Zhou Jinru woke up, but not fully awake.

He found himself lying on a medical bed, surrounded by all kinds of medical equipment that he couldn't name, and for some reason, he couldn't move, his consciousness and body were out of touch, like a vegetative state.

Where is he?

"You're in my personal lab."

A flat voice came, footsteps got closer, and a man with black-rimmed glasses appeared in his line of sight.

At this time, Zhou Jinru realized that he hadn't blinked for so long, or that he couldn't even close his eyes.

"Of course you can't close your eyes, to be precise, this body has lost its ability to move, a dead person, of course can't move."

I'm dead?

Zhou Jinru inexplicably felt a trace of panic, if this is what death feels like, what is his current state?

"No, you are not dead, because you are not the one who died."

The man looked at the corpse on the medical bed condescendingly, and said lightly: "This is the body of Defender 004, not yours, to some extent, you are two people." ”

Zhou Jinru was surprised, he tried to recall, he covered Vina to leave, tried his best to fight, and finally didn't know how to come here.

According to his understanding, after the 004 defender died in battle, there was only one person who could be in close contact, judging from his temperament and appearance, the man in front of him should be the 002 defender Zhang Taiyue.

"I know you have a lot of doubts, such as why I can know what you think in your heart, such as how you got here, and where is here, don't worry, we have a lot of time, first of all, I am indeed Zhang Taiyue, the actual controller of the Taiyue base."

The man who identified himself as Zhang Taiyue put on gloves, his slender fingers gently pulling open the eyelids of the body with tweezers, and holding a flashlight to shine on the lens.

It was as if he was doing something ordinary.

"Defender 004's body is really dead, and that's a good thing."

Zhang Taiyue muttered.

Zhou Jinru was terrified when he heard it, aren't you close comrades-in-arms, why did the death of the defender of No. 004 become a good thing in your mouth?

Zhang Taiyue continued: "Death is a phenomenon, a phenomenon that cannot be concealed, at the moment of the death of the 004 defender, the gods of the world have already sensed it, and the outer gods who witnessed the death at the scene are also convinced. ”

"What the hell are you trying to say?!"

"Have you thought about why we defenders only have numbers and give up their names?"

Zhou Jinru was dumbfounded, he knew very little about the defenders, and most of them had heard from other people.

While debrideing the body of Defender 004, Zhang Taiyue explained: "Because the number is easy to remember, and it is also convenient to conceal our true identity, only the god of the world knows the real names of all the defenders, and he always remembers." ”

Zhou Jinru was silent, as if something flashed through his heart, and he hadn't grasped the point yet.

"For us, death can be a long sleep, or it can be another beginning, the gods of the world are against this, but we can hide it from him, as long as it is not in front of him, blatantly do it, he can pretend not to see it, hehe, it is rare to be confused."

Zhang Taiyue used a special scalpel to slowly cut through the necrotic muscles on the surface of the body and pull out the fine limb barbs embedded inside, a work that took a lot of energy.

From Zhou Jinru's point of view, Zhang Taiyue's goggles are full of beads of sweat, this is a man who is rational to the extreme, and he will never be emotional.

"So the current Defender of 004 no longer exists on a physical level, and it's a good thing that both our gods and outer gods think so."

The debridement work came to an end for the time being, and Zhang Taiyue turned on the lights around him, and his personal laboratory was brightly lit.

"Okay, let me ask you a question, what are the numbers in my hands behind my back?"

Where did Zhou Jinru know, he couldn't answer at all.

Zhang Taiyue took off his goggles and said lightly: "There is no number, and my hand is not behind me, you didn't guess, it's good." ”

This sentence gave Zhou Jinru a very strange feeling, as if this scene in front of him was not the first time it had happened.

"A-Guang, I'll give you a choice, you can recover from his body and have all the power of Defender 004, or you can give up this option and return to your own body.

I must warn you that you will face a very terrible enemy next, and there is a good chance that you will die, and the people around you will also die, because there will not be enough strength to fight the enemy, and the world will be silent, and there will be no more living beings, not even the gods of the world.

The power of Defender 004 is originally yours, and you don't have to have any psychological burden. ”

Zhou Jinru rudely interrupted Zhang Taiyue's words, and asked with his mind: "What are you talking about, I want to be revived in this body?" ”

"Yes, it's just a trivial technology."

"I'm resuscitating from a corpse?"

"To be precise, it should be you back to your original body."

"Wait, what am I in now?"

Zhang Taiyue said lightly: "In the brood of the Taiyue base, the Skynet system has captured the neuronal fluctuations of the 004 defender, and the quantum realm is observable. ”

Zhou Jinru didn't understand, but he knew that he was in the past.

"You can't make a decision, maybe there are some things that you can see with your own eyes."

After Zhang Taiyue finished speaking, Zhou Jinru's consciousness immediately became blurred, his eyes were pale, and after a few seconds, countless dots and lines outlined the picture of the real world.

It was a grand wedding, and he wore a gown and leather shoes to see the groom in the middle of the stage.

A long-lost sense of familiarity came to my face.

There are not many people attending the wedding, which is not reasonable, how can the background of this brother of his also have status, how can no one come to congratulate him?

Zhou Jinru's hand raised his wine glass, at that time he didn't know what was going on, why a couple who were about to leave would make up their minds to get married in a week.

It can't be said that he is behind in the news, but that things happened very suddenly, and people at his level can't know first-hand information, but his brother is different, and behind him is the Beijing circle.

The bridegroom stood in front of him with a smile on his face, lowered his voice and asked:

"Ah Guang, have you had time lately? Don't go back, come with me to Luodu to have some fun. ”

Zhou Jinru's idea was that he was newly married Yan'er, how could he disturb it, so he said: "Take care of your daughter-in-law, I will go back tomorrow." ”

He failed to notice the loss in the groom's eyes and the panicked look on the bride's face as she approached.

The next day, the disaster broke out in Zhou Jinru's hometown, and Jiang Qi was also affected, and he couldn't go back.