"I can't describe what it is..."
"The disgusting flute and drum sounds are dismembering my body bit by bit."
Looking at the mottled, broken limbs flickering with a faint blue light, the android, No. 0, still transmitted this meaningless information back to Blue Star.
This was the mission it was programmed to do since its birth - to understand this world...
No. 0 didn't know if it had completed the mission, but this was all it could do.
Its consciousness chip had started to be damaged, and the "energy ore" inside its body was peeling off.
It believed that it wouldn't be long before they would all blend into this universe together and become a tiny, insignificant speck of dust.
"It's all over..."
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A girl in ragged clothes, with white hair and red eyes, slowly stood up from the ruins.
"Android No. 0 is rebooting..."
Suddenly, it froze for a few seconds. It wasn't just because everything in front of it was unfamiliar, but also this body?
It never remembered that its creator had designed a gender for it?
No! Wasn't it dismembered by the indescribable creature during the space exploration? Even if it was re - created, there was no reason to design a gender!
The mission of No. 0 was to explore the dangerous unknown areas of the universe on behalf of humans.
The survival rate was almost zero. Designing a gender was completely a superfluous act...
Could it be that I'm laid off and turned into a domestic android?
Before it could think more, the piercing pain in its right leg made it fall back to the ground again.
Pain?
This thing that only existed in theory made it freeze again.
It didn't have an android's body now!
What is an android? It has no sense of pain, masters a great deal of knowledge, can think independently, but is only loyal to the program set on the day of its birth.
"What on earth is going on?" It, or rather she, gently stroked her right leg. According to her self - judgment, it was probably a fracture.
"Found her! Jolian is here!"
Some anxious voices came from not far away. No. 0 saw a lady with black hair, wearing a Gothic - style long dress, pushing a baby carriage and leading a group of people rushing towards her.
"Jo, are you okay? Are you hurt?" The lady pulled out a white coat from the baby carriage and quickly covered No. 0 with it, covering the exposed skin.
Then she took her right hand and carefully examined her body.
However... she was wearing a black lace eye patch. Are you sure she can see clearly?
"Is Jolian referring to me?"
No. 0 didn't speak and quietly observed the group of people in front of her. Besides their strange clothes, the most conspicuous thing was the different - colored Bana flower tattoos on their bodies.
"This tattoo... it seems I have one too?" No. 0 looked at the coat draped over her body. There was also a scarlet Bana flower tattoo under her right collarbone.
"Residual magic power is weak, the alchemical boots are damaged, and the right leg is broken."
Speaking of this, the lady's voice trembled a little. Her hands condensed a mass of black, mist - like thing, which wrapped around No. 0's right leg.
"Um~" No. 0 tilted her head back and let out an almost inaudible nasal sound. The pain in her right leg was gradually getting better, and the broken leg bone began to heal.
This process was as if countless warm hands were caressing her right leg, which was extremely comfortable.
"Jolian? Weak magic power? Alchemical boots? And the current gender!"
A glimmer of understanding appeared in No. 0's mind, and a bold idea gradually emerged.
It wasn't re - created, but had come to a new world!
Just like the time - travel in the novels on Blue Star, it had traveled into the body of a girl named Jolian!
But it was an android and had no soul at all. How could it travel through?
Moreover, it hadn't received any memories of this body?
"Jo? What's wrong with you?" The lady noticed that Jolian was a bit strange. She was so quiet today...
Suddenly, as if she had thought of something, she grabbed No. 0's hands and put them on her chest.
"This feeling can't be wrong, Jo! Did you activate the Life Alchemy?"
As the lady's words fell, the people following her were first stunned, and then looked at the white - haired girl with grief in their eyes.
Some of them even clenched their fists, looking like they were about to go out and fight.
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No. 0 was a bit puzzled by the newly emerged terms. She looked at her hands that were being held. Lady Vesir was gently rubbing the ring on it with her fingertips.
"You're okay! No broken hands or feet! Jo! You haven't forgotten us, have you? I'm Vesir! Your partner! And all the people behind are the family members of 'The Other Shore'!"
Seeing that Jolian still had no expression, Lady Vesir hugged her tightly in her arms. "Sorry, Jo. We're late. If we had come a little earlier, you wouldn't have..."
No. 0 just let her hold herself. The atmosphere around was filled with something called sadness.
Among the group of people called "family", some were crying, and some were angrily hitting the tree trunks.
The emotions they expressed all showed how important Jolian was to them.
This atmosphere probably lasted for a while longer. Then Lady Vesir let go of No. 0. She raised her hand to wipe the tears on her face, but didn't take off the wet black lace eye patch.
"Did you refine away your own memories? It doesn't matter, Jo. As long as you're okay, nothing else matters!" Vesir grabbed her hand and pressed it against her face, her voice choked with sobs from crying just now.
"Let's go home. The family is waiting for us!"
No. 0 nodded. She had too little information to work with now, but she vaguely guessed something.
The Jolian she had transmigrated into should have died from activating some kind of Life Alchemy. But what she refined wasn't the memories as Lady Vesir said, but her life!
However, judging from their appearance, they should care a lot about the original owner. And the Life Alchemy could help cover up the fact that she wasn't the real person.
It would be better to leave with them first and make plans after figuring everything out.
Having made up her mind, No. 0... Oh no, she should be called Jolian now. She stood up again. She moved her right leg. There was no discomfort at all.
But her body felt a bit weak, probably due to the weak magic power.
"Jo, don't move around. Your injury is healed, but your magic power hasn't recovered yet." Lady Vesir picked her up and stuffed her into the baby carriage without giving her a chance to refuse.
"How did you do this?" Jolian was a bit puzzled. The small baby carriage was like a bottomless pit.
How could her 173 - centimeter - tall body stretch her legs inside without feeling crowded?
"Little ones, take good care of Sister Jo," Lady Vesir said softly. Immediately, several delicate dolls popped out of the carriage.
They hugged Jolian's arm just like people, and a mass of black mist enveloped her again.
"The feeling of weakness is gone?" She reached out to touch the dolls' heads. The little ones immediately joyfully leaned their heads over.
"What kind of world is this... And what's the meaning of my appearance here?"