After clearing the game, I became the villain BOSS

(Happy New Year everyone, I believe you have heard a lot about Happy New Year 2024, so let me wish you all a Happy New Year 2025 in advance)

The clouds above the night sprinkled fine raindrops from time to time, shrouding the city streets in haze, pushing the roses in the hands of the steel creation to the ultimate poignancy.

Just when Su Mo was looking at the card with [Goodbye, my love] written on it, a call suddenly came from behind him: "Boss!"

Su Mo looked back. When he saw the future standing there intact, he breathed a sigh of relief: "Are you okay?"

"I'm fine. Boss, let me tell you something." In the future, he came over and leaned into Su Mo's ear and whispered something.

After hearing this, Su Mo's face was full of surprise and he asked in disbelief: "All the data is back?!"

The future couldn't bear the joy and kept nodding: "I'm back, everyone is back!"

Su Mo: "Didn't it mean that our database and various backups were all destroyed by the virus?"

Future explained: "It was destroyed, but before destroying various systems in our building, the virus first executed another instruction-to backup all data and put it on a virtual cloud server."

"An anonymous email was sent to me just now, with the server address written in it. I went in and took a look, and all the data was there!"

Su Mo: "Not lost at all?"

Mirai: “Not lost at all!”

Su Mo was silent and looked at the bouquet of roses in Overlord Titan's hand, thoughtfully.

The future probe asked: "Hey, wasn't there a war outside just now? Boss, how can you still get a bouquet of flowers while fighting?"

"Well" Su Mo didn't know how to explain himself, so he could only shake his head and said, "It's a long story, so don't dwell on it for now. You call Dongdong, KK, and Xiao Chu to my room, and I'll explain I’ll synchronize the information I received with you.”

"Okay, right away." Future ran back to the Edge Building.

Su Mo was about to follow him, but stopped there again and couldn't help but look back.

The rose lay quietly in the hands of the silent Titan, looming in the rain.

Finally, he slowly stretched out his hand to take the bouquet of roses and held it gently in his arms.

In the conference room of the Edge Building, several core members met. Su Mo briefly described Daystar Eden, the Intelligent Brain Project, Xiaoqi and Zero, and all related matters.

"Wait a minute, let me sum it up." After listening to the narration, Chu Nanyi felt a little confused, rubbing his temples and pacing back and forth, "Captain, let me try to summarize it, see if it's right."

Su Mo: "Well, you tell me."

Chu Nanyi: "First of all, the girl named Qi Ling is the number zero who was treated as a monster when she was a child, not Xiao Qi."

Su Mo: "Yes."

Chu Nanyi: "Qi Ling has two purposes for approaching you. The first is to make you relax your vigilance, and then implant a virus into our building through your equipment, paralyze the defense system and locate and hunt Luo Mingsheng."

Su Mo: "Yes."

Chu Nanyi: "The second purpose is that she wants to fulfill the unfulfilled wish of her childhood friend Xiaoqi - to date and fall in love with a good and reliable boy."

Su Mo: "That's right."

Chu Nanyi: "So when she comes to date you, whether she hugs you, holds hands with you, or kisses you, she is pretending to be Xiaoqi. It has nothing to do with her own wishes. It is a fictitious substitute behavior."

Su Mo: "That's what it means."

Chu Nanyi was stunned: "I'll go, what kind of reverse substitute literature? You have more fun than me!"

Dongdong also opened his eyes wide and asked: "Boss, did you give your first kiss to No. 0 or Xiaoqi?"

KK poked her waist with his elbow and shouted in a low voice: "I don't want to pick up the pot."

Dongdong covered his mouth and looked at Su Mo cautiously.

Su Mo sighed softly: "I won't mention that trouble in advance. I just don't understand at all. What does this bouquet of roses mean?"

He looked at the bouquet of roses on the table that he had just taken back from Titan and murmured, "Qi Ling also gave me roses on the morning of our previous date."

"But according to my understanding, the flower delivery was her role as 'Xiao Qi', and it had nothing to do with Qi Ling's own wishes. As I said just now, it was just a substitute behavior she imagined."

"But now, Qi Ling has begun to take revenge. In other words, she is no longer playing the role of Xiao Qi, but has become her true self - Zero."

"Then the question is, since I am number zero, what does she mean by sending me this bouquet of roses?"

Chu Nanyi almost lost his composure when he heard this: "Captain, are you just pretending to be stupid?"

Su Mo was stunned for a moment: "Ah, why are you pretending to be stupid? I really don't understand. Can you explain it to me?"

Chu Nanyi said angrily: "You said it yourself, Qi Ling is herself now, no longer pretending to be anyone, but her true self."

"Then, when she was carrying out the most important revenge in her life, she still remembered you in her heart. Even if you scolded her and hit her, she still wanted to send you a tender bouquet of roses. You actually asked what this meant? ??”

Su Mo scratched his head and said with a confused expression, "I don't understand."

Chu Nanyi rolled her eyes almost to the back of her head, waved her hands and said: "As expected of a single mother, I have nothing to say, you can figure it out for yourself."

Su Mo looked at Dongdong in confusion: "Dongdong, do you understand?"

Dongdong: "I understand."

Su Mo: "What do you mean?"

Dongdong: "Figure it out for yourself, wood."

"???" Su Mo felt confused, "What's going on with each of you? You all started asking the Riddler. KK, do you understand?"

KK: "I understand."

Su Mo: "So what do you mean? Don't think about it yourself!"

KK: "Then I have nothing to say."

Su Mo: ".?"

Chu Nanyi said meaningfully: "Captain, although I didn't see you dating with my own eyes, I want to ask, was she really 'Xiaoqi' that day?"

Su Mo: "What do you mean?"

Chu Nanyi: "People can make fun of things when there are no troubles, but if there is throbbing in the heart, then it is impossible to hide the true self."

"You can think back to the day you were dating. Was there a few moments when she was no longer 'Xiaoqi' but 'Number Zero'?"

Seeing Su Mo's confused look, Chu Nanyi knew that it would be difficult for him, with a head whose emotional experience was whiter than a piece of paper, to understand his own words.

Chu Nanyi was completely helpless. He waved his hands and said, "Forget it, let's think about it later. Let's talk about the current situation first. What should Luo Mingsheng do?"

As soon as he mentioned this guy, Dongdong's face was full of displeasure: "What does that guy named Luo do? He is a scumbag and has killed so many children. Wouldn't it be better if he was kidnapped by Qi Ling? I wish he would be tortured severely."

Su Mo shook his head: "That's true, but no matter what, Luo Mingsheng is still nominally a member of our fringe."

"Even if I hate him, even if I made a mistake in letting him in, from an objective level, he is still a fringe mercenary and our companion."

"My companion has been kidnapped. If I don't care about him, this incident will create hidden dangers for team management, and if word spreads, it will become a basis for others to attack us."

Dongdong said unhappily: "What the hell, you're worthy of being our companion."

Su Mo shrugged: "I can't help it. That's how team management is. Reason is more important than emotion. Rules are the most important. You have to admit that you don't like something."

At this point, he suddenly showed a meaningful smile: "As long as Luo Mingsheng is a marginalized person, he will be our companion."

KK and Dongdong, two minors, sat together and secretly cursed Luo Mingsheng.

Only Chu Nanyi squinted his eyes and looked at Su Mo, catching the deep meaning in his eyes.

The two looked at each other with sly smiles, like two restless and well-meaning old foxes.

Su Mo withdrew his gaze and said, "Anyway, the first priority now is to find Luo Mingsheng and bring him back safely. If he is executed by Qi Ling, then we will completely lose this time."

Dongdong held his face in distress and sighed: "Everyone has been captured by the mechanical hound. That thing can run faster than a rabbit. Where can I find it this late at night?"

Su Mo: "I am also troubled by this problem."

"Are you looking for Luo Mingsheng?" Suddenly, the future, who had been silent until now, suddenly answered with a mysterious smile on his face, "I will take you to find him."

Su Mo: "Do you know where he is?"

"Follow me." Future took the lead and went out.

Several people took the elevator directly to the underground laboratory.

After preliminary cleaning in the past few days, the laboratory is less messy, but the floor is still dusty, and many parts and fragments can be seen.

Su Mo asked in confusion: "Luo Mingsheng was captured by the mechanical hound, what are we doing here?"

Future still smiled mysteriously. She opened a locked door with her key and pointed inside: "Let's see who this is?"

Su Mo walked in and took a look, and was stunned: "Luo Mingsheng?!"

This room is a simple living room, usually used for researchers to rest. Luo Mingsheng is sitting on a chair at this time, a little shaken, obviously frightened by the attack just now.

"Captain. Commander, you are here! Commander, you have to save me! That woman is a lunatic!" When Luo Mingsheng saw Su Mo, he rushed over and hugged his legs, crying.

Su Mo sneered: "When I asked you a few days ago, you said you didn't know Qiling. Now you know her again, right?"

Luo Mingsheng shrank his head and said with a trembling voice: "I was too scared at the time. I didn't expect that she would really come back for revenge."

Su Mo ignored him and turned to ask the future: "What's going on? Why is Luo Mingsheng here? I clearly saw him being picked up by the mechanical hound."

Future: "What is taken away is not Luo Mingsheng himself, but his bionic robot."

Su Mo: "Bionic robot?"

Future: "Yes, I heard what Qi Ling said to Luo Mingsheng that day, and I roughly guessed what the connection between these two people was."

"In order to kill him, Qi Ling turned our laboratory upside down, but then she failed. I think she will definitely launch a second offensive."

"So, I used some old equipment that can operate offline and built a simple bionic robot based on Luo Mingsheng's biological information."

"Although it does not have advanced functions such as speech and movement, it does have the same biometric information as Luo Mingsheng, such as the same body shape, facial features, irises, etc."

Su Mo immediately reacted: "No matter how smart the mechanical hound is, it is just a machine. It can only rely on the recognition system to identify the target."

"As long as they recognize Luo Mingsheng's biological information, no matter whether the other party can move or speak, they will think it is Luo Mingsheng and then take it away directly. But in fact, you have hidden the real Luo Mingsheng in this room. ."

It was hard for the future to sneer: "Yes, the mechanical hound did not bite 'Luo Mingsheng' to death on the spot, but took it away. I guess Qi Ling must have wanted to kill him personally for revenge."

"It just so happens that I installed a tracking chip in that bionic robot, which can conduct reverse tracking and find Qi Ling's location!"

Su Mo smiled happily.

The future is the future after all.

Even though he was defeated by Qiling in the software field that he was unfamiliar with, he has now regained his place in the hardware field that he is good at.

Future put his hands on his hips and said seriously, "Sometimes I'm really annoyed by these hackers. I always feel that people who work on hardware are easy to bully. It's great if I know how to code."

"Hardware is the foundation of all scientific research, okay! Without the support of the hardware we made, what is the use of the most powerful software? Don't underestimate our hardware engineers, Hun Dan!"

"The years pass quietly, and the past is like smoke."

"Memories are devastated, but nothing can be erased."

"This is my promise to you."

Qi Ling hummed songs in the dark night and walked into an abandoned factory in the border area.

Not far away, several mechanical hounds were squatting there, in standby mode.

A figure fell beside them.

Qi Ling held a knife with a blood groove in her hand and walked slowly, tapping the metal pipe next to her with the blade every few steps.

"Dang, Dang" the cold impact echoed in the factory, like a bloody prelude.

"We meet again, Luo Zhu. Over the years, I have been thinking about you every day and every night."

Qi Ling walked up to the other party, her amber eyes reflecting the street lights outside the factory, like the eyes of a cold-blooded animal.

"Go to hell."

She stabbed the opponent's stomach with force, deliberately not attacking the vital points, but stirring it back and forth in the abdominal cavity to make him suffer the most extreme pain.

However, she had just poked for a while when she suddenly realized something was wrong.

Why is there no blood?

Qi Ling was a little confused, grabbed the other person's collar and dragged him to the light.

The scene in front of her made Qi Ling stunned.

This "person" has the appearance of Luo Mingsheng, but he cannot move or breathe. He is just a bionic robot.

Qi Ling's pupils suddenly dilated, and the corners of her mouth began to move unconsciously.

"I actually fell into your trap."

Without warning, a black shadow jumped down from the steel beam.

"Boom." Longgang's baseball bat hit Qi Ling on the back of her head, knocking her unconscious.

Hazy consciousness.

semi-consciously.

Qi Ling felt someone talking next to her.

She opened her eyes with difficulty and found herself in a closed basement room. She didn't know where she was or how long she had been unconscious.

There were three people in the room, Dongdong and KK, who were whispering to each other, and Future, who was playing with Shushu.

"Hey, she's awake." Dongdong walked up to Qi Ling, put his hands on his hips and said in his poor pronunciation, "Saples, Mommy Fake."

Qi Ling asked calmly: "Where is Su Mo?"

Dong Dong smiled evilly and said, "Don't worry, the boss will come. He is preparing a 'big surprise' for you."