Starting from the other world, I joined the chat group at the same time

"She's fine." Xia Lang interrupted 2B and looked at them quietly.

"The mission of the YoRHa unit is to protect humanity, but this is an order from your commander. And I don't need your protection right now. Follow my orders or your commander's orders. Make your choice."

"This……"

9S and 2B looked embarrassed, but they still stood up and left.

Human orders always exceed the commander's authority, so even though they were extremely worried, they still left the room and stood guard at the door.

9S, who was worried and curious at the same time, started searching for the language download package in his database after uploading the bunker information.

"Ancient Chinese... Ancient Chinese, found it!"

9S happily found the data package on the cloud network and downloaded it instantly. He then sent a copy of the data package to 2B.

"9S, this isn't a good idea..." 2B frowned slightly.

"What does it matter, 2B? We are doing this for the safety of the human adults." 9S said confidently.

"Besides, the human lord didn't refuse our protection, so even Commander White wouldn't say I crossed the line!"

On the other side, in the room, Xia Lang looked at the anxious twins with their heads down, and sighed.

"Help me remove this bandage first. Damn it, I'm not injured at all."

"Oh, okay!" Divara hurriedly stepped forward to remove the bandages that almost tied Xia Lang like a mummy. Xia Lang stretched his body, twisted his neck, looked at the twins and said faintly.

"Let's get straight to the point, Divara and Popola. There's no need to hide anything. I know about the collapse of the Gestalt and the fate of my kind."

Upon hearing this, the twins were struck by lightning. Although they had already made plans to confess to the human adult, they still felt a strong sense of panic and guilt when Xia Lang directly exposed the matter.

"Yes, it's all our fault! We are the ones who caused this." Popola and Divara held hands and said in tears.

"Humans should punish us for our mistakes. We..."

"Okay, the past is meaningless, and it wasn't your fault." Xia Lang waved his hand and said lightly.

"For us humans, things with different mind modules and bodies are other things, and the same is true for you. You are Popola and Divara, but not the two who caused the Gestalt Project to fail."

"You didn't make any mistakes. I don't even think that those two models of Divala and Popola were wrong. Anyway, you don't need to feel guilty anymore."

Xia Lang sat up with some difficulty, grabbed the white hands of Diwala and Bobola, and smiled at the twins' big rose-red eyes.

"I forgive you."

"I, I, I..." Divara stuttered and was unable to speak, but her face was already flushed with excitement, and tears began to flow from her eyes.

Bobo La's behavior was even more direct. She threw herself into Xia Lang's arms and began to cry loudly.

It's like a child who has done something wrong and feels guilty finally gets forgiven by his parents.

Xia Lang didn't say anything, but just gently stroked the heads of the two sisters. He might not be able to represent others, but at least for himself, he didn't think the twins had done anything wrong.

After a long while, the two sisters stood up from Xia Lang's arms in embarrassment. Although they lowered their heads and didn't speak, it was obvious that they no longer had the gloom and guilt they once had, longing for atonement.

Humans have forgiven them, and that's enough. Their mistakes have been forgiven, and now they have to protect the human in front of them at all costs!

This will be their only mission!

At this moment, Xia Lang turned his gaze to A2, who was sitting on the ground doing EMO alone. He walked over, grabbed A2's shoulders and helped her up. Looking at her lifeless eyes, he said softly:

"A2, you are free."

Volume 126: Xia Lang's Various Travels: Chapter 122 . [Neil] You are free

"......I, freedom?" A2 murmured

"The duties and missions that have troubled you have been lifted. You are no longer a defector, and you no longer need to bear any missions. From today on, you will be an independent individual, A2. Live for yourself."

Xia Lang looked into A2's eyes and said softly

He didn't want to restrict A2's existence. In fact... he didn't even want to restrict the mission of any artificial human in this world.

Humans were extinct, but in Xia Lang's opinion, this was almost all caused by humans themselves and was not worthy of sympathy. And even if two could be revived, were those humans really worth it?

When the Gestalt Project is implemented, it cannot be popularized to all mankind. It is a 'Noah's Ark' that only a very small number of people are qualified to sit on, and more humans will eventually become monsters with collapsed souls who were repeatedly killed by the protagonist Neil in the previous game.

Because the soulification technology called Gest alt is itself highly unstable, the so-called soulification of all mankind is actually the result of most people becoming the food of a few.

There is a loophole in the Gest alt technology, that is, after the soul is transformed, it is very likely to go to the soul collapse over time. If you want to stabilize the collapsed soul, you must extract magic from the souls of other Gest alts. That is why there is a saying that the poor can also transform into a soul and go to the new world.

In order to find this Gest alt, the government began to lure poor people into experiments, and the protagonist siblings of the previous game NieR, Neil and Yuna, were among the deceived sacrifices.

This Noah's Ark was not built under God's command, and those sitting on it were not the selfless Noah, but groups of unforgivable sinners who deserved to be destroyed in Gomorrah.

It was the greedy orders of these once powerful people that led to the destruction of their own world. It was their disregard for human ethics in using children as experimental subjects for their cruel punishment. It was their inhumane behavior in ignoring the will and everything of the replicas that ultimately led to their own destruction.

But in the end, they sent themselves to the ark that could lead to a new world, but let the vast majority of people they harmed become victims waiting to be destroyed or even worse, nutrients.

Xia Lang would not blame them. If it was for the sake of survival and for the continuation of civilization and heritage, despicable behavior was reasonable.

But he would never like these few people, let alone want to restore anything. The damned thing did all kinds of bad things but survived to the end? He hated this result the most.

This world is better without humans. Mechanical life forms and androids have begun to think and socialize on their own, perhaps slowly, but the future of this world is the dawn of their civilization.

Xia Lang once thought utilitarianally whether he should enslave all the artificial humans as the last human being, and even do whatever he wanted to them.

But forget it.

He will give the command to the artificial people to be free. If they want freedom, they can be free; if they want to serve, they can serve. The chains that bind the feet of the newborn chicks should be broken.

A2 stared at Xia Lang blankly, slowly lowered his head, and then made a sound of grievance and despair.

"What's the point? Even if I'm no longer being hunted, what's the purpose of staying alive?"

A2 is a puppet driven by revenge. She has lost her purpose and hope to live. When all her companions died tragically, she had nothing left.

Even if I was freed, what would that matter? Without a purpose to live, I was no different from a puppet or a corpse.

"Then go find it." Xia Lang grabbed A2's hand and placed it on his heart, looking at the stunned A2 and smiled.

"You are holding my heart. It is the beating heart of all of us humans. What do you think fills it? Besides our blood, it is also our dreams and desires."

"The world is very vast and very beautiful. There are many things that deserve our attention and care. A2, we are just like you. Humans also experience loss, sadness, and pain."

“I won’t say that every human being can get out of this, but we can get out of the valley of despair and loss and step onto another peak. It doesn’t matter if we fail. The meaning of life is only meaningful when you practice what you want in your heart.”

"The meaning of life..."

A2 whispered blankly. This word was too unfamiliar not only to her but to all androids.

"What do you know? My companions have already..." A2 suddenly said excitedly

"Didn't you hear me just now? All my kind are dead." Xia Lang interrupted A2 and said calmly.

"My compatriots who uploaded their souls into machines are now a distant past. I am a lone rare animal in this world. Even so, what does it matter?"

"You have endless life. In fact, compared to us, you androids have more motivation and time to experience new things. To this extent, I envy you."

Xia Lang was indeed not lying. Compared to the short-lived humans, aren't artificial humans with infinite life the ones who can experience all the beauty and touching moments in the world?

Xia Lang always thought that those who reiterated how tragic eternal life was were just whining without any reason.

Unless this eternal life is truly a tragic fate that cannot be ended by itself like a curse, then isn’t eternal life that can end at any time a wonderful gift?

Eternal life means eternal experiences, which means you have unlimited time to waste.

You can try anything that interests you as much as you want, and it doesn’t matter if you spend dozens or even hundreds of years on it.

Compared to this world, the learning and interest of life are so vague and scarce. If you think about it, infinite life is the basis for witnessing countless paintings.

A2 looked at Xia Lang, and her scattered gaze gradually became more focused. She bit her lips lightly, lowered her head, and said as if she was a little embarrassed.

"But...can you teach me what to do?"

A2 didn’t know what she should pursue. She might have gained freedom, but she still had a long way to go before she could become a traveler who had the leisure to appreciate and experience endless beautiful scenery.

The human in front of him was perhaps the only one who gave A2 a sense of intimacy. Not only because of his instinct as a human, A2 could tell that there was something more pure mixed in with this affection.

"Why not? From now on, you will be my bodyguard." Xia Lang said with a smile

"So, Ms. A2, how about we talk about salary?"

"Salary?" A2 tilted his head slightly and asked with some confusion.

"When we humans hire someone to work, we pay them a salary, which is generally defined as money, but here... you can ask for what you want."

Xia Lang thought for a moment and shrugged.

"Let's talk about it when you have what you want. We have plenty of time to look for it slowly, right? But before that, I still need to repair your body... and then put on some clothes."

Although A2's outfit looks hot, it is actually even hotter - after all, she is naked.

Realizing what Xia Lang meant, A2 actually felt shy, which was not the right feeling.

Perhaps with her freedom, something completely new was sprouting deep in her mind.

"Popoala, Diwara, your words."

"We don't need freedom." Popola said without hesitation

"Serving humanity is our mission, and protecting you is everything we have until our death!" Divara said firmly.

"Well... it's your freedom if you don't want to leave. I respect your choices."

Xia Lang patted their heads and smiled.

"In that case, I may need to trouble you to accompany me for the rest of the journey."

There is still some time before Xia Lang leaves this world, but he does not plan to leave immediately. He may even stay here for quite a long time.

After all, compared to his unexplored world, this place is obviously more suitable for him to grow. A world that has been fully explored, with superb technology and a side that fits him.

However, if you want to stay here for a long time, you have to deal with some troublesome problems.

First, there are the two independent mechanical consciousnesses, Adam and Eve, which were created by the collective will of the mechanical life forms in the forest area. Xia Lang did not intend to wipe them out directly, after all, they still had enough value.

They are not enemies of humans. They are the advanced collective consciousness born from mechanical life forms that are curious about humans.

And if he could win them over, Xia Lang would be more confident in dealing with his biggest enemy.

Mechanical life form collective will: N2

As for this BOSS, Xia Lang has no way to deal with it, because fundamentally speaking, it can even be said that the current YoRHa army was established to a large extent under the control of N2.

The collective consciousness of this mechanical life form has even planted its own backdoor in the androids' bunker, so that in the subsequent plot, a wave of logic virus from N2 can directly wipe out all the androids.

It's a hassle, and Xia Lang's ability has no effect on her at all, unless -

Unless he kills all the mechanical life forms on Earth, which is not impossible for him...

But no matter what, even if he has to take it one step at a time, he has to slowly deal with the various problems in this world, and then slowly develop himself with this world.

"Okay, you two stop eavesdropping and come in."

Xia Lang turned around and spoke to Fang Xin outside the door, and 2B and 9S walked in. 2B remained silent but clenched her fists, while 9S seemed to be hesitant to speak.

"Just ask if you have anything to say."

"Sir, I...I want to ask if what you just said is true..."

9S asked quietly.

He has not yet learned the secret that humans have become extinct. Perhaps the love-hate relationship between him and 2B did not last for many times. Xia Lang looked at him and said faintly.

"So what? If I tell you there's nothing on the moon, how will that change your future?"

"If, if everything is fake, then everything we've fought for is meaningless, isn't it?" 9S murmured in pain.

"First, as a human being, I am still alive. Second, even if I am not here, killing these mechanical life forms will also help you gain space for yourselves to survive." Xia Lang said calmly.

"Your commander believes that without humans, androids have no basis for existence, but isn't she still alive and well? It is foolish to put unnecessary shackles on your mind, so don't think so many questions."

"...Sir, don't you feel sad?"

2B, who had been silent all this time, suddenly spoke in a cold and quiet voice.

"Since the birth of the Earth, tens of millions of species have become extinct. Even the dinosaurs that ruled the Earth before humans met with destruction." Xia Lang shrugged.

"So why can't humans become extinct? Of course, the fact that I'm still alive means that my species is not extinct, but I won't put too much responsibility on myself."

"Sir, you really are..." 9S spent a long time thinking about the words but couldn't express the feeling Xia Lang gave him.

"Open-minded? Or heartless?" Xia Lang laughed.