One in the dark, a mechanical girl walks.
When it comes to light sources that don't even have emergency lights, it's about the power lamps of machines that are running at best.
But for her to be an android, the lack of light was trivial. Even a few lights can be amplified to sufficient light intensity, and infrared and radio waves can be used to understand the surroundings.
"Amphibians............ Hmm. It's still not a bad shape."
When one of the managers of Rising Sun's people, or Xiaomei, grumbled so, he looked seriously at the specimen of the organism and recorded it again. She kept as many amphibian images and so on in her databank as she could possibly possibly possibly imagine what was of general value in the footage of the specimen in front of her, but she did.
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Xiao Mei decided to play back the stored video data in her brain and spend a lot of time thinking with silence.
Why did you record this stuff?
That was the problem. Amphibians, or organisms belonging to them, existed everywhere in the galaxy, and I don't think this organism itself would be the key to important information that Coleman said it was meant for or something.
But her brain demanded it, and these days, things like that were happening every so often.
"Should we take some more time to resolve the fragments"
If she was a former girlfriend, she could trace exactly why every action she took was made up and how she was thought of. But here recently, her quantum brains, which were getting more and more complicated by the day, had come to demand a huge amount of time to do it.
Xiaomei has dealt with it by regularly making time to concentrate on organizing the database and selecting the information itself, but was unlikely to catch up with the complexity of the quantum brain.
The quick thing is to initialize the database, but I wanted to avoid that if possible. I was prepared to do it if I needed to, but for her now, a bunch of cluttered records called memories felt like something important that was hard to let go of.
"You've never heard of an AI that needs sleep."
When Xiaomei shrugged so, she was thrust up by some backward ridicule, unconsciously leaking her voice down and laughing. Analyzing herself while confused, she concluded that it would surely be called bitter laughter or self-ridicule.
"Well, it won't be a problem for the moment........."
When you squirm like that, Xiao Mei starts walking in the dark with a snuggle. When she laid her hands on the door, which was in the middle of the hallway, she unlocked it, just as Taro had done during the day. Then he went into the room, and went forward on his feet for a while, and looked back and said as he remembered.
"Open it, Sesame."
A voice woods in silence. I didn't know what that word meant to Xiao Mei, but I proceeded with satisfaction anyway.
Step over a bunch of cables, avoid debris, and sometimes scratch the body, as you go around the debris in the center of the floor, but towards the other side of the entrance. Eventually she overcame the soaking scraps of iron and fell in disguise toward the vast space she found behind her, confirming that something as expected existed there.
"Was it still there"
Bunches of thick cables stretching from debris in the centre of the floor. And the device to which they are coupled, very similar to the refrigerated sleep device. Xiaomei casually tried to touch her hand as she walked over to the device. But...
"Don't move. I don't want to shoot you if I can."
The voice of a low, hostile caged man. I felt like I could push something against my back, and she stopped the hand I was stretching.
"You don't want to be shot if you can also be Xiao Mei, Mr. Phantom. Especially around there."
Xiao Mei said while she stopped any movement of her body. Something pressed against her back captured the center of her body, the sphere, in different dimensions.
"As it is now, I don't even feel like giving it back with a joke. I was wondering if you could separate it into spheres."
Phantom standing behind Xiao Mei said, pulling the gun a little. Xiao Mei replied, "Of course," and said, "But why?," he continued.
"Because I'm afraid of you, Miss Xiaomei"
Phantom answers. He opened his mouth again as he slowly turned to the front with his gun pointed toward Xiaomei.
"You are an unknown being, and I don't feel very insulted. It should be possible to pack an explosive in that body and blow yourself up when you're in trouble."
"I see. Mr. Phantom, however. I'm not going to imitate you like that, and even if I did, I don't think I could do anything about you. So Xiaomei figured out another way."
"I see... can you let me hear it?
"Yeah, happy. Mind if I separate the body?
"Oh, please"
Xiao Mei opened the chest hatch of the body, which was a human shape, from which she took out the sphere, which was the body. She eventually slipped down from the hands of a man-made body that stopped her movement, rolling down scattered floors of rubble and scum that were a little difficult to move.
"It is impossible to physically destroy you in a direct way, at least for Xiao Mei. To be precise, it will be difficult for anyone in this galaxy, unless you are blessed with so much luck."
As Xiao Mei rolled the lamp away brightly, it rested a little further from the man-made body. Then Phantom broke in between the body and her and crouched on the spot with the gun in place.
"That's a delightful assessment. It sounds like too much rhetoric."
When Phantom said so, he squeezed his chin small enough to encourage him to continue.
"No. As Xiaomei imagines, perhaps your nanomachine will easily repair your brain and vital internal organs unless you destroy them under one blow. I know heat and radiation are effective, but it's going to be hard to immediately disable them on the spot."
Xiaomei went on further when she said so and swayed every bit on the spot.
"So Xiaomei decided to protect herself in a more indirect way. It's a very simple mechanism. It means freeing all Virgin Queen cargo hatches without question if the signals regularly emitted from Xiaomei are interrupted. Because of your power, you won't be thrown out into space, but traveling in a vacuum to the control room a kilometer away should be quite enjoyable. There are sudden changes in air pressure and temperature, and you can't breathe."
At the end of the explanation of one street came a constant silence. Eventually Phantom, who remained faceless, narrowed his eyes and watched Xiao Mei as he treasured.
"Of course, still, you probably won't die. But it's not absolute. It should be quite dangerous: 5% or 10%, which can be irrevocable. And you're a very careful person, and you don't want to take that risk."
When Xiao Mei said so, she circled around just saying that the explanation was over. Seeing it, Phantom raised one eyebrow and raised both hands to pose for a lift.
"I see, that's not a bad idea... it's not harmful to you, the complete android, and it's not like self-destruction. Then naturally, is the exit of this floor fixed in the release state? Oh, shit."
When Phantom said so or waved, he lowered his gun and sat down on the spot.
"You've been reading about me coming here since we talked."
Phantom question. And Xiao Mei answers briefly "eh". "Because it was unnatural," Xiaomei returned when Phantom asked him even more "why".
"You should have finished assuming beforehand the nature of Coleman's research facility and the possible dangers, Mr. Phantom, Director of Security. It's a restriction that it comes from the outside, but it should have been done thoroughly. Otherwise, you would not have allowed the leadership to enter in the first place. Therefore, there remains a strong doubt that he suddenly turned back during the daytime investigation. Why now? It's really not like you."
"On that point, as the day explains. Because of something unexpected."
"No. That's the right answer, most likely, but it's also wrong. You must be right that you found something unexpected, but you turned back for a different reason. It's not because it's dangerous. Because there's something that interests you, and I didn't want anyone else to know about it."
To Xiao Mei's point, Phantom put his head in a bad way.
"I didn't expect you, AI, to understand...... let's correct it. Earlier, I said I couldn't insult you, but it didn't seem to be enough. But then, is it me you want? [M] Not this device."
With his gun in his hand, Phantom unraveled a device that closely resembled a frozen sleep device.
"No, Mr. Phantom. Half right, but half different. That is, both are the purpose. And I'm sure that's something like that for each other."
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"I don't care about status, honor, gold, woman, whatever, but a human being like you doesn't show any interest in them while having as much strength as you can get at all of those things as you want. Mr. Phantom, there are only three things that interest you. Earthly antiques, delicious coffee beans, and the fate of the outsiders. The former two remain more than the status quo."
Xiao Mei assured him so, often silently. Phantom was showing how to think of something, but completely faceless, and Xiaomei remembered once again the fact that faceless creates so much horror at times.
"A technology that allows BISHOP to be overridden, relatively safely. Although it's only possible for the outsiders to be useful to them, it will still be worth more than any kind of money. And the technology close to it is familiar, and Mr. Taylor is what we can call a success story. You should use literally every means you can to get these. I'm sure that's why people like you stay in this little company."
Xiao Mei said so in a calm voice, this time completely silent, waiting for Phantom to react.
"Nothing. I didn't mean to hide it."
When the silent time had passed by about three minutes, Phantom opened his mouth as he rose loosely.
"I'm sure Alan and Taylor have noticed somewhat. If you think about it a little, everyone will know. But that doesn't mean it's a bad thing. It wouldn't make much sense to say that and reaffirm the fact that we were using each other, would it?
When Phantom said so, he slowly, but surely, pointed his gun at Xiaomei again.
"By and large, you're right. And that's exactly what we're going to do in terms of using every means."
That's what Phantom said and laughed at himself, squeezing the trigger.