Chapter 77 City of Heroes
“Senior Isumi, your arm!!”
Lonis was stunned when she saw Isumi stumbling out of the operating room.
However, she didn’t feel any pain, this orange-haired girl just shook her head and said calmly, “It’s just a minor issue, Lonis. We need to head to the control center now and try to stop the security robots.”
“Huh?”
“It looks like you’ve been through a lot on the way, but I need to go somewhere first. I’ll explain everything to you later.”
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Senior Isumi’s face was calm, showing no signs of pain.
Walking unperturbed, the girl proceeded through the underground passage. Not long after, a group of mechanical bees appeared at the end of her line of sight – there were dozens of them, appearing so dense that they seemed capable of engulfing a person at any moment!
However…
“Dispersion mode, activate.”
“What is this?!”
A faint purple light suddenly illuminated Isumi’s mechanical arm.
And these mechanical bees, like disturbed headless flies, all turned their direction of advance.
“Let’s hurry through here while we can!”
“Okay!”
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With Isumi’s interference, these mechanical bees were no longer an obstacle, and the girls followed Isumi’s pace, moving forward.
As the girls ventured deeper, the surrounding decorations clearly changed style, and Lian Lan’s body trembled involuntarily, a trace of shock revealed in her eyes.
Perhaps others didn’t understand Lian Lan’s situation, but Lonis, being a hero herself, was all too familiar with Lian Lan’s current feelings!
Because…
Even though her resurrected Land of Eternity was almost abandoned: the ceiling and floor were in ruins, and all the light bulbs were broken, leaving only the faint glow of emergency lights.
But if everything that was broken was put back together, time reversed, and everything restored to its original state…
The decoration and layout of the Land of Eternity would be exactly the same as what was before her eyes!
And…
“Lonis, I’ve been here before.”
“Huh?”
“Although the memory is too distant, I have indeed been here. That must have been when I was just born, and I was utterly ignorant of everything in this world.”
Lian Lan looked at the scene before her with a dazed gaze, as if recalling how she had crawled out of the cultivation room, naked and bare.
Her newly formed limbs were very uncoordinated, and it took her a great effort to slowly crawl through the corridor, through the passages, and find a way to the outside.
And what happened after that…
Lian Lan clutched her head, looking as if she was in great pain.
“I, aaa!!”
“Miss Lian Lan, are you alright?”
“No, I’m fine, it’s just…”
Isumi patted her shoulder reassuringly, saying, “It’s nothing. If you can’t remember, you don’t need to force yourself to. As we grow, we inevitably forget some things.”
“Uh…”
“This is part of growing up, just like how as we grow older, we don’t always run around like children.”
“Yeah, thank you.”
Lian Lan took a deep breath, her expression slightly easing. “However, I can confirm that I was born here as a hero, but I can no longer remember what I did here.”
“Miss Lian Lan…”
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Looking at Lian Lan’s expression, Lonis fell into deep thought. In a trance, she suddenly recalled several details she had overlooked.
The robots attacked her and Lian Lan after they had rescued Senior Zhisheng Luo… and before that, no matter how they maneuvered in the city, they had never been attacked.
Was this a coincidence?
Or was it that the city regarded her and Lian Lan as “insiders” and didn’t try to eliminate them?
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And Lonis certainly remembered that she had once been a hero who challenged the terrifying Demon King, saved the kingdom from peril, and was admired by kings and aristocrats.
But all of that was just a dream.
Although the scenes in the dream were very realistic and easy to simulate, there were also drawbacks… For example, Lonis had forgotten a lot of memories since waking up.
She had only been resurrected for less than half a year, and recalling that experience felt like a lifetime ago, and the details were blurred.
Although a girl’s body is not as strong as a boy’s, even if Lonis were to regain her hero’s body, her current swordsmanship would definitely lag far behind.
So…
Could it be that this city was a place for beings like her from the previous era to live?
Because too much time had passed, her physical body could not withstand the erosion of time. So, if she lived in this place, she could actually obtain a puppet body to engage in realistic role-playing?
Although those NPCs looked simple, since she no longer had a physical body, as long as her spirit was slightly hypnotized, she could treat those puppet bodies as living characters.
It was just like…
Living in an outdoor Eden.
No need to eat, no need to use the toilet, no need to work, no need to sleep. She could do whatever she wanted…
Such a life was simply like a game, truly wonderful.
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As she thought of this, Lonis looked at Lian Lan.
She found that after a slight start, the girl also looked at her… It was clear that they seemed to have thought of the same thing.
If that were the case…
“Senior Isumi, shall we open this door?”
“Yes, this is the control room. By operating it, we should be able to stop the hospital’s alarm system.”
Following the orange-haired girl, the girls slowly entered a very spacious room.
On the walls, various screens were displayed in a dazzling array, seemingly allowing them to ascertain every aspect of the hospital through monitors.
Due to the disturbance caused by Isumi and Zhisheng Luo, several screens naturally displayed texts like “Warning: Patient attempting to escape” and “Warning: Patient attempting unauthorized surgery.”
However, what interested Lonis the most were the monitors on the far end.
Because the images on them were completely different from what she had seen before.
And one of the images in particular…
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“Hello, Mr. Little Rabbit. Thank you for your treatment earlier.”
“No problem. Come back to me if you have any issues later.”
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This was a sunny forest filled with birds and flowers.
Various flowers bloomed among the trees, the wooden suspension bridge was covered in moss, and an incredibly lush World Tree towered into the sky.
However, upon closer inspection, it could be found that the layout of those trees and wooden walkways was similar to the layout of this city.
Furthermore, in the bottom right corner of this screen, there was a crucial hint.
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“Elena’s World”
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And wasn’t Elena the girl she had met at the puppet joint shop before?
She wore a cute little skirt and walked among the crowd like a butterfly.
If that was the case, then this city, after all…
