I'm not Yingjie

"But I equipped Prometheus with everything that humans have. Just from her appearance, she is a perfect beautiful girl. Even her personality can be regarded as a three-no beautiful girl with some dark attributes, right?"

Lin spread his hands.

“But she’s an AI.”

"…Are you such a conservative person?"

"probably."

Wei Liwei encountered the biggest setback in her life.

……

"Dr. Velvet actually wants to make you feel a little better."

Prometheus, who seemed to have not communicated for a long time, suddenly spoke in her flat voice as she followed Lin slowly walking in the venue.

It seemed like a long time ago that Lin had walked side by side with the physical Prometheus. Lin remembered that Prometheus seemed to be there every time, but his presence was weak.

She is an AI.

Lin was right, her calculation logic determined her behavior.

"...I know." Lin replied coldly.

Everyone I met today was doing the same thing, trying to "comfort" Lin in their own way.

Just like what Wei Li said, in fact, Shan knew that Lin, who had lost his sense of touch, had basically lost most of the functions of a normal person, naturally including reproduction.

She was "joking" and Lin was "responding" in his way.

One person comforts, the other accepts, that's all.

But Lin is not that fragile, he just has his own logic in doing things.

"Lin, what do you think of what Dr. Weiwei said?"

Lin glanced at Prometheus.

Is she going to be like Alicia and Velvet?

"You're just AI." Lin's opinion of Prometheus has not changed since her birth. This is not something that will change just because she has a physical body or the system is upgraded.

"Forest."

Lin's eyes suddenly went dark, and he instantly lost one of his two remaining important senses, causing his body to fall into a certain degree of panic.

It wasn't that there was something wrong with his eyes, but that the helmet monitor was turned off.

what happened?

He suddenly remembered that the helmet's system had always reserved permissions for Prometheus. Even if Vivi had upgraded the helmet, she should not have deleted the permissions.

Prometheus did it? What was she going to do?

Without vision, only hearing was left. At this moment, his hearing was amplified to the extreme, and he heard the people around him suddenly become agitated.

But he could not feel anything, except for "hearing", he lost his perception of the outside world.

Ten seconds later, the helmet resumed normal monitor function.

Prometheus is gone.

He turned to look for the mechanical girl, but all he saw was the... indescribable expressions on the faces of the people around him.

what happened?

Chapter 122: The inheritance of thought

People always pursue the future, which is not only out of fear and exploration of the unknown, but also a pursuit of inheritance and hope.

Death is meaningless; what determines a person's meaning is only the thoughts he conveys.

……

Okay...this should be the last stop of tonight's itinerary, the combination of Hua and Yimer.

Lin didn't want to complete tonight's action as a mission, but judging from the results, he was not much different from the protagonist in the game who had to complete the "talk to some people" mission to advance the plot. He couldn't tell whether it was because time was too tight or some other situation that he couldn't explain.

Like Ying, Hua and Yimer are not the protagonists of the dance and just stay in the corner.

Lin's worst-case scenario was that neither Hua nor Yimer came to the party, so he was still a little surprised when he found them.

Hua changed out of her usual uniform and put on the cheongsam prepared for her by Himiko, while Imer remained the same. There was a strong sense of incongruity in the appearance of the two of them standing together, but from their facial features, there was not much difference.

Perhaps Eden's song worked, Hua's complexion looked better than expected.

"team leader."

"Captain Lin."

They had noticed Lin when he walked over. After all, Lin was the only one who would wear a helmet that stood out more than his uniform at the ball.

"...I am no longer your captain." Lin said this, but habits cannot be changed overnight.

Of course, some people have their own opinions. For example, Imer shook his head expressionlessly and said: "Even if you are no longer my actual captain, this is already a respectful title for you."

"..."

"..."

Lin has no opinion.

"Captain Lin... Lin, are you feeling better?" Hua asked in a way that was in line with her personality. "Are you able to get out of bed and walk now?"

Lin raised his hand to show her holding the cup next to him: "Well, no problem."

After that, there was nothing more to say between the three of them.

But this was not the stiff silence like that between Lin and Kevin. Yimer noticed some hesitation in Hua's expression, so he said without thinking: "I'm going to the bathroom."

Leave the space to the two of them, hoping that Lin can answer Hua’s confusion.

After Yimer left quickly, Lin stared at Hua who was silent. He was waiting for Hua to speak.

He understood Hua, the girl he rescued and helped to establish her outlook on life, was still far from mature.

Many mature people use silence to show their independence and intelligence.

As for Hua, the only choice is silence.

"Lin, you have seen what Captain Himiko looks like after she transformed into a Herrscher, right?" Finally, she was forced to speak by Lin's gaze.

"Ah."

Lin will never forget that destructive figure and the burning flames.

"What is that...like?"

how is it like?

If it was Lin from long ago, she might have said categorically that it was just "the appearance of the Herrscher". She wanted to destroy humanity and then put it into practice, that's all.

However, the faces of the Sixth Ruler, the Seventh Ruler, and the Ruler of Reason of the previous civilization kept flashing before his eyes.

Is the Sixth Herrscher scary? She is the embodiment of death, possessing a high degree of intelligence. She is the Herrscher who has dealt the most severe blow to the Fire Moth in history. Her sweet smile is no different from that of a human, but it is a ghost face that leads people to extinction.

What about the Seventh Herrscher? Same. She burned Australia to ashes, and the massive collapse she caused covered the entire continent. She would smile as she brought the flames of destruction to the human world.

Not to mention the Ruler of Reason of the previous civilization. She was the last straw that broke the camel's back for the previous civilization. She was the person who would destroy the world as predicted. She completely killed all the humans of the previous civilization and was the culprit that caused the civilization to fall silent.

But the look on the face of the Sixth Herrscher who longed for an insignificant name before his death, the gentle smile on the face of the Seventh Herrscher who chose to spare Lin and the Nineteenth Branch after his advent, and the self-destruction of the former Herrscher of Reason for the sake of humanity...

Are these also... "the appearance of the Herrscher"?

Can he define what "the appearance of a Herrscher" is?

He can't.

What kind of creatures are those Herrsers who are not human but infinitely close to human, born from human bodies and seem to have acquired some human characteristics?

A monster that destroys humanity?

Longing for a newborn toddler?

A special case of self-actualization?

Finally, Lin knew a word from his vocabulary and told Hua.

"sad."

Hua opened his eyes wide, as if he heard an incredible word.

In fact, it is indeed an incredible word, because... it comes from Lin's mouth.

"She was crazy in the fire, she was burning in the fire, she was like herself, but she was not like herself." Lin recalled her appearance at that time. In the high temperature and distorted vision, he could only see a beam of fiery red. "I don't know if her personality was polluted at that time, or was directly replaced."

"But I think it might not just be a Herrscher."

Lin tried his best to teach the girl in front of him. The fact that the Soul and Himiko she knew had become Herrschers one after another would undoubtedly make her have unnecessary doubts.

Even Lin couldn't avoid suspicion.

"…Thank you, Lin."

She thanked him quietly. Perhaps she didn't understand Lin's deep meaning, but she still acted in her own way.

“…See with your own eyes.”

"Eh?"

Hua raised his head and what he saw was the viewing window that he had seen countless times.

Radiating azure particles, rational and cold.

"If you want to know what Himiko was like back then, then investigate, search, and experiment on your own... Find what you want from past data and from the Herrschers you will meet in the future."

"Himiko once told me that you can't find your direction. From the initial simple living, to the search for the ideal after the collapse, to now... you can make this your life goal."

“Whether you find the right or wrong thing in the end…that’s what you’re looking for.”

Is that all I have to say?

These words are not just what Lin wanted to say to Hua, but also what Himiko and Lin had talked about, about Hua's future.

They are veterans tied to the chariot of salvation. Whether it is Himiko or Lin, it is already difficult to escape from this increasingly tight bondage, but these young people are different.

Put hope on the future and leave everything to the young people...this is Himiko's idea.

No matter what Himiko's transformation into a Herrscher taught Hua, she had already completed the last lesson.

Chapter 123: Alternative

Erwin pretended to hold a plate of exquisite cake and ate it in small bites.

He didn't like sweets, so he just found something to cover up his little action of stalking someone.

Let me introduce myself. I'm Erwin, an ordinary soldier of the Fire Moth. I'm from the same class as Kosmo, but even after Kosmo was promoted several levels, he was still a private.

I don't have any outstanding achievements, and my resume is the type that people will just casually say "Oh, not bad" to after reading it.

I don't have any strange habits. I usually like to play games and browse forums. Occasionally, I go crazy at some women who are out of reach or are just paper figures. I like the stars that everyone likes and the songs that everyone likes.

He has no unusual habits, no photophobia or bloodthirstiness, will not read every torn label word for word, and will not walk around wearing a helmet every day.

All in all, Erwin was an ordinary man, with his height and weight just being the average for men at the headquarters.

In the novel, he is probably just a passerby who is mentioned briefly, with no psychological or physical description.

And such an Erwin is naturally self-aware. He just does his job step by step, does not show off his skills in the story, and does not go out of his way to cause trouble for others. If he is lucky, he may be able to live until the end of the collapse and then get married, have children, and live a rich life.

Ah, then again, his luck is pretty good indeed. Among the newcomers of the same period, only he and Kosmo are still alive today. They have participated in every large-scale collapse, but they were lucky enough to survive.

It turns out that the goddess of luck favors ordinary people.

Of course, Erwin came to the dance alone today. Although he and Danzhu Cangxuan had a pretty good relationship and had common topics about staying at home, it was obvious that they were more like bad friends, and dancing was out of the question.

But he hadn't planned to find a dance partner; he came here to meet someone.

Forest.

Most people were looking forward to Kevin's attendance at the dance. It could be said that this dance was also a celebration party, specially held for Kevin. However, many people didn't know that Kevin came wearing cold-resistant clothes, and thought he would not attend the dance. However, Lin unexpectedly attended the dance.

Alvin is different from most people. He doesn't care about seeing Kevin, but he really wants to see Lin.