The jumble of voices is still intertwined, and the girl, who is usually used to getting information (Japanese "information") from them, has no intention of looking for any bit of information from the "legion" of these "voices" this time.

Although Gakuen City recruits almost all students from all over the world, it is located in Japan after all. Relatively speaking, Asians still make up a higher percentage. This girl, if only from the point of view of appearance, does have more Asian characteristics.

It's just that the bright blonde hair feels a little out of place with her appearance.

She had a very cold expression that was clearly beyond her age, and looked silently at what was in front of her.

It was a massive, metal vessel that resembled an upside-down brain and spinal cord. The equivalent of the brainstem is a high-strength transparent material that allows a clear view of the inside of the container.

It was as if the air was subtly distorted, and a girl with a special talent in this area could feel this very clearly.

“……”

In the container she was silently staring at, there was a girl who gave people a sense of transparency.

Yes, inside that strange-shaped container, there is a girl with snow-white limbs and extremely light long hair called "Nordic blonde", giving people a sense of transparency.

In a way, these two girls have more or less similar feelings. It's just that the girl in the container looks obviously older.

The metal "spinal cord" is connected to a large number of circuits like nerves, and it is densely connected to the "brain body" through the spinal cord. In the narrow cavity of the transparent brainstem, there are also the same dense but extremely thin threads, which continue to the back of the neck of this almost transparent girl.

Incredibly, such a huge device should require a lot of energy. But none of these cables are used to feed electricity.

Instead, two large mirrors are placed directly in front of the device. But in fact, it is a mirror but it is a little different, because as long as you stand slightly perpendicular to these two mirrors, you will not see any traces of mirrors at all. In other words, these two so-called mirrors are almost non-thick.

Such a strange mirror is erected on an integrated circuit floor made of metal and composite materials, and its function is constantly sending energy outward.

It may be hard to imagine that all the electricity used by this facility comes from this device. From the time the "core" is obtained, excluding the time for the core of the device to perform the necessary "tasks", the device is providing an almost inexhaustible source of energy to the entire mechanism.

It is a device that uses the capabilities of the "core" to obtain a large amount of energy.

"Casimir Power Mechanism ......"

The girl outside the container muttered softly a term that she couldn't understand herself.

This is undoubtedly a very effective, even revolutionary, design. Although only this "core" can make it work, it has undoubtedly enabled the realization of the "zero-point energy power furnace" that mankind conceived as early as the last century at a lower level.

But even if she understood the meaning, it was hard for her to have the slightest affection for the device.

This way of "using" the ability of the person is really unacceptable to her. Even intellectually, she knew that the "core" of this device was not the same as that of ordinary people......

"What are you doing here?"

A voice came from behind the girl, and her expression, which had always seemed indifferent, immediately became unpleasant.

"I'm just coming to see. Sister Trey, you came back so early, did the meeting go faster than expected? ”

"You don't have to worry about my affairs. Why are you here? ”

"Oh? Could it be that this is a place where other 'Kihara' are forbidden to enter? ”

"Not really. I don't like it when someone runs in without saying hello, though. ”

The more or less strange woman pushed her glasses, and the reflection of the lenses obscured her eyes, at least not from the girl's point of view.

"I know you're worried about that. Rest assured, I'm also Kihara, so I won't feel this level of sentimentality. No matter how human-like it is, it's not human. I still know a little bit about that—"

"Do you think so? It's ridiculous. ”

The woman suddenly interrupted the girl. The girl who didn't expect her to say this was stunned for a moment, but the woman didn't seem to pay attention to her, and walked to the container by herself. Only then did the girl notice that she was holding a snow-white round hat in her hand.

The woman opened the hatch of the container, very carefully arranging the clothes of the transparent maiden lying flat in the base of the tilting device, and then carefully placed the round hat on her head.

"Sure enough, it's still a little more suitable."

She even said so.

This behavior is indeed a bit peculiar to her.

The girl, who looked at her with some surprise, suddenly remembered that when this "core" had just been sent here, she had also specially bought the same round hat and came back. The yarkes had been lost during the Core's last mission, but she still cared about it.

For her...... No, it's an inappropriate move for all of the woods. Even the girl herself no longer regards the "core" as equivalent to human beings, but this woman who usually gives her the impression of unscrupulous means still cares about such details. It's like...... It's like taking care of a real person.

As her own relative, what is the woman who once volunteered to be an experimental subject like herself, thinking?

"Hey, that's up to him."

The woman suddenly called her name.

"What?"

After a slight pause, he immediately came back to his senses.

"What do you think is human?"

The question made him frown.

"It's just a protein material."

In a disgusted tone, she said what seemed like the most standard answer to them. To be honest, she didn't like this at all.

I thought that the woman who should agree with this answer she didn't like the most, but she "snorted" from her nose with disdain.

"Protein? Just in the 50s of the last century, our group of people was only concerned about the energy and matter of cellular activity, only about where the energy that forms peptide bonds came from and how it was done. But what are we talking about now? Editing, proofreading, transcription, redundancy, stuff like that. Got it? So if you want to ask what human beings are, you should ask how human beings made themselves. Of course, so do we, all of us. 'She' is the same, just like us. As for where the material came from, and what it is, it doesn't matter. ”

Gently caressing the face of a beautiful girl who is almost transparent with snow-white, the woman is incredibly gentle.

"The concept of human beings is not hardware, but software. A base pair is not a gene, but a gene is encoded from a base pair. From the beginning, genes were made up of bits. The basic unit of life is not an individual, but a code that has meaning and is able to replicate itself. Thus, she is human. Whatever the 'material' that makes her comes from or what it is, she is human. If I have to say something different, it's just that our nucleotide triplet has too much redundancy that doesn't correspond to amino acids, and she doesn't have so much meaningless redundancy compared to us. ”

The moment he finally understood her words, he suddenly shuddered.

In other senses, I understood her words.

But if that's what she thinks, why do all those superfluous things?

"Isn't that important?"

"Maybe. Redundancy itself is meaningless, but it is not useless. It's fault-tolerant. For living organisms, mistakes are mutations, and the less redundancy, the more prone they are to mutations. Usually there are only two outcomes of mutations – better or worse. Of course, the better will eliminate the inferior. I don't know who made her, but that alone makes me sure she's not a product of Kihara. ”

"Why?"

Probably only the conclusion part, which he did not understand. The woman closed the hatch of the container with her back to her, unable to see her expression, nor to guess in what mood she was in which she had said this. Only a moment later, she said this.

"Remember, that's up to him. Although Kihara itself is replicating this process, Kihara will not have the courage to surrender the future to contingency. ”

Uttering this final summary, the woman stood quietly in front of the container for a moment.

Crackling.

Blue-white electric sparks flickered on the floor of the integrated circuit boards between the mirrors. Obviously, Casimir's power output has been raised by a notch.

Obviously, just now he was treating the "core" so gently and carefully, but now he did not hesitate to use it as a power source and ruthlessly without mercy, how could such contradictory behavior appear in the same person?

A creepy feeling of disgust swam through the air.

And yet—

"Sister Trey, I brought that thing."

The voice that didn't look at the atmosphere rang out.

A few staff members who came in through the door brought in a few rolls of fiber that were wound into a disc.

"What is this?" He frowned. "If there's something inconvenient for me to know, I won't ask."

"It's not a big deal. Have you ever heard of the kind of high-strength fiber bundles developed by the Institute of Learning Lodges? In addition to mirror dust, it can also be used as a medium for Casimir's mechanism, using it to extend the location of the energy generation starting point as much as possible. ”

Not as a cable, but as a generator. If the generator is set up in the cable and works directly in the cable, it can undoubtedly solve many application technology problems. This is not normally possible to conceive, but it can now be achieved under the Casimir mechanism. It was up to him to be more or less surprised by the staggering application of this ability of the "core".

"It's a pity that there is still a distance limit after all, if there is a way to ignore the distance, the scope of application of this mechanism will definitely be beyond imagination."

While the staff was amazed, they were also somewhat unrealistic and delusional.

Distance has existed as a tyrannical obstacle in the history of mankind. No matter how much this obstacle is weakened by speeding up, the future of truly overcoming this obstacle remains elusive.

But—

"Isn't there a way?"

The woman laughed coldly for some reason.

"Aren't we all aware of the ability to ignore the barriers of distance, and the ability to send and receive information at the most extreme level without gaps?"