The rain poured down, covering the entire world.
After the rain stopped, people were amazed to find that the zombie virus had suddenly disappeared.
Along with them, all sorts of supernatural abilities also disappeared.
C-base has become the most powerful regime in the world.
Those in power kept their promise and re-established order, and humanity slowly returned to the state it was in before the apocalypse.
There was one person, however, whom we can no longer find.
"General, do you think Professor Chu, being so delicate and precious, would come to a place like this?"
David watched as Si Beiting drilled a hole with a machine and voiced his objection.
This is Frontier District 17, the coldest place in the world.
They are currently located on the highest peak in District 17.
Si Beiting turned around and glanced at him, telling him to shut up.
"General, it's so cold!"
David wanted to cry.
After that day, they spotted Wei Yan's helicopter about 100 kilometers away.
The plane was intact, but the two people on board had disappeared.
Si Beiting firmly believed they were still alive, and since they were never home, he searched the world for them, braving all sorts of hardships.
And here they are, smashing the glacier.
David and the others were worried and took turns following Si Beiting around.
He was just unlucky; every time it was his turn, the environment was always terrible.
Si Beiting is still drilling wells over there.
David resignedly got up from the ground: "You rest, I'll take over."
Si Beiting turned off the drill: "That's enough."
Beneath the thick layer of ice lies a cave.
David was amazed: "How did you know there was a hole here?"
The inner walls of this cave are very smooth, indicating that it was carved by hand.
"Holy crap, who is this? Are they crazy? Why go through all this trouble to come here and do this?"
David curiously touched this and that, and then went into an ice room.
Then, a scream pierced the sky: "Aaaaaah! General! There's a corpse here!"
Si Beiting stood behind him with a dark expression: "David, when did you secretly get sex reassignment surgery? You're making such a freakish noise. If you keep doing that, snow will fall on your face."
David, trembling, pointed at the person lying on an ice bed: "You, you, you, didn't you see?"
Si Beiting: "I saw it, and then what?"
Aren't you scared?
"Professor Chu took away the superpower, not the courage."
Si Beiting took out a roll of tape from his pocket and, while David wasn't looking, sealed his mouth shut.
The world is finally quiet.
Si Beiting took a deep breath and walked hesitantly to the ice bed.
The person lying on the ice bed was wearing a green sundress with small yellow flowers, and her black hair covered the entire bed.
She placed her hands together on her abdomen, a simple bracelet adorning her slender, white fingers.
"Professor Chu!"
David tore off the tape and stepped forward to help the person up.
"Don't touch her," Si Beiting stopped him.
"No, it's so cold, please put a coat on her..."
She's not here.
"Is she still alive...? She's not here, what does that mean?"
Si Beiting lowered his head and looked at Chu Xinxin's face for a few long times before finally looking away.
Then, he found another ring on Chu Xinxin's hand.
Si Beiting picked up the ring, turned around and glanced at David: "David, I have some bad news to tell you."
"What?"
"You may have to go down the mountain by yourself."
David's face immediately turned horrified: "General, what are you trying to do? Are you planning to commit suicide for love? But I feel like Professor Chu is still breathing..."
"She's not dead, of course she's breathing."
David was confused. One minute she was saying "She's not here," the next she was breathing. "Boss, can you speak in a way I can understand?"
Si Beiting: "I'm leaving."
"ha?"
"If you want to know anything, you can go to the First Prison and ask Ugan."
David was still completely confused: "Aren't you coming back with me?"
Si Beiting shook his head: "Go back and find a girlfriend, get married and have children. Stop thinking about my Professor Chu all the time. Oh, and please pass this message on to Wei Yanlai'er Alice as well."
David thought Si Beiting had gone mad. What was he trying to do?
Si Beiting patted his shoulder and then slipped the ring onto his own finger.
The next second, his and Chu Xinxin's bodies vanished instantly.
David plopped down on the ground: "Holy crap!"
......
First Prison.
They didn't execute Ugan, because death would have ended everything, and only living could atone for his sins.
When David saw him again, he had become a thin, frail old man, covered in mud and scars.
Everyone hates him, and no one will let him have an easy time.
David moved everyone out of the office and turned off the surveillance cameras.
Then he said, "The general and Professor Chu disappeared right in front of me."
Ugan looked up, and David realized he was blind: "Wasn't Professor Chu long ago...?"
"The general and I found her in an ice cave in District 17."
Ugan looked somewhat lost, as if he were reminiscing.
"In the blink of an eye, they were gone."
David stared intently at Ugan, not missing a single expression on his face.
Ugan paused for a moment, then muttered to himself, "So that's how it is. So they don't belong to this world either..."
"What did you say?"
Suddenly, tears welled up in Ugan's eyes. He said, "David, do you know about higher civilizations? Do you know about many similar existences besides the world we know? Do you know about... the system?"
He said, "I was originally just an ordinary person..."
Ugan was an ordinary man, and he thought he would live his life like this until he was diagnosed with cancer.
He was only thirteen years old, and he had no time to enjoy anything before he had to say goodbye to this world.
Ugan lay in his hospital bed and saw through the crack in the door that wasn't closed properly the agreement his parents had signed to give up treatment. He felt utterly hopeless.
Then, that night, a voice echoed in his mind, saying, "Hello, I am the Eternal System. Do you wish to attain immortality?"
The system told him that there was a cure on a glacier.
Ugan persuaded his parents to take him there, where he found young Chu Xinxin. He brought her back, and following the system's instructions, she drank the "medicine," which miraculously cured her cancer.
Uganda is also increasingly relying on systems.
The later zombie virus was also developed under the system's instructions.
He didn't have that much money, so the system told him to take the "medicine" to a wealthy man at the time, who was the city lord, for sponsorship.
The city lord was also suffering from a terminal illness. The two hit it off and began recruiting talent to conduct large-scale research and development.
But then one day, the system suddenly disappeared.
Then the apocalypse occurred, and Ugan never heard the system's voice again.
"If I hadn't lost the system, you would have been trampled under my feet long ago!"
Ugan remained unrepentant, so David had him taken back and then sat alone in the interrogation room for a long time.
In the darkness, the guard at the gate seemed to hear something—
"General, Professor Chu, thank you."
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