Chapter 173 Mr. Zhen
Just as Xin Que was about to focus her attention on Luo Huayi's initiative against Tian Gang, she was drawn to the dazzling sunset.
"What's going on?" Xin Que pushed the man away, instinctively raising her hand to shield her eyes from the bright sunlight to adjust her vision.
"The sun... no, time has returned?"
Luo Huayi didn't know where he got the courage to kiss her. After being pushed away, his face burned like a kettle, and his brain was churning like boiling water, until it completely shut down.
He stiffly raised his hand and touched the corner of his lips.
"Huh?" Luo Huayi forced herself to stop thinking nonsense and jumped down from the wall to find Xin Que. "What time is it... no, is the sun out?"
Walking to Xin Que's side, Luo Huayi's gaze fell on the setting sun tearing through the sky. "It's been so long since I've seen the sunlight..."
etc.
The scene had a very familiar romantic atmosphere, just like when Xin Que answered his wish high in the twilight sky that day...
"[Dusk?]" Cheng Zheng's surprised voice came through the consciousness channel. "[I'm still in a state of time freeze here... Wait, I can see the real-time view you've transmitted.]"
It appears that your area is slowly returning to normal...
Something's wrong. The network signal on the map is still blocked by the entire prison. Who's providing the power to keep the time system running?
The key point is that this phenomenon doesn't seem to be malicious...
Xin Que's gaze fell on Luo Huayi. "Luo Huayi, have you noticed that we seem to be in a different area than before?"
Luo Huayi was taken aback. "Really?"
He looked around at the ruins and was completely stunned when he saw a corner of the CBD building signboard exposed at the top of the ruins.
Xin Que's gaze towards Luo Huayi held a hint of complexity.
Dusk, CBD, Xin Que and Luo Huayi.
This scene, except that the two are no longer in mid-air but on the ground, completely overlaps with the scene from before.
This is not Luo Huayi's building space.
The map was a response to Luo Huayi's idea.
Or is Luo Huayi's desire influencing the map?
...
Luo Huayi was startled by Xin Que's sudden close approach.
A moment later, he put his hands behind his back, clasped his wrists, and tried hard to suppress the urge to hug her.
...
"Huh?!" Luo Huayi's eyes widened as he looked around at the twilight-covered landscape. "You said time resumed its flow because of me..."
He suddenly remembered the unconscious complaints he had made while plowing through the ruins.
Because he felt that using a pickaxe by hand was too inefficient, a bomb appeared in front of him and cleared away a patch of ruins.
Because he wanted a new pickaxe, a brand new pickaxe appeared out of thin air at his feet.
When he impulsively kissed Xin Que, his mind was filled with memories of the first time Xin Que had taken the initiative to hold his hand at dusk.
That's why the scene shifts to the vicinity of the CBD building in the city center.
Luo Huayi looked at her hands, "This is ridiculous..."
Xin Que relayed all the intelligence she had just gathered to Cheng Zheng in real time. The two of them, one person and one system, buried themselves in analysis for a long time and finally came to a very absurd conclusion.
Now, Luo Huayi is the male lead with all the protagonist's aura activated.
Previously suppressed by the plot and constantly suffering setbacks, he was more like a castrated, unfinished product.
[Mentioning castration...] Cheng Zheng chuckled, his voice suddenly blasting at full volume in Xin Que's mental communication, [Xin Que, just how much have you been plotting behind my back?!]
Xin Que was so shocked by Cheng Zheng's shout that her vision went black and she almost went deaf.
[Luo Huayi's current abilities are not my doing.] Although Xin Que's memories have not yet fully returned, she has absolute confidence in her own habits and actions.
The prison's self-inspection process is so strict; I wouldn't be foolish enough to simply replace my own people with others in the supervision process.
【not to mention……】
Her habit is to act alone.
Even with Cheng Zheng as her action assistance system, she wouldn't easily let Cheng Zheng step forward unless she was in dire straits.
"What else could it be?" Cheng Zheng frowned and checked Luo Huayi's data again. "Besides the interference you caused and his gradually improving emotional module..."
Xin Que suddenly asked, "When did he begin to freely control the power of the King of Biancheng?"
Cheng Zheng was taken aback, then quickly went back to check the data records. [When Xin Xin and the prison authorities took him to search the prison, he wasn't as adept at this...]
[The ability to truly control and exert oneself freely only began after Qu Huan appeared.]
To be precise, it's when the entire map descends into chaos.
Xin Que's guess was absurd: "So his abilities, or rather, the influence of the protagonist's halo on the world, depend on the plot and the prison's control over him?"
[Now that the storyline has disappeared, and the prison has isolated the entire map like an island, his abilities can actually be used to their fullest potential?]
Cheng Zheng was still processing the data.
[Let's put Luo Huayi's matter aside for now; the system's operation has already covered my area...]
[Also, perhaps due to Luo Huayi's abilities, the signal fluctuations of the humanoid program we observed earlier are becoming increasingly intense!]
Xin Que made a quick decision, turning to Luo Huayi, "Back to the villa!"
Just as Luo Huayi was about to ask Xin Que what this ability represented, she heard Xin Que's suddenly serious command and immediately followed her, running all the way to the villa where they were temporarily staying.
Cheng Zheng couldn't continue deciphering the data of the afterimage of King Taishan. The moment his communication with Xin Que ended, the data particles completely disappeared from the vicinity of the afterimage.
The observed signal fluctuations are not like the signal strength or level that a low-level NPC could emit; rather, they resemble the signal strength emitted by a control AI.
After a while, a faint sound came from some of the ruins.
The sound grew louder and louder, as if the bricks and rubble were being pushed aside by something underneath.
A hand reached out from the ruins.
A moment later, the man sat blankly atop the ruins, his movements stiff and mechanical.
The bracelet wrapped around his wrist dangled beside him. He sat there stiffly for a long time before he showed a slight human-like reaction to the afterglow of the setting sun.
"Who am I...?" A few images seemed to flash through his mind.
It's a battle between statues that destroys the heavens and the earth, and...
A video clip of an officer issuing an order.
[The Fourth Palace... The Five Officials King...]
The man's brain began to throb with intermittent dull pain.
[Together with...we guard...the border...]
He is... the King of Five Senses?
Complete memories gradually emerge and connect.
He is not the King of Five Senses... To be precise, he is merely the human projection of the King of Five Senses, possessing only a shell and no real power, and his surname is Zhen.
The original statue of the Five Senses King had already been forcibly retrieved by the administrator system when the superior officer encountered trouble...
The man's mood did not ease much after learning his identity; on the contrary, he was now very confused.
The bewilderment of being abandoned by the prison in the ruins of a deserted island.
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