“It’s probably unlikely, but I think it’s a direction worth trying.”
Ning Yu circled the two combined clues, highlighting them.
“What if it fails…?”
Ning Yu looked seriously into Shen Yiyue’s eyes.
“I’m more worried about how many more times you can start over.”
“Every time you restart, the burden on you increases, doesn’t it?”
Shen Yiyue wanted to avoid Ning Yu’s gaze, but Ning Yu gently turned her head back.
“It’s fine… and I have that notebook.”
Realizing she couldn’t hide it from Ning Yu, Shen Yiyue reluctantly pulled out the diary again.
“It’s easy to see. Every time you restart, you carry more memories, and the pressure on your brain increases.”
“That’s probably why you’re experiencing memory lapses.”
Ning Yu placed her hand on Shen Yiyue’s hair, gently combing through it with her fingers.
Shen Yiyue closed her eyes in comfort, like a cat, before suddenly realizing she was being petted.
She murmured softly:
“Really… nothing escapes Xiao Yu, does it…?”
“But it’s okay, I can still handle it.”
“And… Xiao Yu is standing right beside me, isn’t she?”
She grabbed Ning Yu’s hand, which was about to continue petting her, signaling her to stop.
“While we’re waiting for Xiao Xuan’s news, let’s check out this lead.”
Ning Yu pointed to the information she had just circled about the underground facility.
“We might need to ask Meng Yao to take care of Qianqian for a few days.”
Ning Yu’s gaze shifted to Shen Qianqian, who was still oblivious.
“Mm.”
Shen Yiyue nodded silently.
……
The night wind howled past Ning Xuan’s cheeks. She had turned off her normal temperature sensors; otherwise, she would have felt the biting cold.
The city below was eerily silent. Behind her, blue mechanical wings spewed energy, propelling her forward as she traced an elegant arc through the sky.
By her estimate, she would reach the checkpoint with about 20% of her energy remaining. From there, she could replenish her energy and quickly head to headquarters.
In the wilderness, a cluster of buildings stood out, surrounded by barbed wire and barricades, with various zombies wandering nearby.
But upon closer inspection, the zombies seemed to move in a certain pattern, almost as if patrolling, with no intention of attacking the area within the wire.
Ning Xuan glanced at the place, quickly descending from the sky. She checked her energy level: 21%.
Just about right. She still had to make it from the checkpoint to headquarters.
Some of the soldiers patrolling the base were gathered in the watchtowers, playing cards in small groups.
Others looked into the distance, yawning into the cold night air.
A blue light streaked across the sky, rapidly descending, immediately catching the soldiers’ attention.
“What’s that?”
“What are you looking at? Hurry up and play your cards. Don’t try to cheat… Holy crap!”
The previously lazy soldiers all stood up, aiming their guns at the blue light approaching from the sky.
As the light drew closer, they saw that it was a silver-haired girl, her mechanical wings glowing blue as she descended from the sky.
As she neared the ground, she adjusted her posture, shifting from a dive to an upright position.
Her mechanical wings slowly retracted, and prosthetic devices extended from her limbs, emitting flames that cushioned her landing.
“Who are you?!”
The patrolling soldiers surrounded her, their guns aimed at her, clearly on guard.
A middle-aged man’s voice suddenly came over the base’s loudspeaker:
“Everyone, return to your posts.”
Ning Xuan paid no attention to the soldiers’ guns. It was normal for them not to recognize her in this form, as she rarely showed it in public.
She landed on the empty ground in front of the main building and waited quietly.
“Tap, tap, tap.”
The hurried sound of military boots soon echoed from inside.
“Miss Ning Xuan, why have you returned so suddenly? How’s the mission going?”
A tall, burly man with graying hair emerged from the building, clearly surprised by Ning Xuan’s sudden return.
The soldiers, seeing the man, immediately averted their gazes and returned to their posts.
“There’s an urgent situation. I need to use the energy replenishment node here.”
The middle-aged man noticed the deep wounds on Ning Xuan’s body, recalling her retracted mechanical wings and her serious expression.
He quickly began piecing things together in his mind.
“It seems you’ve encountered unexpected obstacles?”
He tried to get more information.
“Hurry, I don’t have time to waste. I need to replenish my energy and head to headquarters immediately.”
Ning Xuan had no intention of wasting words.
“But… the squad heading to City A after you will also need…”
Ning Xuan’s eyes turned icy, and her right hand began to transform. A metal blade emerged, glinting coldly in the air.
“I have critical information to report. If you dare to stop me, the consequences will be on you when the higher-ups find out.”
It was a dual threat of words and force.
The middle-aged man glanced at the blade on the girl’s prosthetic right hand, which had claimed countless lives, and then at her injuries. His Adam’s apple bobbed nervously.
“Well… alright, I understand. I’ll report this to headquarters immediately as well.”
Of course, he didn’t fully trust Ning Xuan’s words, as this deviated from the original plan, but he wasn’t willing to gamble on the accuracy of her claims.
“25%… 35%… 100%. Energy replenishment complete.”
Ning Xuan had entered the building, standing in the center where a massive blue crystal module emitted a strange glow, though it had now completely dimmed.
Pipes at the base of the module connected deep underground, seemingly transporting energy from below.
She wondered where this power came from and wished she could go down to investigate.
She glanced at the module’s energy gauge, which now read only 12%. Most of the energy had been absorbed by her, and she had even deliberately wasted some.
This would delay the squad coming to capture Ning Yu, as the awakened ones with prosthetic modifications among them would be affected.
Her mechanical wings unfolded, the blue light within them flickering, signaling their full energy.
She wasn’t far from headquarters now. For the final stretch, she planned to use a spatial jump to speed up.
Every second she could buy for her sister mattered.
Her eyes lit up with operational patterns as she gazed at the starry sky, imagining her sister under the same stars.
With a whoosh, the silver-haired girl shot into the night sky and disappeared.
young master of the Shen family—a figure of immense power and wealth beyond measure—and awakened the "Destined Ultimate Villain System"! His starting scenario? Running into his icy fiancée who shows up with a mountain-descending divine doctor to break off their engagement. The divine doctor arrogantly taunts: "What does your Shen family have besides a bit of stinking money? You're not even worthy of tying Qingxue's shoelaces!" Shen Fei just smiled. He completely defied the usual script: "Fine, I agree to break off the engagement. Also, notify the finance department to withdraw all investments from the Su family." Minutes later, with its capital chain severed, the Su Group teetered on the brink of bankruptcy! The once aloof and proud ice queen CEO was thrown into utter panic. That very night, she went to Shen Fei's villa, casting aside all dignity to beg and plead desperately... From then on, in this world teeming with Sons of Destiny, Shen Fei embarked on a path of extreme dimensional suppression! A mountain-descending divine doctor? Peerless medical skills? Shen Fei: "Reporting you for practicing medicine without a license! I'll gladly take your ancient medicinal cauldron and twin sister assassins." The Crooked-Smiling Dragon King? Commanding a hundred thousand soldiers with a single order? Shen Fei: "Illegal assembly and suspected treason! Let a fleet of attack helicopters sanitize the area and teach you what the state apparatus really means!" A reborn tycoon? Knows all the golden opportunities of the next decade? Shen Fei: "A trillion in capital to reverse and pump the stock market, making you blow your margin and jump on the very first day of your rebirth!" What Chosen Ones? What bearers of Heavenly Fortune? In Shen Fei's eyes, they're all just chives (i.e., suckers/marks) waiting to be harvested! Shen Fei: "Sorry, but as the Destined Ultimate Villain, I don't play by the rules of honor. I only play the game of dimensional suppression."
. As long as he maintains the villain image and follows the plot to the grand finale, he can obtain generous rewards and return to the real world. So Gu Chen'an entered the role and began to act as a scumbag villain, but who would have expected that the female leads could hear his inner thoughts. Miss Su from the Su family was shocked: "I originally thought Gu Chen'an was a scumbag, but I didn't expect he turned out to be a gentleman! What? You said I have to call off the engagement? I definitely won't, I'll piss you off!" Bai Yuan Tian was dumbfounded: "Young Master Gu is usually unreasonable and a complete brat, but he actually calls me little sweetie in his heart? What, Young Master Gu even said he likes me?" As the female leads' images collapsed more and more, the plot also collapsed with it. Gu Chen'an looked at all this chaos. "Ladies, don't aggro me, if you keep this up the male lead really will stab me, I still need to survive to the grand finale!"
rowess are unmatched, commanding a million-strong army! Yet, the Emperor wants to depose him for the sake of a false prince? Hold on, are you throwing me into some female-oriented romance plot? How can I tolerate this? With a grand wave of his hand—the Nine Clan Extraction Technique! Slander the Emperor? Very well, all of you shall die! ... The False Prince: "Although I am not the biological son, Father and Mother love me more. The throne should be mine!" The Female Lead: "Qin Xiao, you are the Emperor, and I am a commoner. If you wish to marry me, you must abdicate. Otherwise, you will never have me!" The Empress: "After we divorce, you must give me half the empire!" The Transmigrator Consort: "You worthless Emperor, why should I kneel to you? All men are equal—I advise you to be kind!" The Great General: "The enemy general is my childhood sweetheart. For her sake, I willingly abandon the frontier defenses!" The Retired Emperor: "Although Yu'er was adopted, I prefer him. Qin Xiao, you should abdicate and let him become Emperor!" ... Very well! So this is how you want to play? Facing this twisted world of female-oriented tropes, Qin Xiao grins and raises his hand to unleash—the Nine Clan Extraction Technique! I am the Emperor. Why would I bother reasoning with you? Seal the gates! Leave none alive!
ing gift was a patch of barren land, and disciples were all picked up along the way. He spent fifty years diligently building three "ramshackle little sects," thinking he could finally live a carefree life relying on his disciples. But right at the fifty-year mark, he was suddenly swept away by a spatial rift and exiled to the Chaos Desolation, the Disorderly Ruins. There was no spiritual energy there, only slaughter. Relying on the cultivation feedback from his disciples, Gu Changyuan hacked his way through a sea of blood for eleven hundred years. When the system finally fished him back out, he discovered the ramshackle little sects he'd built back then had developed a rather... unusual style. Hold on... I vanished for a thousand years, so how did my ramshackle little sects become holy lands?!
