The oncoming wind has a wonderful power that can blow away people's thoughts, Wu Qi originally held on to his mind, but in the end, he couldn't help but look back at it from a distance.

It was too late for him to turn around, and the figures of Renee and the others on the ground had become too small to be seen clearly.

"Renee, I'm sorry." Wu Qi said silently. How he had a choice, he wanted to wait for Renee to wake up and tell her personally.

Wu Qi straightened his gaze again and never looked back. Those deep obsidian eyes seemed to have crossed thousands of kilometers of wasteland mountains and rivers to see the end of this trip.

......

Time passed, and the rising sun slipped from the apex of the sky dome and faded into an orange sunset. The drunken glow soaked the curtain of the sky, separating the west and east sides of the sea of clouds into two worlds, red and purple.

The light of the setting sun shines on the vast wasteland. Renee, who was lying on her stomach on the ground, unconsciously frowned, her eyelashes fluttering slightly, and then slowly opened her eyes.

Renee didn't know how long she had been unconscious, and when she woke up, she subconsciously wanted to move, but sharp pain immediately erupted in the right half of her body, and the pain caused Renee to lose the strength she had just mobilized.

"Ahem." Renee spat out a piece of blood that had accumulated in her mouth and wiped her mouth with her left hand. She used the power of atavism to temporarily seal the pain in the right half of her body, and carefully propped herself up, only to see the shocking damage on her right shoulder.

Renee's right shoulder was cut with a deep "glimmer of sky" wound that extended to her waist, slicing through her combat uniform and splitting her upper body in half. While she was unconscious, her body's regenerative resilience was constantly working, causing a large number of "suture threads" to grow on both sides of the wound to taper the split upper body.

Now the wound on her right shoulder has been pulled almost closed by the "suture wire", the broken bones, muscles, and nerves are reconnected, and the ruptured internal organs are replaced by spare organs in the body to exert their physiological functions, maintaining the vital signs of Renee in a coma, and she has not yet recovered.

Renee exhaled in fear when she saw that the skin on her hands was still white, not the dark red of the "corpse".

It's always good not to die, but if you really died, you probably wouldn't have been in a coma for so long, but woke up on the spot.

"Wu Qi ......"

Renee looked up and searched the surrounding wasteland, but did not see Wu Qi. She now recalled the memories before she was completely unconscious, and her eyes were full of images of Wu Qi suddenly turning back and stabbing her in the back at the end.

In the depths of my mind, there is a memory that has no pictures, only vague sounds. In that memory, there was Wu Qi, and there was another hoarse and evil voice. It's a pity that she can't remember the specific content of what they said, because her brain is still groggy.

Renee got up and limped to the place where the soldiers had fallen. There were pools of blood that had spread out and had coagulated on the ground. The corpses of the soldiers were moved into bodies arranged at intervals, and they all closed their eyes, and if they did not look at their shocking fatal wounds, they looked as if they were sleeping peacefully.

Renee's gaze stretched along the lined corpses of the soldiers towards the end. There sat a man with his back to him, a tall, muscular, slightly slender type, and Renee thought it couldn't be someone else, it must be Nero.

"Captain Nero." Renee trotted in three steps and two steps to the figure, and when she turned her head, the pupils in her blue eyes suddenly contracted.

The man sitting here was indeed Nero, but his sculptural skin had completely changed, turning a dark red of gloomy evil. Terrible blood threads climbed up Nero's neck and face, and together with the dark red pigment, his handsome face with sharp edges and three-dimensional features was painted like a devil.

It wasn't until she walked in front of Nero that Renee saw Songzha lying in front of Nero's legs with her head facing Nero. He closed his eyes serenely, and when he looked down, there was a shocking bloody hole in his left chest.

"Captain Nero, it's great that you're still alive."

Renee's hands clenched into fists and released them, she didn't know what words to use to comfort Nero, she could only clumsily say what she could think of.

"Okay...... Perhaps. If I hadn't become like this, I wouldn't have been able to guard the corpses of the green vultures under their beaks. Nero said softly.

Nero's tone and plaster sculptural face often give others a sense of indifference, leading those who don't know Nero well to think that he is a difficult man to approach. But now his words inadvertently reveal fragile feelings, like a glass porcelain bottle, smashed and shattered.

The second life obtained by resurrecting from the dead and becoming a "corpse man" is both a blessing and a misfortune.

Renee stood in place, staring at Nero's "corpse face" and unconsciously thinking of Wu Qi.

Wu Qi also went through such a process, but he showed more of an indifference to the unchangeable past, and did not become fragile and thoughtful. From this point of view, Wu Qi's psychological endurance is much higher than that of Nero. Behind this strong psychological endurance, there must be countless trials that destroy and temper the will.

Although Wu Qi has disappeared, the bits and pieces of details revealed when he and Renee get along are carefully recalled and integrated by Renee, and they naturally synthesize Renee's admiration for him.

Renee admired Wu Qi from the bottom of her heart, and because of this, she felt doubly painful because Wu Qi killed all the soldiers except her.

"Renee, it's a lucky thing that you didn't convert into a 'corpse' like I did," Nero said softly, "Actually, as long as I infuse my blood into all the sacrificed soldiers, they will become 'corpses' and resurrect like me, right?" ”

Renee always felt that there was a thick layer of dark clouds swirling and condensing in the dark, as if there was a real depression that made her breathless.

In the next second, what Nero said sounded like thunder in Renee's ears. He said, "Renee, I'll leave the choice to you. Whether to bury the dead soldiers, or to give them a virus to help them come back from the dead. ”

Renee blurted out without thinking: "Needless to say, it must be ......"

Nero glanced up at Renee, a look that she had never seen before, blocking what she had rightfully said. Renee's words came to an abrupt end, and the emotions surging in her blue eyes were forcibly suppressed.

It was like a precious antique porcelain vase that fell to the ground, broke a gap and was no longer perfect. Renee suddenly woke up, it turned out that when she was acting with Wu Qi, she didn't understand the psychological difference between the living and the corpse at all.

A person who has been resurrected by a corpse virus has gained a second life. There is a major mistake in this statement, that is, this so-called second life is a "life" that is in the hands of the enemy and can be lost at any time.

How can the resurrected be so simply happy and happy! When the object of gain and loss is one's own life, no matter how conscious a person is, he will be afraid and become vulnerable.

"Do you think it's a good thing for them to resurrect all the soldiers on the spot, including Song Zha?" Nero said his thoughts slowly, "Qi Wu, or should I call him 'Wu Qi'." Although Wu Qi's guy is hostile to our camp, he can't lie about the killing intent of the blood-robed man. There is no way he can fight against the water, the only possibility is that he is controlled by the blood-robed people. ”

A flash of inspiration flashed through Renee's mind: "Control? ”

"Yes, I now understand Wu Qi's previous concerns about seeing the mastermind behind the scenes. The corpse virus is a strange ability virus of the blood-robed people, and there is a high probability that the life of the corpse virus can be controlled by the blood-robed people. Thinking back to the Grey Queen, who had come back from the dead on the battlefield in the North, didn't she retreat for no reason at the critical moment when she was victorious and was only one step away from breaking through the Northern Front? I guess the Grey Queen's retreat was ordered by the Blood-robed Man. "Nero Dao.

Renee nodded, "That's right, it would also explain why the Blood-robed Man appeared next to the Grey Queen and caught us off guard." ”

Although there is nothing to be happy about now proving that Wu Qi is not really anti-water, Renee is still relieved in her heart.

"Therefore, if I, Song Zha, and all the dead soldiers are resurrected as 'corpses', if one day the blood-robed people want to attack the northern border pass, we will have a great probability of being controlled by the blood-robed people like Wu Qi, and become a tool for the blood-robed people to destroy the northern border pass. We are alive, but we have become uncertainties that are harmful to the northern border. Nero said, his gaze drifting to the southeast.

Nero didn't know if the direction was right or not, he just wanted to find the direction where the border pass in the far north was located, and find the direction of "home".

Renee bit her lower lip and immediately waved her fist and said, "Even so, you have to be resurrected, follow me back to the northern border!" Captain Nero, you and Song Zha's predecessors are very important figures to me, to Crouching Tiger, and even to the entire Northern Legion, are you willing to end yourself in the occupied area just because you may be controlled by the enemy's abilities in the future? The Field Research Institute can't do it, but the Academia Sinica can! As long as you live, there will always be variables in the future! ”

"Captain Nero, I open up and say it, I still think the same as I did at the beginning, I don't think resurrection is a matter that can be disputed at all! Must be resurrected! Renee said in a loud voice.

"Even if he becomes a puppet like Wu Qi who is enslaved by the blood-robed people, and in the future, he may even become an eternal sinner who helps the plague species invade mankind against his own consciousness in the future, do you still think that resurrection is necessary?" Nero roared suddenly, and green tendons burst out on his temples.

Renee paused. She silently performed atavism, and then calmly said in cold blood: "Yes! Even if you become a slave of the enemy like Wu Qi, you have to live! If you don't believe in yourself after the resurrection, then I will rule over you. I am responsible for everything that happens to you, and if you 'turn against the water', I will execute you!" ”

"Nero, I'm more powerful than you can imagine, so trust me and resurrect all the soldiers who died without a single loss. The land in the occupied area is too cold, and if it is left here, the souls of the soldiers will also be lonely. ”

Renee stretched out her hand to Nero, who looked up at Renee's eyes as calm as the distant universe, and remained unmoved for a long time.

Nero's eyes gradually lit up with the lost brilliance, and his lips moved and muttered, "Renee, you have awakened ......"

"yes, because I remembered it all."

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PS: Volume IV: Dark Tides End! The next chapter opens Volume 5: Enlightenment Comes from the Abyss

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