Chapter 694: Chapter 607: Creator (Part 1)

This madman!

Lu Shuhang guessed that the other’s purpose in going to the World Tower was to communicate with the entire Revolutionary Army and regain the commander’s authority.

Yet he completely didn’t expect that the other would take such a crazy action.

Rather, this is exactly what that madman would do.

Having all the transport team members come to Mu Yaoyin means that by then, there will be countless transport team members carrying "black boxes" arriving here, and trying to confirm which squad truly holds the black box would be like looking for a needle in a haystack.

Dark Gold Rose’s actions are tantamount to threatening him with the lives of all transport team members, either forcing a final showdown with her or stepping down.

He could kill everyone, but the consequence of doing so would be the Revolutionary Army fully turning into a hostile camp, and his reputation would plummet to the lowest, by then they would face the Revolutionary Army’s full wrath and firepower!

Moreover, once it’s done, Dark Gold Rose becoming the camp leader would continuously gain a ’morale’ boost, the opposing party had long calculated his thoughts.

The originally stable winning situation was unexpectedly disrupted by Xu Xiaoyou finding the only possible way to break the stalemate and ingeniously played them into a trap.

"Chairman, it should still be in time to start checking the vicinity now," Four-leaf Phoenix Tree spoke,

"That squad delivering the black box has stopped moving, but it’s definitely not far from Mu Yaoyin, as long as we check for life signs..."

"No, it’s too late now." Yu Lan expanded the perception field to a range of three kilometers.

"Aside from the transport team, there are many other Revolutionary Army members nearby, it’s impossible to eliminate them one by one."

"Damn it, we’re just so close again!" Zhou Zhao hit the wall unwillingly.

Lu Shuhang’s mind was rapidly spinning, thinking of all strategies, and soon his expression gradually calmed down.

"No, it can be checked."

"There’s not enough time, don’t forget that hundreds of transport teams are also moving towards us." Yu Lan spoke up. 𝕗𝐫𝚎𝗲𝘄𝐞𝕓𝐧𝕠𝘃𝕖𝐥.𝐜𝚘𝚖

"It’s not about us checking, nor checking now." Lu Shuhang raised his head, his eyes sharp, "Since she wants to muddy the waters, let’s make them even muddier."

"We’ll have Hera do it."

...

War and smoke permeated, the scorched red covered the land, and a scorching shadow was emerging from afar, with Gernika walking on the black river paved by the dead.

Under its feet were thousands upon thousands of distorted faces. Looking closely, you could see the rolling, surging bionic human limbs among them, swept downward by more frenzied machinery, a black torrent descending from the sky, threatening to submerge the world below.

"Opina... Opina!"

The already muddled-minded Gernika, after being stimulated, fell completely into a half-crazy state, murmuring with thunderous sound, echoing in the sky.

"Why won’t you respond to me!"

"Must you wish for me to burn everything to ashes, for the rice wine to dry up, for the palace to collapse, for the bones in the tomb to turn into restless souls, before you are willing to return to my side?"

"That mechanical brain-damaged guy is coming!" Demon Slayer yelled.

Bai Youyou kicked open the door in front of her, the beam burnt through fell from above, scorching heat together with burning debris and sparks rushed towards her, she only frowned, waving away the black smoke, searching for something inside the house.

The faint call in her heart grew increasingly faint, she inexplicably felt a bit agitated, with a forceful swipe of her fingers, the wall in front of her shattered into pieces.

Where... where could it be.

She was very sure it was Bai Wei’an’s voice, unconsciously calling her, that’s why she returned to Gale Street.

At such a critical moment, she didn’t even know why she would come back here, perhaps due to a sense of responsibility, or perhaps because Bai Wei’an’s image coincided with her memory of her mother, making her unable to leave her unattended here.

Of course, she knew "Bai Wei’an" was just virtual data, and those memories of upbringing were merely the memories of the character "Bai Yi".

But it was precisely these virtual, fragmented memories that shaped her life; her life was never a straight line, but a script pieced together from countless scattered memories, not even a journey she had personally walked through.

The word script couldn’t be more fitting for her, she was like a character in a script, just taking over the script handed to her, which recorded her date of birth, personality, experiences, social relationships, and then she acted accordingly. If the director was not satisfied with her performance, he could call pause at any time.

Then, the curtain restarted, everything began anew.

Maybe today when she opened her eyes she would find herself in a pure white room, tomorrow she would find herself soaking in a culture tank, and the day after she would open her eyes to see the floor covered with corpses and blood on her hands.

It’s like her time spent with Rice Wine, Angelina, and a few others that was long and continuous was what was actually rare for her.

Sometimes, she could hardly distinguish whether her obsession with rules was for what reason?

Was it the ’personality’ imposed on her by others or her true thoughts?

Therefore, even if it was the virtual data in the copy and Bai Yi’s memories, she found it hard to completely remove them from herself.

What on earth is wrong with me, starting to analyze my own personality, maybe she’s spent too much time with Tang Xin, the latter loved exploring the nature of things, plus Xu Xiaoyou, Rice Wine, and Angelina were completely uninterested in such topics.

The former was too busy, while the latter two talked only about sandwiches’ taste and one didn’t understand at all. Over time, Tang Xin often discussed these with her, besides that, their interactions could be said to be a blank slate, even their greetings in person felt so distant.

Bai Youyou kept pushing open door after door, searching for Bai Wei’an’s figure, from initial urgency and unease, she slowly became numb, looking spaced-out, until even the unfamiliar Gale Street seemed familiar, like she really lived here.

Doing innocent and righteous silly things with those Little Ghost Gang kids, stealing parts from workshops to sell to lonely old people on East Street to make dolls, jumping down step by step along long staircases between houses, clutching rusty railings, with the tallest girl responsible for counting, until that tallest little girl became herself, with all the kids looking at her admiringly...

"Yiyi?"

At this moment, a call broke the daydream, Bai Youyou’s eyes saw the world becoming clear again, the staircase bathed in sunlight in her memory was burning in flames, the sky a bloody red.

She looked into the room, with flames like parasitic maggots gnawing away at everything inside. The woman maintained the posture she left her in, softly calling out her name.

Bai Youyou quickly stepped forward, leaned down to pick up the woman, bowing her head; her dust-covered face gently pressed against the woman’s face, her voice slightly hoarse.

"It’s so chaotic outside, why didn’t you call someone to help yourself?"

The woman’s old-fashioned TV screen of a head flickered and then calmed, acting like a child admitting a mistake, saying:

"I was afraid if I left, Yiyi wouldn’t find me when she came back."