NieR: Whirlpool

The three of them walked slowly on the path in the ruined city. This place was obviously different from the world of the game, and the location was also different, but Ye Feng didn't know where on the island country it was located.

Moreover, the city is huge.

Granted, YoRHa has exceptionally high mobility and extraordinary endurance.

However, if you want to take action here, it is undoubtedly a wiser choice to have a means of transportation.

After all, there is an old saying: "A horse will die if it runs to the mountain."

If you run on your feet alone...

Free?

The trees on both sides of the road are lush and green, and the trunks of some trees even penetrate the floors.

The facade of the building was covered with moss, and this scene reminded Ye Feng of the many documentaries he had watched before traveling through time.

Ye Feng couldn't help but think of the many documentaries he had watched before traveling through time. One of them was about the Earth after human extinction, with lush plants growing all over the places where humans once lived.

One of them depicts what the Earth would look like after human extinction, and it's pretty accurate to what you see.

From time to time, some mechanical life forms with green eyes would appear on the roadside. They would pace back and forth aimlessly, occasionally turning their little heads as if they were thinking about their own "life".

"Are they thinking?" 2B asked curiously.

"Probably not. Intelligence shows that machine life forms are incapable of thinking and can only follow simple instructions. They are cold-blooded killing machines." 9S answered affirmatively.

Hearing what he said, Ye Feng walked to a small machine and said, "Let me hack it in and see."

Hacking!

After successfully breaking through the defense program of this small mechanical life form, Ye Feng took a closer look and found that there was no other useful information except for a few battle clips.

Ye Feng could only sigh softly, then turned around and left silently.

"Did you find anything?" 2B asked, quickly walking forward.

"It's an empty shell!" Ye Feng shook his head.

The few of them continued walking, keeping an eye out for other clues or traces around that might contain important intelligence.

At this moment, a cold mechanical voice suddenly came from a distance:

"Those three people over there, come over here."

9S was startled by the sudden voice and immediately looked around nervously. "Who? Who's talking?"

"Report, the person speaking on the roof of that floor is a machine lifeform," Assist 153's voice came.

"What?" 9S couldn't help but widen his eyes and stare at the five-story building in front of him. He saw a small mechanical life form standing on the roof.

The three of them looked at each other and went to the roof together.

They stared at the small machine in front of them for a long time, neither side spoke, and there was no sign of them taking action.

"Well, it seems that these mechanical life forms can only emit some meaningless characters. It's useless to listen to what they say." 9S finally came to this conclusion.

"Wait, 9S. Look behind it..." 2B pointed behind the small machine, where there were a large number of various parts and connection and welding equipment.

"Are these... all collected by it?" Ye Feng asked with a look of doubt on his face, and he flipped open the script and began to think about who this small machine was.

After just a few seconds of thinking, Ye Feng raised the corner of his mouth and revealed a thoughtful smile.

At this moment, the small machine actually took the initiative to speak: "I collected it."

"Huh?" 9S was immediately shocked, "This guy... can actually communicate with us so fluently?

What exactly is going on? "

The small machine continued, "Endless killing is meaningless. I have a higher ideal."

Hearing this, 9S couldn't help but sneer and said sarcastically: "You are a broken machine and you still have ideals. Why don't you go to heaven?"

The small machine didn't pay any attention to 9S's ridicule. It replied firmly, "My pursuit of martial arts is endless. I want to ask you a favor."

9S asked curiously, "You like martial arts, do you want us to practice with you?"

As he spoke, he rubbed his hands together, walked forward, and a malicious smile appeared on his face:

I've been feeling itchy lately, and I can't help but want to care for small mechanical life forms, especially those as intelligent as you."

The small machine shook its head and explained:

"No, no, no. I have been pursuing martial arts for so many years and have encountered many powerful opponents. However, the limitations of this body are becoming more and more obvious. It restricts my further pursuit of martial arts."

The small machine waved its hand, pointed at the pile of mechanical parts behind it, and continued:

"You androids should be very proficient in repairing and replacing parts. I hope to ask you to help me transform my body. Only in this way can I better explore the true meaning of martial arts."

9S is surprised and says, “I see…”

"But do you trust us? Machine life forms and androids are sworn enemies, aren't you afraid..."

Then, 9S showed a sinister expression.

"I am tired of killing and I will not pose a threat to you. You won't kill even the machines that have no killing intention towards you, right?" said the small machine confidently.

"Okay, you win." 9S spread his hands and said, "But I'm still curious, why are you different from those machines?"

After hearing 9S's question, the small machine fell into deep thought.

"Let me think."

After a moment, he spoke:

"I was implanted with a command to kill androids when I was created. After several wars, one day, this command never appeared again. Maybe the command has a time limit.

And I will never receive any other combat orders.

I am just like them, not knowing the purpose of my next move.”

The small machine stretched out its tiny finger and pointed at the machines that were pacing aimlessly in twos and threes downstairs.

"Later, after an unknown amount of time, a voice suddenly appeared in my CPU:

Let us survive.

Let us know what survival is.

Consciousness, pain, joy, sadness, anger, showing off, loneliness, future...

The meaning of life

......

These words ignited the fire of my life. At that moment, I seemed to have become conscious and found the meaning of life.

The meaning of my existence is martial arts."

Listen to the small machine.

"This kind of thing," 9S rubbed his head and muttered to himself in disbelief, "I've never heard of it before..."

2B, who was standing by, murmured thoughtfully, "How did our consciousness come about?"

"So, please!" The small machine bowed deeply to them and spoke in a sincere tone.

Standing aside, Ye Feng patted 2B and 9S.

Seeing this, Ye Feng, who was standing nearby, gently patted 2B and 9S on the shoulders and consoled them:

"Okay, let's work together to transform its body for it - no, I should say for 'him'."

After saying that, Ye Feng pointed at the small machine.

"Young man, you have a lot of ideas..."

"Please! Here are the blueprints, I want to change it to this."

The small machine nodded, then took out a design drawing of a medium-sized machine that was 2 meters high from behind.