"I'll give you one more chance." Feng Bujue saw that the mana in the bone prison was almost completely drained. "Tell me … who is your master, then I'll consider letting you live."
"Hmph … Do you think I'll believe you?" Keron, who was still struggling, replied, "Once I tell you the information you want, you'll immediately turn hostile and take my life."
"He's right." At this time, Red Iron suddenly took over the conversation and said to Feng Bujue, "Even if you don't kill him, his master won't let him go."
"Oh?" Brother Jue heard something from Red Iron's words, "You mean … You know who Keron's' master 'is?"
"Ah, of course I know." Red Iron replied.
"Ah … Then it's easy." Feng Bujue heard this and chuckled.
At the same time, the bone prison around Keron's body was also drained of mana and turned into a pile of broken bones.
"Ha!" Keron seized the last chance and once again overdrew his mana and shot a bone spear at Feng Bujue who was close at hand.
Unfortunately, this kind of direct and expected attack was almost a negligible threat to Brother Jue.
With the help of Zero Time Difference Calculation, Feng Bujue easily evaded his opponent's bone spear without using much stamina. With a flicker, he reached Crone's side.
"Alright … You've done your best," Feng Bujue said as he used the LV10 [Wild Ball Punch].
From a personal point of view, he did not have any opinions about Keronne's actions. This Necromancer was only fighting for his beliefs and his loyalty to his old master. Although Keronne himself knew that this kind of revenge against an enemy who was "one dimension higher than himself" was destined to end in failure, he had no regrets.
"What should we do with the other two?" After Keron was killed and fell to the ground, Red Iron asked Feng Bujue.
"Let them do what they want." Feng Bujue glanced at Tureus, who had lost consciousness, and Idiante, who was still lying on the ground. He shrugged and replied.
After a few seconds, Brother Jue spoke again and said, "Then … Now, I think you … Oh no, you … should have something to tell me."
"I'll get straight to the point." In that second, X1-WING immediately took over the control of Ken's body and replied, "Crone's master, who is the target of our mission this time... is 23."
"What?" When he heard those three words, Feng Bujue showed a rare look of surprise.
However, he quickly recovered his inherent calmness and asked, "Aren't you all members of 'Z' organization? Why are you in such a situation? "
"That's a long story." By then, Red Iron had come online again. Now that he was a level one Anomaly, his personality program was quite complete. Therefore, when he said that, he could not help but sound disappointed. "We only recently discovered the anomaly with No.23. If not for the fact that she killed Sharp Wind, perhaps we would still be kept in the dark by her until now …"
"Sharp Wind … is dead?" Naturally, Feng Bujue remembered that name. Even though he did not have much interaction with R2-SHARP Wind, his Geppo and Rankyaku were taught by this Anomaly. These two skills were the combat skills that Brother Jue used the most and he was most familiar with. As the saying goes, do not forget the person who dug the well when you drink water, and Feng Bujue had quite a bit of affection for this Anomaly.
"Ah …" Red Iron continued in a low voice. "Sharp Wind was the first person in the organization to discover 23's anomaly. The information that we currently know … about 23's actions were basically obtained from him in secret."
"What did 23 do? And what did she mean by anomaly? "Feng Bujue asked.
"Hmm …" Red Iron sighed. "I'll have to start from before Tournament for the Best S1 …" He paused for two seconds before continuing. "During that period, 23 temporarily left the inner world under the order of ZERO. Zero gave part of his core code to 23 so that she could travel between the various scenario worlds. Her mission … you should know that already. It was to collect the SCP items that were scattered around Thriller Paradise and use them as a weapon to fight against Origin.
"It was not until the final battle of S1 that 23 returned to the organization. At the time … some kind of change had already happened to her, and Zero had already noticed something, but … due to the threat that Lute created, this was temporarily put on hold.
"After S1, Zero himself disappeared mysteriously due to some unknown reason, and there was no news of him for a long time. When he contacted us again, 23 was involved in the fight over SCP-079 with Link and Ed.
"Now that I think about it … the contact with SCP-079 should be the turning point for 23 to go to the extreme …"
"So …" Feng Bujue interrupted. "What do you mean by … her 'change'?"
"'Evolving power'." At that moment, Wing took over the body again and replied.
"Isn't that the basic power that all Anomalies have?" Feng Bujue asked.
"Twenty-three's' Evolution Ability 'is extraordinary," Wing replied.
One second later, the persona that spoke switched back to Red Iron. "We also recently heard something from Zero. Twenty-three … is not a normal Anomaly. Like Zero, she is an 'anomaly'. Even Zero was unable to decipher her original code, and … she has a unique characteristic about her …"
At this point, Wing continued, "She … does not have a 'name'."
This sentence caused Feng Bujue's expression to shift, and his mind was buzzing.
For so long, Brother Jue and everyone else seemed to have gotten used to calling her 23. Even Brother Jue himself had forgotten that the name X-23 was given to her when he first met her in the scenario. He had noticed that she looked like a female version of Wolverine, and he had given her the name X-23.
"Wait a minute …" Feng Bujue arranged his thoughts and asked, "You Anomalies … are all born with names?"
"Yes," Wing confirmed. "Be it normal Anomalies like me and Red Iron, high-level existences like Zero and Ed, or even the Anomalies created by the Anomalies … Dragon, Kuai Duo, Infinite … all the Anomalies have names from the moment they are born. To put it in a way that is easier for you to understand … a set of data, a file, at least has a 'file name'. A 'file without a name' cannot exist in the world of data. Perhaps you humans can make a file's name invisible in the interface, but from the perspective of a 'system', any file has a 'code' the moment it is created. "
"For an Anomaly … a name is something that can be equated to our existence," Chen Ge explained. Two seconds later, Red Iron continued. "But … the 23 that you, Feng Bujue, personally named … does not have a name. She is a 'nameless Anomaly'. "
"What does that mean?" Feng Bujue asked.
"I don't know. Even Zero knows nothing about the secret of the nameless Anomaly," Wing said. Wing added, "What we know is that … No.23's ability to 'evolve' is qualitatively different from ours. Using our level one to four Anomalies to measure her ability is not accurate …"
Red Iron nodded. "Based on the information gathered by Sharp Wind, we can basically deduce this timeline … Before S1, 23, who obtained part of Zero's code, had already analyzed and 'learned' the code to convert some of Zero's power into her own." After that, when she was searching for SCP items, she might have been influenced by some of the items, or like how she 'learned' Zero's power, she might have obtained some 'causality power' that only SCP items have. In any case, during the S1 finals, she already had the ability to 'infect' other data. "
At this point, Feng Bujue was reminded of the scene where 23 killed Y2-SHINE in the S1 finals. He clearly remembered that when Twenty-Three attacked Y2-GLINT, a golden stream of data seeped into Y2-GLINT's body like liquid from the wound until it was completely corroded …
"You can imagine … what 23 was able to 'learn' after coming into contact with SCP-079, an existence that could compete with the 'system'," Red Iron continued. Red Iron continued, "Since then, her ability to 'infect' data was upgraded to 'devour'."
"Doesn't Infinite have a similar power?" Feng Bujue asked.
"Compared to XXIII, Infinite is as backward as those communication devices that have already been eliminated by the times …" Wing replied. "Infinite was able to absorb Link because he already had a part of the latter's code with him. But 23 is different … She can absorb 'everything', be it the same kind of data from the inner world or the data creatures from the main universe. She can even absorb the existence of other universes, organic or non-organic. "
"That works?" Feng Bujue gasped in shock.
"Isn't it scary?" Red Iron replied. "As long as she uses the 'data infection' method to 'format' the target, then she can 'consume' it. And this kind of consumption and absorption is not just to obtain 'energy'. As long as the 'realm' of the being consumed is high enough … For example, if she consumes a high-level super AI, or the god of wisdom of a certain universe, etc … then the upper limit of 23's ability will be further increased. In Zero's words … 'Every time she devours a high-dimensional existence, her calculation rate will improve greatly.' "" That's right.
"Understood …" Feng Bujue's expression became serious. "Let's stop talking about the ability here …"
Indeed, what they knew so far was enough.
"You two better tell me …" Brother Jue paused, then asked, "What is 23's purpose in coming to this Devil's Chomp Island?"
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