?


    Hikaru nced around, he used all his senses to try to locate Daziro but he couldn''t find him.


    "Looks like he ran away." Lah said, she frowned as she looked at the ss separating this room from the tunnel that had been slightly opened.


    "Oh! It seems… he really does look like a cockroach. If he gets hit, he will quickly run away."


    Lah sighed and nodded. She knew that if Daziro was still alive, she would meet him again one day.


    "Hikaru, have you thought this through?" Lah suddenly asked.


    Hikaru knew what she was talking about, he smiled and said, "Of course. Like I said, in order for you to be able to cooperate with me with peace of mind, you also need to be mentally stable."


    "Besides… a ce filled with suffering like this should also be destroyed. I don''t care much about how effective the weapons in this ce are."


    "The most important thing is you."


    After saying that, Hikaru also felt a little nauseous. In fact, his heart was bleeding, an arsenal of high-tech weapons as terrifying as this must be destroyed.


    Hikaru really wanted to cry, the most painful thing was that he had to be the one to destroy this ce.


    [Master, don''t you feel something strange?]


    "Of course." Hikaru used his thoughts tomunicate with Rika: "The plots of the novels ovep illogically."


    "If I''m not mistaken, Delmor will probably get a lot of high-tech weapons from this ce. He can even mass produce this technology and also know how to create a lot of evolved humans."


    "I finally understood why the System wanted me to destroy this ce rather than rob it of everything."


    "If Delmor were to take over any of the technology in this ce, plus his Craft item ability, he would surely grow incredibly powerful."


    [That''s right. Delmor is the main character motif of novels in the genre of main characters that are leaders. If he were to be able to mass produce evolved humans, he would definitely be extremely dangerous.]


    Hikaru agreed with Rika. Although the technologies in this ce were extremelyplicated, it was impossible for ordinary people to understand and use them.


    However, as Delmor is the main character, he will surely find a way to use the technologies in this research center with ease.


    With the protagonist''s aura, nothing is impossible.


    However, Hikaru also began to feel that the plot arrangement of this world was starting to ovep quite a bit.


    Hikaru thought to himself that perhaps his method of using a protagonist to destroy a protagonist would work.


    While Hikaru wasmunicating with Rika, Lah looked at him strangely. After a while, she said, "Good, I know how to destroy this ce, follow me."


    After Lah said that, she happily walked out of the room.


    Hikaru scowled after her, even though he didn''t know why she was so happy, he still followed behind her.


    As they left the room, Lah used her vague memories to find an unremarkable ce in the tunnel.


    This ce was a normal wall, with no whimsical intentions. But Lah put her hand on the wall, then pressed hard against it.


    Suddenly, the wall retracted inwards, revealing a solid steel door.


    Lah continued to enter the password ording to her memory, then the steel door opened, and inside was another corridor.


    Lah and Hikaru entered the corridor, and after walking for about 100 meters, they met another door.


    This door had absolutely no number te to enter the password, it was like a steel te in the middle of the corridor.


    Lah nced at Hikaru, and Hikaru looked at her.


    Ten secondster, Lah said, "Why are you standing still?"


    "Heh?! What do you mean?"


    "I don''t know the password, so you should open the door."


    "Are you stupid? I also don''t know the password, how can I open the door."


    "Then use your ax and your superpower."


    Hikaru: "..."


    He felt a bit of a headache, and while rubbing his temple, he said, "Lah, if that''s the case then you should have just told me to break the door in the first ce, wouldn''t it have been faster?"


    "Also why were you entering all the passwords like you already know everything in this ce?"


    "Ah! Are you scolding me?" Lah pouted her lips, making a pitiful expression: "Are you scolding a poor girl with an unhappy childhood like me?"


    "Huhuhu… you are not human, and you are not man."


    Hikaru: "..."


    He sighed, then swung his ax, shing out three streaks of light in the shape of a triangle.


    The streaks of light easily cut through the steel te, revealing a huge triangr hole.


    However, behind the steel barrier just now was another steel barrier.


    Hikaru frowned, and continued to cut the steel te with 3 more streaks of light.


    The 7 steel tes in a row made Hikaru a little impatient: "What the hell is this? What does this ce contain that has so manyyers of protection?"


    "Of course something that can destroy this ce." Lah shrugged it off.


    In the end, in front of them was not a te of steel but a sheet of ss.


    However, it was a one-way mirror, so the reflections of Lah and Hikaru were disyed on the mirror. They also couldn''t see what was behind the ss.


    Hikaru was about to swing the ax when Lah said, "Wait!"


    "Hm? Do you know the password?" Hikaru asked, frowning, his voice filled with teasing.


    "No, I feel like behind this ss is what we need to find. Don''t use that streak of light to attack it, or you''ll damage what''s behind this ss."


    Hikaru nodded, and carefully used the ax de to cut the ss in front of him in the shape of a small doorway.


    The ax de was extremely sharp, as soon as it touched the ss, it cut it like a piece of paper.


    Lah felt a little surprised seeing that. She thought that only the streak of light cut by that ax was sharp, but she didn''t think that the de of the ax was much sharper.


    Hikaru easily cut the ss, revealing a room behind the ss.


    There weren''t too many things in the room like Hikaru and Lah thought.


    The room was only about 40 square meters wide, in the middle of the room there was only a giant cylinder of transparent ss. Inside that cylinder was a blue liquid.


    Floating in the middle of that giant cylinder was a ck stone resembling a coal, emitting an eerie ck light.


    To the left of the room was a set of machines that looked like something out of a sci-fi movie. On the right is a bookshelf, and on the shelf there are many documents.


    Lah suddenly entered the room, she did not rush to the cylinder containing the strange stone.


    She went to the bookshelf on the right side of the room. The bookshelf was more than 3 meters high, and more than 5 meters long, on top of which there were countless bizarre documents.


    However, in the middle of the bookshelf were two dolls and a picture. Hikaru stood behind Lah, so he could clearly see that the two dolls were both made of cloth, and seemingly hand-sewn.


    However, Hikaru was able to recognize that the two dolls were modeled after Lah, while the other doll… was a bit like Ryrlia.


    ''Strange... why do I feel like Ryrlia is rted to Lah.''


    ''Or is it… because the plots ovep, Lah and Ryrlia have known each other since childhood?''


    ''Wait! That picture is…''


    Hikaru now noticed the picture ced in the middle. It seems to be the most solemn ce of the entire bookshelf.


    It was easy to see and easy to reach.


    In the picture, a woman with slightly curly ck hair, wearing a white blouse was sitting on grass.


    The girl''s arms were holding two little girls, a brown haired girl who looked a bit like Lah. Hikaru could tell that it was Lah when she was young.


    The other child had slightly curly blond hair, like… Amanda Ryrlia as a child.


    Hikaru felt like he had been struck by lightning because he was able to prove that his spections were right.


    ''Just as I thought. The world is chaotic, the plots ovep illogically. Looks like… Ryrlia has indeed known Lah since childhood.''


    ''They were all born from this research center and were research subjects.''


    Hikaru looked to the right corner of the photo, there was a text that helped him once again confirm his thoughts.


    "Alissa, Ryrlia, Lah… May 10, 2005… forever together, forever happy."


    Lah reached for the two dolls and the picture. She gently brushed the dust off them, then hugged them.


    Suddenly, Lah lowered her head, slumped on the ground, and tears started streaming down her face.


    Hikaru didn''t have time to care about Lah, he knew she was probably remembering the past.


    He shrugged, and moved towards the cylinder containing the blue liquid and the eerie ck stone.


    [Master, don''t you care about Lah?]


    Rika''s voice suddenly resounded in his head. Hikaru shrugged and said, "Don''t bother her, she''s in an evolved state."


    [Evolved status.]


    "That''s right. Like in the novels or manga we''ve read. The main characters suddenly remember their painful past, or their friendship."


    "Then… the main character who receives the power of friendship, suddenly bes unreasonably strong."


    "Lah is also a main character, so she''s definitely in a state of recalling the past."


    [Oh! That''s how it is…]


    Hikaru really didn''t care about Lah, she was in the process of evolving anyway thanks to the power of memories.


    What he cares about is what this cylinder contains, was it something useful to him?


    Hikaru approached the cylinder, he frowned as he pondered how to remove the ck stone inside.


    He didn''t dare to thoughtlessly destroy this cylinder. He was also not stupid, he knew that the liquid and stone in this cylinder must be very dangerous so there were manyyers of barriers outside.


    Suddenly, a notice board from the system appeared in front of Hikaru.


    [Ding! Congrattions on discovering the hidden plot. You have discovered the ''Philosopher''s Stone'', if you destroy it or use it, Delmor will almost lose his ability to continue as a protagonist.]