Yu-Gi-Oh!: This card wants to go to you.

Silence, and more silence.

The air was eerily quiet.

The Electronic Dragon Core came to her feet and nuzzled affectionately. She squatted down, smiled slightly, and opened her hands, letting the Electronic Dragon Core climb onto her palms. Her warm fingertips gently stroked its cold mechanical head.

He didn't stop him.

The two have a close relationship.

I don't know how much time has passed.

"I should go now," she said softly to [Electronic Dragon Core] with a smile.

She slowly stood up and resolutely walked forward.

"This is what you owe me."

She had her back to him, and her voice was devoid of emotion.

The woman's figure walked step by step toward the soul charging device.

She held up an umbrella and sat on the soul-ferrying chair, countless soul-extracting iron wires clinging to her body, like a net tightly binding her.

The output end of the Soul Extraction Line is connected to the power unit of [Electronic Dragon. Infinite].

The core of the power unit is the energy-poor and lackluster [Electronic Loongson].

She turned around and looked directly at him.

Luo Bai was finally able to see her exquisite face clearly.

The soul-extracting conduit emitted a blue glow, which accentuated her deep red eyes.

A few strands of gray hair fluttered back and forth between his eyes, uneasy, uneasy.

She gripped the parasol tightly, tucking the handle into her bosom like a homeless person clutching a warm blanket on a winter night.

"Om-"

The soul-extracting machine has been upgraded with increased power.

Her brows furrowed, her face contorted in pain, but she never uttered a single word of "no."

He set up a program in the soul-extracting machine that would automatically stop operating as soon as it detected a "no".

A sound.

Even a single sound.

"Om-"

The soul-extracting machine continued to increase its power.

The [Electronic Loongson] chip gradually lit up with a blue light.

【Electronic Dragon. Infinite】All systems restarted, automatically reassembled, and repaired damage. An unstable halo enveloped the sky, its flashing, blinding red light radiating supreme majesty.

"answer--"

[Electronic Dragon. Infinite] is fully charged.

A black parasol fell from the girl's hand.

Even at the very end, she still didn't say "no".

He gazed at her lifeless body sitting on the soul-crossing chair, and a tear silently slid down his right cheek.

To advance to the [Leader] rank in the Mechanical Race, one must possess a Mechanical Heart.

No joy.

No anger.

Fearless.

No sadness.

obviously.

He failed again.

Chapter 69 A Night Driven by Machinery (Final)

【Sherry...】

He stared blankly ahead, his left eye lifeless, his right eye unfocused, and a mechanical, trembling sound emanating from his throat.

One voice wanted to remain calm.

A voice wanted to burst forth with sorrow.

Neither human nor ghost.

Suddenly, he grabbed a data cable connected to the computer and inserted the other end into his mechanized left brain.

A mini keyboard pops out from the mechanical chest, and fingertips frantically press on it.

The surviving human breathed more and more rapidly, as if to prove that [he] was still alive.

Each press deletes a memory with Sherry, until the very end.

He completely forgot about her.

"Wow—"

An electric current passed through my brain.

He looked up again, his gaze cold and indifferent, devoid of any sorrow.

He strode quickly toward the soul-ferrying machine, his face indifferent.

He casually snapped the soul-drawing thread and, like throwing away trash, ruthlessly tossed the girl's corpse, which had been sitting on it, to the ground.

"What are you doing!" Luo Bai shouted in his soul form.

He rushed forward, but his hands passed right through the girl's body, leaving it ethereal and intangible; he couldn't lift it up.

Helplessly, he clenched his fists tightly.

He didn't know what the relationship was between the two or what had happened between them; he simply felt, based on his basic human emotions, that what he was doing was wrong.

I can't quite put my finger on what's wrong, but it's definitely not right.

He seemed to sense something as he was busy working and suddenly turned around.

Two completely identical faces stood close together, their eyes meeting.

Half of his body has lost its human characteristics, replaced by cold electronic mechanical instruments.

Luo Bai, on the other hand, is merely a soul, a soul from the past or the future.

The two of them froze instantly, their eyes widened, and their minds went blank.

"You are..."

【Who are you...】

As if guided by some unseen force, the two reached out to each other.

Just as their fingertips were about to touch, the earth shook, and an accident occurred.

"Whoosh—"

The fully charged [Electronic Dragon. Infinite] went berserk, letting out a deafening roar. The walls began to shake, the lights swayed, the floor creaked, and the laboratory's light flickered.

The mechanical tail fin went completely out of control, sweeping across the laboratory and instantly pulverizing the research robot.

"Crack—Boom boom boom!"

The riots escalated, sparks flew, arcs of electricity danced wildly, and high-voltage sparks exploded in the air, accompanied by ear-piercing crackling sounds.

With another roar from [Electronic Dragon. Infinite].

Release the body's energy.

A massive ball of electric light, symbolizing destruction, converged in the sky.

Did I fail again...?

He stared blankly at the ball of lightning high in the sky, his voice filled with resentment and despair.

His teeth clenched tighter and tighter, his right eye burst with a chilling bloodshot, and his fists clenched, making a clicking, mechanical sound.

At the very moment that ball of lightning exploded high in the sky.

He suddenly turned his head and grabbed Luo Bai's shoulder tightly.

The sound was drowned out by the white light and the earth-shattering explosion.

[Wrong, all wrong]

But absolutely...

【absolute...】

Never give up on evolution!

...

【And also not...】

[Becoming like me...]

...

"Boom!"

The sound of explosions, mixed with the crackling of glass and collapsing metal, echoed through the air.

As the shockwave gradually dissipated, thick black smoke filled the air. The electronics laboratory had been razed to the ground, with residual flames casting dark and merciless shadows on the ruins, a scene of deathly silence and desolation.

A huge sacred stone rose from the ground.

Its pattern is called "Infinite Bubble".

Infinite Bubble