She was breathing rapidly, her hands were raised and put down awkwardly, sweat dripped from her forehead, her gray eyes became emptier with each second, tears silently rolled down her eye sockets, full of loss and helplessness.
Natasha's questions were like a series of curses, constantly echoing in her ears, trying to strip away her mind, devour her consciousness, and pull her soul into the endless, deep abyss until she could never be reborn.
How could this be...
It shouldn't be like this...
It takes a thousand people to save one person. This is too unfair to the person who is sacrificed...
"Bronya, I think I need to remind you."
Natasha came to her and squatted down, reaching out her hand and gently caressing her cheek:
"It is true that Jinyun conducted these experiments for you. This life, which was purchased at the cost of others' lives, is too heavy for you. You have the right to know the truth. That is why I agreed to bring you here.
But at the same time, Jinyun is also a noble scientist. All his efforts are to allow more people to survive and to keep humanity alive.
He has made up his mind to sacrifice himself for humanity's fight against Honkai, and he will continue on this path unswervingly in order to enable humanity to gain the power to fight Honkai.
Bronya, we are not demons, we just have no choice."
"..."
After Natasha finished speaking, Bronya was shaking so much that she could no longer control herself.
She looked pale, haggard, and her eyes were empty, as if she saw no hope, only endless despair and sadness.
Crystal clear tears welled up in her eyes. She spread out her hands and looked at her white palms and the broken lines on the surface of her arm skin.
At this moment, she felt that the lines were like ferocious mouths, laughing at her wantonly.
Mr. Yun, is this your choice?
Then Bronya should also make her own choice.
After a moment, Bronya wiped away her tears and showed a determined look again:
"Indeed, the sacrifice of a thousand people is too heavy for Bronya. If this is what Mr. Yun wants, Bronya will try her best to bear the will of the dead even if she will be crushed.
But Bronya figured it out. What the world needs is Mr. Yun, not a fool like Bronya who only wastes air. "
She put her hands on her chest and said with determination:
“Therefore, the one who should be sacrificed is not Mr. Yun, but Bronya!
Bronya has thought about it. As long as Yunxian can survive, it doesn't matter what the price is for Bronya!"
"Whether Mr. Yun is a great man or a devil, even if he chooses hell, Bronya will accompany him to the end of his death!"
"This is Bronya's oath to Mr. Yun, and her promise of everlasting love for him!"
Chapter 86 Sorry, Mr. Yun, please don't resist (4k)
The infusion took about an hour and a half. After the last drop of medicine was dripped, Jinyun almost couldn't wait to press the call button and ask the nurse to help remove the needle.
When he returned home, it was still the familiar rental house. The air was filled with a faint scent of air freshener, but Jinyun still smelled the lingering smell of disinfectant from the hospital on his body.
Every time he smelled this smell, it reminded him of the days when he was a child in the hospital, which was disturbing.
But other than that, it would remind him of Sister Xi's clinic.
The clinic, which has a total area of less than 50 square meters, also held a lot of Jinyun's childhood. He still remembers that when his parents worked the night shift, he would be entrusted to Sister Xi.
Behind the clinic there is a small room of about ten square meters used as a warehouse, which is furnished with a desk, a laptop, and a narrow single bed.
If she is busy with work, Sister Xi will rest there.
Sometimes, if his parents happened to be working the night shift and Sister Xi was too busy, Jinyun would sleep in that bed.
Probably to take care of him, Sister Xi installed an old home game console bought from a second-hand market in the small room, and would play games with Jinyun in her free time.
In the second half of the night, he always squeezed into that small single bed with Sister Xi.
The old game console, the smell of disinfectant alcohol from the clinic, and the faint fragrance that belonged to Yunxi filled the room and together decorated Jinyun's childhood dreams.
When Star Network launches the game for public testing and releases VR helmet sets on the market, I will buy one for Sister Xi. Maybe she will like it.
After reminiscing about the past, Jinyun put on his body-sensing suit and VR helmet and entered the game.
The first thing he did when he entered the game was naturally to locate Bronya.
Generally speaking, when she is offline, Bronya either studies ether editing in her room or goes to the street to buy some daily necessities.
Ever since her legs were eroded by Honkai energy and she could only move with the help of the Heavy Armor Bunny, she went out less often.
Therefore, most of the time she would choose to visit the children in the orphanage and play games with them.
But this time, Jinyun unexpectedly discovered that Bronya was with Raven.
And the place where they were was the laboratory under Shencheng Medicine.
The biggest secret of his experiment is hidden there, and it is also a secret that he does not want Bronya to know.
He opened the UI interface, called up the game replay, and got a general understanding of some of the details in the process.
Well, it turned out to be a raven.
Jinyun was not actually surprised by this. He had long noticed that Natasha had some complaints about conducting experiments without Bronya's knowledge.
In her opinion, it was unfair to Bronya to impose the sacrifice of thousands of people on her without authorization.
Jinyun certainly knew this, and he himself was actually struggling with this matter. Perhaps it wouldn't be a bad thing to let Bronya know about it now.
However, I guess I'll have to spend some time explaining it to her...
"...It's not Mr. Yun who should be sacrificed, but Bronya!"
"As long as Yunxian can survive, no matter what the price Bronya has to pay!"
".....Bronya will also accompany him to the end of his death!"
"This is Bronya's oath to Mr. Yun, and her promise of everlasting love for him!"
Bronya's live audio was played from the UI interface, and Jinyun heard every word.
He was slightly stunned and locked the game perspective on Bronya's face. The little girl's eyes seemed to be burning with flames, and her resolute determination and resolution were unshakable, just as firm as when she had agreed with him to go to the sea together.
"Bronya..."
Jinyun whispered the other person's name and subconsciously reached out to touch the other person's cheek.
After a while, he chuckled and shook his head: "You really underestimated me. In this game, I am the one who can decide who lives and who dies.
Then let me compete with you, little girl, and see who can keep the other alive~"
After saying that, Jinyun activated the teleportation function and teleported himself to the laboratory.
During the time he was away, Raven had secretly collected enough experimental samples. Now all that remained was to conduct the final serum synthesis experiment on all the extracted antibodies.
If it were a real-life scientific research experiment, a drug would have to go through at least several years of clinical trials from its development to its final practical application.
But this is a game after all, it's not that complicated. Just follow the task instructions and synthesize the potions.
Otherwise, with Jinyun's junior high school chemistry level, how could he possibly understand the serum experiment?
Soon, the time in the real world came to dusk again.
Jinyun also stayed in the game for nearly ten hours.
The sore feeling in his body made him stretch, but he soon found that stretching in the game was useless.
According to the game instructions, in immersive mode, the transmission of neural signals is temporarily blocked to prevent players from performing the same actions in the game in real life, which could cause unnecessary negative effects or even danger.
This is the same as the helmet setting in SAO.
Oh, I have worked hard for another day without realizing it. My whole body is sore and painful, my limbs are weak, and my head is dizzy...
Jinyun looked at the box of serum in front of him and couldn't help but smile with relief:
"After working so hard for so long, I finally made the quest item.
The next step is to give this dose of serum to Bronya... cough cough! cough cough cough!"
Before he could finish his words, Jinyun suddenly felt an itchy throat, followed by a violent cough. A mouthful of blood flowed down his throat into his mouth and overflowed from the corners of his mouth.
He was sure that his urge to cough was not due to the game setting, but because he had a cold.
But the feedback given by the in-game model is so real and fitting, it's almost as if his real body was brought here.
Come to think of it, Jinyun still hasn't figured out why he got the Honkai disease in the game.
One thing he has always been concerned about is that his cold and the Honkai disease he contracted in the game occurred at the same time.
In other words, there may be some commonality between the two.
Could it be that in order to increase the player's sense of immersion and involvement, the game's status in the first-person mode will be linked to the player's real-life situation?
For example, if a player is injured in real life, will a corresponding negative buff appear on the character he controls after entering the game?
I feel like this is unnecessary...
And there is another important point. If his guess is true, doesn't it mean that if he doesn't catch a cold this time, he won't be infected with the Honkai disease in the game, and Bronya's hidden bond mission will not be triggered.
If we play it this way, wouldn’t it destroy the players’ gaming experience and contradict the original intention of Star Network?
Jinyun wiped the virtual blood from the corner of his mouth. The dizziness caused by the cold and fever made him feel as if he didn't even have the strength to stand.
Although his real body was lying on the bed, he was still so tired that he couldn't help but find a chair to sit down and relax a little.
After he felt better, he called Raven through the private channel.
Soon, his call invitation received a response:
"Mr. Jinyun? What's the matter?"
"The experiment has been completed. I have created the anti-Houkai serum."
"Really? This is really..."
Natasha had no doubt that Jinyun could produce the serum, but when she heard these words from him, she still couldn't help stuttering:
"Jin, Mr. Jinyun, are you serious? Have you really made the serum that can cure Honkai disease?!"
“It took a lot of work, but yes, I did it.”
"Great, great! Now humans finally have the power to fight the Honkai Disease!"
"Don't be happy too soon, Raven. You have to know that this potion carries the lives of nearly a thousand Honkai patients."
"..."
Natasha was silent for a few seconds, then sighed heavily.
When she spoke again, her excitement was gone:
"I understand, of course I understand, but I don't regret it. Even if those dead wanted to kill me, even if I could do it again ten thousand times, I would still make this choice.
I know the heaviness behind this potion, and I know how evil it is to kill a thousand people to save one person.
But we have no choice. This world is cruel. Only by burning ourselves and roaring can we get a chance of resistance.
Countless living people die, entrusting the meaning of their existence to us, and then we die and entrust it to the next person...
This inheritance is stupid and cruel, and this experiment is inhumane, but what can we do?
After all, death is our only means of fighting against this cruel world.
This potion may not be used, but it cannot be without."
Jinyun held his forehead, chuckled helplessly, and said slowly:
"You're right, this thing can be used but it can't be without...
In short, I have saved all the data from the experiment, and I can make another serum by following the same steps.
As for the one in my hand..."
"I understand...there's something I need to confess to you."
