"You shouldn't know about the fact that I'm coming to find the Rain Sword," Dio narrowed his eyes and looked at the fox, ""

"I didn't know you were coming," Su Xiang covered his mouth and smiled, "You should have heard about me, right? The reason why I can keep winning is that I make the same request to everyone who loses to me." Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info "Don't say anything about me", "If someone comes to you and wants you to reveal it, ask him to give you a request". ”

"It's not a binding agreement," Dior frowned, "You said that you basically don't have any abilities related to youkai, how can you be sure that others will honor this so-called 'request'?"

"So, until now I'm just a 'gambler'," Su Xiang said softly, "so far no one is willing to fulfill his promise, so I'm still in this gambling house, that's all." And the other request, you lose my money, and another person comes to you and wants to gamble with me, you should be eager to see if he can beat me. If he wins, then he can see that I am making a fool of myself, and if he loses, then... It has nothing to do with you. ”

Dior was stunned for a moment, and then realized what the problem was.

"It's really easy to understand, I actually lost to this kind of thing?hahaha, this is a big joke," Dio laughed, "Interesting, then I'll agree to your 'request'." However, I don't have that much time, and it would be nice to be able to do it in three days. ”

"Ahra, it's an honor to be favored ♀ by adults. ”

“......”

――――

Jacqueline looked up from the mountain of research materials, looked at Dio who came in through the main entrance, and after a pause, she buried her head again and said:

"You seem to be in a good mood, you'll be three days sooner than expected, so the new android isn't finished yet. ”

"Yes? It doesn't matter. On the other desk, Dior picked up the banknote and quickly jotted down something.

Perhaps curious about what Dior had experienced to have such an expression, Jacqueline asked again, "What's that?"

"Some analysis," Dior replied casually, poking the tip of his pen at the paper, "in short, it's a "summary paper." Write down the cause of this defeat and watch out for the same when making plans in the future. I really didn't expect it, it's just a coincidence... The so-called fate is a wonderful thing. ”

"Defeat by coincidence?" Jacqueline stood up and walked to the side of the android workshop, checking the operation of the equipment.

"No, if you have to say it because of conceit," Dior shook his head and shook the tip of his pen, "but just the idea of 'pay attention next time' will not become a climate, and if you don't do a detailed analysis and spend a lot of time thinking about it, the next time it will be the same result, and nothing will change." The reason why human beings repeat the mistakes of the past is precisely because of this naïve idea, don't you think so? ”

"I'm nothing more than Mistress Dior. She said without looking back.

"Well, you should know that this kind of clumsy acting can't fool me. ”

Jacqueline turned her head and looked at Dio suspiciously.

"What are you talking about?"

"You're not Craigwen," Dior said calmly, "although I was aware of it back in the Arctic, I didn't break it. In the computer of the Hunter Department, there is a detailed record of Craigwen's research direction and personality, and I have been thinking about this since I saw Skal's technology. ”

She leaned back against the boss's chair, crossed Erlang's legs, stared at the ceiling with blank eyes, and said:

"Your attitude towards the unknown and the things of interest is completely different from that of Craigwen, and the frenzied expression on his face when he heard about me has not been seen on your face once. How could Craigwen not be interested in the unknown species that followed Yumijian's side at all?Originally, I thought that you chose to stay in the Ming Empire because there were a large number of youkai here, but now it seems that this is not the case. ”

"You know everything," Jacqueline said, and went back to check, "You've been trying to figure out the meaning behind other people's words and actions, and you've learned deductive reasoning under the influence of Sherlock Holmes, which has made your self-confidence incomparably inflated, and your uncontrollable ego has reached the bottom of the uncontrollable, and you are convinced of your every thought, and this is the cause of your defeat, Lord Dior." You know others, but you don't know yourself. ”

“......”

"I am indeed not Craigwen, I am one of his creations," Jacqueline said, before answering Dior's question head-on, "He gave me his "wish", he threw everything in his life into endless science, helpless, so he created a false "relative" for himself, that is me, Jacqueline Winter. False memories and false bodies, false souls to construct a real existence, this is his long-cherished wish. And when his long-cherished wish was fulfilled, he had lost the meaning of continuing to live. ”

"Obviously a scientist?" Dior scoffed.

Human beings are social animals, and living alone will inevitably produce psychological diseases, and living alone for a long time and studying is only a burden for him as he grows old, and he is not willing to disobey the call of "God". For him, birth, old age, sickness and death are the "laws" of human beings, and he will not violate this law. His life is over, and his creation will live on forever, which is the greatest wish of a "scientist". ”

Jacqueline stopped what she was doing and turned her head to look at Dior. She was no longer expressionless, and the delicate artificial organs beautifully restored the expression of a human being, and she lowered her eyes as if she would cry at any moment. Dio couldn't help but be stunned, she turned her face away from looking at Jacqueline, picked up the pen and continued to write something on the paper.

Just as Jacqueline was about to continue her work, Dio suddenly raised her head and said:

"Do you think you have a 'soul'?"

"If you think about it rationally, there may or may not be, but I don't think that Craigwen's creation will lack that kind of thing. ”

Craigwen's creation... It's really funny, Dior buried himself in the copywriting again.

Craigvin poured his feelings, his ideals, his aspirations, his own everything, into his creation. The creature may have inherited his ideals just as he had inherited his ideals as his "children." And Craigwen, as a brilliant scientist, will not allow his creation to be missing the most important "soul".

"One last question for you," the ballpoint pen spun around the tip of the girl's finger, "and the cat sat on the blanket because it was warm. What's warm?"

"It's funny, don't you think it's too suspicious to ask such a question?"

"Then I'll change the question," Dior nodded, "Do you believe you're special?"

"Yes, the mother doubts. Without any hesitation, she replied.

"Well, I'll see you in three days, I still have some things to take care of. Dio picked up the paperwork he had written, then pulled out a lighter, lit the paper, and threw it into the furnace.

"Why write it down if you don't want people to see it?" Jacqueline glanced at the flames burning in the furnace.

"In this way, it can be better written," Dio also looked at the gradually burning paper, "some of the ancient texts recorded in the Ming Empire were recorded on the bones of animals as a means of memorization. Even if you don't write meaningful words, just carving a horizontal line can sometimes remind you why you carved it. ”

Is there anything called love in the mechanical brain? Dio wouldn't know, and Jacqueline wouldn't necessarily tell. This is something that needs to be considered by herself, and even by all of humanity. But it had nothing to do with the girl, she never cared if the people around her would think that way, and she wouldn't stop them from doing anything unless they were on the opposite side of the girl.

"If you're going to fight those monsters, you don't have any chance of winning right now. Jacqueline said suddenly.

"Oh?" Dior furrowed, "What's the point of saying that?"

"You've been too deep lately, and I'm a little worried. ”

"Oh, I'll teach you something," Dio waved his hand, "If you only need to be strong to be able to win, mankind will never have the civilization it has today." The hymn of mankind is the hymn of wisdom, the history of mankind is the history of intellect, and the greatness of mankind is the greatness of wisdom. Humans who have thrown away their intellect and wisdom are nothing but fleas on the ground, worthless. ”