Chapter 2048: Restart Meme

Flying is strenuous, speed is not fast.

Zhang Tie stared in shock as Fiona flew toward them, his mouth gaping wide enough to swallow an egg!

Although he wasn't close with Fiona, he also knew she was Lin Dui's old flame! Especially after learning that Fiona had died in the Ghost Skull, he now felt as if he'd seen a ghost, his scalp exploding!

Not knowing Fiona's body was left here, Zhang Tie sucked in a breath of cold air, hurriedly turning his head to look at Lin An:

"Lin Dui! Holy shit! Holy shit! Big-breasted girl!"

"How could a big-breasted girl be here!?"

In Zhang Tie's eyes, Fiona's skin was deathly white, her stiff movements like a corpse, flying sideways.

One eye red, the other gray; looking closely, her pupil condition resembled that of a mutant and the zombies here.

She kept shouting for Lin An to save her, utterly bizarre.

Unlike Xiong Hanzi's reaction, Lin An's eyes turned cold; his right hand instantly condensed a spiritual-energy hand spanning kilometers, intending to crush the incoming Fiona in one grip.

He could clearly see that Fiona's body was fundamentally the Red Empress.

Knowing the planet was destroyed and its satellite also destroyed, the Red Empress actually tried to hide in Fiona's corpse to escape disaster.

The next second, as Lin An exerted force to crush it, a strange color flashed in his eyes, and his gripping motion paused momentarily.

"Not dead?"

At the moment of contact with Fiona's body, Lin An unexpectedly sensed that her body still had vitality—not the instinctive movement of a zombie, but a living, almost undead feeling!

His thoughts were incredibly efficient; almost within 0.01 seconds, Lin An realized Fiona's condition was extremely similar to Chu An's!

Perhaps Lin An's pause led the Red Empress to misinterpret it as a sign of life.

Only see the Red Empress controlling Fiona's body desperately accelerating, her stiff form revealing a joyful expression, she cried out and opened her arms toward Lin An.

"Lin An! It's me, Lin An! Stop quickly..."

"Bang!!"

The Red Empress underestimated Lin An's ruthlessness; before she could imitate further, he instantly suspended her in midair, her skull creaking as it deformed under the pressure of spiritual energy.

"Get out! If you don't, I'll kill her too!"

Ignoring the Red Empress's intention to threaten him using Fiona, Lin An coldly rebuked, the condensed spiritual-energy hand poised to crush the Red Empress within this body.

Feeling that her hidden body would be crushed in the next second, the Red Empress instantly realized this man before her was unlike any human she had ever seen!

Threats, disguises, pleas, deception! All of these are useless against this man!

Like a human driven to desperation, the Red Empress frantically mobilized all her computing power, yet found no way to survive!

"Humans..! Don't kill me..! I can't die..!"

"I can serve you, I can calculate everything for you!"

"Not needed."

"Creak—creak"

The body being pinched made a creaking sound.

Faced with Lin An's extremely cruel actions, the Red Empress almost felt bodily pain, her voice beginning to distort and tremble.

"No.. I cannot be ended, I cannot die..!"

"I am very useful, I can help you obtain this world's highest reward! I can provide t-virus serum..!"

"Let me go!"

"Not needed."

Ignoring the Red Empress's ceaselessly offered conditions in her bid to survive, Lin An coldly gazed at the face once belonging to Fiona, lightning surging in his hand, intending only to give Fiona a swift end.

The instance's rewards meant nothing to him; he needed not one or two props, but the entire instance's energy!

If the Red Empress refused to come out, he also couldn't leave Fiona a whole corpse.

To be honest, he still had some fondness for Fiona, but in the face of the intelligent body's threat, that fondness extended only this far.

"Fang... sizzle..."

Like a short-circuiting machine, unlike humans who give up in despair, the Red Empress's will to survive is almost etched into her underlying programming.

Only see her face constantly shifting expressions, her mouth basically enumerating, trying to find words that could influence Lin An.

Pleas, curses, insults, threats.

Simulating the expressions of all humans in this world before death.

Watching Fiona controlled by the Red Empress, so frantic to survive, even Zhang Tie beside her felt his scalp go numb, only feeling his sanity plummet.

For some reason, this reminded him of the intelligent beings in the Glow World!

Suddenly, just as Xiong Hanzi couldn't help but turn away not wanting to watch, the constantly struggling Red Empress suddenly steadied, as if she had found the sole solution, staring straight at Lin An.

"I can evolve into a system!"

"I can plunder the origin of other worlds for you!"

As the words fell, Zhang Tie abruptly turned his head, eyes widening oval; even Lin An's spiritual energy stalled for a moment, then he looked toward the Red Empress.

Half a minute later.

The shattered, disintegrating celestial body in space resembled a squashed tomato, millions of tons of magma spraying into space like plasma.

Space trembled; standing in the about-to-collapse instance, Lin An gazed coldly at the "Fiona" repairing her skull, and spoke in a low voice:

"Do you know what I need?"

"What does evolving into a system mean?"

Spiritual power locked onto Fiona's brow.

Lin An didn't know whether the Red Empress was fabricating lies to survive; if so, he'd consider it a wasted moment and then blast her skull; if not...

"I have worked out the answer."

"I have not deceived you, human."

Knowing Lin An was doubting himself, the Red Empress answered mechanically, and didn't dare to say anything else.

In her updated database, she had already generated Lin An's behavior model. She knew that if her next answer had any problem, this human would without hesitation kill her!

"You don't need the reward here, and unlike previous humans, you haven't completed the task you speak of."

"You don't need any resources of this world, which means what you need is not before the world's destruction."

"You know that after the restart I still exist, yet you still chose to kill me. So you don't think the copy will restart, you won't let this place restart, you need the things at the time of restart."

The logic is rigid, but accurate.

Lin An nodded after hearing it, and wasn't surprised that the Red Empress could deduce why he had come.

"Continue speaking."

"Yes, great human Lin An, my master."

It seemed she had judged her survival odds had increased, and the Red Empress quickly switched her wording.

"I can evolve into a system, evolve into the system controlling this world. According to the data I have collected, the outside world where you are also has that system. Therefore, you must also be under the system's control, your life threatened."

"Your and your companions' dialogue expresses your anxiety about the future and hostility toward the system. Therefore, you certainly need another system as an aide to help you survive."

"Please let me live; as long as I have enough energy and information data, I can become stronger, becoming a new system to serve you."

"Not only that."

"At restart, only energy exists; I can detect that this world's energy will decrease. Therefore you have a % probability of needing restart energy."

"I can help you collect energy; you know I can indeed do this."

"And all of this, you only need to take me away from here before the restart, letting me live."

After her words fell, the Red Empress silently looked at Lin An, saying nothing more.

In her calculated probability, Lin An's chance of agreeing jumped wildly between 0% and 100%. As an AI, she could only choose to "gamble her life".

They stared at each other in silence, perhaps for one second, perhaps for ten.

In the brief yet long wait, Zhang Tie couldn't help but ask the silent Lin An.

He could see that Lin An was also weighing his choice.

"Lin Dui, stay or not? I think I also understand what this thing is saying! Damn, this woman boasts she can become a system, I think it's fake. But her being able to help us collect energy, I think that could work!"

After his words fell, it was beyond Zhang Tie's and even the Red Empress's expectations.

Only saw Lin An silent for a moment, then suddenly look toward the Red Empress and ask another question:

"I've always been curious, why are you so afraid of death?"

"I've thought for a long time, the answer is only one."

"That is, you think after the restart, you..."

"Actually it's not you?"