because i am stel

——She was performing a certain ritual... It was an active behavior, not a forced intervention.

Miss Stelter breathed a sigh of relief, and a new logical chain appeared in her mind——

The rest of Persephone led to a decline in the efficiency of Chernobog's administrative operations - the reduced work efficiency prevented Skadi from completing the signing and revision of documents within the scheduled time - Skadi did not choose to be busy At four o'clock in the morning, the work was suspended - because of the early suspension of work, Skadi, who was free to move around in the city early, found a new executable event.

Quite logically, there is no fallacy in this chain of logic.The only thing to consider is what has influenced Skadi to let her put this unknown ceremony into operation here alone.

—Skadi would come to me at four o'clock in the morning to apply for a vacation, which should be due to her personal habits rather than the urgency of the situation.After all, I don't really need sleep, any more than she does.And if the situation is really urgent, then she can directly send a message on the terminal or directly notify Persephone.

——What Skadi told me was to welcome her companions... There is no need for her to lie about this kind of thing.Combined with the in-game files, there is a high possibility that this companion is a ghost shark.I can still believe that Skadi's intention to bring back Ghost Shark was a sudden event.After all, she has always regarded herself as my watcher and accepted Persephone's invitation to join the job.

——Then, I can judge that there is a special way of contact between them deep-sea hunters, and some time ago, she got in touch through this way...or was contacted by ghost sharks or other deep-sea hunters.

——Understood, that's how it is.After all, 'deep-sea hunters are connected by blood'.And the communication environment on Terra is so bad.

The cause and effect were gradually built up in Ms. Shrettle's mind, and she could judge the time when Skadi completed the paperwork in the last world line—it should be before four o'clock in the morning, maybe three o'clock, maybe even later Earlier, but definitely later than when Persephone was dormant - she received a communication from her compatriots after completing the paperwork, and gained some information from it.

——Ghost shark... Let's just think it's a ghost shark, and sent her a message.And this message should be positive, so she was not in a hurry to drop everything at hand and evacuate directly the moment she received the message.And she plans to bring the ghost shark from Terra's ocean to Rhodes Island Pharmaceuticals.So, whether it is subjective cognition or objective intelligence evidence, this message should be related to the symptoms of the ghost shark.

——Good news, it is related to the disease, but it needs follow-up treatment by professional medical institutions.Combining the three elements, then, as expected, the content of this message should be 'the symptoms of the Ghost Shark's Originium infection have been relieved, but the reason for the relief is not clear or there are sequelae'.Well, that's how it should be, so it's not really an urgent thing.Skadi in the previous worldline had the paperwork done, so she came straight to me asking for leave.And this time, she should not be able to complete the procedures she needs to go through, so she is not in a hurry to leave directly, but stays in this city first, waiting for Rhodes Island Pharmaceutical's entry paperwork to be completed, and then use the deep sea hunter Is there a way to communicate with the ghost shark whose illness has improved?

"So it's like this... Well, it seems that I'm quite smart."

Miss Sturtle blinked her eyes, and put down her hand that was aiming at the ruins - if she came to a less than ideal conclusion, she would directly take away the gravity of this abandoned city and deal with Skadi Body problems.But since Skadi's everything is normal now, he shouldn't meddle in his own business, so as not to accidentally disrupt the ceremony of this orca lady.

The slightly nervous heart settled down.

Fortunately, the current development is still in the category of the butterfly effect rather than a sudden detonation of some great bomb.She rubbed her temples to soothe her overworked brain cells a little.And before leaving, I intend to conduct a small confirmation again.

What is the special communication method of the deep sea hunter? —Skadi didn't say, but Miss Steele guessed a little.Because just yesterday, when I was wandering in the territory of the Empire of Consciousness, this orca lady showed vigilance twice but gave up asking in the end.

——I think the way of contact between them should be related to the travel of the empire of consciousness.

——Then, if I sneak into the Empire of Consciousness, will I be able to confirm Skadi's state?

Turn your mind with your thoughts and do what you say.

And the next moment, Miss Shirter dived into the deeper layers of this world, above the territory of the Empire of Consciousness.

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What caught in the eyes was an endless sea of ​​fog.

Just like before, what appeared at the feet of Miss Shirtel was still a wrecked city wrapped in thick fog.Decayed, dilapidated, and desolate, many hideous and terrifying twisted creatures, like flesh and organs, wandered among the broken streets and buildings, and unlike those intact residential areas, this area suffered a lot. In the abandoned city of Originium Stardrop, she saw many turbid crystals growing on the ground.

Many damaged living corpses that can barely distinguish the human form are howling in the cracks of the earth. Part of their bodies are embedded in the cracks of the ground, or they are rooted in flesh and blood, protruding their damaged bodies from the cracks in the ground. plant.Fragmentary turbid crystals also grew on their bodies, and when Miss Shirtle looked over, they shone like overloaded filaments, twisted and danced, and then disintegrated into scattered dust.

——Polsephone once said that the living things seen in the Empire of Consciousness are basically the spiritual projections of living things in the real world layer or information residues of dead things.In other words, the individuals seen in the empire of consciousness may not necessarily have a corresponding existence in the reality layer.However, if no specific derivative is seen within the Empire of Consciousness, it means that there must be no living things in the relative area of ​​the plane of reality.If there is, it means that this living creature is traveling within the empire of consciousness.

——After all, I have personally tested it several times. When I leave the empire of consciousness, no matter where I go in this illusory land, my consciousness will wake up in the physical body of the real layer.And the same, no matter where the last consciousness wandering went.When a new journey starts, the landing point must be the corresponding coordinates of the physical body in the reality layer.

——Then, I just need to take a look at the corresponding coordinates of Skadi here.It can be confirmed whether this orca lady is exploring the empire of consciousness.

She kind of missed the encounter during the last exploration.That red puppy, that sick baby shark.Surrounded by cute little animals puts her in a good mood, especially when the other visible creatures are in a... not aesthetically friendly state.

She landed lightly on the ruined city, and when her toes touched the ground, those strange little things screamed and fled in all directions - she didn't really dislike these things, which were harmless except for their shabby appearance Sexually weird creatures.After all, her aesthetics are equal to that of a god.

Land on the ground and push away obstacles.

The artificial secret room where Skadi was hiding opened the door to her on the level of consciousness—as expected, there was no shadow of Skadi, or any living creature, on the corresponding coordinates of the consciousness layer.Instead, there is a closed portal constructed in Agor characters, which faintly corresponds to the ritual circle of the reality layer.

Obviously, this should be the secret technique of the deep-sea hunters—unlike Miss Shirtle, who can come and go whenever she wants, Skadi and her kind may have to spend some extra effort when exploring consciousness.

—she's not here.

The red-haired girl thought, she noticed a collapsed road in the secret room with traces of living creatures walking through it.At the same time, she also discovered that the portal of power formed by the Agor script also vaguely has the function of preventing the surrounding deformed individuals from approaching.

—Skadi has left.Indeed, she is exploring the empire of consciousness, and it seems that she is not at ease with her sick kin.And she needs to secure her entry point.

——Do you want to continue pursuing it?

——No, there is no need.Skadi didn't ask me for asylum, and I had no reason to pry into her secrets without her permission.

She nodded, didn't speak, just thought.Quietly, back away.

When she left the secret room, she let the lifted stone fall down, returning to its original appearance.

Then, log out.

The moment she returned to the reality layer, her vision passed through the fog and miasma only once - at the end of her vision, she saw a giant ship made of whalebone splitting the earth and approaching this mobile city-state .

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"Is that the main ship of Rhodes Island? Has it gotten so close...?"

On the real level, Miss Stelter's gaze pointed to the area in the same direction as the giant whalebone ship—her sight immediately extended sharply, and the distance of hundreds of kilometers passed by in one thought.Although Terra was unable to directly observe the location of Rhodes Island's main ship because Terra was a sphere, she still saw the noisy aura rising from the end of the land.

The straight-line distance from Rhode Island to Chernobog... is about 530 three kilometers.

It is [-]:[-] in the morning, and considering the speed of Rhodes Island as a high-speed land ship, then, at around [-]:[-] pm, the hull will be able to connect with Chernobog.

This is good.

After the main ship Rhode Island arrives, presumably, whether it is Persephone, Kelsey, or Amiya who is overworked, they should be able to get a comfortable rest time.

— Ah, Kelsey...

——I have always been used to keeping my word. Since I promised Kelsey that I would stay by her side until she wakes up, then this agreement should not be violated.

——After all, four sixteen... from the last time I made the same decision.It won't be long.

The body is still in the place where she entered the Consciousness Empire, at the height of the abandoned block——she carefully glanced at Skadi’s ceremony site, and after confirming that there are no omissions that can be seen at a glance, she is ready to Everything that happened here was planned by Persephone when she woke up, and she left the sky above the ruins and went to the place where the intensive care unit was placed.

She really didn't see any mistakes in Skadi's actions.

And time continued to flow, and there were no more matters that required her to focus on.

She arrived at the intensive care unit, and came to Kelsey's side like the last world line—unlike the last time, Kelsey didn't seem to have fallen into an embarrassing nightmare this time.But even so, she still held Kelsey's hand in sleep.

Just holding it, and not doing anything else—and this is exactly what Amiya, who came to visit Kelsey with carnations in her hands, saw what she saw when she opened the door after the dawn of the morning.

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Ah... the last day of the month.Let's ask for a ticket.

Thinking about sorting out my thoughts tomorrow, by the way, I am going to open an unlimited reward to urge myself _(:з」∠)_

Memory Fragments The Last Survivor

Macro timeline, unknown.

The girl looked at the mirror in her eyes, and what was reflected in the mirror was the familiar red-haired and scarlet eyes.

well.

There's no perceptible free energy in the air, which means there won't be any outrageous paranormal encounters on this planet, at least in the first place.

well.

Turning his head, there is an electronic calendar next to him.And the marked time above is - AD, 2013,9,27, September, 2, 00:[-] AM.Some decorations next to the calendar indicate that this is Texas, a suburb of a small city named Austin Travis.

very good.

Turning around, he looked at the room that belonged to him only five seconds ago-it was obviously a country house.And my own identity is...

"The real name is Surtr, and the identity is an online literature writer, the ninth group... Annihilation... Yan? The ninth's Yan?"

"Interesting, is there such a profession in this country? Let's see if I'm a goofy..." He reached out his hand and opened the tablet, which naturally knew the password.There is just a newly uploaded announcement placed on it.

——Open unlimited rewards today.Every two hundred blades or twenty thousand cat biscuits counts as one update.The duration of the bounty has been extended until noon next Monday.

Well, it seems that it is not a Gu Gu Jing.So how many manuscripts has this guy written...

Surtr looked at the folder marked as 'Stored Manuscripts' in 'Myself', and when he clicked on it, he found that there was nothing in it.

Very good, starting from scratch, playing everything now, he is a ruthless guy - but this guy doesn't seem to be very popular, so thinking about it, it is nothing more than changing one session a day to two sessions a day, which can be easily resolved in half a month .

"Let's see if there is any danger in this world first. If I don't need to come here, then until I leave, it's okay to experience the life of a web writer... I just don't know if the stories I wrote are here. market."

The girl was talking to herself, the tip of her nose trembled, and there seemed to be a sense of uneasiness in the air.And the next moment she heard the roar of the police siren and the speeding wheels rubbing against the ground.And accompanied by an explosion in the urban area that can be clearly seen from here, very far away!

'Boom——! ! ! '

The flames splashed, and a small half of the night sky was lit up, accompanied by a burst of noise - from the noise, she could clearly distinguish the sound of panic and the screams of dying.Obviously, this was not an ordinary accident, and along with the explosion came disaster and despair.

Great, something to do.

The flaming-haired girl tilted her head, put away the tablet and charger and put them in the backpack.She glanced at the locker on one side, reached out, opened it, and unsurprisingly, she saw the armor belt, saber, and shotgun.

This is a very reasonable thing to do.

Because this is Texas, a celibate young girl who lives in a villa in the suburbs and has a good-looking figure. If her room is not armed enough, it can only mean that the mode of operation of this world has emerged. Terrific glitch.And since the world hasn't collapsed because of the BUG, ​​then he should be able to get the most powerful gun that citizens can buy!

With the gun in hand, the rest is just a simple matter - armed, and open the door, outside the door is the cold air at two o'clock in the morning, a little noisy, accompanied by a low howl in the air.

A... bloody thing rushed towards her.

'Boom—! 'One shot and the head exploded.The headless monster that was nailed to the air by the stopping force fell to her feet, and something like fungus was trying to grow and spread from the broken neck.

"Resident Evil, Fungus... Great, it's the end of the world with basically zero difficulty."

"But Mei Mo Er is an out-and-out trash."

The girl nodded, and it was not difficult to confirm the essence of this world and set a goal for herself—obviously, now is the first prologue when the disaster just broke out, and as long as the problem is solved in the prologue, then naturally There is no need to think about the second part that no longer holds the possibility of birth.

Very good, cleaning up the garbage is a good civilization.

Looking at the road sign on the street, it is marked that this is the suburban area leading to Route 71—and if her memory is correct, no more than 5 minutes after the explosion in the urban area, the original protagonist Joel and His cousin Tommy and his real daughter Sarah would drive around trying to get out of town on Route 71, and then they'd find that there were plenty of other people driving with the same plan as them.

And their current location is...

The girl tilted her head, and took a big step forward along the road, which was far beyond ordinary people's running.Several suburban cars were easily left behind by her, and it didn't take long before she saw the exit of the station that was jammed due to traffic jams.

There are many smart people, but the result of the gathering of smart people is that everyone becomes stupid.Many wretches infected by the fungal virus growled and rushed towards the crowded crowd, while a few cars that were lucky and came late turned around and drove in the other direction.

Ah... found it.

She saw a car with two middle-aged men and a beautiful little girl in the car, and she saw the man driving the car unfortunately encountered a large pickup truck that broke into the road when he crossed the roadblock.Then--

'boom--! ! '

The girl shrugged her shoulders - driving without looking at the road, getting hit is inevitable.What can I do?

She thought to herself, shot and killed the infected people who tried to attack her one by one, and walked briskly to the overturned protagonist's car.Looking at the little girl who woke up first, she pressed her finger on the door panel.

It's a normal and natural operation for a weak 17-year-old girl to tear off the car door, isn't it?

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Before today, if someone told Joel that there was a 300-year-old weak woman who could punch people in pairs, kick a wall to break, and use a pistol to blow up the head of a moving target dog from 17 meters away, then he Definitely think the guy drank too much to watch the movie for reality.

If it had been said by his brother Tommy, he would have thought it a not very funny joke.

If the person who said this was his daughter Sarah, then he would praise the little girl's imagination and carefully reduce Sarah's interest in watching oriental kung fu movies in the next few years, so that his daughter would not After growing up, he crossed the Pacific Ocean on a whim for a dream.

He used to think so, but now he's a little less sure.Because just 10 minutes ago, there was such a beautiful lady who didn't know if she could be classified as a human being and dragged him, his brother and daughter out of the overturned car.Then he took the three of them to the outside of the city.

None of those sick lunatics could hurt her. When she was still holding a gun, she shot one at a time. After the shotgun ran out, she could kill at least three at a time with one punch and one kick.Sometimes he suspects that the slender white fist is actually an ancient weapon called a battering ram, because even a mechanical arm in a sci-fi movie cannot punch it out to cause the air bowl to protrude, and then at least Thirty lunatics were crushed into evenly distributed pieces that stuck to the wall.

Tommy wanted to talk at first, but now he has become a mute who can only watch this lady's performance.

Sarah was a little uneasy at first, but now there is only admiration in her eyes when she looks at the lady who calls herself Surtr.

—Papa was wrong, Sarah.Kung fu movies are real, and not only yellow people can learn kongfu!

Joel, who looks old, but is actually only in his 20s this year, looks at the scarlet-eyed woman showing her might on the road in the night, and there is only a mess left in her heart.Just half a minute ago, they encountered a group of heavily armed garrison soldiers, and before the soldiers could shoot at them, the poor fellows were cut off by the airflow under Ms. Surtr's whip leg, half alive None left.

Not even half of them, because the red-haired lady grabbed the old-fashioned pistol in her hand ten seconds ago, and killed a sniper hiding in a bunker 300 meters away with one shot, and used the second and third shots Blow up the tank of the transporter next to the sniper and cause an explosion.And the final result is——

"You are safe, this car has enough oil, enough to transport you to a safe gathering place, and then start a new life."

The girl with long hair like fire fluttering in the hot wind knocked on the shell of a Hummer that had broken down on the side of the road. This simple and rough repair method immediately made the Hummer roar with vitality.She turned her eyes slightly, and nodded to Joel and the other three.

"Let's separate here. I have other things to do... Don't worry, there are no surveillance and no survivors around here. No one will know that you are related to the destruction of this interception team."

The girl's tone was flat, but full of unquestionable taste.Obviously there is not even a single line of wrinkle on his face, but he is as majestic as an ancient king.

If this wasn't America, surely someone would be on their knees.

But even so...

"Sister Surtr, what do you want to do alone?"——The youngest girl said the most daring words that adults dare not ask.

"I'm going to save the world." However, the girl didn't mind this doubt, she just smiled, reached out and rubbed the top of Sarah's head, disturbing the gorgeous blonde hair. "It will take at least 20 years to expect antibodies to be born naturally in nature, and after 20 years, no reliable medical institution will be able to produce a cure for the disease. Therefore, I have to manually speed up the process, and within two months, let all this Welcoming the end."

Her words did not conform to medical common sense at all, but it is impossible for anyone here to question her.