Doomsday Club

The meeting with Lin Xiaoxiao was finally arranged for the weekend.

Inside the restaurant.

Wu Tian shouted that he wouldn't leave until he was drunk, but in the end he didn't actually drink much.

They only sipped the drinks briefly, and after getting slightly tipsy, they mainly chatted.

"You can't drink too much, your sister-in-law is strict."

Wu Tian spoke, his tone brimming with happiness: "I can't compare to a single aristocrat like you, a great writer~"

"Get out of here!"

Xu Nuo looked at his sarcastic good brother with some disdain.

He declined Wu Tian's suggestion to "add each other on WeChat and chat first".

Xu Nuo waved her hand: "Don't worry about it, I have my own rhythm."

He has always been a man of action.

Instead of awkwardly chatting with two strangers on WeChat, why not meet them tonight?

However, the girl he wanted to meet wasn't the one with the bright smile in the photo.

Instead, it's the mature woman version from twenty years later.

"Lin Xiaoxiao..."

He muttered the name he was hearing for the first time today.

During his previous journeys, he made a point of searching to see if any acquaintances had escaped the disaster.

But in the end, they gained nothing. It seemed that all their relatives and friends had died in that unknown disaster.

None escaped unscathed.

Excluding the mysterious "Doomsday Lord," Lin Xiaoxiao is the only person he has encountered so far who has successfully escaped the apocalypse.

"I'm not drinking anymore, I have to get up at 8 am tomorrow."

Wu Tian's words interrupted Xu Nuo's thoughts.

They parted ways at the restaurant entrance.

Xu returned home and waited for midnight to arrive.

As the second hand passed the very top of the clock, it fell to the right.

The traversable numbers on the watch have finally been updated.

【three】

Lying in bed, my consciousness drifted away.

When I opened my eyes again, all I could see was ruins.

This is twenty years later.

Getting up from the dusty ground and looking at the familiar, dilapidated surroundings, I felt a damn sense of familiarity.

This place must have been a tech company before the apocalypse.

The company logo is a simplified Chinese character resembling an hourglass, which looks futuristic.

Because all the equipment has been moved, it is impossible to determine what kind of project this place was mainly used for before.

Xu had searched online for related information, but found absolutely no clues.

He guessed that the company probably hadn't been established yet at the time he was in.

He easily found the protective suit in the company warehouse and picked up a rusty iron rod from the ground for self-defense.

In a sense, this "resurrection point" actually made things easier for him.

"Now that we've met Lin Xiaoxiao, there's no rush to go to the market."

From beginning to end, his core objective was singular—to find out the truth about the apocalypse.

Only by knowing the timing and pattern of the disaster could he prepare in advance in the real timeline and successfully escape the apocalypse with his family and friends.

He's only 24 years old this year, and his wonderful life has just begun.

He didn't want to die, nor did he want to be alone twenty years later.

As for the Doomsday Lords...

He is currently all alone and has no chance against the armed forces in the market, let alone the fact that the Doomsday Lord has firearms.

Instead of wasting time, we should try to find a breakthrough with Lin Xiaoxiao first.

I looked towards the direction of the market from a distance.

Xu Nuo chuckled coldly twice: "No rush, I'll get you sooner or later."

……

"There will be a sandstorm in three days, so we need to hurry."

Sunlight kills plants, including trees.

Without trees to stabilize the soil, the land is severely desertified.

Because there are no forests to block the wind, strong winds can easily grow to a large scale, carrying sand and dust into a deadly sandstorm.

It covered the sky and blotted out the sun.

If we're talking about real-world sandstorms, they're mostly just sand and rocks.

The sandstorms here are terrifying; there are cars inside.

A strong wind blew away abandoned cars on the roadside, and who knows which unlucky person who was slow might get hit by a flying car and end up in the anime world.

He was in a car accident on the day of the apocalypse.

Take advantage of the moment.

Before the sandstorm arrived.

I'll meet my "blind date" first.

Guided by memory, I traversed the city until the figure from my memory finally appeared before my eyes.

"Lin Xiaoxiao!"

"Who are you bastard for?"

"???"

No, is the person really that low in manners?

The initial contact between the two parties was not pleasant.

Xu Nuo was completely stunned by the scolding.

Looking at the mature woman in front of me, whose posture alone exuded a fierce aura, I couldn't help but associate her with the sweet girl in the white dress in the photo.

It has to be said that this was the first time he had observed the other party up close.

Her long, slender legs had smooth lines and looked very powerful.

The striking curve of her chest stretched the protective suit so much that Xu Nuo couldn't help but take a second look.

Although her face has developed some wrinkles due to the passage of time, it does not diminish her beauty but rather adds a touch of mature charm.

The scar on his left cheek was shocking, making anyone who saw it feel a sense of pity.

While he was sizing up the other person, Lin Xiaoxiao was also watching Xu Nuo warily.

I searched my memory for a long time, but I just couldn't recall ever seeing this person before.

How could someone you've never even met call you by your name?

And what's even stranger is...

This guy in front of me is way too clean!

They didn't look like they'd been ravaged by harsh environments in a post-apocalyptic world at all; they looked as if they'd just crawled out of some isolated laboratory today.

Lin Xiaoxiao looked at Xu Nuo with wariness in her eyes.

The end times are dangerous, and the human heart is unpredictable.

Not to mention she's such a beautiful woman.

If we didn't have this much vigilance, we would have died in some unknown corner long ago.

"Who are you? How do you know my name?"

"I am Xu Nuo, we met twenty years ago," Xu Nuo said, uttering the words she had prepared long ago.

Although he hasn't met him yet, he said this without any sense of guilt.

It's just borrowing the future for the weekend in advance.

But to everyone's surprise, when Xu Nuo said that, the wariness in Lin Xiaoxiao's eyes not only did not disappear, but became even stronger.

Are you kidding me!

This guy looked to be in his early twenties at most, but he immediately said that he had met me twenty years ago.

There should be a limit to lying.

Moreover... she was quite certain that she had never seen the guy in front of her before, nor had she ever heard of anyone named Xu Nuo.

"Since you know me, what's my boyfriend's name?"

"..."

"A promise...?"

Xu Nuo tentatively spoke, but the confidence he had shown at the beginning was gone from his tone.

God knows what your future boyfriend's name will be!

Can I say that I only heard your name tonight?

"You bastard, you still want to lie to me! Go to hell!"

Recalling some unpleasant memories, Lin Xiaoxiao gripped her weapon tightly.

He glared fiercely at Xu Nuo.

next second.

"Holy shit!"

Xu Nuo practically jumped out of bed.

The sensation of the sharp blade piercing his chest was still real, and the intense pain brought cold sweat to his brow.

Xu Nuo is starting to have some doubts about life.

"That shouldn't be the case!"

"How could that be?"

"How could I not have seen it before?"

His meeting with Lin Xiaoxiao was already arranged for tonight.

In addition, he had already noticed Lin Xiaoxiao's special characteristics.

Based on the actual timeline, they should have met in the future no matter what.

and also……

That was too ruthless.

"I wonder what this guy has been through all these years."

Xu Nuo sighed.

I can only say that I underestimated the importance of "time".

However, he could probably guess the reason.

simply put.

As a time traveler, Xu Nuo's perception of the "coming future" is only the future within his personal timeline.

He is a "time bug"—for him, the future has already happened, and to some extent, he can even control it.

But for others, their future has not yet occurred and remains in an unobservable superposition state.

Like Schrödinger's cat, all possibilities exist simultaneously before an event actually occurs and is observed.

Therefore, within the predetermined timeline, his encounter with Lin Xiaoxiao was an inevitable outcome;

However, in Lin Xiaoxiao's timeline, her encounter with Xu Nuo is an unknown full of variables.

Only when the two truly meet will countless chaotic possibilities converge and collapse, ultimately settling into the future that Xu Nuo knows.

The above is Xu Nuo's understanding of the "Time Rules".

"This is going to be difficult!"

How to gain the trust of a stranger in the apocalypse...

Xu Nuo sighed, her head aching as she recalled the unexpected stab wound the other party had inflicted on her.

That wary look in his eyes was just like that of a stray cat with its fur standing on end.