Steampunk Era: Mad Abield
Chapter 1062: Section 670: Sudden Turn (5)_2

Chapter 1062: Section 670: Sudden Turn (5)_2

This girl doesn’t know that Malin is almost applauding her cleverness—look, this Meng family girl really can think and feel for others.

Of course, this girl wants an answer, but Malin cannot give her one: "Who knows, the great destruction lost countless things." Malin replied, while he noticed a stall by the roadside, where a woman was making baked dough with her family. If Malin remembered correctly, he had just seen her last night, back then she still had her charm, and the child she held was still in swaddling clothes. Now the child was already helping his mother with the family business.

I’m sorry, child, I couldn’t come sooner that night, nor could I save your father and the division on the city wall where he was stationed. But it’s really good to see you embracing life once again.

A sense of satisfaction brought joy to Malin’s heart, yet he was also full of doubt—the Thanan were said to value faith highly, so why could so many people in this city worship an unknown outsider, and what frightened Malin even more was... whether the spiritual energy throughout his body was inherent to him, or was it condensed from belief.

This is very important to Malin, because Malin... doesn’t believe in this kind of thing by nature.

From what it looks like now, it should be a spontaneous belief from the surviving citizens back then, but Mr. Meng said that Thanan people place great importance on faith. They would even systematically cut off the faith of True Lords with questionable alignments, forcing them to shift alliances or directly eliminate them after they weakened.

So, Malin wouldn’t believe that just one good deed made the Thanan people allow religious freedom in this city. As mentioned earlier, this city only believes in Malin alone... So, what’s going on here?

Thus Malin was very puzzled, what exactly were the Thanan doing? Malin was already puzzled about these powers he possessed, he used to think that such power in a mortal had long surpassed legendary status. Looking at it now, the artificial deity-making in this city could be considered quite successful, for Malin’s strength was evident.

But if part of Malin’s power came from belief, that would be unacceptable to him—he doesn’t want to become like the deities of this world, eventually restrained by rules and factions. Even if he were to become a deity, the kind of person he wants to become is like the Lord of Justice.

Because only then could he raise his fist and leave an unyielding angry statement on the face of the Goddess of Fate.

You brought me to this hopeless world just to make me a useless deity, so I could witness the end of humanity?

Screw you!

No matter who you are, regardless of your gender, even if you truly are a goddess, I swear I’ll break my vow just to smash your face!

I, Malin, don’t seek to rely on anyone my entire life! Nor will I become such a cowardly deity!

......

Sostak No.3 looked at the conference site separated by curtains on the port side. He had seen that so-called Lin Sage from afar before and instantly recognized it as a high-level cyborg: "A pathetic brain in a vat, I truly didn’t expect that stuff which could only be used as civilian AI in Westland would become like this in Thainan. So this is a Sage, no wonder the people on this land, despite having no power, still like this kind of existence, certainly, it’s a Sage who has abandoned all negative humanity... But is such a sacrifice worth it."

"This is why the people on this land have never been disappointing. In the past, no one was perfect, but these Thanan people created perfection themselves. No.3, you simply don’t understand it." Jason’s viewpoint was contrary to Sostak No.3, as he was browsing with interest in his memory bank: "It’s a bionic body, Thanan people have been researching this even before the Great Destruction, and now it seems really well done. Are there still people in their research institutes? Over eight thousand years, just how did they pass down their knowledge?"

"I suppose we’ll soon find out. They will come looking for us." Sostak No.3 said as he raised his head: "It’s very strange, starting from last night, there’s been a satellite above us, how much of the technology and knowledge from before the Great Destruction do Thanan’s upper echelons still retain?"

"So far, it seems much better than yours, funny thing is you people treat education like an industry, what else did you do other than raising a bunch of kids who only know how to shoplift? Look at Thanan, my friend, after the eight millennia since the Great Destruction, I dare to wager, that Sage’s bionic body must have been refurbished!" Jason said while standing with his hands on his hips.

"That’s just our EU’s unique situation!" Sostak No.3 shouted in anger.

"Oh come off it, your organization can’t even criticize the evils of capitalism, nor can it praise communism! And you have the face to talk about national conditions with me, does your rotten organization even count as a country? Did the United Kingdom come back after leaving at the start of the 21st century, it’s a joke, during the Union formation you guys only brought up the European Community again, what qualifications do you have to compare with us." If Malin were here, he had to admit Jason was indeed the king of verbal sparring, as his few words made Sostak No.3 furious.

But considering fighting on the boat might sink it, they both feared Malin would hang them, so the two AIs finally decided to go find Malin to argue it out.

So they went downstairs and noticed a checkpoint not far away. The two little things deliberated, activated the invisibility module, and started climbing the city wall—their optical camouflage could easily trick mortals but was hard to fool a Transcendent with extraordinary dynamic vision at a close range.

Thus, climbing the wall seemed safer.

But they didn’t know that at a nearby watchtower, two children were watching Sostak No.3 and Jason climbing the wall through binoculars and were laughing so hard they slumped to the ground.

Having laughed enough, when they climbed over the wall, one of the children finally laughed: "Bei Luo, did you see that, Westland’s AI is really broke, their bionic bodies are stiff and old, the operating system is a mess, but that Jason, as expected, is Mr. Zhang’s child. With a few words, he nearly drove Sostak No.3 mad, it’s a good thing they didn’t sink the ship at the port, seems our Mr. Malin is indeed quite capable."

"Yeah, speaking of which, Bixiu, both the No.3 and you are military AI, but his personality system is really problematic." The child called Bei Luo had long hair tied into a bunch at the nape.

His eyes were golden, one of the features used to differentiate people from bionic bodies before the Great Destruction. The kid he called Bixiu had short hair and shook his head: "No, it’s just his body’s performance let him down, he appeared on the scene later than me. In fact, in terms of personality systems, he should be superior to me, I don’t know what happened to him."

"Is that so? Anyway, let’s still follow them, after all, we can’t let them disrupt our observation this time, I’ve always wanted to know if in our decade-long deity-making endeavor, His Excellency Malin Gaiate will become what we expect." Bei Luo said while glancing at the report in his hand: "I hope he becomes like the Lord of Justice, only such an existence can lead us to resist the invasion of Chaos."

"Do you believe he will become like that?" Bixiu asked curiously.

"One must always have dreams, Bixiu, what if he becomes someone like the Lord of Justice, Master Wu? Maybe we could be saved." Bei Luo smiled as he reassured his companion.

"Really, but just thinking about the creations of our science possibly being saved by deities one day fills my heart with anxiety and unease. The world changed so fast when we were young, that we couldn’t help our creators, and now, while we have enough power, our astrologers say the end is approaching, Chaos is about to end us... Speaking of which, Bixiu looked at his friend: "Forget it, if we could be saved by deities, at least that means the world won’t be destroyed by Chaos... So, as long as there’s a sliver of possibility, I’ll always come to help you, Bei Luo."

"Thank you, Bixiu." Bei Luo smiled and nodded.

Then the AI named Bixiu stood up: "Let’s go, Bei Luo, there’s no time to lose."

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