NieR: Whirlpool

Chapter 170 1 All promising methods

"2B, let's go home." Ye Feng said softly in the girl's ear.

"Hmm." The girl said weakly and gently, and then closed her eyes.

Ye Feng picked up the girl in his arms and walked slowly towards the sewer exit.

Suddenly, a sharp pain rushed from his chest to his whole body, stimulating his circuits. He felt as if he was being stabbed back and forth by thousands of burning swords. The heart-wrenching pain came in waves like the tide of the Qiantang River.

The arms holding the girl had almost no strength left. He endured the severe pain and slowly put the girl on the ground.

His face was hideous, his facial muscles were twisted into a ball, his complexion changed from yellow to red, then to purple, and finally to pale white.

Beads of sweat the size of beans came out and dripped down.

He bent down and covered his stomach, his whole body shaking, as if his soul was being sucked out.

"9M?"

The weak girl realized something was wrong. She opened her eyes and saw his hideous face.

“9M!?” The girl exclaimed, struggling to grab her wrist, looking at him anxiously, who looked like an inhuman being.

"do not come!!"

He endured the discomfort in his body and raised his hand to try to stop her from checking on him.

What is this? What is going on!?

He tried hard to think about what went wrong.

"Pod!" 2B frantically asked Pod 042 for help.

"Report: Strong electromagnetic waves detected, which seem to have triggered some hidden program in the body, causing the firewall to fail. Reason: Unknown." Auxiliary machine 042 reported.

"After all...it still doesn't work..."

Ye Feng slowly raised his head, and a snowflake appeared in his vision. He tried to look at the girl in front of him, wanting to remember her face, and said:

"Go quickly!!"

"Report: Mutated logic virus detected."

"Warning: The virus is spreading rapidly."

"Warning: 9M's black box is beginning to deteriorate." Assist 153 reported.

"Assistive device, execute the anti-virus program." She asked for help from the auxiliary device in a crying voice, hoping to reverse the current situation.

"learn."

"Warning: The virus is spreading rapidly and cannot be eliminated. It is recommended to force shutdown." Assist 042 reported.

"Warning: The black box has deteriorated and forced shutdown cannot be performed." Assist 153 reported.

"warn:……"

In just one second, the long string of warnings from the auxiliary machine was like a death warrant, turning into a sharp arrow and piercing her heart.

Looking at the man in front of her, she screamed at the top of her lungs, her wet hair stuck to her forehead, her eyebrows twisted into a ball, tears splashed from her eyes, her voice became hoarse, and her hands tightly grasped the man in front of her.

"Go away! Get out of here now!!"

Ye Feng roared, and a red light flashed in his eyes, which was a sign of viral infection.

At this moment, he felt that he had lost the ability to think normally and his limbs were almost uncontrollable.

At this moment, I had the urge to kill everything in front of me.

no! ! !

In the haze, a trace of remaining firm belief seemed to emerge.

He used all his strength to bang his head against the wall of the sewer pipe.

After receiving a heavy blow, he fell straight to the ground and lost consciousness on the spot.

"9...M..."

"Always like this! Always like this? Always like this!?"

She cried helplessly, feeling sad and desperate...

Gradually, she seemed to calm down and looked at Assist 042.

Pod 042 understood.

She put her hands on the man's shoulders.

"Assistive device! Hack in!"

Time in the outside world seemed to have come to a standstill.

A flash of white light,

She walked quietly in the man's data space, slowly passing through the digitized troops of the firewall, and walking through the buildings where the data of each system was materialized.

Last time I came here, I didn't check it carefully, but this time...

From the familiar memory space and the familiar firewall, three black shadows emerged and transformed into entities, turning into 9S, A2, and her.

With a thought, she entered the long familiar password, and the black shadow gradually dissipated and disappeared into the firewall.

She walked into the cracked memory space,

"Let me take a good look at you..."

With doubt and determination, she clicked on the encrypted memories one after another. Looking at the many scenes in front of her, her expression changed from surprise, to helplessness, to sadness, and then to relief.

"So... that's how you got here..."

"Is this my... supposed destination..."

“No…9S…”

"Thank you...A2..."

She stretched out her hand, trying to reach through the picture and touch that familiar face.

"Don't do this anymore..."

"Stop……"

"You've done enough..."

A tear fell from the corner of her eye and merged into this space of memory.

Time passed extremely slowly in the data space, as if several hours had passed.

"Assist, tell me where 9M is contaminated by the virus." She said to the digitized Assist 042.

"Understood. 9M's core data is stored right here. Report: The virus contamination is very serious and cannot be removed." Assist 042 reported.

"...No, I just saw that there should be another way." 2B rushed forward and said.

"…That method is not recommended, and the 9M black box has already deteriorated, so there is no need to rescue it. I am a mobile support device for the YoRHa unit, and I cannot approve of any action that would be harmful to the YoRHa unit 2B, which is currently being supported." Pod 042 was silent for a moment, but still spoke.

"Although you always give unreasonable advice, I didn't expect...you are actually a good guy." 2B smiled gently.

She walked towards 9M's core data area. On the platform in front of her, lying was 9M's digital projection, with his eyes tightly closed, as if he was asleep.

She walked forward lovingly, reluctant to touch his hair.

A soft hand brushed his face.

"Transfer all the viruses... to me." 2B's face was determined as she quietly gave the order to Assist 042.

As she whispered softly, white light flashed again in the data space.

Leaving the data space,

"Assisted Machine, exchange my black box with 9M's!" 2B quietly ordered Assisted Machine 153, as if she was talking about a commonplace matter.

"learn!"

Assist 153 takes out 9M's deteriorated black box, re-sets the identification information, swaps it with the black box handed over by 2B, and puts it back into 9M's body.

"Report: Black box reconnection completed, functioning normally."

"The auxiliary machine, 9M, and A2, I'm leaving them in your care."

She wiped the blood from the corner of her mouth, propped herself up, bent down and pecked the man on the face.

"sorry……"

"2B. What about you? Where are you going?" Assist 042 asked.

"My... destination..."

042: "Does it have to be this way?"

"9M's enemy... Only in this way, that weird guy won't..."

She tried to move her body, stumbling towards the distance...