Chapter 30 Rebirth

Lila grabbed her head and walked to the top of the hypermarket step by step.

"What was your past like?" Xu Yang couldn't help but ask.

Lila didn't stop, the voltage of the consciousness chip kept fluctuating, and the past was still integrated in the memory storage on the chip.

She recalled that it was like holding a thorn tightly with her bare hands, dripping with blood.

"I'm Lila Nisto, born in the Thousand Lakes area, a test item for the witch transformation plan, a combat witch in the reconnaissance sequence. I lost my legs in battle, so I installed a prosthetic body for both legs. Lost internal organs in battle, Therefore, the circulatory system and the heart were replaced with mechanical parts. Over time, the face and facial features were also cut to 'match' with the mechanical body, and replaced with an artificial bionic face, and the whole body was prosthetic except for the brain. Come on, even the brain itself has been modified."

"Is it forced..."

"There is only coercion," Lila said calmly, but Xu Yang could hear resentment. "The terrifying coercion forces me to perform my duties and obey me until I retire and be dismantled. Those limbs and torso, originally It doesn't belong to me, but it is cut and auctioned separately, leaving behind a brain full of custom chips and capacitors. When the power is exhausted and the life support system shuts down, the brain will wither and die, and the consciousness chip will disintegrate."

"In other words, one step later...you'll be gone."

Lila had also sought help, but every time she ventured to drain the remaining power, she got nothing but indifference. Because of this, she was particularly grateful to Xu Yang's behavior, especially his previous whispers, which made her experience the long-awaited care.

"If I had a throat I would sing, I would like to sing, but I can only be tormented by emptiness in conscious death, a void of more than 150 million seconds, not without echoes. Reborn At this moment, I don't know what to say. But I'm so grateful to you... so grateful." Her tone became more and more eager.

Xu Yang is not used to this kind of fanatical love, but he can understand it.

On the roof, Lila walked behind the array of billboards and closed her eyes.

"I used to be alive...every inch of my skin was my own..." she murmured, "I wonder how much of it still is."

She looks like a dancer. Xu Yang looked at her. In this way, maintain a beautiful posture, indulge in this moment, and be proud of your body.

There was no wind underground, and the square was silent and dark.

After a few seconds, Lila opened her eyes.

"Around our location," she said, "through an average 35-meter-thick metal containment structure, within a radius of one kilometer, there were 1,034 people. The number is decreasing, and it is now 1,032. At the same time, there are 4,745 humanoids. Moving through walls and ventilation shafts, through where we are, and turning to the northwest, they are hungry, but their nerves are extraordinarily high."

After a pause, Lila continued:

"My original witch's ability was supersense. After drug stimulation and surgery, my mind developed more than ordinary witches. My consciousness chip has been deeply modified, so that I can be recognized as artificial intelligence in any test, not a witch, I The transition to bionics and artificial intelligence in service."

She gave Xu Yang a military salute.

"Lila Nisto, a bionic intelligent reconnaissance-type expedition witch, neither a witch nor a machine, nor a biological mind nor an artificial intelligence, at your service, please accept my loyalty."

"My name is Xu Yang, I don't need your loyalty."

Lila froze for a moment.

Immediately after, she walked towards Xu Yang quickly, almost falling to the ground.

"I can make a contract," she said, "enslaves me, dominates me, controls me, exploits me. I can execute a formatter, delete all my memory and source code, and serve you in full factory condition, making sure No objection, clear all joint and several liability. My self-destructor key is sent to you now, and you can clear me anytime you want, just—"

She waited for several seconds, as if the program had crashed.

"—Please, don't sell me again," she whispered.

"A trick to deceive people." Xu Yang said.

"what?"

"I said your allegiance, your oath, are not reliable."

"I'm sorry, but I have nothing to prove my loyalty."

"There is no need for 'loyalty'. As long as there is an independent will, there can be no absolute loyalty. I was educated at the company school, recited the company's oath more than a thousand times, and finally walked away from the company without batting an eye. Come on, it's not reliable at all to talk about loyalty."

"And contracts and codes..."

"These are forms, things to control robots, and since you're not really a robot, you don't need them."

"So……"

"I believe the heart is more important."

"My heart?"

"This is what people really can't violate. We each have the ability to distinguish between good and evil, and we consciously make value judgments on various things, and know what is good and what is bad. Everyone has their own beliefs and identifications. People Can't convince each other and won't be easily shaken."

Lila was silent for a moment.

"So," Xu Yang continued in one breath, "If you are unwilling to rebel, even if there are countless opportunities outside to urge you to rebel, you will stand by me without hesitation. If you are always upset with me in your heart, Even if there are 10,000 codes to restrict your activities and a thousand ways to prevent you from rebelling, you will find every opportunity to leave me."

"Yes, I will correct my wording—" Lila said, "Lila Nisto, with her sincere heart and true faith, is willing to repay your kindness."

"That's fine."

"You can't hear what you said in the company. The company's training for us is completely different."

"The ideas I just came up with at work when I was at work." Xu Yang said, "The principle of my dealings with people is to be casual and not take it too seriously."

"If my mechanical face had a smile module, I really wanted to smile at you. I swear to you that I used to have a smiling face."

"It doesn't matter," Xu Yang said. "There are so many implants, automatic doctors and facial sculpting agencies. The most important thing in this era is a beautiful face, but good people are relatively scarce."

"As long as you give me a gun I can fight, and my ESP makes me a perfect shooter who never misses."

"Take it." Xu Yang gave Lila the submachine gun in his hand, and then went downstairs.

The extreme trust and care caused Lila to be in a trance, and the consciousness chip kept returning empty content and confusing codes.

However, even though the whole body is mechanical, she still has a part that can be called heart, making her believe everything Xu Yang said.

Keep up with him, be sure to keep up with him, guard by his side, don't give in an inch.

Lila quickly followed Xu Yang downstairs. As long as it was his order, it would be executed. This was the only thing she could do, and it was what she wanted to do most now.

In today's Katagi district, the rat people are looking for the main force of the company's security and marching toward their predetermined battlefield. The non-company population is caught between the two, trembling, and just asking for a good night's sleep.

Xu Yang came to the customer rest area on the first floor. There are many benches and vending machines, as well as game consoles. The heaters and fans are blowing high up. This place is really comfortable to stay in. Come and go, I really want to stay here for a while.

The wood area...

It's not a livable place, and it's not a place that major companies do their best to pay attention to and protect. Only the people who really live here will care about it, and when disaster strikes, they have no power to protect themselves and can only lead their necks. To be killed.

Why is this the case?

Why have humans become so weak? Where did the power we use for self-defense go? Where is it used? Can you really only buy security services, pin your hopes on the company, and sit at home waiting to die?

Xu Yang sat on the bench and meditated.

The power of the masses, if put forth, should be able to shake the world. It’s just that there is no systematic theory about this before, and companies only regard people as labor, and ordinary people even look down on themselves.

He looked around.

Ye Zi is addicted to games and does not ask about world affairs.

Cui Junyou bought two cans of kimchi to eat, the smell of cheap hot sauce wafted out, and Niedlet was reading with a copy of Doujinshi. After a while, Lila walked in, and Cui Junyou glanced at Lila's head, his eyes straightened.

"This..." Cui Junyou was speechless for a long time.

"Zombie." Farosa looked at the head in Lila's hand and frowned, "The zombie has a new body, holding its own head."

Lila ignored Farosa for the time being and pointed her finger at Cui Junyou.

"Cui, I'm your 'collection'," Lila said. "Do you like collecting my parts? What do you want to do with my head?"

"Damn it," Niedlet looked up, "come for revenge."

With a new body that can be manipulated, Lila can finally settle accounts with Cui Junyou.

"No." Cui Junyou denied it, but he couldn't make up the following, "I'm just curious, curious."

"You don't pay attention to me, you're just looking for collections." Lila clenched her fists and almost beat him.

Cui Junyou has seen too many witches out of control in the company. He has always been extremely afraid of witches. Now that Lila is resurrected, his momentum suddenly shriveled.

"I... I'm a prosthetic doctor," Cui Junyou said. "It's natural to like various forms of transformation. After all, you are a rare prosthetic witch, and you have a collection value... uh..."

"It's full of pain for me," Lila said. "You take pleasure in my pain, tsk."

"Prostheticization has changed the fate of many people." Cui Junyou was persistent, "If it wasn't for prostheticization, you wouldn't be able to be reborn."

"Changing fate for good or for bad?" Lila asked, "Taking me as a sample, countless witches were stripped from their living flesh and forced to transform into a replicable and mass-produced direction. The chip is so fragile that it annihilates at no time, and the warning of death follows."

Lila is not stable yet... Xu Yang observes her behavior.

The consciousness chip is a kind of cutting-edge technology. Although it can preserve the human will to the greatest extent, from the current situation, it can still retain the magic power. But it is easy to age over time and lose critical information.

"It's the company that abused prosthetics that made you become like that. The company is the root of all evil!" Cui Junyou was very excited.

"There are still many opportunities for quarrel." Xu Yang handed over circuit No. 7 to Cui Junyou, "It's time for surgery."