"Artificial human..."

Squinting his eyes, looking at the android in front of him soaked in nutrient solution, Fang Zheng reached out and touched his chin, remaining silent.

"Mr. Fang Zheng?"

At this moment, a voice sounded, and then Fiore appeared from the other side in a wheelchair. When she saw Fang Zheng, she was stunned for a moment.

“What are you doing here?”

"Well... I'm thinking about some moral issues."

"…moral aspect…is that so?"

Facing Fang Zheng's answer, Fiore was obviously a little surprised. This was no wonder. After all, magicians in the Type-Moon world rarely talked about things like morality. Pursuing the root was their ideal, and everything else was meaningless to them.

"Yes, I was thinking about the difference between androids and robots."

That's right, Fang Zheng came here just to think about this question. Fang Zheng already has his own ideas and judgments about robots and AI. But androids are different. To be honest, Fang Zheng has seen many movies about clones and androids, but... there is no reasonable explanation for why humans want to create androids and clones.

If organs are needed, then only the organs need to be cloned. Science and technology also show that cloning a person obviously takes longer, is less efficient, and consumes more resources than cloning an organ.

However, if artificial humans are used as labor, they are still not as efficient as machines. Even if they are used as expendable soldiers, they are not as safe as robots with AI control and underlying permissions. After all, the Clone Wars... well, everyone understands.

But what Fang Zheng didn't expect was that after hearing his answer, Fiore showed a puzzled expression.

"Robot...man? What is that?"

“…”

Hearing Fiore's puzzled question, Fang Zheng was speechless for a moment. He certainly knew that many magicians were not good at or did not like modern technology. After all, the mechanical idiot Rin Tousaka in the Fifth War left a deep impression on Fang Zheng. However... Miss, you don't even know what a robot is?

At least Toosaka Rin knows that the cell phone can be used to make calls!

"It is a humanoid tool made of machinery that can be controlled by humans and perform a certain degree of work. It does not need to eat, drink water or rest, and can work 24 hours a day. Hmm... It is like a self-disciplined puppet."

Fang Zheng briefly introduced it to Fiore, and upon hearing this, Fiore's eyes widened in surprise.

"Have the humans out there been able to create this kind of alchemical device?"

"No, it's still a concept... Well, there are some results, but they are not made into human form."

As he spoke, Fang Zheng explained to Fiore what industrial robots are. After hearing Fang Zheng's explanation, Fiore showed a somewhat emotional expression.

"I see... But... How does this relate to the question you are thinking about?"

"Well, I'm wondering whether or not we should consider androids to be human beings from a moral perspective."

This is also the question Fang Zheng is considering right now. Robots cannot be considered human beings. Just as Fang Zheng thought before, the thinking circuits and sensory feedback of robots are all carried out through programs created and set by humans. To think that robots have souls and lives is just an illusion brought about by human emotions.

But androids and clones are another matter. Their flesh and blood are indeed created by humans, but their way of thinking is not the same. However, why do androids appear? Is their fate as human batteries here?

To be honest, Fang Zheng couldn't comment on whether this was humane or not. Because the Thousand World Tree didn't devour the flesh and blood of others to gain magic power like Ryunosuke and CASTER in the Fourth War. It also didn't absorb the vitality of the residents in the city to maintain its magic power like C's mother in the Fifth War.

On the contrary, in order to avoid involving ordinary people to the greatest extent possible, they chose to "create artificial humans as magic batteries". From a purely human perspective, this is already a very humane approach.

Morality is never a fixed concept. Nothing is "very good" or "very bad". What matters is who you stand on and who you think for. For example, two big countries have been fighting for years, with heavy casualties. Every year, countless parents lose their children, and countless children lose their parents. And finally one day, the two big countries decided to use another way to determine the winner. They created two armies of artificial people to fight on the battlefield instead of their citizens. Those artificial people can kill each other on the battlefield, and the winner of the two countries is determined by the number of deaths.

The citizens of these two countries have lived a peaceful and beautiful life since then. Parents can go out to play with their children, and children can have a happy family with their parents. They can even watch the TV broadcast and cheer for the fighting of the artificial army.

As a third party, seeing this scene, one would definitely find it both funny and evil.

But what about the people of both countries? Of course, it is easy to say "if only the war could stop", but what if the war cannot be stopped?

Should we let artificial humans die? Or should we let their children or parents go to the battlefield and never return?

Just like this Holy Grail War, for outsiders, just a simple statement like "Why don't you just not betray the Magic Association?" or "Why don't you just hold the Holy Grail War quietly? Why do you have to say it out loud?" or "It's okay for the Magic Association to let the Thousand Worlds Tree become independent. They're just a group of second-rate magicians anyway." will be enough.

But what about the positions of the two parties involved?

Can outsiders imagine the anger of ordinary magicians who have been excluded from the core circle of magic for hundreds of years simply because of their shallow origins and history, and can only exist as their "spare tires" and "slaves"?

Can outsiders understand the anger of aristocrats who have been high and mighty for two thousand years, when they are suddenly slapped in the face by the slaves they have oppressed?

This is all impossible.

That's why there was this Holy Grail War, one side tried to use the Holy Grail to start a rebellion, while the other side tried to curb the rebellion for the sake of their own dignity and take away the legendary Holy Grail.

And for this war, both "countries" are doing their best in their own ways.

This is what so-called morality is. It will change according to different positions. As a paladin, Fang Zheng naturally has his own views on the requirements of morality and position.

Of course, if Fang Zheng was just one person, he would only need to help those he liked and not worry about anything else. But Fang Zheng was the leader of Tiandao Palace, and his every move would affect the safety of Tiandao Palace, so Fang Zheng had to ensure that his position was always in a balanced and relatively correct position.

"Ms. Fiore, what will happen to these androids?"

"this……"

Hearing Fang Zheng's question, Fiore thought for a moment.

"After the Holy Grail War, if they are still alive, they will continue to live as servants of the Thousand World Tree Clan..."

"Ka-la!"

Just as Fiore was speaking, suddenly, a glass container next to her suddenly exploded, and then a man-made man mixed with glass fragments fell out of the container and smashed towards Fiore.

"careful."

Seeing this, Fang Zheng hurriedly stepped forward, grabbed Fiore's wheelchair, and pulled her behind him. At the same time, he stretched out his hand and slapped the android. There was a "bang" sound, and the next moment the android was knocked away by Fang Zheng, hitting the corner of the wall heavily, and then tilted his head and died.

What is going on? Are all magic props counterfeit products?

Fang Zheng looked at the broken container, then turned to look at Fiore.

"Ms. Fiore, are you okay?"

"I'm fine, thank you, Mr. Fang Zheng... but you... are not injured, are you?"

Hearing Fang Zheng's question, Fiore answered in a low voice with a slightly red face, saying that if Fang Zheng had not stood in front of her when the glassware exploded just now, the glass fragments would have hit Fiore.

"I'm fine."

Fang Zheng reached out his hand to shake off his clothes, sweeping the glass fragments on them onto the ground. At this moment, other androids came over from all around after hearing the noise. They began to quickly pick up the fragments here. Fang Zheng walked to the wall and looked at the android.

He looked like a teenager, with short white hair and a thin body, but unfortunately, this android had very bad luck. When Fang Zheng knocked him away, this guy's head seemed to accidentally hit the wall, and his entire cervical vertebrae were broken... Of course, he was dead.

Fang Zheng can only say one thing about this...

"What bad luck..."