"The final outcome is always the same..." Sun Hang picked up a piece of chicken and stuffed it into his mouth. "You always give me this especially pessimistic, negative impression. And it seems like you have a slight self-destructive tendency, too."
"If you only had a few months left to live, you'd be the same." Wang Xiyi spoke calmly.
"Is there no way to extend your lifespan?"
"There is, but the price would be turning completely into an anomaly." Wang Xiyi said, "I'd rather die quickly than do that."
"I've always been curious—which Anomaly Meme did you get infected with?"
"C-15, 'Black Dragon.'" Wang Xiyi answered readily. "They call it a dragon, but it was really just a mutated giant lizard."
"What about the actual 'Black Dragon'?"
"Dead." Wang Xiyi took another bite of rice. "Its habitat was an unnamed island in the western Pacific. The Federation subjected the island to saturated nuclear strikes, erasing both it and the island from this world."
"An unnamed island?" Sun Hang froze slightly. "Then it... never came to Xiazhou Continent?"
"You want to know how I was infected, right?" Wang Xiyi said. "I was an artificially created infected person. There are actually many people like me."
"Artificially created?"
"Black Dragon had tremendous vitality. Nuclear weapons with yields in the tens of millions of tons killed it, but at the blast site, Federation scientists still found fragments that carried Anomalization Virus memes and showed signs of life. They brought those fragments back to the laboratory and, after more than ten years, successfully cultivated a 'Black Dragon' embryo." Wang Xiyi looked around. Once she had made sure no one was paying attention to them, she began telling Sun Hang in a low voice.
"That's a pretty insane plan." By this point, Sun Hang had more