When the Female Lead Becomes Obsessive – Chapter 119

Volume Six: The Years I Wasn’t Human

Life

This time, only four ability users and Doctor An Min were dispatched to Southwest Qian’an. The five of them took a military airplane to Southwest Qian’an.

Jingdu S Base had very few airplanes. Because of the large-scale reduction in technology, technical personnel, and energy, the airplane construction project had been progressing slowly. To date, they could only produce three usable military airplanes.

One was originally used to pick up Doctor An Min. One was from three months ago; after receiving a distress signal from a suicide squad member, the airplane’s machinery sustained permanent damage from being besieged by zombies on the return trip from the rescue in Southwest Qian’an, rendering it unusable. And this last one was used to carry the five people to once again head to Southwest Qian’an.

Because Doctor An Min was familiar with the geographical features of the Qian’an experimental zone and the operating model of its central processor, even though the experimental zone had already activated the defense system’s self-destruct program, the central processor was still operating, because that thing was buried underground.

So this time, going to Qian’an only required the four ability users designated by Doctor An Min.

Fire-element S-class ability user Sang Er, Electric-element S-class ability user Chu Han, Water-Wood dual-element A-class ability user Zhong Wenshu¹, and Earth-Space dual-element A-class ability user Mu Xuan².

S-class base sovereign Gao Zhengwu³ looked at the five people who were ready to depart. His gaze fell on An Min, and he said with some worry, “Doctor An Min, would you like to take a few more ability users with you?”

If Doctor An Min had an accident, then the hope of all humanity would be extinguished. He could not guarantee the terrifying consequences that this extremely dangerous choice would bring.

An Min pushed his gold-rimmed glasses. Even though his body had been stimulated by the H-agent and was no longer nearsighted, he was already used to wearing glasses to think. “These few ability users are enough. More would be no different from going to die.”

He turned his head to look at the flustered Gao Zhengwu and said lightly, “I hope Leader Gao can learn from last time’s lesson. Sometimes, having more people is not an advantage.”

Gao Zhengwu’s face turned white, and he pursed his lips. “Okay, Doctor An Min.”

He looked toward Sang Er and Chu Han, advising them with kind words, “This operation must be extremely careful. You must protect Doctor An Min well. No infighting, understand?”

Zhong Wenshu smiled and said, “Okay, Leader Gao.”

Mu Xuan glanced at Sang Er and Chu Han, naturally knowing who Gao Zhengwu’s words were for. He replied, “Okay, Leader Gao.”

Chu Han silently nodded.

Sang Er lowered her eyes, playing with the flame on her fingertip, and did not pay any mind to Gao Zhengwu.

Gao Zhengwu: “…Okay, since everyone is ready, then let’s set off. You must return safely.”

“Yes.”

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Southwest Qian’an Experimental Zone.

Bang——

Wen Nuan crushed the head of a third-rank zombie. Its crystal core was a light cyan wood-element crystal core. After placing it in her palm, it was automatically absorbed. The scapula that had just been pierced through by the third-rank zombie instantly recovered as before, and the crystal core in her palm subsequently turned to powder and dissipated.

After staying in the experimental zone for nearly a month, Wen Nuan hunted zombies from time to time to recover her body. Gradually, she also discovered some changes in herself.

Her healing-element ability was still there, and in addition, her original constitution was very special, so her recovery ability was particularly rapid. Moreover, while hunting zombies these past few days, she had discovered an extremely terrifying and horrifying skill of her own.

That was immense strength and immortality. Immense strength was very superficial; it was just that her strength had become very great.

As for immortality, Wen Nuan discovered that no matter if a zombie pierced her heart or crushed her head, as long as her consciousness still existed, she could reassemble her body and then slowly repair it.

The greater the degree of injury, the slower the repair time, but overall, she already had an immortal body.

At first, Wen Nuan thought the system had done it for her. Later, the system said it didn’t have this ability itself; it should be the influence caused by the return to the origin world.

After all, in the previous few worlds, Wen Nuan’s world vessel had also died before. The result was the specific case of still being able to continue using the original world vessel after returning to the origin world.

Wen Nuan’s body had more or less recovered. The organs that should have grown back had all grown back. At the very least, she was no longer limping when she walked.

Because she now only had the healing-element ability and an immortal body, she could only engage in close combat when hunting zombies, relying on her immortal body to wear down zombies to death or relying on the zombies being insensitive to her to sneak attack them from behind. However, this method could only be used to sneak attack low-rank zombies. High-rank zombies would have their own consciousness, so it was not easy to launch a sneak attack.

So, Wen Nuan picked up the killing techniques Yan Hui had taught her before and reviewed them again.

The zombies in the experimental zone had been almost all slaughtered by her alone to review her killing techniques. Wen Nuan looked at the central building of the experimental zone. That place was already shattered beyond repair. Three months ago, the experimental zone had activated its protection system and initiated the self-destruct program, completely blowing up the central building.

That place was originally a skyscraper that soared into the clouds; now it had become a stretch of ruins. Sometimes, Wen Nuan would go to that stretch of ruins to pick up some scraps or something.

Life had been a bit hard.

Now that her body had recovered as before, Wen Nuan planned to go to Jingdu S Base to find the female lead.

The apocalyptic weather and climate were very chaotic; daytime was scorching hot and short/small, while nighttime was cold and long.

Wen Nuan was just preparing to go back to sleep and get ready to set off for Jingdu tomorrow when she saw a red point of light flickering in the distance, deep within the ruins of the central building.

“Fuck, Tongzi, this mission world can’t be haunted, right?” Wen Nuan had also stayed here for nearly a month and had never seen a red light flickering in the ruins.

The system glanced at Wen Nuan: 【You are now not human, not ghost, and not a zombie. If there’s fear, it should be the ghosts who are afraid, right?】

Wen Nuan: “…..”

Those words had reason.

Wen Nuan picked up two iron rods and walked over, but she did not find any zombies or ghosts. Instead, it was a signal transmitter buried in the dirt that was flashing a red light.

Originally, this signal transmitter was buried quite deep. Some time ago, when Wen Nuan was picking up scraps, she accidentally caused the ruins to collapse, directly smashing this signal transmitter out of the dirt.

Wen Nuan was just about to take the signal transmitter out when she found she couldn’t pull it. The signal transmitter was not an independent entity but was connected to something under the ground.

Immense strength.

Wen Nuan fully used this special function. She grabbed the signal transmitter, took a horse stance⁴, sunk her qi to her dantian⁵, and with a burst of strength from both arms, fiercely pulled the signal transmitter out of the ground.

Instantly, cracks like a spiderweb appeared around the dirt pit, and then in the next second, the entire piece of land collapsed. Wen Nuan fell down before she could react.

Bang——

Wen Nuan fell on a steel-constructed board. Before she could realize what it was, in the next second, a giant rock rolled down, directly smashing Wen Nuan down.

All the dust settled. Smoke and dust rose everywhere and then gradually subsided.

“Fuck!”

Wen Nuan was pressed by the giant rock just right. She took a deep breath, pushed the giant rock off her body, looked at her crushed sternum, and took out the crystal cores from her pocket to begin absorbing.

After absorbing three second-rank fire-element crystal cores, Wen Nuan’s sternum straightened up again.

She let out a long sigh. The surroundings were pitch black; she felt like she must have fallen into a basement.

Wen Nuan felt around her. Her fingertips touched a cold and hard object. She felt it; it seemed to be a wall, the material like aluminum alloy or perhaps steel.

Supporting herself with the wall, Wen Nuan slowly got up and felt her way forward along the wall.

The path was actually unobstructed all the way, until Wen Nuan felt that there should be a door in front of her. Her palm touched a button. Wen Nuan, holding the thought that even if everyone else would die, she definitely wouldn’t, pressed the button.

In an instant, there were ten thousand rays of light.

This time, Wen Nuan saw clearly where she was.

If the suicide squad members who had come to the experimental zone before were standing here, they would definitely be very surprised, because the surrounding buildings were actually exactly the same as the central building on the ground that had turned into ruins.

One was the central building on the ground, and one was the central building under the ground. These two buildings seemed to have been built symmetrically with the ground as the central axis.

Wen Nuan looked at the large door with a password in front of her. This doorway was the protective door they had entered the central control room through back then, exactly the same. She just didn’t know if the password would be the same.

Wen Nuan tried to input the secret that had cracked this door before. The display prompted: [Mistaken!!!]

Wrong password?

“Tongzi, what is the ending of this mission world?”

The system flipped through the world plotline: 【An Min created the antidote that could resolve the H-agent’s aftereffects, and the apocalypse ended.】

“Is there a specific process?”

Isn’t this world plotline a bit too vague?

System: 【It’s that humanity found the research and development materials for the H-agent from the Southwest Qian’an Experimental Zone. Doctor An Min, by researching the H-agent’s production materials, found the method to resolve the H-agent’s aftereffects, then created the antidote. The apocalypse completely ended, and the male and female leads also lived happily ever after together.】

“From getting the materials to the apocalypse being resolved, how much time did it take?”

Wen Nuan always felt that some deviations had appeared in this mission world, causing many world plotlines to have some changes.

【Three months,】 the system finished speaking, and was suddenly extremely surprised, 【Three months? How is that possible?】

After it and Wen Nuan returned to the origin world, the current time point was already four months after humanity had obtained the H-agent’s research and development materials.

Logically speaking, the apocalypse should have ended by this time point!?

Wen Nuan looked at the tightly closed door in front of her, a building the same as the central building, the same door but a different password. Was the machine inside that door perhaps the central controller that truly stored the H-agent’s research and development materials?

“There is only one possibility,” Wen Nuan tried to use brute force to break open the door, but found there was no change, “and that is the materials they brought back then were either fake, or they were incomplete.”

So four months had passed, and the apocalypse still had not ended.

【Then in that case, the world plotline has completely changed greatly!】 the system exclaimed.

In the original world plotline, the male and female leads in the end brought back the real H-agent research and development materials, then successfully created the antidote, saved all of humanity, and the apocalypse ended.

But the current world plotline had changed to the materials taken back then possibly being fake, which is to say, the core of the world plotline had completely changed.

“Can returning to the origin world cause such a big change to the world plotline?” Wen Nuan asked curiously.

The system shook its head and said: 【Not clear. After all, I have never experienced returning to the origin world. Wanting to return to the origin world requires paying a very large price. Very few task-takers are willing to make a deal with the main god. It’s much more affordable to just start over from the beginning.】

【Actually, the plotlines of the previous few mission worlds all had changes. After all, the female leads one by one all bent. A change in the world’s main body will inevitably cause the world plotline to have more or less changes.】 This was the explanation the system could currently give.

【And that WU index has been constantly changing, but it has no effect on you or me.】 The system looked at the WU index of 62% on the control panel, 【So, what kind of influence returning to the origin world will ultimately produce, we don’t know. We can only take it one step at a time. After all, right now our mission is to eliminate the female lead’s blackening value and unfreeze your points.】

The password lock could only have the password entered three times, otherwise it would self-destruct.

Wen Nuan withdrew her hand and smiled faintly. “We don’t need to go back to Jingdu ourselves.”

【Why?】 the system asked, puzzled.

“Because she will come to pick me up.”

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The apocalyptic weather and climate were varied. Before, flying from Jingdu to Southwest Qian’an only took six hours. Now, flying slowly required nearly 12 hours because the risk was very high.

The cabin fell into a strange silence. Although everyone was awake, no one was speaking. There was only the roar of the airplane and the sound of Doctor An Min typing on the keyboard.

“Hm?”

This slight sound of doubt seemed particularly abrupt in the silent space.

Zhong Wenshu looked at An Min. “Doctor, what’s wrong?”

On this whole trip, An Min had not made a single sound. He didn’t even proactively ask for food or water. He had been sitting in the back looking at the computer the whole time. If not for the continuous sound of the keyboard, the other four people would have almost forgotten there was a fifth person on the plane.

An Min looked at the flashing signal light on the computer and the warning prompt for incorrect password input. His tone carried disbelief, and he chuckled lightly, “The Qian’an Experimental Zone… there’s actually still a living thing?”

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The author has something to say:

Wen Nuan: Happy, wifey is coming to pick me up.

Everyone: Fuck, the experimental zone is haunted?!

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