Zhou Jinru woke up, but not completely.
He found himself lying on a medical bed, surrounded by all kinds of unnamed medical equipment. For some reason, he couldn't move, and his consciousness and body had lost contact, as if he was in a vegetative state.
Where is he?
"You're in my personal laboratory."
A dull voice came, the footsteps got closer and closer, and a man wearing black-rimmed glasses appeared in his sight.
Only then did Zhou Jinru realize that he hadn't blinked for such a long time, or that he couldn't even close his eyes.
"Of course you can't close your eyes. To be precise, this body has lost its ability to move. Of course a dead person cannot move."
I am dead?
Zhou Jinru felt an inexplicable panic. If this is what death feels like, what state is he in now?
"That's not right. You didn't die because you were not the one who died."
The man looked down at the body on the medical bed and said calmly: "This is the body of defender No. 004, not yours. To a certain extent, you are two people."
Zhou Jinru felt surprised. He tried to recall that he covered Wei Na to leave, fought with all his strength, and ended up here somehow.
According to his understanding, after Defender No. 004 died in battle, there was only one person who could get in close contact with him. Judging from his temperament and appearance, the man in front of him should be Defender No. 002 Zhang Taiyue.
"I know you have a lot of doubts, such as why I can know your inner thoughts, such as how you came here and where this is. Don't worry, we have a lot of time. First of all, I am indeed Zhang Taiyue. The actual controller of Taiyue Base."
The man who called himself Zhang Taiyue put on gloves, gently used tweezers with his slender fingers to open the eyelids of the corpse, and held up a flashlight to shine on the lens.
He seemed to be doing something ordinary.
"Defender No. 004's body is really dead, and that's a good thing."
Zhang Taiyue murmured.
Zhou Jinru was horrified when he heard this. Aren't you close comrades in arms? Why did the death of defender No. 004 become a good thing in your mouth?
Zhang Taiyue continued: "Death is a phenomenon, a phenomenon that cannot be concealed. The moment defender No. 004 died, the gods on earth had already sensed it, and the gods who witnessed the death at the scene also believed it."
"what do you want to say in the end?!"
"Have you ever thought about why our defenders only have numbers but no names?"
Zhou Jinru was dumbfounded. He knew very little about the defenders and most of them were heard from other people's mouths.
Zhang Taiyue explained while debriding the surface of defender No. 004's body: "Because numbers are easy to remember and conceal our true identities, only God on earth knows the real names of all defenders, and he always remembers them."
Zhou Jinru was silent, as if something flashed through his mind, but he hadn't grasped the key point yet.
"Death can be a long sleep for us, or it can be another beginning. God on earth is against this, but we can hide it from him. As long as we don't do it in front of him and do it blatantly, he can pretend not to see it. , Haha, it’s rare to be confused.”
Zhang Taiyue used a special scalpel to slowly cut through the necrotic muscles on the surface of the body and pull out the fine limb barbs embedded inside. This work took a lot of energy on his part.
From Zhou Jinru's perspective, Zhang Taiyue's goggles were filled with beads of sweat. He was an extremely rational man, and he would never be emotional.
"So the current Defender No. 004 no longer exists on the physical level. Our gods and the outer gods think so. This is a good thing."
The debridement work came to an end for the time being. Zhang Taiyue turned on the surrounding lights, and his personal laboratory was brightly lit.
"Okay, let me ask you a question, what is the number on the hand behind my back?"
How could Zhou Jinru know? He couldn't answer at all.
Zhang Taiyue took off his goggles and said calmly: "There are no numbers, and I didn't put my hands behind my back. You didn't guess, that's good."
This sentence gave Zhou Jinru a very strange feeling, as if the scene before him was not the first time.
"Aguang, I will give you a choice next. You can resurrect from his body and have all the power of Defender 004, or you can give up this choice and return to your own body.
I must remind you that you will face a very terrible enemy next. You are likely to die, and the people around you will also die, because there is not enough power to fight against the enemy, and the world will become silent and there will be no more living things. exist, even gods among men will die.
The power of Defender No. 004 is yours, and you don’t have to bear any psychological burden. "
Zhou Jinru interrupted Zhang Taiyue rudely and asked with his mind: "What do you mean, I want to revive in this body?"
"Yeah, it's a trivial technology."
"I'm reviving a corpse?"
"To be precise, it should be that you return to your original body."
"Wait a minute, what state am I in now?"
Zhang Taiyue said calmly: "In the mother nest of Taiyue Base, the Skynet system captured the neuron fluctuations of defender No. 004, and the state is observable in the quantum field."
Zhou Jinru didn't understand, but he knew he was in the past.
"You can't make a decision, maybe there are things you can see with your own eyes."
After Zhang Taiyue finished speaking, Zhou Jinru's consciousness immediately became blurred, and his eyes turned pale. After a few seconds, countless dots and lines outlined the picture of the real world.
It was a grand wedding. He was wearing a formal dress and leather shoes and sent the groom to the center of the stage.
A long-lost feeling of familiarity came over me.
There were not many people attending the wedding, which was not normal. His brother had a high status and background, so how could no one come to congratulate him?
Zhou Jinru's hand raised the wine glass. At that time, he didn't know what happened and why a couple who were separated from each other decided to get married in a flash marriage within a week.
It cannot be said that he was behind on information, but that the incident happened so suddenly that people at his level could not know first-hand information, but his brother was different, with the Beijing Circle behind him.
The groom stood in front of him with a smile on his face and asked in a low voice:
"Aguang, do you have time recently? Don't go back, come with me to Luodu to play."
Zhou Jinru's idea was that she was newly married, so how could he disturb her, so he said, "Take good care of your wife, I will go back tomorrow."
He failed to notice the disappointment in the groom's eyes and the panic in the bride's face when she came.
The next day, disaster broke out in Zhou Jinru's hometown, Jiang Qi was also affected, and he could not go back.
