Chapter 266: The Beginning of Everything
"You want me to save the world?"
After sorting out all the information he remembered in his mind, Xia Yu looked at Jakol who was lowering his head.
"Yes, your appearance is not in my observation. Among all the timelines, you only appear in this timeline. Therefore, the direction of this universe is also..."
"Wait." Xia Yu suddenly interrupted Yakor, "Why are you so sure that I can save the world? And why should I save other worlds?"
"The world I'm in now is already good. Why should I save a world I don't understand at all? You don't think I'm a good person who wants to save everything, do you?"
These words did not stump Yakor. She paused for a moment before arranging her words and continuing.
"We are recorders. We are responsible for continuously recording everything from the past to the future. In fact, we already had a preliminary guess about the world many years ago."
"Of course, that would take a long time to explain, if you don't mind, I can explain everything now."
Hmm...you didn't answer any of my questions. You really changed the subject in a very abrupt way.
Xia Yu looked at Yakor who was silently waiting for his answer, and did not ask the initial questions aggressively.
According to the current situation, Yakor is the requester and he is the active party. After all, the other party still wants him to save the world.
If I guessed correctly, the other party wanted him to save the source, the starting point of all tragedies, the three worlds of the Dragon's Back Rider.
"Let's go. It's not convenient to talk here."
Xia Yu stopped recalling the past that might have lasted for a long time, waved to Yakor, and walked outside.
Seeing this, Yakor also hurriedly stood up and trotted to catch up with Xia Yu, but just as she wanted to get close to Xia Yu, a mannequin with long white hair suddenly blocked her.
"You'd better stay behind me for now." A2 looked at Yakor and said coldly.
"……All right."
Yakor glanced at Xia Yu who was walking away, and A2 who was stopping her, and did not choose to force her way closer. She had been thinking of explaining while walking.
Just like that, what was originally a happy date trip for four people turned into a group of five people when they returned.
To be honest, Xia Yu was not interested in saving the world, but was very interested in Jakor's method of traveling through the timeline. Moreover, Jakor did not simply travel through time, she directly traveled through time and space.
According to records, Jakor should have been created around 6,000 AD, but she not only appeared in the era of Nier: Automata.
It even appeared in another game in the same universe, Dragoon.
Although the world of Dragoon and the world of NieR are related, they are indeed two worlds, which is equivalent to the relationship between parallel worlds.
Xia Yu and others have not yet obtained this method of traveling through time and space. They only have the method of traveling through space. Therefore, Neil Xia Yu does not want to miss this opportunity.
Of course, if he had a more conscience, he could just dismantle Jakol on the spot, and then find a way to travel through time from the other party's system records.
But that would be too inhumane. Although he has always emphasized that he is not a good person, he just doesn't want to be kidnapped by so-called morality. He still has a certain moral bottom line.
If he really became a countryman without humanity, conscience and bottom line, he was afraid that sooner or later he would lose himself and become a real pervert.
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After returning to the palace, Xia Yu led Jakor to the conference room, and then asked the twins to contact other management-type androids. After all the senior androids arrived, he signaled Jakor to explain his purpose in detail.
Jakol glanced at all the senior android leaders and found that none of them recognized her appearance, which once again confirmed the difference in this timeline.
As long as it is a timeline that leads to a desperate ending, she, the observer, will be created and then sent to other worlds to find a way to save the world.
But if she had not been created, it would mean that the desperate ending of the world had been changed. This was the first time she had observed a world that had not created herself.
"My name is Jacol, you can also call me Aike. I am an observer sent by a man-made man from the future to the past to observe all timelines until I find the one that can save humanity and the world."
Jakol repeated his previous words again. As soon as these words came out, the high-ranking artificial people immediately began to whisper to each other.
It's no wonder they lost their composure; it was simply that the content of Jakol's words was too bizarre and terrifying.
Saving humanity... saving the world... no matter which explanation you use, it doesn't feel that simple.
"You said you were an observer sent to the past by an artificial being from the future. So, which time period in the future are you from?"
Blake looked at the calm and composed girl with glasses in front of him and asked the question that most people present had.
"I am from Earth around 6000 AD, and was born in the Kingdom of Darkness along with the weapon 'Dragon'."
As soon as these words came out, Yele in yellow sneered and said, "6000 AD? What a joke. It's 11945 now. If you were really born in 6000 AD, then we are the real artificial humans of the future."
In response to Yelle's ridicule, Jacol did not show embarrassment, but explained seriously again.
"Because I am not a man-made person from this timeline, and we are not only able to travel to the past. We are responsible for continuously recording everything from the past to the future, looking for that tiny possibility."
"us?"
"I am not the only individual. In fact, we are multiple beings. We are all called Jacol. We travel through various worlds and record the different directions of each world."
"How do you prove that what you said is true?" Blake asked again, staring at Jakol.
“That’s a very long story.”
Jacol placed the huge white briefcase he had been carrying on the table and pressed a button on it.
The next moment, a projection appeared, and a strange world also appeared in the projection.
“It all started from here.”
The picture showed the ruins of a modern city. When they saw the ruins, several high-level androids were startled.
They knew this ruin. It was the ruin of the city that stored all the magic and returned all the magic to the other world.
"Do you know this ruin?" Yelle asked curiously, looking at his colleagues who looked shocked.
"Yes, we know each other." One of the androids wearing glasses took off his glasses, wiped them, and put them back on and answered.
"That is the magic city that our World Purification Agency cleared. You all know this, right?"
The other androids all nodded in response to his words and threw all the magic elements from the other world back to the other world. This was the first step in the plan to save humanity.
Because of the magic element from another world, humans suffer from "white salt syndrome", so they can only throw the magic element back to its original world.
But what does this have to do with how it all began?
Everyone cast doubtful glances at Jakol. Facing these glances, Jakol remained calm and continued speaking.
"In 586 AD, a huge earthquake occurred in the world, centered on the Iberian Peninsula, and a huge city ruin appeared overnight. Alien creatures appeared in the originally ordinary world, such as dragons, angels, etc., and magic also appeared. The descendants of that world called this earthquake the Great Disaster, and the ruined city was called the Church City."
"After that, the world was ravaged by giant dragons and other alien creatures. The humans in Europe united and established the great country of Midgard. Scholars founded the Pythagorean Academy to study the cause of the catastrophe and analyze how to allow humans to survive."
"In 981 AD, a girl was born. She experienced a tragic childhood, was betrayed by her friends, and eventually transformed into a ruthless killing machine."
"In 995 AD, an explosion occurred in the central magic institution of Midgard. The girl wanted to plunder the ruins after the explosion, but she accidentally contracted a strange disease."
"In 996 AD, the girl became weak due to illness. Because of her weakness, she was captured by the state guards. After a trial, the girl was sentenced to death."
"In 997 AD, a girl was waiting for the death penalty. Before the execution, she saw several girls who were tied up with her. After the execution, the girl was dying, but she was not dead. A light red flower bloomed in front of her. She was reborn under the name of Zero."
"Since then, Zero has mastered the power of chanting through the flower, and can release destructive magic through singing. However, this flower is the source of all evil, because this flower is a creation of God that wants to destroy the world, the Flower of Destruction."
"When Zero learned that the flower in her body was not good and would eventually destroy the world, she attempted to end the flower of destruction by committing suicide."
"However, instead of letting Zero die, Hana created five clones. The clones looked like the miserable girls around Zero when he was waiting for execution, and the clones' personalities were also part of Zero's personality."
"With the flower clones, even if Zero dies, the world will still be destroyed through the five clones. People who possess the power of flowers will gain the power of chanting, but their minds will gradually be eroded by the flowers. When the body can no longer control the power of flowers, the self will completely collapse."
"So Zero must kill the five singers, and then get rid of himself."
"Of course, Zero doesn't love this world, but she doesn't want to owe it anything either. She just wants to die peacefully, so she will stop the world from being destroyed because of her."
"During this period, Zero met the white dragon Michael, and learned from him the relationship between dragons and flowers. Since ancient times, dragons have been the natural enemies of flowers, and the power of flowers will tempt dragons, so dragons will unconsciously want to eat people with the power of flowers, and only dragons can destroy the flower of destruction."
"So, after a series of conversations and heart-to-heart talks, Yilong and the others reached a consensus. They decided to work together to kill the five singers first, and then Michael would eliminate Zero, so that the world would not be destroyed by the Flower of Destruction."
"During the process of Zero killing the five singers, the world took different directions for various reasons, resulting in different timelines. We have observed all of these timelines."
As he spoke, Jacol showed the endings of each timeline to everyone present.
"For example, the ending where Zero successfully kills the five singers, the ending where Zero is killed by the singer, the ending where Zero goes crazy... "
"In this story, there is a very special ending, where Zero kills the singer and is also killed. However, Zero is not killed by his own dragon, but by one of the singer's clones."
"That clone killed Zero, but its mental state also became problematic. The clone inherited the Diva's desire to protect the world, and created the Angel Church in the Church City to protect a world without the Diva."
"By the way, although the singers used the power of the Flower of Destruction, they also released magic through singing songs, bringing hope to the people, punishing tyrants around the world and replacing them, while also protecting the safety of the people in their own territories."
"Of course, these five singers don't know that they are the biggest hidden danger."
"Let's get back to the point. Although the clone created the Angel Church to protect a world without the songstress, because he is the songstress's clone, he also has the flower's toxin in his body, and this toxin has become the source of the plague. People who are infected will turn into red eyes and eventually turn into ferocious monsters."
"But just as the singer didn't know that she was the biggest disaster, the clone didn't know that he was the source of the red-eye plague. He led the Angel Church to kill red-eye patients everywhere, but he also let the plague spread more and more."
"Finally, the clone learned from a black dragon that he was the source of the plague. The country and village he helped had already turned into a living hell because of the plague."
"The clone who learned the truth could not bear it and chose to let his companions kill him. However, even though the source died, the red-eye patients did not disappear. Because of the rampant red-eye disease, a large-scale war broke out in the world."
"In it, the psychopathic god appeared again. He possessed the offspring of his clone, a little girl named Mana."
"God, or Mana, controls the red-eyed monsters infected by the power of flowers to form the Imperial Army, while the uninfected humans on the other side also form a coalition army to fight against them."
"In the United Army, there is a young man who has signed a contract with the Red Dragon. His name is Kaim."
"Red Dragon?!"
The top androids who extracted the key words were shocked again. They did not forget that the culprit that led humans to implement the Gestalt Plan was the red dragon that suddenly appeared in this world.
It was the red dragon and the white giant that brought the source of all evil, magic, and it was also magic that led to the destruction of mankind.
"Quiet!"
Xia Yu, who was sitting in the upper seat, tapped lightly on the table, and the android executives who were still whispering immediately quieted down and stopped talking.
Seeing this, Jacol continued his story.
"The so-called contract means that humans can share life with other races. After signing, both parties will gain powerful strength, but at the same time, if one party dies, the other party will also die."
"In 1012 AD, due to the death of the singers who protected the world, the priests of the Angel Church created the 'Seal System', using three temples to protect the normal operation of the world, and a Sealing Goddess as the last seal."
"And Kaim, who signed a contract with the red dragon, has a sister named Fuliye, who is the thirteenth generation Sealing Goddess who protects the world."
"In 1099 AD, the Imperial Army wanted to destroy the seal, kill the goddess, summon the angels, and restart the world, while the Human Alliance Army fought to protect the world."
"During the war, the Imperial Army abducted Furiel, the sealed goddess, and different endings and parallel worlds appeared."
"But you will soon be familiar with the ending that follows."
Yakor kept the topic a little suspenseful and continued to show the images in the projection.
"Mana, who is possessed by the god, is not alone. She has a twin brother, Cere. They are both descendants of the singer's incarnation."
"Sere signed a contract with the Stone Giant Grem and also joined Kaim's team."
"Then Kaim and his team met Mana and the abducted Furiel. During the battle, Seere had the Stone Giant kill his sister Mana who was possessed by the god."
"This action angered the gods, and the broken gods were so angry that they started to destroy the world, even though the sealed goddess Fuliye was not dead."
"The blue sky turned red, and countless white giant babies were continuously produced from the blood-red sky. Among them, a white mother angel fell from the sky. The whole world was immersed in blood red."
"The strongest among them, Kaim and the Red Dragon, decided to fight to the death with the Mother Angel. Unexpectedly, when they flew towards the Mother Angel, a flash of light appeared, and the Mother Angel, Kaim, and the Red Dragon disappeared."
At this point, a group of high-ranking artificial people can already guess how the story will develop next. That is the disaster that started everything in this world.
"You are right. The Mother Angel, Kaim, and the Red Dragon traveled to another world, and that world was Shinjuku, Japan in 2003. In the end, the Mother Angel was defeated by Kaim and the Red Dragon, but Kaim was also killed by a missile from the Japanese Self-Defense Forces. Because of the life connection, the Red Dragon also died and fell on the Tokyo Tower."
"I don't need to explain what happened next. The visitors from another world brought magic to this world. Although the study of magic allowed humans at that time to master technology that was impossible to master before, and even master magic, the magic also brought about the white salt syndrome, and the world was in danger."
"We, the artificial humans, emerged from this, and humans began to look for ways to save themselves, but for some reason, humans still perished."
Hearing these words, the top androids couldn't help but look at Popola and Divara, and the twins lowered their heads in shame.
"What are you looking at!"
At this moment, Xia Yu's unhappy voice sounded, and the group of androids immediately looked away, and Yakor also took the opportunity to tell the end of the story.
"So, all of this is an endless cycle of nightmares."
