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Chapter 236 Restrictions Lifted!

Jing Chen didn't answer Nymph's question. He ate his candied hawthorn while watching the survival game below.

Seeing that Jing Chen ignored her, Nymph became angry. "Hey, you bug over there, I'm talking to you!"

Jing Chen took out two more candied hawthorns, casually tossed the bamboo skewer in his hand aside, and handed one of the two candied hawthorns to Nymph, saying, "Eat this, I know you love sweets the most."

Nymph took the candied hawthorn from Jing Chen, took a bite, and said with a look of enjoyment, "Mmm, delicious. Sweets are definitely the best."

Jing Chen said, "You were just asking me if I already knew that Icarus had been placed under a restrictive protection program, right?"

Nymph stared at Jing Chen's profile, waiting for his answer. Jing Chen slowly took a bite of a candied hawthorn, savoring it before saying gently, "I can see through all of your past and future. Is it difficult for someone who knows the past and future to know that Icarus is under a restrictive protection program?"

"Knowledgeable of the past and the future?" Nymph asked.

Jing Chen said, "Your future is very interesting, but I can't tell you. Okay, that's all I'll say. Enjoy it."

After that, no matter how much Nymph asked, Jing Chen didn't answer a single word. After her persistent questioning yielded no results, Nymph stopped asking and sat on the tree branch to watch the survival game below.

Tomoki was being chased around by the old lady from the cultural center when suddenly another person appeared on the road ahead. Tomoki exclaimed in surprise, "The auntie at the vegetable stall?" Just as he finished speaking, yet another person appeared from behind the bushes on his right. "The fishmonger!"

In a split second, Tomoki was surrounded by three people, and the atmosphere froze instantly. The moment the old lady at the cultural center fired her gun, Tomoki quickly turned and continued running inside. However, the three behind him were still determined to pursue him relentlessly.

Three girls suddenly popped out from behind a tree as Tomoki ran past. Seeing him run by, they excitedly exclaimed, "We found Sakurai-kun!"

Then, the three girls joined the chase for Tomoki. Left with no other option, Tomoki ran to the temple and headed in the opposite direction from where he had fled.

Mikako stood in front of the temple, watching Tomoki run past, and said, "Everyone loves you, Sakurai-kun."

As Tomoki ran away, he kept yelling, "I don't want this kind of love!"

Zhishu finally escaped the pursuit and leaned against a tree, panting heavily. Behind him were the people who had been chasing him. There were his classmates, a vegetable stall auntie, a fish shop guy, and a cultural center grandma.

Zhishu breathed a sigh of relief and muttered, "Am I saved?"

Just as Zhishu finished speaking, the old lady from the cultural center suddenly jumped out of the bushes in front of him and shouted, "How naive!"

"Oh no!" Tomoki exclaimed in alarm.

The elderly woman from the cultural center, holding a gun in both hands in a particularly bizarre pose, aimed it at Tomoki in mid-air. "Your life is in my hands!"

Tomoki covered his head with his hands. Just then, a cork bullet suddenly appeared out of nowhere and shot his grandmother down from mid-air. Then three more shots followed, and Tomoki's classmate also fell to the ground.

"It's...it's a sniper!" The fishmonger immediately recognized the attacker. A sniper was definitely hidden in the dense foliage of the surrounding trees, but the sniper hadn't made a sound. The fishmonger and the vegetable stall auntie slowly leaned against the trunk of the tree where Tomoki was.

Jing Chen could see clearly from the tree that the sniper was Shou Xing. Shou Xing was currently perched on a branch, holding a sniper rifle. The muzzle slowly moved from Zhi Shu to the fish shop guy to Zhi Shu's right, and he pulled the trigger. The fish shop guy fell to the ground.

Zhishu and the vegetable stall auntie stared in shock at the fallen fishmonger, simultaneously ducking behind the tree. Shouge aimed his gun at the last vegetable stall auntie again, and just as he was about to pull the trigger, she too fell to the ground.

Shouxing was taken aback, glancing around. "It seems there are snipers besides me. That ruthless and familiar method of concealment, and that incredibly accurate shot just now—there's no mistake!"

Shouge raised his gun again and saw that right in front of him, Mikako was also holding a sniper rifle and had already aimed at him.

Mikako's lips curled up slightly as the two of them pulled the triggers simultaneously, and two cork bullets exploded above Tomoki's head.

Tomoki crouched down, covering his head. At that moment, Morikata jumped down from the tree trunk, having already discarded his sniper rifle, and pulled out a pistol from behind his back, running towards Mikako. Mikako also jumped down, holding a pistol, and charged towards Morikata.

The two men charged at each other, firing their guns as they went. Tomoki lay prone in the middle, covering his head, refusing to move. When they reached each other, they engaged in close-quarters combat, exchanging blows evenly.

"You're really something, Mikako," Shougei said during the fight.

"You too, Hideki," Mikako added.

Tomoki was clutching his head, screaming for help. But the two were engrossed in their fight; who had time to care about him?

Suddenly, the two of them jumped back at the same time, dropping their empty guns. Shouxing said, "Their skills are evenly matched."

"Then let's settle this with this," Mikako suddenly said, wearing a pair of spiked gauntlets. Shouge immediately pulled out a knife and fork, ready to fight Mikako.

Jing Chen looked at Mei Xiangzi's equipment, then glanced at Shou Xing's equipment, and wiped away a cold sweat. "Their equipment is not even in the same league. You're really something, Shou Xing."

At this moment, Tomoki cried out, "If I had known it would turn out like this, I would have just obediently let the people in the shopping district kill me." Suddenly, a scream rang out.

Jing Chen looked towards the direction from which the screams came, and corks rained down from the sky like a storm, causing everyone to scream and scramble for cover. Looking up, Jing Chen saw Icarus flying overhead, wielding a Gatling gun and firing wildly at the ground.

Mikako stared blankly at the fleeing people, bewildered. Among them was Morigata, whose expression was equally shocked. Seeing this scene, Mikako seemed to realize something. At that moment, Morigata rushed forward, tackled Mikako to the ground, and dodged a barrage of cork bullets.

An old man barely survived that wave of attacks, and looking at Icarus in the sky, he seemed to mutter to himself, "It's the end of the world."

A "pil of corpses" was piled up in front of the old man. Icarus, holding a Gatling gun, slowly descended from the sky and stood on top of this "pil of corpses".

Suddenly, a bullet hit Icarus in the head. Icarus turned around and saw it was Tomoki. "Hey, that's too much, that's enough, get out of the way."

Icarus blankly replied, "Yes."

Jing Chen rubbed his forehead. He had thought that the restriction protection program on Icarus had been lifted just now, and he was just about to stop Icarus.

Icarus flew alone in the sky, until he reached a clearing with only a large tree. He saw Nymph standing under the tree, so he quickly stopped, slowly descended, and landed in front of Nymph.

Nymph laughed and asked, "How does it feel? Don't you miss attacking the ground like this?"

Icarus paused, and Nymph continued, "I just can't do anything with you. Aren't your memories and thoughts all protected?" Nymph walked up to Icarus. "Then let me remind you of your true form—the awe-inspiring Queen of the Sky, the one who terrified Synapse!"

No sooner had she finished speaking than Nymph suddenly kicked out, striking Icarus hard in the stomach, sending him crashing into a tree trunk.

"How is it?" Nymph stood, looking at Icarus, who was slumped on the ground. "Remembered something, Queen of the Sky?"

Icarus forced himself to sit up, still saying, "I am a play angel robot, model α."

"For entertainment? Don't be ridiculous." Nymph walked towards Icarus step by step, stepping on Icarus's face with one foot. While torturing Icarus, she said, "My master gave the order to take you back to Synapse. Things that fall should return to their owners, right, Alpha?"

As Nymph stepped on Icarus, Icarus seemed to remember something. Nymph then delivered a side kick, striking Icarus directly in the face and sending him flying to the side.

Nymph, with her back to Icarus, turned around and said, "I am Nymph, an electronic warfare angel robot, model β. I've come to take you back, Queen of the Sky."

Icarus lay on the ground. "I'm just for show..."

Before she could finish speaking, Nymph grabbed Icarus by the hair and kicked him up. Nymph said viciously, "Still saying that? You're so stubborn." Then she threw Icarus against a tree trunk.

"It seems the punishment was too harsh," Nymph chuckled softly.

Icarus stood up and said, "I am an angel robot for entertainment purposes."

Nymph's expression suddenly twitched. She walked up to Icarus and said, "Fine, I'll use my hacking system to disable your memory protection program. Then I'll make you remember that you're not some piece of junk for entertainment!"

As the last word fell, Nymph suddenly opened her eyes wide, and a hurricane arose centered on her.

Icarus's eyes suddenly changed; a pattern resembling a scope appeared, and fragments of memories flooded his mind. His emerald green eyes gradually turned blood red.

Immediately afterward, Icarus recalled the scene of her former master letting her wreak havoc on the ground. Nymph had already deactivated Icarus's memory protection program, and collapsed to the ground, tears streaming down her face.

Seeing Icarus's expression, Nymph suddenly burst into laughter. "What? Are you so sad you're about to cry? Are you so disappointed that you've discovered you're not just for entertainment?"

Nymph laughed loudly for a while longer, then suddenly realized something, "Hey... wait, why are you crying? I only unlocked the memory protection program, not the thought protection program."

As soon as Nymph finished speaking, Icarus suddenly burst out with a rainbow-colored light, his eyes instantly turning blood red, and his powerful aura made it difficult for Nymph to even stand up.

"Thinking restriction protection program fully deactivated; variable wing protection program deactivated, 80...90..."

Hearing Icarus's words, Nymph suddenly realized something, "Could it be..."

"Self-repair procedure initiated, skill protection procedure is being deactivated, 80...90..."

"Awakening to its complete form? Queen of the Sky!" Nymph watched as one protection program after another was being deactivated, and realized Icarus's true purpose.

Icarus suddenly spread his wings, and his originally white wings suddenly turned into pure white energy-like wings.

"Self-repair complete." Icarus took flight, a huge halo appearing above his head.

"Target locked, permanent homing-to-air missile, launch!"

Six tracking missiles shot out from Icarus's energy wings. Seeing the situation was dire, Nymph turned and ran. The tracking missiles relentlessly pursued her, determined to shoot her down.

While dodging the air-to-air missiles, he kept wondering, how could this be... why were all the protection programs disabled?

Having finally managed to dodge a few missiles, another one suddenly flew out from behind Nymph. Nymph quickly turned around, "Oh no!"

Nymph was undoubtedly shot down by the missile and fell to the ground in a sorry state.

Nymph was still annoyed by the mud on her clothes when Icarus flew up in front of her and lowered its altitude. Nymph suddenly roared, "You bastard, just wait till I teach you a lesson! Super-super-supersonic vibrator!"

Nymph opened her mouth wide and unleashed a white sonic attack on Icarus. However, just as Nymph's ultrasonic attack reached Icarus, it was blocked by a barrier.

"Absolute... Absolute Defense Circle..." Nymph looked at the barrier that appeared around Icarus.

Icarus extended his left hand, slowly clenched it, and a pure black bow and arrow appeared in his right hand. As he raised his right hand, a red-feathered arrow appeared in his right hand as well.

Upon seeing what Icarus was holding, Nymph exclaimed in surprise, "That arrow is... the ultimate weapon!"

Icarus's bow was surrounded by dark purple energy. Icarus drew the bowstring, and the arrowhead burst into a dark red flame.

"Are you serious? Do you want to blow this whole country up?" Nymph asked in a panic as she watched Icarus pull out the ultimate weapon.

Icarus said calmly, "It's alright. After you're shot, I'll deploy an absolute defense circle to protect the ground."

"Don't be silly, you won't be safe doing that!" Nymph said.

"I want to return to Master's side. I am the angel robot for entertainment, model α, Icarus!" Icarus said, recalling the days she spent with Jing Chen.

"Please, leave, Nymph." Icarus's expression suddenly changed, becoming very aggrieved, with tears seemingly welling up in her eyes at any moment, and she spoke softly.

Nymph gritted her teeth. Facing the threat of Icarus's ultimate weapon, and seeing Icarus's expression that seemed ready to burst into tears at any moment, Nymph said through gritted teeth, "I understand. Oddity, how long can you keep this a secret? What will your 'Master' think when they find out your identity? You 'weapon of mass destruction'!"

After Nymph finished speaking, she vanished. A few hours later, the ultimate weapon disappeared, its energy wings transforming into pure white feathers. It slowly descended from the sky, its brows furrowed.

Looking at the mess before her, she muttered, "Master told me to behave, Master..."

After finishing his candied hawthorn, Jing Chen turned around and looked in a certain direction, smiling slightly. "Couldn't resist opening it after all, Nymph? Icarus is a Pandora's box; once opened, the consequences are unimaginable, Nymph. Don't you know that?"

(End of this chapter)