same goes for Uncle Li and Aunt Wang. In this case, the Territory Master cannot directly kill them, but can indirectly murder them through external forces. Such deceased people will become puppets and be used by Utopia."
"I have to tell you one thing, her name is not Chen Meng."
"Her name is Chen Mengzhou."
Dr. Adrian didn't interrupt Chu Nianqing. The appearance of the phantom also consumed energy, and he didn't have much time to talk to Chu Nianqing. As the phantom was about to dissipate, he whispered, "So, back then, you wanted to invade my world?"
Chu Nianqing did not answer.
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