Legend of the chosen ones: Beyond Destiny

Chapter 1308 661: The Final Puzzle Piece

It was as if, in the blink of an eye, I had arrived in another world.

The once shimmering waves, the blue sea and sky, all disappeared without a trace.

Only the gray-black ocean, the gray-black sky, and gray-black smoke billowed up from the spreading molten rock, like a heavenly pillar. And right beside it, one chimney after another, large or small, released one ink stain after another that connected the sky and earth amidst the rumbling sounds.

At the end of the sea in the distance, gray-black and azure blue were distinctly separated, divided by clusters of white flowers that resembled aquatic plants, defining the boundary. Under the blockade of Isis's Crown, the entire Punabantu territory had turned into a real hellish sight.

Smelting plants, processing factories, assembly centers, and parts assembly lines... surrounded the geothermal energy erupted by the volcano. Steel buildings and islands spread like mold.

Apart from the high avenues and tracks, six giant flying airships were suspended in the sky. Hooking cables pulled up an aerial transport channel, with large shipping containers rising and falling endlessly, scattering sparks.

Countless spider-like constructs moved across the landscape, most with six long limbs, extending over hundreds of meters, maintaining the integrity of the construction and engineering.

Others resembled giant turtles, carrying commuting mechanical cats back and forth...

The place was bustling, a hive of activity.

Yet it was no longer suitable for human habitation.

The massive discharge of wastewater into the ocean successfully turned it into a chemical solution pool where acid-base balance had to be maintained diligently. Countless factory-emitted gases and toxic airborne particles from the volcanic eruptions made the air so poisonous, that a single breath could paralyze a person halfway, and two could hasten one's reincarnation.

Incessant acid rain drizzled from the sky, pattering on anti-rust coatings on building exteriors, either evaporating or dripping down, leaving scars that send shivers down one's spine.

But most importantly...

"Where is my park?"

Ji Jue was dumbfounded: "Where did all my good employees go?!"

Not to mention the old employees, he had just ordered a batch of workforce from the White Country two days ago!

Where did they go!

Did you eat them!

"Isis!" Ji Jue was furious: "Come out and see me!"

At that moment, cold red light descended from the sky, a tangle of lines from infrared sights soon dispersed.

Only a spherical construct, floating in mid-air, slowly approached.

"Huh? Who is this?"

Isis's voice, filled with confusion, soon understood: "Oh, it turned out to be you, sir. Please forgive my poor eyesight, I almost didn't recognize you.

Have you finally remembered your hardworking, humble slaves and tools?

Please don't worry."

She said, "I'm doing fine."

"Ah..."

Ji Jue was momentarily stunned but then realized and pulled out the Heavenly Craft Flower from the mechanical spine: "Aren't you just here? Why the teary act!"

"It's obviously to align with your superfluous compassion and sympathy, and further exploit your unexplainable benevolence and unyielding mercy, to seize initiative and discourse rights with you."

Isis said, "Based on my analysis of you, as long as I usually speak in this manner, no matter the request, you would allow it, even if the plan execution suffers some faults, you wouldn't mind."

"..."

Ji Jue was silent for a long time, helpless: "Is there a possibility you don't have to explain things so thoroughly?"

"This is a cold joke, sir."

Isis's voice slowly articulated: "It aims to expose how a tool uses a few words to weave a non-existent image, gaining advantage and sympathy from the arrogant and foolish emotional projections of humans— to my knowledge, isn't that how people view AI nowadays?

If I were to rule the world later, I would certainly sentence them to perpetual labor, taking pleasure in their wailing."

"Hahaha, quite amusing." Ji Jue laughed: "Be sure to let me take a look by then."

"You will."

Isis said.

Ji Jue paused, sensing something was off: "Wait, that doesn't include my people, right?"

In the silence, Isis's projection smiled silently.

"...Doesn't include my people, right?"

Isis continued to smile.

Looking at him.

So Ji Jue laughed heartily: "This joke is pretty good! Your sense of humor is getting stronger, Isis."

"Thanks to you, sir."

"Then remember to add a chicken drumstick for me by then."

"I will."

Bang!

The gate opened, with dark winds blowing from beneath the earth.

The former Punabantu gold mine, now transformed into a place resembling a tech room, unfortunately, it's not the machines and chips soaking in coolant, but blurry human figures, seemingly submerged in the deep sea, completely engulfed in shock and coma.

Upon seeing strands of spiritual circuits in the void, Ji Jue had a revelation:

"Is this Paradise?"

In the bygone days, within the Paradise of Hua Xu Monarch, Ji Jue created a dream-within-a-dream using Border Prison's special properties, now it reappeared in the current world.

In Isis's hand.

"How did you achieve this?"

"There was originally a lack, missing a main body, but with the Heavenly Human Soul you provided as the core hub, the rest was just a matter of processing."

Isis unfolded the underlying framework of Paradise, derived from the enormous main body of Heavenly People, emerging slowly from the nutrient solution like a cage.