In this World Number Three, the entire Columbia has fallen into war.
Here, the Voice of the People is engaged in total war with the higher-ups of Columbia Sky-City.
Watching the city ablaze, Elizabeth fell into confusion, because before this, she had sympathized with the rebels.
But everything now has caused her to doubt her own understanding.
However, compared to the sentimental Elizabeth, Booker's thoughts were much simpler.
He comforted Elizabeth, and compared to the people of Columbia, Booker at this moment wanted to know more about how to get the First Lady airship from Daisy to take Elizabeth away from Sky-City.
But things didn't go smoothly. When Booker found Daisy, she not only didn't help him but also tried to kill him, calling him a fake Booker.
This was because Daisy knew very well that the Booker in front of her was not the Booker she knew.
But no matter what, Booker had already become a symbolic figure for their rebel propaganda.
A dead Booker was clearly more beneficial than a living one.
At this time, the industrial district had completely fallen. Booker and Elizabeth fought their way to the corporate headquarters of industrial magnate Fink.
Here, Daisy had already killed Fink and "seemed" to want to kill Fink's son as well.
"What the hell? Big bad guy? You're done for!" Zack, seeing Daisy about to kill the little boy, directly declared a death sentence on this NPC.
After all, it was an unwritten rule, whether in movies, TV shows, or games, characters who harmed children generally met a bad end.
To this day, Zack still remembered when he first played "Red Dead Redemption: Redemption" and encountered those brats when he first went to Saint Denis.
Just as Zack had predicted, just as Daisy was preparing to finish the job.
Elizabeth, to stop Daisy, ambushed her from behind and killed her with a pair of scissors.
Elizabeth, who had killed for the first time, found it difficult to accept. Covered in blood, she turned and ran into the First Lady airship.
No matter how much Booker comforted her outside, Elizabeth remained silent until the airship took off.
However, Zack did notice a very subtle detail: the coordinates on the airship were for Paris.
After all that had happened, Booker had completely given up on taking Elizabeth back to New York to report.
Instead, he wanted her to leave Columbia and go wherever she wanted to go.
It was like Joel facing Ellie in "The Last of Us."
Just then, the sound of a door opening came from behind.
Elizabeth walked out from inside, her eyes no longer holding innocence but a touch of sorrow.
She had changed into a blue dress her mother had worn in life and cut off her long hair.
Seeing Elizabeth with her new look, Zack in the game couldn't help but feel a pang of heartache.
From an LSP's perspective, Elizabeth with her changed style seemed more captivating and mature.
But he still preferred the Elizabeth in the white dress from before.
However, there wasn't much time for Zack and the in-game Booker to reflect.
Because at this moment, the sound of strange birds echoed.
The nightingales in this World Number Three had appeared and attacked them, forcing them back down to Columbia.
Finally, this made Booker and Elizabeth realize that no matter which world they were in, only by subduing the nightingales could they successfully leave Columbia Sky-City.
At this time, the mysterious Lutece siblings reappeared, giving Booker and Elizabeth new guidance.
That the method to control the nightingales was with Comstock.
Next, Booker and Elizabeth went to Comstock's location. Although the detection device misidentified Elizabeth as the Prophet Lady, the fingerprint mismatch meant she couldn't get through.
So, Elizabeth and Booker could only choose to go to the cemetery and use the First Lady's remains.
But Comstock had already set a trap here. A powerful siphon device took away most of Elizabeth's strength and created a terrifying ghost of the First Lady.
However, on normal difficulty, it wasn't a big deal for Zack.
What concerned him even more was the game's plot. After defeating the First Lady, who turned into smoke and fled, Elizabeth and Booker hadn't recovered yet.
But the mysteriously appearing Lutece siblings reappeared, always at just the right moment, as if they had been watching them all along.
What Zack found even weirder was that this pair of siblings were digging graves, their own graves.
The Lutece siblings guided Elizabeth and Booker to find the wife's memories from when she was alive, trying to help her regain her sanity.
And through this journey, combined with the information gathered before and after.
The conspiracy behind the founding of Columbia and various truths were gradually revealed.
It turned out that the siblings they had encountered several times before were not siblings at all.
The Lutece siblings were actually the same scientist, just different versions in two different worlds.
It was like a parallel universe setting, with constants and variables.
There was always a Lutece, which was the constant.
But one Lutece being male in one world and the other being female was the variable.
As early as long ago, the female Lutece began researching quantum mechanics. With Comstock's help, she made Columbia successfully ascend.
But differently, she had a hidden discovery: the existence of parallel worlds.
Through quantum entanglement, Lutece discovered another self in a parallel world.
So, after Columbia ascended, the female Lutece, with strong support from Comstock, continued her research.
And she also built a machine that could temporarily create spatial rifts.
This also earned Comstock the title of prophet, as Comstock's supposed prophecies came from visions from other worlds.
Elizabeth, infertile from using the machine for too long, had the Lutece siblings find an infant for her.
Because in his prophecy, his descendant would rule Columbia.
This child was Elizabeth, and after Elizabeth arrived in Columbia, various spatial rifts randomly appeared throughout the city.
Some people, through these spatial rifts, discovered art from parallel worlds and became artists.
Some people, through spatial rifts, discovered technology from parallel worlds and built empires.
Fink of the industrial district was one of them, and magic technology like potions also came from parallel world technology.
However, what that world was like remained unknown.
Comstock's wife originally thought Elizabeth was her husband's illegitimate daughter, but after confronting Lutece, she learned that the so-called prophecy was all fake. Furthermore, as a devout believer, the wife wanted to reveal these lies to the public.
But how could Comstock let her destroy his utopia? So he directly strangled his wife and framed a maid in the house.
This person was Daisy, which led to the birth of the resistance.
At the same time, Lutece was killed in an experiment due to Comstock.
But fortunately, their body fragments, at that instant, through the power of quantum entanglement, formed a very peculiar existence.
They were dead, yet alive in another way, existing in various parallel worlds.
"This is Schrödinger's Lutece!?" Zack couldn't help but comment. He had to admit that anything that couldn't be solved was attributed to quantum mechanics.
After discovering this series of major secrets, just as Booker and Elizabeth were about to head to Comstock's mansion, they were attacked by nightingales again.
To protect Booker, Elizabeth voluntarily let the nightingales capture her and take her into the mansion.
This was the second time Booker and Elizabeth were separated in the game.
"Damn it!"
Watching Elizabeth being taken away in tears, and finding himself alone again, Zack let out a refined and gentle greeting.
Unlike before, when Elizabeth had knocked him out with a wrench and they were separated.
In the game, after experiencing so many stories,
Just like Joel and Ellie in "The Last of Us" back then, Zack's feelings for Elizabeth were now very deep.
Now he had only one thought: Give my wife back!
There was no help for it, as "BioShock Infinite" wasn't realistic in style but leaned towards a cartoonish art style.
(End of Chapter)
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