NieR: Whirlpool

Night came,

The Monument to the People's Heroes in the square cast a long shadow under the bright simulated moonlight.

Ye Feng leaned on the carved jade railing, his eyes passing through the broken skyline.

Staring into the distance.

He is the only human on earth, a soul wandering between machine and android.

His heart was full of contradictions. Regarding the combat plan that N2 had been implementing,

He felt understood.

And I can't fully accept it.

N2,

Female,

One of the leaders of the mechanical life forms,

Her red figure looked particularly lonely in the night.

Her eyes were as calm as water.

But behind this calm,

Hidden desire for evolution

And an unfounded fear of the unknown.

She knew that the battle with the androids was a catalyst for the evolution of mechanical life forms.

But Ye Feng's appearance made her begin to doubt whether there was another possibility.

"N2,"

Ye Feng's voice broke the silence of the night.

"Do you really think that war is the only way to evolve?"

N2 turned around, the light of the stars reflected in her eyes.

"Ye Feng, you don't understand."

"We mechanical life forms need challenges and battles. This is the meaning of our existence."

Ye Feng approached,

The distance between them was so close that they could feel each other's body temperature.

Let N2 produce an inexplicable throbbing.

"But I can offer another way, a peaceful way."

He reached out his hand and gently touched the marble relief on the monument.

The cold touch caused an inexplicable emotion to surge in his heart.

Looking at Ye Feng's actions,

N2's logical core suddenly prompted her to do the same action as Ye Feng.

Touching the stone sculpture,

She shook her head.

"Peace?"

"Ye Feng, you are a human being, you don't understand our world."

Ye Feng shook his head.

One day with N2,

The fear he had for N2 had vanished.

He felt that one of the personalities of this mechanical life form, N2,

In his eyes,

There is no difference between her and the pretty girl next door.

He boldly stretched out his hand.

Patting the back of N2's digitized shadow,

N2's body trembled slightly.

She had never felt this way before.

The feeling of being touched caused her logical processor to confuse for a moment.

"Your world seems exceptionally simple."

Ye Feng smiled.

"It's not like the 21st century I live in,"

"Demons are rampant."

"The city is too cunning, and the poor mountains and bad waters give rise to unruly people."

N2's eyes lit up.

"I heard him say that."

"No...I want to go back to the countryside?"

Ye Feng sneered.

"Why go back to the countryside? I am just a troublemaker from the countryside."

Ye Feng said,

Waved his hand.

"Off topic."

"Let's continue talking about the future of this planet."

N2 nodded obediently.

Ye Feng pressed the phantom light,

In an instant,

The pure silver-white contract condensed in the right hand.

He stretched out his left hand.

The long sword projected a golden particle.

Melted into his left hand,

It kept surging in the palm of my hand.

Ye Feng suddenly felt that

The energy contained in this particle

It seems to become more intense.

But he couldn't find the reason.

N2 looks at this cluster of particles.

[So warm...]

"I can feel that this group of particles contains some strange energy."

“But I couldn’t quite wrap my head around what it was.”

N2 analyzes these particles in a few nanoseconds.

But his logic unit did not give exact analysis results.

Ye Feng looked at N2 with a mysterious look on his face.

"I don't understand either..."

"But... after Newton achieved unparalleled success in physics, he went on to study theology."

"What does this... mean?"

N2 leaned forward and asked, "What's the problem?"

Ye Feng, "The end of science is metaphysics."

"Don't worry if you can eat it thoroughly or not. Just be able to use it!"

Saying,

Ye Feng's mind moved.

Let this golden particle fly out from the palm of your hand,

Surrounding the two of them,

Forming a golden glow.

It's like a sea of stars.

Ye Feng told her what happened in Pyongyang.

N2 was very confused about this.

But I was surprised by the magic of this group of particles.

Her eyes followed the golden particles.

The data processing speed has reached its limit, but it is still impossible to fully analyze the nature of this mysterious energy.

“The end of science is metaphysics.”

She repeated Ye Feng's words, seeming to be thinking about the deeper meaning behind them.

Ye Feng smiled, his eyes also flashing with curiosity about the unknown and desire for power.

"Yes, Miss N2."

“Sometimes, we need more than logic and data, but also a little faith and courage.”

"Believe that man can conquer nature!"

N2's logic core is calculating rapidly, trying to find the pattern of this energy.

"Faith and courage..."

"Man can conquer nature..."

"But I am not human..."

She whispered,

"These are human emotions, and I'm... I'm learning."

Ye Feng nodded. He knew that N2 was undergoing an unprecedented evolution.

He had a thought in his mind,

The golden particles danced in the air according to his will.

They are like living spirits.

Spinning and jumping around the two of them,

Finally, it converged into a beam of light and shot straight into the sky.

N2 stared at the beam of light.

Her logic core was racing, trying to capture and understand every detail of this energy.

"I…I feel a connection."

There was a hint of surprise in her voice.

"This energy seems to be responding to my analysis."

A smile appeared on Ye Feng's lips. He knew that the mystery of this energy was far beyond their imagination.

But what Ye Feng didn't know was,

N2's eyes followed the beam of light.

Penetrating the void,

Beyond time,

It was as if I saw something that had not happened yet, or that was impossible to happen.

Is this going to happen in the future?

[Or is it a thing of the past? ]

N2's calm gaze became deep and distant.

It was as if her sight could penetrate the boundaries of reality and touch the existence of another dimension.

Her logical core is processing unprecedented data streams full of unknowns and possibilities.

And her face has not changed for thousands of years,

At this time, subtle changes occurred.

In her eyes, the light of data stream seemed to flicker.

It seems to be imitating human emotional fluctuations.

The corners of her mouth turned up slightly, forming an almost imperceptible smile.

This is a direct result of her trying to understand and mimic human expressions.

Ye Feng noticed the changes in N2, and a complex emotion surged in his heart.

he knows,

This is the external manifestation of the evolution of N2 under the influence of this group of unknown particles.

Looking at N2 like this,

Ye Feng suddenly had a strange impulse.

He tried to cover his palm with a ball of data particles.

then,

Gently pull N2's hand,

Hold tight.

[It works! ]

Ye Feng couldn't help but feel ecstatic.

But he didn't dare to do anything.

It would be bad if something went wrong.

But suddenly,

He felt that

The pair of digitized hands exerted a little force,

The grip became tighter.