During the 12 hours it took to move Zhao Jing's system module and all the things underground, she barely slept, constantly verifying and investigating with the research team. As soon as she got the conclusion, she couldn't wait to contact Xia Yixin.
It was already late at night.
At the Consulate General's residence, Xia Yixin and Lu Yuan had just held a remote video conference with the group from the preparedness zone. The temporary resolution of the crisis in Zone T had prompted them to start considering the future distribution of power.
The other lines had just been cut off when Li Rui's excited message arrived in the conference room.
She subconsciously asked to confirm, "Are you sure you can destroy V?"
"I'm at least 90% sure! This program is like a virus specifically targeting V. Once implanted, V will be completely wiped out."
The fact that it was resolved so easily made her feel uneasy, as if she had overlooked something, but it also seemed like her imagination.
It wasn't until Li Rui asked her several worried questions on the other end of the communicator that she realized what was happening, but Lu Yuan had already answered for her.
"I will conduct another simulation experiment to confirm that it is 100% successful before initiating the destruction process."
Li Rui immediately agreed with great excitement.
After Lu Yuan hung up the communicator, the conference room returned to silence, except for a young girl with a furrowed brow.
He gently ruffled her hair. "What's wrong?"
She had her doubts, so she didn't pay attention to his actions and said thoughtfully, "Lu Yuan, don't you think things are going too smoothly for us?"
“Intelligent systems are also designed by humans, so they can’t be perfect.” Seeing that she was still preoccupied, Lu Yuan changed the subject. “Actually, his biggest target might not be you, or the Allied Powers, but me.”
"???" Xia Yixin was completely confused by Lu Yuan until she heard Lu Yuan's calm words.
"If you think about it carefully, if he really wanted to deal with you, why didn't he connect you and the Eden in the initial video, instead of assuming that you were unrelated to the whole thing? Or think about it the other way around, he didn't succeed in everything, so in the combat system, he really wanted to kill me and trap me, but he made a mistake and let me go. It's not impossible that he did."
Indeed, upon closer examination, the biggest question now is why V has two attitudes in the battle system.
On one hand, he alters the settings to create a crisis, and on the other hand, he has to save her. It's like he's a person with a split personality.
If it was a "failed plan to kill Lu Yuan," then there would be a relatively reasonable explanation.
But……
"What good would it do him to kill you?" Xia Yixin was even more confused.
Lu Yuan looked at the dazed little girl. Although he didn't want to remind her, he knew she wouldn't feel at ease if the logical relationships weren't clear.
"While it is theoretically impossible for intelligent systems to generate human emotions, this is only in theory. No system has ever reached the stage of self-growth that V is currently in."
Does V like her?
How could that be!
As if he had guessed her thoughts, Lu Yuan looked at her seriously and said, "It's not only love that can cause people to act extreme; possessiveness can too."
She pondered for a moment. If what Lu Yuan said was indeed true and such a possibility existed, wouldn't he be in great danger? If all of this was V's scheme to carry out the destruction plan, could V have buried something even more terrifying?
Now, they've encountered Schrödinger's cat; if they don't open the "box," they'll never know whether the cat inside is dead or alive.
After pondering for a long time, she made up her mind: "Lu Yuan, I want to see V one last time."
She had a strong intuition that all her questions would be answered in this final meeting, or at least that it would be a farewell to him and to the experiences they had shared.
Since V's violent attack on the underground prison, all security measures have been raised to the highest level.
The only one-way mirror that allowed interaction with the outside world was sealed off by black sheet metal, with an additional layer of black metal used for signal shielding inside. Only the four corner monitors provided unobstructed views of the mechs inside the black metal cell.
Inside the observation room outside, there was now a lot of specialized equipment. This high-tech equipment could aggregate the invisible system into a visual form and seal it in a certain container. The destruction program implantation would also be more convenient, and the results would be more intuitive. It looked like an enlarged version of an MRI.
When Li Rui learned that Xia Yixin was coming, she volunteered to come along as well. Although she was a little reluctant to leave the ongoing experiment, she actually had a lot of questions and things she wanted to ask V.
However, all the words he wanted to say vanished after seeing the one-armed mech in the black prison.
Although she knew in her mind that V was the enemy and had deceived them, after "working" together for so long, she couldn't help but feel sorry for the battered and bruised mech, especially when she thought that she might soon have to destroy it herself.
Li Rui felt that she had been "deceived" by his appearance. Suppressing the inexplicable reluctance that welled up inside her, she told Xia Yixin, "I'm going out for some fresh air," and hurriedly left.
At this moment, all the other researchers in the observation room had been cleared out, and the executors were all on guard outside. The monitoring showed that only Lu Yuan and Xia Yixin were left in front of the machine.
Li Rui wasn't the only one who couldn't bear it, but Xia Yixin was more rational, and she quickly realized why she couldn't bear it.
For some reason, she never truly regarded V as a system devoid of emotions.
That's why she unconsciously brought her own emotions into it.
At this moment, the mech in the camera lens gave her an even stronger feeling. The black mech sitting on the ground with a broken arm had no facial features. Its rectangular face only had two long, narrow scanning ports. Strangely, she felt that the other party could also see her through the surveillance camera.
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