In the world of the <Zombie> dungeon, Ning Su took the opportunity when the people of the Yongming Guild were not paying attention to visit Chu Yuling in the zombie warehouse.
After a human faction player was bitten to death by a zombie, they did not immediately leave the dungeon, but temporarily became a zombie and stay in the dungeon.
Chu Yuling was a very gentle player who loved cleanliness, but inside the dungeon, she had turned into a zombie, devouring the flesh of players.
Ning Su didn’t want to see her like this. Having devoured countless zombie viruses in the real world, he tried to absorb something from Chu Yuling’s body.
To his surprise, there really was a virus, and even more shocking was that the virus was the same as the ones Ning Su had absorbed in the real world.
After Chu Yuling, a human player, died, she temporarily became a zombie in the dungeon world. When the dungeon ended and they left, the system had implanted the zombie virus.
Ning Su thought this was a type of system energy.
So, the zombie viruses in their original world during the apocalypse were also system energy.
Ning Su said, “When we entered the horror world on a bus, there were many buses carrying corpses driving in the opposite direction, and those corpses even bit and killed many people on our bus, looking very much like zombies.”
“When we got off the bus outside the base gate, I saw a female player who had just come out of the dungeon holding a photo. She said the man in the photo had died in the dungeon.”
“The man who died in the dungeon was in one of those hearses we saw, a corpse that was eating players.”
At that time, Ning Su thought, where were the players who died in the game and turned into corpses being transported to?
In the <Ghost Animal> dungeon, Ning Su guessed that a small portion would become dungeon NPCs, but what about the rest?
Could it be possible that they were sent back to their real world and eventually became the first batch of zombies?
Ling Xiao said, “You mean that the zombies, corpses, etc., in the system and the zombie virus in your real world have the same origin, all derived from a type of system energy.”
He furrowed his brow in thought. “The system relies on these ghosts to absorb player energy in the dungeons. The higher the dungeon level, the higher the player death rate, and the more players will die.”
“As players die, there will be fewer and fewer people playing the game. The system won’t be able to obtain more energy, so it uses the dead players by turning them into zombie NPCs and releasing them back into the original real world to gain energy worldwide.”
In one world, it started by absorbing energy from a small number of players, expanded to more players, killed them to absorb their energy, turned them into NPCs, and released them back into that world, helping it absorb more widespread energy.
This completed chain, “making full use of everything,” wasted nothing.
From the perspective of the players in this world, it’s deeply horrifying, sinister, and terrifying upon careful consideration.
So, where was the break in this chain?
Ning Su: “Those zombie viruses, which can also be considered system energy, have all been devoured and absorbed by me.”
Ling Xiao: “...”
Ning Su: “They’re all energy, right? Anyway, I’m much stronger now than before I absorbed the zombie viruses.”
Much, much, much stronger...
In the <Zombie> dungeon, he told Ning Su No. 2 that he was much stronger than him, and it was true.
Because at that time, Ning Su No. 2 hadn’t yet devoured the zombie viruses.
Ling Xiao: “...”
This was like a chicken-and-egg story.
Initially, the system had some little chicks (NPCs). The players who entered the infinite horror game became the eggs. When the eggshells broke (the players died), more little chicks hatched. These little chicks were placed back into the original world, hatching more and more eggs.
It already had a lot of chicken meat (energy), but it was not satisfied and wanted the chicks to lay more eggs, hatch more little chicks, and provide it with more chicken meat.
Until one day, one little chick mutated and turned into a glutton, devouring all the other chicks in one go.
The system was left with nothing.
After such meticulous planning and hard work over so many years, it was all for naught.
Someone else ate the fruits of its labor; it merely made wedding clothes for others*. (T/N: In Chinese, “making wedding clothes for others” (为他人做嫁衣) is an idiom that means to work hard on something only for someone else to reap the benefits.)
How could it not be angry? How could it not want to kill Ning Su?
Ling Xiao looked at Ning Su, and Ning Su blinked his beautiful peach blossom eyes.
Ling Xiao: “...”
Ning Su said, “When I was on the spirit bus, I noticed that the little spiders and little snakes on the Lady Driver liked to eat the dark energy in my body.”
“In the <Ghost Animal> dungeon, the ghosts also really liked it. My dark energy could nourish them better.”
“Manman too. Many ghosts in the dungeons were the same.”
He looked at Ling Xiao, “For a while, I thought it was because I grew up eating lingxiao flowers, and I had your energy in my body. Turns out there was also the system energy accumulated over the years.”
Many ghosts in the dungeon world had system energy at their core, so naturally, they liked the same kind of energy in his body.
Ling Xiao caught the key point. “Grew up eating lingxiao flowers?”
Ning Su nodded and looked at him. “I saw you when I was two years old. I relied on you to survive.”
Ling Xiao was taken aback.
Except for the moment he died from the zombie virus, his peach blossom eyes were always clean and clear, even when his face was covered with black lines.
Now, those clean peach blossom eyes clearly held him within.
Ling Xiao suddenly understood the way Flower Servant Ning Su looked at the Flower God in the Flower God Temple.
“When I had no food to eat, I ate the lingxiao flowers.”
“When I had no home, I slept on the lingxiao vine.”
“I told you many things that happened in different periods of my life.”
Ling Xiao also understood why his heart chose Ning Su’s body and didn’t want to leave him.
This was the young man raised by his future self, who crossed time and space to be by his side, carrying his energy and holding his heart.
The world repeated in an infinite loop to create such a miracle.
A surge of indescribable emotion filled Ling Xiao’s chest. He uncontrollably grabbed Ning Su’s arm and pulled him over.
Ning Su looked up at him. “I’m so happy to see you.”
Ling Xiao’s Adam’s apple moved. The hollow chest seemed to echo the sound of a heartbeat. Following this call, he hugged the heart into his embrace.
The boundary of space disappeared, and Ning Su and Ling Xiao sat neatly in front of the floor-to-ceiling window, watching the sunset.
When two children brought over cut fruits, they felt the atmosphere was a bit too quiet.
Gui Sheng said, “Hmm?”
Manman asked, “Mom, are you two going to have some alone time? Gui Sheng and I can go out to play.”
Ning Su replied, “We already did.”
Gui Sheng said, “Hmm?”
Manman asked, “So quickly?”
Ning Su said, “Yes, we just had a brief moment.”
“......”
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