Chapter 229: Collapse (Revised)

Han Dong looked at Qiao Min. At this moment, she was keeping her head down, her messy long hair covering her originally delicate and beautiful face.

At this instant, he seemed to be relieved, his pupils dilating powerlessly, watching the black sword wielder walk over slowly.

No anger, no sadness, only infinite despair remained.

The black sword wielder took out two sharp swords, one hand aiming at his waist at position 4, and one hand aiming at his chest at position 5.

Then, pierced through violently!

The few people outside the field were incomparably nervous at this moment. Seeing this scene of mutual slaughter, they were both shocked and constantly worried about their own survival.

Both people on the field had to die for them to have a possibility of survival.

Wang Anjian's expression was extremely ugly. He, who had been chattering incessantly, also quieted down at this moment.

Ding, Pfft!

Position 5 was fake, position 4, pierced through the whole body!

Han Dong struggled violently, his eyes widening, blood foam constantly overflowing from his nasal cavity and mouth, looking miserable...

"That's great!"

Seeing Han Dong's miserable state, Qiao Min said maniacally with blood-red eyes. If Han Dong died, it meant she was saved.

That final sword wouldn't be stabbed into her body either.

"He's dead, he's dead! I won, I can leave!!"

Qiao Min cheered crazily with tears all over her face.

The joy of winning and surviving spread in her heart. At this moment, she seemed incredibly relieved.

But at this moment, the armor on her body did not open.

The red head turned over slowly, wearing a bizarre smile on its face.

"Oh, don't be in such a hurry, Ms. Qiao. I think it's too early for you to cheer now. This kind of moment is when the love you have cherished for so long is tested the most, isn't it?" the 'Hatter' said meaningfully.

"What?!"

Qiao Min didn't understand. At this moment, she seemed to react to something, and she turned her head tremblingly, then discovered:

Han Dong... hadn't stopped breathing yet!

"The challenger hasn't died yet, so the game continues." The red head's words sounded like the funeral bell of hell, ringing in Qiao Min's ears!

"It's your turn to choose."

In front of Han Dong, the black sword wielder's cold voice sounded.

Qiao Min's pupils dilated at this moment, and her heart instantly turned cold.

At this moment, she finally remembered an important thing: even if a person is stabbed through the heart, they won't die immediately, let alone Han Dong, who was only stabbed through the waist at this moment...

As long as he still had a breath left, didn't he still have the right to choose??

"If the two had cooperated together from the beginning, even if Han Dong died, perhaps he would have stabbed all the remaining swords into himself before dying, to protect Qiao Min."

In the compartment, Chen Jia, who had been silent, said with a grave expression at this moment.

Tan Meng and Wang Anjian turned to look at him.

Their expressions were all gloomy. Chen Jia's words were indeed somewhat naive, but even if the Hatter had revealed in advance that swords could be stabbed into dead people, the first thing most people would think of was killing the other party, rather than sacrificing themselves.

However, at this moment, everyone didn't seem to care about this at all, only caring about whether these two people...

Could die together.

Lin Xian looked at Han Dong and Qiao Min, sighing in his heart.

"From the first time Han Dong took a sword for her, perhaps that man who loved her deeply could really do this step."

"But now... it's already too late."

Inside the room, Qiao Min, who had figured this out, suddenly shouted at Han Dong like a madwoman:

"Husband... husband, I was wrong, I'm sorry, it hurts so much..."

"Spare me, we can still win. You choose my shoulder, we live and go out, we can obtain endless supplies!!"

"I'm sorry, my brain is stupid, that's why I didn't think it through... Please! I love you, you are the man I love most in this life, let's not kill each other anymore, okay!"

Patter, patter~

Blood constantly overflowed from Han Dong's mouth and nose, his glasses full of mist.

His whole body revealed an aura of infinite despair and gloom.

"I... choose... female side position 5."

The hoarse voice seemed to come from a broken blower.

Permeated with blood foam, cold, indifferent.

Qiao Min's pupils dilated slowly, and a chill of terror rushed straight to the top of her skull!

Her eyes were filled with bloodshot veins, and she screamed miserably.

"NO!!!"

Pfft!

The sharp sword pierced through Qiao Min's chest!

Position 5 was real.

Qiao Min's eyes were full of terror before she died. At this instant, unwillingness, resentment, regret, and pain intertwined, until her pupils gradually dilated...

"Game over."

The red head turned over slowly. It seemed to have no expression, but at this moment, everyone present.

Seemed to see a bizarre smile on the corner of its mouth.

The whole field was silent.

Swish, the glass curtain wall in front suddenly turned black, and the lights in the room lit up.

Hua Xiaoling stood up slowly, looking at Lin Xian and Kiki.

"How is it? Is this experiment interesting?"

Lin Xian held the agitated Kiki and looked at Hua Xiaoling, saying: "Inexplicable. What are you trying to say?" Hua Xiaoling took a breath and said in a calm tone: "From a scientific perspective, we set up such an experiment to verify the Dark Evolution Theory. In a near-death state, human mental power will achieve a massive threshold breakthrough. At this stage, the human body will begin to fuse with dark energy and undergo some kind of genetic evolution. It's just that the time this state can be maintained is not long, and it is very difficult to observe in a conventional state, so we have tested many methods."

"For example, directly applying death pressure to the test subjects, but emotional excitation through coercion is too singular and easily leads to numbness, so we used such a death game. Facts have proven that the effect is very good."

Hua Xiaoling said to Lin Xian: "Those remaining four people will most likely obtain great physical evolution next, and after they leave, their survival ability should also be stronger."

"From this point of view, it is also a kind of help to them, isn't it?"

Lin Xian frowned, looking at Hua Xiaoling with cold eyes: "You use this method to help humanity evolve?"

"Strictly speaking, we follow survival of the fittest."

Hua Xiaoling walked to the glass curtain wall and said calmly: "People who survive floods will know how to build dams, understand water hydrology, and remember disaster laws. People who have experienced earthquakes also know how to solidify house foundations and understand how to observe the strange movements of insects and beasts."

"And humanity survives in one disaster and epidemic after another, and immune antibodies against them will be born in the body. Humanity is like this, always finding opportunities to survive."

"Step over it, and civilization will be brilliant once again. If you can't step over it, it's just the demise of a backward civilization."

Hua Xiaoling looked at Lin Xian: "Mr. Lin, don't you think the dark tide of this world is just another kind of disaster epidemic for us?"

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"So, the neutrality you refer to is letting it take its course?" Lin Xian replied.

"No."

Hua Xiaoling said directly: "The Salvation Faction, the Independent Faction, the Advent Faction... Look, just like the first game, clearly everyone's opinions were unified, and everyone could have obtained the opportunity to survive, but there were people who had their own understanding of survival, and because of such different survival philosophies, ideological confrontation was produced. Giggles~~ You say, is it funny? Even at the moment of humanity's life and death, there is still such a fragmented social organizational structure. For a higher civilization, isn't our current civilization a backward and ignorant civilization?"

"Do you know why?"

"Greed, selfishness?" Lin Xian replied: "It's nothing more than this set, right."

Hua Xiaoling shook her head: "Human nature is natural, this is not the essence. What I want to tell you is that human society is driven by rationality, but shackled by sensibility. This is an advantage in the initial stage of civilization development, but it is also a shortcoming that limits civilization. An excellent civilization is precisely one where sensibility does not exist. For example, the second game, love that has been praised for hundreds of years, ultimate emotion, do you think it has any help for the continuation of civilization?"

"Therefore, our purpose is to maintain the progress of the dark tide. Under this natural selection, everything will usher in a result. All survival philosophies will be verified, allowing the unreasonable frameworks and positions within this civilization to be naturally eliminated, and we decide survival and demise ourselves."

Hum~

At this moment, the glass curtain wall suddenly lit up slowly. Lin Xian looked at it and saw that outside the curtain wall was a massive research institute. Looking around, there were thousands of various research personnel, all kinds of war equipment for superpower users, blood essence research instruments, and large-scale genetic research equipment, which was incredibly shocking.

"Only humans who survive will be better gene continuers. Dark energy urges humanity to evolve and mutate into superpowers. These are the best among them."

Hua Xiaoling looked at Lin Xian: "Mr. Lin, at the moment of life and death on the climbing elevator, you took the initiative to stand out and used your mechanical superpower to point out a new way out, so our Foundation doesn't just covet your mechanical superpower, but believes that only people like you who possess supreme will and high-level superpowers are worthy of being the builders of this new world, leading the new civilization toward glorious evolution. This is the purpose of our Foundation."

"Excuse me."

Lin Xian responded directly: "I have no interest in building a new world. I am a vulgar person, I don't understand civilization righteousness."

"Your equipment here is so complete. What I am more interested in now is... do you have fresh bread? I haven't eaten it for a long time, I've forgotten what it tastes like."

Kiki raised her head at this moment, looking at Lin Xian with a stunned gaze, seemingly finally recovering from the killing game just now. She looked at Lin Xian and whispered: "Bread?"

Hua Xiaoling's expression changed slightly upon hearing this, and then she was silent for a moment, the corner of her mouth lifting slightly, but she didn't speak, instead stepping aside to clear the way.

Lin Xian pulled Kiki and walked toward the door. He stopped halfway, found the business card Hua Xiaoling gave him from his bosom, threw it on the ground casually, and then walked out the door.

Click, click~

At the door, two armed personnel with live ammunition blocked the way.

"Let them leave."

She didn't stop them and said directly. The armed personnel then cleared the way. Not only that, Hua Xiaoling also let the research institute staff send the two away.

Hua Xiaoling watched the backs of Lin Xian and Kiki leaving, her gaze sweeping to the business card at her feet. Her expression was neither happy nor sad, and she said meaningfully:

"We will meet again."

Hum. Lin Xian and Kiki rode their motorcycle out of the research institute. Turning around to look, the massive research institute soon became blurred under the effect of the reflective panels. The sunset was slanted, the trees were tall and the grass was green. Outside, it was indeed not dark. If it weren't for looking closely, no one would have thought that such a massive research institute stood above this forest.

Lin Xian only rode one motorcycle, letting Kiki sit in the back seat. He saw that Kiki's expression was not good and said directly: "Don't take it to heart. They say they are neutral, but in essence, they are on the same side as the Advent Faction."

"Lin Xian." Kiki hugged Lin Xian's waist, pressing her body against his back, feeling the warmth.

She said in a voice like a mosquito: "If I block a sword for you in the future, will you be sad for me?"

"No," Lin Xian said decisively.

"Ah?" Kiki widened her eyes.

Lin Xian directly roared the engine: "I will build you a set of impenetrable battle armor that no sword can pierce."

"Tch~"

Kiki couldn't help but roll her eyes at him, but the gloom in her eyes dissipated by more than half, and she said loudly: "Alright, let's go back quickly and see what harvest Sasha and the others have gained today."

Lin Xian nodded, turned back to look at the canopy dome hidden under the forest on the horizon, and said in a cold voice:

"I don't know what harvest they gained, but now I know that someone definitely gained something here."

"Who?"

"Who else could it be, that profiteer who bought a lot of guns from us."

Hum~

The motorcycle sped all the way, drove onto the main road, and headed toward the direction of Hengshan Guancheng.

Hengshan Guan Train Station, Infinity.

Chen Sixuan held the trip log and took Miao Lu to count the supplies on a display rack in Carriage No. 7. To be safe, Chen Sixuan had people open every box of food, carefully checking if the food inside had any damage, leaks, or spoilage, and then arranged them neatly according to classification.

"Put meat cans and fruit cans separately, and dry food like biscuits should also be separated from food with liquid to avoid dampness."

"Xiao Yuan, Taotao, you unify the food in glass jars and put them in the cabinet closer to the middle, and add some pads. Otherwise, if the outside of the carriage is attacked, it's easy to shatter these things."

Chen Sixuan was very careful, and Miao Lu beside her was also very diligent in helping.

"Miao Lu, which line has news?" Chen Sixuan asked at this moment.

Miao Lu took out the mobile terminal and communicator to look, and said: "Not yet. It's still early. They estimate they will all return just in time."

Chen Sixuan looked at the slanting sunlight outside the carriage window, took a breath, and said: "I hope they have a good harvest today."

"That's for sure~" Miao Lu giggled: "There won't be any eerie entities in broad daylight, and if it's just some zombies, it shouldn't threaten their safety. But too many people have come to this Hengshan Guan, it's estimated to be very difficult to find useful things."

Chen Sixuan nodded. This was the first time Infinity had split into teams for multi-person exploration.

In the past, Lin Xian had always gone into battle himself. Now that there were more people, especially for such ordinary city exploration tasks, mobilizing everyone didn't have too much pressure, which was just right to release some pressure for everyone who had been fleeing all the way.

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 230 =====