Abnormal Doomsday Records

Chapter 154 4. How can a story be perfect without a filial daughter?
Polina, still bleeding, was carried away.

D-4 would never miss at a distance of thirty-five meters. The bullet fired this time was deadly enough to make up for the defect that Afu obviously couldn't do it and could only stand there awkwardly. It also made the expression of the evil eagle Rhine, who stepped on the "air wall" to the ground, calm again.

The expressions of the other core members of the exploration team were quite complicated, and some radical ones had already quietly grasped their weapons.

The fact that they could work together with Polina to do this and dare to cooperate with Rust Castle actually shows their inclination. In this case, Evil Vulture did not try to save the situation with words, but said casually:

"Once you leave here, you are no longer members of the Jiu Nation!
If you want to make a living in the city-state, ask Afu for a letter of introduction. She can help you find a good job in the Acholi Consortium. If you want to return to the bad land to live a free life, don't worry. As long as you can safely cross this jungle, everyone can part ways in peace!
Your mission was to clean up the occupied area of Staffin. You have done a good job. Now disband.

You can go back to Beta Base if you want.

Remember to keep your mouth shut. I don't want to hear any rumors flying around about this spacecraft. What are you doing here?
Are you really ready to fight me?"

"We just want to know if what Ms. Polina said is true?"

A core member of the exploration team stepped forward and said in a voice that was a little bit ashamed:

"She told us that you established the Eagle Nation, searched for us, taught us, and disciplined us, just to use us as cannon fodder one day in the future."

"She's right. I do have this plan. At the right moment in the future, I will use this spacecraft to carry the psykers of the Eagle State to rush into the Garden of Eden hanging high above the earth and knock the culprit who caused the current situation in the Bad Land Era off his throne!"

The evil vulture looked around, and under the gaze of the psychic, she said:

"But what Polina didn't tell you is that I will go with you in this plan! I am your leader, and even if I have to step into heaven and turn it into a sea of fire, I must be the one to throw down the first torch myself."

There was dead silence.

The leader who was asking the question had his face change several times, then he lowered his head and said:

"If that's the case, if you're the one leading us into hell, that's fine with me, ma'am."

"If there's no problem, go ahead and do your job. Next time you meet someone like Polina, remember to think more."

Rhine waved his hands and said:

"I thought you would have understood when you saw her recruit the robots from Rust Castle, but now it seems that the hope she spread really clouded your judgment."

"This is normal, Ms. Rhine. Who doesn't want their life to get better and better? Even in this messy and evil land, the pursuit of beautiful things still exists, just like no matter how crazy a villain is, there will always be a place in his heart for those things that cannot survive in the dark."

Zhou Ke walked out of the semi-enclosed control console. He flicked away the cigarette butt, put his hands in his trouser pockets, and said in a voice that others could hear:
“Everyone, instead of wasting time here maintaining this awkward situation, why not take some time to think about your future life plans.

Without the protection of Eagle State, you will have to spend a very hard time in the Bad Land.

But considering your poor judgment of lies and deception, I think you'd better take the recommendation letter and go to the office in the city-state district. After all, even the lies and deception of Polina, who is not outstanding, can make you so crazy.
If you really meet a tough guy, you will probably lose your pants.

Well, as the old saying goes, IQ and EQ are two different things. "

Just as the two sides maintained a standoff, noisier sounds came from above. Several Ascended Psychic Masters who came with Rhine appeared one after another at the entrance of the shelter warehouse. These guys dressed very avant-garde were all the "founding members" of the Eagle State. They were definitely on the side of the Evil Eagle.

Their arrival also announced that the leaders of the exploration group had missed the best opportunity, and now the only option waiting for them was to give up resistance in shame.

In this regard, Zhou Ke said that this was all self-humiliation. He did not have any special feelings towards these guys, and the "potential collaborators" who could really match his brain waves would not allow themselves to fall into such an embarrassing situation.

The clearing began soon.

Under the scolding of the psionic masters, the psionicists in the warehouse were quickly driven out.

Zhou Ke winked at D-4, who was maintaining combat orders beside him at all times. The latter stepped forward to help Afu up and took her out of the warehouse.

Zhou Ke walked to the front of the black and white aircraft of the old civilization. He looked up at the giant steel structure fixed on the mobile launch pad, as if he was looking at some kind of industrial miracle.

After a brief silence, he turned back to the vulture and said:

"You already knew that Polina was working with Rustburg!"

"Why do you say that?"

The evil eagle asked back, and Zhou Ke grinned evilly and said:

"Nonsense! The only force capable of handling this level of technological creation in the Badlands besides Rust Castle is the Acholi Consortium. I suspect that your purpose of going to the City-State District this time, in addition to taking the Time Beast and protecting little Acholi, is to gain the support of official engineers.

However, using people from the Acholi Group was risky, as even Acholi Jr. himself could not determine whether the engineers under his command had any connection with the Flash Organization.

In this case, it is worth sacrificing an overly romantic leader in exchange for the passive support of Rust Castle.

I even think that it was you who secretly helped Polina get in touch with Rust Castle. After all, those rebellious machines are not friendly to you spellcasters who use chaos psionics.

Judging from the results alone, the unstable factor Polina, who had the intention of rebellion and had good appeal, was eliminated, your brother got a group of "liberal" psychics who were eager for a better life as new subordinates, and you got a spacecraft that had all the preliminary preparations done and could enter the launch process as long as it got the fuel.

Rust Castle was taken advantage of by you!

And poor Polina fell into your trap the moment she had evil thoughts.

I admit that I underestimated you before, Rhine.

Your brother is talented and humane, but you lack humaneness but are equally talented. The fact that you can use your followers who have followed you for many years in such an incident without batting an eyelid proves that you are a cold-blooded crazy woman with revenge on your mind."

"I'm not as smart as you think."

The vulture shook his head and said:
“I didn’t plan all this when I sent out the Exploration Group, but the connection between Polina and Rust Castle was indeed a pleasant surprise.

I admit that I took advantage of her.

But for the traitor, I think my methods have been very merciful.

If my brother was here, she would not have the chance to indulge in her illusory dreams until they were shattered by the cruel reality.

I heard about your "rules" from my brother. You are very picky about your partners. Although I think that after the matter of Institute No. 2 was over, we have become partners with the same interests, but rules are rules.

The missing link is now filled for you!
So, can I know how I scored on that ridiculous 'partner assessment' of yours?"

"This is confidential information."

Zhou Ke put his hands in his pockets and laughed triumphantly. He added:

"But I can tell you that you scored higher than Moni. I appreciate this kind of decisiveness and planning, and I also like the feeling of being in control. Most importantly, I like this spacecraft and your crazy plan.

I am not afraid to tell you that burning down the Garden of Eden is also my ideal.

In this way, in addition to the exploration of Time Maze No. 11, we now have two common goals.

But the first priority as collaborators is to be honest with each other, so I will tell you that Polina is not dead, Afu’s acting is so bad that I can’t stand it, D-4 helped her, and the bullet that shot into Polina’s left eye was treated with reduced charge.

Under normal circumstances, the person would definitely die.

However, the fact that she can control all moving objects means that as long as she is rescued in time, she still has a chance of survival.

So, do you need my partner to come over and help you with another shot?"

"No need. Her value in my hands has been exhausted. Send her to my brother."

Rhine was not surprised by this.

She waved her hand and said:

"Since those psychics who left are convinced by her, let her experience the pressure I have been under over the years, and let her also experience the responsibilities of being a leader in a terrible world.

The situation on my brother's side is not stable, and he really needs a sufficiently suitable defender.

But how should I put it? Afu's performance surprised me.

She stood firmly on my side when faced with the long-term relationship with Polina and my interests. I really loved her for what she did."

"So, your family has some problems here to some extent. It's really a twisted family relationship."

Zhou Ke pointed to his head.

Although it sounds like a joke, his performance is not like a joke, it's like he is stating a fact.

Rhine did not react much to this. She looked at the spacecraft in front of her very intently, as if waiting for Zhou Ke to continue asking questions.

The new partner did not let her wait too long. Zhou Ke asked:
"Where does your hatred for Eden come from? Is it from the social aspect? Or is it from the aspect of interests? You can't be like your psychopathic brother, who thinks all his resentment towards Heaven comes from his father's inhumanity?"

"He actually told you even this?"

Rhine was really surprised this time.

She glanced at Zhou Ke and said:
"My brother hid these little thoughts very well. He only told me his true thoughts. I think he is too sissy and too impulsive. Just for these reasons, he made up his mind to leave the Garden of Eden and come to this evil land. It's like he is making a bet that his life is not worth lingering on.

As annoying as a naughty kid who doesn't know how to restrain himself.

As for me.
My purpose is very simple. We must prevent the restart of the "Sacred Benchmark" project. I came to the Badlands ten years ago with this purpose. Only here can I find people who dare to resist.

It turns out that there are not too many such people in any era, otherwise I would not have to make such an extreme suicide attack plan. The psykers of the Eagle State have both quantity and quality. As long as we can send them into the Garden of Eden, creating a chaos is no problem. This is enough to buy us time to rush into the "Inner Ring Zero", where my father's laboratory is located and the finished product location of the Sacred Benchmark Project is also there. "

“I heard a little bit about the project from Roger.”

Zhou Ke narrowed his eyes, playing with a cigarette in his hand, and said:
"The failure of the first launch of the Sacred Baseline Project disrupted the timeline, right? It forced the surface world, which had once had hope, into the current desperate situation."

"Yes, the consequences of that failure were terrible."

Rhine sighed and said:
"I was just born at that time, and all I know about the failed experiment comes from the accidental exploration of my father's office. I saw the complete record of the event and the verification of the results.

Before the experiment began, the occupied area on the surface only accounted for one-third of the world's total area. The Mother Planet Federation still controlled most of the surface and was able to build sufficient defenses. At that time, humans still had enough technological reserves to restart civilization.

But those in power have realized that if they fail to come up with a solution, all that awaits them is a slow death.

So they authorized their father to carry out the plan. Overnight, the timeline was shattered, and the pollution from chaos spread along the broken timeline. The incomplete timeline could not resist this conceptual pollution, so Shunguang took emergency repairs. However, time is not a field that humans can tread into at will.

The result of their difficult "stitching" was that the progress of history was completely disrupted, and the Badlands was formed overnight.

They tried their best to rescue many uninfected people from the contaminated time fragments and carried out large-scale memory rewriting, but the mistake had been made and the Mother Planet Federation was destroyed.

My father was deeply traumatized at that time.

His personality changed drastically, but his mistakes did not teach him to be cautious. Instead, they made him bear even heavier "pressure to save", making him even more radical.

In the following twenty years, Shunguang has been preparing for the test launch of the second Sacred Benchmark Project. They corrected the loopholes in the original plan, iterated the technology, and tried their best to increase the success rate.

They claim this time it's foolproof, but you know what?
I don't believe a word they say. Would you leave your fate to such a group of people?"

"No, even if their success rate is 100%, I will not allow them to make fun of my life."

Zhou Ke listened very carefully and said:

"This does explain the memory problems of those people. For example, Mulan talked about his neighbor, but there were obvious signs of 'modification' in that incident. There were also some problems in old Taf's memory fragments about the fall of the old civilization that he himself was not aware of.

But I still feel like this isn’t ‘the truth.’”

He shook his head and said:

"This incident was terrible, but it was not enough to make Weng Yafen, Professor Qiao Sina, and Ajie pay such a heavy price. This was a mistake, but it was indeed authorized by the Mother Planet Federation. Therefore, at most it only made the Flash Organization lose face, and it did not touch the "truth" of this world at the structural level.

So, we still have to go to Time Maze No. 11!
As for your risky plan of "Heaven's Fall", I think you should not be so radical for the time being. Now is not a good time.

The conflict between the two sides has not yet developed to the point where one side must die. No matter how bad life is, there are people who can endure it. In this case, if you want to launch a "coup", you can only rely on your personal charm.

But it's obvious that you're not even as talented as your brother in this area.

Wait a minute.

Wait until the turning point comes, wait until the moment when all the heroes in the evil land will ask you to lead them to the Garden of Eden without you having to ask, then great things will be accomplished!"

"You have a point. I don't plan to fight to the death right now. This thing is a desperate measure."

The Evil Vulture nodded, took one last look at the spacecraft, and said:

"My brother will get the fuel, but the transfer will still take time. The robots in Rust Castle have restarted the system, but testing will also take time. But I am still a little surprised. After all, normal people will always hesitate when hearing such a crazy plan, but you are so excited that you are even more actively involved than me.

Are you really as crazy as my brother says you are?"

"What a stupid argument, Wu Neng, you answer it!"

Zhou Ke snapped his fingers, Wu Neng pretended to cough a few times, and then stretched out his voice and said:

"The reason why Joker thinks this plan is great is based on the thinking of the game between the two sides. Although you may not have thought too much, you did hit the mark. If the sacred benchmark project that Shunguang claimed could save the world succeeds, then all the tragedies in the Bad Land so far will be redeemed;

If it fails, you can also use this thing to replace your weak wailing, so that you don't have to live in a worse hell in a more undignified way.

From this point of view, this spacecraft and the "Heaven's Fall" plan are indeed a brilliant idea, and there is no reason for Joker not to follow it."

"Indeed, I haven't thought about this issue from this perspective myself."

Rhine nodded.

Zhou Ke turned and walked out the door. He said:

"I've listened to the plan, and I've agreed to join. I have nothing to do here. I'm going to take a walk in the surrounding forests and appreciate the 'beautiful scenery' of the occupied areas. I'll wait for that silly boy Qiao Shan to contact me when he wakes up.

One last question, Rhine, you and your brother have a very bad impression of your father. What did that man do to make his two children hate him so much?
I mean, besides what he did to the Bad Land."

"He is the worst father you can imagine, but my brother is more dissatisfied with him. He has not yet developed to the point where my father and I are determined to fight to the death. But I believe that if my brother knew more, he would soon fall into my twisted mentality.

I didn’t tell him the truth to protect him.”

Rhine said softly:
"That's all I can tell you. What he did to my brother and me can no longer be described as a crime."

“It sounds like a story.”

Zhou Ke complained:
“But I know you won’t tell me even if I ask you, so let’s leave it at that. Remember to send me a message, and I’ll take care of those little things you’re not in the mood to deal with. This is the duty of a collaborator.

See you later. "

Zhou Ke activated the armed backpack, leaped up and glided to the high entrance, disappearing into the corridor leading to the outside. The evil eagle Rhine remained where she was. She stretched out her hand in front of her eyes, moved her fingers, and then gently pinched her fingertips with her other hand, as if to confirm something in this way.

Do you really exist in this world?

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"As expected, there are only wrong names, but never wrong nicknames. Evil Vulture, Evil Vulture, the name is well-deserved."

In the surface town of the Fintas Industrial Zone, Zhou Ke shook his head and pushed open the door of a closed room, just in time to see D-4 using tweezers to remove the bullet from Polina's eye socket.

Honestly, it's kind of gross.

But this scene, which should have been bloody, did not involve much blood splattering, probably because Polina's will to survive, who was on the verge of death, forced her to do her best to control the blood still flowing in her body to stabilize her vital signs.

Afu stood nearby with a nervous look on her face, but was pushed away by D-4 with disgust.

You are not a professional first aid provider, why are you so close? You can't help at all except to affect the next first aid!

"Go find a flying machine."

Zhou Ke pulled Afu to the door and told her:

"Let Polina's loyal followers take her to the central city as quickly as possible to seek refuge with little Acholi. The treatment facility there can keep her alive, but because of your messy shooting skills, she may need to replace some 'parts' in order to survive."

"But the young lady is not angry, right?"

Afu said worriedly:

"I betrayed her."

"Wrong. You disobeyed her after you showed your loyalty. I guess this is why Rhine allowed Polina to live. Obviously, in her heart, your feelings are much more important than the life of a traitor."

Zhou Ke reached out and knocked Afu hard on the head, pointed at Polina who was lying on the table with her life hanging by a thread, and said:
"See, this is what happens when you fail to distinguish between public and private!

I hope this incident can teach you some lessons and help you grow. To be honest, you and she both owe me a big favor.

If Rhine hadn't wanted to show me her ability as a partner and give me a favor, your Polina would have been doomed today. And this woman's brain is obviously not working well, just like you, no wonder you two can get together.

What era is this? Are we still playing with romantic abstraction?

She believes whatever the crazy robot says!
He even planned to take you with him to die. If I had someone like that by my side, I would have shot him dead long ago."

"I know, I will definitely pay you back what I owe you."

Ah Fu was relieved after hearing what Zhou Ke said, but before she could relax, she heard Zhou Ke drawl and say:

"Very good, you have the chance to repay now. Come, tell me if Rhine has any unusual living habits or quirks."

"I can't say!"

"Very good, very loyal, I like loyal people! But D-4's hand that can shoot the stitching laser only needs to shake to pierce Polina's brain, and D-4 is also very loyal to me. She is willing to die for me and naturally doesn't mind having another life that deserves to die.

Therefore, I hope you will think carefully about your answer, Afu.

It's just that I can get to know my partner's living habits better through you. This doesn't mean I'm intruding into her privacy. Don't be so nervous. I'm also trying to get this information so that my cooperation with Rhine can go more smoothly.

After all, only when you understand the pulse of your partners can they obey you obediently. What I mean is, they can cooperate with each other more perfectly.

So go ahead, I’m listening.”

(End of this chapter)