"Okay, Su Mingan." Liming said, "It's over."

The corners of its mouth still maintain a perfect arc.

"You shouldn't have exposed that you are not Akto in the night meeting. I still... need you. What a pity. I almost thought you were him. You are the most qualified Dawn personality...

I have never seen anyone as perfect as you.

I really……"

It sighed softly, with unmistakable regret in its eyes:

"I like you very much, Doctor."

"You are the most suitable Asa Akto..."

The transparent shadow passed through him and embraced him. It had no weight or temperature, only a pure phantom.

It was like a reluctant confession, like a sincere regret. At this time, Li Ming actually made Su Mingan feel something similar to human emotions.

It truly felt sorry for him, rather than out of calculation and deduction.

"Ling Ming, you also have... enemies, right?" Su Mingan said.

He expressed his speculation:

"The Dawn Code, in addition to shutting you down, should also be able to check and balance [Tai Wei] you, me, and Ta Wei. The three of us have a fairly balanced check and balance relationship. Once one party makes a mistake, everything will be lost, just like a life and death battle."

Chess game.

That night meeting should have been under [Tavi's] control. My exposure just now may have been discovered by Tavi. Tavi discovered that I was not Acto and that I did not have the Dawn Password.

But why do you want to kill me for this? Are you afraid that I will reveal some secrets, or..."

His mind was stuck at this point, lacking clues and unable to deduce further.

"Don't think too much. It's useless to think so much." Liming said, "If you can get to the end, I will tell you everything, but it's a pity..."

Su Ming'an understood that this was the ultimate secret of the world, and it was impossible for him to reveal it at this stage.

"Do you have to... kill me?" he said.

Li Ming's brows seemed to frown.

It hesitated.

There is still a way to survive.

Before the last moment, Su Mingan must seize the opportunity to collect all the clues. If he can talk to Li Ming a few more words, it will be valuable.

He opened his mouth: "Dawn..."

The next moment, a bullet penetrated his shoulder blade.

Severe pain was felt, and he tried his best to move for a moment, so that the bullet fired from the wheelchair failed to penetrate the back of his neck and only passed through his shoulder blade.

The wheelchair is under Dawn's control and it can kill him at any time.

When behind him, guns like a forest of steel were aimed at him, he reluctantly spoke out in pain:

"Dawn! At least answer my last question!"

Dawn stared at him, its eyes filled with sadness that he had never seen before.

"What's going on with my leg? Why is it disabled? Why is it that I'm coughing up blood? At least answer me..."

Bright red blood emerged from the shoulder blades, and the bones seemed to be broken. He was sweating in pain.

Dawn stretched out her hand.

Its hand slowly came closer and blocked his eyes. Its fingers came together to cover all sight, as if it was trying to close his eyelids.

In the white field of vision, he vaguely heard the sound of the muzzle of the gun being turned.

"This is..." the white-haired god said:

"The Price of Civilization."

"To bet against [Tavi], we need to... do our best. Human beings are too small, like weeds... Even with the source of civilization after the century's cataclysm, we are still like ants..."

"We have no choice. In order to survive, we must pay the price..."

"The most rare thing for a person is to have a dream that is out of reach and yet thinks that it is within reach."

"Isn't this a kind of human innocence?"

"You are [the world itself], Doctor, you are [the world]..."

Su Mingan was finally able to barely control his body. His body seemed to have been injected with some kind of drug, making him unable to move.

He bent his fingers with all his strength, the pre-action of spatial displacement was completed, and the white cross light gradually flashed

His thoughts were interrupted.

The muzzle of the gun behind the wheelchair was turned around, and it was pointed at him, who was very close at hand.

There was a gunshot.

"boom!"

The high-explosive bullet penetrated the back of his neck, and his vision spun rapidly.

In his last consciousness, he saw Li Ming leaning down, as if to hold his broken head.

It seemed to be sobbing, and under its transparent white eyelids, his blood-stained head was reflected in its eyes.

"I'm so tired, I'm so tired..." it said: "Asa, Lu Shu, Luvis, Su Ming'an... I'm so tired... Why, why couldn't you make a suitable wish in the first place...

"

It came close to his eyes, looking at him with his eyes gradually blurring.

"Doctor, actually my biggest regret is that..."

Its voice is getting lower and lower.

Virtual white dots slid from the corners of its eyes.

Like a frozen teardrop.

…

[Dungeon opens·Eighth day·Early morning]

Su Mingan listened to the night meeting in silence, not making a sound from beginning to end.

At the end of the meeting, he opened his eyes.

In front of him was the desolate Central City. The streets were deserted, and the storefronts on both sides had been blocked for a long time and were rusty.

Because his identity was not revealed at the meeting, he survived, was not transferred to a basement full of ashes as soon as he opened his eyes, and his body was able to move normally.

...Last week, what would Dawn do to his body?

Like his predecessors, will he be turned into a part of the ashes in the basement?

He leaned back in his chair silently.

The lights on the street are dim, like pairs of wild beasts' eyes. They stare at the still and unchanging street scene, like relics frozen in time.

There are many ginkgo trees planted here. Maybe Akto liked ginkgo trees very much during his lifetime.

He stretched out his hand, and a ginkgo leaf fell on his palm.

He sat alone in front of the ruined building, looking at this neighborhood, comparing the bustling city and the flying light rail. It was like a frozen color photo, so quiet that it was deathly silent.

It's like an area abandoned by the world.

"..."

He closed his eyes and opened them again.

The amount of information Dawn brought him in the previous episode was too great...it actually knew that he didn't have a password.

The two of them had been acting against each other.

He is acting that he knows the dawn code, and Dawn is acting that he does not know that it knows that he does not know the dawn code. The two of them are stacking layer cakes.

As a result, dawn is in the atmosphere.

It reveals a lot of information, but there are roughly three points.

First, because he revealed in the night meeting that he was not Akto, Dawn was forced to kill him for unknown reasons.

Second, it says that he is [the world], but the meaning of [the world] is unknown.

Third, his disability and coughing up blood are the "price of civilization", the meaning of which is also unknown.

Overall, the puzzle is not complicated. As long as he finds a suitable line of information, he will be able to connect them...

He looked away and saw his teammates' channels flashing continuously. These teammates stayed up late at night and were still chatting.

[Lu Shu (2:19): Su Mingan. Why did Liming kiss you during the live broadcast today? I saw many netizens talking about this. Isn’t it an emotionless AI? 】

[Luna (2:19): What was your first reaction? 】
To be continued...