The ground trembled, and the "steel behemoth" beneath the dark clouds appeared tiny in the endless clouds.
After the tremor, vines several meters thick sprouted from the soil, and the earth cracked inch by inch, with large cracks giving the whole world a sense of collapse.
The wildly surging vines completely blocked out the sky, like a giant python swallowing the heavens. Buildings were entangled and torn apart, and the painful cries of people could be heard from a great distance.
Ruan Qingan stood there in a daze, his leaden-gray eyes widening slightly.
Damn it!
She quickly regained her senses and ran towards the Third Human Base, but before she could take more than a few steps—
The action team of superhumans who were escorting large numbers of ordinary people away stopped her at this moment, almost surrounding Ruan Qing'an and not giving her an inch.
Ruan Qing'an's face darkened: "Get out of the way, I don't want to hurt you."
"It really won't work, Miss. This is Mr. Zhou's special instruction."
The newly appointed team leader had a long face, looking like he was about to cry: "Before he left, Mr. Zhou told me that if anything happened at the base, he would definitely not let you go back."
Upon hearing this, Ruan Qing'an pursed her lips. Zhou Ziqi, that scoundrel, probably had already anticipated this scene, yet he still had people stop her and transport the ordinary people who had no power to resist out.
Thinking of this, Ruan Qing'an couldn't help but close his eyes and take a deep breath: "Move aside, Mr. Zhou is still in the base."
"No, absolutely not, Miss, Mr. Zhou will not allow it!"
"you--"
Ruan Qing'an even drew his knife; the slightly deflected blade, sharp and menacing, carried a deadly threat.
Even so, the superhumans in the action team refused to budge an inch. Some even closed their eyes in fear, yet they still stood in front of Ruan Qing'an.
However, this stalemate was only brief. Soon, the direction of the base changed again. The surging mutated plants blocked almost all the paths, making it impossible for her to get there in a short time.
Finally, Ruan Qing'an sighed and sheathed his long sword: "Move aside, I'm not going."
The superhumans looked at each other, and only after confirming that Ruan Qing'an really wasn't going back did they make way for him. Ruan Qing'an looked up and gazed at the base in the distance.
She couldn't help but smile bitterly: "Zhou Ziqi, you're something else... No wonder you didn't stop me from leaving the base to help. You probably already knew that things would change so quickly that I wouldn't even have time to get back."
Zhou Ziqi was always like this.
When she left, he said he would kill her with his own hands—but in the end, he didn't.
When the base was destroyed, he said he brought her back so that they could die together—but he still sent people to stop her from going back.
Ruan Qing'an took a deep breath and half-closed her eyes: "That bastard is still stubborn even after he's cremated."
Please, please don't let anything happen.
...
Meanwhile, at the Third Human Base.
Zombies besieged the city, mutated plants surged, and the superhumans struggled to cope, while Zhou Ziqi stood calmly at the highest point of the research institute.
He seemed to become ethereal, appearing and disappearing in space. All his spatial abilities were mobilized at this moment, and his narrow eyes calmly observed the whole situation.
When any of the ability users could no longer resist, Zhou Ziqi's spatial ability would fluctuate, immediately opening a space behind that user and pulling them directly back to the research institute for treatment.
Despite this, the defenses of the Third Human Base continued to crumble as too many superhumans were transformed back into zombies, and even mutated plants became deadly weapons.
Zhou Ziqi narrowed his eyes slightly: "This can't go on any longer..."
Just then, the mutated plants gathered together, forming a huge sphere, which was then sent down from the sky.
All the attacking zombies and mutated plants stopped at this moment, as if welcoming their master.
Zhou Ziqi also raised his head: "Eleven."
"..."
The giant sphere formed by the vines was broken open, and Eleven appeared inside, carried by the mutated plant, and brought to a high point in the research institute, where she faced Zhou Ziqi.
Two men with strikingly similar features faced each other, as if this battle was destined to be theirs. They clearly came from the same consciousness and had a symbiotic relationship, yet they had become sworn enemies.
Love is a twisted, insane curse, a possessive force that cannot be shared even with the same person.
Shiyi looked at Zhou Ziqi with his dark green eyes, cold and indifferent: "She chose you, but clearly my past with her is the most significant."
"Really? I'm honored."
"So I will kill you."
Zhou Ziqi was not surprised. He glanced at the shattered base and sneered, "I am the same, but now I want to know more about the meaning of all this you've done."
Shi Yi paused, not even glancing at the chaos on the ground: "It's meaningless—I mean, the whole world is meaningless to me, yet it's somehow connected to her."
"So I have no choice but to sever this connection. If possible, I would prefer to use this world as my and Qing'an's grave. This is a decision I made after thinking about it for a long time."
Eleven lowered her head, a smile finally appearing on her lips: "'Death seals love, and time and rivals can no longer steal it.' I agree with this statement from you humans."
Zhou Ziqi's eyes darkened. He stared intently at Shi Yi and finally saw the expression in those dark green eyes—self-destruction and suicide for love.
"You want to... kill her?"
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