Chapter 460: Cloning Alice

After being intimate with Iris, Ye Nan exited the Matrix world. He had already made his move; now he just had to wait for the Architect's counterattack. But no matter how the Architect countered, he had already won this chess game.

"Brother." Simila looked at Ye Nan, who had just removed his sensors, with a mournful expression. "What were you doing with Sister just now?"

"Uh." Ye Nan slapped his forehead. He had actually forgotten about Simila. But thinking of Simila's image in the virtual world, he couldn't bring himself to do it; after all, he wasn't a pervert who liked to be intimate with a little girl.

"I wasn't doing anything. Um, you're still young, just a child," Ye Nan excused himself.

Simila was indeed still young. If you truly calculated her age, she was several decades old. But for an intelligent life form, this method of calculating age was invalid because she was eternal.

Seeing that Simila still had something to say, Ye Nan quickly said, "Oh, right, we've arrived in Asia. Um, I'm going down immediately."

With that, Ye Nan jumped off the helicopter. His mental field expanded violently, pushing the air aside to form a small, translucent barrier.

"Brother, we haven't arrived in Asia yet."

"I know."

Falling from the helicopter, Ye Nan flew forward like a meteor, eventually landing in Shanghai.

The familiar magic city, yet also an unfamiliar one. After several years of settling, the magic city was no longer the magic city; at least the air no longer had thick dust.

The cold and desolate city was filled with wandering zombies. As soon as Ye Nan landed, he saw groups of zombies surrounding him—gray-white eyeballs, mouths full of maggots, emitting strange wailing sounds.

"Zombies don't have eyes, so do they perceive things through their noses?" Ye Nan pondered, changing the way his mental field shielded him to mask his aura completely.

Sure enough, after Ye Nan masked his aura, the zombies that had surrounded him immediately slowed their pace and eventually stopped, curious as to why the person who had been emitting the scent of flesh and blood had disappeared.

Seeing that his shielding was effective, Ye Nan breathed a sigh of relief. Although he wasn't afraid of these zombies, they were disgusting, and once he made a move, there was no telling how many zombies in the city would be attracted.

"The zombies in the Americas and Europe have been completely wiped out, but Asia remains a paradise for zombies. I wonder if there are any survivors left here!" Ye Nan murmured, beginning to walk through the city.

The translucent circular barrier repelled everything around him, while he himself hovered in the air, flying slowly.

He flew unscrupulously in the air, hoping that survivors would discover him. But it was a pity that no survivors appeared. Ye Nan even doubted if there were any survivors left in the magic city.

"After several years, it's not easy for survivors to stay alive. Even if there are any, they should be in the wilderness." Ye Nan scanned the endless sea of zombies and lost interest in continuing to search for survivors. He had already circled the magic city once, but still, no survivors appeared; there wasn't even a trace of one.

Ye Nan immediately changed his target and flew toward the wilderness. Unlike Europe and the Americas, the wilderness in Asia wasn't a sea of sand; the trees here were unusually tall, as if they had violated common sense.

Ye Nan landed beside a tree. Looking at this tree, which was over ten meters tall and required at least four people to wrap their arms around, he couldn't help but sigh, "Humans really are the woodworms of the Earth. Without humans, it wouldn't be a problem for the Earth to return to its ancient appearance."

Because there was no human destruction, this tree had grown to this astonishing height in just a few years, which was truly astonishing.

"But it's more likely that this tree has mutated, or rather, this entire forest has mutated."

At this moment, before Ye Nan was a vast forest that stretched for an unknown distance. Ye Nan looked into the distance and couldn't see the end at all.

"It's only three kilometers outside the city, yet it has grown like this. It's truly strange." Ye Nan said, tearing off a piece of the tree's bark and putting it away.

Having done this, Ye Nan walked into the forest. After walking for about half an hour, Ye Nan finally passed through the forest and arrived at an open world. Here, low thatched huts were displayed before Ye Nan, and crowds of people walked back and forth aimlessly, like zombies.

"There's a problem."

Ye Nan walked up, grabbed a person, and said, "Brother, what are you doing here?"

The person turned slowly, his face pale, his eyes dull, but he didn't speak, as if he were a marionette that had lost the ability to react.

Ye Nan kicked out, sweeping the person's legs, knocking him to the ground, and then stood to the side to watch his reaction.

The person was tripped by Ye Nan, but immediately climbed up from the ground. He glanced at Ye Nan, not angry, and continued to join the crowd of people walking.

These people walked from east to west, then from west to north. When they encountered obstacles, they walked around them and then kept walking, as if their mission was simply to walk.

"They aren't zombies; they don't have the aggressive instincts unique to zombies. Nor are they other life forms; they are humans." Ye Nan thought about the sensation of his fingers touching the person earlier and knew that the other party was human, a genuine human.

"They have reactions, they will walk around obstacles, but they don't think. Their eyes are dull, as if their souls have been extracted, leaving only the human shell."

"But..."

Ye Nan closed his eyes and used his heart to feel the thoughts within these people's shells. "Sure enough, there are no thoughts, not even residual thoughts. Only instinct."

If their souls had been destroyed by someone, then there would be some residual thoughts or ideas in their bodies. But their shells were very clean; there wasn't a single trace of a thought left.

"Since their souls weren't destroyed, it means they don't have souls to begin with. There is only one kind of person without a soul." Ye Nan's gaze suddenly became sharp. "It looks like there is a large base hidden here in Asia."

Ye Nan expanded his mental power, searching every corner of the place, and finally found an anomaly in a small hut.

He broke into the hut, punched the ground, and saw an elevator about two meters tall revealed. Ye Nan jumped down, operated it a few times, and at the same time twisted the light to erase himself from human sight.

"Pure darkness should be able to make these monitoring devices fail." Ye Nan didn't have much confidence, as the principles of these devices were ever-changing. No one knew if they were monitoring through sound, microwaves, or infrared rays, so Ye Nan could only shield himself as much as possible and hide himself from everyone's sight.

Walking out of the elevator, what met his eyes was an ordinary lawn. In the azure sky hung a fiery red sun, and a woman was playing with a little girl on the grass.

"Alice?" Ye Nan's body shook when he saw the woman's appearance, and he couldn't believe it.

Before him was Alice, but Alice was clearly still in the Space-Time Empire. Where did this Alice come from?

"It seems the technology of this base is related to the Umbrella Corporation. But that makes sense; as an old-school company, although the Umbrella Corporation has already been destroyed, the technological power it left behind cannot be underestimated."

Having had contact with Alice and having the ability to create Alice clones, besides the Umbrella Corporation, there was only the Space-Time Empire. But as the Emperor, he had always been very cautious about the use of cloning technology. Moreover, the Space-Time Empire didn't have a sub-base in Asia. In fact, as early as the arrival of the apocalypse, all the foundations of the Space-Time Empire had been gathered together and left Earth.

Since he knew it was the legacy of the Umbrella Corporation, Ye Nan naturally began to plot the technological power left behind by the Umbrella Corporation. To him, the Umbrella Corporation's achievements in biology could effectively supplement the Space-Time Empire's shortcomings in biology. After all, compared to the mechanical technology of Iris, Simila, and Stark, the biological research team with only an unreliable Ma Xiu was truly a bit weak.

Alice, who was teasing her child, saw the stranger who had suddenly appeared and immediately walked up. "Hi, how did you get in?"

"Can't I come in?" Ye Nan asked rhetorically.

"It's not that you can't, it's just that there have always been only me and Xiao Si here. Suddenly seeing a stranger, so I'm a bit..." Alice's voice grew quieter and quieter, until finally, there was no sound at all.

Although she had no sound, Ye Nan heard her meaning. Ye Nan immediately laughed: "Only two people all the time? It seems your world is very small."

"Yes, from the moment I woke up, I discovered that my world was only the lawn. Other places were blocked by a barrier I don't know what it is, and I couldn't get past it at all." Alice looked outside. At the end of the lawn was an invisible wall. Although she knew there was a world outside, she couldn't go there.

"How sad." Unknowingly, Ye Nan projected his good feelings for Alice onto the clone Alice. He said: "I'll take you out."

"But this wall is very thick." Alice revealed a look of longing, but she was also a bit afraid of disappointment.

"It doesn't matter." Ye Nan smiled slightly, walked to the edge, and punched out. With a 'bang,' the mirror surface shattered, and the world outside was revealed before Ye Nan and Alice.

"Where is this?" Ye Nan revealed an expression of disbelief. ===== CHAPTER 461 =====