Is the Scum Worthy of Whitewashing?

He disappeared.

Xu Du lowered his head and hugged An Rou's body, her body still warm.

But that's just residual temperature. It is impossible for a dead person to survive. Soon, this temperature will also disappear.

In the many tasks Xu Du has experienced, he has never faced such a situation. Of course, there is no way to bring people back to life.

The task can continue, at least not as Du Xu said, in fact, he already has a plan in his heart.

However, An Rou's death in this world is a foregone conclusion.

Xu Du took An Rou's body to the backyard, dug a hole in the garden, buried her, and erected a simple tombstone.

Perhaps such a way of death is simple for An Rou, at least better than the blueprint of the world. In the original world, the original owner did not want to be manipulated by the upper-level personnel and prepared to escape. Those people caught An Rou, injected the alienated virus into her body, turned into a terrible monster, and controlled her to kill the original owner.

But a mother didn't want to kill her child anyway. The virus was not stable. An Rou caught the rare gap of sobriety, struggled with frantic consciousness, and finally jumped into the incinerator of the laboratory building and turned to ashes.

"May you always be at peace."

Xu Du carved these six characters on the back of the tombstone, then returned to the restaurant and drank the soup An Rou made during his lifetime.

After doing this, he leaned on the back of the chair, pulled down the collar, and gently pressed his fingertips on the hourglass birthmark under the collarbone.

The broken gold and azure blue sand in the hourglass flowed slowly, symbolizing the passage and condensation of time. Xu Du found the option of "reverse time and space" on the display interface at a glance, and clicked it.

I have used this item many times, but this is the first time I chose this option. It is different from the several functions I have used. If I only played the game of time partially before, then this time, it will be a complete time backward.

In fact, Xu Du chose to purchase this item at the beginning, precisely for this function.

He was curious about the forgotten past, but in the process of using it later, he also understood the principle of equivalent exchange. If time is to be completely reversed, it will inevitably require a great price.

[Have you figured it out? This is a very dangerous operation. 】

K's voice sounded steadily.

"What a dangerous law?"

[This is a very mysterious instruction. No one can really control time, so it is random. You may not know where it will go. It may be five years ago, it may be ten years ago, or even a hundred years ago, a thousand years ago...]

[And you yourself will make changes along with the passage of time. Now your body is only 22 years old. If the time of backflow exceeds your age limit, do you know what this means? 】

Xu Du thought for a while: "Death?"

[It is disappearing. Your existence will be completely obliterated by time. 】

Xu Du was silent for a moment, and suddenly smiled relaxedly: "But even so, you have to try, otherwise you can only be trapped here forever."

[Haha, but there are actually other options...such as simply staying here forever, without taking any time intervention, living in this time and space immortally, watching how the world changes, in fact, this is also a lot of executors They are tired of the endless time and space shuttle, so they choose one of the worlds and stay forever...]

"That's boring." Xu Du interrupted him, "Besides, there are still people waiting for me—"

He was talking about An Rou in another time and space.

She is dead in this time and space, but when he follows the flow of time and comes to another time and space, he will see An Rou again, and then try to avoid her tragic fate.

"Since I drank her soup, it's not easy to let her dove." Xu Du said, "Okay, let's start quickly, I'm ready."

[You, it's really interesting. 】

K chuckled softly, seemingly with a touch of nostalgia.

[That's as you wish. 】

The feeling of turning back in time is uncomfortable, more uncomfortable than any experience of manipulating time.

That feeling is like being tightly bound in a vacuum bag, and the breathable gas disappears bit by bit, making you feel like a fish stranded on a tidal flat; the bones of the whole body are squeezed into debris, Following the counter-current blood, it slowly re-dissolved into the bone marrow, and once again pulled hair to grow... Such repeated burning pain did not know how long it lasted, and finally calmed down.

Xu Du slowly opened his eyes and saw An Rou's face with an anxious look.

To be precise, it should be An Rou when she was young, and the years will not have time to leave marks on her face, and even her tender facial features still have some green taste.

He succeeded.

"Adu, how do you feel?" An Rou touched his face, frowning her thin eyebrows together.

"Um...I'm much better." Xu Du slowly got up, leaning against the head of the bed, "...Don't worry."

His voice now belongs to a child, perhaps because of the high fever, he is slightly hoarse.

"Lie down, don't get up." An Rou hurriedly pressed him back into the quilt.

Children’s bodies are very weak, and high fever can easily lead to premature death when they lack food and clothing. However, Xu Du didn't worry about this. His physical fitness had been modified, and as long as he was fully integrated with this body, these symptoms would naturally disappear.

But he couldn’t relieve An Rou’s anxiety. The snow was piled up outside the window sill, and the cold wind could still leak in along the cracks. The quilt on the bed was not thick enough, so An Rou covered her overcoat and only put on one. An old thin sweater huddled beside his bed and looked after him.

"Be patient, mother will take you to the doctor tomorrow morning."

The clinics that are still open in the middle of the night serve the wealthy. The medical resources of the last days are especially precious. For residents in slums, the medical resources they can enjoy are limited to traveling doctors on the streets, or occasional medical charity activities, and these only exist during the day. .

The only thing Xu Du can do is to close his eyes and make the appearance of sleeping obediently.

His breathing was even and calm, as if his illness had improved, An Rou breathed a sigh of relief as expected.

Late at night, she fell asleep on the bedside. Xu Du opened his eyes and looked at her, and quietly put the coat on the quilt back on her.

An Rou has been pulling the child up by herself over the years, and it has been very hard.

Her husband Xu Shirong was absent from such a life. He is a member of the E-base exploratory team and participates in exploratory activities outside the base. This is a highly dangerous job, facing unknown zombies and alien creatures, there is a risk of death at any time.

When the original owner was more than one year old, Xu Shirong went out to work, and then completely lost track of it.

The exploration team finally judged him to be dead. After all, the place to be explored was dangerous, and it was normal to die silently in an unknown corner.

But An Rou was unwilling to accept the news of her husband's death. She always insisted that Xu Shirong was not dead and would come back one day for a family reunion.

In fact, the first half of the guess is correct, Xu Shirong is indeed not dead, but he will not come back.

The man moved to another base and married the daughter of the leader of the base, and his life was very moist. ,