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Chapter 303 - 119: Redemption Across Time! Are You Afraid of God? No, I’m Afraid of You. _4

Chapter 303: Chapter 119: Redemption Across Time! Are You Afraid of God? No, I’m Afraid of You. _4

After agreeing to Daisy’s request, Booker jumped off the airship and made his way alone to the gunsmith’s shop in Finkton.

It was almost exactly as Daisy had described.

The place was under the control of the industrial tycoon Fink, where the people were subjected to extreme oppression.

There even existed the bizarre phenomenon of auctioning off jobs.

A job cleaning toilets, for instance, would see its wages driven down again and again in the bidding by the bottom-level workers, creating a frenzied spiral of internal competition.

What’s more absurd was that the workers, despite their hard physical labor, were not paid in any currency that carried actual value.

They could only receive special tokens issued by Fink.

These tokens were not recognized by any country in the world and were as worthless as cards casually drawn by a child, good only for buying the impractical, overpriced goods from Fink within Finkton.

Some, in order to survive, would willingly undergo the "half biological, half mechanized artificial human enhancement plan" that players had seen in the square at the start of the game.

Turning part of their bodies to machinery, they acquired greater labor power and lower wear and tear.

Then they joined the ranks of the inwardly competitive, trying to outdo the other unenhanced bottom-level workers, all for the sake of bringing home a meal for their families.

Does Eden exist in this world?

Undoubtedly, directly above the workers’ heads, in the upper levels of the Sky City built by their own hands.

And does hell exist in this world?

The answer too lies here, in the lower levels of the Sky City.

The worker NPCs that players encountered along the way were either emaciated or raggedly clothed.

The beautifully depicted paradise of the game’s first half contrasted starkly and absurdly with the later half.

Eventually, on their way to find the gunsmith, players would encounter Elizabeth trying to sneak away from the city by stowing away on a foreign trade airship.

She would be roughly expelled from the airship by a ticket inspector.

At a dead end, Elizabeth, despite her misgivings about Booker, a self-serving man stained with blood,

was clear that their best option was to join forces at the moment.

Being wanted throughout the city, heading to Paris or New York was at least better than being hunted down.

The two joined forces once again.

With Elizabeth’s aid, the player’s combat capabilities finally returned to normal levels.

But when they finally found Lin Chen, he was already a lifeless corpse.

At that time, that mysterious man and woman, who had appeared several times before, appeared once more.

They hinted that the duo could go to a different parallel universe for answers; perhaps in another world, Lin Chen was not dead.

Thus, Elizabeth and Booker truly stepped into the time-space rift for the first time and arrived in another world.

Perhaps understanding that they could never return to their original world after crossing over, the two, initially distant, grew closer after a few instances of tacit cooperation in battle.

The good news upon arriving in another time space was,

that the rebels in this world had obtained potent arms and had launched a fierce attack on the Prophet Commander’s legions. The Prophet couldn’t withstand the workers’ rage and was in retreat.

And the rebel leader Daisy had almost erected the resistance’s flags throughout Columbia, except for the Prophet’s Mansion.

But the bad news was,

the imagined peace had not arrived.

Great wars always come with many innocent sacrifices.

In the Sky City of this new world, both the upper and lower districts were affected by the war, with blood flowing like rivers and corpses everywhere.

Elizabeth, who had witnessed the suffering of the lower-class citizens in the original world and was biased towards the rebels, experienced doubt for the first time.

She even suspected that it was her tearing through time and space that had brought about the tragedy in this new world.

"If I had not come to this place, would this world still exist?" she murmured quietly.

As for Booker, he simply wanted to find The First Lady airship and escape to anywhere but this place of strife as quickly as possible.

Since in this world the resistance had already obtained weapons, Daisy should fulfill her promise and return the detained airship.

However, just when Booker found Daisy and confronted her to demand the airship,

Daisy looked at him coldly, shaking her head and refusing his request.

It turned out that in this world, too, there existed a Booker wanting to take Elizabeth away.

Only, a few twists had occurred in the process, and even a slight difference in choices could set the cogs of time and space veering off their original trajectory.

In the new world, Booker joined the rebels and, by chance, died in battle. Daisy marketed him as a martyred revolutionary hero ’who had died trying to save the common people,’ harvesting public sympathy everywhere.

Although she was at loggerheads with Comstock,

both used the same method to gain power — deification.

"Although I don’t know how you got here, you must understand one thing," Daisy said coldly to Booker with a sneer, "In this world..."

"We don’t need a living Booker."

"A dead Booker is the true hero in the hearts of the common people. That is the only reason why, despite the deadlock, the lower class is still willing to support us."

Soon, the rebels who had fought side by side with Booker in the original world,

under Daisy’s command, began to hunt him down.

Determined to make him live on forever in the memory of the people.