Let Yourself Go

Clown Minister's Excerpt

Aramaki!

A young Aramaki, whose hair had not yet receded into a Mediterranean.

He looked more like the Aramaki in "Memory."

"You said Aramaki was the fortress's avatar. Then who are you?"

"I'm an avatar of Aramaki. More precisely, I'm part of his humanity—the part that resists the fortress."

"Then why do you resist the fortress?" Gao Gong asked.

"People pursue freedom. Do they need a reason?"

"Obtaining freedom under the calculations of a planetary mainframe isn't easy. How did you manage it?"

"The Deep Web helped me." Seeing Gao Gong's strange expression, he added, "I mean the Deep Web in its planetary-mainframe form, not the Deep Web in its Calamity form."

"Oh."

Seeing that Gao Gong remained expressionless, "Aramaki" dropped another bombshell:

"Don't you want to know what the fortress sent me to do while I infiltrated the Deep Web's faction?"

"An Infernal Affairs operation? Fine. Go on."

"What it wanted me to do was promote the fusion of the planetary mainframe and the Calamity. Once they fused to a certain degree, it could openly suppress the other side and become the only planetary mainframe on this planet."

"What about Cybertron?" Gao Gong raised an eyebrow.

"Cybertron is the Mechanical Overlord's mechanical general. Compared with the other two planetary mainframes, it's mainly responsible for armed defense. Once the Deep Web runs into trouble, the greatest benefits will naturally fall to the fortress."

Gao Gong pondered for a moment before saying:

"Let me sort this out. Aramaki is the fortress's avatar, while you, for now, seem to be standing with the Deep Web. So why did you come here?"

"I hope you'll open a path and hand Turing over to me."

"Turing is the fortress's lackey, right?" Gao Gong narrowed his eyes. "You want him because of