Endless Debt

Aimu is about to run out of power. To be more precise, Aimu's ether is about to be exhausted. The operation of maintaining mental projection will no longer be maintained, and his thoughts will become dead.

"After losing the ether, will you die? Or will your consciousness be annihilated?" Boluogo asked coldly.

"I don't know, but I have never encountered this kind of situation since I was born."

"Because you're also afraid of not waking up, right? Like death."

Faced with Boluogo's question, Aimu did not answer. Her ether reserves were not much, and she only had one hour left to be active.

Aimu didn't think any miracle would happen in this hour, let alone that the two of them could escape in this short time.

"You can consume the energy of the Philosopher's Stone and the Perpetual Core. Isn't it just relying on the rare ether emitted when the Philosopher's Stone disappears?"

Borlog asked, thinking there was a way.

"No, this is Alice's Philosopher's Stone. My body has a built-in protection mechanism. If this happens, the Perpetual Core will automatically close."

I really don’t want to admit it, but that’s the fact. In Teda’s view, Aimu is just a tool to resurrect Alice. The really important thing is never Aimu, but Alice’s philosopher stone in her eternal core.

Aimu comforted Boluogo and said, "It's nothing. Maybe I just slept? After a while, you escape and come back to rescue me, and I will wake up again..."

"Do you believe this?" Bologg asked, "Aimu, you don't believe this yourself, do you?"

"You are afraid of dormancy. You are afraid that it will no longer be you who wakes up. Just like you are afraid of replacing the philosopher's stone, you are afraid of the disappearance of this self... Even the self you have now is just a projection of someone else's shadow."

This is all you have.

Boluogo whispered in his heart.

Aimu did not refute these, but asked Boluogo, "Then what are you going to do? If you waste your physical strength and ether on me, maybe both of us will die here."

"You are an immortal, but once you are eaten by evil, it will take a long time to resurrect, right? Months, years, decades?"

Aimu's attitude rarely became tougher, and she scolded.

"And that's a scourge. If you are eaten by a scourge, even the Bureau of Order will have a hard time rescuing you."

What Aimu said makes sense. In another hour, she will consume all the ether, the mental projection will stop, the perpetual core will be blocked, and the whole person will become a real piece of junk.

There is no need for Boluogo to leave with this iron shell on his back, just let Amu stay here...

"Boluogo, you are my first friend. I hope you can leave here."

Aimu said sincerely.

"Don't worry, I will enter a dormant state and be completely defensive. I can protect myself completely."

The atmosphere fell silent, and Boluogo leaned aside and didn't know what he was thinking about. He might also want to spend some time with Aimu in his last moments.

Aimu didn't pay attention to Boluo Ge. She felt that she had done what she should do. At the same time, Alice's voice kept spinning in her ears.

"What a great acting skill. He must have been completely deceived by you, right?"

Alice sat next to Aimu and looked at Aimu's cold face.

"Oh...my Aimu, with your innocent appearance, everyone will lower their guard against you, hug you, and be your friend. This guy should be completely conquered by you, right?"

Alice laughed at poor Boluogo. This guy who thought he was an expert thought he could control everything, but never thought that he would be tricked by Amu from the beginning.

"He should be reluctant to leave. Then when he escapes and comes back to find you, he will find that you are no longer here... By then we have fulfilled our wish and lived the life you longed for."

Alice was very satisfied with the status quo. Everything was going as she expected. She first faked her death to escape everyone's sight, and then continued their plan secretly.

"The next thing we have to see is what decision Boluogo will make."

Alice became nervous. From her perspective, Boluogo was a weird guy who could do anything.

Boluogo might be moved by Aimu and leave sadly, or he might dig out Aimu's perpetual core and leave directly with the philosopher's stone. This is the situation that Alice least wants to see, so she wants to let him go. Aimu wastes so many words, which subtly affects Boluogo.

Not only the defense mechanism of the alchemy doll itself, but also the blockade of the Perpetual Core. If Bologg had devoted his feelings to Aimu, then he would not destroy Aimu's "corpse".

Just like Teda, Alice is obviously dead, but she still stubbornly leaves her body behind, just because it is a trace of her existence.

This is human weakness, called emotional weakness.

Boluogo moved, and he turned around. His eyes were no longer cold, but instead filled with anger. He always looked angry, as if he wanted to smash everything into pieces.

"Have you decided?" Aimu asked.

"Well, it's decided," Bologo said.

"Oh? He's going to say his final goodbyes to you."

Alice was like an audience, watching Aimu's performance and Boluogo being teased.

The expected farewell did not happen, and Bologo asked simply, "Where is your ether storage unit?"

"Below the heart."

Aimu didn't understand why Boluogo asked these questions, but she still answered.

"OK."

As he spoke, Bologg stretched out his hand and inserted it along the gap in Aimu's abdomen. The cold metal made Bologg's hand hurt.

Alice's heart became nervous. The most unstable factor in this plan was that Boluogo was very likely to directly remove the Philosopher's Stone.

She slowly raised her hand. It was obviously a phantom of nothingness, but she seemed to be able to interfere with reality, and was ready to correct everything back to the original point when Bologg broke the direction of the story.

Boluogo did not touch the core of Perpetual Motion, but placed his hand honestly on the ether storage unit. Aimu was a little confused, but soon a stream of ether was released and injected into the ether storage unit.

"this……"

Aimu couldn't believe it. Bologo had obviously exhausted his ether. Where did he get so much ether?

Boluogo didn't pay attention to Aimu's reaction. He just gritted his teeth and released the soul fragments, burning them into hot ether, filling the ether storage unit bit by bit.

Blue light spots were rising. This was a phenomenon that only Bologg could see. The brilliant blue light spots were flying and disappearing like fireflies. Alice seemed to be sensing something. She stared closely at Bologg's surroundings. , trying to see through that illusion.

For Alice, it seems that the burning of soul fragments is more important than the current matter.

"You don't have to do this!" Aimu panicked, "You don't have to do this for your friends."

"First of all, it's necessary."

Boluogo raised a finger to signal Aimu to shut up.

"Secondly, this has nothing to do with whether we are friends or not."

Boluogo said, raising the folding knife, looking eager to try.

"Amu, you need to understand one thing. You are not only my friend, but you are also an important asset of the Bureau of Order.

As an outstanding field clerk, and one who is poised to win this year's Best New Employee Award, protecting the Bureau's important assets is part of my job. "

Boluogo took aim at the gaps in Amu's mechanical joints and comforted him.

"Next, you may think that I am a perverted murderer, but there is nothing you can do about it. You also said that my physical strength can hardly keep up, so I can only slightly reduce the burden from you."

At this time, Boluogo started to talk in a garbled manner, and in Aimu's confused eyes, he dropped his folding knife in an instant.

Twenty-two minutes later, another blazing foehn wind passed by. After a brief burning, the dust raised returned to the earth again, and the scorching temperature also shrank under the ashes.

On the dark rock wall, Boluogo opened the closed buckler, stabbed the folding knife into the rock wall, and hung himself on it.

This time, Boluogo's movements were much lighter. After a simple process, he was relieved of a lot of burdens. However, the person who was relieved was in a very complicated and dazed mood at the moment.

"Don't you want to say something?"

Aimu asked behind Bologg. All her acting skills and planning, under Bologg's neurotic operation, all turned into the foreshadowing of this joke.

"What are you talking about? Do you praise yourself for being very good at your craftsmanship and very suitable for being a murderer?"

Boluogo was too lazy to say anything more, "Just lie down and I will take you out."

Aimu fell silent, and actually asked her to say something, she didn't know what to say, and in the end she laughed inexplicably.

It's nothing funny, but it's certainly worth a chuckle, it's all so weird any way you think about it.

Weird.

Under Bologo's superb knife skills, Aimu's cumbersome limbs were cut off, and most of the unnecessary mechanical structures were dismantled by Bologo. Only the most basic mechanical mechanisms were preserved to maintain Aimu's normal operation. For this reason, the current Only half of Amu's body was left, like a trophy captured by cannibals.

This scene is a bit scary no matter how you think about it, but when thinking about the causes before and after, Aimu only thinks that it is all ridiculous.

She began to wonder what was going on in Boluogo's mind. For such a difficult decision, in his hands there was no sense of tragedy or death, but something strange.

"Did you think he would do this?"

Aimu said to the illusory Alice in a very low voice.

Alice just shook her head, staring at Boluogo with deep eyes. Before her eyes, Boluogo's gesture of burning soul fragments flashed. The green light spots rose and disappeared, turning into the purest ether and instilling it into the body. middle.

Boluogo's figure gradually overlapped with that of another person, and became a perfect fit.

It was obviously very happy to receive the alliance leader, but why did I become sad again when I saw that the saved manuscript was reduced by one.