At this time, she was already sixteen years old, a graceful and elegant girl.

But one day, a group of soldiers suddenly broke into the orphanage where she lived.

The elderly director shouted angrily: "What are you doing? This is an orphanage!"

A sergeant held a cigarette butt in his mouth and said in a scoundrel tone, "Do you know what this symbol is? Soldiers of the Alliance Army. Moreover, the Alliance has just issued a decree that the children in the orphanage must be handed over to the Alliance."

"You can't do this, they are all children! Not victims of war!"

The dean stopped the soldiers from breaking in further.

Unfortunately, he was knocked unconscious by the soldier with the butt of his rifle. The sergeant cursed, "What dares to stop us? Do you want to go against the alliance?"

Then, a group of soldiers rushed in.

All the children in the orphanage were called to gather in an open space.

This includes Alice.

The sergeant said loudly: "The war is very urgent now, and a large number of troops are needed. You are obliged to participate in the battle and defend the country. You don't want to spend taxpayers' money to support you in vain, right?"

They were then put on vehicles and transported to the alliance headquarters.

Orphans over the age of 18 were basically sent to the battlefield to supplement the troops.

Younger ones, like Alice, do logistics work at the Alliance headquarters, responsible for moving goods, or stepping up the production of ammunition in factories.

They will not be sent to the battlefield until they reach the age of 18.

This is the cruelty of war.

That year the Alliance passed a bill to conscript all children in orphanages as war reserve forces.

After all, the alliance needs money to fight the war, and most of the money comes from taxpayers, so money-consuming institutions such as orphanages are the first to be cut off and pushed to the battlefield to become the first objects of consumption.

Alice has been busy in logistics or in the factory for almost two years.

She had no idea how many shells she had produced.

I also came into contact with countless corpses.

After her older sisters and brothers went to the battlefield, no news was heard from them again.

One day, Alice fainted in the factory.

…

Wait until Alice opens her eyes.

Found her lying on the bed.

Several doctors in white coats exchanged views on the medical record: "She has been malnourished for a long time, which has led to poor physical fitness and a weak immune system."

"She was exposed to nuclear radiation for a long time. She used to work in a nuclear power production room. Now her body has a lot of lesions."

"Treatment would require a lot of resources. I guess our superiors won't allow it and will execute humane destruction."

"How pitiful... being exploited by the factories, exploited by the army, and finally destroyed by them."

"Is there really no other way to save her?"

"It's not impossible. If she joins the military's cyborg program, she may still have a chance to survive."

"Will she agree?"

"There are only two options now. One is death, and the other is becoming a cyborg. I think she will agree."

These doctors finally decided on this plan.

However, they still asked Alice for her opinion, and then deceived her into agreeing to become a cyborg through white lies.

…

When Alice woke up.

He discovered that he had become a cyborg, with half of his body being mechanical and the other half being human, altered through genetic modification and editing engineering.

Alice becomes a cyborg.

Listed as cyborg number three.

And number one is Katerina.

So Alice was fortunate enough to be the third person selected into the cyborg program.

They then participated in training together and joined the Allied Forces to fight against the Martian United Forces.

At the same time, the alliance has also entered the digital age, with AI intelligence replacing a large number of combat equipment.

Transition from ordinary soldiers to mecha soldiers, or intelligent mechanical soldiers.

This is because there were too many casualties in this star war, and the Alliance had to use unmanned warfare to reduce casualties among military soldiers.

Moreover, artificial intelligence provides the most efficient way of fighting.

Improve the success rate of war.

Five years later, the AI ​​matrix was successfully completed in the data center of the alliance headquarters.

A year later, a decisive battle broke out between Earth and Mars.

What started out as a small-scale trial turned into a large-scale conflict, with Alice and Katerina also joining in the battle.

The intensity of the war was beyond everyone's expectations.

Alice and Katerina were soon injured and withdrew.

It is then placed in a petri dish to repair the body.

However, after that war, both the Earth and Mars lost more than 80% of their armies, and both regimes were unable to maintain the fight, especially due to the huge military expenditures and the huge consumption of resources.

In particular, excessive warfare leads to environmental degradation.

The large number of casualties and the destruction of food, water and land further aroused intense social conflicts.

No longer able to wage war, both sides declared an indefinite ceasefire.

The moment the armistice agreement was signed, a major round of disarmament was carried out.

As a result, many weapons created for the war were sealed, including Alice and Katerina.

…

When Alice regained her memory, she was pushed into the Nasdaq Group, repaired, and thrown into the robot competition.

And that is the world fifty years later.

Katerina's experience was similar.

She was originally a child in an orphanage, but was ruthlessly used as a war machine by an administrative order of the Alliance, and was transformed into a mechanical girl on the verge of death.

Luo Sheng and two researchers, look at this scene.

I feel like I have experienced the first half of Alice's life completely.

“They are so pitiful…”

"Indeed, first it became a tool of the alliance, and then it became a weapon of the group."

Aggie and Ivan sighed and felt sad for a while.

They were not researchers from the same period.

Instead, he was recruited into the alliance a few years ago and became a mechanical information researcher.

Therefore, they had no idea about Alice and Katerina's origins, let alone when they were transformed into mechanical girls.

After entering the alliance headquarters, no decent research was conducted.

In their own words, they are just administrators who manage the alliance's warehouse.

All he does is collect his salary every day and help the group obtain data and technology from the alliance headquarters.

Luo Sheng remained silent.

Indeed, Alice's life story was pretty bad.

His parents died when he was young, and he ended up in an orphanage.

Because of the war, she was forced to become a coolie, and eventually, due to the devastation of her body, she had no choice but to become a mechanic.

But, among the card girls in his hand.

Others had similarly miserable life stories.

Bai Moxue's entire family was slaughtered and she herself became the enemy's concubine.

Ai Keli's was because of poverty.

As for Dongfang Muqing and Raphnie, their backgrounds were only slightly better.

Suddenly, Luo Sheng looked at the screen above his head and frowned slightly.

Aggie and Ivan looked at him puzzledly and asked, "Is there something wrong?"

"Isn't there an AI matrix in my previous memory? Excuse me, have you ever used the AI ​​matrix in the data center?"

Luo Sheng asked about his confusion.

"No, but it's asleep," Ivan said.

"But who is that person on the screen?"

Luo Sheng suddenly pointed at the screen.

Then, a little girl with sky blue hair appeared in Alice's memory.

Ivan and Aggie immediately looked up at the screen.

It is exactly as Luo Sheng said.

A strange woman appeared in front of Alice.

But the current picture does not show Alice's memory.

"who is she?"

"I don't know either."

The two researchers muttered to themselves.

But the blue-haired girl suddenly said to the virtual Alice on the screen: "This is your tragic memory."

Alice looked at the cute little girl in front of her with confusion.

The other person is like an angel, with an innocent smile on her face, especially her watery eyes, which makes people love her.

"Who are you……"

"Hello, I am what you call the AI ​​Matrix. Of course, I prefer to call myself Pandora."

"Pandora...?"

"Well, a great wisdom created by man, to serve mankind."

"Why do you appear in my memory?"

"Because I have noticed you for a long time."

"Pay attention to me?"

"Well, I started watching you after you stole my body and I think you're a very interesting person. You've grown beyond my imagination."

Pandora held Alice's hand.

With a sunny smile on his face, he spoke in a childish voice as sweet as the tinkling of silver bells.

(End of this chapter)