"You are stronger than them! Don't let them defeat you! Break their bonds and don't let them control you!"
Inside the Citadel, the verbal exchange between David Anderson, Shepard and the "Illusive Man" finally came to an end! When Shepard said the above words sincerely to the "Illusive Man", hoping that he would break free from the "cultivation" of the Reaper, what he got in exchange was a wry smile from the "Illusive Man". www.しwxs. com【phoenix\/黄\/ updates quickly, please search】
"I tried, Shepard!" He picked up the gun...and put it to his temple and pulled the trigger.
"I really tried..." The silent words drifted away.
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In the Qingtian Furnace, this scene made the three people silent, and Nana's eyes were red.
"At this moment, everyone's attention, the castle's arm guards are opening..." Hackett's voice came. Following General Hackett's order, the rearguard fleet jumped over the layers of wreckage, pushing the "Skytop Furnace" to fly towards the Citadel.
However, just as the Citadel Space Station began to open. In the empty interior of Qingtian Furnace, new footsteps suddenly sounded. "Is there anyone else coming?" Lu Yuan was a little surprised. "Catalyst" seemed to have known who was coming, and sat there expressionlessly. Only Lu Yuan and Nana turned their heads to look in the direction of the stairs.
With the sound of leather shoes, a person gradually climbed up the steps from downstairs, first with gray hair, then with blue eyes...
"Jack Harper! The Illusive Man..." Lu Yuan looked at the "Illusive Man" who was elegantly dressed and walking up the stairs. He frowned at first, and then showed an expression of sudden realization. "I see, no wonder Cerberus would do that strange behavior. So...who are you? Another main god, or the reincarnation of the catalyst?"
The Illusive Man's body was clean, neither covered with blood after committing suicide just now, nor the ferocious face when he was deeply corrupted by education - in fact, his "corpse" was still lying in the Citadel. What appears here now may be called a soul. "Captain Lu," the Illusive Man nodded. He sat directly next to the "Catalyst", but the proud "Catalyst" had no reaction at all.
If there is an expression. So it seems to be a trace of pride after successfully deceiving Lu Yuan?
The Illusive Man took out his cigarette case, lit a cigarette, and then crossed his legs leisurely. "Please allow me to finish smoking this cigarette," he said to Catalyst, who nodded wordlessly. The Illusive Man did not answer Lu Yuan's question, and Lu Yuan did not ask any more questions.
Then the Illusive Man smoked silently, Lu Yuan was thoughtful, and the Catalyst said nothing. Only Alona looked back and forth curiously at the Illusive Man and the Catalyst. The four of them didn't even bother to watch when the "Qingtian Furnace" outside was officially connected to the Citadel Space Station.
When the cigarette burned to the end of the butt, the "Illusive Man" let out a long sigh. He looked at Lu Yuan, "The answer is... I am the catalyst, and the catalyst is me."
Following his words, his whole person collapsed. Lu Yuan and Nana saw a figure flying into the Catalyst's body. In the blink of an eye, there was someone sitting where the phantom man had been... "Many, many years ago... I don't remember how many years ago." Catalyst opened his mouth and continued the topic of the Illusive Man just now. When the Illusive Man merged with him, his entire temperament changed. It's like a black and white film suddenly becomes vivid with color.
"At that time, I was extremely fascinated by pure AI-style thinking. I even thought that this was the end of biological evolution, so I completely split my rationality. In the following years, I have always existed as a catalyst. And My reason... I don't know where it drifted to, or who it was reincarnated into... It is always trying every means to fight against me, trying to prove that I am wrong.
But in the end, I think it turned out that we were both wrong... If it weren't for your treatment of the Illusive Man, I might have to wait until I completely master this world before I can take back my sensibility - do I need to say thank you to you now? "
proud! That expression is clearly damn proud!
Lu Yuan looked at that smiling face and suddenly felt that none of the ten catalysts in the past combined were as hateful as they are now! He really wanted to punch him!
Originally, as the catalyst's nest in the dark space was destroyed by Lu Yuanduan, the Reaper fleet in the galaxy was retreating steadily. Lu Yuan and Alona's share of the Mass Effect world has been steadily rising, even reaching 49.9% - a step away. As long as you work harder, you can knock the catalyst off the horse! But with the combination of "Illusive Man" and "Catalyst". Lu Yuan and Nana's share instantly dropped below 30%!
Now the proportion of catalysts exceeds 70%, and the initialization of the world is about to be completed! Once initialization is complete, the world will be completely finalized. At that time, catalysts with absolute advantages, just like major shareholders holding absolutely dominant shares, can easily purge "minor shareholders" like Nana and Lu Yuan from the market.
"Wait a minute, it's my turn." Catalyst nodded proudly and stood up. "So I said, 'Do you think you're going to win?' Or wait until I come back and we can discuss winning or losing."
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The light lit up, and the floor held Shepard, who was seriously injured and on the verge of coma, flying into the interior of the Sky Furnace following the light.
Catalyst walks toward her, and as he walks, his body gradually becomes transparent and shrinks, transforming into the form of a child. Then the body passed through the membrane of subspace and came to Shepard.
"Ayuan..." Alona held Lu Yuan's hand worriedly.
"No problem, trust me." Lu Yuan touched his head and said to Nana, "Let him be proud for a while." The two of them walked to the edge of the subspace and quietly watched the final development of the plot.
Sure enough, as it happened, history got back on track. The catalyst who became a child told Sister Xue a complete story about the origin of the reapers and the history of the harvest cycle. Finally, as the first human to come to him, the whole cycle began to have variables. In other words, this means that the logic of the past has failed, so he proposed three options to Shepard, which are also new solutions -
"The Sky Furnace is a pure energy source, but when combined with the Citadel and the repeater network, it has the ability to release huge amounts of energy across the entire galaxy! It also provides a new solution..."
The first option, Shepard can let the energy completely destroy all the Reapers! certainly. The explosion is not limited to the Reapers, but also includes all relays, artificial intelligence AI and synthetic geth, which will be destroyed together. This choice meant that humanity would have to start over. Find your way into the galaxy. But it also completely solved the problem of the reapers.
Alternatively, he could use this energy to control the Reapers - something the Illusive Man attempted to do. But he failed. With this choice, humanity can not only retain the relay technology, but also gain access to a huge Reaper fleet. The only loss is that Shepard will lose his life and everything he owns... He will become a will that overpowers all Reapers.
Finally, there is the third option, compositing. Synthesize all organic and inorganic life into a new life form, new DNA. The cycle will stop. The Reapers will become one with humans, and humans will directly inherit and integrate all of the Reaper technologies, and even all the knowledge that the Reapers have preserved for 50 million years will be passed on to humans.
Obviously, the third option is what Catalyst most yearns for. He directly said that "synthesis is the ultimate form of evolution of all life" - that is the choice of Catalyst and the choice of the main god named "Catalyst". Although Lu Yuan's appearance did shake his will, he still firmly believed that his choice was okay.
"Let me...choose...haha~" Sister Xue said with a sad smile. I don't know when, her beautiful eyes started to shed tears.
Wait until "catalyst" is finished. She reluctantly stood up straight, supported her seriously injured body, and limped towards the main power source of the "Qingtian Furnace". "Catalyst" looked at her staggering back with some disappointment. But he didn't stop her.
Instead, the system that possessed Shepard suddenly transformed into a thick book and came out. "n! n! Shepard, don't choose that one! Look, look at the console over there! Go over there... you will become the god of all the Reapers! Think of the Legion, think of Edie (Normandy) No. 1 AI, you will kill them too!" The system tried its best to bewitch Shepard.
But Sister Xue dragged her lame leg silently and walked forward resolutely, as if she didn't hear his voice.
"Or we go to the energy source, see? It's on the left... That's a good choice too! Shepard, don't be stupid. Destroying everything is definitely not the best choice. Why not let humans and reapers merge into one ? You will usher in an unprecedented new century! You will be the greatest person in the history of the galaxy! Shepard!"
Seeing Shepard still walking forward without hesitation, the system finally gave up. "...Shepard. Do you really understand your choice?!"
"I choose your sister!" Sister Xue raised her pistol in tears and pulled the trigger at the main power source! "Bang!" "I don't have any choice!! This shot is for Annie!"
"Bang!" "This shot is for Anderson!"
"Bang!" "This shot is for Li Huamei!"
"Bang!" "This shot is for Presley!"
"boom!"……
The main power supply of the Qingtian Furnace was finally destroyed. Explosion!
All the stored huge energy was released at once, and they rushed into the Citadel Space Station! But the Citadel Space Station is an amplifier, and the energy converted and amplified by the space station is completely out of control! It surges again, looking for new breakthroughs.
Finally, the energy that had nowhere to vent caused the Citadel Space Station to begin to self-destruct... The red light expanded endlessly from the sky furnace to the sky, and was then violently ejected before self-destruction!
The beam of light hit the main relay of the Serpent Nebula, instantly turning the relay from blue to crimson. After being filled with energy, the main stage repeater rotates faster and faster, and the energy intensity increases crazily all the time! Finally, at the moment when the magnetic ring constraining the core broke, another red light shot out along the main stage repeater and flew to the next target...
The overloaded Serpent Nebula main-level repeater exploded millions of rays of light, and a red wave instantly swept across the entire Serpent Nebula! Every reaper and every synthetic monster created was completely destroyed by this red wave.
One red light followed another, one repeater after another overloaded and exploded, and the red wave swept across the entire galaxy!
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