Chapter 599 Exploring The Inner World (6)(Chapter Preview)

A giant burst of energy blasted downwards. The wave that could shake the world cracked the data flow in the arrow and bloomed out layers of light illusion. Of course, these splashy effect did not possess any damaging effect, these 'flow of lights' were merely air that was influenced by energy until their colors changed.

"Bujue!" When the attack landed, Ruoyu's expression dropped. She called after Feng Bujue's name loudly to confirm his state, because at this place, the team tab in game menu had been removed as well. So the players could not check the survival of their teammates through the menu.

"he's fine." It was a female voice who responded to Ruoyu. To be more precise, it was ROOT.

"Qie..." V1- War God whose attack had not finished grumbled with annoyance. The next second, V1 dropped to the ground and put away his aggression.

"You do not appear that happy." In the dissipating fog of light, ROOT's appearance slowly materialized. She still maintained her liquid metal state, her figure and face looked female; other than the facial organ, there were no other physical details (like belly button, nail, hair, genitalia, Anomalies did not need them), even her face was as common as it could be.

"Why do you stop me?" V1-War God answered ROOT's question with one of his own.

"Do I need to explain my decision to you now?" Root did the same.

"Understood..." V1- War God did not argue. Such was the communication between Anomalies most of the time... They would not say some meaningless lie due to 'face' or convenience like human; and they would not injure each other with words due to 'feelings'. Their conversation sometimes would be so complicated that people would be lost or they would be so simple, it would befuddle people too. In any case... suffice to say their method of conversation was hugely different from the one between human beings.

"Very good." Root continued, "I will take over these two people now." She paused. "Other than that, I have a new mission for you." V1- War God hesitated for half a second before replying, "Of course, sir."

Even though ROOT was not V1's direct superior, she was still one of the three leaders of Origin, so she had the right to order V1. But V1's short hesitation proved indirectly... the internal struggle within Origin (after making the deal with Feng Bujue, ROOT was in some turmoil with the other two leaders) was now an open surface. The question of how much longer this surface peace could remain... was a large question mark.

"Sure." Feng Bujue replied, "We were going there to find you."

"Yes..." Root nodded, then she turned her gaze to D2- Red and D2- Green several metres away, "And you two... are with them?"

She did not need to 'greet' other Anomalies because Red and Green knew Root. The latter appearance and code had very high identification; and ROOT naturally could identify Red and Green, she only needed to scan them. Furthermore... as Anomalies, they did not need to stand on normal human social formalities.

"We're friends!" D2- Red said proudly. Even though she was rather prideful when she was dealing with Brother Jue and Ruoyu, but one could see that... she hoped and was willing to interact with humans.

"Then would you like to come along?" Root asked.

"Erm..." Red did not answer immediately but turned to ask Green. "To go or not to go?"

"You decide." Green uttered with the same lack of interest.

"Okay!" After thinking for a second, Red said, "Then we shall go!"

...

At the same time, at the entrance/exit of π maze.

"I knew... things wouldn't be so simple." Link narrowed his eyes on the broken fragment of data on the ground and grinned coldly. "Hmph... you sure are fast, quick, brutal and clean... My people manage to stay so long inside the π maze and came out alive but they could not last even 5 minutes before you."

"You flatter me." A soft, coquettish voice replied, "I was merely..." As X-23 replied, she placed a cd into the bag around her waist, "trying my best..."