Chapter 598: The Life of Emma, the Disliked One (Part 2)
"Bang"
In the ruins of the Tower of Eternal Life where only the base remained, silver-grey and khaki-colored giant snakes violently collided with each other like demon kings fighting for supremacy.
Head to head, body to body.
After the fierce collision like two war hammers, Emma's metal snake head was completely shattered, and densely packed small parts flew out, looking terrible.
But in fact, she was just using this method of breaking to neutralize the brutal destructive power of the snake demon.
Looks miserable.
But the actual damage suffered is much smaller than we think.
The Ming Snake puppet was controlled by a giant lazy snake. This simple monster from Yandang Pond did not seem to want to bully others by taking advantage of its power, so it shrunk the puppet's body to the same length, thickness and shape as Emma.
Therefore, at the moment of the collision, the two strange snake monsters entangled with each other, trying to strangle each other.
This battle is unfair.
Because Mingshe has two helpers.
"boom"
Juno learned from the lesson of her last failure. This time she did not use any energy attack at all. Instead, she fought in close combat with Emma, holding an axe like a warrior, relying on the constantly flashing arcs of electricity to shuttle back and forth.
She has not been idle during this period.
After realizing her combat shortcomings, she took the time to invite close combat masters among the Redeemers to train her in combat.
Now, the way he swung the battle axe already had a hint of the boldness and arrogance of a body cultivator.
As for the Tokamak.
He manipulated the support armor he had designed specifically for this battle, constantly using small-scale piercing explosions to destroy the energy transmission module in Emma's metal body.
It looks like fishing.
But in fact, he was really fighting with his wisdom. Every seemingly random attack could effectively destroy a certain transformation module in Emma's body.
In terms of combat efficiency, he is several orders of magnitude stronger than Juno who is swinging an axe.
Of course, the reason this super-intelligent hero can fight so easily is also thanks to the super-powerful MT, Mingshe Puppet, which uses its own body to withstand the destructive power of Emma's mechanical body.
This scene fell into the eyes of Old Jiang who was watching from the sidelines, and Boss Jiang nodded in approval.
“Emma’s mechanical body must have been designed using the deformation principles of those mechanical life forms, but there is no alloy strong enough to build this body for her in the wasteland.
In other words, Emma's design uses metal that is far less durable than the scales of the Ming Snake, but after a reasonable combination, it can exert 200% of its combat effectiveness."
Boss Jiang stroked his chin like a real spectator on the battlefield, analyzing Emma's fighting ability in his own way.
He observed the mechanical snake demon's fighting style and the level of its constantly surging energy, and used a high-tech detector from the World of Eden to monitor the energy activities of the mechanical body in real time.
Five minutes later, Boss Jiang came to a conclusion that was more in line with the truth.
“Throwing Emma into the Bitter Wood Realm, it shouldn’t be a problem for her to slaughter half of the Xingluo Sea. Her combat power is in the upper middle class among the cultivators in the God Cultivation Realm.
The melee attack is quite powerful, and the destructive power can leave obvious scars on the body of the Ming Snake Puppet.
Not to mention the energy attack power, her energy utilization rate should be even higher than Juno's. It was only because the energy conversion ink talisman of the Ming Snake Puppet took effect that she decisively gave up the energy attack.
Well, such combat effectiveness is still limited by the material of the machine itself.
If she were given a body made of the kind of starlight iron that Rogue is using now, she could even fight Sanbao head-on. Of course, she would definitely be defeated.
But this also indirectly proves that the individual combat capability of the star raider civilization that the Eden people have been looking for is extremely strong.
I just don’t know , in the world of mechanical life, what level does the blueprint life of this mechanical body that Emma designed for herself belong to?
Wow, this is getting more and more curious.”
Thinking so and collecting data leisurely, Lao Jiang had no intention of stepping forward to help. He even put the War Spite he had taken out earlier back into the ring and continued to sleep.
Mainly, there is no need to participate.
According to the current battle situation, Emma's body will be shattered in ten minutes at most. If the Tokamak is more powerful and the energy transfer module is destroyed more thoroughly, the battle time may be further shortened.
Three against one is too much.
If I add more to it, it would be a bit unethical.
In this regard, Jiang still has to have some shame.
Besides, in the situation in the wasteland, once the battle with spiritual energy begins, the spiritual energy balance that Lao Jiang is maintaining now will be quickly broken. He doesn't want to experience the painful feeling of having his spiritual energy snatched away by heaven and earth again.
Why bother yourself?
The most important thing is that Lao Jiang is not just an idle bystander.
He reached into his pocket and pulled out an external access device for entering the paradise space, and inserted it into the card slot above his left ear with a click.
Although the chip in his brain had been replaced with the Eden people's high-tech chip, this gradual change in technology must follow the rules of technological development.
Advanced things must be backward compatible.
Therefore, Lao Jiang’s chip can still send Lao Jiang’s consciousness into the entertainment world of the wastelanders through this plug-in access device.
On this dangerous battlefield, a white light flashed before Lao Jiang's eyes, and after a few seconds, his consciousness was sent into the paradise space.
This space transmits consciousness according to the coordinates of the user's location in the material world.
Therefore, when Lao Jiang entered the space, he was also in front of the Tower of Immortality in the Free Citizen City in the Paradise Space. However, because the material world was at war, serious data interference also occurred in the same location in the Paradise Space.
The originally beautiful and unrecognizable paradise world has now turned into a desolate pixel-like scene, like a world that has been violently destroyed from within.
Only a virtual broken shell remained, lying there like a dying beast, breathing its last breath with difficulty.
"There's a life-and-death struggle going on outside, but you're using part of your consciousness to slack off here... Is this really appropriate?"
Lao Jiang held a cigarette in his mouth in the virtual space.
He looked at the image of Emma standing under the ruins of the virtual immortal tower, looking at the tower scene that was collapsing in pixels, and said:
"I'm a little confused about you now, Ms. Emma. Do you want to commit suicide? Or are you setting a trap? Roger thinks you are a bad woman from the bottom of his heart.
He thinks you're a terrible elder.
But I have a different opinion on this. Of course you are a bad person, this is indisputable, but just because you are a bad person doesn't mean Lewis is a good person.
Perhaps at the end of your life, you would be willing to tell me some last words?"
Emma in Elysium did not have the strange posture of the steel snake demon in the material world. She maintained her human form and still wore the white researcher's robe.
But her soul was obviously encoded, and what was projected here was not her virtual consciousness, but the real her!
A part of her data soul that had yet to be encoded.
"You already have the key."
Emma replied in a gentle tone:
"You can go and see those secrets yourself. This is the agreement between Lewis and I. I will not reveal his secrets to others...
But what I can tell you is that the truth is not as complicated as you think.
I am a bad person.
Lewis was a good man, and everything he did after the apocalypse was to atone for his sins. I used my body to seduce him and deceive him.
I took advantage of his guilt and transformed myself into this person.
You don't have to think too much.
Lewis is dead. He never encoded his soul until his death. As he claimed and desired, he died as a pure human being.
He was proud of it.”
"Why?"
Lao Jiang frowned and asked:
“There must be a reason why we, as living beings, do things.
I'm very curious, why do you have to transform yourself into this? Not only do you want to achieve the transformation of mechanical life in your body, but you also want to transform yourself into a data stream in your soul.
What exactly do you want to do?
"revenge!"
Emma answered with two cold words. She said:
"Take revenge on them...
But humans have their limits. As outsiders, humans cannot defeat gods. If you want to fulfill your dream of killing gods, you have to invite demons to do it for you. I just turned myself into a demon.
The nuclear war fifty-seven years ago took away everything from me. Before that night, I had my family, my friends, and my lover.
After that night, I had nothing.
After going through all this, don't I have the right to take revenge on them?
You may be angry that I chose to sacrifice the entire Free Citizen City for selfish revenge, but I can tell you that there is nothing to be angry about.
Do you really care if I take the souls of the wastelanders?
Why should you care?
Anyway, these living people who are barely surviving are not really using it..."
In the rapidly collapsing paradise, Emma paused, turned around, and revealed her true soul.
Frankly, it's scary.
It was as if her soul form was cut in half.
The left side still maintains the human form, but the right side is like a cold and gloomy silver-gray skeleton, which means that even now, Emma has not completed the encoding of her soul.
Perhaps Lewis, who coded her soul, did not complete it on purpose.
Lewis's ability to create a complete individual like Ziggy before his death means that he has mastered the ability of soul coding, but he has not done it for Emma.
"He's trying to save me."
Emma, who looked like a two-faced ghost, sighed and said softly:
"I just don't want to gamble everything I have on a revenge that is doomed to fail. That old man is so gentle, even though I told him clearly that I would kill him if he didn't complete the code for me.
That day…
The day I launched the rebellion, he actually knew that he was going to die, but he was still there waiting for me.
When I shot a bullet through his heart, he left with a smile of relief.
You know what’s the worst?”
The leader of the Eternal Life Society closed her eyes. She was silent for a few seconds and said:
"I always thought I was avenging myself against the villains for what I had lost. But it wasn't until I killed him myself in anger and frustration that I realized...
Alas, I am a heinous person.
I am a damned person.
He shouldn't have saved me back then...Rogge, stop hiding. I built this space with my own hands. I know where you are. Come out."
Emma called out, and under Lao Jiang's silent gaze, Rogge walked out from behind a collapsed pixel block.
He looked at Emma with a complicated look.
The latter looked calm.
She opened her arms and used data streams to shape a classic revolver in front of Roger's eyes, which was exactly the shape of the gun she used to kill Lewis.
She said:
"Come, kill me and avenge your grandfather."
Black Fox was not polite either. He grabbed the digitized revolver in front of him, strode forward, and put the muzzle of the gun against Emma's forehead.
At the moment of pulling the trigger, Rogge asked:
“When I was little, every time you hugged me, you would say that you hoped I was your and my grandfather’s true bloodline… Were you lying to me, or did you really think so?
This is my final question for you, Emma.
Were you using my grandfather the whole time, or did you really...want to be with him?"
"What's the point?"
Emma asked:
“Will the answer make you more gentle when you pull the trigger?”
"No, I will definitely kill you."
Roger took a deep breath and said:
"But your answer will determine what words I will carve on your tombstone...Emma or Grandma..."
"I'm using him!"
Emma replied:
"I was using him when I gave myself to him that night of preparation, and I knew I was using him every time I lay in bed with him, every time I fell asleep with his head on my chest, for many years afterwards.
Until the moment I killed him.
Sorry, Roger.
I ruined my life and yours with my own hands. I envy your grandmother who died in a nuclear war, even though I never saw her... Alas, if you were my grandson, you would have..."
"Bang"
Gunshots rang out and everything fell into silence.
The entire virtual world fell silent at this moment.
A sinful soul died.
An era has ended.
