Chapter 597: The Life of Emma, the Disliked One (Part 1)
Emma stood under the ruins of the Tower of Eternal Life destroyed by lightning.
Behind her, the tower that symbolizes her life's work is collapsing and falling in the remaining high-energy lightning. The scene is gorgeous but helpless.
Just as after a long life, every life will have a farewell moment.
Emma was still wearing the researcher's gown that she had loved to wear when she was young, a white gown with no decorations, just like the ones doctors would wear.
Emma, who used genetic technology to maintain her youthful appearance, put her hands in the pockets of her robe and looked back at the collapsed tower behind her with no special expression on her face.
Anger, disappointment, hatred, or pain.
None of them.
There was only a calm face, with the collapse of the tower reflected in her eyes that kept zooming in and out, as if announcing that her life had reached its final moment.
Perhaps that moment should have come fifty-seven years ago.
On the night when a nuclear war destroyed the civilized world, on the night when she was buried in the collapsed laboratory, waiting to die alone, on the night when she lost all her relatives and friends.
She should have died at that time, just like the billions of lives that died that night, ending her young life cleanly and neatly in the light of destruction.
But fate played a joke on her.
She survived.
It was the man who dragged her out of the rubble.
She knew the man, who was twenty years older than her, a biologist at the institute where she was then working, who had achieved nothing in his career.
An ordinary, even humble man.
He has his own family, a wife who is as ordinary as him, and they already have children.
Emma, who was rescued, didn't even know his name until one night ten years after the nuclear war, when she shamelessly climbed into the man's bed...
It was the first time she really understood the man.
His name is Lewis Fittals.
A biologist who would go unnoticed by anyone before a nuclear war.
A great man who, with his knowledge and luck, saved hundreds of thousands of people after the disaster, led them out of the shelter, returned to the surface, and built a doomsday city.
He was the man who gave Emma life, and also the man who ended Emma's life.
Lewis has many secrets.
And Emma is the only one who fully understands those secrets.
Roger said that Emma took advantage of his grandfather and finally killed his grandfather with her own hands for evil purposes. This is not true. The poor child knew nothing.
He didn't know what kind of man his grandfather was.
Lewis's life story is ten thousand times more profound than what Roger knows.
He is more than a savior, more than a great man.
He is also a demon, a man who buried the world with his own hands, although that was not Lewis's intention.
In every night that Emma and Lewis spent together, after every tender moment, he would confess the terrible memories that rolled over in every dark night.
And Emma is the only one who listens.
She had sworn not to reveal even a single secret, and she would keep her oath until her existence was extinguished.
Perhaps, today.
It was so ugly when the building in front of me collapsed...
It is not as magnificent as it was when it was built.
Emma soon lost interest in watching the destruction. She turned around, squatted, stretched out her fingers, and grabbed a handful of waste dust that had been blasted into particles by high-energy bombardment on the ground.
Just like a child who comes into contact with quicksand for the first time, he turns his palm over and lets the black sand particles flow through his fingers.
"Buzz"
Blue lightning danced in the air, it jumped with dazzling light, and then split and condensed like a spider web, hitting the ruins in front of Emma.
A slender woman with blonde hair, wearing a very religious white robe, a green laurel crown on her head, and holding an exaggerated and heavy black battle axe, walked out of the blue electric light.
The lightning patterns on her forehead danced, causing dancing light to appear at the edges of her eyes.
As majestic as Thor descending to the earth.
"Emma, you must repent for the sins you have committed against your people."
The leader of the Redeemer, Juno, shouted some second-year slogans as usual, and challenged Emma, who was slowly standing up, to a fight.
The leader of the Eternal Life Society tilted his head.
In her pupils, Juno's biological information was quickly listed, her energy level, her fighting style, her habits, and her weaknesses.
The blue data stream continuously refreshed the screen in Emma's data core. In less than a second, it completed extremely complex calculations and formulated targeted tactics.
"Are you coming alone?"
She said in a calm, almost indifferent tone:
"I have calculated your combat data. In a one-on-one fight, your winning rate will not exceed 17.84%. Your only chance of winning is to use a long delaying tactic to exhaust my energy.
You can do this.
But there is a good chance that I will kill you before I run out of energy."
"I didn't come here alone, you monster."
Juno replied.
The next moment, a piercing buzzing sound was heard from the sky, and a silver armor dropped from the sky. In addition to the humanoid-designed module, it was also equipped with many kinds of strange and powerful things.
This makes this combat armor look a bit bloated.
It was suspended in mid-air, with its mask spread out, but there was nothing inside. In the flickering blue optical projection, the Tokamak's yuppie face was simulated inside the armor.
He looked Emma up and down, whistled in a rather frivolous way, and said:
"Eight points for your appearance, nine points for your figure, and ninety-nine points for your temperament as an iceberg beauty researcher. Unfortunately, I heard that you are already over seventy years old... deduct one thousand points.
Sorry ma'am, you're not my type."
This conversation changed Emma's expression. She looked at the armor in front of her, and blue program data flickered in her left eye. After three seconds, she said:
"Your main body is in the secret compartment marked C-27, 175 meters underground in the nuclear bunker in Blackhand Town. The communication technology used by this suit of armor is of a very high technological level, far exceeding its own technological level.
I couldn't take control.
Judging from its internal energy readings, you have designed seventeen combat modules specifically for it to target me... Well, when you and her work together, the probability of defeating me increases to 36%.
The premise is that you can continue to control it."
The moment Emma finished speaking , densely packed missiles were launched from the ruins of the Tower of Immortality behind her.
Locking onto the hiding place where the tokamak body was located, the moment the cylindrical missiles were activated, they entered cruise mode at several times the speed of sound, and shot towards Blackhand Town in 45 different trajectories.
"Hmm... Such wisdom, calm judgment, and this mechanical-like thinking mode, add ten thousand points!"
Tokamak laughed.
His optical projection said in a very unserious way:
"I've changed my mind, Emma. I'm going to copy your thinking center and use it as the built-in thinking circuit of my armor. When I'm seventy years old, I will definitely take the initiative to pursue you, a hot old woman."
"Feel sorry."
Faced with this teasing, Emma gave a formulaic answer:
"This body, this soul, already belongs to another man. You have 27 seconds to escape. Are you sure you want to waste your time on this?"
"I'm not planning on running away."
Tokamak responded:
"Because your missiles can't hit me at all, and we also have a monster here who is as good at data manipulation as you..."
"boom"
All the missiles launched went out of control at the same second.
They were performing dazzling Brownian motion in the air, and as Emma watched, they were like a group of dancing snakes, bombarding the junction of the lower town and the central area of the Free Citizen City.
In the violent explosion, the seven executor teams of the Eternal Life Society, a total of 210 executor robots, were instantly wiped out.
"Siegfried..."
Emma pronounced the name.
A faint smile appeared on that calm face at that moment. She touched her chest and said:
"Even though you've been dead for almost four years, are you still lecturing me in this way, teacher?"
"Click"
Emma's body began to deform rapidly when her fingers left her heart. When the bionic materials of her entire body popped open, the various strange modules hidden beneath her body began to operate.
With a dazzling yet strangely rule-following change, her body changed into another posture within a second.
A steel monster like the one Juno saw when he last entered the city.
Her lower body was made to be like a basilisk, coiled up like a real steel snake, and her upper body, which was also transformed into a streamlined metal shell, was suspended in the air.
The snake body seen before was five meters long, but this time the transformation extended into an even more terrifying snake body that was at least fifteen meters long.
It seems that after the last battle, Emma transformed her body again.
The shield-shaped mechanical shell that looks like snake scales keeps moving, making this more majestic and evil mechanical body look more industrial and has a unique sense of precision.
On Emma's upper body protected by a streamlined metal shell, the previous six spider-like robotic arms were increased to twelve, with different lengths coordinated to form a harmonious whole.
There was another blue energy stream, extending and connecting between the mechanical arms, like a pair of very high-tech wings. The front end of each spider leg was as sharp as Juno's memory before, and was equipped with more rotating laser emitters.
The biggest change is the face.
The last time Juno saw this mechanical body, Emma still retained her human cheeks, looking like a metallic serpent.
But this time…
That’s all.
There was no longer a cold human face on the metal body, but instead a chilling metal head, shaped like a real snake head with the precision of a mechanical creation.
Not Emma's cheek.
This turned the beautiful snake, which originally had a bit of strange beauty, into a completely weird monster with a snake head, a human body and a snake tail.
While it is full of incredible futuristic technology, it also gives people an extremely creepy feeling.
Its arms moved.
Four rotating energy cannons extended from each arm, and the turbines in them began to accelerate.
Juno and Tokamak were ready for battle, and Emma, who had completely transformed into a mechanical monster, opened fire at them amid the mechanically simulated snake sounds.
but……
"Bang"
The energy beam that was stimulated at the maximum energy level was blocked tightly by a huge creature that tore the ground apart from underground.
Under the astonished gaze of Juno and Tokamak, a giant strange snake with a yellowish-brown color, covered with scales, two pairs of strange wings, and mysterious runes floating on its body, swayed its body and continuously spit out its tongue at Emma.
The big lazy snake spirit that was controlling the Ming Snake puppet had a puzzled look in its cold gray eyes. It seemed to be curious about why this fellow snake had such a strange appearance.
"Stupid snake!"
The next moment, Lao Jiang appeared above the Ming Snake puppet. He stomped hard on his puppet's head and cursed:
"She just looks like a snake, but she's not a snake demon like you. Don't treat her as one of your kind. Go! Knock her over!"
"Hiss, hiss, hiss"
The Ming Snake puppet spit out its tongue like a real living creature, and moved its huge body around, charging towards Emma fiercely, under the observation of the mechanical snake demon's cold eyes.
After the lifeless snake in front of her joined the battle, her chance of winning dropped rapidly, and finally, as the numbers jumped, it smoothly returned to a glaring 0.
"hehe"
The snake demon let out a low laugh.
Behind the mechanical body, six high-energy thrusters activated simultaneously, pushing her at a speed exceeding three times the speed of sound, and slammed into the puppet in front of her.
I’m dead, today…
Emma's life of evil deeds will end today.
very nice……
