Cyber ​​Sword Immortal Iron Rain

Although the planned results were achieved, an irreversible price was paid.

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But there are differences between the monsters: the eyes of the iron-faced woman are merely decorations, and these curled-up monsters cannot be reflected in her eyes; similarly, she cannot hear the sounds around her.

Perhaps these tortured monsters shouted to her for death and liberation; but no sound reached the ears of the iron-faced woman.

So she just walked right through them—

Let them continue to survive where they are and continue to suffer pain and suffering.

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The iron-faced woman is still walking.

All she had left was endless, silent darkness; and in this silence there was only pain - but... this darkness evoked some memories deep within her.

"Space. It's dark outside the Earth."

This passing thought was like a spell: dim, unflickering points of light suddenly appeared in the deep black gloom; like a cluster of stars.

More, broken memories are like vomit in the stomach, churning up...

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"...What's your favorite? I think it should be "Stars, My Home". In that case, it would be nice if I could die outside the Earth..."

Last words. These were the last words from his father: many years had passed since then, but the woman with the iron face still did not understand the meaning of them—either before her body and soul were intact, or now.

but……

The broken memories are like a gust of wind blowing in your face——

By the time the iron-faced woman took a few steps, these things had been completely forgotten by her.

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Chapter 327: Old Ugly (Part )

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Manila has been immersed in silent darkness for a long time; it seems that this long night is far from over.

But after this moment: everything will be different from before.

The giant tree that stretched across the city of Manila, like a scene from a dream, regained consciousness at that moment.

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He completed his long, seemingly endless fall—and woke up.

Just like a person who has been drowning for a long time, finally has the opportunity to stick his head out of the water.

His own name, the chaotic and confusing thoughts, followed by the clear consciousness, crashed into his soul.

Fang Bailu subconsciously wanted to swallow a lot of oxygen:

But he soon discovered that... there was no nasal cavity, no pharynx, no larynx, no trachea, bronchi and lungs; Fang Bailu did not have a respiratory system that humans should have. He seemed to need oxygen, but he seemed to have given up breathing long ago; the organs wrapped on the surface of the body maintained energy supply in a completely different way from the human body.

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Similarly, he could neither see nor hear: his entire visual and auditory senses - including the images in his imagination and memories, as well as the sounds he had heard and recorded in his brain - seemed to have been stripped of his soul.

But even so——

Fang Bailu's brand new body still allowed him to sense the existence of his entire body in a way that was beyond his original senses.

"This is who I am now."

His root system is so huge - on the surface, the blood-red giant tree that occupies half of Manila is just a part of his body, a separate "peripheral device". Under the ground, in the drilled cement and deeper soil... Fang Bailu's root system is covering the foundation of the entire city.

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There seemed to be a vague surprise: but that was just an echo from the past in the soul. Fang Bailu's body, which was nearly 100 meters high and pointed straight up to the sky, was not like his original human body, which could give him real emotions through hormones and neurotransmitters.

Although the way to immortality is the result of applied technology, it does not conform to Fang Bailu's imagination of such "items" - rather than saying that he is controlling the Double Helix Tree, it is better to say that... the Double Helix Tree is who he is today.

Just like in his previous life... the mobile phone, computer, Internet and other electronic products he used day and night had already constituted Fang Bailu's second brain; they even exerted influence on him in a hostile manner.

Compared to the confused, fragile and changeable Fang Bailu, the Double Helix Tree is much, much more powerful.

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"Do I need a human form? A human-like body?"

It's not that he was unaware of this problem: it's just that it didn't surface above the white deer's soul.

Fang Bailu felt that his mind was almost in a dissociated state——

Everything that happened in the past seemed to be separated from him by a thick and solid layer of frosted glass; behind it was only hazy and vague, and could not be seen clearly.

Even after waking up, he was still like a wandering ghost: floating between the human world and the psychedelic world. Although his observation of himself and subtle emotions became more acute, there was nothing there.

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This was not what he had originally imagined the state to be after the turtle breath ended: but the old fantasy was too far away from him; Fang Bailu had been filled and alienated by this new way of existence——

But still, after getting rid of the initial unfamiliarity, he began to shape his body in a way he was more accustomed to in order to achieve higher efficiency.

This seems like an optimization made for the user experience, or it may just be the last bit of instinct left by Fang Bailu as a human being.

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First, light must come out of the endless darkness:

Although he had perceptions beyond the original five senses, Fang Bailu still began to rebuild his visual system - vision was still an efficient way to collect information, especially in human society.

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In the city, the bright red weeds growing out of the cracks in the cement have changed: their tips began to swell and become increasingly thick; until round vitreous bodies, corneas and lenses bloomed at the ends; each weed turned into a slender and tough eyestalk, with black and white eyes turning in all directions.

A strange city, a strange and ambiguous scene - this is not Kuala Lumpur, nor is it any city that Fang Bailu is familiar with or has visited. But then, the memories that the double helix tree has preserved for him told Fang Bailu:

This is Manila on the other side of the sea.

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So he continued to look around - observing his surroundings.

Fang Bailu saw:

Those lifelike metal statues crawling around him: although their bodies had become inhuman, but... Fang Bailu recognized that face - the same face that all the nearly one hundred statues had.

Fang Bailu didn't know where they came from, but he recognized these creatures. But the Double Helix Wonderful Tree had its own memories, recording everything that Fang Bailu could sense when he was in hibernation - now it has been transformed into understandable memories and returned to his mind...

So he also knew the origin of these statues.

They are his offspring and descendants, and also the remnants of a fantasy dream. He should be held responsible for the fate of these creatures, because they should not have been brought to this absurd world by Fang Bailu: most of them were damaged and died in the recent wars and fights; while the rest came to his side in the spiritual storm and begged for his protection.

But the prayers were not answered as they should have been.

In the past when he had a human body, he would have sighed.

but now:

Blood-red weeds sprouted from beneath the statues and grew upward—the blades grew far longer than they should have, becoming more like reeds.

The tall grass completely enveloped the statues, covering them; then it tightened and wrapped them... becoming long cocoons woven from grass leaves: nearly a hundred blood-red cocoons were shrunk back by the roots and pulled into the ground.

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As swift and sudden as growth—

When the blood-red grass retracted into the ground again, the statues formed by nearly a hundred mantises were no longer there, buried six feet deep.

The appearance of dream derivatives came from the deeper level of his obsession; and when Fang Bailu rested, he naturally released his delusions, which came true in this world through the Double Helix Tree.

But they did exist, although Fang Bailu should not have brought them into this world - and apart from burying them, he didn't know how to deal with these "corpses" that had turned into metal.

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"The corpse"...disappeared.

Yes, Fang Bailu suddenly remembered something and began to search inside his body:

He remembered Xin's wish and knew that he had finally come here and merged into the tree - but Fang Bailu could not locate him. Xin was originally part of the double helix tree, and when he touched the giant tree, it was like a drop of water merging into the ocean... He could no longer be distinguished.

If you can't do it, it's a waste of time.

Then in an instant, he put it behind his mind: as if it was just an insignificant thought.

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Unlike the anxiety and worry in the tortoise breath, Fang Bailu no longer paid heavy attention to the new existence and disappearance. Although he originally thought that this was a must - he must find a "new" soul and bring him back to the world: but it seemed that it didn't matter if it was delayed for thousands of years.

Fang Bailu became more... more "detached"; human desires, emotions and moods no longer appeared with the disappearance of his human body; and he found this to be a very natural thing.

Human identity, human suffering, and human pursuits were originally external things that were given and imposed on him - so now, he can also throw them away at will; in fact, these have nothing to do with Fang Bailu.

Fang Bailu's trunk is gradually expanding——

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He will continue to grow and become larger.

While he was in deep sleep, the blood and flesh tubes that extended into the sea through the underground of Manila would continue to wriggle and absorb, capturing fish and other creatures in the sea water as materials for building Fang Bailu's body.

He still likes to taste the corpses of other creatures - perhaps this is a habit left over from the human era, or perhaps it is just an instinct of Fang Bailu's current form.

Another set of pipes led to the fetal pool linked to the fetal sea, but he had already drunk it dry: this was a pity, as the liquid in the fetal pool was a food that could be converted more efficiently.

A deeper thought was occupying Fang Bailu's mind, a thought that no human would have:

Grow and continue to grow until you embrace the entire earth...

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Chapter 328: Old Ugly (Part )

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Da da.

Heavy, long-interval noises, dragging, strange footsteps; the long, bloody red trail behind gradually faded from thick to thin, giving people the illusion that the blood had run dry.

At some point, the woman with the iron face came to Fang Bailu's tree trunk; but he was still immersed in the dream of growth and expansion.

In fact, Fang Bailu had already noticed her arrival long before she came into human sight; according to the records of the Double Helix Tree, the woman with the iron face had already walked into the shade of the tree canopy before her tortoise breath ended; but it took her a long time before she could even walk under the tree.

But he didn't show much interest - until she dragged her heavy and deformed body in front of him.

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"Anben. It's Anben Nora."

Fang Bailu quietly uttered the other person's name in his heart, but it did not cause any fluctuations -

He stretched out his eyes from the branches and coldly looked at the woman with the iron face:

Even though her appearance was completely different, he could still easily recognize her - Fang Bailu had never thought before that the nature of human beings was so easy to distinguish. In fact, all human beings were similar in a way that seemed to be true, like toys produced on a factory assembly line, but each had its own flaws.

He couldn't help but wonder why he had been so blunt in his judgment of other humans before...

Ambenola came closer.

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Fang Bailu was very sure that Anbennola did not have vision at this moment - but she seemed to know in some way that she had reached her destination.

Because she stopped and took new actions:

Like a child holding up a beloved but damaged treasure, Anbennola raised his hand towards the huge scarlet tree that Fang Bailu had transformed into.