Magical Girl's Knight Brother

Chapter 414 Suolin

Chapter 414 Suolin

In the deep blue field of vision, the first thing that catches the eye is a broken body.

It was a humanoid creature with broken bones all over its body. Based on past judgments, this creature should have been dead long ago, but the other party was still dragging the corpse around freely.

Inside the corpse, there was an indescribable phantom, as if it were pieced together from countless tiny fragments of light and shadow, without a fixed shape and appearing and disappearing, like a reflection shimmering in water.

Its outline was blurry, sometimes clear and sometimes hazy, and it was constantly emitting a strange energy fluctuation in the surroundings. Under this fluctuation, the corpse's heart also began to beat at a fixed frequency.

Not far behind this strange entity stood two people. From their appearance, they were just ordinary humans, but the girl in front with long, snow-white hair had a special energy inside her body, in addition to the normal physiological structure of a human.

This energy flows within her body like an invisible river, intertwining with her nervous and circulatory systems.

The owner of the vision tried to analyze this energy in depth, hoping to find its source and operating mechanism, but when she wanted to look more closely, she suddenly found that everything she had just seen had disappeared, and what came over her was an extreme cold as if she had fallen into an ice cave.

The unusual chill made her shiver, and at the same time, her brain felt as if it had been doused with a bucket of cold water, instantly clearing her mind.

"He spoke! He said something!"

Su Siyao pointed at the human head on the table and exclaimed in surprise.

To be honest, this scene was quite terrifying for a minor like her.

At first, when the other party was unconscious, she could still treat it as a "figurine" or a "well-made human figure ornament" because she knew that the other party was not a living thing, nor a real human head.

However, when the other person opened their eyes and started speaking, Su Siyao felt her brain buzzing.

This feeling is no less than when art students are drawing a plaster cast and the cast suddenly speaks and greets them.

Su Siyao's words, however, only elicited a roll of her eyes from the mechanical humanoid head.

"Isn't it normal to talk? It's like being able to talk is a privilege. Aren't you talking too?"

Chang Lei looked up and exchanged a glance with Tan Zhixin, both seeing the surprise and doubt in each other's eyes.

What was astonishing was that the human head in front of them had actually woken up, and it seemed to possess intelligence no less than that of a human. What was also puzzling was that this mechanical humanoid was different from the previous intelligent machines, as it was able to converse so fluently.

Just as Chang Lei was about to say something, the mechanical humanoid head spoke again.

"Damn it, you still haven't answered my question. What kind of country bumpkins are you from, that you would think of using plasma to power me? I tried to activate it three or four times, and I almost scrambled my brains."

Staring at the woman's head in front of him, whose mouth was opening and closing and whose big eyes were wide open, Chang Lei narrowed his eyes slightly.

"Is it about simulating brainwaves to release signals and convert them into a communicable language...? That's quite similar to how I use deception to communicate with other beings."

"I am Qingnang. I apologize for using this method to awaken you, but we don't have any other good options at the moment."

"I understand. I've never had any expectations of lowly scavengers like you." The mechanical head sneered, then added, "By the way, could you step in front of me? Do you think I can turn around or something?"

"Hey, you better show some respect!"

Qin Nan couldn't help but let out a low shout, but the three of them still walked together to the front of the mechanical humanoid head and stood with Chang Lei.

In an instant, all eight eyes of the six people, the rabbit, and the flower fairy present were focused on the mechanical humanoid head, even though their gazes hadn't changed much.

The woman seemed not to have realized that there were three people standing behind her. Feeling the different gazes from each of them, she shifted her eyes somewhat uncomfortably.

However, those people had already filled her entire field of vision, and she couldn't even turn her head. After a moment of silence, she couldn't help but speak.

"...You're keeping vigil, you know? Don't stare at me like you're looking at a deceased person, it's creepy."

Chang Lei's expression changed several times. Although he really wanted to ask about Tang Zijun and the distress message she had sent earlier, he hesitated for a moment and decided to start with the most basic questions.

"Who are you? And who created you?"

The woman's head was clearly taken aback upon hearing this. She hadn't expected that the corpse could use its vocal organs so smoothly, but she didn't think much of it and answered directly.

"You can call me Suolin, that was my name in life, although I have no memories of my past life. As for who created me... I think it was the Ark Church, that's what I remember them calling themselves."

Before his death?

Almost everyone present noticed the two words. Even Curly Ears, who didn't realize it at first, understood after the other person repeated them.

"Are you dead?!"

"You can actually talk?!"

Compared to Curly Ears' surprise, Suolin was clearly more shocked.

She seemed completely taken aback that a rabbit could speak human language, and quickly became engrossed in talking to herself. "I don't remember installing an animal translator module... wait, even an animal translator module couldn't possibly translate such fluent speech. Those idiots should only be able to utter one word at a time..."

Seeing that the topic had suddenly been steered to an inexplicable place, and that the other person's attention had begun to wander, Chang Lei swallowed back the sentence he had just formed in his mouth.

He paused for a moment, then couldn't help waving.

"Wait, wait, Ms. Zolin, right? Let me understand. You mean you were originally a person, a living, breathing human being, and then you were transformed into this?"

"Hmm... right?"

Chang Lei's face stiffened. "What do you mean, 'right'? Don't you know anything about your past?"

"I already said that I lost my memories of my previous life. I even only learned my name from the dog tag I wore after I was manufactured. How would I know what I looked like before? But I should look the same as I do now. The Ark Church makes mechanical dolls based on our appearance in life."

"you?"

She slightly opened her mouth, but the surprise in Qin Nan's eyes never faded.

"You mean there's more than one robot like you, that you were manufactured as a group, and that you were created using batches of living people as models?"

"...Maybe?" Zolin replied blankly, then suddenly remembered something and raised her voice. "Speaking of which, where's my body?! Don't tell me you just brought back my head?!"

After a pause, Suolin, as if struck by a sudden thought, stared wide-eyed at the crowd before her.

"You're not planning to do anything to my head, are you?"

"Uh...you must have misunderstood." Chang Lei rubbed his temples. For some reason, he suddenly started to miss Tang Zijun. He wished Tang Zijun were here. He really couldn't keep up with her train of thought.

After a moment's hesitation, Chang Lei decided that he should take control of the conversation.

I want you to answer one question for me.

"--.explain."

"My men were attacked by two robots just now, but those two robots don't look as human as you do. I want to know what their origins are and what their relationship is with you."

"Robots...intelligent machines? You guys survived being attacked by that thing, looks like you're born scavengers..." Suolin's words started to veer off course again, but under Chang Lei's gaze, she quickly steered the conversation back on track.

"Alright, alright, it seems you must be newcomers who have just arrived in the wasteland. Those AIs are indeed different from me, because they are weapons created by God Ji, and they have a group mentality, unlike me who has independent thinking ability."

"As for their relationship with me... well, how should I put it? You can probably guess from my current state. Do I need to describe in detail how they chopped my head off?"

"So, you're saying you and they are enemies?" Chang Lei countered.

"Of course," Zorin replied quickly this time.

"That doesn't make sense." Chang Lei stared thoughtfully at Suo Lin, his fingers tapping lightly on the table, making a rhythmic "tap-tap" sound.

He carefully observed all the changes in the other person's expression, while an invisible energy gradually emanated from the table and spread throughout Zolin's head.

Suolin seemed completely oblivious to anything amiss, and even asked in confusion, "What doesn't make sense?"

"My people were inexplicably attacked by those omnics, and interestingly... those omnics crawled out of your body."

"ha???"