Arknights, but the sickly pretty girl starts

"I was only given two chances to activate myself." At this point, the administrator finally revealed the truth. "The first time, it was the guardian of the Kirilet family who activated me and sought my help, which led to the birth of Noa. The second time—it was you. After detecting your arrival, I took the initiative to activate myself. And this is the last time."

"...One last time..." At this moment, Precious began to panic, "Why is there such a restriction? What if we need you in the future?"

"I won't leave completely. I will leave behind an AI for daily use, but that will be a completely new me. It will be different from the present because I belong to the past. Unlike you, I am completely dead. Now it's just an echo, and an echo is destined to be short-lived." The administrator explained, "Also, all my memories will be left in the system. You can use them as you please. Is that my legacy?"

“…” Precious suddenly clenched her fists. She wanted to say something but couldn’t.

She didn't say much when she met the administrator, but that didn't mean she wasn't excited, or rather... she thought she had found her again.

With her, there is the Garden of Eden, and everyone, perhaps, will be reunited in some way...

However, the administrator directly rejected her idea with simple words.

"Why...it has to be like this..."

Her voice began to tremble.

"Why, just when I thought I had found something, did you have to remind me that some things can't be returned?"

"...Priss." The administrator's voice also deepened. "I'm already dead. You should understand that."

Chapter 91: Prissus's Wish

For ancient civilizations, the concept of life and death was actually quite vague, because ancient civilizations had already developed hibernation technology and mechanical prosthetics technology. Theoretically, if someone wanted to survive, it would be very easy. However, most people would choose a peaceful death after a long period of survival. Death was not a sorrow. As long as humans could continue, ancient civilizations did not reject death.

However, when the administrator said this, Precious could not accept it - only when the people they care about, or their loved ones, are about to pass away, will humans understand the weight of death.

——No, to be precise, the administrator is dead.

Now it is just a few remnants, barely preserved for the sake of its unfinished goal.

She lowered her head, wanting to accept everything, but she couldn't deceive her heart.

If the Administrator is destined never to return... then... will the Garden of Eden still exist?

Or... could she really... accept an Eden without an administrator?

After all, even with the power of a creator, even though she had been hiding in the Originium for such a long time, Precious's personality had not changed much. She was still like a human who was born and died every day, and she refused to let her best friend leave.

——Just to the administrator?

For a being who has no idea how long she has lived, immortality is almost a curse. This is one of the reasons why the Administrator has always been isolated from the human group. As an immortal, she cannot stay among humans for long. As the people around her gradually pass away, she will eventually feel lonely. What remains in her heart in the end may be her original intention of leaving Terra, or her [love] for humans.

It is hard to let go once you have tasted the feeling of possession. The so-called tragedy is to destroy beautiful things in front of you.

The administrator has experienced countless joys and sorrows, so before choosing to sacrifice her soul, she was actually more relieved - she gave everything for her love, and she deserved eternal sleep.

This is her right—the right she deserves after protecting humanity for so many years.

"So now, it's up to you, Precious, Prophet—" She turned around and said with a smile, "I can't always stay by your side. All good things must come to an end. Rather than gradually forgetting you in my long life, I would rather I could still miss you in another world."

This is it—the last time.

In the Star Womb, the Star Child sacrificed her soul and body. Her soul inherited hope and became the dawn of the future. Her body returned to the earth to heal the wounds it had sustained. If there was anyone the Administrator truly owed a debt of gratitude to in her life, it would probably be Terra, the mother planet. The Star Child betrayed her maternal instincts to help other intelligent races, even forcibly distorting the development of her home planet for these people.

Therefore, the Administrator did not even leave behind his own body. In the Womb of the Stars, the Administrator's body was completely decomposed - from then on, the Administrator's soul and body disappeared.

Returning to one's roots may be the last thing she can do for this planet.

-

On the snowy mountain of Kjerag, Yela, who had been bored all the time, suddenly raised her head. She didn't know why, but just now, she felt as if something had disappeared, an existence worth remembering... The last mark she left behind seemed to have completely dissipated.

She felt inexplicably sad, a sadness that had no reason... a sadness that went deep into her bones.

She didn't even remember what her creator looked like, but the sadness still remained in her heart - for a long time.

"What's wrong?" Enya asked curiously. After all, Ya'er rarely showed obvious emotional fluctuations. She always gave people the impression of being calm and composed even in the face of a huge crisis. Such a situation was indeed rare now. "Did something happen?"

"No—" Yaer shook her head, "Nothing happened, Enya."

Yaer did not tell Enya about her birth and her true identity. Although she felt that Enya had made some guesses in the middle of the night, she still did not want to be worshipped.

On the day when the creator passed away...she didn't seem to have many thoughts except the sadness in her heart.

After all... in the final analysis, the name Yelagund was only given to her later. She had few memories of her creator, weathered by time. Only that connection, like the string of a kite, could all the behemoths finally be truly free.

-

Yumen, the mobile city of Dayan, is also Dayan's checkpoint against the giant beasts. At this time, Zhongyue, who was standing on the top of the city, also felt it vaguely - although he had long since broken away from the control of his original body and lived out his own life, he was once a part of the giant beasts after all, and could still feel the feeling of the creator of all the giant beasts leaving. Although the creator had died a long time ago - she still left a mark in the end, and now, this mark has completely disappeared.

For Chong Yue, this might not be a good thing. After all, the departure of the Creator meant that the giant beasts were no longer constrained. Although there were not many giant beasts left in the Great Yan territory, he still had to be vigilant to see if those giant beasts would make any unusual movements.

"Please help me tell Si Suitai that he has completely left and to be alert to the movements of other giant beasts. Also... please help me notify my brothers and sisters... They may not be able to feel this connection, but they must always be prepared." After careful consideration, Zhongyue decided to share this information with Si Suitai first. After all, they are the organization in charge of the whereabouts of giant beasts in Dayan. It is better to let professionals take action than to figure it out on your own.

Sandstorms were sweeping across the city walls, and Zhongyue was acutely aware of it—perhaps tonight... there would be another sandstorm.

-

The most affected, naturally, was Noya, who had the most complicated relationship with the administrator. While the other behemoths felt like a kite string finally snapping, her sensation was like she'd suddenly fallen into an icy cave. Her entire body felt icy cold, as if she'd come into contact with death itself. Fortunately, the feeling was fleeting, lasting only a moment. After Noya recovered, she spoke as if she'd guessed something. "Oh no! Something's happening over there."

Although Margaret and the others didn't know what was going on, out of trust, they immediately followed Noah's steps. After a while, they came to the control room where Precious was. At this time, the little Noah doll had lost power and fell on the operating table like an ordinary doll, while Precious stood in front of the console, operating the machine as if nothing had happened.

Noya looked at the situation in the control room. She had initially come here hoping to stop Precious if he went berserk. But now, she was completely bewildered.

"Precious? What happened?" She couldn't help but start to doubt whether she had guessed wrong, so she asked.

"...She left." Precious paused and said, "And then she left all the remaining things to me, that's it."

"...Ms. Administrator?" Noah's face changed. "She...really left?"

"The AI ​​she left behind is essentially a pre-set soul imprint with a limited number of activations. This time is her last activation, so - it's natural that she erased the rest of her imprint after completing her mission." Precious was actually in the mood to explain, but Noah was not reassured, but even more worried, because Precious behaved too normally, so normal that it was a little abnormal.

"...Precious, are you okay?"

"What can I do?" Prissais's tone was as smooth as a machine. "It's the same as before... There's no difference from before."

"Puresis..." Noah knew that Presis was definitely not as calm as she seemed at the moment, so she quietly made a gesture behind her back, indicating that the others should leave first. She wanted to talk to Presis alone. It was obviously not their place to interrupt about the administrator's affairs, and only in a solitary environment would Presis be able to show a little bit of... opportunity.

Margaret and the others understood the current situation very well and left the control room immediately. As the door of the control room closed, Precious, who had been following Noah's back, collapsed as if her spine had been pulled out. In front of those small animals whom she looked down upon, she could not show a sign of weakness, but... if only Noah was there... maybe... not maybe, she really couldn't go on any longer.

She pressed the dashboard, forcing herself to stay where she was, and spoke through gritted teeth. "—Why?"

"...Precious?"

"Why do the things I want keep leaving me one after another?" Precious turned her head, the fatigue in her eyes almost overflowing. "Why can't I keep her no matter what I do? There's no sample of her consciousness in the database anymore. I can't... I really can't get her back."

"...This is her wish, Precious. She's already very tired." Noah could only offer this comfort. "Perhaps she had already decided from the beginning that she wasn't on the list of those who had to survive."

"But...what about Eden?" Precious had worked so hard until now, not to save the world, but for everyone in Eden. Saving the world and humanity was simply a side job she'd done besides rebuilding Eden. But now, the goal she'd been working towards was gone. Furthermore, the Administrator had been declared completely dead, with not even a body left behind. She was lost.

When a person loses the obsession that has supported her for thousands or even tens of thousands of years, her spirit will naturally collapse.

If it weren't for Noah giving her a body, she might have directly launched the Originium Project due to a mental breakdown. At that time, even the Doctor would probably not be able to stop her mental breakdown.

People can rely on obsession to persist for hundreds or thousands of years, but they can also be destroyed in an instant because of the collapse of obsession...

Noah could actually understand... because not only did Precious lose the administrator, she also lost the mother who created her.

She stepped forward and took Precious's hand. Although Precious struggled hard, trying to break free from her, she was never so determined. Then she pulled Precious into her arms, and no matter how hard she struggled, she never let go. Precious struggled hard at first, and Noah had to use a lot of strength to control her. But gradually, her struggles became weaker and weaker, and the sound of crying slowly rang out.

"Cry, you'll be fine after you cry." Noah stroked Precious's head, his tone gentle. "Precious... I know you're tired, take a break. Saving the world is important, but it's not so important that you don't even have time to cry. I'm with you, I'll always be by your side."

Precious did not respond, and Noah did not need her response. She just hoped that her hug could comfort her a little. Although Precious did not admit that she was her partner, and might not even be considered a friend, Noah just could not bear to see a girl with such a great ambition to save the world breaking down and crying because of the departure of her partner. Every time she cried, it hurt Noah's heart.

They had once coexisted in the same body, and she thought she knew something about Prissus...

At the beginning, she almost appeared as a villain, and even planned to take over her own body because she wanted a body to move around in this world - at the beginning, she was really as scary as a female ghost.

But as they spent more time together, Noah gradually discovered that Precious was not as bad as she had imagined. She was just too persistent, obsessed with everything in the previous civilization and everyone in the Garden of Eden. She dreamed of going back to that time, back to the days when everyone was working hard to move forward.

In fact, she didn't care about the destruction of the world, nor did she care what would happen to humanity. She just liked that time... the time when everyone was giving their all and moving forward desperately.

That time was very tiring, but she could feel her own value and the purest kindness and trust between people.

When she was in the Garden of Eden, Precious gained an unprecedented sense of belonging, which is why she loved the Garden of Eden so much.

She just wanted a place of her own. She originally thought that she could rebuild the Garden of Eden - but at that moment, her wish was completely shattered.

The absolute core of the Garden of Eden, the person known as the Administrator - one could say the soul of the Garden of Eden - had just completely disappeared.

Her wish...can no longer be fulfilled.

Chapter 92: Competition

At Noah's suggestion, Margaret, Mace, Skadi and others temporarily left the control room, but it was even more interesting when these three of them stayed together. In fact, these three were rivals in love. After all, all three of them loved Noah Kyrielight, especially Skadi. She originally felt that if Noah had not been there to stop Margaret and Mace, they would have probably fought each other. Skadi also felt that if it were her, even if they didn't fight, she would at least have the advantage of saying a few words.

And now, Noah has left temporarily. Isn't this a godsend?

Skadi felt that she was probably not even a rival in their eyes, so she calmly gave up the stage.

As the saying goes, while the snipe and the clam quarrel, the fisherman gains. Skadi felt that she didn't have much of an advantage in this battle. It would be better to let Jian and Margaret fight it out. Only when they encountered problems, or a better opportunity arose, would she have a chance. The more Skadi thought about it, the more reliable it seemed. With her intelligence, she could come up with such a strategy, and she felt that she had exceeded her expectations.

However, after Margaret and Jian left the room, they fell into a strange silence. Neither of them spoke first, but just looked at each other.

What Skadi thought was actually partly correct. The two of them were indeed each other's biggest rivals in love, but what she could think of, the two of them also thought clearly, especially Margaret. Although it seemed that she had been rejected by Noah, according to her personality, once she made up her mind, she would not change much. So Margaret was not eliminated, but temporarily retreated and was preparing to make a comeback.

She would not force Noah, and of course she would not have any ill will towards the people Noah cared about - her own morality did not allow her to do so, and she had not even thought about it.

Fighting someone for love was something Margaret would never do, so what Skadi imagined would never happen. After all, she was Margaret Linguang, a knight among knights, and her high moral standards would not allow her to do anything despicable.

As for the mace—as a player who had secured her spot, she actually didn't care. More importantly, she truly didn't care. While she had a desire to possess Noya, it wasn't intense. Partly because she was indifferent to such notions. If it weren't for Noya, she'd probably just be a pure martial arts fanatic, rarely revealing her feelings to others. Becoming Noya's bodyguard was a coincidence within a coincidence.

Noah was like a gentle spring breeze, seeping into her heart, and his importance to her was self-evident.

Noah was her master and her lover. She was willing to be Noah's weapon and family, but she never felt that she had the right to possess Noah, or even to treat him as her own. This was not Jian's character, nor was it something she would do. In Jian's mind, as long as Noah was happy, she would do anything, even accepting Margaret as Noah's lover. She would even seriously discuss with Margaret how to handle the matter of sex.

The concept of love is different for different people - unfortunately, Noah's concept is quite traditional.

In her mind, she is a very simple one-to-one supporter, and she believes in equal exchange. If the other party gives her all his love, she will naturally give her all after accepting it. For her, this does not constitute any reason to argue.

Love is love, love is a contract, it is a mutual bond, it is the union of soul and body when two people come together.

No one deserved to pay. As long as Jian didn't ask for a breakup, Noya wouldn't try to add any impurities to this pure relationship. Even if she admitted that she still had feelings for Margaret, she wouldn't promise her love. If she hadn't sworn to tell the truth this time, she wouldn't even tell Margaret how she felt. The fact that she still had feelings for Margaret was already considered by Noya to be cheating on her.

So caught between the two of them, Noah is the most tortured one, but also the most determined one.

Jian didn't care, and Margaret didn't want to put Noah in a difficult position. However, Noah was the one who cared most about a one-on-one relationship. Therefore, the relationship between these three people was in a state of stalemate. However, because of this, Margaret honestly didn't hate Jian at all. She couldn't even thank him, because Jian had indeed protected Noah when she was away. It was only natural that they would fall in love with each other over such a long period of companionship.

So Margaret blamed herself. Her biggest flaw was that she couldn't stay with Noah all the time. She had too many responsibilities and couldn't act so freely... She was a Knight of Glory, not Noah's knight alone.

However, Margaret did not speak, but Jian spoke first.

"Margaret, how is Casimir's affairs going?" She opened her mouth, but directly brought up Casimir's affairs as an excuse. Margaret did not expect that the other party would care about Casimir's affairs, but she still took over the conversation and answered.

"Thank you for your concern. Casimir has indeed begun to develop in a positive direction. I'm also working hard to eliminate the public's misunderstanding of Noah. Although I can no longer openly help Noah, I'm ashamed to say that there have always been Noah's supporters who have been preventing public opinion in Casimir from being one-sided. They have done even more than I have. They seem to be the employees and factory managers of the factories that Noah helped. Noah's capital injection helped them through the most difficult times. After that, she didn't interfere with the factory's decisions. She just asked for some shares. Before leaving, she deliberately returned these shares to the factory managers at a low price. They are very grateful to Noah... Even after Noah left and lost their shares, they never forgot her."

Margaret let out a wry laugh. "It wasn't until I truly understood the specifics of Casimir's situation that I realized just how effective she'd been. Under the oppression of the Chamber of Commerce, many struggling small companies have been swallowed up by larger financial giants. This massive commercial entity has arguably monopolized most of Casimir's industries. Not only knightly competitions, but also the livelihood of Casimir itself has been shut down by their oppression—particularly the health insurance industry."

The situation in Casimir is very complicated. The extreme expansion of capital has made life very difficult for the lower-class people in Casimir, and Noah has also sensitively noticed the lack of social welfare.

So she opened an insurance agency.

Of course, this is a commercial insurance, but this commercial insurance is the commercial insurance company with the highest claims ratio in the industry. This company has been making losses since its inception. Even Noah stated clearly at the beginning of the establishment of this company that this company is [allowed to make losses]. The existence of this company is to provide some protection for those poor people in the name of commercial insurance.

Firstly, all employees of Noah’s other companies are insured by default, and if they encounter medical problems, they can withdraw money directly from their insurance accounts.

While it had its share of insurance fraud, this insurance company, despite its massive deficits, had never gone bankrupt. Even after Noah left Casimir, it continued to receive substantial capital injections, becoming the largest insurance company in Casimir. Supporting this loss-making enterprise was, of course, not just the meager insurance revenue, but also the financial support provided by nearly all of Noah's businesses.

——It can be said that most of Noah’s industries are supporting this insurance company. If this source of funds is cut off, this insurance company, which seems to be the largest in the entire Casimir, may quickly go bankrupt.

And the person who is now in charge of this insurance company was finally chosen to be... Xinteleya.

That's right, the current CEO of this insurance company is none other than Sintela. After Noya left Casimir, the company essentially fell under Sintela's purview, a fact she wasn't even aware of at first. Furthermore, after she became CEO, insurance fraud cases rapidly decreased. While they weren't making a fortune, the deficit figures were at least no longer as alarming.

As for what Sintreya did—that is unknown.

Anyway, at least this insurance company did manage to guarantee medical care for a certain number of people. This was probably a compromise made by the Chamber of Commerce... or rather, a concession made by the Chamber of Commerce. In a very short period of time, through the efforts of medical companies such as Rhodes Island, the medical level in Casimir began to soar after Noah's departure. Not only that, investment in medical care also increased. Ms. Russell also recognized the medical reform led by the domestic medical company [Unicorn Medical] and established the Medical and Drug Regulatory Bureau. The first director was a senior executive from Noah's company.

This situation can be said to be the result of Noah's layout, or it can be said to be the best outcome achieved with Margaret's intervention. In short, it is foreseeable that free medical care may become a reality in the near future, but the road is still long and difficult, and it requires the efforts of generations.

After Margaret explained these things one by one in an orderly manner, Jian beside her nodded in understanding, "You did a good job."

"...No, it was Noah who paved the way for me. I just did what I was supposed to do."

"She initially thought that this insurance company wouldn't last long." Mace shook his head. "This is indeed your achievement. She didn't initially think that medical insurance could cover everyone. Although her wealth was not small, it was impossible for her to support the medical care of a country. So her original intention of opening an insurance company was actually to do a little bit of work under such circumstances. She is a businesswoman and has a clear position for herself. She can't interfere with national decisions, so she can only help those patients in need in this way. You also know that the big pit of medical care has never been solved by a conscientious company-"

"What do you mean?" Margaret asked doubtfully, "Are you praising me?"

"Indeed, I know what Noya has been thinking about, or rather, what kind of person she is. As long as you keep doing these things, how could she not like you?" Mace smiled. In fact, she rarely smiled at anyone other than Noya. "You think too little of yourself. As long as you continue to be like this, people like her will naturally be attracted to you, because you two are the most compatible soul mates, and this will never change."

"...I didn't expect you to say that." Margaret shook her head. "Aren't you afraid that Nuoya and I will end up together?"

"Why should I be afraid?" Jian shook his head. "First, I only hope she can be happy. As for who gives it to her, I don't care. Second, I never think I should monopolize her, because she is free. She can love whoever she wants. This is her freedom. Similarly, loving her is also my freedom. Third, who says I will lose? If I don't even have this kind of confidence, I don't deserve to call myself the one she loves. Because I am sure that she will love me the most in the end, so I can be so calm."