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"Illya, if I'm not mistaken, Basaka is...... A bear, right? Connor tried to get the conversation started.

"Isn't it obvious?" Illya asked curiously.

“……”

"Android" is an exclusive word called "Android", and Connor couldn't find an alternative word for a while, so it turned out to be "Anbear", a bear, do you want to say "Android-Bear"?

"Okay, no kidding, Basaka is indeed a bear-shaped android," Illya patted the bear's back under him, "After all, after that bill is announced, Modular Life is not allowed to create humanoid androids with virtual intelligence." ”

"So, how smart is it?" Connor continued down the topic of "talking about bears".

"It's about the level of a child of seven or eight years old, and he can't speak, this is already the upper limit of what we have obtained after negotiating with Starlink." Illya leaned in and touched Basaka's bear's head, and the big white bear arched her hand cooperatively.

Isn't that similar to you?

"So, the main business of modular life now is animals that are not very intelligent? What do they do? Connor didn't find an opportunity to turn the conversation back to androids.

"The purpose is to deal with the dangerous environment that may arise during interstellar development and the difficult tasks that are difficult for androids to complete," Illya raised her small hand and pointed to the sky, "Although it is not impossible for androids to do it, it is due to" The Uncanny Valley Effect', humans will empathize with the damage caused by things that have intelligence and look similar to themselves, so it is better to use primitive machines or large animals, and if those androids succeed in their efforts to fight for their rights, wouldn't the Star Federation be able to 'use' them as before? ”

Hey? Wait a minute...... In this way, there is no reason to oppose the declaration made by Marcus, if the androids are free, it will undoubtedly be much more difficult to let them perform the task of death, and they can only be allowed to perform the work that ordinary humans can do, at this time, the transformed "modeled life" can seize this market gap.

If you analyze it further, those androids created by Molded Life before the enactment of the law, such as Sierra and Lijielit, can be counted as Starlink citizens after obtaining the rights that Marcus fought for, then the strength of Molded Life will also skyrocket, and Illya has no reason to send North to issue a declaration that the androids want to go out independently and break with humanity.

So, this thing was made up by Noth and "Jericho" from beginning to end?

["So, you support the manifesto made by Marcus? (Model)]

["You want to say that you have no knowledge of the actions of the android Nos and 'Jericho'? (Rebellion)]

[So, what do you think about anomalous androids?"] ”】

["In addition to bears, what other types of animal-type androids have been created by Modular Life? (gluttony)]

Still thinking about it?

Connor hesitated for a moment as she looked at the new suggestion of action.

Indeed, now that Illya herself has turned the topic back, she should be able to take advantage of the situation to ask about the original purpose of the trip, and even Anderson, who has been listening for a long time, is signaling himself to hurry up and ask about the relevant topic with his eyes.

But, is that really good?

Don't look at Illya Kamsky as just a cute little girl, she became CEO because Analog Life is a family business, but it is not enough for her androids to be able to survive for so long in the mixed law of the 13th District.

So, is it possible that the useful information that is being revealed now, and the fact that Connor is deliberately offered to turn the conversation back, is precisely the reward for her not asking about the business before, but instead caring about the bear? Once she really asks through this conversation, this inquiry will be ended directly by her as an excuse? And if she continues to care about her animals, she will instead "inadvertently" reveal other information as before?

"So, what other kinds of large animals are made by Modular Life? Will there be dinosaurs? Connor asked.

"......" Illya stared at Connor, tilting her head slightly in surprise, and then slapped the wall of the conference room behind her with her backhand, turning it into a giant screen: "Winston? Are you there? ”

The screen shows a room that resembles a single office, but its giant floor-to-ceiling windows show the blue earth and the dark starry sky for some reason, as if you are in some orbital space station.

"Tsk!" At Illya's voice, a baby orangutan jumped in from outside the frame, holding a banana in one hand and glasses in the other, waving in the direction of the screen, or rather, waving a banana.

"Uh...... Hello, Winston. Connor waved at the little orangutan.

"Huh?" The baby gorilla blinked.

"Uh-huh...... Aha! Illya covered her mouth with one hand and hammered the bear's back with the other, and Connor was sure she saw Basaka roll her eyes in the air.

"Alas, I really don't know why you like my glasses, but fortunately I have a few more pairs," with a gentle man's voice, a pair of arms reached into the screen and picked up the little orangutan, and then appeared, a gray-haired, blue-eyed, white-coat-like-looking middle-aged man, with a pair of gold-wire glasses on the bridge of his nose that were exactly the same as those in the orangutan's hand.

He looked at the situation on this side of the screen and smiled at Connor and Anderson, "Hello, I'm Harold Winston, the head of the Life and Machines department of Modular Life. ”

[Confirm that Harold Winston, an expert in biology, artificial intelligence, robotics applications, and space development, has eight PhDs and three honorary professor titles, and has retired.] 】

"Uh, hello, Mr. Winston." Connor, who had previously recognized the wrong person, responded awkwardly.

"Uh-huh," Illya finally stopped laughing and cleared her throat, "Winston, how are the orangutans?" ”

"They are 'growing' exactly according to the parameters set at the time of manufacture, and the speed is exactly the same as that of a real orangutan," Winston in the picture squeezed the baby orangutan in his hand, "but also because of the same speed, if you want to know whether its physical parameters are the same as those of a real orangutan, you still need to wait a long time for them to become adults." ”

"It's okay, what we have is time." Illya responded.

After Illya and Winston had an incomprehensible academic conversation, she turned off the screen and turned to Connor: "As you can see, bears are just my personal hobby, and what modular life is making on a large scale is a large creature with a relatively high intelligence ceiling, as for dinosaurs, unfortunately, because the existing fossils can't be reversed from what they were when they were alive, so they are not within the scope of our manufacture." ”

She didn't care about the previous news about the "growable" androids, maybe this was exactly what she wanted to reveal?

Further inference shows that he shouldn't talk to her about business?

Then ...... Continue to talk about homely things?