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Those ordinary yet precious days were now playing like slides in Catherine's mind. She just felt like something was blocking her chest, making it difficult for her to breathe.
"Why? Why? Why did you invade her body! Why did you let her die like this!" Catherine murmured to herself.
She was asking the puppet, the other Catherine, and herself.
"Bang!" A crisp sound came from her feet. Catherine looked down and saw that the glass bottle that Yujin gave her fell from her pocket and rolled back to her feet.
Catherine's eyes suddenly lit up, "Yes! They are afraid! They are afraid of Mr. Embers!"
She grasped at some life-saving straw, picked up the glass bottle on the ground, and ran out of the front desk of the Adventurer's Association like a flash.
"Sister Lan, I need a leave. Can you take over my shift?" Catherine's urgent voice came, and everyone realized that Catherine had disappeared.
This was Catherine's first time walking on the streets of Liyue during working hours. There were many people and many strange things, but she paid no attention to them.
As if guided by some unknown force, Catherine kept running along the street. Even when someone greeted her, she rarely responded.
Finally, Catherine saw Yu Jin listening to a book with Zhong Li at the end of the street.
"Oh? It seems like she's looking for you?" Zhongli looked at Catherine running over in a hurry and asked Yujin who was sitting nearby and peeling melon seeds.
"Haha, can I help you with something?" Yu Jin stopped and put the melon seeds on Zhongli's plate. He looked at the panting Catherine and asked with a smile.
"Please... please save her!" Catherine said anxiously, covering her chest.
"I've been waiting for you to say that!" Yu Jin laughed, stood up immediately, and disappeared in an instant.
"Please sit down, Miss Catherine. With him taking action, there shouldn't be any major mistakes." Zhongli stood up and helped Catherine up.
Then he looked at the melon seeds on his plate and Catherine sitting opposite him and fell into deep thought.
I wonder if Miss Catherine has any money with her?
Chapter 95 Catherine's Transformation Plan
2023-08-28
Yaoguang Beach is located east of Guili Plain. It is a rare large shallow beach in Liyue. Although it is a rare beauty, not many people come here.
This is because there are not many special products in this place, and few people come here. Compared with humans, monsters are more suitable for this area.
Catherine walked on the beach, most of her parts were burned. She was able to retain a trace of consciousness, thanks to the puppet's manipulation of her body yesterday, which allowed her to live a little longer.
However, the goodwill of the executive officer is not so easy to accept. The puppet did this just to avoid any criticism.
As long as Catherine herself was damaged by an "accident", the embers could not be blamed on her.
"Self-destruct..." Catherine repeated the last order given to her by the puppet, and walked step by step towards the ruins guard in the distance.
The closer Catherine got to the ruins guard, the slower her steps became. She didn't want to destroy it, but she couldn't find a reason to resist the order.
Dolls were originally created to obey.
Even though Catherine walked slowly, she did not stop. The ruins guard was not far away from her, and eventually, the ruins guard detected her.
"&＃$..." After a burst of mechanical sound, the ruins guards in the distance launched several missiles.
"Ruin Guard? So this is what it looks like." Catherine, who was produced to handle adventurer affairs, saw for the first time what the Ruin Guard really looked like.
Catherine raised her head stiffly. This was the first time she took the initiative to walk so far away. She wanted to see what those things she had only heard of looked like.
"Woo——" The air whistled, Catherine closed her eyes, quietly waiting for her death.
"Boom!" An explosion sounded, and Catherine only felt some hot wind blowing. The expected scene of herself being blown away did not happen.
Catherine opened her eyes and found a figure not far in front of her.
"It's not good to wait for death, Miss Catherine." The figure of Yu Jin flashed, and the ruins guard in the distance fell into a pile of parts.
Yu Jin put away the parts and walked up to the surprised Catherine.
"The black smoke you emit can be used to smoke bacon." Yu Jin complained when he saw black smoke continuously coming out of Catherine's head and joints.
Catherine looked at the embers, not knowing whether she should be disappointed or happy. However, thinking of her own situation, she spoke word by word:
"Mr. Ember..., you...actually don't have to come. I...will...be damaged."
Catherine's voice was not only intermittent, but also hoarse and unclear. If you didn't listen carefully, no one would associate it with Catherine's voice.
Most of her clothes were burned due to the high temperature inside, and her exposed skin was covered with scars.
Organic oil continued to flow out of her wounds, and because of the high temperature that could not be dissipated, it evaporated, emitting waves of pungent and strange smells.
Not only that, arcs of electricity flashed and jumped on Catherine's body from time to time, leaving patches of her body charred.
What was even more terrifying was Catherine's legs. Due to the long journey and the half-destruction of her body, there was no trace of any human being below her ankles.
The steel and wires were directly exposed on the wet beach. It seemed that for an ordinary doll like her to reach Yaoguang Beach so quickly, the price she paid was not small.
"A puppet and a rich man? It seems they have lived long enough." Yu Jin sighed when he saw Catherine's miserable condition.
With just the puppets, Yu Jin felt that things would not be so complicated, but if the rich were involved, it would become much more reasonable.
"No...no, I...have no...complaints." Catherine shook her head at the embers. In her heart, she still regarded herself as a puppet, and always had the greatest tolerance for the winter that created her.
When Yu Jin heard what Catherine said, he looked up at her for a long time. After a long while, he smiled and nodded:
"Okay, since you forgive them, I'll spare their lives. Yes, yes, it's only right that their lives be left to you."
Then he put his hand on Catherine's head and said, "You said I don't need to come? You are wrong. My technology of creating humans is much higher than that of Zhidong."
Then, a huge suction force came from the palm of the ember, and Catherine was sucked into the body by the ember.
After sucking in Catherine, Yu Jin did not leave. He tapped his helmet with his fingers. The "clang clang clang" sound of steel colliding echoed on Yaoguang Beach for a long time.
"Rich man?" Yu Jin thought of the guy who always had a smile on his face yesterday.
"In every country I've been to, all the trade routes of the rich will be destroyed!" Black Blade was now half-kneeling beside Yu Jin, waiting for his orders.
"As for the puppet..." Yu Jin thought of her face that had not changed at all, and some interesting thoughts came to his mind.
"She should have her own masterpiece, right? I wonder if her expression will change when her most proud work is destroyed in front of her?"
After Yu Jin finished speaking, he lowered his head and thought for a while, then added:
"By the way, if her masterpieces have consciousness, then forget it. Then you can just destroy all of her creations."
He tapped his forehead, as if he thought the punishment was too light, and said with a smile:
"I'm going to take a doctoral exam. Hmm... I'll take the exam to regenerate a severed limb."
"Does everyone understand?"
"understand!"
As soon as Yu Jin finished speaking, the black knives scattered in all directions, and Yu Jin was the only one left in the huge Yaoguang Beach.
It was Catherine's business to forgive them, but if they dared to play tricks during the negotiations, don't blame Yu Jin for being rude.
……
Everything was burning, everything was collapsing. Deep red cubes, creeping blackness, they filled everything before Alex's eyes.
Alex collapsed on the ground, he didn't understand what happened. Why was Kanreya so beautiful just now, but now it has become doomsday.
"Ah——" Alex raised his arm with a piercing pain, and suddenly found that his palm had turned black without him knowing when.
Alex looked down and saw a monster reflected in the broken glass on the ground. The monster was as confused as he was, as painful as he was, and as desperate as he was.
"No——" Alex suddenly stood up, looked around, and wiped the big beads of sweat from his forehead.
"Is it a dream again?" Alex got up from the bed and poured himself a glass of water to calm himself.
He opened the curtains, and the bright sunlight made it difficult for him to open his eyes. Alex looked at the scene outside the window and smiled comfortably. Was it really a dream?
Walking out of the room, Alex looked up at the sky. It was a pale white, completely different from the sky on the ground.
But it doesn't matter. Although Kanriya is underground, with the support of their people, it is enough to make the underground the same as the ground.
There are flowers, plants, trees, birds, beasts, insects and fish here. Things that are found on the ground are here, and things that are not found on the ground are also here.
"Ah..., what should I do today?" As a mechanical designer of Kanreya, Alex had long been living a retired and lazy life.
However, he never considered why the job of a mechanical designer, which obviously requires a lot of time, was so relaxing for him.
Just as Alex was thinking about where to go today, not far away, Ember was following him stealthily with Catherine.
"This..., where is this..." Catherine widened her eyes. Where is this?
Why is the sky pure white? Why are there so many suns here? Why don't the ruins guards attack others...
Many questions arose in Catherine's mind, but Yu Jin said nothing, and he didn't know what to say.
He had never been to Kanreya, this was just a fake Kanreya created based on his memory.
But the guy in the distance was real, a guy who had lived in a daze for hundreds of years and knew nothing.
Yu Jin led Catherine to Alex and said to him, "Brother, can you repair the puppet?"
"Hmm?" Alex came back to his senses, he looked at Catherine, and suddenly became interested.
"Hiss..., this line connection method seems to be from the third generation of ruins guards, right? Is there anyone who still uses such an old method?"
"Hmm? Why is the cooling module of this machine so bad? Didn't you learn the 'Introduction to Mechanics' well?"
"Why is it so broken? This trace, consciousness descending? What a mess. The consciousness core is so poorly made, and you still want to make consciousness descend?"
……
Alex circled around Catherine as if she were looking at an antique, and seemed very interested in her.
"Can it be repaired?" Yu Jin asked again.
"Who do you look down on?" Kanria's ace mechanical designer (self-proclaimed) Alex raised his head confidently.
Chapter 96 Alex's Delusion
2023-08-28
"Let's go to my studio first." Alex suddenly became enthusiastic. Actually, the life of a salted fish is not that good, and you need to work occasionally to change your life.
Now Alex plans to repair this doll named "Catherine" to kill his boring time and hone his skills.
Although he was a bit of a show-off, he still loved mechanical things in his heart. What he hated was the kind of mechanical design and manufacturing work that followed the rules and did not allow him to have his own ideas.