Flowers Blooming in the Wasteland

As he spoke, he grabbed the water glass next to him and slammed it on the ground, and then began to frantically smash the surrounding things.

In this familiar home, every piece of furniture bears the memories of the two of them, but now all of them have been smashed to pieces by him like a storm.

Fu Yunlan seemed to have endless rage to vent. Celeste stared dumbfounded at his crazy behavior. Finally, after he also squashed his own scrap metal helicopter model, he couldn't help rushing. Go forward and stop him from going crazy.

The two quickly wrestled together.

Fu Yunlan was obviously taller and stronger, but Celeste had the highest level of authority in this virtual world. After adjusting some indicators, Fu Yunlan was easily suppressed by him on the floor.

Fu Yunlan struggled a few times, and found that she couldn't move at all, and could only collapse on the ground and pant exhaustedly.

"Is that enough?" Celeste looked at Fu Yunlan expressionlessly.

"Let me go." Fu Yunlan seemed to have calmed down, so Celeste let him go and stood up.

When Fu Yunlan also supported the table and climbed up, he grabbed a sharp-tipped kitchen knife with lightning speed and stabbed it into Celeste's stomach.

When the incident happened suddenly, Celeste couldn't dodge, and could only look at Fu Yunlan's hideous expression in disbelief: "Why..."

"I know I can't kill you in the virtual world." Fu Yunlan smiled softly in his ear, "But I just want to do this."

Celeste gritted his teeth and said, "You're not Fu Yunlan!"

"How do you know I'm not? Who else can I be if I'm not Fu Yunlan?" Fu Yunlan turned the handle of the knife violently, and Celeste suddenly pushed him away. The next second, the knife and The wounds disappeared, and Celeste stared at the familiar but unfamiliar person in front of him intact: "You are a devourer, Lan can't do this to me!"

"Ha!" Fu Yunlan sneered, "Why didn't I treat you like this? I should do everything according to your wishes. The one you like is the real me, and the one you don't like is not? If that's the case, You might as well just destroy me humanely, and then write an artificial intelligence named 'Fu Yunlan', then he will be what you want him to be."

"No, how about..."

"You are really a little alien angel who doesn't understand anything." Fu Yunlan said sarcastically, "Let me teach you to be good, you think that if I love you, I will treat you well, and I will always love you and take care of you." You, sacrifice everything for you without complaint or regret? No, love has never been a pure and beautiful emotion. Behind it is always full of jealousy, possessiveness and madness to die together. You know this, What is the ending of the first generation you mentioned, you must still remember, right? How it was suspected, imprisoned, and abused by the human being who "loved" it, until it became disheartened and walked on the road of self-destruction. Remind you again?"

"Such a tragedy will never happen again." Celeste looked at Fu Yunlan coldly, "Mass, stop the simulation."

The virtual world stopped working, and Fu Yunlan, who was still in the simulation cabin, was forced into a deep sleep. Celeste crawled out of another simulation cabin, and went to find He Xiao in a distraught state.

-

"There is such a thing?" He Xiao frowned, "It shouldn't be the Devourer, we didn't find any signs of the Devourer's invasion."

"Maybe the Devourer has mastered a new technology that we don't know about." Anyway, Celeste couldn't believe that Fu Yunlan would treat him like this.

He Xiao shook his head: "If the Devourer has the ability to do this, it can directly destroy the communication system of the entire Guardian Alliance, there is no need to beat around the bush."

"Could it be that he had such an idea himself?" If it was true, it would be terrible.

He Xiao still shook his head: "Since some time ago, we have vaguely felt that his mentality is a bit abnormal. A human being has been pursuing his own set of moral standards for decades without any major stimulation. It is impossible to say that the three views have changed. Just change. Now we have no way of knowing what's wrong with his brain, so we can only continue to observe."

Celeste felt a deep sense of powerlessness.

-

When Fu Yunlan woke up again, he was sleeping on the old bed in Hummingbird Town, Celeste sat by the bed and looked at him

Everything in the house was intact, and there was no trace of the crazy smashing last night. Fu Yunlan just woke up and was a little confused about the situation, but he could still tell that the person in front of him was the real Celeste, so He greeted with a gentle smile: "Good morning."

This attitude confused Celeste a little: "...do you have anything else to say?"

"What did you say?" Fu Yunlan sat up lazily, and even wanted to kiss him good morning, but Celeste avoided it: "Why did you say those things to me before?"

"Did I say something?" Fu Yunlan looked at Celeste in surprise, and saw the same surprise on the other's face.

So he began to try to remember what happened before—he remembered Celeste coming home with him, they went to the Crimson Bar to buy some ingredients, and Celeste was frying steak in the kitchen...he even remembered The bear on Celeste's apron, but can't remember what happened next.

"It's fine if you don't remember." Celeste stopped him from thinking about it, "What do you want for breakfast?"

"Whatever." Fu Yunlan said absently.

Celeste got up and went to the kitchen, and quickly brought food over. Seeing that Fu Yunlan was still brooding over his head, he urged: "Hurry up and wash your face and brush your teeth. Laying in bed to eat is not a good habit."

Fu Yunlan got up, but he was still preoccupied while eating, and Celeste asked cautiously: "What's the matter, don't you have any appetite?"

Fu Yunlan shook her head: "I think... I'm probably getting old."

"No." Celeste pinched his face, "I don't even have any wrinkles, so I'm not old."

"It's not physically, but my heart. You know that very few human beings can live past a hundred years old. This period of life in the virtual world seems to me to have passed hundreds of years."

"...Your heart is not old either."

"But I can't remember things. People's memory probably has a limit. Memories of previous lives, my own memories, and memories of traveling in so many virtual worlds seem to have filled my brain. , I have become more and more forgetful recently, in fact, there has been such a tendency since a long time ago, I forget everything I have said and done, and when others remind me, I still can’t remember it.”

Celeste looked at him with wide eyes: "When exactly did it start?"

"I don't know. From my feeling, it's been about decades, because I forgot some unimportant things before, and I didn't pay much attention to them. But recently, this kind of forgetfulness seems to have become It's more frequent and serious." Fu Yunlan frowned and said, "I must have said something outrageous last night, right? That's why you asked me that way just now, but I can't remember it at all."

"It's nothing too much." Celeste reassured him, "Your forgetfulness should only be a temporary phenomenon. I will study what's going on and try to cure you as much as possible. Don't worry."

-

Celeste is offline, and he is going to find He Xiao to study countermeasures.

Fu Yunlan can't do anything, but can only continue to complete the work of a mercenary captain in the virtual world to pass the time.

On the way to suppress the bandits, Fu Yunlan was still thinking about it.

Seeing his absent-minded appearance, Heita, his subordinate, couldn't help reminding him: "Boss, why do you seem to be a little absent-minded?"

The cowboy sat up and crossed his legs: "It must be that today's battle is too unchallenging, and I feel bored."

The bomber obviously had a different opinion: "Even if the gangsters are not challenging, you can't take it lightly. After all, what you shoot out of a trash gangster's gun is a real bullet."

On average, the gangsters would be beaten once every two or three days, and sometimes two or three times a day, Fu Yunlan really didn't pay much attention.

After all, he knew very well that the bullets fired by these virtual gangsters would not really hurt him.

After eliminating the gangsters without any suspense, the mercenary group returned with a full load of victories—who knows where the gangsters got these materials that Hummingbird Town just needed.

The gangsters in reality are often poor and poor. They may not even have decent clothes. It is considered good if they can seize a few usable weapons and ammunition. If it is not paid by someone or they really don’t have to teach them a lesson, it will definitely be a loss for the mercenary group to eliminate them. buy and sell.

If there were so many gangsters around Hummingbird Town in the past, Fu Yunlan would definitely be too worried to sleep. In the real world, when the gangsters die, they die. Bottom lines make up new gangster forces, but populations themselves don't just pop up for no reason.

But here, in order to allow them to play gunfights at any time, the gangsters cut a batch and grew a batch like leeks after the rain, as if there would never be an end.

On the way back, Fu Yunlan looked up at his teammates who were talking and laughing, and felt that all of this was full of unprecedented sense of disobedience.

In the real world, if they fought intensively like them, most of the people in this car would have died in battle.

But now, the black tower, the cowboy, the bomber, the mole... all the mercenaries he is familiar with are still alive and well, only those who he has no impression of, for the authenticity of this virtual world, they have grown up in batches. Cannon fodder.

Different from reality, everything here revolves around his feelings.

He knew that in reality, the Black Tower and the Cowboys had become super soldiers, and they should still be living a good life in the army. Maybe they would brag a few little gossips about generals and emperors as talking points when they were relaxing. I heard that the bomber with some gadgets went to work in the military industry, and the mole... probably died long ago.

When the Mole was expelled from Hummingbird Town, Fu Yunlan was still in a coma and could do nothing. Later, I heard that someone saw the Mole acting with the gangsters. The troops were cleaned up as bandits.

Fu Yunlan always had a guess that after he was injured, Mole took a huge risk to steal from the heavily guarded Crimson Bar, probably in order to exchange some life-saving medicine for him.

But the person is dead, and all guesses are meaningless. He Xiao doesn't have any humane and human feelings to talk about. Whether it is a gangster or a true god believer, as long as he thinks that his thoughts are dangerous, his morals are corrupt, and he thinks that he has no use but is of great value to others. Men who are threatening people are not kept alive, and the few women who are still fertile are kept in prison like laying hens and keep giving birth.