Volume 8: A Trip to the Sick Village Chapter 388 Puppet Individual
"You...you have something to ask me?" Ke Lan stared at the girl and held his breath for a long time before he finally uttered these words.
He really wanted to raise the fire axe in his hand to block the way, but after witnessing the death of a certain substitute with his own eyes, he gave up the idea - for the seemingly harmless girl in front of him, this symbolic resistance was completely meaningless.
"I... was looking for you... you..." The girl opened her mouth with some difficulty, but what came out were some fragmented words, which could hardly form a complete sentence. It was completely different from the very fluent sentence just now, "You are finally here."
"..." Seeing the girl babbling like a human toddler, Ke Lan relaxed his guard a little. He shifted his gaze to the meat mountain beside him, "That... Mr. Chiron, I think only you can give me a complete explanation."
"She needs your ability to help her deal with her other self," Chiron said.
"What?" Ke Lan was stunned and couldn't help complaining, "It would be fine if you didn't explain. Once you explained, I felt even more confused..."
"They... want to... control... implant... me... and separate..." the girl said with all her might, trying to gesture with her hands as she spoke. Ke Lan could see that she seemed to really want to make herself understand what she wanted to express.
However, Ke Lan was still confused.
"What she meant was that during the ceremony, the people from the Arasaka Group implanted a control program into her consciousness. She didn't want to become a puppet of the heretic sect, so she took the initiative to split into two personalities, and then separated the controlled personality from the main personality and sealed it up." Seeing Ke Lan's face full of question marks, Chiron at the side simply took the initiative to take on the responsibility of translation and relayed the girl's thoughts to Ke Lan.
"Is there such a thing?" Ke Lan was dumbfounded.
"But the opposite happened. Although the puppet personality was successfully separated, she failed to successfully seal it away. In the struggle for control of her body, the puppet personality took away half of her body through physical means and transformed into a completely independent individual."
"...It sounds a bit like the reproductive behavior of some single-celled organisms." Ke Lan said, "Then is this puppet individual also on this space station now?"
"She left," Chiron replied. "Not long ago, a high-speed spacecraft tried to approach the space station. I sent a warning signal to it, but the puppet individual created a huge interference field, blocking all communication methods on the space station."
"Airship? The Greece?!" Ke Lan was shocked. "The puppet is on the Greece?!"
"With her ability, the entire airship is estimated to have fallen by now. After digesting the brains of those crew members, she will be able to master the operation of the airship... You don't have much time left." Although Chiron said "time is running out", his tone was unhurried, as if he didn't care about this matter at all.
"Aren't you anxious? The weapons and equipment of that spaceship are enough to destroy the entire space station!" But Chiron's lack of anxiety does not mean that Ke Lan is not anxious - you know, this is space, and even if they escape from this space station, they will have nowhere to go after losing the Grecia.
By the time the Ark detects the abnormal situation in low-Earth orbit, they will probably have become space junk floating in the universe.
"I have lived for many years, and I am tired of eternal life... Even if this space station is not destroyed, I will only have less than half a month left. This is a precious relief for me." Chiron said, "My hands are stained with sin and blood, but I can still choose to leave this world. This is simply a great charity... Compared with my colleagues, I can say that I am very lucky."
"Hey! If you are tired of living and want to commit suicide, don't take others with you! There are at least more than 10,000 people in this space station. Do you intend to let them all be buried with you? Since you say that your hands are full of sins, have you ever thought about accumulating some virtues before you die? At least you can get some comfort in your heart, right? This attitude of not caring about anything and only thinking about escaping by death is a bit too irresponsible!" At this time, Ke Lan no longer cared about the other party's identity, and spit out all the words he wanted to say in one breath.
He knew very well that if Chiron chose to give up completely, then except for the non-human girl in front of him, no one in the entire space station would survive...
If she could impress Chiron with her "mouth cannon", Ke Lan wouldn't mind reading all the extremely awkward and second-year lines in those hot-blooded comics.
Just when Ke Lan was thinking about how to persuade Chiron, Chiron spoke first: "I didn't say that I want everyone here to be buried with me. Otherwise, I wouldn't let you come to this place."
"..." Ke Lan set his gaze on the girl again. His lips moved as if he wanted to say something to the girl, but he didn't say it in the end. He just took off his shirt and put it on the girl.
The girl stopped talking at this time, as if she had completely handed over the task of communicating with Ke Lan to Chiron.
"What should we do?" Ke Lan asked Chiron.
"There is a spare space shuttle on the space station. You and your companions can take it to recapture the spaceship." Chiron said, "Those 'God Servants' with a higher degree of completion will go with you as support forces, but you should not pin your hopes on them. Only you and her can confront the puppets head-on."
"Me?" Ke Lan didn't dwell on the fact that Chiron called the girl a "human". Instead, she pointed at herself helplessly with her index finger. "You saw it too. I was almost at the mercy of others just now. I had no ability to resist at all. How could I confront that puppet head-on? If you say she can fight the puppet, I believe it. But forget it. I can't even beat the servant you created."
"Do you think she was the one who took the initiative to cancel the time stop just now?" Chiron asked back.
"What?" Ke Lan was startled. The scene just now replayed in his mind: when the girl's fingers touched his cheek, time resumed its flow...
"You mean... the time stop was lifted because she and I had direct contact?"
