Chapter 228: Chapter 228 Black Pandora Chapter 228: Chapter 228 Black Pandora “Finally… I can take it back…”
The strange cloaked girl in front of me said, slowly turning around and pulling back the wide hood that covered her face.
A face that was eerily familiar appeared before my eyes, and then, Sister Qianqian and I involuntarily let out gasps of shock.
Yes, it was Pandora, unmistakably Pandora! I would never misidentify her, especially not at a time , with the face that had appeared before me!
But, there seemed to be a slight difference.
Although it was nearly the same face, the “Pandora” in front of me wore expressions I had never seen before: anger, excitement, anticipation, and a hint of madness. Such a rich range of expressions on that face, a face I had grown accustomed to being cold and statue-like, felt so discordant. Her eyes were different from the Pandora I knew as well. Due to her “model,” Pandora’s eyes usually were a focus-less gray, almost expressionless, but during combat, they would turn a bright purple-red, enhancing her observational abilities and attack accuracy exponentially. When computing and processing massive amounts of information rapidly, Pandora’s eyes would change to a beautiful ice blue with specks of light twinkling inside—just a side note, during these times, a funny “beeping” sound would always come from inside her.
Cough cough… What I mean is, the eyes of this Pandora in front of me are completely different from those of the obedient sister I know. Her pupils were like those of a cat, blood-red and slit! I clearly remember, Pandora’s eyes weren’t supposed to be !
Yet despite all these differences, the girl in front of me truly possessed a face identical to Pandora’s, that always cold, emotionless little face that would appear beside me at any time—I could never mistake it.
“Pandora? Heh…” The “Pandora” in front of me murmured, and chuckled softly, but in the next second, a crazed expression completely overtook her face. The girl swung her arms wildly, shouting at us furiously, “Pandora!? Why!? Why must even my name be taken away!? Why do you call me Pandora!!! Why does Pandora get to have her own name while I don’t even have a reason to exist!? I am also Pandora! We are all Pandoras by the thousands! But… why don’t we even have a reason to exist…”
Her crazed shouting gradually turned into choked sobs. Tears filled the eyes of the girl in front of me, her voice was full of whimpering, yet no tears fell from those eerie cat-like eyes.
“Pandora, you…” I hesitated, to be honest, I hardly understood a word that the girl said—though I knew every word, when put together in sentences, they were so confusing. Had my dear sister gone mad?
“Don’t you dare call me Pandora!” The girl in front of me suddenly growled in a tone resembling a wild beast’s, threatening me fiercely. Although she made no move, a sudden intense sense of danger overwhelmed me. Almost instinctively, I grabbed Qianqian and leapt to the side. At almost the same moment, two dark energy beams shot from the ground where we had just been standing, whistling up into the endless gray-black sky.
You Orochi! You burst your spiritual energy columns at me! Can you also summon a Sunshine attack?
Alright, the confusion in my mind when I was terrified is described above, please feel free to ignore it.
The sudden attack caused me to lose focus momentarily. Pandora? She actually attacked me?!
“You’re not Pandora,” Sister Qianqian stared at the girl in front of her with cold eyes, the previous attack making her furious, “Tell me your name, I don’t like to leave nameless bodies behind!”
…Sister Qianqian, you frightened me…
But Sister Qianqian’s words suddenly made me realize, this girl’s peculiar behavior from the start and her unique eyes finally made sense—she merely resembled Pandora closely, but she definitely was not the real Pandora.
I finally felt relieved, as long as the person attacking me wasn’t Pandora, otherwise I really couldn’t accept this fact. However, my questions increased; the girl in front of me looked so similar to Pandora, even her build and hair length were exactly alike, I couldn’t help but wonder if she had any connection to the real Pandora. Since it involved my sister, I couldn’t just ignore it.
More importantly, I wanted to know if our movements had been precisely tracked by the enemy, even setting such a huge trap in the Endless Sea, was it because of this girl—if she could easily infiltrate the Central Machine Room, set in a parallel dimension and secured by countless layers of spatial passwords, then gathering our intelligence must not have been difficult. But the attacks we suffered in the territories of various clans still remained unexplained, especially when Pandora and Sandora were with the Dragon Clan, a place even we didn’t know about. Could it be that this girl had been following them all along?
I remembered Lin Xue’s prediction: In the near future, Pandora will stand on the Demon’s fortress and launch an attack against us. It seemed that the girl Lin Xue saw in her vision of the future was not Pandora, but this girl who looked exactly like Pandora.
At this moment, I finally felt a sense of clarity breaking through the clouds, although the doubts were still numerous. As long as Pandora could pull through this mire, I was already very content. Looking back, the firm belief not to doubt Pandora was indeed quite visionary! Who says a man’s intuition is useless? My “Seventh Sense” is super effective!
Great, from now on, everyone please call me the Premonition Emperor, thank you…
Unexpectedly, the cloaked girl who had just attacked us (…), didn’t take advantage of our shock to continue her assault. Instead, she suddenly froze, looking at us with a panicked expression as if she couldn’t believe what she had just seen, and then she frantically waved her hands at us: “I’m sorry, I’m sorry! I… I didn’t want to attack you… I really didn’t…”
“Has she gone mad?” I whispered to Sister Qianqian.
Sister Qianqian didn’t respond to me, but instead slightly opened her arms, observing the front with an even more cautious gaze.
The somewhat abnormal girl frantically apologized while taking small steps towards us, then stopped about five meters in front of us, suddenly displaying an expectant expression and smilingly said, “Brother, let’s go home!”
Qianqian leaned in closer, “Yes, she’s gone mad.”
Honestly, I had already made all the battle preparations by then, Super Space-Time Firepower connections, Spirit Barriers, various cross-time energy summonings. I was ready to deploy all the combat skills I could simultaneously use, prepared to launch a swift attack the moment she showed any intention to strike. However, among all my calculations, I never expected this crazed individual to blurt out such a sentence!
“You… you’re not joking, right?” I felt cold sweat forming on my forehead.
“Can’t I?” The other person showed a look of disappointment, then suddenly a determined expression appeared, and she said with a laugh, “Then stay here and accompany me!”
I was stunned, “What?”
“Ah Jun, behind you!”
Qianqian suddenly shouted loudly, then I felt the hairs on my back stand up instantly, as I sensed something with terrifying energy rushing towards me at high speed.
“Vanish into the wrong history!”
A violent explosion sounded, yet strangely, aside from that very real explosion, I turned around and saw nothing. Everything that had just happened seemed like an illusion.
“Hehe…” The cloaked girl let out a laugh, “Truly worthy of being Sister Qianqian, to be able to tamper with history, making the ‘Glutton’ missile explode before it was even launched…”
“Who exactly are you?”
Qianqian’s voice was colder than ever before; two consecutive sneak attacks had exhausted her patience. No matter what answer the girl in front of her gave, she wouldn’t let her go.
The strange girl seemed to suddenly fall into some kind of faulty loop, her eyes turning dull as she repeatedly uttered two simple syllables. Just as Qianqian and I were about to take action, she snapped back to reality and shouted loudly, “I am Pandora, I am Pandora! We are Pandora! Haha!! Hahaha…”
The crazed girl shouted aloud, laughing wildly, then uncontrollably started sobbing, “We are Pandora… so many, so many Pandoras… The first name we were given was Pandora… but there can only be one Pandora… so we can’t be Pandora, I am nameless, because I am called Pandora, so I have no name…”
What kind of chaos is this?
Qianqian and I exchanged a glance, both feeling like we had encountered a genuine madwoman. I didn’t know what Qianqian was thinking, but a term popped in my head: system error.
No name, so called Pandora, and many, many more? Did these words even make grammatical sense? If this young girl was a Fallen Apostle, had her intelligence module burned out?
I hesitated whether to take advantage of her madness and strike, but unreasonably began to doubt. The constant repetition of the name Pandora, and the references to a “name” aroused my immense curiosity. What was her relation to Pandora? Did she know Pandora before she went mad? Did she truly harbor hostility towards us?
This last point sounded odd, as there had already been two sneak attacks, the conclusion should have been undeniable, but after the first attack, her panic and guilt seemed so genuine, and during the second attack, she was clearly becoming mad. I truly didn’t understand what the girl meant.
Moreover, seeing a face almost identical to Pandora’s, I really couldn’t bring myself to harm her…
By my side, Qianqian seemed hesitant too. Although transformed in character and exhibiting coldness, Qianqian hadn’t lost her familial affection. No matter how harshly she spoke, she still couldn’t bring herself to strike a girl who could very likely have a significant connection to Pandora—especially a pitiful madwoman.
“Brother!” Just then, the crazed girl suddenly seemed normal again, her eyes bloodshot as she stared straight at me expectantly, “Name!”
I was truly perplexed, really, a madwoman’s words are often incomprehensible.
“Name!” The girl repeated, “Brother, give me a name! I want to know who I am, I want to know who I can be besides Pandora…”
Retracting my earlier words, this person was not back to normal at all!