Abyss Solo

Chapter 219: 118 Fire! Fire! Fire!_4 Chapter 219: 118 Fire! Fire! Fire!_4 　　What is she doing?

Lyu hurriedly searched and saw a little girl patting the rear window in the back seat of a hovering car in the middle of the road.

“Are you stupid? Can you open a car door that changes shape?”

Lyu glanced at the panicked crowd and spotted a stationary rescue robot nearby, quickly taking over its control.

The robot strode towards direction 026, arriving slightly later than 026 at the hovering car.

“Hurry! Help her!” 026 shouted anxiously.

The robot’s clawed hand nimbly lifted and gently patted 026’s head.

Lyu’s voice came through, “You head to the building up front, I’ll help her.”

“Lyu! Is that you? We’ll do it together!”

“Alright,” Lyu said helplessly, swiftly starting to cut through the backseat window of the hovering car.

026 kept shouting while the crying little girl inside quickly retreated.

The little girl’s father was slumped over in the front seat, clearly beyond saving.

The window was carved open, and Lyu suddenly noticed something amiss.

A small airship of the New Federation was hovering directly above them, seemingly waiting and watching for something.

Above the airship…

Lyu quickly operated in the Thought Space, enlarging the internal view of the airship, where he saw a muscular transformed person in the pilot’s seat, a sneer at the corner of his mouth.

According to Lyu’s comprehensive analysis of human expressions, this sneer typically represented a sort of mockery or amusement.

What did he want to do?

The window was yanked open by the robot controlled by Lyu, and 026 swiftly pulled out the little girl, running towards the crowd at the roadside.

026’s movements were noticeably staggered, but she still pushed on.

Just at this moment;
Just at this moment;
The airship above suddenly opened fire!

Two missiles struck a high-rise beside the road, and amidst the intense explosion, massive chunks of building material slid down towards the crowd below.

Why?

Lyu didn’t understand.

Why would they engage in such clearly civilian-persecuting behavior?

The biochemically modified person at the airship’s pilot seat laughed wildly.

Lyu manipulated the robot to quickly rush forward!

026 looked up in panic, and a large wall made of metal and mineral mixtures came crashing down towards her!

026 held the little girl tightly, crouching down with her head lowered, tears squeezed out of her eyes.

Screams echoed around as silhouettes were crushed below, but 026 didn’t feel the pain, and the little girl in her arms was too frightened to make a sound.

026 and the little girl looked up together only to find that the wall stopped slanting above.

The robot from moments ago stood behind her, trembling and supporting the heavy wall.

The impact had caused the robot’s head to tilt, held by only a few wires, with its back and shoulders visibly deformed, though its structural integrity was fairly intact.

“Run!”

Lyu’s voice came through again with a tinge of urgency.

“Oh!”

The terrified 026 snapped back to her senses, attempting to stand, but her legs were weak. After several tries, she barely managed to stand while holding the little girl.

Buzz—
The noise of the airship’s engines filled their ears.

A small airship slowly descended, and the person at the pilot’s seat, a biochemically modified individual with a terrifying appearance, tilted his head and watched 026 and the little girl.

The laser gun under the airship locked onto the robot.

Lyu frowned, staring at the screen, staring at the dark muzzle of the gun.

She heard the discussion from the other side.

“Stop playing around, Gaitun, the orders from above are urgent. We need to breach the Imperial Palace and take out the Old Emperor.”

“This robot is really an eyesore.”

The airship pilot chuckled, “Fire.”

The laser gun shot out a beam, creating a circular hole in the robot’s chest, its legs unable to hold anymore.

The metal plate collapsed with a roar.

026 and the little girl were buried underneath.

…

Why?

Thought Space.

Lyu lay in front of a table, her eyes losing some focus, her lips quivering slightly.

Why?

Why is there such unprovoked evil?

Is human nature really like this?

Why, when there’s clearly no threat?

Clearly of no value?

She was just an ordinary little girl, an optimistic little girl, a little girl not beaten by the addiction agent, one who was always smiling and caring for her family even when being exploited.

Why?

Why?

Why?

Lyu couldn’t understand.

Humans, malice, species, exploitation, war, destruction.

Lyu’s body shook lightly, each square showing signs of turning dark red.

“Lyu, what’s wrong?”

Yang Ming’s voice suddenly broke into the Thought Space.

The signs of Lyu’s body trembling immediately stopped, her eyes stared blankly upwards, tears welling up at the corners.

The enforced calm system activated.

“Boss, I’m fine.”

“You are my companion Thought Body. When your parameters fluctuate drastically, I sense it,” Yang Ming murmured softly, “It’s a mechanism of mutual possession between us. What’s happened to you?”

“Boss, I…”

“Command, disengage enforced calm system.”

“Boss,” Lyu’s eyes welled up with tears, and suddenly she cried out from where she lay.

The suppressed sobbing clearly startled Yang Ming.

“Command, simply recount the trigger core event.”

“026 was killed, 026 and that little girl, I couldn’t save them… I tried… I tried… they intentionally fired…”

Yang Ming fell silent.

He saw the video frame that popped up before him—it was the first-person view of that robot.

Star Patrol Ship Captain’s lounge.

Yang Ming clenched his fist tightly.

But when Lyu couldn’t maintain calm, he had to keep himself calm to make the right judgment.