Chapter 100 I'm not going to be like myself anymore
Duan Lingyi turned her back to Huo Liaoye and stared at the prosperous outer city in the distance.
"During World War II, my strength reached its peak. Even now, it has not declined much, and has even increased. I thought I would always be this strong, but now——"
Duan Lingyi stretched out a hand, with a white back of the hand and slender fingers. Who would have thought that such a hand could be used to hold a hammer.
Just when Huo Liaoye was daydreaming, he suddenly saw that hand suddenly become blurred for a moment.
"Your hand...how could that happen?" He looked at the scene in disbelief.
"That hand seemed to flash suddenly just now." Huo Liaoye suspected that he was dazzled because he was tired from not sleeping.
So he rubbed his eyes again and continued to stare at Duan Lingyi's hand.
Looking at Huo Liaoye's actions, Duan Lingyi did not explain too much, but still held her hand motionlessly.
Sizzle!
This time Huo Liaoye was sure that he was not seeing things. The hand really did twist in an instant like garbled code, just like a bug in the game.
And it’s not just the hands.
As if she had finally seen enough of the prosperity in the distance, Duan Lingyi turned around somewhat dejectedly and stood facing Huo Liaoye again.
"Watch this and don't blink." She forced a smile, as if what was about to be performed was an insignificant circus.
Sizzle!
There was another piercing sound of mechanical failure.
But this time, not only the hands, but the entire body was distorted.
Duan Lingyi's body seemed to be connected to a disordered electric current, and was covered with blue fluorescence, like an artificial intelligence projection, and then suddenly flashed in an instant.
A double image appeared on her left and right at the same time, and then this strange phenomenon disappeared in the blink of an eye.
"What's going on!" Huo Liaoye shouted in shock, but did not dare to step forward.
The illusory figure, the bitter expression, the Duan Lingyi in front of him was more fragile than ever before. The constantly flickering figure and the crackling arcs of electricity transformed and sank between reality and illusion.
He was afraid that if he got any closer, it would dissipate.
Duan Lingyi just sighed, "Humanity is developing too fast."
"Since the Jenny engine in the 1760s, mankind has officially entered the Industrial Age. Then, with the steam engine improved by Watt and the self-excited motor developed by Siemens, mankind leapt from the steam age to the electric age in just a hundred years."
“What will follow is the information age and the artificial intelligence age!”
When Duan Lingyi looked up again, countless blue data streams flashed in her eyes, cold, cruel, fair and just.
“Today’s forging is not only physical, but also electronic. People are constantly creating the world they want in the virtual network.”
"And I have long been deeply bound to humanity. The original era of steam, electricity, and war only made me stronger and my character more cruel."
"But the information age has not only made me stronger, but has also profoundly affected my way of thinking and my existence. I am about to become... no longer myself."
Duan Lingyi walked in front of Huo Liaoye, and her hand with jumping blue arcs seemed to want to touch his cheek, but in the end it passed straight through.
She stared at her right hand in a daze, as if she had not expected this to happen, and whispered, "Is it getting worse?"
"So what are you doing today during the day..."
Huo Liaoye's mind was blank at this moment. He clearly remembered that it was not like this during the day, so how come his world was turned upside down in one night?
"It was the Grand Chancellor. She helped me maintain my physical form. She wanted me to use this last bit of time to have a good look at Wonderland."
As she spoke, Duan Lingyi suddenly smiled with relief and looked up at the starry sky. "In the past, I only focused on my own affairs all day long and never really looked at this fairyland."
"Now is a rare opportunity to relax and take a closer look. It is indeed beautiful."
Duan Lingyi covered her left eye with her hand, then her right eye, and even focused her two eyes into a cross-eyed look.
Although her hands would flash from time to time, she was still entertaining herself meaninglessly. What else could she do if she didn't do this?
But Huo Liaoye on the side was almost on the verge of collapse. Everything was fine at the beginning, why did it become like this?
Those were the happiest days for Huo Liaoye in hundreds of years. Although he was oppressed and worked as a boiler boy every day, in fact his daily routine was just quarreling and heating up the furnace, and he lived a very comfortable life.
For the first time, he had real friends.
And over a long period of time, Huo Liaoye had already developed a deep affection for Duan Lingyi, perhaps it started from the time he persuaded him, or maybe it started from the time he gave him the knife...
Although he has never expressed his feelings, companionship is the most lasting confession of love.
After hundreds of years of living together day and night, they have long been accustomed to each other. Huo Liaoye simply cannot imagine the day when Duan Lingyi disappears.
"It's all the fault of the damn humans. I'm going to the human world right now and wipe them all out!"
Huo Liaoye rubbed the red corners of his eyes, his expression sinister, and the red flaming sword was tightly held in his hand.
Since humans are the root cause of all this, let's eliminate all of them.
If you can't solve the problem, then solve the person who raised the problem.
Duan Lingyi put down her hand and looked at him steadily, "If you really do this, I will disappear even faster."
"I have long been deeply bound to humanity."
"Then I will force them to destroy all their technology and return to the primitive age." Huo Liaoye's eyes were fierce, he really intended to do so.
But Duan Lingyi quickly rejected the proposal.
"It's impossible. The development of science and technology comes from human beings' accumulation of knowledge and their desire for progress."
"Even if you destroy their existing technology now, as long as the memory is not dissipated, the inheritance will not be broken. It's just a matter of mending the fold after the sheep have been sheeped."
Even though her body had undergone changes due to the influence of humans, Duan Lingyi still admired them.
No matter what kind of disaster we face, mankind will always be unyielding and tenacious.
She didn't think that humans would really be willing to destroy all weapons and regress technology just because of the threat from Huo Liaoye. She believed that humans would do everything they could to repel the invading enemy, especially the country in the far east.
Oppression and resistance have always run through the life of this nation.
"Then what should I do! Tell me! How can I save you..."
Huo Liaoye yelled at Duan Lingyi angrily, but halfway through he fell into deep despair.
His back, which had been straight all this time, finally bent at this moment. Although he was known for his conspiracies and schemes, he could not think of any solution.
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