Durin's Diary

Chapter 878 Unwilling to Wake Up

Du Lin looked at the assembly line below and saw everything on it, including real mechanical bodies.

"Is that a puppet skeleton?" Du Lin asked, pointing at several of the mechanical bodies.

"Yes, those are puppet bones. The inhabitants of the four islands were once the people of Chang Tang, but when Chaos first appeared, their tribunes were bewitched by the evil gods transformed by the Western Continent researchers and sacrificed all the inhabitants of the four islands. Those puppet bones are the metal shells left after their flesh and souls were replaced."

Speaking of this, Sun Yi's tone was a little low. "The evil god told him that if you believe in him, you can gain eternal life. He sacrificed the lives of all the people on the four islands, and indeed everyone gained eternal life. But the price is that the souls of all the residents of the four islands are imprisoned in immortal bodies. It can be regarded as a form of eternity. Only by destroying their metal bodies and letting the celestial masters extradite these poor souls can the souls in the puppet bones be freed."

As Sun Yi spoke, he had a mechanical arm pick up a body. He pointed at its chest through the glass and said, "Speaking of which, although the puppet skeletons use metal shells, the core of their souls is located in their chests, a pot-shaped container."

"Should I break it? Or do I need to destroy something else to make it stop?"

"Using armor-piercing bullets to sever their spines can effectively halt a puppet skeleton's movements. Shattering their skull servos can also halt their movements. However, the pot located in their chest must be destroyed, and then the soul within the pot must be purified to completely eliminate a puppet skeleton. Otherwise, it will only take a while for their souls to dissipate from the pot, and then the special individuals within the puppet skeleton will attract these souls and reuse them."

"That means that if Chang Tang's soldiers are killed, their souls will also be imprisoned." Du Lin asked.

Sun nodded. "Yes, but our soldiers would rather purify themselves than allow their souls to be transformed into puppet bones. Soldiers fighting against puppet bones will take a potion. When they are fatally wounded, they will begin to burn their souls as power to their bodies. They will fight until their souls are completely burned out, and then the bodies will fall."

"They are all great." Du Lin was in awe of such a resolute mindset. He was truly honored to have such people on this land, to share the same roots with them.

"Their weapons are very strange, you have to be careful." Sun Yi instructed: "I will take you to see their firearms. Others should not follow us. It involves confidential information."

Du Lin had almost grown calluses from hearing along the way that the weapon in Puppet Bone's hand was better than that of Chang Tangren. In that case, Du Lin asked Melinda to wait upstairs, and then followed Sun Yi in the elevator down a few floors. When the elevator door opened, Du Lin saw a standard shooting range.

Sun Yi brought Du Lin to a large gun: "This is their plasma weapon."

This is fucking too much! This 25mm caliber plasma weapon will kill anyone it hits.

Eleven started cursing as soon as he saw this guy.

"That's why it's even more necessary to take the potion and forcibly burn its soul." Sun Yi said this, and then he looked at Du Lin holding the weapon: "What do you think?"

"It's unexpectedly light." Du Lin said truthfully.

"Because it's just a gun. Its entire structure is a plasma ammunition backpack connected to the pipeline behind the gun through pipelines to form a complete plasma weapon. The backpack is very large and can be destroyed by rifle grenades or large-caliber weapons. However, plasma weapons are very dangerous. Even at long range, their hit rate is not high. If you are hit by the puppet skeleton's gunpowder weapons, you may still survive, but if you are hit by them, it is very likely that you will die immediately." Sun Yi said this, but he also added: "This kind of weapon is rare. In a puppet skeleton army, only the most solid and reliable mechanical bodies are qualified to use it."

"So the backpack is very heavy, right?" Du Lin said, "Only the most reliable puppet skeletons can carry it and use it." Sun nodded. "That's right, they're easy to spot. If you see them, you must kill them immediately."

Then he looked at Eleven again: "There were a lot of people here just now, but now there are only a few of us left. You should be able to speak now."

Eleven generals revealed Du Lin's situation and the fact that two of them were from another timeline.

Upon hearing this, Sun Yi turned and looked at Du Lin: "I have always believed that the so-called parallel world theory is nothing more than the imagination of those with regrets."

"That's what I thought, too, until I was dying in bed. Then I found myself here, and discovered that this world has gods and all sorts of nonsense." Du Lin said this, sighing somewhat helplessly. "But since people can live their lives again, they should live them well, don't you think?"

"Indeed, since I can truly live my life over again, I should naturally live it again." Sun Yi nodded. "I don't see any possibility that you could be lying to me about what you said. No living being in this world could possibly lie to me."

It's a good thing to have confidence in yourself.

Du Lin also smiled: "Astrologers and celestial masters say that I have twin souls. It's probably because I have memories of two human lives."

"Who knows? These things didn't exist before. It was the invasion of the evil gods that allowed them to appear. But with the arrival of the Nameless One, the invasion of the evil gods was interrupted. Although the evil gods transformed by the EU researchers can no longer serve as carriers of those evil gods, they themselves are terrifying enough to living beings. Over the years, Director Sun's rational incarnation has been trying to purify them."

"I hope we can get this over with," Dooling said.

"I sincerely hope you can do this. Director Sun has been trapped in the research center for a thousand years. I'm a little worried about her sanity. She's a very kind person to children, but she's shattered her rationality in order to end this. I'm really worried about this mother of mine. I'm afraid all these years of confinement will distort her mind and turn her into a being like those old gods of the Western Continent. That would be truly tragic."

Du Lin was a little skeptical: "Aren't you her creation? Why do you still doubt her?"

"I am indeed her creation, but in my memory bank, Director Sun told me that protecting the citizens of the Republic is my top priority. I must complete this mission, even if it means doubting her for this."

At this point, Sun Yi sighed softly, "Suspicion is the key to survival. I don't trust her unconditionally just because she's my mother in the physics sense. In an environment like a research center, a soul twisted by loneliness will bear horrific fruit. None of us know when... We must take precautions."

Du Lin nodded in silence.

I see.

(End of this chapter)