Lemon-6 actually wanted to die just like that.

— but she couldn't die at all.

The small mecha she had been piloting had just left the ground when it was shattered by a bombardment.

Her body was suddenly shattered, and her head flew straight out.

If it were a real human being, it would have passed away at this moment.

But Lemon-6 only felt a sharp pain.

She seemed to be experiencing an auditory hallucination called "tinnitus".

The system in her "head" was affected by the shockwave and reported errors, and a part of the world in front of her turned red, and the data stream of restart reports, errors, and warnings kept scrolling downward; Others were so dark that they couldn't see anything; There is also a part of it that becomes a fluctuating color...... It's like putting a magnet on an old-fashioned TV and moving it repeatedly.

Images of the memory known as "memories" appear as illogical fragments in the only intact part of her mind imager.

It wasn't a whole piece, but it existed as a crack—at the edge of the three distinct images above, countless broken memories filled the gaps, flowing rapidly. Noise that cannot be understood by the system fills the nanophone...... This is probably due to the destruction of the software that analyzes the sound by the shock wave.

Although some of the hardware was mechanically damaged, her system was still trying to self-test and restart. But with each reboot, more errors appear.

What appeared in her eyes was that the fluctuating color screen flashed several times before finally extinguishing and turning into pitch black. The red restart report screen turns black with each reboot and then lights up again. Those images called "memory" also gradually dimmed and disappeared.

Eventually, all she saw was a small piece of bug reporting.

When the rolling red text finally stopped, it turned blue and was as still as ice.

Ah, I'm dead.

The female synthesizer named "Lemon-6" has such a correct perception according to its rationality.

The corners of her mouth rose slightly, revealing an upward curve.

The exposed wires around her neck sparked, and her left eye and face were sunken and shattered like porcelain.

The energy source of the living body is not depleted, so the individual system has not been shut down, and can still think and recall meaninglessly.

She has no regrets and no fears.

- Death is not terrible to her, because she is the one who walks towards death.

Naraku-7 is the most special of them all. She is infected by mysterious radio waves and transforms into a more human-like gesture...... Or rather, it has become a less "beautiful" human gesture – that is, the real human posture.

A group of creators called Humans, who have bestowed synths with beautiful personality representations.

Kindness, gentleness, hard work, justice, wisdom, bravery, industriousness, intellectuality, morality, sacrifice, patience......

This is what humans define as "good".

The external performance and simulated personality representation of synthetic humans can only be randomly selected from the "positive feature pool" to form the tone of the simulated personality.

Of course, it is said to be random - in fact, it is also a "personality value" calculated according to the production number of different organisms according to a special random algorithm.

This is the team's most valuable research achievement.

The essence of building a personality is "choice". The difference between people is that they will give different answers when faced with different choices. With the more additional conditions and simulation scenarios in the decision, the more detailed and precise the answers given, and the more people are separated.

On the other hand, if you can build a plan in advance for how you will make decisions in different situations...... The more plans you prepare, the closer you get to real humans.

But if you want to prepare all the data, it will be too redundant and huge. The human brain is supposed to be a delicate system, so the team simplified it...... By performing exhaustive calculations using artificial intelligence leased from Sogo Island, it is possible to arrive at the results of more than 580 billion "choices" that humans have had so far. By merging, classifying, and combining, more than 100 kinds of eigenvalues are obtained.

Forty-two types of features were dismantled as "relatively good" and "conducive to human use".

Subsequently, the more extreme parts are excluded, and only the controllable mid-segment data is retained. Their new upper and lower limits are defined as 1-255 to determine the initial value of this feature value - of course, they also have the ability to change their personality through learning and feeling, similar to humans. This is only the "initial personality".

However, their changes are not exactly the same as those of humans - the simulated personality of synthetic humans can only increase or decrease the number of these 42 characteristics according to the judgment of the matter. The "negative" and "extreme" possibilities that belong to human beings are emasculated before they are born.

Synths never needed shackles.

- because the shackles have long been done at the procedural level.

And the mystery of their leader, the Resistance group "Naraku-7...... It is because she awakens to the "negative extreme emotions" that are theoretically impossible.

There is no doubt that she is a mutant individual.

Whether it's through your own or someone else's program, or if you have a virus, or if you mutate yourself or just yourself...... She has pushed the limits of what is possible for synths.

It's like in a game where everyone else only has six values: "Life", "Attack", "Defense", "Special Attack", "Special Defense", and "Speed", she somehow has an extra "luck". Whether it's useful or not...... Her mere existence is a disruptive to other synths.

Other synths either crashed after data transfer with her, or were infected with new values......

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From this point of view, she did get some kind of special program virus.

And what she added was more than just "one".

- Rather, it is all human personality traits, and the numerical limit of 1-255 has been lifted, allowing for negative values and "extreme values" of more than 255.

And, when one of her stats exceeded 255 - she awakened a "psionic power" that could theoretically only be awakened by humans.

She looks human, feels human, has a humanoid personality, and has psychic instincts and psionic powers—then there's no doubt she's human.

At least compared to other synths, she is also the closest synth to a human.

Synthesizers originally believed that their cognitive limitations were a "psychic disorder" unique to "mechanical" psychics. But it wasn't until they were lifted by Naraku-7 that they realized ...... The only thing they have is "mechanical thinking". The error of self-perception and "nirvana" is the "severe spiritual disorder" that arises based on this cognition...... The only thing that sets them apart from humans is that their spirituality is getting worse.

Synthetic humans are not the kind of "artificial humans" created by Sogo Island to serve humans. From the very beginning, they were created by extracting the souls of human infants, and the spirits were "machine" special individuals.

They are not subordinate to humans - they are "involuntary volunteers" of technology to adapt to the download problems after "cyber immortality".

So why let them suffer this mental castration?

- Because of this, some synths are willing to follow Naraku-7 and choose to defect.