episode_0220
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“… What are you doing now? What happened to Ike?”
Maria, with a stern complexion, looked at me and said. The way she fell sideways, supporting her body with her arms, looked as if she had suffered a broken heart.
“Well, what happened?”
Maria looked angry at my harsh answer. You’re probably guessing that something bad happened. On the outside, it would look as if it had been evaporated by some kind of weapon.
If nothing special happens, I plan to take it out and dispose of it in a quiet place, so my guess wasn’t completely wrong. It’s still in the inventory intact.
At that time, Maria said something interesting.
“How can two Androids betray each other? ! Are you trying to attach yourself to a human?”
“Same Android? ha ha ha… ”
“Why are you smiling?”
“Because it’s not the same Android. Is it safe to say that my acting was pretty good?”
Maria didn’t seem to understand what I was talking about.
I decided to slowly tell her the truth.
“I was originally human.”
Silence flowing inside the tent for a moment.
The emotions in Maria’s eyes, who were quietly looking at me, change quickly. From anger to doubt, from doubt to sadness, from sadness to sympathy.
Reading emotions from the eyes of a machine. Maybe it was just my mood, but somehow I felt like my thoughts were right.
“… Even if we want to become human, our essence does not change. If you don’t accept the fact that you’re an android, you’re the one who becomes unhappy. Would you like to try debugging?”
Should I say that I’m mentally ill, that I’m a bug because I’m a machine? Anyway, Maria looks at her like an android with a headache. They even ask me to take a test.
‘what… It’s not that I can’t understand, though.’
The things I showed were things that would never have been possible for an ordinary human being, so it wasn’t particularly strange for Maria to react that way.
From the beginning, there was a part of the acting that aimed for that point.
“Anyway, I have no intention of convincing you of that now, whether you believe me or not.”
“… … .”
“The important thing, Maria, is whether you have the will to follow my words. If you do as you’re told, I won’t make you like Ike.”
The only way to make it like Ike would be to put it in the inventory, but to Maria who doesn’t know that, it would be no different from a death threat.
Maria, who was silent for a moment, answered in a slightly softened manner.
“… What do you want?”
‘I’m glad you’re scared of androids dying. It will make things easier.’
I took out a hacking tool from my inventory that I had snuck in during the last raid. On the outside, it looked like an ordinary terminal, but to me, who had witnessed its operation in the last operation, it seemed quite amazing.
This hacking tool was also used to stop the ventilation fan outside the factory and when Gail hacked the main system.
‘About 50% of the reasons I chose this travel destination was to obtain useful hacking equipment. ‘I need this to erase any traces I may leave in real life.’
“ tried to use this hacking tool, but it didn’t work properly. Please let me know if it is broken or if there is another way to operate it.”
“… Are you curious about that?”
“First of all, what? Speak quickly. If humans invade like this, I don’t care, but Awaken will be over?”
“If it’s Android, no explanation is needed… ”
“I’m human. If you find it hard to believe, just think of it as someone else using it.”
“I can’t use it.”
“What?”
“It is an object that humans cannot use.”
Words that came out of Maria’s mouth like a bolt from the blue. One of the things I thought I had to bring here was this hacking tool, but humans can’t use it. It sounded like a winning lottery ticket flying into the sky.
I frowned and asked Maria for an explanation.
“Why?”
“I made that terminal myself. There are no humans in Awaken. So, it was created on the premise that androids can use it, so humans cannot use it. To use it, you need a wireless connection to the terminal.”
If her explanation was correct, this seemed like a problem that could be solved if I carried around an obedient android in my inventory.
Still, it was clear that it would be more convenient to make it possible for me to use it myself rather than having to constantly move a human-sized android in and out of my inventory.
“Could it be modified to not require a wireless connection?”
“Even if you do that, you won’t be able to achieve the performance you want.”
“What’s the problem again?”
As I complained, Maria looked around the now empty tent.
“Why do you think the equipment here and I were floating in the air connected to a cable? It wasn’t for no reason that I abandoned my normal android body and became fixed here. I was basically responsible for Awaken’s equipment that required computing power, including the hacking tools that Minho brought. Through equipment connected by cable.”
“… What was that purpose for that equipment?”
“Computation of equipment, writing code to awaken different types of self-consciousness for each android, surveillance of the factory area where this hideout is located… Aside from that, my role is very big. So now that the equipment is gone, the terminal alone will be able to hack only the electronic lock that locks the locker.”
“… … .”
The plan turned out to be a little different. The hacking tool, one of the most important loot, was half-baked. Because of this, we might have to look for something similar on the human side rather than on the android side.
‘However, objects used by humans may also have a separate body that is in charge of calculations, like Maria… At that time, should I tear it up and put it in the inventory?’
Also, how can you access such equipment without any information about it?
I felt a headache coming on and looked down at Maria.
“Sseu-eup… Should I just take you whole?”
“… … .”
While thinking about this, I quietly looked down at Maria. I sensed something in the unfolding feeling.
Whiik!
Degurrr…
‘hmm… ?’
A small crack opened in the tent, and a small metal sphere rolled in through it. In reality, it was an object that existed in a slightly different form.
‘Is it a grenade?’
Fuuu!
***
Fuuu!
“Shoot!”
Too doo doo doo!
Following Roland’s orders, the Awaken androids surrounding the outside of the tent opened fire all at once.
Bullets are fired accurately toward the location that Maria delivered through the drone. It was a carefully coordinated attack aimed at the target after confusing it with a flashbang so that the target had no time to prepare.
Maria, who was inside with Minho, may have been slightly affected by the flashbang, but the follow-up shots were fired completely avoiding her, so she should have been fine.
Meanwhile, contrary to the smooth attack, Roland’s insides were burning black.
‘Minho is a traitor? Damn, I don’t know what’s going on… Just dealing with the sudden influx of humans is enough of a headache!’
Information suddenly delivered by Maria through a drone.
Other executives were away in order to respond in case the humans made an unexpected move. In the end, the executive who heard the information and was able to immediately lead the other androids was Roland.
Minho, who took the lead in Awaken’s operation before anyone else, is a traitor. When judged logically, it was a story that made absolutely no sense.
However, no matter how hard it was to believe, it was a story that Maria herself delivered through a drone. In the end, Roland had no choice but to follow Maria’s instructions and attack the tent.
“Stop shooting!”
Sussss…
The salvo, which continued for quite a long time, was stopped according to Roland’s order.
The interior of the factory was filled with elements that obscured visibility, such as the explosion of a flashbang, smoke generated by bullets hitting the floor and walls, and dust generated by the entire tent being blown away.
‘Ventilation system activated.’
Whooo
The ventilation fan, which Roland had activated with the authority of an executive, turned and blew out dust and stone dust little by little.
Smoke gradually thinning. It was clear that there was nothing left where the tent had been except Maria, who was probably lying on the floor.
Sigh.
“… … !”
At that moment, Roland noticed a moving shadow beyond the smoke.
Considering its size and movement, it was unlikely that the shadow was Mary’s.
Sure enough, a familiar male voice was heard through the smoke.
“Oh… I thought it was a grenade, but it was a flash grenade.”
Phew!
Minho muttered that and swung a huge 3 meter long riot shield to blow away the smoke. It was a shield obtained by defeating a combat android.
Judging from the fact that there were no damage to his clothes, it seemed that Awaken’s volley of fire had been blocked using that shield.
“The leader of the organization is with you and you pour bullets without hesitation? It seems like androids are definitely better than humans in this regard… In the end, you choose the most efficient method, right?”
“Minho… !”
Roland looked at Minho with burning eyes. Maria was still lying at Minho’s feet.
“Roland.”
“What on earth is this?! What a betrayal! No one else, you!”
“Even if you suddenly ask me what I’m doing… As someone who was suddenly bombarded with bullets, it feels a bit unfair. Let’s put Maria aside for now. Because it would be difficult if I got caught up and got ruined.”
Minho extended his hand towards Maria.
Seeing Maria’s eyes wide open and trying to avoid his hand, Roland pulled out the pistol from his waist.
The story that it was used for security purposes was probably not a lie, as it was a restrained and quick movement.
Slam! bang!
“But that doesn’t mean it works for me.”
Shuuuk…
Minho stretched out his palm without even looking to the side. In the palm of his hand, which was somehow emitting a faint blue light, was the crushed bullet that Roland had just fired.
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