Chapter 17: The Old World, Part 2

The world has been like this since a long time ago.

When she said this, her expression was indifferent, as if she had experienced a long time.

And that's exactly what happened.

Beibing remembers that the first time she was awakened by Dawning Technology was in 2060, the twelfth year of the Red Mist Crisis.

After recovering from a long hibernation, Dawning began having her and nineteen other subjects play a "war game" in the simulation room.

The background is on the colonized planet Tula, where there is a low-intelligence creature like a snake, vaguely resembling a barbarian civilization.

The rules of the war game are to eliminate more players with limited weapons and only lives at your disposal, or, kill more monsters.

In the beginning, there were no players who specifically hunted monsters.

Their points are too low and not challenging, and it's more fun to hunt down opponents who are also players.

It wasn't until after a while that the player accidentally discovered that the points earned for killing certain monsters with special markings were higher than the points earned for killing the player.

For a while, the nineteen players who participated in the test were all chasing down the special creatures, including the North Ice.

She always thought that this was just a virtual game, so she never chased down the monsters with special marks in the game, and did not hesitate to die with the monsters, just to get higher points.

What's more, the project leader promised that on the day of the end of the test, the player who ranked first in the standings would go directly to the list of the first sequence and be designated as the Civilization Watcher.

If all this really were just a game, no one would be burdened with sin.

But a war game, not a game, is a war.

- It is an expedition to unify the colonization planet Tula of the Earth Cross Base.

But as weapons of war, they don't know.

The test of this war game lasted for ten years, and their bodies remained dormant, and only consciousness was awakened.

As a result, there will be some unexpected errors when you log in to the game.

Just that little mistake that no one noticed, let Arctic get a glimpse of the truth of the world.

On that day, when she quit the game because of game over, the rainforest, the snow, the island, and the desert suddenly twisted and transformed into a burning city, a slaughtered army, and a building that was split in two...... And those "monsters".

That's not a monster at all, it's the Tula Guard!

The blood-colored flame symbol lit up the heavy rainy night.

With the eyes of a prosthetic body, she saw everything she had done, and her spirit almost collapsed - what had she done!

That's a fellow citizen from Earth!

After the Arctic boarded out of the game, he was taken to the Black Tower of the Cross Base to deal with the betrayals.

It turns out that knowing the truth about the war game is to trigger the forbidden law of the cross base.

"Am I going to die here?" She asked Xingyan, who had come to visit the prison.

Xingyan, who looked like a young man, smiled slightly, more gentle than the gentle breeze in Cloud City in her memory, "No, you have more important things to do." ”

Beibing quickly reacted, and asked with burning eyes, "Ah, it's an agreement...... I know the truth of this, and it is also in your calculations? ”

"If you can't even see through the virtual world, how can you become the administrator of the source world?"

"That'...... Do they know that the game is against Tula? ”

Xingyan asked, "What if you know, what if you don't know?" ”

Oh, yes.

Knowing what, not knowing what, it's not about continuing the war yet.

From Star Rock's narration, Beibing learned that what they logged in at the beginning was indeed a virtual game.

But then, it wasn't.

During the battle, they controlled the prosthetic body of Tula, which was used as a weapon of war on the colonized planet Tula before the Earth was blocked.

The prosthesis modified the subject's field of vision to set the object to be erased from the crossbar to "Monster".

They became the weapons of the Cross Base to suppress the rebels and kill the Wise Species.

The so-called game is to clean up the colonized planet Tula, the rebels who do not obey the cross base to conquer the original creatures, and the alien creatures who always have intelligence, that is, those "basilisks" with special markings.

"So, do you want to be the North Ice, or the G19? Is it to be a human being? Or do you want to make weapons? ”

- If it's as Arctic Ice, you'll just die in the Black Tower.

- You should be well aware that you represent not only yourself, but also the Source World.

- So, no matter what you choose, you will still be a G19 after all.

- Even if you choose to continue as a Arctic player, your responsibilities will not allow it.

- G19, Abandon pity, abandon morality, do not need feelings, only the task is the most important.

"Okay."

That year, she agreed to Star Rock's proposal, erasing mercy and morality, and participating in the war to unify the colonized planet.

However, the subject's consciousness reconnected with the prosthetic again and again, and again and again with high intensity, suppressed the resistance, and finally, the connection between the ontology and the prosthetic body was broken.

This rupture is more than 100 years.

When she woke up again, it was 2188.

The testers who participated in the game at the beginning have long been history, only she has never woken up, controlled by the Cross Base, and used as a weapon of war to escort the starship on the alien battlefield.

In this hundred years of fighting, she also understood that the Red Mist Crisis was not the origin of everything.

The origin of everything is his ......

It was 2192 A.D., and when she first stood on the Red Wasteland, Xingyan's words rang in her ears again.

- The world has been like this since a long time ago.

- If the universe is the testing ground of advanced civilizations, then the greenhouse is the testing ground of the cross base.

More than a hundred years ago, when she erased her feelings, she asked him standing outside the cabin, "Xingyan, what are you doing all this for?" ”

He said, haven't you seen it many times in the game?

At this moment, she suddenly remembered the oath that popped up when she logged into the game: "For freedom, for tomorrow, for the future of the world, fight to the end!" ”

In fact, it is normal for the Cross Base to use this thunderous means to unify the colonized planet Tula!

It's just that I can't kill myself......

But if you want to become a civilized watchdog, mercy and morality must be abandoned!

"What are you thinking?" Kazusawa asked the obviously distracted girl with a little curiosity.

Beibing glanced at him, clenched the sniper rifle in his hand, and walked forward with his feet raised.

Where they couldn't see, the girl closed her eyes slightly, wiped away the sadness in her eyes, and whispered, "Think about what kind of person I used to be." ”

Perhaps it was then that the North Ice knew that there was no turning back.

Therefore, when G met White Kellan, he regarded him as salvation.

The angel had not forgotten his kindness, but he was still at a loss.

How can we purify her mind?

How can I redeem her soul?

He never got it, and he never sought it.

Until, the Celestial City collapsed in the catastrophe.

Did Bai ever hate me?

On the way to the Tower of the Sun, the messenger asks Kailan, who has inherited the memories of the angel.

But, what Kellan's answer was, Hirsch didn't remember.

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