Ye Xiao looked down and saw Lin Tantan's movements. Seeing the dazed expression on her face, his eyes darkened. He hugged her tighter and whispered in her ear, "Did you see that?"
Lin Tan Tan: "What?"
"When that zombie's head flew down just now, I noticed something was wrong with your expression. It seemed to be facing you head-on. Did you see its eyes, right?"
Lin Tantan held the warm little hamster in his hands and was silent for a moment before nodding, "Yeah."
Ye Xiao held her shoulders with a bit of force, but his tone sounded relaxed: "It's okay. Weren't your symptoms milder than theirs before?"
Lin Tan Tan nodded, but she still felt a little heavy in her heart. She thought that the reason her symptoms were mild was because the distance between them was too far, and the distance between her and those eyes just now was no more than ten meters.
She exhaled and laughed, "That zombie is already dead. I don't believe I can be entangled to death by a dead zombie. Oh, it left this for you."
She gave Ye Xiao the wind crystal core that looked magnificent even in the dark. Ye Xiao took it. It was hard to imagine that the zombies were so ugly, but the crystal core in their minds was so beautiful.
Lin Tan Tan whispered again, "That zombie should be a dual-element zombie. One ability is wind-element, and the other is a nightmare-inducing ability. I thought the second ability would be stronger, but looking at its crystal core, its main ability is still wind-element."
After thinking for a while, he said, "So many zombies died, and we didn't even pick up the crystal cores. It's such a pity. When the zombie tide is over, scavenging will definitely be a very popular profession. Then I will come out and look for zombie corpses to dig out crystal cores."
The crystal cores in zombies' brains wouldn't disappear even if they weren't immediately removed after their "death." But if they didn't pick them up, they would be given away to others, potentially even to mutant plants and animals, creating an enemy for humanity. Lin Tantan felt a pang of pain as he thought of the hundreds of thousands of zombies that had perished in the two seas of fire during the day.
Knowing that she was trying to change the subject, Ye Xiao smiled cooperatively and said, "Don't you have enough crystal cores?"
"Then I can't always ask you and Bai Cheng for help. I use up my crystal core very quickly."
The more I think about it, the more I feel it is necessary to clean up this wasteland. When the time comes, I will send all the little guys under my command to help dig.
Ye Xiao stroked her hair and said, "Then you have to take this little guy with you, otherwise it might not fit." He poked the sleeping hamster and asked, "How much space does it have?"
"It's gotten a bit bigger recently. It's two cubes now, right?"
The two of them talked in a low voice, and many other people were also talking in low voices. Many people did not sleep, especially those who were infected. They did not dare to sleep at all and relied on chatting to divert their attention and drive away sleepiness and panic.
But as the night deepened, the supermarket fell silent. Lin Tantan's head began to nod, and Ye Xiao felt distressed: "Why don't you get some sleep?"
Lin Tantan immediately woke up, shook his head, rubbed his eyes, looked at a figure in the dark, and said in a hoarse voice: "What time is it?"
"A quarter past midnight."
Lin Tan Tan said "oh" weakly. After a long time, only half of the night had passed, but it felt like a long time had passed.
She stretched her legs and moved her shoulders, feeling a little tired. It was really hard to sit there for so long. She stared into the darkness and said listlessly, "I don't want to sleep."
Ye Xiao frowned: "I can't stay awake all the time." She hadn't had a good rest recently and she had worked hard just now.
Lin Tantan said, "Maybe I'm not tired enough. If I'm tired, I'll fall asleep." She yawned and said, "Oh, so boring."
Ye Xiao was silent for a moment, then pulled her up and said, "Come with me."
Lin Tan Tan followed him curiously, and the two of them quietly left from the back door of the supermarket. The supermarket was on the third floor of a shopping mall. There was a staircase not far from the back door. Ye Xiao turned on the flashlight and took her up the stairs.
The corridor was covered in bloodstains, which were very old. The smell had faded, but it was still a little scary to look at. There was also a lot of garbage on the ground.
Arriving at the rooftop, Lin Tantan felt much more energetic after being blown by the night wind. He looked up at the sky. The moon was tilted, but the moonlight was still bright. In the dark night sky, the dark clouds had dispersed at some point, and the stars were exceptionally bright and twinkling.
From afar, one could hear the faint roars of zombies, or occasionally one or two explosions accompanied by flashes of fire. It must be that the zombies had stepped into a trap.
Lin Tan Tan: "Why are we here?"
Ye Xiao said, "When I couldn't sleep or calm down before, I would come out to train. After training, I would be tired and sleepy. I don't know if this will work for you."
Lin Tan Tan was immediately eager to try: "What kind of training?" Is it some kind of extremely powerful and passionate military boxing or fighting technique?
Ye Xiao smiled.
A moment later, Lin Tantan stepped on a piece of earth to cushion her feet and lay on the edge of the rooftop. A long sniper rifle was placed on it. She put her hand on it, turned on the night vision goggles, and aimed at the zombies on the street.
The zombie was imprisoned by Ye Xiao using his supernatural powers. The zombie that was out for a walk in the middle of the night was turned into a static target.
But even a static target is not so easy to hit.
Lin Tantan put his finger on the trigger and pulled it lightly. With a puff, there was a slight sound of a bullet being fired from the gun. From over a hundred meters away, the bullet hit the zombie two or three meters away.
She frowned, her right shoulder slightly numb from the recoil of the gun. She re-aimed and fired again. This time the bullet flew over the zombie's head and hit the ground.
Ye Xiao said: "Don't worry, take your time, adjust your breathing, and don't be distracted."
Lin Tan Tan calmed down, aimed longer this time, and finally hit... the zombie's stomach.
Well, this is also progress.
Then a shot to the shoulder, and finally a shot to the head.
She wiped the sweat from her head: "Really, I can aim very accurately with my superpowers, but with guns..." She looked at the black and domineering heavy sniper rifle and shook her head. She couldn't control this thing well.
Ye Xiao asked: "Are you coming again?"
"Come!"
Then Ye Xiao picked a new zombie. This time the distance was a bit far, and Lin Tantan still had to fire several shots before hitting it.
The next one was even further away.
Anyway, all the zombies within sight on the rooftop were affected, and of course the bullets were also affected. Bullets are very precious things nowadays, and only rich people can waste them like this.
This shooting training lasted for more than two hours, until all the nearby zombies were killed and no new zombies appeared for a while. Lin Tantan stopped shooting, and then she found that her whole body was sore and her head was dizzy. This was the reaction after a high concentration of mental power. She yawned repeatedly, and felt even more sleepy after the alertness passed.
She was so sleepy that she forgot all her resistance to sleep and just wanted a bed for her to lie down on.
Ye Xiao was very considerate and picked her up. Instead of going down to the supermarket, he found a clean place to sit down, let her sit on him, and asked the little hamster to spit out a blanket and wrap her up.
"Go to sleep, I'm here." He said softly. Lin Tan rubbed his shoulder, nodded softly, closed his eyes, and fell asleep in a few seconds.
The little hamster, who had been woken up several times, looked here and there, crawled into the blanket, found a comfortable place and went back to sleep.
Ye Xiao glanced at his watch, memorized the time, and then watched her embarrass herself. Five minutes, ten minutes, no response, twenty minutes, thirty minutes, and she was also peaceful. Ye Xiao gradually felt relieved.
Just when he was relieved, Lin Tantan's cerebral cortex gradually began to become active. About half an hour's rest made all the neurons refreshed, and they had the energy to start playing tricks again.
Lin Tantan opened her eyes in a daze, and everything around her was pitch black. She was dazed for a long time, and felt a stream of cold water rushing past her. She also felt a clear sense of suspension, as if she was in the water, and swollen and rotten corpses were flowing past her eyes. She gradually realized, ah, she was in the water.
In the river!
In the river where Ye Xiao fell!
She began to paddle hard, but the river water was like sticky paste, making her movements very difficult. Even if she used all her strength, she could only swim a short distance.
She began to panic, become anxious, and was filled with fear. She turned her head around to look, but she could not see anything except three or two horrifying corpses.
She cried out silently, exerting even greater strength. Suddenly, the river water began to flow, no longer a paste, but a real stream. She paddled desperately, but she couldn't swim. Right, she could use her superpowers... Hey, what were superpowers? Right, superpowers were the energy in her body.
She tried her best to mobilize her special powers, and after a long struggle, she was finally able to swim smoothly. She left her original position and moved forward quickly like a fish. She left those terrible corpses behind and looked for Ye Xiao. However, she only saw darkness, nothing, no one anywhere, only endless darkness and suffocation, as if she was the only one left in the world.
She cried in confusion and fear.
She stopped crying and tried to float upwards. She didn't know how long she floated before she finally surfaced. However, she only saw a dark and distorted sky. The river was so vast that there was no end in sight. It was exactly the same in any direction. She still couldn't find anything.
She cried even more fearfully. She called Ye Xiao's name, but there was no response. She dived under the water again. Everything was dark. There was nothing, nothing, nothing!
Ye Xiao felt the person in his arms stiffen up, struggling slightly with her arms and legs. Her face was tightly wrinkled, her expression sad and painful, and she even started to cry softly. He checked the time. It was only thirty-two minutes. He called out her name: "Tan Tan, wake up! Tan Tan!"
Lin Tantan suddenly heard Ye Xiao's voice in the darkness. It was him, he was calling her!
She became excited, and her mind cleared for a moment. Yes, she was dreaming, and she just needed to wake up! She floated upward again. The sound was getting closer and clearer. She laughed, but when she surfaced, the whole scene changed again.
No longer was there a dark sky, no longer a vast expanse of water. Before her was a giant screen, playing a video. She saw a man standing amidst a tide of corpses, smiling, closing his eyes, and then his entire body exploded. She stared blankly, tears suddenly streaming down her face. The young nurse beside her frantically wiped her face, "Hey, Doctor Lin, don't cry! This is all fake. It's a movie, made up by people."
She pinched the tissue, feeling extremely upset. "But this kind of thing has happened in history. I... No, I have to go find him! No, I should be right next to him! Why am I back again?"
She looked at herself in disbelief. A hospital screening room? How could she be here? Wasn't she already dead? She wanted to run out to find someone, but she couldn't feel her legs. She saw a wheelchair nearby. That's right, she couldn't stand up!
Her legs were well-developed and looked healthy, but she couldn't feel them, nor could she control them. Even after channeling her earth-based abilities into her legs, she still couldn't stand up. She knew that people with multiple abilities would have their share of issues, and she had accepted them and stopped struggling. But now, she hated her disability so much because she couldn't stand up to find Ye Xiao!
She loaded herself onto a wheelchair and pushed it out. People were coming and going in the hospital. Everyone smiled and called her "Doctor Lin" when they saw her. She frantically grabbed them and asked, "Where's Ye Xiao? Where is Ye Xiao?"
They tilted their heads, looking puzzled: "Who is Ye Xiao?"
"Ah, Ye Xiao, you're that famous person in history, right? Can I find you a biography of him?"
“There are a lot of them.”
"Movies, do you want to watch a movie? There's a new one that was recently remade."
They were talking at once, but Lin Tan Tan just kept shaking his head.
No, no, no, I don’t want to watch the movie, I don’t want to see it, I just want to see him in person, I want to feel him alive, stay by his side, and be able to touch him anytime!
She pushed her wheelchair around everywhere. There were so many people around, but none of them was the person she was looking for.
"Get out of my way, everyone!" she shouted, and then everyone disappeared, leaving only her and an empty hospital. She suddenly became even more panicked. She looked everywhere, pushing her wheelchair around, but found nothing. She was even trapped in the hospital and couldn't find a way out.
She suddenly looked up and saw the huge electronic clock on the wall with 2331 written on it. She froze.
Yes, this is the year 2331, three hundred years later, and he was three hundred years ago. There are more than three hundred years between them. She trembled all over, and felt a huge tearing pain in her heart. The supernatural powers in her body began to operate uncontrollably. She suddenly had a splitting headache and her body began to spasm.
Ye Xiao found that after he called Tan Tan's name, her expression relaxed and she stopped crying. Although she didn't wake up, she looked calm. He breathed a sigh of relief, but not long after, she continued to struggle, as if she was very anxious, and finally her body began to spasm.
He was startled and continued to call her, but this time it was no use. The little hamster crawled out from under the blanket, crawling around them anxiously and helplessly, chirping non-stop.
Ye Xiao shouted to it: "Water, give me water!"
The little hamster quickly spit out several bottles of water, and Ye Xiao unscrewed them and poured them on Lin Tantan's face.
In the hospital, Lin Tantan's body was convulsing. She felt the same pain as when she first learned and practiced her supernatural powers. It was as if a knife was cutting inside her body. The pain was so severe that she couldn't scream. Her body seemed to be stiff and she couldn't move at all.
She fell down from the wheelchair and cried out in pain: "Teacher, teacher, I feel so uncomfortable, I can't hold on any longer."
A gentle and loving woman's voice sounded: "Tan Tan, do you want to live? If you want to live, you have to hold on. Think about your parents. They are very worried about you."
Lin Tan Tan still shook his head and said, "I can't do it, I can't do it."
In the excruciating pain, her mind gradually collapsed. The woman's voice became tense and stern: "Tan Tan, don't fall asleep. If you fall asleep, you won't wake up! Tan Tan, you have to learn to control the energy in your body. Tan Tan, cheer up and don't give up!"
Lin Tantan gradually fell into unconsciousness, and at this moment, a basin of water was suddenly poured on her face.
Ye Xiao poured the entire bottle of water onto Lin Tantan's face. Her body shook, then she collapsed. She still didn't wake up, and his expression became more solemn.
In her dream, Lin Tantan suddenly sat up from the water, gasping for air. She stared at everything in front of her in amazement. This was her personal hospital room, and she was lying in a nutrition tank, connected to an advanced version of the game. The water on her face was the nutrient solution. Everything was familiar to her, but why was she here? Huh? Shouldn't she be here? Oh, right? Where had she been a moment ago, and what was she doing?
My mind was blank, I couldn't remember anything, and around me, my parents and younger brother all gathered around me: "Tan Tan, you're awake!" "Sister, you're finally awake!"
They were extremely surprised.
Lin Tan looked at them in surprise: "What's wrong with me?"
Mother Lin wiped away her tears, and Father Lin said with a heavy yet joyful tone, "Your superpowers have collapsed. The dean said you might not live long. We know you have unfulfilled wishes and want to see your idol, so we applied to the government to design a full-system experience game for you. How is it? Did you meet Ye Xiao? Did you have fun?"
Lin Tantan was stunned, and then his face gradually turned pale: "Holographic, experience... game?"
Father Lin said, "Yeah, don't you like Ye Xiao the most? The dean said that if you're lucky, under the stimulation of the game, you might have a chance to recover. Look, your superpowers have returned! Tan Tan, you survived, which is really great. This time, your parents and your brother were really scared."
Lin Tantan couldn't hear what he was saying at all, his teeth chattering. "Game? How can it be a game? Everything is fake? How is that possible?"
She looked at the familiar room in horror, as if she had seen a ghost: "I really saw Ye Xiao, he was alive! We were in love, he said he liked me, and I liked him too, and we were together! ... He's still fine! He's not dead!"
The three members of the Lin family looked at her in surprise: "Tan Tan/Sister, what are you talking about?"
Lin Tan Tan climbed out of the game cabin regardless of everything. She overturned the entire bookshelf, and all the books hit her face and body, but she didn't feel any pain. She searched in the pile of books, opened the history book, and opened Ye Xiao's personal biography, and the same records were there.
He died in 2026 at the age of 34.
Lin Tantan burst into tears. How could he not have changed? How could he still be exactly the same? The time of his death, the reason for his death, his life experiences, nothing had changed at all. Even the scandal with Bai Cheng hadn't diminished at all.
Nothing had changed for her. No, she had never been in the past. She had never met Ye Xiao. Everything was just a game! It was all fake!
She held her head and cried, then screamed hysterically, hoarsely, using all her strength, as if this could change everything.
Her parents looked at her in horror and called the doctor in, who held her down and gave her a sedative.
Ye Xiao held down Lin Tantan, who was struggling and crying violently, fearing that she would hurt herself. He called out her name in fear, and finally shouted in a stern voice: "Lin Tantan!"
Lin Tantan was shocked and opened his eyes suddenly.
Above his head was a starry night sky and a bright moon that was about to set. Under the moonlight was a familiar face, looking at him with worry, anxiety, heartache and fear. Everything seemed so real.
Tears welled up in her eyes, wetting her already tear-stained face again. She rushed forward and hugged his neck tightly: "Ye Xiao! Ye Xiao!"
Ye Xiao hugged her and patted her back: "It's okay, it's okay, it's my fault, I shouldn't have forced you to sleep, I'm here."
Lin Tan Tan kept calling his name, her voice full of fear and panic. That dream was too real, so real that it seemed as if the present moment was fake. She was completely confused and just wanted to hug this person tightly. No matter whether it was real or fake, she would not let go.
She cried and said, "I almost lost you. They said you were fake and everything was fake. How could it be fake? I really found you. I am really with you. It's not a game. This is all real, right? I will change everything!"
She was incoherent, but Ye Xiao understood. The content of her nightmare was that she couldn't find him. Someone said he was fake?
His heart felt like it was hit by a huge rock, sore and painful. He comforted her softly: "Of course I'm real. If you don't believe me, touch me. It's warm and real, right?"
Lin Tantan held him tightly, refusing to let go. She buried her face in his neck, sobbing softly. Still in shock, she murmured, "I don't know. That dream was too real. Maybe one day, someone will wake me up, take me out of the game room, and tell me that this is all just a game, all fiction."
She looked at the rooftop under the moonlight and felt neurotically that all of this was made up of a mass of data.
The holographic game three hundred years later was so real. She had played it before. It was like a brand new and real world.
Because I know, I am more afraid.
She suddenly raised her head, looked at the sky, looked at the moon that was tilted to the horizon, and even felt that there were a pair of eyes hidden there, watching everything that was happening here behind the screen.
Because this is just a game! Can't all players see everything that happens in the game?
Her teeth began to chatter.
Ye Xiao noticed her extreme uneasiness, pulled her away, held her tear-soaked face, and gently wiped away the embarrassed tears on her face. Then, under her gaze, he slightly raised his chin and gently kissed her brow tenderly and cherishingly: "It's real, I am real, and everything here is real, do you feel it?"
Lin Tan looked at him steadily, looked at his gentle eyes, looked at his sincere expression, looked at his determined and compassionate look, suddenly pounced on him, kissed his lips, and threw him to the ground.
The little hamster that was clinging to Ye Xiao's arm and clothes jumped away in a hurry and ran away a little. Looking back, it saw the two people lying on the ground hugging each other, and its eyes widened: "Squeak?"
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