Free Web NovelLynn held Zuo Zuo’s hand and dashed forward, his gaze alertly scanning through the blood mist.
Because the God of All Machines had appeared, his earlier guess was now confirmed: the Colossus’s Brain was indiscriminately dragging any living creatures that could be covered by the Red Light into that deep-space pocket.
And if that was the case.
Then those mechanical consciousnesses trapped by the Flesh Plague in the tide might also have been pulled into this bizarre place.
And if that was the case.
This space would be extremely lively.
Without hesitation, Lynn gripped Zuo Zuo’s small hand and stepped over a small ash-covered mound.
But the instant his foot landed, he immediately felt an intensely familiar crimson ripple, spreading like concentric waves along the ground toward him.
“Not good!”
Lynn jolted, reacting swiftly. He pulled hard and, with Zuo Zuo, leaped up at once, narrowly avoiding the terrifying crimson ripple at his feet.
Almost at the same moment he dodged, a furious, familiar shriek erupted from within the blood mist in the distance.
“Da…damn you♡—!!”
Lynn landed lightly, his expression instantly startled.
Why did that voice sound so familiar?
Especially when it let out that sudden “♡” in a loud burst, it inexplicably brought him back to the good old days of bullying that Mechanical Girl in the underground!
“Could it be…?”
Lynn hesitated, then crept forward like a leopard.
At that instant, his eyes caught a silver figure stumbling out of the blood mist: a streamlined body brandishing a Monomolecular Blade, eyes full of flustered panic.
If it wasn’t the Mechanical Girl, then who else could it be?
Lynn grinned inwardly.
Just as he had guessed.
Truly, fate works in funny ways: you can trip on cold water, take a left turn and run into your homeroom teacher, and even in this damned place, he would run into that Mechanical Girl again.
Just as Lynn was about to stride over and give her a hearty, polite greeting—
Suddenly.
He saw, emerging from the same patch of blood mist that the Silver Fantasy had just burst out of, a young man dressed in Plague Doctor attire, looking like Death, shouldering a red giant scythe. He was chasing after the Mechanical Girl and leaped out of the mist in an instant.
Lynn was stunned.
Because that absurdly handsome young man looked exactly like him, even down to the clothing style—perfectly replicating Lynn’s earlier look.
Clearly the kind of appearance that would make any normal girl take a second look.
Which meant…
Having taken that extra look, Lynn watched as the young man who looked identical to him landed, his gaze hollow. Mirroring Lynn’s own starting pose, he suddenly clenched his fist and slammed it heavily into the ground.
Boom—
[ Ding! Silver Fantasy's Lewdness +5 ]
[ Ding! Lynn's Lewdness +8 ]
[ Ding! Zuo Zuo's Lewdness +10 ]
“Ah—what the hell!”
Those three bizarre notifications instantly made the silent area extremely weird.
After taking that pirated M Fist, Silver Fantasy gritted her teeth and exploded forward, teleporting straight in front of the “Lynn” and slashing diagonally downward from neck to lower chest.
Screech—
A tremendous sound.
Silver Fantasy landed angrily, while the young man who looked just like Lynn was split cleanly in two, blood and entrails spilling everywhere, and his dark heart rolled out with a wet thud.
Seeing this, Lynn immediately understood: this Lynn-lookalike was definitely a nightmare projection similar to the Colossus’s cyber projection he had seen earlier.
As for why a projection of himself would suddenly show up here…
Lynn glanced oddly toward the Mechanical Girl in the distance.
“Tsk tsk! No way!”
A strangely peculiar smile flashed across Lynn’s face.
No way!
Could it really be what he suspected?
Has the cold, powerful Miss Intelligence Machine grown to fear him the most in her heart now?
Is she recalling the fear of once being controlled by him?!
“Ha ha ha hic!”
Lynn happily pushed his Monocle up a few more times, and at that moment the Silver Fantasy—her body glinting with a dazzling halo—turned sharply. Her killing gaze landed on Lynn, scanning him from head to toe in an instant.
Almost without hesitation, she coldly lunged at Lynn.
“Wait!”
Lynn instinctively extended his hand and, seriously and solemnly pinching his glasses, said:
“Miss Intelligence Machine, look carefully—it's really me, not an impostor. After all, we used to be teammates, so don’t get violent!”
But Silver Fantasy’s advance didn’t slow; from afar her teeth-gnashing voice carried.
“I kill teammates!”
The moment her words sounded, the System alerted in Lynn’s ear.
[ Ding! Detected Silver Fantasy’s direct killing intent toward you has reached the threshold. The mutual nonaggression Contract has been triggered. ]
Hum—
Almost at the same time, under the Contract’s effect, a sharp pain erupted within Silver Fantasy’s rushing consciousness, instantly reducing her speed and making her tremble all over.
Clearly, compared to Lynn, Silver Fantasy’s tolerance for pain had a slight disadvantage.
Lynn immediately recognized that this was the Contract the God of All Machines and Sir Aiwen had placed on them to force cooperation.
He had almost treated that Contract like his own M activator.
“I almost forgot, the two of us can’t show each other too much killing intent, or it’ll hurt a lot!”
Lynn smiled faintly, grabbed Zuo Zuo’s hand, and leaped up.
“But I don’t have time to play with you now. Fate will bring us together again—bye!”
Without hesitation, Lynn seized the chance and launched a genuine M Fist at the ground.
Boom—
A crimson fist-intent, far stronger than the fake one earlier, rippled out like water waves and instantly engulfed Silver Fantasy.
“Despicable—!!”
With that intelligent shout, Lynn smiled, and with Zuo Zuo in tow he moved forward through the blood mist without looking back.
