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Chapter 384 The Desolate Heart Finally Becomes Human (4K Second Update)
"When you are thirsty, call my name."

"I am the true self that you long for but cannot obtain... You should know that everything in this world that we don't have should be taken away!"

A wisp of white hair on his forehead swayed defiantly in the rainy night. His dark eyes slightly opened his red lips, and he whispered very gently in her ear.

But to Nono, it felt like the snake in the myth that tempted the first human ancestor Adam to eat the forbidden fruit, spitting out its bright red tongue in the shadows, mocking human stupidity and greed.

The faint light of the street lamp at the entrance of the alley gradually dimmed, and Mo Tong's figure was like a drop of rain falling into ink, gradually blurring and disappearing.

"You're going to need me...soon, very soon."

She left these words, and there was no longer any rusty mist or dark red in front of Nuonuo's eyes.

Her gaze slid down to where the other person disappeared, attracted by the gradually subsiding pain in her chest. The huge hole that almost occupied half of her chest was still bleeding dark, dirty blood.

She couldn't help but put her hand on her chest, she clenched her teeth, and the expression on her face changed back and forth between anger and ferocity.

At one moment her pretty face looked as sad as a child who had lost her family, and at another moment it looked as ferocious as a ghost. Only she herself knew what past she was recalling at that moment.

The Chen family, the mixed-race family she was born into, had become wealthy in their early years due to foreign connections and economic exchanges.

Its status is even comparable to that of the Gattuso family behind Caesar.

But the memory this family left for Chen Motong... to her, it was just a roll of yellowed film abandoned in the storage room. Even if there were pictures flashing by, they had already been shattered.

There was always a lack of women around her father. After her mother passed away, he left her to the care of a nanny. Nuonuo rarely saw him, but he would occasionally come back with a few children to let her know that she had a group of unfamiliar brothers and sisters.

She did not shed tears when her mother died, and her adoptive mother scolded her for being "indifferent" in front of others, but Nono never refuted.

Now she still remembers that only her father and her brothers and sisters were left looking at her with distant eyes.

And the smile her mother gave her before she died.

She didn't know when it started, but she felt like there was a big hole in her heart, and happiness and joy could no longer be contained, and quietly slipped away from the hole...

All that is left is a wasteland.

It was when she saw the huge hole in her chest at that moment that she realized that the spring deep in her heart had dried up as before.

Countless cracks remained on that barren shell that had nothing in it. No matter what kind of wind from the outside world blew into her empty heart, it could not really leave a trace in her heart.

"Is this me?"

Nuonuo raised his head in a daze and looked at the dark sky.

The rain splashed on her face like tears, leaving countless traces at the corners of her eyes, making the lonely child squint her eyes.

“…Yes, that’s ‘me’.”

In the emptiness of having nothing, there accumulated hatred in her youth that she didn't know where to direct, and confusion about where to go after she grew up... All the remnants of "Chen Motong's" life, mixed with unwillingness and fear in her mind, eventually brewing into a shadow that was different from this empty person, with a desolate heart still watered by filthy blood.

She heard a voice in her heart chanting softly:
Leave the last name behind.

Because that is something you don't need to hold on to when you are alone.

Let go of loneliness.

To greedily seize what one does not have in order to fill a heart that is in desperate need of satisfaction.

Let go of the pain.

Use sadism to replace being hurt, and give others pain before being hurt!

"Only in this way can one remain independent within the cycle of flow...only in this way can the desolateness within one's heart find mercy, allowing the dried-up springs to refill, and achieving one's true self."

“Hee! Haha! Hahahaha!!!”

Nuonuo once again heard the unbridled evil laughter of her other self, "Mo Tong", which made her face even paler.

Subsequently.

The dark world shattered in this instant.

All existence and illusions before our eyes turned into a waking dream at this moment.

In the real world, Nuonuo reached out and brushed away her sweat-soaked bangs, a hint of determination flashing in her eyes that only she knew.

Whether it was Zero standing beside her, or Caesar chatting and laughing with the three boys... none of them noticed the subtle but essential changes that had occurred in her.

She is still "her" now.

It was as if the gods were playing a joke on her—as "evil" was bred in her heart, she, standing on the "other side", instead experienced a long-lost "clarity".

Now Nono can understand a "fact":
Her classmates, her friends, her love... If she allowed her "evil" self to act, everything she had now would be completely distorted and shattered.

That was exactly what she couldn't allow!
She may not know what she should do yet, but she can ruin what another person wants to do!
If... I were to become the enemy of "evil", would I then be able to become "justice"?

The portal to the Zero Return temporary base had been completed. The silver doorframe hovered above the ash-covered earth, gradually filling with the azure energy of the mind unit. Nuonuo rubbed his stiff facial muscles, took a deep breath of the air still lingering with the smell of gunpowder, and tried to calm his still confused thoughts.

Ever since she came into this world, she has always felt that feeling...something is calling her.

——It became more and more intense.

That's the enemy this time... right?

...

...

"The name was originally blank, but a new 'name' was born from it." Bu Shun withdrew his gaze from Chen Motong. Maybe it's time to call her "Nono" now.

A strange smile appeared on his face. Obviously, the secret changes that had taken place in her... had not escaped his eyes.

"Such an interesting change actually occurred. It's worth all the attention I paid to her."

Opening the black notebook he used to record things in his spare time, Bu Shun wrote the three words "Chen Motong" and then drew a slash in the middle.

【Chen/Mo Tong】

He swiped the pen to erase the annoying surname, and then neatly wrote the word "Nono" on the left.

"'Name' is the essence of existence, the manifestation of all power, and the definition of self." Bu Shun explained to the blue-haired beauty who cast a curious glance at him. "Just like the God Name Demon, the source of their power and the anchor of their existence are the God Name characters."

"If you lose your name, you lose your power, and even yourself will cease to exist."

This is the definition given by Bu Shun, who is the source of the power of the [Divine Name Script] in the present world. Helena raised her index finger and said with an eyebrow, "The extreme existence of the Divine Name Demon is not really suitable as an example."

Bu Shun spread his hands. "Every living thing has a name... Take humans, for example. A newborn baby can be called nameless. But as they grow up and develop their own identity, they will have their own unique name, because that is the most important indicator for an individual to distinguish between 'self' and 'the outside world'."

"The root of this name depends on a being's understanding of themselves, and is also influenced by their essence."

"Chu Zihang wouldn't consider himself Lu Zihang, and Caesar wouldn't consider himself the historical Caesar... Even in a special case like Minamoto no Chitose, after unifying his personality, he also had the name of another Kazama Ruri."

"Someone like Jörmungandr, bound to the mortal world by her human body, possesses, besides her fundamental True Name of the Dragon King, an ever-changing 'name'."

The name could be "Xia Mi" or "Little Dragon Girl"... In short, each self has a unique name.

He paused, his pen nibbing a few times on the notebook, and chuckled twice. "I observed many targets... Among them, only two individuals can be considered special even among special cases."

The blue-haired beauty nodded. She naturally knew which two people her commander was referring to.

——Lu Mingfei, and Chen Motong, the owners of the name Wuming.

"Using the self of 'Lu Mingfei', he concealed the original 'blank name'."

"This shows that the erased blank name is his true essence."

Bu Shun drew an oval on the paper, wrote the three words "Lu Mingfei" on the top of the oval, and then drew three question marks in the circle.

"But Chen Motong is just the opposite."

Next to the three characters "Lu Mingfei," he rewrote the name "Chen Motong" and drew an oval. But the difference was that the three characters "Chen Motong" were framed within the circle. Then, with great effort, he painted the name completely black, creating a glaring contrast with the blank oval with a question mark next to it.

"If we examine it from the perspective of 'name', we can even say that there is no such person as 'Chen Motong'."

"Her empty essence obscured the self that should have existed. The 'Chen Motong' that had been born and grown to this day was nothing more than an empty shell, like some kind of programmed function... even if she herself was completely unaware of it."

Bu Shun sighed: "It's really like a fake person who doesn't look like a fake person at all."

The self that was once called "Chen Motong" was nothing but an illusion, so there is always a huge, unfillable void in her heart... The misfortune of her childhood is only the most superficial manifestation of this fact.

Sorry for not being human.

Although I long for it so much, I can't really have it.

No matter how hard she tried, she could never find inner satisfaction...

The original Chen Motong was such a pathetic existence.

The love between Caesar and her was destined to be a tragedy. Perhaps she tried to accept and understand this love, but in the end she was destined to be unable to do so no matter what.

It can only swing between nothingness, wander in the void, and present a posture similar to that of a human on the surface.

After hearing this, Helena chuckled: "So Commander, you have taken targeted measures against these two people, right?"

She extended a green finger and pointed at Lu Mingfei's name, saying, "You have endowed Lu Mingfei with the power of his divine name. This also means that he can use this power to stabilize his own 'self'... Therefore, in his struggle with his own essence, he can gradually reclaim the power that rightfully belongs to him."

"And the other girl..."

"Since 'Chen Motong' doesn't exist and is just an empty shell, why not let something new emerge from it and let her break out of the shell?"

Bu Shun was immediately delighted by Miss Helena's accurate understanding.

"That's it!"

He clapped his hands. "The more unique a being is, the more likely it is to be a pawn of the mastermind... I don't know how many years that mastermind has been strategizing in this world. With just our meager efforts, it's impossible to defeat them in this scheme."

Therefore, he chose the most brutal method of destroying the chess game.

Bu Shun first interfered with Chen Motong in the Gray City World. As early as then, he had already noticed her peculiarity.

Bu Shun's choice was to interfere with her indirectly through Lu Mingfei, Chu Zihang, and Caesar...using the power of God's name and mental energy.

"From the Ashes to the living world, from the Eternal Golden City to the Immortal Bronze City, and finally to this desolate land... From within the hole in her heart, a self capable of transcending that empty essence was finally born."

——"Mo Tong" broke out of the broken shell.

He smiled and said, "Although it would be an extremely selfish, even extremely evil 'consciousness'. Its existence also filled the void, supplemented part of her lack, and made her a 'human'..."

"In this way, we will have the opportunity to see what her uniqueness is and what true power she hides."

Then he changed the subject: "However, I didn't expect that after that side of her was born, another one would be born at the same time, one that was closer to her original 'self'."

For example, if the original Chen Motong is equivalent to a bionic man with written data.

So the current "Nono" has inherited everything she originally had, broken the technological singularity, awakened her true self-awareness, and [become a human being].

Death yesterday, life today——

Until today, at this moment, "Nono" truly became the "Nono" she called herself.

"As expected of you, Commander." Helena smiled politely and clapped her hands. "Changes have already occurred, so naturally, some people will get restless, right?"

She tapped her hand lightly, and a brand new scene appeared before their eyes.

The image that met my eyes was a pale speck, a fragment of what appeared to be the body of some gigantic creature. Its dark, scaled form rose and fell with the beat of its heart, and even through the screen, I could sense an almost savage vitality within it.

After a quick glance, Bu Shun gave the order in a deep voice: "After the students come back and have rested, prepare to issue new tasks."

The blue-haired beauty immediately stood up straight and saluted, "Got it!"

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...

Deep in the Indian Ocean, a magnificent beast, a mixture of white and dark blue, slowly opened its eyes covered with irises.

The golden pupils shone with a red-gold light, illuminating the deep sea coldly.

　Another chapter of 4,000 words, Wuhu.

　　In fact, the most difficult part for me to jump out of this plot is that Mo Tong is the target that Lao Shun wants to see, and Nuonuo is just a bonus, and also a sucker.

　　The original Nono is indeed a fake person.

　　(End of this chapter)