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Inside the wreck of the cruise ship Jericho.

"I'm sorry, Kara," the strong android known as Luthor said mildly, but firmly, "Maybe Jericho is under attack, but our mission is to defend this cell in case the other side feints, sneak in from the flanks and back, and take the opportunity to rescue Marcus." ”

This guy's inference module performance is too good, right? If it weren't for the communication between Connor and Marcus in the "subspace", she would have wondered if she had been eavesdropped.

"Hey, Luthor, are you really stupid or pretending to be stupid?" Another guard android patted him vigorously on the shoulder: "Go and accompany Kara, I'll just watch here." ”

Hey......?

"This ...... Well," Luther scratched his head and seemed to understand something, "then I'll take them to the safe house first, and be careful yourself." ”

"Be careful," the guard android replied nonchalantly, "Sister Noss didn't lock him up at all, but only instructed us to follow him and not let him leave Jericho, and only a wooden head like you can't see the problem." ”

"What's the problem?" Luther asks suspiciously, only to be answered by a wave from his colleague, and leaves with Kara and Alice in confusion.

"It suddenly occurred to me that Marcus probably didn't want to save him now, because he didn't know what kind of expression to show at this time." Anderson whispered to Connor.

He could only smile. Connor shrugged.

Yes, the guard who was overclocked by the obvious emotional intelligence module pointed out that Noss liked herself, and then Carla, who she liked, cared about others, and this chain reaction even humans didn't know how to deal with it, let alone the androids who were still relatively ignorant in terms of emotions.

However, this kind of emotional entanglement is much more real than the androids gathered by Karl Manfield who look like a big family of lovers for each other.

If you really give these androids citizenship, it's not unacceptable?

In addition, even if the androids in Jericho can be let go, Marcus must still save them, and he can be said to be the key to deciding whether the emerging anomalous androids will choose peace or armed resistance.

"At the time, Kara didn't approve or disagree with our prison break, so she came to take one of the guards out of her desire to 'not want the inhabitants of Jericho to be harmed,'" Connor thought for a moment before saying, "In that case, choose a plan of action that is less brutal, but can quickly subdue the enemy." ”

"Your original course of action was brutal?" Anderson asked casually.

"It's just a matter of physically making it impossible for him to move and sound the alarm."

“……”

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Moments later, inside Marcus's cell.

"You call it 'less brutal'?" Anderson had a toothache on his face: "This is converted into human beings, which is to dig out other people's hearts, right?" ”

"If a human heart is dug out, it will be useless to fill it back, but androids are just forced to shut down." Connor tossed the blue electric cylinder in his hand.

When there were two guards before, Connor's plan was to break their limbs so that they could not move, and destroy the laryngeal sound module so that they could not call for help, after all, it was better to say that the CPU blocker was half a person tall and she couldn't carry it with her, so she couldn't learn the action pattern of Captain Allen's side. Reading the book

However, in the case of only one guard, it is not so complicated, and after Anderson attracted his attention, she directly pulled out its power source, the Mass Effect Core, with a "Black Tiger Heart", and solved the battle in an instant.

Of course, it's not quite accurate to say "instantly", but there were a full 30 seconds from the loss of power to the forced shutdown, and the big man still tried to regain the core, but in the end he failed because he couldn't catch Connor who ran away.

"Anyway, I'm here to save you as promised," Seeing Anderson's "listen to your nonsense" expression, Connor turned to look at Marcus, "Let's leave before anyone else finds out about the abnormality here?" ”

"I see." Marcus had been sitting in the corner of the cabin, silently watching Connor drag the dispowered doorman in, and then discussing the problem of his heart with Anderson, until an inexplicable remark suddenly popped up.

"Understand what?" Connor asked casually as she watched for any movement outside.

"The difference between humans and androids is whether or not they will feel pleasure or pain for something that is not real." Marcus's tone at the moment was like that of a philosopher.

"Hmm, it seems like Mr. Carr asked you to draw 'things that aren't real'?" Anderson answered.

It's a strange picture, Marcus wanted to paint "Death", but the end result was a synthesis of several virtual characters from hundreds of years ago, and those characters held power with "death" in their power.

"For death, I didn't know what the finished product would look like at the time, but now, for another concept that also does not exist, love, I know at least its color." Marcus spoke in a deep tone.

"Is it purple? (Model)]

["Is it green?"] (Rebellion)]

[What color?] 】

"Is it white? (Poor Qi)]

Love is indeed pink or purple in conventional human depictions, while green, due to its implicit meaning, does not seem to be suitable for export in the current situation, as for white? It doesn't seem to have anything to do with it.

Connor was thinking about how to respond, but she heard footsteps approaching quickly, so she grabbed Anderson, who seemed to want to expand on the topic, and hid behind the hatch.

"Luther? Simon? Noss's voice came from outside the door: "Oh, think about it, these two guys saw Kara as if they were overloaded with a thought module, and now it's not surprising that they would leave their jobs and run to protect her." ”

Wait a minute? The halo on Connor's forehead turned yellow again: So, when Simon had the open-mindedness to let Luthor take care of Kara, he was actually dripping blood in his heart?

She glanced at the closed Simon in the corner of the room, huh...... It seems to have to thank itself for digging its heart out.

"Marcus, you're here," Noss didn't push the door in, but just spoke outside, "With what I know of you, even in this case, you won't take the opportunity to leave." ”

"Ah, that's right." Marcus replied in a low voice.

"Sure enough, you're still interested in our cause, and if you can get along longer, you'll probably change your mind," Noss sighed, "However, the Detroit SWAT team has found this place, and it seems that humanity doesn't intend to let us go, and we're ready to evacuate, in this case, I can't drag you into the water anymore - you, let's go." ”

“……”

Noss didn't wait for a response, and left without saying anything, leaving Marcus with a complicated look to continue to be watched by Connor and Anderson.