On the other side, Taoyang City.
"Do you really want Su Zhiyun to continue doing this?"
In the pavilion of the community, Chen Bolin asked Zhou Qi in a serious tone.
Zhou Qi lay spread out on the stone table with his whole body radioactive, his limbs hanging down on the edge of the table, his eyes looking at the top of the pavilion without focus, and murmured: "Do you want to ask her if this is right, or do you want to ask me what I am doing? "
"..."
Chen Bolin paused for two seconds: "You can answer whatever you want."
But Zhou Qi just waved his hand feebly:
"I don't know either."
There is no more content.
Chen Bolin had no choice but to look again at the people not far away who were behaving insensitively.
On the surface, the world looks so beautiful - blue sky, white clouds, shade trees, flowers, grass, old people, and children.
But more than once he felt dazed in these scenes, as if he saw the fragmented scene after the end of time through distant time.
He didn't expect Zhou Qi to answer him.
Judging from these days of observation, everyone knows what kind of tricks Zhou Qi is playing, or why he is preparing for action, but compared to his behavior in Zhonghai, there are still traces of what he is doing here. There is no end to anything.
He just had to come back inexplicably, and then stayed in "home" for so long without any reason, not even leaving the community door.
It's more like doing performance art, finding a different corner every day to stand, lie down, or squat...
He also made everyone close to him become neither human nor ghost.
The key is to make it impossible for officials to do anything about it.
Zhou Qi has a magical power.
At the beginning, all his actions were based on the moral bottom line of this society and he was justified. But when everyone was angry about this, he stepped back with a smile and said that there was a reason for all this.
Immediately afterwards, he strode across the line when no one was paying attention, and danced casually in the midst of everyone's jealousy. When people finally reacted and wanted to expel or destroy him, he turned his head and smiled. He said, "Don't move, or you will all die"...
It's just so abominable.
But there is no way, the fate of mankind has been firmly tied to him, and no one dares to act rashly against him, except for those madmen who want to drag all mankind to be buried together.
"..."
Thinking of this, Chen Bolin's mind twitched, and he suddenly felt that maybe... those madmen were right...
However, at this moment, Zhou Qi suddenly spoke:
"Don't think so complicated every time. I am just a weak reborn person. Many things are beyond my control, such as what you see in front of you..."
Zhou Qi said and suddenly sat up from the stone table: "And I am working hard to increase the number of things I can control."
Chen Bolin was stunned for a moment.
This is the first time Zhou Qi has answered some questions head-on.
He pointed at the people wandering in the community and asked: "You mean, there is another reason for all this, and you are actually trying to find a way to save them?"
Zhou Qi shook his head: "I was the one who caused all this. I just didn't control my strength well."
Chen Bolin: "??"
Zhou Qi didn't wait for Chen Bolin to say anything, and continued: "But it's good. At least when the doomsday comes, they will definitely become monsters in the end."
"..." Chen Bolin didn't know how to answer.
His position is more responsible for negotiating with Zhou Qi, managing field operations, etc. He has little contact with military strategy and scientific research. He has not really seen monsters, only seen that information. He only knows that the more he knows, the better. Less is safer.
So compared to the monsters Zhou Qi said, he felt that these stupid people in front of him were more terrifying.
At this time, Zhou Qi jumped down from the stone table: "It's almost done. Please accompany me for a walk."
Where to go?
Chen Bolin wanted to ask, but he didn't ask.
Because he instantly realized that things might be about to take a turn.
"Myself?" he asked.
Zhou Qi looked around and nodded, "It's not dangerous, I just want you to see."
Chen Bolin stood up without any further hesitation, and then gestured to the people hiding around him, telling them not to pay attention.
…
Zhou Qi asked Chen Bolin to drive him to the park square closest to the community. It was afternoon, and many people were walking and playing in the square. There was also a group of middle-aged people preparing to dance in the square.
It seemed very lively.
"Stop." Zhou Qi said, looking at the square.
Chen Bolin braked and then looked at Zhou Qi with some confusion, not knowing what he was doing here.
But Zhou Qi just looked at it for a while and then turned back: "Keep driving."
"..."
Chen Bolin started the car in silence.
Soon the two came to a large shopping mall. There were still many people and it was very lively.
"stop."
Zhou Qi did the same thing.
"Keep driving."
This time, Chen Bolin couldn't hold back. While starting the car, he asked, "What are you doing?"
Zhou Qi looked at him, scratched his head, and replied seriously: "Expand the blue bar."
"??"
Chen Bolin's face showed confusion, he didn't understand why Zhou Qi was so crazy.
Expand the blue bar?
He hesitated for a moment, then asked: "What do you mean?"
Zhou Qi waved his hand: "I can't explain it in a few words. Let's go first. I'll talk to you when I get back."
"..."
Chen Bolin had no choice but to do as Zhou Qi said.
Going around in circles, the two began to pick out crowded places and repeat the previous process.
Soon, a few hours passed.
Although Zhou Qi would only watch for a while in the car no matter where he went, the two of them almost visited the entire city.
When we returned to Guangming Community, where Zhou Qi's family was located, the sky was already dark, leaving only the bright moon and a few stars shining in the night sky.
"Is it time to talk now? What on earth are you doing?" Chen Bolin got out of the car, stretched his legs and legs, and he had a look of exhaustion on his face after driving for several hours.
Zhou Qi didn't look at him, just closed the car door and walked into the community first.
When he caught up, Zhou Qicai said faintly: "...all my abilities require mental power to be used, but this body has not been trained before, and the passage is too narrow, so most of my abilities cannot be used, so I It needs to be strengthened and expanded.”
Chen Bolin looked serious.
Zhou Qi continued: "The strengthening method is very simple, which is to make the things in the box resonate with the outside world. The stronger the resonance, the faster the strengthening."
"Box? Resonance?" Chen Bolin frowned. He had never heard these two words before: "What is a box? What does resonance mean?"
"...The box is a storage device that exists in my brain, similar to a memory palace." Zhou Qi replied seriously: "This box contains the memories and emotions of countless people that I have absorbed in countless reincarnations. When these things are close to their 'owners', they will automatically resonate."
"So, you just ran around the entire city to resonate with the people in the entire city?" Chen Bolin asked.
"Yes." Zhou Qi nodded.
"I don't understand...why do you have to resonate with them here? Can't you do it in Zhonghai?"
"...Hey, it's a long story." Zhou Qi sighed and said with some emotion:
"Actually... I didn't want to improve my strength when I was first reborn. I even kept looking for places with few people to avoid resonance, because resonance is uncomfortable, and its impact is mutual. I will be affected, and so will you. Some unnecessary emotions may arise due to resonance.
“But at that time, I thought that the impact was only those emotions... So although I was avoiding it, I didn’t pay much attention to it.
"It wasn't until later that I discovered that the doomsday had not disappeared, it had been dormant secretly... So I began to actively search for resonance, and in order to prevent you from being affected by excessive emotions and turning into monsters, I began to absorb your emotions caused by resonance into a box , but still a little late.
"The chain reaction I caused in Zhonghai attracted Doomsday's attention, and it regarded Zhonghai as a breakthrough point for the first landing... So I was forced to leave there in order to divert Doomsday's attention, allow Zhonghai to breathe, and return to Taoyang , because this is one of the places I am most familiar with, the resonance is more intense, and the speed at which I can improve my strength can even exceed the speed at which the end comes."
"..."
The more Chen Bolin listened, the more he frowned. What Zhou Qi said was very informative, especially the last few sentences, which reminded him of the previous scenes in Zhonghai City...
Everyone knows that Zhou Qi can easily incite the emotions of people around him, but at first everyone thought it was due to Zhou Qi's character. It turns out that the root cause is the resonance generated by the so-called "box"?
"Then why are the people in this community like this?"
"...I have to absorb those emotions even more when I resonate with them, but I can't control my strength well."
"..."
Chen Bolin finally understood.
The reason why people here become so blind and foolish is because they have absorbed too many emotions.
If this is the case...
It's really not Zhou Qi's fault for causing all this, he is even trying to stop it all.
"..."
The air became quiet.
The two of them came to an old fitness equipment area and sat down in a suitable position. There was no one around except for the chirping of insects.
The atmosphere became increasingly weird.
Finally, Chen Bolin forced his thoughts to calm down and continued to ask:
"So...what's next? What are you going to do?"
I am asking this on behalf of the official and the country.
Because what Zhou Qi explained was only his superficial actions, his purpose and layout were still unclear.
Zhou Qi shook his head: "It's a long story."
He looked up in the direction of his floor, and then looked higher and farther into the night sky.
A few seconds later, he lowered his head, sighed quietly, and said to the insects in the grass and shrubs: "If I had chosen to die on the first day back, none of this would have happened;
“If I choose to activate my ability at the cost of death before that negotiation, then I can make everyone forget my existence and not suffer any effects of the doomsday;
"If I activate my ability at the cost of death before the monster appears, I can restore everything to the original state and make everyone forget the doomsday. If now...forget it, not saying so many ifs, in short, before this, the doomsday was always Come on, I have many opportunities to completely stop it, but I am not willing to die, after all, it is not easy to take a break."
"..."
Chen Bolin heard a little apology from Zhou Qi's words.
What Zhou Qi meant was that if he had been willing to die and cut off contact with the world, the end might have never come again, but he was not willing to die.
From an objective point of view, this incident is quite irritating, but Chen Bolin feels inexplicably sad about it.
"Then what are you going to do now...?"
"Just think of me as atonement," Zhou Qi said with some seriousness: "I have caught up with the end of the world now, I just need to wait for another suitable opportunity to give you everything in my mind.
"Then I will use my maximum ability to temporarily drive it away and buy you enough preparation time... Although I may still die, and all this may be in vain in the end, but this time, at least it can allow humans to go further. Farther away.”
Chen Bolin felt a little complicated: "But this is unfair to you. You should have something better...wait a minute." His brows suddenly wrinkled again: "Why do you have to die? Now things have come to this point. , why don’t you stay alive and help the government resist the doomsday? Only with you can we have hope of victory?"
"..." Zhou Qi was silent for a few seconds: "You don't understand... For this apocalypse, it doesn't matter if I live or die. I am not the protagonist."
"?" Chen Bolin's eyes jumped sharply: "What do you mean??"
"It doesn't mean anything. Everything I just said was a lie to you..."
At this moment, the sound of hurried footsteps came from not far away, and a hurried report sounded in Chen Bolin's earphones.
"...Report! It's bad! A large number of residents in Taoyang City have lost their consciousness and ability to move, and they are suspected to have entered the window period!"
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