Otherworld Advance Team
Chapter 925 - 918: General’s Love

Chapter 925: Chapter 918: General’s Love

"Love, fallen in love with!" Hearing this, everyone’s expressions grew even more shocked, eyes widened as they stared at Baiyue, whose burning gaze made her involuntarily lower her head and pull up the blanket, completely covering herself.

"Ah, it’s love again..." Cheng Ziang couldn’t help but shake his head, saying feelingly.

"Why do people always fall for the strangest things?" Hu Daoke asked, looking at him.

"Humans are a species that can become aroused by anything," Cheng Ziang shook his head, smiling as he spoke, "As the saying goes, companionship is the longest confession of love, perhaps the General and the robotic maid have spent so much time together that feelings developed between them."

"But she’s a robot..." Hu Daoke said in amazement.

"This sort of thing has already become quite common on Earth, haven’t you heard about it?" Cheng Ziang asked, looking at him.

"I’ve heard about it, but this is Otherworld, and it happened over a thousand years ago, it’s just unimaginable." Hu Daoke exclaimed.

"That’s exactly why this love is so grand," Cheng Ziang reflected with emotion.

"No, their love isn’t grand at all, it’s full of the stench of blood." Axia said coldly.

"Eh..." The two men looked at each other, wearing embarrassed expressions as they turned to look at her.

"Um, Aunt Axia is right," Luo’er gave a slight cough before explaining, "Neither of you have entered the main tomb chamber, so you don’t know the content of the murals. All I can say is, the General’s love was a disaster for the Snow Elves."

"Hmm, I agree with Luo’er’s view," Baiyue cautiously lowered the blanket upon realizing nobody was staring at her anymore, and then nodded seriously, "Actually, I want to tell a story about blood and love, wondering if you’d like to listen."

"Eh, once you started talking about this, I got excited, hurry up and tell it." Hu Daoke said eagerly, shuffling forward a few steps.

"Should I tell it?" Baiyue was taken aback for a moment, then looked toward Luo’er and asked timidly.

"Go on, just speak your mind," Luo’er nodded encouragingly.

"So," Baiyue coughed lightly, then pursed her lips slightly, hesitating before she said, "I must declare first, the following content is merely my personal opinion and does not represent an absolute objective fact."

"Come on, just get on with it, don’t dilly-dally, what’s the point of saying things like that among us?" Hu Daoke urged impatiently.

"What are you rushing for, go stand aside!" Cheng Ziang said discontentedly.

"Eh, what’s that supposed to mean, you want to hear too, yet you’re going off on me," Hu Daoke also said displeased.

"Alright, alright, if you two want to argue, take it outside and don’t interrupt our story listening!" Tangmo frowned, showing a rare display of her authority as an older sister.

Following her criticism, Tangmo turned to Baiyue, signaling her to continue. Noticing Tangmo’s gaze, Baiyue gave a slight nod, then cleared her throat and took a deep breath before beginning to speak.

"The love story between the General and the automaton should start with their encounter in the Snow Domain. I meticulously examined the mural on the right side, and wherever the automaton appears, the setting is almost always in the Snow Domain. This means the General most likely met the automaton after entering the Snow Domain," Baiyue said.

"Exactly how they met is now unknown to us, but what we do know is that the automaton ultimately became the person closest to the General, responsible for his daily life. The General might have found and activated the automaton, or, perhaps, the automaton could have saved the General’s life. In any case, after entering the Snow Domain, the General always had the automaton by his side, never parting from her."

"The General couldn’t possibly be ignorant of the automaton’s combat capabilities, yet he never sent her to the battlefield, evidently having his own reasons. I suspect that at the beginning, the General merely regarded the automaton as his personal bodyguard, her combat skills being sufficient to ensure that the General was safe from any assassination threats."

"In the mural, the automaton appears in the depiction of the General’s daily life. As a bodyguard, she was frequently with the General. Although she couldn’t say a word, she expressed her feelings through her actions. She took care of the General meticulously, transforming herself from a combat automaton into the image of a maid."

"The long military life was tense and monotonous; apart from the brief adrenaline rush on the battlefield, the General was plagued by loneliness most of the time. Such loneliness was not necessarily physical, but rather a psychological emptiness. He had to stay constantly alert, leading a strong legion and expanding the territory for His Majesty the Emperor."

"Initially, he paid no mind to the automaton’s company. However, the automaton never gave up being by his side despite his indifference. The General realized that whenever he felt lonely, the silent company was the automaton; when he felt vulnerable, it was the automaton by his side; and during tense moments, the silent presence was still the automaton. Eventually, he began to accept her. Although she couldn’t speak, her actions showed her heart, earning the General’s trust and dependence."

"It was uncertain whether the automaton possessed intelligence given our circumstances back then, but I believe she did. I could feel it, the fleeting tenderness in her eyes when she looked at the General."

"Thus the automaton gradually integrated into the General’s daily life and, eventually, into his heart. She might not have used words to express her feelings, but that did not affect the General’s reliance on her."

"Constant companionship is the most enduring confession of love. The military operations in the Snow Domain were long and dull, and the one who consistently soothed the General’s heart was the automaton. Perhaps from that moment on, the General no longer saw ’it’ as ’it,’ but as ’her,’ with the character for female beside it."

"And so, the General began to realize that he had fallen in love with her, with an automaton, an inanimate automaton. From that moment, he tried to feel her heartbeat, her body temperature. How he wished to truly be with her, but... some things, or perhaps most things in this world, don’t shift according to one’s will. An automaton remained an automaton, no matter how much the General hoped and prayed; it would never become a living person."

"For her, to truly be with the automaton, the General began trying all sorts of methods. Prayers, magic, anything he thought could turn the automaton into a real person."

"For the one in his heart, the General became mad and obsessive. He dressed his love in gorgeous garments, cut open the chests of living elves to retrieve their beating hearts, believing that if he installed a living heart into her, she would become real. But reality is cruel, no matter how hard he tried, he couldn’t change anything. Of course, the General’s bloodlust had nothing to do with love; he was simply pure cruelty."

"Perhaps there is a certain justice in the world, for in the end, maybe it was the Snow Elves, or perhaps those who could no longer tolerate him, who launched an attack. This executioner, with hands stained with countless lives, never accomplished his heart’s desire and fell on the soil of the Snow Domain. By the Emperor’s orders, his body was transported to the military tomb, while the automaton remained by the General’s side throughout. When she saw him lying forever in the cold casket, the automaton realized she could no longer feel his warmth, so she chose to accompany the General forever, guard him, until the end of time..."

"This is a tragic love story between an executioner and an automaton. Frankly speaking, the General’s actions do not merit praise. Yet, this love story is indeed very sad; it seems even villains meet their fate, and the General never had the chance to truly be with his beloved until his death..."

Having said this, Baiyue took a deep breath, then stopped. Everyone listened and couldn’t help but feel deeply moved.

"No wonder she attacked us so fiercely when we went in," Luo’er sighed.

"So if we go back in, the automaton will continue to attack us until she can no longer move, greeting her own end..." Tangmo shook her head.

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