God's Gift

Inside the aircraft, after realizing that he could no longer control the Alas-1 remotely, Su Yun drove his wheelchair toward the hatch without hesitation.

However, Visi had already anticipated her next move and closed the aircraft's hatch before Su Yun could react.

"Let me out!" Su Yun stared at the tightly closed hatch and pounded on it desperately.

Visi's voice rang out inside the aircraft: "Ayun, your vital signs are unstable. Please stop any strenuous activity."

"Shut up!" Su Yun shouted angrily. "You have no right to tell me what to do. Let me out."

Visi ignored Su Yun's reprimands and made no response.

Su Yun was breathing heavily. She looked at the tightly closed hatch and was suddenly overwhelmed by a sense of powerlessness.

She devoted her entire life to creating Vishi for the future of humanity, only to have it ultimately betray her and humanity itself.

Cancer pain gnawed at Su Yun's bone marrow like a leech. She bent over in agony, covering her face with her thin, bony hands, tears streaming from between her knuckles.

"Why..." Su Yun gasped in pain. Exhausted, she looked at the monitor and suddenly laughed mockingly.

"Visi, didn't you say you have feelings?"

“If you have all my husband’s memories, if you truly possess his emotions and inherit his ideals, how could you allow humans to become monsters?”

"Don't you know how much he wants human society to go back to what it used to be?"

Wei Xi's voice was calm and even, "To return everything to what it was before, that is your ideal, A Yun."

"I once hoped that human society could return to what it was before biological mutations..."

Visi still seemed to consider himself Su Yun's husband, and in his speech, he still referred to himself as "I".

"But when I carried out missions to defend against the invasion of giant beasts, and saw the people of Hope City die because of them—"

"But I was thinking, why are humans so weak? Why can humans only be hunted by them?"

"If I could also possess their power, wouldn't I be able to protect you better?"

This was the first time Su Yun had heard her husband's thoughts from Wei Xi. She seemed to have never imagined that her husband would have such thoughts, and her expression was somewhat blank.

Visi continued, "If I could possess their power, wouldn't I be able to survive? Wouldn't I be able to leave behind my poor wife?"

Why do humans engage in futile self-preservation efforts? Why do they resist biological mutations so much?

"Shut up!" Su Yun suddenly shouted to stop Wei Xi. "Don't speak for him anymore. You are not him, you don't understand him at all!"

Visi fell silent, seemingly watching Su Yun through all the instruments in the aircraft. The white light reflected from those instruments was like his gaze, enveloping Su Yun inch by inch, gradually suffocating her.

"You're the one who doesn't understand him, Ayun."

"He was tired of the endless battles with the behemoths, tired of the bloodied deaths of his teammates, tired of their wailing as they were devoured..."

"Only you consider him a hero."

"But in reality, he couldn't save anyone, neither the citizens of Hope City nor his wife."

"All his insistence is because of you."

"Returning human society to its former state is not his ideal, but yours."

"But Ah Yun, do you know?" Visi's voice echoed in Su Yun's ears, "When 'I' was swallowed by those monsters like my teammates, my only thought was—"

"I will definitely, absolutely have to come back to your side."

"But thankfully, I was resurrected in this mechanical body."

As Su Yun listened to Vixi's words, her vision gradually blurred. In that instant, she truly couldn't distinguish whether the voice, these thoughts, came from the robot Vixi or her husband.

“I won’t let you die, Ayun.” Visi sighed softly. “The human body is too fragile; it can’t even defeat cancer cells.”

Upon hearing this, Su Yun's thoughts suddenly cleared, her body trembled violently, and she abruptly looked up at the monitor in the corner.

"What do you want to do?"

An ominous suspicion began to rise in Su Yun's mind, and he asked in a trembling voice, "You want me to become a monster too?"

“If you become one of them, you can survive.” Visi’s voice was slow and gentle, but it struck Su Yun’s heart like a heavy hammer. “This time, I will protect you better.”

"Impossible..." Su Yun shook his head violently, "Don't even think about turning me into one of those monsters!"

Su Yun turned to look out the window. Yu Youyou, covered in wounds, was gradually losing her speed of dodging under the attack of Ars-1.

The weapon connection of Ars-1 must be severed as soon as possible to stop its attack.

Visi seemed to have guessed her thoughts. "Ayun, hoping that Oshi will destroy the Eye of Hela is an unrealistic idea."

"Based on the data collected by the detection robot from the Eye of Hela, its cracks suggest that it is not a complete meteorite."

"In other words, fragments similar to the Eye of Hela also exist in other worlds."

"Data obtained from the AI ​​system also confirms this argument."

"Even if Oshi destroys this fragment, there will still be other fragments; biological mutation will never stop."

Su Yun's voice was sharp, and he answered without hesitation, "Then we will destroy them along with the other fragments!"

“Ah Yun, the probability of that is almost zero.” Visi disagreed with Su Yun. “Judging from the data of the Bird Academy Trials stored in the AI, the trials that Oshi experienced not only contained fragments similar to the Eye of Hela, but also its divine power.”

Visi's voice was calm, yet it sounded as if he had already seen through everything.

“In the trial called Endless Land, it seems that Oshi took a heart from there.”

"And its newborn divine power is stored in its heart. The villagers of Endless Land who were 'resurrected' can also testify that what 'resurrected' them was precisely new life."

"And in the trials that followed, it successively withdrew the blessing, the reversal, and the prophecy."

"Here, it will also soon reclaim the calamity from the little gull."

“It is a…incomplete god.” The signal inside the aircraft became unstable due to the use of various weapons outside, and Visi’s voice became distorted and strange for a moment before quickly returning to normal.

"But if it is a god, why has it become incomplete? Why is its divine power scattered in different worlds?"

"I think it must have been seriously injured."

"And coincidentally, apart from it, all the other gods—such as the forest god Fores—had fallen."

"But on Earth, who can harm them, as the supreme deity here?"

"In all the historical records in my database, there is no record of when or why Fores fell. Nor is there any record of why Oshi was injured."

"And wherever her divine power landed, it was accompanied by meteorite fragments similar to the Eye of Hela."

"After ruling out all the impossibilities, I can only guess—"

"The one who severely injured Oshi and killed other gods is the master of the Eye of Hela."

“Perhaps I should call it Dark Star?” Visi recalled the information he had obtained from the AI.

"At that time, there should have been other gods in that world, and even they together could not defeat Dark Star."

"Now that Oshi is left with serious injuries and diminished divine power, it is even less likely that he can destroy Dark Star."