Abstraction for a bad world

Chapter 115 Marina Vidsotoevsky Kodega

Talk about a lifetime of happiness... It's a pity that I can say such words.

That's enough.

Old Wolf looked at the crowd in the bathroom, sighed, fell headfirst onto the soft bed, and stared at the dark yellow ceiling.

——Is Yuan Qingzhuo a person worthy of trust?
Don't even think about this kind of question.

No doubt, yes.

Although Laolang has always had subtle doubts about his origins.

For example, Yuan Qingzhuo's mysterious origin, how did Yuan Qingzhuo appear in front of them in this form, and how was the relationship between Yuan Qingzhuo and Marina different from her relationship with Marina...

And so on.

But these doubts pale into insignificance in the face of what she saw and heard.

After Yuan Qingzhuo appeared, and after she lost the bet with Yuan Qingzhuo, Lao Lang observed Yuan Qingzhuo's actions and his influence on Marina more from a third-party perspective.

Until now, Laolang has come to an extremely simple conclusion.

——“Originally clean and pure.”

Nothing else is needed, these three words themselves can represent everything.

Mysterious origin? Strange appearance? Unknown purpose? There are so many mysteries about him.

But it's okay.

Because...he is Yuan Qingzhuo.

The old wolf laughed.

This is enough.

Originally, she should have been able to let go of Marina by now... She had grown to be independent enough and had her own pursuits and people she could rely on.

But now there is a problem.

——The Lord of All Machines did not disappear into history along with the City of Machinery as she had expected.

Even if the entire city was reduced to ruins and there was no living creature in sight, it could not prevent him from reviving again.

——In the City of the Sun, thousands of kilometers away.

Even if I gave up the power he gave me, abandoned all the past, and passed thousands of days and nights.

And meet him again.

It's like God's will.

Lao Lang thought: Was I too lenient with Marina?
If she hadn't let Marina burn down the Arakawa headquarters, and hadn't let Marina appear in the eyes of those giant companies, and thus be discovered by him who probably hadn't fully recovered yet.

Give up Millie, let Marina and Yuan Qingzhuo escape from the City of Sun and go to another distant city, and live like that without caring about the world.

——Will the peaceful life that Marina expects come true?
Maybe.

But she has made her choice this time, and Marina has made up her mind to protect everything she has with her own hands.

——I don’t want to be sad, and I don’t want to lose again.

——If anyone wants to stop her from achieving happiness, then tear apart all those who stand in her way.

The old wolf could sense Marina's unspoken belief very clearly: "Don't pin your life on an illusory fate - if someone falls on the road, it will only be you."

Even though the purpose is different and the people around her are different, the means of implementation are exactly the same as what she has done before.

"Then go do it again, Marina."

The old wolf murmured softly, she closed her eyes, and memories of the past came to her mind.

To kill, to destroy, to ruin.

This time, we will completely kill the Lord of All Machines who can only hide in the ocean of transistors, electronic components and information.

Then take your life firmly into your own hands.

All you need to do is that simple.
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"Wuhu~"

Marina, wrapped only in a bath towel, ran out of the bathroom happily and threw herself on Old Wolf, giving her a rough time.

The old wolf stretched out his hand to block the dog's head that was approaching randomly, and asked, "Why are you so happy all of a sudden?"

"Because Xiao Yuan said that you would probably talk about something I forgot next, and he also asked me to secretly get more information from you, and told me not to tell you..."

Having said this, Marina suddenly covered her mouth, realizing that she shouldn't have said the last sentence.

Marina turned her head and stuck out her tongue: "Hey~"

The old wolf looked up and saw Yuan Qingzhuo with a black face.

"Oh... forget it."

Yuan Qingzhuo took out a few coats from the dryer, put them on, and looked at Lao Lang: "If you have something to say, say it quickly."

He browsed both the surface web and the deep web, observing a large number of subtle but ubiquitous changes.

Something is secretly invading the entire Sun City network.

Maybe it has something to do with the guy who suddenly appeared before and has the same name as the final boss...

"Then I'll just state the conclusion."

Lao Lang slapped Marina on the top of her head, and it was as if he had pressed a switch to make her shut up.

"——The Lord of All Things is not dead."

When Gou Zi heard this, she bared her teeth in anger, as if she wanted to fight him right away, but soon she ran to the mirror and looked at herself in the mirror in confusion, seeing that she was extremely angry.

She pointed at Marina, who was furious, in the mirror and asked in confusion, "What is this, a stress reaction?"

"You can understand it this way." Old Wolf spread his hands: "Rather, you didn't lose your mind and slam the door when you heard the news. Instead, you discovered your own problems. This is already a great improvement."

She smiled and said, "Yuan Qingzhuo taught me very well."

Then, Lao Lang looked at Yuan Qingzhuo, who remained silent, and said, "Even if it's for Marina, you must kill that guy called the Lord of All Machines."

After a brief silence, Yuan Qingzhuo closed his eyes and asked, "Is that so?"

The old wolf nodded without hesitation: "That's right."

Stopping the forum where he could only find scattered information from more than a hundred years ago, Yuan Qingzhuo made a promise to Laolang: "Then I promise you that I will die before her."

Hearing such pessimistic words, the old wolf couldn't help but sneer:

"Are you so unconfident?"

“This has nothing to do with confidence.”

Yuan Qingzhuo said: "The reason why a promise is a promise is that I can definitely do it. If I promise something that I may not be able to do... can it still be called a 'promise'?"

"That's more like 'boasting' or 'shameless'."

He shrugged.

The old wolf was stunned, then nodded: "That makes sense... Then I should feel relieved to leave Marina to you."

Listening to the old wolf's words that sounded like he was entrusting his son to someone else, Yuan Qingzhuo stared into her eyes, and then heard the only time she pleaded softly:

"Treat her well." "Byd, do you need me to tell you? If not, my dog ​​would have been broken by you."

Yuan Qingzhuo directly pointed fingers at Laolang.

"The past is the past, and the present is the present. Don't take one moment as forever!" The old wolf pointed at the puzzled dog-head and said, "This guy was so cowardly in the past, being beaten up every day. How can he grow up without the guidance of the Dark Flow?"

Yuan Qingzhuo raised his eyebrows: "Then let me ask you, is Gouzi okay now?"

"Good! That's damn good!"

Yuan Qingzhuo was puzzled. "Is it a draft? Then you mean Niu Mo. I didn't use the dark flow to guide her. I instilled shark shark shark fuck fuck, selfishness, and rooting out the evil into a pure and innocent dog every day. You want her to hum something like 'The Valley of Desolation ****, the *** Ming Youth Returns', right?"

The two had a heated discussion about Marina's education.

This conversation made the dog who was listening obediently at the side scratch his head in confusion.

If you don't understand, just ask, why did two riddle men suddenly appear beside you? Can you beat them up with your fists to wake them up?

It turns out that it doesn't work.

Because Marina's interest had just been piqued by words like "So you're leaving just like that?" and "You two should live well from now on, or I'll kill you."

But soon, a dozen or twenty consecutive offensive and abstract words without repetition made her CPU overheat.

So Marina lay down on the bed, covered herself with a small quilt and went to sleep:
——Forget it, whoever wants to interfere with these two people can do it.

Marina was so tired that as soon as she closed her eyes, she fell into a deep, empty sleep.

Fortunately, Gou Zi didn't bother to understand what the two were talking about.

——Otherwise, it would be really troublesome if she started to make a fuss.

After Marina's breathing became quiet and steady, such thoughts passed through the minds of Lao Lang and Yuan Qingzhuo at the same time.

"So we have to say goodbye?"

Yuan Qingzhuo smacked his lips and said, "It feels a bit sudden and unreal."

"I will become one with her, and she will become stronger and won't hold you back any more."

Lao Lang brushed away Marina's hair and stretched out his hand towards Yuan Qingzhuo: "Most things in this world happen suddenly."

“She will suddenly realize what kind of hell she lives in, the City of Machines will suddenly be destroyed, and I will suddenly be born next to Marina, who is as blank as a sheet of paper, and then suddenly come to this City of the Sun that I have never heard of.”

"You will suddenly appear in front of Marina, Marina will suddenly grow up and destroy Arakawa, and the Lord of All Machines who was supposed to be dead will suddenly be resurrected..."

"So, I will leave just as I am now, as it should and suddenly."

Old Wolf looked at the hand that was clasped with his own, and a relieved smile appeared on his scarred face.

"I originally planned to return this memory of the past to its original owner, but now..."

Lao Lang looked at this extremely reliable face and felt that there was probably no one in the world more trustworthy than this person.

Marina's past pointed at him and said word by word: "I seem to have a better choice."

"You don't even know anything about your past, but an outsider knows it all... You haven't asked Marina's opinion on this matter yet. You should give her the right to choose, right?"

Yuan Qingzhuo stroked the back of Marina's hand and asked calmly.

"Come on."

The old wolf spread his hands mockingly: "I can't hide this kind of rotten thing. It's better to keep it in my head for the rest of my life. If I have a choice, why would I give it to Marina?"

She pointed at Yuan Qingzhuo and said, "What you said is like a person who went into a toilet and smelled like a stinker and was so excited that he found a clean passerby and said to him, 'Hey, I went into that toilet, do you know that you have to come in too!' It's just like repeating history everywhere on the street."

"Then you give me memories like this...what am I?"

Yuan Qingzhuo was so confused by this wonderful metaphor that he didn't know what to say.

"A trash can? Or a robot vacuum cleaner?"

"The robot vacuum cleaner will just smooth these out..."

"Forget it! This meaningless metaphor is fine!"

Old Wolf impatiently held Yuan Qingzhuo's hand tightly with both hands and said to him solemnly: "Yuan Qingzhuo."

He sighed, "I'm here."

"Next, please come and bear witness to Marina Vidsootovs Kodeja's life, her past, and what she has lost, the blood and tears she has shed, her anger, sadness and loneliness, and the endlessly long time before she gained consciousness."

"——Can you please bear witness to everything about her to prove that this person once existed in this world, Yuan Qingzhuo?"

"Okay."

Yuan Qingzhuo responded without hesitation: "Of course."

He kissed the old wolf's forehead gently... No, it should be said that part of Marina's past, the person named Marina Vidsotoevsky Codea.

"——Marina Vidsotoevsky Kodeiga, I will bear witness to you."

In the last murmur, Yuan Qingzhuo heard the old wolf's voice which had lost its roughness and hoarseness and became relieved.

She said, "Thank you, Yuan Qingzhuo."

Ah, congratulations on getting the Good Guy card +1.

However, this good guy card is still very valuable, because a guy like Laolang, who only has killing and fucking in his mind, will not give out a good guy card to others casually.

This is much more valuable than Gou Zi’s good guy card.

Isn’t that good?

Under Yuan Qingzhuo's silent gaze, the figure of the old wolf gradually faded, faded, and faded again, and finally turned into an imperceptible shadow and merged into the body of Marina who was sleeping soundly.

Instead, a vast tidal wave of gray and bloody memories covered his entire body.

Even if it was just for a moment, Yuan Qingzhuo had completely understood why Laolang had developed this bad character of wanting to kill and fuck anyone he saw.

And why she wanted Marina to become the purely selfish protagonist in the old dark stories.

This is really... as it should be.

So Yuan Qingzhuo couldn't help but ask: If I were in that kind of environment, could I guarantee that I wouldn't become like Lao Lang?
the answer is negative.

After a long time, Yuan Qingzhuo opened his eyes tiredly and with some effort. He turned his head and stared at Marina, who had a peaceful face and was still sleeping soundly.

He said goodbye softly:
"Goodbye."

And, I also want to say something to Marina who opened her eyes later:
"Hello."

The following is some relevant information that Yuan Qingzhuo found on Tieba:

[God of Suffering, Hydra: This time I am sending this information on behalf of you. The relevant information was obtained by the deceased player "Mamba out". The only world related to this information is the "Suffering" difficulty of "Post-Apocalypse: A New Era". ]

[The Great God of Suffering, Hydra: This post does not allow for Mamba and Prison jokes. Once discovered, you will be put on the blacklist and given 50 years of verbal abuse.]

[The following is important information selflessly shared by the player "Mambaout". 】

[■■■■000·New World, Before Utopia]

[Sequence 001: Tide of the Mechanic]

[■■■■009·The Strongest Creature in the World]

(End of this chapter)