Although she knew from the start that this trip would be extremely dangerous and that some people would inevitably be sacrificed, she couldn't bring herself to abandon her men and leave first.

"Then be careful." 9S knew he couldn't persuade her, but he also knew that if he were in her shoes, he would make the same choice.

He then turned and boarded the HO229 fighter jet, flying toward one of the Engels.

At the same time, 2B and 4B also took action, each facing an Engels. The POD hovering beside them ignored the wear and tear and went all out, unleashing a barrage of small missiles and beams at the Engels in front of them.

However, even in the previous two-on-one situation, without heavy equipment, they had difficulty inflicting effective damage, let alone now that it was one-on-one. Moreover, the oppressive feeling brought by the three Engels together was simply despair-inducing. Without using special means, they had no chance of winning.

In the air, 9S piloted his fighter jet nimbly around an Engels. Before he arrived, he had been attacked by a large number of flying mechanical lifeforms, and most of the weapons on his fighter jet had been used up. The only weapons he could use now were the onboard beam machine guns on both sides. However, the power of the beam machine guns was not enough. Even if they hit Engels, they only left some shallow dents on its huge body.

Although he could still seize control of a part of Engels' body by hacking into Engels' internal data system, that would require a stable environment.

"No, we can't win at all, we're bound to lose!" 9S was extremely anxious, and suddenly had the idea of ​​just ignoring the mission and the lives of the other androids and taking 2B away from here first.

"But if I do that, Miss 2B will definitely resent me!" 9S suddenly thought.

Just as he was struggling with this decision, he suddenly saw a black figure wearing a cloak jump down from a high platform in the distance, holding a long sword that looked somewhat familiar, and rushing towards the bridge.

……

"A2, be careful!"

On the high platform, Yako shouted at A2. Although they hadn't known each other for long, they had lived together for quite some time and had developed some feelings for each other. Moreover, she didn't want to see A2 heartbroken after something happened to him.

“I know.” A2 nodded to Yakol, then said, “Yakol, take good care of him for me.”

"Don't worry about that," Yakoll patted his chest.

"Thank you then." After saying that, A2 turned around and jumped off the platform.

After watching A2 leave, Yakol turned around, walked to Shen Ye, squatted down, and looked at him with concern, thinking to himself, "Humans are still too fragile. No wonder they went extinct because of this."

“It’s better to be an artificial human.” Yako thought again, “Why don’t we just turn him into an artificial human? After all, he’s the only human in this world, and he can’t reproduce. Besides, he’ll die of old age or disease in a few decades. Being an artificial human would actually allow him to live longer.”

She doesn't care about the so-called future of humanity; instead, she harbors selfish thoughts.

"I just don't know if he'll agree..."

After watching for a while, Yako seemed to be a little obsessed. As if possessed, he moved closer and closer, almost face to face with Shen Ye, and could even feel the other's breath.

But just then, Shen Ye suddenly opened his eyes, looking at her with a mischievous grin: "Are you trying to kiss me by getting so close?"

"Pah! How could that be?" Yakol shrank back in a panic, then put on a disdainful expression.

"It seems I was overthinking it," Shen Ye said regretfully.

“You’re overthinking it…” Yako said, going along with his words, then asked curiously, “When did you recover?”

Her scanning system was very powerful, but every time she scanned Shen Ye, it would be blocked by something, so she knew nothing about the specific condition of Shen Ye's body.

“A2 recovered when it left.” Shen Ye took out a cigarette and lit it. Yakoll knew his true identity, so there was no need to hide it.

"That's... smoke? That's strange. Where did you get it?" Yakoor sniffed the smoke Shen Ye exhaled with curiosity, then frowned: "Through analysis, the smoke you exhaled contains a substance called nicotine, which will harm your health."

"It's alright, this stuff doesn't have any effect on me anymore," Shen Ye said nonchalantly. With his current physical condition, even if he drank the Hundred-Kill Grass directly, it would be difficult for him to be poisoned to death.

“Even so, you should still be careful. I’ve heard that many people died from smoking in the old days.” Jakoll glared at him, annoyed.

"Are you concerned about me?" Shen Ye asked, a cigarette dangling from his lips, a smile playing on his lips as he looked at her.

"No, I didn't," Jakoll muttered, but didn't say anything more.

So what if he's dead? We can build him a prosthetic body and then use special methods to extract his soul and preserve it in a medium found in that world. That seems like a good idea.

"Doing this shouldn't violate the rules of this world, right?" Yakoll thought to himself.

However, she was a little confused as to why she thought that way. Was it because she had been lonely for too long and wanted to find someone to keep her company?

Shaking her head, Yako decided to stop thinking about it. The battle was still going on below the platform, so she asked, "Since you were awake a long time ago, why didn't you stop A2 from going down?"

"Because I'm working on someone's plan." Shen Ye recalled the plan that Annie Morning had mentioned a few days ago.

"Plan? Whose plan? What plan?" Yako asked curiously.

"No comment."

"Fine, don't tell me then." Yakoll snorted, but didn't press the matter further; none of that mattered to her anyway.

After a while, seeing Shen Ye light a second cigarette, she couldn't help but frown: "Smoke less, it's bad for your health. Also, are you really so sure you're letting her go alone? Even with her, she's no match for those three Engels's. Aren't you afraid something will happen to her?"

Shen Ye said confidently, "It's alright, I'll take care of it when the time comes."

"Oh, so confident?" Jakoll became curious again.

"Do you have a second one of those robots?"

She had naturally witnessed the power of the Gale Robot that Shen Ye summoned; its ability to take down a fortress-level mechanical lifeform in a one-on-one fight was indeed somewhat unexpected.

However, what intrigued her even more was that she couldn't understand where Shen Ye's robot came from. She knew the technology of the artificial human bases on the entire Blue Star and in satellite orbit very well, and had never seen a robot like this before.

“Relying solely on strong winds won’t suffice, but I have other methods. You’ll see soon enough,” Shen Ye said.

He can now use all of the Mechanic's skills, including the first awakening skill. Summoning Gale is just one of his minor skills. If he uses the other "ultimate moves" of the first awakening skill, he can easily take down not only three Engels, but even more.

“Then I’ll be waiting to see your performance.” Yakoll stared at Shen Ye, then turned to look at the bridge.

……

On the bridge surface.

Anne Morning lay among a pile of rubble, covered in wounds.

As an ordinary Resistance android, her strength was far inferior to that of the YoRHa mobile suits, both in terms of physical functions and reaction speed. When dodging Engels' missile attack, she was almost hit directly by the missile. If it weren't for 2B noticing her nearby and saving her, she would have been blown to bits by now.

Even so, she still suffered injuries of varying degrees. The surface layer of bionic skin and the muscles made of polymer materials on her legs were burned away, exposing the metal skeleton underneath.

After resting for a while, Anne Morning struggled to sit up. Looking at Engels wreaking havoc on the bridge, she couldn't help but feel a sense of despair.

"This time, I'm afraid I won't be able to go back," she sighed to herself.

She wasn't afraid of death, or rather, few androids were afraid of death, especially since she had already experienced the feeling of being on the verge of death during the Pearl Bay operation.

She was just a little regretful, regretting that her plan had not yet been completed.

"Luckily, someone who cares about you appeared, otherwise you would have been all alone, Number Two." Annie Morning thought of A2 and muttered to herself with some relief.

However, at that moment, a cold voice came from behind her: "Do you really want to leave me like that, my friend, Annie Morning?"

Annie Morning was startled, then turned around in surprise, only to see A2 holding a long knife, standing not far behind her.

“Number Two,” Annie Morning called out.

A2 smiled slightly, but no one could see her face because it was covered by the hood. Then she walked quickly to Annie Morning, picked her up, tucked her under her arm, and turned to leave.

"I'll take you to safety first."

This time, Anne Morning did not refuse, but simply lowered her head slightly, because all the rebel troops she had brought had been killed.

A2 stopped when she reached the end of the bridge. She carefully placed Annie Morning on the ground, gave her a few words of advice, and then turned and ran back to the battlefield.

She's going to support Yoruha's team.

Even before she came down, she had witnessed 2B saving Annie Morning. As an android who valued her comrades extremely, she decided to help YoRHa team, even though she had killed them more than once, and even though she knew that she was no match for those three Engels.

"Yakor, I hope you can take good care of Shen."

As A2 ran, he glanced back at the high platform and thought to himself.

……

"Hey, hey, she's gone. Are you really going to keep watching?"

Yakoll, who had been watching the battle closely, turned to Shen Ye beside him and said.

"Wait a little longer, now is not the time to make a move," Shen Ye said calmly.

In fact, he was a little nervous inside, staring intently at A2, his muscles taut.

"Tch, feigning composure," Yakol said dismissively.

Then she continued to look at the bridge.

……

"Thank you!"

2B glanced with lingering fear at the massive mechanical arm that had crashed to the spot where she had been standing, then turned to A2, who had just pulled her up, and thanked her.

A2 was completely covered in a cloak, so she naturally couldn't recognize her, but she felt a sense of familiarity.

A2 ignored her, instead frowning as she stared at the towering mechanical monster before her, pondering a solution.

However, she also understood that this monster was more powerful than any mechanical life form she had ever encountered before, and it would be almost impossible to defeat it with her own abilities alone.

2B, seeing that she didn't respond, didn't pay any attention, but just glanced curiously at the knife in her hand.

She felt it looked familiar, as if she had seen it somewhere before, and its appearance was very similar to the weapons used by the YoRHa squad.

However, she didn't think much of it. Over the years, the bunker had conducted several landing operations, and there were far too many YoRHa android prosthetic bodies that died on the surface. It wouldn't be surprising if other androids picked them up and used them.

As she was lost in thought, she felt her arm being grabbed and pulled aside. Then she heard A2 say, "Being distracted during battle is a major taboo. After all these years, haven't you learned it yet?"

"You know me?" 2B asked in surprise, taken aback.

A2 glanced at her with a cold smile, said nothing, and swung her knife toward the giant mechanical arm that hadn't yet been raised. At the same time, she ripped off her hood, revealing her slightly yellowish white hair.

Looking at that head of long white hair, she subconsciously called out the other person's name.

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