To maintain the image that he was another group of CCUs, Su Ming began playing short videos amid the blue light again. They still showed CCUs dying in all sorts of miserable ways, except these videos now had plots and dialogue.
The general outline of the stories was similar. In those Timelines, CCU was the head of a household, with a good wife and three wonderful children. Their family had originally been happily enjoying the weekend when the Beyonders' collision with Earth arrived.
Before the apocalypse came, CCU, as a father, had constantly tried to protect his family. They shared many touching conversations that displayed complicated emotions, and he even showed that he would not abandon the pet dog at home.
Then the Cartographers, who had come to drive away the crowd, decided that the family was being uncooperative and blasted them into the sky with an energy beam.
The video ended, followed by a brief blank space. Then another "memory" emerged.
In this memory, CCU was an old woman confined to a wheelchair. She and her elderly husband depended on each other in a small apartment in New York City. Both suffered from severe chronic illnesses, and both knew they did not have long to live, but neither feared death.
When the apocalypse descended, they merely sat side by side on their apartment balcony, talking about their youth, before a swarm of Mercury robots tore them to pieces as they leaned against each other.
Only because the Cartographers needed the metal in their building to construct a temporary platform for installing a Teleportation Portal.
Even Su Ming found it a little hard to endure at that point. He had not reviewed every face-swapping video the Adjutant made before, so when he saw the wrinkled CCU kissing an old man