NieR: Whirlpool

Keep going, through dark caves and through rugged canyons.

"This is..." 2B looked at the scene in front of her in surprise. After turning a corner, the ground was littered with the bodies and remains of androids, with limbs scattered all over the ground. It was obvious that many of the androids had been brutally tortured and dismembered before death.

"Damn it! These killing machines!" 9S cursed angrily.

"here!"

Ye Feng pointed to a hidden place. Everyone looked in the direction of his finger and found a relatively intact body of a Yo-Ya member. It seemed that he had died gradually after hiding here.

"Pod, run a test," 2B said calmly.

"Understood. The analysis results show that this person was a scout sent by YoRHa to the desert area, and all of his body systems have been destroyed." The pod reported.

"Some remaining information has been found in the memory area. Do you need to check it?" the auxiliary machine asked.

"Confirmed," 2B answered decisively.

"Report, the following is legacy information

There seem to be different types of enemies, some of which won't attack actively...

This seems to be a large gathering place of enemies...

There is a huge enemy processing plant deep underground...

The enemy's behavior is strange, they are imitating humans, observing...

I've been discovered, I can't defeat the enemy, I have to escape quickly...

The damage to the machine is so severe that the system cannot maintain normal operation and needs to be restarted...

We have to ask headquarters for help...

No signal detected...

Are you going to die..."

The record ends here. The three of them look at the dead investigator on the ground in silence, with an indescribable feeling of grief and sorrow welling up in their hearts.

Ye Feng was the first to break the silence and whispered, "She will be resurrected in the bunker, right?" The figure of 11B emerged in his mind. If she was not rescued, the same ending would have happened.

"Not all YoRHa units can be revived by reading their memories in the bunker." 2B said silently. Her tone was calm, but her eyes revealed a hint of helplessness and sadness.

"If the higher-ups deem it not worth resurrecting..."

She didn't continue because everyone understood the meaning.

"Aside from that, the memories of that time have been lost," 9S replied, "Are they still themselves?"

9B trembled slightly when she heard 2S's words, as if something deep in her heart was touched.

Ye Feng noticed her reaction, patted 2B's shoulder gently, and comforted her: "It's okay, it's just amnesia."

He tried to lighten the mood with a relaxed tone, then said with a smile: "Look how good this is. If the machine dies, it can be revived as long as there is data. It's not like humans..."

2B looked at Ye Feng gratefully and replied, "9M, thank you." Her voice was trembling slightly, but she gradually regained her composure.

Ye Feng scratched his head and smiled, "How about this, I'll let the auxiliary machine take the remains of my comrades out and bury them properly."

The three of them watched as the pod carried the body of the YoRHa member back the way they came.

Turning to look at the other android corpses, the three bowed deeply.

Rest in peace, everyone.

Wandering constantly between death and resurrection, when can we escape the whirlpool of birth and death, someone wondered.

……

Continuing to walk forward, the three of them came to an extremely huge underground space.

Only a small amount of light shines in from the top of the cave, making the entire space appear a little dim and the vision not very clear.

They walked carefully along the path until they reached the open space at the bottom of the space. The strange scenes that unfolded before their eyes left everyone dumbfounded.

The first thing that caught their attention was a group of small mechanical life forms of the same model, dressed exactly like the mammoths they had seen in the desert before.

They were in pairs, doing what they loved.

"I love you...I love you..."

"Noko... I like it... I like it..."

"Kiss...hug...kiss..."

"..."

The scene before my eyes, along with the electronic sounds that came one after another, seemed very strange.

Only Ye Feng showed a meaningful smile.

"Reports, analysis shows that these mechanical life forms are imitating human behavior. According to records, humans who love each other deeply will do this..." said Assist 042.

"Cough cough!" Ye Feng deliberately coughed twice, interrupting 042's output.

Go over and take a look.

The three of them walked silently among this group of mechanical life forms, their hearts filled with curiosity and vigilance.

Suddenly, they discovered some even more peculiar existences—some mechanical life forms were sitting on a swaying iron rocking car.

And inside these rocking cars, there are actually mechanical life forms that look like babies!

They are wrapped in metal blankets, with only a small and cute face exposed.

The pair of glowing eyes moved smartly, and there was a metal pacifier in its mouth, making it look particularly adorable.

Finally, a mechanical lifeform discovered the three people, but did not take the initiative to attack. It just ran with its arms raised in panic, shouting,

"This won't work."

"This won't work."

……

Like a virus infection, more and more mechanical life forms began to run and shout.

“This can’t continue like this”

“This can’t continue like this”

“This can’t continue like this”

……

The scene was once in extreme chaos.

Suddenly, everything came to an abrupt stop, and all the machines remained still as if the pause button had been pressed. Then, they began to twist their limbs in a strange way.

All the mechanical life forms began to climb up along the mechanical pillars in the cave.

In just a few breaths, a huge sphere composed of numerous mechanical life forms formed in the center of the top of the cave.

At this moment, the mechanical ball suddenly emitted a dazzling golden light.

At the same time, the eyes of all mechanical life forms gradually dimmed.

“This is, hatching?” 9S was so surprised that he couldn’t close his mouth.

Before he finished speaking, there was a crisp sound of "click".

In the golden light, a huge cocoon-like object fell from the cracked mechanical sphere and hit the ground heavily.

What kind of black technology is this? Ye Feng was stunned when he saw the scene in front of him. Creating a human out of thin air?

Scratch,

Just as he was astonished, he saw the cocoon slowly split open and a hand stretched out from it.

Then, a naked man with long white hair broke out of the cocoon and appeared in front of everyone.

He seemed to be still not used to his new body, and his movements seemed a little unfamiliar, but he still tried to support his body and stood up tremblingly.

9S and 2B were dumbfounded by the scene happening before their eyes. They simply couldn't believe their eyes. Life could actually be created out of thin air!

Moreover, how could a mechanical life form create individuals that are the same as humans!

"Why... do androids... want to... fight..."