126. "Go home" (Part 2)
"It was them, they saved us..."
With the defeat of Bio King Kong and the professor, the surrounding people cheered. Someone immediately noticed Li Aozi and Du Zexin, discussing and approag them.
"I reize him—the professor just mentiohat's Mr. Li Aozi, a level 5 ied."
Somenized him and said admiringly:
"Li Aozi, su old man—I remember he saved us from the White Fang Gang before."
"You saved us! Mr. Li Aozi! You defeated the Abyss Humanitarian Relief anization!"
"He's a hero from the outer nd!" The ied from the outer nd cheered, "Now it's our turn to help you!"
Li Aozi couldn't speak anymore. He let the ied lift him up, and they dragged Du Zexin out of his armor, moving towards the outside under Du Zexin's guidance.
The geic burden was too heavy; he didn't even have the strength to uand how mui's Omega Energy had evolved, his eyelids drooping, drowsy.
No, there's one more thing!
"Snow..." Li Aozi gritted his teeth, shook his head, and said, "The baby... don't fet the baby..."
"Baby?"
"It's 626, right? It seems she's not here."
People hurriedly called out to firm, and finally, a blonde girl shouted, "Here! I have a baby here!"
The people around Li Aozi quickly made way for the girl ed in nurse's clothes to approach.
The girl carefully hahe baby to Li Aozi. It was a thin-faced baby girl with a circle of stitches on her head, her skin wrinkled and yellowish, looking like a little old man, not pretty at all.
But on such a haggard and weak face, there air of big, bright eyes, flickering with ghostly blue light.
As soon as the baby girl saw Li Aozi, she smiled.
'Thank you, Liozi.'
The psychic resonance directly echoed in his mind.
Li Aozi forced a smile:
"You got it wrong, Snow. It's not Liozi, it's Li Aozi."
'No, I o thank you.'
Snow blinked:
'Thank you, Li Aozi.'
【Your aade the other party extremely grateful. 'Snow' favorability +301】
【Current favorability】: 501 (Respect)
"You all, go to the third floor, to the Krasnaya ptform, there's a subway there."
"Subway?" The girl and the surrounding ied were momentarily fused, "What's a subway?"
"It means the Subway Brotherhood is willing to take you on a trip, at least to the tral station, where they'll arrange work, food, and clothes for you."
Li Aozi forced a smile and said:
"You should go home."
Go home.
This word was like a bomb sinking to the bottom of a ke, causing a short silence followed by an explosion of noise and ripples.
"Go home..."
Someone murmured:
"I actually have a ce to leave the Abyss."
"I miss my mom; I shouldn't have run away... Does she still remember me? Better if she doesn't!"
"My family already froze to death ier nd, joining the Subway Brotherhood isn't bad."
The ied from the outer nd and the Frost-Pted Republic showed differeions, but they all shared one remarkable sistency: freedom.
Li Aozi's limbs and senses were filled with fatigue, his pupils dited, he mustered all his strength to open the system panel:
【The titan has fallen, the king has perished, the Abyss will no longer be remembered.】
【Mai: "Remember Them" has met initial settlement ditions】
【Reward Settlement】:
A. 《Eliminate All Evils》—kill all remaining members of the Abyss Humanitarian Relief anization, the more brutal the means, the richer the rewards
Current progress: 109/109
Reward: Title 【Catastrophe】
Title effect: 10% ce to deal a fatal blow (triple damage, oint attack, high probability of death) to humanoid enemies
Outer ation +500 (Respect).
he Frost-Pted Republic will permaly list you as wanted and revoke your citizenship.
B. 《Teach Them Destru》—pletely kill "Abyss Professor." For each biochemical e destroyed, receive a perfect reset of mutation options.
Current progress:
'Thriving One': 1/1
'Deg One': 1/1
Bio King Kong: 1/1
Abyss Professor's body: 1/1
Reward: Perfect reset of mutation options *4 (guarao refresh rare grade her mutation projects)
2 million experience points;
Please choose two specialties as your reward:
【Perpetual ? Autocratic】—you have a strong personality charisma and terrifying ambition, when you are the team leader, others' favorability will sync with yours, your team members ot question your decisions, even if wrong, they will uatingly believe in them.
Perpetual effect: When your main attribute is 【Charisma】, all your attribute checks will rely solely on 【Charisma】.
【Absolute Rationality】—pared to you, maes seem humane, immuo all mind-reading and charm effects, and 【Intelligence】 bes +20%
【Flesh Affinity】—you are like an ao carbon-based and sili-based life forms, very easy to be liked by them. This ualent allows you to use impnts and gene ons more easily.
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【I should choose [Autocratid [Absolute Rationality].】
Li Aozi thought:
【Autocratic】 is his must-have specialty and the most important part of the "Unremembered" task reward.
There are no erpetual specialties, only suitable and unsuitable ones, and they are always beneficial.
This specialty is essential for any team leader, ruler, or hero.
But the most patible one is the 【Domination】 profession, because 【Charisma】 is their main attribute, and the perpetual effect always be triggered.
The perpetual effect of 【Autocratic】 is too patible with his style and professional system, especially sih 【Personality Simution】, he doesn't o increase 【Intelligeo cultivate the sedary profession of 【Biochemist】.
As for 【Absolute Rationality】—this specialty is immuo all mind-reading and charm effects, making it very useful in many mid-stage frontations with 【Missionaries】' mental probes, and be said to be quite cost-effective.
Of course, this specialty has a noive ive effect—loss of humanity.
Just like the Abyss Professor.
No bottom line, hy, maybe even losing basic desires in the end.
Without desires, how terrifying would that be?
Not g about one's gender, rao beliefs, no enjoyment, no goal to strive for, uo distinguish ugliness, and naturally uo appreciate beauty—what would there be to care about?
Pyers certainly don't care about suegative effects, losing humanity, but are pyers human?
From the pyer's perspective, they're just fag a bunch of data, driving recklessly on the sidewalk, and then raising their on, shooting at office workers, borers, arians pig up their children from school.
No pressure.
Li Aozi himself had done such things, as had most pyers, releasing real-life stress in the game.
He had even blown up ps, watg them destroy with his own eyes—but there was no guilt.
But now...
Li Aozi closed his eyes, feeling his wounds slowly heal, cells proliferating, blood flowing through his heart.
Warmth, a bit itchy.
Even with his eyes closed, he felt someone lift his hand, c his hand back, f him.
"If I had no humanity, with my behavior, Nomi wouldn't want to save me."
Li Aozi closed his eyes, yet the world still came to him.
The ied from the outer nd and the Frost-Pted Republic surrounded him, calling his name, calling him a hero.
Snow was genuinely grateful to him.
Du Mei also gave him a thumbs up as he passed by.
—That guy was so aloof in the previous life.
Although they had nothing to give him except the Omega Energy, Li Aozi, leaning on the makeshift support of people, seemed to have gained something priceless.
Li Aozi took a deep breath.
【You chose [Autocratid [Flesh Affinity]】
He didn't want to bee as disgusting as the professor, Nomi definitely wouldn't like that.
More importantly, Li Aozi felt he would hate that bottomless self.
After all this, Li Aozi finally colpsed.
People shouted, "We're going home! We're going home!", hugging and kissing strangers, the pale ahy skin trasting, showing no signs of their different worlds.
"It's really unimaginable..."
Du Zexin dragged himself onto the train, having taken the special medie, he could finally speak normally, though it would take a long time for his body to recover.
He looked at the harmonious atmosphere in the carriage, with Seria and Zhou Liefeng guiding, a total of 121 surviving ied were orderly pced in the rear freight carriage.
They didn't make a fuss, quietly sitting on boxes, pnks, and the floor, young men ying down fortable straw and clothes for the weak, Seria running bad forth with her rudimentary medical skills, distributing food to everyone.
Although these ied had lost their Omega Energy, their eyes were full of hope.
Seria and Zhou Liefeng whispered to each other from time to time, seemingly discussing how to proceed with so many people, while the Rose Army's Jane Neria looked thoughtfully at the rear carriage.
Du Zexin couldn't help but say:
"Outer nd people, the people of the Four Nations, are actually unig and cooperating together at this moment."
"Like those at the bottom of society and capital, they have no homend."
Li Aozi's bed was o Du Zexin's, both verted from trais.
His hand was on an IV drip, and due to extreme exhaustion, Li Aozi didn't even have the strength to open the system pao check his status, his eyelids drooping, barely able to find the status bar from the dea:
【Gene Overload】—in a weakeate, all attributes decreased by 50%, uo move, uo use Omega Energy.
"You're right, Li Aozi."
Du Zexin heard this and smiled knowingly:
"Mr. Dai Weilin thought so too. If he could e out ahe people of the Frost-Pted Republie day, we could have the outer nd people and the Frost-Pted people living equally uhe artificial sun..."
"It's not artificial—"
Li Aozi wao raise his head to say something, but the movement of his facial muscles and neck made him pass out immediately.
Fatigue washed over him like a tide, not colpsing itle against Bio King Kong, but finally being brought down by a snide remark.
"Let him rest."
Qiu Ran sat by Li Aozi's bed, reag out to smooth his wrinkles, her gaze deep, softly saying:
"He has already given too mud deserves some rest."
The electric motor roared, and the "Youth" armored trairacted its pedals, leaving the subway station. The fierce steel war mae rushed out of the underground, braving the cold wind and snow, tearing through the darkness, moving forward without hesitation.
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