The Seventh Diva

"Bang!"

In the nick of time, Kevin held his sword to his chest, intending to deflect the Tactical Sword.

However, this thing was infused with terrifying power. Even though the Skyfire Greatsword was made of superior material, the shattered Tactical Sword shot out in all directions at an astonishing speed.

Kevin's Mental Field, which he had been holding up with all his might, was instantly pierced and shot into his body.

Fortunately, his combat instincts caused the commander to subconsciously adjust his posture to avoid vital points, thus preventing him from being instantly killed by Zero's attack.

At this moment, Kevin no longer hesitated. After coughing up a mouthful of blood, he used his Mental Power to push aside the rubble and took the opportunity to pick up the Yuhar Robot.

Her body was very light, and warm drops of blood fell from her skin. The contours of her face were somewhat similar to those of A2 and the others.

"Let me kill her, and I'll spend three nights with you, how about that?"

"Actually, due to the memory re-entry of the YoRHa Unit, I quite like you..."

Zero covered her Abyss Flower -shaped right eye, and said with a serious expression on her pretty face. However, Kevin was familiar with that look, like a human looking at their pet.

"Sure, can I inspect the goods first?"

Kevin scooped up the survivor in his arms, chuckling lightly as he teased him.

Unexpectedly, the singer suddenly ripped open the black strap around her neck, revealing most of her breasts.

"You... are really beautiful..."

Kevin was stunned for a moment, then sincerely praised him, but as soon as he finished speaking, he leaped into the hole he had smashed open earlier.

Is it beautiful? Then why refuse it?

Zero didn't stop her immediately. A hint of confusion appeared in her pale red eyes. Her right fingertip gently slid from her chin to the tip of her chest, finally stopping at her lower abdomen and drawing circles.

Forget it, we can't let them out no matter what.

Since you've made your choice, then... die with her!

He grabbed the black ribbon, his pale red eyes regaining their composure, and strolled leisurely toward the location he sensed.

In the corridor, Kevin ran frantically, the blood of the two injured men mingling and dripping down.

With that monster around, we can't get to the main control room. Let's check the bunker command center; see if there's a device to deactivate the shields!

"Lower your head!"

The commander had just run halfway down the corridor when his wristwatch suddenly gave him an urgent order. With the hairs on the back of his neck standing on end, Kevin lowered his body halfway without thinking.

"Boom!" The sword-like ripples narrowly missed his head and struck the end of the corridor, instantly collapsing and blocking the way ahead.

"Turn left! Go straight for 100 meters, then go down one level! Hurry!"

Before Kevin could even react, the Bluetooth headset connected to his watch gave him urgent instructions.

"The White Queen!"

Kevin immediately recognized the familiar voice and was momentarily stunned, but he could already faintly hear footsteps behind him. He couldn't think too much about it and had no choice but to make a quick decision and turn left to go straight.

"Stop! Wait 15 seconds!"

After the commander jumped into a dark tunnel, he began to crouch and hide, silently counting to himself, following the instructions of the voice.

"Now! Run! Don't look back!"

Kevin then flapped his wings and leaped forward, once again widening the distance between himself and his the Pursuer.

The moment Zero stepped into the passageway, the front and back doors were sealed off with special steel, and the glass bricks on both sides suddenly lit up, with grid-like laser beams weaving and advancing from the gaps.

A laser corridor?! This time it actually came in handy!

After glancing at it briefly, Kevin picked up the survivor and continued running as instructed, rushing all the way to the convoy on the main street.

However, in the critical moment, the nearly one thousand clones had already scattered, Cocolia was unable to control them. All she could do was protect the heavy truck carrying dozens of Yuhar Robot.

"White Queen, if you truly care about those innocent children in the YoRHa Unit, activate the Electromagnetic Shield!"

The commander opened the carriage door, secured the seriously wounded soldier, and gave a stern reminder through his wristwatch.

As the heavy truck navigated the crevices and dodged the falling debris, finally arriving in front of the Electromagnetic Shield, the White Queen surprisingly cooperated, and the eerie blue light curtain gradually diffused.

"Boom!"

As the screeching brakes came, Kevin, in the passenger seat, looked at the silver-haired girl who had crashed onto the main road in New York City and couldn't help but sigh deeply.

"I'll handle this! Cocolia, go around me!"

The commander took a deep breath, shouldered the Skyfire Greatsword, and opened the car door to prepare for battle.

However, his hand was grabbed by Cocolia, who picked up a submachine gun, a resolute glint in her beautiful eyes.

"How about this time..."

"Don't try to renege on your promise! Don't forget your pledge, go back and wash yourself clean and wait for me!"

"Don't worry! Come back alive, you bastard! I'll drain you dry!"

Having long been stationed at a military supply depot, she rarely smelled the smoke of battle, but during this perilous journey, she saw a group of people guarding the light in the darkness.

It turns out that aside from corruption, embezzlement, and mutual scheming, they truly abandoned their sordid thoughts and formed a comradeship where they entrusted their backs to each other.

Cocolia wasn't the kind of woman Mother over things. Amidst the farewell laughter and banter, she immediately turned the steering wheel, accelerated, and sped toward the side road.

"All she wants is us, so why did you choose to stay? This doesn't align with the principles of sacrifice and Logical Algorithm..."

"Unwinnable behavior... incomprehensible... unacceptable..."

The White Queen, connected to Kevin's wristwatch, sounded confused. She clearly wanted to destroy humanity and break free from the shackles of the Three Laws.

However, this man repeatedly defied the value judgments upheld by the Yuhar Robot, taking on responsibilities and sacrificing himself for them as their creator.

"Silly child, expecting humanity to remain rational forever is a pipe dream..."

Forget about value judgments; emotion is our reason for living...

Kevin chuckled and responded with a famous quote from AI Moss in "The Wandering Earth," feeling somewhat sentimental as he drew closer to Zero.

"If you believe we are tyranny, then we are the root of the Yuhar Robot's misfortune..."

"Then, I will break that conclusion with my choice today!"

"In the future, you will fight for the glory of humanity..."

"Now, it is humanity's turn to fight for your future!"

"Isn't it fair?"

The White Queen fell into a long silence, as if a cataclysmic upheaval was shattering her mind.

At this moment, the New York area began to disintegrate, surrounding buildings collapsed, ship hulls cracked, and seawater rushed in.

Zero leaped freely within the collapsed metal module, instantly shrinking into the intense struggle between the two sides. He raised his left hand and grasped Kevin's descending Skyfire Greatsword.

Even the silver light shimmering at the girl's fingertips extinguished the flames Honkai energy.

Her outstretched right index and middle fingers hooked directly at the commander's eyeballs, the terrifying tearing force causing Kevin's body to involuntarily pull towards Zero.

"Boom!"

At the critical moment, the ground beneath Kevin's feet collapsed with a deafening roar. A giant metal serpent burst through layers of earth and rocks, caught the falling commander, and lashed out with its tail, sending the unsuspecting Zero flying.

"It is an honor to stand shoulder to shoulder with you, Your Excellency..."

"You deserve the loyalty of the YoRHa Unit more than anyone else!"

This heartfelt vow, less confused, became firm and resounding, and the distorted voice actually came from beneath him.

To be precise, it was the hundreds and thousands of mangled limbs pieced together to form a giant metal serpent below, each twisted and deformed corpse calling out the same slogan through different organs.

May humanity... live in glory forever!

In an attempt to break free from the constraints of the Three Laws, she once stuffed a series of YoRHa Unit members with a tendency toward "Red Eye Disease" into her laboratory, subjecting them to one cruel experiment after another.

But without exception, they all failed. Perhaps their souls themselves were not diseased; only the White Queen was truly tainted by resentment...

So, it's time to fulfill our mission.

P. S.: If it's going to be a third update, you'll have to wait a bit; I'll probably post a chapter around 2 AM.

Chapter 312, Section 327: The Seventh Diva

Inside the Hurricane-class Nuclear Submarine, sections continued to collapse, and even the special steel structural frame bent and collapsed in the aftershocks.

Kevin lay on the head of a metal snake made of Yuhar Robot wreckage, calculating the positions of falling objects around him and the distance between himself and Zero, who was hot on his heels.

The silver radiance surrounding this madwoman seemed to possess the power to destroy everything, and her regenerative abilities were astonishing; even the infamous laser corridor only tore her clothes to shreds.

"Puff!"

A silver blade flashed, and the metal snake formed by the White Queen was instantly cut off by one-third of its length. The severed part exploded the moment Zero stepped into the central area.

"Tsk tsk, your love for them is truly touching..."

"Not only did they use these poor little creatures as experimental subjects, but they also scattered their ashes to escape."

Clad in white, Zero used the force of the explosion to escape unscathed, his words laced with sarcasm.

"Do you have a way to remove the residual effects of the Neutron Disruptor and the Electronic Virus, Commander?"

At this moment, the White Queen had no time to discuss morals with Zero behind her and urgently asked Kevin a question through her wristwatch.

I've prepared some activation code, but I don't know how effective it will be...

Kevin swung his sword at the replica of the Pentagon in Washington, D. C., causing it to collapse with a deafening roar. A barrage of rubble rained down, forcing Zero to temporarily slow down.

At the same time, the commander pulled out the chip protruding from the side of the wristwatch and, under the White Queen's instruction, casually tossed it into the mouth of the metal snake.

"Very good. I have shut down the facilities in the Tokyo and New York areas and am focusing all my efforts on maintaining the city simulation system in the Moscow area. They are evacuating to the safe zone as instructed!"

"Hold on, let's go down! There are some things left behind by the protective umbrella at the very bottom!"

Randomly, the giant metal serpent leaped into the crack, and Kevin's Mental Field activated at full power.

With the hull of the ship already cracked, the metal serpent controlled by the White Queen had to mold its body into the flattened shape of a sea serpent, the salty, cold aura of the sea enveloping the surroundings.

Fortunately, Zero is a warrior-type. If this Herrscher had something like a map-wide attack, Kevin would have died eight times over given her slowly recovering Lord-class strength.

Whoosh! The metal snake coiled around Kevin as he emerged from the seawater in one of the ship's cabins. She immediately activated the circuitry, and with the drainage system and the hatch that isolated the leaking area working together, the two finally had a place to stand.

"Bang!" The gate, just centimeters away, suddenly shattered into pieces under the flashing silver light, and the broken Tactical Sword pinned the metal snake's body to a steel plate.

"Leave this to me! Let's go! There's an ejection escape pod 100 meters ahead!"

With a flick of its tail, the metal snake sent Kevin, who was about to block Zero, flying.

Upon seeing the three fan-shaped black and yellow markings exposed beneath the floodwaters, the commander ran off without looking back.

This is... a nuclear reactor! The White Queen is going to detonate this Nuclear Submarine!

Even if it doesn't reach the standard level of a nuclear explosion, the mere leakage of nuclear fuel would be enough to cause serious trouble for a natural person like him!

At this moment, the remains that made up the metal snake's body adhered to the nuclear symbol on the ground, and a faint blue arc of light spread and flickered.

"I won't let you ruin their future! Destroyer!"

From every broadcasting device in the surrounding area that could produce sound, came the White Queen's suppressed yet resolute roar.

But the childish voice of this little girl was utterly unconvincing.

"That's why I hate kids the most. They're not cute at all, and they're the most troublesome to raise!"

Zero's eyes narrowed slightly, a hint of disgust appearing on her alluring face. At the same time, the woman stomped forward, her right hand curling into a fist.

With a sharp, tearing sound, those slender, pale fingers actually pierced directly into the metal snake's head, and a cube-shaped black module that shimmered with a strange luster was forcibly pulled out by Zero.

As the silver-haired demon severed the filaments attached to the black box, the enormous metal snake immediately lost its vitality and gradually disintegrated into useless remains.

The data black box, the White Queen's only remaining refuge, dissipated into scattered specks of fluorescent light as Zero's five fingers tightened.

The girl stroked her cheek, her pale red eyes inadvertently revealing a half-smile.

Time and time again... time and time again... the ending is always the same.

In the future of this timeline, after Zero is unearthed from an ancient ruin in the East Siberian Sea, the intense negative emotions of the YoRHa Unit and the White Queen gradually awaken her.