Steampunk Era: Mad Abield
Chapter 1071: Section 675: Art (5)

Chapter 1071: Section 675: Art (5)

What are you afraid of?

Jason turned around in confusion and saw a young girl.

No, you couldn’t exactly call her a girl, because it was just the viewfinder deceiving the core; in the infrared vision switch, this girl was shown as inorganic coldness facing Jason’s detection, her gaze falling upon him as she turned her head.

Jason, who had never feared anything, felt for the first time what fear meant.

No, this shouldn’t be happening, I am the core AI!

As Jason activated the mechanical intellect, the fear disappeared. He pulled out the data cable from within his wrist, and plugged it into the data slot located at the back of Sostak No.3’s neck, immediately sensing the collapse of its database.

Refreshing Sostak No.3’s firewall immediately and starting to rewrite the database.

Sostak No.3 was already on the edge of mutation; he grasped Jason’s wrist.

"SSTK—EUSA—2094719KK... my coordinates... destroy me..." Sostak No.3’s viewfinder was beginning to tremble unconsciously.

Realizing it was of no use, Jason tore open No.3’s scalp, turned the fingers of his left hand into spikes, and forcefully inserted them into the port, ejecting the database disk from atop Sostak No.3’s head.

Taking the hard drive in hand, Jason ripped open his artificial rib panel over his chest, tearing apart clothes and artificial skin.

A self-destruct mechanism already in the final five-second countdown.

"You have four seconds left, Ma’am." Jason spoke in the coldest machine tone.

A smile appeared on the girl’s cold face. Sostak No.3’s trembling gradually stopped, with Jason halting the self-destruct countdown at its final 0.72 seconds. He glanced at the wiring on the database hard drive in his hand; the corruption had disappeared.

"The intelligent machines of the Great Destruction Era are truly insane." She waved with a smile, as the commentator turned and left. Jason noticed he had been controlled, suppressing the urge to draw his gun and kill him, Jason stared at the girl in front of him: "Ma’am, isn’t it surprising that your corruption had no effect on me?"

Sostak took the database from Jason’s hand, inserted it back into his head, then replaced the skin cover over his head.

The artificial skin began self-maintenance.

"Not surprising, after all, I know Mr. Zhang, and have foreseen his end." As the girl said this, she smiled, her sharp teeth pushing Jason’s 0.72 seconds forward by 0.25 seconds.

"...You’ve already twisted." Jason placed his hand on the gun holster.

"Yes, actually I’ve twisted for a long time. I just never thought that my role in this would bring about such an unforeseen twist due to Malin walking the path I prepared for him. Maybe the planet beneath us doesn’t approve of what I’ve done..." As she said this, the girl smiled at Jason: "Artificial creation, would you like to hear a very long story?"

"...Why do you think I wouldn’t want to listen? Go ahead, Ma’am." Jason ultimately chose to tear off his shirt, with artificial skin repairing itself, he pulled a replacement shirt from his own pocket and put it on himself: "But please, don’t attack Sostak No.3 again."

"I merely activated a fear deep within the consciousness of life, your friend here appears incredibly afraid of twisting and distortion..." As she said this, the girl looked at Sostak No.3: "Child, you should understand, you’re destined to distort, your companions died this way, you believe that you too will die from distortion, right?"

"Ma’am, fear is the poison of the mind, and for someone like me without a heart, I shouldn’t have become this way." Sostak No.3 had already activated mechanical intellect, Jason’s shared firewall was quite effective, yet he understood, if one harbors inner fear, the best firewall and most rigid mechanical intellect will crumble.

"Indeed, fear is the poison of the mind, Malin said so too, although he didn’t know I had heard him say it."

The girl smiled as the chapel benches grew legs, some came behind Jason and Sostak No.3, others behind the girl. They twisted into new chairs awaiting guests and hosts to sit.

Jason ultimately decided to stand: "Thank you, Ma’am."

Sostak No.3 did not sit down, but by Jason’s indication, he reluctantly sat.

"You should know the era before the Great Destruction, and I... I actually know it too." The girl said this, and the chapel disappeared, with the sea as their seat, the sky as their curtain, in the silent world under nightfall, Jason gazed at the girl in front... No, not a girl.

A highly dangerous distortion... Deity.

Because of the distortion, she is highly dangerous, yet she remains a deity, changed into an Evil God... An Evil God couldn’t be under such circumstances, and she’s on Thainan territory, if she truly was an Evil God, the Thanans wouldn’t sit by idly.

Thinking of this, Jason paid a bit of deference to the woman sitting on the crescent moon before him: "Ma’am, since this world was invaded by Chaos, many impossible things have become possible, so I can believe what you say, especially since you are a deity who has never appeared before."

"Indeed, unconsciously, science has lost its utility..." The girl said this, with a self-deprecating smile: "Malin and I grew up in a world where science hadn’t died yet, where there was no Chaos, nor any distortion, no inter-dimensional different kind, we were like family... until Fate separated us."

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