Abstraction for a bad world

Chapter 108 The light that illuminates my soul, the fire that ignites my life (4k)

In the center of the inner city of the City of the Sun, the Corona Building.

top layer.

dong dong dong.

There was a dull knock from behind the thick solid wooden door.

"Come in."

The voice of the middle-aged man ignored space and distance and was clearly and accurately transmitted to the ears of the people outside the door.

The door handle was then turned and the door was opened unexpectedly easily.

The elite in suits and leather shoes walked in respectfully, came to the man's side, and solemnly handed him a paper document with the words "Top Secret" printed in bright red with both hands.

"Mr. Andre, this is the only paper document of the "Report on the Attack on Arakawa Pharmaceuticals". It has been encrypted to the highest level according to the requirements of the Central Intelligence."

"it is good."

Andre Warner took the document sealed with red paint and waved his deputy manager of the intelligence department to leave.

After another respectful farewell, the deputy manager quietly walked out the door.

After a moment, a slight scream reached Andre's ears.

The moment he opened the document in his hand.

"You have to find another deputy manager now. Recently... recently there is a real shortage of talent - our R&D staff at Gospel Technology is not enough for several shifts, not to mention the test consumables."

A gray-haired woman in a white coat walked out from the shadows behind Andre. She put her hand on Andre's chair and said with a sneer.

"It won't be wasted. After the surgery, he will continue to work for me and the company." Andre turned the first page of the review with an indifferent look: "But you, don't think that you can do whatever you want just because the master gave you a name and a high degree of personal freedom."

"——Ravna."

"You never spoke to me like that before, Andre."

Ravna leaned her whole body against Andre's armchair. She moved closer, trying to see the details of the document in his hand, but was pushed away by the latter's hand.

"Watch your actions, Ravna. 'No one else should know when you are viewing [top secret documents]' - this is a red line that cannot be crossed."

Andre's voice was emotionless, like a humanoid precision machine: "I can let you stay here, which is the greatest tolerance and patience left by 'Andre Warner' himself."

"Really? Should I still say thank you?"

Ravna rolled her eyes and sprawled out on another soft armchair. She toyed with a few silver balls with her fingers and sighed unhappily.
"Ahh... Enough with all the meal replacement literature. I'd rather be like you and not understand human emotions."

An inexplicable sigh echoed in the office. Ravna pulled at her white coat unhappily.
"How good is that girl named 'Lana'? She makes the master always think of her, changes my name to something similar to hers, and makes me dye my hair gray and wear a white coat every day."

"You should consider this as a gift from your master."

Andra's hand that was flipping through the documents paused for a moment, and he stared at the large head of a girl with animal ears that was specially printed on the white paper with expensive colored ink.

This is a girl.

A girl with animal ears.

A smiling girl with animal ears.

A girl with brown hair, brown eyes and animal ears, who looks very strong from the lines on her neck.

"Marina...?"

Stunned, astonished, puzzled, delighted, indifferent, and even... a hint of fear.

For the first time, such a mixture of complex emotions appeared in the eyes of the reborn Andre.

He didn't understand the origin of his emotion.

Andre was puzzled as to how he could call out the name of the girl he "met" for the first time.

So he began to quickly search through the memories given to him by his master.

No, no, no, no…

As far as Andre Warner could recall, there was no overview of the girl or any information about her past.

His understanding of this girl named Marina can only be analyzed through the information currently available.

Judging from this report, Marina undoubtedly possessed the strength to rival the lowest level of those who had awakened five times genetically - because the surveillance footage clearly showed that she was alone from beginning to end.

One person killed Raizo Arakawa, one person slaughtered all the Shadow Guards, and one person killed Kouga, whom he sent to monitor Ryuji Arakawa.

——Hmm…if Arakawa and I were to die, the plan would be forced to be interrupted, and the only remaining Uesugi would not be so easy to deal with.

That guy Xun has already begun to doubt his master.

In Andre's memory bank, the picture of the black-haired girl with an innocent smile surfaced, causing his thoughts to pause for a moment.

Then everything calmed down.

——If the infiltration cannot be completed within fourteen months, I will kill Uesugi Kaoru myself.

Andre made such a judgment and then turned his attention back to "Marina".

——But why can he, just an ordinary fifth-awakener, have such a variety of emotions?
This is an emotional fluctuation that I haven't experienced in several years.

What's more, Andre knew very well that this was not an emotion generated from his own memory bank, but an emotion implanted by the great master, a fluctuation and ripple from the memory bank that was blocked from him.

Andre was silent for a moment, then he used his fingers to cut the paper and cut out the headshot of Marina: "Ravna, do you know her?"

"do not know……"

Ravna answered nonchalantly at first, but then she leaned closer, touched her chin and began to think seriously: "Although I don't know her, I always feel like I have seen her somewhere."

"That's good."

Andre nodded.

After having the same illusion as "Ravna", Andre ruled out the slightest possibility of an error in the chip in his brain and began to upload this data to inform their owner.

[Data is being uploaded to the memory bank...]

【The data has been stored in the memory. 】

[No. 001 "Andre Warner", choose to upload data to the highest sequence...]

[The highest sequence is in deep sleep state, do you want to wake up? ]

【"yes".】

[Repeat: The highest sequence is currently in deep sleep state, do you want to wake up? ]

【"yes".】

[Your request has been approved, data is being uploaded...]

[Awakening the highest sequence, the Master of All Machines...]

"Wake him up for such a small thing? Why?" Ravna also received the message in her mind, and her tone suddenly became gloomy.

Compared to Andre, whose humanity is compressed to the minimum to avoid wrong decisions and hesitation, Lavna's personality freedom is maintained at a very high level.

So high that he seems like a normal person with a mental stamp implanted in him.

In any case, once the Lord of All Machines awakens, her freedom will turn into freedom controlled by others under one surveillance camera after another.

"Because the alarm in my memory bank has gone off."

Andre pointed to his brain and replied indifferently: "This is the situation where the master must be awakened."

Ravna wanted to retort at first, but she shut up when she saw the progress bar in her artificial eye. The process of awakening the Master of All Machines had already started, and there was no way it would stop.

Now it was no use what she said.

Ravna recalled the time a few years ago when the Lord of All Machines was secretly manipulating everything...it was truly a scene like an assembly line in hell.

She couldn't help but sigh: "You didn't even discuss it with me."

Andre did not reply. The Lord of All Machines' technology could ensure that he would not waste his energy on such meaningless things.

They all just watched the progress bar fill up silently as time passed.

[Highest sequence awakening progress: 97%...98%...]

Another three minutes passed, and the last few percent of space was filled with a light blue fluorescent bar.

At this moment, whether it was Ravna who was on the top floor of the Corona headquarters, Uesugi Kaoru who was in a meeting at the Uesugi Pharmaceutical headquarters, or even Shirakawa Waka who was taking a nap in a hospital in the outer ring area, they all felt the feeling of being watched from all directions.

Just this moment.

All the cameras, eavesdropping devices, electronic devices that can obtain information through the five senses such as vision and hearing, and even the chips behind the brain that are not confidential enough in the City of Sun were controlled by the same person in an instant.

This allows "him" who has just awakened to obtain the general situation and conditions of the City of the Sun under the current circumstances.

——There were no accidents and no deviations from the track. Everything was proceeding in an orderly manner.

[Andre, why did you wake me up this time? ]

After the illusion of being spied on passed, Ravna could see a dark blue character suddenly appear in mid-air.

Andre, the sixth-level psychic and former ruler of the City of the Sun, bowed his head respectfully: "Great Master, I have uploaded the relevant data to your database."

【it is good. 】

After the brief answer, the office fell into deathly silence.

silence.

A long silence.

Ravna looked out the window with a little impatience as time passed - it had been dozens of minutes, wouldn't it usually take the Lord of All Machines a few seconds at most to handle such a small matter?

Since we have headshots of people, it should be possible to find a matching person in the database in a flash.

And looking at what is displayed here... the computing power has not been used.

Ravna thought to herself: I should have known not to come.

"Andre."

The silence in the office was broken by a hoarse voice.

Ugh?
Ravna looked at the translucent figure that suddenly appeared in mid-air and was so frightened that she stood in awe.

Their master actually showed up? !
Even in the form of projection.

You must know that in the past, the Lord of All Machines only came to this world in a way that humans could access, during the final battle with Andre.

This is the second time.

"You did very well."

The projection of the Lord of All Machines nodded slightly to Andre, then turned his gaze to the big head of Marina on the table.

He looked at the photo in silence.

Should we say it’s been a long time since we last met, or is it a fateful encounter?

Ravna could see that the computing usage of the central intelligent computer soared to over 99% in an instant. She checked the calling process in confusion.

——But now, has the Lord of All Machines done anything else besides standing there?

The projection of the Lord of All Machines stood in place, staring at the physical photo silently.

[Marina...ah, my Marina, my dear Marina, long time no see, long time no see, I wonder how you have been these days.]

[I wonder if you have suffered, been tired, been insulted, or been bullied during these days. ]

[I wonder how much you have grown and how much stronger you have become in the 2,804-days since you left me? ]

[Have you made new friends? Have you met a new teacher? Do you have your first lover whom you can trust in your life? ]

[Have your dreams come true? Have your wishes come true? Can you live happily ever after? ]

[Marina, my daughter, the love of my life, the light that illuminates my dark soul, the fire that ignites my dry life...ah, Marina...]

After nearly nine years, the Lord of All Machines once again spoke the name carefully, as if afraid that she would run away:

"Ma, Li, Na."

Ravna discovered that the Lord of All Machines' previously unchanging, hoarse and cold male voice actually became somewhat softer at this moment.

Dig the hole, what's going on.

Ravna moved her eyes twice more, looking at the photo of Marina - this person is no different from ordinary people!

There are at least 80,000 ordinary beast-eared girls like this in the City of Sun.

How could the Lord of All Machines be interested in such an ordinary girl?
——Just because she single-handedly destroyed Arakawa Pharmaceutical?
But that was just a peripheral organization in the outer ring area. It could be destroyed and rebuilt. Even the tentacle left there by the Lord of All Machines was only the fourth-level "Light Me".

She proved that she was worth more than me.

In this case, we can just capture the gene awakener named Marina and transform her. As for the outside world, we can just kill a scapegoat to take the blame.

So Ravna said, "Master, let me catch her."

——This way I can still let the water run for a long time to catch the fish, hey.

The Lord of All Machines turned around, and his voice became extremely calm again:
"She and I knew each other a long, long time ago, Ravna, in the Mechanical City that has now become a ruin."

Ravna asked in surprise, "She is a survivor of the Machine City?"

The Master of All Machines did not answer this question. The computing power usage gradually decreased. He just said: "On the road of simulating personification, we had some disagreements and disputes, but in the end-"

"It was me who chose to run away, not her."

Ravna stood at attention. "I suddenly remembered that the research and development of Gospel Technology's emerging products has reached a critical point. Why not let Andre handle it?"

"However, judging from these current images, she is indeed very different from before and doesn't seem to be the same person."

The Master of All Machines paid no attention to Ravna's cleverness. His computing power usage surged again at this moment. He was slightly relieved and said, "It seems that she has chosen the path that leads to happiness."

This is good.

This is also not good.

Finally, the Lord of All Machines issued an order:

"Go capture Marina and send her to my operating room - but be careful not to irritate her or hurt her."

"In the days ahead, this city will be her playground."

Ravna asked, "What about the boy next to Miss Marina, and that Baichuan Ruoxia?"

Ravna could see that the computing power usage dropped from 99% to 0% in an instant.

——【Clear】.

(End of this chapter)