NieR: Whirlpool

Chapter 130 Moon

"What is the meaning of fighting...exactly?"

At the long table, the two brothers sat quietly as usual.

"Brother, what are you talking about?" Eve looked at Adam, her eyes full of concern and confusion.

"Why, why!?" Adam suddenly fell into a state of madness, and the book in his hand fell heavily to the ground with a dull sound.

""elder brother!?"

Eve rushed forward and supported Adam, shouting anxiously,

"Is it because of that android? Brother!"

“Humans! Homunculi! Mechanical life forms! Evolution!? Haha, hahaha, hahaha…”

An incomprehensible sound came from Adam's throat, like a roar of pain, or a cry of despair.

He knelt on one knee, clenched his right fist and pounded it hard on the ground.

Blood flowed from his fist, staining the floor red.

"Brother!? Don't do this. Don't get hurt."

Eve was heartbroken when she saw her brother's right hand was covered in blood. She was also extremely angry.

"That android, right? I'm going to kill him!"

He turned around and prepared to settle the score with the person who hurt his brother.

But Adam grabbed him.

"elder brother!?"

Adam's voice was low and firm:

“Don’t kill him.

He saved me, but also made me feel...death,

And... further discovered the meaning of life."

"Brother! What are you talking about?" Eve was completely at a loss.

Adam stroked Eve's face, his eyes full of tenderness and reluctance:

"Eva, you should read books carefully. There is a lot of knowledge in books that can make you smarter."

"What are you going to do, brother?" Eve's voice trembled and tears welled up in her eyes.

He held Adam's hand tightly, as if he was afraid of losing him.

"To find the meaning of life!?"

Adam's eyes were firm and deep. He gently patted Eve's hand and said comfortingly,

"Don't worry, Eva, I'll find the answers."

"I'm with you, brother, don't leave me, brother..."

Adam's body disappeared on the spot, leaving Eve alone kneeling on the ground, with her head lowered, crying sadly.

After an unknown amount of time, Eve felt a shadow appear in front of her, blocking the sunlight.

She looked up in surprise, hoping to see Adam coming back.

"elder brother?"

However, when he saw the scene in front of him, he was stunned.

He saw a group of religious believers founded by mechanical life forms appear in front of him at some point.

They were dressed in purple and white religious attire and purple church hats.

Among them, a small, long-legged mechanical life form is particularly eye-catching. It calls itself the founder of the religion and its name is Soren Ober Kierkegaard.

At this moment, Kierkegaard stood quietly in front of Eve.

The positions and postures of the two people made the whole scene look very strange.

No matter from which angle you look at it, it looks like Eve is paying homage to it.

Eve's smile suddenly froze.

A fierce light flashed in his eyes, and then he slowly stood up.

He stepped onto the long table and looked down at Kierkegaard.

Then he took aim and kicked hard, hitting Kierkegaard accurately.

The great mechanical head of the Patriarch did a horizontal projection, drew a parabola in the air, and then fell heavily to the ground and rolled quickly a long distance.

Known: Assume that the Patriarch’s head weighs 20 kg and the center of gravity of the head is 0.8 meters above the ground.

The force of Eve's foot is N, which can be regarded as a constant force. The direction of the force is horizontal, and the time of action on the head is 0.1S.

The ground dynamic friction coefficient is 0.2, and there is no rebound after touching the ground.

The acceleration due to gravity is 10 meters per second squared, air resistance is ignored, and the displacement of the foot and head during the contact time is ignored.

Request: Ultimately, the horizontal distance between the Patriarch’s head and body.

Question 2: If we ignore ground friction, there is a smooth semicircular slide ahead, and the Patriarch’s head can just pass through the highest point. What is the radius of the slide?

The third question is, under the radius of the slide, the pressure exerted on the ground by the head when it passes through the lowest point of the slide.

Question 4: Under this slide radius, after the Patriarch’s head passes the highest point, it will make a horizontal projection motion. Find the distance between the landing point and the Patriarch’s body.

Question 5: Find the instantaneous power of Eve’s feet.

Question 6: Considering only the question stem, what is the minimum strength Eve needs to have in her feet to keep the Patriarch’s head from hitting the ground.

……

In the data space, 9S opened his eyes and performed a final inspection. With the help of the auxiliary machine, he checked the memory system and various sensor systems in turn.

"Since the data of the three people in 9S's charge has not been synchronized for a long time, it is recommended to enable the synchronization of the memory units of 2B, 9S, and 9M with the bunker server." Assist 153 reported.

“Is it really necessary to go through so much trouble?” 9S muttered.

It is the duty of every YoRHa member to enable data synchronization.

"Yes Yes"

"Just say it once."

"Yes……"

9S followed the data link to the database, preparing to synchronize data with the bunker's memory database. Suddenly, unknown noises and flickering appeared in the data space.

"what's the situation?"

9S was startled.

Didn't 9M say that the system backdoor has been patched? What's the matter with this flickering?

"Auxiliary machine, open the port to the bunker's main server." 9S ordered. Data synchronization was turned off, and the data synchronization between 2B and 9M that was about to start was also suspended!

"Warning: This behavior violates the rules of the YoRHa team!"

"Assist!" 9S gave the order directly.

"learn!"

9S followed the open data link and looked at the vast amount of information in the database. He pulled out a copy of the bunker and lunar material transfer and found that most of them were empty.

As 9M said, the human parliament on the moon is just an empty shell.

Continuing forward, they finally scanned out the location of the bunker's back door. If Ye Feng hadn't told him, it would have been almost impossible to detect any signs that the back door had been repaired.

"That seems to be the reason for the flickering," 9S said without giving it any further thought, exiting the data space.

Ding ding,

"9S, please come to the command room."

9S ran all the way to the command room and just happened to see Ye Feng standing in front of the window.

"9M!"

"It's Senior 9S, what's the matter?" Ye Feng said with an embarrassed smile.

"Thanks to your kindness, your firewall beat me so badly that I couldn't get out of bed for three days. I deserved it. I was kind enough to save you and restore your memory."

"How could that be?" Ye Feng scratched his head, "My firewall will never attack you."

"Oh, I understand!" Ye Feng said with a smile: "Senior, you must have touched something you shouldn't have touched. You are such a peeping Tom!"

Ye Feng naturally thought of what the system had said before. This system actually hid my human memory in my body, and it was almost discovered by this little guy!

"I just found the backdoor you mentioned in the bunker database. I noticed traces of repair, but there is still unknown jitter in the system space."

"Like this?"

"System, what's going on?"

"Host, since it's disguise, shouldn't you pretend to be more realistic?" the system said lazily.

"Don't worry, senior. This is also a disguise."

"I see. Well, the commander wants to see me for something, so I'll go first."

"Senior, take care. Goodbye, senior!"

……

Commander White was not in the command room. She was waiting for 9S in the corridor at the entrance of the command room.

"9S, I found traces of your access to the system server."

"I have some questions for you regarding this matter, Commander." 9S replied, "There are records kept in the YoRHa project about the establishment of the Lunar Human Council."

"Why does it look like our YoRHa unit has established a human parliament?"

"...You are right." After thinking for a while, the commander said, "We set up the human parliament server on the moon. Humans no longer exist."

“Is that so…” 9S, who already knew the news, was still saddened when he heard the commander admit it himself.

White narrowed his eyes as he looked at 9S who was calm and collected.

Thinking about 2B's strange state not long ago, she seemed to understand something.

“To be precise, humans were already extinct before the aliens attacked.

According to clear intelligence, the communication of the lunar human conference was just simulated by AI. "The commander looked up at the moon and said with a deep gaze: "Only a little human genetic data is left on the moon."

9S asked curiously, "So... there's nothing on the moon?"

When he heard this question, White's face showed a hint of emotion.

After a pause, she continued:

"Yes...and no..."

"What do you mean?" 9S asked.

"There are things... you won't understand." She said, taking out a chip and handing it to 9S.

"This contains all the known records of the moon."

"Why... leave this to me?" 9S asked.

"No one can fight without a reason. Homunculi need faith." The commander continued, "And humans are the faith of androids."

After the commander finished speaking, he turned and left.

"A reason to fight..." 9S muttered.