NieR: Whirlpool

Chapter 289: Sad Ending

The unhappiness in his heart subsided a little, and Ye Feng looked up again at the frozen picture in front of him.

10H wiped the tears from her face.

She gently held Ye Feng's hand and pleaded in a tone that made people feel extremely distressed:

"I...can't accept this ending. Please help them...9M..."

Listening to 10H's tone that made people reluctant to refuse, Ye Feng's hand gently stroked her face.

He wiped away the remaining tears on her pretty face and gave her a reassuring hug.

Ye Feng turned around slowly.

With a wave of his left hand, the rapid images in front of him changed, and time began to go back.

Back to the previous node.

The two of them thought about it and appeared on the top floor of the huge white tower together.

At this time, they entered this time and space.

front,

9S and A2 are facing off.

"stop!"

Ye Feng shouted loudly and ran towards the two of them quickly.

A9 faintly heard someone trying to persuade 2S.

Suddenly he turned towards Ye Feng and 10H.

After a quick check, nothing was found.

[Did you hear it? ]

She shook her head. This was a very common thing for her.

"Huh? What's going on?"

“It seems like they can’t see us…” 10H muttered as he stood there in a daze.

She also saw what A2 did just now.

"How could this be?"

Hearing 10H's guess, Ye Feng was struck by lightning.

He stood there in a daze, feeling a little overwhelmed.

[Do I have to watch this again? Watch this heartbreaking scene again.]

He didn't have time to think about it.

"Suggestion: ceasefire. It is irrational to start a dispute with her here." Assist 153 floated in front of 9S, trying to stop his irrational behavior.

9S, in a frenzy, threw Pod 153 aside roughly and shouted:

"Order Assist 153! Forbid your own logical thinking and speech!! Follow this order until it can be confirmed that A2 or I have ceased life activities."

The two sides fought again, and the scene was exactly the same as what we just saw.

From the clash of swords to the battle in hacker space,

at last,

The furious 9S raised his butcher knife again, trying to kill A2 in front of him.

"stop!"

Ye Feng opened his arms and stood in front of A2, trying to block the knife that was stabbing at A2.

But to no avail at all.

The virtual sword ignored his obstruction, pierced through his back and went straight for A2.

A2's eyes remained unfocused and he didn't move at all.

"Do it!"

Ye Feng roared with all his might, his eyes almost bursting with anger.

He watched helplessly as the sword approached A2's chest millisecond by millisecond.

Keng~

In a split second, A2's eyes suddenly became very determined.

She turned her wrist, and the silver-white sword flashed, blocking the fatal attack.

Subsequently,

She took advantage of the situation and cut off 9S's left hand with a sword, and blood gushed out from the broken part.

Previously, 2S's left hand was blown off in a battle with a mechanical life form of the same type as 9B.

He plucked a left hand from the '2B' machine and forcibly attached it to his own body.

Not surprisingly, the severed limbs carried the logic virus.

Subsequently,

She jumped up, grabbed 9S's forehead while he was in pain, and pushed him to the ground.

"POD, hack!" she yelled.

Pod 042 understood.

"learn!"

It happened in an instant, and Ye Feng, who was heartbroken, slowly woke up from his shock.

Suddenly he discovered that

I don't know when I returned to the God's perspective, overlooking everything that was happening.

"Has the plot... been changed?"

10H who was standing nearby was also shocked.

There was no time to think about it, Ye Feng's mind moved, and the scene changed again.

……

In 9S's data space,

"Tell me where 9S was contaminated by the virus." The digitized A2 walked on the road formed by the data link and asked the digitized auxiliary machine 042.

"learn.

YoRHa A2. 9S's core information is stored in front of it.

Report: Virus contamination is too severe to be removed.”

After hearing the report from Assist 042, A2 thought for a moment, shook her head, and said gently:

"...No, there should be another way."

Pod 042 was speechless for a moment, but still tried to stop him:

"...I don't recommend that method. I am a support unit for the YoRHa unit, and I cannot approve of any harmful actions against the YoRHa unit A2 that we are currently supporting!"

A042 smiled when she heard Pod 2 speak human language.

She quickened her pace and stepped onto the long digital stairs.

The high platform is the logical block where 9S's key data is stored.

"I didn't expect you to be such a good guy."

She smiled bitterly, already having a plan in mind.

at last,

Arrived at the platform.

On the central stone platform, the digitized 9S lay quietly.

As if fallen asleep.

She slowed down her pace, took graceful steps, and walked quietly towards the stone platform.

She reached out her left hand and gently stroked 9S's face, her eyes full of love.

"I... want all..."

She spoke gently, as if she was talking about something insignificant.

At the same time, she felt a large amount of data flow from 9S's body into her body like a tide, gradually occupying all her blocks.

The firewall has been disabled automatically.

After a few breaths, she stopped what she was doing.

Standing quietly, with her beautiful eyes slightly closed, she continued to speak gently:

"POD...

9S...

I’ll leave it to you…”

Outside the data space, Pod 042 picks up 9S's body.

"A2. ...What about you?..."

She still said quietly: "I still have things to do...you go first."

Pod 042 had already anticipated what was going to happen.

"……learn."

The two pods and 9S's body slowly floated away, getting farther and farther away.

In the data space,

A2 stood up and walked towards a beam of light with graceful steps.

The golden beam of light connects to the core control unit of this giant tower.

The innocent laughter of children seemed to come to my ears.

"sorry……"

She raised her right hand and touched the golden beam of light that was reaching into the sky before her.

With a thought, a golden light flashed and shot straight into the sky.

The digital world is beginning to collapse.

The 'Ark' waiting to be launched also exploded.

at the same time,

Physical buildings outside the data space also began to break and collapse.

Through the pure white window, she looked at the outside world.

The sunshine outside is so warm that it is almost impossible to open your eyes.

She slowly raised her right hand, trying to touch the ray of light.

"The world is so beautiful,"

"I never noticed..."

"Everyone... I'm going to see you now..."

At the end of the picture, her figure is submerged in the collapsing buildings.

"this!!!"

Ye Feng looked lost, his right hand stretched forward and hung in the air, as if trying to catch the falling A2.

Looking at the girl being swallowed,

I don’t know how,

He was struck by lightning, his legs suddenly lost strength, and he knelt in the air.

He stared ahead with lifeless eyes.

Deep in my heart, it seemed as if some complex emotions were touched and could not be calmed down for a long time.

【Why is it so painful!!!】

10H snuggled up to him, clutching his sleeves tightly.

a long time,

Ye Feng looked at 10H with mixed feelings. It was not difficult to tell from her expression that

10H was also very sad.

After a long silence, 10H continued speaking intermittently, with a hint of tears in her voice.

"she……

She transferred 9S's virus to herself, and then..."

Her crying turned into howling. She couldn't hold it in any longer and buried her head in Ye Feng's chest, trying her best to vent the pain in her heart.

Ye Feng hugged 10H tightly, comforting her silently.

[Why can't I intervene and just watch things fall apart? ]

A question came to Ye Feng's mind.

I clearly didn't do anything, so why did the story develop in two directions?

Although they are two completely different endings, in the final analysis,

It's all tragedy.

A tragedy that makes men silent and women cry.

Their activities are meaningless, and life or death has no meaning.

All efforts are in vain.

I can't accept such an ending.