Book IX, Chapter 12
At the end of the battle, he pierced the phantom in front of him thousands of times. The energy trigger was turned off at the right time, because the heart-shaped energy trigger located in the left chest of his torso was the core of his full fight, and the energy intensification time provided was only three hundred seconds, which was sixty seconds longer than Veryl's energy trigger as v2.001 and later, and he had never understood why. Veryl was on par with him in strength and maneuverability, and he didn't know why he had a higher version number and more advanced energy triggers than hers.
There is no doubt that asking these questions will lead to the cleansing of one's own memory.
If you don't defeat your opponent within the energy trigger time, you will undoubtedly face the end of being dismembered. Although the process was painless, he must have felt depressed at the thought that the memories he had worked so hard to accumulate that were worthy of his own study would also disappear.
"Good job, Zino. Gremel didn't show up next to the giant solution tank, it was the familiar elven programmer who was reporting realistically. But until now, he didn't know the name of the elf - in fact, all the staff in the room, he and Verille only knew the name Glimeel.
The hair dryer behind him caused the remaining viscous liquid on his body to evaporate rapidly, and the programmer next to him quickly finished writing the actual yàn briefing and left the room filled with blue light. As usual instructions, his next task was to return to his "room" to rest, and just as he was about to do so, a small thing jumped on his shoulder.
"Zino!"
A small, senior program debugging mechanical assistant with a special peach-colored texture whispered in his ear. It bears a resemblance to a creature called the "Otter" in the Zino Number jù library. But the otter never has the long, wide ears and smooth, soft white surface and very modern peach pattern.
"Hello, Ruti. ”
"Forty-six!Systemcall!Listshadowinternalstorage!Dummysystemrelease!"
The number of virtual memories that had not yet been emptied appeared in front of his eyes in an instant. The dense density of 1s and zeros was a bit overwhelming for his computing power, but Ruti, who was sitting on his shoulder, could easily discern what he was hiding with DummySystem.
"Zino. Are you listening?" Ruti anxiously grabbed Zino's hair.
"Yes, I'm listening. Does there a question arise?" Zino replied calmly, but the word "calm" didn't mean much to the sense ecocyborg.
"Zino, I've temporarily blocked the alarm message from entering your information processing system with the DummySystem - I'll tell you the reason now!"
Zino's heart was once again in turmoil, just as Grimmel had been aware of the day when Velier had warned him not to make a lot of physical memories he had accumulated.
It seemed that in the course of a few days, these mechanized life, which had accompanied him for twenty years, had taken on elements that were incomprehensible to him, and in an instant the features that could only have appeared in the biomorphic human world beyond the real room flickered among the various people he was familiar with, and for the first time he felt strange to his only dwelling.
Ruti is nothing more than a computational ecological cyborg. In order for it to be autonomous and intelligent, its brain is also based on the brain of a human body, but it is particularly amnestic-cleaned. This makes it completely forget about the fact that it was once human in the distant past. On the other hand, Gremmel was unable to exert much action interference on it, and simply deployed it as a secondary software to Zino for daily debugging tasks. Other than that, Rutty doesn't discuss anything else with him for any reason, it's not a combat mech, and the only point of its life is to constantly find bugs in his code and then delete and correct them. Just as Zino's life is all about constant training and fighting.
"Please. ”
With his authority, he could of course easily revoke the DummySystem and even file a repair request with Gremmel. Ruti may have been completely shut down because of this, and the virtual number that maintains his individual consciousness will be annihilated in the moment when the energy disappears. When it turns on again. Ruti will be a blank slate without any memory, and Ruti, who has screened for him for twenty years of procedural errors, will be gone.
Little did he know that saying this would completely change his future destiny.
"Zino. I know you don't remember, but you did. Ask me to get your memories back. Now, here's that opportunity. ”
"Was it before my memory was erased?" Zino asked rhetorically. "My memories -- my memories of being human. That's a very objective temptation, so go on, Ruti. ”
"Thank you! Thank you, Zino!" Ruti's eyes sparkled, a look of joy he had never seen before.
"Zino, I've read the surveillance report with your permission, and Gremel has never completely erased my memory, so I recognize that one of the attackers was a person you seemed to know in the past. ”
For the first time in twenty years, his fantasy true past has been confirmed. The delusions of the past and the traces of delusions that were constantly being erased washed over his cache again and again, and the impact of life memories made him sluggish. He stared into Ruti's eyes and said nothing.
“return(46); fflush(stdin);”
Typing the command, Luti silently closes the debugger.
"Gremel has given you the order to stop the enemy. Go meet that person, I promised, get your memories back!"
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The junction between the top of the Tower of Babel and the lower part of Sky Castle has been loosened, and it may be dislocated at any time. At the risk of this, Gigmont was the first to rush to the closed circle. The dagger in his hand surpassed the closed limit of the enchantment with an extremely high pressure under the amplification of his fighting energy, and accurately hit the microtubule bundle that kept the circle running.
The magic circle that was interrupted immediately disappeared. The sirens immediately sounded, and the group did not panic in the slightest. The Demon Breaker dagger in Gigmont's hand flew in all directions as if it had eyes, and many of the attack circles had been cleverly destroyed with a single blow before they could even be recharged.
The absolute silence was suddenly filled with the sound of sirens, and they felt an inexplicable sense of security after running around the Tower of Babel for more than ten hours in a row. The battle mechs pouring out of the secret door were instantly pierced by the elite and well-prepared special operators, and soon the narrow metal corridor was filled with fragments of broken machinery.
"Why are there so many!" the steel crossbow in Bell's hand spewed out fiery orange tongues of fire again and again under the stimulus of the fighting spirit, and each hit of the attack swept a large area of machinery down. But the autonomous defense mechs that came to send them to death still poured in. Although there were some tricky mechs in it, they still couldn't hold up for a moment under Gigmont's knife. Perhaps this endless stream of sacrificial machines is meant to drain their power in anticipation of the final killer weapon.
"Pay attention to the saving body. Gigmont whispered behind him. A team of sixteen people. Nine were responsible for defense and seven for attack. With skillful cooperation, the group of people moved forward steadily and at high speed, and the internal structure of the real room, which had been vague according to the previous information, gradually became clear.
In fact, such an intruder who intervened by non-force force was even more difficult for Gremel to deal with than Sheila at level 5. Level 5 strength often relies on space power, and her mastery of space power makes Sheila disdain to go directly through layers of protective nets and go straight to Grimel's office in the center of the real room. The squeezing of space is useless for the fourth level who does not understand the power of space, and under the conditions of weak defense in a small space, Verriel and Zino, who have great strength, will not dare to attack with all their strength under the order of Grimmel, who throws a mouse, to destroy the important facilities around the real room.
Veryl, who is on a mission to create a new enchantment in Sky City, is still some time away from rushing back. So Grimmel immediately ordered Zino to deal with the situation. With his strength beyond the limit of the fourth-level strength, a certain amount of spatial perception, and countless combat experience with the Virtual Wing Demon, his strength can despise opponents below the first level of the fifth level.
"Contempt" - what does this word mean?
The space in front of him suddenly opened up, passing through a narrow metal passage. They finally reached the inner hall. A few screaming staff members who left the control station immediately became their targets, and coercion is often an extremely effective psychological tactic against such non-military base opponents. Because they don't understand the value of sacrifice.
A motorized device for climbing Babel shoots out long steel cables. In an instant, the two young female workers were tightly bound.
Blue light flickered from behind a door, and the blades of fiery and pure energy slashed down in the air. Han Litai let out a loud shout. The special combat team member in charge of defense behind him also raised the weapon in his hand, and the light of fighting energy and magic superimposed. Instantly and accurately met the blue light attack of the unknown person.
The blade jumped away as if it were elastic, concentrating deeply on the ceiling reinforced by the composite steel plate. After a loud roar, sharp metal shards and clods of earth fell.
The workers in white lab coats, who were strangled by two special operators with steel ropes, screamed and cried, and the daggers in the hands of the Cross Brigade raiders only required a glance from Gigmont, and two young girls in their twenties with higher education were about to die.
"Forty-six...... Zino!!Zino!Help us!!"
"Zino?" Listening to the screams of the girls who were about to break down, Gigmont frowned slightly and looked at the man who appeared twenty meters in front of them after the blue light had cleared.
- It can only be said that he still has a human form.
The body without the streamlined beauty of muscular lines is firmly cobbled together by plastic steel blocks, and the steel-blue surface is mixed with the gray-white traces left by the fullerene overlay, which looks a little dirty. The hands and feet of the extremities are clearly no longer fleshy and soft, but artificial limbs interspersed with elemental flow microtubules and high-strength carbon fiber skeleton alloys. There was no doubt that there was a huge amount of energy stored in each place, and the place where he should be the mouth of the human heart flashed with a blinding white light, which was undoubtedly the center of his power mobilization.
"Guys, if the attack is effective, attack him with all your might. Bell judged by the crossbowman's superb eyesight. Others expressed their acceptance with silence.
The only thing that appears to show signs of a human being is his head, although his cheeks are also inlaid with armor. But there was no doubt that there were still some elements in those eyes that only living people would have.
Gilgmont gently pressed the short sword that had been protecting or cursing on his chest, and pulled out a pair of long knives from behind his back.
"Listen up to the people in front. Leave us a way, or kill them at once." I'll give you three seconds to think about it. Three-two-"
"Zino save me!!—"
"Shut up!-"
"Boom!!-"
No one saw how this happened, with the strength of a special operations team with an average level of more than three points three, they only saw the sensory ecological cyborgs that seemed to be hanging from their energy swords with the same dull gaze disappearing. There seems to be a faint trail of blue mist. In the next moment, his blade condensed with terrifying energy sliced into their defensive barrier from the side. Originally, with the combined defense of everyone, it was impossible to stop Zino's blow, but such a fast speed completely made Han Litai, who dominated the defensive enchantment, have no time to react.
The energy sword pierced through the body of the special operator holding the first female worker hostage from one side. But no energy escaped from this blow, and it just took the life of the man in black in an instant. Just as the horrified people who were ready to fight back gathered the high-energy points of the defensive barrier to Zino's location, he made a second move. With a short distance of five meters, he easily achieved an acute turn at a high speed of 100 meters per second, and the second sword pierced the black-clad intruder holding the second female worker hostage on the other side.
At that time. The dispatch of the magical defense led by Han Litai had lost its calm and steady, and Han Litai desperately waved the staff in his hand, trying to slow down Zino with binding magic. But the speed at which he cast spells could not match Zino's mobility.
He circled around the special operations team, and in a split second only half a meter apart, Gigmont could clearly see his side face. She gripped the small sword in her chest in fear of the unspeakable difference in strength, and grabbed the long knife in her hand with hysterical strength, and the unprecedented blazing black flames instantly covered the blue mist that made them helpless.
"Ahhhhh!!h
But Zino's goal had been achieved, and in the second lap, he took over two workers from the hands of two special operators who had not completely fallen to the ground. Then he retreated lightly, bringing them to the safe exit.
"You guys go quickly. ”
"-!!Zino!!Thank you......" Before they could finish speaking, Zino rushed them into the emergency passage with a blue force field.
Immediately, the baffled and terrifying mechanical body walked in front of them—in front of Gigmont.
It is...... She?
He struggled to flip through his vague memories. Looking at the woman with a crazy expression and a twin knives burning with black flames in her hands.
The blade in Gigmont's hand had been raised, facing the unsuspecting enemy who was only a stone's throw away. She wouldn't give herself time at all to think about why he did it.
Boom!!――
A second roar sounded in his head, and in an instant his mind was purified into a blank slate. The vision in front of me turned into a chaotic snowflake. It seemed that all the numbers in the library of numbers that had been accumulated over the years poured into his brain at a density of information far exceeding the upper limit of his microtubule output. He didn't even have time to feel the splitting headache, and he staggered backwards as if he were under a heavy blow.
Gigmont switched to a backhand knife. Bell's crossbow gun was once again stained with blazing orange flames. They had only one goal, and that was the energy trigger in Zino's heart.
In the chaotic and meaningless snowflake vision, he could only distinguish one thing. It seemed that through the color of the old parchment, he saw a blurry picture frame, which was of two people sitting on a bench. Sitting on the left is a boy with a mushroom haircut, taking a sandwich out of his lunch basket. Sitting on the right is a girl with a few freckles on her braided face, who is staring at her partner's movements with excited eyes.
A qiē is natural and beautiful -- this kind of beauty is just like the "human nature" he expected, full of the flavor of the answer.
In an instant, he jumped out of the dead loop of his own thinking. Cyclic constraints suddenly became clear and understandable, and there was no need to torture your brain with endless calculations.
The capture from someone I don't know vividly sprinkled the beauty of those decades ago into Zino's thoughts.
"Boom!!-"
A third roar came from behind them, the silver metal surface reflecting off the details of the new enemy. The speed comparable to Zino's made them feel desperate for a moment, but if they could destroy the energy trigger of Zino's heart that was lying on the ground in front of them, maybe Qiē would have a turnaround.
-- They don't know how to sacrifice --
Until now, Gigmont still believed this. The tip of the knife in his hand had slowly pierced into the trigger on the surface of the crystal that shimmered with a turquoise light. The unique vibration of the crystal shattering made her feel a little relieved.
Bite!!
The crisp sound was like gold and jade colliding, and Gigmont watched in amazement as the two blades that had accompanied him for more than twenty years broke in two, turning into two white rays and disappearing in an instant in the wash of silver energy.
The energy released by Verille's entire body caused her own armor to burst open fine cracks, but this unprecedented acceleration finally made sense. Her figure flickered, and a loud explosion of tearing air resounded through the hall on the second floor. The whistling air flow lightly blew away all the unsecured facilities, and several members of the special combat team who were not strong enough were also swept into the air under the impact of the pure high-speed air current.
Grabbing Zino, who was caught in the chaos of the program, and threw him into the escape route, Verrier picked up the silver scythe and stared at the already disadvantaged visitor with eyes that flashed with a mechanical red light. The non-threatening Mu Ran expression became the source of their greatest fear at this moment. (To be continued......)