Doomsday Wonderland Vol. 10: Lava [Complete]

1230: He Helped Me Too

How many [eBay] users were there?

Lin Sanjiu couldn't recall the exact number, but she knew it wouldn't exceed a few hundred. In the vast and desolate world after the doomsday, the [eBay] users were only a handful, and the chance of her becoming friends with another user was a small probability, yet not impossible.

Another possibility crossed her mind.

She fixed her gaze on the former guard and put away her [eBay]. Judging solely by his expression and demeanor, the former guard seemed genuinely puzzled, as if he couldn't grasp why his casual remark had elicited such a serious reaction. Indeed, he appeared to be the most innocent person there.

However, Lin Sanjiu couldn't trust mere appearances.

On the other hand, perhaps she was connecting unrelated events, creating a crisis where there was none. Even if both Ya Jiang and the former guard were problematic, it didn't necessarily mean... It didn't mean...

"You didn't finish your sentence," Bohemia interrupted, as she sensed something was wrong. "You said, 'Fate likes to play jokes.' What happened?"

Lin Sanjiu wiped her palm across her cheeks, exhaling slowly. If she considered everything to be her own imagination, she still couldn't explain why Wushi Ming had recovered from an empty corpse to a healthy living person...

"I've known Gong Daoyi for a very long time," she said, the words slipping out of her mouth unconsciously, and as they hung in the air, it felt as if she could hear the dark and bloody winds over the Garden of Eden arena once again. "During that time, I met a very strong-willed woman named Xueqin."

The former guard looked both puzzled and cautious. "Um... should I step out for a moment?" he asked quietly, gesturing towards the door.

"What happened to her?" Bohemia signaled for him to stay, not fully understanding Lin Sanjiu's implication but instinctively feeling that she should not let the former guard leave.

"Gong Daoyi did her a big favor, you could say that without Gong Daoyi, she might not have had the chance to..." Lin Sanjiu searched her mind for a while for the right word, and only one jumped out, familiar enough to make her shudder. "Be reborn."

The room fell silent as both Bohemia and the former guard stared at her. The former guard's confusion seemed to deepen.

"However, after she escaped, Gong Daoyi turned around and handed her over to a group of people who wanted to torture her to death. At that time, she wasn't a posthuman yet. Fundamentally, it was because of Gong Daoyi that she found herself in trouble and needed help. I've always felt that Gong Daoyi seemed to appreciate the irony in that."

Both Bohemia and the former guard couldn't help but let out a breath.

"I can't reveal Puppeteer's past, but from what I know and speculate, Gong Daoyi helped two people, including Puppeteer, during that time." She couldn't help but think about how Gong Daoyi had brought back the AI system as everyone wished. Ironically, at that time, the hope for the AI system was as urgent as that of the other residents.

When Gong Daoyi stood behind Ah Yun and gently handed him the device that could destroy Minstral 9, his hand seemed to emerge from a dark abyss, chilling the latter half of Ah Yun's life.

"I don't need to say more about what happened next, right? One person rotted and festered before dying, while the other person became Puppeteer as we know him today."

Regardless of how powerful Puppeteer's abilities were, no one who had seen him would wish to become like him.

Bohemia understood. She stood up abruptly, paced around the room, her mind in turmoil, unable to find words to express her feelings. After several seconds, she suddenly stopped, saying, "For Wushi Ming to survive that situation, someone must have saved his life!"