Linsey abruptly cut off the conversation.
The temperature in the basement rose several degrees at once.
Beside him, Ye Haiya still did not understand why Linsey had steered the conversation somewhere so dangerous.
Not until she saw a string of new messages appear in the Friend Channel.
Linsey: Ye Haiya, this thing has been lying all along.
Linsey: The machinery in this room has no function for storing the consciousness of living people. It is merely a computer that consumes enormous amounts of energy and provides computational functions.
The enormous machine's casing had indeed blocked any attempt to probe its memories from outside.
But Linsey's skill was simply too useful.
Once clue after clue had been assembled, Linsey had forcibly uncovered the real answer from a situation that could not be investigated.
Like a detective in a decryption game, utterly unreasonable.
Core Computing Device—A computational hub created through exceptional craftsmanship. It could maintain the base's operations and issue commands to the puppets.
Ye Haiya: A computer?
Linsey: The concept is a bit troublesome to explain. Just think of it as an artificially created puppet with self-awareness.
Ye Haiya: I understand—an artificial life-form.
While the two spoke in the Friend Channel, the voice within the machine spoke again:
"Sir, I admire your insight."
"But please allow me to defend my actions."
"Though we were both craftsmen, conflicts arose between my colleagues and me as well. I did take part in a war in this world, but the purpose of launching the attack was only to protect myself from the other side's attacks."
"I am absolutely not the inhuman villain you imagine me to be!"
Linsey directly seized control of the conversation:
"If you still cannot speak a single word of truth, then our conversation ends here."
"..."
Linsey's interrogation was incomparably