Chapter 3: Collecting the Apocalypse

My name is Patient Zero,

I caught a system.

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Normally, what happens if an NPC dies?

According to the general setting, it should be temporarily removed from the game and taken out to dry in the place where it is reopened or where you need to remember to kill, maybe there is a graveyard library or an exclusive library or something.

But what if this NPC becomes self-aware?

According to my thoughts when I didn't know I was an NPC, it was to erase that consciousness and reset it to zero for the next use, if this NPC was more beautiful, and then had some emotional entanglement with the protagonist, and finally hung up in some unavoidable situation, accompanied by the protagonist's call of grief.

Well, such a plot should be able to deceive a lot of tears in film and television animation.

But that doesn't explain why I'm staying in a recycle bin.

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It was a large, round, transparent barrel-shaped container with a blue recyclable logo on the outer wall, and even if I stood up and straightened my arms, it was only one-tenth the height of the bottom of the barrel to the mouth of the barrel, and trying to hit the wall of the barrel did not gain anything but pain in my shoulder, which was an indirect proof that I was still alive.

Looking out from the transparent outer wall, there is only darkness in the field of vision, and I can see things because the trash can itself emits a faint white light, although I say so, but there is nothing else to see but myself.

I'm still using "Patient Zero", wearing a special aqua blue hospital gown with no mirrors, but I feel much healthier than I remembered.

Speaking of which, at that time, because the "PAX-200" evolved into "paralysis", I had to sit in a wheelchair all day, and I was so thin that I couldn't look good, and now I can not only walk, but also run, not only can I run, but I can also jump, hey, big jump~

What am I doing......

Given that this trash can-like place could be a recycle bin on my computer, I walked to the edge of it to avoid being hit by something dropped, and a moment later the trash falling from the sky validated my foresight.

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A mountain of indescribable things poured down, almost filling the other side of the trash can, a jumble of numbers, letters, and square words that looked like styrofoam.

The gibberish characters are almost illegible, but the combination of specific letters is much more noticeable in comparison, such as [dll] [exe] [ini] [txt].

I discerned it for a while.,I probably guessed what this thing was.,This is the game I existed before.,Because I couldn't pass the level, I was angrily deleted by the "player".,Deserve it.,Hahaha!

Laugh three times.

Well? What is that?

In the pile of garbled characters, I suddenly saw something out of place, a cube that glowed faintly red.

Now that I'm here, it's not impossible for the unknown variety of virus that I was infected with before to follow, see that the air is no longer garbled, I walked to the foot of the garbled mountain and pulled out the cube.

It's not too big or too heavy, but it's just right for me to hold it with both hands, it feels like jelly to the touch, the whole is a faint red, and all six sides have crimson biohazard warning signs.

Although the transparency is very low, you can vaguely see what is inside this big dice.

Shake it vigorously.

A voice that seemed to be a little boy sounded: "Can you destroy the world? 】

Well, it's not a virus, it's a system.

My current feeling is very subtle, after all, the NPC that was under the jurisdiction of the system before, and now I can hold it in my hand, maybe it is similar to the feeling of a human holding the earth in my hand?

"System?" I asked.

If he had said a few soft words, I might have considered letting him go.

[Hint: Please select the game mode] said a familiar female voice of a mechanic.

Fall in anger!

I've wanted to do this for a long time.

Let you destroy my three views.

[Wow! The little boy exclaimed.

The protagonists who have been pitted by the system, the main god, the will of the universe and the like in various online texts, I am here to avenge you!

Pick it up and drop it again.

[Blah, blah!] He finally realized that something was wrong: "Who are you?" 】

Finally found out I'm not a gamer?

I picked up the red dice and looked closely, but I couldn't see where the front was, so I said casually to the side.

"Tell me who you are first."

[I, I am the system, you can call me Gaia]

Oh, the guy who doesn't care about humans as long as the earth can survive? It's in line with the game's setting.

"Hello Gaia, I'm Patient Zero, you can call me Alaye." I said to the red cube that called itself planetary consciousness,

Hit the ground hard, and then make up for two more kicks, if I want to say, I don't know how many people I saved by turning myself in with the CDC, but it should be no problem to call myself an Alayah.

[Woo woo woo ......] The system cried.

The strange crying sound with the electric sound makes the scalp tingle, so I hate bear children the most, and I can't beat and scold you if I keep making trouble, in case you cry, it's all your fault.

Just like my brother did when he was a kid - I don't know if this memory is true or not.

Not going to comfort the bear child and make him cry for a while, I picked up the system and went back to the corner and sat down, staring at the cube that was crying and throbbing, and began to think about the current situation

Now that PAX-200 has been eliminated and the game has been deleted, the world will continue to develop, and everyone will have their own names and create memories that belong to them instead of being given, father, mother, brother, uncle at the commissary, and handsome doctor at the clinic......

They will certainly work to protect a world that is more united by a terrible epidemic.

That's the world where I'm not the only one.

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"Boom!"

A loud bang interrupted my thoughts, and when I looked up, what had fallen down was a cube much larger than the system.

The whole looks like three books stacked together and bundled together.

Well,Compress the file.,Hey,Fellow players,If you delete the ontology in a fit of anger.,You'll have to go back and do it all over again?

After a couple of laughs, I finally knew what the game I was in was called.

"Doomsday Inc.", written on the cover of the book, is vulgar, in this case, the next step is to empty the recycle bin.

[Woo woo...... Hiccup! The system here is about to cry,

Wow, there were tears, and I wiped the two teardrops on the top of his head with my sleeve in disgust.

[Yes, I'm sorry...... That's the programme......] he choked.

Hmph, not the main culprit but also the accomplice.

"It doesn't matter, we're going to be deleted together anyway." I looked up at the mouth of the "garbage can", where a silver curtain of light that was crystal clear and slowly descending appeared.

The previous gibberish mountain was a little sharp, and the part of the "summit" disappeared silently when it touched the light curtain, assuming that it would have been down at the same speed in a matter of minutes.

[Alayya? The system called me weakly.

"Huh?" I replied casually, Alayah is Alaye, I don't like the name Patient Zero very much, there is nothing to be afraid of.

[I don't want to be deleted, can you help me?] 】

"Could it be that the worlds you destroyed want to be apocalypt?"

[Woo woo...... I'm sorry......]

"If the apology is useful, what do you want the antivirus software to do."

[Those worlds were created to be destroyed......]

I don't want to pay attention to him anymore.

The light curtain has already wiped out half of the garbled mountain, and although there is no sound, I still make up the sound effect for it, and it creaks - this flat-topped mountain is really spectacular, I don't know if there is a Golden Horn King and a Silver Horn King.

【Alayya...... The red cube in the Alaya ......] system shuddered while crying.

Looking at this guy, I inexplicably thought of the stupid brother at home, who accidentally ran home and looked at me with the eyes of a wounded little animal when he accidentally got into trouble when he was a child, and finally always refused ruthlessly, but he still had to help with the aftermath,

Speaking of which, he hadn't done that in a long time. It's not certain if those memories are real, but forget it......

"Tell me, how can I help you."

[The base game has been deleted!] The little boy's voice sounded very excited, and he quickly said: [So you can't build a template world and go there, in this case, when you start the game, the repair system will be automatically activated to create a minimum new world!] 】

"And then destroy it? Don't start, don't start. "Who knows if that new world will produce self-aware NPCs like me, and if so, it might as well just disappear.

[No, no, it's not like that, Alayya, such a world is not a 'template world' waiting for us to destroy, but a temporary world that will quickly destroy itself because it is separated from the main world,] the system says: [And what we want to do is the opposite of 'player', is to save that world and collect the 'Doomsday Element', just like the 'PAX-200' that once infected you]

"What's the use of that not-sounding thing?"

[You can still repair the system to repair the base game, and as the number increases, I can gradually restore the original function] He paused: [If we don't put the doomsday element, these temporary worlds will not be destroyed, and you can choose to live there if you want. 】

"Last question, is my original world still there?" I looked up at the light curtain that continued to fall.

[In, still, they're still in the cache,] as if afraid of the approaching ceiling, the system imp began to speak faster: "I can use the function of reading auto-save to connect to that world, but at least a doomsday element. 】

At this time, the light curtain was almost overhead.

"Then let the game begin." I tapped the cube on my hand.

[Hint: Please select the game mode] A mechanical female voice sounded again,

There are choices on the side of the red dice facing me, and there seem to be several, but they all seem to be garbled, only the [Single Player Mode] option is quite complete.

Curious, but now is not the time to think about those,

I looked up at the light curtain that seemed to be accelerating as if sensing that we were about to escape, raised my hand and pressed [Solo Mode], and continued to press [Quick Start], the only option available.

The familiar mechanical female voice rang out.

[Game Mode: Single-Player Mode]

Doomsday Element: Source Code

【Map Type: Archipelago】

[Map size: very small]

Feed! What strange element is that?

Before I could ask any further, the destructive plane had already been pressed to the ground.