But it was different from before. Not only was he afraid of facing the Black Sea again, but he was also afraid of being beaten to pieces by the wooden pile alone in the Black Sea.
"You have grown up." Qin Zhilu stroked his back, his palms falling along the spine and on his waist. He gently used force to pull An Yu into his arms.
After taking off the stiff uniform, the officer's embrace was firm and gentle. He was running a fever. An Yu didn't know whether it was a reaction to the injury or caused by gradual deformation and loss of control. The scorching temperature penetrated through the fabric of his pajamas. He subconsciously opened his arms and hugged the person in front of him with all his strength.
Qin Zhilu's low laughter came from above his head.
"You are the first person to hug me." Qin Zhilu gently rubbed his hair with his cheek, "This is the first time in Area 53. I don't know who taught you."
An Yu was startled.
He finally remembered that as early as Area 53, when he first saw Qin Zhilu falling into self-loathing due to excessive use of aberration genes, he hugged this person as if instinctively.
Qin Zhilu was held by him and whispered in his ear the next steps. He expected that the Black Tower would be suspicious of all the lawful people, so he asked An Yu and Dian, two people with pure genes, to stay in the main city to stabilize the black tower, use this as a bargaining chip to negotiate, and let the other lawful people go to the equal zone to join the Mi Sri Lanka's team.
An Yu was shocked when he first heard it. This man was obviously imprisoned, but he could predict everything that happened outside. He usually doesn't care about other people, but he can accurately predict everyone's reaction.
"You have to complete the negotiations with the Black Tower alone. Of course, I will also contribute to this, but I no longer have any say in front of the Black Tower. The most critical part is Tang Feng, who will stabilize the emotions of the lawful ones. , don’t let them lose their loyalty because of their anger. When everything stabilizes in the Equality Zone, if you want to leave, you can leave and go wherever you want, no matter how angry the Black Tower is, they can’t do anything to you.”
Qin Zhilu paused as he spoke, "I don't care whether the Lawful Ones and the Black Tower are friends or foes. I only ask that they each exist in good order. They are the last chips in the balance of order, even if they are only insignificant. chips."
After Qin Zhilu finished explaining, he paused, and his voice suddenly sounded a little distant, "When I selected you, you were still a little beast without emotions, with only blood and no humanity. As long as it was for survival, you could move forward regardless of anything. Climb. At that time, I only thought that you would grow into what I needed, but I didn’t expect..."
An Yu raised his head and stared at him, "What do you want?"
"Bloodiness, scheming, cruelty, these are things you naturally have. But you are too passive and can no longer be pushed forward step by step by fate. You must learn to turn around, face it head-on, and tell it what you want. Where to go.”
Qin Zhilu's Adam's apple rolled twice and he whispered: "I chose you, and I have planned a day of use to you from the beginning. You are the killing weapon I chose."
"Kill who?"
Qin Zhilu remained silent. He stared at An Yu for a long time, and finally only gently pushed him away from his arms.
"Go as planned. Don't come here anymore, I'm probably going to lose control. You have to maintain the dignity of the officer."
When he walked out of the small room, An Yu did not leave immediately.
He stood silently at the door of the bedroom for a long time, until Qin Zhilu hesitantly returned to the bed and picked up the book again.
Through the small gap left by the door, An Yu saw that his hand holding the book was shaking. He squeezed the book hard, and the veins on his wrist popped out, but he still couldn't help shaking.
Qin Zhilu was still holding back, trying not to reveal the symptoms of physical mania that was about to go out of control, because he knew that An Yu had not gone far.
An Yu also knew that he couldn't hide it from him - Qin Zhilu had begun to awaken. Like all abnormal species, he must be able to keenly feel the existence of the "Order Body". Just like Xi De once described, An Yu has a dangerous and alluring presence for them.
Separated by a door, they knew each other well.
"You're right." An Yu put his palm against the door and whispered, "I can no longer be passive. I can no longer be pushed forward step by step by fate."
"I can't let you push me forward step by step, because that's not what I want."
That night, An Yu's terminal woke him up more than a dozen times.
The Black Tower kept pushing emergency warnings - Qin Zhilu's mental strength was struggling repeatedly between 30 and 31. He was no longer allowed to stay in the bedroom, but was tied to the test bed and added with dozens of steel nails. The moving limbs are tied with thermal cartridges, and the electrode pads all over the body continuously release wave frequencies that curb distortion.
In the surveillance screen, it was difficult for those black eyes to gather any will. Later, Qin Zhilu simply closed his eyes, only occasionally opening them when he was twitching and struggling. Tentacles, scales, wings, and all kinds of strange physical signs appeared from that body from time to time. It exploded out of the human body, and was suppressed back by the sound of the instrument charging and discharging energy and his sad roar.
"An Yu." Tang Feng stood beside An Yu, reaching out to cover his terminal, "Stop looking."
An Yu calmly turned off the screen, stood up from the carpet, and took a look at the uniform draped over Tang Feng's pajamas.
"Did I go up to the peak to discuss the minaret with you?"
An Yu's tone was calm.
Tang Feng nodded, "Qin Zhilu slipped out of control faster than their worst expectations. The peak is very straightforward. All lawful people - including me, have a question mark on their future controllability."
"I'll go negotiate." An Yu stood up, "I've asked Yan Xi to pick me up and go to the Black Tower immediately."
"Okay." Tang Feng hesitated for a moment, but still warned: "You don't know much about Pingping District and Miss, so I'd better go with you."
"No need." An Yu walked to the door and turned back, "I will not let everyone go to the equality area. The minaret will continue to exist. As long as the minaret exists for one day, the former managers of the minaret must be safe and sound."
Tang Feng was stunned, "Didn't Lu and you..."
"Sir, he explained everything, but I didn't promise him to be obedient."
An Yu opened the door and looked at the terminal.
He lit the screen again and looked at several files on the desktop.
Those were videos that Qin Zhilu had deliberately intercepted from the battle recorder in previous missions, as well as recordings of their discussions about retrospective memory and time reversal.
When the hand of fate is too strong.
You have to go back, face it, and tell it where you really want to go.
"He always thought I was docile on the surface." An Yu whispered, "Maybe it is true."
*
In the center of the main city, on the negative tenth floor of the brain.
Qin Zhilu, who was soaked with sweat and blood, suddenly heard a system beep. It was different from those harsh alarms. It was a crisp "ding", like the time the oven in An Yu's store had finished working.
He raised his eyelids weakly.
He stared at the screen with his unfocused black eyes for a long time before finally condensing a trace of life.
and confusion.
An octopus man appeared on the screen, and it took him a few minutes to remember that it was An Yuyang's AI - 716.
In his gradually blurred human memory, 716 was not lively, especially when talking to him, he was extremely rigid and boring.
This time, 716 still didn't say any greetings, and directly popped up a line: Convey this to An Yu.
-I know that I was the person you originally selected to kill you in the future.
-That's not right, sir. I'm sorry that I can't complete the task, because even if there is no eternity in the world, I will always be with you.
- Until the moment we are all burned out.
Qin Zhilu read very slowly, identifying each word, until the mask was filled with mist and blood, blurring everything in his field of vision.
The mechanical door opened and closed, and the researcher walked in and checked various indicators on the screen, but was unable to determine whether the person on the metal platform was awake.
"law?"
He called out hesitantly, but got no response.
But he still abided by the agreement between Qin Zhilu and Heita - before completely losing his mind, Qin Zhilu had the right to know all official affairs and his own handling plan. He reported softly: "Jiao Jiao just confessed the complete truth to Heita. Allegory, and proved the direction of his own abilities. The power of time and space manipulation represents the potential to promote entropy reduction, and he will be a turning point for all mankind."
"After a peak analysis, we have recognized the credibility of his remarks and reached a consensus with him."
"He will become the new manager of the Spire as a pure human being who will never be deformed, leading all the lawful people to continue to operate. The Black Tower will also abandon its previous plan to deal with the lawful people, because once the lawful people collectively lose control, The order body also has the ability to clean up all the aberrants - including you."
The observation room was empty and silent, except for the weak breathing of the man on the test platform.
After a long time, the hoarse voice asked: "What else?"
"They are still confirming the final agreement. If there is additional information, I will inform you in time. Please rest assured that your former supervision object has grown very fast. This is really gratifying. Maybe this is really what the world has left to mankind. A glimmer of hope." The researcher paused as he spoke, then suddenly remembered something, and reassured with a smile: "Oh, but some minor flaws have not changed. The superior suggested that he change the code name to 'Order', which would be better. To appease the public, but he refused, he was also called 'Corner', saying the name gave him a sense of security."
The machine beeps once and the power discharge is terminated.
The manic pain in Qin Zhilu's body finally calmed down.
"In addition, he also hopes that we will stop disturbing you because he thinks it is painful and meaningless." The man said softly, "Thank you for your hard work."
A few kilometers away, An Yu stood in front of the climbers. His eyes swept over the unfamiliar faces and finally turned to the big screen.
Across the screen, he said to the peak who had never shown up: "Humanity must let Qin Zhilu go. This is the only condition I insist on."
"If he is destined to fall into the abyss, let him go free."
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【Waste Book Loose Pages】38 Release
There were some questions that I didn't have time to ask An Yu personally.
But fortunately, our consciousnesses connected later, and I got the answer.
An Yu never believed that the worst outcome for Qin Zhilu was that the distortion was out of control.
Because he doesn't care about the fate of mankind at all.
He felt that the worst outcome would be for Qin Zhilu to be controlled by others until his death.
He also said that no matter what he released, it was disaster or protection.
He just wanted his freedom back.
Chapter 103 World Line·103
Just days after rumors spread that the minaret would be abolished, everything came to an abrupt end.
The tall and sharp building stood safely outside the dome of the main city. The elevator rose straight up, separated by a transparent elevator door. The lawmen looked up at the people in the elevator.
The hood held down a head of white hair, but the hair could not hide the deep coldness of the golden eyes.
An Yu calmly glanced at every lawful person passing by in the elevator, but the eyes from outside were all averted, and the lawful people lowered their heads unconsciously.
I don’t know when, just like the dry ridges in the fields were finally filled with water, those golden eyes suddenly filled with other meanings. Although it is still empty, there is a huge and indescribable sense of oppression, like a top down, making the lawful ones dare not look at each other, as if if they look at it one more time, they will die in the most tragic way.
It is said that the people in the Black Tower are only in awe of An Yu's current aura, but they don't feel as frightened as if they were facing an abyss.
The lawful ones say that it is the suppression of chaos by order.
The wave of abnormality has once again begun to sweep across the world, more aggressive than the wave last winter. This time, a large number of unrecorded abnormal species have appeared, and every disordered area is accompanied by all kinds of strange mental entropy and non-biological fusion.
The Minaret Monthly Meeting has been going on for eight hours. Tang Feng frowned as he listened to the report, while An Yu, who was sitting next to him, was just gnawing bread and browsing the terminal, as if he was no different from when Qin Zhilu was there.
But everyone knows that everything has changed. The ordinary human being who was once despised has become the true leader of the Spire.
It was he who left Qin Zhilu behind.
It is also him who protects everyone here.
The screen vibrated, and the little octopus man played a message.
- There is no program failure on your terminal, but why does the monitoring APP always crash back repeatedly? It cannot be that you always exit the moment you click on it.
