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Chapter 300 - Chapter 300 300 hearts are really ruthless

Chapter 300: 300 hearts are really ruthless Chapter 300: 300 hearts are really ruthless Luo Xiyun woke up to find it was already nighttime. She was lying on the sofa, covered with a thin blanket.

Chen Xu was sitting opposite her, wearing glasses. Noticing she had awakened, he was just taking off his glasses and looking at her, “You’re awake. Are you hungry?”

Before Luo Xiyun had a chance to speak, Chen Xu had already gotten up and gone into the kitchen, soon returning with a bowl of porridge.

“Thank you,” she said, having no choice but to accept and began to eat slowly.

After a few bites, she asked, “Recently, have the people from underground made any more appearances?”

Chen Xu said, “A few months ago, we just repelled an attack from District Three. They shouldn’t come back again for a while.”

Over the years, the base’s main enemy had still been the underground humans, not every district was as decadent as the people from District Thirteen.

The most powerful among them was District Seven, which had the most complete preservation of technology. Their strength was considerable. When the base expanded in that direction, they deployed an army nearly a hundred thousand strong, along with various high-tech weapons, at one point causing huge losses to the base.

About a third of the bases on the surface were heavily damaged, and of the tens of thousands of robots, only a few thousand remained. The battles forced Chen Xu to retract his forces within District Twelve, taking refuge underground.

Afterwards, it took him five or six years to build a more advanced robot production line and another four or five years to muster a new generation of robot army, a hundred thousand strong, before he managed to resolve the surface troops of District Twelve.

Even so, he couldn’t fully flatten District Twelve, as they were holed up underground. He didn’t dare to send his army down lightly; that would be suicide.

During those ten years, there were some dangers that even Luo Xiyun, who usually didn’t care much about the base’s affairs, had felt.

Apart from District Seven, no other district had posed a threat to the base again.

Now, the base’s influence was almost covering the entire continent.

The numbers of natural humans alone had already surpassed one million, enough to form a civilization. Of course, the majority of this population were children under ten years old.

Right now, the natural humans who had received an education and taken on various positions numbered about ten thousand. With each passing year, the number of graduates increased continuously. Over half of them were married, and in fact, more than a thousand couples had already had children.

With such a trend, the population would swell to tens of millions, even hundreds of millions within a hundred years, without issue.

Feeding this populace was a piece of cake for the base, which had unlocked nuclear fusion technology.

As the population grew, the base’s development sped up noticeably, posing no threat to the remaining few districts.

In fact, in recent years, Chen Xu had already cast his sights beyond the continent, first building a fleet of ships. Once they sailed out, they never returned. It was assumed they encountered an attack, but whether it was from humans or sea monsters remained unknown.

Later, he sent unmanned drones over. Eventually, they discovered another continent and found traces of human activity there.

To be honest, playing up to this point, Chen Xu felt that the game was much simpler than he had imagined; the only threatening enemy was District Seven.

He speculated that the game was mainly intended for multiplayer, with the wasteland setting simply acting as a backdrop. It turned out that his device couldn’t connect to the network, so he could only play solo. This greatly diminished the fun.

Of course, this had no impact on Chen Xu; playing games was not his main goal.

The other continent was probably a new map with significantly higher difficulty. He was quite looking forward to it, as it could bring some excitement to his mundane life.

Luo Xiyun then asked, “What will happen to the people in the base if the game ends?”

Chen Xu said, “I don’t know. Maybe they will simply vanish, or perhaps this world will be preserved and continue to run on its original course.”

She was silent for a moment, then said, “You kept me from getting too close to them because you were worried about this very day.”

“The closer you get to them, the more you feel they are real, living people. But the day of separation will always come; it’s better not to burden ourselves with unnecessary troubles,” Chen Xu said, maintaining only work-related relationships with both the bio-engineered humans and the natural humans.

The most familiar to him was probably Feng Song from the biological laboratory. He had passed away ten years ago.

Since then, Chen Xu intentionally kept his distance from the people of the base.

“Yes, it’s all too real,” murmured Luo Xiyun. “Sometimes, I can’t even tell which is the dream and which is reality.”

Chen Xu said, “For a while, I had the same doubts, mainly because I had been here too long. But as soon as I see you, I know this must be a dream.”

Luo Xiyun looked at him, her gaze lingering for a long time.

…

With someone in charge of the base, Chen Xu didn’t have to visit the control center often, so his days were very leisurely, recently focusing on anti-aging technology.

This technology involved many prerequisite technologies, and it was not something he could learn in a short period of time, so he just got a rough idea.

Luo Xiyun was still immersed in her studies, a very hardworking person as well, usually very serious when learning. Especially since Chen Xu had already promised her that after this, the dream would end–this was likely her last chance to learn.

Just like the previous nine times, the two studied together, ate, played sports, and watched movies… Time passed day by day, and as the end-of-year deadline approached, she started to become anxious.

Unnoticed, only a month remained.

That evening, Luo Xiyun couldn’t hold back any longer, “In one month, I will be gone.”

Chen Xu said, “Yeah, if you count it, we’ve also been together for ten years. Living together day and night, there are many couples who might not spend as much time together as we have. These ten years were enough for me.”

Luo Xiyun looked at him intently, “Do you really think that?”

Chen Xu looked back at her, “That’s what I think.”

“You really are an absolute bastard,” her voice was soft, and although she was cursing, her tone wasn’t at all intense; it sounded like a lament mixed with mockery.

Chen Xu looked at her, this time remaining silent.

Luo Xiyun seemed to be talking to herself, “Your heart is so cruel, dragging it out with me like this. Just like before, if I don’t give in, you won’t pay attention to me, just waiting for me to surrender to you…”

“Nine years, how many nine years does a person have in life? You know everything in your heart but pretend to be ignorant. Can’t you just indulge me a little, let me deceive myself, and say it was you who forced me, and I couldn’t resist. That way, after a few years, maybe I’d resign myself…”

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