Steampunk Era: Mad Abield
Chapter 1112: Section 693: Hope and Despair (Part One)

Chapter 1112: Section 693: Hope and Despair (Part One)

Sitting on the floor by the glass wall, Malin watched the virtual humanoids on the performance stage as they repeated the acts that were both familiar and somewhat distant to him, until the final song faded away, until the figures on stage separated, and as the moment to turn arrived, the machines forming them began to cease operations, and thus he and she disappeared.

Malin’s memories also vanished.

Malin sat there, unmoving for a long time, until he heard a slight noise, he turned, and met eyes with a curious four-legged different kind with six eyes staring at him. Malin smiled and reached out his hand, and after a moment of consideration, the different kind placed its chin in Malin’s hand like a pet.

"Sometimes I think, you all live more freely." Scratching the different kind’s chin, Malin analyzed the creature’s species and found it to be a mutated form of the gecko.

Indeed, they live more freely, only needing to follow their instincts to survive.

With this thought, Malin turned his head back: "Jason."

"Sir."

"Search the database, see if there’s ’Sakura Nagashi’ by Hikaru Utada."

"...Ah, I found it, starting to play now." As Jason spoke, Malin saw the silhouette appearing on the stage, a virtual humanoid walking out from the corner, microphone in hand.

"I’m really curious, in your era, were such awkward stories also popular works?" Bei Luo walked to Malin’s side, looking at the stage, somewhat curious.

"Because when I was young, aside from these, there wasn’t much else." Malin petted the different kind beside him, this big creature seemed to understand Malin’s prowess, since it couldn’t be a predator, it chose to be a pet.

As the song reached halfway, Malin sensed the different kind beside him fell into panic, while soothing it, he noticed a girl appearing beside him.

This girl, dressed in a simple long dress, was as familiar to Malin as ever, she sat beside Malin: "The lyrics are really nice."

"...Yes." Malin sighed and said.

Back then, it was also because of the lyrics that Malin grew fond of this song with a sense of nostalgia.

The young man and the girl sat here until the song ended, the girl beside Malin reached out her hand, while the big gecko tried hard to escape, yet powerlessly laid its head into the palm of the girl’s hand.

"Don’t worry, I won’t hurt you, I am Fate." The girl smiled and said.

However, someone disagreed, and the voice of Sostak No.3 sounded dissatisfied: "That’s not what was said in that chapel."

"That’s because you always had a mutated seed in your heart, you Sostak-type AIs are based on human brains, and are the most easily corrupted by Chaos." The girl said while petting the gecko’s big head.

"Nonsense, Jason is too!" Sostak No.3 looked at Jason.

"I’ve been modified by Engineer Zhang, injected with Nanomodification Fluid, my brain has already been transformed and uses a blessed shell." Jason said looking at Susu beside Malin: "Speaking of, you had so many mutation points on your body last time, why are they gone now?"

"Because I healed them," Susu’s answer made Malin turn his head, looking at the girl identical to his memories, ultimately he reached out and patted her head.

"Jason, choose another song for me." Malin leaned back his head to look at Jason.

"What other song? Much of the database here is already damaged, I hope the songs you want are still usable." Jason stood at the control panel and said.

"Cinema Paradiso, Paradise Cinema, for the Ennio Morricone and Dulce Pontes collaboration version." With that, Malin turned and smiled somewhat poignantly at Susu: "I’ve always thought, if nothing happened that day, we could have gone to the movies that night."

"Sorry, I just didn’t want to see that child get hit." The girl beside Malin apologized absentmindedly.

Malin didn’t mind, looking at the woman on stage, he sighed: "Fate separated you from me, yet you ultimately became part of Fate. Where is your other half now?"

"...Isn’t she already by your side?" The girl beside him smiled and asked in return.

Malin was stunned for a moment, then immediately thought of that poor child, reaching into the void to catch her, and held the tentacled girl in his arms.

The little thing was still asleep, completely oblivious to leaving her home.

"It really is you." In Malin’s eyes, this child held the purest soul, familiar to him, it was her, he had already seen her in that little room.

Malin held the child in his arms, at this moment, divinity leaked out uncontrollably from him.

The gecko that was already trembling chose to crawl at Malin’s feet.

A spider different kind pretending to be unnoticed in the corner dove through a hole in the corner at the fastest speed.

The Ghoul leader hesitating on the ceiling had no chance to enter the ventilation ducts anymore, its biological camouflage lost effect, igniting when it fell, leaving only ashes upon landing.

More and more Wraiths appeared here, but as soon as they emerged, they were purified by the divine realm.

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