Warhammer 40 A New Hope

【real? 】

"Really, but before that..."

"In order for that day to come sooner, we need your help."

516. The Songstress of the Amusement Park

"So, I started the Holy Grail War with just one jar?"

"Based on the information we have, that's right," Farr responded. "By the way, we collected the remaining cans and took them away."

"...Are you looking down on me?"

"The enemy."

"(Middle finger)"

In the temporary meeting room, Zhang Yi and others obtained further information from A2 and Pascal, and roughly understood the cause of the war and the current situation.

Because the jar was found on the seashore, the main fighting and search areas for both sides were nearby.

The original base of the ground resistance has also been destroyed, and the resistance androids left on the ground have either been killed or captured, but one thing is certain: the jar has not been taken away and is still in the hands of a ground resistance soldier.

Judging from the number of troops on Zhang Yi's side, it is definitely unrealistic to directly participate in this war and make the two sides cease fire. Not to mention the obviously abnormal [Bunker] android side. Even if all the androids voluntarily gathered under Zhang Yi's command, they would not be able to defeat the mechanical life forms. You know, if it weren't for the sustainability of the war, the mechanical life forms would have destroyed the androids long ago.

Just talking about Adam and Eve, it is almost impossible to eliminate these two when they are connected to the Internet. And N2, the biggest BOSS behind the scenes, even invaded the [Bunker] and left a backdoor, and in a certain ending, released a logic virus, causing another replacement of existence.

To sum up, the biggest enemy of Zhang Yi and others is actually mechanical life forms, and there is no need to worry too much about robots.

"Our goal is to obtain the various technologies left by humans in this world, and if possible, try to take over the control of artificial humans." Zhang Yi said. "If possible, there is actually no need to engage in large-scale confrontation with mechanical life forms..."

"But given the current situation, it's probably impossible to just take the stuff and run away... MD, a jar can cause a lot of problems."

"The Mechanicus brought by the Iron Hands want to conduct archaeological excavations here. Although I understand your difficulties, are you sure this is a good idea?"

As he spoke, Zhang Yi looked at the Iron Father and Forge Master of the Iron Hands, who was leading the team this time - Markan Ferros.

"You know how messy this place is, right?"

"I know the situation in this world very well, and I have completed all the corresponding endings of the game." Ferros responded. "But this is indeed a good opportunity."

"You do know that this world might be capable of inter-universe travel, right?"

"But I don't think they have the ability to cross such a long distance to our world," said Ferros. "And even if they did, it wouldn't be a big problem."

"It's just a pile of shit, right..." Zhang Yi said, covering his face. "Just be careful with yourself."

"We still need some time to improve the defense facilities here. The second batch of support troops are also gathering and refitting. At this stage, I suggest not to take too many actions and gain a firm foothold first." Ferros continued. "There are many things in this world. We can't just leave those precious creations and technologies alone."

"That's it for now," Zhang Yi replied. "But there's a place we can still visit, near Pascal Village, which is also a good location for an outpost."

"That's great. We can also further confirm the situation of this matter."

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Playground

Only intelligent life forms would build such a place, using money and time to make themselves feel happy and relax.

Now that humans have become extinct, there is no need for such places to exist. Whether they are artificial humans or mechanical life forms, they are unable to actually feel what pleasure and happiness are, nor can they understand why they should spend time and energy to make themselves happy.

But in fact, in the original story, when 2B and 9S arrived here, the amusement park really looked like a real amusement park.

Mechanical life forms dressed like clowns threw colorful fragments, fireworks and balloons, and fireworks bloomed in the sky. There were even mechanical life forms standing by and giving out balloons, just like real amusement park staff.

In the early stages, this is also one of the gathering places for mechanical life forms that will not actively attack players. They will only celebrate noisily all the time - except for the BOSS among them.

When Zhang Yi came to the amusement park under the protection of the Shadow Prison Army, he found that it did not seem to be affected by the war and was still very lively.

"It seems that N2 really has no shortage of chess pieces." Zhang Yi said as he looked at the mechanical life forms in the amusement park that were still celebrating. "The androids probably put all their fighting power into it, but they still have enough energy to continue the previous experiment."

A long time ago, all mechanical life forms were managed and controlled by a unified network, but after N2, the main controller, came up with the theory that "an enemy is needed to destroy the enemy", she destroyed the original mechanical life network and reorganized it, which also led to the birth of mechanical life forms with self-awareness and cognition (such as Pascal and the King of the Forest).

After the network was reorganized, N2 itself was split into two parts, the 'elimination faction' and the 'protection faction' - one part followed the original instructions to eliminate all enemies, and the other part tried to keep those who could be called enemies alive as much as possible to ensure that they had enemies to eliminate.

N2 is still bound by the previous order to "eliminate the enemy", but she does not want to be bound by this order forever, which is one of the reasons why she destroyed the original network.

In fact, N2 has always been able to destroy the android camp. Not to mention the backdoor program she left in the [Bunker], even if all the mechanical life forms on the entire planet were able to destroy the androids as long as the network was reconnected, the swarm of mechanical life forms would be enough to destroy the androids.

【Celebrate～Celebrate～】

【Let's play～Let's play～】

"It looks okay in the game, but it's a bit creepy when I actually come to the scene..." Zhang Yi said, looking at the empty and non-stop celebrating mechanical life forms. "Although I know they are just imitating humans."

Although they knew that these clown-like mechanical life forms would not attack them under normal circumstances, the Shadow Prison Incarceration Army soldiers in charge of guarding them still vigilantly monitored all mechanical life forms in their sight and pushed away those that approached.

"Our target is that castle." Zhang Yi pointed at the huge castle with bright lights. "We don't need to occupy the whole castle. We only need to set up a sentry post on the top to monitor a large area around it."

"It's indeed a good location." The leading Shadow Prison Incarceration Army responded. "The castle itself is also very valuable to occupy."

"We'll talk about that later. There are quite a few mechanical life forms here. If we really want to occupy this place, it will take a lot of time and energy."

"Let's deal with the Diva. It should be the only threatening leader-level mechanical life form unit in this area. We can also get more information from it."

"The original plot was to ride a roller coaster, so we just..."

Before Zhang Yi could finish his words, a member of the Shadow Prison Incarceration Army removed the wall that was blocking his way and motioned for Zhang Yi to go this way.

"...I actually kind of want to see you guys collapse the roller coaster track or something..."

. . . . . .

what is love?

Even if we ask humans, there is no fixed answer to this question.

However, in this world there is a mechanical life form that has learned to "love" - ​​it "fell in love" with another mechanical life form.

It wanted the other party to look at it more, so it learned to dress up and decorate itself like humans.

It may not really understand what love is, nor does it think that the mechanical life form it "loves" may not know what "love" is, but it begins to act for its own "love".

Human clothing, jewelry, cosmetics...

Go learn how to dress up, sing, dance...

The parts, cores and even the entire bodies of mechanical life forms and androids...

However, all this failed to get the other person to look at him, and the situation of not being able to get what he wanted made him suffer and go crazy, and finally angry.

"If this happened to a human, it would be a bloodbath." The singer, Beauvoir, who was equipped with a lot of metal parts and a lot of artificial human bodies, "is similar to Countess Elizabeth who bathed in blood to stay young forever."

"what--"

Just like a soprano singer among humans, the woman in gorgeous clothing in front of me began to sing, and at the same time a strong wind blew.

"Please open the [Mirror Space], Your Majesty." The leading Shadow Prison Incarceration Army said to Zhang Yi. "We need to ensure that the battle here will not be discovered."

"Come right away."

As the mark representing Tzeentch lit up, blue-gold magical light appeared and spread rapidly, and the entire space began to feel a little different.

But for Bova, it did not have such rich senses. After the routine opening performance, it began to prepare to attack the shadow prison soldiers in front of it.

However, as its gorgeous headdress fell to the ground, a Shadow Prison Incarceration Soldier appeared behind it, and it realized something was wrong.

This is not the combat power that an ordinary android or mechanical life form can possess!

Bova tried to counterattack with sonic attack, but in the next second she felt her movements slow down... No! It wasn't that it slowed down! It was time that slowed down!

【Stationary Grenade】

When the target's movement slowed down because of the grenade, except for the Shadow Prison Incarceration Soldier who was guarding Zhang Yi, the other four Imperial Guards stood in different positions beside Bova.

Ding—bang bang bang!

The next second after the effect of [Static Grenade] disappeared, several explosive bombs exploded at Bova's head, destroying her sound wave generator. Two Shadow Prison inmates used the power halberds in their hands to cut open her "skirt" and destroyed the various weapons and devices inside.

Seeing this, Bova tried to call the androids that had been converted into weapons and were hiding nearby, but she suddenly discovered that all the androids had disappeared.

brush!

The swinging power halberd cut open Bova's chest. You have to know that the size of the Imperial Guards is not smaller than it, and the wounds caused by their attacks can be said to be fatal.

The gorgeous skirt was cut, the beautiful headdress was chopped off, and the ornaments on the body were destroyed one by one.

Perhaps its story is sad, but to the Imperial Guard warriors from the Warhammer world, its story is not worth mentioning and no one cares.

The power halberd flashing with electric light pierced Bova's chest. It made a vague and noisy scream, and then its hands fell down weakly.

"So fast?" Zhang Yi, who was watching the show with a bucket of popcorn in his arms, said as he watched the regional boss being dealt with in less than five minutes.

"I haven't finished this bucket of popcorn yet~"

517. Look! It's a wild B and S!

NIER World, the [Mirror Space] of the Amusement Park

As mentioned before, because of N2's actions, the network that originally connected and controlled the entire Mechanical God Proposition collapsed and reorganized, but as long as she wanted, she could always put most of the mechanical life forms that were disconnected from the network under her control again.

This is also the reason why before the war, the Shadow Prison Incarceration Army asked Zhang Yi to deploy the [Mirror Space] as soon as possible. In this mirror world, the mechanical singer Bova, who was their target, could not contact the network of mechanical life forms in any way, which prevented accidents from happening to the greatest extent.

The huge body that Bova had pieced together had now fallen to the ground, and a Shadow Prison Incarceration Army soldier was removing the layers of parts and armor from its body.

A small humanoid body was dragged out from the huge body, and a power halberd cut through its body and took out its core.

Connect the core to a separate portable computer, and a large amount of data begins to flow on the screen.

"So, is there any useful information?"

"...it was connected to N2." The Shadow Prison Incarceration Army said after a moment of silence. "Although it was only for a brief moment, it was given an additional instruction: after discovering and confirming the existence of humans, send her a message and prohibit killing humans."

"Wow? This schizophrenic person is thinking far ahead~"

"At this stage, N2 has only written this instruction for some special models and lord-level mechanical life forms. Her two ideas focus more on the area where you first appeared."

"Your appearance has disrupted the original order, but humans are very important, so N2 needs to find humans while preventing the extinction of the artificial humans who are their 'enemies' because of this incident."

"So, the situation is still under control."

"That's what it seems at the moment," the guard replied. "In addition, the intelligence shows that it may know where the resistance android carrying the 'jar' is," said the guard from the Shadow Prison. "She seems to have fled to the factory ruins area to hand over the 'jar' to the mechanical life forms that imitate humans' religious beliefs, seeking their protection - N2 should know about this."

"Wherever there is internet, there are N2 and the others, right?"

"When communicating over medium or long distances outside, it's best not to use a communication device, as she might catch you."

"There is no more useful information. Generally speaking, this area should be safe. Neither the mechanical life forms nor the androids have any intention of exploring or stationing troops here."

"After all, this is the border with the Kingdom of Night, and the mechanical life forms here are not that powerful." Zhang Yi said. "I'm going to cancel the Mirror Space, be on guard."

. . . . . .

"Is there no one here?" 2B asked in confusion, looking at the modified humans around him.

"It's very strange. All the missing resistance androids are here, but no other existences are found. It's as if they disappeared out of thin air." 9S said.

"They have all been transformed into weapons..."

"Even when alive, their core is still android-like, and besides..."

"also?"

"It's very strange. I detected an unknown energy fluctuation around here, but I couldn't find anything useful... Wait!"

[Energy and space fluctuations detected] The auxiliary POD warned at this time. [Marked...]

call out--!

A powered halberd struck, pierced through the POD, and pinned it to the wall behind it. Another POD tried to dodge, but was also nailed to the wall by the flying halberd.

"What..."

Even 2B, who was wearing a combat suit, didn't react. When she turned her head to look in the direction of the attack, a huge black figure appeared in front of her and pressed her to the ground.

“2B!”

9S tried to help 2B, but the next moment another black giant appeared in front of him, grabbed him and threw him to the ground.

"When did you two show up?" Zhang Yi said to the two protagonists who were pinned to the ground by the Shadow Prison Army. "Didn't they say they were fighting? Are you two here to slack off?"

【Attacked by unknown... Sent...】

boom!boom!