Hearing what Xiao Ran said, Luo replied speechlessly, "How would I know? Want to take it out and try it now? I'm guessing this is either a prototype or its normal form. Maybe it can even turn into a humanoid Super AI like Nifaline."
"No, this isn't the time. But you're probably right." Xiao Ran nodded, figuring that might indeed be the case. Then he rubbed his chin and said, "But what's with this mecha? Wait, could this be the mecha that Super AI created? It's pretty bizarre that it got recovered along with everything else, but it doesn't make much sense. A mecha made three thousand years ago? You've got to be kidding. Didn't Nifaline only come up with the Vanguard Series recently?"
Thinking it over, Luo found that it really was true. He immediately rubbed his chin just like Xiao Ran. "Don't understand. Don't understand. Can't figure it out. Can't figure it out."
"Let me sort this out." Xiao Ran waved a hand as he spoke while thinking. "If Nifaline really was the woman who spoke just now, then from what she said, she wanted to wipe out all the Gedim. In other words, this Super AI wanted to turn the tables and become the master. Basak's public communications suddenly cutting off was probably this Super AI's doing too."
"Then, at some unknown point, this Super AI entered Basak and fused with it. Otherwise, there was no way the recovery function could have brought back an individual entity inside it. Just like the mecha stored within—it would basically have been impossible to recover that."
"Following that line of thought, this unfinished Arcadia mecha must also have been one with Basak. Could it be that Nifaline produced this mecha... not manufactured it, but nurtured it? It just hadn't finished