Chapter 382 Finale: It Turns Out that I Directed and Acted in Everything Myself!

"We won!"

Looking at the four [Pioneers] all falling, a "Ninth Ladder" compatible person from the Grizzlies Country, with red skin and full of sweat, shouted with heavy breath.

The next moment, the surviving high-level compatible people all breathed a sigh of relief, and sat on the ground without any image, breathing fresh air greedily with their chests rising and falling violently.

They are all "Ninth Ladder" compatible people. Under normal circumstances, the battle of "Ninth Ladder", even if it lasts for several days, weeks, or even months... can't be as tiring as it is now!

But this time, I don't know what happened, everyone's energy was consumed very quickly!

If the battle just now lasted a little longer, I'm afraid all of them would be exhausted on the spot.

Fortunately, they persisted!

Successfully defeated the four [Pioneers] of Planet No. 142857!

"Just four [Pioneers] almost wiped us out!"

"There's nothing we can do. Their technology is indeed more advanced, and their use of energy is simply beyond our reach."

"Fortunately, they were too arrogant. If they had defeated us one by one, or if there were a few more [Pioneers], the outcome might have been different..."

"We've won the battle, so let's divide the spoils. Six unconscious [Complete Body] infected people, our Xinghua Country needs two!"

At this time, No. 001 and the other five were looking at Zhou Zhen, who had not yet exited the "digital form", in confusion. When they heard that the compatible people of Xinghua Country were going to divide up China's [Complete Body] infected people on China's territory, they all frowned!

However, just as No. 001 and the other five were about to speak, the heavy and huge bodies of the six [Complete Body] infected people, as if they had experienced tens of millions of years of changes in just a moment and had all the moisture dried up by the wind, shattered and collapsed in an instant.

It was like a huge sand dune collapsed, and the debris flew all over the sky. In the blink of an eye, the outline that was close at hand and extremely clear withered and blurred.

The gray-brown sand fluttered in the air, as if a dark rain fell between heaven and earth.

In just a few seconds, the six [Complete] infected people with terrifying energy just now turned into ashes in front of them!

All the compatible people of the "Ninth Ladder" present were stunned, and then quickly reacted...

The energy of these six [Complete] infected people has all dissipated!

Just like the four [Pioneers] just now!

But... what's going on? !

The four [Pioneers] just had a fierce battle, and the situation that occurred could be explained as exhaustion of energy.

But these six [Complete] infected people, except for a few moves at the beginning, did not consume any energy throughout the whole process!

Just as they were wondering, someone suddenly said, "There's a signal!"

Beep beep beep beep...

Before the words fell, the surviving compatible people around them heard dense messages calling out. They hurriedly checked their communication equipment and found that the signal indicator had indeed been restored. The screen was rapidly jumping with red highlighted urgent messages from their respective countries.

The five people of No. 001 didn't bother to argue with the compatible people of Xinghua Country, and immediately answered the encrypted call from above: "Hello, No. 001!"

"We just started a battle with four [Pioneers] including 'Dr. An'."

"The battle is over, we won!"

"Including Zhou Zhen, there are a total of six members, no casualties."

"Several 'Ninth Ladder' compatible people from other countries died in the battle, and the specific list and data have not been counted yet..."

No. 001 tilted his head slightly, pressed the invisible headset, and reported everything that had just happened at a slightly fast speed, but soon, he seemed to hear something very incredible news, his eyes suddenly widened, and his voice became higher involuntarily...

"'Digital Forest', all disappeared?!"

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The classroom was bright and clean, with neat desks and chairs.

The blackboard was full of complex formulas and figures, and as usual, chalk dust was floating lightly in the air.

Zhou Zhen sat in the middle seat of the classroom, surrounded by classmates who were listening attentively.

The first drop of "digital rain" stood on the podium, holding a pointer and lecturing loudly.

His resonant voice resounded throughout the class, with only the occasional rustling of the pen tip across the paper.

The classroom was peaceful, as always.

Zhou Zhen lowered his head and took notes quickly.

More and more figures, formulas, theorems, numbers... appeared at the tip of his pen.

Suddenly, he felt his eyes blurry, and when he looked closely, he found that the notebooks, textbooks, stationery... on the desk had all turned into dense numbers, like living things, surrounding him in a weird posture.

He immediately turned his head and looked around. At some point in the classroom, the light weakened sharply and became extremely dim.

The teacher on the podium and the classmates around him also disappeared.

At this moment, he was the only one left in the confused room.

He seemed to realize something, and immediately got up and ran out of the classroom.

Ta-da, ta-da, ta-da…

His seat was not very far from the classroom door.

But for some reason, he ran for a long, long time, his footsteps became heavy from brisk, his pace became more and more rapid, but he still could not leave the classroom.

Gradually, the walls of the classroom melted and blurred, and then sank into darkness, as if opening up a wider space.

The ceiling rose silently, and the air was chilled a little bit. The cold wind blew slowly from above, and occasionally cold water drops fell... Zhou Zhen quickly glanced in front of him, and the normal classroom quietly turned into a vast underground morgue!

The desks beside him were also twisted and stretched into morgues in confusion.

Bang!

At this moment, Zhou Zhen finally rushed to the door, pulled open the heavy and cold door, and rushed out of this "classroom"!

Outside the classroom, it was suddenly open.

It was not a dark and spacious corridor, nor an underground corridor painted with white and green walls, but a continuous high-rise building.

Space advertisements changed various special effects in the sky, lifelike warships cruised through the air, and the underwater world shone with realistic splendor.

The towering buildings seemed to be submerged in the clouds. The flying cars circled and galloped between the high-rise buildings. The roar of the engine broke through the night, rendering the luxury and prosperity of the lights and wine.

Zhou Zhen looked at all this in a daze. He felt that this scene was extremely familiar, but he didn't know why he couldn't remember any related memories.

His mind was blank at the moment. He didn't know who he was? He didn't know where this place was? What should he do next?

But his instinct told him that he seemed to have something very important, which was lost nearby...

He wanted to find it, but he didn't know what he was looking for...

Staring blankly at the holographic projection screen closest to him, Zhou Zhen walked forward, but just after two steps, he felt something wrong. He subconsciously stopped, retracted his hand that was trying to touch a cluster of corals, and looked around.

He was standing at the door of a dilapidated factory building at the moment. In the cracks of the broken concrete floor, there were weeds of various lengths.

The factory building behind him had been in decline for a long time, which was incompatible with the prosperity around him.

Even at night, the building still casts a shadow that is thicker and deeper than other places, covering Zhou Zhen and the entire factory.

Zhou Zhen felt that he seemed to be a forgotten corner in the prosperity in front of him.

He didn't know why he appeared here. After trying hard to think, he turned around in a circle like a headless fly.

His eyes swept around in all directions, and there seemed to be a sense of familiarity with clues, triggering some fragmentary fragments.

Zhou Zhen's eyes were slightly scattered. In a trance, he saw himself running through the weeds and rushing out of the abandoned factory with heavy breaths; he saw himself looking up at the prosperous city in front of him, shocked and confused; he saw drones flying in the sky, like fireflies in summer; he saw himself running in a panic, and the smell of the garbage dump at the tip of his nose seemed familiar...

Zhou Zhen felt that he seemed to have grasped something, and suddenly turned back and looked in one direction.

A slender and agile figure seemed to be hidden in the night, with black hair fluttering like flowing water.

Zhou Zhen did not hesitate and immediately chased after the figure.

Step, step, step...

The footsteps sounded on the empty street. Zhou Zhen stared at the figure and kept speeding up. However, although he ran for quite a while, the figure did not mean to speed up, and the outline was always blurred, as if the distance between the two sides was not shortened at all.

He stared at the figure, trying to recall who the other person was, but he couldn't remember it.

Gradually, Zhou Zhen felt that the figure was getting more and more blurred. The other person was hidden in the depths of the night, like a piece of paper soaked in ink, melting little by little in the dark liquid.

As the figure blurred, the instinct to urgently find the lost object became weaker and weaker.

Black water-like numbers began to appear on Zhou Zhen's body. As soon as they appeared, they began to flood, as if pouring out from a black hole, covering every inch of Zhou Zhen's skin.

And in his right hand, he held a thick diary at some point.

At this moment, the diary had turned the last page.

As if he had sensed his own changes, Zhou Zhen suddenly became anxious. He stretched out his palm desperately, trying to catch the figure in front of him.

But there seemed to be an indescribable distance between the two sides. No matter how hard Zhou Zhen tried, he was always a little short and couldn't reach the other party.

The back of the figure in front had blurred into an abstract outline in the dimness, and the area where it existed was disappearing rapidly, and it was almost impossible to see clearly that it was a trace of a figure.

Finally, at this last moment, Zhou Zhen remembered a name and instinctively shouted: "Sister Nan..."

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Binhai City, Dengming District, former Jinsheng Machinery Factory.

Underground morgue.

The door was pushed open, and Ghost No. 007 and Tao Nange rushed out almost at the same time.

They kept walking, following the "Safety Exit" sign to the ground, and immediately ran out of the factory, ran out of the abandoned machinery factory, crossed the road, entered the alley between the two buildings, and rushed towards the suburban school in Binhai City.

The distance between the abandoned machinery factory and the abandoned school in the suburbs was not close.

But they were both in Binhai City, and both of them were compatible with the "Eighth Ladder". Under normal circumstances, they would arrive soon if they rushed at full speed!

However, at this moment, the two of them ran at full speed for a long time, but they were still in the alley full of garbage and smelled touching.

This alley is clearly visible from the end of the alley. Except for the trash can filled with a lot of vomit, other garbage is littered on the ground. The mess is piled up, urging normal people to leave here impatiently.

But now that No. 007 and Tao Nange entered, the alley seemed to have no end. No matter how fast they accelerated, they could never reach the other end of the alley.

The two quickly realized something was wrong. No. 007 turned around and looked behind them. The place they had just run through turned into pitch-black nothingness at some point.

It's as if the entire space has been swallowed up!

At this moment, this shadow of nothingness was constantly approaching them, as if it was going to swallow up this alley, including them!

No. 007's expression changed, and he immediately said on the internal channel: "Speed ​​up!"

"There's something chasing us from behind!"

Tao Nange nodded immediately. In fact, from the moment she entered this seemingly ordinary and simple alley, she felt as if she was being watched by something!

That feeling is a little bit familiar, but more of it is a kind of instinctive fear!

She is a battle-hardened member of the Ghost Team, with lofty pursuits and goals. She has experienced countless life and death situations in her past missions.

Under normal circumstances, no matter what kind of desperate situation she faces, she will not have any fear.

But for some reason, she couldn't suppress the fear behind her this time!

Knowing that something was wrong, the two men immediately turned on all the auxiliary functions of their equipment and rushed forward desperately.

However, this alley that usually can be rushed out in less than a second seems to have no end at this moment. The exit with faint light is not far ahead, but no matter how they speed up, they can't shorten the distance between the exit and them. distance.

At the same time, the shadow behind them has been keeping the same speed as them. It seems that the shadow is pouring down heavily and keeps approaching them. The thick shadow is like the wings of death, slowly covering the two sides. People, however, can never surpass them.

Unknowingly, No. 007 and Tao Nange's breathing became heavier and heavier, gradually turning into uneven breathing.

The energy in their bodies is getting less and less. Running at this moment, the energy consumption rate is more than a hundred times faster than usual!

Just when the two of them were about to use up their energy, Tao Nange suddenly heard a very familiar voice: "Sister Nan..."

Tao Nange was startled and his body immediately stopped.

Seeing Tao Nange suddenly stop running, No. 007's face changed slightly, and he also stopped hastily. Then he grabbed Tao Nange's arm and urged quickly: "Hurry up!"

With that said, No. 007 pulled Tao Nange and continued to rush towards the exit.

But the next moment, Tao Nange suddenly used force and pushed No. 007 away, who was unprepared for her. At the same time, he said calmly: "I want to stay here..."

As soon as the words fell, Tao Nange turned around...

boom!

No. 007 fell heavily to the concrete floor. She frowned and quickly stood up, only to see that the surrounding area was open. She had left the weird and narrow alley and was standing on a quiet road.

The surroundings are bustling with lights, cars are flying in the distance, space advertisements are changing like miracles, and the small alley behind is hidden and inconspicuous.

No. 007 did not hesitate and immediately rushed back into the alley where he had just been.

The stench of mixed garbage hit the face, and in the alley that could be clearly seen at a glance, there was nothing except a half-filled trash can and filth all over the floor.

The thick and terrifying shadow just now completely disappeared.

Looking at this abnormal scene, No. 007 was about to continue looking for Tao Nange, when the visual sensor suddenly received the above information.

"I am Ghost No. 007, something may have happened to No. 024..."

"Who is No. 024?"

"No. 024 is... uh... who is it?"

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Binhai City, in front of the abandoned school.

The surviving high-ranking compatible people are all using their portable communicators to communicate nervously with their home countries. Various dialects and code words are spoken one after another, and everyone's expressions are solemn. It is obvious that the world has undergone extremely huge changes.

The five people including No. 001 stood vaguely in a circle with Zhou Zhen as the center.

At this moment, Zhou Zhen in the middle still maintains his "digital form". He is suspended in the air, motionless, and the energy in his body has become terrifying to the point of being substantial, so that the outline of his body is slightly blurred, and visually, it seems to be constantly moving. There was a smoke-like atmosphere escaping outward.

That was because the intensity of the energy was too majestic, causing the surrounding space to twist and deform, showing a flowing state like water waves.

At this time, the five people No. 001 had finished talking to the above, and they looked at each other with solemn eyes.

News just came from above that the "digital forests" across the country suddenly disappeared, the "digital viruses" disappeared without a trace, and all the places where they were originally parasitic returned to normal.

In addition to the "Digital Forest", the two hidden dangers of the small wormhole on the Skadessolu Peninsula and the time tunnel in Qingquan Valley in Tongfu City, which the earth has been worried about for a long time, have also disappeared, leaving only normal , landforms belonging to the earth.

The overall environment has also undergone great changes.

The global "digital energy" has plummeted, and a large number of infected bodies have been found everywhere.

But this great change has been too short so far. Although there are speculations, it is still not certain that all the infected have been exterminated...

"The disaster seems to be over..." No. 001 looked around and looked at the few clumps of weeds left in the distance after the war. The green grass swayed tenaciously in the wind in the wilderness, as if filled with endless hope. He couldn't help but sighed with relief.

The other four companions followed his gaze and nodded slightly. Their tense bodies relaxed at the same time.

It was as if they had put down a heavy burden at the same time.

At the beginning, the five people's eyes were fixed on Zhou Zhen, without blinking.

However, they turned their eyes away in an instant, as if they could no longer see Zhou Zhen, and even forgot Zhou Zhen's existence.

Their eyes swept over Zhou Zhen's position again, as if they had seen a drop of water and a grain of sand, and did not find anything that needed special attention, so they turned away directly.

Everything seemed to be taken for granted.

"gooooooood!!!"

"Great!"

"Tell my mom I love her! I'll go back to see her as soon as possible!"

"Oh my God! I'm going to marry Ellie, you must come to our wedding!"

"I can be the godfather..."

"Guys, I have to leave right away, my fourth child is about to be born..."

"Congratulations, old Jack!"

Just as No. 001 and the other five people relaxed, other compatible people of the "ninth ladder" kept bursting into ecstatic shouts. Several high-level compatible people even took off their shirts and waved them like flags, running around the huge pit where the war was born. Some people sang and danced on the spot, or hugged the people beside them tightly.

The atmosphere of relaxation, joy, and happiness, like the sunshine after the rain, filled every inch of air.

Everyone seemed to be blind to Zhou Zhen, enjoying the glory and happiness of the moment: "Pierre, that punch you just threw was awesome! Shit [Pioneer], you deserve to have a taste of our Earthlings' power!"

"Brassi, you also performed very well... Maybe soon, our little Sunu will be able to see his mother's heroic performance in the textbook..."

"Hey! Lev Boris, man, I know you have a good relationship with China's No. 001. Tell me, if we want to share the relevant data and technology of the 'Digital Forest', how likely is it? Yes, we won, the damn 'Digital Forest' disappeared... But technology is innocent..."

"Galina, honey, it's all over, or can we go for a drink?"

"Damn aliens, damn number 142857! Huh! I survived! This feeling is amazing! Germani, you survived too? Hahahaha... God bless you, I've never seen you so embarrassed... Wait, don't move, let me take a picture!"

"Damn, you think you're handsome now? You look like you've just been abused by eighteen brown bears... I want to take a picture too!"

"Hahahahahahahaha..."

The laughter echoed in the open space, like playful waves.

At this moment, Zhou Zhen's body continued to rise, as if he had been excluded from the earth's gravity, light, gentle, even, floating towards outer space.

Along with the degree of rise, the numbers on his body continued to increase.

The tiny black hole emerged quickly.

The appearance of each small black hole was accompanied by a terrifying surge of energy.

This seemed to be a qualitative change. His figure seemed to gradually change from the earth, from this three-dimensional life planet, to another form, a civilization of this planet that was difficult to explain clearly.

Zhou Zhen spread out his palm full of numbers, and a thick diary appeared in his palm.

This experimental log from the civilization of planet number 142857 has turned the last page.

However, at this moment, a new page suddenly appeared on the back cover.

This new page was still blank.

The universe was silent and cold, and the starlight was scattered. Zhou Zhen had risen to the height of outer space at this moment. From his current position, he could overlook the entire earth.

This blue planet was like a layer of colorful gauze. It was so beautiful among the countless stars in the vast universe.

Like a sapphire scattered in the mud.

Zhou Zhen mechanically raised his other hand, opened his fingers full of numbers, and pointed at the entire earth.

As he moved, a line of special numbers slowly emerged on the newly added blank page of the experimental log: Solar system, planet number 05...

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Binhai City, Dengming District.

In the alley that seemed to never end, Zhou Zhen chased the slender figure that was about to disappear into the dimness. The heavy footsteps hit the ground, but the distance between the two sides seemed to be constant like a certain rule.

"Sister Nan..."

Zhou Zhen suddenly shouted loudly instinctively.

The next moment, the figure that was about to disappear stopped immediately.

The originally unchanging distance between the two sides quickly shortened.

The blurred figure that was about to disappear into the dimness immediately became clear.

Zhou Zhen suddenly felt a burst of heartfelt joy in his heart, and a happy smile appeared on his face involuntarily. He took a step and quickly chased after the figure.

Thump, thump, thump...

This time, the footsteps were brisk again.

As the distance between the two sides approached, Zhou Zhen gradually remembered something, and familiar memories began to emerge in his mind...

The first encounter in the alley; the shock on the rooftop; the punch before the coma; mistakenly entering Tongfu City; fighting side by side in high-risk areas; the trip to the amusement park... More and more memories passed by like fleeting light and shadows, but the smile on Zhou Zhen's face was restrained little by little.

The back in front seemed to have sensed something and slowly turned around.

With a gorgeous face and a cold and arrogant temperament, Tao Nange, wearing a ghost battle suit and a visual sensor, stood there and looked at him quietly.

The moment he saw Tao Nange, the smile on Zhou Zhen's face had disappeared completely.

He finally remembered everything!

He is not a time traveler!

He is not "Zhou Zhen"!

Even... not a human!

All of this, from the beginning, was a play directed and performed by him!

He has only one goal: to upgrade dimensions!

Now, he succeeded!

At this time, Tao Nange also saw him, and immediately came over, holding his hand, and whispered: "Zhou Zhen, come back with me!"

Zhou Zhen was motionless, he stared at Tao Nange in front of him, and countless data seemed to flash in the depths of his pupils. At this moment, thousands of profound formulas were driven by amazing energy, performing indescribable complex calculations.

In the brilliance of the birth and death of nebulae, countless numbers emerged colorfully, as if deducing the future of civilization, as if calculating the unpredictable fate, as if counting the direction of the universe.

Countless data streams slid down like waterfalls.

Finally, Zhou Zhen seemed to have found the direction all of a sudden, suddenly raised his hand, and hugged Tao Nange into his arms...

Both sides did not speak, and after a long time, Zhou Zhen opened his eyes again.

Tao Nange had disappeared, the narrow alley, the garbage on the ground, the trash can filled with vomit, the surrounding high-rise buildings, the abandoned machinery factory across the alley behind him...all disappeared.

He was standing in the vast and empty outer space, with a familiar blue planet under his feet.

He held the last page of the experiment log in his hand, and there was a new page in the log.

On this new page, a title was just written: "Solar System, Planet No. 05!"

Zhou Zhen lowered his eyes and looked at the earth. His sight instantly penetrated all barriers, just like humans observing microorganisms with a microscope. Even though it was a very long distance for the life forms on earth, he could see the present moment on earth clearly, just like observing the lines on the palm of his hand.

He saw people holding the ball and celebrating. After confirming the official news, humans of all races, nationalities, and genders roared hysterically, venting their fear and hatred for the past 40 years. But soon, all the grief turned into singing, dancing, drinking and drunkenness.

The cheers were like a tide, surging on the entire planet.

Hugs, kisses, stories, tears, celebrations, reunions, weddings, promises, and longings... At this moment, the earth is experiencing an extreme joy.

People celebrated this unprecedented victory; they celebrated the victory over the "digital virus" that dominated the entire civilization; they celebrated the victory over the first planetary civilization numbered 142857 that had contacted the Earth in writing.

Flowers, strong liquor, fireworks, flags... were waving in every settlement.

The happy clamor was like a huge torch, burning fiercely, as if to ignite the entire planet.

At this moment, a series of humanoid bodies gathered by numbers appeared on Zhou Zhen's left.

"Dr. An", Shang Yiling, the second drop of "digital rain", the former No. 009... They still maintained the human bodies controlled by the Earth, but they appeared in the "digital form" and stood respectfully in the vacuum.

Following Zhou Zhen's gaze, he scanned the aquamarine planet below. "Dr. An" walked to Zhou Zhen's side very easily as if he was walking on flat ground, and said in an extremely respectful tone: "0000625, congratulations on completing the mission!"

"Planet 05 in the solar system can be made into a specimen according to your preferences!"

(End of the book.)