You cut yourself just to watch us drop our little pearls?

On the battlefield filled with gunpowder, a group of "people" were wearing the most advanced combat uniforms. They supported themselves on the ground with their hands, their facial features twisted, and they picked up the most sophisticated firearms in their hands and threw them at the "people" on the opposite side...

“Keng…Keng…Keng…”

Accompanied by loud noises coming from afar, these "people" looked into the distance with great vigilance. After seeing the four-meter-tall "metal giant", they were so scared that they fled one after another, and even the "weapons" they were fighting for were left in place...

Wen Chun just watched this group of people quietly... He just watched quietly, without saying anything, just dragging his heavy body, taking one step at a time... and slowly walked towards the fortress...

They won...

Did they win?

No... they didn't win...

The King of Soul Eaters... No, should I call her the "King of Souls"?

It seemed that the lightsaber disturbed something in her, and she began to indiscriminately absorb all the creatures with souls around her.

Soul Eaters... Humans... They are nothing more than her food. She doesn't need to hunt souls herself... She can absorb all souls... It's better to say it's a ritual before a meal than hunting...

But... it lost control and could not stop its desire to eat. The more souls it took in... the bigger its body became, until its body surpassed the fortress and reached the sky... Wen Chun was no longer sure how many souls it had absorbed, but in the end...

It's dead.

The death was ridiculous.

Being stuffed to death...

Wen Chun witnessed with his own eyes... those souls were freed from its body and slowly rose into the sky.

Then...he went crazy...

He was searching for that figure among those souls like a madman. He saw many familiar faces among those souls. They could not respond to him, and his voice could not be conveyed to them.

But... he still didn't find him until those souls gradually dissipated...

His body was still in his cockpit...but where was his soul? Why couldn't he find him?

Where did he go? Wen! Where are you!

Wen Chun stood in the center of the battlefield in a daze. It was so quiet here... quieter than ever before.

He...lost an important companion, he lost his soul...he...lost a family member!

"Ten years... Wen, you are such a bastard."

Looking at the silent "Wen" in the cockpit, Wen Chun scolded him mercilessly...

He has no tears, no such function. He wants to express his sadness, but he doesn't know how.

He wanted to shout and curse! But in the end, all souls were annihilated... There were no more soul eaters... and no more souls...

Now... he could only go back. Yes, he had to go back. He had to send "Wen" home! At the very least, he couldn't let Wen stay here!

"

He moved his broken body across the front line, across the trenches, and to the fortress.

Along the way, some people's "bodies" slowly woke up, but the "drivers" among them had disappeared.

Wen Chun could only hold on to hope now. He hoped that the Soul Eater King would not affect the people in the crypt. He hoped to see Wei Ya and Xiao Yingying smile... He hoped... He hoped...

Wen had already left him, and he couldn't lose the rest of his family...the children who recognized him as their godfather, the couples he had witnessed, and the people who lived underground but were still cheerful.

"Click..."

He stepped onto the elevator, he passed through the fortress, and he stood on the elevator back into the crypt.

He descended, hoping to continue seeing the simulated sky, but as his perspective went downward, all he saw was... a burning city.

The "bodies" who had lost their souls were running around in the streets and alleys. They were avoiding the flames, but they accidentally created fires and explosions...

The soul of the social order is gone, and the body possessing technology will eventually become nothing more than a stone thrower.

Wen Chun's steps became more urgent, his speed increased, he rushed around on the street, he ran towards that house...

Then he looked at the empty room, feeling lost.

Where did they go? Did they also... No, no, maybe they're not here, the base... Yes, they might be in the base, they'll be fine... They'll be fine...

Wen Chun kept comforting himself, but the ominous feeling in his heart became heavier and heavier.

He dragged his heavy body to the gate of the base. He felt uneasy and even wanted to call Weiya... but he could no longer control the cockpit.

He searched around the base like a headless fly, and finally, Wen Chun came to Weiya's laboratory.

"Verifying... Welcome, Jun."

After passing the verification scan at the gate, Wen Chun slowly walked into the laboratory. Then, he looked at the figure in a white coat and could not help but stand there in a daze...

"Viya?"

"..."

The figure seemed to have heard Wen Chun's voice. He slowly turned around and looked at Wen Chun.

It was her, she was Weiya...but her eyes were red.

"Chun? You brought him back..."

Her voice trembled, there was no doubt that she was Weiya, she was still here!

Then...where is Xiao Yingying? Where did Xiao Yingying go?

As if she could see Wen Chun's worry, Wei Ya, with red eyes, silently entered a password on the laboratory control panel.

In the center of the laboratory, a dormant instrument slowly rose from the ground, and a little girl with a peaceful face was lying quietly inside it... That was Xiao Yingying!

"She fell asleep... I'm sorry, I don't want... I don't want her to suffer too much in this cruel world. I'm sorry, Chun..."

Wei Ya's voice was very hoarse. She gently stroked the glass cover of the hibernation chamber and looked at her daughter, her heart aching.

"Why are you apologizing... You don't have to be like this..."

"No, I have to apologize."

Wei Ya opened her red eyes and looked straight at Wen Chun.

"I shouldn't have let Wen take such a risk... Even though I know I can't stop him, and I'm still very selfish, he is just so dazzling sometimes, so dazzling that... I want people to follow his footsteps."

Her eyes were tenderly gazing at Wen Chun's cockpit. Her lover...her selfish desires were all there.

"I know you have a lot of problems, but I want to see him."

"..."

"I think about him all the time, Via."

Chapter 26 The End of Human Civilization

No clouds, no raindrops.

There is only endless silence...

Wen Chun stood silently in front of the house. In the courtyard that was once filled with laughter, there were only two lonely graves.

His family members are buried there...

The bright sunshine was a false projection from the sky... They were still deep underground and had not seen the real sunshine.

……

"Jun, I will leave with Wen, but I... have something to ask of you."

Her breath gradually became weaker, and this most powerful spirit-peeker in the human race was now on her deathbed.

She used her broken soul to protect their daughter, but only left herself with less than a day.

"Viya..."

Wen Chun's electronic eyes were staring at her. Although they were clearly just artificial electronic eyes, Weiya saw reluctance and heartache in those eyes... those emotions that are unique to humans.

At this moment, the person standing in front of her was not a mecha, but a person with a soul.

"You...made a bet with Wen, right?"

Her eyes slowly swept across the ruined underground city. Those "remnants" that had lost their souls were wreaking havoc in the city, searching for everything they needed to survive.

But, how can humans without souls be called humans?

"Yes... I made a bet with him, and I said... humans will win."

"Ah... Chun... I'm sorry, I'm really... sorry..."

She gently stroked the warm metal armor, her voice trembling, and a tear of blood slowly flowed from the corner of her eye.

"I am a selfish person... I don't want Xiao Yingying to bear all this... Wen and I have fought for humanity all our lives, and I don't want Xiao Yingying to be the same... I want her..."

"Live happily..."

"I promise you."

She smiled with relief, a smile that was filled with reluctance, sadness... and relief.

"The future of mankind... is in your hands. Let mankind win..."

"pure."

"it is good."

……

"Wen Chun's memo:

Wen is dead... Weiya is also dead. Apart from me, the only one left in this world is little Yingying who is still sleeping.

She is the last soul alive in this century.

As for me... my soul...

No, I have no soul, on the contrary, I am the ghost of the old times, and my mission is..."

It is to allow humans to regain their souls.

This may take many years... For humans to recover, it may take more than three hundred years. It may take thousands of years, but now...

The thing he has the most is time.

After human civilization begins to return to normal, he will wake up Xiao Yingying and allow her to live normally.

And he...

……

"

He returned to the base alone, and was left alone in the huge base.

The heavy footsteps echoed in the empty room, and he returned to Weiya's laboratory.

The base's AI program is still running, but intelligent machines... have no souls.

"Welcome, Jun."

The door gradually opened, and the two figures were no longer inside the door.

Through the AI ​​program in the laboratory, he equipped himself with new armor, new thrusters, and a new cockpit.

"Goodbye, Xiao Yingying."

Taking the replaced parts, Wen Chun turned around for the last time and spoke softly to the slowly closing door.

……

Next to the two tombstones is another "tombstone"

Wen Chun buried the replaced parts underground and engraved his name on the replaced cockpit with a laser.

"Pure Grave..."

He, Wen, and Wei Ya...died on the same day, and since then, there has been no more purity...

Only Wen Chun was left.

……

"Today is... should it be considered the first day of a new era? It doesn't matter. Anyway, there is no one else here, so I am the only one who has the final say on how to count the years."