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Möbius sneered, "It's all Vervie's doing. If she hadn't used the backdoor to delete those under my control, we wouldn't be in this mess now."

[Star]: "The Herrscher of Corruption has been corrupted, Mebius, you did a great job!"

[The Book of Azure]: "Dr. Möbius was the first test subject in this experiment... So, the second test subject is Blockhead?!"

[Padofilis]: "Snake Sister has really gone all in."

[Vita]: "Poor Erosion, even with such a favorable situation, it's still being completely outmaneuvered by Velvet and Mebius~"

[Silver Wolf]: "It should be said that if she hadn't hidden herself in the first place, she would have died long ago."

[Fu Xuan]: "Unfortunately, Mebius does not possess the ability to self-replicate."

[Tesla]: "If artificial erosion can self-replicate, what's the difference between it and real erosion? A Herrscher core, huh!"

[Changguang]: "Shouldn't we be talking about Virvie? How come she has backdoors in everything?"

………………

Happy Chinese New Year!! I won't be posting any more knives.

Chapter 283 Goodbye, my [understanding one].

"Is that part of your plan?"

Klein was still somewhat hesitant:

"If you succeed, you will not only return to reality, but you will even possess something similar to the Herrscher of Corruption..."

"It's okay, you don't need to choose to believe me."

"You can choose to leave, tell others what happened here, or personally dismantle Paradise's system and end it all."

"If you do that... at that moment, the person you care about will surely die."

"You just have to admit that we don't have many options right now... and this is one of them."

"As for mine, they were just some... negligible side effects."

Klein carefully considered the matter in her mind: (She's right. In the data space, there's only one other who can rival the Herrscher of Corruption.)

Finally, Klein's hands moved across the control panel as Mebius had instructed.

[Star]: "Immortality is a side effect? ​​I can't say for sure, but overcoming the erosion is clearly the side effect, isn't it?"

[March 7th]: 'Möbius's intentions are clear to everyone!'

[Silver Wolf]: "Mebius is so stubborn! Even now, he's still incredibly stubborn!"

[Yun Li]: "If you really care about her, you should just say it openly."

[Möbius]: "Klein!"

[March 7]: "No matter how stubborn Mebius is, he is still most worried about Klein's safety in this situation."

[Star]: "No matter how tough their lips are, they're still soft to kiss~"

[Silver Wolf]: "Damn it, this bastard isn't planning to kill Klein, is he?! Klein isn't exactly a hero!"

[Fireworks]: "Listen carefully, it wasn't said that all the dead here are memory units. After all, it's all about health, sunshine, and positivity~"

"……Why?"

Klein did not answer, but instead endured the erosion and continued to replicate. Möbius sighed:

"Stop right now, Klein. At least for now... I still have a way to save you."

Looking at the increasingly corrupted Klein, Möbius's voice was unusually urgent: "I don't need you to replicate the virus anymore. Get out—destroy all of Paradise's hardware facilities, and then get far away from it."

"No, maintaining the paradise of the past is the duty that the Doctor entrusted to me."

"I will not, and cannot, make decisions on my own."

"Do you think you have the same willpower as Ying Jie?! You can't last long at all, and what good will the numbers you manage to multiply be?"

Upon hearing this question, Klein actually stopped, raised his head, and looked at Mebius with great seriousness.

"Because I believe you."

"……What!?"

The signs of corrosion on Klein's body were visible to the naked eye, but the work at hand did not stop:

"I... I don't know the reason either, but based on past experience, as long as I can complete my work, no matter how difficult the problem is, Doctor..."

"Or rather, Mebius...she's definitely capable of solving it."

[Klein]: "...That's right, Doctor. I will always believe in you, no matter what."

[Fireworks]: 'Waaah, it's such a pity, this should be the last time Klein and Möbius meet.'

[Beng Tie·Walter]: "That's right, Klein didn't have any problems in my memory. It should be Mebius who rescued Klein."

[March 7]: "But... this would render Möbius's plan ineffective."

[Raiden Mei]: "In the end, we still came back to the plan of reviving Alicia."

Scattered bit by bit into the abyss of time, in exchange for the chance of another kind of monster.

Her hands moved slower and slower, until...

Do you know what you've done?

Klein struggled to get up again: "That's right, the more the better."

Mebius was utterly enraged:

“You know this is not a rational judgment at all.”

"70%? Destroy the Paradise facilities, that's the only way to guarantee success, why not do that?"

Klein had intended to follow her usual practice and find a rational excuse, but in the end, she said:

"Perhaps, I want to give it back as a gift."

"...I'm sorry, the Doctor was supposed to have entered the hibernation pod with us back then..."

"But when I came to the lab again, she was gone..."

"Besides the video you saw, she only left me with one sentence..."

“I never understood what she meant… Back then, she said…”

Before she could finish speaking, the erosion intensified once again, and the module she was responsible for, which dealt with language, finally succumbed completely.

Like the Grey Serpent back then, Klein also knew that the best way to eliminate the corruption was to destroy the carrier.

She pondered its structure and then reached into the key components.

(And that's... the end...)

Just as she was about to do so, she found herself suddenly unable to move.

(No, what deprived me of my ability to move was...)

She turned her gaze to Mebius in surprise.

"Aren't you being a little too arrogant, Klein?"

Möbius remained defiant: "I gave it to you; you have no right to dispose of it as you please."

[Star]: "Celebrate the birth of the Stubborn Herrscher! Even now, Mebius still doesn't want to show any concern whatsoever!"

[Gui Naifen]: "You're right, but Möbius's stubbornness is the underlying logic of our Paradise in the afterlife. Children, don't destroy the worldview of Paradise in the afterlife!"

[Klein]: "Doctor, but if that's the case, you..."

[Möbius]: "Shut up! It's none of your business how I want to do things!"

In the first successful case of the experiment, she is using her own data to take on the erosion that Klein suffered and redirect it back to paradise.

"But Doctor, if we do this...you..."

"In this way, the only connection between the paradise of the past and the outside world is severed."

"Yes, it's all your fault... Now... I really want it."

She will never have another chance to go out into the outside world; she will be completely taken over by the Herrscher of Corruption.

“You acted impulsively first, Klein.”

Seemingly realizing his tone was inappropriate, Möbius retorted, "Don't take yourself too seriously. I... I'm just doing what I need to accomplish."

"Klein?"

"Klein."

There was no answer; the moment the virus left her body, she fell into a deep sleep.

"How ugly. Don't you even have the strength to say goodbye?"

"However, this can be considered a good thing."

"A snake... doesn't want anyone to witness it."

"Just get some sleep, and when you wake up again... you'll be all better."

Thinking of this, she seemed to feel a little reluctant.

When she awoke again, Klein, who had fulfilled her duty for fifty thousand years, would no longer be there.

She must find a new reason to live and face the uncertain future with her own will.

In comparison, death might be easier to accept. At least that's true for ordinary mechanical lifeforms.

As for Möbius, what exactly did his real self leave for Klein... she will probably never know.

But that doesn't matter, because at this moment, she already understands.

"The future... is the last kind of infinity I want to create for you."

A tenderness she had never shown before appeared on Mebius's face. She opened her arms as if to gently embrace Klein, but as soon as she finished speaking, her figure turned into specks of light and vanished.

Goodbye, mine.

[Star]: "No! Mebius! Don't go!"

[Sambo]: "On the bright side, at least this time you don't have to see the files are torn to shreds, right?"

[March 7th]: "Birth, don't remind me of the existence of records."

[Theresa]: "Has Mebius died twice in Paradise?"

[Black Swan]: "Including the real-life Möbius, the life named Möbius died a total of three times."

[Alicia]: "Dr. Mebius~ It seems you understood a lot back then, don't you? Shall I praise you?"

[Mebius]: "Hmph, no."

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It's Chinese New Year, so I'm too embarrassed to post any knives.

Happy New Year everyone!

Chapter 284 Pado wins the revival match!

Kiana: "What nonsense is she spouting?"

[Star]: "This birth finally acknowledges an obvious fact: she can never become Alicia!"

[Mebius]: "Hmph, of course she can never become Alicia."

[The Herald of Knowledge]: "Hiss... After Mebius died, all the power generated by the replication virus went to the old antique."

[Wen Shih-ling]: "Mebius and Hua were colleagues on the same project. It is reasonable that Hua inherited Mebius's strength."

[Su Chang]: "Can researchers and experimental subjects be considered colleagues?"

[Star]: "Why doesn't that count?"

[Silver Wolf]: "I'm impressed by this logic of erosion. Alicia loves everyone, but I can't love everyone. As long as I kill the people I don't love, then I love everyone, and I am equal to Alicia."

"I want to know what I can do."