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At the end, just as the two were about to completely disappear from sight, a gun held in someone's hand suddenly rose up—pointing at them.
"And they are not human."
"boom--"
"clang--"
The bullet was propelled by gunpowder, but a sharp blade blocking its path deflected it from its original trajectory.
Both Kinji Toyama, who fired the bullet at the "criminal," and Aria, who deflected the bullet, realized it through an inexplicable "intuition."
—The world of happiness has come to an end.
Information Integration Thought Entity: Chapter 658 Aria the Scarlet Ammo (End)
Humans are driven by emotions, and their emotions cannot be measured by rational data.
But data is not life. No matter how many human-like settings are added during the process of creating these "fragments," it cannot change the fact that they are choices made based on rational data, not on human emotional impulses.
Therefore, they are not possible, and thus, in Lin Yi's eyes, there is no possibility of them being "accidental".
The actions of "Kinji Toyama" can be calculated.
For the sake of the person he likes, he will feel dissatisfied with himself as the one who makes her uneasy, and then, under the influence of 5% of his mental state, he will engage in paranoid and impulsive behavior.
The actions of the data "Kanzaki H. Aria" can be calculated.
She was doing this because she secretly loved someone and wanted to prevent him from committing the crime of shooting a criminal, which would leave her hands stained with blood. Therefore, she stopped him from shooting her.
Stripping away the emotional factors, this is nothing more than a ridiculous farce with a illogical plot. Yet, humanity grows through similar dramas time and time again, and so does the "data" that imitates humanity, except that it doesn't understand growth and can only repeat itself in this chaotic logic until it completely collapses and then "reboots."
"Therefore, the data is not possible."
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Kinji Toyama felt genuinely uneasy.
From the moment they saw this stranger until now, with Aria standing in their way, it seems that their entire predetermined fate has begun to go off track.
It shouldn't be like this.
"Aria, what are you doing?!"
"I should be asking you why you launched a sudden attack."
The girl wielding dual swords was equally uneasy, feeling uneasy about Kinji Toyama's sudden and unfamiliar attack.
As armed detectives, they did not have the authority to directly shoot and kill the target of this mission. If they had actually killed the target, the best outcome for Kinji Toyama would have been to lose his armed detective status and spend a few years in prison.
But what if it really turned out that way? So she chose to stop it: "He's just an illegal immigrant, not a murderer."
Kinji Toyama instinctively wanted to refute, but swallowed the words back: He had no evidence.
Should I say that I was "killed"?
He was killed by the other party without knowing the time, place, or even the reason.
Kinji's silence became the final breaking point. In order to protect him from committing crimes, the girl ironically had to protect the person who was originally the criminal: "I will handle this mission by myself. Kinji, leave here first."
"no!"
Although he didn't know why, Kinji Toyama had a strong premonition: if he left like this, everything would end.
"Let's leave together and abandon this mission."
From the client to the target, the whole process was full of strangeness. Only now did he realize the existence of these anomalies. Before that, he seemed to have been blinded by something and had not paid any attention to them at all.
Aria was somewhat tempted by Kinji Toyama's request. Although their deviated fate could no longer continue as perfectly as before, it could still continue as long as they ignored the flaws.
"Do you feel alienated by everything you're being looked at?"
The silent onlooker suddenly spoke up, seemingly unaware of anything, yet pointing so clearly to the core issue she couldn't comprehend, and then bluntly laid out the choice without any pretense: "We don't have much time left. You can choose to go with him and continue your happiness; or turn around and face your fate."
You seem to be even more cruel than a demon.
Before the chess pieces on the table could react, the Outer God, already knowing his fate, sent a message from the other side of the mental link, even carrying a hint of provocation.
(7) Ling (8) d Ou (4) Liu 8 Fin Qi [Are you really that insecure about your luck?]
"I have never placed any expectations on things that are incalculable."
Having calmly severed his mental link with Nyarlathotep, Lin Yixin, the evil god, bid his final farewell: "It's time for you to leave the stage, Outer God."
As the erosion of the last infected target failed, the consciousness emanating from the Outer God grew increasingly weak.
This won't be our last contact, outsiders.
It was born from people's yearning for "chaos", their thirst for "knowledge", and their fear of the "unknown". In this reversed world, chaos is replaced by order, knowledge is filled by data, and the fear brought by the unknown has no chance of spreading. When the last infected person also gives up insisting on the concept it is pursuing, the faceless god that once easily invaded the world is nothing more than a dying ember.
Now, this precarious existence has also come to an end with the efforts of the two competitors.
Azathoth has learned of your name; unknowable terrors will descend upon you in the not-too-distant future. I await the moment of our reunion...
——Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn!
After leaving behind this ambiguous message, Nyarlathotep's Stand in this world completely vanished, and no matter from any angle, there was no longer any trace of this evil god who constantly spread chaos and terror.
Two competitors remain, and the outcome is already decided.
"...I'm sorry, Kinji, but there's something I need to confirm."
The girl wielding twin swords retreated, towards "fate" rather than "happiness."
Even if what's in front of you is something you've been constantly pursuing, something you'd be willing to give anything to protect.
"Aria?!"
"If all of this is true, then I am willing to accept whatever misfortune I suffer afterward. But if all of this is just a lie—I will fight against it with all my might!"
As the final choice is made, the blurry fragments of memory are pieced together little by little. What is ultimately revealed is not a beautiful fairy tale of a girl achieving happiness after giving her all, but rather a web woven together.
It lives in the web, yet is unaware of its existence.
Until one day it escaped the web called the "False World" and encountered the unknown stranded outside the web on another, larger "web," reaching out to the unknown—
"The data offers no choice."
Within the tiny body, the rudiments of "hunger" spread and grew endlessly until "famine" was born.
"But 'people' do exist."
[WARNING! A large amount of abnormal data has been detected. Force deletion command will be executed.]
The world, which had been reversed back to its initial state, collapsed once again. The azure sky turned dark, the calm sea was churned with waves, the city was reduced to ruins, and the vegetation turned to dust... This time, there was no one to try to save it, but instead, the world was allowed to approach the "end" for the second time.
Data cannot make choices, but people do: they choose to face themselves and the fate of the world.
"Compared to those time travelers and outer gods, you are more like a demon."
In a world on the verge of collapse, Aria, having regained all her memories, complained with slight dissatisfaction. Lin Yi simply smiled calmly at this: "I'm just giving you the choice to face the truth, not stuffing the truth directly into your brains like those Outer Gods do."
The girl defiantly flashed her fangs: "Don't you think it's better to make someone choose between a bad option and an even worse one than nothing?"
He paused slightly before continuing, "But I still want to thank you, at least for letting me know these things."
Before anyone knew when, the sky was once again covered by thick radiation clouds, the sea returned to its murky color, the ravaged land was cracked in all directions, and the lost souls, living a life worse than death, lingered on the edge of blindness and reason.
She returned to her own battlefield, facing "Star Snow White," who had completely lost her last shred of reason and was transforming into mutation and terror.
Having been banished from the world, Lin Yi gazed at the "fate" within: "You can leave."
Avoiding the tentacle whips of the chaotic and formless "Starry Snow," the bullets fired from the pistol were easily absorbed, leaving not a single wound on the unknown and bizarre body.
Panting heavily, she still wore a confident smile: "Do you remember the name of this world? Aria the Scarlet Ammo. Everyone can escape from this world, but I must stay until the very end, after all, I am the 'protagonist' here."
"One last question for you: we're all fake, right?"
"Yes."
Confirmed, without any pause.
Perhaps realizing that such an attack would not be effective, numerous sharp spikes spread across the surface of the strange tentacles, crashing down towards the petite figure who was constantly dodging.
The girl, unable to dodge in time, could only barely defend herself with two pistols before being easily sent flying. Her only ranged weapon was also twisted beyond recognition in the collision.
Even so, she struggled to get up: "Phew... So, there's another real me out there, right?"
"Perhaps, at least I haven't experienced a similar world."
Drawing her last remaining weapon, she ducked to avoid a tentacle whip: "Can I ask you for a favor?"
"can."
She began her sprint, her agile figure dodging all attacks, but was finally caught by the ambushing tentacles. The girl did not make a futile attempt to break free, but instead thrust out her twin swords at the last moment.
"If you ever see the real me, please tell her this for me."
As her body was pierced by thorny tentacles, the girl's tightly gripped twin swords pierced through its flesh: "Please, live freely..."
The moment the alien being transformed by Xingjia Baixue died, the remaining half of the "road sign" appeared on the outside of the collapsing world. After it was superimposed with the half of the "road sign" obtained in the previous world, the last message from the Golden Clan poured in.
That's a coordinate, and it also has a name.
—The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya
P.S.: Fourth update, 3000 words.
Information Integration Thoughts: Chapter 659 The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya (1)
The weather in May is unpredictable; one moment it's sunny and the next it's overcast. This made Yu Tai Xin Yi, who had to keep searching for people in the pouring rain, feel extremely frustrated.
Whether as a transmigrator of the Transmigrator Alliance or as a star-level powerhouse capable of destroying a star with a single punch, both identities destined him to be irrelevant to these "low-class, boring, and meaningless" missions. In the past, when faced with such missions, instead of wandering around the ground like an ordinary person, he would directly choose to destroy the places where the target might exist. Even if the target died, it would only result in a deduction of rewards. The numerous benefits that the Transmigrator Alliance provides to its star-level transmigrators allow him to ignore this insignificant loss.
However, things are different here.
The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya
A world that seems ordinary, but is actually the most extraordinary of all.
Aside from that unpredictable "deity" who might create some bizarre "settings," the Transmigrator Alliance is not the only dominant force in this world.
"I have no interest in ordinary humans. If any of you are aliens, time travelers, people from another world, or superpowered individuals, then come find me! That's all."
A pointed remark from Haruhi Suzumiya became the starting point for the outbreak of various "anomalies" in this world. After aliens like Yuki Nagato, time travelers like Mikuru Asahina, and espers like Itsuki Koizumi, the last type that was thought not to appear in the story—the otherworldly people—was eventually compensated for by the appearance of transmigrators.
It's hard to say if this is a coincidence, but even if it isn't, the transmigrators can't care about that anymore. After all, once the initial veterans confirmed that a large portion of the "Main God Space" had disappeared from this world after being destroyed, they were forced to face this world with the utmost caution.
Perhaps due to the overwhelming influence of the "Main God Space," the rules of this "plot world" are far more complete than those of other plot worlds invaded by the Transmigrator Alliance. As a result, the seemingly contradictory and absurd plot views and settings are brought together. Therefore, in this world, there is not only Haruhi Suzumiya who unconsciously possesses "divine" abilities, but also a large number of "organizations" where superpowered individuals gather, "future people" from the future, and even an "information integration thought entity" that controls information about the entire universe.
The power from the Transmigrator Alliance is not weak, but it is not easy to easily overwhelm other forces. Moreover, if a war really breaks out, Haruhi Suzumiya may notice the abnormality and change the "setting" that is already extremely unfavorable to the transmigrators. The transmigrators suspect that the missing part of the "Main God Space" has fallen into the possession of this "god".
All these factors combined forced transmigrators, who had acted arrogantly in other worlds, to hide their identities and maintain a cautious, wait-and-see attitude in this world as "otherworldly beings."
However, the highly targeted rules of the world of "The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya" make the transmigrators feel extremely painful.
First: Only those who have traveled through time at the star level or above have the authority to enter.
This single measure effectively excludes 99.9% of the Transmigrator Alliance members. Of course, this has its advantages. After all, even the Transmigrator Alliance can't cover everything in this world. If one or two clueless newcomers were to enter and cause trouble all day, it would be a disaster. In contrast, setting a minimum entry threshold avoids such a basic problem.
Even with the support of endless worlds, the creation of stars is far less difficult for transmigrators than for natives, but the number is still limited, and those who can reach this point are usually not foolish enough to be considered foolish.
Second: In "daily life," the use of power beyond one's own limits is prohibited.
In other words, the transmigrators in this world can at most use their limited energy to enhance their physical strength and then swing their fists—at most, they can fight with a pistol or a sword. Want to raise your hand and destroy a planet like in other worlds? Dream on.
This is why the number of transmigrators who were originally interested in this world decreased by more than 90%. Not every transmigrator who has experienced the power of a star level can endure the harsh conditions of turning back into an ordinary person. If it weren't for the Transmigrator Alliance's emphasis on this place, which ensures that every transmigrator who enters this world receives a large reward upon leaving, this desolate place would probably have been deserted long ago.
Even so, most transmigrators who enter this world are not there willingly, just like Shinichi Yutai now.
His original Qier Mountain ⊙ is?|氿>Weeping Umbrella Four is due to debt, issued by the Transmigrator Alliance, which can provide a considerable amount of resources to transmigrators at the peak of the national level in a short period of time, allowing them to enter this world after successfully breaking through to the star level to carry out an observation mission that lasts from several months to a year.
Leaving aside the fate of the losers, Shinichi Yutai was lucky enough to succeed, and even more fortunately, he did not encounter any "unexpected situations" during his observation mission. But just when he was about to retire successfully, an "accident" suddenly occurred.
An outsider, without reporting to or obtaining permission from the Transmigrators Alliance, somehow obtained the coordinates of this world and plunged headlong into it...
Yu Tai Shinichi really wanted to give that reckless transmigrator a thumbs up, but secretly hoped that the other party would lose the ability to fly and fall to their death the moment they entered due to the "setting". This was not without precedent, after all, not all transmigrators could withstand the damage from a high-altitude impact with the strength of an ordinary person. If the height when entering exceeded one hundred meters, congratulations, you can go back to the furnace for re-creation.
The power to destroy stars in another world couldn't even sustain a height of 100 meters in this world, so it's no wonder that the transmigrators resist this world.
However, Shinichi Yutai's mission still had to continue, as it was part of his deal with the Transmigrator Alliance. Even if it was a corpse, it had to be found and destroyed before the other three forces in this world could find it. After all, all three forces were quite interested in these "otherworldly people" who did not place observers around Haruhi Suzumiya.
"Ugh, this weather is awful, this mission is awful, this world is awful."
Muttering curses under his breath, Shinichi Yutai used his dwindling abilities, which had been sealed away, to search his surroundings. He entered a side alley and, as he rounded the corner, spotted someone he was almost certain was his target—
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