Qi Xuan, who was silent in the dark, was no longer bothered by the pain, because the physical pain had been numbed.

But the pain in his heart continued.

Fear, suffocation, and powerlessness tormented the twenty-one-year-old.

The heroic dream that he had never been on the battlefield but was forced to accept all this, and who had never had it, was disillusioned at the moment when he had just begun to work hard.

In him, Lin Sen saw his former self.

A walking dead who may know how to work hard, but still feel powerless.

In the years in the mine, Lin Sen has always been in this state, he is not smiling, he is not good at talking, these external images are the result of life squeezing. But in fact, Lin Sen has been innocent and lively since he was a child.

"It's the Dummy system, this stupid boy has been taken advantage of." The elusive Victoria reappeared, this time with a much more serious expression.

Dummy system？ After retrieving the relevant data, Lin Sen suddenly understood a lot of things.

[Dummy system: literally translated as autopilot system, its other name is "puppeteer system.] The system was first born at the end of the Salary King, and is one of the derivative creations of the Golden Birdcage Number Order Revolution, and the characteristic of this system is that it can send relevant execution instructions without independent consciousness directly participating in the control. In the early days, the puppeteer system was mostly used for exoskeleton recovery and the deployment of the mind chariot, but after the Golden Birdcage was defeated and the empire rose, considering its particularity and in order to avoid being militarized and abused, the puppeteer system was ruled to be a forbidden research and development project, so the development and application of the puppeteer system was at a standstill for a long time. However, after the fall of the Empire, the Coalition military decided to restart the development of the puppeteer system in order to recover the available resources. To this day, there are still a large number of exoskeletons, mechs, and loadouts that can be controlled by the puppeteer system in many special divisions of the Freedom Wings Guard.

I see...... No wonder Pinocchio is so abnormal......

But......

Lin Sen looked at Victoria beside him and asked with a strange expression, "Aren't you the one who used him?" ”

Victoria smiled: "I said it was a human being, how could it be me, I was just a part of being used." ”

After hearing this, Lin Sen thought for a while, and finally sorted it out.

Listen to Victoria's meaning, in synthesizing everything Linsen has learned so far.

It is true that there is a person who is secretly manipulating.

The prophet just self-righteously gave Pinochio to Qi Xuan, but he didn't know that Pinochi's replica data concealed the puppeteer system, so there was a scene where Pinocchio seized control and killed the Quartet after Qi Xuan completed the activation of Pinochi.

But one thing that Lin Sen didn't quite understand was that Pinochio didn't do anything unfavorable to the prophet, the purpose of protecting the prophet was just that the process had changed, but the direction was the same.

If the prophet was also used, and Pinocio was also manipulated, then what was the real purpose of this man?

Lin Sen thought for a long time and had no answer, and finally could only sigh: "The human heart is terrifying." ”

The battle continues, and both sides are throwing their lives away in the oven.

Lin Sen, who was in charge of the onlookers, was dazzled, but quickly lost interest.

He found a relatively quiet place to sit down, quietly waiting for the end of the war.

Surprisingly, this time Victoria didn't leave, she followed Lin Sen's side, sitting less than ten centimeters away from him, her eyes swept over the entire battlefield, but there was no trace of fluctuation in her expression.

"Do you think this fight makes sense?" Victoria asked suddenly.

Lin Sen was not in a hurry to draw conclusions, because he was just a bystander, and these participants were in front of him.

Whether it's a numbered life or a mechanical will, if it's really meaningless, why would they kill each other?

"What do you think?" Lin Sen threw the question back.

Victoria snorted, though the laughter was hard.

"Maybe there is, otherwise what are you working so hard for...... Victoria said, she stood up, she pointed to the distance and continued: "Those Hua represent not destruction, but absolute freedom, can you understand this? ”

Lin Sen nodded, he understood now.

"It's good to be able to understand, a group of people who believe in absolute freedom are no longer willing to be ordinary after entering the world of number order, each of them is taking, they are changing, in the very beginning of the days, the world of number order is strange, all kinds of unbelievable people and things emerge in endlessly, but the human beings who have been physically satisfied because of greed have begun to demand the only and master of the spiritual will! So they did something they should never do......" Victoria paused, his hand down.

Lin Sen looked at the Hua who were attacking desperately in the distance, as if he had seen a group of xenos.

“…… Their greed prompted them to take the place of the prophets and to try to dominate the world by their own will. "Victoria told the sad truth about the world of numbers.

Just like a world without gravity, there are always some people who try to jump into the universe in comparison.

"Uniqueness is eternal...... This kind of thing is unavoidable...... At present, the foundation of the continuation of human civilization is based on the premise of progress, which will pile up capital and make the invisible pyramid erect......" Lin Sen said, and suddenly listened, he looked at Victoria.

Victoria kept smiling while building a triangle with the thumb and forefinger of both hands.

"You're so smart, this is Violdred! Humanity has given absolute freedom to the world of number order! ”

Lin Sen saw the eye-catching triangle and laughed silently, and he suddenly brightened.

I see......

Freedom without order is itself an endless evolution.

"And then?" Lin Sen asked about the previous story.

Victoria continued: "Where there is madness, there is reason, and not all wills are born for the Lord, so while some people choose to challenge the golden birdcage, others choose to respect the order, which is also the first time that human civilization yearns for 'death', 'aging', and so on, which they have been fighting and rejecting. So the prophet made a decision, she made a choice between total destruction and self-restraint, and the end result was that order descended on the world of order, and the challengers became Hua, who were banished to desolation, and lived forever to reflect on their sins because of greed, and the adherents became the citizens of Piano, who built cities with the help of cheaters and enjoyed life. ”

Victoria's story ended here, but after Lin Sen listened to it, his mood was very flat.

Because...... Although it was the first time he learned these truths from Victoria, the truth contained in them was not the first time Lin Sen felt it.

The desire for freedom and the support for order may seem contradictory, but they complement each other.

Any one extreme of independence will have unpredictable consequences.

The price of their freedom was terrible, and the citizens of Piano in the Order did not really get the life they wanted.

The will of the Prophet was divided before Victoria and Violdred were born, and the collision of the two extremes led to the current war.

Without conciliatory negotiations, what either side wants to do is to replace, not tolerate.

……

Over the next five days, the fighting intensified and eventually died down......

When the last Vanguard-class mech fell, the only remaining 01 combat area, the Pinochio, the Savvy, and the Annihilation were surrounded by fourteen Brilliant mechs.

The mecha legion led by Mia seems to have won the battle.

But the badly damaged Know-It-Senses still insisted on standing at the front, Sucoco's scarlet eyes filled with anger and hatred.

But Mia and the others had a faint expression, and each driver had a wooden expression and a stiff expression.

"Su Keke, as a traitor, I am surprised by your performance." As soon as Mia opened her mouth, she ruthlessly revealed a hidden secret.

Traitor?

This word finally stimulated Qi Xuan, who had been in a half-asleep state for several days.

He came to his senses and looked at Su Keke in shock.

Su Keke replied disapprovingly: "Leaving you crazy people is the best decision I have ever made, so you don't need to be surprised, because the surprise is still to come." ”

Lin Sen stood far away and watched at first, but when he heard this, he alertly sniffed the key point and quickly approached.

Mia's mechanical face could not express her surprise smoothly, and she could only reply in a consistent voice, "Oh? Even now, do you think you have a chance of winning? ”

Su Keke sneered: "Then you think you will definitely win?" ”

Lin Sen stood on top of Pinoxiu's head, watched the two women arguing, and yawned after only two sentences.

Can you hurry up...... Lin Sen, who has been wearing out of patience recently, can't wait at all.

However...... For the next half an hour, the two women kept arguing, and they had no intention of fighting.

Lin Sen was about to go crazy at this scene.

Thankfully, Mia finally realizes that the enemy is deliberately stalling for time, so she forces a silence to put an end to the seemingly inconclusive quarrel.

Qi Xuan was already dizzy.

He didn't care about the ending anymore, maybe it would be nice to stay in Pinoxiu's body like this.

Self-numb, he soon became drowsy again.

But what happened next was beyond everyone's expectations.

Even Lin Sen, who was watching the whole audience, didn't realize that there would be such an ending.

When he saw the venom driven by Mia rushing towards the badly damaged Shen Zhi, Yin Ling planned to step forward to protect it, but before Venom could raise the blade, Venom's heart was pierced by a long sword.

Moreover, the blade of the sword was pierced from the back of the venom.

The sudden scene not only woke up Qi Xuan again, but also caught Su Keke off guard, she was about to fight to the death after her pretended calm delaying tactics were discovered!

As a result, the betrayal happened without warning.