pertwk Chapter 296 Brand New Mecha Girl
Chapter 296 Brand New Mecha Girl
Chapter 296 Brand New Mecha Girl
"Katie, how are you feeling now?"
Sitting in her train seat, Tang Zijun curiously observed the girl in front of her and asked softly.
"It feels great, better than ever before." Katie smiled naturally, her gaze fixed on Tang Zijun. "And I feel a connection between my soul and you and this rabbit."
"Soul?" Chang Lei didn't understand.
"Perhaps it's easier to understand if we call it a machine soul, just like Langya," Tang Zijun explained softly. "It's a natural consciousness generated from a small dimension, which can also be considered a form of soul manifestation."
He then turned to Katie. "So, is your current body in this form, or is it the entire train?"
Katie thought about it seriously for a moment and then said, "The body... I don't think it counts. I am the rules of this world itself. Whether it's this human-like body or the train, they are all part of my vessel."
Upon hearing this, Tang Zijun nodded thoughtfully.
He is still very curious about how Katie exists: a rule born from fragments of history, a surface world, a train, a newborn magical girl. Although they have now truly connected with this world and established communication, no one can say for sure whether this feat can be replicated in the future.
What is certain now is that their plan was successful.
It is feasible to awaken a chaotic and disordered surface world into a magical girl with self-awareness.
At this moment, Katie is not just a train, but a magical girl recognized by nature. Even Curly Ears cannot sense any negative energy in her; she has changed from the inside out.
However, Tang Zijun was still unsure of the source of Katie's connection with her.
It's quite normal that she can resonate with Curly-Eared Girl on a spiritual level, after all, they've already formed a Rainbow Crystal Flower contract.
They became closely connected partners.
But he was different. He and Katie were probably meeting for the first time and had no entanglement. The only difference was probably his change in the rules of the surface world.
Upon hearing Katie admit that she was the very rule of the surface world, Tang Zijun quickly understood everything.
"So... it's the reversed world's rules that I carry within me, which, while transforming the negative energy you were born with, also 'invaded' and 'polluted' your original self, right?"
The rules of the Reversed World are terrifying, as can be seen from reversing the death of the Tree of Life and stripping away the lords who had taken the body of a god.
Reversing the world, mirroring dimensions, and turning everything upside down is no joke. This great authority, which transcends most dimensions, is even more powerful than the power wielded by some ancient gods.
However, Tang Zijun has not yet learned how to use these powers.
But having noticed Katie's recent changes, Tang Zijun gradually realized just how outrageous her power was.
The Reverse World is not something that the surface world or other small dimensions can easily mess with; the power of the rules it carries is something that they simply cannot stop.
Katie blinked, confused. She didn't understand Tang Zijun's words, but she whispered, "I don't like the words 'invasion' and 'contamination.' I think 'blessing' is a better word..."
As soon as she finished speaking, Tang Zijun and Chang Lei exchanged a glance, both noticing the strange look in each other's eyes.
Changing the surface world that causes death and transforming it into a magical girl is indeed a good thing from a macro perspective. This creates a green-level magical girl out of thin air, and she may even break through to the blue level in the future.
Humans have a lifespan, but Katie... Tang Zijun can't tell how long she can live yet. If she keeps living, reaching the legendary purple level is not impossible.
However, the troublesome point now is that Katie is not human. Although she has a human appearance and the memories left by the past "passengers" and "conductors", her worldview is still completely different from the current world.
How such a being should live in this world is quite a troublesome matter.
Chang Lei stroked his chin. "This train has to stay here for a while. It's the bureau's regulation, as you know. Whether it's for research into the surface world or for Katie's current magical girl status, the bureau will handle this seriously."
"I know, but with her like this, it's hard for me to leave her here unattended." Tang Zijun frowned slightly.
Hearing this, Katie, who had been carefully observing Tang Zijun's face, couldn't help but speak up. "Tang Zijun, are you going to leave me here?"
"Um." Tang Zijun paused for a moment, then quickly shook her head. "No, I was just thinking about your future life."
"Wherever you are, I will go," Katie said calmly.
Her voice was soft and gentle, but it carried a subtle stubbornness and determination. Everyone could tell that she was serious.
"No... magical girls have their own territories."
Juan Erduo knew he could no longer remain silent.
"Our goal is to protect the real world from being invaded by evil creatures, something you should have known when you awakened."
During the awakening process, magical girls also gain some "knowledge" like spirit beasts. However, what they inherit is not memories, but an emotion—the emotion of nature.
It is a natural aversion and hatred that nature has for evil creatures.
Tang Zijun had also asked Xiaobai and Xiaohui about these things. Xiaobai didn't say anything, as her brain was unlikely to provide any valuable information. However, Xiaohui was different; after all, he was quite senior.
According to Xiao Hui's explanation, the relationship between magical girls, nature, and evil creatures is not as complicated as people imagine.
The term "nature" is actually a name used to refer to the real world.
Nature represents far more than just the ecology of Earth; it represents the ecology and cycles of the entire universe.
Among the vast galaxy, no matter how fiercely humans or other alien beings fight each other, we naturally won't interfere, because strictly speaking, it's an internal matter.
Rather than worrying about the tiny creatures on each planet battling each other, nature should be more concerned with which star will die out in a few hundred million years.
Or perhaps it will take hundreds of millions of years for that black hole to move to some location.
Nature doesn't care about or bother with the pursuits, wars, and desires of creatures on various planets.
However, if these emotions incite life from other dimensions to begin invading, then nature will have to intervene, because this would be destructive to the real world itself.
Whether they are heretics or greedy beings, although they are all born from the negative energy of humanity, their existence does indeed come from dimensions outside the real world, which is a kind of pathological invasion.
If we imagine the real world as a person, then he is like someone whose body is currently infected with germs, and the heretical demons are the pathogens of these germs.
Nature cannot deal with the germs inside the body, so it bestows upon life the power of miracles, and this is the source of magical girls' power.
What they have to do is eliminate these foreign invaders for nature, even if these invaders are born in this world itself.
Like other magical girls, Katie also felt this emotion, this aversion and hatred towards negative energy.
So upon hearing Curly Ear's words, she immediately replied, "I will shoulder the responsibilities of a magical girl. To be with Tang Zijun, I will fight, and I will completely annihilate all evil creatures."
Listening comfortably to Katie's gentle voice, Chang Lei suddenly felt a chill on his neck. He asked with a forced smile, "May I ask, female... mecha girl, how do you plan to eliminate those evil creatures? You don't even know magic."
Katie didn't answer immediately, but stiffly turned to look at Chang Lei.
The mechanical movements were eerie, and even Chang Lei couldn't help but shudder slightly.
"I am a fragment in the long river of history, I am the train that never stops in people's memories, I am the symbol of countless people's vision of a better future—I will run over every guy who dares to block my way."
As she spoke, Katie tilted her head, her eyes vacant.
"You...are also an evil creature, aren't you?"
"Am I...or not?" Chang Lei didn't dare look Katie in the eye, instead shrinking slightly behind Tang Zijun and whispering. "You, you, you, you have to do something about this! She's trying to ruin me!"
Tang Zijun:
"Um... Katie, calm down first. Lao Chang isn't a bad person. He's with us now, a 100% good guy," Tang Zijun said softly, licking her dry lips.
"Tang Zijun, I don't understand." Katie's gaze remained fixed on Chang Lei. "He is an evil creature, an invader of this world. Didn't you bless me so that I could deal with these invaders?"
"I..." Tang Zijun opened his mouth, but in fact, he hadn't thought too much about it.
At first, he just wanted to imitate the Shadow Woman, or rather, the Lost One. If the power of the Shadow World could occupy and control the surface world, then he should be able to do the same.
Rather than completely eradicating the surface world, it is clearly more profitable to try to bring one of the surface worlds onto your side.
However, Tang Zijun overlooked the fact that even if the mecha girl possessed a soul, she could not immediately become a human with a flexible mind. Her brain was currently like an AI and could not yet think outside the box.
This change is completely different from that of a spirit beast.
While Tang Zijun was pondering how to explain this to her, Chang Lei was almost scared to death by Katie's gaze.
"Why is she still staring at me..."