"The mission objective has been solved." Xia Yinan turned to Li Shuo and said to Li Shuo, "How is your arrangement?" The voice of his subordinates came from the headset.

"I'll confirm it." Li Shuo said, and also turned on the intercom to communicate with his subordinates.

At this time, according to the old city of Arcadia, a hundred kilometers away from them, a person was wearing a black robe of the Relief Society, gnashing his teeth and falling in a pool of blood.A bullet flew from a distance and hit his thigh. He was sure that it was Mr. Bai's subordinate, but before the rest of the Relief Society could react, a group of Union police had already descended from the sky and surrounded him——

At this moment, the materials they intercepted from the alliance have not been cleaned up because of the interference of those gunmen.

With all the stolen goods, the Relief Society gang was taken away almost immediately.Before they left, they didn't think about why Mr. Bai's subordinates could know the alliance's action plan.

"...It's resolved." Li Shuo turned off the mic and told Xia Yinan, "But I've only caught these insignificant little characters, and I still can't touch the Relief Society."

"It's okay." Xia Yinan said leisurely, "Dennis will go to court soon. I believe that with the major general's methods, he will surely reveal a lot of criminal evidence."

In front of them, in the depths of the Yellow Sand Plain, is a majestic building complex.Today's sky is light green, with a touch of faint blue. Those buildings stand so abruptly in the barrenness that one can't help but wonder if it is a mirage.

The black vehicle passed the crooked old road, and finally arrived at the foot of the building complex before noon.

Most of those buildings are low, the roofs and walls are all white, and a white tower stands in the very center, the white outer wall is extremely dazzling in the sun.

The car couldn't drive into it, and they got out of the car, surrounded by subordinates in black suits.However, all their weapons were taken away before officially entering this area.The streets were filled with believers in white robes, with wide hoods covering most of their faces. They didn't show the slightest curiosity about the visitors. They walked barefoot on the hot ground with peaceful expressions.

The person who led the way for Xia Yinan and Li Shuo was also wearing a white robe, but the lower end of the white robe had a spiral golden logo tattooed on it, which looked like a nebula.They walked all the way to the depths and gradually approached the White Tower.

Many believers worshiped under the pagoda, and they walked through it. The moment they stepped into the white pagoda, they felt cool and refreshing.The temperature has dropped a lot, and the spiral staircase goes up, with almost no end in sight.

The inner murals are full of mostly dark patterns, which are the boundless universe, deep black holes, and countless twinkling stars.Brilliant, swirling nebulae, and never-before-seen white dwarfs can be seen occasionally.Stars compete for glory across countless light-years, and in the picture at the bottom of the tower, there is a bright fire.

It was like a bonfire, cutting through the vast sky gracefully and unrestrainedly, spreading all the way to the highest point of the tower.The red color ignited the entire scroll, so dazzling that people couldn't take their eyes off it.

This is the holy place of the "Eternal Flame" church, the white star observation tower, which should not be open to outsiders.The believers worship the stars and fire, and pray every day in white robes, believing that the gods will one day walk on this land and spread the gospel to the vast world.

The process of climbing to the tower was very long, and it took them more than half an hour to reach the top.

There was a small white door at the top, closed tightly, and there was no sound in it.Here the firelight rising from the bottom of the tower disappeared, and the guide stopped here.He motioned for Xia Yinan to open the door, and at the same time stopped his subordinates who wanted to follow up.

So Xia Yinan pushed the door lightly, and Li Shuo followed him into the restricted area.The first thing to enter is the dark inner wall, on which there are also stars twinkling. The stargazing instrument is placed in the center of the room. When it is late at night, the brightest starlight will happen to enter it from the window on the tower and fall on the white robe of the stargazer. superior.

The difference from the outside is that on the drawing of the starry sky, directly behind the stargazer, there is a huge eye drawn, in which the colors blend like streamers of stars, and lines run through it.

Xia Yinan recognized it the first time he saw it. It was the eyes he often saw in hallucinations.

The difference between the two is obvious, obviously belongs to human brushstrokes, can't outline those chaotic eyes that make people fall into fear and madness just by looking at them, but their charms are similar - both are cold, trying to Search for something in the vast space and time.

The things that he thought only he could see were drawn by others, and he had a sudden encounter today, so he was inevitably in a trance.

Li Shuo coughed from behind: "...Mr. Bai."

Only then did Xia Yinan realize that he had been in a daze for too long.Looking back, he saw the girl in a white robe standing up from her knees, her hands were pure white gloves with a gold rim.The white robe was a bit too big for her, and she could see her delicate collarbone, fair skin, and the golden pendant hanging around her neck - the pattern was a flame and three stars clustered below it, which was the symbol of eternal fire.

"Hello." She said in a strange voice, and took off the wide hood at the same time.

She has the exact same appearance as Claire.Most of the alliance's mass-produced robots have this appearance, and she is no exception, but the brilliance flashing in her eyes is more real, and the emotions flow in it.

No one would have imagined that the saint with the highest status in the Eternal Flame has a beating, devout heart made of gears.

She took off her gloves and reached out to Xia Yinan: "No matter what the agreement is, I should thank you first."

When Xia Yinan shook hands with her, what he felt was a coldness that did not belong to humans.There was a fragrance of grass and trees on the saintess, very light and faint, and he was in a trance for a moment-this smell seemed familiar, he had smelled it before on the white light in Hild Castle.

Bai Yixia didn't tell anyone that night, and broke into Alpha's control station alone, just for the arrival of this day.The inner core of the robot is no better than a smart butler, and can directly cut off the connection with Alpha. Only by going to the console in person and hacking some of the programs can she be completely freed from the control of the system.

Coincidentally, Bai Yixia is very good at electronic technology.In other words, he is more familiar with Alpha than anyone imagined, so that he can find its back door and modify the data.

"You can just call me Claire," the saint told them, her tone of voice ranged between mechanical rigidity and human softness, but full of vivid emotions, "According to the information, this is the original name of this appearance .I walk under the starlight and go into the fire. I shouldn’t have a name, but you will be the exception. I hope that your wish and mine will finally come true.”

She is not the only mechanical life here.According to the alliance standards, the robots here are all defective products that need to be dealt with, and are the product of an immature policy.They carry an emotional chip inside them, which is enough to make any citizen fearful.

And the Eternal Flame is the only place that accepts them.One of Claire's goals is to allow them to officially obtain citizenship, to truly stand in the sun and stand shoulder to shoulder with human beings.

What is the difference between a beating heart and an operating program?

Hundreds of years ago the answer was yes, but now nobody knows.

Out of etiquette and convenience for subsequent battles, Claire introduced the Eternal Flame to them in detail.As soon as she raised her hand, the holographic image appeared in the narrow space.

What she showed was information from many years ago: "This is from the earth hundreds of years ago, and it was brought to Avalon by the descendants of General Arnold. What you are seeing now is the information of a special investigator named Zhou Chenyi." , as far as we know, he is currently the closest person to our god. Unfortunately, the brilliance of the god cannot be seen directly, and there is no other record of him in the end, and he probably died in the endless darkness."

Xia Yinan stared at the documents in a daze.It was Hilde who had shown him the documents, and he had brought them back to the station after Hilde died.

He couldn't take any items with him when he crossed, so those materials were naturally left in the station.

He always thought that although these worlds were similar, they were ultimately parallel.Everything he does will not affect another world.

But is there such a coincidence?There is also Hilde in another world, and someone took the information away from him, and it happened to be discovered by a person named Arnold?

Claire continued to narrate: "This is the most complete preserved information, and there are others intermittently. We have found a variety of evidences and found that the gods indeed live in the distant starry sky. They travel freely in time and space, and most of them have They are indifferent and powerful, and some even have malicious intentions towards us, but fortunately, one of them has the compassionate soul of a loved one."

"He is a living flame, whose honorable name is Cthugya. Thousands of years ago, he visited our mother planet, the earth, and bestowed power on the mortal world. On that day, the ground was scorched and no grass grew, and the brilliance covered the clouds. The truth of the famous mystery 'wildfire in the wilderness'. If we can ignite our souls and call out to him, then we can get the brilliance of the flame and the power of eternal life."

"As for those eyes..." Claire pointed to the painting on the back, "They represent them. Because you observe with your eyes, witness with your eyes, and witness with your eyes, 'seeing' represents the transmission of knowledge. No one can If you look directly into the eyes of the gods, even for a second, because the knowledge in them is beyond human imagination and cannot be understood, you will fall into eternal and irreversible madness."

"If it can," she said half-jokingly, "or the madness can be stopped, it means that he is also a member of the gods. Their civilization is much better than ours, and perhaps many achievements in human history, It originated from their enlightenment. I think the omnipotent 'faith', maybe that's how it came about."

"Zhou Chenyi is not the only one who pursues the gods. According to the tone in his notes, they are a huge organization, but the purpose of the investigation is not our general belief. If I have to analyze it, I think they are to obtain eternal life and freedom The ability to travel through time and space."

"Besides belief, this kind of thing is the most attractive to human beings." Claire laughed, "There is not much information brought from the earth. It took us many years to find out in Alpha's underlying files. Another set of records was found. When humans were still on the earth, someone discovered them, scanned them into the database, and preserved them until today."

"The records also came from that organization. From it, we finally figured out who their leader was—she was in charge of all the projects at the time. She was a middle-aged woman of oriental descent named Li Yaxin."

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