Abnormal Doomsday Records

Chapter 187 37. Revenge is only the aftermath of sadness (Part )
"If I had known I wouldn't have gone to the trouble of saving you."

After the fierce battle came to an end, the breathless Qiao Shan sat down among the remains of a pile of crystal demons, or "time aberrations" as their scientific name. After the biological shells on his body fell off, he was exhausted and grabbed the confused little guy around his waist.

Time Beast still looked lazy and confused.

But it was completely different from its previous attitude of running away when it sensed danger. Obviously, it felt safe following Qiao Shan. Now it was gritting its teeth and waiting for its "new owner" to put delicious fresh leaves into its mouth.

It apparently doesn't feel it's its fault that it's trapped here.

It was just escaping from the dangerous area according to its animal instinct, and after Qiao Shan rescued it from the dangerous hunting dragon that could also travel through time, it ran all the way to a safe place with Qiao Shan.

It performed all its duties as a "guide" perfectly, so what could be wrong?
"So, where are we now?"

Qiao Shan looked at the time beast in front of him, which was moving its teeth and waiting to be fed. He said with a pained look on his face:
"You've been running with me for three whole days! The crystal demons I've killed along the way are enough to cover the entire Slag Town. Is this not right?"

"Ow"

The Time Beast who was questioned showed a clear and stupid look, stretched out his claws and pointed at his mouth, meaning, "Stop asking questions and find some leaves for me to moisten my throat."

"I also know that you only eat leaves, but the question is where can I find that stuff for you now?"

Qiao Shan cursed:

"Ah, you loser bastard, you ate my bag last night. I don't even have any energy bars to eat. My stomach is still growling now. When I get really hungry, I will make you into my food reserve."

"Swish"

A fragrant energy bar was handed over from the side.

At the same time, Qiao Shan raised his left hand, and the black biological armor quickly covered the man and a sharp biological blade popped out and pressed against his neck.

"You'd better not do that. You'll need this little idiot to lead the way here later."

Zhou Ke walked out of the Time Lost's "portal" and said slowly:

"If you don't want to be trapped here forever."

"Fuck, Zhou Ke, you're finally here."

Qiao Shan's tired face was filled with the emotion of reunion after a long separation. He stood up and was about to give Zhou Ke a hug but was pushed away by the other party in disgust.

This guy has been fighting for three days without washing, and the smell on his body is absolutely terrible.

His Black Beast Armor was only responsible for protecting him and fighting, and it obviously did not have the additional advanced VIP function of "body cleansing".

Zhou Ke stretched out his hand and pinched out a few fresh leaves like magic, which made the lazy Time Beast's eyes light up. It climbed onto his arm with a roar, grabbed the leaves and began to chew on them.

Qiao Shan also opened the energy bar and while chewing it, he looked up and down at Zhou Ke and the strange "portal" behind him.

He said in a strange tone:
"When did you learn this trick? I asked Afu before, and she said that although the psionicists in the Badlands also have teleportation skills, there is no such thing as a portal."

"Well, that's a good question, and the answer is that I'm from the future."

Zhou Ke squinted his eyes and said:
"We saved the world. Civilization outside has returned to its peak. Slag Town has been rebuilt by Qiao Ya. The village is distributing gold bars today, so I have to quickly use this amazing portal to bring you back from the 'past.'

Oh, yes, there is bad news.

Mu Fang is already married and has seven or eight children. If you go back and work hard enough, you might be able to become a mistress or something. After all, it seems that she still has feelings for you, although she was definitely with you at the beginning just to piss off her father."

"Tsk, Mu Fang and I are in a free love relationship, okay? And when you mentioned that the village was distributing gold bars, I knew you were talking nonsense. Gold is worthless in the Bad Land."

Qiao Shan took a bite of the energy bar and said:

"And Xiaofang herself has said more than once that if her father dares to stop her from pursuing freedom, she will come with me to the Bad Land to wander around the world. Do you think that people from Slag Town like us can let my girlfriend suffer any injustice?

Sooner or later, I will build a villa on this bad land for her to use as her new home."

"There's everything in dreams. With your ability, Mu Fang, that cunning girl, is more than enough to take advantage of you."

Zhou Ke blew out a smoke ring, suppressed it out of habit, and then spent dozens of seconds explaining to Qiao Shan the environment he was currently in.

After realizing that he was trapped in the "past" because of the Time Beast, Qiao Shan was embarrassed for a moment. But when Zhou Ke said that he now faced two choices, either follow him or stay here and continue to hone his strength, Qiao Shan slowed down his action of refusing the energy bar.

Zhou Ke did not interfere with his thinking.

When he came here just now, the Time Lost had reminded him not to interfere with the fate of others casually, and Zhou Ke thought that it was not a bad thing for Qiao Shan to stay here.

With Qiao Shan's current mediocre strength, it would be difficult for him to be of much help in the series of things Zhou Ke plans to do next, but if he can seize this opportunity to make a charge, then things might change.

"Well, it's really hard to make a decision right now, but let's not talk about this for now. Help me draw some energy."

Qiao Shan rubbed his brows and stretched out his hand to Zhou Ke, saying:

"I urgently need to 'empty my mind' now, otherwise I won't be able to calm down and think."

"Ok?"

Zhou Ke looked at Qiao Shan with a strange expression and said:

"If you need to relax, can't you just masturbate? What do you mean you need me to help you relax? Do you think my job is to help people relax?

You really deserve a beating.

Besides, didn’t I draw bio-energy once when I first entered the maze? How come the bio-energy is full again?”

"It's all overflowing. I'm about to burst."

Qiao Shan said in a low voice with a look of pain on his face:
“Didn’t I say that before?
Every time you hit me, the biological energy in my body will recover much faster, and because of this little fool, I have been fighting these past few days, making this biological armor more active.

This damn thing is crazy. I can even hear a voice talking to me now.

I suspect this may be a common problem among psychics, but it doesn't feel right to me."

He flexed his fingers, pointed at his head, and said:
"I feel like something is talking to me that those idiots implanted in me by the Flash! It's not a psychic's hallucination, at least not an ordinary hallucination.

It seems to have woken up, Zhou Ke, and it's in my body! The more I use it to fight, the more frequently that voice appears. I feel that it may try to snatch control of my body from me in the future. If it fails, then... I'm done!

Therefore, I want to take a risk and break through to the Ascendant as soon as possible, at least to strengthen my spirit so that this damn thing won't really "eat" me one day.

Didn’t you say before that you had accumulated a lot of my biological energy?

How about we try it now?"

"Well, that's bad news."

Zhou Ke regretfully told Qiao Shan what had just happened. The "Black Beast Mask" prepared for him had been consumed in the battle with Wu Qinhu.

"Fuck, you killed Wu Qinhu? Awesome!"

Qiao Shan exclaimed.

"Fuck, your setting for 'biological armor' is really getting more and more like the card illustration."

After thinking for a moment, Zhou Ke also exclaimed and said a joke that only he could understand in the entire evil land.

After the shock was over, he extracted bio-energy from Qiao Shan. This time the force was particularly strong, causing the corners of Qiao Shan's mouth to twitch. After all the bio-energy in his body was extracted, Zhou Ke looked at the black beast mask that he had lost and found in his hand and asked:
"Now what? How fast is the biological energy restored?"

"In the few seconds we're talking, it has recovered almost one-fifth of its original size."

Qiao Shan himself was panicked.

He said with a look of despair:
"Do you think I'm sick? I've never heard of anyone whose biological energy can recover so quickly. I'm afraid even Wu Qinhu can't recover energy so quickly, right?"

"Be more confident. I've tried it myself and he definitely doesn't have it."

Zhou Ke narrowed his eyes and looked at the abnormal energy around Qiao Shan that was once again raging. He thought for a moment, tapped Wuneng's screen, and said:
"Do you feel that Qiao Shan's current state is very similar to Ajie's state of burning his life in the last stage of his life?"

"Not just similar, but almost exactly the same!"

Wu Neng replied seriously:

"The machine just scanned him. His physical strength has grown incredibly fast in the past three days. It's exactly the same as when Ajie was about to die!
This fully demonstrates that Qiao Shan's rapid recovery of biological energy is based on the burning of life. Even the biological armor formed by monster genes cannot violate energetics and appear out of thin air.

If they really had this ability, monsters would have ruled the stars long ago.

This quickly restored energy must have been consumed by other things!
The tip of his hair on the left side had turned white, which was an obvious sign that his vitality was fading. It was like a lit candle. If he couldn't find a breakthrough, he would soon burn himself out.

As for the sound you heard
This machine thinks that it may not be your biological armor that wants to take away your spirit. It is most likely that thing is warning you to think of a solution quickly.

It is symbiotic with you, Joe Shan.

You have to understand this: if you die, it will not be able to survive! If it really has self-awareness, it will never joke with you about such things. "

Qiao Shan's expression turned grim. Zhou Ke also felt the difficulty of the problem. He said:
"If we take Qiaoshan out now and find a connection with little Acholi to send him to Eden Garden, is there any technology there that can cure it?"

"no!"

Wu Neng answered decisively:

"It turns out that although the biological enhancement that the Flash Organization did on Qiao Shan has improved a bit, it is still not complete! The same problem that Ajie encountered appeared in Qiao Shan. Flash is the most technologically advanced organization in the Badlands era. If they can't handle it, Eden will probably not be able to handle it either.

However, Qiao Shan's advantage over Ajie is that his illness was discovered earlier, so he can still fight. He can break through to the sublimator before he is burned to death, and use biological energy to promote the improvement of life level to replenish the consumed vitality, but this means that Qiao Shan will most likely be bound to his biological armor forever.

We still don’t understand what this thing is.”

"That means, of the two options just now, there is only one left for me?"

Qiao Shan calmed down after hearing this answer. He asked Zhou Ke for a cigarette and lit it. As the smoke rose, he said:
"My only chance to survive now is to achieve a breakthrough before I die?"

"Correct."

Zhou Ke glanced at him and said:
"But I can't stay here to help you. Although it's cruel to say this, I have a lot of things to do next. For example, Shunguang launched an attack on Rust Castle outside. I must participate in it and ensure that the 'Eternal Fragment' there is not obtained by old Acholi.

If you decide to give it a try, then you’re on your own from now on.”

"That's not a big deal."

Qiao Shan took a fierce puff of smoke, then exhaled a long smoke ring. He raised his left hand and watched the black biological shell quickly cover him, and another sharp biological blade popped out.

他 说:

“Just now, Master Wu Neng said that if I want to complete my promotion, I must accept the existence of this ‘monster’ in my body and use it as the source of my future power.

So, just keep fighting!
I just need to tap all my potential, all my will, and all my strength to the limit here, and then seize the initiative in the race against death, right? "

"That's the theory."

Zhou Ke nodded.

He wanted to say a few more words of comfort, but then he saw Qiao Shan waved his fist fiercely and said to him:
"Don't worry, Zhou Ke, I won't fall here! I swore to my master, I swore to you and Qiao Ya, and I swore to the undead in Slag Town that I will not fall before destroying Rust Castle.
You are going to Rust Castle next. Fortunately, I don't have much time left, so remember to save a place for me when you fight, and wait for me to appear on the battlefield before defeating those robots.

If I don't show up in the end, then fulfill this oath for me."

"That being said, revenge has an end. You have to think about how you're going to live after you've taken revenge. And from my experience, if you believe in revenge, you're unlikely to make it.

Revenge can only be a short-term goal; it is never a necessary condition for the 'future'."

Zhou Ke shook his head and said:
"That's why I advised Qiao Ya to give up revenge. People can't live in such a stubborn way. Of course, it's too late to say this now. The battlefield is rushing towards you. Either you gain strength and leave alive, or we carry you back in a body bag.

Think more about your girlfriend
Although I still think that Mu Fang is probably only with you to avenge her father, you can't really be so disappointing."

"Yeah, I understand."

"You know shit. I don't like talking about life with young people like you who think they know everything but are actually half-baked. Anyway, just survive first."

Zhou Ke suppressed him out of habit, but Qiao Shan said to him very seriously:

“No, I really understand this time!
When we went to the City State District, I really only had two thoughts in my mind: revenge and protecting Xiaoya. But after I personally experienced the revenge of Boss Moni there, I realized what you said. "

他 说:

"Before Ms. Amanda appeared, Mr. Money had only hatred for the Parnis family in his heart, but after she appeared, Mr. Money changed. I'm just a rough man, I can't explain that feeling, but he really came alive at that moment.

No longer just a ghost crawling out of hell.

When Mu Fang appeared in my life, I really just thought of it as a little girl's indulgence in revenge against her family.

But then I realized maybe she wasn't as shallow as we thought
I haven't known her for a long time, and even in that short time, our relationship was more of a physical one, but how can I put it?

To use the words of that idiot Hong, no matter how self-indulgent a man and a woman are, they will always share some of each other's lives during Sage Time, right?"

Qiao Shan grinned and said:

"Do you remember I once told you that when I was little I vowed to find a perfect woman like my aunt to be my wife when I grew up?"

"Of course, in that car, you said to me regretfully that it would be impossible to find someone like your aunt even if you searched the entire Bad Land."

Zhou Ke has a good memory, and he recalled Qiao Shan's regretful answer in the car that day.

But Qiao Shan shook his head and said:
"No, there is more! Although Mu Fang and my aunt are completely different women, I can feel that there are still some things worth pursuing in this rotten world. The moment I realized that the girl next to me was admired and cared for, in addition to revenge, there was another light in my heart.

Zhou Ke, don't worry that I will be determined to die and become a person who will do anything for revenge.

Perhaps saying this is a little unfair to everyone in Slag Town, and to my uncle's revenge, but for me now, those hatreds have become shackles that restrain my progress.

I have to break them!
I must complete this revenge, but not just for revenge itself, but only to cross the end point called "Avengers", bid farewell to my first half of life, leave no regrets, and move towards a new life with the girl who is waiting for me in the city-state district.

For a woman, I am even willing to give up the heaviness of the past.

I understand the dilemma that Uncle Ohm faced, and I also understand the change in Boss Moni. I even have a little expectation for the future. "

Qiao Shan flexed his ten fingers, looking at the piles of crystal demon bones under his feet, and he said loudly:
"So I won't fall here! I won't let the shackles of sublimation drain me dry and make me a nameless skeleton buried in the 'past'. I will break through! For the future I look forward to, I will complete this miracle with my own hands!"

"What a fucking psychopath!"

Zhou Ke threw away his cigarette butt and cursed:
"Isn't it just determination and belief? Why are you so passionate and immature about such a small matter? I have already killed Wu Qinhu, have I ever boasted?

damn thing!
Now that you have made up your mind, I won't try to persuade you any more.

You kid, just stay here and lock yourself up. Either you make a big splash or die miserably.

But don't worry, I'll come and collect your body."

"At your current rate of vitality consumption and body strengthening, your body container will break through the limits of an ascender in seven days at most, and your vitality burning will come to an end in fifteen days."

Wu Neng reminded:
“You only have one week to complete the sublimation, but you don’t have to worry about the biological energy issue. This strange black biological shell will provide you with enough biological energy.

This machine can't figure out whether this kind of "symbiosis" has deeper harm, but now there are not many options left for you in this situation.

You can only grab the ugly key that the harsh fate has thrust into your hand, and then try to use it to open the door to the future.

As for the passage of time in the outside world, you don't have to worry about it.

Sometimes the Time Beast is by your side, and the big guy called 'Time Lost' is watching outside. He can always send you back to the correct timeline. In other words, you will not miss the Battle of Rust Castle, provided that you can survive.

So good luck, Joe."

"Well, you go and do your work."

Qiao Shan waved his hand to Zhou Ke and said:
"I will continue my battle in the 'past', but I am curious."

He took the two packs of cigarettes Zhou Ke threw to him and put them in his tattered pocket, then asked Zhou Ke:

"That 'Time Loser' said that I'm in the 'past', right? Doesn't that mean that if I'm lucky enough here, I can also meet those guys you killed?
For example, the Time Lord, Takahashi Sandaifu, and Wu Qinhu."

"I advise you not to do that!"

Zhou Ke warned:
"Just find a few Biaowei to practice with. None of the guys you listed are ones you can handle. Even if you become an Ascendant and challenge them alone, you will definitely die.

You are not me. A guy who can't cheat will never survive in a battlefield like that."

"Uh, I'm just asking."

Qiao Shan curled his lips in embarrassment. In front of the portal, Zhou Ke threw down a large bag of energy bars and left behind all the leaves he was carrying.

This is enough for Qiao Shan and Time Beast to stay here for fifteen days.

Either you defeat fate with a powerful attitude and leave alive, or you can only be buried here as an "unknown body". If it were Zhou Ke, he would never allow himself to fall into this tragedy of having to "choose one of the two".

So before entering the portal, Zhou Ke took off the melta pistol from his armed backpack and threw it to Qiao Shan.

This thing is not for his self-defense.

Zhou Ke didn't say that, but Qiao Shan understood what he meant.

If death and failure are inevitable, then the power of how to die must also be in our own hands.

Even if it's a cowardly bullet, it's better than watching yourself die alone in the exhaustion of a loser.

"Swish"

The time-lost portal disappeared as quietly as it appeared. Qiao Shan sighed, picked up an energy bar and put it in his mouth, then looked at the time beast that was chewing leaves in his hand.

他 说:

"Perhaps I shouldn't be so passionate and confident. Maybe I should leave with him and go back to Chengbang District to spend the last period of my life with Mu Fang."

"Swish"

The disappeared portal suddenly opened again, like an "invitation".

But Qiao Shan rolled his eyes, lowered his head to light a cigarette, raised his middle finger towards the portal, and said:
"You're crazy! I was just talking. If I really go back like this, won't that charlatan Director Mulan nag me for the rest of my life? People look down on me, so I have to fight for myself.

get out!

Waiting for me in Rust Castle, the farewell to the 'Avenger' Joe Shan.

I won’t be absent.”

(End of this chapter)