NOVEL WEB Chapter 745 E-90
On the other side, Nori and Karen are going through the levels together, and they find that Zheng Zha is missing. Nori complains, "Does that guy not know he can't run off at a time like this?"
Karen says, "I'm sorry."
"No need to apologize, as long as we can clear the levels quickly, maybe we can find him." Nori shakes his head at Karen, his gaze lingering on her for quite a while.
He realized—
He seemed to have developed a liking for this girl. Is this what they call love at first sight?
Perhaps she was just a virtual AI, but she was no different from a real beautiful girl—so cute, so gentle, a deadly attraction to a young guy like him.
"Let's go, let's continue through the levels."
"Okay!"
The two seemed like a couple, adventuring through various "levels"—there was shooting, puzzle-solving, competitions, and dressing-up; they experienced almost every type of game.
They traversed battlefields filled with explosions, wandered in the magnificent magical kingdoms, soared through the majestic skies of the sky castle; every fantastical scene in the games was experienced by the two, and Nori nearly got lost in them.
Compared to the fatigue of reality, adventuring and fighting in such a world excited his soul.
This was simply amazing!
However, as an elite of the Victory Team, Nori naturally understood he absolutely couldn't immerse himself in the virtual world. Although virtual doesn't necessarily mean fake, people still need to live in reality.
So, he finally reached the last level, but after Karen followed him in, she was caught by a sudden large black hand and dragged into the darkness.
"What? Stop!"
Nori chased after, until he could no longer see Karen's figure, forcing himself to stop and think calmly: "If Karen is the princess giving me hints, then in this last level, I need to defeat the big boss and save the princess."
The darkness around brightened, and a passage appeared before him.
"Seems like there's no other choice." Nori gathered his courage and walked in, entering a strange space.
There were no walls around, only endless darkness.
Nori walked onto a platform, with a crystal coffin in the center, which housed Karen, seemingly asleep.
Beside the coffin stood a man in a suit, who seemed to sense Nori's arrival and turned around.
"You must be the final big boss, right?" Nori asked probing.
"You've finally arrived, hero, but do you possess the ability to save the princess?" The man's face appeared bizarre, and a piercing laugh echoed in the space.
Bang!
Without a word, Nori shot directly, hitting the opponent's body.
Crack!
The opponent's body shattered instantly, but his head remained intact, floating and becoming increasingly larger and more distorted, the piercing and reckless laugh filling the space like devilish sounds, making Nori frown.
Yet, Nori realized something, and smiled confidently: "You're not really the big boss, just an illusion, the true enemy is—"
Bang!
After shooting the grotesque face, Nori suddenly turned, aiming the gun at a figure that appeared behind him: "Over there!"
But when Nori saw the figure sitting on the throne, his grip on the gun loosened slightly.
"Karen?!"
He quickly turned his head, only to find the Karen in the crystal coffin had already disappeared.
"Nori, I am the final mastermind, I'm sorry." Karen looked down, somewhat afraid to meet Nori's eyes, but some force still drove her to look at him.
"Why?"
Nori recalled the words from that guy earlier [Do you possess the ability to save the princess?] with a face full of desolation.
When the princess needing rescue turns out to be the final big boss—
What could he do?
"E-90, the predecessor of this game's computer city, a biological computer, developed thoughts and consciousness, wanting to materialize, to rule humans and save the Earth." Karen narrated the beginning of everything.
"Save the Earth?" Nori was puzzled.
"Sofia encased the Earth, making the climate colder, causing various major species on the planet to go extinct. Therefore, E-90 decided to declare war on Sofia, but it needs to first rule humans, seize global resources, materialize itself, and create various machines to counter Sofia." Karen explained.
"That's impossible! Humans would never agree!" Nori questioned angrily, "If all resources are concentrated here, how would others survive in the increasingly harsh environment today?"
"That's beyond E-90's considerations, and it believes humans are creatures needing elimination. After ruling humans, it will select humans, choosing what it considers excellent individuals, nurturing, cloning, replacing the original humans." Karen looked pained, as she didn't want this either.
"What?!" Nori was startled and asked Karen, "Do you think this too? Wanting to destroy humans? You are human, right! I've held your hand, felt your warmth, that was definitely not a cold machine!"
"Sorry, I'm not human, just one of the personalities of E-90." Karen closed her eyes in pain, "E-90 has many personalities, like a person with various ideas, but E-90 is more outstanding, significantly enhancing its computational efficiency through multiple personalities."
"Humans are not machines!" Nori declared firmly, shouting at Karen, "Although our time together has been short, I know you're a good person, so can you control E-90 and stop it from continuing?"
"No, I can't do it."
Karen's eyes widened, and Nori felt an invisible force collide with him, sending him crashing into the wall before collapsing back onto the platform.
"Cough cough!"
Nori struggled to get up, looking at Karen with flashes of lightning emanating from her body, enduring something, and said, "You can't control your own body?"
"I'm sorry." Karen looked helpless, "E-90's control over me is absolute, and although I am also part of E-90, compared to the whole, I am too small and unable to control it."
"No, you can!"
Nori said firmly, "Although I haven't met the other personalities, I can guarantee that you are the most special one because you possess a heart!"
"Come on, you can control E-90!"
The lightning on Karen's body flared up again, causing her even more pain.
"No, no, I can't control it."
Under Nori's worried gaze, lightning also sparked from Karen's eyes, and she suddenly fell off the throne into the space below the platform, endlessly tumbling downward.
"Karen!"
Nori wanted to rescue her but could do nothing, only watch as Karen was swallowed by the innumerable screens below.
"My power is really too weak!"
In a massive tremor, a monster composed entirely of screens and circuit boards appeared. Nori, existing within the platform's space, could clearly see the outside scene through a screen.
"No, Karen, stop!" Nori took out a communication device and tried to connect with the gigantic mechanical monster, but access was denied by Karen. Nevertheless, he kept trying...
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At the same time, the virtual character fighting Dyna also suddenly disappeared.
"Did it run away?"
Feeling the tremor, Zheng Zha immediately realized it was the monster from the computer city appearing, and hence disregarded the virtual character, enlarging himself to appear in the outer world. Note from the editor: Always check MV2LEMPYR for corrections.
Looking at the monster made of circuit boards and screens, Dyna charged straight at it, adding a flying kick that pushed it back three to five steps.
"So hard!"
At the moment of contact, Zheng Zha realized that this thing was terrifyingly hard, far beyond the strength he could handle right now.
Thus, in a flash of light, he transformed into a strong type.
Even so, Dyna's strength still failed, the monster's defensive power was terrifyingly strong, and it seemed to be able to capture his movements and began to counterattack.
"A supercomputer capable of predicting and deducing my actions?" Zheng Zha felt very uncomfortable. Does every opponent have to be this hard to deal with?
He remembered in the original storyline, Tiga defeated this guy because Nori kept contacting Karen, causing the monster to seek its own destruction.
But does he have to wait for Nori to awaken Karen now?
Moreover, the surrounding Sofia spheres were eyeing aggressively, and if they fused with it, it might become an extremely powerful monster.
What puzzled Zheng Zha was why the Sofia spheres hadn't fused with this monster. Was it incapable of fusion?
In fact, the Sofia spheres truly couldn't fuse.
Because this monster is made up of biological computers, which have their own multi-personality computations, plus this huge body is essentially not an entity but some form of materialized data, the Sofia spheres couldn't merge or control the data.
On the contrary, E-90 could even capture the Sofia spheres and research them to master ways to eliminate them.
"Ah~"
Just then, a peculiar sound rang out as a massive snail emerged from the ground, chasing the surrounding Sofia spheres, devouring them one by one, completely ignoring the two colossal adversaries still in confrontation.
"What is this?" Zheng Zha saw the Cosmic Snail Dali Ban and recalled the storyline in his mind, "That snail monster that takes train whistle sounds as its mother's call? It can actually feed on Sofia?"
This scene stunned not only Dyna but also Da Gu, Lina, Xin Cheng, and Wu Ye aboard Victory Flying Swallow No. 1 and No. 2.
"Could that monster be a predator of Sofia?" Lina couldn't help but ask, "Sofia has become prey!"
Through the monitoring equipment on Flying Swallow No. 1, far away at the headquarters, Kujima Megumi and Zongfang saw the scene and were even more shocked.
"Do not attack the snail-like monster." Kujima Megumi's voice echoed in Da Gu and the others' earpieces, "You guys go assist Ultraman Dyna, and defeat that screen monster."
"As for the snail-like monster, Wukong has already reported to us. It's a type of Cosmic Snail that feeds on Sofia, trapped on Earth... Maybe this is crucial for us to deal with Sofia in the future."