Wei Yuexin muttered a couple of things about the actress who played the female lead, and then put the matter out of her mind.
Anyway, she didn't suffer any loss, and she couldn't expect everyone to like her videos. With so many people disliking them, could she really be unhappy with each and every one of them?
Unbeknownst to her, the interface she couldn't see was refreshing data.
[The world is currently under lockdown due to the torrential rain. The plot has reversed by 30%, the rescue effect is four stars, and you have gained 1 Star Power.]
A beam of starlight, invisible to the human eye, descended upon Wei Yuexin.
Wei Yuexin couldn't help but shrug her shoulders, looked behind her, but found nothing, so she continued to bury herself in her work.
On a high-rise building in the city, two men with pointed mouths and monkey-like faces squatted on the edge of the rooftop like two animals, looking down at the entire city.
"It seems like more stellar energy has descended. Who could it be?"
"Isn't that old woman surnamed Wei already half-dead? We didn't find the Divine Key on her."
"Why don't we investigate the people around the old woman again?"
Just as the two were about to get up and leave, a flash of red light appeared, and they both froze. Then, their heads slid neatly off their necks and fell to the ground, their eyes wide open, dying with their eyes wide open.
Behind them appeared a woman in a red dress. The wind billowed her skirt high, making her breathtakingly beautiful.
If Wei Yuexin were here, she would recognize that the woman in the red dress was HR.
A red line floated in the air and merged into her red dress.
She glanced at the ugly head with disdain. "Tsk, it's an eyesore."
The next moment, black smoke billowed from both corpses and their heads, and the corpses turned into two dead rats.
"Puppetry, what a nuisance."
HR jumped from the high-rise building and landed lightly on the ground the next moment. People and cars were passing by on the road, and it seemed that no one could see her.
She arrived at the hospital and entered Grandma Wei's ward.
Looking at the person lying on the hospital bed, she frowned. "Tsk, Qingli, you used to be so beautiful. You've really turned yourself into an old woman. Over the years, you've changed your appearance and lived in hiding. If it weren't for this accident, I wouldn't have been able to find you."
She picked up the medical record hanging at the foot of the bed and glanced at it. "She even chose a fake name, Wei Xianglan. Doesn't she think it's too rustic?"
She sat down by the bed and casually picked up an orange to peel. "Black Dog's sense of smell is indeed more sensitive than mine. He locked onto you a step ahead of me. You would rather die than reveal your identity. You just want to die as an ordinary old lady to avoid dragging your precious granddaughter into this, right?"
"You did succeed, and you really fooled him. However, I still found the divine key you hid and passed it on to Wei Yuexin. She has your power within her, and only she can use the divine key."
After eating a segment of orange, she complained, "This child has probably been overprotected by you. He's incredibly naive, but he's still quite promising. He just managed to get another 1 point of star power."
"It seems that the day she avenges you is not far off."
The old man's eyes trembled slightly on the bed, as if he was trying his best to wake up, and the curves on the instrument next to him became rapid.
The HR chuckled and patted her on the shoulder. "Don't worry, I'll take good care of your granddaughter."
The old man fell back into a peaceful sleep, as if the little incident had never happened.
When the caregiver came in, the ward was exactly the same as when she left, except that one of the oranges on the table seemed to be missing.
She rubbed her eyes, thinking she must have misremembered the quantity.
...
In another city, a beautiful woman who looked to be only in her thirties knelt on the ground, with a cloud of drifting black mist in front of her.
A rough, angry voice came from within the black mist: "Useless trash! Your foster mother is not the person I'm looking for at all!"
Wei Ruochu trembled slightly. "My lord, my adoptive mother does indeed possess extraordinary abilities."
She pointed to her forehead, where there was a scar. "When I was little, I accidentally bumped my head and it bled profusely. Everyone said I was beyond saving. She touched my head with her hand and the bleeding stopped. I saw a green light in her hand."
Are you questioning my judgment?
Wei Ruochu dared not speak.
"I helped you find your biological parents and brought you immense wealth. Is this your way of repaying me?"
"Ruochu will obey your orders."
"Recently, several unusual videos have appeared on your human network. Find the person who posted them."
As the black mist gradually dissipated, Wei Ruochu—no, the woman who had now changed her surname to Qiao Ruochu—dared to straighten up and wipe the sweat from her brow.
Green light can bring people back to life, so how could the foster mother not be the person the black mist is looking for?
If she had a bad memory of her childhood, she gave birth to Wei Yuexin purely to get revenge on her adoptive mother for controlling her. In reality, she didn't want the child at all. She coldly watched the child cry on the bed, the sound gradually getting softer and softer until it finally stopped completely.
The foster mother rushed in, slapped her, and took the child away. Not long after, the child could make a sound again.
Could it be that the child was actually still alive at that time?
Qiao Ruochu's eyes shifted, and she took out her phone. "Make arrangements. I need to go to Jinjiang again... and directly acquire the company where Wei Yuexin works."
...
Wei Yuexin went straight back to the hospital after work.
Did Grandma wake up today?
The caregiver shook her head. "No."
Wei Yuexin was inevitably disappointed. She wiped her grandmother's body and massaged her limbs, while telling her grandmother about what had happened that day.
The old man on the bed remained oblivious and unaware.
Wei Yuexin propped her chin up and looked at her grandmother, sighing, "Grandma, when will you wake up? But don't worry, by the time you recover, I'll have made a lot of money. Your granddaughter is pretty amazing now."
She took out her phone. "Let me see, how about the next project? Zombie apocalypse, male protagonist reborn, wow, exciting!"
As she read, her face gradually furrowed. She even felt a pang of pity for the male lead in the novel; he was too pitiful. Was she going to be criticized by the actor who played him again?
...
A zombie world.
The last zombie fell with a wail, and the ground was littered with zombie corpses and the bodies of its comrades.
Tan Feng leaned on the ground with his long sword, panting heavily. The sword was covered with mottled nicks and sticky bits of tissue, vaguely reflecting his blood-stained face.
After a long while, Tan Feng slowly stood up, took out a cigarette from his pocket, but the cigarette was soaked in blood and he couldn't light it. He could only hold it in his mouth and stagger towards the base gate.
However, even as he approached, the door remained unmoved, showing no sign of opening, and no one came out to greet him.
He looked up at the people on the city wall.
"Don't let him in, he's been bitten by a zombie!"
"He's about to turn into a zombie. Who can stop him then?"
"Kill him! Now!"
"Anyway, the last large-scale wave of zombies has been dealt with, so we won't need him anymore."
For the first time, Tan Feng felt that his ears were too sensitive, as he had actually heard all the whispers.
His eyesight also became excellent; he could see the expressions on each face clearly even from dozens of meters away.
Disgusted, fearful, gloating, indifferent, reluctant but turning away...
There were his parents and relatives, his brothers and friends, his future wife, his superiors who valued him, his subordinates who respected him, and the ordinary people of the base who regarded him as a hero.
Before he left, they were reluctant to part with him and urged him to return safely, but when he did return, he was greeted by these kinds of faces.
Tan Feng suddenly felt that this world seemed absurd.
"Ah Feng! Go away! You've been bitten by a zombie, you can't come back, go far away!" his mother cried out to him.
Her father tugged at her hard, stopping her from continuing, and gritted his teeth, saying, "No, we can't let him go. If he turns into a zombie, he'll be a huge threat to the base!"
With a pained expression, the father said, "For the sake of the base, for the sake of everyone, today, as a father, I have no choice but to be the villain!"
The cannon mounted on the wall was adjusted to an angle and aimed at Tan Feng.
The father said, "Feng, don't blame us. If you were in my position, you would have done the same."
Tan Feng looked down at his left arm, where a chunk of flesh had been bitten off by a zombie, gave a self-deprecating laugh, and then laughed louder and louder.
He didn't actually intend to enter the base; he just wanted to see everyone one last time before he died, but he never expected to be struck on the head.
Hahaha, how ridiculous! He fought for this base, risked his life for everyone, and this is the result he got.
Even his father was the one leading the charge. Did he know he couldn't be relied on, so he quickly made his stance clear and tried to establish a persona of righteous indignation by stepping on his own family?
All those years of effort have turned out to be a joke.
It felt like something had shattered in my chest; the scalding blood in my veins instantly froze into ice.
He looked up again, and there were faces above him, some he recognized and some he didn't. The murderous intent emanating from those faces spoke volumes about his stupidity and absurdity.
His good friend also shouted loudly, "Everyone, what do you say? Should we let him in?"
"We won't let go! We won't let go!"
"Should we kill him?"
"Kill him! Kill him!"
The shouts were like a mountain collapsing and a tsunami crashing down, the excited faces of the people screaming were distorted, it seemed as if the voices of the entire base were surging over, converging into poisonous arrows that would devour anyone who dared to stab them.
Tan Feng laughed loudly, pointing his knife at everyone. "I was wrong! I was wrong! You trash deserve to die! Heaven is wise, this world should be destroyed, but I tried to stop it all and protect a bunch of trash! Hahaha! This is my punishment! Hahahaha!"
"He's gone mad! He's about to mutate! Fire!"
With a loud roar, artillery fire rained down on Tan Feng, and in the next moment, flames and heatwaves engulfed everything...
Tan Feng suddenly sat up, covered in sweat and breathing heavily.
He slowly calmed down, supporting his forehead, and glanced at the time: three in the morning.
He has been reborn for two days, and the apocalypse will arrive the day after tomorrow.
Recalling the events leading up to his death in his previous life, he chuckled, even somewhat anticipating the end of the world. This world should be destroyed, purified, and reshuffled.
At that time, he will open his eyes wide and see clearly how those who lived so comfortably under his protection in his previous life will struggle and wail in the apocalypse.
He lit a cigarette and started smoking when his eyes lit up as if a ray of light had shone down on him.
He looked up and, through the wide floor-to-ceiling window, saw that the sky seemed to have a huge hole in it, with light rushing in eagerly.
Oh? This time they've changed the way they destroy the world—is the sky just collapsing?
Soon, a huge, irregularly shaped oval appeared in the sky, emitting light that could illuminate almost half of the sleeping city.
Then, four large, trembling, cartoonish, horror-style characters appeared on the screen: "Zombies are coming!"
Above the words "zombie" was a bright green skull, which then fell off with a snap.
Tan Feng's pupils contracted; it wasn't that the sky had fallen, but rather—
A clear, youthful female voice rang out: "[Hello everyone, I'm Wei Zi, the person who uploaded this video. You can also call me the disaster forecaster.]"
[Today we're going to talk about a natural disaster: zombies. Yes, the world you live in is about to be hit by a zombie crisis.]
[Let's get to the conclusion first. This time, at least one-tenth of the players were randomly infected and turned into zombies right from the start. To these people, I can only regretfully say that time is running out.]
Tan Feng didn't even notice the cigarette ash falling onto his fingers. He just squinted at the sky and after a while, he chuckled softly, "Interesting."
...
Acid rain in the world.
Peng Lan lay on the hospital bed and slowly opened her eyes.
It resembled an isolation ward, with transparent glass on all sides, and leaders and experts standing outside the glass.
"He's awake! He's awake!"
"Peng Lan, how are you feeling? Can you move? Are you conscious?"
"Peng Lan, can you sense that system?"
After a while, Peng Lan finally remembered what had happened before she lost consciousness.
They took Shi Feizhai into the transfer room and interrogated him constantly, even using some extreme methods, while monitoring his physical reactions in all aspects, especially changes in his brain waves.
They even tried to communicate with the dating system inside Shi Feizhai's body, promising him many benefits.
Although Shi Feizhai was stupid, he was also ruthless and refused to give up the system no matter what.
He intimidated and threatened them, sometimes begging for mercy, but the next moment he would use unbelievable methods. Even though everyone present was male, they were almost bewitched by him. He could also pull out weapons out of thin air, causing injuries to some of them.
After a stalemate lasting three days and three nights, Shi Feizhai finally ran out of options, cried and begged for mercy, and shouted that he wanted to unbind himself from the system.
The instant he shouted "untie," the instruments in the transfer room blared and the magnetic field became disordered. Shi Feizhai desperately clutched his head and roared, slamming his head against the ground.
Seeing that he was about to run himself over, Peng Lan asked her superior, "Let me go in and try."
The leaders hesitated, and the first few people who had face-to-face contact with Shi Feizhai all inexplicably fell into a coma and have not yet woken up.
Peng Lan said, "If that system really wants to break away from Shi Feizhai, it may need a new carrier."
The leader finally agreed.
Peng Lan stood before Shi Feizhai without any protection whatsoever.
The next moment, I felt something rush into my brain with a bang, and then I knew nothing more.
He didn't have time to answer his superior's question because a mechanical voice rang in his mind: "I am the Pickup Artist System. Please complete the beginner's task immediately to gain energy, or you will be eliminated. Countdown: three minutes."
A screen floated in front of him, clearly displaying the image of embracing a woman and whispering in her ear, receiving a shy and coquettish reply in return: "You're so naughty, you rascal!"
Peng Lan "…"