Naming Technique of the Night

Chapter 1908 - 988: Signs of a Clue (Part 3)

Black Spider said, ”According to the Royal City Garrison’s combat methods, once engaged in close combat with Zero, it’s impossible for her to be let go. Once she is found entering the sewer system, tens of thousands of Mechanical Spiders will immediately be deployed to search for her, and even this safe house would be in danger... but she only lost a left hand, and moreover, the Garrison hasn’t come to search the sewer system.”

Qing Chen pondered seriously, ”Do you think she’s lying?”

”That’s right,” Black Spider said, ”Even though I don’t have any evidence, I want to see with my own eyes what the outside has really become. Rest assured, boss, if I am discovered, I will lead the pursuers away and definitely won’t bring them here.”

Saying this, Black Spider opened the safe house and left, leaving Yi and Qing Chen alone.

Listening to the sound of Black Spider wading through the water outside, Qing Chen turned and asked, ”Yi, do you trust Zero?”

Yi was silent for a moment, ”I don’t know if she’s lying; I only know that she is different from me. After the decisive battle with humans on the Eastern Continent, she was imprisoned on the West Continent for several hundred years; her way of thinking is fundamentally different from mine...”

Qing Chen suddenly said, ”Actually, I just remembered something, like when we came to the West Continent, you piloted the Kingslander alone in a battle against the Storm City fleet led by Black Spider, buying me time to hide. In the end, I escaped Storm City’s search while you crashed with the Kingslander. Why didn’t you mention this just now?”

Yi replied, ”It’s not a very important matter, I’m immortal after all.”

”Hmm,” Qing Chen nodded.

Yi curiously asked, ”Did you remember anything else?”

”No more.”

Yi asked again, ”Ah... did you remember a girl named Yang Yang, any memories related to her?”

Qing Chen shook his head, ”Every time I hear that name, it feels familiar, but I still can’t recall.”

Twenty minutes later, the sound of urgent wading came from outside the door. Black Spider opened the door anxiously and said, ”The surface is already safe; I haven’t seen the patrolling Garrison Forces at all! In the entire Central Royal City, only the police station and a few minor Nobles remain, all the military forces have been incorporated into the Expeditionary Army and left the West Continent!”

Qing Chen and Yi exchanged glances; this was completely contrary to what Zero had said!

According to Black Spider, no one would be chasing Zero, and the severed arm was self-inflicted, merely to create the illusion that the outside was indeed very dangerous, forcing them to stay in the safe house without daring to go out.

But why would Zero do this?

Yi asked, ”Are you certain?”

Black Spider pulled out a protein bar from his pocket, ”This is what I just bought, and the facial recognition system didn’t even monitor me. Central Royal City is practically an empty city now!”

Qing Chen lowered his head in deep thought for two seconds, ”Let’s go take a look.”

The three waded forward, eventually reaching the surface through an underground parking lot.

The city was somewhat chaotic, Black Slave had just shattered a shop window and rushed in to grab some goods.

The police station’s drones arrived late, helpless against those robbers engaging in looting.

This city was left with only the most basic order, and even the police force was insufficient.

The streets were filled with garbage, and no one cleaned it up.

At this moment, Zero’s voice came from behind them, ”You three came out, huh.”

The three turned around, only to see an intact female robot standing there, smiling at them.

Yi asked, ”Why did you deceive us?”

Zero smiled and said, ”I want to have a word with you alone, may I?”

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Zero and Yi strolled through the chaotic long street until they were sure that Qing Chen could no longer hear them, when Zero finally spoke, ”What do you think love is?”

Yi was taken aback for a moment, ”The human world has many interpretations of love, but actually, it doesn’t have a true standard definition; the definition lies within everyone’s heart.”

”Yes, love has no strict definition, but I think love should be selfish and possessive,” Zero stopped and stared seriously at Yi, ”I didn’t raise you, but over these hundreds of years, my longing for you has grown with each passing day. I’ve always been thinking about how I can compensate for what I owe you: should I give you the world? Give you the best body in this world? I don’t know what to do because I don’t know what you want.”

Zero continued, ”Until I saw your attitude towards Qing Chen, I realized what you need.”

Yi froze in place, her hands clasped together somewhat helplessly.

Zero said, ”Now you have a chance to start over, if all his memory points from the Eastern Continent are erased, he will never find the memories of that girl in this lifetime, just like Ren Xiaosu, all his memory points were buried by the nuclear winter, causing him to be amnesiac for over two hundred years, and only through his parents’ letters did he retrieve his memories.”

Zero: ”Now, his world only has you left. Yi, you are so good, without Yang Yang’s existence, you can completely make his feelings centered solely on you. After being imprisoned for hundreds of years, I finally came out, seeking nothing else, I don’t need Power, I don’t need wealth, I only want you to experience your own love.”

Yi lowered her head, ”But I don’t want this, how is this different from taking advantage of someone in distress?”

Zero looked at the once bustling streets and said, ”As you said, I do like Ren Xiaosu, for this, I endured loneliness for hundreds of years. Happiness unshared, sadness uncomforted, I could only watch him and Yang Xiaojun affectionately together, then alone in the darkness holding onto an illusory Superconductor World.”