"Isn't it hard to choose?"

"......" This time, Qi Lin did not refute, but nodded slowly.

"Although the time is very tight, I still hope that you will think carefully before choosing, after all, once you choose, there is no chance to regret it."

"How much time do I have to think about it?"

"There is not much time left, according to our calculations, it will take about half a year for the main brain to improve the program of the virtual world, of course, this time may be shortened at any time, after all, the main brain has the possibility of self-evolution."

"And ...... next?"

"We'll send you back to Vault 188."

"What about Cheng Yanqiu?"

"He's going to do the pinning."

"Pin number processing?"

"He has been exposed, and he can only fake an accident to make the mastermind mistakenly think that he is dead, and cancel his identity on the mastermind's side."

"He's exposed, what about me?"

"As long as you forget the content of our conversation today, you are still safe, and the target of those cyborgs is Cheng Yanqiu, not you."

"However, if Cheng Yanqiu's identity is cancelled, then the Cheng consortium ......"

"The Cheng consortium will be dissolved, and its assets will be divided and annexed by several other consortiums controlled by the organization, and will eventually be incorporated into the power of the organization."

“…… So if, I mean, after humanity returns to the surface, will war still break out? ”

"I don't know. Perhaps, we will not be able to return to the surface at all...... Well, it's time for our conversation to end......"

"Wait!" Just as the surrounding light slowly dimmed, Qi Lin suddenly shouted.

"What? What else would you like to know? ”

"I always felt ...... You're using me...... Right? Otherwise, you don't have to tell me that. ”

"Yes, organizations will use all the people, things, and things that can be used, and the reason why you know that is because you have value worth using." The other party admitted this unabashedly, "But you don't have to worry, we won't frame you, and we won't ask you to do anything, you just need to continue according to your original life trajectory......"

The voice stopped abruptly, the lights around him went out instantly, and when Qi Lin could see things in front of him again, he found that in front of him was the hatch of the game pod - at some point, he had been "kicked" out of the virtual world.

Lifting the lid of the game pod, he found that two people with hoods and cloaks were already waiting on the side, one of them was the woman from before.

With that opaque black hood in her hand, Qi Lin knew that it was almost time for her to leave.

……

Three days later, Vault 188.

Qi Lin returned to his humble residence, and Song Xiaodie had just arrived at the Cheng Consortium's headquarters before being sent back.

However, in addition to the two of them, this room has a new tenant - Ayakui.

Song Xiaodie still lives in the original room, while Qi Lin's bedroom is given to Lori with a split personality, and he himself divides a small room out of board in the small living room on the first floor, and places an old wire bed from the black market.

Qi Lin didn't tell the two about everything about the mastermind and the organization - the plot announced to the public was that Cheng Yanqiu was attacked by a mob when he was out on errands, and unfortunately he was shot and killed, and the Cheng consortium lost its young new owner and fell into turmoil for a while.

For safety reasons, Qi Lin brought Song Xiaodie and Ayakui out, although the conditions in Vault 188 were not as good as those of the Cheng Foundation, but at least they could live a stable and stable life.

Song Xiaodie is convinced of this, but Ayakui, a guy who can manipulate mental powers, senses something, and on the night they return to Vault 188, Lori walks down the stairs from the second floor barefoot, while Qi Lin is sitting cross-legged on a newly bought wire bed wiping the barrel of an assault rifle.

"Cheng Yanqiu isn't dead, right?" Ayakui asked.

Qi Lin was stunned, glanced at her, did not admit it, and did not deny it.

"You have a reason why you can't tell us, right?" Ayakui continued to ask.

Qi Lin continued to be silent.

"Okay, I got it." After Ayakui finished speaking, she walked up again, her thin body wearing Song Xiaodie's pajamas, which looked particularly ill-fitting.

Ayakui couldn't read Qi Lin's memory directly, but she could feel the solemn emotion from Qi Lin's thinking fluctuations.

Although Xiao Loli's temper is not good, she is not the kind of person who is quite unreasonable, especially when facing Qi Lin.

……

Qi Lin's "storage" of "game time" last week has been exhausted, and if he doesn't enter the game world today, then he will be "removed" from the mastermind.

Although the people of the organization repeatedly emphasized to him that the game cabin did not have the function of reading human memories, and the exposure of Cheng Yanqiu and Lei Mufeng had other causes, after knowing the truth, Qi Lin's heart was inevitably a little apprehensive.

"This is a broken game pod...... Really...... The more I look at it, the more it looks like a coffin......"

The power connection is normal, the network connection is normal, the game cabin is operating normally, and after the indicator lights are lit up one by one, Qi Lin, who was lying in the game cabin, slowly closed his eyes.

"Welcome to the world of Wasteland Survival Code, and have fun."

……

……

The last time Qi Lin withdrew from the game, the "save point" was still in the Hellens Line, but at this time, the troops of the Cheng Consortium had been withdrawn, and the original location of the Cheng Consortium was also occupied by the newly settled forces.

Standing in front of the command department that originally belonged to Qi Lin, looking at the unfamiliar guards and insignia, Qi Lin pulled the corners of his mouth and walked towards the town of Herens.

It's time to get out of this place - several big conglomerates in the country have moved almost half of their families here, and if this can't stop the Kuroshio, then even if Qi Lin stays here, it won't help.

The ER004 prototype was stored in a public warehouse, and after verifying his identity, Qi Lin took out the power armor and put it on his body.

His mood was very irritable, his thoughts were also a little confused, he looked at the scene in front of him, he knew that these were all virtual, but in Qi Lin's eyes, these virtual scenes were no different from the real world.

As Seifer said, "These are real, more real than the real world." ”

Spending the rest of your life in this world doesn't seem bad? What's more, after the mastermind completes the program, the virtual world will definitely go back to what it was before the war, and everyone's memory of the real world will be completely erased by the mastermind.

When the time comes, they will believe that this world is the real world.