Flowers Blooming in the Wasteland

Fu Yunlan knew that he was "sick". Ever since he was taken away by the Devourer, a bomb had been deeply buried in his brain.

Regarding his illness, Celeste has been carefully avoiding the topic, not wanting him to worry and blame himself too much, so Fu Yunlan pretends that he doesn't know anything, so that Celeste can feel relieved.

When another personality dominates, he is as unconscious as falling into a deep sleep, but for some reason, Fu Yunlan can feel the existence of such a dark personality, and he also knows that he has been inevitably affected by that personality. influence on personality.

Originally, he hoped that Celeste and He Xiao could figure out a way to cure him before he went completely crazy, but as time went by, he was awake less and less, and his "amnesia" became less and less. Many, even sometimes when fully awake, he can only watch another personality dominate his behavior, pretending to be him, talking and laughing with Celeste.

He is probably not far from going completely crazy, so what will He Xiao and the others do with him?

When Celeste released him from the virtual cabin, Fu Yunlan knew that his time had come.

No matter what is coming, Fu Yunlan doesn't feel afraid, after all, from his own point of view, he has lived a long and fulfilling life, he is just a little worried, Celeste has just become more Be more humane, and hope that he will not be sad for too long because of his departure.

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When Fu Yunlan regained consciousness again, she found herself sitting on a piece of wasteland next to the old road, holding a button bomb in her hand, and had already pressed the switch.

It seems that he is "ill" again.

He tried to recall what happened before - when he woke up, Hummingbird Town fell into chaos. The Black Tower and the Cowboy were ordered to take him to Celeste. Various alien monsters began to appear on the way, and the Black Tower Staying to block the monster, the cowboy took him to the vicinity of the military base, but more monsters appeared, the jeep was knocked over, the cowboy had to deal with the monster alone and let him run fast...

So what happened afterwards?

For him, what happened afterwards was like watching a silent stream of consciousness through a glass.

He saw the shadowy personality manipulating his body and ran into the military base next to Hummingbird Town.

At that time, Celeste was already driving a command vehicle in the wilderness, and only ordinary soldiers were left in the base fighting desperately with the alien monsters that broke into the base. The door of the armory was wide open, and people were moving in and out. Weapons and ammunition, there is no time to care about the process or not.

Fu Yunlan also entered the armory. Some soldiers and staff saw him, but they didn't know his identity or the prohibition of "no access to the core area". They only knew that he was a member of his own people, so they didn't stop him.

That gloomy personality put a dozen button bombs in the pockets of his clothes. Fu Yunlan knew what he wanted to do—he was going to find Celeste, and detonated all the bombs on him when he was close to Celeste. Bomb and Celeste died together.Even if both of them are super soldiers who have been strengthened, if they are bombed by a dozen button bombs at close range, they will definitely die.

Fu Yunlan could hear the warning sound from the collar around her neck, which meant that the Devourer had invaded the collar's protection program, but unfortunately no one in the melee noticed this.

A few minutes later, the warning sound disappeared, and the Devourer had already hacked off the collar, and now his actions were no longer restricted.

Fu Yunlan was very anxious, he desperately wanted to stop himself, but he couldn't even move a finger, as if this body had nothing to do with him, he was just a bystander through the glass.

He suddenly realized that this "glass" that couldn't be broken through was what the Devourer had done to him.

Everything was planned, the Devourer created that dark personality, and used Celeste's defenselessness against him to hurt Celeste, and now he helped him with his plan to assassinate Celeste.

And Fu Yunlan couldn't do anything, he could only watch helplessly as he left the military base, stepped on an electric motorcycle and galloped towards the wilderness outside.

Just when he was so anxious that he didn't know what to do, things suddenly turned around. It seemed that another personality appeared in his body, fighting desperately with that dark personality for control of his body, and the motorcycle overturned. Suddenly, he rolled into the wasteland by the roadside, got up for a while, and fell down again for a while.

Under the struggle between the two, he felt that the "glass" seemed to be loose, so he took the opportunity to control his body, took out a bomb from his pocket, and slammed the switch.

So the two personalities in the tearing disappeared, and now he was left staring at the button bomb in his hand in a daze.

The little bomb is now stuck between his thumb and index finger. The simple trigger mechanism makes it impossible for either the Devourer or the Guardian to interfere with its operation. As long as Fu Yunlan lets go, the bomb will explode, and then The impact force will detonate more than a dozen button bombs all over his body, leaving a 30-meter radius without any grass.

He heard a familiar voice calling him, raised his head, and found that while he was in a daze, there was a circle of people around him at some point. Celeste just got off the command vehicle, looking I wanted to rush over immediately, but I was worried about something, so I could only stop there and call him: "Lan, you... don't let go, come here quickly."

Fu Yunlan looked at him sadly and shook her head: "It's too dangerous."

Celeste was very anxious: "It's not dangerous, the quality of the military products is very good, as long as you don't let go of it, you will never accidentally bomb it. Throw away all the other bombs and come to me."

"But you also know that the real danger is not what I have in my hands, but the 'bomb' that the Devourer puts in my mind. There is another me in my mind, and he will seize every opportunity to try to kill You, and I have no idea when he will appear, and I have no way to stop him."

"I have a way." Celeste said, "I let you out because I have a way to stop him. You have to believe me and come here!"

Fu Yunlan still shook her head: "You don't understand, all of this was planned by the Devourer, it deliberately created a chance for Beethoven to break free from the shackles and save me, and then controlled Beethoven to kill me, and that scene The explosion that nearly cost me my life was all to cover up one thing - it sent me back to you on purpose, to use me against you, and even today's chaos is for that purpose."

"I know, I know all of this." Celeste said eagerly, "If you are afraid that you can't control yourself, then don't approach me and let others help you disarm the bomb. In short, let us take you back first, okay? ?”

"Go back... I want to go back too, but who knows what kind of tricks the Devourer is hiding, it won't give up, and there must be more dangers that people cannot guard against are waiting for you." Fu Yunlan said to Seli Ster smiled, "I'm sorry, I can't go back with you. I don't want the last scene I see in my life to be the scene of me killing you with my own hands."

The meaning of Fu Yunlan's words made Celeste shudder: "No, don't be impulsive, listen to me! We have a way!"

Celeste tried to explain their plan to freeze Fu Yunlan, but Fu Yunlan didn't give him time to explain, but continued on her own: "If life in the wasteland has taught me anything, it is Everyone is going to die, no one's life is particularly important. Without me, you still have Fang Jingyu, and you can create more replicants in the future. They may not be the same as me, but as long as you try to If you get along with each other, you will find that they are good."

"Don't do stupid things, I don't want you to die!" Celeste desperately wanted to rush forward, but the two super fighters grabbed him firmly under the instruction of He Xiao, regardless of his desperate efforts. Struggling to drag him away from a safe distance.

Fu Yunlan finally looked at Celeste with gentle eyes: "It was my luck that you chose me back then, and I am very content. Forget about me and live a good life."

"No!" Celeste screamed, shook off the person who was holding him, desperately trying to rush over to stop him, but could only watch Fu Yunlan let go of his hand.

The air wave of the explosion knocked Celeste who was too close to the ground, and the flash made the people around them unable to open their eyes for a while. A few people who reacted quickly ran over to check the situation of His Majesty the Emperor, but saw Celeste Te stared blankly at the flames ignited by the explosion, and tears rolled down one drop after another.

"Why don't you want to listen to me...why don't you believe me, you are...you are irreplaceable..." Celeste seemed to be drained of all his strength, letting the people around him support him up, just weeping silently.

He Xiao, who was far away at the Blue Shield base, had stopped interfering with the Devourer's work, and now he was shouting loudly into Celeste's earphones in an unprecedented tone of anxiety: "Cerliste, calm down! You are like this! Those who will be devoured will seize the opportunity, so calm down!"

Celeste couldn't listen at all, and it was impossible to calm down. All he could think about was the image of Fu Yunlan exploding in front of him.

He was clearly close at hand, and he had been found, yet he could only watch him die.

Just like the sand between the fingers that can't be held, the tragedy repeats itself again.

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He Xiao is not alarmist. The guardians are pure spirits. When they are in a calm and rational state, their resistance is very strong, but too strong emotional fluctuations are extremely dangerous for them. status.

The Devourer really jumped at the chance, too.

The same tentacle, which has no entity, appeared for the first time from the hidden four-dimensional space, desperately trying to devour the chaotic Celeste.

From the human point of view, this three-party battle with no entity is that Celeste suddenly fainted, and He Xiao in the distance suddenly fell to the ground as if his bones had been pulled out.

He Xiao broke away from the human body, and came to Celeste in only tens of milliseconds. In the invisible space of human beings, He Xiao in his original form launched a merciless attack on the tentacles of the Devourer. attack.

In front of a mature and powerful guardian, the mere tentacles of the Devourer are of course helpless. All the data of the tentacles are in chaos, and many top-secret technological information is stolen. The whole process only takes less than a second. This entrenched The tentacles that had been on the earth for many years were completely wiped out.

But before being wiped out, it had successfully devoured Celeste and sent the data back to the main body.

Compared with the losses suffered, after obtaining the precious "key" of Celeste, from now on, all the secrets of the Guardian Clan will be invisible in front of the Devourer.

The biggest stumbling block that prevented it from unifying the entire universe was finally about to be kicked away. The small battle that took place on the remote battlefield of the earth added a heavier weight to the balance that was already tilted towards the Devourer.

This cosmic level war is about to draw its final conclusion.

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