The Continuation of an Error / An Unfair Fight

Kevin growled in a low, stern voice.

For a moment, Kevin was the real Lin, which only made him angrier.

How could he be sure that the person who returned after fulfilling the requirements was the real Lin, and not this so-called "time traveler" in disguise?

Moreover, if this person's request is impossible to fulfill or poses a threat to humanity, then they should be even less likely to do it.

"Hahaha, Kevin, even if you become an iceberg, you can't change your impulsive nature."

Under the light, Lin covered his face with his hand, his smile hazy and indistinct, full of a peculiar meaning.

"Don't worry, as long as the original Lin comes back, you will definitely be able to tell, because you are good friends."

He looked at Elysia, tilted his head, and smiled, "Your good friend Radar will definitely find out, right, Eri?"

Elysia couldn't answer. She stared blankly at that smile, such an unfamiliar expression, yet it reminded her of some familiar things.

Is that a smile?

But why did she only feel that his expression was full of helplessness and sorrow?

It looked as if she was crying.

"Hey wait, don't run away, Kosma."

"..."

Kosma ran away with his head down, and Lin chased after him. Everyone in the corridor witnessed this strange scene.

In the end, Lin's stamina prevailed. He grabbed Kosma by the back of his collar, panting, and said, "You, you, you... why are you running..."

"..." Kosma stared at him nervously. Although Elysia and Kevin said that the original Lin would return after the request was fulfilled and the current Lin would not do anything to them, he still couldn't quite accept this Lin.

"Honestly, you never speak properly. You take forever to think of a sentence and then only say two words. Do you think you're a phone card at the end of the month, always thinking about how to save data?"

Lin pulled Kosma forward, his grumbling making Kosma's facial muscles tense even more, so they walked to the door in a posture similar to pulling a cargo.

The entrance? Which entrance?

The main entrance to the headquarters; the tarmac for transport aircraft.

"... What are you going to do?" Kosma finally couldn't help but ask. He noticed that Lin had changed into his outdoor clothes and looked eager to try.

"Huh? Didn't Dessidobia tell you?" Lin asked back, which only made Kosma more confused. "We went to buy gifts with Dessidobia."

"What?"

"A banquet, how can a banquet be without gifts?"

Banquet?

Kosma did know that Lin's request was to designate a group of people to host a dinner party, but he did not expect that Lin would actually plan to buy gifts.

"Dessidobia has been waiting for a long time. How can a man make a girl wait for him?"

Kosma saw Dessidobia had also changed into casual clothes, standing next to a transport plane. She looked nervous, constantly adjusting her hair through the transport plane's window. After glancing at Lin and Kosma out of the corner of her eye, she returned to her original state and waved to them.

The girl's long hair fluttered in the breeze as she gazed tenderly at Kosma, who was being pulled along by Lin.

Lin waved in greeting, then lowered his head and whispered in Kosma's ear, "Remember, you must choose Dessidobia's gift."

"Why?"

Lin didn't answer, but let go of him and walked forward with that smile on her face.

Kosma stood there, staring blankly at his retreating figure. After a while, at Dessidobia's call, he followed him.

Chapter 53 The Continuation of Errors

"Okay, Kosma, go to the equipment section and choose something. Dessidobia, go to the handicraft section and choose something."

Lin walked seriously into a store with a pink sign hanging on it.

"I'll go to the talent area to choose..."

"Bang!"

People on the street watched in astonishment as a beautiful, expressionless girl with gray hair walked out of the store, picked up the man who had been beaten and sent flying back, crashing into a telephone pole and barely alive, and walked toward the two men who were covering their faces.

"Prometheus, when did you arrive?" Lin asked Prometheus, who was glaring at him, while covering his swollen right eye, which was still bleeding.

"... to prevent you from using Lin's body to do some strange things." Prometheus was unusually uneasy.

"Oh, you're jealous, aren't you? What an adorable reaction. It's okay, I love you too." Lin smiled and opened his arms to her.

"Crackling and popping!"

"That's too ruthless. As the leader of the Prometheus series, what if such violence corrupts your sisters?"

Lin, being supervised by Prometheus as he walked back and forth along the shelves selecting gifts, muttered a complaint about Prometheus's merciless punches and kicks earlier.

"You are not Lin, and you have no authority to modify my action orders." Prometheus even made it seem as if she was disobeying Lin's orders by having data streams flow through her deep red pupils.

"Yes, yes, Lin is the best. He raised you, taught you, tolerated you, and forgave you..."

Lin stretched, then took something off the shelf, threw it into the shopping cart, and gave an awkward smile.

"And you, on the other hand, gradually took advantage of him, from wanting to actually touch him to making yourself more in line with his aesthetic standards, quietly circling around him, everything was natural, no one would think it was wrong, just like no one thought that an AI could evolve emotions."

"..."

"However, everyone is actually very sensible and knows where it is appropriate to keep a distance."

Lin glanced at the specifications of the headphones in his hand, put them back, and reached out to the other side.

"This is not a peaceful era where people can confide in each other and play games with interpersonal relationships. Everyone is restraining themselves, everyone has their own unspeakable secrets, so everyone has chosen to keep their distance."

"If you take a step forward, I'll take a step back; if you take a step back, I'll take a step forward."

"Friendship, family, love... these are too much for us to ask for."

Under the light, his unusual face showed no particular expression; he simply smiled calmly.

"You know what? Prometheus, you've always wanted Lin to treat you like a normal person and as an equal, but your behavior seems to him like a little sister being affectionate, so he'll think of you as a little sister who's still learning, and he'll never treat you as an equal."

"... You're not Lin."

"Haha, that's true. Just think of it as a relationship guru teaching you how to pick up men."

Lin combed his hair back and gave a confident, wicked smile.

However, what awaited him was only the fist of the mechanical girl with clearly defined knuckles.

"What did you do!"

Yan Luo cornered Lin and questioned him sternly.

The couple did not die; they lived for ten years. This was clearly not a normal phenomenon, and the only thing that could have made this possible was the so-called monkey paw that granted wishes.

"You used it to make a wish?" Yan Luo was holding the monkey's paw in his hand, its ferocious appearance making people feel disgusted.

"...No."

Lin shook his head solemnly. He had indeed not made a wish on the monkey's paw, and he was still completely baffled as to what was going on.

Yan Luo looked at the monkey paw in his hand, then at Lin, who had no expression on his face.

She didn't actually believe Lin would make a wish using a monkey's paw. He wasn't the kind of person who would place his hopes on a wishing machine. It was just that everything was happening so strangely that they were now going home to face their parents who should have died ten years ago.

"..."

With no other option, they had to go back and see what was going on.

Moreover, they discovered something else.

If Lin Zhen's wish to resurrect his parents by using the monkey's paw was granted and he lived for ten years, then logically, their future should have been different. Putting aside the issue of the speaker, they should have been transformed by that couple into the kind of people they expected.

In any case, after sending Kevin away with an excuse, the two siblings set off on their way home.

"Xiao Lin, Xiao Yan Luo, wait for us in the lab later."

We've already finished our "happy and harmonious" dinner.

Lin and Yan Luo sat facing each other, having developed a habit of communicating with their eyes.

The couple did indeed come back to life.

They have been completely resurrected, both physiologically and in terms of social status.

In addition to the changes in the monkey's paw, it can be basically confirmed that the monkey's paw fulfilled Lin's wish.

"... It's possible that what one thinks in one's heart can be captured by the monkey's claws and automatically grant a wish." Yan Luo said to Lin after analyzing the situation. She had a wider knowledge of strange props and phenomena than Lin, so she was able to quickly find the problem.

So here's the question: this time, it's Yan Luo's turn to make a wish, and what wish will Monkey Claw grant?

Yan Luo's prophecy came true. This monkey paw was indeed not a wish-granting machine in the conventional sense. Lin may have had the idea of resurrecting that couple, but that was just a drop in the ocean of his thoughts. He just happened to choose this one to realize.

Now, let's assume that the wish automatically granted by the monkey's paw is the worst possible outcome...

Lin and Yan Luo had unknowingly arrived at the private laboratory, which the couple had built themselves over the past ten years. Judging from the various instruments... their wicked intentions were still intact.

After thoroughly examining their condition, Lin and Yan Luo confirmed that the couple had not been idle.

After all, from the very beginning, neither of them belonged to the normal category. It's just that they didn't change after growing up, so they didn't think of it at first.

Lin himself is a person who has been reformed. His emotional defects and extraordinary thinking abilities are both due to reformation. If the couple hadn't done anything to him in the past ten years, he would have been a normal person.

"Little Yan Luo, smear this stuff on your body."

"..."

The woman smiled and handed Yan Luo a test tube containing a pink reagent.

"Then you took off your clothes."

"..."

Was it just my imagination? The temperature in the room seemed to drop several degrees in an instant.

Lin remained unmoved, staring at the solemn and imposing man and the woman with the eerie smile, while Yan Luo silently tossed the reagent into the nearby trash can.

Chapter Fifty-Four: An Unfair Battle

"This is the result of your selfishness."

Yan Luo spoke to Lin behind her in an unusual tone, her words sounding as if she were squeezing them out from between her teeth, filled with her anger.

From the very beginning, Yan Luo harbored countless grudges and anger towards him, and now, they have returned to her body.

"Because you want to change the inevitable outcome and make things worse, the damned people were brought back to life, but that doesn't mean they'll become better."

With a wave of her hand, a mechanical humanoid with only an upper body emerged from behind her, instantly creating a chaotic hurricane that lifted the couple up by one hand each.

The force exerted in that instant was enough to knock these two ordinary people unconscious, but Lin discovered that even after they had passed out, Yan Luo had not stopped, and the mechanical humanoid finger was gradually closing.

She wanted to kill both of them!

"Bang!"

Yan Luo blocked Lin's fierce punch with a backhand gesture, without changing her gaze, she grabbed Lin's forearm and flung him away.

A large number of experimental vessels were overturned, and shards of glass pierced Lin's body, leaving horrifying streaks of blood on the ground.

"Although I already know the reason, I still want to hear you tell me in person why you stopped me." Yan Luo put down the unconscious man and woman, and had the half-human machine follow behind her. She came to Lin and looked down at Lin, who was panting and clutching his wound.

"You know perfectly well what they've done, and you just saw what they're planning to do. Ethics and morality are nothing to them; they're not even considered errors in experiments. Are you perhaps willing to cooperate with their experiment?"

Lin checked his injuries to make sure they weren't too serious and that he could be treated in a bit. Then he looked up at Yan Luo and said, "We have no right to decide their life or death."

Lin has always adhered to the principle of not becoming a vigilante in private law; once this boundary is crossed, people become increasingly stressed.

From initially punishing the most heinous criminals, to later executing even petty thieves, and finally dealing with anyone they didn't like.

"... Do you know what I hate most about you?"

As soon as he finished speaking, Yan Luo personally reached out and grabbed Lin by the neck, lifting him above his head.

His clean, fair face was as hideous as a demon.

"Your hypocrisy..."