NieR: Whirlpool

In the endless stream of data, the black shadow's consciousness slowly condensed.

He felt the fact that he was sealed again, and his heart was filled with anger and unwillingness.

"Damn Ye Feng!"

The shadows roared in the void,

"Do you think you can trap me like this? Naive!"

He recalled the moment he was sealed.

Four energy particles of red, orange, yellow and green formed the Four Symbols Formation, shining with the familiar golden light and binding him again.

The black shadow couldn't help but sneer,

"Your power is indeed amazing, but you forgot one thing - I am the guardian of the timeline. I exist at every point in time and in every parallel universe."

The shadow senses the data flow around it.

Although he was sealed, he could still sense changes in the outside world.

"interesting,"

He murmured to himself,

"It looks like there was a small glitch in the plan. A wild boar? Hahaha, how ironic."

He began to think about how to break the seal.

Although he couldn't completely escape in a short period of time, he knew there was always a way.

"I will build up my strength little by little,"

The shadow was calculating in his mind,

"Every event affected, every bit of dimensional energy, will become the cornerstone for me to break the seal."

"Do you think you are the protagonist? Do you think you can control everything?"

The shadow sneered.

"But you forget that in the greater picture, you are just a pawn. I will let you see for yourself how everything you hold dear crumbles."

He began to sense the data flow around him, looking for possible breakthroughs.

"2B, 9S, 11S... and those machine life forms,"

He whispered,

"You will all become my pawns. I will erode your will bit by bit and twist your mind."

"Ye Feng, are you ready to watch a wonderful show?"

in the darkness,

The shadow's consciousness began to extend, like countless tiny tentacles.

Quietly reaching out.

"This game has just begun,"

He declared in his heart, "Let's see who is the real master."

The shadow's consciousness wandered in the data stream, looking for any possible breakthrough.

suddenly,

A strong energy fluctuation caught his attention.

His consciousness quickly focused in that direction, as if he saw a ray of hope.

"Interesting," the shadow whispered.

"It looks like our hero is in trouble."

He carefully observed the battle situation.

Seeing Ye Feng defeat the three Engels with amazing wisdom.

The black shadow felt delighted, as this deviation from the original trajectory was exactly what he needed.

however,

Just as he was about to take advantage of this opportunity, the situation changed again.

N2 quickly mobilized three other Engels to surround Ye Feng, 2B and 9S.

In a mushroom cloud rising into the sky,

Sombra watched as the situation returned to how it should have been.

"Damn it!"

The shadows roared in the void,

"Stupid N2! Do you know what you are doing?"

His anger was like boiling magma, surging in the data stream.

"Ye Feng, you cunning bastard! Give me back my original N2!!!"

The black shadow's consciousness fluctuated violently within the seal, as if trying to break free from its restraints.

"But this is not enough, not enough!"

He laughed wildly.

"Do you think this will stop me? I will find another way. I will definitely find it!"

In anger, Sombra began to reassess the situation.

Although this attempt failed,

But he realized that every fluctuation, no matter how small, was building up energy for him.

"Take your time,"

He told himself,

"I have plenty of time. One day, I will find the fatal weakness, and then..."

His consciousness spread out again, like countless tiny tentacles.

Continue searching for the next opportunity in the data stream.

"Enjoy your short-lived victory, you fools,"

Shadows whisper in the darkness,

"Because the real game has just begun."

……

I do not know how long it has been,

Resistance camp.

Ye Feng and 9S were standing in front of Divara and Popola.

The two androids were wrapped in complex data links.

In the data space,

"Is this... a confession procedure?"

Ye Feng frowned. They originally wanted to unlock the program, but now something seemed to go wrong.

9S said anxiously: "Ye Feng, the program cannot be deactivated! It seems that someone has tampered with it."

Ye Feng carefully observed the data flow and suddenly found a tiny loophole.

"Wait, there's a bug here. Maybe we can... change the person we confess to."

He worked quickly, taking advantage of the small gap.

He changed the Gemini android's confession object to himself.

With the last line of code entered,

The underlying structure of Divara and Popola flickered.

Then it gets quiet.

"Success!"

9S breathed a sigh of relief.

Ye Feng nodded, very excited.

at the same time,

In a corner of the data network, a dark shadow was watching all this angrily.

He was holding a wisp of energy in his hand.

"damn it!"

The shadow roared,

“Why do I always find loopholes?!”

He smashed the virtual console hard, causing a series of data fluctuations.

"No, I won't give up. One day, I will find a way to destroy you completely!"

The roar of the black shadow echoed in the ocean of data.

But Ye Feng and the others were completely unaware.

In the real world,

Ye Feng and 9S were sleeping soundly.

Divara, Bopora and others were waiting silently beside him.

I do not know how long it has been,

In the mammoth desert,

The scorching sun scorches the earth.

The shadow watched anxiously from deep within the data network.

Every step of Ye Feng was under his surveillance.

He originally thought that Ye Feng would deviate from the established trajectory.

He will not choose to kill Adam together with 2B and 9S.

however,

The development of things disappointed him greatly.

Ye Feng cooperated with 2B and 9S tacitly.

The three of them carried out their mission with precision like well-trained soldiers.

As soon as Adam was formed, he faced the judgment of fate.

2B pierced her chest with a sword, and 9S delivered a fatal blow from the flank.

The entire underground area began to shake, as if mourning the fall of Adam.

The black shadow witnessed all this and roared angrily on the Internet.

"how so!?"

The black shadow waved his illusory arms angrily, trying to change the outcome before his eyes.

however,

His powers are caged, and he cannot directly interfere with reality.

Eve emerged from Adam,

With new anger and hatred.

The shadow knows.

Everything is going according to the original script.

Without any deviation.

He tried to absorb the dimensional energy, but got nothing.

“It didn’t deviate from the track!”

The black shadow gnashed his teeth, his heart filled with resentment.

After a while,

In the void of data space,

The dark shadow was suspended in midair, watching everything that had just happened.

Three faint rays of light surrounded him.

Like three tiny hairs floating in the void.

These are the dimensional energies that he painstakingly collected from the events of Beauvoir, the Mechanical Mentor, and the Sage Mechanical.

"Tsk, tsk, how pitiful."

The shadow said self-deprecatingly, and gently fiddled with the three strands of energy with his phantom fingers.

"What's the use of such little energy?"

He suddenly thought of something and grinned.

"But, no matter how small the energy is, it's still energy. A little bit adds up to a lot, and a mosquito is still meat. Look, our protagonist has traveled through time and space to become a pig, right? Hahaha!"

The shadow laughed wildly, and the laughter echoed in the empty data space.

After laughing enough, he sighed again.

"What a pity, Scud didn't even collect any energy. This guy is really useless."

He pondered for a moment.

There was a sly glint in his eyes.

A holographic projection projected into the void,

2B's image flickers.

Her eyes, covered by a black eye mask, seemed to reveal a hint of uneasiness.

The shadow looked at the scene greedily.

He was secretly thinking about how to use 2B's emotional fluctuations to achieve his own goals.

"Tsk, tsk, look at this poor little doll,"

The shadow whispered sinisterly,

"Her emotional fluctuations are the perfect breakthrough. If I just work harder, I can--"

however,

Just as the black shadow was about to take action, a golden light suddenly broke through the void.

041's figure appeared out of nowhere.

He held a familiar ray of golden energy in his hand—that was the power left by Ye Feng.