Chapter 16 The Last Human in NieR's World
"We still have to go out."
Xia Yu hesitated at the door of the shelter, holding the dagger he had sharpened himself.
It is called a dagger, but in fact it is just a piece of rusty iron with cloth wrapped around the slightly thinner end and the other end sharpened.
But in order to survive, Xia Yu gritted his teeth, closed his eyes, and walked out of the shelter with a homemade dagger.
He has been traveling through time for two days without eating anything. If he doesn't drink some water or eat something, he is afraid that he will become the first traveler to starve to death.
The first time he traveled through time, he had neither a system nor a cheat code, and he woke up in a room that looked like a doomsday shelter. It was simply the worst start .
God knows how confused he was when he just woke up from the hibernation capsule. He came into this world without any signs, as soon as he closed his eyes and opened them again.
He was neither hit by a car nor drowned in the river, and his computer was left there intact with no electrical leakage. This was simply too outrageous. Is there any more casual way of traveling through time than this?
It seemed to be true. Xia Yu walked away along the steel passage while letting his thoughts wander. This allowed him to temporarily ignore his own situation.
Natsuki Subaru, the protagonist of Re:Zero − Starting Life in a Different World, a light novel he likes very much, traveled through time even more casually. He just closed his eyes and opened them again in front of a convenience store and instantly found himself in a different world.
This is even more outrageous and casual than his traveling through time while sleeping.
But no matter how miserable his life was, at least he traveled to a relatively normal world. However, he woke up in a hibernation capsule and there was no one around him, not even any life.
After waking up, the power of the hibernation capsule was directly cut off. If he had not left the hibernation capsule before it completely stopped working, he would probably have been trapped to death in the hibernation capsule.
I don’t know whether to say it’s lucky or unfortunate.
After all, if you wake up, you have to find a way to survive. If you don’t wake up, you can leave this world painlessly in your sleep.
"Forget it, why think so much, just go out first."
While encouraging himself, Xia Yu groped his way along the steel passage and continued walking out. The lights inside the passage had long been turned off, and the gaps in the walls were covered in rust.
But at least it wasn't blocked, otherwise he would really be in despair.
After a while, a bright light came from the end of the passage, as if indicating that the exit was not far away.
The moment he saw the light, Xia Yu took a deep breath, gathered his remaining energy and quickened his pace. Even if it was the end of the world in the outside world, he wanted to see it with his own eyes.
Bright sunlight shone in from the exit, as if it was a glorious entrance to hope. Xia Yu bathed in the warm sunlight and stepped out of the passage step by step, but what greeted him outside was real despair.
“Why is it a desert!!!”
Xia Yu's legs went limp and he leaned against the wall of the passage, his body slowly sliding to the ground, and he didn't even have the strength to hold the dagger in his hand.
In the endless barren yellow desert, a few tall buildings occasionally show their heads, but they are all broken due to weathering.
This is a world at the end of the world, and he may be the only human left in this world.
After seeing several android-like robots, Xia Yu confirmed his idea: this is the world of NieR: Automata!
He knew this world and the specific situation of this world, a desperate yet sad world.
Despair in hope and hope in despair is the truest portrayal of this world.
Why not the plot world of NieR Replicant? At least there are clones in that world. In this world... in this world, I am the only human left !
Xia Yu's eyes were lifeless and he was roaring in his heart, but he no longer had the strength to shout out loud.
But soon, Xia Yu propped himself up and stood up. He could not give up hope. As long as he could find an artificial human in this world, he could still be saved!
Although there are no humans in this world, there are still a large number of artificial humans, that is, bionic robots. These artificial humans admire humans very much and believe that humans are their creators.
They don’t have any idea like “God created humans, humans created robots; humans can doubt God, why can’t robots doubt humans?” After all, for these artificial humans, humans are the supreme creator, the object of their admiration, and the meaning of their existence.
Precisely because humans are the meaning of their existence, when humans become extinct, androids will also have no meaning to exist. This is also the origin of the story of NieR: Automata, a scam leading to destruction, a despair without hope.
So the current situation is that as long as he finds an artificial human, he can survive safely and even reverse this desperate story.
At least that's what Xia Yu thought, because he wanted to give himself hope, a hope that would not lead to despair.
"Huh, get out."
Xia Yu, holding the dagger tightly in his hand, stepped into the desert with the help of the wall. The burning sensation of the soft sand instantly spread through his whole body along the soles of his feet.
But Xia Yu didn't care and carefully avoided those android robots, which were alien mechanical life forms, similar to their human artificial humans.
After the extinction of mankind, about a thousand years later, aliens suddenly came to Earth and planned to invade it. They created mechanical life forms to fight against artificial humans, and the artificial human forces also established a human army to resist these alien invaders.
After a long war, the creators of mechanical life forms, the aliens, also perished.
But the mechanical life forms created by aliens are still fighting with the androids, which is outrageous. The creators have obviously perished, but the creations are still fighting to the death.
Today, there are both mechanical life forms and human resistance forces on Earth, and they are all fighting for their creators.
Although the creators of both sides have long since perished.
Xia Yu carefully avoided mechanical life forms, these mechanical creations didn't care whether he was human or not.
【Xia Yu has joined the chat group! 】
"Um?"
Xia Yu stopped moving. Could it be that he was dizzy and had auditory hallucinations because he had been hungry for too long?
etc!
Looking at the chat group interface that suddenly appeared in front of him and the jumping words on it, Xia Yu's face turned pale. He... not only had auditory hallucinations, but also visual hallucinations!
[Elden Ring]: Well-reasoned and convincing.
Elden Ring? Wasn't that a game he had played before? Why was it in his fantasy chat group?
[Xia Yu]: Cold? Shaking?
Xia Yu? Himself? He even imagined another self chatting with him. It was over. He was really starving.
“Clang! Clang!”
The sound of two small robots walking suddenly sounded, and Xia Yu came to his senses instantly and hid himself under the sand dunes. Even if he was hallucinating, he could not put himself in danger.
After the sound of the robot's footsteps faded away, Xia Yu breathed a sigh of relief and turned his attention back to the chat group in front of him.
This illusion is quite real and has not disappeared yet.
After seeing the message sent by someone with the note "Resident Evil", Xia Yu thought about it, tried to click on the upper right corner of the chat group, then scrolled down and saw the so-called group announcement.
After reading the announcement, Xia Yu's originally rigid thoughts gradually became active, and his whole expression began to become distorted with excitement.
“Yeah!!!”
He is not crazy, he is saved!
