freenovelworld #355 - The finale of "The End of Defense" made the whole network cry (2 in 1 order require
#355 - The finale of "The End of Defense" made the whole network cry (2 in 1 order require
At this moment, Ueda also noticed this detail, his expression becoming even more unrestrained.
"So that's how it is, Officer Kitahara, you've reached your wit's end."
Ueda grinned fiendishly.
It seemed that after constantly engaging in various battles within Tokyo, Kitahara was already exhausted.
Realizing that the narrow driver's cab was not conducive to battle, G-chan manipulated Kensuke to slowly back out.
The live broadcast was filled with comments reminding her:
"G-chan, close the door!"
Only then did G-chan remember, taking advantage of the fact that Ueda hadn't come out yet, she tried to block the door, wanting to trap Ueda in the driver's cab.
At this moment, she saw through the glass that a large number of raised blood vessels began to appear on Ueda's face, and his eyeballs also began to turn blood red.
Empowered by the zombie virus, Ueda's strength became exceptionally great.
He waved his only remaining right arm, smashing the car window glass directly, and used his claws to grab at Kensuke.
Kensuke did a backflip, dodging the attack, and Ueda took the opportunity to push the door open and chase after him.
His eyeballs had completely turned red, his consciousness became blurred, and he babbled incoherently:
"Hey, you over there, young man, I'm lost, can you take me home?
My home is in a small mountain village in Fukuoka Prefecture, my mother is waiting for me at home...
Please, save me..."
The viewers analyzed in the live broadcast: "The virus must have infected his brain, his thinking is already chaotic."
G-chan was already trembling with fear, but she was still using the VR device's microphone to soothe Ueda's emotions:
"You go back first, obediently go back to the driver's cab, and I'll take you home."
The blood vessels on Ueda's face continued to writhe, and his throat made a teeth-grinding gurgling sound. Having briefly regained consciousness, he shouted:
"No, you're lying to me... you're lying to me, aren't you? I know I'm infected, hehehe.
Officer Kitahara, do you know why I wanted to develop Corning-Le? My parents, in their early years, were living in our old home in Fukuoka Prefecture, and they both suffered from Alzheimer's disease.
At that time, I was very poor and could only work hard in Tokyo alone, clinging to Councilman Arasaka and climbing to the position of director of the research institute.
To save them, I spent ten whole years developing this drug, ten years!
Unfortunately, my parents didn't live to see the day Corning-Le was released.
From that moment on, I knew that in this world, there is only one disease, and that is—poverty!
But... but I was about to achieve success and fame, and let my parents rest in peace in heaven,
Why? Why did it end up like this!"
G-chan was frightened by Ueda's appearance and continued to appease him:
"Don't worry, your vaccine research has already made progress, hasn't it?"
Ueda Yusaku staggered forward, sneering:
"It's useless. Although I prepared some vaccine samples in the University of Tokyo's laboratory, they still need to be fused with antibody-extracted serum proteins. There's no condition for that here.
This isn't fair... That's right, this isn't fair!"
Ueda Yusaku's voice became increasingly hysterical:
"Officer Kitahara, after you get the vaccine, you'll become a hero who saves the world, while I'll just become a monster wandering in the wilderness.
Why? You're also one of the culprits of today's disaster, but you get to enjoy all the glory.
I... I absolutely won't allow it!"
Having said this, Ueda let out a monstrous roar and pounced towards Kensuke and the others, baring his fangs and claws.
Emi and Misaki screamed in fright, and Kensuke hurriedly blocked Ueda.
On top of the speeding train, the two men began to fight. Although Ueda was missing an arm, his physical strength had increased more than tenfold due to the zombie virus.
Ueda opened his blood basin mouth and bit towards Kensuke's neck.
G-chan raised her VR glove and supported the other's arm, but she could clearly feel that the glove was gradually losing its strength.
At this time, the live broadcast was filled with nervous comments:
"Come on, Little Meatball, Ueda is the final BOSS, victory is just around the corner!"
"Damn it, I'm so nervous watching, it's even more nerve-wracking than playing it myself!"
At this moment, Emi shouted from behind: "Husband, be careful!"
This "husband" was so pitiful and endearing that G-chan's body was filled with strength again. With a delicate shout, she pushed Ueda back towards the driver's cab!
Ueda seized an opening and pushed Kensuke directly onto the iron railing at the edge of the train. Kensuke's back was against the railing, and behind him was an abyss.
The game popped up a QTE prompt, requiring G-chan to touch the trigger points in the air in a timely and accurate manner.
The viewers exclaimed: "Wow, this is the first time I've seen such a complicated QTE in so many VR games I've played."
But G-chan was, after all, a single-player streamer for many years and successfully completed the QTE, pushing Ueda hard in the opposite direction.
Clang!
With a loud noise, Ueda's back slammed heavily against the copper walls of the train.
At this time, Ueda noticed Emi and Misaki on the other side of the train and pounced over with a ferocious expression.
"Wife!"
G-chan lunged forward, hugged Ueda's leg, and prevented him from continuing to move.
Ueda turned around and bit, pressing Kensuke to the ground, his blood basin mouth open, ready to gnaw on his neck.
G-chan grabbed the other's neck with both hands, but at this time, the character's stamina bar in the upper right corner of the screen was already bottoming out. If she fell into a state of exhaustion, then everything would be over!
Just at this critical moment, Emi ran behind Ueda and grabbed the other's collar with force.
"Let go of my husband!"
Hanada Misaki, who had been scared silly, also came back to her senses and began to help.
Under the forceful pulling of the two girls, Ueda's teeth were getting farther and farther away from Kensuke's neck.
Ueda was completely enraged by this and twisted around at a distorted angle, pouncing towards Emi!
Seeing that Emi was about to be bitten, Kensuke directly locked the other's head from behind with his arm at the critical moment.
At this time, G-chan desperately discovered that the character's stamina bar in the upper right corner of her vision had completely bottomed out. No matter how she waved the VR glove, Kensuke was a little powerless.
It was also in this moment of weakness that Ueda's teeth bit into the back of Kensuke's hand, and blood splattered everywhere!
Kensuke cried out in pain.
Seeing Kensuke being bitten, Emi shouted in despair:
"No!!!!!!!!"
The live broadcast was shocked:
"What? What! No way!"
"Damn it, we finally made it here, why, why!"
"There's no way, the male lead has been fighting at high intensity all the way, his physical and mental strength has long been overdrawn, it's already a miracle that he's made it this far."
The game popped up a prompt: [Objective Update: Throw Ueda Yusaku off the train as soon as possible, protect the safety of Emi and Misaki]
Kensuke let Ueda bite his arm, dragging the other towards the back of the train, all the way to the edge of the train.
There were still a few hook locks there, the same as the rear of the car.
G-chan waved the VR glove, picked up one of the chains, wrapped the chain around her waist,
Then pulled Ueda Yusaku and jumped off the train together!
Ueda was quickly thrown off the train, but Kensuke was hooked by the iron chain around his waist, his body hanging in mid-air.
He used all his strength to climb back onto the train.
At this time, Emi was already crying uncontrollably, and Kensuke quickly called Misaki and Emi to the driver's cab.
Emi couldn't hear anything, so Kensuke said to Misaki:
"Misaki, cheer up and listen carefully, this button is the brake, pull this down after you get to a safe place."
Misaki looked at the deep, bone-visible wound on Kensuke's hand and was already scared silly.
Kensuke ran to Emi, who was crying her eyes out, and told her:
"Emi, you have to stay with Misaki, Hokkaido is safe, go find Mom and Dad after you get off the train, our daughter Minako is there too."
Emi heard that Kensuke's words were like a farewell, so she shook her head while crying:
"Kensuke, don't go, please don't go, don't abandon me!
I'm sorry, it's all my fault, I shouldn't have run away from home in a fit of anger, if I had cared about you earlier, you wouldn't have gotten involved with Arasaka Pharmaceuticals, it's all my fault, I'm sorry... Wuwuwu..."
Kensuke: "It's not Mie's fault, it's all my own fault, these are the price I deserve."
Emi shook her head while crying: "How could it be, you're just someone who can't control the situation, we're all small people being manipulated by the Arasaka Consortium, and you clearly wanted to make a vaccine, right... vaccine, vaccine!"
Emi suddenly stood up like crazy and began to frantically search through Ueda's workstation, finally finding a syringe containing a clear injection liquid.
The label on it showed that this was a sample stock solution prepared by Ueda in the University of Tokyo laboratory.
Kensuke silently glanced at the syringe and shook his head with a wry smile:
"Emi, if this thing was really useful, why didn't Ueda use it himself just now?"
Emi:
"Ueda said it, this thing needs to be combined with fresh antibodies, and after a person is infected, the body will immediately produce antibodies, look, here! Ueda's work notes say that the body's antibody peak occurs at the moment when the virus infection is about to lose consciousness, which is the critical point of change between 'human' and 'zombie'!
That time is the time to inject!"
She widened her red eyes and put the syringe in Kensuke's hand.
"Please, try it once!"
Kensuke trembled and took the syringe, thought for a moment and said: "But I can't inject it directly here, no one can guarantee what the consequences will be, I can't let you take risks with me."
At this time, Kensuke looked down and found that the skin on his hands had begun to turn black, and the virus was constantly spreading throughout his body along the blood vessels.
He realized that he would soon lose consciousness, so he said to Misaki:
"Miss Misaki, please help me hold Emi back!"
After saying this, he turned and ran towards the outside of the car, closed the door, and then ran towards the rear of the car.
Emi realized what Kensuke was going to do and immediately cried out, preparing to chase after him.
"Husband!!"
Misaki hugged her directly from behind: "Miss Emi, don't go out, we can't let down Mr. Kensuke's good intentions."
Seeing Emi constantly pounding on the car door, Misaki was about to lose her grip,
Kensuke turned his head and shouted loudly: "Emi! Don't come out... raise our daughter well."
When he mentioned his daughter, Emi's strength in hitting the car window gradually weakened, and she cried and slumped weakly on the car window.
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At this time, Kensuke outside the car was also full of tears.
Seeing this scene, the viewers sighed:
"Wuwuwu, damn Togenkyo, why are you sending knives?"
"They were very affectionate in the first place, quarreling was just a fit of anger, wuwuwu..."
"Damn it, it hit my tear ducts hard."
G-chan operated Kensuke and swayed to the rear of the train.
At this time, the setting sun shone on Kensuke from the end of the horizon.
Kensuke looked down at the syringe in his hand, and the game popped up a prompt:
[Please choose the timing to inject the stock solution and freely choose whether to jump off the train]
[Your choice will affect the ending of the game]
[Now, please make the final choice]
At this time, due to the virus infecting his brain, his eyeballs also began to slowly turn red,
His life's lantern began to appear in front of him.
...
In an elementary school in Hokkaido, Kensuke was beaten black and blue by older students,
The homeroom teacher asked him: "Why did you have to fight them even though they were taller and bigger than you and there were more of them?"
Kensuke straightened his small chest: "Because they bullied the girls in the class! I'm going to become a star policeman when I grow up!"
The homeroom teacher touched Kensuke's head: "If you want to be a policeman, just having brute strength is not enough, you have to study hard."
...
The scene changed, and Kensuke appeared at the graduation ceremony of the police academy.
The principal pinned the police badge on Kensuke's uniform, "Kitahara-kun, protecting the safety of the people depends on you, you are the most outstanding graduate of this class, you can't embarrass your alma mater."
Kensuke raised his hand in salute.
And under the stage, Emi, wearing a JK uniform, had a look of infatuation.
...
The scene changed again, this time it was Kensuke and Emi's wedding.
Under the witness of the priest, the two exchanged rings and made vows,
Then, the two ran out of the church holding hands.
Kensuke: "Emi, oh no, I should call you Mrs. Kitahara now, can you dance for me again, the dance you danced at the party where we first met."
Emi shyly lifted her wedding dress: "I knew you would have this strange request, so I changed into my dance shoes in advance."
Then, Emi began to dance an extremely elegant dance.
...
At this time, Kensuke, who had recalled this point, had completely turned red, but a happy smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.
In the moment of losing consciousness, he stabbed the syringe into his arm, and then jumped forward, jumping off the train...
"No!!!!!!!!"
Emi, who saw this scene, kept crying.
At this time, G-chan in the live broadcast was also crying, she shook her head:
"There's no way, I can only make this choice."
The viewers also frantically commented:
"Help, I didn't play it myself, I can't stop crying just looking at the live broadcast screen QAQ"
"Wuwuwu... they were clearly very affectionate..."
“A person's final consciousness will always be their most beautiful memories.”
“Kitahara Kensuke has finally achieved his redemption, right? In his last moment, he became a qualified police officer once again.”
……
The game plays the ending sequence.
The train travels north, passing over bridge after bridge and through tunnel after tunnel.
On the train, Emi has cried all her tears dry, leaning against the window, her eyes hollow, silent and unmoving.
Near a railway tunnel close to Sapporo Station, the train is stopped by an obstruction.
Hanada Misaki slams on the brakes. They have to continue on foot.
The two of them take the computer terminal from the train, carry it on their backs, and support each other as they walk forward.
As they walk, they find that the surroundings are filled with zombies charred by heavy firepower.
It seems that a fierce battle had taken place here not long ago, but the zombies have been cleared by the military.
At this moment, at the end of the road, in a dug-out trench covered with barbed wire, Self-Defense Force soldiers aim their sights at Emi and Misaki.
He says into the radio, “Report to headquarters, suspicious individuals spotted, walking slowly, uncertain whether they are zombies or humans.”
The reply comes through the radio: “If you deem them suspicious, shoot them directly. Better to kill an innocent than let one slip through.”
The Self-Defense Force soldier adjusts his sniper rifle again.
The comments section erupts in alarm: “No way, don't do it!”
However, another soldier next to him, holding binoculars, exclaims:
“Wait, they're not zombies. Look, they're carrying computer terminals on their backs, and those terminals have the Arasaka Corporation logo on them!”
“Arasaka Corporation? Isn't that the company our newly appointed Arasaka Prime Minister used to run? I remember the Arasaka Prime Minister specifically instructed us to pay close attention to the high-tech terminals the corporation left scattered throughout the country!”
“This is serious! Danger averted, everyone go and rescue them!”
After saying that, the soldiers rush forward.
The game screen fades to black, and the credits begin to roll slowly.
The live stream chat is buzzing with discussion:
“Wahhh, that was so satisfying and heartbreaking, I didn't even bother with dinner, just kept playing with G-chan until the ending.”
“Who didn't?”
“The streamer isn't saying anything either, probably crying their eyes out, sigh…”
After the credits roll for three minutes, the game doesn't end, but continues to play a cutscene.
The comments section continues to spam:
“???????”
“What's going on, is there an after-credits scene?”
The camera quickly pans back from Sapporo Station in Hokkaido.
In the suburbs not far from northern Tokyo, in the weeds beside the railway tracks,
a man's arm extends from the bushes. There is a bite mark on the back of his hand, but the toxins in his bloodstream are slowly receding.
Not far from him, a business card is scattered on the ground, which reads:
「Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department, Kitahara Kensuke, Assistant Inspector」
【Congratulations on achieving the true end: Living Towards Death】