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This will make everything simpler and more efficient.
He can sacrifice entertainment in order to make a living.
He was willing to sacrifice sleep for the sake of the scholarship.
To save his life, he was willing to abandon all material possessions.
But the moment Cheng Yuqiu grabbed him from behind, Nie Qingyun knew.
These beliefs, which had guided him for half his life, no longer applied to the other person.
Because I have already fallen into a maze called "emotion".
It can cause people to gradually abandon rationality and instead give rise to some unrealistic ideas.
The girl lost her strength and fell backward, like a butterfly falling from a flowerbed.
In the midday sun, the jade-like surface seemed to emit smoke.
Suddenly, Nie Qingyun sprang up from the ground and lunged at the falling girl.
Just before she touched the ground, he pulled her into his arms.
"Oh!"
Two figures fell down at the same time.
To prevent Cheng Yuqiu's head from hitting the ground, Nie Qingyun's elbow slammed solidly into the marble floor tiles.
"Why did you come back..." Nie Qingyun's voice was low, clearly suppressing his emotions, but it turned into a furious shout the next second:
"Didn't I tell you to keep running?!"
"I..." Cheng Yuqiu's words were interrupted by a series of hysterical questions.
"Why don't you obey my orders!"
"You're going to die!"
"And what about you!" Cheng Yuqiu screamed, interrupting the other person's question:
"Won't you just die?!"
As she spoke, countless grievances welled up in her heart, and the girl pouted, her voice suddenly becoming choked with emotion:
"You were the one who said you'd save me, you bad guy..."
"It gave me the courage to run away from my cousin..."
"Now, besides you... they have nothing left!"
Cheng Yuqiu became more and more aggrieved as she spoke, and raised her little pink fist to punch the other person's shoulder.
"They're almost dead, and you...you're still yelling at them!"
Upon hearing this, Nie Qingyun couldn't help but twitch the corner of his mouth, then lowered his head as if giving up the struggle.
"You... only now did you remember you were shot?"
"This isn't some third-rate romance drama, we don't have that much time for your nonsense..."
"That's a replica prop gun..."
Cheng Yuqiu's sobs stopped abruptly, and she quickly withdrew her hand, reaching inside her clothes to rub it...
It seems... it really doesn't hurt that much.
She slowly withdrew her hand and raised it to her eyes.
The residual paint on the fingers shone with a bright red sheen under the sunlight, a far cry from real blood.
"Fake...fake?"
"I don't have to die...that's great!"
“Yes, that’s great…” A discordant voice suddenly interrupted the girl’s words.
Liu Zhenyu emerged from the smoke with a crazed and twisted smile on his face, and threw away the prop gun he was holding.
"Thanks to your return, things are much easier for me now."
Upon hearing Liu Zhenyu's voice, Nie Qingyun perked up and tried to turn around by bracing himself on his elbows. However, this simple action almost caused him to fall on Cheng Yuqiu.
The oxygen deficiency effect caused by the silence ban is intensifying.
At this moment, Nie Qingyun clearly felt that his body was experiencing intermittent exhaustion.
Breathing has also become more difficult.
Looking at the tear-streaked girl beneath him, Nie Qingyun shook his head helplessly:
"Thanks to you... even if I die a thousand times, ten thousand times, I will still save you today..."
After saying that, he recalled his unwarranted outburst of emotions towards Cheng Yuqiu and gave a bitter smile.
He knew perfectly well why he had lost control like that.
When that prop bullet hit Cheng Yuqiu.
I was scared.
They were afraid the other person would die.
No matter how much Nie Qingyun wanted to deny it, he had to admit that he could no longer stand by and watch the princess be imprisoned.
From the moment Cheng Yuqiu turned back and burst through the door, their fates became completely intertwined.
The hymn to humanity is the hymn to courage!
Nie Qingyun could not remain unmoved by that spirit that shone like gold.
In times of crisis, the once timid and cowardly girl gave up things that others had not asked of her.
Such a precious and sublime awareness must be reciprocated.
I don't care if I'm seen as foolish and stubborn.
Because this is my justice!
In an instant, Nie Qingyun sprang up from the ground, grabbed Cheng Yuqiu's wrist, and pulled her up.
The next second, a zombie pounced on her spot, and then, one after another, zombies were tripped up by the first one and piled up together.
Before they could get up, Nie Qingyun slammed the lecture hall door shut with a bang, picked up an iron bar from the ground, and used it to hold the door in place.
Then he turned around, faced Liu Zhenyu, and shielded Cheng Yuqiu behind him.
After the initial retreat plan failed, there is only one way to escape with Cheng Yuqiu: to completely defeat Liu Zhenyu and his group.
But this was not an easy task. After a series of exchanges, he gained a deeper understanding of the man.
Liu Zhenyu is indeed, as he himself said, one of those favored by Lady Luck.
According to the records in the "Apocalypse Survival Guide".
When an Evolver first awakens the [Data System], they will not have any skills attached, and their attributes will usually not exceed 10.
Liu Zhenyu's attributes, except for his spirit, are all above 15, and his stamina has even reached 19.
There must have been some opportunity.
In some ways, this kind of direct enhancement that can significantly improve one's combat power in the early stages is much more powerful than infinite rebirth.
It is more likely to cause the "Matthew effect".
Therefore, after leaving Qin Hehuan, Nie Qingyun was always cautious and used the safest and most conservative strategies in everything he did.
If nothing unexpected happens today, he is fully confident that he will prevent Liu Zhenyu from even having a chance to make a move when they meet next time.
But plans can never keep up with changes, and now it's impossible to escape the scope of the "silence ban".
"Judging from your expression, it seems you're plotting something?" Liu Zhenyu suddenly stopped and spoke with absolute certainty:
"it's useless."
"No matter what you do now, it will all be in vain."
“My skill is called [Silence Order], but I think... it would be more appropriate to call it 'Ring of Equality for All Beings'.”
"No matter how powerful your skills, how amazing your items, or how high your attributes are, once your access to the [Data System] is blocked, you'll be no different from an ordinary person."
"Even in a state of oxygen deprivation, your ability to move freely will be restricted!"
"Hahaha!"
As he spoke, Liu Zhenyu suddenly burst into maniacal laughter.
"With this, I can use all my resources to stack attributes."
"Given enough time..."
"I will become the god of this new world!"
"But you can't control my thoughts," the incredibly arrogant declaration was interrupted by the girl's voice.
Cheng Yuqiu suddenly grabbed Nie Qingyun's arm, deliberately giving Liu Zhenyu a disdainful look:
"I just like Nie Qingyun, so what can you do about it!"
The latter was stunned, first with a brief moment of astonishment, then with disbelief, and then his facial muscles began to contort and he became furious.
Finally, they couldn't hold on any longer and broke through their defenses.
“I! ￥%! #￥!&…” came out one after another low-level words that even country kids wouldn’t stoop to using when they’re swearing at each other.
However, the next second, he was smeared with something sticky on his face.
At the same time, a sharp glint flashed in Nie Qingyun's eyes, and his figure disappeared from the spot.
Perhaps it wouldn't be an exaggeration to say that he has absolutely no chance of winning right now.
But the reason why humans were able to stand at the top of the food chain was never because of their strength.
Rather, it is wisdom and courage!
Chapter 55: Let Me Protect You This Time (2.5k)
Luck is indeed very important to some extent.
It can save you from many detours, and even allow you to rise to prominence without any effort.
But we are human beings with free will.
As philosopher Robert Kane once said...
Our thoughts and our souls are free from the control of anything.
As long as we firmly believe in this, humanity has unlimited potential.
Nie Qingyun never believed that Lady Luck would always favor him, so he never relied on external things.
Even now, though imprisoned, everything about the [data system] is no longer valid.
He still threw a punch.
He not only had to defeat Liu Zhenyu, but also shatter the latter's fallacy about luck.
If I lose here today...
Just because the gift of fate couldn't work, they lost to Liu Zhenyu, a guy with no faith who completely entrusted his fate to the unknown.
Such a boring life is better off ending sooner rather than later!
Nie Qingyun's fist was as fast as lightning, carrying tremendous kinetic energy, and it sliced through the air as it attacked Liu Zhenyu's jaw.
Liu Zhenyu's face had just been hit by a wet blob, and he subconsciously wiped it with his hand before his vision returned.
Seeing that the opponent was throwing a straight punch at him with no skill whatsoever, he couldn't help but sneer.
The Silence debuff has been in effect for quite some time now. Even if the opponent has high attributes, they are now weakened to the point where they are not even as good as ordinary people.
Although the punch looked fierce, it was no different from a tickle to someone with a constitution attribute of over 15.
With this in mind, Liu Zhenyu simply abandoned defense altogether and threw a straight punch in the same posture.
Only by completely crushing the opponent can the anger in his heart be reduced.
However, just as Liu Zhenyu's fist was about to hit, he suddenly caught a strange reflection out of the corner of his eye, and then his expression changed and he abruptly turned his head away.