[Zhongyingmei] It's not a slime!

In fact, not long after Steve left, Ruby fell into a deep sleep.

She really doesn't like the air of the earth, especially the air quality is not so good.

Before falling asleep, she flipped through the skills she hadn't learned yet.

[Transformation (Unlocked)]: Put on a mask, abandon your instincts, and walk independently in the hallucination - you can change your shape arbitrarily in the unparasitic state.The price is 10000 energy.

[Healing (unlocked)]: Life depends on negative entropy to survive—consume energy and heal the physical damage suffered by the host.The price is 5000 energy.

[Adaptation (Unlocked)]: In Darwin's hunting ground, adapt, survive, evolve, or die - can extend the survival time of the symbiont in a non-parasitic state, the price is 5000 energy.

System: "Don't you think about ordering an adaptability, and then a little bit more?"

Ruby was weak: "And then be burned to death by Steve?"

system:"……"

In addition, there were a lot of skills that Ruby didn't need temporarily on the panel, and she didn't bother to look at them, so she just closed the system panel and fell asleep.

This time, she slept for a long time.

She dreamed of some seemingly distant past events in a blur.

She dreamed that she was exhibited in a glass box like an animal in the Hydra base.

She dreamed that she was captured by gravity, the fleeting pain she felt when she fell into the flames.

She dreamed of the boundless galaxy, dreamed of the barren planet that could be seen when she raised her head on the symbiosis planet, occupying half of the sky.

Beautiful, desolate, lifeless.

She doesn't seem to remember the previous memory.

I just felt that someone was looking at her in a blur, and had been looking at her all the time. Those eyes were filled with emotions that Ruby couldn't understand.

Who is that person?

That person who is both familiar and unfamiliar.

After Ruby woke up from her sleep, she looked at the familiar cat nest and asked, "System."

"Ok?"

"What kind of person was I before I became a symbiont?"

"do not know."

"Have you downloaded your Q&A database yet..." Ruby was dazed, and didn't ask any more questions. She said, "How long do I have?"

"Less than two hours."

"Hmm..." Ruby responded, "You mean, is it like this before people die? Drowsy, buzzing in the head, walking around while sleeping?"

The system did not speak.

"system."

"Ok?"

"Do you think Steve will come?"

"..."

"Hey, I hope he comes."

"Why? Scold him?"

"Because I haven't thanked him yet," Ruby said, her voice becoming more and more slurred.

"thanks?"

"Well." Ruby said, "Although he abandoned me in the end, at least I got more than 8000 energy from him, and I ate a stone with [-] energy without his consent. Ten thousand, but with this calculation, it seems that I have earned it.”

"...You have a really good attitude." The system said.

"Besides, I have to thank him for not burning me," Ruby said. "It hurts more to burn than to sleep."

The system was silent for a moment, then said: "Sleep, when you wake up, you will go to the vast world."

"Yeah." Ruby said in a faint voice almost dreaming, "Thank you."

The system was silent for a long time, until Ruby completely lost her voice, and it said in a very small voice: "You're welcome."

Yet at this moment.

The door of the bank locker was violently opened, and several armed men dressed as mercenaries stood outside the locker, grabbed the cat's nest, and dragged it out without saying a word.

system:"……"

Ruby was awakened quickly. She was stunned for a moment, and then said alertly: "System, where is this?"

"Cat litter." The system said indifferently.

Ruby: "...Is this the vast world you promised! Where is the trust between the symbiote and the system?!"

System: "The question and answer library is being downloaded, the progress is 4.72%..."

Ruby: "...Go away."

Apparently these mercenaries didn't understand what it means to be sympathetic to women, and when they threw the cat litter in such a rude manner, Ruby felt that she was thrown flying, and fell hard into a pile of jewelry and valuables.

Ruby: ...

system:……

"So..." Ruby held two mosquito coils on her head, "This is me, I was robbed by a bank robber as a treasure?"

"seems like it."

"Why do they even rob cat litters!"

"That's a good question."

Obviously, the professional robbers also realized this good question. Robber A said: "Wait, what is that?!"

"Looks like a kennel?" Robber B scratched his head.

"Why do you want to grab the kennel! Throw it away! Take up space!" Robber C roared.

"Wait." Robber A said while holding a pile of dollar bills, "Will someone put the kennel in the highest standard safe? This is definitely not an ordinary kennel!"

Ruby: "...Damn it, this is no ordinary dog's kennel, this is an ordinary cat's kennel!!"

Robber B and Robber C immediately fell in admiration: "As expected of the boss! This logical reasoning ability is simply flawless!"

Robber A's proud neck stretched three times: "Just kidding, what level is brother! You guys, hide that kennel well, hide it in the innermost part! Protect it for me! There is definitely a treasure inside!"

"Alright boss!!"

Ruby: "..."

Grass is born.

……

So when Steve finally arrived at the bank, he stood outside the bank, looking at the mess, the bullet holes everywhere, the facade that had just been robbed and the police cars parked in a mess, lost in thought.

A biting wind blew on the street, blowing up the withered yellow leaves and falling silently in front of him.

Steve was only stunned for a second, and immediately broke through the police cordon, and rushed into the safe area amidst a group of policemen cheering "Hey! Stop! Or we will shoot!"

a mess.

The safe that Ruby was in was violently destroyed, and it was empty.

Oops.

These two words suddenly appeared in Steve's mind, like a basin of icy water poured directly on the top of his head, freezing his thinking to a standstill.

Ruby doesn't have much time left!

She was locked in the cat's nest. Without Natasha's key to open it, it would be impossible for her to climb out by herself!

——"Steve, if I come out, I will die."

Steve's clear blue eyes trembled slightly.

He heard hurried footsteps outside, and knew that the police were chasing after him.He took a deep breath, took the initiative to meet him, and showed his ID.

"I'll talk nonsense later." He stopped the policeman who was about to say something, "Where did you go?"

The policeman was stunned by his aura and subconsciously pointed in one direction.

"Lend me your motorcycle." Without saying a word, Steve jumped on the police's motorcycle and rushed out, leaving the policemen to eat the exhaust gas behind them.

Policemen: ...

With one hand on the speeding motorcycle, Steve dialed Natasha's phone with the other: "A bank robbery just happened, you know?"

Natasha: "I don't know."

Such a trivial matter should not be reported to her.

Steve: "...help me find out where the robbers have gone."

Natasha: "OK."

She didn't ask what's wrong, the tacit understanding of cooperation for many years made her hear the urgency in Steve's tone at once, if it wasn't for the urgency, Steve wouldn't speak in this tone.

"Already connected to the city monitoring network, pay attention to the display screen on the motorcycle you are on now, I will help you update the tracking map from time to time." Natasha said.

"Thank you." Steve hung up the phone at the speed of light. He roughly calculated the time Ruby was exposed to the outside, and quickly came up with the answer.

Ruby has less than an hour left.

Such an answer made him grit his teeth, and the motorcycle he was driving accelerated suddenly, rushing towards the red dot on the map.

……

Ruby was thrown in the van, the cat's litter was piled up with a pile of gold, silver, jewelry, antiques, calligraphy and paintings, dangling in the dark compartment, and she didn't know where she was going to be sent.

Ruby was so sleepy that every time she was about to fall asleep, she would be woken up by a sudden sharp turn, and she felt that she was going to be mentally weak after going back and forth several times.

"It's so annoying!" After being shaken awake for the sixth time, Ruby became angry, "It's too inhuman to let people die in peace!"

Before she finished speaking, she felt that the entire carriage was almost thrown out, and the cat litter was thrown directly from the east end to the west end, hitting the carriage, and Ruby was stunned.

"I hate humans!!" Dazed Ruby shed two lasagna tears, "I swear that in my next life I will parasitize on small animals, even if it is the spider I hate the most, I will recognize it by pinching my nose!"

Just when she was furious and impotent because she couldn't get a peaceful death, the truck suddenly came to a sudden brake.

How fast is the brake?

It was as if someone suddenly kicked the front of the car, directly kicking it from 180 miles to zero miles, causing its cargo box to overturn due to inertia, and flew directly tens of meters away.

Suddenly, a 360-degree rotating Ruby appeared in the air: "..."

Thank you, I live in the United States and live in a cat's nest. I just experienced a spiral ascension. I haven't left the cabin yet, and I feel good.

Just as she was about to close her eyes and die on the spot, she felt a glimmer of light.

It was pitch black in the fully enclosed compartment, and at this moment, it seemed that something forcibly opened a gap in the cage.

The bright sunlight fell on the gold and silver jewelry through the gap, and the reflected light of money stung Ruby's eyes instantly.

Ruby forced herself to take a look.

It is a shield that tears open the cage and brings light and hope.

A shield that she seemed to have seen many times, but which was beginning to blur in a memory that was gradually fogging up.

"...Steve?" She was dazed, trying to call his name, but she didn't have the strength.

The light he brought finally went out in her eyes.

The shield penetrated the carriage, the breach was pulled open, and a figure jumped in through the gap.

He stood in the carriage against the light, and the sunlight coated him with a layer of gold, like a god descending from the sky.

He saw the location of the cat's nest at a glance, he stretched out his hand without hesitation, and broke the lock on the cat's nest.

"Ruby," he said.

His voice was almost trembling.

His warm hand touched the lifeless symbiont, it was still soft and silky like satin, but it was lifeless and curled up motionless.

The system went crazy: "Ruby! Hurry up and parasitize him! You're going to die!"

Ruby could not hear at all. She felt that her five senses were out of balance, she couldn't see or hear clearly, and she felt weak all over, as if she was half asleep and half awake, and she was far, far away from the whole world.

Steve glanced back at the robbers surrounding him, gritted his teeth, held the cat litter in one hand, raised the shield in the other, protected Ruby firmly, and rushed out without hesitation!