Chapter 235 Second Retrospection

During this time, Ruka, Liberi, Carl, and Munakata stayed with her.

Qiao Susu personally arranged his funeral. Just 12 hours after Anubis' death, she collapsed while laying flowers at the funeral and was forced to log out.

After that, I returned to the real world, and this experience was not much different.

After returning to the game world, Qiao Susu learned that Luka had been trying to cross the line of death in order to find herself, wanting to go beyond the game world and reach her world. However, he did not have the chance to see Lan Ze find the location of the bug, and died unexpectedly in a so-called "suicide".

The difference is that Libery did not start a war this time, because the night before Qiao Suisui logged out, Libery was angry with her for letting Zongfang sleep in her room and said some cruel words against his will. He wanted to apologize to her the next day, but everything happened too suddenly and she was gone.

Over the next decade, he collapsed and became extremely depressed because of guilt and self-blame. He made completely different choices from Labrie in the previous timeline. He continued to donate, do good deeds, take in homeless people, etc., just to reduce his guilt a little bit. But he would still return to that scene in his dreams at midnight.

He held her wrist and said with red eyes: "No matter how partial you are, there must be a limit. What did I do wrong? Tell me and I will change."

"So what's going on now? You allow him to accompany you every day? Then you can take him and those snake cubs back to Sote and leave me and the children in Oslan!"

Libery couldn't get over it no matter what. He slapped himself hard when he missed her the most, and even didn't dare to see her for many years.

Carl's situation is not much better than his, roughly the same as in the previous timeline, alcoholism and addiction to hallucinogens.

This time, Zongfang and Luka kept her body in a crystal coffin, guarding her at extremely low temperatures.

The Qiao Suisui on this timeline gradually merges with the Qiao Suisui at this moment.

She slowly lowered her hand from her forehead. Her whole body was soaked in cold sweat. The sounds in her ears gradually returned. Libery kept checking her condition nervously.

"Sui Sui, look at me, Sui Sui, what's wrong with you? Don't scare me."

Qiao Susu looked at the man in front of her and discovered a detail that she had not noticed just now because she was too happy. There was a faint wrinkle between his eyebrows, which was the mark left by the habitual frown caused by years of melancholy and annoyance.

She gently touched the lines with her hand, but her eyes had calmed down.

"Ash"

"I'm here. Sui Sui, are you feeling unwell? Do you have a headache?"

Libery held her tightly, not daring to let go for even a moment.

Qiao Suisui raised her eyes, took a deep breath, and then gave him a gentle hug, "Ash, see you later."

"what?"

While Libery was still reacting to her words, he saw the person in his arms break free and run outside.

Ignoring Liberi's shouting behind her, Qiao Susu used the flying vehicle to return to the ruins.

She took out the time-reversal device for the second time, adjusted her breathing, and pressed it without hesitation.

This time, she knew what the problem was, so she chose to go back to an earlier point in time.

Southern battlefield.

The night sky is dotted with stars.

Qiao Susu opened her eyes, looked around, and confirmed that the underground experimental base was under her feet. At this time on this timeline, she should be searching for clues down there with Carl.

She did not run to the entrance to enter, but found a relatively high place, took out the three-claw lasso gun from the system, and fired at that place.

With a "click", the three-claw iron hook firmly hooked onto the rock above. She wrapped the rope around her hand twice with one hand and climbed up in a few quick moves.

Qiao Susu stood on the high ground and overlooked the entire area.

Time passed by minute by minute. She calmed herself down and squatted motionlessly on an inconspicuous high ground, waiting quietly. All around her was silent. After more than ten minutes, she finally saw a familiar figure appear in her field of vision.

The silver-haired man walked over quickly, his movements were silent, like a ghost. He skillfully found the location of the underground entrance and placed the pre-prepared mini blasting device in the right place. This was an explosive developed by the Federation, less than the size of a palm, but very powerful, and could cause an explosion within a radius of 500 meters with the device as the center.

Qiao Susu directly took out a sniper rifle from the system. At this moment, she was lying on the ground, looking at Zongfang's actions below through the scope.

Her fingertips rested on the trigger, aiming at 'Munakata's' head, her hands shaking slightly.

Even though she knew that this was not the real Zong Fang, but Wei Shou pretending to be him, she still couldn't make up her mind when it came to pulling the trigger. Looking at Zong Fang's face, as long as she imagined blowing his head off, she would find it difficult to calm down.

She let go of the trigger, lowered her head and took a deep breath, then continued to lie down, looking through the sight, trying to divert her attention with other things.

She suddenly remembered that it was also during the Southern battlefield that Carl liked to tell her bedtime stories.

Other people's bedtime stories are about princes and princesses, but his bedtime stories are about the use and maintenance of sniper rifles, the essentials of shooting movements, the angles and heights of ambush points, etc. Whenever Qiao Susui talks about these, she will fall asleep, just like when she listened to the political teacher talking about Marx in school. Karl also deliberately made the bedtime stories profound and professional to ensure that they were boring because she would fall asleep whenever she listened to them.

"The first important thing is to choose a sniper rifle that suits you. I like to use M40. It looks cool and is not heavy. You can run away without any pressure after shooting. Then choose the right bullet, because different bullets will have different effects."

"Check your gun and scope to make sure they are in good working order. Clean the barrel to make sure there is no dirt in it."

"Find a secluded place, preferably one that is high and has a good view."

Karl’s voice seemed to be right beside her ear, she closed her eyes, calmed down, and imagined that he was by her side at the moment, holding her hand and teaching her.

"Put the target on the crosshairs of the scope and try to keep yourself steady. Control your breathing and usually shoot at the end of your exhalation because that's when you're steadiest."

Qiao Susu raised her eyes, with determination and resoluteness in them. She looked at the crosshairs in the sight and controlled her breathing.

"When you pull the trigger, take your time. Don't pull it hard. This way the recoil will be less. After you fire the gun, keep looking at the target to see if you hit it."

Breathing in. Her slender fingertips slowly hooked the trigger, aiming at the back of Munakata's head.

"The recoil will affect your next aim, so you must kill with one shot. Don't shoot unless you are absolutely sure."

Exhale.

'boom--'

Just before Zong Fang was about to detonate the device, Qiao Susu shot him in the head.

The bullet passed through the man's forehead, and blood flowed through the blood hole in his forehead and instantly covered his handsome face.

Qiao Suisui calmly confirmed through the scope that the target was accurately hit. Without any hesitation, she quickly stood up, skillfully wrapped the gun in her hand around the rope, firmly stuck the muzzle above the rope, forming an improvised zipline device, and then decisively jumped down from the high ground.

With the pull of gravity, she was like an agile night walker, the gun in her hand steadily dragged her down the rope rapidly. The wind whistled in her ears, and her figure drew a sharp arc in the air, swift and elegant.

In just a few seconds, she landed steadily on the ground, her feet touching the ground lightly without making any unnecessary sound. Qiao Sui Sui stood up and stepped forward to check Zong Fang's body, only to see that the man in front of her had now turned into a pool of deflated human skin.

She knew that Wei Shou must be watching the situation in the dark, and she had to give Karl and herself some hints. But she couldn't show up directly.

She saw many metal pipes embedded in the wall at the entrance, so she hit the pipes vigorously with the gun.

The pipe was connected to the entire underground laboratory. She had seen the structure inside, so she was sure that the sound transmitted by the metal would reach directly underground.

When the fourth blow came, a hard object pressed against the back of Qiao Susu's head.

Her movements froze in mid-air. She slowly turned around and saw Wei Shou pointing a gun at her head.

(End of this chapter)