On the second floor of the Governor's Mansion, facing the small square, is a very spacious balcony. When events such as meetings and succession ceremonies are held, the city mayor or chief executive will stand on this balcony.
to accept congratulations from the public and records from the media.
It is now half past ten in the evening, the time when Yun Shou Jiucheng should have gradually fallen asleep. However, one deafening wave after another made the carved handrails of the balcony tremble slightly - "We want to see the chief officer.
!" "Chief Commander, are you okay?" "Find out the scum!"
Ayun stood behind the balcony door, with the floor-to-ceiling curtains covering his figure. He grabbed the thick curtain with one hand and looked at the dark crowd downstairs. The moonlight shone coldly on the balcony, reflecting the snow-white ground.
Somewhat dazzling.
Half of the boy's face was reflected in the moonlight, shining brightly white, while the other half was sunk in deep darkness. No matter which side, there was no expression at all.
"What did you tell them?"
He asked suddenly.
The black shadow paused not far behind the young man, seemingly a little surprised that the other party had discovered him. After a moment of silence, he sighed softly: "I just told the truth."
The young man turned around slightly and twisted the corner of his mouth. "The truth? Which part of the truth?"
"What does it matter?" Black Shadow persuaded softly, "Anyway, they all think they have mastered the whole truth."
"What on earth are you going to do?" Ayun asked through gritted teeth.
The dark figure raised his head and glanced at the slightly trembling curtains.
"I just want to help you." His voice remained unchanged and sounded sincere. "You didn't attack me...have you finally figured it out?"
The young man smiled coldly: "I didn't attack you because I couldn't attack you yet. If I could, you would have died slowly with Yun Qian."
The shadow sighed. "I just removed the constraints and burdens for you one by one. You will understand later."
"What on earth are you doing here?" Ayun's voice suddenly sounded sharp.
The black figure did not speak, but squatted down; with a "crash", something crossed the wooden floor and slid to the young man's feet.
Under the moonlight, as soon as Ayun saw its appearance clearly, his face was shocked; he raised his eyes in surprise and doubt, "You - what do you mean?"
"It doesn't mean anything, I told you, I'm just helping you." Shadow smiled, "Take it, even if you will try to attack me with it soon. But after this useless attempt, use it however you like.
It, it will serve you how."
The young man couldn't believe it - he held the palm-length black tablet tightly, and for a moment he began to doubt whether what he saw was the real thing. When he suddenly reacted, he realized that he had just
The black shadow had disappeared without a trace.
He gritted his back teeth tightly, glanced around, and quickly jumped his fingers on the tablet screen a few times, then held his breath and listened for a while. However, apart from the waves of shouting outside the house, there was no unusual sound in the governor's mansion.
Nope - the young man didn't sigh, nor was he disappointed. It was obvious that he had expected that the man would save him a trick.
He pursed his lips and straightened up.
Lin Sanjiu stood aside, quietly watching Ayun step onto the balcony.
Under the moonlight, the thin young man's shadow cast a long shadow on the snow-white floor tiles, all the way into the house, and finally melted into the darkness. The shouts outside the house stopped suddenly, and no one seemed to expect Ayun.
Just like that, he showed up. After the people's surprise lasted for a few seconds, a sharp female voice suddenly cried out: "Where is the Chief General? Where has the Chief General gone?"
This scream immediately caused a shouting that was more intense than before. For a while, various voices came and went, making it so noisy that no one could hear anything clearly.
The young man held the railing with one hand and the black tablet with the other. The bright pink around his eyes gradually faded into dark gray, and his lips looked bloodless under the moonlight. He looked at the people on the balcony quietly, without any trace of blood.
Make a sound.
"Please come out, Sir, to meet us!" There was a voice that quickly attracted echoes from the crowd; this sentence was repeated again and again, getting stronger and stronger, "Please come out, Sir, to meet us, and let us know who he is.
fine!"
"Why did you come out? Did you really do that?" In the corner near the balcony, someone yelled and cursed, and then a black shadow flew up - a bird that had just been taken off
The boot swiped past the young man's face and hit the balcony door with a thud, startling Lin Sanjiu.
Ayun's face was still calm. He looked around and walked to the corner of the balcony - hundreds of various ceremonies had been held on this balcony, and the broadcast and sound systems had long been set up for the various city mayors and chief officials.
alright.
"You respect Yun Qian very much."
The young man's words immediately spread throughout the square; the shouts of the people gradually died down, leaving only a few sparse noises.
"It's not that I don't understand you." Ayun sat on a chair in the corner and set up his legs on the railing. The young man looked at the small clip-type microphone at his fingertips and spoke softly, almost whispering,
It was as if he was just talking to himself.
"You... have also come from despair. Yun Qian has brought you hope. Your life is getting better and better... You don't have to do anything. No matter what you want, artificial intelligence will prepare it for you.
It's like going back to the golden age."
"Yes, so what!" a voice shouted. "This is all given by the Chief Commander!"
"How did the Golden Century end? Have you forgotten it so quickly?"
"The Commander-in-Chief is different! He is one of us!"
"So loyal." The young man Ayun smiled slightly, still not looking at the crowd under the balcony. "I am really touched. There is just one mishap: I killed him three hours ago. Although he is still alive today
Not completely dead, but that will happen sooner or later."
As soon as these words were spoken, the sound that erupted from the square could knock people back several steps - Lin Sanjiu was shocked and couldn't figure out why he would deliberately anger the people. She subconsciously rushed to the balcony and thought
Pulling A-Yun in before the angry mob hurt him; it wasn't until the moonlight fell on her that she suddenly remembered that she had long been disconnected from this world.
"Be quiet and look at what I'm holding." The young man stood up and shook the black tablet in his hand. He didn't care at all that the people closest to him were already grabbing the railing and climbing up; he just
He lowered his eyes and looked at his fingers, his expression even a little boring.
The angry people paused for a moment.
"That...that's..."
"Operator," the young man sat back in his chair, as if he was tired. "The operator of Yunshou Nine City's city defense system and artificial intelligence system."
As his voice spread to every corner, the square quickly became quiet. With a few bangs, the mob who tried to climb up fell back to the ground.
"I am also from Jiucheng. I am not unreasonable. Now you have two choices. One, you let me be your new commander-in-chief. Your life will not change, but no one is allowed in the future.
If anyone mentions the word Yunqian, I will throw him out of the city and feed the dogs if he violates the rules. Oh... Also, while he is not completely dead now, I hope you can carry him around the city and let everyone-
- Listen up, everyone needs to see with their own eyes what he looks like now."
There seemed to be no one who could speak in the square suddenly, and there was silence.
"The second option is that I kill to pay for my life. I take the initiative to commit suicide and set myself on fire. If you want to see it, you can come and see it. **** Tonight, right next to your beloved Commander-in-Chief."
Here, the young man paused. Everyone knew that he had not finished speaking. At this moment, everyone held their breath.
"...Take this operator with you."
Lin Sanjiu closed her eyes, turned around and walked out of the balcony.
She didn't need to look any further, she had already vaguely guessed it. She walked into the corridor and sat down on the steps.
Lin Sanjiu thought she would be intolerant and sympathetic - but after sitting quietly for a while, she found that her heart was blank and there was nothing. She just sat here, numbly waiting for something destined to happen.
It just happened.
Oh, it should be said that it has already happened - after all, this is just a memory reproduced by the data volume.
Somehow, she suddenly thought of Xue Qu and the girls in the Garden of Eden, then of the Lou brothers and sisters. Finally, she thought of Nuwa.
The noise outside the house was as vague as the waves, coming into the house one after another. Ayun said very few words, only a few words, but each sentence could stir up thousands of waves.
She held her chin and waited. The time seemed extremely long.
After an unknown amount of time, the boy's words clearly broke through the noise and reached Lin Sanjiu's ears. By some strange coincidence, she stood up and turned to look at the balcony.
"Although the people present are less than half of the population of Nine Cities, I'll just assume that. Then...according to the old rules, what should you say?"
There were sparse sounds outside the house one after another, chaotic and out of tune.
"What? You can't hear me clearly. Say it again."
Finally, those voices slowly gathered together and became a clear and rich shout. The uniform voices of thousands of people penetrated the air together and resounded through the night sky: "I wish the new commander good luck!"
The young man exhaled and turned off the microphone.
"When we went to war, we had the same congratulatory message... I really didn't want to put any thought into it." He said softly to himself, swiped his finger across the tablet, and then turned around and entered the room.
When the screams sounded, the dazzling white light also illuminated the governor's mansion. Lin Sanjiu narrowed her eyes due to the dazzling light. In the chaos, she could only vaguely see the black shadow of the boy.
He walked towards his direction in the white light - the white light lasted for five minutes, and when it finally dimmed, the world was silent.
The governor's mansion was completely dark.
Yunshou Jiucheng was also completely black.
Maybe the underground wires were also destroyed by the white light... Lin Sanjiu sat in the darkness, thinking silently.
Ayun died tonight, and only the puppet master survived.
The puppet master's footsteps stopped not far away, and then he pressed the handrail of the stairs with a snap. He slowly slid to the ground, silently. Lin Sanjiu listened to the sound behind him, and gently
Said: "I know you can't hear me...but I still want to say it."
"...I can probably guess what you want the gift bag for. You don't have to ask for the gift bag, because I know that person."
"His name is Gong Daichi."
"I can help you find him...I'm willing to do that."
There was silence behind her, and no response came from her. Of course, in this world, she was just a non-existent spectator, and the real puppet master probably didn't hear these words at all.
When she thought of this, she suddenly raised her head - slowly, bit by bit, she twisted her neck.
The young man's expressionless face met her incredible gaze. He had nothing in his hand, but it was this "nothing" that penetrated Lin Sanjiu's chest.
There was no blood flowing out, and it didn't even hurt much - everything around him quickly deformed, blossomed, and turned into countless color blocks, flying past his eyes; the boy also lost his body in all this, and finally connected.
The world has turned into nothingness together.
The world written by the data body collapsed, and all matter dissipated in an instant; when Lin Sanjiu felt her consciousness again, she had returned to the void.
Countless strands of white light spread out from around her, spreading endlessly in the void. Except for the white silk-like light, she could see nothing - including her own body.
"This is... the data flow management library?" She murmured to herself in her mind, "I... I'm back...?"
"I really didn't expect it." An idea appeared directly in her mind in the form of words: "When faced with a crisis-filled dilemma, your barrier is almost completely unbreakable. Instead, it is a period without any danger.
The replay of memories that have nothing to do with ourselves allows us to finally get what we want. Your humanity, whether good or bad, is a huge burden. Having said that, if you are willing, we can take care of it for you.
Delete this part."
"The puppet master...he..."
"After the convenience store ended, the two puppet masters you saw were all programmed by us."
Lin Sanjiu was stunned for a moment, as if she just realized what she was doing.
"You said you could delete my humanity-?"
"Yes. Thank you for the information. We have obtained it all."
