Overturned Tower

The night sky in the lower city will never see the brilliant neon lights in the upper city.

Or... whether it's day or night, it doesn't make any difference to downtown.

Anyway, no matter when you look up, you can only see the dark sea that is constantly whistling.

Bird of Paradise huddled in her room, sitting on the bed with her hands crossed around her knees.

In front of her was a quiet, shimmering angel halo.

"dad…"

She murmured in a low voice, her immature face showed unprecedented shake.

"What the **** should I do..."

From birth until now.

— Paradise Bird never wished for a moment that he was a real angel like this.

Hearing the news of the angel's return a few days ago, he excitedly put on the aura left by his father, and the joy of going uptown as an "uncoded person" was overshadowed by the predicament he was facing now.

She is not a mechanical angel belonging to the Church, nor is her father.

Or rather, her father had been.

After the war, the church decided to freeze all angels.

Her father didn't want to be frozen and didn't trust the Church. So before that, he quietly escaped.

After being classified as a defector, he was removed from the angel list and his halo was banned by the church, but he was not pursued further.

—but that level of banning doesn't matter.

He was originally a very good engineer. Relying on the advanced equipment that goes along with it while running, it is easy to break the prohibition restrictions from the church server and change it to a "stand-alone version".

Generally speaking, the public moral cognition of the general public is constantly changing... This also means that the criteria for judging holy orders will be skewed.

In order to prevent the sudden loss of power, the Cyber ​​Church has been maintaining the entire "God's Descending Device" system—they will collect relevant information and constantly fine-tune the personalities recorded in the angel's halo.

Even though the angels have been frozen and sealed, this process has never ended.

This also means that when the angels are thawed out, although the times have changed a lot and their moral values ​​have also undergone tremendous changes, their power will not weaken too much.

Of course, there will still be a certain degree of weakness. After all, the original fit is high enough, but it doesn't mean that they can adapt to the adjusted new personality.

And Paradise Bird's father, because he used the halo a hundred years ago, has never performed "driver update"... Therefore, as the times change, the power he can use becomes weaker and weaker.

But even so, he still relied on the power of the Holy Order to continuously repair his body, and lived easily for more than a hundred years.

When he was eighty or ninety years old, he looked like he was only in his fifties.

In order to hide his obviously abnormal lifespan, he will continue to move between various empty islands, and experience the era that is becoming more and more chaotic.

Not long after he arrived at Happy Island for the second time...he fell in love with a woman in her fifties.

She is a pharmacologist. Both of them took a fancy to each other's intelligence and felt comfortable getting along.

Because of his longer life span than ordinary people, he has always kept his distance from others.

And when his power of the Holy Order weakened to a certain extent and he began to clearly realize his impending death, he no longer rejected others.

It was the first time in his life that he fell in love with someone. Although both sides are old and haggard. But age and appearance don't matter to him anymore - he has lived young for too long, and he has long since looked down on skin.

At that level of aging, they are all infertile.

The mother of Keyuan Bird felt the decline of her body, and desperately hoped to leave a child...

The technique of IVF is not allowed - because that means, there may be a newborn child who will not be implanted with a chip.

So they went into the lower town. Relying on her mother's connections, she found a wanted black market doctor.

With the help of a doctor code-named "Paradise", Paradise Bird was born as a test-tube baby.

Strictly speaking, Paradise Bird can even be said to be a "synthetic human". Because she did not grow up in a human womb, but was born in an artificial womb—a forbidden technology held by "Paradise".

When Paradise Bird was born, her father was already one hundred and five years old.

Even counting the continuous repair of the body by the power of the Holy Order, he looked like an old man in his sixties or seventies, whose body began to decline rapidly... and her mother was almost sixty years old.

Although they are parents, they are older than their grandparents.

In order to take care of Paradise Bird, who was born without a chip, they moved into the lower city.

Unlike normal uncoded people, she at least has a safe place to live. Her mother also has a chip, so she keeps coming back uptown, selling inventions to buy necessities.

Compared with other people born without a code, the life of the Paradise Bird family is quite stable.

Paradise Bird never went to school, or even had contact with peers.

All of them were taught by her parents all the knowledge, technology and fighting skills in her life.

Until three years ago, her father finally died of old age. He has lived to be one hundred and sixteen years old, which is already extremely long for short-lived species.

And because of grief, her mother also passed away half a year later.

She inherited her father's halo, but the too weak healing system can no longer cure diseases of that degree.

"Angel" has completely become a legend. She can no longer enter the upper city with a halo, and she dare not expose the identity of an angel in the lower city...

After losing the protection of her parents, only 11-year-old Paradise Bird struggled to survive in the downtown area as an uncoded person relying on her extraordinary intelligence.

The family used to be part of a small mutual aid group called Cave House. Before Paradise Bird's mother died, she also asked her old friend to take care of Paradise Bird.

There, she lived happily, as if she had a home for the second time.

Old friends of the parents are also good people. Although life is very poor, but happy... Her healing ability can help others.

She originally hoped that she could maintain a stable life like this, and live a stable and happy life... It doesn't matter even if she can't see the bright sunshine in her whole life.

But just six months ago, that organization was also destroyed by the "veil of ignorance".

— not for annexation, but for sadism.

Meaningless. Just purely for fun, for the "rehearsal of crime" to destroy, tear up, and torture those uncensored people who live in peace.

In the unscrupulous laughter, in the wailing and screaming of those old friends and elders... Record all this into a video, keep it as a souvenir, or sell it to others.

With the help of the elders, she escaped very reluctantly.

But her second home was destroyed again.

Like a lost dog, she hides in a shabby room that no one knows, and spends every day that is as dark as the night in fear and hatred.

She saw the notorious "Bad Ones" leading a group of men in black to carry out sweeping and massacres in the lower city.

The latest bullet had penetrated the wall, missed her, and hit the wall on the other side of the shelter.

Through the hole made by the bullet, she watched curiously and timidly what was happening outside.

Then, she saw the "devil" walking on the ground.

The bullets that shot at him in fear had no meaning to that man—the bullets were shaken off by the ripples in the air before they approached him, and he just approached him slowly, like a **** of death, with a light touch. Explode the body of others.

Like a sausage cracked in boiling oil, those who attacked him with guns were torn into such miserable shapes by invisible forces.

After they dispersed, Paradise Bird checked the bodies of those people.

Their internal organs and brains almost burst, and the fat seemed to have been boiled. It was like being roasted alive in a microwave oven.

This intensified her fear even more.

Every day when you close your eyes in fatigue and confusion, you will dream of the veil of ignorance or the inferior.

Dreaming of the wailing and screams of those friends and elders being tortured to death by gang members, and the appearance of those gang members who were too strong to fight against were easily torn apart and exploded by the inferior.

——When she inadvertently learned the news that the "angel" was resurrected again, Paradise Bird was very happy.

Because this means that she can go back to the upper city to collect some materials under her father's halo!

She fled in such a hurry that she took nothing with her. She has a bright mind, but she can't do anything without materials and instruments.

It is different from the environment ten or twenty years ago.

The discrimination against people without a code was not so serious back then, so her parents dared to give birth to her.

But things quickly changed after that.

As the last residents born before 1123 died, and as crime intensified in the lower city without codes, attitudes toward the codeless grew. "Not possessing a chip" is now a deportational crime in itself—this was not the case even ten years ago.

Because she doesn't have a chip, she certainly doesn't have credit points, so she can't use the normal way to shop.

But her mother and father, as academics, also held "credit sticks," items used for anonymous transactions.

This is usually left over when a certain director buys an item anonymously.

Just a few days ago, when she came out of the prosthetic body store with a few bags of things happily, she had a pleasant chat with a big brother she didn't know.

—She is an angel now, and she can live in the sun with integrity!

It was a wonderful feeling she had never experienced before.

But before he said a few words, he saw the "bad one". The man who often appeared in her nightmares.

Only then did she realize that the friendly big brother was from the Special Executive Department.

At that time, Paradise Bird suffered a cardiac arrest due to fear.

There is no doubt that it is impossible for an angel to have a chip, and it is impossible to go out to shop. Because they have been frozen for so long, they don't understand the current era, and it is even more impossible to have the anonymous currency "credit stick"...Because the angels and the company don't deal with it at all, they have nothing, and it is impossible to sell it to the director what.

In the past, prosthetic bodies were used as assistive devices for the disabled, not as physical reinforcements like they are now.

Paradise Bird realized very clearly that he had made a big mistake.

She even thought about how she would be torn apart after being seen through the disguise and being touched by the inferior...

But fortunately, the bad guys don't seem to be interested in this...

In other words, he didn't realize that he couldn't be a real angel.

But he will realize it eventually. When he remembered, he couldn't go uptown anymore.

Therefore, Paradise Bird began to stock up in large quantities.

Food and weapons are things that can be easily obtained in the lower city.

The most lacking things are wine, precision instruments and medicines. It's all stuff that's only made in Uptown.

At that time, she saw a person who had a heart attack on the road.

She didn't know each other, had never met. I don't know what power he belongs to or what he is going to do.

Although she knew it was dangerous, she couldn't watch others die in front of her like this... Still couldn't bear to step forward to help them heal.

But this exposed that he was holding precious medicines, and as expected, he was robbed by the other party—not only for her medicines, but also for herself.

She blamed herself and regretted her stupidity and innocence...but if it happened again, she would still treat that person.

Only this time, she would run away immediately after feeding the other party the medicine.

Fortunately, a passer-by helped, and she solved the problem. And barely gained the trust of that fierce guy...

But after that, she came into contact with some high-level organizations.

Then she suddenly realized something:

The "mage" that my father defeated a hundred years ago was born among the uncoded people in the lower city.

Although the "lover" is vague, she has the knowledge she got from her father. She realized immediately that this was a gathering of mages.

She had planned to ruin the party.

But after she sneaked into the warehouse of the Veil of Ignorance and got the chip samples...

Paradise Bird checked the psychic energy stored in this chip with the mood of being idle and being idle.

—the result made her flustered.

At this moment, the dim light on the side of Paradise Bird still quietly illuminated the workbench.

There are professional and advanced instruments placed on it, which are completely different from the simple environment she is in. There is a white chip without any logo embedded in it.

Paradise Bird is very sure that the chip has been tampered with.

It stores powerful healing psychic energy that can heal itself and others.

But if this chip is used to treat people, it will make the healer go crazy, and the healed person will gradually be infected with a soul-based poison, which will gradually make people lose their fighting spirit and make their psychic power gradually become weaker within three to five years. Weakness, becoming a hollow shell...eventually losing all consciousness and becoming a vegetative state.

— There is no doubt that this is also a means from the mage.

This is the conspiracy of the mages from Uptown ~www.wuxiahere.com~ and those elf directors!

They weren't ignoring the chaos in downtown, but they had a big plan.

Slowly reduce the number of residents in the lower city by poisoning the treatment chip and pretending to be robbed by someone!

Although she doesn't have much recognition for Xiacheng District, she was born in Xiacheng District after all.

And she was clever enough to realize... these chips actually came from the game between the mages in the upper city and the mages in the lower city.

The mages in the upper city are sure that the mages in the lower city will accept this batch of problematic chips because of greed-they can't find out the real problem with the chips, because they don't have the knowledge from the church that is used to resist spell transformation. Technology.

If they are reminded or helped to destroy the chips, it means that all the gang forces in the lower city including the "Silence of Ignorance" are preserved; but if they distribute and use them by default, it means that the residents of the lower city will be massacred.

It's fine if you don't know...but once you know about it, Paradise Bird can't just ignore it.

Watching someone else fall into a trap you've already discovered - how is that different from taking part in it yourself?

"what should I do…"

It would be great if he was really a mechanical angel.

It would be great if you have reliable comrades in arms behind you.

It would be great if I had the power to change everything... instead of just a useless ability to heal other people's wounds.

"dad…"

She looked at the halo left by her father in a daze, and murmured in a low voice.

She seemed to be asking about the halo, or about her dead father.

Or ask yourself.

"What would you do…"