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I slowly opened my eyelids and gradually opened them.

Surrounded by a familiar void of data.

"Am I offline......" looked at his hands in front of him and confirmed that I was indeed me.

I had experienced the memories of the black mist just now, just like Xie Yan had felt when he had fused with the source of the black mist.

But...... Why? Why did I get the memories of the Black Mist?

"You're awake." A familiar voice came from behind him.

It's the chief.

I turned around, and he was still looking at me with the same kind fish face, smiling.

"I'm here to congratulate you." He said.

"Congratulations?" I'm a little confused.

The chief put his hands behind his back and walked slowly towards me, "Do you know what the true meaning of the ability 'Origin' is? ”

"What?" Sure enough, he had come to preach and teach again.

"It's the interaction between the data itself, that's why it's called 'origin'." He pointed to my chest, "And yours has the same thing buried here." ”

"It's just that you haven't noticed it yet." He said leisurely.

By the way, speaking of the origin, I should have been attacked by the black fog before, so I am ...... now Dead?

"Am I dead in the game?" I asked hurriedly.

"Dead?" The chief looked at me, a little incomprehensible, "What are you talking about, you are in the ruins of the gears now, you can go back whenever you want, you still have a reward yet." ”

"Alright, that's all for now, I hope the next time I see you, you'll begin to understand your own hidden." The chief waved his hand, and the figure faded before my eyes.

"Oh yes, I forgot to remind you."

An ethereal word came from the void.

"Your lonely kingdom has a visitor."

Visitor?

I looked around, trying to find something different in this blank void.

Could it be ...... Is it Elise?

She came here after she died?

I suddenly couldn't suppress the excitement in my heart, and I flew up and down to find it.

A point of light looms.

I flew over quickly.

The light of the point of light grew stronger and stronger, and the volume that appeared before my eyes became larger and larger.

It was a ball of light wrapped in a humanoid form.

I leaned forward and took a closer look.

Unfortunately, my hopes were disappointed, and it was clearly a man wrapped in it.

And it looks very familiar.

Is that...... Thank you!

How did he end up here after he died?

I tapped the ball of light, and my hand sank into it. Feeling bad, I hurriedly pulled my hand out.

Xie Yan slept in the ball of light, his eyes closed.

Hey, forget it.

It seems that he won't wake up for a while.

My mind is finally back on track.

After those black mist invaded my body, I got their memories.

I thought those symbiotes were the last plague products.

But when I looked at the memories of the black fog, I found a big news.

It reminded me of Elise's sudden departure that day, the fact that she locked me in the lab, and the system prompt.

[If a weak civilization does not accept annexation or transformation, it will eventually be destroyed by a strong civilization. The 'Manyo Country' was wiped out by the 'Weaving Star Country' in the conflict with the 'Weaving Star Country'. 】

The powerful Weaving Star Country has been continuously purchasing weapons from Gear City, and biological and chemical weapons are naturally among them.

According to the memories of the Black Mist, the Weaver Nation purchased a considerable amount of Fog Plague and Entity Plague from Gear City.

I can even feel the scene of me wreaking havoc in the city of Manyo Province in the first person.

Luckily, though, the Nation of Weavers is the only exporter of the plague, which is probably a blessing in disguise.

"Okay." I left the orb of light and prepared to enter the game.

After all, I still have a reward to claim.

……

After a familiar flash of white light, the scene I was in switched to Gear City.

Well, it doesn't seem to be a city anymore.

It was the middle of the day, and the sun was spreading its light unrestrainedly.

I sat on a ruin, looking at the countless ruins and the flesh and blood of the streets.

Sure enough, it's a dead city, and probably only the Lord's Mansion is the only building left here.

Looking sideways, the garden of the Lord's Mansion is still intact, and it is also the only green space left here.

Ah yes, rewards.

What's the other reward?

I opened my backpack and saw the familiar cube.

This is...... Essentia cube? I took it out.

The [Soul Cube・Molten Iron Hime] system shows its name.

Molten Iron Queen...... This is Elise's essentia cube!

But despite that, I can't use it, I can't shapeshift, or anything.

Probably missing some steps.

When Elise first taught me how to use the essentia cube, she told me that when you first use it, you need to activate the cube so that it can recognize its master.

In other words, this cube is either based on Elise, or it has been restored, do I need to activate it again?

"Hawkeye." I decided to investigate.

【Soul Cube・Molten Iron Ji is not activated】

Inactive ...... And so it was.

I held the cube in my palm, held it up, and infused it with my own magic.

The essentia cube gradually glowed and flickered.

Some light emanated from its body and went back again.

After this action continued a few times, the light of the cube gradually dimmed, but it was far less dim than it had just been.

Suddenly, the cube left my palm, and it drifted away, floating in the air half a meter away from me.

Just as I was wondering, a half-illusory, half-real figure was projected from the cube.

"You ......" I was dumbfounded, speechless in surprise.

"Hello, we're meeting again." The human figure bowed slightly, which was not at all like her style.

She gradually looked up, her ponytail fluttering behind her.

Her face was finally visible to me.

There were two lines of illusory tears on her beautiful immature face.

"I actually, really, have a lot to say to you." She cried with two points.

Although I have never seen her like this on weekdays, the first time I saw such a scene, my heart naturally fluctuated strongly.

Elise ...... "I had my hands at my side, not knowing what to say to her.

For a moment, I even wanted to rush forward and hug her, but now she was just an illusory figure, and the thought made me calm again.

We just looked at each other without saying a word, and then laughed at each other at the same time.

Such a reunion, although somewhat awkward in form.

But for us, it's the best reward.

……

"So, why did you become like this?" I sat quietly, leaning against a ruin. Beside him is Elise's essentia cube.

"Hah...... I don't know. She sat down with me.

"At that time, I remember that I was originally and completely erased by Xie Yan, but I miraculously still had a little bit of consciousness left, wandering on your battlefield."

"I don't expect your understanding, but when I saw that you were still facing me, I was really moved." She looked at me, "and then I lost the last shred of consciousness." ”

"But I really don't want to disappear, I don't want to die silently with regrets, with the truth that no one knows, so at the last moment, I put this trace of consciousness into the essentia cube I left behind." She smiled wryly.

"It's okay, I succeeded in the end, otherwise I might never see you again, and I wouldn't be able to say some words again."

has completely lost the hooligan atmosphere of the previous female man, and now, for some reason, she is more like a girl who makes a wish to the meteor to succeed.

"You know what." She looked at me with a smile.

"Actually, I know that we are all NPCs, and I also know that we were in the middle of an event before."

"If I had been following the path of the system, I wouldn't be like this now, and neither would I be in Gear City." She shook her head and said with a wry smile, "I've always felt that this path was wrong, but unfortunately as an NPC, I can't disobey the system's instructions, but I can let you do it, so I taught you a mechanic and asked you to go to the town to relieve the siege and save people." ”

"I just wanted to put an end to this biological weapon and end the tragic fate of these people."

"But because you saved Xie Yan, everything has changed, now that I think about it, maybe this is also part of the plot."

Elise's head hung down, "I'm really angry when I see countless towns destroyed because of this thing, and even used in wars to destroy other countries. ”

"I'm anxious to change that, but maybe I'm in a hurry."

"But now that Xie Yan is dead, the plague is over, and my long-cherished wish has probably been fulfilled."

"Let's bury this thing here forever."

Elise looked up at the sunlight shining through the clouds in the sky.

After listening to Elise's words, I thought about it for a while, and finally said a word.

"What we're getting now is probably the best outcome."

They looked at each other without saying a word, looking at each other and smiling.