I had asked the Doctor before whether there were leopards in Leopard Valley, and his answer had been yes.
However, Leopard Valley did not just have leopards. It also had other simulated animals. Of course, the leopards in Leopard Valley were mechanical beasts as well, because there were almost no real ferocious beasts in the Void Realm. That had been one of the restrictions when the Void Realm was created.
But mechanical beasts were often even more terrifying.
Especially mechanical beasts that were beyond anyone's control.
The Doctor said that many of the mechanical beasts in Leopard Valley had no control mechanisms at all. Originally, he had wanted to conduct an experiment: if mechanical beasts were left uncontrolled, could they develop wild instincts like real beasts?
Sometimes, I truly did not understand what someone like the Doctor thought about all day.
However, the Doctor said his experiment had a basis. In theory, mechanical people could develop independent consciousness, so mechanical beasts should be able to as well. He even brought up Intelligent Dragon. He wanted to find out whether mechanical beasts or mechanical people were more likely to develop independent consciousness. He also wanted to know whether independent consciousness would give mechanical beasts intelligence beyond what they had possessed at the time of their creation—in other words, whether they could independently advance their civilization while being "free-range."
I had to admit, I would not even dare think about such things.
Yet he dared to conduct such an experiment.
That was why he told me to be careful about everything.
However, he also told me the weaknesses of those mechanical beasts and taught me several commands that could temporarily control them in an emergency.
He had still left himself some contingencies.
But he also said that if the mechanical beasts truly