Variety: I Loaded the Dream Game

"So, is this the return of the prodigal son?" After returning to land after a long absence, he could not help but sigh as he felt the slight bumps from the car driving on the road.

"Generally speaking, we would call this situation 'halfway'." Xue Nai corrected without raising her head.

"Actually, my ultimate goal was to go around and come back."

After thinking about it for a while, Xia Zhi said that it is more appropriate to call it "completed ahead of schedule" than "give up halfway".

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"Xia Zhi, you have always been very flexible in your requirements for yourself and your goals." Xue Nai finally looked away from the book in her hand and said to him.

Since you can't complete the goal, then change the goal itself, change another goal to complete the impossible task or something...

"It would be nice if you could do that when you were doing math problems."

Summer Solstice:  …

Usually, math problems have only one answer.

If you want to flexibly change your goals and results, you probably have to subvert the mathematical system first, right?

Isn't that kind of thing a little embarrassing?

 …  

But if you change your mind, maybe you can try to start with the test paper and the teacher who produced the test paper?

Xia Zhi pondered in his heart.

"..."

Looking at the silent Xia Zhi, even without asking, Xue Nai could roughly guess that he was probably thinking about something messy and unreliable again.

And considering the young man's current ability, if he really plans to put some unreliable idea into action on a whim, it will probably be a big trouble for the world, right?

In order to avoid that kind of thing from happening, Xue Nai interrupted after thinking for a while: "So, where are we going next?"

Xia Zhi came back to his senses, and replied: "Well...Didn't I just say that?"

"After the change...ah no, in the original goal, I planned to go around and go back."

There is no need to cover up what everyone knows, right?Listening to the boy's words, Xue Nai complained in her heart.

"so……"

Glancing at the few remaining countdowns, after thinking for a while, Xia Zhi made a suggestion:

"Since we have come back early, why don't we go back to the beginning?"

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The city after the rain is fresh after being washed with a little dust.I don't know if it's been so long, the smell has dissipated, or the light rain last night temporarily washed the breath in the air, and the city can no longer smell that stench and rot.

This was the first feeling that Xia Zhi felt when he returned to this city called "Xunzhi Hill".

This also made him feel a little relieved...Fortunately, if this place is still as stinky as before as the last place he chose to come back to, it would be a bit too ruined the atmosphere.

but……

"It seems that the street is very quiet."

Driving a RV on a deserted road, looking left and right at the dilapidated, overgrown weeds, abandoned buildings and vehicles climbing up the green vine street scene, "[-]" Xia Zhi sighed.

"And the environment seems to have improved a lot."

"Since there are no more living people, isn't this situation normal?" The girl on the side said as a matter of course.

The temperature in this city is suitable, the weather is pleasant, and the rainfall is relatively sufficient. There is no daily cleaning and cleaning by humans. After so long, it is not surprising that it will be reoccupied by the plants that grow out, right?

"Student Xue Nai means that, as expected, human beings are the chief culprits of destroying nature. Is it better to disappear?" Xia Zhi slightly tilted his head and asked aloud.

Do I mean that?

Xue Nai glanced at him angrily, and then continued: "The destruction of nature by human beings is the result of a high degree of evolution and development of life, which far exceeds that of other species, and eventually forms the inevitable result of generational differences. It can only be said that we have improved too fast.”

After all, from the hot African grasslands to the frigid Alaska, from the humid and warm tropical rainforest to the dry and hot desert Gobi, before humans, no species in the world could change its genes in a short period of time. Migration over thousands of years to different environments with such huge differences in latitude and climate.

Many people attribute the destruction of modern nature and the extinction of species to modern industrial civilization, but in fact, long before humans developed agricultural civilization, they had already used efficient collective hunting methods and unique skills such as using fire to open up wasteland. In just a few thousand years after completing the migration, more than 70.00% of the large mammals in the migration area were extinct.

It can be said that before humans entered civilization, more than half of the large beasts on the earth had disappeared.Not to mention that the subsequent agricultural development has caused more species to lose their habitat due to agricultural reclamation.

If I have to say it, the birth of Homo sapiens itself represents a catastrophe in the biological world of the earth, a man-made mass extinction.

So, according to this logic, shouldn't humans be born?

How can it be?

"We can't take it for granted that we should die just because we have evolved and developed a little faster?"

Xue Nao finally concluded like this.

Xia Zhi thought about it, and it was true.

The development of human beings has indeed brought about many problems, but the problems of development can only be solved by development.

After all, the protection of nature and the environment was originally a point of view for the future of human beings. If you stagnate your own development because of too much emphasis on this matter, you may even think that you are carrying original sin for the harmony of nature. If you have to die with beauty, then it can be said that you have put the cart before the horse.

On this point, Xia Zhi is still in favor of the girl.

only……

I don't know if it's an illusion, but why do I always feel that Xue Nai's way and tone of discussing issues sound more and more familiar?

However, if you think about it carefully, this is no wonder.After all, conversations like this have happened almost every day during the time the two have been together... Although it may seem boring to others, the two of them seem to enjoy it.

On the contrary, it is quite normal for people to be affected by each other in terms of behavior and thinking after chatting and bickering for a long time every day.

Similarly, although I haven't noticed it yet, Xia Zhi believes that I must have been influenced by the girl in some places...

These are all insignificant things, after all, isn't there a saying that after living together for a long time, even the looks will gradually become similar.

compared to this...

"Unexpectedly, Yukino-san still supports the view of human supremacy."

Xia Zhi sighed.

"I'm just stating the facts." Xue Nai said that she is just an ordinary person...at least compared to someone else, she is still very ordinary.

Ordinary people like her, no matter what their opinions are, their influence on the world is limited after all, so it doesn't matter what they think.

In comparison, some people are different, such as...

Xue Nai thought about it, looked at the young man, and after thinking for a while, she asked, "So, what about you, Xia Zhi?"

"To be honest, I'm actually a member of Earth's Cat Cult." Xia Zhi replied without hesitation.

Xue Nai was slightly stunned... Of course she had heard of this sect, but what she didn't expect was that the boy was also a member of it.

Obviously, I haven't seen him show how much he loves cats on weekdays.

"Student Xia Zhi, do you also like cats?"

"Of course." Xia Zhi replied as a matter of course: 3.2 "Cat ears are the cutest!"

"...?"

Yukino, who was originally happy that she and the boy had another hobby in common, tilted her head slightly after hearing what he said, feeling as if something was wrong.

On the other hand, facing the girl's suspicious gaze, Xia Zhi didn't care.

You like cats, I like cat girls, we are all cat lovers, there is no difference, of course it should be on one side, right?

As he thought about it in his heart, he suddenly saw a familiar black shadow of a building surrounded by walls at the end of his vision in the distance.

From afar, I can see the words written on the somewhat cracked doorplate

——Shinogaoka High School

They are finally back again, the original place...

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...something is not quite right.

When driving close to Xunzhiqiu Academy, Xia Zhi frowned slightly, feeling a little disobedient.

Like he said just now, it was too quiet.

Although there is no human activity in this place, it is normal to be quiet, but don't forget that there should be other things that can move here besides humans.

At least before leaving the city last time, Xia Zhi only killed the zombies he encountered, and didn't deliberately clean up other zombies in the city, so logically speaking, there should still be a lot of zombies here What is left is right.

However, he drove all the way down, even though he didn't try to cover up the sound, he didn't see any zombies attracted by the sound of the car... It was as if all the zombies in the city had died.

And before and after coming to the gate of Xunzhiqiu Academy, this should feel more obvious.

As I mentioned before, the zombies in this world have the characteristic of following their living habits and activities. In other words, during this noon class time, those "students" should all come back to school.

Even if Xia Zhi had blocked the entrance of the college with several heavy trucks before, according to the experience of the past few months, they should still linger at the entrance and not "go home" until after school time.

　18 But...

Xia Zhi parked the car at the gate of the academy, and jumped out of the car.

He looked around, but he didn't see any zombies.

Apart from……

Xia Zhi's gaze fell on the lying figure at the blocked entrance of the academy.

Judging from the pale skin covered with blue blood vessels, it was obvious that this was the corpse of a zombie.

However, that's not the point. The point is... The corpse still looks very intact, and there are not many signs of decomposition and decay.

In other words, he had just "died" not long ago.

Xia Zhi's gaze shifted to his head again, where there were obviously sunken and broken marks.

"It seems that Mr. Zombie was killed by some blunt instrument." He made a judgment after thinking about it.