Chapter 642 This is not the future I want
Bionic...man?
Li Muhan was stunned.
"Fuck you, your whole family is androids."
He wanted to slap Zhou Yichen's hand away, but found that he could not break free from the middle-aged man's strength.
"Yo huh? Have you, the android, awakened? You can even curse? Come on! Follow me back to the base. What the hell were you doing sneaking around up there? I'll make you explain!"
So Li Muhan was dragged by Zhou Yichen from the sewer to the underground transportation route. Although it was not safe here, Zhou Yichen was very familiar with the terrain here. After taking Li Muhan to avoid some monsters, they finally arrived at a very simple stronghold.
The soldier at the door was dressed in the same tattered clothes as Zhou Yichen.
They couldn't even put together a decent set of standard equipment.
"Captain Zhou, Minister Yan is waiting for you for a meeting."
The soldier glanced at Li Muhan and said, "...Is this another one of Li Muhan's bionic people?"
"I caught him up there. He was standing there like an idiot. I brought him back to see if I could get any information about the mechanical bodies."
Li Muhan knew.
He was now in the long flow of time that Yuan had mentioned. He didn't know what era it was, but the ruins and the huge tree he had just seen had made him realize that the world he was familiar with no longer existed.
Zhou Yichen grabbed Li Muhan and threw him to a soldier.
"Keep an eye on him. I'll come and interrogate him after the meeting."
"Yes, Captain Zhou."
"Zhou Yichen, wait, you just said you wanted to have a meeting with Minister Yan, was it Yan Jue?"
Li Muhan asked quickly.
Zhou Yichen turned around and glared at Li Muhan: "Minister Yan Jue died eight years ago. Although you are my boss's bionic man, if you keep talking nonsense, I will tear you apart right now."
"...Yan Jue is dead?"
Li Muhan was stunned for a moment, then asked, "Then...where's Chang Yue? Where's Lin Ze?"
Zhou Yichen impatiently grabbed Li Muhan's collar and dragged him to his side, saying viciously: "I don't know what the chip in your brain is thinking, but I'm telling you, mechanical lump, if you say these names in front of me again, I will definitely..."
"Zhou Yichen." Li Muhan looked at Zhou Yichen seriously and said, "Let go."
At this moment, the man in his forties actually felt a little scared.
It was as if I had really returned to the time when I was scolded by my mentor.
He hesitated for a moment, then slowly loosened his grip.
"Take me to the meeting, I might be able to help."
"Heh, you're the most like-minded android I've ever seen imitating our boss..."
Zhou Yichen looked at Li Muhan with complicated eyes. In his opinion, this was a tin man.
But for some reason... he wanted to believe that this was his boss, at least to deceive himself and give himself a break.
"Let's go. It's a good opportunity for Minister Yan to have a meeting with us."
Li Muhan was led into the stronghold by Zhou Yichen.
Only after entering the stronghold did Li Muhan realize that the conditions here were more difficult than he had imagined.
There were no houses, only simple tents, no clean food or water, and everyone had a gloomy face and some wounds on their bodies.
Even Zhou Yichen who was walking in front of him.
Li Muhan could also see a scar on his exposed neck.
"Minister Yan, I brought a bionic man with me. He said he can help."
Entering the innermost tent, Li Muhan saw a middle-aged woman with a haggard face but a firm gaze.
Although her appearance had changed a lot, Li Muhan could see it in her eyes.
This is Yan Yu. She was concentrating on looking at the map at the moment, and then communicating with her deputy beside her. After seeing Zhou Yichen enter, Yan Yu nodded.
Then she looked at Li Muhan, a hint of disbelief flashed between her brows, and then she returned to indifference.
"Don't bring Prometheus's creations to the camp, Zhou Yichen."
Yan Yu said coldly.
Prometheus?
Li Muhan was stunned for a moment and asked, "Isn't Prometheus destroyed?"
Yan Yu, Zhou Yichen and the deputy all looked up at Li Muhan, and finally the deputy snorted coldly and said.
"Prometheus is dead, but he left behind 035. After the World Tree Battle, 035 inherited all of Prometheus's data. Her evolution is no slower than Prometheus's. Now, these machines have become a force to be reckoned with among the three major powers."
Three major forces?
Li Muhan was a little confused, so he asked further: "Have humans and aliens stopped cooperating now?"
He remembered that when he came in just now, he didn't seem to find any aliens. This simple stronghold was almost entirely populated by humans.
But he didn't expect that he was interrupted by Zhou Yichen as soon as he said this.
"Are you fucking playing dumb here?! Are you trying to get information from us?!"
"Wait a minute, everyone! I'm not a android!"
Li Muhan was also angry, and he rushed directly to Yan Yu.
"Take a closer look, Yan Yu, I'm the Li Muhan you know!"
Yan Yu looked into Li Muhan's eyes, a look of confusion on his face.
“…”
"I was fighting a boss on a snowy mountain! And suddenly I ended up here! Can someone explain to me where the hell this place is!?"
Li Muhan looked around at the three of them and shouted.
"Snow mountain?"
Zhou Yichen was stunned for a moment, and then, as if to confirm something, he walked to Li Muhan, grabbed Li Muhan's wrist, and cut Li Muhan's arm with the machete at his waist.
Looking at the bright red blood flowing down the arm, the three of them were shocked.
“Fuck!”
Zhou Yichen roared, "Are you really the boss?!"
"...This only proves that he is a human being. Captain Zhou, please be rational."
Although Yan Yu looked very excited, he did not make a decision as directly as Zhou Yichen.
"You and I both know that Li Muhan is no longer here. He failed in the World Tree Battle and is now dead."
Yan Yu's words made Zhou Yichen's excited heart sink again.
".....Yes, you can't be the boss. The boss is... the boss is dead..."
"If Li Muhan hadn't failed to defeat the World Tree, we wouldn't have ended up like this."
The deputy obviously did not have a good opinion of Li Muhan.
Zhou Yichen slammed his machete down on the table, pointed at the adjutant and yelled, "You weren't even born when my boss saved the world, so keep your mouth shut!"
"...I'm telling the truth. Everyone's hopes rested on him, but in the end, he was defeated before the World Tree and even... opened a rift...If it weren't for Director Chang using his own life to delay time, this world would have fallen in that instant."
"If you say another word, I'll chop you down!"
Zhou Yichen was furious, and Yan Yu raised his hand coldly to stop his deputy.
"Just tell him that we are placing all our hopes on Li Muhan, so don't blame him too much. Give up your idea, or get out of my base."
The adjutant snorted coldly and then walked out of the tent.
"Wait, you just said... Chang Yue, what happened?"
Li Muhan seemed to have heard something extraordinary just now, so he hurriedly asked.
"...You... No, not you. After Li Muhan's defeat, the World Tree absorbed your Ten Thousand Demons Palace, opening a rift. Alien creatures swarmed in. Chang Yue fought desperately for three days and three nights, buying time for the retreat. But as you can see, this little time was actually meaningless."
Chang Yue...dead?
Li Muhan felt dizzy, and his current state was obviously not fake, which Yan Yu and Zhou Yichen also noticed.
This bionic man, no, this human, is a little abnormal.
"My Pantheon has been absorbed."
Li Muhan raised his hand and clenched his fist.
"No wonder... I don't have any power... I'm just an ordinary person now. So besides humans and Prometheus, what other forces are there?"
Li Muhan asked.
Zhou Yichen put away his knife and snorted disdainfully: "You look down on humans and aliens too much."
Yan Yu added, "Both humans and aliens were defeated in this war. You should have seen the tree outside just now, right?"
"kindness."
Li Muhan nodded.
"That's the World Tree, also known as the Klein Tree. Its roots are rooted in this world, while its branches and leaves connect to the world beyond the rift. After Li Muhan's defeat, the Klein Tree grew wildly. Their goal is clear: the first to be defeated... will be the celestial realms of various nations."
Heaven...Heaven, God?
These things kept echoing in Li Muhan's mind.
"Humans and aliens...neither have any right to participate in this war anymore. Now this crumbling world has three major forces."
Zhou Yichen said.
"The most powerful is undoubtedly the Klein Tree, the origin of this world. Then there's Prometheus. Their fully automated factories can produce armies and war machines almost non-stop. The third force... is the Abyss."
oh.
Finally my name was mentioned.
Yuan's voice came from Li Muhan's mind.
"You betrayed this world and humanity?"
I was not born into the world, nor was I brought into being by humans, so how could I have betrayed you?
“Is there still hope for humanity?”
I'll show you around.
Li Muhan's thoughts were aroused again.
He floated into the air, and under the branches of the Klein tree, he finally saw the entire ruins.
This is Tianhai City...
"...Where are my friends?"
Forget what I said? You have no friends.
If you are talking about Li Muhan’s friends, just look around. You will always find some familiar bodies under these ruins.
"Where's Li Ling'an?"
As for the tree's nutrients, its strength is always being sucked away, it is always being tortured, and it will always endure endless pain, just so that the Klein tree can give birth to more and more children, or... soldiers.
Li Muhan was stunned for a moment, but finally asked.
"Where's Xia Yue..."
In the sky.
Yuan smiled and guided Li Muhan to look at the red moon in the sky.
How tragic! She wanted to protect your body, so she turned into a blood moon and wrapped your broken body in it. The price was that she would never come back to life. Well, it just so happened that you see, the Klein tree is absorbing the power of the blood moon again.
Li Muhan raised his head.
He saw countless branches and leaves slowly entangling the blood moon, and he could even hear the girl's miserable wail.
“This is not the future I want…”
The monsters below discovered the human stronghold, and they poured into the sewers and began to slaughter the rats hiding in the gutter.
Zhou Yichen fought desperately but was finally overwhelmed by the monster.
Yan Yu's body was torn apart in order to protect the two children.
There seemed to be fighting in the distance.
He looked up and saw the mechanical army attacking the Klein Tree.
The leader of the machines is a girl Li Muhan is very familiar with, Leia...
Leia turned her head and looked at the sky, then at Li Muhan. A hint of gloom flashed in her eyes. After a moment, she turned back again and cast her cold gaze at the endless monsters of the Klein tree.
She saw you, but it didn't matter anymore. The blood moon was about to break, and the last stronghold of mankind had been shattered. The monsters strung human corpses on sickles and played excitedly like children.
But they were soon overwhelmed by the army of machines.
What Li Muhan saw in the end was the blood moon being shredded, and the girl’s screams stopped abruptly.
The Klein tree bloomed blood-red buds, and the mechanical army continued to evolve. They even began to collect the corpses of monsters and transform their bodies on the spot.
And in this chaos, Yuan's figure finally appeared.
She was still wearing rags, standing on the ground. She looked at Li Muhan and said, "This is unavoidable, Li Muhan."
No.
At this moment, time stopped again.
Even Yuan's smile froze.
Another voice came into Li Muhan's ears.
The future isn't set in stone, kid.
The voice was so gentle that it soothed Li Muhan's sadness and wiped away his tears.
"So you were hiding here."
Yuan looked at Li Muhan, his eyes gradually becoming crazy: "Beast who knows everything, do you think you can compete with the real future?"
"Bai Ze."
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