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    The definition of non-cooperative game is zero-sum game

    Twelve midnight.

    As the last bell rang, a strange restlessness rose in the wind.

    What was accumulated and what was divided into small pieces began to tremble in the same way with the sound of the ticker.

    They open their eyes and look at the person in front of them.

    This scene should obviously be scary, but not only was she not afraid, she just adjusted the number on the meter without caring.

    “…” Something was said.

    “Quiet.”

    She put her hand in front of her lips, making a silent gesture.

    “I don’t understand.”

    A wolf’s eyes rolled in disdain, a cat’s eyes squinted at her indifferently, and a sheep’s eyes wept pitifully at her.

    But whatever it was, or whatever it was, the container holding them began to shrink, forcing them to converge toward the center.

    Active or passive, it doesn’t matter, but the eyes accumulate and fuse, eventually forming an invisible mountain of corpses.

    “Very good…very good…” She nodded with satisfaction, stroking them through the glass.

    They already knew what she was going to do, but instead of hiding, they grasped the two poles of the conductor.

    “I thought you would be more… stubborn.” She was slightly surprised, but quickly regained her composure.

    “You are much more obedient than Shen Molin.”

    A fish’s eyes were silent, an eagle’s eyes expressed indifference, and a rabbit’s eyes agreed happily.

    “It doesn’t matter. Soon, your opinions will be completely unified.”

    Then all of them finally looked at her together again.

    “You’ll find out soon enough.”

    She smiled and said nothing, but pressed the button hard.

    But… nothing happened.

    Those eyes were still staring at her, and those things were still there, in a form that was neither human nor material.

    After waiting calmly for a second or two, she quickly understood.

    There was an uproar, and the overhead lights of the entire research department were instantly turned on.Under the white heat, rows of gun barrels that had been waiting in ambush were raised and pointed at her.

    “Haha…” She looked at the police officer who was warning with a loudspeaker, smiled coldly, and raised her hand.

    “But allow me to make a final defense of my plan.”

    “What you see in front of you is not Shen Molin, let alone an ordinary mutant. It is the concrete product of pure and extreme thinking energy, uncivilized chaos. In a sense, it is a derivative of the black hole of thinking, the final product of that explosion.”

    “But, you can stand here and point a gun at me. I guess you have learned the information about Shen Molin from Qi Ruiqing. Yes, I can’t deny that it once existed as the ‘mutated Shen Molin’ for a period of time.”

    “So, when I saw it for the first time, I couldn’t help but think:”

    “How did Qi Ruiqing stabilize such a superposed energy system into Shen Molin’s only solution?”

    “Oh, I quickly understood that Qi Ruiqing’s weapon is his thinking. Once his thinking level observes and evaluates this chaos, and comes to the conclusion that ‘it is Shen Molin’, it will collapse into what Qi Ruiqing imagined.”

    “The theory is established, then I can use the theory. What I want is for it to no longer be Shen Molin who has his own way of life and is uncontrollable, but for me to be my husband.”

    “The first step to achieve this is to let Qi Ruiqing leave Shen Molin actively or passively. Unfortunately, Qi Ruiqing’s mother is dead, so I can’t repeat the same trick. And Qi Ruiqing’s identified ‘Shen Molin’ will fight for him without hesitation, and I can’t force them to separate.”

    “But that doesn’t mean I will give up. Having a like-minded and omniscient partner who can answer all your questions and create all the impossible for you is quite tempting to me.”

    “But my original plan to remotely interfere with the phone did not actually succeed. Shen Molin’s return to his original appearance was a complete accident. Of course, this is not a reason for me to excuse my crime. I just want to explain why I used this clumsy method to make a desperate move.”

    “Because, once you’re successful, that can all be ignored. It’ll help me solve my problems.”

    “Since it is impossible to determine whether two consciousnesses of the same nature can exist at the same time, in order to avoid risks, I reached an agreement with my husband. He committed suicide by taking medicine at 11:21:15 last night. And I will conceal his death and transform him into my husband, thus transforming this uncontrollable force into an omniscient, omnipotent and non-threatening ally.”

    “And these, foreign aid stimulation, are the boosters I choose because I admit that I cannot have a love for one person that can rival Qi Ruiqing. As long as everything goes well, he will always live as my husband.”

    “My purpose has never been for the Shen family or my own interests. A power like it that cannot be controlled and harnessed by humans at present can only be completely sealed so that the government, the people, and each of us can feel at ease, right?”

    She certainly didn’t expect that her few words would make these hostile muzzles disappear.She also knew that she was at the end of her rope.

    “Do you think we will believe you, a person who tramples on the law and despises life like you?”

    “I think so.” She chuckled nonchalantly, “But you will soon understand that this choice is a fatal mistake.”

    “I will not make any resistance, and I hope you will be careful not to have too many emotional fluctuations during the arrest.”

    She turned around and looked at the alluring giant. All that was left in her eyes was endless fascination and regret that she couldn’t have it.

    “It’s still there…”

    The instigator of this disaster was finally caught.

    The lights of the police sirens flashed red and blue, and he saw with his own eyes that the woman was pushed into the police car with a calm look on her face.

    “You are…oh, it’s you. Why are you here?” The comrade police officer who submitted the certification materials for him recognized him, “Why are you here?”

    “Chen Jianwei let me take a look.” It was Qi Ruiqing’s elementary school classmate who recommended him to the research department and successfully gave him the opportunity to obtain key information.

    “She’s quite cooperative.” “Yeah…” “It won’t cause panic among the surrounding people.” “Yeah…”

    He stared at the mutant that reappeared in the containment tank in the restricted area, the enemy that was originally blown to pieces, and there was always an incomprehensible knot in his heart.

    “Why do they do this?” “Them?” “All, Qi Ruiqing, Shen Molin, Shen…”

    “They are all crazy…”

    Then this is really an ethereal reason…

    He tried hard to pull his eyes away from the monster and observed the comrades around him who could still be called human beings…

    Perhaps one day, everyone here, in this city, and in this world will turn into those unreasonable madmen. After doing some things that cannot be imagined and understood, they will become like Qi Ruiqing… a corpse under a white cloth.

    When the time comes, who will be our scavenger?

    “Comrade…” He was brought back to his senses by the cold wind, and asked the people around him, “Did Director Chen tell you what to do with this mutant?”

    “Oh, I’m sorry, I can only tell you that we need to cut it into small pieces first. As for how to dispose of it… you can ask Director Chen directly.”

    That’s fine, he took out his cell phone.

    The screen turned on, and a white light suddenly flashed, making him dizzy.The temperature in his palm suddenly dropped, and a strange crawling feeling suddenly rose up, slowly wrapping around his wrist.

    “What…”

    He looked clearly at his hands, and the traces of blood stains left by touching Qi Ruiqing, which should have been washed away, suddenly resurfaced.

    He thought of the funeral parlor and the morgue, and he saw Qi Ruiqing’s blue face under the white cloth.

    Qi Ruiqing, whose eyes were tightly closed, was clearly the same as anyone else who had died.

    But it’s different…

    Qi Ruiqing’s suicide may not be a sign of abandonment…

    The wind stopped for a moment, like a moment of enlightenment after the truth was revealed.In the dark, a voice told the captain that Qi Ruiqing was here.He quickly raised his head and looked at the monster under the light.

    Everyone was performing their duties, and no one seemed to notice that a figure suddenly appeared under the huge black shadow.

    Someone who is not allowed to be there.

    Compared to the mutant in the tank, the figure was small and frail, just like any ordinary, healthy person.It faced the giant thing without fear and quietly admired it.

    So the countless eyes of the giant creature also turned to focus on it.

    In the circulating thoughts, something began to sprout.

    It recalled some things from the past that “Shen Molin” once taught him:

    “Death is not an inevitable prerequisite for level three mutations, but when facing death, people often burst out with emotions a hundred times or even a thousand times the average.”

    “Achieving the obsession they cared about most before they died is the eternal goal of these mutants.”

    This is also the reason why it committed suicide.

    Qi Ruiqing can no longer trust anyone else.

    And his mother…is also dead…

    No more worries…

    So I have to go personally and rescue Shen Molin.

    “Qi Ruiqing?!”

    The commotion behind him couldn’t stop anything. The man who covered himself with a white cloth in pain was just a chance encounter with him.

    He also put his hand on her through the glass.He raised his blue eyes and called for his own gem in the mud.

    “Shen Molin…I won’t make a mistake this time…” He said with a slight cry, “I’m here to save you…”

    Waves of ripples started from this, and eventually turned into a monstrous torrent, causing thousands of eyes to open and close again.That terrifying energy was surging, and countless possibilities were finally collapsed into Qi Ruiqing’s only solution.

    They all closed and disappeared, except for the last eye, which was dull, drooping, and dimly dazed.

    It was a bloodshot, exhausted golden eye.

    Qi Ruiqing was grateful. He was so happy that he could still be framed in those eyes and could occupy the tiny one-tenth centimeter lens.

    Great…

    “Qi Ruiqing, stop!! Don’t do it again…”

    There was a loud noise, and the tempered glass burst instantly.The savage beast suddenly fled and enveloped Qi Ruiqing in front of him in an instant.But before anyone else could react, they all gathered together towards the center, spiraling in like a siphon, and then quickly slipped away in a short period of time, disappearing out of thin air before everyone’s eyes.

    Nothing is gone, neither the terrifying monster nor the resurrected corpse…

    There was only a mess and a stunned crowd.

    “Let me tell you, you will regret it.”

    In the police car, the woman who had expected everything snorted coldly, looked away from the window and began to close her eyes to rest.

    “Think about it, would Qi Ruiqing be kind and naive and think that we people are innocent?”

    “I wouldn’t mind witnessing another miracle other than science before I die.”

    But Qi Ruiqing has no time to care about this now.

    The mud was trapped in his body and then carried away.

    Qi Ruiqing took a few steps, but could no longer take heavy steps.

    “Don’t be so anxious…cough cough…vomit…”

    The throat, nasal cavity, ear canals, and even the tears that couldn’t be contained in the eye sockets, those things finally seeped out and were extracted from Qi Ruiqing’s body.

    Qi Ruiqing covered his mouth, but he couldn’t stop the loss of those things.He could only give up and choose to lower his body and hold these disobedient guys in his arms.

    “Shen Molin, I know you are tired, but you have to wake up and don’t let them take your life away…”

    A scarlet eye looked at Qi Ruiqing with hatred, so Qi Ruiqing raised his hand and punched it into pieces of mud.

    But it wouldn’t be the last, they were still shining brightly like stars.Qi Ruiqing could only keep waving his hands and smashing them down, trying his best to destroy them again and again, using his hands and feet, even biting it and tearing it off.

    So, finally, a vague human figure emerged from the mud.

    “Shen Molin!”

    Qi Ruiqing forcefully inserted his hands into the shapeless ball of penis, grabbed the shoulders, and picked up the man who was on the verge of drowning.

    The dirty things knew they were outmatched, and they fled under the flesh with the appearance of the human form.Soon, the only person left in front of Qi Ruiqing was Shen Molin, who wrapped her wings tightly and closed her eyes tightly.

    He slept peacefully…

    The fester ignited like a prairie fire at the moment Qi Ruiqing touched it, and blast wounds and gunshot wounds emerged uncontrollably.The wings that should have been cherished were only half damaged, the skin was broken and burned, and the bullet holes on the body were like bloody flowers…

    The blood on Shen Molin’s forehead flowed through his closed eyes. All Qi Ruiqing could do was try to cover the terrible wound with his hands.But he just exerted a little force, and half of Shen Molin’s forehead cracked and collapsed, falling into the black mud inside like broken porcelain.

    No… no no no…

    Qi Ruiqing forced herself to close her eyes and ignore his moans echoing in her ears.

    Shen Molin needs to be well…he is still alive…he is not…

    “Well…”

    He heard a mouthful of blood welling up from someone’s mouth.

    Shen Molin shook in pain and opened his mouth. Qi Ruiqing quickly tried to drag him up.He saw something rolling in Shen Molin’s throat, rushing out of the body along with the blood and being vomited out.

    “Ugh…cough…”

    Three or four bullets hit the ground, making a loud noise. Shen Molin lost strength again. His arms spread out and turned to the side, and his body fell down again in Qi Ruiqing’s arms.

    “Shen Molin…” Qi Ruiqing cried and hugged him tightly.

    The fainting and bleeding stopped, the redness receded, and the black raindrops regrouped, magically returning to the clouds.

    After a long time, Shen Molin’s breathing finally maintained a weak but stable level.

    “See if I’m okay…”

    Shen Molin tried his best and finally looked at Qi Ruiqing.

    His hand touched Qi Ruiqing’s eyes, but it was not to wipe away the tears from the corners of his eyes.Because at that moment, there was something more dazzling than tears.

    Shen Molin’s fingertips gently moved the thin layer of snake scales, and the renewed luster in his eyes faded away…

    “Don’t worry about this Shen Molin… let’s go home…”

    Qi Ruiqing picked him up and wanted to take a step forward.But before he even took a step, he tripped heavily.He looked back at his twisted feet and finally realized that he had died.

    “Do we… still have a home…” Shen Molin murmured to him.

    “Yes, there will be…” He lay on Shen Molin’s chest and suppressed his weak sobs.

    “If I want it… we’ll have it.”

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