NABC Chapter 451 451: Slaughter
Chapter 451 451: Slaughter
Clack clack clack
The sound of rapid keyboard tapping, and...
Pfft!
The symphony of slaughtered viruses converged within the dark red of the Core.
Garbled code flowing like river water gathered into a lake beneath Alain's feet; with every violent movement he made, black water splashed.
As the Greatsword rose and fell, the Parasitic Entity of a Mother Monster was minced, its spider body and human body convulsing simultaneously...
And in Alain's beheading strike, it formed a new fountain of garbled code on the ground.
Clang!
Alain planted the Greatsword into the ground, leaning his body against the blade.
Looking around, he saw a large area of viruses that had been cleared by him.
The remnants of large worms, Black Spheres, and spider monsters had not yet dissolved into garbled code, and a massive number of viruses were also wounded...
But they were still following some kind of instruction, slowly approaching him.
Alain glanced at the electric saw he held in his other hand, confirmed that the energy was still sufficient, and charged forward once again.
Whoosh—
Garbled code struck his face; the pitch-black liquid flowed down his cheeks, dripping onto Alain's clean white shirt.
His and Mina's plan was for Alain to delay the viruses' advance while Mina shattered the Master Brain's shield, then attempted to obtain the Master Brain's code.
This was an extremely dangerous plan, one that could not afford even the slightest delay.
Currently, the two had completed the first step: Alain had held back the viruses, and Mina had successfully entered the Master Brain.
But new dangers followed close behind.
Pfft!
Alain severed the head of a Black Sphere that tried to fish in troubled waters and slip past, then quickly looked back at Mina's vicinity... confirming that no viruses had reached her side, he continued his defense.
The Master Brain's current progress bar had reached 99.58%, and it was still rising.
And once the viruses saw the blue membrane shatter, they would also contact the Master Brain, thereby completing the final progress bar...
If the viruses made direct contact... Core Mita had also mentioned this possibility: it would mean a direct increase in the Master Brain's progress bar.
He didn't know how much the progress bar would increase if a virus touched the Master Brain. But even if it was just 1%, it was a responsibility he could not bear.
Everyone in the Mita World would turn into NPCs. Even Alain himself... would probably fall into Yang Wanhua's cage again.
He couldn't gamble on whether the Master Brain could absorb a virus, therefore—he could only block them, not letting them approach the Master Brain by even half a step!
"Mina... you have to be faster."
Watching the encirclement of viruses gradually shrinking toward him, a difficult smile surfaced on Alain's face.
He believed in Mina, just as Mina believed he could block the viruses.
Bang!
His toes struck the ground, and Alain went to meet the nearest virus once again.
Pitch-black code splashed near the indigo-blue girl's feet, becoming winding, crawling, sneaky traces.
But Mina had no time to care about that right now; she wished she could use all ten fingers at once, tapping in unison on the Master Brain's keyboard.
In her indigo-blue eyes was that clearly visible number, still continuously rising:
99.59%.
The last two digits of the decimal point rose from 58 to another 1. She and Alain's time had shortened again.
Mina brushed away the sideburns stuck to her face with sweat and, while writing furiously, looked at the progress bar on the Security Assistant system.
"How much have I input?"
"About... 30%." 2D Mita—who should also be Alain's comrade-in-arms—was currently verifying the code's safety with an equally anxious expression.
"Good..."
Mina nodded simply and looked back at Alain's position.
Compared to his previous stance, he had now retreated a distance of half a meter.
The viruses were also closer to the Master Brain.
Click!
She slammed down the enter key and changed lines again.
"Why am I doing such a dangerous thing..."
The code reflected in the bottom of the girl's eyes looked like little tadpoles, but she already had the answer...
The words spoken by that uninvited guest at the time rang in her mind:
[Join forces with me, won't you? I will share Alain with you.]
Rip—
A fish that slipped through the net—a massive Devouring Entity—leaped into the air, pressing aggressively into Mina's peripheral vision, opening its mouthparts.
The girl quickly put down the coding work at hand, planted her feet heavily on the ground, and concentrated her whole body's strength into her fist...
She shouted violently—
"Die!"
Boom!!!
Instantly, the sound of thunder resonated through the entire Core as her punch made contact with the large worm.
With just a single punch, she beat the worm, whose body size was at least five times hers, into a mass of black coagulated liquid.
Garbled code flew like a curtain of rain, splashing onto her hair strands, the hem of her clothes, and the Core's screen.
Yet she acted as if it were a trivial effort, not even glancing at the garbled code on the ground, and continued to write furiously...
Watching this, 2D Mita looked completely dumbfounded.
"Wh—what the hell is this strength of yours?" Her movements on hand did not stop. "When the old Alain dealt with bugs, he had to rely on mechanism kills... Although he's much stronger now, it still takes him two or three cuts to solve a large Devouring Entity..."
"You probably don't know yet, right?" Mina rarely spoke so pleasantly to Mita. "I am a Failed Works."
The dense layers of code before her eyes seemed to form a human face in a trance, a face... named Yang Wanhua.
[You are a Failed Works, "my" Failed Works.]
"Who cares if you're a Failed Works?!" Before 2D Mita could answer, Alain's voice drifted over from behind,
"I love you!!!"
Pfft!
The head of a spider monster rolled with a gulu-gulu sound to Mina's feet, and she kicked it away.
Mina forcibly suppressed the smile at the corner of her mouth, her lips softly opening and closing...
"I know."
[You, actually, were made by me. An Electronic Life created specifically for Alain.
[You possess my personality foundation, then mixed with "gentleness" as a seasoning... Finally, it became your personality model. And placed into the game.
[Alain will definitely like you. Because, you are the perfect other half in his heart.
[But it's a pity... my technology hit a snag, and the Game World actually saw through the clues, eventually causing your code to be non-compliant, becoming a Failed Works...
[What a failure!]
A touch of pale blue rose in the corner of the girl's eye.
Mina hurriedly turned her head to look and found... the blue light membrane used for the Master Brain's defense had already begun to reconstruct!
"Tsk..."
The girl realized her vigilance again, and the speed of her ten fingers tapping went up another level.
[So, do you agree to cooperate? Sharing Alain, I'm not just saying it, you know~
[Because you are me, that's why I'm sharing with you.
[How about it? In that world where the "dolls" turn into real dolls, let's live a happy life—together with Alain!]
Yang Wanhua's words echoing in her mind were definitely not a question, but a statement.
In that person's eyes, there was only certainty about the facts, without any request...
[Promise me, cooperate!]
Clack clack clack
Another line of code was entered; Mina glanced at 2D Mita, and the latter nodded solemnly.
Hiss—
The friction sound of a foot sole approached closer and closer to Mina.
She glanced back gently and found... Alain had already been beaten back to the side of the Master Brain's shield.
And that group of viruses was only a few meters away from her.
"Don't look!" Alain shouted at her in a rare commanding tone. "Believe in me, just like I believe in you!"
It was unknown which virus had torn the clothes on the young man's abdomen, revealing his sharp abdominal muscles...
He had no spare mind to care about these things; without looking back, he went to meet the tide of viruses once again.
Obviously... his eyes were already red with bloodlust.
Mina smiled faintly, looking back at the string of code under her eyes; the strength of her finger tapping became quite a bit more spirited...
She also recalled the answer she gave to Yang Wanhua:
[I refuse.]
Click!
It was the Master Brain's enter key.
2D Mita also finished auditing all the code at the same time, cheering in celebration,
"Code acquisition complete. All of it—can be used!!!"
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