The night before the promotion

Chapter 101 Epilogue New Life

"Begin the wake-up procedure."

"Get ready to count down, 3, 2, 1..."

"Wake up the target."

……

How to describe the hazy sleepiness?
It's like soaking in warm water, without the constraints of gravity or the squeeze of buoyancy, just soaking, everything is warm and comfortable, just like a fetus sleeping in the amniotic fluid in the womb.

The consciousness is relaxed and stretched, and every inch of nerves and muscles are released most thoroughly...

There were waves of chaotic echoes, the sound was vague and distant, as if someone was standing on the horizon shouting at "himself", and it took a long time and distance to come over.

Wait a minute…yourself?
I am... me?

So, what am I?
I...I am...

Zhou Si.

The man opened his eyes. Bright sunlight filled the room. The golden color made him squint his eyes involuntarily, as if the ground and walls were covered with a thin layer of gold foil.

After adapting for a while, he finally opened his eyes completely and observed everything in the room.

This should be a luxurious isolation ward. There is a medical device that looks extremely expensive next to the bed, and a button to call a nurse next to it. There is a fruit basket with flowers on the cabinet, as if someone had just come to visit him not long ago.

The man moved his body and found that his left arm was empty. After a moment of stunnedness, he remembered that his left arm had been amputated long ago.

Yes... Gone a long time ago.

The man's consciousness traced back the memories in his mind, and he continued to dig. Many chaotic memories came to his mind, including Typhoon Linjiang, the attacked stone fortress, Huo Daochuan's declaration, and the raging fire that devoured himself.

The memories came to an abrupt end here, and the man's body trembled instinctively, not knowing whether it was because of fear or something else.

The man walked around the field twice. According to his experience, after every big fight like this, he would usually be covered in bruises and exhausted.

But this time it was strange, not only did the man's mind not feel any pain, even the dull pain in his body disappeared, and he recalled the last fire in his memory.

The man lifted his clothes, and what came into view was not the horrific burns, but smooth and flat skin, as if the fire was just an illusion, or that he was indeed burned beyond recognition, but after an expensive treatment plan, he recovered.

Healed in every sense of the word.

The man didn't care too much and looked out the floor-to-ceiling window with a dazed look. What came into his sight was the industrial park of Shenwei Technology. It seemed that this isolation ward was in the Shenwei Building.

then……

Zhou Si.

Suddenly, the man recalled the name, his own name.

Most people have had similar experiences. At some point in their lives, they suddenly remember their identity, that is, their name, and everything that the name represents.

It's like a sudden awakening, or a sudden presentation of self-identity.

The man... to be precise, Zhou Si, had this strange feeling at this moment.

It was as if there was some kind of barrier between my consciousness and my body, like a ball of boiling water that was forcibly confined in a glass container.

The boiling water was bubbling, and the glassware was shaking violently, almost causing cracks all over the body.

Zhou Si attributed this strange feeling to his own consciousness disorder. In order to divert his attention, Zhou Si stood up and tried to leave the isolation ward.

He turned the doorknob hard, but it didn't move at all, as if someone had locked Zhou Si inside.

"anyone there!"

Zhou Si shouted at the top of his lungs, his voice a little hoarse.

He speculated that it might be the high-temperature gas he swallowed that burned his vocal cords.

No one responded.

Zhou Si turned and glanced around the room. Only then did he realize that there was no clock in the room, and even the display page of the medical equipment had no time marking.

It was as if someone deliberately concealed the "time" in the room to prevent Zhou Si from noticing something unusual.

Zhou Si became alert.

He was no stranger to this kind of exquisite sense of design. He had been loaded into the Paradise System by Huo Daochuan before, where he had suffered all kinds of pain.

But to be honest, in fact, everything in the Paradise system, because there are people interacting with him, Zhou Si can still easily perceive the falsity of the world in his negotiations with others.

What is more troublesome is the current situation. No one is communicating with Zhou Si. There is only cold stuff piled up in the room.

Zhou Si sat back on the bed. He felt a little irritated, as if there was another person hiding in his body. He was struggling under his skin, trying to get out and smash everything in front of him.

Take a deep breath.

Zhou Si pressed the nurse button beside him. After a short long tone, women's voices came from the four corners of the room.

"Zhou Si, you finally woke up, how do you feel?"

I can tell that this is Ruan Linrui's voice.

"Not bad," Zhou Si looked down at his body, "much better than I expected when I woke up..."

He paused and confessed, "But there are still some strange things."

"for example?"

"For example, a sense of strangeness, as if an invisible barrier appeared between consciousness and body..."

Zhou Si was halfway through his narration when he suddenly pointed the finger at Ruan Linrui, "Ms. Ruan, why don't you come in and see me? Instead, you use this thing to talk to me."

Ruan Linrui was silent for a while, and then there was a noise coming from the speaker, as if someone had taken over the microphone.

"Doctor Zhou, although your body has recovered, you...but you still need to rest for a while." It was Li Weiyu's voice.

"Rest?" Zhou Si asked doubtfully, "Rest doesn't require such a method close to house arrest."

"Zhou Si... a lot of things happened. You need to rest for a while."

"I've slept long enough," Zhou Si said firmly, "Oh, by the way, how long have I slept? A week, or half a month."

Li Weiyun hesitated for a while, or perhaps he moved the microphone away and discussed with others how to answer. After a moment, his voice rang out again.

"It's already August 8th, Doctor Zhou. You've been in a coma for nearly a month."

Zhou Si was stunned for a moment, as if he could not accept such a huge time leap. Then he looked at his body again, and that strange and strong feeling of rejection reappeared.

"It seems that I am seriously injured..."

Zhou Si gradually lowered his head, and no one knew what he was thinking.

Li Weiyun said at the right time, "Doctor Zhou, you still need to rest here for a while. During this time, we will slowly explain to you everything that happened."

"Ah."

Zhou Si responded perfunctorily with a single syllable, then he suddenly stood up and walked quickly towards the floor-to-ceiling window.

Standing in front of the transparent window, the sky was so close to Zhou Si, as if he could step into that heaven if he only took one more step forward.

Zhou Si stared at the boundless sky.

Li Weiyun said worriedly, "Doctor Zhou..."

"I'm fine, Captain Li. I just want to take in the scenery and relax."

Zhou Si said this and turned to leave, but the next moment, Zhou Si suddenly turned around again, arched his body, and exploded with all his strength.

At this moment, Zhou Si did not feel the blood rushing, but instead heard a familiar low humming sound.

The charging of muscle fiber bundles is activated.

Zhou Si swung his non-existent left arm and smashed the floor-to-ceiling window in front of him. Then, the virtual arm hit the glass hard. After a brief pause, a large number of shattered cracks spread out and spread in all directions.

As if some kind of psychological suggestion was lifted, Zhou Si looked at his reflection in the glass. A large piece of fragments reflected Zhou Si's human face, while another large piece of fragments reflected his cold mechanical body.

Like symbolism, countless fragments cut Zhou Si into flesh and blood, machinery, emotion and reason.

Zhou Si lowered his head again and looked at his empty left arm. He could not see the existence of that arm, but he was sure that the arm was there and it was just a visual deception.

So, Zhou Si swung his punch again and completely smashed the shaky floor-to-ceiling window in front of him.

The crystal fragments rolled, and they did not fall into the bright sky, but fell into the dark abyss.

Zhou Si stood in front of the broken French window. There was no sky behind the window, but an experimental site. Facing Zhou Si was an experimental observation platform, and below it were all kinds of strange equipment.

The isolation ward where he was was just a set up. Behind the floor-to-ceiling windows was a display system that was powerful enough to deceive human vision. It repeatedly played images of the sky, just like in "The Truman Show", trying to imprison Zhou Si.

"Doctor Zhou, please calm down."

Li Weiyu ran over quickly, and behind him was Ruan Linrui who looked anxious.

Zhou Si ignored the two of them and looked straight ahead. There seemed to be something there, but when Zhou Si tried to see clearly, he found a red and blue line flashing in his vision, as if there was a malfunction in the electronic screen.

"do not bother me."

Zhou Si pushed Li Weiyu away. It was not known whether Li Weiyu was too weak or his own strength was too great, but Zhou Si pushed Li Weiyu to the ground.

Ruan Linrui looked at Zhou Si nervously. She wanted to say something but didn't know how to start.

Zhou Si looked at his right hand that pushed Li Weiyu away in confusion. The whole arm was sometimes human flesh and blood, and sometimes turned into a cold machine.

Zhou Si seemed to understand something.

"Doctor Zhou, don't be like this..."

Li Weiyun wanted to dissuade him, but Ruan Linrui interrupted him, "Forget it, Team Leader Li."

Ruan Linrui sighed, her eyes moist, "He will eventually know, and he's not that fragile."

Zhou Si glanced at the two of them. He still said nothing and continued to move forward until he came to the faint blue light.

It was a mobile container, shaped like a capsule in the Dream Pool, filled with nutrient solution and soaking a twisted male body.

The man was severely burned all over his body, and his skin looked like it was crawling with hideous centipedes. His entire left arm was missing, along with a certain amount of skin, revealing bright red flesh. The part of his left leg below the ankle was also missing, and several fingers on his right hand were also cut off.

In addition, the man's face was unrecognizable. His entire face and scalp were covered with burns. He looked extremely horrible, as if his face only appeared in a nightmare.

Theoretically speaking, the man would have died after suffering such serious injuries, but it was as if there was a rich man with a bad taste who wanted to torture him and keep him alive.

The man's body was riddled with holes from all sorts of horrific infusion tubes, and artificial external organs were carelessly placed underneath his body to provide support for his extracorporeal circulation.

It was like a horrific freak show, a show of execution and torture that stretched to the end of the world.

"At the end of that terrorist attack, you were hit directly by a flamethrower."

Ruan Linrui tried hard to keep her voice calm, but she couldn't help crying.

"The fire almost killed you... In fact, it has already killed you. Once you leave the life support module, you will die of suffocation in less than a minute. Even if you survive, you will die from subsequent organ failure."

"Mr. Zuo Zhi saved you. He included you in the longevity plan, allowing you to continue to survive in the life support capsule. At the same time, you can also walk in the human world with your incarnation body like him."

Zhou Si remained silent. He looked at himself in the container, another Zhou Si.

Suddenly, Zhou Si laughed.

It was like hearing a ridiculous joke.

(End of this chapter)