In the night sky of the lower town, you will never see the brilliant neon of the night in the upper town.

Or rather...... It makes no difference whether it's day or night for Downtown.

Anyway, whenever you look up, you can only see the dark ocean that is constantly whistling.

Paradise Bird huddled in his room and sat on the bed with his hands and knees folded.

In front of her was a quiet angelic aura that shimmered with light.

"Daddy......"

She muttered under her breath, her immature little face wavering like never before.

"What the hell am I supposed to do......"

From birth to now.

- Paradise Bird has never wished it was a true angel like this.

A few days ago, when I heard the news of the angel's return, I put on the halo left by my father and went to Uptown as a "no-coder" in an open and honest way, but it was also diluted by the predicament I am facing now.

She wasn't a mechanical angel affiliated with the Church, and neither was her father.

Or rather, her father used to be.

After the end of the war, the Church decided to freeze all the angels.

Her father didn't want to be frozen and didn't trust the church. So before that, he quietly fled.

After being classified as a defector, he was removed from the angelic roster and his aura was banned by the church, but he was not pursued further.

— but that level of banning doesn't matter.

He was a very good engineer by the beginning. Relying on the advanced equipment that went with him when he was running, he easily broke the ban restriction from the church server and changed it to a "standalone version".

Generally speaking, the general public's perception of public morality is constantly changing...... This also means that the criteria for determining holy orders will be skewed.

In order to prevent the sudden loss of power, the Cyber Church has been maintaining the entire system of "Divine Descent Devices" - they will collect relevant information and constantly fine-tune the personality included in the angelic aura.

Even if the angel has been frozen and sealed, the process never ends.

This also means that when the angels are thawed and come out, although the times have changed a lot and their moral values have changed dramatically, their strength will not be weakened a lot.

Of course, there will still be a certain degree of weakness. After all, the original fit is high enough, which does not mean that it can adapt to the adjusted new personality.

And the father of the Paradise Bird, because he used the aura of a hundred years ago, has never carried out the "drive update...... Therefore, as the times change, the power he can use becomes weaker and weaker.

But even so, he still relied on the power of the Holy Rank to continue to repair his body, and lived easily for more than a hundred years.

When he was eighty or ninety years old, he looked like he was only in his fifties.

In order to hide his apparently abnormal lifespan, he will constantly move from one empty island to another, experiencing first-hand the increasingly chaotic times.

Shortly after he arrived on Happiness Island for the second time...... He fell in love with a woman in her fifties.

She is a pharmacologist. Both of them took a fancy to each other's wisdom and felt comfortable together.

Because of his longer life than ordinary people, he has always kept his distance from others.

And when the power of his holy rank weakened to a certain extent and he began to become clearly aware of his impending death, he no longer rejected others.

It was the first time in his life that he fell in love. Although both are old and haggard. But for him, age and appearance don't matter anymore - he has lived too long to stay young, and he has long looked down on his skin.

They have aged to that point that they are no longer able to have children.

But the mother of the Paradise Bird felt the decay of her body and desperately hoped to keep a child......

IVF technology is not allowed – because that would mean that there may be newborn children who will not be microchipped.

So they went into the lower town. Relying on her mother's connections, she found a wanted black market doctor.

With the help of a doctor codenamed "Paradise", Paradise Bird was born as a test-tube baby.

Strictly speaking, Paradise Bird can even be said to be a "synthetic human". Because she did not grow up in a human womb, but was born in an artificial womb - a forbidden technology held by Paradise.

When Paradisebird was born, her father was one hundred and five years old.

Even if you count the continuous repair of his body by the power of the Holy Rank, he looks like an old man in his sixties and seventies, and his body is beginning to decay rapidly...... And her mother is almost sixty years old.

Although they are parents, they are older than their grandparents.

In order to take care of the paradise birds, which were born without chips, they moved into the lower town.

Unlike normal uncensored people, she at least has a safe place to live. Her mother also had a chip, so she was able to keep returning to Uptown and selling her inventions to buy necessities.

Compared with other people who were born uncensored, the life of the Paradise Bird family is quite stable.

Paradisebird never went to school, or even had contact with its peers.

It was all taught by her parents, who had all the knowledge, techniques, and fighting skills of their life.

It wasn't until three years ago that her father finally died of old age. He had lived to be one hundred and sixteen years old, which is an extremely long life for a short-lived species.

And because of her grief, her mother also died half a year later.

She had inherited her father's aura, but the overly debilitated healing system of the Holy Order was no longer able to cure that level of illness.

"Angel" has become a legend through and through. She could no longer enter the upper city with a halo, let alone reveal the identity of an angel in the lower city......

After losing the protection of his parents, the eleven-year-old Paradise Bird struggled to survive in the lower city by relying on his extraordinary intelligence and being an uncensored person.

The family used to be part of a small mutual aid group called Cave House. Before the death of Paradise Bird's mother, he also asked his old friend to take care of Paradise Bird.

There, she had a great time, as if she had a home for the second time.

Old friends of my parents are also very good people. Although life is poor, it is happy...... Her healing power can help others.

She originally hoped to maintain a stable life and live a stable and happy life...... It doesn't matter if you don't see the sun in your life.

But just half a year ago, that organization was also destroyed by the "Curtain of Ignorance".

- not for annexation, but for sadism.

It doesn't make any sense. It's just for fun, for the sake of "rehearsals of crime" to destroy, tear up, and torture those uncensored people who live in peace.

In the unbridled laughter, in the wails and screams of those former friends and elders...... Record it all on video, keep it as a souvenir, or sell it to others.

With the help of her elders, she escaped very reluctantly.

But her second home was destroyed again.

She was like a lost dog, hiding in a dark room that no one knew, and spending every day as dark as the night in fear and hatred.

She saw the notorious "Bad Guy" leading a group of men in black to carry out a sweep and massacre in the lower city.

The most recent bullet had pierced the wall, brushed her along, and landed on the wall at the other end of the shelter.

She watched curiously and timidly through the holes in the bullets as she watched what was happening outside.

Then she saw the "devil" walking on the ground.

The bullets that were fired at him in fear didn't mean anything to the man—they were all rippled in the air before they approached him, and he just approached them slowly, like a grim reaper, and exploded their bodies at the slightest touch.

Like sausages cracked in boiling oil, those who attacked him with guns were torn into such miserable shapes by invisible forces.

After they dispersed, Paradisebird went to examine the corpses of the men.

Their internal organs and brains were almost bursting, and the fat seemed to be boiling. It's like being roasted alive in the microwave.

This only exacerbated her fears.

Every day, when I close my eyes in exhaustion and confusion, I dream of ignorance or inferiority.

She dreamed of the wails and screams of her friends and elders being tortured to death by the gang members, and the way gang members who seemed to her too strong to fight were easily torn apart and exploded by the inferior.

- When she stumbles upon the news of the resurrection of the Angel, Paradise Bird is overjoyed.

Because it means that she can go back to Uptown again with her father's aura and collect some materials!

She fled in such a hurry that she took nothing with her. She has a brilliant mind, but she can't do anything without materials and instruments.

It is different from the environment more than ten years ago, more than twenty years ago.

Back then, the discrimination against uncensored people was not so serious, so her parents dared to give birth to her.

But after that, things quickly changed for a different time.

As the last residents born before 1123 die, and as crime caused by uncensored people in the lower city intensifies, attitudes toward uncensored people have become increasingly resentful. "Not owning a chip" is now a sin in itself that can be deported – even a decade ago.

Because she didn't have a chip, she certainly didn't have credit, so she couldn't use normal channels to shop.

But her mother and father, who are academics, also hold "credit sticks," which are used for anonymous transactions.

This is usually something left behind when an item is purchased anonymously by a certain director.

Just a few days ago, when she came out of the prosthetic store with a few bags of things, she had a pleasant chat with a big brother she didn't know.

- She is now an angel, and she can live in the sun!

It was a beautiful feeling she had never experienced before.

But before I could say a word, I saw the "inferior". The man who often appears in her nightmares.

That's when she realized that the friendly big brother was from the Special Operations Department.

At that time, the paradise bird suffered a cardiac arrest due to fear.

There is no doubt that it is impossible for angels to have chips and to go out shopping. Because they have been frozen for so long, they don't understand the current era, and it is impossible to have an anonymous currency called "credit sticks...... Because angels and corporations don't deal with each other at all, they have nothing and can't sell anything to the directors.

In the past, prosthetics were used as assistive devices for people with disabilities, rather than as a physical reinforcement as they do now.

Paradise Bird is very aware that it has made a big mistake.

She even thought about how she was torn apart after being seen through the disguise and touched by the inferior......

But fortunately, the inferior doesn't seem to be interested in it......

Or rather, he didn't realize that he couldn't be a real angel.

But he would eventually realize it. When he remembered, he couldn't go to Uptown anymore.

As a result, paradise birds began to stock up in large quantities.

Food and weapons are readily available in Downtown.

The things that are most lacking are wine, precision instruments, and medicines. It's all stuff that's only produced in Uptown.

And at that time, she saw a man on the road who had a heart attack.

She didn't know each other, she had never met. I don't know what forces he belongs to or what he's going to do.

Although she knew it was dangerous, she couldn't watch others die in front of her...... I still can't stand to come forward to help people with treatment.

But this revealed that she was in possession of precious medicines, and sure enough, she was robbed by the other party - not only for her medicine, but also for herself.

She felt remorse and remorse for her stupidity and naivety...... But if she did it again, she would still treat that person.

Only this time, she would have fled as soon as she had given the other person the medicine.

Fortunately, there were passers-by who helped her, and she solved the problem. And barely got the trust of that fierce guy......

But after that, she came into contact with some of the organization's upper echelons.

That's when she suddenly realized something:

The "mage" defeated by his father a hundred years ago was born again among the uncensored people in the lower city.

Although the word "lover" is unknown, she has the knowledge she has gained from her father. She knew right away that it was a gathering of mages.

She had planned to sabotage the party.

But after she infiltrated the warehouse of the Curtain of Ignorance and got the chip sample......

Paradise Bird held the mood of being idle and idle, and tested the spiritual energy stored in this chip.

— and the result made her panic.

At this moment, the dim light on the side of the Paradise Bird still shines quietly on the workbench.

It was equipped with what looked quite professional and advanced, completely different from the humble environment she was in. Embedded in it is a white, unmarked chip.

Paradisebird is very sure that this chip has been tampered with.

It contains powerful healing psionic powers capable of healing oneself and others.

However, if the chip is used to heal people, it will make the healer go crazy, and the healed person will gradually become infected with a soul-based poison, which will gradually lose the person's fighting spirit, make the psychic gradually weaken, and become an empty shell over the course of three to five years...... Eventually, he lost all consciousness and became a vegetative state.

- Undoubtedly, this is also a means from the mage.

It's a plot by the mages from Uptown, those elven directors!

Instead of turning a blind eye to the chaos in the lower town, they prepared a big plan.

By poisoning the treatment chip and pretending to be robbed, the number of residents in the lower city will be slowly reduced!

Although she doesn't have much identification with Downtown, she was also born in Downtown after all.

And she can be smart to realize...... These chips are actually from the game between the mages in the upper city and the mages in the lower city.

The mages in Uptown were sure that the mages in Downtown would take the problematic chips out of greed—they couldn't find out what was really wrong with the chips, because they didn't have the technology from the church to fight spell transformation.

If you remind or help them destroy the chip, it means that all the gang forces in the lower city, including the "Curtain of Ignorance", are saved; But if they distribute and use it by default, it means that the residents of the lower city will be slaughtered en masse.

It's better if you don't know...... But once it was known, the birds of paradise could not sit idly by.

Watching others fall into a trap you've already discovered – how is that different from being part of it yourself?

"What should I do......"

If only I were a mechanical angel.

It would be nice if you had reliable comrades behind you.

If you have the power to change all that...... It's not just a useless ability that can only heal the wounds of others.

"Daddy......"

She looked at her father's aura and muttered in a low voice.

It was as if she was asking about the halo, or about her dead father.

Or ask yourself.

"What would you do ......"