Cyber ​​Fantasy: Dragon Elves and Mortals

Giving up childhood in exchange for freedom;

Giving up freedom in exchange for ideals;

Abandoning ideals in exchange for love;

Abandoned love in exchange for the road;

Abandoned the road in exchange for strength

In the end, Sheath gave up the power she gained after denying everything.

"[The Informer of Neverland]..."

Russell muttered the first code name of the sheath.

Initially, Sheath as "Wendy" betrayed Peter Pan who gave him his freedom.The two children "Michael" and "John" who betrayed Peter Pan with him did not name Sheath until their death; but the "adults" trusted by Sheath betrayed him, so Sheath was named The name "Informer".

Immediately afterwards, he betrayed Happy Island, Tianen Group and his mentor, and joined the Tower of Babel, which was an enemy of elves and dragons. His talents and character were liked by Sai Lun, and he was given the sheath "Lethal Amount" "Love" to further catalyze his talents, and Sheath's destined betrayal also means that the flower of over-blooming talent will eventually wither.

He lost the sheath of his "heart" and fled out of cowardice, betraying Alice who loved him and the "Bishop" who trusted him.He attempts to embark on a journey to find his own meaning

road, seeking a grand death as the end of life, giving oneself

Life has meaning.

But he still failed.This journey was meaningless, but what he did was

further deepening despair.He pushed the world into a bleaker future...

The miracle he accomplished with all his might - without crossing the Leviathan Wall,

A mortal body that had not yet been transformed into an elf, without the assistance of sufficient capital and technology, without the help of demons and wizards, killed the dragon alone.

He destroyed the spaceships of previous civilizations with his bare hands and eliminated one-seventh of the possibility of the future.

——So, he finally despaired.

After being confused and wandering for a long time, Sheath finally denied and betrayed herself.

She obviously has talent, opportunity, talent, luck and the love of others, but she dances alone like a clown.

The more he tries to hold onto everything, the more everything in the world becomes like sand draining from his fingers.The more you try to hold on to more, the faster the sand will be lost.No matter how hard you try and what sacrifices you make, you get nothing.

"...You have finally denied yourself."

Russell sighed.

Sheath's life of constant search for meaning was over.What he encountered was infinite emptiness.

As an empty shell of absolute nothingness...as a projection of Russell's other side, Sheath finally has the "qualification to destroy the world."

What he projected from his eyes before was definitely not such an ominous dim yellow light.

——It is not "the negation of negation".But a complete denial.

Russell already knows that the power of holy order possessed by the mechanical angels comes from the collective subconscious.

It is the power that belongs to "human consciousness" and is the very small part of the huge and chaotic primitive spiritual energy held by the polluted "old gods" that has been purified by the goodness in human hearts.

If the human body is lost, it will be impossible to be recognized by the group consciousness, and it will no longer be possible to possess the power of the Holy Order; therefore, mechanical angels must be made from recognized good people as "materials".The power of Holy Order cannot be driven purely mechanically.

The Pope's plan is to artificially create a "new god" and a new "group consciousness" to overwrite the influence of the "old god" on mankind. It is even less likely that he will be recognized by the old god because of this - from From a physical point of view, his plan is to completely kill the old gods.

Just like if you want to completely destroy a program, you shouldn't delete it, put it in the recycle bin, or shred the files. Instead, you should overwrite each of its files multiple times.

The reason why Sheath was able to obtain this "anti-electron" power... and was able to continue to hold it after he underwent inhumane physical transformation and transformed his brain into a semi-prosthetic body, was precisely because of this power.

It belongs to him.

——It was not that he imported the memories of the old saints to gain this power of holy order.

But after doing these actions, Sheath gained the power that belonged to him!

That is to say…..

It was precisely because he mechanized his brain into a "local server", and his strong desire for self-destruction and self-denial allowed him to obtain this "anti-electronic" Holy Order power.

"Why does the church want to seal this power..."

Russell understood everything: "It's not entirely because the church is afraid of angels who can counterattack and deny all angels. It's also because angels with this power will eventually destroy themselves."

Because the "power of holy orders" of the Church is not natural.

They did not fundamentally realize the nature of this power, and the technology they used did not touch on the principle, but was "invention based on the application level."He just used a crude method to steal this power.This means that once the Holy Order power of "anti-electron" is activated, it will immediately lose control - because it will also deny its own aura.

And Sheath's transformation of himself went even deeper.He even modified his own brain. If according to the original definition of the ability of "anti-electron", the moment he uses the power of Holy Order, all his prosthetics and modified parts will be forcibly stopped. , or even burn it permanently.

But he can use this power normally... and even control it accurately.

Sheath's series of painful transformations on himself, together with his life itself, became a ritual - summoning the psychic power with the ability of "anti-electron".It is no longer simply the power of the Holy Order, but like the "Vessel of God" and "Anima Animus", it is a "new spiritual energy" that belongs to Sheath itself.

From that moment on, Sheath has gained the meaning of his life——

However, he didn't realize it.

It was not until his consciousness was shattered that his life was finally affirmed and given meaning by "Twilight" - the meaning of destroying everything.

"I believe now that you...will indeed completely destroy the monkey-faced eagle."

Russell said slowly: "Because it is absolutely impossible for you to coexist, and the monkey-faced eagle is absolutely no match for you. In other words, the other you, the you in cyberspace, should now be killing the monkey-faced eagle virus on the entire network. Right. As the monkey-faced eagle declines, your power is also increasing."

Just like his uncontrollable hostility towards the monkey-faced eagle and the monkey-faced eagle's unconcealed murderous intention towards him...a world can only hatch one "Dusk".This means they will either fight to the last man or destroy each other.And now, in addition to the two candidates, a new one has been born.

It is also meaningless and completely denied, and ultimately the meaning of one's life is denied. It is also uploading one's consciousness to the Internet, trying to complete the "transformation of the group god"... Today's "sheath", or "the third "Two Containers" is the monkey-faced eagle's competitor as the "grave"!

In other words, today's "sheath" is the superior monkey-faced eagle!

Just as the unpredictable fate realized that the monkey-faced eagle's plan was about to fail, the world's disaster itself had not been resolved, and Russell was not sublimated or destroyed because of it - after all, the Pope's plan was indeed possible to be realized - Therefore, in order to ensure the destruction of the world, a new "grave" that can surely destroy the world was born again.

From the very beginning, he was born within the "New God" created by the Pope, and existed as his irremovable and irreplaceable "anti-virus software".

"Yes, that should indeed be the case... Since Dusk was born at the end of the world, what's the point of not destroying Doomsday but only destroying the eggs of Dusk? It's just cutting off the water with a knife..."

Russell suddenly laughed a little self-deprecatingly.

He reached into his arms, trying to feel for something.But in the end I still didn’t touch it.

"What are you looking for?"

Delphinium realized something: "Did the saint behead his head?"

"Ah...yes. Because of the security check of the airship, I couldn't do it this time.

Bring it. "

Russell hummed softly, as if he was explaining something or regretting something: "I just want to see how my determination is now. It is more like a side that can see myself clearly than a knife." A mirror of determination."

He had realized before that there was no way he could coexist with the Pope's plans.But it wasn't until today that Russell fully confirmed this.

——The sheath sublimated into the egg of dusk, which not only forced the monkey-faced eagle, but also forced Russell to give up his fantasy.

Or…..

"I finally realized what the three of us have in common."

Russell murmured in a low voice, walked away from the table and walked towards the sheath: "We all hold a certain innocence, the pure ideas inherited from childhood. The pain encountered in childhood, the obsession left behind. In becoming As an adult, you feel so out of place in this world.

"The monkey-faced eagle wants to get everything, so it is so greedy that it wants to devour the whole world; I want to connect everything, so I don't want to offend anyone, trying to be friends with everyone and reach peace... But you always want to give up everything . Because you are still living in the day when you escaped from Peter Pan with your two companions."

"It's dangerous, don't go there..."

Bad Ri subconsciously wanted to grab Russell's cuff, but Delphinium predicted his move and reached out to stop his wrist one step ahead.She shook her head seriously at the frowning Bad Ri, and then looked at Russell's back with some concern.

The sheath showed no reaction to this.

He didn't smile, he didn't think, he didn't get angry.Like a puppet, expressionless and emotionless.

The thoughts that are both uploaded, whether they are "Promoted" or "Lycaon", their feelings are obviously much richer than those of Sheath.

"The reason for your empty feelings is because the Pope completely deleted his personality at his request.

"Or maybe he was vaguely aware of his own end, and before he truly fell, he made the final decision to erase his twilight will and deny his subjective harmfulness?

"It is ironic to deny the purest negation at the same time. As expected of a man who can do nothing, his life is absolutely empty..."

Russell walked slowly, and his body melted.

His voice suddenly became soft and gentle, and Alice's body appeared here: "You are a half-hearted person who can't even be regarded as the world-destroying Demon King..."

Her expression was complicated, her eyes were gentle, full of love, but extremely sad.As if he had been hurt by something.

It's like I'm still hurt by him.

"……I miss you so much."

After hearing Alice's miserable words, the mechanical look on Sheath's face finally became slightly moved for the first time.

It was a tiny amount of shaking - like salt dissolved in water.

You can vaguely taste the salty taste as bitter as tears, but you can't see any white crystals.

"I've been trying to wake up those who are pretending to be asleep and let them get up and face reality..."

Alice whispered, standing in front of the sheath.She looked at the sheath as if looking at an apparition of the past.

She raised her head, with a paper-thin, pale and gentle smile, and looked at her husband, who was more than a head taller than her: "But I forgot that I can never wake up someone who pretends to be awake."

"...Alice."

Sheath whispered her name.He tried to reach out and touch Alice.

But in front of him, Alice seemed like an illusion.He grabbed it twice in mid-air, but it was as misty as smoke.

Because he didn't dare to touch Alice's body.

The emotion that raised his hand was just an impulse.He even denied the absolute rationality of the mechanical life form, and the vision in his eyes was constantly turning red and reporting errors.

"——With your mechanical body, can you still make such a stupid mistake?"

Alice taunted, grabbing Sheath's right hand that was trying to retract with her backhand.

It was such a weak, white and tender hand belonging to a girl.her strength

It was absolutely no match for Sheath's strength, but she directly held Sheath's hand, preventing him from pulling back even half an inch.She didn't have to exert any force at all, and the sheath couldn't escape her grasp.

She put the sheath's hand that could easily crush steel and slowly placed it on her head.

This made Delphinium panic for a moment to the point where she clenched her fists, held her breath, and almost swept the cup to the ground; Bad Sun also subconsciously clenched the knife, and Strangler, Bad Guy, and Kamalse looked over at the same time.

Alice's body is in her early 20s.Even younger than Russell himself.

But Sheath's body has been completely replaced by machines and prosthetics.

The machine covered in human skin was no longer the man she knew in the past.

The sheath was down and the dim yellow indicator light like an eye patch was flashing fiercely.

The corner of his mouth twitched slightly, and the expression on his face changed violently like a buggy mannequin.Finally, he imitated the expression he had when he first met Alice, showing a somewhat reserved but yearning smile.

Kill the bad feelings and then smile.

Just like the expression he had when he betrayed those people in the past.

Alice and Sheath looked at each other, and a faint yellow light gradually shone in the depths of her emerald green pupils.And gradually synchronized with the flashing in the sheath's eyes.Sheath realized it immediately - but Alice's hand that was gently pressing the back of his hand suddenly tightened her grip.

"——No escape."

Her words and her hands caused the movement of the sheath to stop again.

Alice said softly: "If you turn around and run away again... I will absolutely, absolutely never forgive you again.

"...Idiot, half-baked, clown, bumbling weirdo."

Upon hearing these words, the indicator light in the sheath's eye suddenly went out - after a long time, it suddenly turned on again.

——Because even Alice herself would not remember those words.

She had always thought of him as a strong and amazing man.

It was the first time she saw Sheath, before she formally met Sheath, because she resisted the teacher her family found for her without permission, and she said bad words.This was something that was hidden deep inside her heart and had never been shown to anyone, especially not to Alice.

Why, why...

Electronic brains perform calculations very quickly.Sheath got the answer almost immediately.Alice…

——In other words, [Russell] has already seen it.

My own memories that have been digitized and stored in the cloud——

He wants to assimilate himself.

His "son" wants to eat him.

At that moment, [Russell]’s purpose became clear, but...

Alice's emerald green pupils were filled with emotion and tears.

Love, sadness, anger, nostalgia, relief, memories, disappointment...but no hatred.

It was a look that Sheath couldn't move away from.He couldn't give up the same thing for the second time... He couldn't even persist in the matter of "giving up" to the end.

"...Are you so sure that you can still maintain yourself after swallowing me who is the same size as you?"

Sheath moved.In other words, he was afraid - his mechanical heart, which should not have known what fear was, chose to retreat.

He threatened and persuaded Alice to give up this dangerous move: "It's too late to stop now...Russell, if we continue like this, we might die together.

"Stop now. I will not attack you. I will leave immediately to help you kill the monkey-faced eagle. I will never appear in front of you again. I will never hurt you, nor will I hurt my friends with you. Man... No, I can help you too. We were not enemies from the beginning, I am... I am your father..."

Threats turned into pleas.

Alice did not attack or restrain him, only her fragile hands.

It was clear that he could end everything just by turning his head.As long as he leaves, Alice can't catch him.

but……

His program alarmed like crazy and kept making errors.The world in front of him was covered in flashing dangerous red, and various warning pop-ups kept popping up and then being closed.

"--I do not want."

Alice's firm voice sounded: "I'm not Russell, I'm Alice. You still can't recognize me until now...

"I have decided. I will never... let you go again.

"Because you are such a big fool, if you leave me, you can't do anything!

"Since you only have one piece of data left - where is it stored?

It shouldn't matter, right?

"Then why, why are you still unwilling to go home even though you have become like this?"

For some reason, a kind of despair and pain gripped Sheath's non-existent heart.

His emotions, personality and will should have been completely wiped out.He is a robot who does not understand what love is.

But why...

...but my heart hurts more than when I was a human being?

Deep in Alice's emerald-green pupils, a rotating mirror gradually lit up.

He couldn't look away.

He couldn't look away.

he.……

——Finally, in the depths of the dark and lightless mirror, Sheath saw the forgotten self.

The one who was timid, lonely, and bruised.

Therefore, the boy is afraid of everything in the world.

The next moment, when the mirror shone beyond its limit, Alice's shell suddenly twisted and shattered.

As if an illusory string was broken, the sheath and Russell's consciousness were swallowed up by endless darkness at the same time——

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