Alice in the Land of Steam

Chapter 49: Can Alice defeat the powerful enemy?

"Bats are nocturnal creatures, so their eyesight is very poor during the day. This should be normal." Alice quickly came to a conclusion that seemed logically consistent to her.

Metien said weakly: "But we are very close to her."

When the distance was the closest, one could even clearly see the tiny hairs on the black bat wings. To be able to see nothing at such a close distance was not just a matter of poor eyesight, but a complete lack of eyesight.

Besides, even if she couldn't see, couldn't she hear or smell?
Alice couldn't explain it. After thinking for a while, she shook her head and said, "Why bother with so much? Anyway, we are safe now. Let's leave quickly to prevent that guy from catching up with us again."

She continued to mutter, "I've already told you she's not a good person. I didn't expect she's actually an evil vampire. I must report her to the police and have them check her gas meter!"

Metien ignored her and looked at his brother's wound with worried eyes: "Lingge, are you okay? Let me help you take care of the wound?"

As a prospective pharmacist who dreams of obtaining a pharmacist qualification certificate, she always carries various simple medicines for injuries in case of emergency.

"no need."

But Linger did not agree. He just took the handkerchief from Metien, wrapped it around the wound and tied a knot. After a simple bandage, he said to the two of them, "We don't have that much time. Alice is right. We must hurry up and leave here..."

The thread was messed up and led to the wrong fate... So just now, Fialli turned a blind eye to the enemy that was so close to her?

The girl slowly lowered her eyes to the bandage on Ling'er's left leg and said softly, "You are injured. The vampires are most sensitive to the smell of blood, so no matter where you run, she will chase you."

Suddenly, a clear and ethereal voice was heard, like the sound of a spring breaking the silence of the moonlight, and also adding some brightness to the narrow and dark alley.

Lingge frowned slightly and soon realized that the "she" the girl was referring to was Fialli.

Linger took a step forward, standing in front of Metien and Alice, and stared quietly in the direction where the sound came from. Then, a slender and weak figure came out from the corner. Her appearance seemed to bring light to this dark world, and also made the two girls behind Linger exclaim in amazement.

She has verdant green hair and golden eyes, and her gaze is like a deserted lake deep in the woods, hiding an ancient secret. She wears a simple and clean white skirt, and holds a bent wooden stick with a bell tied to it in her left hand. Her smooth calves are exposed under the fluttering hem of her skirt, and her feet are barefoot and not stained with dust. She walks on earth more like white clouds walking in the sky, noble and tranquil.

She looked at Lingge, and Lingge looked at her. Each other's faces were reflected in their eyes. They had the same distant expressions as if they were meeting for the first time, but there was also a sense of familiarity as if they were in a dream, as if they had looked at each other like this at some point in their lives.

All the seemingly plausible premonitions I had over the past two weeks were now confirmed.

"In that case," Linger also said, "Metien, Alice, you follow her and leave. I will find a way to lure the vampire away."

So this is fate.

The girl spoke softly, her voice seemed to ring directly in Ling'er's mind, as clear as spring water: "I messed up her strings and led her to the wrong fate. But this is only a temporary measure, and soon she will get back on track and follow her scent to find your traces."

"So beautiful..." Metien murmured.

"There's no escape."

Alice and Metien were both startled. They didn't expect there were other people here. Only Linger's expression remained calm, but it was not because he was calm enough, but because he suddenly realized that this person would find him sooner or later, even if not today, then one day in the future. Since something is destined to happen, it is not so necessary to draw a clear boundary for it.

Time goes around in circles in this world, but in just two weeks everything returns to where it started. That’s why the goddess said that all encounters in the world are destined.

In her right hand, she held a grey rope, the end of which was tied to the neck of a lamb that was only three or four months old. Its soft and fluffy wool was like the snow piled up on the mountains. At this moment, it was wandering around the girl's feet, bleating, and seemed to be very dissatisfied with the dark and humid environment it was in.

"Looks so familiar?" Alice tilted her head.

What a magical power.

"I do not want!"

Metien rejected the plan without a second thought: "I can't leave you alone, Lingge!"

Alice was confused. She didn't expect to see the plot of "Don't worry about me, go first" in another world. The following "I can't leave you alone" was a classic answer. If the identities of these two people were switched, they would not be brother and sister but... Bah, what are you thinking? Now is not the time to think about it!
She spoke before Ling Ge did, and asked the familiar-looking girl opposite her: "Is there no other way?" The girl nodded: "Yes."

"Really?" Alice and Metien were both delighted and asked in unison, "What's the solution?"

"Defeat her."

The girl said in a calm tone.

Alice was at a loss all of a sudden: "I think this is indeed a good idea, but the question is how to defeat her?"

"I don't know." The girl shook her head and continued, "But the power to defeat her is indeed hidden in you. It is the singularity that distorts fate, the key to possibility, and the 'line' that leads me here."

"If it were you, you would be able to find it."

The girl said this and stopped talking. She stared at Alice quietly with her golden eyes, as if waiting for her choice - or rather, waiting for her realization.

Linger and Metien also set their sights on Alice, watching her scratching her head and muttering to herself: "Is it the power hidden in me? How come I don't know it myself? Is it my beauty? My wisdom? Or my gaming experience as a genius player?"

After struggling and worrying for half a minute, she suddenly grabbed her hair and said, "I can't figure it out. It's so annoying!"

Then, without saying a word, he pulled off the game console and cartridge storage box hanging on his leather belt, and said to the mysterious girl in a serious tone: "If there is any power hidden in me, it may be this game console. The only problem is that the cartridge is not activated, so I can't use it!"

If it could be used, would Alice have fallen to this point?

I stayed up all night to finish this crappy game last night!
"Cassette?"

The girl didn't quite understand this unfamiliar term.

Alice took out the "First Fantasy" cassette from the storage box. It was a long silver-white mechanical strip with a metal connector at the end. She said, "Here, this is it. It contains the game I made myself. The plot has revealed the conspiracy of the vampires. I have been reminding Ling Ge these days, but he didn't listen to me..."

Ling's eye twitched.

The girl held out her hand to Alice: "Can I see it?"

Alice did not agree immediately, but looked at Linger first, as if asking for his opinion. As for why she asked for Linger's opinion, she herself did not know, but she felt that Linger seemed to know the mysterious girl in front of him, or at least had met her.

He was willing to believe what the other person said, and he was willing to believe it himself.

Lingge nodded silently to show his agreement, and Alice handed the cassette to him.

However, as soon as the girl's slender fingers touched the cassette, unexpected changes occurred.

It seemed as if a ray of light flowed from the girl's body, along her fingertips, into the inside of the cassette, coating it with a layer of bright luster. Clearly, there was no change in appearance, but this cassette did give people the feeling of... awakening?

Immediately afterwards, the SLP game console in Alice's hand also made a buzzing sound, and a faint blue light wandered over the lines on the surface of the silver-white cube, outlining the letters G and I. Immediately afterwards, a cold, mechanical girl's voice rang in everyone's ears:

Confirm: Data Is Being Entering

Start: ID Verification Mechanism

The ID Verification Was Passed

New Cassette Is Activating

　Give me some meow, by the way, the English narration here is the belt narration of neta Kamen Rider

　　
　
(End of this chapter)