Chapter 342: One Hundred Years Later, Twenty Years Later, the Future of Those People
"NieR, Automata"
12991.
A small town by the sea.
Annabelle opened the curtains as usual. Today is another new day, a repetitive, boring new day.
The Kingdom of the Sun never lacks light.
As usual, she washed and applied a hot towel to her face.
The circuit under her skin made a bang.
Annabelle could only use a screwdriver to unscrew the mechanical screws under her skin and repair her body in front of the mirror. She did this once a month.
Someone knocked on the door.
"Come in."
A creak.
Her assistant was standing outside, clinging to the door frame.
"Boss, why are you repairing yourself again?"
"Wouldn't you die if you didn't repair it?"
The assistant came into the room with a stack of reports.
"Why don't you just change your body?"
She looked timidly at Annabelle's mechanical skeleton, which was almost uncovered by skin and exposed to the air.
"We all suspect that you are doing this to scare us at any time."
"..."
"You have some kind of obsession with this body."
Annabelle turned around and threw the screwdriver on the table.
"What happened so early in the morning?"
Annabelle said as she took the report from the assistant.
Every day, a large number of repair orders for artificial humans and mechanical life forms are delivered.
Every day is so busy.
Annabelle can't remember when she became a "social animal" in human data.
Thinking carefully, it seems to be since the signing of the peace treaty in 11946.
It has been more than a hundred years.
"It has been...more than a hundred years..."
Annabelle seemed to see the promise made by the demon hunter and the white-haired girl when they left the harbor on that day in 11941.
And even further...
"Pah!"
The assistant woke Annabell up with a slap on both hands.
"What's wrong?"
"Well, nothing..."
Annabelle put the report on the table, took out a pair of chopsticks in the gap of sunlight, and put her hair up.
"That's all, right?"
"There's more."
The assistant touched her pointed chin and said, "There's a woman who calls herself Yakor. She said she'll give you some goods in a while. Please sign for them."
"Yakor." Annabelle murmured, "I haven't seen her for more than 30 years. Whenever she comes, it's not good."
A few minutes later.
After giving instructions, the assistant left here in a hop.
The door closed.
Annabelle stood in front of the window motionless, looking at the sunlight outside the window, and it seemed like she was looking at her past memories.
It took a while before she picked up the white coat on the chair and put it on.
It was hot in the morning.
Annabelle had a headache problem. She was afraid of memory damage, so she didn't dare to repair her electronic brain. In fact, the probability of damage was less than 0.1%.
She was afraid...just that the face in the archive would fade in her memory.
The head started to hurt again.
Before going out, she found her cigarette holder, lit it silently, closed her eyes and took a puff to relieve the pain.
There were footsteps outside the house, and the knock on the door sounded muffled.
Annabelle quickly put out her cigarette holder.
"Who?"
There was a little silence outside the door.
One second, two seconds... ten seconds.
"Delivery."
The door opened.
A man with messy hair stood at the door.
The warm wind swirled into the house.
The sun shone through the window.
Her lips trembled slightly in the warm light and ups and downs.
She walked towards the door step by step, raised her hand, and carefully touched the man's face.
Warm...
The memories of a hundred years ago became a reality before her eyes.
She covered her mouth in disbelief, her eyes moist.
"Where have you been in the past hundred years?"
Xing Kai raised his hand tiredly, and his fingertips touched her falling tears.
"I have been looking for the way home."
"Are you going this time?"
Xing Kai looked at the woman.
Shaked his head.
"I won't leave until I die."
...
"Huh~"
Yakol let out a long breath.
She sat on the iron chair outside the house, holding a notebook in her hand, and wrote on it: "The goods have been delivered."
"What a strange goods." The assistant stood beside her.
"Yes, treating living creatures as goods is called trafficking in human thinking." Yakor said something that was difficult for the artificial man to understand.
"Where did you get the goods?" The assistant was curious.
"This..."
Yakor closed the notebook and looked across.
The trees were full of birds.
The pasture was full of flowers.
This world is very good.
It just depends on how you look at it.
She thought so and smiled with satisfaction.
The memory came to the time not long ago when she was in the "threshold".
...
Li Nuo took the data disc of the island whale from Yakor.
"How do you use this broken thing?"
"It's probably enough to open it silently." Yakor reminded: "Think about it! Your head will explode with pain after using it!"
"Hehe... It's better than being killed." Li Nuo smiled with dead eyes, and he made Yakor unable to understand him, just like the previous times they got along, making people unable to figure out what he was thinking in his mind.
"By the way, Jacol, there's something."
"Who?"
Jacol knew him in some ways.
Li Nuo skipped the part of complaining and asked: "Is there a bastard with a face full of stubble, messy hair, and a particularly bad but pleasant-looking face who went from the 'threshold' to your world?"
"Don't you think your description of that person is incomprehensible?" Ya Keer complained while clicking on the magic element panel that he could see.
"There is one."
She released the image.
Xing Kai's face was printed on the translucent panel.
"Ah, that's him."
Li Nuo smiled and showed his front teeth.
"Please, help me deliver him to Annabelle's home."
"This guy... is the one Annabelle is looking for..." Yakor said, touching his chin, "Do you want to deliver it to your door?"
"It has come to this point. If something goes wrong in the middle, I can't explain it."
"Is it that serious?"
"Of course." Li Nuo said, "Do you know what the most precious quality of human beings is?"
Yakor: "I won't do it."
Li Nuo: "Repaying a favor."
"Actually..." Yakor paused, "You don't owe anything a long time ago."
"But that has nothing to do with Annabelle." Li Nuo said, "Please, the reward is the world we helped you in the past."
"Demon King or Hero?"
"Ah?"
"I mean, are you a good person or a bad person? ”
“A priest who preaches, a hunter who hunts demons, or in layman’s terms, a bad painter, if you must talk about the essence.” Li Nuo thought for a moment: “A humanoid self-propelled machine carrying Chabai.”
Yakol: “Well… I remind you that the world you are in now may also be in danger, but there is no one like me who can travel through time and space anchor points to help you, so you’d better hold back your… kindness.”
Li Nuo said: “You mean, the intersection of time and space will cause the world…”
“It’s just a hunch.” Yakol interrupted him and said: “Something will appear in this world, and it may become the second world of ours (Neil).”
Li Nuo still smiled: “I have been prepared.”
…
“Prepared?”
Yakol leaned back in his chair.
What exactly did you prepare?
Want to change the world again?
Or let the world escape fate?
“This guy…what on earth is he after.”
Yakol, she named the world of Shayu “Vaporwave”
"The fate of the world and the world is broken, because you are the only one who is connected, and the consequences will be borne by you alone."
"Li Nuo."
"That's what I mean."
If possible, she actually wants to see what happened there later.
...
Steamwave Era 1999;
Strange spherical objects descended on the old streets of San Francisco. On the same day, San Francisco suffered an unprecedented blow.
The notorious mafia Tiger Eye Club dispatched a large number of mercenaries and used missiles to solve the spherical objects floating in the air at a critical moment, ending the chaos.
In the same year, Tiger Eye successfully transformed.
Steamwave Era 2000;
The eldest lady adopted Dumbledore a year ago, which was a commission from Li Nuo before he left.
Her original purpose was "celestial sphere intersection", but Dumbledore discovered that there were his compatriots near the planet.
In this way, the great magician Ikaros, who had been lonely for more than 10,000 years, summoned a group of Cairo stars.
Steamwave Era 2004;
A large number of strange things appeared in the sky, and a certain big country discovered that they were the legendary UFOs.
The first batch of alien creatures landed on the planet.
They called themselves "Cairo Star People".
Steamwave Era 2006;
Interstellar hunters, a large number of weird but peaceful aliens came to the world one after another.
Steamwave Era 2019...
"..."
The young lady sat on the sofa, gritting her teeth and frowning, holding a game console in her hand.
"My purpose of taking you in is the 'celestial intersection'. It's been 20 years, and you just gave me this thing?"
She sat opposite Dumbledore.
This morning, the Cairo magician presented the results of 20 years of research. The thing was the "celestial intersection starter" that the young lady was looking for 20 years ago.
Dumbledore held a cigar in his mouth, hugged a teddy dog, and said proudly:
"That thing is too dangerous, this is safe."
The young lady pressed the switch with a skeptical attitude.
The screen was reflected with light.
Then, a paper guy jumped out of it.
It was a paper man.
Those who know the business can tell that his true identity is from South Park.
In a sense, Dumbledore used the "celestial sphere intersection fragments" he brought with him and combined them with magic to create an absurd summoner.
But the summoned paper man seemed to have a big problem. After appearing in the house, he began to scream "Ahhh" crazily.
Dumbledore curled his lips: "It needs to be modified again..."
"..."
The eldest lady stared at it, then looked at the paper man, and she suddenly figured out something.
"Puff..."
The woman smiled.
"Hahahaha...hahahahahaha!"
She suddenly laughed.
Everyone around her was afraid of her, and everyone was afraid of her laughter, including Dumbledore.
"It's okay...hahaha..."
"I just thought of something interesting."
The eldest lady recalled twenty years ago.
The scene when Mr. Li gave Dumbledore to her.
"It turns out that when he gave you to me, he was telling me that Star Cairo is the real 'meeting of heaven and earth'."
Dumbledore: "?"
The eldest lady looked out the window.
"You have been plotting against me for twenty years, Mr. Li."
She is still as beautiful as she was twenty years ago, but she has gained some charm over time.
"The world has become what it is now, and it makes no sense for me to insist on the 'meeting of the heavens and the earth'."
…
The café bell rang.
"Welcome."
Standing behind the counter, Sunaba saw Mr. Uesugi, who lived a street away, coming in.
"I'm here again." Uesugi took off his hat and sat on the chair in front of the counter: "Hey~"
"Same as the same?" Sha Yu asked, while making coffee, she lifted the hair curtain around her ears, and her blue earrings collided in the air.
"I said, Sha Yu..."
"no."
Sunaba put the coffee on the table in front of Uesugi.
Uesugi asked disappointedly: "Is this the first time I've proposed dating you?"
Sha Yu smiled and said, "How can I still remember such a thing?"
"I can give you a lot of money. My family is rich. Really, Sandha." Uesugi stared at the red pupils opposite him and said, "You open a cafe in a run-down neighborhood like this and there is no business. How can you open a cafe?" What are you doing with it?”
Sha Yu smiled and said: "This is just a landmark, I have plenty of money~"
landmark,
After going to college from abroad, her life was completely different from before. She really lived an ordinary life, and her life was even better because of her skills as a killer.
She has stronger insights than ordinary people, has outstanding physical fitness, can discover loopholes in her work faster than ordinary people, and can adapt to harsh environments better than anyone else.
——A person who has been soaked in alkaline water is more precious than gold.
Sha Yu gradually understood the true meaning of Marjie's original words.
For people who have experienced hardships, the upper limit of their willpower is like an unexplored peak to ordinary people.
She eventually came back.
In the place where I used to live, I bought this abandoned cafe.
"That's funny, ma'am, why is it just a landmark? Who can see it here?"
"Of course."
Sand Yu is still smiling.
"I'm afraid he won't be able to find his way back when he comes back."
Mr. Uesugi looked at the ripples in the coffee cup.
He thought of the first time he met Sha Yu. He was drunk outside that day and took the wrong path and came to this cafe.
That day, the lights in the cafe were on late at night.
The beauty looked back and woke up from the wine.
Uesugi made an inexplicable confession.
All I got was "It's closed" from Sha Yu.
Uesugi understood that the reason why the lights in the cafe were still on that night was because they were a guiding sign for that person.
He asked in frustration: "How long have you been waiting?"
Sand Yu said without thinking: "7299 days."
One day to twenty years.
Uesugi knew that he had no chance in his life. He had seen too many bitches and many bitches who talked about infatuation.
But when Sha Yu mentioned that person, his eyes were as clear as when he was seventeen years old.
The cafe was quiet again.
Sha Yu held her chin and looked at the door quietly with no expression on her face.
The café bell rang.
"Welcome."
"..."
She was stunned for a moment, and then showed a flat smile.
This is the story twenty years later.
…
"NieR Automata", in 12991, Xing Kai returned and stayed here permanently. All the cause and effect and fate of this world have been settled.
Vaporwave, in 2019, aliens have entered and the world has changed. It has nothing to do with the little people. Although there are no more waves, it has not come to an end yet, and the ending will probably be the day when everything ends.
…
[Main mission: The competition has ended]
(All reward gold coin data are increased by [Focuser])
[Basic reward gold coins: 160000]
[Basic reward experience value: 80000]
[Hidden quest line reward gold coins: 100000]
[Hidden quest line reward experience value: 120000]
[The "Vapor Wave" world mall purchase permission has been opened]
[Since you are taking the Basel Airship, you need to go to your personal email to check the rest of the rewards after returning]
[Congratulations on becoming the winner of this competition]
"It seems to have been upgraded..."
Li Nuo opened his eyes and had a headache that was about to explode.
He didn't have the heart to care about things like upgrading, because it was really uncomfortable to death.
Chabai fell into his arms, sleeping heavily.
"Uncomfortable..."
Cha Bai opened his mouth: "After all abilities are turned off, the body's feedback is unbearable..."
Li Nuo tilted his head, eyes full of confusion.
At this time, Cha Bai said: "By the way, Li Nuo, I met the manager of the corridor inside the 'sill'... He said that I could make a request and he would give me a direction."
Li Nuo's pupils moved left and right to observe the surroundings, and at the same time asked: "What you shouldn't ask is... why don't you become a player?"
Chabai said "hmm".
He knew her too well.
But Li Nuo couldn't help but said: "Aren't you a waste of resources?"
Cha Bai: "Don't you long for a dull and boring life? As a player, you can't live that kind of life."
"Who told you?"
"Last time...your dad...(see the next chapter)."
[The airship has arrived]
The two ended their chat in a daze.
The next second, they saw the door on the opposite wall open and white light shone into their eyes.
When they reacted, they were already standing on the airship landing pad in Basel.
Li Nuo and Cha Bai stood there, one in a priest's coat and the other in a witch's long skirt, staring at each other blankly.
"Li Nuo..." Cha Bai looked around: "Where is Maljie?"
"..."
Li Nuo opened the team's panel at this time.
And saw a sentence:
["Hmph" The team has been disbanded]