NieR: Whirlpool

Description of Chapter 257 B

"Are you all right?"

Seeing A2 and 21O coming out of the elevator, 8B quickly went up to greet them.

The next moment, I noticed the girl in the black dress that A2 was holding, and my heart skipped a beat.

Is it...

11B……

It was as if a bolt of lightning struck her, and she stood there in a daze, with intense sadness constantly hitting her mechanical heart.

She stepped forward in disbelief, her hands shaking uncontrollably. She tried hard to take 2B from A11's hand, tears streaming down her face.

The 22B and 64B behind her cried with red eyes.

Surrounding 11B's body, the five girls sat in a daze on the open space in front of the giant white tower.

Empty eyes, absent-minded,

A feeling of sadness spread among the crowd.

……

"So this is ah."

21O described what happened in the White Tower. After listening, the three sisters murmured,

"Mr. 9M's condition, at least for now, is not dangerous to us or him."

"What should we do?" 22B suddenly looked up and asked this question.

Everyone looked at each other,

64B said, "Let's... go back to camp."

"agree!"

"Then...what about 11B?" A2 stroked the girl lying on his lap with a sad look on his face.

"Bury it..."

The five people suddenly stood up, ready to take action.

"Question: Why did you bury YoRHa Unit 11B?" Assist 042 asked curiously.

Hearing the pod's question, A2 said, "It is said that this is how humans treat the remains of the dead. It is called burial."

"Question: Then why was YoRHa 11B buried?" 042 continued to ask.

A2 glanced at Assist 042 and said mercilessly, "Why do you say that? I suspect there is a serious malfunction in the logic analysis circuit of Assist 042. I suggest you re-engineer it."

"Uh……"

The auxiliary machine spoke in human language and was speechless for a moment. It stretched out its small mechanical arm and scratched its white box vigorously.

He was very puzzled by the behavior of the five YoRHa androids in front of him, and he pondered over it hard, but could not come to any conclusion.

As if sensing 042's doubt, Assist 153 floated over and blocked the way for everyone.

"Report: 11B is still alive."

"what!?"

"Ah?"

"Nani!?"

8B looked down at 11B in his arms and was stunned.

"No black box signal can be detected!"

"Report: YoRHa Unit 11B has started." Assist 042 connected 11B's energy supply.

Moaning~~~

11B gasped and slowly opened her eyes.

What caught my eye were Wushuang's big watery eyes, staring straight at me.

"Captain...everyone...what's wrong with you?"

She jumped out of 8B's arms and looked at the people in front of her curiously.

"Hey...why aren't you talking?"

She walked forward, stretched out her slender hand and pinched 8B's face.

"Woman, are you OK?"

8B's face trembled, and he shook off her hand that was squeezing him, grabbed her and slammed her face to face, hugging her with all his strength.

"Hahahahahahaha..."

The 64B next to him suddenly laughed out loud, laughing unscrupulously.

Hearing this devilish laughter, people around laughed along.

Hearty laughter surrounded the sky above the deep pit...

……

In the 9M system space,

"Warning: 9M has activated the killing sequence." Assist 042 reported to 11B.

"Warning: A hacking signal from an unknown source has been detected and has entered the 9M unit. Report: About to reach the logic analysis unit."

11B, who had already placed her hand on the tampering program core, suddenly felt a warm hand resting on her own.

She was determined to die, and was ready to self-destruct her system to break through the defense of the tampering program in front of her.

Feeling the warmth on the back of her hand, she was startled, as if there was something next to her.

She quickly opened her eyes and looked at the person who came.

"Wow……"

Her eyes stared at the figure in front of her without moving.

I felt as if I was seeing a great hero.

at this time,

An illusory figure, emitting golden light, was looking at her with a caring smile.

"9...M?"

She was seriously running low on energy and exclaimed weakly.

She saw a 9M phantom emitting golden light, gently grabbing her hand that was about to place on the core, and then turned into a golden light and pounced on the pale yellow protective shield in front of the core.

In an instant,

The golden and light yellow plasma particles intersected with each other, and the two sides began to fight, constantly flashing and spinning, emitting shock waves and a buzzing sound.

The sound of the rotation gradually became sharp and piercing, and was about to reach a critical point.

Boom~

The golden plasma mixture before my eyes exploded violently, turning into starlight and dissipating in space.

All that was left was a black spherical core, floating naked on the ground.

“Report: Due to an attack from an unknown hacking signal, the blockade shield has been temporarily destroyed.

Report: Hacking stream destroyed."

"9M!?"

She looked everywhere for him but to no avail.

The pale yellow plasma appeared in front of the black core again, gradually expanding its range, trying to protect the black core again.

Without time to think, she shouted, "Assistive device!"

"learn."

A thick laser beam hit the core that was not yet completely covered by the protective shield.

Under the impact of the laser beam, the black core exploded instantly and turned into starlight and gradually dissipated.

"Did you make it!?"

"Report: The tampering program of the 9M body's logic analysis unit has been eliminated. The logic analysis capability will soon return to normal."

“Report: A bug was detected in the underlying code of the killing program in the 9M storage area.

Analysis: Damaged by the previous self-destruction attack of the mechanical life form signal."

"Report: 9M initiated self-check, killing program was forced to terminate the process."

"Warning: Detection: 11B's body energy is about to reach zero."

“That’ll do…”

11B's figure slowly dissipated in the space.

"Report: The signal connection between 11B and 9M has been cut off."

……

"That's how it is, so..."

11B told everyone what happened in the 9M data space and couldn't help blushing.

"11B, you are such an amazing girl." 21O couldn't help but praise her and gave her a thumbs up.

"But, I think..." 11B stammered.

"What's the matter?" 22B blinked and asked.

“I feel… embarrassed…

Originally, I was determined to die, and tried to detonate my own system to attack the protective shield.

But, I am still alive...

That’s not cool.”

"...That doesn't matter." 64B stroked her back and comforted her.

A smile appeared on A2's tense face: No matter what, we are alive.

"But...I still feel embarrassed..."

She covered her red face.

"do not worry!"

8B pinched her chin and asked her to lift her head up. She said cheerfully, "As long as we live, there will be endless embarrassment..."

"Hahaha……"

Ding ding,

Communication access,

"This is Annie Morning calling A2. Can you hear me?"

"I hear you clearly, Miss Anne. Everybody is here."

"Great!" Annie Morning said excitedly, "This way we don't have to notify everyone one by one. Please go back to the resistance camp. I have something important to discuss with you."

"What happened?"

"A man who looks like 9M broke into the camp and stole... No, he said he borrowed the black box in room 21O."

"Borrow?" 21O came closer.

"Yes, he said to himself that he borrowed it."

"We'll hurry back now."

"It's okay, guys. I'll send a car over to pick you up."

"Thank you!"

"Welcome back!"

After hanging up the call, everyone looked at each other.

suddenly,

There was a burst of laughter.

"Hahaha, this guy is not stupid at all..."

"Yes, he said stealing was borrowing, so it must be him..."

"Don't worry too much. The black box will protect him..."

In the midst of laughter,

A2 grabbed Pod 042 and said, "Why didn't you tell me earlier that 11B was still alive?"

“Question: Why didn’t you ask earlier?”

"You... I will tear you apart sooner or later..."