episode_0187

As soon as you enter the entrance, the wind-up machine holding the joystick turns its head 180 degrees and looks this way.

And then he releases himself from the joystick and runs straight to attack.

Yeah. This is dumber than I thought.

The best way to do this is to violently twist the joystick to make him lose his balance immediately, and then rush at him. Attacking me is a handshake within a handshake.

Kwajik!

Polaris, who was behind me, ran towards me in a good position to hit me. I saw the tin plate dent as Polaris ran towards me and hit me with his fists to the body and head, so I thought it would be okay and went towards the body.

I pretend to examine the pilot’s body, taking away his warmth.

Oh, this has cooled down a lot.

I wish I had come here first.

While I was searching the pilot’s memories, Polaris completely dismantled the machine. It was Polarbear, not Polaris.

Hmm. How to control.

My memory has mostly evaporated, so it’s a bit vague, but I know how to pilot it. After looking through my various memories, I can’t seem to fall vertically like an airplane.

I think it’s because it doesn’t gain lift by moving forward. Since it’s easy to fly, things like aerodynamics aren’t developed, so the speed is slow.

So, what did you do when you landed?

“Do you know how to fly?”

“I only know it as knowledge. I’ll try it.”

Polaris is the only one alive on board right now, so I have to do it.

Me?

I should be excluded because I am not human.

“What the… … . That. Surely that isn’t Bern City?”

A city filled with pitch-black smoke. If you have good eyesight, you can see that it’s such a mess that you can’t see a single building.

“What the hell happened?”

Polaris asks with a trembling voice. I know everything, but I don’t answer. Polaris also looks blankly outside, not wanting to hear my answer.

Here, I answer with the feeling that I just found out.

“There was a reason why the letter I sent to Victoria’s parents was returned.”

And the clockwork machine running wild now is different from the accident that happened in Bern City.

Back then, the wind-up machines would lose control and break down, overheat, catch fire, or explode. But now, they move to kill people.

In other words, it means there is an intention.

But is there a technology called cracking here too?

If you have something like a wireless network, it’s not impossible. Or maybe it has such a program built in from the beginning.

“It’s been a while since it was destroyed. What the hell happened? No, why isn’t this on the news?”

Polaris mutters as he stands against the window, looking out over Bern City.

If you hold the control knob and turn it left and right, it turns left and right, and if you raise or lower it, it goes up and down. The speed is controlled by a pedal like a car. If you release the pedal, it stops slowly. There are no brakes.

The user interface is intuitive. However, in principle, it is not an airplane that flies by generating lift with engine thrust, but rather an airship that floats in the air by using buoyancy from lighter-than-air gas.

However, in the world of faded memories, the volume relative to the weight has increased enormously, but here, it is not a gas, but a solid that can produce the same effect, so it floats in the air.

There is no risk of explosion if attacked, but if the device connecting the buoyant material to the hull breaks, the buoyant material will rise and the hull will crash to the ground.

In short, the part where the weight is applied becomes a weak point. It seems that there is a plan to make a fighter plane with reduced weak points by liquefying solids and circulating them inside the hull to do something about this, but this is unnecessary information, so ignore it.

“Where do I move this?”

“Ah, uh.”

Polaris, who had been stuck to the window, suddenly turned her head and looked at me. Then she turned her head again and looked out the window.

But unlike before, let’s move along the front part that is forming a semicircle and examine it as a whole.

“Bern City is not allowed. As a prerequisite, you. Can you move this ship?”

“Yes.”

Even if you have broken memories, if you remember moving this ship multiple times, you can figure out a way to do it by overlapping them. It’s a bit tedious to cut the memories and look at them in parallel, but it’s not impossible.

“Vehicle? No, it’s a special vehicle that can break through the wilderness. I know it’s difficult for ordinary people to operate, but no, what’s that above? A strange sphere?”

Then suddenly Polaris ran towards me.

“Bell. Get down there now! The anti-aircraft guns are aimed at us. They’re probably coming to destroy the evidence!”

Destruction of evidence?

Oh, I see. So you’re saying that there are people who think it’s dangerous to get caught killing someone using a wind-up machine.

I lowered the airship’s altitude according to memory.

“If this continues, it’s dangerous… … . What. What should I do?”

Polaris looks around with a pale expression. The place where Polaris manifested something. I also looked around that area and saw something smaller than a soybean coming this way.

Polaris must have good eyesight. It can tell something is coming, but it can’t see well enough to identify it.

“Ugh. Ah! See that mountain up ahead? When the boat goes down the mountainside, turn sideways and go down in a spiral.”

“Then the sides don’t match?”

“Turn around as much as possible, hide in the mountain, turn your back, and run away as much as possible. No, no. The clockwork machine is reporting that everyone inside has been killed. It’s not charged, so if you run away, there’s a chance you’ll use another method. ”

Polaris holds her head with both hands. Occasionally she mutters, “Think, think.”

“I went down below the top of the mountain. Should I turn around?”

“Come back!”

As Polaris said, I turned sideways along the mountain.

Since it’s an airship, its radius of rotation isn’t that large, but it still rotates in a spiral fashion, spreading outward rather than in a clean circular orbit.

Polaris runs back to the window and stares at the group coming towards her.

“Break it even harder!”

More here?

It’s dangerous to balance, but do as you’re told. Turn sharply, and the centrifugal force will cause the floor to rise so much that it becomes a sideways surface.

Woof!

Just then, a flash of light narrowly missed where the ship had been.

“You crazy bastards! You really attacked? This is a ship with the royal seal on it. Are you thinking of rebelling?”

Meanwhile, the ship had made a complete turn, leaving the mountain behind.

“Should I go straight ahead?”

Polaris looks straight ahead, then sits down on the floor and draws something on the floor with his finger. Nothing is actually drawn.

It looks like something is going on in Polaris’ head.

“Bell. Slow down. And you know what happens when you take your hands off the joystick?”

I let go of the joystick once. The joystick slowly turned, probably due to inertia.

As I lifted my foot off the accelerator pedal, the speed also decreased. Polaris, who had been watching this with an anxious expression, brought the remains of a wind-up machine with its head replaced by a chair near the entrance.

And then he grabs the machine’s arm with his bare hands and rips it off.

“See that hill over there? I’m going to jump off it.”

He pointed to the mountainside outside the window. He then came over to where I was and used the remains of the machine to secure the control lever.

Even if it’s brass, it wouldn’t bend that easily, but it bends and stays in place.

And then he dragged the remaining debris and placed it nearby.

“You have to jump out before you go over that hill. If you go over the hill, you’ll roll down and it’s dangerous. So you have to jump before you go over it. Got it?”

“Yes.”

Polaris tapped my shoulder with a very impressed expression on his face at my answer and pointed outside.

“Go and get ready now. I’ll follow you right away.”

“I think I’ll put this on the stepping stone.”

When I pointed to the headless, armless wind-up machine, Polaris nodded.

“That’s right.”

I know what Polaris is thinking. She’s going to use this as bait. We’re going to run away and let whoever’s chasing us chase the ship.

Climbing up a mountain isn’t just about avoiding attacks, it’s also about hiding your jump from your opponent.

You’re using your head.

I nodded and went straight through the cockpit, into the cabin, past a few missing seats and a broken clockwork, and into the passage.

Go through the passage covered in corpses and blood, then open the door leading outside.

Clank.

Shuaaah!

The door opens to the side, letting out a blast of wind.

Below, the trees are getting closer. The boat is not going down, but the terrain is getting higher.

I go outside, grab the door, and look ahead, and within a minute the tree tips are just barely touching the bottom of the hull.

So I looked back down the hallway, and in the distance, Polaris was yelling at me to run. So I ran as soon as I heard her.

I felt a little buoyant and soon hit a tree branch.

Woozigeun!

And then I fell to the ground, being pricked here and there by the branches.

Although I was a bit bruised, I arrived safely on the ground. I looked up at the sky and saw Polaris jumping out of the airship, which was gradually gaining speed.

However, unlike me who was bumping into things here and there, Polaris grabbed the branch at the top of the tree and turned her body acrobatically, looking around from the top of the tree.

He looked into the distance as if he was examining the surrounding terrain, then he climbed down the tree trunk and straight down to the ground.

Based on the world of faded memories, it is a physical ability that transcends humans. However, it is a physical ability that can be had in other worlds.

This one also uses magic power, so strictly speaking, it seems like a different world from the world in my faded memories… … .

By the way, the bitter pain disappeared strangely quickly, so I looked down at the scratch, and it was healing.

It’s not that flesh grows, but rather that thin threads move around and attach themselves around the wound. As a result of the search, it was found in the artificial body function section of Daegon’s memories. It is said that if there is enough calories, limbs can be regenerated.

Yeah, that’s right. Since this body isn’t human, there’s no need to press down on reality to heal the wounds.

If you build up the specs of the body you will descend to, you don’t have to use any extra strength.

My wisdom has increased.

“Are you okay? Are you okay?”

I nodded as I looked at Polaris, who was approaching me right away.

“Yes. Polaris. What are we going to do now?”

“We have to move. We don’t know when monsters will attack here, so we’ll go to the beach first. As far as I know, no dangerous monsters will come if you go that far.”

This is also an area where the wilderness remains. It is a wilderness so harsh that Daegon’s advance party failed to establish a position.

I nodded and immediately followed the moving Polaris.