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Chapter 611: Chapter 611: Harsh Truths
"Hey... is there really a function like that?" she asked internally.
A familiar voice responded almost instantly. [Yes.]
Ivy froze. "...You’re kidding me. Why didn’t you tell me?"
The voice continued calmly,
[You often complain that I overcharge you. This function is... expensive. So I chose not to mention it.]
Ivy blinked, then suddenly clapped her hands once, half amused and half exasperated.
"You really know how to play me..."
Taking a deep breath, her expression turned serious. "I want to know the truth about this apocalypse."
There was a brief pause. [That will require 10 billion points.]
Ivy’s eyes widened instantly. "You’re robbing me!"
[That] the voice replied calmly, [is exactly what I was referring to. You accuse me unfairly... even when I am telling the truth.]
Ivy clenched her teeth slightly. "No discount?"
The reply came without hesitation. [I have already given a discounted price. You won’t get such a chance again.]
Ivy hesitated. Just as she was about to agree... a hand tapped her shoulder.
She snapped out of her thoughts and turned to look at Silas.
"Did you get an answer?" he asked.
Ivy quickly told him everything. Silas listened... and then chuckled. "Give me your hand."
Ivy frowned slightly but still reached out. The moment their hands touched...the world around them warped.
In the next second, both of them stood inside Ivy’s Temporal Storage. Silas looked upward, his gaze sharp.
"Five billion points," he said firmly. "Not a single point more."
Silence. No response came. It was as if the Temporal Storage didn’t even acknowledge his existence.
Ivy tugged his sleeve lightly, whispering, "You can’t bargain with it..."
Silas smirked faintly. "Of course I can."
He raised his voice slightly. "Mine agreed to 5.1 billion points for this kind of information."
Ivy’s eyes widened. "Wait... really?"
Immediately, the Temporal Storage’s voice snapped back...
[He’s lying.]
Its tone carried a rare trace of irritation.
[How could I agree to such a low price? That wouldn’t even cover the cost.]
Ivy crossed her arms slightly, narrowing her eyes.
’So it was asking for a huge profit...’
"Fine," she said firmly. "5.2 billion points. Not a single point more."
Silence fell again. A long one. Then...
[...Deal.]
Ivy blinked. She hadn’t expected it to agree so quickly. Silas glanced at her, a faint victorious smile on his lips.
’Too easy.’
The transaction completed instantly. Five point two billion points vanished from Ivy’s account like sand slipping through her fingers.
Her balance dropped sharply...down to just 4.8 billion KB points.
For a moment, her heart tightened. But then...notifications flooded in.
The people she had helped... the lives she had saved...
Within just an hour, her balance surged back. 4.8 billion to 4.802 billion!
Ivy didn’t even react. Her attention was fixed entirely on the letter that appeared before her. It hovered silently in the air.
Waiting. She inhaled deeply before reaching out. Her fingers trembled slightly as she opened it. The words unfolded before her eyes.
She read again and again until the very last line. Silence followed.
A heavy, suffocating silence. Her face lost all expression.
"Ivy...?" Silas called softly.
She didn’t respond. "Ivy... what happened?"
Slowly, she lifted her head. Her eyes were no longer the same.
"What if..." she began, her voice quiet yet steady,
"...humanity itself is responsible for this apocalypse?"
Silas fell silent for a moment, his gaze lowered, before he finally spoke in a low, steady tone, "... I believe you."
Ivy didn’t respond immediately.
Instead, she slowly sank down onto the ground, the cold surface pressing faintly against her palms.
"The apocalypse didn’t just happen out of nowhere..." she murmured, her voice distant, almost hollow.
"It might seem unrelated at first... but the timing of everything... it’s too strange."
She lifted her head slightly, her eyes unfocused as if looking through layers of memory.
"Extreme heat... extreme cold... extreme rain... all of it began when humanity started interfering too much with nature."
Her fingers curled slightly.
"They tried to create artificial rain... tried to control the weather... even attempted to strengthen Earth’s protective layers."
A bitter smile flickered across her lips. "And yet... they never stopped launching rockets into space."
Her voice hardened.
"They kept piercing through the atmosphere... creating damage... and now they’re desperately trying to fix the ozone layer as if nothing happened."
She let out a slow breath. "They don’t even realize how much damage they’ve already caused..."
Without another word, she handed the letter to Silas.
Silas took it, his fingers brushing against hers briefly before he began to read.
As his eyes moved across the lines, his expression gradually darkened. By the time he reached the end, he lowered the letter slowly.
"...Humanity isn’t innocent," he said quietly. "Not entirely."
Ivy nodded faintly. "It looks like progress on the surface... but underneath, it’s destruction. All in the name of curiosity."
Silas’ grip on the letter tightened slightly.
"And it says..." he continued, his voice turning colder, "that repeated experiments... along with the interference of some superior beings... triggered these disasters one after another."
"Heat... cold... rain..." he murmured. "And who knows what comes next."
Ivy’s gaze sharpened. "But we can’t ignore one thing," she said firmly.
Silas looked at her. "There’s someone behind all of this."
A pause. "...Jeff."
Silas’ eyes narrowed. Ivy continued, her voice steady but heavy.
"He came to Earth long before everything began. He was part of international research teams... pushing forward extreme experiments."
Her fingers trembled slightly, though she didn’t notice.
"He encouraged dangerous ideas... oversaw rocket launches... manipulated decisions..."
Her voice dropped to almost a whisper. "He was waiting... like a hunter."
Silas exhaled slowly. "And when everything was ready..."
Ivy finished the sentence. "He released the final piece... the zombie virus."
Silence fell. A suffocating, heavy silence.
"That virus..." Ivy continued, her brows tightening, "it’s not even something extraordinary in his world."
Silas looked at her sharply. "It’s just... a dog virus."
The words felt absurd... yet horrifying.
"But on Earth..." she added, "it turned into something catastrophic."