A Fake Holy Mother in the Zombie Apocalypse

After breakfast, when Lu Xingchi left, Bei Nuan tried her best to restrain herself, acting calm and composed, not wanting to look too pathetic.

Anyway, he would be back in a few days.

But Lu Xingchi made her feel very embarrassed.

He grabbed her hands tightly and, in front of everyone, actually lowered his head to kiss her, murmuring, "Wait for me to come back."

What did he mean by "wait for me to come back"?

Bei Nuan no longer held any hope for his jinxing mouth.

The good part was that even when he was on the front lines, his phone sometimes had a signal.

Lu Xingchi packed a bunch of power banks in his backpack and, from the moment he left, kept sending Bei Nuan messages and photos, no matter how trivial. He even reported to Bei Nuan when a bird flew by outside.

It was as if Bei Nuan was spiritually accompanying him on the front lines.

They were taking the helicopter that Lu Ding had sent, pushing forward non-stop along the long blockade line.

The first day was busy from morning till late at night, and they only rested at a fortress by Lake Bo Li in the middle of the night.

When Bei Nuan was lying in bed, Lu Xingchi called again.

He said that when they flew over Ge Ta City that morning, Du Ruo saw from the plane that the flexible protective netting on the hillside next to Ge Ta City, which was supposed to prevent landslides, seemed to have some problems.

So Du Ruo went into Ge Ta City himself.

Because they were now directly commissioned by Lu Ding, and Lu Ding had already ordered all levels of commanders on the blockade line to cooperate with their work, things went smoothly, and the protective netting was immediately repaired.

In the afternoon, they heard that Ge Ta City had a heavy rain, but there was no landslide, and the high walls on the blockade line were safe and sound.

Bei Nuan breathed a sigh of relief.

The disaster in the book that led to the team's total annihilation had passed safely.

Thinking about it, it must have been that when they were on the helicopter, Lu Xingchi deliberately guided Du Ruo to see the problematic protective netting on the mountain.

The two of them chatted on their phones, on and off, until Bei Nuan heard no sound from the other end, only faint breathing. He was probably too tired and had fallen asleep.

The next morning, as soon as Bei Nuan woke up, she received another call from Lu Xingchi.

"Nuan Nuan, did you miss me?" Lu Xingchi asked.

Bei Nuan was speechless. It had only been a few hours since they last spoke.

Before Bei Nuan could answer, his phone seemed to have been snatched away by Du Ruo.

"You actually call her Nuan—Nuan?" Du Ruo's dissatisfied voice came from the other end of the phone. "Then I want to call her Nuan Nuan too."

Du Ruo asked, "Nuan Nuan, did you miss me?"

Bei Nuan: "…"

They snatched the phone back and forth, and Bei Nuan finally managed to figure out that the commander of the fortress had received a message last night saying that there were difficult mutated zombies in Bo Li City, not far from the defense line, and they planned to go take a look.

Bo Li City was in the infected area, and going in meant that there would be no phone signal.

So Lu Xingchi had called early, afraid that she wouldn't be able to find him today and would worry.

Lu Xingchi's voice came, "I'll tell you as soon as I get back to the safe zone."

Bei Nuan suddenly remembered something. "Yesterday, your brother sent Fang Liming over to relay a message, saying that he had sent Song Ce to a safe place, and Song Ce has already started working normally."

Lu Xingchi hummed, indicating that he knew, and paused before saying, "Take good care of yourself. We're about to leave the safe zone."

He hung up the phone.

Bei Nuan felt a sense of loss, grabbed the TV remote, and switched between the limited number of channels.

Jiang Fei passed by and casually asked, "Are those two okay?"

"They're fine," Bei Nuan replied.

But in her heart, she was frantically complaining: Transmigrators! Big liars!!

She completely forgot that she was also a transmigrator and a big liar.

Now that Bei Nuan thought about it, Jiang Fei was indeed a little strange.

In the book, Jiang Fei used a staff, a half-person-high iron staff that was strong and powerful, but this Jiang Fei took the agility route, using a dagger.

Moreover, the Jiang Fei in the book came out of prison, was ruthless and didn't talk much, unlike this Jiang Fei, who was so scheming.

Bei Nuan had thought that this was because she had chosen Lu Xingchi, which had caused Jiang Fei's personality to change.

Now it seemed that he had really been replaced.

If Jiang Fei was a transmigrator, he probably had some kind of power, but after being together for so long, Bei Nuan hadn't seen it at all.

He was very smart, his knife was fast, but it was still a normal human's speed.

What could his power be?

The only time he acted strangely was after Du Ruo was infected with the virus. At the fork in the road, Jiang Fei said that he dreamed that Du Ruo would be safe and suggested that the team go to Shui City.

Apart from that, there was nothing special about him at all.

While Bei Nuan was lost in thought, the doorbell rang. Jiang Fei went to take a look and let the person in.

It was Fang Liming from Lu Ding's office.

He had already come once yesterday. After entering the door today, he still kept looking at this beautiful house.

No. 1 Garden Road was too mysterious, and everyone was curious about it.

Fang Liming said that Lu Ding wanted Bei Nuan to go over.

Bei Nuan asked, "Is there something important?"

Fang Liming glanced at Jiang Fei and Tang Tang next to her, hesitated for a moment, and still explained, "It's about the power you used in Fa Man Ancient City."

Last time in Fa Man Ancient City, Bei Nuan raised her hand and separated the boundless sea of corpses, guiding everyone into the ancient city.

The power was too mysterious, and Bei Nuan knew that this matter would be exposed sooner or later.

It was probably someone who had reported it to Lu Ding.

Bei Nuan followed Fang Liming into Lu Ding's special car. Only after driving out of Garden Road did Fang Liming turn around from the front seat and tell Bei Nuan the situation in detail.

"Last time you used your power outside Fa Man Ancient City, somehow, it reached the ears of the U Country commissioner. He said that we were hiding things, that we had special people in our hands and didn't tell everyone."

Fang Liming's expression was a little worried.

"The U Country commissioner has been making trouble for us all along. General Lu hopes you can go over there and confront the U Country commissioner face to face. Just insist that there is no power at all, that it's all rumors, and he will figure out how to deal with the rest."

So it was just lying. It wasn't a big deal for Bei Nuan.

Fang Liming said, "They are now in the military base outside the city, not far from here. General Lu has already gone there himself."

The car left Ye Ruo City and drove for about half an hour, arriving at a heavily guarded military base.

Fang Liming probably had a military rank, as everyone saluted him, and they passed through without any obstacles.

He wasn't wearing a military uniform, but he still nodded politely to everyone, leading Bei Nuan through layers of checkpoints to the underground section.

As soon as they entered the underground, their phones were confiscated.

Fang Liming explained apologetically, "This is the rule, but it's useless to keep them anyway. All kinds of signals are blocked inside."

The underground was a series of doors, heavily fortified, and there were hardly any people to be seen.

Bei Nuan followed him along the long corridor.

Because she had been in the car for too long, Bei Nuan stretched her arms as she walked, then suddenly paused and stopped.

"What's wrong?" Fang Liming turned back.

"Fang Liming, let me ask you a question."

Bei Nuan looked at him. "When you picked us up for supper that night, we were eating. What kind of dumplings did I ask you to try? Were they shepherd's purse or three-delicacy filling?"

Fang Liming was stunned for a moment, then put on a sincere expression.

"Why are you suddenly asking this? I really can't remember clearly. It seems like they were three-delicacy, right?"

Before he could finish speaking, he found that he had been stabbed through the heart by a long metal spike.

"Stupid," Bei Nuan said. "We had hot pot that day. There were no dumplings at all."

In the instant he went limp, the disguise on his body disappeared, turning into a middle-aged fat man weighing more than two hundred pounds.

This was another power user.

When he came to pick up Bei Nuan today, Bei Nuan had vaguely felt that something was wrong.

She could understand him sitting in the front seat as respect, and she could also understand him keeping a distance while walking as respect.

The problem was that when Bei Nuan stretched her arms just now, her fingertips touched something.

But there was only air there. There was nothing.

Bei Nuan was a little distance away from him. Logically, she wouldn't have touched him when she stretched her arms, but she had strangely touched him.

This situation was very similar to when Bei Nuan last turned invisible and became a butterfly phantom. Although her body couldn't be seen, her physical form was still there, and she could still touch others.

This thin Fang Liming was probably also a phantom.

This person's actual width was much wider than it appeared.

As expected, he was an imposter.

Bei Nuan squatted down and tapped him, skillfully putting his body into her space. When she stood up again, she suddenly grew taller, turning into Fang Liming's appearance.

In this base, if he could get in with Fang Liming's appearance, he could definitely get out.

Bei Nuan turned around and walked back.

After only a few steps, clapping sounds suddenly came from somewhere.

"Amazing. As expected of the protagonist."

It was Shang Yan's pleasant baritone.

Bei Nuan immediately turned her head.

The corridor looked empty, with only the pale white lights illuminating the ground and walls. There was no one else there.

"Don't bother looking. I'm above you."

Bei Nuan looked up and saw a loudspeaker above.

Shang Yan's voice came from the loudspeaker. "Now that you're already here, don't retreat anymore. Keep going forward, my heroine."

The door behind Bei Nuan automatically clicked, as if it had been locked.

Bei Nuan ignored Shang Yan and walked to the door, wanting to see if there were any gaps left on the door.

"Don't waste your effort trying to get out. Even if you can get out, all the people outside are my people," Shang Yan said.

Bei Nuan was looking for a crack in the door when her vision suddenly lowered, returning to her usual low altitude.

Her transformation had disappeared.

Bei Nuan opened the taskbar and saw that the countdown for "Do As You Please" had reached zero.

It was really good timing.

Without the power of transformation, it would be a little troublesome.

Bei Nuan temporarily crammed and pulled the handle of "Fun Little Task."

Heaven never cuts off all means of escape. What if she got an easy task and a new power?

As soon as she pulled the handle, a window popped up, with the words:

All fun little tasks in this batch have been completed. We wish the host a happy transmigratory life and happiness every day!

Bei Nuan was silent: Thank you.

"Xiao San, are you doing this on purpose?" Bei Nuan called out to Xiao San in her mind.

Xiao San's voice came, but it didn't answer Bei Nuan's question. Instead, it solemnly said, "Bei Nuan, unlock the ultimate task of the Saint Mother mission—The Saint Mother's Choice."

The name didn't sound good.

Bei Nuan asked, "Why do I have to keep doing tasks? What if I don't do it?"

Xiao San's tone was serious. "This task is very important and is closely related to the fate of this world. I strongly suggest you do it."

Bei Nuan weighed it in her heart.

The Saint Mother value progress bar had been penalized by the monitoring system, and now it was missing a large chunk. Given the usual rate of increase in Saint Mother value, she would have to do a big task to fill it up.

Although Bei Nuan didn't plan to leave now, there was always a chance of something unexpected happening.

What if, due to some special situation, Lu Xingchi really went to Ge Ta City by mistake, ending the plot? If Bei Nuan's Saint Mother value wasn't full by then, she would be completely done for.

She would really be sent back to the original world and run over by a truck.

So the safest and most appropriate way was to fill up her Saint Mother value.

With a full Saint Mother value in hand, she could attack or defend, whether she wanted to leave or stay.

Bei Nuan pushed the locked door, complaining in her heart: What "Saint Mother's Choice"? There was no choice at all. She could only move forward.

Bei Nuan calmly turned around, left the locked door, and continued forward along the corridor.

Shang Yan's low laughter came. "That's more like it."

One door after another opened automatically for Bei Nuan. At the end was a very special room.

The room was large, with computers, various complex instruments, and large display screens on the walls. There were also control consoles in front of the display screens.

Bei Nuan saw Shang Yan at a glance.

He was sitting elegantly in a glass cubicle next to her, leisurely spinning his chair.

"You're here?"

Shang Yan raised a hand and greeted Bei Nuan with a relaxed expression.

"Sorry, I can't come out and shake hands with you for the time being. You're the protagonist, and I think it's safer to hide in a bulletproof glass room."

He even had the mind to chat idly. "I heard you moved into No. 1 Garden Road? As expected of the protagonist's treatment."

Bei Nuan ignored him, silently calculating in her heart: With this layer of bulletproof glass in the middle, is it really impossible to kill him?

He smiled at Bei Nuan. "Do you know where this is?"

Bei Nuan honestly replied, "No."

Shang Yan patiently explained, "This is the control room for U577. I put in a lot of effort and killed countless people to finally get my hands on it."

So it was U577. Last time when they were having supper at Lu Ding's place, they said it was a new type of particle beam weapon that could melt an entire city.

Shang Yan continued, "Aren't you curious as to why I want to control U577?"

Bei Nuan thought: Not really. You just want to say it yourself, right? Just say it if you want to.

Sure enough, Shang Yan asked and answered himself, "Because last night I received news that the vaccines, inhibitors, shielding agents, and conversion agents in Song Ce's hands are all effective, and they have already started clinical trials."

Bei Nuan couldn't help but smile.

Shang Yan saw her happy expression and frowned. "You're very happy? I'm very unhappy. This virus outbreak was originally a great opportunity for Tix."

He sighed. "You don't understand my suffering."

"Tix is too old," he said. "In recent years, it has expanded too much, and the internal bureaucracy is even worse than the government. It's very difficult to transform. In recent years, new competitors have emerged one after another. If Tix doesn't take a gamble, it's going to be over."

"Fortunately, there was this virus outbreak."

He let out a long breath, his gratified tone making Bei Nuan want to beat him up.

He said, "As long as we seize the opportunity, and continue to develop at this rate, controlling the economic lifeline of the new world will be no problem at all."

Bei Nuan thought of the ubiquitous Tix logos in Ye Ruo City.

Bei Nuan couldn't help but ask, "If the virus is defeated, and the whole world has to be rebuilt, isn't that also a good opportunity to make money?"

Shang Yan shook his head.

"Tix happens to have a large number of assets within the safe zone. Maintaining the status quo is the most beneficial for us."

Shang Yan said in a calculating tone.

"The infected area and the safe zone are in a tug-of-war. The alliance will continue to need our energy, minerals, weapons, and production lines. They will also be more dependent on us, and our power can continue to grow."

Shang Yan smiled. "If Song Ce's vaccine comes out and solves all the problems, and we take back the infected area, what will we play with?"

Bei Nuan was silent. "Aren't you afraid of messing up and the whole world perishing with you?"

"No," Shang Yan said. "We have some of Song Ce's previous research data in our hands, so our research progress is already faster than our competitors. I think it's great to be ahead of everyone but not completely solving the virus."

Bei Nuan thought of their knockoff shielding agents that were causing alliance soldiers to die, and gnashed her teeth.

Shang Yan said, "That's how it was in my previous life. Even when Lu Ding turned against me and killed me a year later, it hadn't collapsed yet."

Bei Nuan remembered that Shang Yan had said himself that he was reborn.

Because he was reborn, he had already sent Huo Ren to hunt down Song Ce when the virus broke out.

It seemed that he should have been reborn around the time of the virus outbreak, otherwise he would have attacked Song Ce earlier.

Bei Nuan bluntly asked him, "You've been reborn once, so what is your power?"

Bei Nuan didn't think he would answer, but Shang Yan did.

"My power is very good. Although it's ineffective on myself, others like it very much. Bei Nuan, you'll like it in the future too."

He played coy, pausing for a moment.

"I can strip a power user of their power and give it to another power user. Otherwise, why do you think Huo Ren would obediently listen to me? First, he's afraid that I'll take away his power. Second, he dreams of having another offensive power."

What he said sounded true.

Huo Ren was the kind of person who could only be arrogant with a small gun every day. He probably wanted a power that could attack others, right?

That's why he was forced to run errands for Shang Yan everywhere.

Shang Yan chuckled softly. "Bei Nuan, imagine what you could get if you cooperated with me? I can turn you into a human weapon."

Bei Nuan was silent. "I don't want to become a human weapon."

"You really have no ambition." He clicked his tongue and looked at Bei Nuan, lamenting, "It's really unfair. Why are you the protagonist and I'm not?"

Bei Nuan was puzzled. "Why are you so sure that I'm the protagonist?"

Shang Yan frankly replied, "Because my reborn mission is to report to you when you arrive in the safe zone."

Shang Yan cleared his throat. "So Bei Nuan, I invited you here today to work closely together and complete an important task."

"Look at the control console in front of you," Shang Yan said. "That's the control console for U577."

Bei Nuan glanced at it. The control console was large, with various buttons and keyboards. In front of it was a monitor that showed the same thing as the large screen on the wall—

It was a map.

It seemed to be a satellite map, with green mountains and yellow wastelands, as well as rivers and lakes.

The most conspicuous thing on the map was a red circle.

The red circle kept flashing, circling a place filled with gray-white buildings that looked like a small city.

Shang Yan said, "Lu Ding sent Song Ce and his things to a secret base. He's guarding against me, and I have no way to send people to infiltrate it. But U577's particle beam can easily penetrate underground, so I plan to burn Song Ce and the entire base to ashes."

Shang Yan's tone was relaxed, as if he was talking about casually setting off fireworks.

"The launch key for U577 changes every day and is in Lu Ding's hands. I had someone turn into Fang Liming and steal the key, but it can only be used once. But once is enough."

Bei Nuan asked, "Aren't you afraid that the alliance will settle accounts with you afterward if you do this?"

Shang Yan smiled. "The forces of various countries in the alliance are already fighting fiercely. I have many loopholes to exploit. Besides, once Song Ce's vaccine and conversion agent are gone, the alliance has no better way out than to continue cooperating with me. Why would they make trouble for me?"

"See the launch button on the control console?" Shang Yan said. "Put your little hand on it, and let's burn the base together. How about it?"

Bei Nuan looked speechlessly at Shang Yan sitting in the glass cubicle.

Bei Nuan asked, "Do you think I'm an idiot?"

"Of course I don't think you're an idiot," Shang Yan replied seriously. "So take a closer look at the map. Where is the destruction target circled in red?"

Bei Nuan carefully looked at the map on the screen and saw the words clearly.

It was Bo Li City.

The Bo Li City where Lu Xingchi and Du Ruo were now.

Bei Nuan broke out in a cold sweat.

Shang Yan observed Bei Nuan's expression. "This really wasn't set by me. The alliance has always set the first launch target of U577 as Bo Li City. I just released a false message to lure your boyfriend over there."

Bei Nuan thought, This bastard. He deliberately released the message that there were mutated zombies in Bo Li City, so that Lu Xingchi and Du Ruo would go there.

"Don't be afraid," Shang Yan said. "So I used the key to set an alternate second target, which is the location of the secret base where Song Ce is."

Shang Yan waved a small black box in his hand. There was a button on the box.

"If you don't press the launch, I'll help you press it. Once you press the launch, you can't stop it without the key."

"Bei Nuan, if you want to save your boyfriend, just click '2' on the keyboard. U577 will automatically switch to the alternate target and burn the secret base where Song Ce and the vaccine are. Your precious boyfriend will be safe."

This person was a madman.

Bei Nuan completely didn't understand. What good would it do him to have her change the target of U577 to Song Ce's base?

As if knowing what she was thinking, Shang Yan spoke again.

"The monitoring here will record everything. You chose to save your boyfriend and personally destroy the extremely important vaccine."

"This is your pledge of allegiance. I will send the monitoring record to Tix and keep this secret for you. From now on, you will truly stand on the same side as me, and we will always work together, what do you say, my protagonist?"

This was his real purpose.

Bei Nuan looked at him, unable to speak.

A particle beam wasn't a cannonball. Even Lu Xingchi was powerless against it.

Shang Yan suddenly spun his chair. "Bei Nuan, you've actually destroyed the vaccine once before."

Bei Nuan: ?

"In my previous life before I was reborn, Tix obtained all of Song Ce's research data. After a rival company found out, they sent a spy to steal it."

"When we sent people to chase him down, he hid in the canyon outside Ge Ta City. Later, someone blew up the mountain, blowing him and the data to smithereens. We only found a little bit of wreckage."

"I've seen the internal data. It was you who blew up the mountain outside Ge Ta City."

Bei Nuan understood. He was talking about the Bei Nuan in the book.

When she blew up the mountain to save Ge Ta City, she probably didn't think that the mountain also contained humanity's last hope against the virus.

People weren't gods. They couldn't really know which choice was the right one.

"So it's okay to do it again," Shang Yan said.

Bei Nuan ignored him.

"Xiao San, get your ass out here," Bei Nuan said in her mind. "Is what he said about U577 true?"

"That's right," Xiao San replied. "This is the ultimate task, the Saint Mother's Choice. The hope of the entire world and Lu Xingchi, which one do you choose?"

The Bei Nuan in the book chose to sacrifice the team to save a city of people.

Bei Nuan's situation was even worse than hers.

Once Song Ce's vaccine and conversion agent were put into production, this world would be saved.

People would no longer be afraid of being infected with the virus, and countless zombies would return to normal. The whole world would return to normal.

But on the other side of the scale was Lu Xingchi.

That gentle, considerate Lu Xingchi who understood her best in the world.

Shang Yan's voice was soft and low, very tempting.

"Bei Nuan, with just a light click, your Lu Xingchi will safely return to No. 1 Garden Road. You can get married, have children, and your children will run around on the big lawn in the backyard. Think about it."

Bei Nuan seemed to see it.

The sun shone on the lawn of No. 1 Garden Road.

He was wearing a white shirt and sitting in a wicker chair under a parasol, flipping through a book.

The laughter of children came in waves, and the pattering sound of little feet running.

But such a scene blurred.

Bei Nuan seemed to cross the Pu Si Plain, cross the blue Jia La Bay, and cross the majestic Ka Lun Mountain. She saw the cities ravaged by zombies and the unattended fields she had seen along the way.

She saw the survivors in the city who were still waiting for their relatives to return home, Little Ji's mother's kind smile, the expectant eyes of the tribe, and Jia Han standing on the high sentry post, the corner of his white robe fluttering.

Shang Yan on the other side of the glass raised the small box in his hand.

"Okay. I'm going to press the launch button. You have one last minute to change the target."

He had a look of watching a show on his face and pressed the button on the small box.

The red light flashed, and the sound of a one-minute countdown immediately filled the entire room, "Fifty-nine, fifty-eight…"

"Click '2'," Shang Yan tempted Bei Nuan. "Just click it lightly."

This world wasn't an absolute thought experiment, Bei Nuan thought. Maybe there was a third way to go.

"Xiao San," Bei Nuan said in her mind, "Saint Mother value for task hint."

The Saint Mother value immediately decreased by a chunk.

Bei Nuan ignored the Saint Mother value and asked Xiao San, "If I blow up this control room, will U577 still launch?"

Xiao San replied, "If the control room is damaged, U577 will automatically activate the protection mechanism and will not launch, but Bei Nuan…"

Bei Nuan interrupted him, "Use Saint Mother value for task hint again."

The Saint Mother value decreased by another chunk.

Bei Nuan asked, "Can Shang Yan's little broken glass withstand the explosion?"

Xiao San replied, "That's bulletproof and explosion-proof glass, but if it's an explosion that can blow up the entire control room, it's useless. Bei Nuan…"

Bei Nuan let out a breath.

Very good. She would drag him down with her even if she died.

In the next moment, a large pile of miscellaneous things suddenly appeared in the control room.

There were various statues of gods, shrines, scattered tables and chairs, and colorful curtains, as well as the fat man from just now.

Most importantly, the clutter was mixed with countless explosives and detonators.

Leaving the upper layer of Bei Nuan's time-frozen space, the countdown on the explosive timer immediately began to tick.

"What is this?"

Shang Yan's face changed.

Bei Nuan looked at him with pity. "People like you, for your own sake, for power, for profit, go against your conscience and do all kinds of immoral things. If you have a chance in the next life, you don't have to be a Saint Mother. Just be a person."

Bei Nuan pressed a small thing tightly into the palm of her hand.

It was a little rough. It was the button from Lu Xingchi's coat.

Small, black, matte, with an exquisite emblem cast on it. He had once manipulated it to fly across the wide river and fall into her palm.

Bei Nuan thought: Rabbit Mama, Little Rabbit is really leaving this time.

A flash of white light, followed by a fierce sense of impact and a violent tearing sensation.

She didn't know how long it had been.

Maybe it was short, maybe it was long.

Bei Nuan found herself in a strange place. It was pitch black all around, and she couldn't see anything.

"Bei Nuan."

It was Xiao San's voice.

"This is a special space. I can only keep you here for a short time."

Bei Nuan hummed.

Xiao San asked, "Do you know what will happen if you kill yourself when the plot hasn't ended?"

"The task will be considered a failure, and I'll be sent back to the original world," Bei Nuan said sullenly. "I'll die the first half here, and then go back to be run over by a truck in the second half."

Xiao San's voice sounded furious. "You knew that and you still dared to do it?"

Then he sighed. "You're about to die. Aren't you afraid?"

"I'm afraid," Bei Nuan admitted.

She was about to die, and she was going to be crushed by a huge thing, dying a miserable death. She was so scared that her teeth were chattering.

"Do you regret it?" Xiao San asked.

"I don't regret it," Bei Nuan said, shaking her head tremblingly, her face pale. "If I had to do it again, I would still do it."

Xiao San was amused by her.

Bei Nuan thought: Maybe she was really destined to die. After all, she was someone who had received an F grade.

Xiao San said, "The flow of time here is different from that world. It's much, much slower. Many things have happened in that world. Do you want to hear what your death has brought about?"

Bei Nuan was a little apprehensive. "I want to."

Xiao San said, "Shang Yan is dead. Tix is leaderless. Lu Ding sealed up the company and his home on Garden Road and collected evidence. The alliance has stopped cooperating with Tix. It's estimated that they will completely collapse."

"What about the vaccine?" Bei Nuan quickly asked.

"The vaccine and conversion agent have been produced in small batches. The alliance army is piloting injections, and the effect is very good. Mass production will begin soon."

Bei Nuan breathed a sigh of relief.

It was worth it.

It took her a long time to dare to ask, "Lu Xingchi… is he okay?"

"How could he be okay?"

Bei Nuan was a little guilty, and was silent for a while, before saying, "I hope that even without me, he can live well in that world."

Xiao San was quiet for a moment. "You can now understand your father's feelings."

Bei Nuan: ?

Xiao San continued, "Actually, I know your father."

Bei Nuan: ??

"After your father passed away, because of his upright character, he was selected to take on the management of the experimental world, just like me. I'm very familiar with him."

So her father really wasn't dead?

Bei Nuan's heart was about to jump out.

Ever since she walked into Room 602, the vague thought had been there, Bei Nuan never dared to face it, and didn't dare to believe it, but it had actually come true.

Xiao San said, "Your father said that after he died, your mental state was very wrong. He called it 'post-traumatic stress disorder' or something? It made him very worried."

"Later, you had a car accident. Your father used all the points he had accumulated over the years of working for the system to exchange for a chance for you to enter the experimental world as a host."

"Because he wanted to avoid suspicion, he switched with me and went to a remote world to do emotional experiments on the Wa people, letting me take care of you in this world, within the scope of the system's responsibilities."

Xiao San sighed again.

"I originally thought you would stay in this world, or complete the task and return to the original world, and live a stable life. I didn't expect you to choose this in the end."

Bei Nuan was quiet for a while, before saying, "Help me tell my father that I really, really miss him."

"Okay," Xiao San agreed, and then said, "Bei Nuan, open your task interface."

Only then did Bei Nuan realize that the task interface could still be opened.

The Saint Mother value progress bar was still shining green, especially bright in the dark background, and it was already full.

Xiao San explained, "Lu Xingchi has seen the monitoring and knows what happened in the U577 control room, so your Saint Mother value has increased again."

Bei Nuan regretted, "It's a pity to have saved so much Saint Mother value."

Xiao San said calmly, "Actually, you can still use Saint Mother value to exchange for things now. What do you want to exchange for?"

Really?

Bei Nuan thought seriously and asked Xiao San, "Can I exchange for a healthy body?"

"Of course you can. You can use Saint Mother value to exchange for the body you're using now," Xiao San suggested, and then said, "But what's the use of exchanging it? You'll still be crushed by a truck."

"It doesn't matter. I'll exchange it to be happy for a while. What else can I exchange for?" Bei Nuan asked.

"You can also exchange for a portable space, and the various powers you've used. Each one requires a different amount of Saint Mother value."

Bei Nuan's heart skipped a beat.

She carefully asked, "Do you mean I can bring the powers back to the original world?"

Xiao San calmly replied, "That's right, you can. So what do you want to exchange for? Wait a moment, I'll give you a price list for the Saint Mother value required for the exchange."

The price list was displayed on Bei Nuan's interface, with each good thing having a corresponding Saint Mother value.

Bei Nuan began to calculate frantically.

The most ideal power was time reversal, but it was too expensive. If she exchanged for that, she wouldn't have enough points to exchange for this body.

Bei Nuan calculated back and forth, studied it for a long time, and finally solemnly said to Xiao San, "I plan to exchange for a portable space, my current body, and a 'Do As You Please' transformation power."

The Saint Mother value that she had worked so hard to save was just enough to use up, without wasting a single drop.

"The portable space is still on your navel ring," Xiao San said.

Bei Nuan nodded, opened the space, and saw that everything inside was there.

"I'm going to send you back to the original world now," Xiao San said. "Bei Nuan, goodbye."

Bei Nuan smiled slightly. He said "goodbye."

A dizzying sensation.

Suddenly, everything around her brightened, and Bei Nuan found herself standing on the sidewalk by the side of the road.

Next to her was her familiar residential complex. Bei Nuan was still wearing her bear pajamas, but she was in the healthy body from the mission world, with that pure face that was easy to deceive.

However, Bei Nuan couldn't care about that, because the large truck delivering goods to the supermarket was right next to her, dangerously tipping over towards her.

Bei Nuan immediately planned to activate her transformation.

Turning into a flat piece of soft rubber, she was already flat, so how much flatter could she get?

However, before Bei Nuan could transform, something strange happened.

The large truck miraculously righted itself and charged straight in the other direction, screeching and braking urgently before coming to a stop.

While Bei Nuan was still confused, she was pulled into a warm embrace.

Bei Nuan struggled to turn around and looked up.

It was Lu Xingchi.

He still looked very handsome, just a bit haggard, with red eyes.

Seeing him in this world felt very strange.

He held her tightly in his arms, using real strength, and Bei Nuan was choked until she couldn't breathe.

"I knew you would find a way to save yourself," he said softly, "but this time, we beat you to it."

Only then did Bei Nuan see that Du Ruo, Jiang Fei, and even Tang Tang were all there.

"You… how can you come here?"

Du Ruo was examining this unfamiliar world, casually pointing at Jiang Fei, "He brought us all over."

Bei Nuan stared at Jiang Fei, speechless, "So your ability is to travel through time and space?"

"No," Jiang Fei replied with a smile, "My ability is to save people."

Save people?

Jiang Fei explained, "I also transmigrated to that world. The system's task for me was to accumulate 'Green Tea Value'. During the accumulation process, when the Green Tea Value reached one-third, two-thirds, and full completion, I could exchange it for three opportunities to save people other than myself."

Bei Nuan was silent: Poor Jiang Fei, he actually had to accumulate Green Tea Value, which sounded even worse than her Holy Value.

No wonder he was so understanding when helping Bei Nuan with her missions; they were in the same boat.

Jiang Fei smiled, "I used the first saving opportunity on Du Ruo. At that time, Du Ruo was infected with the zombie virus, and the system told me to take him to Water University, saying that we would find someone who could save him there."

Jiang Fei said, "After that, I didn't seriously do any more missions, because as long as I didn't complete the Green Tea mission, I could stay in that world forever."

Bei Nuan thought she had misheard.

"Not completing the system mission allows you to stay in that world forever?"

The punishment for others not completing their missions was Bei Nuan's dream of "staying in that world forever"?

Bei Nuan no longer felt grateful that Little Three had let her go in the end; she was tempted to drag Little Three out and beat him to death.

Jiang Fei said, "My Green Tea progress is at forty-something percent. I have to leave myself some leeway, because it's still slowly increasing."

Bei Nuan understood.

Even though he wasn't seriously doing missions, he still seemed quite "Green Tea".

Bei Nuan was the same. She was used to doing missions, and being "Green Tea" came naturally from the depths of her being, just as being "Holy" came naturally from the depths of hers.

"But after you had an accident, I suddenly realized that your name was still on the list of target characters I could save," Jiang Fei said.

Lu Xingchi added, "And strangely, I can still feel your little navel ring."

"Your location is very close to me, as if it's somewhere in my heart," Lu Xingchi said, "I even feel like you're holding something in your hand, like my button."

Bei Nuan understood. When she was staying in Little Three's peculiar space, Lu Xingchi could still feel her.

"And you're moving, moving very slowly, but definitely moving."

The time flow in Little Three's space was different from that world, so in Lu Xingchi's perception, Bei Nuan's movements would appear as very slow slow-motion.

"So we thought you should still be alive," Lu Xingchi said.

Jiang Fei continued, "I planned to quickly accumulate enough Green Tea Value to save people again. Although I couldn't tell Lu Xingchi directly, fortunately, he's smart and understood what I meant."

The corners of Du Ruo's mouth twitched into a painful angle, "Bei Nuan, you don't know, Jiang Fei was accumulating Green Tea Value towards Lu Xingchi day and night," Du Ruo shuddered, "These past two days have been terrifying."

Jiang Fei said cheerfully, "We finally accumulated enough. The system gave me a chance to travel through time, allowing me to send Lu Xingchi over. It said that as long as Lu Xingchi was there, he would definitely be able to save you, and you would be safe. After saving you, he would bring you back."

Lu Xingchi added, "Then we'll all go to Gotha City together. Your mission is over, so going to Gotha City has nothing to do with you. Jiang Fei's Green Tea Value isn't full, so his mission is considered a failure, and he can stay there forever, while my mission is completed, and I'll continue to retain my metal ability."

Bei Nuan looked at him in surprise, "You can discuss missions with me now?"

Lu Xingchi smiled, "I asked, we're not in the mission world now, so it's okay."

Bei Nuan breathed a long sigh of relief.

"The time we can stay is limited, shall we go back?" Lu Xingchi reached out and put his arm around Bei Nuan.

"Okay." Bei Nuan looked up at him with a bright smile, and reached out to hug his waist.

The figures of the group disappeared into thin air on the sidewalk.

However, no one noticed this, as the road was in chaos.

Someone noticed that the large truck that had just braked suddenly had run someone over.

Several people gathered around.

"It looks like a woman was run over."

"She's from the family compound next door, isn't she the daughter of that family?"

"I know, a few years ago, her boyfriend brought a knife to her workplace to attack her, and a colleague died protecting her."

Several people shook their heads and sighed.

"That's fate. You think you're safe, but after several years, you still can't escape."

Someone wondered, "Why did the truck suddenly lose control?"

"Didn't you hear? Just now there was a loud bang, like something fell on the road."

Several people craned their necks to look towards the middle of the road.

Not just the truck, but all the cars on the road were stopped haphazardly because they had braked suddenly.

In the middle of the road was a pit, and in the pit lay a meteorite.

On the sidewalk, a young man with a likable appearance and a backpack walked by. He didn't join the crowd watching the excitement like the others.

He only glanced at the meteorite and asked in his mind, "System, is that meteorite the one that brought the virus that can mutate plants and animals?"

The voice in his mind replied, "That's right. But don't worry, you have a newbie halo now."

At the same time.

In another indescribable, strange space.

Little Three added a sentence to the end of the mission file:

[Host has successfully completed the Holy Mother mission, becoming the first person to truly complete the Holy Mother mission among all the experimental worlds. Mission rewards have been issued, and the host has chosen a portable space, a healthy body, and the transformation ability.]

Little Three closed the file and archived it.

He sighed softly to himself, "I knew you could do it. After all, you are your father's daughter."

(The End)

Author's Note:

Nuan Nuan's mission is complete, hooray~

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