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Chapter 1125 Dark Avenger

Zhao Wuji sat on a folding chair in the temporary lounge, his fingers unconsciously stroking the edge of the script. The densely packed annotations on the pages were all written by him staying up late last night - the key nodes of the original plot, the order of death of the characters, and the details of Valentina's conspiracy.

In theory, he should be a "prophet".

But the system obviously doesn't think so.

"Get ready for game 18!" the voice of the groundman came from outside the door.

Zhao Wuji took a deep breath and looked down at his hands. There were still bruises on his knuckles from the previous scene, left by the "nihilistic personality" when it went berserk. Although the system blocked the pain, the scars were real, like some kind of silent warning: the next scene is a 'laboratory flashback', please strictly follow the emotional curve of the script. "

A blue screen unfolded before his eyes, marking the lines and movements for later. Zhao Wuji gritted his teeth and turned to the back of the script - it should have been blank, but now there was an extra line of small words:
“Viewing the reverse side of this document is prohibited.”

The laboratory scene was built very finely, with a holographic projector outlining the SHIELD logo in the air, and the "Valkyrie Protocol" document was placed on the central console. According to the original plot, the Sentinel should recall the fragments of his own experiment here, and then run out of control.

But Zhao Wuji decided to try something different.

“Action!”

He strode to the control panel, and without hesitation as the script had written, he grabbed the document and read aloud what was on it:

"Project codename: Void Cage. Objective: Use Sentinel energy to reboot Hydra's Supreme Intelligence."

The set was silent for a second.

Then, the world began to fall apart.

“NG! Serious violation!”

The pain surged like a tide, and blood appeared on the edge of Zhao Wuji's vision, as if someone had smashed his skull with a hammer. But what was more terrifying than the pain was that the walls of the laboratory were melting, the holographic projection was twisted into a hideous ghost face, and the "ghost" that was supposed to appear in the third act suddenly fell out of the void with a steel bar stuck in its chest.

"You triggered it early." Ghost coughed up blood, his pupils dilated, "They accelerated the plan."

"Punishment is in effect: world line is being corrected."

Time began to flow backwards, but this time it was not completely reset. When Zhao Wuji regained consciousness again, he found that the script had been rewritten - the ghost's scene was moved forward, and dozens of news helicopters were hovering in the sky of New York, with their cameras pointed at Valentina's face.

She stood on top of the Avengers Tower and announced with a smile:

"Dark Avengers, formed today."

Zhao Wuji stumbled out of the studio, the system whistled sharply in his ears:

"Warning! Cumulative NG times: 2/3! The next violation will lock the final act!"

The streets were in chaos, people were running, sirens pierced the sky, and Valentina's declaration was still playing on a loop on the screen of a distant building.

"According to the original plot, she should have been exposed in the final battle," Zhao Wuji muttered to himself.

His acceleration strategy completely disrupted the rhythm of the script.

Suddenly, a scream came from the alley.

Zhao Wuji turned around and saw a boy of about seven or eight whose legs were crushed by the collapsed billboard, blood soaking through his jeans. There was no such character in the script - this was an "irrelevant person".

"System prompt: Do not interfere with non-script characters."

The boy's crying sounded like a needle piercing Zhao Wuji's eardrum.

“Fuck the system!”

He rushed forward, the Sentinel's strength boiling in his veins. The billboard was easily torn away, but just as he picked up the boy, a missile swooped down from the sky - a weapon that was originally aimed at the "Ghost", now heading straight for them.

Zhao Wuji did not hesitate.

A golden energy barrier unfolded in front of him, and the missiles hit the light curtain. The shock wave of the explosion shattered the glass on the entire street.

"Third NG! The final scene is locked!"

The system's voice was cold and merciless.

The boy trembled as he took out a crumpled piece of paper from his pocket and stuffed it into Zhao Wuji's hand:
"Someone. Let me give you this"

Zhao Wuji lowered his head and saw a line of words written on the note:

“You are not one of them.”

Then, the world fell into darkness.

When Zhao Wuji opened his eyes again, he found himself standing on the set of the final battle - Valentina's laboratory, surrounded by broken quantum generators, and the Winter Soldier, Yelena and other Thunder team members were pointing guns at him.

The script was forced to jump to the last scene.

What’s even more terrifying is that the note in his hand is still there.

The system interface flickered, like an old TV with a poor signal:

“Final Act: Death of the Sentinel. Please follow the script to the end.”

Zhao Wuji clenched the note and suddenly laughed.

"I see."

He looked up at the Winter Soldier, and the strange blue dot was still flashing on his tactical eyepiece. "You've all been fooled," he said softly, "This is not a movie at all."

As the darkness faded, Zhao Wuji found himself standing in the center of a circular laboratory.

The quantum generator hummed around him, and blue arcs of energy jumped in the air like imprisoned lightning. Under his feet was the SHIELD logo - but at this moment, the outstretched eagle was corroded by some kind of black slime, leaving only a half-broken outline.

“Final Act: Death of the Sentinel. The countdown begins.”

The system's voice sounded in my ears, cold and without a trace of fluctuation.

Zhao Wuji looked down at his hands. Golden energy flowed under his skin, like liquid sunlight trapped in a glass tube. He knew what would happen next - according to the script, the Sentinel's personality would completely collapse, and the "nothingness" would occupy his body and slaughter the entire Thunder Squad until the Winter Soldier stabbed his cervical ganglion with a vibranium dagger.

But this time, there is no chance to do it again.

"Rob. No, what should I call you now?"

The Winter Soldier's voice came from the right. Zhao Wuji looked up and saw Bucky Barnes standing three meters away, the red light of his tactical goggles flickering slightly. His vibranium arm armor was covered with some kind of black substance, like dried blood, or like the residue of the code?
"Call me Zhao Wuji," he heard himself say, "At least let me die with my own name."

The Winter Soldier's brows furrowed slightly.

There is no such line in the script.

The lights in the laboratory suddenly flickered violently.

Zhao Wuji's temples throbbed, and some ancient and hungry existence awakened in his skull. The voice of "nothingness" was like a thousand ants crawling in his brain:

“You don’t want to die.”

This time it didn't say anything from the script.

“I can help you”

The edges of Zhao Wuji's vision began to turn red. He saw dense blue text appearing on the walls of the laboratory - it was the system code, crawling all over the space like blood vessels. And in the gaps between the codes, something was wriggling.

“You’re not a character in the script?”

The empty laughter is like glass breaking:

"I was deleted by the system. The last actor."

A sharp pain suddenly exploded. Zhao Wuji fell to his knees, feeling his memory being violently checked - he saw a blurry figure, also trapped on the set, also trying to resist the system, and eventually being broken down into data fragments, becoming the nutrient of "nothingness".

"So, you are also a time traveler?"

"The only way out is to finish the job." The voice of nothingness gradually weakened, "but the system will eat your soul."

When the lights returned to normal, Zhao Wuji found that the Winter Soldier had raised the vibranium dagger. According to the script, he should release his void personality and start killing people.

But he made a decision.

“Bucky, listen to me.”

Zhao Wuji's voice was very soft, but Winter Soldier's pupils suddenly contracted - his tactical eyepiece captured something unusual: Zhao Wuji's fingertips were tapping lightly on the side of his thigh.

···－·－···
Morse code. A real-world distress signal.

"Kill me according to the script." Zhao Wuji raised his voice and kept pointing: "Valentina is"

“Action!”

The system's voice exploded. Zhao Wuji's vocal cords suddenly lost control, and the lines automatically came out of his throat: "You will all die here!"

The void personality took over his body. The golden energy exploded like a tsunami, and the tempered glass in the laboratory was directly vaporized in the million-degree high temperature. Zhao Wuji was like a passenger trapped in the cockpit, watching "himself" strangle Yelena's neck and break the red giant's spine.

The Winter Soldier is the last one.

The moment the vibranium dagger stabbed at him, Zhao Wuji used all his willpower to blink his right eye.

－·－···－

"receive."

The dagger pierced the ganglion at the back of the neck. In the severe pain, Zhao Wuji heard the cold prompt tone of the system:

"Filming completed. Storyline 100% complete."

Before darkness fell, he saw the Winter Soldier quietly put the note that read "You are not one of them" into his pocket.

Zhao Wuji woke up in the hibernation chamber.

“I’m back? Missing a resurrection card?”

"The only function of the Li Jingling system is to trigger the resurrection card count, which can save a lot of money."

"What's the point of the other functions being useless, or not being able to be set up, lest the main system become suspicious?"

“If I have money, I can swipe without worry? But it also limits my ability, so that the system won’t notice the existence of strong abilities.”

"Okay, then it's all based on the character's abilities in the script. Maybe I'll only wander around if I'm designed to be an extra."

"Random scenario "The Great Wall" starts"