Dual Worlds: I Have a Doomsday World

Back in the Cyber World, Lin Qi didn’t have much to prepare.

Everything would have to wait until he arrived in Alliance City.

He habitually splashed his face with water, then lay down on his bed to rest.

...

「8:00 AM, March 18, 2089.」

The alarm Lin Qi had set hadn’t gone off yet, but a call from Liu Xuan came through first.

The audio was transmitted directly as a simulated neural signal by the Intelligent Brain connected to the electrodes behind his ear.

Lin Qi opened his eyes and glanced instinctively at the time.

’It’s only 8:00. Why is she contacting me so early?’

Lin Qi suddenly remembered that when Liu Xuan had told him they were leaving today, she hadn’t specified a time.

’Does that mean we’re leaving right now?’

He hurriedly got up and accepted the call. 𝘧𝓇ℯ𝑒𝓌𝑒𝑏𝓃𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘭.𝒸ℴ𝓂

Liu Xuan’s exquisite face was instantly projected onto Lin Qi’s retinas by the simulated signal from his electrodes.

"I’m waiting at your door. We leave in five minutes."

Sure enough, Liu Xuan was all ready.

Lin Qi quickly replied, "Okay."

After replying, Lin Qi shot out of bed, grabbed two changes of clothes, and hurried into the bathroom to rinse his mouth and wash his face.

He quickly ran a hand through his short hair.

He grabbed his small suitcase and walked out of the room.

Liu Xuan was standing right outside his door, not carrying a single thing.

As the company’s chairman, Liu Xuan wasn’t short on cash, and Alliance City wasn’t short on goods.

Anything she needed could be bought in Alliance City.

"Follow me."

At some point, Liu Xuan had swapped her left eye Prosthetic Body for a purple one.

It was a High Level Suppressor, but it was barely active at the moment. It only emitted a faint glow, proof that it wasn’t a real eye.

Lin Qi nodded and followed behind her.

When it came to official business, it was best to let Liu Xuan take the lead. Lin Qi always reminded himself that he was a competent company employee.

He followed Liu Xuan out the villa’s front door and into a flying vehicle.

Liu Xuan sat in the driver’s seat, with Lin Qi beside her.

Theoretically, flying vehicles could navigate Red Fruit City on full autopilot, but Liu Xuan, like Lin Qi, seemed to prefer manual control.

This was the first time Lin Qi had ever been in Liu Xuan’s flying vehicle.

’He had to admit, you get what you pay for.’

The seats were far more comfortable than those in his own flying vehicle, which could only be described as an "airborne tractor."

They even had climate control, and the breathability of the material was flawless.

The vehicle even had a fresh, clean scent.

Lin Qi instinctively twitched his nose, sniffing audibly.

’This vehicle is so high-end, it even has a custom scent...’

As he was mentally rating the vehicle, Lin Qi suddenly noticed a purple reflection on the windshield.

The reflection was slowly growing brighter.

’What the...?’

Lin Qi took a closer look and realized it was the glow from Liu Xuan’s left eye Prosthetic Body.

Lin Qi froze.

’What’s going on? Why did the Suppressor’s power suddenly spike?’

As a researcher in Prosthetic Engineering, Lin Qi naturally recognized the true nature of the Prosthetic Body in Liu Xuan’s left eye.

’But nothing’s happened. Why is the Suppressor’s power ramping up so fast?’

’Don’t tell me Liu Xuan’s about to have a cyber psychosis episode.’

Lin Qi asked with some concern, "Liu Xuan, are you..."

In private, Lin Qi and Liu Xuan were friends, so it was normal for him to use her first name.

Liu Xuan cut him off. "Sit still and don’t fidget."

’Huh?’

’I was just trying to show some concern. Why such a strong reaction?’

The next second, the flying vehicle shot forward.

It went from one hundred to three hundred kilometers per hour in just 1.4 seconds.

Even Lin Qi was taken aback by the sudden acceleration.

’Oh crap, is she really losing it?’

Lin Qi quickly shut his mouth.

’I shouldn’t have asked.’

Fortunately, Lin Qi himself was a Tier Two Extraordinary, so the roughly four Gs of acceleration barely affected him.

In fact, it gave him time to think.

He thought back on what he’d just done. The only thing that could have provoked such a strong reaction from Liu Xuan seemed to be...

’...the way I sniffed the air?’

He tried to pinpoint the source of the scent again.

’I’ve never heard of high-end vehicles having a simulated fragrance feature.’

Lin Qi’s expression stiffened. He glanced at Liu Xuan out of his Peripheral Vision.

’In other words, the scent was actually coming from...’

’Right. No wonder she reacted like that.’

Lin Qi quickly pretended he knew nothing, sitting perfectly still in his seat without saying a word.

At three hundred kilometers per hour, they could cross Red Fruit City from one end to the other in no time.

This trip to Alliance City was a journey of roughly three thousand kilometers.

Liu Xuan probably wasn’t planning on taking this small flying vehicle the whole way.

The ride would be far too uncomfortable for such a long journey.

Besides, Lin Qi doubted it would be just the two of them going to Alliance City.

Therefore, Liu Xuan’s current destination wasn’t Alliance City, but the Liu’s Heavy Industries Headquarters.

Sure enough, Red Fruit City’s landmark building soon came into view: the Liu’s Heavy Industries Headquarters, an octagonal building that looked a bit short and stout.

The flying vehicle landed smoothly on the top floor of the Liu’s Heavy Industries Headquarters.

"We’re switching vehicles. We’ll be taking a large Liu Clan hovercraft to Alliance City."

The purple light flickering from her left eye’s Prosthetic Body had subsided considerably, and the glow was now barely visible.

Lin Qi breathed a sigh of relief and stepped out of the flying vehicle a pace behind Liu Xuan.

On the vehicle’s landing pad, a full twelve people in black Liu Clan security uniforms were standing in two rows.