Chapter 43 The Village of Peace
"I always feel... it's completely different from when I was performing a task before, 2b." 9s, who jumped out of the roof, hopped the second stage and caught the lower end of the auxiliary machine and glided, and flexibly passed the barrier and landed behind the ground suddenly said.
"...where?" He still acted in the dilapidated ruined city, still had to deal with the wandering mechanical living bodies, and still carried out tasks in a small team. He didn't feel any changes from the previous ones.
"Mood, mood," 9s patted his chest, trying hard to put on his brightest smile, "We were dead when we were on missions before. Let's talk a few words for a few words. 2b, you'll be 'This has nothing to do with the mission', 'Artificial humans cannot express feelings'--a."
"...sorry." Even though his eyes were covered with the black cloth-shaped "tactical eyepiece", 2b still clearly showed a sad expression.
The boy accidentally stepped on a thunderbolt.
Because of his own stop, 2b did not disclose his real task in the end, but 9s could vaguely guess the answer. It is not a question of whether to forgive or not. The 9s-type body that was killed before had nothing to do with him now. It can even be said that if it weren't for the previous 9s-type body being killed, he would not have existed here now... Of course, it was not a place where he was completely unconcerned. What kind of perspective did 2b look at himself before, which made the young man Sichun feel a little panicked. If the goddess in his heart regarded himself as an enemy throughout the whole process, it would be too desperate, right?
But it is obvious that the psychological problems on 2b are even more serious. She feels quite guilty about 9s. The cold words before were actually all for keeping a distance from her. Killing strangers is more comfortable than killing close friends, and protecting her soul in disguise... Now 9s accidentally complains about this point, which inevitably reminds her of the past.
"I mean, now we don't need to care about those rules, we can talk about other things. Lord Leeds also encourages us to express our feelings," 9s tried their best to remedy and forced the topic back. "And we have a place to go back now and we have the objects of serving in front of us. Finally, there is hope in the future! Everything is different!"
The truth of the "Leaf Send Plan" gives them despair, and Leeds gives them hope.
At present, [Hope] fully covers [Despair].
"...But before that, we have to survive." 2b, who was in a bad mood, gave her a very styled answer.
"Say, that's right, um." 9s was also pushed back by this sentence. He had no idea how to follow up this topic that should have been talked and laughed. After thinking about it, he turned to look at his companion walking in front, "Miss a2--"
"—You two, annoying." a2 didn't even let 9s finish his sentence.
"Uh, hug, sorry."
9s said that he just wanted to guess with others what was in "The Main World"... It's so difficult to chat.
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It is neither an artificial human nor a mechanical life.
It is not tolerated by artificial people, nor to mechanical life groups.
This is the situation of all members of the "Send to the Leaf Force".
Therefore, when Leeds sent them the recruitment message of "intern villagers", almost all of them nodded in agreement at the first time... The momentary hesitation was "the commander who thought he was not qualified" and "a2 who had blood feud with mechanical living beings", but in the end they all chose to agree under the persuasion of others. Whether to be entangled in the past in gray despair, or to challenge the future in colorful hopes, it goes without saying which side is more attractive.
While Leeds and others were riding the Gundam expedition, most of the "intern villagers" went to "Main World" for further study... It was said to be "Main World". In fact, everyone knew that this was to let them avoid the limelight. In this situation, only staying in "Main World" is the safest.
However, not all humans went to "The Lord World". Leeds fooled Adam to go to the Forest Kingdom. Eve went to the ruins of the amusement park halfway to avoid the brothers following him and making trouble. He didn't want to be regarded as standing in the same camp as mechanical living bodies. The other half of the reason was that he was indeed a little interested in these two places. What evolutions did the "mechanical living body network consciousness" breed in this area after the incident. But compared to the ruins of the forest kingdom and amusement park, he actually cared more about the "pacifist village".
This is the group of mechanical life groups that truly abandoned the order of [Destroy the Enemy]. Leeds commissioned his intern villagers to leave a few people to investigate. If the situation is true, he would convey a friendly message by the way - the investigator in the area was originally self-recommendation, followed by his 2b, and finally added a2 that had a strong prejudice against mechanical life groups.
Through a simple investigation, they found the location of this small village, which was generally sandwiched between the ruins of the amusement park and the giant trees in the forest kingdom, and hid them relatively deep, which is why the 9s had not discovered their existence before.
Finally, a2, 2b, 9s three people arrived at their destination.
"Is this -?!" The three of them had imagined many scenes of this small village, but were still frightened by what they saw in front of them.
It is entirely because mechanical living organisms of all sizes in the village are shaking the white flag without exception.
If you listen carefully, you can hear the words "shaking the white flag means surrender", "We can't fight", "We don't want to fight"... At first glance, there is a bit of a strange atmosphere of mechanical living bodies in the ruins of the amusement park, but when you listen to their speeches and words, you will feel that they are somewhat different from the former shouting "We are very happy".
"!" After the three people who were approaching the village carefully discovered a mechanical life body coming towards them, they immediately pulled out the weapons behind them and put on a combat pose.
This is a rare mechanical life form on the model of the machine. According to its size, it can be regarded as a medium-sized mechanical life form. Even if it walks to the three of them, it still waves the white flag in its hand like other mechanical life forms. "We are not enemies, three of the "Leaf Force"."
"This is hard to say!" a2 still cannot bear the existence of the peace-loving mechanical life body. This is the reason why she stayed there. She hopes to reveal this lie with her own hands.
"Miss a2...I am very sorry for your companion's experience." The medium-sized mechanical life form has a clear and identifiable apology in its tone - this alone is enough to prove that it is different from others.
"Do you know me?" All three of them were shocked.
"Maybe I am a mechanical life, but I have always communicated with the commander of the artificial human resistance army in this area. She knows me about the information you are about to come."
"How is this possible?!" the three of them dared not believe it, but this also answered why the villagers in this village would welcome their arrival in this way.
"Who are you...?"
"My name is 'Pascal', and I am the village chief of this village,"
Chapter completed!