When Chen Xiaolian finished telling everything, cigarette butts that had been scattered on the floor in front of Lan Hai were already scattered.

"You mean... I used to have the same weird ability as you? And, I've died twice?"

"Stronger than me. At least, before I get the power of the Sky Sword." At this point, Chen Xiaolian smiled bitterly: "But now, not only the power of the Sky Sword, but also my own power is gone for the time being."

"So...what evidence do you have?" Lan Hai pondered for a while and said slowly: "About what you said, the truth of this world, the development team, the players, the awakeners, the loopholes, and... you once knew me."

"Evidence?" Chen Xiaolian smiled: "Mr. Lan Hai, as a soldier in the Celestial Empire, you should be a pure atheist. But you did not disappear after you died, but came to this strange place, met me and those monsters, isn't this enough evidence?"

"Not enough." Lan Hai shook his head.

"Okay." Chen Xiaolian also lit a cigarette for himself: "Then, after listening to the next thing, you will believe it."

"If you say it, I will naturally judge."

"You know, I'm looking for a girl named Jojo, who is my girlfriend. But have I told you what her father's name is?"

Lan Hai frowned: "Your girlfriend, how do I know who her father is?"

Chen Xiaolian stared at Lan Hai and said word by word: "Qiao Qiao's father - named Qiao Yifeng."

Lan Hai's eyes stern: "Qiao Yifeng? Which Qiao Yifeng?"

"Which other Qiao Yifeng can there be?" Chen Xiaolian smiled: "The team you are in Zero City is called Daoshan Fire Sea. Mountain is Qiao Yifeng, Hai, and it is your Blue Ocean."

Blue Ocean was silent for a moment: "Where is the knife and fire?"

"I don't know the names of the two of them." Chen Xiaolian spread his hands: "I only know that Tiandao has a son, who is a fat man, and Pilihuo... is a woman. Her sister is Qiao Yifeng's wife, that is, Qiao Qiao's mother."

"..." The cigarette in Lan Hai's hand burned between the two fingers of food and hot, and then his fingers trembled, threw away the cigarette butts, and stomped on the floor: "I understand. It was Liang Feng and... Cui Yunyan. But in my memory, Liang Feng does have a son, but although Qiao Yifeng married Cui Yunyan's sister, they had never had a daughter until she died."

Chen Xiaolian stretched out a finger and pointed above his head: "I told you before that when the awakened person dies, those guys in the upper world... or the system will forge a memory for you, including all the memories of ordinary people related to you. But those who have loopholes like me and Qiao Qiao are different. When we die, the system will completely delete all the memories of us in the minds of ordinary people."

"You... say it more in detail." Lan Hai concentratingly thought, not letting go of every word Chen Xiaolian said.

Chen Xiaolian thought for a while: "Tiandao... is Liang Feng in your mouth, who died as an awakened person. After he dies, he will be refreshed to become an ordinary person. In his mind and in the minds of others around him, his experience as an awakened person does not exist at all, but the system will fabricate another experience of his life as an ordinary person, so that everyone, including him, can believe it. But all the awakened people who have been in contact with Tiandao, such as you, can still remember that he was Tiandao.

"Well..." Lu Leya nodded, stood up, walked to the door, and when he was about to turn around, he suddenly turned his head and looked at Chen Xiaolian: "That..."

Chen Xiaolian looked at Lu Leya and waited for him to continue talking, but Lu Leya just shook her head and forced a smile: "It's nothing...I...I'm leaving."

Lureya walked out of the room, closed the door, stood on the path between the lawn, took a deep breath, looked up at the nature for a long time, and squatted down slowly and softly.

"Are we... really... destined to die no matter what?"

...

In the backyard, Lan Hai and Chen Xiaolian were walking side by side on the lawn.

This is a typical American town home with a wide lawn in the backyard, but it is already a little messy due to the long-term lack of construction.

"After fighting with Wuya, you were injured." Lan Hai said lightly: "Although I don't know how serious the injury is, if it were you, we wouldn't have been so embarrassed when we saw those ants in the desert."

"That's right." Chen Xiaolian nodded.

"So, I'm very suspicious that you really have the ability to rescue Old Joe's daughter alone now."

Chen Xiaolian shook his head: "My injuries are slowly recovering, and all I need is time. And... I don't plan to confront that covenant head-on. When I see the person in the covenant, I will surrender directly. They want to imprison me, and I will always have the chance to see Qiao Qiao."

"Time? Do you have this thing?" Lan Hai thought for a while: "I still have to go with you."

"I said, you are just an ordinary person now." Chen Xiaolian shook his head firmly: "If something happens, you will die. Moreover, you have something else to do."

"What's up?"

"These... people. people in the town." Chen Xiaolian stretched out his hand and drew a circle around: "The cleanup work that those loopholes are doing will be here sooner or later. There is no hidden measure in this town. If it is discovered, what will happen?"

Lan Hai sneered: "So, what should I do?"

"Of course I took them to transfer." Chen Xiaolian was surprised: "You... don't plan to care about them?"

Lan Hai sighed, sat down on a beach chair next to the lawn, and looked at Chen Xiaolian with a strange look: "So, tell me where to transfer?"

"..." Chen Xiaolian was speechless for a while.

"Do you know that in this world, there are very few environments suitable for human habitation like this." A grass was lingering gently on his fingertips: "The copies around this town are either deserts, Gobi, and even ruins after the war. After more than a hundred of us, we, have left here, do you think we can still survive?"

"Yes, you said it." Chen Xiaolian sighed and nodded.

"You remember why I took people to Manhattan copy, right? The food here is almost consumed." Lan Hai said lightly: "This town is not big, there is only a commercial street. The food in the grocery store has been no replenished. In the past few months, it has been almost overwhelming. At first, we didn't expect that we would take it at will. It was not until recently that we started to concentrate the food together and began to implement the rationing system. But even so, it won't last long. Judging from the current reserves, we can eat it for about a week at most."

"More than 100 people here..." Chen Xiaolian frowned: "Even if I brought back the food before, I was just a small amount, I'm afraid I won't be able to hold on for a day, right?"

"It's a little bit to bring back. The main purpose is to find a place to migrate. We originally thought that the Manhattan dungeon would be a good choice, but... you also saw that there were covenants to hunt down, and that kind of monster... I don't know if there are any remaining living."

"Do you plan to let them all stay here and wait for death?"

"Waiting to die..." Lan Hai raised his head and looked at Chen Xiaolian with a faint smile on his face: "Aren't we already dead?"

“…”

"About this, I have died twice, right? When I was in Zero City, I died as an awakened person and was refreshed into an ordinary person with no previous memory. This is what you told me. Then... more than a month ago, I died in the explosion point that was triggered in advance during the live-fire exercise. This is what I remember. I originally... had already lived enough."

Lan Hai stood up and breathed a long sigh: "In Manhattan, you talked with Wuya for a long time, and finally the war started. At that time, you just wanted to protect me. But... Since this is just a recycling bin, we can survive until now, just because of the operation of this world. Whether it is killed by the loopholes in the covenant or automatically cleared by the system, our ending has long been destined, right?"

"……yes."

Chen Xiaolian could only nod honestly.

In his previous narrative, he deliberately vaguely mentioned this part without saying it too much.

But even so, Blue Ocean still keenly captured the core of the problem.

Although it has been refreshed back to ordinary people, the wise blue ocean will always be the wise blue ocean.

"And, this time the death is eternal, completely lost." Lan Hai walked towards the door of the backyard: "Jiao Qiao is the daughter of Lao Qiao, and you are my friend. Although I have no memory of these things at all, I believe this is true. Since it will eventually return to nothing, then..."
Chapter completed!