Apocalyptic Era: Starting from picking up a Bishoujo
Chapter 199: Person of the Future 190

Chapter 199: Person of the Future 190

In the silent atmosphere, I observed the dynamics on the Human Bureau’s secret base side.

The young girl Lu Chan was still busy, continuously sneaking into various cells within the base, persuading the demon hunters to participate in the upcoming rebellion plan.

The persuasion process went quite smoothly. She simply awakened the demon hunters’ death awareness that had been washed away by the power of restart and informed them of the plan’s content. She also made no secret of the plan’s objective, plainly stating that it was to enable Chen Long to exert his Great Success Rank power to the fullest extent possible, so that "our trump card" could also find a way to unleash full power.

Realizing that participating in the plan could potentially destroy this living hell, they agreed without hesitation.

During this time, I also had to prepare for the fight against Chen Long.

First, I had to set my expectations, which were that even if I learned how to fight with all my might at the Human Bureau’s secret base from Chen Long, I might not be able to use it. For instance, what if after all this trouble, his method was to "use the ’All-round Enhancement’ superpower to strengthen the space he was in," and I didn’t possess that superpower; or even if his method was something I could use, it might not be fully suited to me, my power might at most achieve fifty to sixty percent, and so forth.

In those less than ideal scenarios, if I cannot pierce through his "Portal Armor" with overwhelming power, I must in advance find a way to defeat him, even if my power cannot surpass his.

No, those are all excuses—I just wanted to conquer his "Portal Armor" on equal terms.

Compared to the outcome of "cracking the enemy’s ability," I care more about the process and the means by which the result is achieved.

Moreover, the source of this idea might partly come from the past when he said I "possessed great power but did not know how to use it," so when I found a way to break through his defense with overwhelming power, although his reaction, like a frightened bird, gave me some relief, that result seemed to also verify his assessment.

In fact, what he said was true, and being picky about methods in a life-and-death fight had already exceeded the bounds of propriety. So if it’s really not feasible, I wouldn’t insist. It’s just that I feel "it would be good if it could be done."

I sought advice from Zhu Shi and Mazao on how to defeat the enemy, but neither could come up with a suitable method immediately.

Lu Youxun, who was listening in, gave his opinion as someone who had been through it.

"When facing an outrageous superpower mechanism, you shouldn’t try to find a loophole within the opponent’s rules. Use your most adept method," he said, "If it really doesn’t work, you can first try to destroy that independent real-world space and force Chen Long into the real world before burning through his defense with overwhelming power."

This suggestion was also agreed upon by the others. But the more they felt I couldn’t defeat Chen Long under equal conditions, the more I wanted to challenge and see for myself. Perhaps this childish rebellious mentality is also part of my character.

While thinking, I switched my consciousness focus to the Human Bureau’s secret base control room. The experience was like being in one place while vividly imagining another in my mind, and with the opening and closing of my eyes, the environment I was in became the latter, while the former turned into the imagined scene.

I walked over to the nearby bookshelf, pulled out a folder again, and flipped through various experimental data.

Although I could not understand most of the content, there was no doubt that all this data was extremely important. My "Firefly" had the ability to store memories, and it could record scenes like shooting a video. I could "copy" this precious information to the outside world in this way. I myself didn’t care about such content; it was just an opportunistic theft.

Yet, some contents were understandable to me, such as things akin to diary notes, which also included some content left by Dr. Silver Mask. I became more convinced of something, that is, Dr. Silver Mask was investigating Ying Lingyun’s secret—he was not loyal to his own original body.

This also matched my impression of him. Not that he looked like a traitor, but compared to the evil and unscrupulous Ying Lingyun, his moral level seemed relatively higher.

Furthermore, as I delved deeper into the content of the diary notes, I further felt the difference between him and Ying Lingyun.

One section, at last, mentioned Changan, writing as follows:

"...The original body’s desire is to resurrect his beloved. Joining the Human Bureau was also for this purpose. The large number of modified people emerging in society also seems to be related to this wish...

"He even intends to harm his own biological son, but even if he uses him as a live sacrifice for the resurrection ritual, he will definitely not truly bring Yinyue back to life.

"Has his mind become so deranged that he can’t even understand something of this level? Or is it that Yinyue is not completely dead, that she left some backup for resurrection on her biological son, or even transferred her soul to him?

"Impossible, Yinyue had completely perished in the battle with the original body, a definitive fact.

"Yinyue left no backup for her own resurrection, Luo Mountain has also confirmed this countless times."