The Nebula Body looked down at the city hidden in the darkness and asked in a low voice.

"Why did you give Wang Quan that choice? Was it because of guilt?"

Inside the building, Mo Li looked tired and kept wiping a pistol. Hearing this, he replied indifferently.

"It would be nonsense to say that there is no guilt at all."

"I do feel guilty, but I have nothing to regret. I don't want to compensate him for anything. I just want to see if I have changed him in the past few years."

The Nebula Body slowly turned around, looked at Mo Li, and spoke softly.

"Are you betting he won't leave?"

Mo Li answered without any hesitation.

"Yes, I want to see if he will stay, and if so, what reasons would make him stay."

Nebula frowned slightly, walked slowly to Mo Li's side, and commented in a low voice.

"You are so boring. You always do meaningless things like this. Don't you feel annoyed?"

Hearing this, Mo Li's expression became a little strange. He raised his head slightly, looked at the nebula body beside him, and spoke softly.

"Don't you think this kind of evaluation is more suitable for you to hear than for me?"

"You actually said you were bored. It seems like you are really becoming more and more like a human being."

Chapter 197 Gambling

"Don't you think this kind of evaluation is more suitable for you to hear than for me?"

"You actually said you were bored. It seems like you are really becoming more and more like a human being."

Nebula's eyes froze, and he stood there like a puppet, his body stiff. After a moment, he stretched out his hand, gently placed it on his eyebrows, and said with a tired look.

"You're right."

"The effect this body has on me is much more exaggerated than I had planned."

"Joy, anger, sorrow, and happiness, these emotions have always been very rare in our lives. But after having this body, our mood swings and thoughts are changing subtly."

"It's interesting. The human brain is actually controlled by the body, and the hormones it secretes can affect a person's emotions."

"In the past, we thought of humans as imperfect machines, limited by imperfect body structures."

Nebula narrowed his eyes slightly, covered his face with his hands, and said coldly.

"Now it seems that our thoughts back then were absolutely correct. Humans are just a gradually degenerating machine, even lacking the precision of a machine."

“There is no need for it to exist.”

Mo Li listened to Nebula's long talk without making any comment. He crossed his legs, took apart the pistol on the table bit by bit, and asked seemingly casually.

"From what you say, you now understand humans very well."

Upon hearing this, Nebula Body answered frankly without any hesitation, his words full of contempt for humans, as if he had become an ordinary person.

"Yes, I am confident that I understand you humans very well. You are controlled by your emotions, and your emotions are affected by your body."

"It's just a shoddy machine."

Mo Li raised the corner of his mouth and revealed a smile. In a short time, he had assembled the pistol on the table, removed the magazine of bullets and threw it on the table. He held up the pistol without bullets, aimed at the nebula not far away, and said with squinted eyes.

"You are so confident in these few rounds, are you interested in betting with me?"

Nebula frowned slightly and stared at Mo Li with some suspicion.

"A gamble?"

Mo Li tilted his head slightly and spoke in a relaxed tone.

"Don't you like gambling the most? For advanced creatures like you who originally have no form, there should be nothing more interesting than the unknown, right?"

The Nebula Body did not deny Mo Li's statement. Instead, he was really interested. He paced back and forth in the room with great interest and spoke softly.

"Tell me what the bet is. I want to hear if there is any fun in this bet."

Hearing this, Mo Li's eyes flashed, he put the gun in his hand on the table, and said lightly.

"The bet is simple. It's about tomorrow's Wang Quan."

"Betting on whether he will leave the ancient city base."

"As the initiator of the bet, I will let you make the first choice. Whether you choose Wang Quan to stay or leave, I will choose the opposite."

Nebula was stunned for a moment, his eyes full of confusion, and asked in confusion.

"Let me choose? That's not fair to you. Are you so confident in yourself?"

Mo Li leaned back, raised his brows slightly, and replied in a cold voice.

"You don't have to ask so many questions. No matter what the bet is, it won't stand up to cross-examination. You just need to answer which side you choose."

Hearing this, Nebula was not angry. After hesitating for a moment, he walked to Mo Li's desk, reached out and pressed a bullet on the table, and asked softly.

"I can accept this bet, but what are the stakes? It can't be a gamble for nothing. The winner must get something in return."

"This is also the rule of you humans."

Mo Li thought about it, pushed out a bullet from the pile of bullets on the table, and said softly.

"my body."

"..."

Nebula suddenly narrowed his eyes, flashing a dangerous light in them. He was also excited and confirmed again.

"Your body, do you mean that as long as we win, we can take over your immortal body?"

Mo Li nodded slightly, picked up a bullet, looked at the nebula meaningfully, and smiled.

"As expected, you have been thinking about my immortality from the beginning. Especially now that my strength is almost gone, my immortality is an irresistible temptation for you."

Nebula had no intention of hiding anything, the greed and fanaticism in his eyes were clearly revealed, and he answered honestly.

"We never thought of hiding anything from you. The reason we separated you from your subject was partly because your subject rejected the suggestion of sharing your body with us."

"Of course, you don't have to be nervous. Your immortality is special, so it's impossible for us to do anything bad to you."

"It's more like sharing than occupying. We won't interfere with your body's autonomy. We just want your body to resist that damn machine for us."

"Your immortality is its creation. It cannot destroy your immortality. So even if we lose the final bet, as long as we coexist with you, we will not end up perishing."

Xingyunti wanted to continue speaking, but was interrupted impatiently by Mo Li. He reached out and patted the table, frowning and saying.

"I don't care about these. You should choose whether Wang Quan should stay or go."

The Nebula Body, which was forcibly interrupted, was full of confidence. He pulled over a chair and sat directly opposite Mo Li. He lightly flicked the bullet in his hand and spoke slowly.

"I bet on him leaving."

"He will definitely not stay."

"Seeking benefits and avoiding harm is a principle that all human children understand. There is no reason for him to act foolishly at this time. After all, he has done so many wrong things. Why should he have a sudden enlightenment at this critical moment?"

"As long as there is nothing wrong with his brain, he will definitely leave."

Mo Li smiled when he heard this, and said softly without any rebuttal.

"That's it, the bet is established."

"You choose him to go, I choose him to stay."

Nebula blinked and suddenly felt a little uneasy. He looked at Mo Li's indifferent expression and asked with a frown.

"You knew from the beginning that I would choose him, didn't you?"

Mo Li pursed his lips, revealing a sarcastic smile, and spoke in a low voice.

"I don't deny that."

"That's not hard to guess. According to what you said, you are now a gradually degenerating machine. Your emotions and body affect your judgment."

"So the answer was destined from the beginning."

Nebula was still full of confidence. He waved his hand and said calmly.

"Whatever you say, I have no interest in refuting you now."

"This time, we are destined to win."

Mo Li's eyes flashed, but he spoke in a low voice with a complicated expression.

"No, you don't understand humans at all."

Chapter 198: Foolishness (I)

There was no conversation that night. In the early morning of the next day, a wisp of smoke gradually rose in the sky above the ancient city.

Wang Quan got up early and tidied his wooden house. He rarely stood in front of the mirror and tidied his hair and clothes, as if he was about to have a happy event.

In the early morning sunshine, Wang Quan smoothed out the wrinkles on the clothes bit by bit, as carefully as a bride getting married.

After packing everything up, Wang Quan picked up the revolver on the table, wiped it carefully, and strode out of the house.

As the door of the wooden house gradually closed, Wang Quan took a deep look at everything in the house, as if he was in another world.

After today, this wooden house will no longer belong to me. New people will come here and there will be a new story, but it will have nothing to do with me.

This ancient city has existed for hundreds of years and has welcomed and seen countless people. I am just a grain of sand in it.

Outside the wooden house, Gao Lian, Li Yi, and Wang Zixuan had been waiting for a long time. They stood in front of the door, dragging their small luggage and looking at Wang Quan expectantly.

Seeing this, Wang Quan smiled gently, his heart feeling warm. He waved his hand and led the three of them towards the most conspicuous three-story building in the ancient city.

Time is like water, it changes everything.

When Wang Quan stepped lightly onto the bluestone pavement, everything he had experienced in the ancient city suddenly emerged in his mind.

He was once glorious and full of ambition, but he also fell in the mud, with his face covered by wind and sand.

All of this is really long.

Wang Quan sighed softly and strode into the three-story building. Gao Lian and the other two were stopped by the guards and had to stay outside the building.

In the three-story building, all the furnishings were extremely simple, mostly guns, and there was no enviable luxury.

In the hall on the first floor, there was an octagonal table. Mo Li sat behind the table, quietly watching Wang Quan walk towards him step by step.

Wang Quan walked slowly to the table, took out the revolver without saying a word, removed the six bullets inside, gently pushed it towards Mo Li, and asked calmly.

"Does what you said before still count?"

Mo Li raised his eyebrows slightly and did not answer directly. Instead, he took out a brush from the table. The tip of the brush was dipped in red paint, which was the red of a rose.

The red tip of the pen quickly stained the metal casing of the bullet, staining it red.

Mo Li said softly while doing this action.

"I've already told the guards that when you hold this red bullet, no one can stop you from leaving."

"Of course, the number of bullets is limited to six. You can drive away any car in the base, and no one will chase you."

"Once you make a choice, no one can stop you."

Wang Quan didn't say anything, he just picked up the six bullets, held them tightly, turned and left without even looking at Mo Li.

Mo Li quietly looked at Wang Quan's back, put down the brush in his hand, shook his head gently, and sighed with a dark look in his eyes.

"Wang Quan, you really are a stubborn donkey."

Wang Quan did not hear Mo Li's evaluation of him, but just strode forward. After he left the three-story building, Mo Li stood up and walked straight to the third floor.

On the third floor, Nebula was sitting sideways at the window, looking at the ancient city downstairs. From this position, at this height, the entire ancient city stronghold could be seen at a glance.

Step, step, step.

Hearing the footsteps, Nebula smiled, still looking at the ancient city, and said without turning his head.

"It looks like you're going to lose this bet. I saw Wang Quan and the others have gone to the warehouse to look for a car."

Mo Li was not at all surprised. He also walked to the window and looked down. As if to protect Mo Li's eyesight, the nebula body handed Mo Li a telescope.

But Mo Li did not take the telescope, but said lightly.

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