They were a group of lovely children. In Zhou Quan's eyes, they were young, energetic, and fearless.
In his memory, he had seen too many people and too many things.
There are good people, and there are selfish people; there are evil people, and there are people who live a life of ignominy; and there are people who reveal their ugliest side when facing death.
However, these were the first time he had ever encountered such pure and lovely children.
He goes to teach them at the designated time every day, and leaves as soon as he finishes teaching.
He still needs to go out on missions. He wants to hunt many wild beasts, obtain many mutated beast cores, and help those children improve their strength.
However, just as he excitedly returned to the base with a large pile of mutated beast cores he had obtained, intending to give them to the children, he overheard two children talking around a corner.
They were whispering that Mr. Luo was like a heartless beast; when he looked at them, his students, there was never a trace of emotion in his eyes.
He even felt afraid, thinking that Teacher Luo might suddenly turn into a monster and eat them at any moment.
Zhou Quan could feel his body instantly turn cold and stiff in his dream.
He looked down at the dozen or so crystal cores in the bag he was carrying, and slowly disappeared from the spot.
It turns out that not everyone here can accept me.
It turns out that the loneliness he felt before was real; now, that feeling still lingers around him.
Even with so many people around him, he still felt lonely.
From then on, he continued to teach them as before, but he never tried to show any care or affection for these children again.
He remained the same lonely and solitary man. Aside from teaching them, he would constantly take on missions and go out to complete them.
He only found a sense of joy and pleasure in living when he personally killed those mutated beasts.
He didn't remember how long he taught them; he only remembered that a little girl named Li Mai was the most studious and often came to ask him questions.
Having overheard what the two children had said, he didn't dare to have too much contact with the little girl, lest she misunderstand and think he would suddenly eat people. He would simply explain the problem to the little girl and then leave.
The child would always politely call him Teacher Luo and would always politely say thank you to him.
She was probably the only student he could remember among all his students!
But that's all. Those past memories make him afraid to easily give his heart to others, whether it's friendship or other emotions. He doesn't dare to, and doesn't want to.
His memories shifted again, and he accepted a mission to eliminate mutated beasts.
He went there, and only when he got there did he realize that there were not only mutated beasts, but also mutated zombies, and even a divine beast that had lost its intelligence after mutation, a Qilin!
Even though the divine beast had lost its intelligence, its fighting power was still beyond his ability to defeat, and he ultimately died in that battle.
Because he went alone, without any companions, before he lost consciousness, the claw of the Qilin pierced through his chest, and his heart was ripped out, dripping with blood.
When he regained consciousness, he had become a ghost. He saw the Qilin devour his body, including the crystal cores he was carrying in a bag.
Then, after the Qilin ate his body, it actually regained its senses.
After its initial confusion, the Qilin seemed to remember what it had done: it had wiped out all the mutated beasts and zombies in that mountainous area, and then disappeared on the spot.
And it seems that it never saw itself transformed into a ghost from beginning to end.
After that, in Zhou Quan's dream, he became a ghost and floated around until he floated back to the base.
Strangely, none of the many superhumans in the base noticed me.
He went back to his room and checked; his things were still the same as when he left.
He also went to the classroom to check, and the students were attending classes as before.
He disappeared, and no one was saddened by his disappearance.
Luo Ying thought silently that it was time for her to leave.
Before leaving, he wanted to see the little girl and see if she had learned the answer to the question she had asked him last time.
However, he noticed that after the girl returned to her dormitory, she took out a notebook and wrote something down.
"Today is the ninth day since Teacher Luo left. His missions have never lasted this long before." After she finished writing, she muttered to herself for a while.
After sitting for a while, she suddenly packed a simple bag, went out, locked the door, and headed towards the mission building.
She accepted the mission to hunt mutated beasts and left the base alone.
He had been following her and overheard her asking the person who issued the mission about the location of her last mission.
After she went out, she headed in that direction.
For the next month, Luo Ying followed Li Mai. She went from initial hope to disappointment at not being able to find her teacher anywhere, and then to heartbroken tears when she thought he might be dead. Gradually, she also felt some emotion in Li Mai's heart.
It turns out that I am not completely destitute in this world; at least one student still remembers me.
A month later, Li Mai returned to the base, handed in her mission and crystal core, received her own supplies, attended classes for a few more days, and then went out on another mission.
For the next year, she was constantly on the go, doing tasks while searching for Teacher Luo.
Luo Ying was certain that she was looking for her because every time she went there with hope and left in disappointment, she would sit on a large rock and cry her heart out, murmuring for a while how much she liked Teacher Luo's words.
Luo Ying doesn't understand relationships, but she has seen couples between men and women in the base.
A year later, he realized that she liked Luo Ying and he liked her.
Unbeknownst to him, during the year or so he spent with her, he also fell in love with her, with the girl who was single-mindedly searching for him and who was single-mindedly loving him.
He learned what feelings and love were.
However, all he could do was follow her, unable to speak to her, and unable to save her when the mutated beasts attacked her.
He just watched helplessly as she earned the reputation of a female warrior for herself in that year.
Everyone else thought she was working so hard for the crystal cores and supplies, but only he knew that she was going out to find herself.
He tried everything to leave her a message, telling her that he was dead and that she should stop looking for him. However, she received no hints from him and stubbornly continued to search for him.
One day, Li Mai and her comrades encountered a horde of mutated zombies and then a horde of mutated beasts. He watched helplessly as she was injured and as she fought with all her might to complete the mission with her comrades. But the moment she turned around, her teammate attacked her from behind, leaving her completely unprepared.
He wanted to rush over to save him, but unexpectedly, the next moment his own vision went black and he was plunged into darkness.
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