Abstraction for a bad world

Chapter 118: Greetings from Years Ago

Something is wrong.

Ravna thought so.

But what if it’s not right?

She is the chairman who embodies all the advanced technologies of Gospel Technology, and she had already reached the double fifth level of psychic genes a hundred years ago.

Who isn’t a genius?
Now, a full hundred years have passed, nearly forty thousand sunrises and moonsets, and except for Andre who had already reached the sixth level and the mysterious master.

——Who else will be my opponent?
Chang Wen, who was just annoying to look at, wouldn't work, and neither would Uesugi Kaoru, who almost killed him with a sword.

"Hello, Ms. Shirakawa."

Ravna raised her finger, and the rain stopped as far as she could see.

The noise disappeared in an instant, and the world became silent.

This is her psychic power.

The same as Shirakawa Wakaka——【Water Element Manipulation】.

"I gave you a chance to live, but you didn't seem to take it."

She looked at Shirakawa Waka who was holding the hilt tightly again, and sighed with disappointment: "In fact, I really want to see how great the potential of that guy praised by Uesugi Kaoru as a kendo genius is."

"Unfortunately, there is no chance now..."

"Then watch it, Ravna."

Shirakawa Wakaxia glanced at her missing left arm, and the surging magnetic field force instantly turned, completing the repair of this part of her body.

She controlled the new hand that had grown out of the severed flesh and blood, and clenched it twice.

It's exactly the same as before.

The side effect is just a minor moment of dizziness.

So, under Ravna's surprised gaze, Baichuan Ruoxia slowly raised the sword and made a strange display posture.

——It’s strange because Shirakawa Wakaka didn’t raise the sword above her head, but just stopped it on the right side of her forehead, two centimeters away.

It's neither going up nor down, stuck between the upper and middle sections. It's a textbook mistake.

If an ordinary swordsmanship instructor saw this, he would have hit her on the back with a bamboo stick.

"Let me tell you what 'genius' is."

Shirakawa Waka closed her eyes, and the whole world fell into deep darkness.

But in the darkness, she can see farther, longer, and more clearly, as if she has the "mind's eye" of the great swordsman in the legend.

Next, turn the magnetic field power to amplify the mind's eyes.

At this moment, everything within a radius of 500 meters was clearly visible in Baichuan Ruoxia's mind.

Every place, every point, every millimeter.

She could see the solemnity of every Corona Guard, and every bloodshot in the whites of Ravna's eyes.

Baichuan Ruoxia said softly, but the voice somehow reached Ravna's ears, causing her to slowly frown.

"interesting."

Ravna clenched her left fist and condensed the rain into a few drops of water visible to the naked eye, as deep as ink. She also drew tens or hundreds of tons of water vapor from the higher sky and condensed them into invisible water lines that covered the battlefield.

After completing the simple defense, Ravna spent a few seconds condensing a dark shield in front of her.

This way, she only had to pay attention to Shirakawa Waka's back, which would take longer to attack.

"A so-called genius is someone who, as long as he wants, can turn his potential into strength in an instant, despite countless days and nights of hard study and training, and countless desperate battles. He is a completely unreasonable person."

Thump, thump, thump.

The healed heart beat slowly and heavily, at first in sync with Shirakawa Waka's breath, but the second time, it caused the earth to vibrate in the same way.

By the third time, even all the water defenses that Ravna had condensed with her psychic energy resonated with it.

Subtle vibrations were introduced from Ravna's fingertips that manipulated the water vapor, causing all her senses to tremble slightly.

Then, the world began to spin repeatedly in my sight.

Water vapor arming is useless.

The invincible ten thousand layer resonant water shield is useless.

Composite skin, nano-metal barriers... and many more prostheses will all be cut in half.

Even after activating Gospel Technology's most advanced prosthetic device, "Time Stop", Ravna was unable to capture even a trace of Shirakawa Ruoxia.

If you can't see it, you can't use any means to counter it.

——She will die in the future 0.00128 seconds from now.

The psychic power [Future Vision], which had also reached the fifth level, presented this inevitable future to Ravna.

But Lavna was not impatient. Instead, she took a moment to sigh.

Ah, interesting.

Interesting, interesting, so interesting.

How could I actually die at the hands of such a small fry, such a pawn whom I do not value?

"As expected of a guy that Kaoru has taken a fancy to... He really is very interesting."

Ravna chuckled with great amusement.

Then, it stopped abruptly.

At this moment, as if a switch that had been set long ago was triggered, her silver-white pupils began to shrink like a spiral of fate.

Tens of millions, a million... a hundred, ten...

Endless threads, all finally coming together in one place.

The fifth-order spiritual energy of [Future Vision] suddenly disappeared at this moment, making a shattering sound like porcelain that had reached the limit of its lifespan.

The semi-mechanical personality named "Ravna" was easily crushed by it as a disposable stepping stone and disappeared in the vast sea of ​​memory and consciousness.

Instead, he was Andre Warner's childhood sweetheart, the hero who crushed the doomsday, the initiator of the "Sequence Plan", the original creator of the "Tide of the Machine", the prototype of Lana, the chief of the Machine City, the cold-blooded Madonna who was not understood by others...

[The sage who sees the future]——Ravna.

She had already foreseen the death of "Ravna" at this moment.

One hundred and fifty-six years ago.

This is an observed, unchangeable fact.

So Ravna personally killed the "Ravna" created by the Lord of All Machines, and used her as a springboard to come to the present from the past one hundred and fifty-six years ago.

——After the Lord of All Machines detects that the cyborg personality of "Ravna" is damaged, the set self-destruct program will be triggered after thirty seconds.

"It doesn't matter. I only have ten seconds anyway."

Ravna breathed out and chuckled in relief.

Fortunately, it worked.

fortunately.

One hundred and fifty-six years ago, Ravna saw two fragments of the future.

One is that this world will be affected by an unknown force and will be heading towards a dark end in decades to hundreds of years. All the light created by them and their companions in this world will turn into a short-lived bubble.

Neither Andre, Chang Wen, Xun, nor myself could escape such a fate.

Maybe they heard the news from her own mouth and resisted, but in the end they would still become what she saw.

The second is his own death one hundred and fifty-six years later.

At that moment, Ravna thought with great joy:

——She is the future genius who can kill me. If I give her the responsibility of destroying this dark old world, her chances of success will definitely be much greater than mine.

then,

To prevent the passage of more than a hundred years from eroding her personality and ideals, and to prevent the unseen future from influencing what she wants to say.

At that moment, after making several key planning nodes, Ravna killed herself without hesitation, and used the only future vision in the world to send her to the present one hundred and fifty-six years later.

ten seconds.

This is the time she can exist.

but……

The former sage smiled.

Now it seems that there is still a hurdle to overcome.

She looked at Shirakawa Wakaha——

The heart and eyes shrink.

The circle shrank from 500 meters to a human shape.

The sixth sense specifies the target.

At this moment, Baichuan Ruoxia could only feel Ravna's presence.

Subjective consciousness accelerates, endlessly.

It seemed as if even the hazy light began to take shape and flow slowly.

The surging magnetic field flowed through Shirakawa Wakaka's body and consciousness, merging all the power into one.

0.00128 seconds later.

Shirakawa Wakaha opened her eyes.

The flowing light like a dream passes through the gap between space and time.

Everything along the way...

Cut it off!

"So-called genius."

Shirakawa Waka lowered the blade and said calmly,

"——He is a unique genius in the world."

"Ah, it seems you are right. This lady is indeed a genius who can kill me!"

Ravna held her severed head in both hands, with large amounts of blood and sparks gushing out from both parts of her neck.

Even if he is still conscious now, he will die in less than half a minute if he continues like this.

However, Ravna didn't care. She used her hands to straighten her gaze and gave a thumbs up to Shirakawa Ruoxia who turned around in surprise.

He is still alive after being beheaded. What the hell!

Baichuan Ruoxia subconsciously wanted to raise the sword and strike again.

"Hey wait a minute!"

Ravna quickly took two steps back: "Miss, you and I have no grudges against each other. Can you please listen to me first before you kill me?"

Without waiting for Baichuan Ruoxia to answer, Ravna quickly manipulated the water vibrations to make a sound: "Please go and see if Andre can be saved. If you think there is no hope, please clean up the mess for me and chop him into pieces!"

"Then destroy this city and all other cities in the world that are exactly like it."

She held her head and bowed deeply to Shirakawa Waka.

Ravna's words abruptly stopped Baichuan Ruoxia's actions, causing the Corona Guards on the side to fall into deep confusion, and also causing the two people who rushed here to make strange noises.

"Hey, this, this, I remember this is the chairman of Gospel. Xiao Yuan, please explain what is going on!"

Marina, who happened to be descending handsomely from the top floor dozens of floors above, heard these words that were simply incomprehensible.

Yuan Qingzhuo: "There's a traitor among us in the Sun City Megacorp version?"

Ravna noticed the movement. She looked at the two confused people and instantly determined the approximate relationship between them and Shirakawa Ruka, so she repeated her words.

This left the two people, who originally had some willingness to take action, with a huge question mark over their heads.

——They are all ready for a fierce battle!
So Yuan Qingzhuo and Marina looked at Baichuan Ruoxia together, their eyes seemed to say: "Baichuan, explain the situation."

I can't come!

Baichuan Ruoxia held the sword just in front of Ravna's head, but after thinking for a while, she put it down.

She shook her head at the two of them: "I don't know, she wasn't like this a second ago..."

Baichuan Ruoxia gestured and said, "I cut her neck like this, and then Ravna spoke these words like she was crazy."

Even Yuan Qingzhuo was about to laugh at such a statement. He ignored Baichuan Ruoxia's curious and puzzled gaze on him, and asked directly to the beheaded Ravna:
"Reason, I need a reason to do as you say."

——I am still here, and I haven't attacked them and I'm not dead yet, so isn't it the most convenient way to solve the problem to just ask me directly?

As for the truth and falsehood among them, Yuan Qingzhuo will be able to distinguish them.

"Oh my, there are only five seconds left... Huh?! Are you asking me why? Okay, okay, let me think about whether I can come up with a convincing reason!"

Ravna's hands immediately moved as if she was thinking, and then she answered in less than half a second: "I am the beloved super sage Ravna from the year 150. I want that genius swordsman lady to destroy the world in my place."

"So I used my psychic powers to be able to briefly come to this point in time, as evidence..."

"—I will die in four seconds, and then, in twenty-four seconds, my body will explode due to the program set by the Lord of All Machines..."

At this point, Ravna showed an expression of obvious disappointment, and said to herself: "The well-prepared [Tide of Telepathic Machinery] plan has also gone out of control. It turns out that I am also responsible for the Sun City becoming what it is..."

The truth.

The truth?

When Yuan Qingzhuo heard the words "the tide of faith and machinery", he felt his scalp tingling, and then fell into deeper doubts.

——If what this Ravna in front of him said was true, then her purpose of traveling across more than a hundred years to come here was just to pass on a message to Baichuan Ruoxia?

This is a bit too trifling.

There are too many questionable points here.

Wait a moment.

Why was Ravna so sure that she could meet the "genius swordsman Shirakawa Waka" in such a short period of time relative to a hundred years?
Yuan Qingzhuo didn't have time to think about it. If what Ravna said was true, then she would have less than four seconds left to live.

He had no choice but to ask quickly: "I am asking you why you asked Baichuan Ruoxia to kill Andre and destroy the world. Isn't Andre your husband? You are the chairman of Gospel Technology. What reason do you have to destroy the Sun City?"

Hearing Yuan Qingzhuo's question, Ravna frowned and showed a puzzled look:
"One hundred and fifty-six years ago, I saw that the City of the Sun and this world would inevitably fall into the fence of darkness, so I wanted this genius lady who could kill me to destroy them on my behalf."

"Besides that—what other reason do you need?"

"No, no, no, you don't understand what I mean..."

Yuan Qingzhuo wanted to ask again and ask more clearly.

But he suddenly froze.

It seemed, seemed, probably... Ravna had indeed answered his question.

——I saw the darkness, so I wanted to destroy it.

Other than that, there really isn't a need for any extra reasons.

But shouldn’t this outrageous idea of ​​opening the door to an outrageous person be my own way of thinking?
——How could a chairman of a capital giant, a person who had lived for more than a hundred or even two hundred years and had long been alienated by capital into a non-human creature, Ravna, think like this! ?

Ravna did not respond.

She just looked around slowly with a bit of reluctance and nostalgia at the buildings that only appeared in the plan blueprint.

Clear tears fell from the corners of her eyes, and Ravna whispered softly,
"Let me take another good look at this world."

(End of this chapter)