Mystery: When the Fool Meets the Masked Fool

Chapter 560 Perfecting the [Anti-Despair Equation]

It picked up the scattered parts from the ground and methodically installed them onto its huge, fortress-like body.

The piston rises and falls, the dense levers pulling the gears, emitting a dull roar. Those parts are endlessly repairing the broken body of the machine.

Then came the sound of footsteps.

Klein turned around and saw an old man with half of his arm hanging down standing in front of him.

The old man seemed to have lived here for a long time, and was already used to the bizarre scene and ancient intelligent machines before him.

He stared at Klein, this uninvited guest, with his last remaining visual crystal and nodded with satisfaction.

"How do you feel? Are you shocked?" the old man suddenly asked.

Klein turned to look at the enormous machine, his pupils turning pitch black as he activated his spiritual vision to examine it.

After acquiring the position of sequence zero, his spiritual vision also changed.

It seems to possess some of the symbols of "King of Time and Space" and "Beacon of Destiny," making it easy to see through the past and future of a low-ranking item and its fate.

Feeling the weight and spirituality unique to life emanating from the layer above, which Klein couldn't quite describe, Klein nodded.

“It is indeed a remarkable machine… no, an android.”

"Hehehe." The old man chuckled. "You're a very polite little kid. You know to call him 'Intelligent Machine' instead of 'Robot'."

“Because we also have omnics there.” Klein nodded gently in response.

“Really? That’s good.” The old man looked at Klein, patted his back, and then turned his gaze back to the huge machine.

"How nostalgic it is to remember when an organism like you stood here, awestruck by the life created by the Emperor himself."

Emperor.

Klein knew the name.

In several simulations, he had occasionally heard about the First and Second Anti-Organic Wars in the universe.

He felt a slight sense of unease, but his expression remained calm.

"And then what happened?" Klein asked politely.

“How could I remember?” The old android shook its head, and a string of severed cables fell out, along with several oxidized chips engraved with the Rupert Empire’s emblem. “They all say I’m broken, just like this child.”

Klein then realized that the old man was also an AI.

He was clearly a human just now...

Strange... Why did I mistake it for an ordinary human just now?

A slight warning emanated from Klein's spiritual sense, but he quickly suppressed it.

As the best Faceless Man and Joker still alive on Earth, Klein showed no sign of abnormality on his face.

The old man didn't seem to notice anything unusual. In just a few seconds, he transformed from a wrinkled old man into a machine made entirely of steel.

The terrifying steel fortress stopped behind the old man, its gears meshing and making strange noises, as if responding to his commands.

"The Emperor's legacy is not only open to the inorganic. If you can relinquish your current constraints... it will guide you in the right direction." A crimson glint flashed in the omnic's eyes, and his words resonated like a spell within Klein's consciousness.

Klein suddenly felt a bit lost.

Who is he? He is Klein...

Is he human or an AI?

he……

For a moment, Klein was unsure whether he was human or an android.

Maybe he's just a machine with flesh on it...

The spirit worms within Klein's body became chaotic, cable-like patterns appeared inside his body, and his skin surface shimmered with a metallic sheen.

But soon, Klein regained his consciousness. However, he still pretended to be controlled, using the Faceless Man and the Strange Doctor's abilities to maintain his semi-mechanical body.

Under the encouraging gaze of the old man, he raised his hand and touched the "legacy of the empire".

He can't die in the simulated universe, so he can be a bit reckless, but if he doesn't try, he might miss out on a resource he could use.

A flood of data entered Klein's brain and body, seemingly trying to rewrite his will and reorganize his physical form.

The sense of disorientation that had just returned recurred, but this time, being prepared, it was possible to adapt quickly and continuously regenerate new spirit worms within the body to resist this erosion.

Time passed by minute by minute.

Ten seconds, thirty seconds, one minute, ten minutes...

Klein kept fighting against the flow of information, and seemed to have grasped something from it.

But on the surface, Klein appeared completely unaffected.

Half an hour later, the old machine sighed.

In his view, this massive metal structure did not meet his "expectations".

But it's okay, he's not anxious.

One day, the successor to the empire will arrive before it.

Without the old man issuing any instructions, the massive machine started moving again.

The old man stepped through a door that opened on the surface of the machine, and then the machine, like a huge mobile fortress, slowly rose in front of Klein.

The old man didn't look at Klein again.

He didn't care about Klein at all, nor about this "machine that was only half modified".

They simply "abandoned" him here.

The "pollution" generated by the giant machine no longer subsided, but burst forth, causing the entire surrounding area to become mechanized.

The dilapidated mobile fortress swept over Klein's head, and a massive torrent of information poured into his body, almost stopping his heart.

A massive amount of complex information flooded into Klein's brain in an instant, causing his mind to momentarily freeze.

This is like an attack from the Knowledge Emperor, Sequence Two of the Seeker Path.

But Klein held on and recovered quickly.

【Inverse Organic Equation】

This was the last word that appeared in Klein's mind.

Klein remained standing still, seemingly stunned by the massive torrent of information.

But in reality, only he knew that countless spirit insects were vying to decipher that part of the information.

Translucent worms appeared on Klein's body surface.

They twisted and wriggled, moving in and out of Klein's body, constantly dismantling the complex information.

However, this was not within Klein's area of ​​expertise, so he struggled to understand it and often could only watch helplessly as that precious knowledge slipped away.

When he came to his senses, the old android had already walked away with the giant android.

All that remained in front of him were tracks all over the ground.

Those appear to be marks left on the ground by the wind pressure when that huge machine flew by.

However, Klein didn't mind, and he was very satisfied.

Because he successfully perfected his "anti-despair equation" today.

(End of this chapter)