(Happy New Year everyone, Happy New Year 2024 must have been heard a lot, so here I wish you all a happy New Year 2025 in advance)

The clouds above the night occasionally shed small raindrops, shrouding the city streets in a haze, pushing the roses in the hands of the steel creature to the ultimate poignant.

Just as Su Mo was looking at the card with "Goodbye, My Love" written on it in a daze, a call suddenly came from behind him: "Boss! ”

Su Mo looked back, and when he saw the future standing there intact, he breathed a sigh of relief: "Are you okay?" ”

"I'm fine. Boss, let me tell you something. Future came over to Su Mo's ear and whispered something.

Su Mo's face was full of surprise after hearing this, and he asked in disbelief: "The data is all back?!" ”

The future was impatient with joy, and kept nodding: "It's back, it's all back!" ”

Su Mo: "Didn't you say that our database and various backups were destroyed by viruses?" ”

Future explained: "It's ruined, but this virus executed another command before destroying the various systems in our building - to save all the data and put it on a virtual cloud server. ”

"Just now an anonymous email was sent to me, with the server address written in it, I went in and looked, and the data was all there!"

Su Mo: "Didn't lose anything?" ”

Future: "Nothing is lost!" ”

Su Mo was silent, and then looked at the bouquet of roses in the overlord Titan's hand, thoughtful.

The future probe asked, "Hey, wasn't there a war outside just now?" Boss, how can you fight and still make a bouquet of flowers? ”

"Eh" Su Mo didn't know how to explain it, so he could only shake his head and say, "It's a long story, don't dwell on this first." You call Dongdong, KK, and Xiao Chu to my room, and I will synchronize the information I have learned with you. ”

"Okay, right away." The future runs back to the Edge Building.

Su Mo just wanted to follow, but stopped there again, and couldn't help but look back.

The rose lay silently in the hands of the silent Titans, looming in the rain.

Eventually, he slowly reached out and took the bouquet of roses and held it in his arms.

In the conference room of the Edge Building, several core members met, and Su Mo briefly recounted Daystar Eden, the Brain Project, Xiaoqi and Zero, and all the related things.

"Wait, wait, let me take care of it." After listening to the narration, Chu Nanyi felt that his brain was a little messy, and he rubbed his temples and paced back and forth, "Commander, I'll try to summarize it, you can see if it's right." ”

Su Mo: "Well, you say. ”

Chu Nanyi: "First of all, the girl named Qi Ling is the zero who was treated as a monster when she was a child, not Xiao Qi. ”

Sumer: "Yes. ”

Chu Nanyi: "Qi Ling approached you for two purposes. First, I want you to let your guard down, and then implant a virus into our building through your device, paralyzing the defense system and locating and hunting Luo Mingsheng. ”

Sumer: "Yes. ”

Chu Nanyi: "And the second purpose is that she wants to fulfill the unfulfilled last wish of her childhood partner Xiaoqi - to date and fall in love with an excellent and reliable boy." ”

Su Mo: "That's right. ”

Chu Nanyi: "So she came to you on a date, whether she hugged you, held hands with you, or kissed you, she was all playing Xiaoqi, which had nothing to do with her own wishes, and was a kind of imaginary substitution." ”

Sumer: "That's what it means. ”

Chu Nanyi was stunned for a moment: "I'll go, what reverse stand-in literature?" Play more than me! ”

Dongdong also opened his eyes wide and asked, "Boss, what about your first kiss. Did it count as Zero, or did it give it to Xiaoqi? ”

KK stabbed her waist with his elbow and scolded in a low voice: "Which pot is not opened, which pot is not lifted." ”

Dong Dong covered his mouth and glanced at Su Mo cautiously.

Su Mo sighed softly: "I didn't mention that trouble in advance, I just didn't understand a little, what does this bouquet of roses mean?" ”

He looked at the bouquet of roses on the table that he had just taken back from the Titan's hand, and muttered, "On the morning of the previous date, Qi Ling also gave me roses. ”

"But according to my understanding, she was playing 'Xiaoqi' in that flower delivery, and it has nothing to do with Qiling's own wishes, as I said just now, it's just a stand-in behavior that she imagined."

"But now, Qi Zero has begun to take revenge, in other words, she is no longer playing Xiao Qi, but has changed back to her true self - Zero."

"Then the question is, since it's Zero, what does she mean by giving me this bouquet of roses?"

Chu Nanyi almost didn't hold back when he heard this: "Regiment leader, are you pretending to be stupid?" ”

Su Mo was stunned for a moment: "Ah, why pretend to be stupid?" I really don't understand, you explain it to me? ”

Chu Nanyi said angrily: "You said it yourself, the current Qi Ling is herself, no longer playing anyone, but the real self." ”

"Then, when she carried out the most important revenge in her life, she still remembered you in her heart, even if you once scolded her and beat her, she still had to send you a bouquet of tender roses, and you actually asked what it meant???"

Su Mo scratched his head and looked dazed: "I don't understand." ”

Chu Nanyi's eyes were about to roll to the back of his head, and he shook his hand and said, "It's worthy of being a single mother, I have nothing to say, you can figure it out for yourself." ”

Su Mo looked at Dong Dong in confusion: "Dong Dong, do you understand?" ”

Knock Knock: "Understood." ”

Sumer: "What do you mean?" ”

Knock Knock: "Figure it out for yourself, wood." ”

“？？？” Su Mo only felt confused, "What's going on with you one by one, you're all starting to riddle people." KK, do you understand? ”

KK: "I see. ”

Sumer: "So what do you mean?" Don't say you're thinking about it! ”

KK: "Then I don't have anything more to say. ”

Su Mo: ".? ”

Chu Nanyi said meaningfully: "Leader, although I haven't seen you date with my own eyes, I want to ask, has she really been 'Xiaoqi' that day?" ”

Sumer: "What do you mean?"

Chu Nanyi: "People can act on the scene when there are no waves, but if there is a throbbing in the heart, then they can't hide their true self at all." ”

"You can think back, on the day you went on a date, were there a few moments when she was no longer 'Xiaoqi', but 'Zero'?"

Seeing Su Mo's confused face, Chu Nanyi knew that the head whose emotional experience was whiter than a blank sheet of paper, it was still a little difficult to understand his words.

Chu Nanyi was completely helpless, shook his hand and said, "Hey, forget it, let's think about it slowly in the future." Let's talk about the current situation first, what should Luo Mingsheng do? ”

As soon as this guy was mentioned, Dong Dong's face was full of displeasure: "What do you care about that surnamed Luo?" A scumbag, killing so many children, isn't it better to be captured by Qi Ling, I wish he was abused. ”

Su Mo shook his head: "That's right, but no matter what, Luo Mingsheng is still nominally a member of our fringe now." ”

"Even if I hate him, even if I let him in because I looked away, objectively speaking, he is still a marginal mercenary and our companion."

"My companion has been kidnapped, and if I leave him alone, this matter will lay a hidden danger for team management, and if it spreads, it will become a tool for others to attack us."

Dong Dong said unhappily: "What kind of thing, it is also worthy of being our companion." ”

Su Mo shrugged: "No way, team management is like this, rationality is greater than emotion, rules are the most important, and some things are unhappy." ”

Speaking of this, he suddenly showed a meaningful smile: "As long as Luo Mingsheng is a marginal person for one day, he will be our companion for one day." ”

KK and Dongdong, two minors, sat together and cursed Luo Mingsheng secretly.

Only Chu Nanyi squinted and looked at Su Mo, capturing the deep meaning in his eyes.

The two looked at each other with a faint sly smile, like two restless and kind old foxes.

Su Mo retracted his gaze and said, "In short, the first task now is to find Luo Mingsheng and bring him back safely." If he is executed by Qi Zero, then we will lose completely this time. ”

Dongdong held his face in distress, and sighed: "Everyone has been captured by mechanical hounds, and that thing runs faster than a rabbit, where can I find it this big night?" ”

Sumer: "I'm struggling with that, too. ”

"Looking for Luo Mingsheng?" Suddenly, Future, who had been silent, answered coldly, with a mysterious smile on his face, "I'll take you to find it." ”

Sumer: "Do you know where he is?" ”

"Follow me." The future takes the lead in going out.

Several people took the elevator to the underground laboratory.

After a few days of initial cleaning, the lab is less messy, but the floor is still dusty, and many fragments of parts can be seen.

Su Mo asked puzzledly: "Luo Mingsheng was captured by mechanical hounds, what are we doing here?" ”

Still smiling mysteriously, she took the key to open a locked door and pointed in, "Come and see who this is?" ”

Su Mo walked in and took a look, and was stunned: "Luo Mingsheng?!" ”

This room is a simple living room, which is usually used by researchers for daily rest, and Luo Mingsheng is sitting on a chair at this time, a little frightened, obviously frightened by the attack just now.

"Commander. Captain, you're here! Commander, you want to save me! That woman is crazy! When Luo Mingsheng saw Su Mo, he rushed over and hugged his legs and cried.

Su Mo sneered: "When I asked you a few days ago, you said you didn't know Qi Ling. Now we know each other again, right? ”

Luo Mingsheng shrank his head and said in a trembling voice: "I was too scared at the time, I didn't expect her to really come back for revenge."

Su Mo ignored him, turned his head and asked Future, "What's going on?" Why is Luo Mingsheng here? I saw him snatched away by a mechanical hound. ”

Future: "It was not Luo Mingsheng himself who took it, but his bionic robot." ”

Sumer: "Bionic robots? ”

Future: "Yes, I heard what Qi Ling said to Luo Mingsheng that day, and I roughly guessed what the relationship between these two people was. ”

"Qi Ling turned our laboratory upside down in order to kill him, and then she didn't succeed, I think she will definitely launch a second offensive."

"So, I used some old equipment that could be operated offline, and based on Luo Mingsheng's biological information, I built a simple bionic robot."

"Although it does not have advanced functions such as speech and movement, it has the same biometric information as Luo Mingsheng, such as the same body shape, facial features, iris, etc."

Su Mo immediately reacted: "No matter how intelligent the mechanical hound is, it is only a machine, and it can only rely on the recognition system to identify targets. ”

"As long as Luo Mingsheng's biological information is recognized, no matter whether the other party will move or speak, they will think that it is Luo Mingsheng, and then take it away. But in fact, the real Luo Mingsheng was hidden in this room by you. ”

It was rare for the future to sneer: "That's right, the mechanical hound didn't bite 'Luo Mingsheng' to death on the spot, but took it away, I guess Qi Ling must have wanted to kill him with his own hands to take revenge." ”

"Coincidentally, I set up a tracking chip in that bionic robot, which can be used for reverse tracking and find the location of Qi Zero!"

Su Mo smiled with satisfaction.

The future is the future after all.

Even if he was beaten and eaten by Qi Linghang in the software field that he was not familiar with, he is now back in the hardware field he is good at.

The future crossed his waist, and he had a posture of revenge, and said heavily: "Sometimes I am really annoyed by these hackers, and I always feel that the people who are engaged in hardware are easy to bully, and it is great if I can order code." ”

"Hardware is the foundation of all scientific research, okay? Without the hardware support we made, what is the use of the best software? Don't underestimate our hardware engineers, the soul is light! ”

"The years pass quietly, and the past is like smoke."

"Memories are devastated, and nothing will be erased."

"This is my promise to you."

Humming a song in the night, Qi Ling walked into an abandoned factory in the border area.

Not far away, several mechanical hounds crouched there, on standby.

A figure fell beside them.

Holding a small knife with a blood groove in his hand, Qi Ling walked slowly, gently tapping the metal pipe around him with the blade of the knife every few steps.

The icy crash of "bell, bell" echoed through the factory like a bloody prelude.

"See you again, Luo Group. For so many years, I have been thinking about you and you every day and night. ”

Qi Ling walked up to the other party, and his amber eyes reflected the street lamps outside the factory, like the eyes of a cold-blooded animal.

"Die."

She stabbed the other person in the stomach with a force, deliberately not attacking the vital point, but stirring back and forth in the abdominal cavity to make him suffer the most extreme pain.

However, she had just been poking for a while when she suddenly realized that something was wrong.

How is there no blood?

Confused, Qi Ling grabbed the other party's collar and dragged him to the light.

The scene in front of him made Qi Ling stunned.

This "person" has the appearance of Luo Mingsheng, but he can't move, can't breathe, and is just a bionic robot.

Qi Ling's pupils dilated suddenly, and the corners of his mouth began to pull unconsciously.

"I actually fell for you."

Without warning, a black shadow jumped off the steel beam.

"Boom." The dragon steel baseball bat slammed into the back of Qiling's head, knocking her unconscious.

Consciousness is hazy.

Stumbled.

Qi Ling felt that someone was talking next to him.

She struggled to open her eyes and found herself in a closed basement room, where she didn't know where she was, and she didn't know how long she had been unconscious.

There are three people in the room, Dongdong and KK, who are talking to each other, and the future of the rat and mouse.

"Eh, she's awake." Dong Dong walked up to Qi Ling, crossed his waist triumphantly, and said in that broken pronunciation, "Sapples, Mama Farke." ”

Qi Ling asked calmly, "What about Su Mo?" ”

Dong Dong smiled evilly: "Don't worry, the boss will come, he is preparing a 'big surprise' for you." ”

(End of chapter)