Chapter 657: Captain Motoko's Day

"Grandpa, what is outside the sky?"

A little girl raised her head and looked at the dark clouds, which looked like black marshmallows.

"It's the starry sky."

"I really want to go outside and take a look."

"Why?"

"Because I heard it's beautiful outside."

"The starry sky is not only beautiful, but there are also scary monsters."

"But," the girl looked at a huge mechanical city rising from the ground. The city gate looked like a bloody mouth: "But, I think there are monsters here."

"The monsters here don't eat people."

'Bang! ’

The storage room slammed shut.

"Suzi, you killed another rich man during the operation. You know it will be difficult for us to explain to the outside world."

"Explain what? Explain that this rich man kept more than a thousand little android girls in captivity, abused them, and insulted them?"

"The old civilized moral values ​​are not applicable to this world. These are black goods, low-level androids that are not protected by the "Bionic Man Law". Those robots themselves don't care. What do you care about?"

"...You talk too much, partner."

…

The scene changed again. It was a dark electronic hall, with countless eyes staring at the ponytailed girl in the middle.

"Motoko Yagami, you are now appointed as the leader of the first action team of the Ghost in the Shell mobile department. I hope you can implement the will of the department and maintain the integrity of the test site."

"yes."

In an office, a bald old man looked at him, with a smile on his cold expression.

"Congratulations, Yagami Motoko."

"Thank you for your cultivation, Minister."

"Do you know what the integrity of a proving ground is?"

The ponytail girl frowned and said: "The interests of giant companies, the results of experiments, and the transformation of human beings."

"You don't like any of this?"

"yes."

"Why?"

"I am one of the first orphans after the civilized era, and a certain Mr. Aramaki also cultivated in me an inappropriate sense of civilized morality during my childhood. I think this may be the main reason."

"You talk more than you did when you were a kid, Motoko."

The corner of the minister's mouth curled up, and the ponytail girl's expression softened a bit.

"Now that you have come this far, I will teach you the last lesson. The integrity of the test site is not what you said. These are, at best, just its appearance."

The minister stood up and turned to look at the huge floor-to-ceiling windows and the huge neon world behind them.

"Morality is the final integrity of the testing ground."

"That's the funniest joke I've heard this year, Minister."

"Old morality was squeezed out, creating a new social order. Before the new order gave birth to new morality, the order was subverted again by technological transformation, and the cycle repeats endlessly."

The minister said softly:

"But if there is really no morality at all, this test site will completely lose its use value, just like those bionic people whose experiments failed. You know where those bionic people go, right?"

"I've been to all the android cemeteries, or to be precise, garbage disposal plants."

The girl with the ponytail said expressionlessly:

“With the evolution of bionic human technology, I can feel that their intelligence, physical strength, and perception are beginning to be infinitely close to humans. After two or three generations of improvements in bionic components, it is possible to surpass native humans and even transform humans. expected.

But based on the cases I have handled over the years, I can confirm that they are not like humans at all. They do not have the empathy generated by chemical brains, and their emotional systems are indifferent and utilitarian. I think that bionic people will not dream. Electronic sheep. "

"So, you think androids don't have souls?"

"If the soul refers to a high-level information body, then the androids have indeed not evolved to that point."

The minister chuckled:

"Then, on the other hand, do you think the ultimate goal of the androids is to completely become a native human?"

"I'm not an expert in this area, but I've heard a saying in the scientific community that the ultimate goal of bionic people is to kill native people, from a civilized perspective."

"Now do you understand what the integrity of the test site is?" the minister asked.

The girl with the ponytail frowned, seeming to understand, but also not understanding.

"There are monsters in the stars, Suzi."

Yagami Motoko suddenly opened her eyes.

"Good morning, Miss Suzi," Miss Ke's concerned voice sounded, "During your 2 hours, 13 minutes and 51 seconds of sleep, your cortex showed signs of heating. It is initially concluded that your brain's nervous system is storing data. A special processing of information, in the parlance of civilized times, dreaming.”

Yagami Motoko stood up. The one-piece tights has the functions of heat preservation, massage, simple repair, etc. It is the best 'quilt'.

"I did remember something."

Yagami Motoko stood up. The curvature of her chest was very large, which could be used as a good protective pad for falling. Moreover, due to the improved reinforced muscles implanted, it was also bulletproof.

And her purple eyes were filled with strong alertness and danger. The first impression she gave people was that of a female leopard.

She got out of bed, went to the coffee table, and made herself a cup of coffee.

Although everything has been automated for a long time, she is still used to having a cup like this by herself in the morning. According to ancient books, this is called a 'sense of ritual'.

"Would you like a drink, Miss Shell?"

"I don't have a taste system and I don't have a digestive system."

"You can install one for yourself. The feeling of drinking is one of the few pleasures in this boring era."

"As a large data processing system serving the Ghost in the Shell, I must ensure that every piece of data generated is in its own processing mode, and the processing difficulty of 'emotional data' is very high, and the uncontrollability reaches 41.5%."

Yagami Motoko heard what the other party meant.

"Are you saying that there is something wrong with my emotional module?"

"No, what I mean is that you should process the redundant data you generated last night and readjust the artificial nervous system to ensure that this will not happen again."

"Do you want me to stop dreaming?"

"I just want to ensure that, as one of the strongest fighters in the department, your human body's operating efficiency is always in the most efficient mode."

"Interesting idea."

"But you will refuse, as always."

Yagami Motoko drank the last sip of coffee and said, "Report today's process, Miss Shell."

"At 8 o'clock in the morning, you need to participate in the group meeting at the headquarters. The leaders of the ten groups will be present. This is also the last routine meeting before the arrival of the new minister."

"At 12 o'clock, you need to go to the 'digital space'. According to monitoring, there are more and more data refugees there recently. You need to participate in the questioning process of the ground network group."

"At 16 o'clock, combat training as usual."

"At 22 o'clock, as the temporary minister, attend the six-department meeting online."

"Let's go, go to the headquarters first."

Yagami Motoko simply put on a red jacket and went out in a tights.

Soon, in the high-end data apartment in the mother city, an automatic flying car flew out and drove into the magnetic energy channel.

"Ms. Shell."

"I'm here."

"What do you think our new minister is like?"

"We have dealt with each other. Since the appearance of the "Life Spectacle", there is an 81.4% probability that the one who blocked us in the "Escape Game" was Mr. G."

"That biological monster?"

"Yes."

"I mean his personality, strong? Gentle? Ambitious? Or crazy?"

"According to the information I have collected, this Mr. G is not a male who likes to show off. In most cases, he hides behind women. He will not stand up unless he has to. According to gossip, he has a very close relationship with Ms. Black Rose in the bionic world and Ms. Du Zhaodi in the mercenary world."

"He seems to have a natural liking for strong, powerful, and strong women. I believe you will get along with him happily."

Yagami Motoko was stunned.

Until the flying car fell, automatically transformed and loaded into the floor, Yagami Motoko was still thinking about the source of Mr. G's strange personality.

According to biology, when a young animal is in the early stage of growth, it lacks the protection of the mother animal, and some hormones will be insufficiently secreted, which will cause it to prefer a strong mother animal when looking for a mate.

So this Mr. G lacks maternal love?

"Sister Motoko!"

"Captain."

"Captain."

Yagami Motoko nodded expressionlessly. She glanced and saw Tong sitting at her workstation, chatting with her little sister about gossip. The content of the gossip was that a rich man married a female bionic celebrity, and then found that the celebrity's company was still producing the female celebrity's "love companionship model", so he angrily sued the company in court.

"Captain, new news," the lazy Chapai came over and whispered gloatingly: "It is said that the combat captains of several groups are dissatisfied with our insider trading and decided to teach the new minister a lesson."

"Yeah."

"Yeah? Captain, why didn't you say anything?"

"What should I say?"

Chapai scratched his cheek. Did the new minister offend Captain Motoko? Impossible, Mr. G likes strong women the most.

The captain is beautiful, strong, and has a high status, which perfectly fits the other party's XP.

He was thinking about whether to say something nice, after all, Mr. G saved his life before; but unfortunately, Yagami Motoko had already walked into the meeting room.

'Motoko, you are not suitable to be the minister of the Ghost in the Shell. '

'Minister, you are not dead! ? '

'I have a good candidate, I hope you can recommend him, and my connections in the department will also help you accomplish this. '

'Why not me? '

'Do you remember the story I told you? ’

‘The integrity of the test site, are there monsters under the starry sky? ’

In the darkness, Yagami Motoko could feel the other party's regretful eyes, which made her clench her fists slightly.

‘I taught you the morality and laws of the civilized era, which gave you humanity that is incompatible with this era, but if you want to control the monster of "Ghost in the Shell", humanity alone is not enough, you must also be inhuman, but inhumanity is not the same as beast. ’

‘You have humanity and beast, but you can't be inhuman. ’

‘He can do it? ’

‘I think he can. ’

When Yagami Motoko came to her senses, the meeting had already ended and she had been sitting for a while.

“Ms. Shell.”

“I’m here.”

“Connect me to the digital space.”

“Yes.”

As the wall opened, a kind of electronic socket split out of Yagami Motoko's temple, shoulders, thighs, and feet.

This is a brain-computer technology that cannot be mass-produced.

The computing power it requires is definitely not something that normal people can afford.

Yagami Motoko walked into the wall, and the next moment, eight data cables were plugged into the jacks, and in the signal cable that covered the entire Gongke Mobile Department building, an illusory figure flashed, passing through space and time, and suddenly came to the "digital space" that was like the deep sea.

"Welcome, Captain Motoko," a wise man smiled.