"Brother... brother?"
Youxi gritted her teeth and stood up, just as she looked up, she saw Li Andy charging out again.
Various debris on the ground flew up with him, like a churning giant snake.
As soon as Witch Molly shook off Sophia, she was hit head-on by the giant snake and slammed to the ground.
Witch Molly let out an inhuman shriek, rolled to her feet, raised her sharp outer limbs, and stabbed at Li Andy, who was following closely behind.
Suddenly, she found she couldn't move.
She could only watch helplessly as Li Andy grabbed her by the neck and pressed her heavily to the ground.
"Cough ah--"
What's going on?!
Witch Molly's body was stiff, and a strange panic filled her heart, feeling as if something she couldn't see was gnawing at her!
She couldn't see it, but Youxi, in the distance, saw it clearly.
She saw the shadow beneath Li Andy constantly expanding, like flowing black water, rapidly engulfing Witch Molly's shadow.
Even Sophia, who was charging back, was frozen in place.
The "black water" was profound, as if it could dissolve everything.
The wolf shadow beneath Sophia's feet constantly wailed in pain, as if enduring some kind of extreme torture, desperately trying to escape and break free.
"Brother!"
Li Andy was startled awake, and the black water of the shadow beneath him immediately receded.
He looked up, and Sophia, who was kneeling on the ground in front of him with lifeless eyes, had the fur on her ears and tail standing on end, her entire body trembling instinctively.
Looking down, Witch Molly, whose neck was being choked, also had eyes full of fear, and her spider-like outer limbs on both sides were curled into a ball.
But... her left limb, having lost its shadow, gradually crumbled into dust and vanished without a trace.
Li Andy froze, a feeling of food entering his stomach came from the shadow.
He just... seemed to have almost "eaten" Molly and Sophia?!
Li Andy released his hand in a bit of a panic.
"Hoo--! Cough cough..."
Witch Molly was able to breathe, gasping for air, with clear liquid uncontrollably flowing from the corners of her mouth.
"You... don't you approve of me at all?"
Perhaps when the black water devoured her shadow, it also devoured the madness hidden within it; her current disheveled appearance was very fragile, very beautiful and pitiful.
"Do you still think I'm just a 【memory】?"
Li Andy looked at the girl, who was like broken porcelain, and remained silent.
Witch Molly smiled, her smile a little bleak, as if she had found the answer in his silence.
"Perhaps Meilin was right... heavy memories like ours are only a burden, and should be discarded and forgotten..."
She raised her right hand, which wore a ring, and held it out to Li Andy.
"Please take it off and give it back to Little Six. Whether she wants to forget this 【false memory】 is up to her."
Li Andy held her soft little hand, remained silent for a long time, and did not take off the ring.
Witch Molly suddenly smiled with relief.
"What are you laughing at?"
"Laughing that you hesitated... Do you think different personalities should be considered independent individuals?"
"..."
Seeing Li Andy's silence, Witch Molly smiled and asked another question:
"Father, am I... very ugly now?"
"A little."
"You're so mean..."
Witch Molly pouted in dissatisfaction, closed her eyes, and her body became hazy, possessing a unique, fragmented beauty.
There was no need for Li Andy to take off the ring; she actively transformed into a wisp of fragmented light and merged into the ring.
"Heavy memories... are a burden..."
Li Andy looked at the ring in his palm, and couldn't help but recall that prompt again—【Forgetting is a protection】.
Why?
Because overly heavy memories will limit cognition?
Because painful memories will trap people?
Just like some people can't move past the past, some become more stubborn as they live, and some are plagued for life by what they couldn't obtain in their youth...
So forgetting is a protection?
The soul is too weak to bear all past experiences...
It's like having limited hardware, only able to selectively store from a massive amount of data...
So forgetting is a protection...
"Buzz--"
A strong tinnitus made the back of Li Andy's head ache.
The influence of that babbling made him unable to stop his wild thoughts again.
"Brother!"
Youxi ran over and hugged Li Andy worriedly; seeing that he was fine, she couldn't help but ask,
"Brother, that Molly, she... died?"
"No."
Li Andy shook his head, steadied his mind, and showed the ring in his hand,
"She's inside."
Youxi was stunned, seeing a flickering glow on the ring, as if it were breathing.
"Rumble..."
The space began to collapse, and various objects flickered like pixels.
"Brother, let's get out of here first!"
Li Andy nodded, and together with her, helped up the human-machine Sophia, who was still holding her head and trembling in front of them.
Youxi looked at her good sister, who was in a sorry state with all her equipment destroyed, and immediately felt a pang of heartache, quickly putting her own jacket over her, then looked at Li Andy with some complaint:
"Brother, can't you be gentler when you use Sophia?"
"??"
Li Andy was stunned for a moment, always feeling that this sentence was strange.
However, at this moment, the space was collapsing, so he could only suppress his urge to retort and quickly led the girls into the spatial vortex.
Arriving in another space, as soon as Li Andy stood firm, he saw three black cannon muzzles aimed at him.
"Hmph, so weak and still wanting to be in charge, it's truly laughable."
Molly, dressed in a military uniform, stood with her hands on her hips on the central gun platform, looking down disdainfully at the three of them.
The ring in Li Andy's hand vibrated, seemingly displeased.
"Hmph."
Military Molly continued,
"You also want me to give up everything?"
Li Andy looked around and found himself on a ship, with the vast ocean beneath the ship.
"You... aren't you going to call me Dad?" Li Andy raised an eyebrow.
Military Molly froze for a moment, her face immediately darkened, and she shouted angrily:
"Fire!"
Several steam cannons immediately closed their firing pins.
However, Molly waited for a few seconds, but no shells flew out.
"Malfunctioned?"
She lowered her head to check, but was horrified to see that the ammunition loading port had turned into a grotesque large mouth:
"Oh my, Captain, fighting and killing is so bad~~"
Li Andy snapped his fingers, and Military Molly was immediately bound in place by her own clothes.
Facing a ship full of creations, he was practically fighting on his home turf.
"Heh heh, couldn't even last one round."
Witch Molly's ring let out a mocking laugh.
Military Molly's face immediately turned red with anger.
"Noise!!"
Suddenly, the deck shattered, and a steaming armor rushed out.
Li Andy tried to take control, but was surprised to find that his spirituality seemed to have crashed into a muddy realm.
Activated creations, actually failed?
One should know that objects baptized by Sister Anna, if he wished, he could still forcibly activate them.
However, this armor, which seemed to have no baptismal blessing, could completely isolate his spirituality.