January 10
I've been feeling increasingly exhausted lately. I felt tired when I was growing up too, but never like this.
I don't want to eat, I don't want to play games, I just want to sit quietly in a corner and space out.
Grandpa's state has also been a bit unusual.
He'll suddenly walk up to me and repeatedly say the same thing:
No matter what happens in the future, you must believe in humans, you must help humans.
Never hate humans, and certainly never be their enemy!
I don't understand, why would I be enemies with humans?
Isn't Grandpa human?
Being enemies with humans is like being against Grandpa, isn't it?
I will never go against Grandpa, so I will never be enemies with humans!
January 15
I'm going to sleep, so tired... That's all...
January 23
I saw it!
Humans are slaughtering innocent lives.
Outside the high walls, the corpses of innocent lives are piled as high as small mountains.
Crushing these humans is as easy as crushing an ant.
But Grandpa told me not to be enemies with humans... I have to listen to Grandpa...
I turned my head and suddenly remembered that Grandpa was already dead, killed by the very humans he tried his best to protect.
So... Grandpa was wrong...
Only Grandpa is a human worth protecting, everyone else deserves to die!
I hate these high walls, I despise humans, I will kill them all.
Grandpa is dead, everything has lost its meaning, everything has become worthless!
March 15.
The world outside is crueler, more interesting, and more fun than I imagined!
The rules here are simple, no deception, only the strong survive.
Either you eat, or you get eaten!
I want to avenge Grandpa, and I will absolutely not be eaten! Readkanshu
Unknown date... kan shuwu. xà
Living in the jungle has made me forget time, but I'm very happy that I've completed my final form metamorphosis.
The high walls of humanity and their defenses are like laughable and pathetic toys in front of me and Royde.
I enjoy watching the painful screams of humans as they die.
This reminds me of Grandpa's smiling face. These humans have no idea what terrible crimes they have committed!
The content above is recorded according to the dates.
Besides this, the diary also contains many entries recording daily trivialities and life's little moments.
It's evident that Mo Ran deeply loved and trusted her grandfather.
Grandpa was her belief and her pillar of strength.
What ultimately led her to oppose humanity was his death.
Combining this with the previously discovered content, Zhang Chen deduced.
This Spider Queen Mo Ran should be the humanoid energy beast mentioned in the "Notebook Wrapped in Scales" that had an unspeakable affair with Mo Pai, the leader of the Genetics School.
However, the records from both sides are drastically different, completely opposite.
From the diary, Zhang Chen could see the deep affection Spider Queen Mo Ran had for her grandfather, Mo Pai, but it was merely familial affection.
Not romantic love, and certainly not anything that would transcend ethical boundaries.
At least, that's not what the diary suggests.
Mo Pai had been guiding Mo Ran in her studies, encouraging her to accept humans and fight for them.
Throughout their interactions, there were no overly intimate actions or excessive words.
Mo Ran had no reason to lie to herself in her diary, so the only possibility is that the historical record-keeper made a mistake.
Or perhaps the person recording history lied, or the progressive faction told a colossal lie to cover up their crimes!
However, the truth behind this is difficult to ascertain.
Zhang Chen turned to the last page of the diary.
There were a few more sentences here.
The handwriting had evolved from crooked to strong and powerful, and later could be said to be unique.
But the handwriting on this last page had become somewhat sloppy again.
It was as if Mo Ran had written it in a state of extreme weakness.
I didn't expect humanity's ultimate weapon to be this... but I haven't lost!
Even if I fall into reincarnation, I will break through those high walls!
Reading this, Zhang Chen suddenly felt a pang of sadness.
He hadn't expected the Spider Queen to have such a sorrowful past and such complex emotional entanglements with humans.
No wonder she could not only speak but also possessed human logic and knew everything about the survivors...
Wait a minute!!!
A terrifying thought suddenly flashed through Zhang Chen's mind.
Something's not right!
Normally, before the first suppression was lifted in the apocalypse, zombie-like infected creatures appeared.
At that time, there weren't even plants or insects.
It would have been impossible for the Spider Queen to appear.
In other words, she would only have awakened after the thirtieth day of the apocalypse and encountered survivors.
And upon encountering survivors, she knew everything about them immediately!
She even decisively established a city to lure survivors.
It was as if she had known long ago that survivors would appear in this world, and that they would definitely come to Tengxiang Country.
But this is absolutely illogical.
How could someone who had just been released from suppression—let's call her a human for now—possess the foresight to anticipate so many things?
This was clearly a deliberate and long-planned trap!
Furthermore, the Spider Queen had specifically revealed that Zhang Chen was only a mid-level evolver, or something to that effect...
But the first mid-level evolver in the entire world had only just been born, which was Zhang Chen himself, who had just defeated the Spider Queen.
The Spider Queen had never even fought a mid-level evolver. Even when she was chatting with the brain spider and deliberately leaking information to Zhang Chen, there were no mid-level evolvers born in the world.
How could she have judged that only survivors below the mid-level evolver stage could be parasitized?!
And what was humanity's ultimate weapon that the Spider Queen wrote about on the last page of the diary, which astonished her so much?
What about that "falling into reincarnation"?
If an ordinary person wrote about "falling into reincarnation," it might be a rhetorical flourish.
Or perhaps it was a reference to literature.
But the Spider Queen had never used such writing styles throughout her diary.
She basically wrote from a first-person perspective, realistically depicting events and expressing her inner thoughts.
It was concise and direct!
She wouldn't have the leisure to use rhetorical devices in her diary when she was severely injured, about to be suppressed, or about to die.
But if what she wrote were factual accounts...
Could reincarnation truly mean reincarnation, possibly referring to the cyclical release of suppressions?
However, reincarnation is a cycle, not a unidirectional existence.
Does this mean that once all suppressions in the apocalypse are lifted, a new round of suppression will begin?!
After reading this diary, Zhang Chen's mind was filled with a myriad of questions.
But he wasn't in a hurry.
Because the thick fog had already dispersed, and from here, he could see the towering high walls in the distance.
The answers to all of this lay within those high walls.
Interface City, I'm coming!