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Jericho cruise shipwreck.

"Marcus, are you really looking for Kara? Alice? ”

When Connor traces the "mark" left by Marcus all the way, and finally finds his "consciousness body" in a "cabin" somewhere, she sees two unexpected people - the housekeeping android of Todd Williams who was captured in the first place, and his cute "daughter".

Although he had hidden it from Kara at the beginning, there must have been no hope this time.

"Officer Connor, you knew from the beginning that Alice was a special android, right?" Sure enough, Kara's consciousness directly cast a dissatisfied gaze.

Oops, there is absolutely no room for argument, and even if you don't admit it, it doesn't explain why Alice, as a "normal human", appears in a "data space".

Although the Eagle Eye scan could not be used at this time, Connor was impressed by Alice's scan results:

[T-X can grow androids.] 】

If Connor had speculated about this result before today, after seeing the "growing animal-type android" of Modular Life, it was already certain that she was one of the "products" of Modular Life.

So the question is, why did Mr. Williams buy another housekeeping android to take care of her when he had a bionic daughter? The results of the search showed that his financial situation had been repeatedly jumping on the verge of bankruptcy.

According to Illya, animal-type growable androids are able to gradually grow their bodies by eating, and as long as they are not injured enough to expose their internal mechanical structures or scanned by a physical examination, they are almost indistinguishable from real animals.

Therefore, the conclusion is that Todd Williams does not know that Alice is not his daughter, and further inferences show that the mysterious "Mrs. Williams", who is divorced from him and has no information, must have something to do with the simulated life, so that when Starlink has banned them from producing androids, they will customize a android that is exactly like his original daughter and throw it back to Mr. Williams.

Further inferences can be seen that the attitude of "Mrs. Williams" at the time of the divorce was: "Although I am disappointed in you, I like our daughter very much, and I don't feel comfortable giving her to you so I took it away, but although we have ended, it is not impossible to give you a chance, if you can take good care of this android daughter." ”

Too lazy to talk nonsense and take away her daughter, and then lose a "daughter" to test her ex-husband, the image of Mrs. Williams's strong woman is about to come out.

However, another question arises, why would such an excellent woman fall in love with such a decadent fat man as Todd Williams?

The answer is equally obvious: judging from his previous ID photos, this decadent fat man was a big, handsome, and big brother when he was young.

Just like Captain David Anderson, although he is now a little greasy and poor, alcoholic, and has a lot of fat on his body, he was really handsome when he watched the video of the commendation meeting in Detroit celebrating the success of "Operation Icebreaker".

Hey...... Wait, why did the logic module go to Captain Anderson?

[The software is unstable. 】

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Connor's thoughts were spinning quickly, but Kara's question in front of her could not be answered.

[Honesty. (Model)】

[Rhetorical question.] (Rebellious)】

[Statement.] 】

"I'd like to ask Kara a question about this," Connor said to Kara, confirming the conversation options, "If I had pointed out that Alice was a android, would you still be able to stay in Todd Williams' house?" ”

"Huh? Ay? Kara was not willing to ask for guilt, and was stunned directly after hearing this rhetorical question.

That's right, although Todd Williams was arrested, he still thought that Kara was taking care of his "daughter", so he didn't cut off the access to the account funds, otherwise, if he learned that his daughter was actually a android, he would have the right to kick the two of them out even if he was in prison.

"So, how did you find out she wasn't human?" Connor, who managed to change the subject, turned to another question: "I guess with your care, she can't have suffered any serious injuries that would expose the structure." ”

"About this ......" Kara's face showed an expression that bordered on crying and laughing, "She's infected with 'Grox'." ”

“……”

Indeed, according to the design of Simulated Life, VI of this growing android will believe that she is a creature that she is simulating, and Alice will firmly believe that she is a little girl, but the strange dialog box that appears after being infected by Grox ...... No matter how you look at it, it's not what normal humans will appear in front of their eyes.

"Then, she found information about the modeled life from her 'emergency plan after being identified', and planned to come to seek the truth, and I naturally couldn't let her go, so I came with her, and a kind android named Leif showed us the way." Carla continued.

I have to say that this "mother and daughter" are really unlucky, and they just caught up with the node where "Jericho" had just separated from "Modular Life", and Leif pointed out the right path, but it was impossible for him to know that the two were no longer the same.

"You should know that although she looks like a little girl, she is still essentially a android like you, and she doesn't need your care, right? Especially if she already knows who she is. Connor asked what she was curious about.

"Are you kidding?" Kara's tone was unusually tough: "Could it be that when the child is an adult and independent, he doesn't need to be taken care of by his mother?" ”

Hearing this, Alice hugged Carla very cooperatively.

Connor, who didn't know how to respond to this sentence for a while, looked at Marcus, but saw that the tall android who had been listening silently before, after hearing these words, showed an old fatherly smile to the "mother and daughter".

Well, this attitude is normal, after all, Marcus himself was treated as a son by Mr. Karl, and seeing other androids do the same, he was naturally relieved and good, and the atmosphere of the three of them together was quite like a family.

Wait a minute...... If memory serves, it seems that the leader of Jericho, that Miss North, kidnapped Marcus because she admired him, and although Marcus was temporarily locked up for not buying her account, she still had hope for him, and as a result, Marcus turned his head and looked at the others?

How do you describe that? Snatching love with a knife? No, it should be that the falling flowers are intentional and the flowing water is ruthless?

"Marcus," Connor said directly to break the warm atmosphere, "We're going to rescue you, where is your body locked up?" How many anomalous androids are there on this ship? ”