Chapter 59 Chapter 59 She is free
Si Qi lowered her head. A slender hand covered her arm, with the palm connected to the pale wrist bone. Si Qi's gaze slowly moved upwards and stopped when his eyes touched her almost transparent arm.
The hand took the bracelet on the table, put it in her hand, and then tremblingly closed her hand.
"I will add a lot of points to the bracelet. It is the most advanced system now. It will be useful to keep it." Si Ruxu's gaze hit Si Qi's eyes directly.
Si Qi curled her lips and showed a faint smile, and she said okay.
But in the end, the bracelet never appeared on Si Qi's wrist again, and she casually put it in her pocket.
Si Qi didn't want to stay at the institute any longer, so Luo Feng and the others contacted the base early. When the car that was supposed to pick them up pulled up at the door, Si Ruxu was still in a daze.
She watched Si Qi get into the car behind Luo Fenghe, then close the door and raise the window without hesitation.
That vivid, pale, and tender face when moved cast a last glance at her after the car window was completely raised, but in just a second, that gaze moved away casually, as if it had never been there.
Si Luoheng folded his arms and leaned gently against Si Ruxu, looking at her shaky body and her face that was so pale that it was transparent.
She walked forward and hugged Si Ruxu before she fell. She lowered her eyes, and there was some confusion on her face that looked 70% like Si Ruxu.
She said,
"Sister, if loving someone is destined to be so painful, why do we have to continue?"
They are not on different paths, they are on opposite sides.
In his arms, Si Ruxu trembled slightly, and then sobbed quietly, trying hard to suppress it.
She rarely cried. Si Luoheng thought, if only her parents were here, Si Ruxu wouldn't have the fear of an emotional outburst, wouldn't have to walk alone, hesitating step by step, on the road to saving the world.
The moon was rising high in the sky, and the mutant plants tried their best to move to the sides to avoid the oncoming modified car. Si Qi held the armrest of the car with one hand, the muscle lines on his arm were faintly tense, and his face was pale.
"Can't you really be a little steadier?" Si Qi suppressed the urge to vomit, lowered his head and took a deep breath.
"This is the most stable one. Don't you usually take the car? Si Ruxu doesn't take the car either?" Luo Fenghe seemed to be in a better condition. He held the car steadily and looked at Si Qi with a strange look.
"I usually teleport."
As for Si Ruxu, she should have been teleported with her.
Luo Fenghe shut his mouth. But not for long. The city was small, and in order to obtain information as quickly as possible, each base was built not far from the research institute.
After about ten minutes, they got off the car at the gate of the base.
After getting off the car, Si Qi followed Luo Fenghe to the conference room. There were not many people there at this time, only the big screen was still on, so that new information could be checked at any time.
Luo Fenghe yawned, tears rolling down from the corners of his eyes. Then he raised his slightly unclear eyes, took out the bracelet that had been in the drawer for a long time, and threw it to Si Qi.
"I've prepared it for you a long time ago, but you've been wearing Si Ruxu's. But now, you probably don't want to wear the old one anymore, right?"
Si Qi shook his head, "It's not old."
It's not that it's old, but she doesn't want to wear the things Si Ruxu gave her anymore. This way, she will be monitored all the time, no matter where she goes.
So she still put on the new bracelet given by Luo Fenghe on her wrist. The cold and hard bracelet shone with a metallic luster under the illumination of the white woven lamp.
"Heh." Luo Fenghe chuckled. "This is the unified bracelet for the highest-level leaders in the base. Although it can't compare to the ones in the research institute, it's not much worse."
Si Qi nodded. The fact that the research institute's bracelet could still locate her even when there was no signal or a system crash no longer seemed like technology, but more like a convenience He gave them.
Si Qi put the bracelet given by Si Ruxu in her pocket into Luo Fenghe's drawer. She looked at the marks on it that had been knocked and bumped countless times for the last time, lowered her eyes, and closed the drawer.
He set his gaze on Luo Fenghe again, and his originally dark, calm eyes became a little colder.
"Now, I need your explanation." Si Qi's tone was cold, "Why did you lie to me?"
Luo Fenghe leaned back and put away the smile that had remained unchanged on his face for thousands of years: "I thought only you could deal with Fu Jiatu with the least possible damage. No one else could do it."
"So you and Si Ruxu...did you see anything using Fu Jiatu's abilities?"
Luo Fenghe could only guess this way. He couldn't find any other reason that could cause the once loving couple to break up overnight.
"Well, it's nothing important." Si Qi turned his head away, avoiding the topic. "She and I are not the same kind of people."
Si Qi didn't want to say anything, so Luo Fenghe didn't ask any more questions. He took out a bottle of carbonated drink from the freezer, threw it in front of Si Qi, and a wanton smile appeared on his lips.
"Life is short, only a few tens of thousands of days long. If you're a savior, you have to enjoy it. What if you're gone someday? Don't dwell on it. I'll roast a lamb for you tomorrow."
Si Qi took the drink and opened the can. She accidentally wet her fingers with the liquid that spurted out. She calmed down and wiped them carefully with a piece of paper before taking a sip.
Choked by the pungent liquid, she coughed twice quickly and silently pushed the can of drink a little further away.
"Aren't you worried that the apocalypse won't end?"
It seems that everyone is tightly shrouded in the shadow of the end of the world, like a puppet controlled by Him, moving non-stop, exhausted and carefully playing their own roles.
But if the puppet is abandoned by its controller, it will just be a pile of useless wood.
They are controlled by Him and depend on the glimmer of salvation cast through Her fingers.
But Luo Feng is different. He is not a helpless ordinary person, nor is he a superpower who has lost himself, nor is he a savior who is willing to risk his life to save the world from the end of the world.
He wants to end the apocalypse, but only if he can be himself. He can make sacrifices, but they cannot be his life.
Luo Fenghe blinked, as if he didn't understand Si Qi's question: "I'm worried." He was worried, but not as worried as Si Ruxu.
"I'm different from your ex-wife. She's crazy and she even sacrificed herself for this goal."
"But you can't blame her. There are many kinds of people in the world, right?"
Therefore, he and Si Ruxu could only be partners, doing certain things at the same time, but they could not fully share intelligence and resources, and could not conspire together.
Si Qi was slightly stunned and did not answer the question. He just lowered his head and took small sips of the drink in the cup.
The bracelet in the drawer was vibrating. Si Qi was stunned for a moment, then saw Luo Fenghe take the bracelet out of the drawer. He held the bracelet in one hand and turned the screen side towards her: "It's from your ex-wife. Do you want to answer it?"
Si Qi calmed down and then remembered that she had said that the bracelet would be connected to her experiences outside the circle, so he nodded.
The bracelet was connected, and two figures appeared on the big screen.
Luo Fenghe turned around in surprise: "When did you guys hack into my big screen?"
Si Luoheng glanced over with disdain: "I have a share in all the technology in the apocalypse, so what's wrong with me controlling it?"
…
Not really.
Si Qi looked over calmly, revealing a very shallow, very gentle smile: "Of course there is no problem. Any information in the apocalypse is not confidential to you, right?"
"Hmph." Si Luoheng looked at Si Qi, then turned his head to look at Si Ruxu who was keeping her head down and silent.
It was really strange. It was Si Ruxu who had urged her to call Si Qi, but now it was Si Ruxu who remained silent and didn't even dare to raise her head. Is this a tragic love story?
"No matter how powerful the research institute is, it only targets people with special abilities within its own circle. That's why we called to ask you specifically about what you encountered outside the circle. With your special abilities, if anything goes wrong, it shouldn't be difficult to just teleport away, right?"
Si Qi lowered her eyes and thought about it seriously. It was indeed not difficult. At the beginning, she just didn't want to use her supernatural powers so she walked.
"Outside the circle, there's a very beautiful... zombie?" Si Qi shook his head again. "It doesn't seem to be a zombie. She's different from zombies. She can't move around freely and is trapped there."
"She said her name was Guan Xuan, and her family was all in that piece. I think it was the pieces of meat on the ground. She was the only one in the family who was still alive, because she was the only one who had rotted away, leaving only a skeleton."
"Also, after entering that space, my wound stopped bleeding and hurt. It became still."
"Or to put it another way, everything in the dimension Guan Xuan is in is dead, including the trees, the clouds, the water in the sky. They are forever stuck at a certain point in the past. Anyone who strays into this dimension, whether human or zombie, will die like a frog in boiling water."
"It is this space that makes the boundary between humans and zombies clear."
"Also... it seems that the zombies can also evolve. High-level zombies can become very similar to humans and even have consciousness."
"Actually, there's something a little weird... that girl's energy is limited. She should have fallen into a deep sleep to recover her energy. When she needed to recover her energy, she couldn't maintain that space. After her energy ran out, my injuries became even more serious."
Si Luoheng's brows furrowed slightly, and he slowly became serious. "If one day her energy completely disappears, will there be a fierce battle between zombies and humans for their homeland?"
"There is no room for two overlords in one world, and there are not many people with special abilities."
Luo Fenghe paused, then looked at the two people on the screen hesitantly. "Isn't it true that advanced zombies will regain consciousness? It's only been three years since they became zombies. They won't wipe out humans, will they? Perhaps we can have a cooperative relationship."
Si Luoheng shook his head: "If that were the case, they wouldn't have rushed towards Si Qi in such large numbers after Guan Xuan's energy was exhausted."
"I will go out of the circle in a few days. Sometimes things can be discussed after I come back." Si Luoheng made the decision calmly, without any childishness of a 19-year-old.
Si Ruxu raised her head for the first time and looked at Si Luoheng, "I'll go with you."
"No need, sister, you know I can handle it myself."
Upon hearing this, Si Ruxu lowered her eyes and said nothing.
Luo Fenghe found it strange. "What can you handle? I don't think I've heard that you have special abilities. Did you forget yourself when you injected the virus?"
"You talk too much." Si Luoheng glanced at Luo Fenghe coldly.
"Is there anything else?" Si Qi interrupted the conversation, his eyes lightly falling on Si Ruxu who was silent.
Si Ruxu seemed to take a deep breath before looking into Si Qi's eyes. "One more thing."
"Hmm?" Si Qi actually just wanted to ask politely and then end the topic naturally.
"The situation in the apocalypse is becoming increasingly complicated. The institute lacks a good security system and is far from other bases. It would be dangerous to continue here."
"So, we thought we'd move to your base. On the one hand, it would ensure safety, and on the other hand, it would allow for better communication."
After saying this, Si Ruxu's eyes seemed to be filled with caution, as if she was afraid that Si Qi would refuse.
Si Qi turned his head to look at Luo Fenghe: "Is it okay?"
"As long as you don't mind."
"Okay, then you guys move in."
It seemed like he was just dealing with a trivial matter, and Si Qi didn't even give her any extra emotions.
On the contrary, she was graceful and elegant.
Si Ruxu stood there in a daze. She had prepared herself many times to be rejected, humiliated, and called a piece of cake. But when the other party agreed nonchalantly, she felt inexplicably and even more uncomfortable.
Therefore, what is more desperate than hatred is not caring.
Si Qi didn't hate her, nor did he care about her.
She was free, completely. No one would write down her favorite gift just because she mentioned it casually, no one would wait for her at home, burdening her with coming home late, and no one would just follow her gaze, gently and indulgently.
She couldn't seem to hear what Si Qi said next. It seemed like he was asking if he could hang up. She was a little sleepy. Si Luoheng waited for a long time, but didn't hear Si Ruxu's answer. She could only nod.
The screen was instantly cut off and there was no response.
Only the shining metal remained in the research institute, and this icy chill seemed to linger in her heart, freezing her blood over and over again.
Si Ruxu gently held the bracelet in her hand, and then slowly placed it on her chest, as if this could relieve the dull pain as if a piece of her heart was missing.
No one will use the other bracelet that is paired with it.
Si Luoheng leaned beside him, raising his eyes lazily.
The lights in the research institute were clearly very bright, as bright as day, but she always felt that a part of Si Ruxu was attached to the shadow, as if she had lost a part of her soul.
Suddenly, she chuckled and said jokingly: "Sister, I thought you were indestructible."
The sister who didn't cry when her parents left, the sister who was isolated and helpless, and never gave in to the rejection and bullying of countless people with special abilities, and the sister who came out alone and broke up with her family, refusing all arrangements.
All the past is buried in the shadow of that half.
After removing the halo of memory, Si Luoheng realized that Si Ruxu had lost everything a long time ago.
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The author has something to say: I will make up for the two thousand words I didn’t finish writing tomorrow [burst crying][burst crying][burst crying]
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