On my second playthrough, they were full of malice towards me.

"So, Miss Irene, you mean Mr. Liao Ji was kidnapped by an evil nun pretending to be from our church and taken to the lowest level of our library?"

Tamik frowned, staring at the girl opposite him who had been Liao Ji's companion at the Sea Sand Bar, and who was now standing in Liao Ji's place to keep their appointment.

Because she was anxious to save him, Irene emphasized it again:

"Not the library! It's in the abandoned sewers below the library! It's teeming with monsters! Corpses! All because of your stinking priest!"

"He's been secretly researching the uses of an 'Emperor's Relic' he unearthed from the ruins. Those monstrous corpses were all innocent people he captured and used Kaleva to tamper with inhuman experiments!!"

Tamik frowned even more deeply at the girl's shocking words.

He originally only wanted to find Liao Ji to test the whereabouts of the "relics" lost in the Kaleva factory, but he never expected that it would almost cause his worldview to collapse.

An ordinary knight might have simply walked away, or even arrested the girl without a word for "blasphemy."

But Tamik still kept in mind the principles of investigation that his master, Dulin, had taught him: never jump to conclusions or easily dismiss anything you think is "absolutely impossible."

Observe and think.

These are the five words he learned from Captain Dulin.

So

"Miss Irene, please wait a moment, let me catch my breath." Tamick stopped the girl who was still urging him on, and quickly sorted through the huge amount of information that had just been transmitted in his mind.

The first thing Tamik needed to determine was whether it was true or false, and he already had a vague answer in his heart.

Last night, Master had a secret conversation with Liao Ji, and this morning Master disappeared without a trace. It wasn't until he called that the location showed Master was in the library!

Furthermore, in the hospital, when his master suddenly yelled at him, Tamik could deeply feel the despair in his voice, and the sense of abandonment that he couldn't understand at the time.

And that sentence, which still echoes in Tamik's heart to this day.

You don't understand.

original

It turned out

Yes, what did he know back then? He had no idea that his master was carrying so much on his shoulders! His master's repeated telling him to get lost was actually a way of protecting him!

Bang!

Tamik clenched his fist and suddenly slammed it on the table, startling Irene who was standing next to him. Irene almost thought the negotiations had broken down.

But fortunately

“I understand, Miss Irene. I will assist you. I will help you find Mr. Liao Ji, and I will bring all those who have abandoned their faith and betrayed the Goddess to justice!”

The young knight's eyes gleamed with light, determination, fearlessness, and anger.

He apologized to Dulin in his heart.

Besides his previous rudeness to his master, there was another reason: he couldn't swallow his anger like Dulin could. All he could do was burn himself out, even if it was just a faint flame.

"Great! I knew the old man wouldn't misjudge people!"

"Then what are we waiting for? Let's go!"

"No, Miss Irene, please wait a moment!" Tamik's voice pulled Irene back from her hasty departure.

Tamik appeared much more professional and calm in the face of the impatient girl.

He was indeed willing to burn himself for the goddess and for his faith, sparing no effort, but he was not a reckless man. He was Captain Dulin's apprentice, and the sentence Dulin had warned him the most was...

Think, and think again!

“Miss Irene, if what you say is true, then I think that with the two of us, we are simply not capable of helping in any way.”

"Right now, because I don't know if the other members of the Knights have also been bribed by the priest, I can't use the Knights' power. As for Captain Durin, my master, I can absolutely trust him, but the priest probably has some kind of leverage over him. I can't drag my master down with me, because that leverage is really important to him."

After saying all that, Tamik wasn't trying to demoralize anyone, but rather to get Irene to think things through and recall the events.

“Miss Irene, you just said that you were able to find me because Mr. Liao gave you a hint before we parted ways.”

"Then I believe that with Mr. Liao Ji's wisdom, he must have also calculated that even with my addition, the strength would be far from enough. Or rather, Mr. Liao Ji's purpose in sending you to find me was not to give you another fighting force, but to have me assist you in uncovering other clues that you could not discover!"

"Other. Mr. Liao Ji's deeper insights for you!"

After finishing speaking, Tamik took a deep breath, stared intently at the girl opposite him, and asked, word by word:

"So, Miss Irene, please think back carefully and thoroughly again: when you parted, did Mr. Liao give you anything besides my business card? Or did he say or do anything special?"

Tamik's words did indeed enlighten Irene somewhat.

Because if I really had to say...

There was indeed a place that seemed quite "abrupt" when we parted ways.

"Lao Gu, that is, Liao Ji, told me at the end that after he got out safely, he would take the initiative to contact me and go to Hai Sha Bar for a drink together."

Irene repeated Liao Ji's last words to Tamik.

Tamik reacted quickly.

He combined this with Irene's description of the scene, and immediately realized what was happening. His eyes lit up as he asked the girl:

"That's it! Miss Irene, I think Mr. Liao might be hinting at a place name, it's the Sea Sand Bar! Miss Irene, please think about it carefully, is the Sea Sand Bar some kind of code? Can you connect it to anything else?"

Sea Sand Bar

The first thing that came to mind for both of them when they thought of this word was the rampage that happened yesterday afternoon, but what does that have to do with the current situation?

hiss! !

Tamik was still clueless, but Irene, on the other hand, suddenly had a flash of inspiration, her eyes widened, and she got goosebumps all over her body.

"That area with the electric halo is where the old antique made his second move!"

"I've seen Maria's Holy Healing spell before; it's exactly the same as the one the old man used in the cave. So could it have been around that time... Wait! Mom also said she thinks the nun is a goddess, or at least a messenger. Could it be... Could it be?!"

The girl would never forget that when Liao Ji first introduced himself, he claimed to be the Great Emperor, and his mother, a senior nun, repeatedly emphasized that the holy light definitely came from the Goddess. Thus, a logical chain that both frightened and excited Irene emerged.

Is it possible that all of this is true?

Liao Ji was noticed by the Goddess because he cast a Holy Healing spell on her inside the cave. No, it should be said that the Goddess was corrupted. Following this logic, the old antique's second move at the Sea Sand Bar should also have been noticed by "another" supreme being!

That's right!

That must be it!

This is what the old antique really wanted to convey to her!

After all, only one other "Supreme Being" could defeat the "Supreme Being"!

"I understand, let's go!"

"Sea Sand Bar?"

"right!!"

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Bonus chapter for Brother Tree's alliance leader, currently in debt (1/10)

Chapter 62, Number 86

Bang!

dong dong!

duang!

"Miss Irene, I think we could try a gentler repair method."

"Quiet down!"

Two figures sneaked into the Sea Sand Bar, which was sealed off by the Knights. They were Irene and Tamik. When the girl saw the signs of a second battle in the bar, she knew she had guessed correctly.

Unfortunately, judging from the scene...

Everywhere, there were mechanical wrecks violently dismantled into scrap metal, all looking incredibly miserable. It seemed that another supreme being, the legendary leader of the Mechanical Alliance, "Zero," had failed. And it was unclear whether it was because of fighting on foreign soil or because he had been completely defeated by the nun.

However, Irene was fortunate enough to find a mechanical combat maid that was relatively "well-preserved" compared to the others.

With Tamick's help, they moved the maid's body to the back of the bar, where it used to be Brian's private workspace.

The very first scene shows Irene wearing a welding mask, with a hammer in her left hand and an electric drill in her right, hammering and fiddling with the broken maid mecha on the workbench amidst a flurry of sparks.

Before Irene lost her father, her family was considered well-off in the Black Hole. They had received a lot of excellent education, especially in invention and creation, as evidenced by the long list of certificates on the wall.

Buzz

boom!

With a loud bang, Tamik, who was standing nearby, was startled and almost thought it was going to explode. But Irene, who was at the workbench, put down all her tools. Although her nose was wet with sweat, the girl still had that excited blush after the climax, and even seemed to want more.

"Power connection successful"

"Rebooting failed due to severe data loss. The system is performing a self-repair procedure. Please do not disconnect the power."

"Repair complete. Machine data recovered. 34% unknown data captured. 19% data reconstruction rate exceeds 50%. Booting permitted."

The damaged machine on the workbench emitted an electronic sound, and after a brief pause, the maid sat up abruptly from the table.

She twisted her neck and looked at Irene and Tamick, who were startled by her sudden movement and took several steps back from her warily. A scanning ray shot out from the maid's eyes.

There was no reaction when the rays passed through Tamick, but when they scanned Irene...

"Character model overlap is 95%, indicating a friendly unit. Alert mode lifted, preparing for third-party data sharing."

The cold, mechanical sound finally ended.

What followed was still a synthesized electronic voice, but at least it wasn't so mechanical anymore; the maid spoke directly to Irene.

"Have you seen my master?" Number 86 asked anxiously.

"Master?"

"Yes, because there are records of you appearing next to the master in the residual data of No. 86, so we may be able to find clues about the master on you," No. 86 reasoned.

Although the android in front of me, who called himself "Number 86," spoke strangely, I still had no problem understanding him.

Irene and Tamik exchanged a glance. The "master" Number Eighty-Six had mentioned was, without a doubt, the one they were referring to.