The system handed me over to the state.

Chapter 127: Seele's Wrath

"You should feel honored. This generation of humans simply cannot comprehend the kind of power they face, let alone understand how glorious the evolution awaits them is."

On the way, the mechanical duck continued to instill the theory of mechanical ascension to the supreme in the two of them. Of course, Seele did not pay attention to these, her gaze was always focused on the blue butterflies surrounding the mechanical duck.

She could clearly sense that it was another Seele, but the other did not respond to her. She didn't know what had happened to the other Seele, whether she was being controlled or what. At this moment, she was extremely anxious.

"Do you know the upper limit of mechanical lifeforms?"

The mechanical duck suddenly stopped, turned around, and her face clearly showed surprise. "What did you say? Limit? What limit does a machine have?"

"So, to what extent can your current technology enable mechanical life forms? How far do you think the machines in your hands can advance human civilization?"

"...What are you trying to say? Are you denying my goals?"

"No, it's just a discussion out of curiosity. In your opinion, if mechanical life forms can achieve ascension and make humans supreme beings, then... do you think simple mechanization would be useful for the Quantum Shadow or the world beyond the Quantum Sea?"

"I will conquer the Sea of ​​Quanta!"

"So, have you conquered it?"

A slight smile played on the lips beneath the cloak as he watched the mechanical Bronya with interest, while the mechanical Bronya roared angrily, "One day I will conquer it!"

"Then you'd better wait until the day you conquer before you talk about your unparalleled mechanical ascension and modification. At least, in my knowledge, there are many beings who can easily defeat you right now."

"Even one hand could be used to press you to the ground and grind you into the dirt!"

"What...what nonsense are you spouting!"

Mechanical Bronya roared angrily, rushed up to Bronya, and stared at her face under her hood. "Look at you, hiding yourself like this, not even daring to show your own face. In my opinion, you're just a coward, a coward who doesn't even dare to face others!"

Bronya smiled. "Let's go. Didn't you say you'd show me your achievements? Show them to me; maybe I'll be interested and it might help you."

At this moment, Seele suddenly felt that Bronya had turned the tables. What was clearly the initiative held by Mechanical Bronya had suddenly shifted to Bronya's hands, and...

Looking at the defiant expression on the mechanical duck's face, Seele suddenly felt... perhaps... this apocalypse wasn't as powerful as she had imagined? It was just that nuclear bombs had destroyed 90% of the world's land and human civilization, industrial production capacity, and so on, leaving humanity powerless to resist, which made this apocalypse seem so powerful.

If... there hadn't been the initial nuclear strike, how long could this mechanical Spanish duck have held out?

Seele was curious: what would Seele be like if there were no nuclear strikes?

At this moment, Seele also began to doubt the true identity of the mechanical Bronya in front of her. In her understanding, Bronya was not someone who liked to show off how powerful she was. She was very low-key and sometimes very silent.

She strongly suspected that the mechanical Spanish duck in front of her was merely a mechanical construct controlled by a deeper, behind-the-scenes mastermind, rather than a real Spanish duck.

As the three ventured deeper into a closed room, Bronya's eyes widened in shock. Before her stood countless green, transparent culture tanks neatly arranged on either side of the room. The mechanical Bronya chuckled and said, "Welcome to the control room. You thought I modified all the Valkyries? No, no, no, I didn't modify them. I just made them believe they were modified!"

"These Valkyries are not qualified to join the glorious evolution. Their bodies are too weak. Only a few are decent."

Bronya stepped forward and approached a culture tank. She could clearly see the woman inside, whose entire body was covered with various mechanical devices. She wore a device similar to a neuro-sensing helmet on her head. Every now and then, the woman's body would convulse violently and then return to calm.

"So, you made them wake up in this situation... and mistakenly believe that they have been modified and controlled. They think they are using their controlled bodies, but in reality, they have just had their consciousness linked to that purely mechanical body by some kind of neural transfer device, right?"

"Absolutely right! I'm growing to like you more and more. Join us, and I'm confident we can conquer the entire Quantum Sea within a few years!"

Bronya ignored the mechanical duck's words and continued to look at the incubation tanks one by one. In the middle, she finally saw a familiar face: Durandal... Durandal in the incubation tank had part of her body covered by mechanical devices or directly replaced.

At this moment, the mechanical Bronya came to the side and said, "This human is one of the few powerful beings I have discovered. She possesses physical strength beyond my imagination. The mechanical device I initially modified is actually somewhat inadequate for her original physical abilities."

"So... I can only freeze her this way for now, how about that? This human's power is beyond my imagination. Let's research new mechanical materials together and then create a completely new her, how about that?"

Bronya turned around. "Don't you recognize her?"

"Why would I know her? She's just a human, not worth knowing. Of course, Seele is an exception. You will always be my beloved little sister."

Bronya sighed helplessly. Just as she thought...

"You don't even know Durandal, how could you possibly be Bronya?"

Suddenly, Bronya raised her right hand, pointing the Icarus sword at the mechanical duck's head. Before the mechanical duck could even utter a word, the azure beam of light pierced through its head.

Such a swift movement left Seele no time to react. When she looked at the mechanical duck's corpse on the ground, she discovered that the pierced head of the mechanical duck was filled with mechanical structures, not flesh and blood.

"They don't even recognize Durandal. This mastermind seems very unprofessional."

The death of the mechanical duck instantly activated the alarm system inside the giant tower, and a piercing alarm sounded in their ears. Bronya looked at Seele and said, "Help me take care of those enemies. I want to see if I can rescue these people."

Seele nodded, turned around and headed towards the door of the room. The Heavy Bunny appeared out of thin air behind Bronya. "Keep watch for me. I'll try to speed things up."

Meanwhile, in the corridor outside the room, a large number of black and red constructs rushed over from the other end of the corridor. Seele's face no longer had that wicked smile, but was replaced by anger. These constructs would become her toys to vent her anger. She wanted to let that enemy know how terrifying she was!

Chapter 128: The Third Party

Seele's scythe suddenly slashed upwards, the blood-red blade transforming into a whirlwind that sliced ​​through the enemies before her. The next moment, the scythe in Seele's hand turned into a chain, instantly piercing through the bodies of several constructs in front of her.

"Come here...!"

The chains instantly contracted, pulling a large number of constructs towards itself. Then, as the blood-red scythe slashed down again, a large number of constructs were instantly split in two.

In the already narrow corridor, a large number of mechanical constructs could only crowd into it. Seele no longer had the idea of ​​treating her opponents as toys. Instead, she was purely venting her anger at her opponents treating her beloved Bronya as a toy and a pawn, and the despair of feeling abandoned because Seele did not respond to her. This made Seele feel extremely angry.

Just then, Seele's hand suddenly stopped moving. When she came to her senses, she found that the blue butterfly that had been hovering around the mechanical duck had landed on her shoulder.

“Seele.…”

Seele's expression softened slightly, but just then, a laser beam grazed her cheek, and her expression turned irritated again. "You guys... all of you... die!"

The crimson scythe vanished, replaced by massive crimson claws. Seele charged out, unleashing a crimson storm within the construct, her sharp claws swiftly slicing the construct's metallic body into pieces.

The tiny blue butterfly remained firmly perched on Seele's shoulder, unmoved.

[My other self...I...I miss you so much...]

The voice in her mind made Seele's frantic movements stop for a moment, and in that instant, the blood-red construct blade was pointed directly at Seele's face.

rub!

The sound of metal clashing suddenly rang out, and Seele stared blankly at the transparent white scythe floating beside her.

[Hmm...long time no see, another me.]

Seele's expression turned emotional, tears streaming down her face. An invisible hand wiped them away, and Seele took a deep breath. "It's good that you're back... Now, let's deal with these people who are disturbing our reunion!"

Meanwhile, inside the room, while Bronya was analyzing the technology being used, Little Bunny was installing a time-space teleportation device on the incubation tank. Once she finished analyzing it, she would disconnect the link and teleport everyone back to the temporary base, where the medical team would provide treatment and protection.

However, the analysis of these technologies is currently facing some obstacles. These technologies are completely illogical, as if they only have functions but no underlying principles.

To put it more clearly, it's like a pile of scrap metal that you randomly put together, and it happens to have a special effect. You only know that this scrap metal can do this, but you don't know why it can do this, or what the principle is.

Although the parsing is still ongoing, the speed is exceptionally slow. At this rate, it might not be completed even after a whole day.

Realizing the problem, Bronya had no choice but to abandon further analysis. With no other option, she turned her attention to the room's setup. "Rabbit, hack into the control system here! I need complete control of this place!"

There's no other way but to find a different method. Since they are mechanical constructs, the most fatal thing is that their programs have been hacked. Although my hacking skills are average, this is the only way to save these Valkyries in this situation.

After receiving the command, the little rabbit quickly transformed, unfolding a circular control room. Bronya sat down in the control room, her hands flying rapidly across the virtual keyboard. However, the process was somewhat difficult for Bronya. The defense system here used a kind of intelligent graphic as a password. If she wanted to enter the tower's control system, she had to crack the password composed of this intelligent graphic.

Fortunately, with the help of the quantum computer core inside the rabbit's body and another Herrscher of Reason core, cracking it quickly shouldn't be too difficult.

Bronya was worried about Seele outside... But Bunny was obviously a step faster, and the other side of the screen showed the battle outside the corridor.

In the scene, Black Seele's face was filled with a wild and unrestrained laugh. Her black claws could easily tear the black and red mechanical construct to shreds. However, what Bronya cared about was the invisible thing around Seele. It seemed that something was always protecting Seele. Any enemy that she could not attack in time and got close would be cut down by the invisible thing.

The moment Bronya saw the blue butterfly on Seele's shoulder, she froze, then smiled helplessly, "Welcome back, Seele."

At that moment, Bronya's platform alarm went off. Bronya snapped out of her daze and turned her attention back to the intrusion. To her surprise, she discovered that the alarm was coming from a third party—someone connected to her and the Tower System. This third party was now fighting against Bronya, and its strength was in no way inferior to hers.

Bronya stared at the rapidly scrolling code on the screen, momentarily confused, because this suddenly appearing hacker... was a third party, not the Tower's AI, but another hacker.

A hacker whose skills are no less than her own—Bronya doesn't recall any hackers like that in Honkai Impact 3rd, right? Unless... Otto?

Bronya was a little unsure, but she soon realized the problem: this third party was not only resisting her invasion, but was also constantly trying to invade the tower.

At that moment, Bronya was certain of one thing: she might be able to cooperate with the other party. So, with Bronya's authorization, Rabbit sent the prepared information. In less than 10 seconds, the other party's attack vanished instantly, and instead, they directly shared their data with Bronya, speeding up the cracking of the smart graphic password.

Bronya was quite surprised by the other party's decisive choice. Did they really trust her that much?

However, Bronya did not hesitate for long and quickly received the data to start cracking it again with Little Rabbit.

With the help of a third party, Bronya's speed of breakthrough increased dramatically. In less than 3 minutes, Bronya successfully cracked the code and entered the control system of the giant tower. Bronya immediately shut down all the neural link devices in the control room. After all the devices were shut down, Little Rabbit immediately activated the hyperspace teleportation device on the incubation tank.

One by one, the incubation tanks in the room were enveloped and disappeared by a transparent, pale blue energy field. After doing all this, Bronya didn't put away the bunny, but instead shouted into the communication channel, "Seele! It's done! Let's go straight to the top floor! Bronya isn't here; she must be somewhere higher up!"

The twin cannons on the bunny's shoulders began to transform into some kind of laser device. The next second, a white beam of light instantly pierced through the metal ceiling above. Seele outside also quickly broke free from these seemingly endless constructs and entered the room. She was grabbed by the waist by one of the bunny's hands and then rushed directly into the gap in the ceiling.

Chapter 129: The Myriad Treasures of the Void

That's... Heavy Bunny?

The other Seele, transformed into a butterfly, looked at the heavily armored bunny that had captured her, filled with doubt. Seele smiled and said, "That's right, Seele, this is the heavily armored bunny. She is Bronya, a... Bronya sister from another world."

After a moment of silence, the other Seele chuckled, "[It seems my other self has had some very interesting experiences.]"

"Stop laughing. Once you've dealt with everything here, you'll have plenty of time to discuss things slowly."

Bronya silently pressed the signal transmitter she had prepared beforehand. Once the signal was sent out, it meant that Bronya's main objective was almost achieved, and the gunships could begin their raid on the massive mechanical city.

As for more troops, their entry will be decided later depending on the situation. With the Iron Curtain in place, the gunships will not be harmed during the clearing operation and will be able to escape smoothly. Therefore, the decision on whether to allow subsequent troops to enter can be made based on this situation.

At this moment, the two also arrived at their destination, which was the top of the giant tower. Bronya didn't know what was at the top of the giant tower, but her intuition told her that there must be something special there.

But just as they reached the top, a barrage of fine blue laser beams rained down on the group who had just arrived. Little Rabbit instantly deployed a shield to block all the attacks.

Then she looked at the figure in the distance. The figure was petite, wearing a blue and white cake princess dress, and there were no signs of mechanical modification on her body. Behind her was a heavily armored bunny that was a size smaller than her own bunny.

However, what caught Bronya's attention was the large number of laser cannons behind the enemy.

That's Bronya! The real Bronya!

Bronya nodded. Of course she knew that the other Bronya showed no signs of being mechanically modified, but the fact that she attacked without hesitation meant that this Bronya was also under control.

Just then, rhythmic applause rang out, and a voice Bronya knew all too well echoed in the space, "Interesting, interesting. I never expected that my plan would attract visitors from another world."

Bronya decided to stop hiding her identity and removed the cloak that covered her. With another Seele's surprised exclamation, Bronya raised Icarus in her hand and said, "So it really is you, Otto."

As the person emerged from the shadows, wearing a well-tailored white suit, with that familiar face and signature blond hair, it was undoubtedly Otto.