No strange things are allowed to evolve!

But why did he show such an expression, as if saying, "Finally, I can rest assured, finally at ease," like entrusting his orphan to someone?

With unease, the group forced smiles, trying to get Jiang Shu to dispel their unfounded worries.

"Professor, please say something, express your opinion."

"Yes, Professor, what's with that expression?"

Unfortunately, their intuition was correct.

Jiang Shu is leaving.

However, of course, he wouldn't just pat his butt and leave without a word; that would be a terrible ending, and not Jiang Shu's style.

He meticulously wrote the script for his farewell.

"If I had to say something, I would certainly be glad you made this choice," Jiang Shu replied calmly.

"But you don't seem happy at all..."

With a sigh, Jiang Shu said, "That's because I regret that I may not live to see the day when you change the world and fulfill our shared ideals."

Everyone was stunned, unable and unwilling to understand what it meant: "How could this be..."

"Actually, I don't have much time left."

Jiang Shu explained regretfully:

"This world is fair and will not allow things to be taken without a price. So, in fact, when I chose to push my potential to stop those androids, my life was already over."

I can sense that my time is running out, so I want to share some of my humble thoughts with you all as much as possible, because I really don't want to see you trapped in things that you have no choice but to face and decide.

However, I can finally relax now, because you have not let me down.

So, what is there left for me to be reluctant to leave?

Upon hearing this, everyone was suddenly jolted.

"That...that was actually your final blow, at the cost of your life?"

They suddenly felt that everything made sense.

Anyone who has witnessed Jiang Shu's [Mind Blast] firsthand understands that such power far exceeds the scope of superpowers.

Superpowers are merely abilities that exceed common sense possessed by certain groups or individuals, but Jiang Shu's abilities are completely beyond imagination. Even if you have seen them with your own eyes, it is hard to believe that they are real.

Faced with Jiang Shu's abilities, so-called superpowered people are not much different from ordinary people. It's a complete dimensional reduction attack, an overwhelming crushing defeat.

At the time, everyone thought, how could such an ability be used as simply and normally as eating and drinking?

Sure enough, even someone as strong as Jiang Shu had to pay a huge, unbearable price.

Realizing this, everyone wore complicated expressions.

Saeko refused to believe it.

Bear Tank remained silent.

Tadokoro was even more horrified to discover that the small figurine he had snatched might be the only meal replacement in the world, a unique item.

But at that moment, Nakamura broke the sadness and silence with some confusion.

"That's not right. According to my analysis, at most you will lose your rationality and consciousness for a period of time. And if you have to say, didn't you blow up Tanabe in the same way, and you are still alive and well?"

Tsk...

I forgot this guy was there.

But Jiang Shu did not panic.

"This is just a superficial phenomenon."

Jiang Shu explained without blushing or skipping a beat:

"What you're talking about is just what you observed, but in fact, I was already severely injured that time. If I were to use it again, I know for sure that I would die."

Otherwise, why would I need to go through all this trouble and painstaking effort to build a resistance army? Wouldn't it have been much easier to just blow up the entire laboratory like I blew up the field?

"That's hard to say." Nakamura shook his head dismissively. "What if you hadn't fully regained consciousness at the time and forgot you had this ability?"

"..." Jiang Shu took a deep breath: "Do you know my situation better than I do? You only found out about what happened in Tianbian not long ago, so what makes you so sure?"

"So what?" Nakamura shrugged. "You can die, but I insist that my judgment is correct. In short, questioning me is questioning my professional ability. Even if you die, there must be another reason for your death."

Upon hearing this, Jiang Shu finally fell silent, staring intently at Nakamura without uttering a word.

The atmosphere became somewhat awkward for a moment.

The sadness that had been hanging in the air vanished instantly, leaving everyone else present speechless except for the two of them.

Why are these two so stubborn?

It wasn't until Nakamura felt uncomfortable being stared at and couldn't help but question why he was being looked at that that Jiang Shu slowly asked, "Has anyone ever told you that you're a damn nitpicker?"

"Only people have praised my meticulousness."

"..." Jiang Shu finally couldn't hold back any longer: "Speaking of which, weren't you going to commit seppuku?"

“I’ve changed my mind now.” Nakamura shook his head. “Since you’ve questioned me, I must prove that it’s not enough to kill you; at most, it will make you feel a little uncomfortable.”

After a pause, Nakamura added, "Besides, times have changed. Seppuku is too painful and it's no longer popular. So if I were to commit suicide, I would choose a pistol."

"Oh, so you're not going to commit seppuku anymore?" Jiang Shu confirmed, somewhat disappointed.

“Yes.” Nakamura nodded.

Having received a positive reply, Jiang Shu, having completed all the preparations, had no more regrets. He stuck the pig liver out of his mouth and died without warning.

The sudden turn of events left everyone, including Nakamura, in disbelief.

Saeko: "No!!!"

Bear Tank: "Mentor!!!"

Tadokoro: "You promised to give me just once!!!"

"I never said that!" Jiang Shu said fiercely as if in a final burst of energy, then melted away like dissipating cream, turning into countless specks of light.

Watching the exit cutscene, which could not possibly be caused by anything other than superpowers, Nakamura collapsed helplessly to the ground.

"Could it be... that I was really wrong...?"

This blow was like the last straw that broke the camel's back, finally overwhelming this fragile soul who had lived a smooth life but suffered a series of setbacks in a short period of time.

This descendant of a war criminal finally ended his life with a gunshot.

Someone heard his dying murmurs.

"No... I can't be wrong. I have to go after them myself and find out the truth. There must be some reason that I don't know about."

Seeing Nakamura lying in a pool of blood, everyone tacitly stopped mourning Jiang Shu, letting out a soft click of the tongue at the stubborn corpse before continuing their wailing...

Years later, when a key rebel general stands in Kyoto, facing his army, he will surely remember that afternoon when he, a nobody who had just escaped hell, mourned the great pioneer in a mountain cave.

"Actually, I didn't intend to continue fighting at the time, but when the god who saved me disappeared without even leaving a trace, I knew that I had to turn to the dark side."

......

Inside the final arena.

Although everyone still didn't understand why Jiang Shu was dragging his feet on doing things that seemed meaningless to them after he had already completed the mission objectives.

However, given the precedent set by the Warcraft Hunters, they were no longer surprised.

However, no one knew why Jiang Shu did this.

After all that buildup, isn't it too hasty to just have him die like that? The emotions have been built up to this point, why not just start a full-scale war of resistance?

Only the blueberry dipping sauce seemed thoughtful, feeling a sense of déjà vu about Jiang Shu's actions: "I think I've seen this routine before, it seems like that one."

"Which one is that?" Most of the people present were older than Blueberry Dipping Sauce and didn't have as fast an internet connection as him, so they didn't know what Blueberry Dipping Sauce was referring to.

"How do you explain that..."

I thought about the blueberry dipping sauce:

"It's like those experimental subjects and oppressed ordinary people are people who lack love."

He first used love to win them over, making them trust and depend on him. Then he cared for them meticulously, loved them, and led them back to escape their misery and connect with the world. Once they were filled with hope for the world and life, he then had someone kill him, dismember him, and dump his body in front of them.

That's roughly the process.

"Why... Oh~" The crowd exclaimed in realization halfway through their sentence.

Then they started talking all at once.

"If I were in that situation, I'd probably really turn to the dark side..."

"For the rest of their lives, they'll probably only have regrets and hatred for the empire in their hearts, right?"

"This is too ruthless... Compared to the hatred of the past, which is only vaguely remembered, this kind of hatred is enough to make them destroy the empire, right?"

"Actually, it's alright. I might not agree with other people, but since the other party is Yamato, I can only say it's good that he died."

Jiang Shu's actions were something that none of them who had ever tried to conquer this incubator had ever thought of or done.

After all, before Jiang Shu, who could have imagined that this would be an RTS game about revolution?

Who among us didn't play this as a stealth escape RPG before?

Therefore, for them, the worldview is just that—a worldview—and has no impact on the main storyline. Whether the laboratory is in Yamato or in the United States or somewhere else, it makes no difference.

There has never been a genius like Jiang Shu who has ever worked in an incubator.

So although most people still have a lot of prejudice against Jiang Shu, at least on this matter, they can't find too much fault with him, and some even secretly applaud him.

There's no way around it, the buff in this area is just too significant.

In real life, it's one thing to call Jiang Shu a beast, but if he were in this incubator, wouldn't everyone be eager to give him a thumbs up and call him Brother Jiang?

Just as everyone was beginning to subtly change their opinion of Jiang Shu, someone suddenly shouted.

What doesn't kill me makes me stronger!

Melatonin, who had been lying peacefully on the ground, suddenly sat up in a cold sweat and instinctively roared.

Everyone looked at him with regret and helplessness.

Looking at this poor guy who was once highly anticipated but has now fallen on hard times.

They wanted to offer comfort, but didn't know where to begin, and were even more unsure whether melatonin could accept reality.

To be fair, his immortality is indeed powerful.

He was bombed by a miniature nuclear bomb, shaken by the shockwave, burned, and exposed to nuclear radiation, yet none of these methods completely killed him.

However, it only meant that it was no longer dead.

His body was repeatedly destroyed and then rebuilt; destruction and rebirth occurred and proceeded simultaneously within him.

Skin kept disappearing and being covered again, flesh kept shrinking and expanding, bones kept shattering and being rebuilt, and even the exposed brain thrashed back and forth countless times.

In short, amidst endless and immense torment, his superpowers grew and evolved rapidly, becoming not only immortal but also approaching the point of eternal indestructibility.

However, he only has the ability to recover, but his defense is still a fatal flaw. So even if he can recover indefinitely, he can only be in a half-dead, confused state forever. He can't even think normally, let alone act normally.

Everyone watched as he appeared and disappeared in the elevator shaft on the second basement level, almost being refined into a human-shaped golden elixir.

Finally, due to the efforts of the hatchery, it was determined that he no longer had the ability to continue his conquest, so they forcibly removed him from the list.

However, melatonin does not seem to return to normal after leaving the incubator.

That endless torment seemed to have given him severe PTSD, making it difficult for him to distinguish between the incubator and reality.

This left those who had forcibly pushed him out to confront Jiang Shu feeling somewhat uneasy.

Fortunately, the Sugar Knight optimistically comforted everyone: "For him, this might be a good thing."

"Uh... what's so good about it?" The others were puzzled.

Sugar Knight explained earnestly, "Although anyone else might be plagued by nightmares for the rest of their life, the insomnia caused by melatonin makes up for that. In this way, he won't be troubled by insomnia, and might even be glad that he has insomnia."

"Yup!"

"It really is true!"

Everyone suddenly understood and patted Melatonin on the shoulder, saying in a carefree manner, "Congratulations!"

"You really have to treat us to a meal, right?"