I rely on myself

Chapter 210: Mechanization

The next moment, this swift straight punch would hit Alice's cheek and take her life directly, but suddenly when it was still fifteen centimeters away from her face, the fist stopped abruptly, and the violent wind from the punch made her hair sway in the wind.

"Hey?"

This sudden change caught Alice off guard. She had clearly prepared herself mentally to die, but the fatal punch in front of her suddenly stopped, leaving Alice unable to react for a moment, and she looked dazed.

"Is there any need to be so surprised? Didn't I tell you before? I just wanted revenge. I didn't say I wanted your life."

The moment the words fell, the index finger on the fist in front of Alice briefly accumulated power, and then suddenly popped out like a spring that had reached its limit, hitting Alice's forehead hard.

"Ouch, that hurts. You are so rude."

Perhaps because she had experienced the journey between life and death, Alice's emotions at this moment were obviously more easily affected.

Feeling the sudden pain on her forehead, Alice forgot her disguise for a moment. She quickly took a few steps back to create some distance. At the same time, she subconsciously covered her forehead with both hands, making a very cute look, while also not forgetting to complain to Lin Yuan.

Lin Yuan did not feel any emotion at all about Alice's complaint. He just calmly withdrew his arm and said, "Compared to your bad taste, I think just flicking your forehead is already very merciful."

"Really? You're not a man at all when you say things like that. Show some generosity."

"Don't you think it's inappropriate for you to say such things while looking like a teenager? Hurry up and get rid of it, or I'm going to vomit!"

Because she was too excited, Alice forgot her disguise and subconsciously fought back, and Lin Yuan also refuted her directly without mercy.

"Hey, you've been discovered? Well, it's not surprising. As an excellent magician, you must be able to see through it. So it would be a bit rude to continue pretending. So..."

As he spoke, the handsome young man with emerald green hair took a few steps back, and then his hair, skin and clothes suddenly peeled off like falling petals.

"Then let me introduce myself again, Alice Barnsdye, please give me your guidance."

The owner who said this had silver hair and looked like a beautiful girl. When the hair that was tied on her head was untied, it fluttered in the wind, leaving a long tail like a meteor.

While speaking, Alice lifted her skirt with both hands and spread it to both sides. She bent her knees slightly, looked down at the ground, and performed a standard skirt-lifting gesture, as elegant as a lady. Then she stood up straight again and looked over with a bright smile.

Lin Yuan looked at the other person with a look of surprise in his eyes. Regardless of her inner qualities, judging from her appearance alone, Alice was indeed a very pretty girl.

"You spent so much time planning this event. What is your purpose?" Lin Yuan calmly asked the question he had prepared in advance.

When Alice heard this question, her smile became even brighter, and she answered readily, "Of course it's fun. Watching you all running around for your own purposes, while I just said a few simple words and then I could sit in the audience and watch a big show leisurely, isn't that fun?"

Hearing this rather ironic answer, Lin Yuan's expression did not change at all, and he asked calmly: "Is it just fun? You know, if you are not careful and expose it, you will offend many people at the same time. You took such a big risk, and the result was just for this. Should I say that your interest is terrible enough?"

"It doesn't matter. Like I said before, as long as it's interesting enough, it doesn't matter whether the plan succeeds or fails, as long as it can bring me enough fun." In response to Lin Yuan's question, Ai Li answered without hesitation, showing her personality.

However, Lin Yuan seemed to have confirmed something. A trace of pity and hatred flashed in his eyes. He suddenly said, "Is that so? But I think you are more pitying those artificial children of the oath who have the same fate as you."

Hearing Lin Yuan's words, Alice's face suddenly became gloomier than ever before, and she subconsciously asked: "Did you see it?"

Lin Yuan was not surprised at all by Alice's performance. He replied as if he had expected it: "Of course, just like you said before, as an excellent magician, how could I not see through your illusion magic?"

"You have used it so many times in front of me, and you didn't use any magic tools or magic stones at all. It would be strange if I couldn't see it. You have also been mechanized like those artificial children of the oath. Although I don't know to what extent, from your attitude, I can tell that you are probably not doing it voluntarily."

"Ah, I've been completely seen through." Perhaps because Lin Yuan had seen through her completely, Alice revealed a look of self-abandonment. No, it would be better to say that she had always been in this self-abandonment look, and she just disguised it very well.

"buzz"

With a tremor, countless petals flew out of Alice's body again, and the petals came from Alice's skin.

Part of Alice's skin began to break, turning into petals and scattering. The next second, the thing that had been hidden by Alice's magic was finally exposed to the air.

I saw that Alice's left half of her body had completely changed, from fair and attractive rosy skin to steel armor.

Yes.

Half of Alice's body is made of mechanical prosthetic limbs.

"As you said, I have been weak and sickly since I was a child, and I might even be dying, so I was forced to undergo a mechanical surgery to survive. But even so, this body might stop functioning one day. Perhaps that is why I pursue fun without regard for my own safety or others."

Alice spoke in a self-deprecating and sarcastic way.

"That's great! Those children were also mechanical beings, but they were saved. They don't have to worry about their own safety anymore and can grow up safely. It's really enviable. I want to destroy them..."

"That being said, didn't you still save them in the end?"

Before Alice finished speaking, Lin Yuan suddenly interrupted.

"Huh?" Without waiting for Alice to react, Lin Yuan continued to refute the other party's words.

"You keep saying that you are jealous of those children, but weren't you the one who dragged a rescuer like me into this incident? If it weren't for you, I wouldn't have known that these children were swapped, and the Magician Association wouldn't have been aware of the situation within itself, let alone Loki and Frey."

As he spoke, Lin Yuan walked up to Alice, put his hand on her head and continued, "So stop being jealous. Maybe a lot of people put in a lot of effort for this matter, but it didn't get any benefit, but only those children got it. They got saved, didn't they?"

(End of this chapter)